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I think the author is confused between knowledge and wisdom. I dont make any claims that i am smart but say if it takes me certain degree of effort and time to attain level-4 expertise. Imparting this level-4 expertice to a person who is at level-0 makes no sense to me.

The level-0 person should go through all the intermidiate levels to make the things that appear obvious to me, also appear seemless to him/her. Gaining level-4 expertise will lead them to a mechanical process of understanding. This is where we cross the line between wisdom and knowledge.

Also, the expert person more often than not is left with a feeling of being used by someone who attained somthing without any hard work. Things get complicated from here. My approach is to let the level-0 person give clues about reaching level-1 and make ways for the person to progress without complete reliance on me. Some kind of mentoring.
If they do indeed have valid patents on those technologies it means that they have actually invented something people want.

I'm not saying such technologies should be patentable, only that people apparently want them.
Why is this always so hard for people to figure out?

Netbooks, notebooks, and PCs use emissive displays that can be tiring to use for extended reading (because it's like staring into a flashlight) and are relatively low resolution (~120dpi) compared to print (300dpi is generally considered the minimum for acceptable text printing).

E-ink is used by all of the major electronic book readers today because, despite its many other serious disadvantages, it leads to a more natural reading experience due to higher resolution (~170dpi) and a reflective display which is less tiring on the eyes.

Say what you will about the limitations of e-ink (color, refresh rate, etc.) it's still a superior technology for reading books. Thankfully a lot of folks recognize that (the makers of the sony reader, amazon kindle, bn nook, etc. and their customers). A piece of software, no matter how well crafted, will never be able to bridge the hardware gap that exists between LCDs and e-ink.
Google undercutting their hardware partners would be suicide for future phone wins. Moreover, since Google doesn't do their own hardware, this would surely be the last time HTC partnered with them and they'd be up a creek for future hardware designs.

Google only cares about things with a data connection, and I firmly believe that WiFi only devices are a small enough market that they're just a distraction for the big names right now -- except Apple, since the iPod touch kind of bridged an established product with the at-the-time new phone platform.
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Man.. I pressed Menu and then Main menu and it took me out of the game. It didn't even ask me if I wanted to live. I was about to finish level 4, now I have to restart level 4. Great game but that really killed the mood.
Why can I fall off the floor in the first place? What purpose does it serve besides annoying the player?
I missed a third place where they often show up: downtowns.
Awesome game, just spent like an hour playing haha.

+1 on disabling traps. It just makes the game slower.
+1 on auto weapon recharge when dead. There's no reason that I should have to wait.

The edges are fine imo, they add a bit of challenge. Otherwise it would just be possible to randomly press awsd without looking much.

Also, I enjoy the shopping. It's fun to think about different play styles and shotgun vs blasters.

One thing is that I just ended up using mostly just blasters. Without being able to switch between 4 shotguns and 4 blasters quickly, it made more sense just to stick with blasters.

Fun game!
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Loved the original, will definitely be playing more of this. I've got your RSS feed in my reader, so I spotted it last week already;
My complaint about people who get fake degrees is that they are liars and cheats, and if they are willing to lie and cheat about one thing then they are willing to lie and cheat about other things and I don't want them around.

My opinion on diploma mills is that they make it easier for liars and cheats to be more effective liars and cheats, so clamping down on them reduces the amount of lying and cheating in our society and that is a Good Thing.

My opinion on university degrees is that they have a slight correlation with brains but are not very good predictors. Some of the best people in IT that I've ever worked with never finished college. Including the programmer who mentored me at my start. (He never graduated because he was so good at his summer internship that they gave him a job offer he couldn't turn down.) I would therefore be delighted to hire the right non-college graduate. But not if they were the kind of person who thinks it OK to lie and cheat their way past the issue of not having a degree.

I have a feeling that the two of us won't agree on much. And the key difference is that you think that lying and cheating are OK while I don't.
It's my experience that smart people are eager to share whenever the situation isn't detrimental to them. They know the difference between zero sum and non-zero sum outcomes and behave accordingly. They are happy to share when they have reason to believe it is to their advantage and they're just as quick to avoid fools and scammers.

