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The natives might disagree if they saw our lives, but they can't reply here. They don't know the Internet exists and they're illiterate.

I doubt many of us would desire to live in an uncontacted tribe. People in uncontacted tribes spend most of their time getting food to avoid starvation. Sometimes they get injured or ill, but they don't have painkillers or medicine. Sometimes a kid gets appendicitis. They don't have surgery, so the kid dies. Sometimes a child is born with a cleft palette. Charities do this procedure in developing countries, but in uncontacted tribes the child is deformed for life.

Based on evidence from other tribes, they're almost certainly a patriarchal society. Sorry girls, you can't be leaders when you grow up. You'll have to have birth children without painkillers or medical supervision. (Oh and there's no birth control.) Breech baby? Tough luck. And don't get attached to your kids early on; infant mortality is pretty high.

Granted, their quality of life isn't going to be great even if they're contacted. And arguing on the Internet isn't going to change the outcome of this situation. But our way of life is better. There are very few places on earth where quality of life is worse than an uncontacted tribe. The list is pretty short: Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, and a couple other countries. Eventually, even those failed states will progress, whereas the uncontacted tribes won't.
People who say ideas are worthless have never had a worthwhile idea.
> The discovery paved the way for industry-wide recalculations of early termination fees for smartphones, which were hiked up nationwide from the standard money-losing $175 to the current break-even $325.

If thats something you brag about, you're a cunt of the highest order.
No, her study didn't show that. Her study does not address causality at all.

# bankruptcies caused by a medical emergency = # of bankruptcies x [P(bankruptcy | medical event) - P(bankruptcy | no medical event)] x P(medical event)

Warren's study only measures P(medical event | bankruptcy). A bunch of innumerate reporters drew the same conclusion you did (admittedly, with help from Warren's confusing language), but that just shows the media is stupid.

Here is the study: http://www.scribd.com/doc/16155232/Bankruptcy-2009
Why a rainbow pizza? Why not a pinwheel or a beach ball?
This is taking place in one of the engineering colleges in chennai, south india. almost most of students come out of the engineering colleges without much knowledge about programming. This event has every chance to make them take up learning to code.
hooray! i'm glad to see this finally launch. (i'm an investor)
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The source is not intended to be readable. The glory is in the 1433 characters total (or 133 lines, if you prefer that metric). Everyone knows that it is artificial, but it does not matter. The spirit is similar to the 10K Javascript contest (see http://10k.aneventapart.com/ )

If you want to try to understand the chess code, the author provides an expanded version with comments that is more readable: http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/maximax.txt

In order to read the code, it is helpful to understand the basic algorithm (recursive negamax search). Here is a good explanation of minimax, negamax and alphabeta: http://www.hamedahmadi.com/gametree/
might be lack of respect/awareness of other cultures/parts of the world.
I agree with this. What we at Adore.ly are trying to do is to convince users this isn't the case by limiting it to their friends, and strictly stating our rules on how we prevent trolling and spam.

But yes, this is definitely an issue. :)
Give us an API which has also the points for a headline included (the RSS feed does not :( ), so I can build a more customizable feed.
I don't know why the belief in the "noble savage" persists to this day, but your response is exactly what I would hope for from a rational human being.

Certainly there probably is an optimal way to go about contacting a tribe like this and "bringing them up to speed" with the rest of the world, and I admit that there probably isn't a single person on this earth who actually knows what that optimal way is. But to deny these people even the chance at a better life because we're busy hand-wringing over how it will affect their culture is terrible.
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It might also be due in part to the ridiculous and potentially humiliating procedures required for flight, especially international flight, that puts many people off of the idea of travelling.
I would consider someone else gaining access to the contents of your 1Password database a failure.
Texas A&M University here, anyone else?
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Selection effect. You also didn't see anyone with cleft palettes or appendicitis or iodine deficiency. If somebody gets sick or injured in that tribe, they're much more likely to die than in most places. Also, sick or injured people don't romp around the forest checking out strange birds in the sky.
Passports are easy, plane tickets are expensive. The average American does not have the resources to plan out a luxury, multi-continental vacation. I can only hope my European friends don't take it personally.
This is the product from someone with a doctorate in neuroscience? So much for moving the human collective forward. Now I don't feel so bad about the kids coming out with undergraduate CS degrees feeling like they don't know how to program.

