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i wish these articles would die. i see the barefoot running guy at the big sur marathon now and then. yeah, check out his feet...this guy's wife probably tells him to put ON his socks at the beach so no one has to look at them.

these guys can't run very fast either. forget about a sub-3 hour time going caveman. what these guys do is a light trot, which is exactly what cavemen did unless their lives were threatened.
I would assume the penalties could then be made even more serious, because if they do it again, they're explicitly violating the settlement agreement. So, then they'd be on the hook for violating the contract, as well as a similar deceptive advertising charge.
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To be fair, you'll never see middle/long-distance athletes wearing flats outside of the later peak/taper window (and this is just to reintroduce your body to featherweight shoes so you don't freak out when you change your shoes morning of). And those spikes & flats are ultra light for performance reasons; they're not made to promote proper form. The Frees are definitely nice, but your feet will hate you after you're running 100-mile weeks in them.
This is very true. Perhaps, though, startups in their early stages should hire people with low GPAs, but who have some other proof of intelligence? If I want to really innovate, I'm going to hire people who not only think outside the box, but abhor going anywhere near it. 'course, these are the people that don't stay on as the company transitions from R&D to sales and maintenance.
I think the miracle is "the state of California has no more fucking money".
Thanks -- yep, I'm definitely more in the physics camp vs. the pure math.

On convolution, it's an integral and can be thought of as a type of multiplication too, right? :)
I see the anti-free-software brigade is out in force tonight. Helpful hint, guys, I have lots of karma and nothing to spend it on.
Crappy Republican hatchet job.
> I'd say it's more akin to buying a book that renders itself illegible after you've read it once.

As somone else pointed out, modern seed hasn't "bred true" since hybrids came out, which happened decades ago.

So, I'll point out that the seed containers have LABELS that say "seeds that you collect won't germinate".

In other words, the whole "this is bad" argument depends on significantly misunderstanding farming and the assumption that farmers can't read or don't understand what they read simple statements about seed viability.

Note that viability is one of the considerations that goes into seed choice, so that assumption requires significant gymnastics.
Sorry; I wasn't trying to offend. For what it's worth, I didn't downvote your original comment. You were at 0 and I thought your post was worth a debate.

It was smug of you to suggest that we didn't like Zed because of feelings of inferiority, but my response was not intended to be a personal insult in any way.
The more important question is, given California's current fiscal situation, will the funds from this bill be collected in time (assuming it passes this year)?
X-3/x-1=x-4/x-5
The general essence of his book was start a dubious internet business which fools gullible people into parting with their money such as selling unregulated herbal supplements. Aside from the impact on your karma it can also be considered fraud to make inflated unsubstantiated claims and a very "success" herbal telemarketer is currently doing time for such an offense.

As far as I can see Tim Ferriss is all about short-cuts, not optimizations. There is a big difference.
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> 2. Most GM strains are produced by a company of questionable ethics.

It turns out that the "questionable ethics" charge is essentially circular. It's basically yelling that someone is bad and then refering to the yelling as evidence of bad.

> Critics claim there haven’t been any long-term studies done (GM food has only been around for 20 years), that supportive research was biased or inadequate, and that the FDA rushed the approval."

Said critics don't have any objection to genetic alteration by other means, of which there has been no testing.
I suspect that would be a gamma difference with OSX, not an artifact of the screen quality. If you look at windows computers, the lighter greys are generally a bit darker than the same colour on a mac.
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We were writing first to the master MySQL instance and then immediately putting the same data in memcached. When we read, we'd go to memcached first and then go to one of the read slaves. This way we would limit the effects of replication delay. Note that I don't necessarily like this scheme, but it's the one we used.

Is there a replication delay issue with Keystore?
To run better, seriously, start by losing some weight. I've ran 35-50 mile a week for some time, also eating like a pig, and I just kept running worse and worse and gaining weight, in the end was unable to break 6:20 i the mile and 8:30 pace was the hard pace.. I took a two month break (5-15 mi a week just because it's hard to stop so suddenly), started counting calories and lost some serious weight. After that, I'm flying again :).

It's just not fun to jog at 9 minute/mile pace.

As for shoes, wouldn't worry about them. Best runners I've met (sub 4:30 mile) use Nike and Asics, and I haven't noticed correlation between shoe size and how good a person runs. A much bigger correlation usually appears to be between person's gut and how easy he or she runs :)
That's the problem. A lot of HN readers would look at the top comment to decide whether the article is worth a read. jonknee's comment does not provide much value in this regard. It's somewhat disparaging and reminiscent of comments you'd find from fanboys on Engadget or similar site.

