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> While only few practice medicine, majority of the people do have ideas about what "valid and just" violence can be applied [...]

Double standard. Most people also have ideas about medicine, if only to the extent that they have beliefs about what is and isn't good for their health. An apples-to-apples comparison would be, say, the number of medical professionals versus the number of military professionals. The country where I live (the UK) has, compared with other broadly similar nations, more military and fewer medical professionals, but it still seems to have more of the latter.

> for each hour of Mozart's brain developing music there are several orders of magnitude more hours cumulatively spent by others at the same time reasoning for violence.

It's the same double standard again! Either compare the time spent by Mozart on music with the time spent by, say, Hitler on "reasoning for violence"; or compare the time spent by everyone on music with the time spent by everyone on "reasoning for violence".

Anyway, I think this is becoming less and less productive (and also less interesting to others, if I can judge from the fact that no one seems to be voting us either up or down) so I suggest we leave it here.
Pretty vague specs there. Anyone have anything a little more detailed?
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Gotcha.

But wouldn't longer movies being in multiple pages/clips serve more advertising? I realize that the clips may not even be uploaded if a time limit is imposed, but I would assume that more clips = more potential ad clicks.

I suppose also that the advances in Content ID (the copyright checking system) may only be effective on longer clips.

All in all, there are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches, and maybe YouTube is just taking the least complicated route.
What's with all the vitriol in your two replies? It seems like you're awfully eager to put words into people's mouths, and to stereotype a large portion of the country in a single stroke. There may be parts of your argument that are worth discussing, but you make it difficult to ferret them out from all the anger.

You know nothing of the parent post's friend. How can you make such bald assertions?
where science aligns with political belief

What if it's more an issue of political belief aligning itself against science? We've all seen the numbers on which Americans believe the earth is 5,000 years old, right?
This is definitely an awesome concept, which has been tested by AppSumo. However, there are more aspects of "hacking" that you can explore - books, conference tickets, software discounts and membership discounts (can only think of http://tutsplus.com). I would be interested if you are able to offer deals on tickets for technology conferences.

A technology-focused Groupon is something that I would love to see.
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Sounds cool, anyone concerned about their email touching additional third parties?

You can do the same trick yourself with a little handy Python: http://snipt.org/qvnl/
Save that to your utils directory. Don't remember where I found the script I based this on, sorry!

Boomerang's UI is slicker of course.
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He does start of his post with "Late last year", I would say it is entirely possible.
I think such a battery would result in greater malaria eradication than direct efforts.

I might accept "greater good". There's no way I'll accept "greater malaria eradication".

The Gates Foundation is working on malaria eradication because it's one of those things where you really do get great returns by just attacking the problem head on. Batteries have nothing to do with malaria.

The other thing about super-batteries is that there's no shortage of sensible profit-chasing money pouring into it. If Sony, Samsung, Ford, Toyota, General Electric and Rolls Royce are all already pouring billions of dollars into it, there's not much point in Bill Gates throwing a couple of billion onto the pile. But apart from the Gates Foundation hardly anyone with deep pockets is targeting malaria.
This is just a pet peeve of mine but the actual Franklin quote:

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Is not the same as the often quoted paraphrase:

"He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither."

There will always be cases where security is more important than freedom. We can argue when such cases exist, but Franklin said "essential liberties" and "a little temporary security" for a reason.

I'm not actually making a call that shutting up Wikileaks is justified here, but I do find it annoying when people use that incorrect paraphrase.
There's a HUGE difference between the .NET framework, that is more a Library of classes, and for example the PHP Cake framework, that really takes all control flow out of the hands of the developer.

In other words, I'm still so old school that I prefer a good library of classes, functions and tools, than the newest I-will-write-all-code-for-you framework.

In the same way, I feel better if I write a library that can be used by any project for a very specific feature (like localization, or disk cache, or something similar) than if I write a framework where everything should be done in the framework way and most logic should be rewritten.
Your tone is rather aggressive. Why is that? In fact, it did keep him up at night that his lab was receiving grants from the government. That's why he ultimately made the decision he did.

