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I personally see a danger in over-narration. History and journalism alike are written by people trained to be storytellers. But why should there be an overarching story? The real world is messy and rarely breaks down into simple, digestible narratives. There is no beginning, middle and end. There are no villains or heroes. There are, at best, subplots.

Trying to connect the dots is what fuels conspiracy theories - which are typically compelling because we believe deeply that somebody has to be in control somewhere, that there has to be order behind the chaos.

Perhaps there are patterns if not stories. Perhaps statistics could tell the story properly, if we had any good data (we don't).

History stories typically gloss over nuance, with the aim of producing a more manageable summary. In the local dialect, you might call them the ultimate leaky abstraction.

I don't have any solutions so mope over!
I had the impression that LCS players were only disallowed from streaming those games if their stream advertised League of Legends content.

At the top of the Elo ladder, queue times can be up to half an hour as the matchmaking service tries to build a fair game. Many of these pro players will play another game (Super Meat Boy, LIMBO, Dust, Mark of the Ninja, Hearthstone) on stream while they're in queue. This ban seems to target other games that could be competitive e-sports, specifically the new Blizzard game Hearthstone.
I heard somewhere an interesting distillation of creativity:
- if something is obviously a good idea, it would already be the way things are done.

Creativity largely ends up coming up with good approaches that are not immediately obviously good and, in that respect it is inherently difficult to tease apart the good ideas from the bad ideas.
Indeed.

OTOH, I would actually say that things have improved of late.

Just in the last couple of decades we've seen what I think are the first serious approaches to error handling. Think about things like the Abrahams Guarantees, or all those fun category-theoretic analyses that the functional folks keep generating.

And then the stakes have gotten higher. Thirty years ago, if a user gave a program messed-up data, then we could shake our heads and say, "Stupid user." Today, large companies put mission-critical functionality on the web, opening it up to people with both the time and the inclination to generate messed-up data in an attempt to bring the system down.

The result of all this is that, just in the last one or two decades, we've finally seen a significant number of large software packages that actually work.

And that, IMHO, is not a trivial development.
I have trouble following that thinking. If ledgers made something massively multiplayer, it seems like all those arcade games with miles-long high score lists in the '80s would have to be considered massively multiplayer. But a lot of them were actually single-player.
Is it faster to write a report in notepad or Word? Depends on your level of expertise. If you have none, then notepad is the faster. However if your job requires writing reports all day then learning to use Word is better in the long run.

For a simple pages with no prior coding experience, PHP is the best tool for the job. However if you plan on building complicated web apps as a profession, then perhaps learning a better tool is worth it.

For example, you can replace Visual Studio with PHP in this image:

http://i.imgur.com/ghAccKb.jpg
More MOOC bashing from college professors in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Again we get the old saw about the high "dropout rate" but as I hope everyone realizes by now: clicking a button to checkout a free online class is not the same thing as applying to a college, being accepted, registering for a class, paying for the class... Apples and oranges

Only when colleges can deliver relevant, high-quality education at a reasonable price will professors like this one have nothing to fear from MOOCs. I see little if any progress being made while MOOCs continue to improve their platforms.
A platitude is only interesting if the language used to convey it has some poetry to it. Otherwise it's just a platitude.
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It is an extreme view, but I disagree with your assessment that it should be entirely the parents' choice. In not vaccinating a child, parents are not just making a decision about their own child, they're making a decision that can potentially affect many other people's children too.

At least where I live, education is compulsory and vaccination is not, so it's illegal to refuse entry to a school based on vaccination status - I think this is wrong. I would like to be able to choose to send my children to a school where I feel like parents are taking responsible steps to not just protect their own children but those around them as well.

I'm also biased because I live near a town with a large hippie population and very low rates of vaccination for things like whooping cough. For the last two years there has been an outbreak of whooping cough, our doctor was pleased that they hadn't had a new case in two weeks. The child of a friend of my parents died age 1 1/2 from whooping cough. For young children the vaccination takes 3 injections over a course of months as they build up immunity - it's a dangerous thing, and I know people who think twice about taking newborn children outside here. If my child died of whooping cough (or something similar) because people around me didn't feel like being responsible members of society, you'd better believe I'd feel like pressing manslaughter charges. Whether I actually could or not is another matter, but it would feel massively unjust if I couldn't.
As far as I know, no coal plants have ever resulted in a Chernobyl-scale effect.
See, I use "LoL-style".
Thank you dearly for this. What's your opinion on SSI?
This is medicine. You have to demonstrate that a treatment is safe and effective before you can begin using it. You even have to show that it is likely safe and effective before you even get to test on humans.