The author makes a point that it's hard to believe an extremely well-regarded company like Apple would fail to disclose the true color depth of their panels or that the millions of colors are generated by dithering rather than the native capability of the monitor. I do agree though that his article was rather long for the point he made. There was some entertainment value in the length but it was not value a typical HN reader would seek
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Looks like the Sony TT line has an 8bit display:

http://www.sony.com.sg/microsite/vaio/products/vaio_tt/8bit....
Couldn't sleep. Wrote some code to display live feed of celeb tweets
I hate to be negative, but when you are dealing with people's money, you don't have the option of going dark for a month. It's unprofessional and possibly illegal.
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Tyler Cowen also has a very interesting article in The Chronicle of Higher Education - http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i41/41cowenautism.htm
There still isn't an officially-supported way of putting the current camera view into the view hierarchy. I guess they're pushing a UIImagePickerController on to the stack and prodding it into "Take a Picture" mode.

Apple probably has some mild security concerns with allowing apps to use the camera, but it's nothing a little popup alert couldn't address ("<Application> Would like to use the Camera OK/Cancel"). Hopefully they'll open this up soon. (If I'm missing some section of the docs that say how to do this, please speak up :).

What would be extra super cool is if you could grab the autofocus distance of a point on the screen and then optionally hide virtual objects that are obscured by something in the camera view.

Ideally Apple or somebody would release an ARKit (Augmented Reality kit) where you could just stick little annotation views on the "floor" or on "walls" and the library would handle the rest.
no, the most sweeping impact of legalizing marijuana, is that it would leave the pot heads with nothing to talk about
$50 for something that passes quality control is more than fair.

+ chances are the stuff will be better than what is out there right now, since corporations who'll make pot their business would need to compete between each other to gain customers.
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I found this academic paper on finding collisions in SHA1, but unfortunately I'm not smart enough to figure out what it's telling me.
http://people.csail.mit.edu/yiqun/SHA1AttackProceedingVersio...
Good luck with the move! I'll visit next time I'm out there.
> they just want to micromanage exactly how their content is presented by search engines.

They also want to be paid for ads on google's SERP. In some versions of this demand, they want revenue whenever their site is a result on said SERP. (The theory is that said ads are valuable because their site is a result on said SERP.) In others, they also want a revenue share from SERP pages that don't mention their site. (In that case, the theory is something like "the possibility of finding our content is why folks use Google".)
i guess being stoned all semester is outside the box
To be fair:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=southernmost+us+capital
x = 11/3
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In other words, bing now has some calculation abilities. MS is running an ad with this particular calculation suggested as a Bing search and a background photo of a blackboard.

Well, as you see, it works. And (I presume) they would like you think about the fact that throwing the same equation at Google does nothing useful (inexplicably, the first result was a page about BSD).

But I wonder how many users of this feature will be familiar with the rules of operator precedence? I admit I read it as:

x-3

--- = ... << I can't format it right but you get the idea

x-1

After testing it with Google, I went to Alpha, which (unsurprisingly) handled it with aplomb, giving it to me with proper notation as well and making me aware of my mistake. So I tried it as (x-3) / (x-1) = (x-4) / (x-5), which Alpha also handled with Aplomb (11/3 if you are lazy).

However, inputing the latter into Bing (without or without spaces for padding) gave no calculation or result, but just a bunch of (mostly unrelated) search results. Seems rather counter-productive on MS's part.

Apologies if this is excessively trivial.
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Please, change the title.

You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it.
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Which, again, doesn't change the fact that if you already have a Windows 7 install (I don't mean RC, I mean final), you can use the upgrade DVD, blasting the old install away during the process.
The crime is there because the only way to get marijuana is illegally. A market exists. Profits exist. Anyone serving that market is by definition criminal.

Decriminalising personal use (but not sale, import, cultivation, etc.) doesn't fundamentally change that.
Let me make it clearer for you: _you can do this with the upgrade DVD_.
Thats the least compelling definition of supports millions of colours I've ever heard. So did my EGA display adapter in the 80s then. I'd be furious if I bought a 6-bit monitor in this day and age and it wasn't spelled in giant letters all over the thing.
Please don't post homework problems to this newsgroup.
I don't see the result in Bing.

alpha direct link: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(x-3)/(x-1)%3D(x-4)/(x-...
This is actually kind of an important point. I don't know what you're being downvoted for. The upshot is that you really only notice the 6bit/8bit difference on large, smooth gradients.
For what it's worth, if you'd made the identical comment about Windows Media Player you'd probably be at +10 by now.
Oh dear, I hope that's a joke :-/ Maybe I should have done it as a 'tell HN' type post. I thought people would be interested in the depth of the parsing tree.
No, x = -1/4 is correct. Perhaps you should look up the order of operations.
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Some drugs help certain symptoms, but this usually comes with side-effects, which may help sell more drugs or create other, worse problems. The drug companies sometimes even admit that they don't know how the drugs work -- how can you be so sure you're fixing the brain, if nobody yet knows exactly how the brain works?

