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>... we grew up a little and we don't do that any more either.

The only 3rd alternative being "Now we wall them in, pretend they don't exist, and tell people not to tap on the glass"? And those really are the only options, unless you know of an approach that isn't fundamentally the same as one of "kill them", "bring them into our culture", or "prevent our culture from getting into theirs".

I'll take door number 2, thanks. And I hope anyone/thing that sees this will proceed to destroy my culture and identity to bring me closer to seeing the rest of the universe as it really is.
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I would make a Facebook joke here, but...

I think that they mean that these people have not been in direct contact with non-tribal people. It sounds like most of them are very isolated. Even the other tribes that have contact with the mainstream society seem to have little to no contact with these "uncontacted" tribes.

This is mostly info I read on that website and related links, i.e. I'm not an expert.
"Apparently, a disturbed ex-girlfriend"

They got that bit right..
A trail to the articles pronouncing this a hoax/fake back in 2008:

http://www.geekologie.com/2008/06/fake_uncontacted_amazon_tr...
He said they don't use Google Analytics data. He has also said that the toolbar doesn't affect the indexing of a page. I don't see anything about the toolbar affecting rankings though.
I really hope you are kidding. If not this is so typical of the american way of thinking. Yes, we are so superior lets convert them all to our [insert culture, religion etc...]. What is so bad about leaving them alone? I would bet they are much happer than the majority of the FB and Twitter obsessed narcissist that I run into every day.

While we are at it lets make sure they all become good christians too because anyone that has not accepted christ in their life just does not know what they are missing.

Im not trying to be an ass but I fundamentally disagree with everything you just said. BTW: you to know that Western medicine is not the only medicine in the world. While we are at it lets take them our aids, diabetes, obesity etc...

You are basically saying that your beliefs and way of life are so superior and better than theirs that you must convert them and that is total bullshit. They have a right just as you do to continue their way of life without someone like you coming along and deciding what is and is not ok for them.
Photos taken a couple of years ago showing the "stay away" attitude pretty good http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/05/uncontacted_tribe_p...
I got rid of it. Most stories about YC companies on here tend to include that information though.
Someone of the comments even suggest that these pictures are a hoax, shot in someone's backyard, and from the ground, not in a helicopter. Others say that they could have found the machete and cooking pot in an abandoned camp. Whatever the truth, having a machete is certainly a 'contact' with modern civilisation, I think.
The existence of isolated social groups isn't a mind-blowing concept to me, but not something I think about daily either. Does a new awareness of the exception to the rule really change your perception of how interconnected most of humanity is?

Maybe I'm reading too much into this comment, but something about it seems to imply that being disconnected from the global network is a bad thing. Though I myself am a highly plugged-in urbanite, I hope that people who see this remember that living in a small group (or even alone) is just as valid as assimilating with the vast network that connects the majority.
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I did not mean to suggest that they would deviate significantly from the norm of any other group of people presented with unexplainable phenomena throughout the remainder of human history. Given the variance in how smoothly minor points of difference in mythology have gone down in the rest of history, it was not intended to indicate any additional fragility over baseline humanity.

Suggesting that it damages anything is a significant value judgment. To suggest that notable, repeated, unexplained phenomena would have no impact at all whatsoever is sufficiently at odds with the entirety of human history, culture, and the general body of human mythology, that I'd like to see a stronger citation than the paragraph on their website if you find one.
I ought to add for those looking for a Revo: The inbuilt rechargeable AAA batteries are very hard to replace, and so Revo's (and Revo Plus's) on Ebay, so many years after being initially sold, are likely to have a poor recharge cycle. Stick with a 5MX as you can replace the batteries easily.
The worst part is that the internet hive-mind may take hold and turn this chiropractor's life into hell for a little while. We're only getting one side of the story, and we can't be so quick to take sides without knowing a larger story. For all we know, the designer was lazy, late, charged unfair overtime, anything. But we can't jump to that conclusion either.
Interesting - can you link to any sources?
> That's why people like locking query plans. Not necessarily to control the best case, but to control the average / worst case.

This. I've had exactly the same experience as you.

Nobody wants to put hints in the query plan. But when your web site is down because one day the freakin' query planner decided all by itself that it was time for a change and some of your worst case queries are taking 2 minutes to return I don't want to be fudging about with statistics trying to understand the internal mind of the planner to convince it to return to sanity. I just want to make it do a plan that I know won't lose me my job.