The only difference with vaccines is that we have already demonstrated that they are safe and effective, and what they prevent is unusually damaging to society (epidemics). They are also unusual in the sense that not getting vaccinated yourself increase the risk of others, even if they have been vaccinated.
What is the PayPal 14? I'm not sure what you're getting at.
I remember from intro bio that there is a category of plants (ones using the CAM metabolism pathway) that close their stomata (openings in the leaves) during the day to save water. So all the oxygen release and CO2 intake occurs at night, and photosynthesis still occurs during the day.

I'm guessing that the plants noted in this article are in that or a similar category; Wikipedia/Googling would provide a lot more info. Cheers!
I think you're right mostly because of WordPress.

In 10+ years of professional web development, I've had, I think, 1 client ever who had PHPBB on their site, but I work on at least 1-5 sites a month that are running a variation of WordPress (or just PHP in general). And every new site we setup is running WordPress on the back-end now.

I've also never had a client come to me who was running a Ruby, Python, etc, system. The strangest it has gotten was a Cold Fusion site here and there, and maybe once a year a .Net / ASP site crawls through the door..... and we have pretty religiously completely converted the sites to PHP in these cases before we start to manage them.
I think the media you are watching are doing you a disservice and quite possibly the world media. They are portraying Nelson Mandela as some kind of grand-father to the country, and yes in the last 15 years he has grown into that role, but there was more to the man that.

He was not GREAT because he was a SAINT or a pacifist or forgiving. He was great, because he knew what needed to be done, and he did it at the right times.

When the peaceful resistance, the marching, the uprisings were not working, it was time for the armed resistance.

When the country was at the brink of civil war he reliased unity would be needed to ensure the country and people would be truly free.

He was great, because he could get people to see his view of the world, not by force, not by demanding but just by speaking to them.

He was not this cuddly teddy bear/saint that some here seem to think he was. When the time came, and he did what needed to be done, not for himself but for the people, for a cause and for freedom.
Yeah, I should not have let that remark fly without further elaboration: For all I know mr. Mandela was directly connected to bombings that made innocent victims, such as the Church Street bombing. In my book that warrents jail sentence.

I am not too sure how to feel about an institution of the apartheids regime being the judge to this. Right and wrong get mixed up in my head.

For the fact that he and others resisted this regime, they deserve the praise they are getting. Sure some laws have been broken, but who made and interpreted these laws? That is not why I was saying he deserved punishment. It is innocent victims that make the difference. I was definitely not clear on that.

Btw I just did some reading up on the ANC bombings and it turns out I might be all wrong and just made an ass out of myself.
There really isn't a way to fix those queue times, though. When you have a small player pool (like you do on the far end of the skill curve), you have two choices: Accept long queue times or accept the likelihood of wildly unbalanced matches.
You cannot prove an impossibility, so demonstrating no correlation between Autism and Thimerosal is not going to happen. The possibility, however, is so miniscule as to be drastically outweighed by the benefits of vaccination.

It is also a completely irrational fear stoked by celebrities with axes to grind and discredited medical "professionals." Acetaminophen can cause liver failure but people give that to their children all the time and can easily give an overdose that will be fatal to children yet not at all harmful to an adult. If a parent buys a house built prior to 1978, the lead paint in the rooms can cause brain damage and hearing problems in children, but people buy those houses all the time. People even fail to install safety seats properly (or at all). These are all dangers proven to kill or harm children far more often and far more dramatically than the hypothetically miniscule risk of getting Autism from a vaccine.

My child's pediatrician flatly refuses to have vaccine deniers as patients. Summaries of studies rebutting Jenny McCarthy are posted in exam rooms and the full studies are available as free handouts to anyone who asks. If a parent declines vaccines that are on the standard "minimum required vaccinations for public school enrollment" list, the parent is invited to seek another doctor. And, for me and my kid, I'm thrilled that she has that stance.
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"There, a robotic voice told them to find the prime numbers in the original image. By multiplying them together, the solvers found a new prime"

That made my eyes bleed, but OA has given me a superb Maths revision lesson for some bored teenagers. I'd already planned to get them decoding a ROT13 text by reference to letter frequencies, and now this 'quest' as well. Nice.
I have a bone to pick with your last contention. At what load does the PHP runtime begin to become the performance bottleneck, particularly with APC enabled? As far as I know, Facebook is about the only application with enough load to test the limits of the PHP interpreter itself. I was under the impression that PHP itself is actually quite performant...
It is so easy to whip one of these apps together, you could do it in a few days.
"hang them from the handlebars of your bike"