Perhaps when Mr. Setty encounters smart people unwilling to share with him, he should take the opportunity to work on his own packaging skills. I think he may learn that it's rarely easy to make things easy (even for a smart person).
Not in any primary school of which I'm aware. I'd be interested to know what area you are in to make such a claim. Is it every primary school?

For information/reference, it wasn't taught to me, or my sister, or my nieces, or my wife, or any of my colleagues at work. I've checked. Or at least, to be more accurate, none of them knew of it when I mentioned it to them recently. Perhaps it was taught - it certainly didn't stick.
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Same. But if anyone wants to see more Dude-oriented information, here's a good starting point: http://dudeism.com/ Follow the `links` section to find everything from bowling Jesus action figures to quite serious texts on Buddhism.
Agreed. I was happily playing through until, in the course of a particularly involved battle, I paid too much attention to my enemies and stepped a little too far up and had to go back two rooms. This was frustrating enough that I decided to move on and stop playing.
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Please suggest some good books on investing in stocks/bonds and any advices/experiences. Thanks!
Hi guys,

When I posted about why I chose Lisp for http://postabon.com a few weeks back (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=972248), I got a few people who were interested in a 'best practices' guide of how to write a Lisp Webapp.

This is by no means complete, but I hope it's a good start.
Perhaps fewer votes is exactly what you want. I can imagine that lots of people read things and go "Oh - yeah - (click)" without thinking too hard. Perhaps requiring mental investment on the part of the voter is a good thing.
Excellent article. The current Zynga model is certainly unsustainable. They've hired Brian Reynolds, which hints at deeper games to come, but what they're doing right now will be ineffective in 6 months.

One thing I've been coming to terms with- just because something makes no sense long term doesn't mean that it's not a valuable course to pursue short term.

If, and it's a big if, Zynga can reinvent itself in the next 6-9 months, then this initial phase was brilliant in that it gave them the resources they needed to move on to real domination. If they don't reinvent themselves, a few people will have made a lot of money, but nothing permanent will have been built. A real opportunity will have been missed.

But they can't keep on the same path, it just won't work a lot longer.
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It's taught to young music students. I learned it in public school in the middle of nowhere. Probably age 10 or 11. As did both of my sisters, brother and everyone else in the school orchestra. One wouldn't learn it outside of music lessons or a music program. However, it's taught pretty early on if you're doing anything related to classical music.
>> "in a 3rd world country"

There's the difference. We're in more developed nations where smoking is far less common now. You'd expect 3rd world countries to still be smoking.

And yes, I concede, it does bring people together. But drinking is a far better way to do that.

I don't have a stick up my ass because I absolutely hate the feeling of choking in disgusting smelly smoke.

Again - I don't dislike it for some wooly reason like I think it's "bad". I dislike it because it tastes horrible. It smells absolutely disgusting. It makes your clothes smell. Your kids cough. Choking isn't fun. (And this is just second hand smoke. I've never smoked personally).
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Car smoke is 1% as offensive as 'smoke' smoke IMHO.
Modern cars fitted with catalytic convertors etc aren't the ones causing the trouble. It's big diesel busses and lorries or very old cars.
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I don't know. This guy just reiterated things that were known years ago. And he claims he cracked GSM...
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I don't think it's been able to make up for the revenue they've lost in film for still cameras.
Unlike this one where comments are apparently getting downvoted for no obvious reason.

Another interesting experiment would be to display the top downvoters from time to time. We'll at least be able to weed out some of these invisible trolls.
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I think the important realization in here is: TDD is a /tool/. If we fix the *DD == tool, we can reason that a good programmer has a toolbox in his head, containing a number of such tools, that is, a number of development and driving strategies which can be selected according to the problem at hand.

This is at least what I am working on right now. I have a solid grip on TDD, and I begin to understand where TDD works and where it does not (e.g. simple datastructures are nice, and things like katamorphisms can be well-tested pointwise. Basically the "middle tier" and "inner plumbing" of an application, but complicated algorithms, IO and such are problematic.

