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> why? can you justify this statement?

Yes. Based on your next sentence, I think I see where the misunderstanding lies.

You state that the scientific method is about making conclusions on observable data and then discarding them when new data arrives. This is incomplete. Good scientific experiments depend on variables under your control. In layman's terms, you must be in control of everything, know what is going on, and test the specific thing, the one variable you are not controlling. And there are varying degrees of variables involved in the scientific method, along with their complexities.

Now, just in case we already agree and that your statement assumed all that, then I would find fault with the theory that you have sufficient "observable data". That is the entire problem. We already know what you are missing. You need the entire set of experiences that someone has stored in their brain. You need to know the state of the body as well, so that you can identify additional influences (such as a headache, making for hastier decisions based on more recent experiences). You need instruments that can provide you this data, and then you can run your statistics and learn something.

And, of course, you need to have an understanding of the influences of the various experiences and body issues; so you have many studies to run before you get to tackle the issue of free will. Fortunately, we have a LOT of these studies already (and a lot more to do). See psychology, etc.

> could you elaborate on an appropriate instrument to appropriately observe and identify him in a way that is reproducible for others to also observe objectively?

I am in full agreement with your criteria. Maybe one day we will have the technology to do this. Right now, I cannot imagine what the instrument is. I would propose that another god could observe God, or the context of the universe around God could be used in some fashion or produce an instrument to observe God. Maybe in God's metauniverse, there are entities analogous to our rocks, plants, and so forth that could be used to observe His passing.

Taking another approach, this might be akin to gut bacteria trying to prove the existence of Earth. If existence as we know it is an extension of God, how can we identify God? (Trying to avoid the obvious circular argument.)

Anyway, this is all freshman philosophy stuff. Good fodder for coffee talk. Suffice it to say that when we are talking science, we are indeed talking about using tools that "appropriately observe and identify him in a way that is reproducible for others to also observe objectively". Just because we do not have those tools does not invalidate truths about our universe. We did not have a yardstick until the 10th century. We have come a long way since then, and we have a long way to go.
Never heard him? Not to derive this into some "list of Paul Graham's speaks", but I really suggest to watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7K0vRUKXKc. A good speak, I think.
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My impression, after watching my brother who runs a chiropractic office in San Francisco which has had a heavy internet presence for years, spend thousands of dollars hiring kBuzz to create a Facebook site/campaign, is that Facebook users simply aren't in the mood to be marketed to in the traditional sense.

The mindsets that you have when you're checking up on your friends versus when you're searching for a product to buy, are almost mutually exclusive.

That's just my two cents. I also felt that his Facebook campaign relied heavily on give-a-way's which don't jibe with what people are looking for in a doctor, namely authority, trustworthiness, and warmth.
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Great to see the prags are continuing to push things forward with another new series.

Really wish they'd bring the podcast back, though.
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About 9 years ago my secondary school (in the UK) had finally got fed up of having these lying around, and told the students that if anyone wanted them they could take them home w/ them.

They still had a few left, and so they went in the bin.
Hum... like a location aware/social version of log book?

http://www.divinglog.de/english/home/index.php?Site=Desktop

Add a google map/streetview (err underwater view) and pictures...
The Romance languages do not make a majority of the European languages, and I would expect your comment to only hold for Romance languages.

That said, the only person I ever heard use the word correctly in person was a Brazilian. I don't think that is a coincidence.
Kudos to the government for not just burying their head in the sand and actually opening up about this breach.
(In particular, that formulation fits with what most people would call the "Hegelian dialectic.")
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Technically, nothing. Legally, Oracle has patents relating to both. I should have said 'It's not just Java,but JavaScript too...'.
I've heard proposed property tax systems that work that way: you pick a property value on which you'll pay taxes, but you give the government the right to buy your property at that value.
Currencies, on the other hand, have not. If you shift your $1 million USD across to Canadian dollars, and the Canadian/US exchange rate returns to its historical norm, then you can (effectively) lose 30% of your money quite rapidly, assuming USD is what you typically spend.
Monads are hard to explain because they name a pattern that most programmers have probably implemented before, but on the surface don't seem to have all that much in common with other examples. It doesn't help that the terminology used to describe them is either very abstract/mathy, or complete gibberish (burritos and spacesuits? riiiiight...). Many monad descriptions read like talking about the botany of fruit in the abstract, rather than describing tomatoes and bananas and then what properties they have in common.

