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> Caltrain does run down there. We could have beefed up that system and had a tremendously efficient train system, with trains leaving every 15 minutes or so for the peninsula

The problem is that Caltrain (and BART outside SF proper) has its stations along the periphery instead of the heart of town. You can't jump on Caltrain in the Mission or Noe Valley or even Market St, and on the southern end, it's not going to drop you off anywhere near anything.

This is because California, and the Bay Area in particular, follows a policy of "The needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many", and when previous generations were deciding where to put stations, they didn't use eminent domain like most municipalities would; instead, they built them either in the few parcels of vacant land off on the periphery, or along the freeway land they already owned, which is perhaps the most pedestrian-hostile arrangement possible.
The report states 14.4M million sales for desktops,laptops and tablets. For perspective, Apple sold a similar amount of iPads in just one quarter.
It's a weird feeling when you know that some of the torrents you are seeding may make you the only source of distribution of that work in the world at that moment. Gives you a sense of responsibility if it's good.
If ever there was a product that called out for a Kickstarter, it would be the clear Mac Pro case.

Artisan borosilicate glass, naturally.
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He doesn't care about SO, and his time is precious.
In nature, when a single-celled organism grows large, it divides. Silicon Valley--or more accurately the tech companies located there--needs to diversify geographically. It has gone beyond a critical mass and is starting to hurt itself and the surrounding communities from the excess.

The problem is that there are few other nucleation sites that a viable tech community can condense around. The major tech employers are not spreading out to lower their impact. There's no reason why 2000 employees all need to be on the same campus. There is no way in Hades you are cross-pollinating your divisions to that extent.

Spread out and invest in connectivity technologies that make talking across the continent as easy as over a cubicle wall.
"I met a guy who lives at 24th and Valencia [Street]. He says the Wi-Fi signal on the buses is so powerful that when the Google bus pulls up in front of his house, it uses all the broadband and his Wi-Fi signal crashes."

That's not really how WiFi works. Chances are his router is on the same frequency as the buses and he can fix this by changing to a different frequency. Even more likely (since one SSID shouldn't make too much of a difference) is that his WiFi router crashes at random and there's some amount of false causation there.

I know this isn't the beef of the article, but this sort of magical thinking that insists on forcing every little thing into a framework of a class war between the upper middle class and the lower/lower middle class is.
Yes, but trademark protection wouldn't prevent people from using or selling the older works, at least not in general.

From http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/trademark.html :

> Twentieth Century Fox was the producer of a World War II video series that was no longer protected by copyright. When a competitor used it, Fox sued — not for copyright infringement (because they couldn’t), but for trademark infringment. They lost. See Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. et al., 540 US 806 (2003), which you can read here: ( http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/support-files/dastar.pdf ).
Outside of SF proper, Oakland, Berkeley and at least a few other stations...
> In another era, the captains of industry would have said, “OK, our workers live here, our factory is there; let’s encourage, enforce, and subsidize the improvement of public transit.”

Uh, what?

This is kind of a silly point, but I think it exemplifies how misplaced all this tension is.

For example, mayor LaGuardia put a TON of work into forcing the privately owned transit lines to become a public good in NYC. The "captains of industry" didn't improve public transportation - they just started their own transportation companies. It took a lot of hard work by a lot of great government officials for the NYC subway to become the awesome service that it is today (incoming jokes about the L train).

The city of San Francisco's biggest enemy in this whole "nouveau riche" problem is the city of San Francisco. But everyone's too busy cuttin' each other's throats to realize that.
Are you people also put off by the culture of startup incubators?
They're pretty explicitly 'startup factories' where the already-wealthy can capitalize on up-and-coming products and services. They take something that's appealing to people because of the freedom and wealth it provides and then turn it into a way to capitalize on the labour and ideas of others (even if the ideas themselves aren't necessarily that special).

Then on top of that, people have to put up an act to fit in to the culture, making it basically like work.

Ultimately they're a very useful service and all, but they are also what I just described. Is it something we just have to live with? What are your thoughts?
Okay, so I literally can't imagine programming nowadays without Stack Overflow. Sure, google synthesized answers may be a cheap way to score points (actually I'd never thought to do that), but people that do that are still saving me time. And even though some answers do skip the art of "teaching a man to fish" there are still TONS that do "teach a man to fish."
You're mistaken. The savings is in the GPU, not the processor: http://techgage.com/article/apples-newest-mac-pro-costs-less...
A trademark grants very different protections, though, and they'd be hard-pressed to claim a full animated short as a trademark.
>Then the data structure being sent to the APIs got an additional parameter. It told the public interface which API had to get that data.