These disorders and syndromes have some purpose that is not fully understood today ... I believe the point of the Neurotypical page is to open eyes that some atypicalities should not necessarily be seen as negative.
This whole process is vulnerable to the water boarding attack.
Unbelievable. The thing about fog creek is that they want highly competent technical engineers without any entrepreneur spirit. Joel is the leader and he needs code monkeys to carry out the work. People who make 4.0s are the exact kind of people they need-- discipline, reverence for authority, people pleasers-- people who won't rock the boat. For Fog Creek this is a great litmus test.

Think I'm full of it? Watch their little movie they put together then tell me I'm not spot on. (I hope you enjoy pimple faced programmers verbally fellating joel spolsky)

http://www.projectaardvark.com/movie/

Incidentally, Google has a similar aesthetic, although not to the same degree. People who are drawn to startups are not usually the kind of people you want in a corporate structure.
The question presents itself: why would someone that good want to work on project management software with such a funky user interface and oddball feature set?
That's the same sentiment I had. The software guys I've worked hated FogBugz so much they scared the crap out of our CEO. I watched Aardvark'd and once longed to work for The Great Fog Creek, but I've already moved onto bigger and better things.
Assuming that the reviews are in fact fake. How would you determine this?
The problem with decriminalizing it is that the government would not get anywhere near the amount that they think they would. It is so simple to grow marijuana that a large majority would grow their own. Marijuana did not get the nickname by chance, it got it because it is a hearty plant.

Though I do agree with you that it would dis-empower some of the drug lords of South America, I disagree that it would have as great an impact on the economy.
It doesn't fit on my screen - you should make the tweets appear at the top and have the older ones move downwards.
Here's a related article too:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1170253/The-...
Fair point. Although I'd argue that it's trivial to grow tomatoes and yet few people bother to do so at home.

As for the economic impact, I guess it would depend, but I'm inclined to think there would be lots of government revenues in it, if tobacco is any indication.
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If tomatoes sold for $150 an ounce more people would grow their own.
the 'relevance of grades' argument never seems to die here. like any other measure of ability, the use of GPA has its limitations. the reason the debate continues, i suspect, is that a lot of people here got bad grades.
That's actually a different question than http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=x-3%2F+x-1%3D+x-4%2F+x-...

Bing's formatting of the results doesn't quite draw your eye to it - look for "Calculation" immediately below "All Results"
I went a-Googling for that before I saw your message, and here's the best thing I found. (A surprising number of 404s and forbiddens on most test pattern images.) This article [1] has a test image: http://static.photo.net/attachments/bboard/00G/00GkGu-302804... which has a grey gradient across the bottom. Zoom in (Firefox zoom is fine), and then look very closely at the pixels. If you see a dither pattern in most of the cells, you've got 6-bit. If it's smooth and unpatterned, you've got 8-bit.

I have 6-bit, but it's also higher res. Dithering is less of a problem in that scenario. But having seen it clearly, now I understand why you shouldn't do video-intensive work on this sort of display.

1: http://photo.net/digital-darkroom-forum/00GkGu
Globalisation is peace in the sense that creating a country out of petty kingdoms or a nation out of tribes is peace.

That doesn't mean you don't have civil strife or rebellions.
doubt it. given that new macs can show the harddrive with the simple removal of a panel, i can see lots of "front line" cops try and make sure 1+1 = 2. Would have to go to a lab to prove that it'd been partitioned, and that costs money and requires warrants.
But that's false: if you can't reveal the contents of your hard drive, you'll have to explain that it's encrypted with a key you don't have on you. The question will then be asked "so where's the key?" and you'll have to explain that a confidante has it. When you decline to reveal who that is, you are then having to lie. If you choose not to reveal it's with a confidante, you are then also pretending.

Remember, cops are supposed to be good at the asking questions and human behavior stuff. Less good at detecting when something's been altered technologically.
I actually think the Zed haters have finally jumped the shark.

If anyone but Zed wrote that essay on open source licenses, one would be hard pressed to call it a rant. It was quite well reasoned and didn't seem particularly brash. Many of the people chiming in on the discussion are trolling at magnitudes far beyond what his essay merited.

This isn't directed at OP per se, I just finally got around to commenting on this here.
And if MJ were legal, the price would drop dramatically. You can only charge so much for an easily grown weed. It's only expensive because it's illegal.
What pace do you find fun to run at?
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We already support passenger and have for some time now. It works very well for most cases but mongrel is still a better choice for some apps that can't run on passenger because of threading use or the need to use amqp etc
I believe that the integral symbol with a dash through it is equivalent to an integral divided by the interval...

