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I've been using it since it came out for Windows a week or two ago, and it's wonderfully fast (as well as beautiful). Using Opera used to feel like sacrificing performance for functionality, but now I feel like I have the best of both worlds. It is still beta, and there are a couple bugs, but for the most part it's a great experience.
PR is being decentralized. Thanks to blogs, Skype, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook you can get onto TechCrunch no matter where in the world you are.

If your idea of decentralized PR (or effective PR) is "you can get on Techcrunch from anywhere in the world" you may have been living in the Valley too long.

Silicon Valley used to have a lock on geeks.

That's so wrong I don't even think it is worth refuting.
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I'm wondering if they have to pay dues.
The explanation of why ++[] throws error is actually incorrect. This has nothing to do with "existence" of [] (I'm not even sure what existence could mean here). Rather, it's the way ++ operator works.

++ requires its operand to evaluate to a _reference_, not a _value_. If operand evaluates to a value, a ReferenceError is thrown (well, actually it is internal PutValue method that throws error, but that's irrelevant here). Now, if we were to pass reference to ++ operator, it would "work" as expected. E.g.:

++({ x: 1 }).x;

In this case, `({ x: 1 }).x` is a reference, it evaluates to 1, and is then increased by 1 to produce 2 as a resulting value.

When you said "this also works" with `++[ [] ][ 0 ]` example, what happened is that `[ [] ][ 0 ]` evaluated to a reference too, and returned a value of array (inner one). The fact that something like ++[[]][0] "works" should already hint at the fact that "existence" of an object is a bogus reasoning ;)

So what we really need to understand here (besides type coercion) is the notion of references. Literals, for example, always evaluate to values: 1, "foo", true, ({ x: 1 }), and [] are all values. Expressions involving property accessors, on the other hand — foo.bar, [1][0], ({ x: 1 }).x — are all references.

Understanding this distinction can also help explain other aspects of Javascript, such as, say, simple assignments, where left hand operand is constrained by the same rules as ++ operator; it should always evaluate to a reference:

1 = 1; // ReferenceError, LHS operand is not a reference

null = 1; // ReferenceError, LHS operand is not a reference

// but

({ x: 1 }).x = 1; // works as expected, LHS operand is a reference

x = 1; // works as expected, LHS operand is a reference

FWIW, it is the same internal PutValue method that's invoked by `=` operator, and is why assignment to non-reference values result in an error.
You didn't miss anything by not going through the paywall. I did go through the paywall, and found the same tired "study" that PZ has already decried:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/02/stop_patting_your...

This seems to be the flavor du jour in self-congratulation, but there isn't well established research here.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html
Apples and oranges. Having spent considerable time on both sides of that fence, it seems to me that the way skeptics look at the world is qualitatively, fundamentally different from the way believers do. At the risk of oversimplifying: believers subscribe to going notions (shamanism, catholicism, astrology, etc.), which become like parts of their lifestyle and identity; skeptics try to determine how likely various propositions are based on knowledge, logic, and evidence. Now, there are a few religious people who try to apply the searching scrutiny of the skeptic to their faith, and there are those who identify with the atheist camp, but sort of after the style that believers identify with things. So the division will get muddled if you go actively looking for exceptions to it. But the point is that most non-believers simply do not hold their non-beliefs in the same way, or for the same reasons, that believers hold their beliefs.
He and _Why are obviously forming an underwater hacker's paradise.
It's a no-implementation programming language, and the syntax vaguely dylan like.
There is a merge lane right out my window in NY. Horns honk all day, due to narrowly missed disasters, and occationally theres some contact. Soooooo, I pointed a webcam out my window and created the http://WorstMergeLaneEver.com
"This has nothing to do with 'existence' of [] (I'm not even sure what existence could mean here)."

Ah sorry, I was referring to the fact that the array was already created and within another object that we were referencing. But yeah, thanks for your more-in-depth explanation!
While I won't pretend to be one of those intelligent people I do have an opinion about publicly funded research. I think publicly funded research should be released into the public domain (or under license similar to the Creative Commons Attribution [1]) since the public funded it.

[1]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
It seems like you just put it in an iframe and register in on facebook. I don't think this is worth mentioning. But of course, if the hiring manager is non-programing person,then it will be a big plus.
I can criticize them all I want, they may have to pay the bills but tricking users really isn't a very nice way to do that.

And not being a digg user it is hard to notice the difference between that and a normal submission.

Reddit style is different it is always at the top has a different color and a border around it with a what is this link as well
I'm really short on time over the next couple weeks, but keep me posted if you do anything vegetarian-friendly near the Stanford campus - if I can make time, I'd be happy to show up and chip in for food. School address is rof@
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>First, private capital is seeing space as a good investment, willing to fund individuals who are passionate about exploring space, for adventure as well as profit. What was once affordable only by nations can now be lucrative, public-private partnerships.

