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Columbia is far safer now than several decades ago. It is in fact a great example of a Latin American country that has really turned its economy around.
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He is still very much a kid. If you met him, you wouldn't know that he could read unless you asked. To give him this skill took 10-15 minutes every few days over two years with months in between of no reading.
That's CoreFoundation, not Foundation. CoreFoundation is plain C and relatively small in feature set. Foundation is Objective-C and much larger.

It's a lot easier to work with the Foundation Objective-C API. They both manipulate the same data structures (or nearly the same with zero-cost bridging) but Foundation is far less verbose and a little more dynamic (no need for manual buffer allocations and configuring callback structures).
Waiting.
> It has higher quality than many hollywood fx products.

Seriously. How are Hollywood CGI films so poorly made when this is possible?
Its not just taxation that needs to occur with legalization of harder drugs. Its a comprehensive reaction from the social safety net - no more unemployment, no welfare, and CPS comes to check on your kids if you have them.
It's an interesting argument, but the deal is with the state. That's like saying I never agreed to the laws that passed before I could vote, so they shouldn't apply to me.

It's tough, though, I agree - who bears the brunt of the pain? At the same time, new workers can reject a contract's terms by not accepting a job. Old workers have no options.
They could try to argue that, if it's true. I've had the same IP address from Comcast for over a year, and I've reset my modem many times as well has had some prolonged (many-hour) power outages during that time.
"As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts." - Herman Melville

Wonderful quote by Sagan.
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Racket has them as well:

http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/cont.html
As an economics undergraduate, Paul Krugman's paper on The Theory of Interstellar Trade was a must read, exclusively for its light-heartedness:

https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf

(12 pages, quick read)
I think we both want to make this thing a reality. For them, I think they believe this will be the doorway to becoming a software company instead of a service one. I've told them a million times I am about building systems, and not trading time for money... I am excited that there is some potential that I can focus on building systems with more of my work time.

They couldn't make it in-house without me; I'm the most technical guy in the firm but the idea/tool is so ingrained into our methodology now they could definitely reimplement it with some 3rd party developer. It's not rocket science, but as a service - we are confident it has market potential.

I could create and market the product without them. I could go without a salary for a little bit; but not longer than a few months without cracking into longterm savings.

I hear you on the 2 options. Bonus does sound easier; but I am starting to think maybe my pitch should be for a 'software division' - where this SaaS offering is the first project; and then I try to negotiate equity in that 'division'.
We'll keep re-evaluating this over time, but I'm currently not sure it's that serious a problem. For many numerically intensive computations, you'll want to move over to a pure array of 64-bit floating point values before the long-running computation begins, at which point you can adopt NaN == NA semantics if appropriate. I believe the solution I outlined in my updated comment above may already describe the buddy bitmap solution you're referring to. It certainly describes a solution that I would refer to as a struct-of-arrays.
They still have, according to Wikipedia, the 12th highest homicide rate in the world. They've got nearly the same number as the US, a country with 6 times the population. It's much safer than it used to be, but it's still not that safe.
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I really loved this. Are there anything else similar elsewhere?
"Thirty years of research on race differences in cognitive ability" http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/PPPL1.pdf

It made me realise how political science can be and how facts on large issues can be covered up for political reasons.
Came here to say this. It really is awesome; and I hate Krugman!

It's really an interesting situation; thinking about how there would no longer be an 'unambiguous' measure of time when we have faster than light travel.
I remember seeing this posted on Quora a while ago and it still stands out as one of the best answers I've ever read. And the biggest takeaway for me was (and still is):

"Redundancy. Aircraft manufacturers are really, really (really) big on redundancy."
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HN, The Economist, BBC News, The Guardian, Foreign Affairs, NYT, Financial Times, and a few choice subreddits.
Ask HN: Finding a technical lead in Cambridge, MA?
Over the last several months, I have tested and validated a business opportunity in the legal space. Customers are very interested - 4 or the last 5 have asked to be part of a paid Beta as soon as possible. I'd like to get something workable into customers hands as soon as possible, but am hamstrung by my technical skills.

I'm by background and skillset much more business than technically oriented. I know enough Python/Django to be dangerous and have built a working proof-of-concept / demo. However, I know when I'm at the limit of my capabilities, and to take it from POC to working product, would like to bring on someone to help buildout a real product.