You're on the right track about chaining and function composition. Monads remind me of Unix pipes, but with hooks for extensibility (such as Maybe's short circuiting), and with static checking of their guarantees. I also don't really care for Haskell, but I've implemented monads in Lua, OCaml, and Scheme.
I'm not entirely sure if "next-to-last" and "last" can be described as opposites, though :-)
Look at a Twitter search for @LeoLaporte to see all the people responding to him and/or trying to engage with him, or look at his Twitter stream to see him interacting with people himself. For that matter, look at all of the people commenting on his Buzz postings directly (e.g. http://www.google.com/buzz/laporte/iGbULnn1UMH/Its-funny-bec...)

None of that squares very well with the echo chamber claim.
Anyone got any knowledge of Australian real estate? Which on the surface appears to be a lot less likely to go through the same downturn American real estate faced due to population growth outpacing new housing, especially in terms of housing a short distance from decent city infrastructure.
(genuine question) don't the wifi/3G draw power? or is your 'weeks' assessment including normal wireless use?

Oddly, i feel must less strongly about Amazon's hold over the the platform the Kindle represents than i do about Apple and its hold over the music platform iTunes represents. Irrational? Probably. Uneconomnical? maybe (i buy far fewer books than i do albums/audiobooks). I can't fathom why but i just somehow feel like, when i've read a book, the ideas it containws stay with me and become mine whereas an album is something that perpetually stays somehow external (apologies for the airy-fairieness of that: i'm not sure how to express it but i feels like a difference thats significant for me and i'm curious whether anyone else feels the same).
Say that I am financially illiterate. How do I fix this?
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I was asking because the OP wrote "he prefers writing in essay format" which seems to be giving PGs writings some sort of prestige beyond calling it a blog post. Yes, PG has lots of experience and writes well, but I don't see a need to elevate his blog to something more.
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How easy it is to convert the reactor itself , into one that can make weapons grade plutonium? i read somewhere it takes 3 months, is this true.
"Debt is bad idea" - it is not as long as your income is sufficient to cover payments and pay yourself. It's always better to have only 20% of the skin in the game rather than 100%.
I'm not a lisper, how does a macro allow you to close many different types of closable things, even when you don't know up front all types of closable things?
The point of debt is that when the real estate market drops, you declare bankrupcy and let the lender eat most of the loss. Donald Trump has done this like 5 times.

If you own outright, you eat the entire loss yourself.

Basically -- debt increases upside and reduces downside risk. And inflation helps you pay it off. No wonder we're addicted?
Something missing from the cost calculation in this article is the cost of bandwidth used for each VM. The VM itself may be low cost but at 100Mbps you will use about 1TB of bandwidth a day. You would need to select your VM provider with that in mind. A sustained attack could end up being fairly expensive.
The primary focus of the US financial system is sales. In large part this is based on the ignorance of the average American. Take a 25 year old who makes 30k / year and invests 3k/year in their 401k. Now figure out how much they pay in fees on that investment over the next 40 years.

Now play the same game with a 25 year old who would like to invest 10 million and if anything they get worse service even if they get a lot more face time.
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I spent many years of my life writing Java. I don't mind static typing and compilation; I use Haskell extensively. (The difference being that Haskell's static typing actually makes correctness guarantees, and that when developing you can test your code in the REPL.)

I tend to think of libraries as "make me a nice HTML form" or "talk to this strange router" or "connect to Twitter". Every language has collections, concurrency, and various utility libraries like Guava. Nothing wrong with the examples you list; I've used them and am not that impressed.
You erroneous assumption is that the parents know these skills at all, let alone well enough to teach them.
4/5 are problems unrelated to SVN. Heck, Git can burn you on all of those.

1/5 is about using svnserve instead of file:// and network mounts, and doesn't need to be a rant, just a don't use file:// protocol for shared repositories.

I wish HN had downvotes for an article like this.
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Posterous is selling domains for around $25 per year (with discount for more years).

I don't believe they make all the money from that though, but I'm sure it helps.
I recently started using tumblr and its mind blowing how much they allow you to do for free. There have very little limitations, if any. They allow you to put ads on you blog with no string attached AFAIK, custom domains (other do it too).

I think they make a decent amount of money on premium theme and get your blog listed on featured directories and other paid features.

