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atheism does not explain or give reasons for the most basic questions we have as human beings. Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going?

We believe these questions are unanswerable, or only answerable by an individual for his own self. We believe religions exist because people seek answers to these questions. This is hardly an argument against atheism, though. It's not obvious having false answers is better than having no answers.

We can all agree that murder is wrong, but what's to stop an independent person from asking the logical question "who says?". Objectively, why is murder wrong? Societies are very delicate things, and it does not take much to spin them out of control

This argument that religion is necessary to provide a basis for civilization (opium for the masses, if you will) is specious. If it were true you'd think you'd see a negative correlation between religiosity and crime. This hasn't been shown, and in fact the most secular places on the earth are some of the most desirable places to live.
Email and username are transposed compared to the site check function signatures. I'm sure someone will send a pull request to fix that and make it slightly less un-evil.

To be more specific:

def _check_twitter(username, email, pw):

Yet it's called in check_pass as:

if checks[check](email, username, pw):
He's nerdy about nerdiness
Land mines, attack dogs, shoot-to-kill and a totalitarian regime make walls more effective. Not that these options are totally unrealistic at the moment. Calling up the national guard would seem a step this way.
Peacocks will attack their reflections. In the side of your new car, for example :( So they presumably think that they're other peacocks.
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I would love to try out Linode again but I recently added $100 in credit at Vultr because they currently match your first deposit up to $100. Linode generally offers twice the RAM at all price points so it's almost always a better value.
This is a super cool idea. Would love to chat more about this!
Is there any usage-statistic they base this on? I assume 90% have nothing more than an adblocker at most installed?

What about the rest? What about users that are switching to firefox from another browser?
Are you seriously saying you think Apple or HTC would stop selling things to Nebraskans? How's Apple gonna stop Amazon from sending iPhones to Omaha? eBay? Are they going to instruct Best Buy employees to demand proof-of-residence in neighboring states to prevent those conniving cornhuskers from replacing their batteries?
"Firefox will not have this limitation."

Can you clarify/elaborate? Last I heard, UI modification by web extensions was still unconfirmed at best.
Codakid (based in Scottsdale, Arizona) teaches kids how to code with Minecraft mods amongst other things.
Here's a video about a prank like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsXYwShRQwU
I'm a sample of one, but I found it easier to quit smoking permanently than to spend one month without using a single Google product...
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We use Google apps for work and their spam filters are quite robust.
That must have been a terrifying and hopeless situation to be in.
A good jobs programme results in something which creates more jobs and economic activity over time. This wall wall will hinder economic activity (though generally the kind that is less desirable).
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I'd suggest this article, "Sanity for Sociality", as a perhaps less longwinded and cleaner elucidation of the same idea.

http://thefutureprimaeval.net/sanity-for-sociality/

The gist of it:

...analyze the adoption of...Mormonism:

Price:

A small piece of sanity...[express belief in assorted weird Mormon things]...Some freedom...

Value:

Access to high-quality mates. Friendship, community, etc. A stable and sure flourishing life. Spiritual well-being.

Most or all societies have similar requirements to sacrifice sanity for sacred beliefs, e.g. in my society I need to express a belief in the figurative Hitlerness of Trump. Applying this to the post under discussion, the author's theory seems to be that nerds are people less willing to sacrifice a piece of sanity in favor of sociality.
Was the Nugget controversy a setup? ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13652612 )
It's an abuse of HN to use the site primarily for political or ideological battle. That's destructive of what HN is for. Since you've done nothing else even after we warned you about this, we've banned this account.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13674685 and marked it off-topic.
Every corporate workplace I've worked at seems to have exactly this.
To teach them basic concept of coding you can always let them play Human Resource Machine, Android/iOS/Windows game created by World of Goo studio http://2dboy.com/
Nasa isnt a law firm. Lawyer communications are treated by different rules, rules above things like classifications.
Is he wearing cool-packs?
Firefox has 6.6% market share in browsers.[1] By the time Firefox 57 comes out, Firefox may not matter. Supporting Yahoo Search as the default didn't help.

Mozilla is dropping not only the old XUL interface, but the new Jetpack/Add-on SDK interface that's only worked right for about four years. Dropping XUL make sense; the mobile version of Firefox never supported XUL anyway. But there's no reason to drop Jetpack. That's essentially the same as the WebExtensions API, but with different names for the API calls.

I'll probably convert my one remaining add-on, but it's not really worth it.