If you are doing this, you are increasing your chances of an accident. Get a bike rack and panniers.
http://litmus.com has a free trial with tools that might be useful for you.
Wow this is a really intriguing philosophical difference. I'm a big fan of specialization. I think it is the only way a complex society could possibly function. I'm glad that as an end-user of cars, airplanes, trains, medicine, MRIs, television, movies, wine, beer, liquor, the legal system, government services, etc. etc. etc. I don't need to be an expert in their design, development, and maintenance. It's great that because of its nature, software is more accessible than most things, but that doesn't mean it should all be made by non-professionals. There's plenty of room for both non-professional and professional tools, and neither approach is fundamentally flawed.
A friend of mine works for the New York City Department of Health and closely follows the current measles outbreak. According to him, the outbreak (and the rejection of vaccination) can be tied very strongly to certain religious group.

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6236a5.htm?mobile...
That is kind of how medicine was practiced until fairly recently, and by some accounts continues to be practiced today.
It's not just an American thing. There are cross-over athletes who could play competing sports (rugby union vs rugby league) but they sign multi-year contracts with one team in one sport. Australia has competing football codes and the players don't float between them if they are contracted to one.

Ronaldo famously said that there is too much modern slavery in football because they are owned professionally by the clubs they play for.
For the engineers this is an interesting read: http://cornerstonemag.net/pollution-control-of-coal-fired-po...

According to this article, coal fired stations are no longer the primary source of PM2.5. Road vehicles emit an order of magnitude more particulate matter.

I recall about 20 years ago, Santiago had to implement a system where odd-numbered vehicles were allowed to drive on one day, and even-numbered the next, to cut down on the haze problem.

Perhaps electric vehicles are the way to go.
Yeah, and I find they're more difficult to read. Anyone have suggestions for a good solution, which still allows for image fallback?
"Schmidt said Google was "super-sensitive" on privacy..."

This is hard to believe. Let's recall that during the US investigation into the wi-fi data that Google captured, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said Google had "deliberately impeded and delayed" the investigation for months. Earlier this year, the UK Information Commissioner's Office ordered Google to delete captured wi-fi data or face criminal proceedings. Google had earier pledged to delete the data but actually failed to do so. Are these the actions of a company that takes privacy seriously?

Then there is Google's online reach which is simply phenomenal. Now they have an entire operating system (ChromeOS) which could potentially track everything you do online. You can't even print to your desktop printer without being signed in to your Google account. We don't really know what Google tracks or captures because their vaguely-worded privacy policies don't tell us.

The most depressing aspect of all this? Most people simply don't care (including many in the tech community).
My wife and I have given our children all the vaccines we had as children and it was an enormous struggle to do so. Children now receive many more vaccines than we did, and many of them are delivered in combination; up to four or more at a time.

Autism aside there is a very real danger of a reaction when you combine so many vaccines. Others are completely unnecessary, like Hep B at birth.

If the governing bodies went back to a sane vaccine schedule I think some of the refusers would come back into the fold.
Offtopic - do you have an account on abclinuxu.cz or is it just a coincidence of usernames?
Two questions:

- in the acquisition of a company with an MFN SAFE, it says that the instrument can convert in to common at the fair market value of the stock. Isn't that the FMV the purchase price? So isn't that the same as getting your original money back (no matter how successful the company may become)?

Regarding pro rata rights it says:

Do SAFE holders get pro rata rights? <snip> This pro rata right must be in either the Equity Financing documents or a side letter.

Is this saying investors need to add pro rata rights to your SAFE, or that they only get them if the subsequent preferred financing has them?
It would help if your air conditioning/HVAC system is also doing air filtration (as they do in the US, not familiar with Shanghai/New Dehli).
Most other people not having cars is also a draw of New York City.

Every time I find out someone in San Francisco that lives in a neighborhood with convenient public transportation still chooses to drive regularly, I shudder. This city should be eliminating parking with a mighty vengeance.
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I suppose so. Most people agree that it's legal for the government to perform military actions. Which military actions are legal is controversial, of course.
> because they suspect you are telling them they are stupid for wanting to build a life the traditional way by working hard, starting a family and saving money for the future.

Which is a problem, people take everything as a personal assault.

This has nothing to do with the creativity or lack of creativity in the action.
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Can you modify it to send the worst of amazon...to people I don't like?
Probably not much, but what's wrong with the emperor just wanting some cool looking new clothes?
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Someone is running a competition right now. To win, you have to find a collision using various hash functions. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=293382.0 The rules of the competition are encoded in the bitcoin transaction using Script. For example:

OP_2DUP OP_EQUAL OP_NOT OP_VERIFY OP_SHA1 OP_SWAP OP_SHA1 OP_EQUAL

which means SHA1(x) == SHA1(y) AND NOT (x == y)
It doesn't, but you did:

> Being in a place where "authoritarianism" is one bad actor away is not a good place to be.

