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> but rather asks whether you want coverage that applies when you're not wearing a helmet, and it costs more.

That's the same. If they ask you, you can say no, in which case they'll demand you ride with a helmet, lest be uncovered.

> with some reasonable theory that explains where the line is

I'm arguing that the particular argument of "you can't do that, it might cost the taxpayers money" is over the line. I'm for stuff like consumer protection, standards in advertising, anti-trust and a slew of other statist, communist oppressing regiments. I'm not in favour of spending the polices resources on giving you a ticket if you decide to ride your bike along the beach on a beautiful summers evening and want to feel the wind in your hair.
I ran across this article while browsing today, and I thought the story behind it was quite good (and the article a bit motivational).

I have always held the belief that you should question "conventional wisdom" and strive for the Beyond. You either learn that the wisdom was correct or that circumstances have changed enough that you have a real innovation. We place psychological barriers in our way all the time; we should keep a vigil eye towards breaking down those assumptions.
Yeah, this is a nice thread. Amazing time on your running! I would like to do 800m under 3:00 minutes. Do you have any advice?
There's plenty of room for opinion in news but the risk is you will end up with a conversation that is totally abstracted from the substance of the issue. You're not longer talking about facts but instead debating the merits of other people's opinions. This tends to close the door on any chance the reader/viewer could formulate their own unique opinion. At best they can walk away with an opinion about competing opinions. The echo chamber effect of modern news is probably one of the worst things that has ever happened to this country. If you repeat an opinion often enough you can make it become fact.
Nope. That is incredibly expensive way to advertise.
Well, where I live (London, UK), the regular price for "Amsterdam" quality is £20 for an eighth, which is about $30, it's a bit surprising that they charge that much for it in NYC. I suppose all the smuggling and the demand make it more expensive. But once again, I don't take any drugs, I only heard about it from friends / heard about it on the radio, so I don't have any first-hand experience, of course.
This is true - why does a bank - bank transfer 24 hours or more, for instance? Why do I need to start my transfer during bank working hours?
I'm not a big fan or wordpress, however I have to chime in here.

Wordpress has:

- intuitive user interface
- awesome iphone application(s)
- vibrant community (actually much larger than
- works out of the box
- ease of usage

"and ease of usage", intuitive UI and works out of the box are essentially the same "feature"

But I agree that posterous is more simple than wordpress, but those arguments don't have anything to do with that.
I tried it. I really did. I decided I'd be a rock-star code-god Emacs user that did everything in emacs.

I set up Wanderlust, and by god it sorta worked with Gmail. Sorta. There were little problems with messages getting resurrected as "unread" even after I'd read them, and composing a message meant my "drafts" folder got pounded by incremental saved messages every 30 seconds, but whatever.

Then I tried to find a web browser that runs in Emacs and will display pages properly, not in the broken Links/Lynx way (with or without pictures). No dice. Oh well.

Then I started using IRC and my IM clients in Emacs. They worked ok, but it was around this point that I started to realize what an incredible pain in the ass it is to manage buffers in Emacs.

To start with, you never really have enough space on screen, so a lot of the buffers end up being hidden. Ok, whatever, but then you realize it's a hassle to even switch over to a different buffer, with the M-x b type-some-of-the-buffer-name dance, since you can't keep them all on-screen to switch around with C-x o. Of course, C-x o begins to get cumbersome when I have more than a couple windows/buffers open on screen at a time.

Then I realized that I'd really rather make my fingers feel happier (and yes, I use the swapped Caps Lock key) and just use this amazing tool we already have. It's designed for selecting things, and it moves spatially in 2 dimensions. I guess I don't look so haxxor-1337 anymore, waving that mouse around like a clueless Windows user, but I'm actually happy now that I left the Cult of the Key-Combo.

These days, I read my email in Firefox because I just don't care, and I do all my coding and text-editing in Acme, because I do care. For all the bullshit Emacsians spew about "losing focus by switching applications", they're switching applications at least as much as I do, every single time they M-x wanderlust, or switch over to the Org buffer--they're just switching applications with M-x b, rather than Alt-Tab.
You assumed that people from camp (1) may have deficient people skills, and its fair to assume the extremes in this debate.

But what about the extreme of camp (2) isnt that just as bad, wouldnt a manager with deficient technical knowledge make ur life hell!!!

So if we exclude the extremes would u still pick camp (2) ???
Fair enough. The threading is the killer feature for me, but I guess the value of that varies with personal preference.
concerned about whether Power DNS is secure/per formant

djbdns is what you're looking for.
One of the best lawyers I ever worked with had in a previous life done things like program a Z-80 embedded system that measured valve wear for a nuclear power plant in California. It really made a difference that he could understand a lot of what we were doing.

