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A lot of places have urgent care facilities, which is designed for stuff that isn't really an emergency but which you want treated that day.
It could perhaps be restated that deflation causes people to invest their money wisely and weigh the risks and rewards, whereas inflation causes people to chase rewards just to maintain their current wealth or underestimate risk to try and grow their investments.

Inflation fundamentally is just stealing from people by devaluing their earnings, and it hurts the poor and the middle class the most. It encourages people to take on debts, since they will pay back less in the future. It also hurts anyone who gets paid by the hour or salary when they're not tied to inflation.
Yeah, people in developed countries like the US and the UK have no tolerance for letting the government get away with stuff like this. When the PATRIOT Act was passed in the US, there were riots in the streets that shut down major cities for days. Eventually tanks had to be called in to put a stop to the riots.

Oh wait.

(As soon as people's daily lives get good enough for them to have some free time for watching TV or owning a yacht, they stop caring about what the government is doing.)
lol mentioning vim brought more attention than anything else... funny thing is I neither use nor like vim, just still default text editor in my head because so often that's all there is on a box - I prefer eclipse, nano, emacs in that order
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No, I thought so at first as well, but later realized that he was doing it totally for documentation's purposes (well, and impact).
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This article was too long. I just looked at the graph, read the text below it, and got all I needed.
Are you serious? There is nothing wrong with using code from Visor or Chromium in closed-source commercial app. They have liberal licenses.

In binaryage.com I've created like 5 serious open-source tools being used by 50k developers daily (most of them probably also making money with them). And I've got back less than $50 in donations during last 6 months. This is not a viable model if I want to support myself working on similar tools in the future.
How many blind people are there in the U.S? How old are most of them?
If you dislike derailing threads then when you post something, please ensure it is relevant to the discussion. Your link didn't even make the point you wanted it to, it basically stated "Saying god cannot be proved or disproved is wrong . . . for no reason whatsoever and I provide no justification for my reasoning!"

And no, I'm not in Dawkins' target audience and I'm glad I'm not, because they're anti-religious zealots frothing at the mouth clearly illustrated by your link. There was no evidence and no argument aside from "just 'cause", which IIRC is exactly the reasoning used by the bible.
I don't know if his details are correct but I think the sweep, the direction of his thinking is correct.

The overall model of human-machine interaction is stuck.

But improving that is incredibly hard.

It's nice to have even a small base to discuss the improvements by.
I don't think unix pipes in the shell would be very useful to someone sitting in front of a PDP-8

The machine's panel switches are enough of a pain when programming in the absolute -- give a shell user a teletype at least!
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> Dawkins' massive waste of time preaching atheism

Given the amount of harm religious extremists do, fighting them seems reasonable. If you reduce the amount of religion in a society, you reduce the number and effectiveness of religious extremists.

> Dawkins is a scientist, and as such should be working to teach people to conquer ignorance. Yet he'd rather spend his time alienating the people he could be enlightening.

One of the worst aspects of religion, IMO, is when the religious claim that their beliefs and values deserve to be givne special status over and above everyone else's beliefs and values. This is bullshit of the first order, and needs to be fought.
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When you notice a characteristic of an animal and ask what its Darwinian survival value is, you may be asking the wrong question. It could be that the characteristic you have picked out is not the one that matters. It may have _come along for the ride_, dragged along in evolution by some other characteristic to which it is pleiotropically linked.

I wish the evolutionary psychology folks would paste this sentence to their wall.
Yup that was me (or boucher) but I left after the talks. Next time!
I feel that, if this were the only article showing failures on the part of climate scientists, there would be no victory hooting. However, every week there's a new story about these scientists employing suspicious science to arrive at more profitable [1] conclusions. I don't know that victory hooting is necessary here, but a certain amount of "WTF?"ing is definitely called for. Whether or not global warming is a real and man-made phenomenon (vs. a natural cycle or just overinflated numbers), it's important to call attention to the fact that someone is more or less pissing on our leg and telling us it's raining.

I maintain though, as I always have, that the reduction of carbon dioxide waste is a POSITIVE aim as is anything seeking to minimize the effect of ourselves on our environment. The only things I'm calling into question are the tactics currently being employed. If this data-munging is a universal thing, I'd argue that the ends do not warrant the means. This should be a scientific debate, not an emotional one (as it has become).

[1] I say profitable because it's hard for contrarians to get grant money as they are generally believed to be 'quacks'.
"Some scientists have questioned how the IPCC could have allowed such a mistake into print."

Curve fitting?
Would it have made a difference if the Chinese had subpoenaed anyone else, such as a Chinese company?

I assuming by your nick, I was going to get lampooned whatever.

