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Sorry, let me be more clear.

Submit the link that contains the actual content.

There are no practical limits on URL length in submissions here. Thus, there are no need to use URL shortening, redirectors, or other forms of man in the middle obfuscations.

If you want to know what stories people like, come back and read the comments and see what was upvoted.
If you are interested in learning more about where Steve Blank was likely working, learning more about Pine Gap is a good starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap
So now the movie industry's profits should skyrocket right?

Better start buying that stock before all those suburban teenagers start buying up Blu Ray discs and going to the movies every night.
The issue is that the "good" angel groups are so concentrated in SV, NYC, Boston, and LA (generally) that groups outside those areas can get away with this. To me, the bigger issue is what Brad points out - how few people/groups actually cut the damn check.
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Well, I wasn't in one case. That was enough of a lesson for me, even though I was completely in the right. 3 months or so suspension, one guy in hospital, not a good idea.

I've gotten a lot more mellow over the years though.
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Sorry to hear about the foot. Not being able to train because of an injury is terrible...

I damaged the tendons in my knees a while back quite badly, there was a 3 month period where I couldn't walk properly at all. In the end I found that exercising my legs with slowly increasing intensity and taking ice baths after every training session has put them about 90% back to what they were, and they're still getting better!
Exonerated - sorta. A year later. And she only got one of her two children back, and the kid was gone for a long time in foster care.

That's not really a glowing followup, don't you think?
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> Only in marketing, Apple's design taste is unrivaled...

Fixed that for you.
I had the option of teaching at a kwoon or hacking for a living. I'm here so.... (the tendinitis in both elbows at the same time was a sign that I wasn't meant to fight ;))
Speaking of which: you and I, as developers, understand search axes, and use them intuitively. But they're utterly opaque for someone who hasn't encountered that interface before--and given that Google itself doesn't support search axes in its main product, I don't think they're an interface someone's likely to learn elsewhere, either. If you're unaware of search axes, you have to click, "Show search options," which is in an extremely tiny font, next to a button that very notably says "Search the Web"--not search my inbox. Furthermore, once you actually discover that, and use it, you still don't know about the axes, because that search box doesn't use them. The only place where you can discover search axes is by clicking on a label, which results in "label:foo" being shown in the search box--but that's actually a lie, because the output if you dump that into the search field, versus if you click on a label name, don't match if you have more than about 30 messages in that label. Go try it.

So, yeah. Axes are great. And they're completely unintuitive and impossible to discover in Gmail unless you read the help, which no user ever does. So you've done a great job finding a part of Gmail's search interface that's at least as broken as the underlying implementation.
But wouldn't it kind of be the user's own fault if he installs software he doesn't see the source for? Also, how would the GPL protect the user, if the criminal does not mind doing illegal things anyway (like distributing malicious software)?
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> found that there are.

I can't see that.

> equal or greater benefit in any of the health indicators

Insulin resistance, for sure.

> strength training induces neurogenesis

What google informs me about neurogenesis is that it's tied to VOmax training, which long distance running is not especially good for. Interval training, a la tabata intervals, is best for that.

I very much suspect the mental benefits from actual sports exceed running. The stimulation from tennis or basketball would surely do your mind more good than pounding pavement.
Ron Paul conflates two things (1) short-term Fed lending designed to ensure liquidity in the banking sector, and (2) the socialization of private debt that took place through the bailouts.

The Federal Reserve's major function is adjusting the money supply to balance employment and inflation. Yes, it expanded the money supply quickly in response to a collapse in credit in the private market. This is not a problem. It can remove liquidity from the markets just as quickly when and if inflation returns.

The second issue (saddling the government with large amounts of private debt) is a real problem, because it involves the redistribution of wealth. That has nothing to do with whether Central Banks should follow inflation targeting. Here as elsewhere, Ron Paul is marking an argument about whether banks or miners should control the money supply by making a moral claim about the unsustainability and unfairness of public debt (issue two).
I also think it is well known. But it's amazing how many places other then THE places rely on semi-official investor clubs who charge you for pitching.

Often those groups work hand in hand with the local government trying to encourage small business. And they are not strictly stammers, just horrible investors.
after which you'd actually have to buy it

You don't have to buy it. Microsoft explicitly says you can use Express versions for commercial purposes.
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Even EU citizens had to fill out special paperwork on the plane, and then get your fingerprints and iris scan taken.

Now you have to fill out special paperwork online, and get a "preapproval for travel" (it sounds so draconian, you can't believe), and fill out paperwork on the plane, and scan your iris, and give a fingerprint, and they can still reject you at the border for no reason.