Nice technique.
Where to start: We are forever barred from knowing the composition of stars - stated around 1850, I believe.
The sun couldn't possibly have sustained combustion for more than 10 million years, hence no time for evolution og geology.
Parent poster is referencing Arthur C. Clarke, not Niven, btw.
There is always going to be signal loss from the raw data of the actual experiment -> the scientists quantizing and interpreting the data -> formatting and presenting salient parts of the data to get published -> popular science writers condensing the publication down to a few paragraphs -> general public interpreting pop science journalism -> word of mouth from your friends who read a pop science piece.

It's the age old problem of going back to the primary source. What exactly is the primary source? The raw data? The original publication? You can even go so far and claim the original experiment wasn't done correctly and you don't trust the experimenter. It's an infinite regression that just isn't very practical.

The key I think is more openness in scientific publishing and data. No more anonymous peer reviewers. Make negative data just as important as positive results...etc
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Thanks Joe, solved the problem with your suggestion to use PYTHONUNBUFFERED=true.
I self-published by selling online using Spacebox and Stripe. I only created a PDF, but am working on adding epub and mobi versions, mainly due to requests for a Kindle-friendly version. The book included about a dozen custom diagrams the tied into the text.

Along with the book (http://startsustain.com), about starting and running your own web app, I included a simple project task list and a rather involved spreadsheet for helping to estimate revenue and expenses and easily adjust them to see the impact on revenue. My results might be moderately misleading because this spreadsheet was a significant component of value justifying the price.

The book was all new content, rather than repackaged blog posts, and I sold the package for $99 with occasional sales of $79 and $59. Prior to launch, I built up an announcement list of about 1,600 interested people. I did a poor job marketing to those people beforehand, but instead just sent out a single launch announcement.

It's been available for about 9 months now and sold over 500 copies for a total of about $45,000. I spent about $3,000 up front for cover design and editing.
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None of that changes the fact that his valid edit was rejected by incompetent mods.
No not saying most people dont need it, they are a reducing pool, the people who do need it have moved away already.
Thanks, I'm checking that one out.
From the FAQ:

How is Bitcoin used here?

Bitcoin, in the sense of the digital currency, is not used at all.
However, the Bitcoin protocol and the implementation of the neat
idea of block chain is on the basis of twister. The block chain
provides a sort of distributed notary service, certifying who owns
a given nickname. The name is associated with a specific key pair,
which is used for authentication and cryptography.

They're not using this as a marketing scheme! It's also not being used as a crytocurrency, they're merely forking the codebase to use the blockchain in their codebase.
I found the entire post really bitter, but yeah, that part was incredibly interesting. Wikipedia is basically in the hands of an incredibly pedantic bureaucracy which is far more obsessed with process and incredibly obscure rules rather than producing quality articles.

When top tier NASA scientists find their edits to global warming articles changed by homeschooled children who spend every waking moment on wikipedia, you know the system is broken.
To me the skull seems weirdly deformed. I guess time and geologic pressure can do something like that.
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> And it feels most like a mining town, in that it’s disproportionately young men coming in, and they’re transient. They’re not committed to the place, and they’re displacing a lot of people who are.

They're transient because screw-the-newcomer policies like Prop 13 and rent control make it unaffordable for many of them to settle down here. And it's disproportionately young men because these same policies, in conjunction with anti-development measures like 40-foot height restrictions across the street from BART stations, make it nearly impossible to live here without a tech worker's salary.
This isn't actually true anymore for many, many things:

- The major scientific/numerical packages support Python 3 (pandas, numpy, scipy).

- The best database library supports Python 3 (SQLAlchemy)

- A substantial fraction of important support libraries support Python 3 (e.g. lxml, PIL/pillow)

- Django supports Python 3

I'm honestly a little confused by people who claim that library support for 3.x "isn't there yet". My entire office has switched to Python 3 for everything.
How do you know he didn't realize it? I start from the assumption that OP isn't stupid.
Can IFTTT do the same?
"Does having easy answers available on SO make us dumber?"

Yes, in that the worlds largest helper only supports simple boring common questions, as per the article. If you're trying to do stats in scala, and the only help you can get is "hello world" in java, that's not good for Scala, statistics, or much of anything else, making the world overall dumber.

By analogy, lets say reality TV shows completely push video documentaries off the air. This is not so far fetched. The net result is likely to be dumber.
I made much the same arguments before I bought my first smartphone. Turns out they're a lot more useful than you notice when you're only looking for reasons to dislike the whole concept.