On the other hand, I am currently investigating the refinement calculus in order to derive programs from specifications. It is true that RDD (for consistencies sake: refinement driven development) is really, really hard when you try it on big problems and IO is again an evil problem lurking in the dark, but on the other hand, refining invariants has given me some really elegant and clean recursive solutions to some really tricky problems. I have to admit, it took around an afternoon to understand the result from refining, but I was able to throw just about any input I could think of at the problem and it just worked.

Third, there is probably some sort of KDD, knowledge driven development. Knowledge driven development occurs if you see a problem and just know the solution. In that case, you can just write it down, fix a few bugs and be done (or receive really obscure wrong outputs :)). Compare Norvigs sudoku solver for some pure knowledge driven development.

I think this makes sense and at least fits my current observations and explorations in the land of improving ones code-writing.
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OpenBSD != FreeBSD. Very different beasts.
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One thing I have noted about irony: In written text, where you don't have cues like tone of voice or body language to detect irony, you usually rely on your the knowledge of the writer: This person does not usually write like this/have this viewpoint, hence it must be ironic.

On an internet forum you usually don't know the person writing (unless you keep track of usernames). And no viewpoint is so extreme or bizarre that there isn't someone somewhere on the internet saying the same thing in all seriousness. You cannot detect irony just by looking at the post in isolation.

Irony can be detected when are familiar with the poster or the general sentiments on the forum, and detect when something is so far removed from the norm that is must be ironic. In turn irony can be used as a marker for group - everyone in the group know what you are supposed to say, an therefore can easily detect when the group members are being ironic. Outsiders will not understand the irony and get confused.

Hence "you have no sense of irony" actually means "you haven't been on the forum long enough to be familiar with the comme il faut viewpoints and language used here. You are not part of the club."
>But I tend to be of the school that thinks that there are two kinds of smart people: people that think they are smart and aren't, and people who are smart

I think that's a very strange school of reasonning, and it appears to be very common too. For me it doesn't reflect in real world at all.

Of course you can come across some people who think they are smart and are not, but there is also plenty of people (and i tend to consider myself that way) that know they're smart, but also know that some people are smarter, and that they shouldn't infer they're the smartest people in their entourage, because that's detrimental to them.

Plenty of the people i see and appreciate around me are like that, and most people who are really smart know they are.i really think this way of reasonning around the Socrates mantra is a false dichotomy.

However, i think you have a point, but i'm not sure smart people don't share because they don't know they're smart, but much more because they realize the amount of contributions around them that are way more clever and usefull than what they could do, and are consequently affraid to contribute their own piece.
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Though I don't have any opposition to TDD as a technique, I have an issue when some developers believe that just because the code has tests it means that it works and if the code doesn't have tests it doesn't work.
>Modifying the language spec...is that pure or impure I wonder?

Neither, it's completely orthogonal to the pure/impure distinction.
Pure has a specific technical meaning here relating to the absence of side effects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_function
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If there is information that needs to be accessible across several not-otherwise-very-interdependent modules of a program, then you need to have something with essentially all the properties of a global variable. That doesn't' necessarily mean that you need a single identifier with global scope, but it does mean that you need something with essentially the same properties.
> And the Japanese _are_ fairly heavy smokers yet have very long lives.

That's funny because I was going to write "I don't know how much truth is in what he writes about all those studies, but that statememt is complete bullshit".
I've lived in Japan for a year, and my personal experience is that the Japanese smoke very little.
I find that statement highly ironic. After all, you were insisting on false claims about people whose very job is to split hairs. Your false claims relied on misuse of terminology invented and used by people whose very job is to split hairs. It's like complaining to a network administrator that you don't have access to network because he didn't "debug the router BIOS" and then saying he's splitting hairs when he explains why you're talking nonsense.
So if I take the history set of Apps rated/downloaded by a user and give the Apps recommender only half of it to base it's recommendation, is that a prediction engine or recommendation engine?
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Sigh. a) Dont editorialise titles to obscurity. b) Old/reposts should have the year.
I took music classes from age 10 through age 16 and was never taught about the circle of fifths. I was taught major/minor, key signatures, time signatures, sight singing (pitch and rhythm), piano, bassoon, harmony, inversion, counterpoint, and more, and I recall most of that, but I recall nothing about the circle of fifths. If I had been taught it then that would be odd, because it so matches my interests as a mathematician. I can only conclude I was never taught it.

