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No, it is the legal system that is parasitic - it allows winning participants to generate great wealth for themselves without generating anything for society.
However, from the perspective of someone forced to use the system (as we all are), Tom is actually generating real wealth (or protecting the client from losing lots of money), which is anything but parasitic.
You've got to be careful with Ruby versions.

Rails 3 runs on 1.8.7 and 1.9.2.

My machine before was running on 1.8.6 and 1.9.1 (okay, I'm lazy!), but luckily RVM simplified the upgrade for me.

If you are still running on 1.8.6, it's something to bear in mind :).
You are conflating a philosophical disagreement with a judgment of character.
This is a common occurrence:

http://c-faq.com/decl/recurfuncp.html

Enjoy.
Does all Fedora/FreeBSD/Apache Foundation and thousands other project's contributors all sitting in the office cubicles in US?

Isn't it's a time to realize that there is no need to relocate into US, moreover, it is, perhaps, much better to work with US-bound project but to live, say, in India, Thailand, Nepal and other clean and friendly places..

Isn't a entire history of emergence and development of Linux kernel (and related OSes) is a self-evident case study?
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The content was interesting, if you can look past the repetive "you are pushed to burnout" comments. It really detracts from the message and feels a lot like a powerpoint presentation
Sorry to spoil the party, but why on earth is this on HN?
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The parts of the country where the high speed rail lines are planned are that dense. Take the I-5 corridor (Vancouver B. C. to Eugene, Oregon), in both Washington and Oregon something like 80% of the state's population lives within 30 miles of I-5. It's absolutely reasonable to run a real high speed rail link there, Amtrak on those lines gets used pretty heavily, if there were a link that ran on time and took 3 hours to go from Seattle to Eugene it would be used heavily.
Who the hell is natural candidate for Computing anyway?
It sounds as if the universe is a giant pulsating amoeba.
Right, but that isn't because Intel won't release a different mobile i7 die. It's because they're not letting nvidia legally ship a chip that interfaces with the new Intel chips.

It's a licensing issue, not a die construction issue. The fact that all the mobile i7 dies happen to contain Intel's integrated graphics is irrelevant.
We can do better.

We already have, unfortunately ignorance will always shield you from the wealth of knowledge that exists beyond your contempt for human nature.
The passivity thing really puzzles me. Why would I want something and not go for it?
I think that Elizabeth Gilbert's seggestion in her TED talk has to be one of the best ways to deal with this. (see: http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html)
Ask HN: Termsheet for advisors?
So I'm thinking of persuading a couple of smart folks to act as advisors for my startup. In return for their smarts and support, I want to offer them about 1% equity vested over 2 years.

How do I go about it legally?

Is there a sample contract that I can look at? There are a lot of termsheet samples at angel level that folks can use if someone is offering money. But I couldn't find a lot of information on getting advisors on board... so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!
Yahoo Japan is very much a separate entity from Yahoo.com.

For instance, they're still operating geocities.jp, whereas the .com (and all the others) has closed, and in general they seem to be able to make a go of things where the .com version falters.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=755043
"Shu's idea is that time and space are not independent entities but can be converted back and forth between each other. In his formulation of the geometry of spacetime, the speed of light is simply the conversion factor between the two."

This is already true in Special Relativity. This MIT TR article is so shallow it shouldn't be linked to.
Good points, thank you!

The problem is that they do not even understand that it is ridiculous to compare someone's hobby-project (actually a bunch of hacks - just read the source) and well-designed (all papers are available) battle-tested and widely used in telecoms (not in browsers) solution. ^_^

So, you're right - "It is Javascript". Same as for Clojure "It is JVM!"
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Zoroastrians have a similar process to get rid of dead bodies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Silence

For those who don't know, Zoroastrians are mostly found in Iran
You know that sounds like a job for some simulation software, especially if you could model things like adding intermodal terminals and adding links to the network constrained by the cost of right of way. Even better if you could figure out how to model the politics and market forces, if you could come up with something that helped railway executives make better decisions about the environment they operate in (apparently they lease rights of way back and forth, and the company running the train is not necessarily the one that owns a given stretch of track), you would have a saleable product.
You are referring, in your last paragraph, to adaptation; evolution is a much more particular process that species undergo over the span of thousands of generations. We are not currently well-evolved for our environment; it has been only 100 generations (3100-3300 years, statistically) or so since we first developed agriculture. You would be hard-pressed to find a species that had managed to naturally-select for anything in a hundred generations, unless it was something that killed off a large majority of the species before they reached reproductive maturity.