I was hoping that they would allow API access to password-protected blogs. I use marsedit to post on my blog, but can't do it on my private blog.
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I'm curious how well the Kindle renders tech/scientific books, with graphs, diagrams and formulae. I'd imagine the larger form factor of most printed technical books compared to fiction paperbacks to be an issue. I'd assume the 10" version does better than the smaller one.
Is there a name for this kind of game? I think the most common example I've heard is "you cut the pie, I pick who gets which slice (assuming everyone wants the largest one)".
California per-pupil spending 2008: $9,015 California’s Annual Costs to Incarcerate an Inmate in Prison: $47,102

Why should those be, in any way, comparable?

Prisoners need cells, three meals a day, healthcare, clothing, and constant supervision, 24 hours a day. Schoolchildren only need classrooms and supervision for six hours a day five days a week. And prisons can't get away with a 30:1 inmate-to-guard ratio, either. It makes perfect sense that a prisoner should cost more than a schoolkid.

Of course I'm sure California prison guards are still ridiculously overpaid. My personal solution to this conundrum is to outsource California's prisons to Mexico.
Shocker! The USA has off-shored all entry level tech jobs, getting rid of its "farm teams" for more advanced jobs and technical managers. The USA has declared a War on the Unexpected (see the "Mooninites" in Boston ad campaign) so nobody gets to fool around with chemistry sets, electronics, rockets, etc etc etc. We've regulated aeronautics so strictly that "modern" air transports might as well have been developed in 1960, and we're giving up the ability to launch humans into orbit. In the meantime, we've ramped up patent and copyright protection of even the simplest and most obvious ideas to bizarre levels.

What exactly did we think the effects of this would be? That kids would crowd into engineering curriculums so that Boeing, HP, IBM, Intel and Black & Veach could pay them near minimum wage to work themselves to death?

Otellini is kidding isn't he?
It does seem like a neat idea, but I already have all the tools I really need to engage in conversations with nearby strangers in public areas.
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My take: Monads were created to allow pure functional languages like Haskell to have side effects, particularly input and output, without breaking the pure functional syntax. Monads have many other uses, but state and side effects was the original raison d'etre.

Haskell, for example, is a pure functional language that doesn't have an explicit syntax for side effects or state. But a language without any side effects can not do anything more useful than heat up the CPU: you have to have input and output, which means allowing for side effects. The Monad was the most elegant solution presented for that issue.

In code a monad looks like a function which has more outputs then inputs, and the compiler takes care of channeling the additional input and output between functions adjacent to the monad in way that doesn't break the functional syntax. This differential between function inputs and outputs allows for some interesting use cases and thus the many varieties of monads. Also the compiler makes sure the order lazy evaluations dependent on monads happen in the right order so that you're not trying to parse file contents before you've read the file (because in a pure functional language, like cells in a spreadsheet, everything is intended to be evaluated all at once).
Maybe it was historically. But "Past events do not guarantee future results". Athough, people never really seem to believe that.
Only when you're getting new books over Whispernet. And if you'd loaded up on reading material and were off on holiday, you would just leave it off.

I don't see the iPad and Kindle being direct competitors esp. since Kindle is really just software; an iPad is a "Kindle" with a couple of clicks on the App Store (there are Kindle clients for BlackBerry, etc too) and Amazon makes the same money regardless of what physical device they deliver the file to.

It is vaguely annoying having both iBooks and Kindle apps tho' I've not yet forgotten which one had a particular book in!
No, the Class::MOP metaobject protocol and Moose are.

bless is an object system object system. Class::MOP adds introspection and first-class classes, attributes, methods, and so on. Moose is the object system on top of all that.

The flexibility of Perl's original object system object system allows all object systems -- whether they are hand-coded 'bless'-based objects, Class::Accessor objects, Mouse objects, or Moose objects -- to interact seamlessly.

This means the system can constantly improve, and it does. There are hundreds of "MooseX::" extensions that tweak the way a class or object works, and they all compose nicely together because they all follow the metaobject protocol. The MOP allows further extension and exploration, like easy-to-use and efficient object databases (see KiokuDB).

Anyway, Java keeps trying to add extensibility. But its extensibility is tacked on, and it is massively underused by the community. (Too many people still write getters and setters and think they are "programming"!)