YMMV. I don't claim that people weren't taught it, I only say that it isn't taught to every primary school student. I know the claim was "This stuff is taught in primary school." and that may be true, that it is taught in some primary schools. I'm saying it's not taught in every primary school. Maybe it's an American thing.

I thought it was interesting, and that there would be Hackers here who didn't know it and would be something that "... gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

Hence the submission.
Not only that, but the revenue from printing (paper, chemicals, services) as most photos now never make it into prints.

Having said that, the only proven way to store digital photos long-term is presently archival paper, so...
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WTF is tmonews.com? "Official" means t-mobile.co.uk/shop.
I'd like to propose a new point scoring system for posts from paulgraham.com. An upvote point will be weighted so that

PointValue(N) = 1 / (N ln(N) + 1)

Where N is the number of times the same link has been posted.

So first time the story is posted, upvotes count for one point, as they do now. Table below shows the point value adjustment factors for further reposts:

1	1.00
2	0.42
3	0.23
4	0.15
5	0.11
6	0.09
7	0.07
8	0.06
9	0.05
10	0.04
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50 0.01

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I agree, but in the future could you please write it like so:

"How to make wealth - best Paul Graham text ever"? That way, people will know wtf you are talking about.
Thanks for that! You should submit this to the front page. Suggested title: "Students Ace Textbook-Style Physics Questions While Struggling With Basic Understanding."
I went to school in Germany, where all pupils have basic music lessons. I admit that when I learned it at school, I did not pay much attention, and only really learned it again from taking guitar lessons. Still, it is very, very basic stuff. Not saying it is not interesting, just surprised it makes it here as "news".
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I bought the original, and loved it. Nice work!

Sometimes I'd let the splash screen just sit and loop, so I could listen to the pounding theme song, and watch the gun particle effect. So simple, so good!
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Or, we could not worry about it and let the article take its natural course. It's not like it's a terrible thing for one slot of the front page to be occupied for a small amount of time.
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So browsers start interpreting properly-escaped markup-lookalike as though it was actual markup? I don't think so. There is a web app bug here.
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A friend of mine once conned an online degree peddler from Israel into sending him a diploma for a BS in Business Ethics. I think he threatened him with reporting him to the relevant authorities or something. The irony of the whole thing was of course great.
All airlines are safety focused, those who are not don't survive for long. Unsafety is very very expensive in this industry.

Putting a burden of airport security on airlines will be a final nail on their collective coffin though.

Besides, many airports (at least here in Europe) already have private contractors doing airport security. So what? It doesn't matter who does the job, they simply implement the policies regulators impose.

Now having private entities producing ad hoc security policies with primary goal of maximizing returns - that's what I call a Disaster.
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On the hoop / disc question, I could figure out that there is more work involved in rotating the hoop so the disc would go faster. However, what if the incline of the surface is so extreme that both of them are falling? Surely in that case they should fall with equal speed, so alpha would seem to matter.
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Isn't this an IE8 feature?
Ask HN: Finding unwanted domains a good home?
In my search for the domain name I wanted to use for my hobby site, I've accumulated quite a few that I later decided wouldn't work for me. Now, I'm looking for a way to get them off my hands.

They're hobby/personal domain names -- not keyword heavy -- so I think that piling ads on them or trying to sell them wouldn't get me very far. (Not that I've tried.) But really, I'm not terribly concerned with money from these, besides maybe covering my costs.

I could just let them expire, but I'm reluctant to let them become a part of some domain squatter's portfolio (not that they'd be that interested, I think, but they seem to snap up just about anything).

What's the best way to find them a good home?
I mean this as friendly criticism but I think you've fallen for this one a few times recently.

Either that or something you thought was neutral didn't come across as such. Tone is an absolute pain to get right online. A few times I've done the same thing; made an off hand comment and gone away. Only to come back a little later and found it spawned pages of argument :-(
Same for javascript...
I use the js console all the time. Thank you, spidermonkey.