The way I see it is simple, if China is that bad then put them under a trade embargo. The entire rest of the world should stop doing business with them. Why make it the responsibility of corporate company to make moral judgement on governments. Yahoo complied with a legal subpoena in China. That was a reasonable thing to do.

You should think about the legal requests that Yahoo, Google and every other company routinely comply with in America in the context of the Guantanamo bay facility and the PATRIOT act. Are those companies doing the world a service?

I know it easy, and apparently trendy, to throw stones at Yahoo over this but frankly that's a very simplistic and naive attitude.

I've met both the Yahoo founders and spent a fair amount of time with one of them. They are nice guys, they have done some awesome things for "human rights" while I've been at Yahoo, like their anti-Prop 8 contributions.

I'm not saying that every decision that a large corporation makes is good for society, fair, or even moral. But, I do think it's ridiculous to make companies moral arbiters when dealing off-shore.

And frankly, part of the point of my original post is everyone's hypocrisy. I would bet a $100 that everyone, without exception that has commented on this thread has at one time or another bought something from China (or elsewhere in the 3rd world) that was made by people treated inhumanely.

So even though you threw the first stone, I hope you think about if you can justify it.

My own opinions, not necessarily Yahoo!s position, etc, etc
It kind of caught me off guard hearing Techcrunch quoted in the Economist. Kind of like having your mother buying Twilight stickers.
Funny, this was made during an internal y! hack day months ago. It's weird to see it surface now.
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Well, VLC et al seem to be able to decode and play videos without a problem, and one would think that the remaining 85% of CPU would be enough to copy the decoded image data into a buffer for the browser... But I haven't tried to do it myself, maybe it's harder than it seems.
"... Bob trust Alice. Bob tells Alice something that he doesn't want anyone else to know and he tells her not to tell anyone. Alice tells everyone at school because she believes she can gain social stature from it. Bob is hurt and embarrassed. His trust in Alice diminishes. Bob now has two choices. He can break up with Alice, tell the world that Alice is evil, and be perpetually horribly hurt. Or he can take what he learned and manipulate Alice. Next time something bugs him, he'll tell Alice precisely because he wants everyone to know. And if he wants to guarantee that it'll spread, he'll tell her not to tell anyone.

... Facebook is perfectly content to break Bob's trust because it knows that Bob can't totally run away from it. They're still stuck in the same school together. But, more importantly, Facebook WANTS* Bob to twist Facebook around and tell it stuff that it'll spread to everyone ..."*

The most articulate version of what kinds of problems your average facebook users now faces. A slime-bag move, but what do you expect for nothing?

"... The best way to maintain privacy as a public figure is to give folks the impression that everything about you is in public ..."

Damn, somebody is on to me.
pfff! I agree with 1/2 of your statement.
I just showed it at super happy dev house.
Ask HN: what is the difference between IPSP and ISO?
What is the difference between an Internet payment service provider and independent sales organization? Could you forward some links or give examples of IPSPs and ISOs?
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If your goal is write-once archival and subsequent query of large volumes of data, e.g., log/event data, you can't do much better than some of the column-oriented databases. Two examples are SenSage and Vertica.

See customer profiles for SenSage at http://sensage.com/customers/customer-profiles.php. Various customers collect and store up to 200GB of raw text log files (400 million records at generous 500bytes/line estimate) broken into records ... PER DAY ... with 2 to 5 or even more years of data online available for analysis ... fast analysis ... one example is an 8-billion-record query in 2 minutes.
I wish there was more in this about the computer systems that drive the trains. I have found that a lot of hackers are interested in trains, maybe because of the complicated and interesting problem of routing. I for one have often wished that the network of one of my company's computer clusters could be visualized as a model railroad.
A bit of a hyperbole, granted. Pipes -> any kind of vaguely modern runtime (clojure? srsly?) is a profoundly nonsensical comparison though.
> As soon as people's daily lives get good enough for them to have some free time for watching TV or owning a yacht, they stop caring about what the government is doing.

Free time has different effects on different people. Perhaps that's what your personal experience has led you to believe, but for me, and quite many others in the developed world, free time has freed us from constant thoughts about satisfying our basic needs, and allows us to contemplate higher levels of needs like "political correctness," "ethics and equality," "freedom of speech," and "technology startups."

It's probably also why the super-elite are the liberal do-gooders and political leaders. They don't have to worry about finding a job and "making it" or scavenging for food or shelter. Of course there are some with too much free time but explore it in other ways. Hippies, socialites, druggies, and startup founders I think are also examples of what happens when we satisfy basic needs and seek a higher meaning to life. It also depends on your intellectual level. But the point is that free time allows the upper-echelons of society to dwell on issues like freedom of speech, not necessarily all people though.