For the moment being, that sounds specious at best. We (the US) are not able to get back to the moon because of a lack of funds (NASA accounted for some 5% of the entire federal budget in 1966, now it's down to .5%); any amount of funding by private entities for such tasks is minuscule in comparison, and therefore obviously insufficient.

But I suppose that'll change in interesting ways with time.
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The compilation parameters speed and safety will determine what happens when something goes wrong.

For example, the following global settings would be considered fast but dangerous :

(declaim (optimize
(speed 3) (compilation-speed 0) (safety 0) (debug 0)))

These would be safe but slower :

(declaim (optimize
(speed 0) (compilation-speed 0) (safety 3) (debug 3)))
I do. Even if you don't, there's a star rating system built into the app store.
A more powerful idea would be a union of freelancers/contractors. Imagine all freelancers stopped working for a company that lobbied against health insurance reform, or a company that engaged in patent abuse. They would have a lot of power but the problem would be scabs and foreign outsourcing.
Wow this sounds amazing... wish I was back in the Bay Area
I must admit some general annoyance at the recent trend in labeling 20-page web-only how-tos "books".

Though, given that the Sinatra source itself is under 2k lines, were it a real book, it would quickly be much longer than the source itself. :-)
There is a freelancer's union: http://www.freelancersunion.org/

Not sure how much the focus is on organizing around pressuring potential client companies, but there is some issue advocacy, along with group insurance and retirement plans, etc...
When he was on the Stack Overflow podcast a while back he said that he was going to be finished blogging shortly thereafter. That was about a year ago.
Obviously! How didn't I guess earlier? Maybe they're in talks with Patri Friedman (aspiring rationalist around the SIAI crowd, notable for role in Seasteading Institute).

Silly, but maybe I should ask Patri...

good one.
Glad to hear. I'd be really curious to hear what ends up happening if you're able to share. Also what your attorney told you.
Sun = Middle Earth? Does that make Oracle Sauron?
For the typical American, it's hard to defend the eating of meat.

Not to start a fight but, being one of those typical Americans (and a decently smart one), I don't have a problem defending the eating of meat. My reasoning is quite simple but I know many people won't agree with me. I don't see animals as being worthy of the same treatment as humans.

Not that I can condone putting animals through unnecessary suffering. But, I define unnecessary suffering is anything beyond what commonly happens to animals in nature. I think veal fattening pen are unethical. Holding animals in tightly enclosed spaces for their entire lives is unethical. Killing a cow with an ax isn't provided you're killing the cow for an ethical reason such as using the animal for food or soap. If you don't use the animal you kill it's no different than burning a forest without a purpose.
Correct. In the last entry I referenced, he opened saying, "We're getting close to the end of my blog. After today's entry, I only have three left to write. After that, I'll only blog anonymously or (more likely) not at all."
Where can I find a list of the people who voted against the renewal? It's turning out to be harder to find than I had thought.
About an hour and half outside of New Orleans, LA.
yes atheists take the "how" and use it to argue against the "why" when the truth is we don't know the why.

There are strong arguments from "world renowned" individuals that items like mathematics and the laws of physics have a strong sense of order to them and could very well represent the language and rules of a designer.

An atheist looks at things like math or evolution at a mechanical level and says:

"see i can show you how we got here, it is not magic because x,y and z happened and it is human comprehensible"

they take this how and use it to argue against the why, which is flawed, the truth is we do not know and that is the very clear distinction between an agnostic and an atheist, an agnostic takes a far more philosophical look at the subject and determines that at this time there are still grand questions and that the subject of a creator can not be deduced.

I think agnostics are far more creative thinkers, as they entertain grand possibilities and have the most fascinating ideas on the concepts of why we are here and how it could have happened.

To lump agnostics in with atheist is to discredit agnostics for their open mindedness on the subject.

Atheist are entitles to their views and I don't disparage them that, but they reason on misleading facts and faith just as much as the religious do.
The two are not mutually exclusive. The higher the general vacancy within a given plane the higher the likelihood of there being cheap upgrades available immediately before take-off. I generally plan my travel around less desirable times because of the increased likelihood of a $50 first class upgrade on Virgin. Out of my last 40 or so flights, I've upgraded on 36 of them.
This sounds like an awesome way to meet new people. I know a woman (@sfsouplady) who did something similar when she moved here .. She started giving away soup in front of bars in her neighborhood, which landed her a job in the first week (not cooking) and a huge group of friends.