For an example from my own experience, I used to do a lot of contract IT work, both freelance and as part of a firm, often visiting several clients over the course of a day. Originally I'd keep track of everything in an old-fashioned spiral-bound pocket notebook, but dead trees are hard to grep, especially remotely, and at the rate at which I filled notebooks it got to be a real pain having to copy and distill everything worth keeping track of from the old one to the new one. I had an old-fashioned candybar phone, too, which worked well enough for phone calls and text messages, and if I had to, I could use it to talk a client through power-cycling a server and other similarly simple procedures, which was at least a little better than having to go out and do it myself, or back to the office where I could remote into the client's PDU.

So I bought an iPhone. Thus, with a modicum of effort, I gained a shared, always up-to-date calendar, providing both an agenda of upcoming events and a searchable record of what I'd done and when; an always-connected email client, providing both an easy means of keeping in touch while on the road and, again, a searchable record of past communications; a shared, collated, searchable collection of notes concerning every relevant detail of my various clients' operations; a shared, &c., collection of contact information for all my various clients and industry contacts; and, last but not least, an always-connected administrative terminal with which to remotely solve even relatively subtle and complex problems, as and when necessary, for clients who had urgent needs and for whom I could not fit an in-person emergency visit into my schedule.

No doubt all of this makes it sound as though I was a preposterously busy person, and for several years that's exactly what I was. My smartphone enabled me to streamline my efforts in a fashion which I had hardly imagined possible before I first laid hands on the means of so doing, to the extent that it made me able to get more work done, with less effort, than I had been able to accomplish before. If there is any purpose at all behind our species' longstanding habit of building interesting trinkets and gewgaws, "more work with less effort" is certainly the very soul of that purpose.

I do, though, like your "only frivolous people with frivolous purposes would ever have a smartphone" argument, though. I think that's the most sensible thing anyone has said in this whole thread. Certainly it is in no way redolent of, for example, someone who bravely defies his ignorance in order to declaim at length on a subject of which he has absolutely no relevant experience whatsoever.
The main value I get from stack overflow is easy to find answers to easy questions. I find it easier to find documentation of how to do X on stack overflow than I do in the manuals for most of the tools I use.

Here is the workflow:

1. Google 'question string'

2. Click first stack overflow link

3. Skip to the first answer without reading the question.

This, incredibly, works for about 80% of the things I need to look up day to day. I often find that I either need a simple example, or just need my memory jogged. In my opinion the entire internet is better because of the existence of this one site.

I agree with all of the author's points, but I think stack overflow is worthwhile despite these problems. And trust me, I've gotten my own snarky, low effort, infuriating, heavily upvoted, answers from Jon Skeet.
And I'm saying that damn-near everything is relative.
Isn't the posted "article" really just SPAM?
> the partners are pretty good at telling in a couple minutes conversation if you're a strong founder

This is the part I doubt, though, if by "strong founder" you mean "statistically more likely to exit successfully than people selected according to much simpler 'dumb' criteria". These kinds of claims to predictive ability based on un-quantified holistic properties like "experience" rarely hold up under scientific scrutiny.
This reminds me of an old talk radio adage: don't mistake callers for listeners. The people who call into a radio show represent a fraction of the audience, and are often the most extreme, polemic, loose hinged segment of that audience. And most people don't call.

In the SO world, I'm definitely a "listener." I almost always wind up on the site from Google, and it usually does a pretty good job. I don't think I've ever navigated around the site itself, so the "game-ification" or whatever was completely foreign.

I will say that there have been numerous times where there are pretty good subjective or opinion based discussions (which language is better for x?) that get "closed as non constructive." I can understand why they would want to avoid flame wars, but almost always the discussions were, ironically, very constructive, nor could I find the same type of discussion anywhere else.
But for the newbie user it's a nightmare. If you google "Python training" you're going to get books, sites that offer training from 2.5 to 3.3. And those are recent sites (like 2012+).

Not to mention pip and package management - which compared to ruby, is just terrible. I mean there isn't even an update all command in pip. And of course if you have different versions of python you have different versions of pip. With different version of packages installed.

And now for virtualenv. Ok great tool. But even in this area there's confusion. Different people use different environment managers. And virtualenv isn't the easiest thing to setup - from a new users point of view. Where in ruby there's gem. It's installed with ruby. Period.

The community isn't doing itself any favors by dragging their feet. Everyone should jump onboard the python3 wagon. And if you need a package that isn't 3, then rewrite or look for something else. Maybe if the maintainers of said packages knew that their users weren't gonna stand for not supporting version 3 they'd get off their butts and convert - or release the code and let the community convert the package for them.
Both examples are the same thing within the discussion that each was a part of. During any of the discussion of this thread, I don't see generalized opinions, the discussion was very direct in discussing one topic: firearms used for suicide. You were the one to attempt to generalize my statement by taking it outside the context of the discussion.