That said, I'm pretty sure he made his career switch earlier than you did and he hated normal big law firm life (I first got to know him when he was a startups corporate council and jack of all trades). I'd want to find out how big the clued in competition is per jeffepp's observation.

Good luck!
I would assume that, in this situation, "drink beer with" really means "engage in mostly-informal social interaction with". Most places that sell beer will also sell a variety of non-alcoholic beverages.
Thanks for the suggestions, they are spot on. Keep them coming!

However, a lot of them are UX/design related. Does anyone have suggestions on how to generate more exposure / traffic with regards to what we do? Thanks
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To a point, but the text of the bill was out there for a couple of days before the vote and even afterwords they didn't bother to really talk about it.
It got eaten
except balloon/zeppelin won't stay stationary or it will need magnitude more energy to maneuver!
For 'Not An Immunologist' you seem to have a pretty good handle on this stuff. You're mostly right about the heritability stuff, but it's a bit more subtle than that.

Antibodies are built from heavy and light chains, which are in turn produced by a combinatorial recombination process: subunits get spliced together. While paternal B cells aren't going anywhere with regards to heritability, the heavy/light chain subunit repertoire is heritable! If Donor 45 is a mutant for one of those subunits, then the effect could very well be heritable.

edit: grammar.
Define "master."

Usually, you get your start by picking a project in a domain you're intimately familiar, read an introduction/tutorial, and start implementing.

A lot of this depends on how well you understand a language's or framework's reason for existence. If you know Ruby (or something similar) and have done a lot of web development in the past, you should be able to start 'getting' Rails fairly quickly.
You don't get paid anything until you make >$150 month in one particular financial region. In my case, been going on near a year and I still haven't made $150. whimper
Carl Malamud, BTW, who's not exactly a "suit".
maybe, but first when I saw it I wasn't sure if there was a user called Booty that was exposed, or that there was an actual ass that was exposed (as in a picture of it).. I didn't realize until I checked it out that it was the user's personal info :)
I wonder what the cost of fact checking each line and citing all sources for an average news article?
There are a variety of studies related to what is called the "Pygmalion Effect". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect

Not all the studies show an effect and in those that do, the effect is usually not large. Here's a recent review:
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jussim/TEs%20and%20SFPs%20Jussim...
(MS-Word document).
Apple is making focused, strategic expansions into one new market every 3-6 years. They were a computer company, but in 2001 they introduce iPod and expand into MP3 players. In 2007, having dominated MP3 players, they expand into phones. In 2010 they expand into tablets. Apple wins every major extension and ends up--to this date--with only 4 major product categories (Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad). And each of them is massively profitable. They're like a sniper, picking off market opportunities once at a time. Headshot. Years pass. Headshot. Years pass.

Microsoft, on the other hand, is just unloading shotguns at the hip.
There is way too much data, not enough action.
They still have the NT folks, and I hear MS Research has done promising things as well.
The title of IT manager is not relevant any more. A strong IT team with someone filling a role of "facilitator"(Not Manager) can get a lot more done than a sole IT manager taking all the decisions.
not only navies use oceans - there are magnitude more commercial vessels that are currently forced to either use very unreliable low bandwidth or very expensive satellite communications.
Nice, that's pretty sweet.

(I forgot about the fact that it was actually Readabililty, not simply a rip off, sorry about that)
Fact checking isn't usually too bad in the bigger media organisations; I'm not suggesting anything on the level of detail, say, Wikipedia, demands. What we have now is fine.

Just an effort to report only the facts and then report the opinions as companion/complementary work.
Microsoft is currently suing Apple over the page turn on the iPad's ebook reader.
They have a patent on the idea of using a page turning gesture to go to the next page in a book on a computer, together with the idea of showing a page is turning.

No code, no description of how to render it - just the idea of taking an everyday action (turning over a page) and using it to do the same thing on a computer

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...
Exactly ! Thanks :)
One thing I heard quite a bit in the previous decade plus was that most corporate copying of non-free software wasn't due to budget but friction, of the sort the author details plus what most corporations shackle themselves with.
Alistair Cockburn (agile authority and creator of Crystal methodologies) comented about this on twitter ( http://twitter.com/TotherAlistair/status/18053308892 ): Simply putting Shazam code on a website wouldn't be patent infringement (AFAIK) because the patent itself does that and is public reading.
The important thing to keep in mind is that emacs is ridicously bad at editing text.

