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Fallacious arguments don't suddenly become good arguments when they're used to justify good conclusions. Hence, when I say "X is a bad argument for conclusion Y", don't interpret that as "I disagree with conclusion Y". In reality, I just hate sloppy reasoning.

When you say

That's why your argument is wrong: we're trying to offset discrimination against women here and we're not trying to defend the continued discrimination against some other party

you misunderstand my argument completely. You probably interpreted me as saying "reverse discrimination is morally equivalent to normal discrimination", but that's not what I said. I said that in particular, the argument that "you should be happy for the people benefitting from this discrimination" is a bad argument precisely because that argument does not distinguish between reverse discrimination and normal discrimination. "Can't you be happy for the people benefitting from this discrimination" is a fully general argument in favor of any kind of discrimination.

As I edited my comment to say at some point (I think before you responded), there are good arguments for reverse discrimination, but that isn't one of them. You've even provided some good arguments! And if you're in favor of this form of reverse discrimination in particular, then you should be even more diligent than I am in criticizing fallacious arguments for your cause.

When I say there are good arguments for reverse discrimination, that implies that there are moral differences between normal discrimination and reverse discrimination that a good argument will be able to pick out. If you say "reverse discrimination in favor of women is good because you should be happy for the women", that's a bad argument because the exact same logic justifies any sort of discrimination ever. If you say "reverse discrimination in favor of women is good because women are discriminated against and it needs to be balanced out", that logic can't be turned around to support ordinary discrimination at all. You can only make the case for reverse discrimination by pointing out how it differs from normal discrimination--asking "can't you be happy for the discriminated-for?" isn't an argument that does that.

EDIT: Merged paragraphs which seemed to repeat each other.
Alcohol is a dangerous drug, but I'd rather live in a world with wine than one without.

I don't believe PG has properly thought this statement through. It's extremely, unbelievably selfish. I like wine myself, but alcohol brings so much misery to the world! If I were offered a reliable method to make our Earth a world without alcohol (say, by tweaking the machinery of the human brain ever-so-subtly so that alcohol no longer works), but it entailed killing a random person in the street, I'd do it without a second thought.
For one thing, achieving high status might not be so relevant for a woman. A womb is inherently valuable, whereas men have to prove by status that they can take care of a child. Or rather, in theory one high status male can make babies with a lot of low status women. It may not quite work that way anymore in todays society (? I am not high status enough to know), but it might still be genetically driving our behavior.
"Periodic" Cosmological models without a Big Bang are not new. They are easily extracted form the usual equations under certain conditions and it's one of the typical exercises you do in an intro do cosmology class.

What seems to be new here is that this specific model seems to explain something that has yet to be well understood. This is a big win for this model but it can easily mean that it happens to capture part of real mechanism in that specific aspect while making unrealistic assumptions elsewhere (like the possibility of there not having been a Big Bang).

It will be interesting to see how this model affects our current understanding of the universe. It might be a complete change, or just an incremental one. Odds are on the latter one but the former makes for much better blog posts... ;)
I think at this point that just keeping up with the people trying to game Google is already an order of magnitude 'improvement' (even if it's in absolute terms not much of an improvement to the end user).
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According to various manufacturers of various things, opening the device, making modifications or using unapproved parts voids the warranty. In most cases, this is illegal and they know it. Mentioning that it is illegal usually causes them to honor the warranty.
Nobody should be "given" anything that someone else had to "earn".

Last I checked Github didn't have quotas in place...
It works on other platforms because it's open source? Isn't that a bit of an overstatement? For the fun of it, I just downloaded this and tried to compile on my Linux box:

~/tmp/tmp# uname -a
Linux susie 2.6.27.39-0.2-default #1 SMP 2009-11-23 12:57:38 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
~/tmp/tmp# cat /etc/SuSE-release
openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64)
VERSION = 11.1

~/tmp/tmp# wget http://launchpad.net/redshift/trunk/1.4.1/+download/redshift-1.4.1.tar.bz2
~/tmp/tmp# tar xf redshift-1.4.1.tar.bz2
~/tmp/tmp# cd redshift-1.4.1/
~/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1# ./configure
[...]
redshift 1.4.1

prefix: /usr/local
compiler: gcc -std=gnu99
cflags: -g -O2
ldflags:

Adjustment methods:
RANDR: yes
VidMode: yes
WinGDI: no

Location providers:
GNOME Clock: no

GUI: statusicon

~/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1# make
~/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1# make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1/src'
Making all in gtk-redshift
make[3]: Entering directory `/root/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1/src/gtk-redshift'
sed -e "s|\@gui_module\@|statusicon|g" gtk-redshift.in > gtk-redshift
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1/src/gtk-redshift'
make[3]: Entering directory `/root/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1/src'
CC redshift.o
In file included from redshift.c:60:
gamma-randr.h:33: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before xcb_randr_crtc_t
make[3]: *** [redshift.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/tmp/tmp/redshift-1.4.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2

This is Linux mind you, not some AIX box on which it will never compile, even though it has X11 installed. (And yes, I know I can disable RANDR in the above case and it will compile, that's beside the point)
Note that I didn't state that there would be MORE abstraction, only that it would be DIFFERENT abstractions.

You can have different abstractions compared to what C has and still retain the granularity of control you want.
I can't understand how that would be the case.
Did you run virtualization on the dedi servers so you had multiple 'machines' on them to play with? (If you need that sort of thing for your architecture)

What was the limiting factor on dedicated? CPU? ram? bandwidth?

Maybe you just had a really bad dedicated server deal? Were they reasonably priced?

Even VPSs are cheaper than Amazon.

I started out on VPSs and saved a lot moving to dedicated servers once it made sense to. For the dedi servers I use I don't have to pay for RAM monthly, and I get bandwidth at a good price.

The kind of money you're paying on servers is just obscene. It wouldn't matter if Reddit had the revenue of course...
I did, because in I feel like gender stereotyping in general is overstated. Are there differences between men and women? Of course there are, but blanket statements, like the one you made below I suspect women aren't attracted to computer science careers as often as men because they generally like more artistic and creative ventures ...I feel like it's statements like this that don't help things. Women are more artistic and creative? I'd like to think that gender is a more nuanced (and maybe fluid?) thing, that has more subtle qualities to it than reductive statements like that suggest it does.
There is discrimination not against women but certain traits that are abundant in females. And some of those traits are not suitable for computing profession. Like majority of guys will not be suitable for nursing. It is not about competition, guys can do better nursing if need be and women can do better programming when they do.
It is this simple, if women are REALLY capable and NATURAL candidate for Computing, why do we need to create artificial channels for them?
Ohh... I get it. This is like saying I have world class athlete but he needs a separate competition to prove it.
But still I think if there is (and there is some) discrimination against women, then generalizing men as selfish and evil, won't do any good.
This issue isn't so much the time to read the book as the time to read all the books I want to read. I already have two texts underway ("Concepts of Nonparametric Theory" and "Prediction Learning and Games").
It's already there.
Duck Duck Go: http://duckduckgo.com/ by Gabriel Weinberg: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/ Gabriel has an awesome blog and is active here on HN.
First question anyone should ask themselves when wondering how many hours to work are: Are you happy? If you're working 4 hours a week and you're happy, then don't change a thing.

Being that you said that you find yourself disappointed by your progress, then it's time to do something. I'm not a big fan of working for the sake of work, so I would recommend not increasing your hours, but finding out why you're not achieving the "super-focus" that you think you're missing. Do you "work" yet surf Hacker News half the time? Find out if there is any way to improve your working hours, not add more. That's a recipe for burnout.
I forgot about Ireland, but I've also heard good things about it. What I hear about nationalists are they are after gypsies, arabs, and africans mostly. But if you have money, they are more than happy to see you.

Sorry I'm not familiar with the German language but I believe "bundes" is what they call their ministries. I have a swiss friend who is an investor and he has plenty to say about the national bank (bundesbank) and the finance ministry.
Ah, I understand. Well, there you have a another trap, which I now fell into: mistaking the pointing out of a fallacious argument for support of the argument to which it was a response.
So all the death sentences are just for violent crimes? What about free speech?
>"We're obviously doing OK overall, our search share, usership, and profits are up every quarter. Let's not rock the boat by starting a war with these content mills, which would surely include lawsuits and congressional hearings calling attention to our market power."

You do have a point there. We do get sued a lot, and in general courts have upheld our view that search results are our constitutionally protected speech, but we are a lot more lawsuit shy than we used to be.

>But I think Google could spend twice as much on that search quality, and still be profitable. So, why doesn't it?