Some of the problems that need to be solved for (many of which I've been dealing with in one capacity or another):
- web scraping. Done mostly with BeautifulSoup to date + lots of custom regexes. There are a lot of corner cases to deal with.
- regularly scraping 10,000s of pages and watching for changes on those pages
- entity and person disambiguation. Pulling info on a number of entities and people. Need to figure out when Acme Corp. is Acme Corporation is Acme and John Smith is John P Smith, etc.
- advanced searching and alerting based on those searches (search agents?)
- transactional emails (alerts) based on search agents

My ideal partner here would be someone with the technical (frontent/backend) capabilities to take what I've done, and build a grown-up product. I'm very comfortable on the business side of this equation, and leading the customer development components.

If you're interested, let me know and I can divulge a bit more.
Interesting but it doesn't matter. Attacking a police officer is never a good idea and bad things will happen to you. No decent, moral, law-abiding citizen or society would ever defend the actions of Brown or think Wilson did anything wrong in defending himself.
Perhaps not quite what the OP had in mind, but I found the papers that affected my life the most were not in my chosen profession.

Comparison of the Atkins, Zone, Ornish, and LEARN Diets for Change in Weight and Related Risk Factors Among Overweight Premenopausal Women[1] and Low-carbohydrate nutrition and metabolism[2]. After spending most of my life obese, even after having bariatric surgery to "correct" it, I found I had to dive into the science on my own to see past the charlatans and the demagogues. These two papers lit the way for me.

1. http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=205916

2. http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/86/2/276.full
In this case, there was no repo at all. That's why he was asked.
I'm not going to mention a specific paper, but Papers We Love (https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love) has some good stuff on it, and the meetups have always been interesting (at least for my local chapter).
Agreed. Ignore the ignorance of the GP, open source coding is often done to scratch an itch - if Windows frameworks and platforms are your thing then more power to you!
Awesome creation. Image Gallery and Explanation: http://imgur.com/a/Ur5dP
They even send out an "Explore today on Gitbook" email which looks an awful lot like the "Explore today on Github" email.

It's a cool product, but they could use some original direction in their branding and marketing.
Wait wait don't tell me. One of you happens to think that human beings are infinitely valuable and should respect certain rights and duties regardless of consequence and the other guy thinks that good and bad can be summed into some kind of.... utility function that can determine if you should do something or not.

Then guy one will counter attack: You could just enslave a minority to make the majority happy!

Then guy two will make his counter: You could have everyone respect everyone to death while everyone is miserable!

...and so it goes on and on. A nasty syndrome. A classic case of Kant vs Mill. There will be no rest tonight.

I'm not super familiar with his work, but I've heard the popular guy these days is Rawls and his theory of justice. Maybe give him a look?
This totally went over my head and I am so glad you pointed it out. I now want to use it just because of that
That would help stop people from taking things that are adulterated, but I'd be concerned about the toxicity of the pure drugs as well.

A great example of what can happen is Fen-Phen, the diet drug that was taken off the market a while back. The drug fenfluramine also activates the 5-HT2B receptor and causes heart valve damage.

All of these designer drugs out there could certainly have off-target effects that would never be noticed unless a clinical trial was run (even then maybe not!) or unless enough users have enough problems that it's noticed (MPTP is great example).
Thanks for the informative reply.

> ... when you want to work with SIMD or GPU operations, one can (and we will) use a representation of arrays of Nullable objects that places the values and the Boolean flags into two separate arrays.

"When" is pretty much "always" with arrays. Trusting a sufficiently smart compiler and runtime to get rid of the tag checks makes me nervous, though. This optimization needs to be user-predictable and/or -controllable to be truly useful. If only compiler gurus can understand when slow, tag-checking, scalar loops will be replaced with fast SIMD code, something has gone wrong.
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Has this company licensed the Git trademark? http://git-scm.com/trademark (2.3)
"On the Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Ether" (https://www.aip.org/history/gap/PDF/michelson.pdf)

This paper achieves a wonderful balance between being incredibly important and almost absurdly easy to read and understand.
If we define favorite as most often reached for in reference to present discussions, then probably this. People are persistently surprised by the expected results of cumulative gains in all areas of life, here also:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0020187

"Those who get first-generation therapies only just in time will in fact be unlikely to live more than 20–30 years more than their parents, because they will spend many frail years with a short remaining life expectancy (i.e., a high risk of imminent death), whereas those only a little younger will never get that frail and will spend rather few years even in biological middle age. Quantitatively, what this means is that if a 10% per year decline of mortality rates at all ages is achieved and sustained indefinitely, then the first 1000-year-old is probably only 5–10 years younger than the first 150-year-old."
It was a good thing. Not just for the standardization bodies, for everyone. The "Fierce Idiocy of 'New!'"[1] died down for a little while and briefly it was possible to rely on a stable development environment. Features are great if they're the correct ones and they're done well, but stability and reliability are even nicer.