So in China there will be some people who are comfortable enough and start seeking more out of life. But for my relatives and pretty much all the current older generation they don't care. The younger people will probably start caring, but the older ones are just glad it's not like it was when they were children anymore. They probably just want the burden to be passed to their children... and so it will. But until my generation starts taking over completely, most of China's backwards policies will be mostly ignored by the people. Who knows, China's policies might even be superior and they might just keep it up.

I'm kind of scared of the implications to be honest. What if China, which has over a billion in population, creates a government sponsored organization that starts operating in an unregulated free market. Wouldn't it have an advantage in that economy over a multitude of separately competing entities? (sorry for slightly changing the topic. I always wanted to ask this)
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yea, that's why I "always" use my name as my internet handle.
It would be really interesting to hear more about it, within the scope of what you can reasonably disclose.
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even an experienced mechanic will tell you that you can never have too much reference material

knowing how a vehicle mechanically works is one thing, figuring out how a certain manufacturer implemented those mechanical principles is totally another
This link gives a clear picture of the scene
http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20100117/882/twl-fbi-admits-usi...

Too much sugar on Mashable article.
Why I prefer no tabs in source code
Why I love having tabs in source code.
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This is me, not getting it...
Or perhaps it's everyone who upvoted getting gamed?
I feel dirty.
a.k.a. instakarma?
Reminds me of the old, "Forward this email to 20 people and you will see a funny hamster dance video appear."
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A new term gets coined :D
Well, that's solved easily enough: upvote it, and if nothing changes, flag it away. It seems very unlikely that this has any merit, but since nobody else has posted the results I'll do it, in the name of science!

EDIT: Correct, nothing happened. Flagged.
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That is absolutely hilarious.
> I say profitable because it's hard for contrarians to get grant money as they are generally believed to be 'quacks'.

The energy sector and other carbon emitters would have enough available money to make the government grant money look like small change. Imagine how much it would be worth to them to discredit man made global warming. I'm sure they do fund many of the contrarians one way or another. But the fact that they aren't able to fund reputable research that supports their position really does say something about how quacky the contrarians are regarded as being.
I don't understand what's confusing.
I first heard of this technique a long time ago--it made sense then and it makes sense now. But for it to be actually usable it would need some good editor support (I'm not about to micro-manage my editor and alternate between spaces and tabs manually). I would love to see some Emacs code that integrates with c-mode and perl mode. Short of that I have to say banning tabs completely from your source is the only way to make it look consistent across editors.
I guess that the actual experiment is how much time HN's community needs to kill an inappropriate post.
Emacs does what the author wants out of the box, I think. It indents with tabs until that is no longer possible, then it switches to spaces. I don't really see what this buys anyone (except confusion), so I disable it and only use spaces.

This article did not convince me to change my mind. (It did convince me that the author knows nothing about Emacs, like most Vim users.)
Decent editors do automatic indentation anyway of course, but there are often circumstances (especially in Perl, where even GNU emacs can't always parse the syntax correctly) when they don't do the right thing.

I have been working on cperl-mode's indentation recently, and think it gets indentation right in 99.9% of cases. If you encounter that 0.1% case, you should submit a bug report here:

http://github.com/jrockway/cperl-mode/issues

(Keep in mind that indentation is highly customizable, so you probably just need to flip some switches to get what you want.)
Not really interesting, no. Go away.
members of the Shadowy Underworld Global Climate Change Cabal.

...because pretending that a group you don't like are conspiracy nuts makes them wrong.

If you're trying to correct misinformation, it's probably not most effective to make some more up and throw it into the fray.
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The whole "Welcome to Google's university search of Old Dominion University" part.
I deal with this every day, since I run a community of opinionated teenage band geeks, which can be worse than any technical forum I've seen.

My approach is that if you want the community to grow in the right direction, you have to keep pruning the bad stuff. So my main tool has been ruthless deletion. There's no convoluted point system to distract from the conversation with endless tweaking, meta-discussion, and arguments about being downvoted.

There is also one big ban button for the mods -- no reputation or warning system. I just rely on their judgment. We have occasionally banned new members just for having terrible attitudes. Sometimes we try to talk it out first, but often it's not worth the time. Maybe this only applies to younger users, but I've found that you have to toss out the bad apples as early as possible, because their attitudes will spread.

As a result, I've been called a dictator a few times (justifiably), and there have been a few bruised egos, but everyone else raves about how great the community is. Right now there is a civil discussion about Opera vs Broadway, and a thread with over 100 posts giving kudos to one another about their accomplishments, which was started by a regular user, not me.