The kind of attitude in this article reminds me - sadly - of the BS that used to come from the MySQL devs. "No you don't need transactions! Your system is broken if it uses transactions!". Of course it was BS and the minute they supported transactions they were all over how good it was.
I had the same experience. I got Facebook in 2005, it was useful for keeping in contact with people in your dorm/class (you could search by dorms/classes then), other people you had recently met, and getting invitations to events. Then your list starts to bloat up with people you really only spoke with once for a few minutes in a class or at a party, you can't deny then or else you're seen as a dick and you're probably going to run into that person several more times so it will just be awkward. Then they let in the high schools and that diminishes its usefulness to me, then they opened it up to everyone with further diminished its usefulness. The longer I actually had a FB account, the less I used it and the less I appreciated it.

Once I graduated college, I deleted everyone that I felt like was only an acquaintance. Once I got a job, the bloat began again. How do you deny a friend request to someone you work with?

Now... I can't stand Facebook. There is no use for me in having friends, coworkers, and relatives in one space unless I'm at a wedding or funeral. Facebook also puts all the burden of responsibility on the user to segregate their friends into 'groups' which is by no means as easy as it should be.

I now feel like just deleting it. I hardly ever check it anymore unless I get a message from someone.

Like you said, I prefer to email or call someone.
I may have controlled it a bit by replacing the "random" link with a specific flight instead. Looks like that was causing most of the problems - keeping an eye on it.
I wish you could make something like Startup Arabia http://www.startuparabia.com) but for the whole world. They have got a very nice design and well written articles.

They write about new startups and important events in the startup world. That's all. No other bullshit. I would also love some other guest posts that discuss important matters in the startup industry.
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On the main page, I thought it was nifty that it autodetected my location and gave the current weather, but then I couldn't find any link to actually find the forecast!

Then I thought to click on the name of the town. That gave me a page of which less than 1/3 was actual content (until I scrolled down). This seems like exceedingly poor design. Although, the actual "Forecast" div is reasonably compact, so there might be some URL hack you can do to jump straight to that.

It's too bad; I was a wunderground user for years until they did a site upgrade that kept causing browser crashes; I've been on weather.com for quite a while now, and this upgrade doesn't look good enough to entice me back.
Don't like that Wunderground turned into an unusable Weather Channel knockoff?

http://classic.wunderground.com (Classic)

http://wund.com (Lite)

http://m.wund.com (Super lite, aka Mobile) (Loads REALLY quickly)
Your metaphor is clearly better; grandma performing HEAD requests on fish (a URI) is priceless.

However, if granny were in a hurry, she may ask the waiter "Will my order be up soon?" to which the waiter would, after checking with the kitchen and receiving a 304 Not Modified on the still raw fish resource, he could decide to then 307 to some free breadsticks resource.

Of course, after lunch, dear granny will eventually receive a 402. Let's hope she has money today, or she may end up 401'ed and have to start washing dishes.
It helps to know that but the problem is that you don't really feel the weight of the extra cost as we tend to discount the importance of things we see as being off in the future. Sure that dinner is going to ultimately cost me $41 but that's spread out between next month and 4 years from now whereas getting that dinner now gives you an immediate reward and our brains are wired to weight immediate rewards more heavily.
Traditionally those legal problems are solved by simply granting these people exceptions. I mean aboriginal people and native Americans do get special treatment in some cases.
Sorry, you don't. It's a leftover from an earlier attempt to do something different with dynamic.

Your assumption is correct: It is already a string and there is no purpose to casting it to a String.

I don't recall exactly where that artifact came from but I recall the original release of Dynamic had a very different method signature and I was fiddling to figure out the new signatures when I wrote this. The examples I found when I wrote this used the old interface and the new one had no docs or examples yet so I did a bit of playing.

I've updated the gist to remove the unnecessary asInstanceOf and demonstrate it as proper code.
I agree - it's a shocking point of view. I'm choosing to read it as parody.

EDIT: Does the downvote mean it's not parody?

