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Why specifically can't you believe that it evolves. And what do you have to back up the assertion that "natural selection does not work like that", when all the evidence and consequently the consensus of the scientific community is that it does.

The idea you're advocating has a name, "Irreducible complexity"[1], and has been debunked time and time again as pseudoscience. I won't go into debunking specific assertions you made (such as the impossibility of the evolution of lungs), but I really encourage you to read the current literature of evolutionary theory. Once you see the mountain of evidence for it you'll probably be convinced.

1. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Irreducible_c...
I was wondering if you really meant that, given that this is intended to be useful in embedded applications. To try to get a feel for the sort of programming you do and the sort of opinions you hold, I checked your profile - Bang - there's the answer right there:

> I'm not trolling:
> I actually think that.

Is it really the case that you don't see the point in writing a minimal, small, clean, self-contained system that has no external dependences and is directly applicable and useful for embedded systems.
I really love Fabrice, but "TCC" will, forever, remain Turbo C, not Tiny C.

DOS weenie pride!
1: You can take not getting a response as me not having a response either because I agree with you, don't care, or don't care to disagree.

2: Splitting a >60% market share with the next best being %9 below is considered a success. Which is in direct disagreement with your original statement, "success considering their market share." Additionally, if you were aiming that at Apple Mac Computers alone, they have 91% of the share of computers sold priced over $1,000[1].

2a: Your point on QWERTY keyboards on phones is complete and total conjecture and you know it. Personally, I like a keyboard on my phone, which is why I have a droid. If I had no need to ssh from my phone, there is absolutely no reason I would avoid a purely touchscreen phone.

[1] http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Apple-has-91-of-ma...
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Maybe my bad choice of words. In the "broadest sense" I meant that we're looking for a DB person who's interested in both relational DBs as well as the complete other side of the spectrum.

Still, I think a tongue in cheek infographic could be pretty cool as a job description. True, maybe not so much for databases.
One thing most people forget is that we simply don't have much information about the universe. All we know about it is what we can see from our pale blue dot.

For all we know the big bang never happened and the reason the galaxies seem to be moving "away" is because we are in a current of moving galaxies. (And the universe is truly infinite not only space but in mass.)
I don't find it refreshing to see people writing the same code over and over and over and over again. Does it have a point? Yes. Does it refresh me? No.

(Libraries and dependencies don't necessarily mean "dynamic relinking at runtime". It can mean "link that standard code from ../lets-not-write-a-hashtable-again/hashtable.o".)
Effectively a duplication:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1648921

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1648778

And when I click on "Tell Me More" it says:

The change you wanted was rejected.
Maybe you tried to change something
you didn't have access to.
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the "Growth and replication of red rain cells at 121 oC and their red fluorescence" paper at arxiv does not contain a single reference to the alledgelly-named "cells" lack of DNA (apart from being plagued of obvious spelling errors). If I were them, I wouldn't bother with spectrographic analysis if the real finding is non-dna based life form.

Having worked at a biotech lab, this "study" of replication without saying anything about microbiological characterization smells like a fun replica of the Sokal affair http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_Affair.
It is a bit chicken-and-egg; the only way a curious programmer would get to see a full-blown commercial Lisp is if they were already working somewhere that had bought it, and if they were they would probably already be a Lisper.

Admittedly I haven't researched this in depth, but I don't think any of them do a "free for non-commercial use" edition without severe restrictions. Even Oracle, one of the most ruthlessly commercial companies in the software business, lets you download for free to kick the tyres...
I totally had an awesome picture to link to here to prove my point but I can't find it.

Suffice to say that Apple pricing their bog-standard SATA hard disks at 39 cents a gigabyte (a high market price being 19 cents), and a similar attitude to the rest of their perfectly average hardware, explains the "overpriced toy" reaction to their products.
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You are currently watching the end result of a really long time frame of evolution. Lots of species died (that we probably will never know about), some evolutions were dead ends and lots of stuff has gone wrong. All of this to reach this point.
Obviously, the VCR your ${parent} keeps asking you to program for them was purchased because it was more complicated, and that silly microwave they have with a big sign on the power socket not to turn it off at the wall, or you'll have to re-set the clock before you can microwave anything, and you need to type in the exact number of minutes and seconds for every single cook time, because you needed to cook for 20 minutes and 7 seconds!

( Sorry, poor and overcomplicated Microwave UI design is one of my Pet Peeves, I don't see many people doing it right, and lots of crap organizations doing it the wrong way yielding horrible nightmare contraptions even intelligent people can't get to do anything practical because somebody lost the manual at some stage )
Of course there's going to be an overlap, amplified even further because most (non-technical) people will ignore the difference between the two.