Many banned members apologize and beg to be let back in, but I have learned to say no, because they relapse. Some have even threatened me, but I would rather have those people complaining loudly about how much of a jerk I am, than to have my best members silently leave because the site has gone downhill (though some people will say that no matter what you do).

Anyway, maybe that approach won't work in a place like this, but I believe that if you have a strong opinion about how a community should behave, don't screw around trying to be "fair" or clever. Just pick a bunch of people that share the same opinion and let them aggressively prune the bad stuff.
I've been looking into augmented reality technologies lately; vision systems are getting really good. There are some good ones here (click twice to load Flash videos, or download AVIs):

http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~bob/research/research_ptamm.html
Or maybe they won't, but you'll never really know unless you need them to do that. That's not "trustworthy"; it's just helpful.
I disagree. There are those people out there, and some of them are successful, but I dont believe that being a jerk makes you successful, and while I dont have any hard data on this, I do know a number of highly successful business owners who are also decent human beings.

It turns out, if your model makes sense, you are selling things to people that they want, and they like you for it. There is no need to be ruthless in these types of scenarios, just effective. Look at Zappos.

It may be true that 'Jerks' get ahead many times because they are willing to cut throats to do so, but that doesnt mean that you need to be a jerk to succeed, especially if you learn to define success a little differently.
I don't think some of the things he writes, like "MonadIO m => m () -> IO ()" are generally possible, for example. There are specific instances of MonadIO (ErrorT, etc.) that have a function that does that, but MonadIO itself only has the liftIO function, which is "MonadIO m => IO a -> m a".
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Instead of searches like this for each university site, they should just direct users to the documentation on their site:<url> command.
>Whether or not global warming is a real and man-made phenomenon

Well, hang on, the article identifies an an erroneous prediction about the impact of man made climate change. It's a bit of a jump you're making from there to "global warming isn't real" or "the tons of carbon we're emitting aren't what's causing the raise in temperature we're seeing".
You have an impressive reputation, but, still, you fail to grasp a simple point of logic. You said shipping perfect software is impossible. To disprove you, all I have to do Is to show a single example of a perfect program. Many simple programs you use every day of your life certainly fall into this category. Maybe we got overly ambitious with our building blocks. Maybe we made it a job harder than it could be. You say you always find something. Maybe that's because you only look where you know you'll do.

I am not against security reviews. Quite the contrary. What I am saying is that you made a very impressive statement you can't possibly prove. There is software that does exactly what it's intended to do with no side effects, no bugs and that lives in a spacesecurity flaws are non-existant.

You fail to understand not all software is as complex as, say, a JVM. I am pretty sure you would haves hard time finding a flaw in, just to make a very simple example, the code that runs my coffee machine or that calculates my car's mileage. A security expert that claims it's impossible to write perfect software is nothing but arrogant and self-serving.

So, if you want to say it's impossible to have perfect software, please, prove it.
DIY, internet guided surgery here we come.

Seriously though, there seems to be some very interesting potential for this type of augmented reality.
Weird I was just looking for something like this.
The difference is one is ethically shady (ignoring tree-ring data from 'arguably invalid' time periods), and the other is morally reprehensible (being paid off by corporate goons).
Indeed. Here's an example of it:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/feb/02/frontpagen...
Good call. I agree in disagreeing with his type for 'keep'. I think he was aiming at the idea of "any computation which is liftable to an IO computation" instead of "computation which can be evaluated within an IO context".

In my opinion, since 'keep' takes a function which is, in general, fully capable of any effectful action, it necessarily is of the type

keep :: IO a -> ...

but since it's roughly ignoring any potential return 'a', yet still evaluating the function repeatedly, the best type is something like

keep :: IO a -> IO [()]
I'm sorry, I still don't get it; could you be more precise?
"Why I'd like to rehash the same tired old arguments people have been making ever since we first got the '\t' character" would be a more accurate title.
According to this person, KWrite is better than Emacs and Emacs is a bug. In my opinion, this makes his post a little less credible. The rules that he suggests we all learn for how to use tabs and spaces in a file are helpful, but only when you're forced to use tabs. Otherwise, using spaces is always easier when you have to share your code with people that are not required to use KWrite.
Unfortunately, to draw an admittedly-loaded parallel, the anti-AGW movement is basically running the playbook of Holocaust deniers, whose preferred methodology is, in a nutshell, to drag some 90-year-old's memories out, say "AH-HA! You said this happened at 3:30 on April 12, but the camp's log says it happened at 3:42! Therefore the entire Holocaust never happened and was made up by the Jewish banking conspiracy!"

It's not any prettier when it's used to argue against climate change.