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threatens survival of the race

Rather, anything that threatens their own inclusive fitness.

Apart from that you may be in the right area. In the environment in which we evolved, a successful male can theoretically have more children by having more partners, whereas a female cannot increase her progeny in this way. It also seems that an unsuccessful male is less likely to have any children than an unsuccessful female.

In short, variance in reproductive success is supposed to be higher in males, and its theorised that there's been a selection pressure towards more risk-taking in males. Naturally, this sort of thinking has its detractors.
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I guess I don't know what you mean by "never bounced back". Tucker Carlson hosted a show on MSNBC called "Tucker" for multiple years after Crossfire's cancellation, until around the end of 2008 iirc. I think if you get your _own_ TV show, and it runs for a few years, that's "bouncing back".
i find your argument pretty sound, but i was wondering, is there any 'evidence' that this goes up to chinese state ,except the fact that civil rights fighters account were targeted ?
Maybe because people know by now that C doesn't hold your hand :). The compiler did exactly what you told it to do. And, in fact, since C is frequently used for writing operating system code, what you wrote may actually be a valid operation if the OS maps critical functions into page 0 (which I believe some older systems did).
On an LCD, black uses the most energy. Granted, it's a miniscule difference. The backlight is always on, and energy has to be passed through the crystals to twist them and block the light at the individual pixels, in order to produce anything other than pure white.

On a CRT, black is probably the greenest color. But in both cases, I suspect the difference is so small that you wouldn't be able to measure it in pennies on your electric bill.
When I tried this I liked it, too, but after a week or two gave it up: I write code for others to read, and, sadly, they will be reading it in a fixed-width font.
And then, as I get over my annoyance, I realize that, by overstating their abilities, the student has probably gotten the best letter out of me they could have gotten.

What's wrong with a good recommendation, as long as it comes off believable? I feel the whole point of a recommendation letter is so that the person you are recommending achieves the goal she/he set out to achieve. Don't agree to the recommendation at all if you think they are not qualified. Afterall, it's called a recommendation, not an evaluation.
My guess is they check referrers? Not a userscript, but I use RefControl for fine tuning such.
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Sort of like Van Morrisons band "Them" and of course "The Who"?
Now, can you guess the gender of the student involved?

Anyone else guess female?
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If you really think you could run HN on 200MB of RAM, write a blog post about how to do it and submit it here. I'm sure the community would like to know how. I think your ability to write applications using minimal amounts of RAM is out of sync with the median RAM use here.
It's pretty obvious we are doing things backward. We eat crap and compensate with synthetic vitamins. We exercise little and compensate with few hours per week on a machine.

Since I've reduced - not suppressed - meat and sugar, walk one hour a day, and spend time contemplating I've witnessed significant improvement of my well being.
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MSNBot has had many issues over the years. Many times MS folks denied them all until someone actually caused a big fuss. Once it was me causing the fuss.

When you think about it, bing/live/whatever it's called today sends very little traffic, and the crawler to get that traffic has a long history of what you call bugs. The cost-benefit analysis IMHO points to too much cost for really zero benefit.

Hence why many webmasters block MSNBot.
I'm not sure I understand. Was using a proportional font changing the way you chose to format the code to such a degree that it annoyed people?
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Men need to be arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks to get women's attention. Women don't need that to get men's attention.
He lost me at "sleep debt" I have to be honest. All the current research I've read suggests there is no such thing (unless he just means "your a bit tired" :) which he could well do).

Im not convinced this is a good idea though (I'd like to see a link to the research he cites - done a bit of digging but I cant find it offhand).

Better to wake yourself up with Orang Juice and exercise.
technically, it is. but practically, the one who reads it expects some veiled insights, some evaluation.
I kinda see what your saying; but the images are possibly going too far. Now the view Scheiner is supporting (certainly the right one) could start to look just as silly or extreme because of the supporting actions.

I think there are better ways to cause a fuss than have someone design a logo with a Nazi connotations! It can't help.
I honestly think fixed width fonts are only used because of fixed terminal widths, and when repeating instructions on separate lines was common enough that the shape of a line being different was a kind of proto syntax highlighting to show you'd done something wrong.

