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Full title is "Former Copyright Boss: New Technology Should Be Presumed Illegal Until Congress Says Otherwise" but HN does not allow more than 80 chars in title.

Relevant discussion at mathoverflow.net http://mathoverflow.net/questions/106560/philosophy-behind-m...

I don't know about the Ostrich but the Antelope would certainly loose

Here is an article based on the science presented in Christopher McDougalls book Born To Run.

It explains a lot of the bio mechanics involved in running and why humans are so superior.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/health/27well.html

I highly suggest reading the book itself - it's quite an eye opener.

A horse can't sweat (at least not enought to reduce body temp. sufficiently) and thus can only get rid of the heat through breathing. Eventually it will overheat and either rest or die.

Humans don't suffer from this limitation. If you're curious I suggest you read Born To Run

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Born-Run-Hidden-Ultra-Runners-Greate...

"I hate to break this to you, but science is not steered by marketing, by "more clicks". It's steered by evidence"

Of course it is. Evidence you get from research which get funded by sparking peoples interest...which can be helped a long way by marketing. But I'll give you that the title was kind of linkbait-y (and funny)

"Not when people are being asked to invest their money, no. When that's going on, I get dead serious."

I assume people would actually read the project description before giving their money away.

I am the originator...and I didn't change anything

What do you think will get more clicks?

The original intriguing and funny title "You can now kickstart a space elevator" or this lame ass boring "Space elevator science"?

Which of the two could get more people potentially interested in science?

You guys are just not about the fun are you?

BTW: Who edited the title?

An often used approach is to think of and feel your entire body. You start with the pinky toe on one foot. You just focus everything on the toe and try to "feel it". When you believe you can eel it you move on to the next toe, eventually to the foot, the lower leg and so fourth. In this way you move through your entire body in detail just concentrating on what you can feel. It usually works for me when my mind is overflowing with thoughts and I can't sleep.

I can tell you how I experienced it.

I did Astanga yoga (also refered to as power yoga) for many years. Such a class would consist of some 10 - 20 students and 1 - 2 instructors. In this form of yoga at no time do you close you eyes (expect for the final relaxation time).

Contrary to what you might think this particular form of yoga is very very psychically hard. Although you move slowly you are never still in a relaxed position. You move a lot of small muscles and carry your own weight for 1.5 - 2 hours.

The concentration needed takes all your focus until you know the series of movement of the back of your hand. For me this took about a year. After this I would occasionally slip into a kind of mindlessness. I would "come back" and be conscience about this mindlessness at some point near the end of the session. It very much felt like 1.5 hours had passed in an instance. I would not be able to recall any detail or anything the instructors have said and I would feel immensely relaxed and full of energy. It was a great sensation.

I suspect this has something to do with how you breath during yoga. It kind of resembles the way you breath when you are deep at sleep. It takes a long time to learn and I have a feeling that the breathing is actually the most important part of yoga.

Besides swimming this is by far the best workout I have ever done. Being a programmer it does wonders for a body which spends most of the time sitting down in an office chair. If you get the chance I recommend that you try it out. You will be very surprised how hard it is - and how rewarding it is.

What an arrogant comment. Can you tell us what it is you dislike so much about outlook and why, instead of inferring that the user base is unenlightened?

He is not talking about a bridge but a space elevator. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator for more info - quite fascinating idea.

> You seem to imply that actual mathematical content is rather less important

No. The point was that it is much more than what you call the content.

What a marvelous stupid idea.

Math and Applied Math is more than numbers and math for the sake of math. It is a way to bring your level of abstract thinking higher - much the same way learning languages does.

Math is so much more than algebra and calculus. It will teach you pattern recognition and deduction - two highly sought after skills in engineering - but can be applied to any profession.

If anything I believe we should bump up the level of math that high school children learn.

Clever. Not knowing the details of how computers beat CAPTCHAa can you explain why it would be difficult to create a program to trace the path?

I generally use Friday for all business related task. No programming allowed unless it's a critical bug.

I'd actually come to enjoy spending most of the day doing my finances, answering emails, cleaning out the inbox etc. All in a relaxed manner - and the weekend then takes of with a good conscience.

I highly recommend it.

The easiest position to take when disagreeing with someone is to stick a label on the opposition as if this justifies that you should not take their argument seriously.

I for one think he has a point and if you don't please come up with something better than name calling.