It's impossible for someone to be completely moral with their money. All of us on H.N. have paid taxes that at some point went to pay for something that we disagree with morally. All of us have purchased a product from a company that has probably done something we find immoral or given money to someone who has. It's not shameful to pay your taxes because you like not being in prison. Self-preservation is not a bad thing. But nor is trying to put your money where your mouth is, either.
I always thought it was odd that ASF, one of the early open-source successes, was so heavily Java which has always been semi-open at best. Stuff like this lends more credence to the ideological purity of the GNU guys..
Not to mention anything related to economics, as I mentioned above. All that nonsense about "fair trade", the complaints about Chinese currency (see Chuck Schumer), and on and on, has absolutely no basis in the real science.
I hadn't realized this before. How is this type of thing structured in the merchant's agreement with the card processor?

Could they in theory issue a 100% cash back card that the merchant gets charged 100% on? How is the merchant supposed to know what they are getting charged when the swipe a given piece of plastic?
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A 529 is the way to go for this sort of thing...much better than the savings bonds I received as gifts when I was a child.

My son's 529 is with USAA...they have great customer service, free financial advisory services, and their plans have a great performance history (relative to other 529 plans.) Setting up a 529 is also one of the most pain-free financial planning things you can do, IMHO.
Well clearly that's problematic too.
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Although it is true that the scientific method cannot be thought of as "political" in any sense, I think it's a big mistake to see science as deriving, almost mechanically from observations. It is done by scientists and in all ages scientists are affected by non-scientific aspects of their societies, i.e. traditions, commonly held beliefs, and politics.

Also, not all science is as abstract as, say, mathematics or hunting for dark matter. Some questions, e.g.: should we perform stem cell research on embryos, should we eradicate mosquitoes, should we try to affect human sexual patterns leading to AIDS, etc. are scientific but also contain a large dose of ethics, i.e. they cannot be approached by handling equations alone in an objective matter.
one has to wonder with Microsoft's new found success in (open) Kinect if it won't translate to something more liberating to the rest of their products.
Contrast that to this article posted previously on Hacker News, "Most Scientists are Democrats and that's a problem" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1989073
I've been holding off on a tablet because of this but can their blog post be more confusing? How do I pre-order?
Nuclear power and GMO crops have the same issue for liberals like me: when they fail, they fail in catastrophic fashion. We've already had Cherynobol and Monsanto's "Terminator" seeds getting out into the wild. To paraphrase badly, liberals opposed to both are concerned about Black Swan events.

Your assessment of the risk and that of those of us who are a bit more "reactionary" are just different, but it doesn't mean that we willfully misrepresent the science.
I guess my problem with that analogy is that business relationships are supposed to be self-interested. They're supposed to be mutually self-interested, for sure, and most of them revolve around convincing the other person it's in their interests, too, but there's still an element of self-interest that a love relationship, frankly, doesn't have.
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Glad to see I'm not the only one.

But I really posted this comment in reply to say thanks for the blog posts on jquery/asp.net. They really got me going in the right direction - fantastic stuff.
That's ad hominem, now. (Though understandable.)
He was clear he bought a ticket for $418 (or whatever). But it really wasn't $418. It was $418 all the money spent on getting rewards points. I thought I was pretty clear about that.
It'd be useful to know what those are for. I'd be impressed if he's still making that much from "King Tut" (1978).
I am firmly supportive of ASF. I was unhappy with Sun for witholding the TCK, and I am now unhappy with Oracle. Major languages should have multiple high quality implementations. I understand the business issues but something like Java needs to have at least one foot firmly in the 'commons.'
And the overwhelming anti-science bias within large segments of the Republican base has nothing to do with it?

So how come people who oppose evolutionary/genetic theories on slightly different religious grounds haven't chased scientists away from the Dems?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers#Differences_be...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Watson#Comments

Both parties are quite strongly anti-science when it suits their purposes. Consider this program - any guesses as to the party affiliation of people who oppose this experiment? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/nyregion/09placebo.html?re...
Here's a small sample size:

http://www.conservapedia.com/Theory_of_relativity

This guy free-associated the theory of relativity with "moral relativism" (ideological bingo word!) and apparently concluded that that means relativity is wrong. Article full of cites follows. If it's cited, must be true, right? He also liberally (heh!) re-uses the bogus arguments from below about how relativity research is funded by the government, therefore the researchers must be marxists, therefore they're wrong about relativity.

For further reading, I'd suggest polls on the public's view of creationism, age of the earth, evolution, global warming, etc by political party.
1.) It is called a social contract. You have given up some of your own sovereignty to the government so that it can maintain order. By entering into this contract, you are ensured your civil rights. Social contracts are implicit.

This is much different than a legal contract, and makes very little sense in context of your analogy.

2. Why is point two confusing?

I benefit from public education by having been put through school.