Perl has always been about extensibility, and its community has always been about using it. In the 90s (when Java was created) this was maybe not so good. Now, though, it's awesome.
Yeah. I am wondering why I can't find one. Isn't this an obvious idea?
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It may be true depending on your context - but don't depend too much on "probably" :)
To me the post sounded as if the poster was suggesting they're were no other cool development tools that were on-par with Cappuccino

I didn't know of any but I haven't searched extensively (I was keeping it in mind for a future project). I just know that people on HN had given it universal praise, and HN can be a tough crowd.

I'm all in favor of a diversity of awesome development tools. Even though I use Ruby, I would be sad if Python went away. I use Lisp, but I would be sad if Haskell went away. I use emacs but would be sad if vim went away.

I'm dying to see that list of yours. I hadn't heard of noloh before but thank you for bringing it to my attention. Just remember, if you want your dev tools to be successful, you need to get people talking about them. Best of luck!
> more single-member households

Do you have a source for this? I think the number of single-member households is actually declining in most parts of the US. People move in together to reduce costs during a recession. College grads moving back in with their parents, 2 imigrant families share a 2BR apt, etc.
I agree with your concept, but in practice you run into the problem that most parents are financially illiterate.
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And you only have to screw up once. No sale.

The fact that I'd have four or five intersecting such groups to deal with is a major reason I'm not on Facebook. Don't even care to try.
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To make it more explicit, subsidized child care is cheaper for parents, because everybody pays taxes, but only parents receive the subsidies.
Wikipedia, now largely as a holdover from its less bureaucratic days, has a fairly similar meta-policy called "don't be a dick": http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_a_dick
The goal is to retire though, have a steady source of income. It would make sense to have low risk in this scenario.
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Looks like Google Voice's integration of Gizmo5 is complete.
And they they rolled out to Gmail which gives a bigger starting user base then voice would. I wonder what their profit angle on this is.
Define wealth. Money has lost nearly all its capability of exchanging wealth. Of course it was designed: it's a human tool and we designed it. Our current forms of money have hardly changed since 14th century Italy. Me thinks now is a good time for a rethink.
Thanks for the sophisticated and helpful response. I'll obviously implement many of the suggestions you made to improve my article writing.
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I guess it's fun to try to crack codes, but it seems pretty pretty likely that it would be some sort of uncrackable one-time pad.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here, partly because I've never invested in a 401K _or_ tried to invest $10 million cash. How much fees does each of these guys pay?
Having ordered several weeks ago, I am anxiously awaiting it's arrival. The wifi only version was a nice move and the price point is really attractive.
I was just speaking to a friend of mine who is a EE/physicist who had just returned a Kindle DX two days ago. He got it specifically to read IEEE journal papers and found that it was unacceptable. His specific beef wasn't with the e-ink or the e-ink page turn speed but rather with the huge delay spent processing PDFs when you turned pages. In other words, page turn delays were no problem when reading a text only document, but when reading a PDF, they were really long, presumably because of the slow processor and an unwillingness to pre-rasterize pages.

I love my kindle, but for technical documents, I just print them out.
That might be a hot or controvercial subject depending what potential banking or other corporate interests it might go against.

Banks might not like the fact that a new generation of consumers wants to save too much, don't want to carry a credit card ballance, don't want to buy homes with mortgages they have to pay for 30 years, would rather buy a used car with saved money instead of finanancing it and so on.

As much as the media harps about "financial illiteracy" there are also industries that thrive on that illiteracy.

In general whenever there is illiteracy someone will take advantage of it. In this case I think it is a multi-billion dollar business. That business will try to go against education.

It could very well be that lobbyist for large financial institutions would try to influence the curriculum. It would "court" the state education systems to make sure the "right" stuff is taught in the financial literacy course.

I also can see this subject be as hot as religion and politics and perhaps that is also why it is not taught.
I'm looking forward to this being rolled out beyond North America. I'd love a sensible Skype alternative (I hate Skype's UI with a passion, and it drops my calls all the time).
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I've read some of what he's written - I thought he came across as much more "normal" in that video. It improved my opinion of him considerably...
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How is this different from their existing book on git? What's the difference between "Pragmatic Guide to Git" and "Pragmatic Version Control Using Git"? I'm assuming the latter is aimed more towards people without version control experience?
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The DX does reasonably well if you can handle smaller fonts. I've had no difficulties with mine for computer science papers.
Debit cards come to mind, if only they were managed by the government and not by private entities.
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