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The whole premise of this debate is flawed at its core, but keeps propagating because of the flawed idea that religion is supposed to explain physical phenomenon (creation of the Universe, existence of life, Earth orbiting the Sun, to name a few).

Science and Religion asks and attempts to answer completely different questions. Science asks "How does this happen" and "Why does this do that". Religion asked "Why does this all even exist?" and "What's our purpose in life?"

Full disclosure, I'm a Christian, and the way I see it is that we were put in this Universe and given the brains and capability to try to understand the Universe we live in. IMO to discount Science and the findings thereof is an affront to God and His creation.

It's a shame that in this modern day and age we are still arguing the same things we were hundreds of years ago.
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here you go(2nd graph):

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Mocking is fine. But is there actually content to those fraternities? Any shared interest? Or is it just people hanging out, binge drinking? (Oh, the American drinking age.)

I am not from the US. Your presumption about my gender is wrong.
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Cosmonautics Day too, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmonautics_Day
now that was great, thank you sir! ;D
So, in other words, a fig is a righteous bastard. And, in its choice of symbiont (a wasp, of all things), reveals a sense of irony that's as delicious as the fruit itself. It's the WINfruit!
I would agree. HFT strategies are unlikely to have anything to do with 'economic' forecasting - even in the short term. They are about order-book and micro-market dynamics.
These conclusions, however, are also consistent with about 70 or more years of economics investigation by members of the austrian school. In fact, is whole economic cycle, that ended in 2008 was predicted by austrians in specific in 2001 and in general as far back as the 1920s.

So, this isn't just some single paper with an unexpected conclusion. It is important also because it supports an understanding of economics that is under constant political attack in our society.
Just flag it:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
People still pay for development tools. Lots of people paid for IntelliJ IDEA even with Eclipse around.

I think a free product have to be utterly superior to a paid product in order to displace commercial products.

The cost of replication or the lack of substitutes is irrelevant ... people don't use GIMP over Photoshop because a Photoshop substitute is fucking hard to develop ... it took 22 years to reach its current state.

I am not parsing this statement. Do you mean that because it take 22 years to develop Photoshop, that it is impossible for GIMP to be good enough to be a substitute good thus eventually displacing it?
Stewart knows his audience. They're the sort of people who go looking for longer clips of stuff like that, so he's less concerned with accuracy and more so with comic effect.

Those 20 somethings (myself included) I mentioned readily criticize him whenever he misquotes or misrepresents. But it's still funny.

It's a comedy show, not a news show.
This is an example of where advertising should go. Highly targeted ads tailored to specific individuals. If there is an ad for something I would genuinely want to learn about then by all means show it to me.

The catch is that we have to reveal a lot of personal information before the ads can become highly targeted.
Thanks Vivek and we will be waiting for the outcome of your discussions with Billmonk..kindly push them to bring the site back up.. if that requires any donation so be it..
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What a brilliant idea! Now it's just up to us to make it at least an unofficial holiday all over the world.

Somebody should make one of those greeting card type things, but in a geekier way ... hmmm ... first of all, Did YOU remember to wish happy programmers' day to all your mates? Let's at least make it a trending topic eh
So it doesn't completely displace most compiler, but it does displace a lot? On the flip side, how many people actually use Intel's C compiler as opposed to people who just use GCC?
I am no fan of Roodt, but the Daily Show did its best to misrepresent his nuanced view.

Here is a really bad translation on his website (praag.co.za):

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&h...
The issue with this post is that the people offering 1-2% equity for you to do all the work were destined for failure far earlier than the point when they contact you. They're the people who want to make "the next Facebook" and have no experience in anything other than fanciful ideas.
Absolutely, and I say this as one who studied many semesters in college the films of Germany, Nazi, pre-Nazi and post Nazi.

Of course you won't accept it as a socialist hate campaign.

Do you think that Germans are genetically predisposed to fascism? Do you think they are weak or inferior to Americans in some way? How is it, do you suppose, that they let Nazis take power, and commit such massive crimes?
I need a HackerNews Filter
I'm a regular reader of HackerNews (mainly via Twitter ATM) for startups, technology, and investment stuff. It's a great resource for me, but I waste a lot of time skimming past content that I'm just not interested in; recent examples being "Science vs Religion", "5 misconceptions about prostitution", or any stories about how "X makes us stupid".

Does anyone have a good method for filtering HackerNews? Kudos to anyone who can suggest a good solution.
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Can I ask how this works?