We can adapt our behaviors (the whole point of brain matter, in fact, is adapting faster than evolution allows), but until we start genetically-engineering ourselves, we can only evolve our instincts. Thus, our instincts are currently those of hunter-gatherers.

Further, since humanity seems to be particularly against the notion of eugenics at this time, we aren't even undergoing much natural selection at all. Sure, there will be some Darwin-award winners, and the very poor in the third-world may be picked off by disease or hunger until only the more resilient are left, but this thing we have created, society, protects the weak and unfit through a process of empathy. People will not choose to not reproduce with you just because you're nearsighted—so now a quarter of all people are nearsighted. There is no natural selection happening in humans, especially now that, through a huge population, globalization, and search/match algorithms, every person is guaranteed to be able to find, within their lifetime, 10000 people they would consider "soulmates" if they met by happenstance.
I do believe that a world where people have the right to choose whether to consume alcohol (or consume drugs) is better than a world where these decisions are made for them.
Rackspace's dedicated hosting is not a great comparison, they're definitely at the high end of pricing.

That said, don't forget that both the Rackspace and The Planet boxes come with 2 terabytes of transfer which would be $300 from Amazon. When you factor that in, suddenly Rackspace becomes competitive and The Planet vastly cheaper.

Softlayer will sell you a quadcore box with 8GB of ram and 4 terabytes of transfer a month for $200.
Sounds like a good test of a plan b.

Also there's some bullcrap at the end. Most of the time in yahoo history the "heart" of it was done by a 3rd party company,e.g. google. Which became a company we know only after yahoo used them as their search engine long ago
You want to know what's really ruining air travel? Security. With e.g. TSA and their "exactly the wrong person for the job" approach to staffing, pricing scams (ever notice that right after you get out of the security check line, where they made you pour out your water, there is a store selling normal water for 5x the normal price?), etc., etc. the price for an airline ticket is basically asking you how much you'd be willing to pay to get gang raped. I hate flying now, and to the US most of all.

But I have a solution to fix all the problems (well, it would still be a commodity...): When you get to the airport, someone takes your ticket and gasses you. You wake up in your destination (or occasionally a totally random place, but that would still be better than what it's like now. Especially since you slept through it). That would solve everyone's problem. Who cares about seats, you can just make bays to stack the sleeping people in. You can carry more people. You can have a vastly smaller staff, pretty much just a pilot and a loading/unloading crew. For security you can do any check you need to but most will be unnecessary since the people wont be conscious.
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First of all, business is about providing value to customers, not jobs to neighborhoods. Sorry if that sounds callous, but really, think about it. We don't want a thousand people making a iron boiler for a steam engine anymore. If one guy could push a button at GM and have robots make a thousand cars? Then we are continuing in a pattern that has done us well over the last thousand years.

So instead of looking ass-backward at economics, it might be better to ask yourself the question a million entrepreneurs are now asking: What do all those companies sitting on all that cash want? Because it's not savings either: companies are not in the business of savings.

Perhaps the companies are dumping all the profits to investors. Fine. What do they want? Money got to go somewhere. And whoever's got it wants stuff.

Instead of a sad-sack, belly-button-gazing lament at how GM actually gives Chinese folks jobs, it might be a better use of time to continue to find where value can be added. That's what the smart folks are doing. (And those smart folks are more and more in small businesses and would really appreciate it if you didn't lump them into some big bucket with Ford and GM just so you can slide in your partisan tax barb, Bob)
I think I can explain. I want to breath, but I never wanted to stop breathing. I want to play games, but I really wish I didn't want to. Not that I want to become a vegetable with no desires. I want some replacement that feeds my emotions and instincts just like games but adds "energy" instead of taking it away. By energy I mean anything that improves the chance of my genes survival (or genes of my species): health, money, safety, experience, knowledge.
Local transport isn't any more of an issue than it is with air travel. If there's not sufficient public transportation, taxis and car rental companies will pop up to fill the void.

Even if it were an issue, people in this country are getting increasingly fed up with air travel, and they may be willing to make some trade-offs to travel in a more humane manner.
While we're at it let's just put it down to be god and be done with it.....
Very interesting. Even with a cellular based system, I'm sure there isn't too much bandwidth available but much more than with a satellite connection I'd imagine.
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Pick something elementary to prove (by which I mean requires little prior knowledge) - like the fact that the square root of 2 cannot be expressed as a fraction and look up the proof. Spend time understanding not only the proof itself, but also, crucially, why it is important to prove things in this kind of formal way. Here lies the beauty of mathematics at first. Later you will find exciting results, at first, there are only beautiful proofs.