If that's not what you meant, then what did you mean?
> An ensure contains a mere 11% of your daily potassium for example.

If you are referring to Ensure Complete, (rather than regular Ensure, which is not intended as a complete replacement), it may be low in potassium because complete replacements may be used by people with various medical conditions for which reduced potassium intake, below the usual-stated Adequate Intake, is recommended [1] (its possible for other users to supplement potassium, so that design choice would make it more broadly usable.)

Nutrition is more than one-size-fits-all values.

[1] See, e.g., the special considerations that apply to Potassium here: http://www.iom.edu/Global/News%20Announcements/~/media/442A0...
I think a bigger problem is that a well-funded entity can keep resubmitting rejected patent applications for re-examination. I think there needs to be a limit on how many "appeals" you can get.

From what I have heard, and this might be wrong since I am no expert on the matter, re-examinations creates a perverse incentive for patent-examiners to accept patents since their job-performance is rated on how many patents they process.
I know that "unique", which became a synonym of "unusual" years ago, has now also become a synonym of "distinct", especially in tech contexts, like "unique hits", but it still grates on my ears (or eyes, in this case). Languages are fluid, and change is inevitable, but I'm sad when those changes are careless and cause a loss of precision of expression.
"Speculation had been rife since the image first appeared. Some thought Cicada might merely be a PR stunt; a particularly labyrinthine Alternate Reality Game (ARG) built by a corporation to ultimately, and disappointingly, promote a new movie or car."

How about a shadow-crowdsourced game? You know, just a forum of people hacking stuff up and suggesting new twists. Like the submarine captains and destroyers in the 2nd world war. They almost felt they 'knew' each other.
What legitimacy do laws have, when opposed by a majority of the population and imposed on them by a minority?

Calling the ANC "terrorist" turns the term on its head. "Terrorism" is when a minority group uses violence to achieve goals it cannot achieve politically. When the majority uses violence to safeguard its own well-being, that's not terrorism. That's exercising an ability possessed by people in the state of nature, one not superseded by any legitimate law or social contract. In the terminology of American criminal law, the violence is not only justified (where a crime is deemed to have been committed but the actions mitigated by a compelling justification), but excused (where no crime is deemed to have been committed at all).
Are you trying to imply that 25,000 cases in Europe is less important than 175 cases in the US?
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Actually, this totally makes sense to me.

If you post on papers on your ~home/ page it is fine, but if you give your papers to a third party which operates a for profit website then it is not the same.

I am generally not a big fan of Elsevier, but in this case I am totally with them on the matter.
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So are you saying that if you only wanted to give your child the vaccines that you had received as a child, you couldn't do that without also giving them a bunch of other unwanted vaccines?

Can you not vaccinate your child by your own selection and timeline?
This is very well done, though I think the results could be better organized. For example, if I enter the opening riff to Bullet Hole by The Haunted (http://bit.ly/1bnTBFg), it first lists two songs that have similar riffs, whereas the The Haunted track is listed third even though it is identical to what I entered.

Also, even though the bitly link ends up being the exact same URL, it sometimes adds a bunch more erroneous results prior to The Haunted, making it listed 8th. But clicking the search button will again return it as the 3rd result.
No, I'm not out right discrediting it, but given how little I do in web and how small most of my experiments are, I probably won't use it for a long time just because I don't need what it provides.
This makes me wonder if it is possible to use the ADA to block roadway projects in some cases. Cars are inherently anti-accessibility in places where there is already tension between pedestrians and cars.
>The worst thing about people refusing to vaccinate their children is the fact that they themselves probably had all the vaccines in their childhood and did not suffer any consequences.

Even though you're supporting a good cause, that doesn't make this line of reasoning correct. That's purely anecdotal.
Also to get a more accurate reflection, tune in to Radio 702 (Wont be much now since its 11pm) but you could possibly catch some clips from people who actually knew him.

http://www.ourmadiba.com/reflect.html

http://www.702.co.za/index_site.asp
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Define "non-technical". Are we talking "I need teh WYSIWYGz" or "Cascading styles like a boss"?
> ...I assumed a site where you could upload images via a form and then browse and view them was right up its alley

Ah, your assumption was correct but incomplete. Doing that and a bunch more is right up its alley, but if you're doing only that, there are much easier ways.
So... only approved corporations can operate approved drones?
Sounds like a great way to completely monopolize the concept of having flying robots perform useful work.
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Wow, it's like a little piece of postmodern art.

I give you mine, Untitled 7 (solidus on web page):

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