While you're here maybe you should look up @marcup13. He's a noted food hacker and probably has some suggestions or would be into cooking with you.
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EXCEPT THAT I WASN'T USING IT AS A PEJORATIVE. Jesus fucking christ, this isn't "PC" this is just stupid.
I doubt that earth has the resources to serve as a processing facility for space asteroids. Even if we get metals from asteroids we would still have to smelt and refine them on Earth, which is a polluting and resource demanding process.
I think this mistakes cause and effect. The hypothesis of the article is that new trends, like the cloud, being exploited globally make the Valley less important. But I think that other places are adopting Valley trends, like exploiting the cloud, because the Valley is becoming more important. And the reason the situation is improving for entrepreneurs in those other places is because they are copying Valley trends.

I know Cambridge, UK best since that's where I'm from. And increasingly, new companies are forming there with little funding and young, highly technical founders. More people there are reading TechCrunch, have heard of Y Combinator, and are more able to re-locate to the Valley thanks mainly to the spread of knowledge. In the future, the startup visa might come into play too.

The Valley's culture is going global, and other locations will benefit as a result, but the main beneficiary is the Valley itself.
One-way, binary thinking FAIL.
You weren't using it as a pejorative, but your pun was based on its use as a pejorative.
--I could believe in a connection between vegetarianism and intelligence

That is because intelligence is measured in the eye of the beholder and the intelligence that the author was measuring was an intelligence that coincides with a cross section of people who tend to hold this belief in the social circle.

The article is so obviously subjective to the results the author wants based on the intelligence he is looking for.

For example I could argue that artistic expression is a sign of intelligence, i would be right and if i weighted my measures with that measure, I can guarantee you I could come back and correlate a high prevalence of vegetarianism to that measure.
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Flash has issues and anything the W3S and WHATWG do is without fault. Down with plugin architecture! All ideas and possible innovations that live outside of our dying, simple-minded, slow-moving, "One or None" religion should be killed! chant Kill Flash! chant Kill Flash! chant Kill Flash! chant

/sarcasm
The record of what? Talk is cheap. Let's see some examples.
I suspect the metals are oxidized on the asteroids, too. If aluminum takes so much energy to liberate from the oxygen, it must really like to combine with oxygen. I'd guess there was a fair amount of oxygen floating around with the aluminum before it clumped together into asteroids, even if there isn't now.
Did any Eve Online players here see "20 trillion ISK" when they read the headline? ;)
It took me a while, but for anyone else who is interested this explains a bit why it's hard to find the voting record http://bit.ly/92Qfz4 and this is the roll call for the vote which also shows the break down for each party http://bit.ly/cVkRiC
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I'd love to take you up on this. Would it be fun to make it into a Hacker News dinner party? I think so. In fact, I'd love to host a HN dinner party no matter what. Is anyone else interested?

My partner and I live in Mill Valley (just over the GGB). She's in tech also. I eat meat. She doesn't. I think we can support twenty or so folks.

Our kitchen is well stocked, we're the local drop off for a CSA so we have fresh veggies, we both can help, etc. If we do meat, I'd like to do it in a smoker outside.

I'm tony@tonystubblebine.com
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such a diet means almost certain, and very unpleasant, death for infants and small children

Nonsense.

1. Mother's milk is vegetarian, most nursing infants eat nothing else.

2. Jains have been practicing a very strict form of vegetarianism for thousands of years.
This sounds great. Some guys I know have regular dinner parties in San Francisco for 20+ people (Broadway / Divisidaro). Email founders@ my company for an intro, I'm sure they'd love you to come up and cook for them.
I wonder how this correlates in non-western countries?
I am a meat-eater who's made an intelligent, intentional decision to eat meat. I sometimes hunt deer and turkey, and I've caught and gutted fish. I've seen slaughterhouses where cows and chickens are killed, and animal cruelty doesn't bother me at all.

Not that I'm not worried about antibiotic abuse and such breeding disease, I mean that I don't care at all about the animals' welfare.
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Yes, form a union to demand more benefits from the world's most indebted entity! Get yours while the gettin's good. That's the way forward... more people on the dole!

Are you really coming out ahead begging Congress for jobs when they've shown no ability to create them? The average cost of a single "created job" lately would be enough to run a small business in the private sector. What you really need to ask them to do is stop draining the private sector of a quarter of a million dollars (plus interest, since it's borrowed) to provide you with a low-end temporary job for a year.
"Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise." 1 Corinthians 3:18

this was paul who said that, just for you folk who will think it was jesus. but still....
I'm not sure that's an intelligent or rational decision to eat meat. The statement that you don't care about animal welfare or animal cruelty is simply a statement with no rational foundation. For example, you would probably disagree with human cruelty, so why agree with animal cruelty? There's a rational argument to be made why you don't care, but simply stating that you don't care isn't really an argument at all.
"Not to start a fight but,"

I really welcome these honest and sincere comments of yours and find them refreshing.