1. http://www.constitutionaldaily.com/index.php?id=737%3Athe-fi...
I know I'm being pedantic, but where is the game theory? The threat of campaign spending as a device to induce a more optimal equilibrium? If that's the case everyone uses game theory, no?
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That would be true if the actions presented accurately represent those which actually occurred. Normally such determination is left for a jury to decide, not a grand jury.
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Morals sure as hell are math, just like everything else.

I wasn't using the "save 10 children" to obscure your reasoning, I was pointing out an extreme case where your reasoning breaks down. You can reasonably call someone who punches you in the face (without good reason) a "bad person". But if you find out they've personally saved 10 children's lives I'm pretty sure you'd think they were a good person. Plus what people mean when they call someone "moral" or "immoral" usually has to do with both their actions and their predicted future actions. Again, most people are fine with calling a reformed thief "moral" under certain conditions, even if they've never personally repaid the specific people they've wronged, because they don't seem likely to be immoral in the future. If you are not willing to do this you are in the minority. Your example is dishonest because murdering someone generally indicates a lack of self control or level of sociopathy that makes future violence incredibly likely. Also murdering someone purely because you don't like them very much or you have something to gain from it is generally seen as more evil than saving a life is good. If someone murdered in cold blood and then went on to save every starving person in the world, then they are also-fucking-lutley a good person. You might want to keep a watch on them, but that seems like a pretty strong indication their murderin days are behind them, and is way more than enough to make up for it.
Which crashes in particular were caused by attention to systems problems? I believe you - I'm just curious.
Markdown is many different things to many people. I love Markdown, but I mean the GitHub Flavored Markdown. Using plain Markdown would be very weird for me. So discussing flaws of plain Markdown seems pointless to me since I don't use it due to a much better variant being available.
Maybe the relationship between being mean and successful is the opposite? Being successful makes people less mean, because they are already successful and don't need to be mean.

Bill Gates was known to be quite ruthless during his time at Microsoft, but he's changed that image of himself quite drastically.
Videos like this make me truly yearn for our civilization to expand off of our home planet.

I've finally gotten into some of Philip K Dick's works, as well as adventuring in the game Eve Online.

Both make me question how far we could be in technology, medicine, civilization, if we all could work together and not have schisms divide us.

I suppose it's the same as wishing for a utopia, though.
two github people work in south bend, in ? I'm curious what the story is there, if anybody wants to talk about it.
>and I hate Krugman!

I try to separate academic Krugman from New York Times Krugman. It helps.
I think one possible way of fixing that counter-counter-PAC problem is this: Instead of focusing on the politicians themselves, trying to convince them to only accept money from disclosed sources, one could focus on convincing the existing corporations/PACs to only donate to politicians that disclose all their sources. That way you end up getting the politicians on board, and you're not at an arms race with anyone. Instead you're using the money from whoever you manage to get on your side to your cause's favor.
It's longjmp.
I'd recommend Construct2,
Friendly, gentle learning curve
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Well, it's not 3 hours (the Wikipedia page lists a 42 minute running time), but you might be interested in In Saturn's Rings, a documentary nearing release made using only photographs from space missions:

http://www.insaturnsrings.com/watch/

http://www.insaturnsrings.com/home/ (with another teaser video not on the "watch" page)
The Mundanity of Excellence: http://lillyfellows.org/Portals/0/Chambliss-Mundanity%20of%2...

A study of competitive swimmers and what separates the mediocre from the great, but widely applicable to many forms of excellence or greatness.
Just for the record, if you want a new IP usually all you have to do is change the MAC address of your router and you'll get a new one.
Not tech related but...

Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care by Kenneth Arrow (1963) [1].

This paper effectively makes the case that medical care shouldn't be treated like other goods.

If you're remotely interested in health econ/health industry, I recommend reading it.

1. https://www.aeaweb.org/aer/top20/53.5.941-973.pdf
Well, I haven't been including a Mac here because most of us already know how cool they are. I mean, my dad has one, and I know a VMWARE machine running Ubuntu is great, but then it feels kinda like a dis-respect to OS X(and sj). Moreover, most of the good Mac's start from over my price range(atleast they do in India, they do).
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Amazing video.

I especially like the world play here. Latin Planetes (as in planets) means wanderer. The name of this film can be understood as Planets.
Oooo, the Dell XPS Dev Edition sounds really fantastic, maybe I'll rush to the market today and get it before the thanksgiving discounts leave :P . But, I just have one little problem with Dell, I've used their hardware years ago, and to me, their customer support seemed utterly foolish(and useless), is this still true ?
The actions are verified and true, both with forensics and consistencies in witness accounts. The documentation and interviews are all there and a multitude of news organizations have repeated the same thing; Michael Brown attacked a police officer who rightly defended himself. End of discussion.