Ultimately, a space is a space in whatever font, so everything still lines up along the left margin nicely.
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Let's say it takes a mere day to process a patent application the roundabout way (printing, scanning, etc.). However, the system is near or above 100% capacity because total throughput is slow. Even if they have enough staff to match the needed throughput they still have a 3 year backlog. So even though they can process 1 year of patents in 1 year, it still takes 3 years to make it to the head of the line. Now, if you cut down overhead you'll be able to get rid of that 3 year backlog and get to processing current applications in closer to real-time.
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Is that idea pernicious?

Think in the animal world, is that pernicious that the best wolf leader is the only one that reproduce? Does it make (slightly) sense?.

Is pernicious that the best scientist, or athlete that dominates others in their field is somewhat more attractive to women? Does it make (slightly) sense?.

Maybe it is pernicious for those that are not that dominant.
I did. I think it's because the post's titled "A Rant About Women", and starts with a description of what's probably supposed to be a typical case of something or other. This connection, even if tenuous, was strong enough to build an image of a female student in my mind, and it didn't get overridden by the supposedly masculine behavior.
A bit wordy I think. Summary: Run (with low-padding shoes). Eat better.
Microsoft calls them "Software Development Engineers".
This would be nice. As Canonical is more or less London-based, I'd rather expect them to partner with 7Digital than with Amazon or Apple, as was suggested.

There's a problem though: if they stick to shipping Ubuntu without MP3 codecs (and I can't see how they would legally get around that), how are they going to offer a reasonable out-of-the-box experience for this music service?
Dictating letters is still niche and will likely remain so, except for people who have severe RSI or other reasons to go through the training required. If I'm spending enough time at one sitting to do a letter, and if I have the investment in learning how to touch type, then I'm a lot faster at typing than dictating. Even if the dictation is perfect.

On the other hand, voice recognition for specialized vocabularies is happening. I've noticed a progressive replacement of "push 1 for X, push 2 for Y" with voice interfaces in support calls. My car has voice recognition for the sound system that actually works, e.g. "Play Track Shelter" plays a song of that name. While there are still freaky behaviors, these work well in that they don't waste my time when I'd rather be doing something else -- like having my problem fixed or listening to Icon of Coil. Because they are for specific narrow domains, these applications of voice recognition coexist with my typing, touch, et al.

Put another way, new UIs and input devices seem to work best when they have a path for incremental adoption. It's rare to see a complete overnight change. Even the iPhone, as amazing and revolutionary as it is, built on pre-existing experience with touch screen phones. (Maybe "reacted against" is a better term than "built on.") Plus the iPhone still has a keyboard, even if it's a neat touchscreen one instead of a hardware one.
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"more text in an eye fixation" is not necessarily a good thing for reading code, because code is semantically more dense than regular text. I think one will not be able to absorb all information and therefore not get a faster reading experience due to re-reading. I find the fixed-width font example easier to read, because it appears not as cramped as the proportional-width example, and I can easier get an overview of what the code does.
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Leading spaces aren't much of a problem, but aligning comments on the right-side is much harder due to the variable widths of each line. And even if you align them in your editor, they'll be misaligned for people who use fixed-width fonts. Does that make any sense?
Everyone's sales have gone up 100% post christmas. It's now what he did. By the way, if anyone wants to get into iPhone development or has an app, send me an email, I know a lot of tricks I can tell you that I don't want to make public yet.
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The russian language has a special term set aside for this kind of round-about linguistic constructionism – "fish language". It's like the English "legalese", but with no relation to lawyers specifically.

The idea is that a fishes mouth opens and closes all the time, but all that comes out is air-bubbles.

I'm with master George Carlin on this one, "simple, direct language" is appropriate everywhere there isn't a justified need for domain-specific terminology to be used.
Using a proportional font will break if you try to align code other than using indentation, e.g. aligning assignments.

More examples: http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/align.html#Examples

Of course, I really hope nobody's coding like that. I've never seen anyone who's been able to maintain that kind of formatting consistently.

I don't see any reason why proportional fonts shouldn't work for most programming styles. The problem is that most existing proportional fonts aren't very well suited for programming. At the very least, you need a font with unambiguous shapes for similar glyphs, like 1lI0oO`',.;:
And that's probably a good thing. There are too many self-aggrandizing jerks in the world already. We don't need more, we need less.