Thanks. Having a look

Every question I ever asked on the SE network have been closed by over zealous mods that doesn't want debatable questions...which makes it kind of useless for generic discussion. But I'll give it a try once more.

Incidentally I just asked a related question yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4256265

I am currently trying to figure out a more clever way to deploy my code. I would love if you would share some thoughts on some general strategy and possible tools. I am using jenkins and git.

1. Like modules which are temp. disabled for instance. You could argue of course that these modules should then not exist in the production branch. Also reference images, project notes etc.

2. I could do that but I'm trying to learn how to do it properly...as in I imagine there would be a better way for this. When the DB (hopefully )grows to a considerable size then I take it this approach is not feasible.

The project is ongoing and I lost track of the hours many years ago. 5K users! Ha - I wish :) I was thinking about my general project setup which is described in the initial question...I'm just wondering whether there would not be a more structure way to solve this problem.

Ok then - a not so simple web project.

1) I can't just pull from git. The repo contains files which should not be on the production server

2) I'm using postgres - not mysql. How do you incrementally change schemas? How do you roll back in case of failure without data loss?

While it is true that most younger Germans speak fairly good English I can not recommend enough to learn the language.

Once you venture outside work and start to socialize you will eventually want to speak German as it is much more fun to be able to understand everything.

Further German actually have roughly 35% more words than English. Because of this and the way it is grammatically structured a lot of fine detail is often lost in translation as the words simply do not exist in English.

I recently moved to Berlin from Denmark and it is fairly simple. Most of my problems are due do the risk of double taxation caused by EU stupidity.

You can found any type of company in Germany without having citizenship. But you will most definitely need an English speaking accountant. The forms/paperwork are only available in German and there is quite a long way from school German to understanding a discussion with the German tax authorities.

Be careful in choosing an English speaking accountant as the quality of their English abilities varies greatly. As with so many other things you get what you pay for.

The German tax authorities are generally welcoming and pleasant but you better have your papers in order and filled out correctly. Also expect to spend a considerable amount of time at the local registry. The lines are long and employees few.

If you come from outside of the EU you will probably have a more difficult time.

That being said it is not at all impossible. Berlin is a great city and lots of happenings related to start ups and development in generally takes place all the time. The German authorities realizes the value of foreigners starting companies and the have a really excellent website in English here

http://www.existenzgruender.de/englisch/self_employment/inde...

Also check out this site for a short intro

http://berlin.angloinfo.com/countries/germany/business.asp

I'm amused that it seems that at any period of time the men who lived it believed it was the most innovative or golden.

Is there a term for this perception?

1. Airline ticket prices can change several times within the same hour.

2. Once you have done a booking search many companies store this information in a cookie (or otherwise) to prevent you from seeing cheaper prices on subsequent searches. Try deleting your cookies next time...it usually works for me. Also I never log in to my account until I know exactly what I want.

I'm currently experimenting with a 6 x 24'' setup. I used to have just 3 which fits most of my needs but I always wanted to try have it felt with even more.

I does require some odd head movement once in a while though

"There was a time when building a cutting edge web app meant wasting hours setting up a Linux server, days installing MySQL and Ruby or PHP, and months slaving away writing backend server code. Web development was nasty, brutish, and long. It sucked. But that was the past. Parse is the future. And it’s here today."

Never ever present your product from talking nagative about something or someone else. The only thing this kind of presentation makes me think is "Gee - didn't they have anything good to say about their product?"

I ment the whole stack...not just a single fizzbuzz snippet.

As I see it this is what is going on when your users use a webapp.

The user runs some client code which you wrote. In a browser which other guys wrote. Running on an OS made by some one. Sending data back and forth via protocols and network equipment with software that other people wrote.

You server OS receives the request and passes it to your load balancer which distributes to Apache which forwards to PHP which routes to SQL...and all the way back.

With the millions and billions of lines of code involved in these steps it could likely be a number of this magnitude.

Actually it's a wonder that it works...

Since so many are complaining about the difficulty of developing/debugging in IE here is a couple of links that should make it easier for you

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1835...

VPC Images for XP/IE6, Vista/IE7, Win7/IE8, Win7/IE9 - you can import the images to VMware and VirtualBox http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1157...

MS Script Debugger and how to http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2004/10/26/247912.aspx

Detecting Memory Leaks http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2007/11/29/tools-for-dete...

VS Express (free) http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-ed...

Firebug Lite http://getfirebug.com/firebuglite

I'm sure there are more some where...