It's fucking nuts.

There was a case not long ago at Dulles International, in VA (but really, the major airport for DC), with an Italian law student arrested and sitting in jail for nearly 2 weeks for no reason at all. He was visiting his American girlfriend and his English was bad, so they tossed him in jail on suspicion of wanting to overstay. They would not let him return to Italy on the next flight, they just tossed him in jail, in a foreign country.

If his girlfriend's family hadn't been well-off and connected to the state senator, who could say what would have happened?

That's the airport I fly through. My husband speaks perfect English, but how scary is that?

Reference: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/us/14visa.html

(And, on a personal opinion note - Dulles is really the airport for the nation's capitol, but it's more like the nation's asshole. I have been to almost all major city airports in the US and it is by far the worst. It is staffed entirely by horrible, unthinking, semi-literate power-crazed thugs - men and women. They yell instead of putting up guides or signs. They yell louder if you do not understand English. And that's where I got questioned for 15 minutes after returning from Vienna. And this is the face we show to hundreds of thousands of foreigners every year, traveling to witness the greatest country in the world.)
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...also known as Arithmetic underflow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_underflow)
It's a combination of ignorance and desensitization. My generation grew up with tubgirl and 2girls1cup. I first saw tubgirl/lemon party when I was 13. When I was I think 17, I came across goatse for the first time; by then, a man * his wide wasn't enough to faze me.

I wrote an essay about how this widespread desensitization will affect society and culture. It'll be interesting to see the world in twenty years.
If it were propaganda, the people writing it would care more about getting you to read it and less about maximizing their pageviews. Hence, it would be on one page instead of seven.
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The bug, in Python (needs more digits because Python's "float" is C's "double"):

>>> float(999999999999999999) - float(999999999999999997)
0.0
It was all there last time I checked. Is there a specific class you're missing?
40320. (They do.)
I agree. My first thought was "who cares?" After reading all the comments, my thought was "who cares?" Now, my thought is "who cares?"
Given that you acquired an illicit copy over the intertubes of unknown origin and authenticity, perhaps you should refrain from commenting?
If you really like cycling, sure. But cycling across the country in a month doesn't leave you much time to see anything except pavement.
I have been looking for good examples of the new html canvas, and conveniently also interested in ALife and agent/emergent behavior. I was excited when I saw you put the code up on github.

http://github.com/ynd/life/tree/master

Thanks for sharing this!
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This reminds me of the kind of people that claim to be movie producers who charge you to read your script. It's a fail/fail scenario from the start.
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Karate in while studying computer engineering in University.

The Sensei was a trained mechanical engineer, and about half the group either had iron rings (which they all took off before fighting) or were in the process of getting them.
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Even if that is so, a majority of work (that requires thought) is progress that results from spontaneous creativity.
Also note, Scala makes tutorial-breaking changes to the language approximately every day. I've never found a Scala tutorial in which all the code works. Ever. I'll give this one a try, but... not hopeful.
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"Several questions come to mind. Is this the fall that Sornette and company were predicting or just a coincidence, a regression to the mean? And if the fall is related to their prediction, could the drop have been caused by it?"

Emphasis added.
I think he meant, how do you tell your browser exactly where you are.
I have one word for "angel investor groups" that charge start-ups to present to them:

Scams.
Hey, I'm using 2.7.5 and it worked for me. There's a tidbit of 2.8 specific code in there, but it's noted. I'm also the dude that wrote it, so if you have any problems or questions drop a line. Scala, for me, has been worth learning.
Considering how uninteresting "no" is as a response, I think this thread will tell you precisely nothing.
Indeed. It's probably wise to use namespaced internal methods inside of libraries or frameworks. However, Rails has historically pioneered new language features that eventually make their way into the language itself (Object#tap, Enumerable#group_by, etc. etc.).

In Rails 3, we've made it reasonable to pull in just small pieces of the ActiveSupport library, making it more likely that users will reuse functionality from there rather than reinvent the wheel.

Of course, it's not perfect.
Having noticed a slight trend along these lines, I tend to avoid people who are violent and have under-developed social skills, as poor anger management strategies seem to ride along in the same bucket.
The training I did was based on 'Sudden Attack' principles, i.e. where you're being suddenly attacked. These are the most common forms of attack, and in most cases, no amount of martial arts training is going to help you, because you probably won't see it coming, or if you do, you have almost no time to react. I know lots will disagree with me, but that's my opinion. Most attackers are looking for an easy target, even they don't want to get hurt. Reading the situation, and getting away from it, is far more useful than fighting your way out of it.