Couldn't find any confirmation online, though.

Even if it isn't, it is a nice notation.

Maybe someone could confirm
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Pot is decriminalised in the Netherlands but the coffee shops where it is sold are in a quasi-legal gray area. Nevertheless this seems to have worked out OK for the dutch in terms of both permit revenue and taxes.

As pot smoking is a fairly social activity, I think many people would happily buy it over a counter - although ironically, California's strict anti-smoking laws might be a bigger barrier to the spread of such establishments. Personally, I much preferred the Dutch model - same way I can buy beer at the supermarket, and it's better value, but oftentimes it's nice to go to a bar and get it on tap. Bars don't seem to be limited by the existence of liquor stores.
Yes. I thought "newsgroup" would be a giveaway. :-/ No usenetters here, eh?

'course, people may just not like the joke.
Ask HN: Anyone familiar with Squirrel?
After reading about _why's Potion, I was looking around for other small VMs and stumbled across this language that apparently is implemented in about 6k sloc and is similar in design to Lua

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_(programming_language)

http://squirrel-lang.org/

Has anyone ever played with it?
To whomever wants to run barefoot: good luck. Try it out for a few months and post about how it went.

It seems like there are a lot of articles lauding barefoot running but not a lot of barefoot runners - at least in the US. To me, switching from my Asics to bare feet is asking for trouble after years of heel first running. The switch would require months if not years of slow and steady adjustment, which I don't think most people have time for.
To make this vaguely hackerish, I think stevey nailed the stickiness of this problem: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...

(skip to 'What exactly do you mean... "legalization"?' for the portion salient to this article)
When I first read this article --- and that was quite a while ago --- it was fuel for the fire of my false identity. I considered myself a hacker, a nerd, a geek, a genius --- I didn't care for "normal" people, and didn't care about their opinions of me. In fact, being a loner just solidified my geek cred.

Being a false identity, this made me miserable and greatly impaired me --- and as I have discovered my naturally gregarious self, my happiness and performance have skyrocketed. Now, the intent of this article is a defense of people with non-neurotypical neural patterns, and I think there is a lot of merit in that. But I worry about somebody misapplying the message as I did (and suffering therefore). So please, if you feel this article fueling a fire within you, I beseech you to take a few steps back. Creating a business that does something great for humanity does not require geek cred.
I always preferred the blunt "pull this part back to yesterday, when the knot wasn't, move it over here, bring it back to today, and it's unknotted" argument.
I went to the online test http://isnt.autistics.org/ntscreening.html

But instead of filling it in, I submitted it blank, to see if it would still work without an email address (which I'd prefer not to give).

It returned 404 Not Found http://isnt.autistics.org/cgi-exec/test/test.cgi

But, somehow, I think that my actions may be sufficient for some sort of diagnosis...
No, that was what he did. The essence of the book was to arbitrage the difference in wages between 1st and 3rd world countries by becoming basically a manager and outsourcing all of your own work to Indians. Let others do all the work while you take all the credit.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is being termed out of office, though. Unless he's considering a run as US senator against Barbara Boxer in 2010 (probably a losing proposition), it won't really cost him much in the way of political capital. He has already publicly expressed some interest in the idea...and as the other commenter says, we need the money.
Good point, but you can play a politician and legalize consumption and regulate production Win-Win.
I think you should include direct links to the original tweets. Humorous idea though.
That's an incorrect number. If you look at the open source code on the internet, it hovers around 47% to 48% (with a greater than 2b unique project lines sample.

About 22% are lgpl, though, so maybe that's what you meant.
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You mean if Passenger runs with the Ruby Enterprise Edition?

Passenger leak(ed) memory <2.2.4.

http://blog.phusion.nl/

"Along with revamping the Apache module’s I/O routines, we accidentally introduced a memory leak. It leaks about 8 KB of memory per request. Our apologies for this."
What's wrong with IE6? =]
I think it is pretty much for the same reason why there are relatively little startups in Ohio or Wisconsin or South Dakota or younameit compare to the bay area.
There's a nice piece from PG online where he counts the most common reasons why people do not start startups.
The first 10 are, on my view, very personal:
1. Too young
2. Too inexperienced
3. Not determined enough
4. Not smart enough
5. Know nothing about business
6. No cofounder
7. No idea
8. No room for more startups
9. Family to support
10. Independently wealthy

The last 6, which apparently are the most powerful inhibitors, are rather "social" IMO

11. Not ready for commitment
12. Need for structure
13. Fear of uncertainty
14. Don't realize what you're avoiding
15. Parents want you to be a doctor
16. A job is the default

I believe these latter are particularly influential in most European countries.