My point was that the two communities' lack of support for the merge is not really an application of "the narcissism of minor differences": the overlap exists, but it is not that important, at the moment. Perhaps in time, such a merge will be justified and users of those two sites might acknowledge that.

I hope this clarifies my first post for you.
I strongly suggest either monthly billing with a thirty day trial or monthly billing with a single free plan which is not adequate for the core user of the app, but shows it will be adequate if they go to paid.

Single payments have much to irk you as a businessman four years from now. Trust me. :(
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I'm not trying to promote the ID "theory" or anything like that. Can't we just focus on the question instead of questioning my motives?

> The problem is you are not considering the timescale - which is over millions of years.

This is exactly what I mean by hand waving. So there's a humongous timescale involved, so what? That doesn't constitute any form of evidence.

Unless you're saying it's not really testable because we can't simulate millions of years in a lab. In that case, well, you'd be confirming my point.

Again, the design is quite obvious, while the "mutation" proposition is not plausible, and remains unproven.

And no, I don't identify myself as a proponent of "The Intelligent Design Theory". I don't claim to have the definitive answer and I don't feel the need to propose an alternative to neo-darwinism.
Interesting bit: "Americans forget that Apollo succeeded in large part because the country knew that sending humans to the Moon within the short time frame of ten years would be exciting, difficult, dangerous, and perhaps even impossible." This mission is exactly the kind of risk-taking we should be encouraging.
This is what I call hand-waving.
These Germans, always chasing the neighbours.
No, I was saying that the apparent problems you see in mutation is due to the fact that you don't seem to be considering the huge time-scale involved.

Saying "design is obvious" is all very well but I see lots of flaws with that? Who's right?

:)
Apple sells it as a personal device, so you have to buy one for each and every family member. Do you have user profiles on your phone? Of course you don't.
The iPad is more like the original PC -
superficially similar to its predecessors,
but used quite differently.

A bit OT, but how was using the original PC categorically different than using an apple2/atari 800/trs-80/etc?
But no-one really wants weight loss, and that should be easy to prove: say you were offered a choice, drop 5lbs of fat or convert 5lbs of fat to 10lbs of muscle, what would you do?
go with monthly.

it's harder to convert, but whoever you do is going to stay a customer for a while. So you'll actually scale your business...instead of having to make a new sale every single day.
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I did not try the app yet, it def looks promising.
Maybe reconsider the background color for your landing page though, that green/brown may not be the most appetizing color out there.
No, it's called a theory - one slowly being backed with empirical evidence.

Rather than call it bunk why not suggest an alternate theory and try to match that with empirical evidence.
i thought he (or someone in his company?) was one of the original people on the mailing list that helped develop how certificates should work in browsers. just was a matter of right place right time.
I think you're side stepping the point of the article which wasn't that he was arguing for complexity in design but that the general public has a tendency to "worship false images" as Don would put it. That is the impulse when comparing two products side by side in a department store setting is to go with the one with more knobbies and twiddlies. Sure there may be one with simpler interface but the purchaser may equate that to "less capable".

It's all related to marketing.

A way that sellers of products that do have simpler interfaces get around this is either with lots of literature or very thorough product demos. People here may want to use the Apple brand as counter examples but that's wrong. Instead of complexity in the design of the product the complexity is in use. Demonstrated with lavish expos and advertisements. They're still selling you on capability.

But not every product manufacturer has accessibility to that kind of marketing prowess. The best you can hope for your widget in the department store is built into your product. And that means the product has to sell itself. In that case, as a designer for that widget, it would be good to know that simplicity is overrated.

- By the way. You should really pick up "The Design of Everyday Things" by Don.
You should pay me $5 for each user that joins.
Not beer, lager. Ale you can take your time over.
OK - for reference it doesn't work in on older version of Konqueror (3.5.1 on KDE 3.5.1 on SuSE 10.1) but it does something more sensible on on older version of FireFox (1.5.0.6)

Now I've just started to watch the screencast - it's taken nearly two minutes of chatting and story telling to get to actually show me anything. I feel like screaming "GET TO THE POINT ALREADY!!!"

The script needs to be tighter - much tighter - and you can do that without losing the gentle, folksey feel. Just watch it again from the point of view of someone who thinks "I have no time to waste - maybe this will help." So far it's wasted 2 minutes of my time. Yes, it described my problem, but I already know my problem!