I thought everyone knew that by now.
I apologise for my tone in earlier comments. Let me try again:

My point is that the goals of this project seem to introduce more problems than it solves.

It re-creates the same HTML header/footer for every request, but then doesn't do the actual markdown conversion, and it doesn't even serve the associated JS, CSS, etc files that are required to make it work.

A simple Markdown to styled page(s) tool is a great idea, I wrote one myself a few years ago, before moving onto things like Gollum. Having a read-only tool like this is a great alternative to the extra weight of something like Gollum, but this just doesn't really solve the problem very well right now, IMO.

Given that it runs on Node, you could quite easily add a few features to make it a more complete solution:

* Serve all assets - in this way, this can be used standalone, behind a caching proxy like varnish, or as an origin server for a CDN service like Akamai or similar. The specific JS and CSS that it requires could be bundled outside the document root and handled as a special case in the url router.

* Handle markdown conversion in the server. The client-side code can probably run with little if any modification in Node, and would reduce the number of resources and processing time required on the client device
> Cox is far from alone in blowing off Rightscorp's notices, so it isn't clear why the Atlanta-based provider was chosen as the test case

Not only has Cox has been the most vocal about supporting its users' rights, but aside from a couple TV stations and newspapers they aren't big players in the content producing industry.
Wait, is it irrelevant fluff? Or will it work in the short term?

You say "the corporations" as if it's some secret cabal. Most spending is done by trade associations, not corporations directly. Trade associations like to get their legislation through. But they don't run the show.

Money only matters to the extent that it buys ads that move voters. And there's only a limited amount that matters in an election. If you take a house race and outspend your opponent $10 Billion to $1 Billion, but have a worse message, you will lose.

The total cost of the all federal elections in 2012, including the presidential, was around $8 billion dollars. That's a big number. It's almost a billion dollars more than the worldwide market for adult diapers:

http://online.wsj.com/articles/as-births-slow-p-g-turns-to-a...

It's a very small number compared to our economy. There's enough good money out there to run our elections cleanly. We just need the will to do it.

CounterPAC is a hack to do that without waiting for congress to act. You can be for it or against it, but it isn't fluff.
It doesnt stop at your upbringing.

Your world around you shapes your thoughts and actions and therefore who YOU are.

Its interesting because we consider ourselves static entities shaping our environment.

Our env is equally shaping us.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_self
If someone offered me the chance to travel the solar system, watch the sun rise on mars, jump off vertical cliffs on a moon, see jupiter and saturn up close, ... I would do it in a heartbeat

Do I think human space travel is feasible or even necessary at least at this point in time? No, not by a long shot. Machines can do a better job and will probably always be able to do it better if technology keeps advancing. Machines don't need air, water, food, living space, and that's some of the stuff needed just to keep us alive in an hostile environment, all resources can be instead focused on the mission itself.

I think that people tend to forget that we don't just happen live on planet Earth, we where born by it, molded by it :)

If we'd evolved anywhere else then that place would probably be by far the best possible habitat for us too.

Although If we could somehow get rid of the human body, just take a brain, equip it with a neural interface of some kind and put it in a water tank ...
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Consider reading Breaking the Mishap Chain by Peter Merlin [1]. It's a pretty fascinating series of case studies where human error was a primary factor. Chapter 5 discusses the crash of M2-F2 during testing for NASA and the role that task saturation had in the incident.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Mishap-Chain-Development-Aero...
We go into a race and say:

"We would like you both to take a disclosure pledge. If one candidate takes it, and the other doesn't, we may go after the one who doesn't."

Then we see what happens.
Now consider the poor souls who use Notepad++ ... ;)
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Yes, see above.

You can join my poker league! I'm in New York now but the league goes on, and I'll be back in August.

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We will probably be pushing people very heavily towards always using specialized arrays for working with nullable objects.

I'm a little surprised by your comment about sufficiently smart compilers, since Julia seems to have taken the exact opposite approach to compiler design. The language is systematically designed to require little intelligence from the compiler. Being able to safely drop tag checks inside of a function's body seems like a fairly simple part of the language's design, since the type of all inputs to a function and all function-local variables are, in general, easily knowable as invariants before a function call even begins evaluating.
See my above comment. Elections are about the size of the world-wide market for adult diapers. It's do-able.
Astonishingly, some people don't use linux.
I wouldn't give him any equity. Since it sounds like you can afford it, why don't you just hire him on a contract basis and pay him hourly?
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Here's one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Air_Flight_574

I definitely remember reading about others but can't find them right now.
Going back to the iPhone 5S from the 6
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