It does everything else well, but coming from Vim you just need to accept you'll never edit text as well.

edit: And to add some of the best emacs I got was don't worry about closing buffers. Focus on work and ignore the window and buffer management. In the end you won't notice if you've got greps/acks, manpages, emails, or whatever open because you're too busy writing code.
Most reporters have a fairly similar world view, and it is reflected in their reporting. This isn't unique to reporters, many professions share a certain "tribal" (for lack of a better word) outlook. As it currently stands, reporters are often viewed as neutral observers, which gives their views more weight than others.

If reporters made their tribal outlook obvious, then people would take reporters opinions as seriously as they take the opinions of any other "tribe". This would dramatically reduce the influence and status of reporters, which is why the journalistic mainstream does not directly [1] reveal their views.

[1] They reveal their views indirectly, by their choices of what to cover and some implicit assumptions. For example, in this article (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07...), the opinion of the reporter is revealed by the word "despite".
I think it's fair to question burdening taxpayers with the consequences of one's risk-taking behaviour, but I think there are ways to deal with that. For example, search-and-rescue efforts are often expensive, and taxpayers bear much of the cost. Some jurisdictions require backpackers and others who might end up needing those services to pay for permits, some of the cost of which goes to support search-and-rescue services. One can argue that that means careful backpackers end up picking up the tab for imprudent backpackers, but I think that's preferable to asking all taxpayers to pay the cost.
> From the top of my head: Intuitive user interface, awesome iPhone application, vibrant community, ease of usage, works out of the box.

Intuitive, Awesome, Vibrant are all subjective personal opinion/taste. I could perhaps rightfully (based on user-base) argue that wordpress/tumblr has intuitive interface, Awesome iPhone application, bigger and very active community, easy of use and works out the box (which one doesn't work of out of the box?).

Whats so unique about these qualities with posterous?

>It's not aiming for the serious blogger. It's the easiest way to post stuff online. The rationale is most people aren't tech savvy and there are tech savvy people don't care about whether the index should have 8 or 10 posts, whether the date is YMD or DMY. It's for people who want to just post stuff online easily and share it with others.

You repeated exactly what I said. But there are also some serious tech-savvy users also using posterous. Which makes me think that they have some good marketing ideas and got these guys to throw in some blog posts on posterous so that others will think "wow, so and so is using posterous, it must be cool or something. Must be the new fad"

Reading my own comments, I feel like I am coming across someone who has something against posterous. But honestly I don't, its just yet another blogging platform and if it wasn't funded by YC we wouldn't see it so often here on HN or even talk about it.
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What does Posterous do that is absolutely unique and useful that wordpress or other blog platform doesn't do?

That is exactly the point the OP was making wasn't it? It doesn't matter whether it does or not, that's not a "barrier to entry".
First, not very easy to put a lot of usable solar panels onto airship, but it requires WAY more energy than a glider to maneuver due to ENORMOUS size. Sure, solar airship may have it's applications too.

Second, it's not very exciting to fly around the world in airship if you already did it in a balloon.
Why do you need to tell the user that you're going to keep working in the background for 10 lousy minutes? Because, that's all you get.
The theory is simple: just talk to people.

The practice is a bit harder, but you have to do it. Smile at the cashier at the grocery and say something simple e.g., ask how the day is going.

You will sound dumb, stupid, and inane to yourself for a long time (but probably not to other people). Until one day you won't. The most important bit of advice on overcoming my introversion that I ever heard was that being introverted is really a form of self-absorption: once you start thinking about how others are feeling, you focus on yourself a lot less and interacting with them becomes simpler.

But like everything else, it takes practice. Chat, say "hi," smile at everyone you can.
The supreme court decided to let people fight it out in court.

What this means is that patents only work for cartels of large companies forming a patent pool to keep a technology (eg. H264) to themselves and patent trolls who have no other business so can't be violating any other patents.

For anyone else - even if you have a patent on a real invention, and can afford to defend it in court, you are likely to be violating dozens of the large company's patents (how could you know) and so are going to lose.
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I've always done best by choosing a project that I'm naturally and personally interested in, and trying to implement it in that language. Bonus points if the project is something that takes advantage of what the language is best at, or what the culture focuses on.

For instance, I recently wanted to learn Clojure, so I chose a project that involved a lot of multi-threading related to a topic I'm very interested in. It's been about a week, and I feel very comfortable in the language.

In the past I've tried learning from books, etc... but when I need to apply the knowledge, I find myself referring back to what I read entirely too much. By having a specific project I'm trying to accomplish, my learning is directed. I'm learning solutions to problems that I already understand and appreciate. This way, you understand a lot more about the reasoning behind the language, and the way it should be applied. By just reading cold, you miss that entire aspect.
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YouTube Leanback etc will not break us away from traditional pay TV services
I've become really happy with my various ways of switching between things. Part of the reason why is that there are so many ways to do it, because I don't put everything in Emacs.