EDIT,EDIT: So maybe the OP was being sincere - in which case I'm v depressed.
Uncontacted tribe has had some contact http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-1... - I see a metal pot in that image.
>Experience shows that such peoples are in fact robust and well able to adapt to outside goods

Yes, fairly often by either adding it to their mythology or creating a cargo cult: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

Whether either of those count as "damage" is academic; it's change. Either we inflict more change or we try to prevent all change.
It's so easy to play God hovering in the skies, and make decisions for these people's future, isn't it? Maybe they actually don't enjoy 50+% child mortality, dying of appendicitis, and having to barter a truckload of plantains for a pot and a steel machete. Why don't they send someone on the ground, to explain to them that there's a big world out there that can change their ways forever, and give them a choice whether they'd like to be a part of it or not?
The parent wrote: "They did it because they overextended themselves to get a house in a good school district and then one of them lost their job or they had a medical emergency."

So, they overextended themselves and THEN lost a job or had a medical emergency. The problem is people choose to live on the edge financially, which I think is irresponsible, especially if you have others who depend on you for their life.
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I'm the opposite, when I withdraw cash and spend it, I have no idea where it went. When it is electronic, then my weekly accounting will show me where I've been spending money and I'm more careful with it.

The best thing I ever did to save money was to track where I'm spending it.
as I am currently living in Peru, this is pretty moving to me. the argument here on both sides is pretty powerful, and you can easily find passionate people telling you it's real, or it's fake, etc etc. The president's (Alan Garcia) accusation that environmentalists are making "uncontacted people" up seems pretty ridiculous to me though, as there seems to be a lot of evidence supporting the claim that there a number of uncontacted peoples in the remote regions of the country.
Paper for everyone!

Silly slogan when you're trying to replace something low cost and pervasive.
Thats cool - I wasnt calling anyone out. I have ADHD tendencies and I procrastinate a lot. I am not "lazy" I get a lot done -- sometimes though, its not what should be high on my priority list.

Lots of people get called arrogant, but there is a difference between having confidence and being an asshole.

Good job with your son. Did you work from home to be able to do that for him?
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I'm sure they've seen planes plenty of times, I mean commercial airliners fly pretty much everywhere I think? I'm sure they'd love to see it up close though. They must assume it's a bird monster or something.
I don't have an exhaustive knowledge of everything we do, and I couldn't tell you if I did.

Amit has made it very clear however, that we will never do anything that would cause us to directly or indirectly copy a competitor's search results.
Linear probing will always let you fill a hash table to a load factor (\alpha) of 1. Double hashing may prohibit this, even if it is more efficient for smaller values of \alpha.
The BoogieBoard is based on one of these: http://www.kentdisplays.com/products/lcdwritingtablets.html

It's output only; think dragging your nail across a laptop screen. You might be able to send signal to it, but there's no way to get information off.

I agree that this thing looks like vaporware. Too good to be true.
You know, the concept of someone building a memorial for a loved one is a great one. I love the idea of this service. However, creating pages like this, for people you don't know, is scummy, IMO. I'm really quite disappointed in the way 1000memories has done this sort of thing; they've completely and utterly turned me off of using their service.
https targets for forms on http pages are a security anti-pattern. The Tunisian government keylogged people's Facebook details because of it.
I'd like a "personalized flag" HN feature: don't show me stories that I have flagged. This would give me greater motivation to flag stories which are, or are likely to, consist mostly of heat and little or no light, as well as ridding those low-signal, high-noise entries from my personal front page.
Love the mockup, a screenshot on the left, startup intro to the right. Wish you the best. I'll be reading it every day.
I present the following without comment:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Isolated_trib...

And especially:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Sentinelese_p...
I generally agree with you except for one thing:

A significant number of them may die of disease. There have been a few uncontacted tribe members that were forced to make contact with the outside world, and at least one died of TB: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=26225682776

This is quite similar to what happened in North America; the blankets with smallpox were highly unnecessary.
This is a question for a local lawyer with expertise in import/export law. You'd likely have no problem at all finding a lawyer or firm with experience and specialization in Chinese trade. They'd have not only knowledge of Chinese law, but infrastructure like local contacts and representatives in China. There are a number of such firms in California.

In my experience legal advice from people that do not practice law is rarely helpful and potentially harmful.
It would be a good opportunity for Amazon to spend some money on charity. Benefits both parties.
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>You are basically saying that your beliefs and way of life are so superior and better than theirs that you must convert them

No, they're saying that they believe their beliefs and way of life are superior, therefore they have a moral obligation to improve the lives of those less fortunate than them.