Current trends towards greater transparency are likely to mean that a career as a con-artist is not quite as profitable a business as it may have been in the past. People who make gross exaggerations about their abilities are likely to be uncovered sooner.
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There is an explanation of this by Janet Radcliffe Richards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Radcliffe_Richards) on a Philosophy Bites podcast, here it is: (http://www.philosophybites.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=3255...). Philosophy Bites are short (under 20 minute) interviews with contemporary philosophers.
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Both of his shows got cancelled. Hence, never bounced back. When you get demoted from a show host to a "panelist", that's not bouncing back. Its like Conan O' Brian doing stand-up gigs after leaving The Tonight Show.
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Agreed - I don't think the speed-limiting factor when reading code is how fast it transfers from screen to brain. That's totally different with prose, where you often skip over almost 90% of the characters because the choice of words that fit the context comes naturally - not quite the same for function call arguments...

A possible benefit of fixed-width: say you take a for-loop (which you can probably recognise even skipping over 95% of the characters) - now your brain wants to extract the indices at which it starts and ends: it seems to me a fixed-width font makes it easier to predict where you'll find the indices in the given line. (Not sure if that's how my eye-coordination really works, but it feels like it does...)
Some of the reason these strategies succeed is because we live in a world where women are discriminated against.

Liberal garbage. There are a few, mostly men on top. Then most women. With most men on the bottom of the pile. I'm getting tired of feminist whiners deciding that since most of the people on top are men, therefore all men are on top.
i don't know. Taking a clojure example :

(defn say [word]
(println "You said"
word))

This wouldn't be possible without fixed width. Now a lot of languages don't use that kind of indenting a lot, but in lisps it's mandatory.

Also fixed width ensures that you can write code and it will lay in the same way on other computers, regardless of what other fixed width font they're using. That's a big big point i think, since code is most of the time a collaborative effort
Thats only true to a degree. As things get more transparent, the value of exaggeration will decrease and perhaps become negative.

However, the value of saying "pick me" will still be high in many situations. Anywhere where the selection process involves talking to people or asking for volunteers, etc... will still require people to stand up to be seen.
I can't stand proportional fonts for programming. Aside from it being harder for me to read, inability to use any sort of ASCII art, etc, it just feels sacrilegious.

Not to mention my editor of choice (TextMate) fails horribly with proportional fonts.

But then again, I used to feel the same way about anti-aliased programming fonts, and have since switched.

Currently Inconsolata 16pt anti-aliased is my font of choice. It helps to have a big screen...
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It does. However a lot of people avoid comments on the same line as code.
I did - guess I met the one or other self-aggrandizing woman before. Perhaps Shirky gets to meet a special selection in his course.
As a coder and some-time Tetris player, I'm always trying to get back to that state of awesome productivity called "flow". I always thought it was something that just randomly happened, or might be easier to access if you set up the right environment and waved a chicken about, but apparently there's more to it than that.

The most useful slide of the entire presentation is also on the man's Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Challenge_vs_skill.jpg I think I'll need to stare at it for a while longer and think about how those emotional states relate and how I might artificially jump from one to the next.
But how does that relate to getting a recommendation letter? Or are you just saying its a learned behavior that spills over into other interactions?
"You want China to improve its human rights record - it is, just not as fast as you'd like. "

Evidence please?
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First I'd like recommend these interviews as an interlude, for your robotics club especially the one with Larry Rosenstock from High Tech High: http://www.mobilelearninginstitute.org/21stcenturyeducation/

This has an angry little trailer, but seems to more about Amerian campus politics than educational reform: http://indoctrinate-u.com/intro/

"We are the people we've been waiting for" has a focus on education reform in Great Britain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRi8_fXz1D8
and http://youtube.com/WeAreThePeopleMovie

Plus there's a two or three kickstarter projects on documentaries in education. Hope this helps!