[1] https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr...
I learned the basics of programming with Processing[0] and it was great! Seriously. It's basically procedural (but not turtle) graphics with a very simple IDE. You can also do animations and interactive stuff (mouse/keyboard), that's fun too.
The official one is in Java, but it's just procedural, little to no OO required. there's also Python/JavaScript versions, haven't tried them. Another bonus is, it's easily embedabble online. There's a built-in Java -> JavaScript converter, which lets you automagically run a Java sketch in a browser.

the rest of this is just me criticizing things I used and didn't like, so feel free to ignore

I tried reaching a friends' kid programming with Scratch and making any kind of more complex stuff was actually too hard because of the "simplifications" built into the language. Can't remember the details, but you had to use globals instead of passing parameters for something basic, like constructing objects.

[0] processing.org
Try looking into issue-tracking (aka ticket) systems. They generally come in two flavors: software development bug-tracking and service desk incident-response. They are mostly offered as SAASes these days with a monthly recurring fee per user.

Based on your description, and I hate to say it, but you might like something like Jira. Add recurring tasks plugin, and then the tasks you describe become as easy as scheduling a recurring meeting in Outlook. I think a workflow tracking system might bring tears of joy to your eyes.
given that many surfaces can act as mirrors in nature, it's very likely that evolution has allowed us to recogize our own reflections, especially if there are no other sensations associated, like unfamiliar sounds or scents.

i dont think this ability necessarily translates into some deeper conciousness or self-awareness beyond the outwardly physical.
There's no way he can't just command an abort from wherever he is.
> They're quite thorough (though they have the fault of being heavily steeped in git jargon).

So you actually agree. To understand the docs you have to understand git jargon, and the docs aren't too helpful about that.

I certainly don't want to say that the git docs are bad. They're quite complete and written in mostly complete sentences, which is already pretty good as far as documentation goes. Doesn't mean that there is a lot of room for improvement.
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Is there a Patreon for that?
Someone apparently did a similar test based on a dog's sense of smell instead of its sight, and it did pass that one:

https://phys.org/news/2015-12-dogs-animals-conscience.html

So perhaps other animal species may pass similar tests modified for senses they use more than sight.
I think I misunderstood the last part of your original comment in the context of your first part. I understood it to mean that one should stop recording in an effort to survive or not get arrested, but re-reading it I do not think that's what you meant, but the opposite.

To clarify my own comment, I'd be of the belief that one should not stop recording, even if that means getting arrested or dead (both unfortunate outcomes, but both sometimes necessary in advancement of civil rights for a greater number of others).
My point is your priorities are backwards. Part of maintaining a society is acting in the best interests of that society, sometimes at great personal cost.
We should have this monthly, like the jobs postings. Think of it as startup founding postings
I wouldnt go that far. This looks like a mobile camera/sensor rig, not something capable of doing actual inspections unaided.
KeySnail[1] extension, which brings customizable Emacs and vi keys to Firefox, is the "killer app" I use Firefox for and it doesn't have a Chrome counterpart. Without this particular extension I wouldn't have a reason to keep using Firefox.

[1] https://github.com/mooz/keysnail/wiki
This sort of thing is not difficult now, and you don't necessarily need to jump to ML. What you do need is someone relatively competent in image analysis.

Pulling numbers off a uniform (typically high contrast) is not very complex.
Planes existed and bombed things prior to the Maginot Line being built. It was also protected against aerial attack, which is kind of intuitive as the French were familiar with just how much explosives could home from the air after ww1 (though generally by by heavy artillery).
The idea maze of personal logging (2016)
Well you could always do something like base64, which might be a fine work-around in some situations.
This is what a fast release cycle gets you: insufficient feedback and a snowball effect as project managers double-down on bad decisions. See also: Ubuntu.
I always thought that was weird in the US - that some people work in offices without any natural light. In my country that's unheard of.
I would take payment to write that software. If you have a need for CV people I may be able to help. Email address is in my user page.
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I'm a junior developer that is highly praised for my ability to deal with people and think big picture. I get good feedback on my coding, but that's not where I shine. In the last few months I've been in more and more meetings with people way more experienced than me. It's great for growth in the company, but cuts into my development time. I feel that's it's weakening me as a developer and will cause problems if I try to move companies.
Previous gen Xbox dev kits generally had double the RAM and came with a Visual Studio license. They were very expensive. Now you can pay $19 to unlock a retail Xbox One to run any code you like with a 1GB RAM limit.
Some hidden wisdom in here:

Too much flexibility for a runner, on the other hand, may not be desirable. The
ankle, knee and hip joints stay within the mid-range of motion during endurance
running, so maximum static ROM will not have much effect. It has also been
shown that stiffer leg muscles in endurance athletes may make them more
economical in terms of oxygen consumption at sub max speeds (De Vries).
Sprinting, martial arts, gymnastics involve movements of much larger ROM
therefore depend on good flexibility. However, as already pointed out,
development of flexibility must be specific to the sport. If a soccer player
developed same type of flexibility as a gymnast, he would be of a greater risk
of injury as extremely mobile joints may become unstable.