An employer benefits from public education by having been put through public school, and also from having employees (like me) who have been put through school.

It is a problem if he pays proportional to the amount of money that he makes, rather than the amount of utility that he receives from the service. Therefore, his taxes and my taxes should not be the same, because he receives a greater total utility.
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*$65 or so a month.
"Assuming the US Mint and my bank weren’t trying to scam me, that only left myself as the scam artist and I knew I wasn’t trying to cheat anyone, so that took care of that concern."

I guess if ignorance of the way he's hurting people counts as "not cheating them" this is true.

He gets the airline miles because the US mint takes in between a 1% and 3% loss on the transaction to pay the credit card company. They also lose money when they ship him the coins for free. The reason the US mint is willing to do this is because coins are so much cheaper for them in the long run than bills, once they go into circulation; they're paying this guy and UPS a fee for helping them put dollar coins into circulation. This guy is taking that fee, but not putting the coins into circulation. Its not like the money in his rewards account appeared out of nowhere.
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In order to understand any situation, we should go beyond simplistic stereotypes like "pitchfork-wielding, bible-thumping." This is no different than Fox TV anchors who view liberals as latte-drinking, gun-banning, gay marriage-backing wimps.
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I have a confession to make: I've worked on several ideas, and I'm not completely insanely passionate about them. But I love being an entrepreneur! I work on ideas because I think they are good ideas and it is exciting to try and make my vision a reality. I mean, I don't care about enterprise software or online video <i>that</i> much - but is that really so bad? Isn't it enough to like working for yourself in a great group and strive for success, and have your passions not be your job? I also find it strange how many entrepreneurs <i>happen</i> to be passionate about, say, group commerce these days. Really?
Not likely.
Consider an extreme example where they admit they didn't hire you because you are black. They broke the law and cannot be protected.

In other words, your signature does not provide a lot of legal security
I've got rejected a couple of times with good, useful feedback, and a couple of times with "We can't afford to hire anyone else for a while". In both cases, I end up happy for the feedback, not pissed I didn't get the position. I want to work for the company more than I did before. I follow the companies with interest, and feel a vague sense of attachment to them. If I saw the people who rejected me at some kind of conference, I would go up and say hi. I would recommend them to my friends.

So - please do this. Unless you don't care about my opinion of you. You may not.
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Please please please stop calling it the music business. Music/Movies/Games are not all seperate businesses. They all fall into the category of entertainment. They are in the entertainment business and their competitors are more then just pirates, its everything else out there trying to get your time.
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I'm reminded of the '08 republican primary debates and "Raise your hand if you believe in evolution". I don't see many scientists happily getting behind a party made up of people who need to be asked that.
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In the science of economics the opposite is true. For example, Democratic support of minimum wages and other price controls, and especially their opposition to free trade, fly against the wind of economic science.

I don't believe this is true. First, assertions that economics is a science seem...dubious at best.

Secondly, actual economic research suggests that negative effects of the minimum wage in practice are quite small. It is true that people who have no more economic knowledge than that imparted by a first semester intro to economics class do not know that, but that merely underscores the danger of a little bit of knowledge.

Finally, I have seen no evidence in the last decade that Democrats are particularly opposed to free trade deals per se. Can you cite some? I would point out that a great deal of some "free trade" deals actually has little if anything to do with free trade.
That's a bizarre argument. At best, it supports software copyrights, not patents. Books are human readable and not secret, from which it doesn't remotely follow that it's reasonable for there to be a patent on the plot of a boy going to wizard school. And as noted the open source comment is a huge WTF.
Science is based on facts, not in belief. Proving a scientific theory using a flawed logic to support a political belief would be fatal to the reputation of a scientific. Therefore, scientific credibility has nothing to do with political affiliation, religion beliefs (or lack thereof), colour of skin or any other personal treat. There were brilliant scientists amongst the nazis and amongst the soviet communists, so it has nothing to do with that. Political belief is a very personal choice and everyone has the right to choose, and also everyone has the choice to become a scientist. In my opinion this article is a poor defense of republican party.
Most scientists do work that's not at all related to what the public knows about and talk about their work in ways that no one else can understand.

Yeah, because no field has jargon and standard methods that require a small amount of prior knowledge to understand... We use a ton of confusing and sometimes overlapping jargon in the computer industry, simplify complex systems using metaphors that are not really correct (e.g. the internet is a series of tubes...), and will often give vague answers to people who are not in the industry. It is not because we have anything to hide, but because we do not have the time or energy to give someone an introductory course on how computers work just to answer a simple question. If you had the time to learn and the necessary educational background you could in fact learn when they are working on and understand what they are saying without too much effort. Most of the public is too busy, too lazy, or too stupid to do this.