If I had walked up to you and made my statement without any context whatsoever then you would be absolutely correct, which I said before.

Thanks for the link, it supports my argument quite well that punishing all for the actions of an individual is not always the correct course of action. It actually goes beyond what I was saying since I was only speaking of restricting someone based on what another person does to themselves.
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Yes, since it's requires payment to view.
There's something really ironic about Atlas Shrugged being on that list.
Please note the topic you are in.
I tend to agree. Any open source projects (to your knowledge) aligned with this approach?
I do not see a problem with indefinite copyright protections.

One of the assumptions is that everything being equal the same works would exist if it were not for copyright protections. However, I would argue without the extended copyright protections, most of these [future] classic works would not exist, simply because publishers/studios would not invest in the creation/distribution of the works initially. In other words, copyright protections encourages the creation of works.

The OP takes an opposing stance, suggesting if copyright protections existed historically it would have stifled the creation of many classic works. This may be the case in certain instances, but to make that argument one must have an in depth understand of what constitutes copyright infringement in a legal sense - including all defenses to infringement (i.e. derivative work, fair use, educational/news worthy use, ect...)- and make the argument on a case by case basis. Very few people have any idea of what constitutes copyright infringement - and even among legal scholars, practitioners and judges there is disagreement.

All I know is if you have ever created anything and had it stolen you understand the need for legal protection. Plus it would suck to live in a world where I am financially rewarding thieves because I can not distinguish if a work was original or a knockoff. Finally, legal protection is just that protection, there is nothing stopping copyright owners from giving away their works for free, in other words voluntarily releasing their work(s) to the public domain.
Utilities seems like a good use of Go, apart from the others I'm aware of. I mean command-line ones.
I understand this, but couldn't you simply wrap print itself in a function, and do that in Python 2.7 already? Granted, your method saves you one line and it's more 'natural'.
They sound like cool projects but your saying "btw, I'm 24" felt like blatantly showing off. Congrats on having achieved so much at a young age! But seems to me like a main objective of the post is to further boost your ego.
I believe this only applies to S-corps, in order to prevent abuse of the pass-through taxation S-corps enjoy. IANAA though.
And what happens when someone whom you voted as shows up to vote? I mean, if this is going to happen on a large enough scale to affect the outcome of an election, that event has to happen many times. Which means poll workers and police are going to record many cases of voter fraud.

So, can you show me an election in the US where that has happened? Even just one?

Or is this a fantasy?

The point is that if each fraudulent voter has to go to multiple polling stations, that dramatically increases the cost and raises the likelihood of detection. In order to scale that attack up to be practical, you'd need buses full of fraudulent voters going from one station to the next.
Nothing, and maybe that's quite alright.
I think the point was to make sure that capital wasn't going to replace labor via automation.
your response only works assuming everyone could plainly see how the appliance works and the manufacturer was openly looking for contributions to the design.

Of course, if that was the case, the edge of your response is blunted, because then responsibility for that failure is more distributed.
Microsoft would prefer you to use PowerShell and Visual Studio. Python wasn't invented in Redmond.
I'm still not convinced any one entity deserves to keep a creation for so long under monopoly given by the society (some interesting discussions in 1869 [1] about this), but let's assume they do. I'd still like to see a system where you only get copyright for new works for 5 years. Then you have to pay $1,000 to renew it for another 5 years. And then the fee increases geometrically (and also adjusted to inflation), to something like $1 million+ after 50+ years, because if the work is worth that much to you after so much time, then you should be able to pay for it, and it would also "give back" to the society that keeps granting you the monopoly for that work.

Then the average lifetime of copyright monopolies should be around 15 years, which is actually about what it was when copyright laws were first created (the average would be dragged down a lot by people who wouldn't care about stuff they made in a week enough to pay $1,000 5 years later, but most of the "real works" that would be worth it, will probably have it for around 30 years or so.

We see it with books that after 10 years most of them are basically dead, and nobody cares about them anymore (can't find that link right now, but some of you probably know what I'm referring to). There are some "Mickeys" here and there that are relevant 100 years later under copyright, but it's more like 1 in a million works. The rest is abandoned - but it still retains the copyright on it so nobody can re-use it to improve the culture of the society (even if it just means having a company like Google find all the old books and digitize them, something they've barely won, and is actually getting appealed right now). I think that's just wrong.

[1] - http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130503/17414322946/discus...
To solve this, I have a custom Celery instance that wraps each task in my flask app's context. So you can treat celery tasks as just another request.