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Computers only advanced though because we tried to build better ones. You don't build better muscles by lifting weights you can already lift.

If we want to advance our Space Travel technology, we need to keep trying to do things beyond our reach, to force us to improve.
Ask HN: What are common legal problems among web startups?
Conventional wisdom says for web startups to form an LLC, just in case something happens. What are some of the common "somethings" that happen to web startups?

I hear that advice all the time, but I rarely hear of the legal issues that forming an LLC protects people from.

Any examples?
The Small Business The 97% Fallacy?
"And the truth is, simplicity does not sell".

BS.

Some people prefer simplicity, some prefer complexity. I'm not sure where the median is, it might be on either side. Preference can be a function of many things, including culture.

You can make money from either. Just know your customer.
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Haven't they used a digital picture frame and though
"Gosh, wouldn't it be cool if this could show the
weather...and had a web browser...and let me play
movies from my server..."

I never saw a digital picture frame, let alone used one - and my initial reaction was to think those would be pretty useless :)
Give the candidate 10/15 before the interview to complete this. Run it and if it fails thank them for their time.

I just might do something like this with some html/css/javascript.
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I love my hacker news and am subscribed to the rss feed. However I am often without internet on my mobile (e.g. London underground tubes), I manually forward stories I am interested in to Instapaper (because Hackernews does not even have summeries to read on RSS). Is there anyway to to do this automatically?<p>I have tried http://www.feedmyinbox.com/ (because Instapaper can have input via email) but this just provides a summary daily link, I need it to send the links to Instapaper in the body of an email so that Instapaper will process it.
My mind is still boggling over how you make a simple HTTP request parser so complex sounding.
Some of the terms you are looking for are:

'rivalrous' : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivalry_%28economics%29

and

'excludable' : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-excludable_good
What I don't understand is why it bloats the shell instead of just using the OS' tools.

# kill -STOP $pid
# kill -CONT $pid

in Plan9 we do: echo stop > /proc/$pid/note

When they copied the /proc file system into Linux they did a cack handed version (as expected) - "by amateurs, for amateurs" as Dave Presotto put it.

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/3/proc
Then so be it.

You're using a post-hoc justification of the end result to claim that the piracy was acceptable.

It wasn't.
Thanks for clarifying. So OPML Editor generates the static content beforehand and then Apache serves it?
Or otherwise about an industry that rakes in huge profits by executing a few command on your .crt

I wonder when or if we will get a chance to see a community signed and trusted SSL certificate provider.
Becuase Craigslist supposedly filters these ads. I'm not saying Craigslist should filter these ads. I'm saying they already do filter these ads. So if there are still problems the question becomes, why does your filtering not work?

Your ISP is doing no such thing (well, unless it's Comcast)
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Mozilla CA Certificate Policy [1] doesn't seem to mention anything about money. You might also want to read "CA:How to apply" [2].

[1] http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/policy/

[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:How_to_apply
"I'm also not good at spot-on answering questions I haven't considered previously. "

How could he not have considered these questions previously? This is a major issue for Craigslist and they must have had a lot of discussions about it. Being unable to answer questions about about this topic is inexecusable. Maybe his answer would be along the lines of "I don't know about that specific ad but these are our procedures in general ...." would be fine.
A perfect title for a post not to be read. If you don't believe in God then for sure that you don't believe that he creates the universe. So nothing fancy here.
Why don't you just skip the extra candy bar after dinner and drink as much and whatever you like?
Usually I go sleep 10+ hours. The next day start with good breakfast and all looks better. It is like reseting your machine :-)
Really?

The only time I'd have taken the additional weight is when I was playing rugby, and then mostly because I couldn't really afford much food. I was 20, 65kg and worked really hard to try and get to 70kg. Being hit hurt when I was that light (ok, it hurt at 70kg too, but at least then the other guy noticed me when he ran over me)

I think anyone into endurance sports would take the weight loss too (based on the running & cycling I've done).
I think IBM branding had a lot to do with it - as it was made by IBM it was a serious business tool whereas other devices were merely "toys".

Of course this had nothing to do with the capabilities of the technologies but everything to do with positioning.
If you keep reading:

>And as far as resolution is concerned that tends to be the case

I was only talking about resolution. Lower MP gives you less noise but it won't give you more resolution. In the extreme case where you push the ISO maybe the extra noise can overcome the extra resolution. To make it simple lets say that at base ISO on a sunny day the higher MP will out-resolve the lower MP for a given sensor generation.