If it does get rowdy, Systema or an improvised kubotan - a pen, dining spoon, memory stick, may help you. It's always better to get out of the situation in one piece though, and get back to some nice programming that will do some good in the world.
The phrase "public domain" is even more concise.
Their personal lives are just that - personal. They're not a source of entertainment for you.

I agree with everything up until that. It was work email, the personal stuff was just a side effect. I was more curious in the actual status of the company since the CEO was sidestepping questions. The personal stuff should never have been there to begin with. Besides, knowing someone screwed on the conference table after work hours is useful knowledge when you sometimes eat lunch in the conference room. If the antics happen to be entertaining that's just icing on an otherwise disappointing waste of time and money.
But wouldn't it kind of be the user's own fault if he installs software he doesn't see the source for?

I don't believe that blaming the victim is a healthy attitude to life. "The rape was her fault for wearing those clothes" is for banana republics and history books, not modern times.

Also, how would the GPL protect the user, if the criminal does not mind doing illegal things anyway (like distributing malicious software)?

I didn't say it was a criminal act, and the software does not have to be malicious. Assuming the middleman makes any change at all, no matter to what purpose, then the user no longer has access to the source code for the application they're running. In my opinion, this is unacceptable, and I try to avoid contributing to software under a license which allows proprietary distribution.
To be honest, I'm not quite sure what this article is trying to point out; lambda functions (and functional-style programming) have been a part of the PHP language for a very long time -- since PHP4 to be exact. It may not be as "sexy" to look at as Lisp et al, but it's certainly been doable.

$fn = create_function( "$a", "return $a * 2" );
$list = array( 1, 2, 3, 4 );
$double = array_map( $fn, $list ); // array( 2, 4, 6, 8 )

or

function my_filter( $a ) { return $a > 10 ? true : false; }
$list = array( 5, 10, 15, 20 );
$less = array_filter( $list, "my_filter" ); // array( 15, 20 )
As long as it's 4 words or less http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=737986 :)
You're missing my point.

The original post was arguing "people are stupid and credulous".

I am arguing that, no PEOPLE ARE NOT STUPID - they are finely evolved to operate in the real world. If you present people with a REAL WORLD PROBLEM and they come to EXACTLY THE RIGHT ANSWER (as opposed to the "desired" theoretical answer) then the problem is with your ability to quiz people, not with people failing to be smart.
I try to sneak this into all of my rubygems
You can file for a summary judgement if there are no material fact in dispute which could cause you to lose the case.

Basically, the judge can say "even if all the plaintiff's allegations are true the defendant will still win, so lets skip the trial." That's probably what will happen here.
Obviously not using Lisp on the back-end.
It's interesting. For the little I have seen (and I was only able to give it a quick glance) it includes syntactic support for multi-threading being built into their Objective-C compiler.

Are they forking the Objective-C compiler?
No, I totally agree with you. Walking away is always the better option: that way there's no possibility of getting hurt!

I train for fun and for the rare situation where there's no other option but to stand your ground.
I love Gmail search because I've seen the difference - have you ever tried searching email in Mobile Me? It's like they ignore your query and search a random string.
There's a Google tech talk with Dr. D. Richard Hipp* (the primary author of SQLite), and he mentions that his decision to release SQLite under the public domain (for simplicity's sake) had surprising consequences -- in his words, the public domain doesn't exist for software in Europe, and several EU companies decided it would be prudent to pay a nominal fee in exchange for a custom, perpetual license from him.

IANAL, etc., but that's a lead if you want to investigate further. (He didn't specify what countries in Europe, but strongly implied it was the case throughout.)

* http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5160435487953918649
> how do we know they didn't account for it when they buffered initially? Maybe they had a different internal timeline (end of aug) vs. an external timeline.

If they were like practically everyone else in this wacky industry, they would be late for the internal timeline but not worry about it because the external timeline is the one that matters. Thus, there would be very little pressure to meet the internal timeline and a lot of pressure to meet the external timeline. Worse, they would wind up being late for the external timeline as well as the internal timeline.

For example, if someone wanted to add a feature to Snow Leopard, the dev team might say "we can't make our internal schedule if we add this." But some product manager would say "well, will you still make the external schedule?" and bang they would start to slip.

If they had an internal schedule and managed to stick to it I believe they are an exception to how software is usually developed.
I'm no expert, but reMail does it on my freakin iPhone - I'm guessing they could do even better on a cluster...
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Ok, I'll judge it by the fact that there's no link to a download or tutorial page.

... or reference documentation.

... or example applications.

... or a message board or irc channel or mailing list.

I still conclude that page was built broken. The language may not be, but I don't care to find out now.