Is the binary stored at dropbox, or the data file? If you store the binary at dropbox how can you be sure it hasn't been modified?
I would laugh, but I know I've written similar clunky code while thinking about the more complicated problem at hand (especially if in a rush).

Also, this is a neat example to show how novices/beginners learn how to program. They don't think about conditionals operating on booleans, the result of an expression like (1 == 2). And, they overall just seem to treat booleans differently. Seems silly once you've internalized it, but I'm sure we all make this realization while we're learning.
This might describe a supernatural level of user-understanding; but it must be possible to create an app description which gets past the barrier of what the customer expects your app to do, and actually communicates to them the true capabilities of your app.
I agree, and I think MacRuby is a great idea. Ruby in particular is very close to Objective-C in practice, and some of the latest Apple's changes to Objective-C have made it even more so.

But as much as I love Ruby, MacRuby is still not that much faster than Ruby and often it is slower [1]. But that said I am not bashing MacRuby: it is still a very young project and it has a lot of potential still untapped.

[1] http://programmingzen.com/2010/05/16/benchmarking-macruby-0-...
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"It's not an easy problem taking the best of each, figuring out what the long-term convergence plan is."

That's an understatement. The complexity of merging two fairly distinct VMs while trying to maintain feature parity with both separate previous versions, and taking the best features of both? Eighteen months seems optimistic. I also hope they have some incredibly good way of producing a combined test suite, because this seems like the most promising way of introducing myriad subtle bugs I can imagine.
I don't think the 1-star reviewer is thinking of "you" (the developers), at all. They want to bury the app so that no other user will have to waste their time in the same way they just did. It "sucks" but I don't know how you could change it.
If anyone wants to know more about actual poker theory they should read "The Mathematics of Poker" (a warning - it's not a light read).
I'm actually working on a blog post about this now, but don't have it done...

Having gone through this process twice, if the employer has a decent lawyer at all, they're not going to go along with "fencing of what is theirs and you keeping control of everything else". If they have decent lawyers, they're probably also going to object to altering a boiler plate contract, since setting it up and getting the terms right probably cost them a good amount of money. In most cases, the most palatable suggestion is to get a document together carving out certain areas that will belong to you (farm animal social networking), but you'll have to ask for more documentation if you come up ideas in other areas.

With any legal issue, the most important thing is to get a loose agreement face-to-face before getting the lawyers involved. If you go straight to the legal paperwork, you'll waste a bunch of your and their money on redlines and legal arguments. Get in a room with your future boss or the CEO and make sure they're OK with you working on a startup and that they're willing to help you legally protect it. If they're not on board, you're wasting your time. I once made the mistake of going to lawyers before checking on those things and it cost me a lot of money when they decided two months later that they weren't willing to amend the IP contract.

I agree 100% with the suggestion to negotiate a 1099, as the contract for that already takes care of limiting IP better than a full time contract.
As someone pointed out over at MetaFilter, a big part of the realism of that scene is thanks to a solid understanding of how cameras, lighting, and film work and interact, rather than super-detailed modelling. Trumbull is a photographic effects wizard, but he also had 80 years of earlier work to build on. I'm not sure we're quite there yet when it comes to CGI.
As much as I love the daily show (and the article was nice too), this does not belong on HN.
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I'm currently working on a pet project that I think could benefit greatly from this. Anyone got any links on how to implement it? Ruby is my target language, so anything directly about Ruby and Actors is appreciated, but any language will do.

Edit:

I found these, but I'm looking for something more concrete.

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

http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Lieberary/OOP/Act-1/Concurr...
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Can someone elaborate on why broadcasters have been OK with wireless mics but not with other devices in this spectrum? Wouldn't wireless mics risk stomping on TV channels if poorly designed too?

The section on "Internet connected refrigerators" is plain silly. You would be hard-pressed to find a worse usage scenario for wireless broadband, given that a fridge is 1) fixed in a spot and 2) couldn't possibly require much bandwidth to order eggs.
Of course because your understanding of becks general manner comes from the daily show. That's the waht's brilliant about this form of political propaganda- it makes you think your engaging in critical thinking awhile spoon feeding falsehoods to you, to the point that you would sincerely judge the accuracy of the show solely on your understanding derived from the show! You think yore well informed, but you don't even realize how little you actually know.

I'm not saying you havent seen these same falsehoods from other propaganda outlets like huffington post, talking points memo, and daily kaos, etc.

If you knew anything about beck you'd know that his portrayal on the daily show is profoundly dishonest. This is how I can speak conclusively because it is not even a shade of grey.

Elsewhere you assert that you would hold stewart accountable, but here you don't even know enough about beck to know that you're being told lies.