My point isn't that low MP isn't good for many applications it's that saying that higher MP doesn't lead to higher resolution is just wrong. If you want resolution you need pixels to produce it and current cameras are mostly not wasting the resolution away.

The excessive MP problem only really exists in consumer compacts. High-end compacts and DSLRs haven't been stretching the limits too much. The highest MP DSLRs right now have 24MP on a full-frame sensor, which is about the same density as 10MP on an APS sensor. Some of the APS ones have pushed that on to ~16MP with accompanying improvements in the individual pixels. Maybe you're thinking of camera phones with 8MP, those may very well be in the extreme case you mention where noise overcomes the extra resolution.
This makes sense in many religious contexts. For instance, traditional Christianity asserts belief in the "resurrection of the body." This implies that the body isn't a mere shell to be cast off, but is actually part of what made the person who they are, and is worthy of respect. Thus you have saints relics in Catholicism and Orthodoxy.

I assume that other religions offer explanatory contexts for their rituals as well. These may or not make sense when transferred to a modern secular society.
I already used it.
But it just make no sens to me. It's like if I create a blog with light yellow written over light green where nobody can read a thing and then tell them to use another application to be able to read it.

But to be fair, 6 years ago, my terminals were like that. So I guess this hacker/matrix mode goes away with time.
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Thanks! In fact, a lot of the debate can be simplified by discussing "goods" instead of property.
print "2. Fork out this code, suggest improvements and submit those" [L141]

So fork the code and suggest something funkier.

[L141] http://github.com/praekelt/careers/blob/master/software_engi...
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I certainly hope we're not spending a lot of money on death-in-space scenarios.

Wrap the body up, strap a 4-kilo rocket on it, say some nice words, and off she goes. No new technology or engineering required.

Unfair question, but it's how I feel: Does NASA always have to have some great new over-engineered plan for every little new thing they come across?
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I think they're searching hackers who like clean code and who appreciate tests. It would be strange if they wanted to recruit this kind of people by writing obfuscated code.

Also, it's more for fun then anything else. I mean, this could have been simply written on a pdf with: Django experience, >10, etc.
Well that's good feedback but I strongly suspect that Giles Bowkett, the author, may not get it here. I hope you don't mind, I'm going to email him a link to your comment.
well it might explain the "overpriced" reaction but not the "toy" part
I think this may have something to do with conspicuous consumption:

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

Your new toaster might have too many buttons and displays for you to use effectively, but it will surely impress the heck out of the next visitor. In fact, it's arguable that conspicuous consumption is the _only_ reason why you'd buy a $250 toaster with a dozen buttons instead of of a $20 toaster with a knob.
I think it is important to note that ceremonial burial was practiced by archaic secular societies as well - including Neanderthals. I think that we need some sort of group activity to help us transition to new situations - ie graduations, weddings, funerals, in Japan there are now wedding-like ceremonies for divorce with both families attending.

I think at its basic level there is something along these lines: change is uncertain, the group is here to witness the change and the group is not startled, I'm ok because the group is ok.
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This is an old article.When reading this article i thought the author was right till i saw this article by zedshaw.
zedshaw's is very fun to read yet highly informative.!

http://www.zedshaw.com/essays/fortune_favors_big_turds.html
I highly recommend the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. It's fiction, so the science is suspect in places, but it raises a lot of fascinating issues - the main one being that the science and engineering behind keeping Martian settlers alive might be the easy part. The politics of what happens on a new planet is the hard part.
AFAIK it was him - having developed the first non-US 128 bit crypto capable SSL web server called Sioux (basically, Apache + SSLeay) he was on all the same mailing lists as the Netscape crypto guys.

He then realised that the certs were more interesting than the web servers, and sold off Sioux to Stronghold so he could position Thawte as a CA instead of a software vendor.

Then with the browser war on the go, MSIE3.0 copied Netscape Navigator, right down to the list of CAs included...
Interesting. Also interesting was that SSL has been hacked before, although I've not heard much about it after then. For example:
http://hackaday.com/2008/12/30/25c3-hackers-completely-break...
While I agree that we need more people with deeper CS knowledge in the business, your particular example (halting problem and NP) is somewhat strange. Any CS student should have learned this in the 3rd semester or earlier, at least in my university. I wouldn't count that as an example of great technical competence.

The halting problem, logic, complexity classes, type systems, evaluation models etc are basic concepts. So I'd rather be surprised if anyone who's said to be competent could not explain those.
Fantastic response, thank you so much for taking the time :)

I suppose I am mainly looking at the coding aspect at the moment, but this is a fantastic response that will certainly be useful soon.