Whether they're right or not is another issue, and as there's no objective way to measure such things, there is no actual correct view. If that's their belief, they're entirely justified in taking that course of action. Your belief is apparently the opposite, so you're entirely justified in preventing them from doing so. But what they said is not total bullshit, it's just opposed to you.
The fastest way to pay off debt is to pay off the highest interest rate debt first, then the next highest interest rate debt, then the next highest interest rate debt, etc.

The debt snowball approach isn't the fastest approach, but the theory is that it has a strong psychological impact: By paying off your smallest debts first, you see forward progress more clearly, which motivates and energizes you to keep going.

Another good psychological trick is to have only one credit card. Then, when you get the bill each month, you can clearly see how much you've spent. The single big statement is scarier than having lots of little statements, and leads people to spend less money unnecessarily.
I remember reading this article for the first time and being overcome by the urge to erase it from my memory. Every time it comes up I worry that I may have committed this error in applications still in production. I know for sure that I've wondered on multiple occasions about whether you could use a regular HashMap as an imperfect cache and I'm not sure I've always (especially when I first started writing code) erred on the safe side of caution and opted for the ConcurrentHashMap.
That would be unbelievably cool.
"Quite many people in USA are just 1 accident away from ruin."

I am without health insurance, and I find that I am very careful moving about in the world, for exactly that reason.

If I ever get in a major accident, I almost hope they can't revive me.
There's nothing wrong with businesses making money from providing a service to the bereaved. But I'm ill at ease with this for some reason. Are we going to see these 1000memories tributes pop up for all large-scale losses of life?
Sorry, you're an easy target simply because you have put yourself out there so much. You do deserve a bit more respect - just some of the things you have written really hit a nerve with me.

:)
I don't see anything wrong with giving them the option to join the rest of civilization.

Besides, you're doing the same thing as xenophanes. You're saying that one set of values is better over another, or rather worse over another.
How does your perspective differ from the perspective of the missionaries who attempted to bring "salvation" to indigenous peoples around the world?

How does your perspective differ from the perspectives that led to the imposition of the Residential Schools?

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Canadian_Indi...

Also, nothing I wrote says anything about providing them with access, it says something about destroying their culture and identity. So don't be too quick to make assumptions about what I believe or don't believe about medicine and education.
How "white man's burden"-esque.
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"The photographer that took the picture, José Carlos, has admitted that the tribe has, in fact, been known about since 1910. He created the hoax "in order to call attention to the dangers the logging industry may have on the group."

http://www.geekologie.com/2008/06/fake_uncontacted_amazon_tr...
No its not ... every business I know ceases to provide you business after a certain number of days of non-payment ... Cable companies turn off your cable, electric companies turn off your light, Your landlord evicts you etc etc.
If you're paying for hosting ... as long as I have your data backed up, I'm pretty sure I can stop hosting your site by removing your dns records from my system
"No, they're saying that they believe their beliefs and way of life are superior, therefore they have a moral obligation to improve the lives of those less fortunate than them."

"Whether they're right or not is another issue [..]"

Morals are all about right or wrong - you can't have it both ways.

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The OPs belief is entirely objectionable. Have none of us learnt anything from history?

EDIT: Actually, maybe that wasn't quite strong enough. The OPs belief is utterly abhorrent. It's from the same school of thought that's used in attempts at 'ethnic cleansing'.
To avoid any confusion, from the site's FAQ:

"Is this an ‘undiscovered’ or ‘lost’ tribe?

No. This is empty sensationalism. It’s extremely unlikely there are any tribes whose existence is totally unknown to anyone else. The uncontacted tribe in these photos has been monitored by the Brazilian government for 20 years, and lives in a reserve set up to protect uncontacted tribes."
DuckDuckGo continues to impress. And sometimes editorial decisions are better than algorithms: since most users view most Demand Media articles as spam, DDG and Blekko get good results without investing a lot of engineering investment simply by banning them. Meanwhile Google had to work out algorithmic changes and test them at scale -- with the risk that they unintentionally get rid of stuff from other sites that most people actually do want to see. So it's a tough situation for Google, especially when you factor into account potential impact on all the advertising revenue they're generating from these spam sites.
Well, you could not simply explain it to them, you would have to show it to some of them, and let them live the life, before they could make an informed decision.

Perhaps the best advice would be to contact other tribes that have been assimilated, and see how they feel about the process. Would they go back, if they could?