In your life or company, where you should be rigid or flexible really depends on what you're trying to accomplish.
Yes, and if the person you replied to were writing an academic article for the American Psychological Association they would be wise to follow their style guide in that context.
> I think there's more factors than that. Air traffic controllers are very overworked and they don't often cause collisions[1].

Seems like they're getting pretty close. Air traffic and medicine are not the same field, I wouldn't expect the probabilities and risks to be the same.

> The study found that nearly 2 in 10 controllers had committed significant errors in the previous year — such as bringing planes too close together — and over half attributed the errors to fatigue. A third of controllers said they perceived fatigue to be a "high" or "extreme" safety risk. Greater than 6 in 10 controllers indicated that in the previous year they had fallen asleep or experienced a lapse of attention while driving to or from midnight shifts, which typically begin about 10 p.m. and end around 6 a.m.
> the Chrome team would simply have asked the Android team to provide their expertise in designing Chrome's extension API

Chrome's choice to not use such ACLs has no bearing on whether it is possible or reasonable for a web browser to use. Chrome is not the be-all-end-all of browser technology.

> Firefox addons are currently less restricted than Android apps.

And that's what could be changed. The lack of restrictions in the current state doesn't mean that it can't (or that it shouldn't) change.
Just finished the new Paper Mario game. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
I would love to post this monthly! Do you think first of the month is the right time for that, or one month from now?
Looks like yes.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/832995083519614976
I read somewhere that AirTable is deliberately only targeting "human scale" data use cases.
Yep. Having Yahoo as the default search has left a bad taste in my mouth. I accidentally used it once and it was all ads above the fold. I had to scroll to see actual search results. Never again.
Who ever dominates the AI space first, will dominate everyone else. If amazon cracks deep learning before google, they'll be able to move a billion times faster, instantly.

I'd say anything can happen within the last 10-20 years.
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systems should probably not let users pick their passwords.
That is they get to pick a generated password (by the system)

It implies that the system knows plaintext password. Even if the system deletes the password and keeps a hash, it remains the problem of distributing that password to the client in a secure way.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13667534
No. With something as important as a space launch, the idea of a 10-second abort based on a phonecall is crazy. They need to be sure it isnt disinformation. That late in the game i would expect all communications to be only from verified sources, sources on a list with dedicated pathways and roles. Millions, billions are on the line.

I have taken issue with musk tweets that have been less than accurate before. Time will tell.
Indeed :(

They were also co-opting local ISPs to identify activist bloggers.

All driven by the US drug war.
The defecating duck robot also features heavily in Thomas Pynchon's novel Mason & Dixon.
I doubt we'll have much insight into the nature of it until we can replicate it.
i once had a friend, of whom english was a second language, ask me, 'what is the purpose of nerd?' after someone called me a nerd in front of her

i still hold to my answer, 'a nerd is someone who cares a lot about something you care little for'
> designing an honest-to-god specified extensions API is harder

Of course it's hard. Doesn't mean it shouldn't be done.

> Appealing to PG makes no sense here.

When the argument is being made that it's better to make it easier on Firefox developers at the cost of the user base, the argument made in PG's essay is pretty relevant.
Any difference to Calacanis' inside.com ?
yea. the fact that people include you in meetings with more important people prevents you from career progression. studying minutiae of whatever pet project you want to nurse is probably way more important.
I've been using Rikai-kun[1] on Chrome. It claims to be a port of Rikai-chan, I'm curious in which ways it's inferior (I have not tried the original Firefox addon).

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rikaikun/jipdnfibh...
Best introduction to programming I've seen so far is a game called Human Resource Machine, good for all ages, available on Steam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Resource_Machine
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The Xbox 360 devkits had extra USB ports for emulating DVD drives and high-speed data transfer. These kits required a fair amount of labor to put together; they were $10,000, and often hard to obtain.