I will dig around and try to find a few more. The one's Jon Bischke posted sound good as well. Take care!
Is it really a shootout if he misses most of the Ruby implementations?
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I think this was the original barefoot post on hacker news:

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Real world usage: an event-based architecture like the one employed in Keyspace [1]. We have an abstract class Callable, which has a member virtual void Execute() and a global convenience function Call(Callable) which just calls ->Execute(). So a Callable is something that can be called, ie. a function pointer. We then have two concrete implementations, one for global (C) function pointers and one for class member (C++) function pointers. The whole thing is in Callable.h and is <100 lines of code, hence very lightweight.

Then, in the framework layer, we register callbacks using Callables in the IOProcessor. So if you create a TCP server with a TCP listening socket, you have a TCPRead object and you set its onComplete member, which is a Callable, to &TCPServer::OnConnect and analogously for onClose. Then, once a connection is establised you post TCPRead or TCPWrite objects for the new socket to IOProcessor to receive read notifications or perform writes, again with members onComplete and onClose.

Then, in the application layer you have actual database code which uses the network abstractions in the framework layer (which abstract away I/O), but they also use Callables to have themselves get called back when, for example an entire message has been read (eg. command is then parsed and executed) from the TCP stream or a client connection is terminated (eg. commands are canceled).

The whole program is then one big infinite loop, each iteration IOProcessor::Poll() being waken up by the O/S because something has happened, and Callables being called in turn. (On BSD, we kqueue, on Linux epoll and on Win32 Completion Ports to receive readyness notifications.) We also have support timers, which are just a linked list of Callables, and when IOProcessor::Poll() blocks we pass in the amount of time until the next timer must be executed as the timeout.

Or you can use libev/libevent, but they're not lightweight and will force you to do things their way.

[1] AGPL source is at http://scalien.com
Interesting to note that you didn't list software development. I think that's the biggest complaint about the "lack of women in open source" -- more related to the lack of female developers than anything else.
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This is perhaps not as dumb as it sounds.

If it were viable to properly shield the ISS from radiation and dust and small rocks, it could be a good idea to put it on an Aldrin Cycler orbit. Then all you would need to send to Mars every time a crew would have to go there would be the lander and supplies for the ISS to keep the crew alive and well for the 150 days or so of the transfer (and pack some supplies for the transfer back). That would significantly reduce the mass you have to send every trip. Having a capable platform on a permanent transfer orbit would also be great for science. Much better than LEO.

You would, of course, have to send repair and expansion parts, some extra propellant for trajectory corrections, replacements for damaged modules and build a whole lot more redundancy into the ISS than it has now - remember it would not be possible to use the Soyuz lifeboats on an emergency - not even when crossing Earth orbit as the ISS would be going too fast for the Soyuz to properly aerobrake.

It doesn't solve all the problems and is not what the journalist proposed, but it is close enough - the ISS would go to Mars and back (and to Mars and back and so on for as long as it could be repaired).

I would go for it.

But the upgrades wouldn't be cheap.
How hard, or easy, is it to make a really secure browser while at the same time keeping all the jazz that makes say, GMail work?
I'd actually say the actual post title is 'spicier' since it's less descriptive, more broad, and more likely to get a click just because people love a good flame. The current HN post title is indeed possibly inflammatory, but at least it's descriptive and probably provokes interest based on curiosity quite a bit more than the real title would.
With so many markets they commonly target, and with such a great success one of them has in each market, I cant help but wonder what the implications of a merger would be. Search & hardware, design & algos, high-end & low-end, who could compete with them if they join forces?
If you can't go almost right to sleep, then you weren't tired enough to need a nap in the first place. The only time I ever toss and turn is when I need to keep to a schedule and go to bed before I am fully tired out.
That hasn't been a problem since a few releases, the audio player just asks the user if he wants to install the codec(this is the case with Amarok on Kubuntu, the behaviour should be similar with whatever player is used on Ubuntu).
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women are wired to feel more attracted to risk takers rather than prudes. men just want someone hot, risk takers or prudes.
"forget about _accelerating_ the thing out of Earth Orbit"

We wouldn't be able to accelerate it in any way but a very gentle one. It's a heavy structure.

And as for keeping seals, metals and circuits.. That's why it's modular. You could, conceivably, replace parts of it indefinitely or, at least, for as long as you have the money and the resources.

If we are to repurpose the ISS in any meaningful way, we will need a heavy lifter.
Although the people in question are already more likely to do this anyway, since they have already been infected.