You are then probably going to have to go back and do some rote-work. I think you probably need to crunch some calculations to get comfortable enough to ever get really good.

The good news is that with the excitement in hand, you should be able to carry on through the rote stuff and then start on some undergrad courses (plenty are published for free online) that have no prerequisites. Logic and number theory are good for lack of existing knowledge - both come from sets of axioms.

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The World Doesn't Care About APIs
Isn't the A4 just the Intrinsity/Samusung Hummingbird SoC as used in the new Samsung phones, except the Galaxy S et al have a better GPU than the Apple stuff. (Apple did buy Intrinsity but what impact that will have is for the future).
Wow - a load of British sites (particularly newspapers) on both sites... I didn't realise it was quite that dramatic.
You can use people's comments as a (loose) proxy for their interest in a post; people who comment on something are more likely to have upvoted it (or at least consider it worthwhile to talk about, even if they never really vote on things.) You could perhaps even use Sentiment analysis, and take negative (root-level) comments as downvotes (and prune any branch below a negative comment, because it's probably an argument.)
And why would they do that? So everyone who develops for their one (iOS) platform must do so on someone else' OS? That would be a brilliant strategy.

Right now when you develop for iOS you're going to have the best experience on Mac with XCode. But as part of that, porting your app to e.g. Android probably means a total rewrite. If you had to use e.g. Linux for developing iOS applications then it would be easy to write in some language and have the IDE have different phone backend targets. Do you think Apple would like that?
I got a lot of mileage out of that thread thank you, but my other problem still remains; how do I see it and appreciate it?

There's something beautiful going on over here and I want to be able to peel it apart like I do with my ideas. It's like I can learn the formula of force and how it is applied day to day, but I don't necessarily see it around me unless I can visualize it and internalize what it means.

I know I am quite dumb and somehow there are like layers in my understanding. I can't vocalize it but there is a huge difference to me between learning about stuff the way I am supposed to and learning it the way I want to.

Thanks a lot for replying! :)
Without to much of a technical knowledge in the area (plenty of interest just not to the paper reading level) I have been sceptical of dark matter as an undetectable equation balancer. Any good research into dark matter that I should read that puts forward a better case than balancing equations?

Another problem we have, is that we have one point of observation into the unimaginably big universe. Given our limited view overfitting the data to support some model is likely.
Most of the time we don't see surfing as pure procrastination that's why after spending too many hours we don't feel guilty. We are expecting the indirect returns of reading this or that, in the back of our minds.

Actually, iPhone is really useful location & time specific information gathering device. If you dont put your tweet,rss or any push notification apps (facebook included), than it realy enhance the way of life. I found it several times useful when i am looking for a book at bookstore and get very quick facts about the book.

The real dangerous device is iPad. From the day i have, i could not put it away. Its really content consuming device. My nights in my bed are no longer have the serenity of reading books but frenzy of consuming content channels.

Sometimes Gladwell's words keep coming to me: clearing big spaces of time. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6058607n
"Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms." --The Outlaw Josey Wales
That's true, but I am not from a western european country :)
Google maps estimates about 15 hours to drive from one end of Great Britain (the island) to the other.

If you allow for islands you are probably looking at more than a day (e.g. starting in the Shetlands).
Here's a bug report:

Hit the login with my flickr id, log in, get redirected to a non-existent page, because (for reasons of Yahoo!) my flickr ID has spaces in it.

My flickr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/laprice/ and the page you construct for me is l.%20a.%20price.flickrcommerce.com It looks like you need to sanitise urls before recording them, or maybe you aren't using the correct field in the API but one that is usually OK, but not this time.

Any how, I would love to try it out, and having my photos be another income stream would help me to afford the lens habit I've acquired this summer.
Good to know! If a periodic model is a potentially viable way of looking at things, could it be squared with thermodynamics? Specifically, the constant increase in total entropy.
Move to Europe or Japan. We have trains.
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I doubt they would be allowed to do that - unless the warranty/contract you have with them allows them to do this (unlikely).