I'm not sure it would help. We have a _lot_ of people working on search quality, and even more working on the infrastructure that supports it. More people would certainly let us scratch more itches and peer in more dark corners, but I'm not sure it would produce the kind of dramatic improvements you are looking for.

>Also, what if Google's search quality gets monotonically better given the web it has to work with, but the overall economic impact of Google's ad programs and dominant-focal-point-rankings is simultaneously making the average web content worse?

That's something a lot of people worry about. I hope that having a financial incentive to make content results in more good content, or at least more content that isn't horrible. Even the existence of content-farms is probably a net positive. For all the crap they produce, a lot of it is filling niches in which there simply isn't any content, and the stuff they produce _is_ better than nothing.

>Will I ever get an advanced search operator that will filter all AdSense-carrying results out of my searches?

You really want the New York Times filtered out of your searches?
It's a tough career move, but I think you'd be morally obligated to destroy the thing you created instead of just passively abandoning it. Or at least fix it. Adding automatic crop harvesters/replanters to Farmville would do a lot to heal Zynga's soul. WoW though, you just might have to turn off.
virtually every news organization "scrapes" the associated press

If they're not adding real value, like analysis or graphics or commentary or whatnot, why would you want to keep them if they're all just duplicates?

I had a friend work at a startup to solve this problem exact: we read virtually identical articles about the same bit of news on all the news sites. The startup was working on highlighting only the unique bits of each article and recommend the one article that seems to have the most pieces of information. You would read the one and skim to the unique bits of the others, and you would have gotten all angles and facts much more quickly.

Shame they closed it up.
It can be put as an dis-advantage. What girls are doing when men are wasting 100s of hours playing video games.

Doesn't that count as positive for girls.
Italy's surprisingly high on that list, if you think about the stereotype of the country. If you know the reality, that there are a lot of interesting things going on in industry here, the numbers make sense.
I like it when 'non standard' models get some attention. It shakes things up and maybe a eureka moment will happen.
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Aside from not having a car (don't need one in London), I'm usually going over for only a couple of days so it's not worth using up a full day for travelling and then being really tired from the drive when I get there and when I get back. You have to take in the price of petrol as well as the ferry, which stops it from being in any way cheaper and it's already not stress free. The ferry costs about £300 for one person travelling with a medium sized car, no roof rack, with no reserved seating. That's about 3 times as much as a flight and you'll have had to drive for half a day to get there.

If I got a train from London to Holyhead, then a ferry to Dublin, it's 8h 30m and about £40 and then I'm left in Dublin port to find a way home with my luggage. Transport within Dublin is pretty crappy so we avoid it when we're over there as we are normally running around visiting family and friends. So it's slightly cheaper but still half a day's travelling and a bit hassle once you arrive.

We fly and pick up a car at the airport - much shorter journey, much cheaper than a ferry, probably not that much difference in price from the train but easy to do and we can pretty much relax (aside from airport security) rather than drive for half a day.
I would only consider paying for it, if it was to actively interrupt my day, every day to make sure that i dont get into a negative cycle.

And you'd have to organise that in such a way, that it interrupts me enough to help me, but not enough to become a chore or an annoyance.

That'd have to be quite the balance you would have to achieve.
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Sorry if my response seemed overzealous. I run into this problem a lot.
This is fantastic. The author is absolutely correct: academic software is crap. I've used software written by someone who wrote a well known tutorial on Haskell, and his code was a pile of junk. This is the right way to do it in academia -- you are only rewarded for publishing so good academics write the minimal system necessary for publication and then dump the code.

As a side note, Matt Might's backups suck if he could only find that one program ;)

As another side note, the PLT group behind Racket are exceptional for publishing lots and writing good code.
Only if the candidate you voted for won. If they didn't they're still the representative of your constituency, but not in any politically meaningful sense your representative.

Something closer to moultano's proposal would be a running referendum on everything, where you can choose to revocably delegate your vote (revocable as in you can remove the delegation, not reverse the vote).
It's interesting to compare to the proportion of women in or entering other "traditionally male" fields that are often seen as having a "boys club" atmosphere:

- ~21% of practicing software engineers and ~21% of CS degree recipients are women. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/298007/Making_I...

- ~25% of practicing lawyers and 44% of law students are women. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-4197736.html

- 30% of doctors and 42% of med students are women. http://www.uslaw.com/library/article/ABAWomenJustice.html

It seems that medicine and law are significantly more effective at recruiting female students, and somewhat less so but still significantly more effective at attracting women to the workforce.