As far as scientists being "chased" from the republican party, start with The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney, move on to Unscientific America by the same author, The Great Derangement by Matt Tiabbi, or Idiot America by Charles Pierce. Skim through Merchants of Doubt or Doubt is their Product to see some of the links to various corporate think tanks. The evidence is clear, maybe you should check some of it out.
You don't have to rely purely on subjective human judgement.

And yet (aside from mega deal-breakers, like clearly overstating competence in some category) that's pretty much what hiring decisions come down to: "Are they for real? Can I rely on them? Will I get along with them?" -- the battery of contrived, essentially "objective" assessment that get thrown at candidates notwithstanding.
Thanks. To clarify, though, I do understand why one would be safe while the other wouldn't; what I was interested in was the actual technique a climber uses to determine that. In other words: there are certainly rocks for which both vertical and horizontal forces are safe, and rocks for which both vertical and horizontal forces are unsafe, but where and how is the line drawn to determine that vertical is safe while horizontal isn't? Is it just feeling and experience, or are there actual rules people generally follow?
The leaked letter is at the end of the article. The article is nothing exciting, but I found the letter an excellent and relevant read.
I think this is largely because of the overwhelming number of fundamentalists in the Republican party. When there are polling figures like 46% of Republicans believe Obama is a Muslim and 67% believe he's a socialist, this picture starts to become clear. If you believe something so strongly that your opinion cannot be changed despite astronomical amounts of evidence to the contrary, then you will not many friends in science.
I give it 2-3 years before both of these companies start losing a massive amount of members, and people just stop checking in...about the same time when the global consciousness realizes social media was a fun game but that its time to grow up.
The fees depend on what merchant provider a company is going through. Braintree is what I use, and they charge a flat, albeit higher, percentage for all swipes, rather than have a huge list of the percentages. Here is an example of their breakdown of Costco's fee structure (yeah, you can get a costco merchant services account).

http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/blog/Costco-your-ma...

I have no idea if what you proposed is possible, but my guess is that no one would accept that card :) I don't accept amex because I think it represents a fraction of actual users, and those users have other cards because they are used to getting told "nope, sorry don't accept amex".
I'm sure the executive team will be grads from top-tier schools with good GPAs. But they're not interested in hiring people with the credentials they've achieved themselves, or people who might know better. They're looking for cheap hardworking undifferentiated labor -- at least that's my takeaway from the ad.
Probably his banjo album, The Crow.

http://www.discogs.com/Steve-Martin-The-Crow/release/1979914
That is a problem. But it is not a problem for science, it is a problem for the republican party. For the last ten years they have been so aggressively pro stupidity that intelligent people are embarrassed to be affiliated with them, even if their general political beliefs are closer to the republican than to the democrat side.
This sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen to me.
Tons of companies refer to their programmers as engineers; "our engineering team is working on the issue".
If someone replies to me they deserve a response, that is why I am here for discussion.

I totally understand that mentality. I'm just saying I've found it helpful, sometimes, to let other people have the last word. Sometimes my original statement stands for itself and doesn't need to be reiterated.

I don't necessarily think you were being unreasonable. I don't have enough information to really judge that, especially if it comes down to tone. I'm just saying in general that if you're going to do things like this, to keep in mind that the other person is also testing and judging you. Maybe he didn't care about good customer service and your heuristic for determining a good vendor worked, or maybe you tripped his heuristic for determining a toxic customer and he decided to write you off. To some extent that'll have to happen, but it's worth maybe a moment's consideration. That's all.
Rewards cards cost more to process. As I understand it though Mastercard and Visa T&Cs mean that if you either accept all cards or none.
I'm a liberal, but even I can see that conservapedia represents the overall conservative/Republican base about as well as Mao represents all Chinese.
Isn't chinese currency idiocy bipartisan? I mean http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/07/republicans-... certainly suggests that powerful Republican leaders believe it wholeheartedly.
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>engineering is about .. rearranging the stuff of the world to make new things

A better definition (inspired by Steven den Beste) is: building tools to rearrange the stuff of the world to make new things.
I like that idea quite a bit, actually- I'm envisioning a sort of "heat map" UI, where each entry in a directory listing's background color is determined by its commit frequency.
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