For comparison, see http://www.ruby-lang.org. That is what a programming language's website should look like.
The fact that there's already been a strong response tell me that it's at least somewhat common...
I agree wholeheartedly with this.

For anyone who's interested, my wish list is:

1. No debt

2. Index linked income stream of about $100,000 annually

3. Camper van

4. Second hand Porsche ( can't help that, I'm 45)

5. Happy, healthy family
Well... yes. You're right. If you're depending on one behavior rather than the other, then totally. I guess I was thinking about it more in terms of two different implementations of the same thing. "If we don't have a quicksort defined yet, make one."
there ain't nothing wrong with Code Complete

It's ok but relatively mediocre, and in my observation usually indicates a programmer who hasn't sought out better sources.
I really don't think that I would classify too many of the people I train with, or even fought, as 'violent'. 99% of them will avoid any fight that is not in a controlled environment as much as possible, and anyone that is quick to anger generally finds going to a martial arts school a very frustrating experience. They get angry, then they lose control, then they lose. Badly. They don't seem to hang around for more than a couple of classes.

I would also say that most people I train with have very good social skills!

The people you have to worry about are the ones that aren't doing martial arts classes, because they're just sitting in their garage, cleaning their guns, by themselves.
That is a formidable barrier to entry.
More power to you.

However as a former PHP programmer I had very good reasons to give up on the community. The biggest one being the sparseness of quality code. As a PHP developer trying to learn how to write good code you find yourself jumping from island to island of good ideas floating in a sea of crap. The community has the lowest signal-to-noise ratio I've ever seen.
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I think you're getting downvoted because your comment was irrelevant to the topic of lambdas and recursion. Your second comment uses a technique that I will call "ad hominem defense" from now on; upvoted for making me think of this amusing expression.
(Canadian Engineering graduates wear an iron ring)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
Maybe this blog post will help:
http://reverttosaved.com/2009/08/24/helpful-hints-for-mac-us...
No reputable angel investor will ever charge you for a pitch. Same with VCs. If someone wants you to pay even a minimal fee (such as travel expenses or whatever they come up with) walk away.

One of the first rules of dealing with VCs & angel investors is you pay your own way, and so do they, until a deal is reached.
Eskrima (filipino martial arts) here. In addition to being fun, it also gives you strong and flexible wrists.
On some tests you get a zero score for not answering and a negative score for answering wrong. Balanced in such a way that uniform randomness gives you the same expected score as not answering.
The Pirate Bay SHOULD be offline. Guts would've been blocking it because it was illegal even though it pissed off half your customers to do so.

So, you think I'm wrong... tell me why.
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... The servers are timed to shut down after 49.7 days of use in order to prevent a data overload, a union official told the LA Times. To avoid this automatic shutdown, technicians are required to restart the system manually every 30 days.
I just started Kali, which depending on your point of view, is very similar to Eskrima. It's fantastic!

If you haven't heard about the Dog Brothers you should definitely check them out! Full-contact stick fighting!
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Potential problems:

* unrealistic expectations of what you can accomplish

* difficulty in dealing with average people

* more likely to question things and annoy people in the process

* less likely to accept traditions

* less likely to enjoy the simple pleasures of life

* less likely to find a job as an employee rewarding

What are others?
It's probably immediate responses. I can't downvote either yours or DrJokepu's responses, but I can downvote this comment.
Prosper indeed is technically neat in some aspects. However, default rates for most lenders are sky high: According to outside estimates, 9 of the top 10 investors on Prosper will end up with a negative ROI, despite lending at double digit interest rates: http://www.ericscc.com/tools/prosper-lender-list

Before investing a sizeable amount, consult external sites and/or observe a smallish portfolio for 6 months or so.
_IF_ the draws are independent, it's not bullshit and you just lost a lot of money. In the example around which the article is written the draws are very much independent.

I saw somewhere a similar article with pictures of "randomness". The point was it's very counter-intuitive: random events tend to look very un-evenly distributed. Here lots of zeroes, here lots of ones. Given the big number of "draws" in the Lottery, it's not at all unusual to see a number appear or not appear for a while. So you don't even have reason to suspect foul play.
Apple's marketing is an added feature. I get a lot of joy looking through their ad copy, in a way that I get out of very few marketing departments'.

I always wonder why Microsoft is so bad at advertising. They're not a stupid company. They create products that are nearly always good, if rarely (in my opinion) great. But they've never shown any sort of strength-of-focus and they make things that are ugly. I don't get it. In cases like this, it's easier to make something that's stark and simple than it is to make something cluttered and unappealing.