Is there anything CS has to learn from these professions that are often seen as "macho", individualistic, and prone to long work hours?
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We do filter near-duplicates within the same set of results. You'll likely see only one copy of an AP story with a link at the bottom saying something like "Repeat this search with the omitted results included"
The chemical reactions that drive your body are best compared to a very slow burn. Oxidisation (burning) needs oxygen, and oxygen needs to be somehow added to keep the 'fire' (your continued existence as an entity) going. Those that no longer consume oxygen (at least, those that are animals) are usually labelled as 'deceased'.

Aging and all the other things you list as a burden are definitely affected by our use of 'air', but without that air you wouldn't live long enough to experience these effects. The positives seem to clearly outweigh the negatives.
I don't know what the "writing your app in Java" bit is about... Care to elaborate?

Mibbit is written in Java (Custom written framework and server), and handles traffic just fine. Java is insanely efficient for network IO.

It's an apples to frogs comparison, but if you measure 'page views' then Mibbit does bajillions, on a handful of servers.
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"Could this be redirected into something productive? Maybe? But people also
burn out and have inefficiencies, so I'm not sure you could extract much more
productivity unless we returned to hand-to-mouth."

That's not the point. If you're addicted, then it isn't pleasurable anymore.
You're "forced" by the addiction to do something that you don't enjoy anymore.
It has nothing to do with productive/unproductive work.

I think that today it's harder to stay conscious, because there's more and
more addictive stuff. What's better for a producer in a capitalist society
then an addicted consumer?
There's a massive witchhunt against pedophiles that keeps a lot of men out of most occupations dealing with children.
A couple of points I would pick up on there:

- "this Civilization thing just keeps collapsing all the time", even a casual glance at history demonstrates that civilizations crash and disappear quite frequently, for a fascinating book on this I would strongly recommend "Collapse" by Jared Diamond http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Societies-Choose-Fail-Succeed...

- There are still hunter gatherers e.g. the Bushmen of the Kalahari - although whether their lifestyle can survive is open to question: http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/411
Being anti-advertising is no the same as being anti-capitalist.

There is a good argument that advertising actively moves you away from the EMH which is one of the strongest arguments in favor of capitalism.
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Whether or not you're working enough isn't necessarily directly related to how many hours you work. The only question you need to answer is: "Am I on track to achieve my goals, in the time period I want, working as much as I am?"

And even if the answer to that is "no," the solution may not be to work more hours. It may be that you need to find something more productive to do with the hours you do work.

If, as you say, you're disappointed about the progress you're making, you really need to figure out if that disappointment is just because you (possibly unreasonably) feel like you should be progressing faster, or if you actually could be -- and actually care to be -- progressing faster.

Unfortunately I don't think this is a question anyone can answer for you.
I second the recommendation for Mindfulness in Plain Language. Great book.
Maybe, but I'd guess a significant portion arrived that way. Advertising on the web is often extraordinarily obnoxious, and makes few friends.
As an American it was a shock to me too I asked the bank why I couldn't open an account and the manager said I'd be better served by the post office. The reason I wanted to use HSBC is so that my French and US accounts could be integrated. But because I was working as a bartender I guess I wasn't the type of client they wanted. Here, classism is rampant and if you aren't in the right circles or profession doors are closed.

Also, it's very hard to evict someone. It takes a few years and the other person lives rent free. So your choices are to either put up an incredibly large deposit (+30,000€) or have your company guarantee the contract. In my case I just started a new job when I got my apartment. So I put down 22,000€ deposit. People are nicer when you write large checks :)

As for lawsuits. It's not the suit companies are worried about. But the lawyers fees. Labor law, here, is very exact and certain things have to be carried out before you can be fired. A lot of companies just settle because it's cheaper than what the lawyer would charge. Actual lawsuits are rare. A person intelligent to bring a lawsuit and have the funds to retain a lawyer usually doesn't have a problem finding work.
There is a great talk by an (ex-) developer from Reddit about the technical background, scalability problems, caching, storing redundant data, queued offline computing etc. This might shed light on some questions in the comments here.

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The purpose of the reversal test is to eliminate status quo bias, not actually pretend the situation is true and offer better solutions.

http://www.nickbostrom.com/ethics/statusquo.pdf explains it better than I can (around page 9).