I believe the Xbox One devkits are just production units with different key material (which prevents commercial titles from running, and allows developer-signed bits to run). Theoretically any Xbox One is a devkit, with the right software provisioning.
I've never heard of this one. I'd try it, but the pricing page just says "Get a quote" all over it, which is a massive turn-off.
>No. You may still be liable for $500 if you fail to report it within 48 HOURS

"may" is much different than "are". I've had it happen 3 different times and didn't realize until many days later and was never asked to pay for any of it.

Guess how much you lose if someone steals $50,000 of bitcoin from you and you don't notice for 48 hours?

>Transactions will be confirmed and spendable by the recipient within 10min on average

Almost nobody gives two shits about how long it takes for the recipient to be able to spend it in the majority of credit card transactions.

>Finally transactions are considered irreversible/definitely non-fraudulent after 6 blocks or 60min on average (with CCs it takes 60 days since charge backs are possible for 60 days).

Worse for the consumer, better for the merchant. But again, nobody cares about the merchant in these cases. Merchants already hate credit cards so you don't need to convince them. You need to convince consumers, who drove the credit card adoption in the first place.
At least Firefox supports older computers like the old Pentium, I submitted this comment with. Chrome doesn't ; its my back-up ; win 10 has gone down on me twice this month.
I mentioned it mostly because the actual tcl interpreter originally had this issue. When it was fixed, the language became much more useful.

Base64 wouldn't help much dealing with existing binary files, for example. Or network protocols, or unicode, and so forth.
ConTeXt does grid typesetting, so it is not a limitation of TeX. http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Grid_typesetting
"Password must contain only lower case numbers"

And the perfect reaction:
"Ohhh, OK. Wait, what?"
Same here. Is the Lookupbar (Alt+Del) possible to do with WebExtensions? I think it would have to be recreated in the DOM and inserted into the web page.
From the replies to that: "During a launch, anybody can call Elon and abort the launch." [0]. It seems like they want to go in the complete opposite direction of when NASA launched the Challenger despite an engineer telling them it would explode [1].

[0] https://twitter.com/zlsadesign/status/832995766436179969

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/28/464744781/...
It would prolly mack on the jobs board if you actually posted it first of the month.

You should prolly ask dang and see if he's cool with it
>> Someone is paying for all that and the CC company profit on top

It's a pretty simple equation really. There are issuing banks, acquiring banks, credit card network and payment processors making money off of the merchant-initiated transactions and then the issuing bank also charges the customer interest if they don't pay their bill in full and some issuers charge for cards that carry some special benefits.

On the other side of the equation you have merchants paying for the services CC payment industry provides. Most merchants want the customers to use CCs because those customers tend to spend more, they also realize that by accepting CCs they increase their customer base. Talking retail here, online (where things are actually CHEAPER most of the time) CC is king. Prices-wise it's extremely rare merchants to raise the prices when they start accepting CCs or to charge more for non-cash purchases.

So now the last piece here is the actual paying customer and their funds. Nobody is forcing the customer to use any specific method of payment. (The only place I'm aware of where cash is not accepted is some airlines won't take cash for on-board purchases.) Using CCs does have it's advantages for the consumer - not having to carry cash or worry whether you have enough cash on you is probably the biggest convenience. Checkout process is typically faster. With Apple pay/Android pay you don't even need to have a physical CC on you. And then there are things like cash back or hotel/airline points etc. There's also chargebacks as an extra layer of consumer protection but that's a bit of a can of worms.
They would be okay with higher security, but not higher risk of it breaking. Cash doesn't rely on advanced circuitry so I don't have to risk losing $50,000 because of some static electricity.
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I've read it is about twice that. How does one know what numbers to believe?
It doesn't cost nearly millions or billions to scrub a launch... It definitely costs that much to have a failed launch.
To save Nebraska, maybe Apple should campaign for similar laws to be passed in all states; then, there will no incentive for the hackers to move there.
No flamewars on HN, please.

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Sounds rough. What do you do for work? You might want to consider convincing your company you can work from home, or finding another job where you can work from home/wherever. It's becoming more accepted.
Maybe this is the engineer in me talking, but I'm personally a bit surprised that this is still a thing and Google hasn't invested in a system to let you play Android games on your TV easily.

They could get further into the home entertainment category and probably drive higher priced sales to the Play store.
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I'm not aware of any proof that Borromean signatures, relied on by CT, are secure assuming only ECDLP. There is certainly no such proof in the paper https://github.com/Blockstream/borromean_paper/blob/master/b... .

[Edit: updated paper link to the most recent version, which still doesn't have any proofs.]
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