On the other hand check your phone contract; there could be something in there about denying you network access. (or they could try to introduce it). Similar to what Microsoft (was is MS or Sony? I forget) did with cracked consoles.
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I've wondered lately why things like Power and Friendfeed weren't doing this already. They've had more datapoints than Triangulate are using for some time now.
From a broader perspective, I expect that the Rails versioning nomenclature will conform to SemVer (http://semver.org/). Yesterday, wycats tweeted that he believes strongly in SemVer, in regards to Bundler.
Conversation like this are not unknown:

"We need you to fly to <FarFarAway>, urgently!"

"Business class?"

"No"

"OK I'm not going then"

"Business class it is then!"
Appreciation comes with understanding, there is not much I can do about that for you. I'm not too good at math (I know a lot of tricks to use a computer to work around my lack of math skills though ;) ), so plenty of the beauty of math is hidden from me too, but the root of it for me is that math is an absolute, something that stands all by itself and that does not need a physical universe to manifest itself in order to be 'true', even though some of the mathematical constants do seem to be rooted in our physical environment.

(pi for instance).

I don't like the 'I am quite dumb' assessment you give yourself, everybody is born 'dumb', it's those that spend the time to educate themselves that rise above that and you seem to be willing to do so.

Everybody, no matter at what level of knowledge they currently reside has the power and the potential to rise above that level, maybe not much, but you can always improve.

I'd say work through some of the stuff mentioned in that thread and see if it helps you to gain understanding, you're almost certain to pick up something and that in return should help with your other problem, the appreciation.

Best of luck with all this, think of it as enjoying the journey, not necessarily to only enjoy it all upon reaching a destination.
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At my old job the entire department, at my current place of employment 50% or better. so out of 30 professional programmers that I have worked with about 20.
Hacker News User Base Changed?
There are lots of references on Hacker news to the fact that the "good old days" are gone and that the character of the site has changed since it started. The visualization above was based on a sample of users that posted on the site in recent times. The data was gathered by iterating over the first 1000 pages and gleaning a list of user names. The users ages were then checked and are plotted above.
You're not talking about the whole world, only one aspect of it. Maybe you meant to say "all else equal", but all else is not equal: people are suffering because of alcohol that wouldn't have suffered without it. Are you saying that's unimportant compared with people's freedom to consume wine? Are you unwilling to trade freedom for happiness on principle, no matter how many units of happiness people get for relinquishing one unit of freedom? Or is there a calculation behind your reasoning?
Not if it is equally inane. Gossiping and chasing fashion trends aren't much better.
What's wrong with that? I certainly intend to donate my organs. I'm mostly healthy person so I hope they'll be in a good condition when time comes.
The point is not that it works out of the box on all platforms, but that if it doesn't work on your platform, you have the source code available, so you can make it work on your platform by changing the software. You can't do that with closed-source binaries.
Ask HN: Please help me find out the major flaw in my last project
I've done several websites in my lifetime but this one is proving to be the hardest yet.

It's not a problem to change or work to add something new, I've redesigned the website several times now. I've never done a website for apartment rentals before, but I didn't expect it to be this hard. It didn't convert any adwords potential user until now (i.e. visitors don't book any apartments), and I need to find out why. I believe there is a major flaw in it but I don't seem to figure out. The website is:

www.aparthomes.ro

I would be very grateful for any type of feedback. Thank you, dear HN.
it would be hard for me to say that the search results from google
have increased in quality at all in the past five years

Well, I know SQUAT about Google's search team. But just as a thought experiment, let's ask whether the 'net has changed in the last five years? It seems to me that whatever "algorithm" was in place back then would be gamed to death by now. Spammers would have all their dreck at the top of every search result. And that's not even counting the criminals who want their drive-by download payloads delivered...

There's a constant war against spam and crime, and while Google has a stupendous amount of money to invest in winning it, the other side has an amazing war chest and a massive army fighting against them.

I have no idea, maybe it only takes an hour a week for one engineer to keep things ticking along. But I can easily imagine that the team has to do a lot of work just to keep results from getting worse.
Questioning the reality of generics
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Heinrich Harrer wrote an interesting account of a Tibetan sky burial in his book "Seven years in Tibet".

He wrote of a young girl dying of small pox. Men took the corpse to a high plateau and dismembered it, crushing the bones. The birds apparently knew what was going on and gathered all around. The birds were given the least desirable parts first to ensure the entirety was eaten. The girl's young age had a large effect on the men, they sang songs and were given beer to help them through the task.

That's how I remember it at least.

I tried to find the particular section on Google books but I could not find a preview.