I use a Mac, running various web browsers, Mac apps, Vim, Emacs, and connecting to Windows over Remote Desktop.

I use:

* Cmd-Tab to switch between Mac apps. Even works if I'm fullscreen in Windows: Cmd-Tab and I'm back to my Mac browser.
* Cmd-~ to switch between Mac windows. Scoped to the current app, which helps when I have lots open.
* Cmd-Shift-[ and ] to switch between Terminal tabs. No worries about the shell catching those keys.
* Option-Tab to switch between windows within Windows.
* gt/gT and the Ctrl-W keys to manage tabs and windows in Vim.
* etc.

Notice how I have various levels of switching? I don't have all of my tasks on the same flat plane, so I can switch between groups easily. Vim and Emacs end up as task-specific interfaces; I don't have to worry about getting my IRC client out of the way when I want to edit a few files, and the shortcuts to get to my browser is disjoint with the ones I use in my editor.

Somehow all of these are internalized, so the complexity doesn't really affect me. I just notice how easy it is to get to what I want across multiple OSes and apps.
Yeah same thing happened with Yahoo's Publisher Network. People were getting paid $3-8 a click for finance ads on myspace layout websites.
Thanks for that. I find the idea of a small effect to be totally plausible. But the results of the supposed study as described, in which one year of being treated as smart was able to turn dumb kids smart, and vice versa, along with the questionable ethics of allowing anyone to perform such a study in the first place, leads me to dismiss it as an urban myth until proven otherwise.
Until I was actually creating news this wasn’t so obvious to me. Now I can read any news piece and tell you the subtle or not so subtle bias of the author in a heartbeat. All this bullshit about objectivity in journalism is just a trick journalists use to try to gain credibility, and the public eats it up.

Why yes, I am a notorious con man; that's why you need my book, 'Secrets of the Scam Artists.' Most people aren't smart enough to protect themselves from shady dealers and fraud. But you're different; you understand the value of insider knowledge...
I replied to this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1496177

The problem with Linux typography isn't a lack of fonts, it's bad rendering. I can buy a font from Adobe. I can't buy a better font renderer for Linux.

He couldn't have been talking about individual font properties since he said high quality fonts don't make any difference.
My goal is to create a new programming language (sort of - in so far as I can talk about it). If monetized properly it would be worth billions. Questions is, should I incubate it myself, which will take longer, but be very financially rewarding, or work on it openly so that better minds than mine can make it better - but then no money for me... (except perhaps on the conference circuit!)
>it seems to me the issue would be whether writing the code for patented software constitutes "making" it.

That's the problem with software patents. The patent must be published - that the whole point.
But in software writing down the algorithm is also making an implementation. It's like the pornography laws that defined looking at an image on a computer screen = producing an image and therefore equivalent to being present when the act took place.
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Is this a joke, or what?
Google came out with Go some months ago, now Mozilla presents Rust. Both languages seem to be targetted at the same audience, I fear it's mere corporate politics that prevent both from using the same language, isn't it?

Addon-question, don't know if it fits: Has Google's Go gained publicity apart from having a vibrant community on Google's mailing list?
The title of this submission is a bit misleading. The linked article is a review of a new book by Jerry Fodor (and others) attacking Darwinism in biology. The Chomsky review (which devastated Skinner's behaviorism) is mentioned in the first few paragraphs, but it's not the focus of this piece.

That said, Fodor makes some very interesting reading when he attacks evolutionary psychology. See this article, for example: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20/n02/jerry-fodor/the-trouble-with-ps...
"I like my news to at least try to be non-biased"

In theory this makes logical sense, less bias being preferable to more. In practice, for me, this is like asking for your food to be mostly non-poisonous or for your security system to work most of the time. That is to say, you're probably best served, in order, by having none of these things, then 100% of these things, then everything else.
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Not to mention iAds are new. I'd likely click any one I see, since I haven't seen one yet.
I would be surprised if Wikipedia was, on average, more accurate than the NY Times. You'd have to account for what's knowable in some way, and the timing of what was published.
Note to self: Rust's FAQ actually mentions differences to Go.
> emacs is ridicously bad at editing text.

The thing is I can't imagine thinking that, unless I was coming from vim.

Coming from any other style of "editor", I would think the text editing capabilities of emacs were really good.

Of course, I am coming from vim now, so I'm completely spoiled.
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I was suggesting it for surveillance, like the detection of smugglers, illegal fishing, et cetera. I can't imagine that it would be in any way cheaper than satellite communications if all you need is a communications relay.
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