I actually agree with most of what you're saying here. I take things a little further than you, but not much. Let me explain:

"I don't see animals as being worthy of the same treatment as humans." -- I agree with this. In some ways animals are similar to humans, but in other ways they are different.

"I define unnecessary suffering is anything beyond what commonly happens to animals in nature." -- I personally don't quite agree with this, but concede that this can easily be defended philosophically.

"I think veal fattening pen are unethical. Holding animals in tightly enclosed spaces for their entire lives is unethical." -- Me too. Note that more than 99% of meat is from factory-farmed animals, so to eat meat is to vote with your dollars for this sort of abusive animal treatment. (Reference: http://www.farmforward.com/farming-forward/factory-farming)

"Killing a cow with an ax isn't provided you're killing the cow for an ethical reason such as using the animal for food or soap." -- I'll concede this point, but I must point out that the majority of suffering and death that we put animals through is for unnecessary reasons. Case in point: I've been a vegan for five years and it has not interfered with my ability to live an enjoyable, productive life.

Note that the typical American eats too much meat (from a health standpoint) and as a result is dying earlier. So for most of the meat consumption in the U.S., the act of eating meat harms both the animal and the consumer of the meat. (Cutting meat completely from your diet will reduce your cancer and heart disease risk.)
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I disagree. Mimicking real content is a valid expression of creativity and entertainment.
We'll figure out something to do with it. :)

But yeah, to consume that much materials would take entire worlds, colonized.
But there's one thing I admire about blintson's position: It was intentional. He actually thought about it and made a decision. For too many people, meat-eating is a mindless default.

You raise a good point, though. Unless blinston also doesn't care about human welfare, it leaves the question unanswered as to why he would care about humans and not animals.
I emailed you with some basic info. I hope this works out, and you aren't a crazed murderer.
The post office couldn't make a profit if it didn't have laws supporting it. They have terrible customer service, take sundays off, various other problems, UPS and Fed Ex would destroy them.

Of course the Patent and Trademark office is law supported too.
"An atheist looks at things like math or evolution at a mechanical level and says:

'see i can show you how we got here, it is not magic because x,y and z happened and it is human comprehensible'

they take this how and use it to argue against the why, which is flawed, the truth is we do not know and that is the very clear distinction between an agnostic and an atheist, an agnostic takes a far more philosophical look at the subject and determines that at this time there are still grand questions and that the subject of a creator can not be deduced.

To lump agnostics in with atheist is to discredit agnostics for their open mindedness on the subject."

On what research do you base these broad, sweeping generalizations of large groups of people?

I'm guessing you're just pigeon-holing people based on personal biases from purely anecdotal observations of a relatively small number of people (considering the number of atheists and agnostics in the world).

Or you just invented definitions to suit your world view.

Either way, it sounds like reasoning on misleading facts and faith.

If you're going to disparage a seriously large number of people, please have at least few facts you can back up.
Oh wait, I'm supposed to say something interesting about us in order to make the dinner invite compelling. I have a social software company, CrowdVine. I'm big into bootstrapping. I'm a rails programmer. I wrote the Regular Expression pocket reference. I'm very interested in deliberate practice and whether the clicker training I did with my dog could be applied to my own behavior. I haven't been able to sleep since seeing the "Ten points for toothbrushing" talk at DICE.

Sarah, my partner, has a background in publishing, founded O'Reilly's Tools of Change for Publishing conference and is now co-chair/GM for the Web 2.0 Expo. She also wrote books on Google and Twitter.
I find agnostics to be more intelligent, on average.
Unfortunately, there's a lot of problems similar to that also. The national debt, for example. No one will elect a politician that says "I'm going to work to cut government programs and raise taxes so that we can pay off our debt."
> As a bonus, it is old enough that your local library probably has it for you to check out with no reservations.

Unless other HN readers are in the same city :)
I second you on this , will love a python port of it for GAE.
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Here's some more info, and it supports what you are saying: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/491933...

Since from a health standpoint the ideal diet for a human is vegetarian, but not 100% vegan, I always try to be careful. But science shows that meat-eaters have much more reason to be cautious about their diets than vegans. See this science study: http://bit.ly/dsjAUy
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Yes, the Federal Reserve turns over a fair bit of seignorage to the treasury. The latest number I see is $31.7 billion in 2008. http://federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/RptCongress/budgetrev09/...

Of course, that $31.7 billion is mostly interest on treasuries, so…
Sounds good, let's do it!
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