The sad truth is, for so many 20 something, it is a news show and you don't even realize it.
"Of the hundreds of thousands of posts being written each day, there are maybe 5 at best that don't completely suck."

I'm sorry, but that's just silly. 1) You're not reading the whole internet, 2) you're not the intended audience for much of what's written, and 3) opinions vary.

Are you proposing we replace the free market of authors and readers with some central judging authority? How would these people filter through all this content, on what basis would they judge it, and how would they be funded? How do we protected against government meddling and political bias?

This is a pretty big problem you're creating to replace a system which, basically, seems to work fine. It would be nice to help creators make money, but you can't fix human taste.
Why is google always out-innovating the competition?
how can google always out-innovate the competition? (Microsoft , yahoo...etc) are the engineers at Google too smart for the rest, is it the company culture or is the competition just too slow? Can the competition do anything against this at all? it seems like facebook just choose to go after google's engineers, probably not only a facebook practice.

(english knowledge: beta RC)
And it was still funny.

Everyone I know is fully aware of how some groups are treated in SA. I think this is the disconnect: You see TDS as a news source, and are worried that its viewers take it as news. But they don't.

We watch it to be entertained. We're already well-informed on what they're joking about.
I doubt it was the developers who are responsible for the merging who came up with an 18 month estimate. Invariably it's not going to happen on time or if the 18 month milestone is hit, it'll stay alpha for quite some time. JDK7 + merging of 2 distinct VMs? Sheesh...
I haven't used this library, but google says it's ruby actors: http://revactor.org/
Thanks for splitmybill.ie link, I hope they'll release some export method, otherwise we've just long a year long debt list with my flatmates :/

Funny how this kind of website is really useful.
Not if they chose one of them as base and incrementally improve it with code taken from the other. Easier to test and stable at every point.
I have one warning for the author tho. Frats are societies and as such they are regulated by a hierarchy. Don't ever forget it. You don't need to be a leader right away, but you certainly want to avoid the bottom of the ladder. There is - always - at least one goofy in every group.

I want to be social and party and so on.

You probably just want a shortcut to girls. I'd say go for it, experience things by yourself. But remember that your adhesion to a frat (or anything else for that matter) won't do everything for you. Status is determined by the way other members treat you.

By the way, "being good with crowds", "dancing", etc: it's a smoke screen. Don't focus on that. All you need is to be liked by the leaders (aspire to become one).

The first mistake you can make is trying to please them by doing everything they ask. You'll see the majority of people will try to please them this way. Avoid this trap.

Use your smartness and some boldness. Be active, make it your own experience, don't be passive and wait to be fed. If you are active and bring something with your personnality and energy, it'll be hard not to like you. Be around the right guys. A couple of social psychology books might be useful as well. It's a good challenge.
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He does specify that it's a developer with 2 years of Android experience, which 90% of the survey respondents don't have. Combined with talk of Android exploding in popularity it seems like supply and demand is doing its usual thing.
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Are you sure about their refund policy for an account like this?

While you have some points, I just don't see them handling this responsibly, with the latest detail being their unilateral new reserve policy. The continuing major issue that all of us honest types have is that early on they developed an attitude that too many of their customers were criminals (and certainly plenty of them were). They succeeded in surmounting the loss prevention problem that has felled a lot of their competitors, but this results in a lot of false positives and it appears that for the overwhelming majority of these they just don't care and will never allow them to reestablish their business (it's pretty clear their endless requests for documentation are just a policy to get a customer to give up and wait the 6 months to get their money back).

Also note that we're talking about about 3/4 of a million US$ accumulated in his account from the time of the lock down to when he first reported on the problem. Given that PayPal is a bank in Europe, I'd suspect that unlike in the US they have been collecting interest on those funds.
There are things that you can't currently do with Facebook and there are also broken parts a of Facebook, in other words Facebook is far from perfect, so I think we should compete with Facebook even if the whole world is already registered on Facebook.

The other thing is: social networks come and go, I know Facebook is different.... just like anybody else :D
That is true. But Lauren Sansonetti has really done a lot of work: he is the main developer and every now and then he would merge his own branch which is full of the kind of features and improvement that take a while to develop and cannot be merged easily until a late stage.

So I would say that Apple is by far the main developer of MacRuby.

That said you are right that one full-time developer doesn't look like much of a commitment from Apple. And I think that was the case. My feelings (and of course these are very subjective) was that Apple supported MacRuby partially as a way to help Ruby on Mac and partially as a research experiment.

I hope at some point Apple decides to really put its fiches on Ruby: that would be awesome. But MacRuby on iOS is very much the kind of thing Samsonetti loves, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's all his doing, and nobody else's within Apple.

One last note: Apple also supports LLVM on top of which MacRuby is based... so not sure how many people that would correspond to in your: commitment ~ sponsored people equation. :)
Yeah, I knew that was a group of arrogant douche bags who are probably incompetent before I even got to the puzzle. I didn't bother to look at the puzzle, it oddest matter how difficult it is, it's presence is just icing on the douchcake.
Yep, thought the same thing.
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"Of course because your understanding of becks general manner comes from the daily show."

Nope. I watched him on HLN, then for a while on Fox.
...is whole economic cycle, that ended in 2008 was predicted by austrians in specific in 2001...

[Citation needed.]
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Laurent tends to work on new features on his own branch, often experimenting new ideas, and once it "stands on its own" it merges it for everyone to improve/change it together with him.
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FWIW, you will be in close proximity with other men, living in a house with them, hanging out on the couch with them, passing out and prancing around. However shitty your life might be now, at least you don't wake up to a 21 cock salute. I managed a property that a frat lived in, and seriously, it IS a greek society.

It's also my opinion that ex-frat members retain that weird Vince Vaughn "dude" attitude well past their prime.

I recommend you join groups that are not self-segregating either by gender or anything else. Art and culture groups are nice.
It is likely that some of each VMs design decisions are so fundamental that it precludes an incremental migration of pieces from one to the other.
Or, in other words, "he nailed it"

I really liked that bit from the trailer that just glanced on the fact that ONLY Zuck could have made Facebook and morphed it into what it is today.
What's the difference between this and regular web hosting?

What services compare to stable.io?
Thanks.

It looks more complicated than I'd feared. And Revactor hasn't been updated since 2009 and the docs say it's incomplete.
When you develop a web app in Rails and you hit a snag you can usually solve it by grabbing a Gem or a Rails plugin. Similarly, if you need to do something in Java there is most likely a good mature library out there already, and you can just drop a Jarfile in your project and go.

I'm talking about all the odd little things you end up doing in web apps, like drawing charts or parsing PDFs or talking to some obscure web service. You'd be left to solve these things on your own with Smalltalk (although solving them may be easier).
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Thought it's been a while since this has been posted.
Considering Oracle's two recent actions against open source projects, I'd suspect this is yet another move to minimize the amount of open source software under its control.
Google Refused to Confirm If the CIA Have Access to ArabCrunch GMail
When gmail accounts for Chines human rights and political activist, Google delivered major threats to China in stopping its service in the country and closing it offices. In the blog post google said that it shared this information for the sake of a global debate about freedom of speech!! Seems Google is only worried about opposition to the ..
Ug. Apologies, I missed the whole 'vision' part, but I'd been awake for just over 24 hours when I posted that, so my reading skills were somewhat impaired.

Thanks.
How do the memory and speed requirements of the described technique compare to other systems like couchdb or solr? We use solr at work for a range of projects, including autocompletes. Specifically, I believe it has lexicographic features built in so we don't have to populate every version of a potential search
I spend a lot of time on the Minecraft forum and there are many complaints about people having to forcefully get a refund from Paypal. Notch is a single man handling over 5,000 new customers per day, the system sometimes fails (minecraft.net is poorly built) and as such many people pay, wait 2 weeks and never get access to the game, because Notch didn't get to answer their email and the payment (while made to Notch) wasn't "caught" by his IPN backend.

The amount of refund requests I've seen is into the hundreds and if it was overall ~1000 I wouldn't be surprised. It seems likely to me that because of this Paypal don't want him to take out all his money and then suddenly get hundreds more refund requests that they have to cover, because Notch went and then they've got to make their customers happy.

Not that I think Notch would do that, but it seems reasonable for Paypal to assume this is a possibility.
One-push deployment and management.

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OpenJDK contains the HotSpot JVM

http://openjdk.java.net/groups/hotspot/
In China google talks about human rights and the right for human rights activist to oppose the chines government but if the person is Arab no rights then. SOLD OUT! specially the guys has sources he needs to protect
Very true. As I've been studying this topic lately I can even provide you some hard data.

A financially stable newspaper gets around 75-80% of its gross revenue from advertisements. That's why advertisers have so much power over content, even news content. I don't know the exact figure for magazines, and it could very well be lower, but this should give you an idea.

In fact if you check the literature you'll see that a common idea is that newspapers are in the business of selling customers to advertisers, and they will try to attract a certain type of reader in order to get certain type of advertisers.