I don't use Facebook but I do use Twitter. I do love games. What is it in regards to social networks, games and the idea of positive reinforcement am I missing with this project?
Or if we had a proper browser that still had that possibility... Oh wait, we do have those, but I don't if they are allowed on the iDevices.
Medicine is one class of skill.

However, there are others in the same vein as programming:

* fine arts (drawing, painting)
* music
* football and other sports
* creative writing

I'd guess that any student majoring in the above fields already possessed basic (or even advanced) skills before entering the university.

On the other side, there are fields that are more "professional", where students only begin learning these disciplines at college:

* medicine
* psychology
* economics
* law

Obviously, students are exposed to concepts before college, but they wait until they get the professional credential before doing surgery, filing lawsuits, prescribing antidepressants, or raising interest rates.
It's easier now to travel then it has ever been before. I can wake up in the US and decide to have dinner in Paris.

This versus having to tough a weeks long voyage across the Atlantic followed by months in wagons crossing unfriendly territory where I might die Oregan Trail style.

Sure, airports could be better. But if you think the difficulty of airports now outweights the benefits of travelling I am surprised our ancestors ever left their huts.
Anyone know if these are real or satirical?
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Weird. I just tested it again in FF 3.6 and it works fine for me.
"BTW: you to know that Western medicine is not the only medicine in the world. "

First off, can we not call it "Western medicine?" Because what you're calling "Western medicine" happens to be practiced all over the world. I'd prefer to call it "science-based medicine" or "evidence-based medicine", although I will admit the applicability of those labels is more range-based than absolute.

However, you're right. Western medicine isn't the only medicine in the world. There's also voodoo-based medicine (with "voodoo" representing any variety of "ancient chinese secret"-type of treatments). So which would you prefer to be treated with? "Western" medicine, or voodoo medicine?

Also, "While we are at it lets take them our aids, diabetes, obesity etc..."

You do realize AIDS originated in sub-saharan Africa, right? Not exactly the heart of modern civilization.
I think the question might better be, why don't Americans travel overseas? Then compare that to how many non-Americans travel overseas. What I'm getting at is that in a small country, you deplete exploration of your own country quickly. In larger places like America, Australia, Canada, China, Russia, one has lots to discover at home and "abroad" can be very far away for many in the interior.

Whereas, places like Europe, Middle East, South America are made up (mostly) by relatively small countries, so going abroad could be a 5 hour drive or train ride.

When Europeans go south for the Summer (or Winter) they go to another country, almost necessarily; in the US or other large countries, Summer beaches or Winter slopes are in the same country, hence no need to travel outside the country.

I think this question of travel deserves another metric to take the distance and geographic discrepancies into account.
I don't understand what this is.
And how many of the people you talk to do you think use the site: operator?
Traditional medicine != Alternative medicine, it's the only medicine available for majority of people on Earth (about 80% of people in Asia are exposed almost exclusively to it). Chinese had their medicine when we europeans were still living in caves.
You may want to checkout Gog and Magog

http://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Gog_and_Magog

In the islamic tradition (Yajuj and Majuj):-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_and_Magog#In_Islamic_tradit...
To turn this topic in a more positive direction:

How do you tell an "I have the next big thing but just need some help with technical details" people apart from real, talented non-technicals?

Or, as a non-technical founder, how do you differentiate yourself from the 99% of clueless yahoos run around pitching their Great Big Idea?
I'm frankly amazed that RWW is trying to present this 'neutrally' by asking whether people see an issue with AJE trying to break into the [bigoted] US market.

I get that they rely on user engagement and comments and so on, but really, encouraging controversy about a respected journalism outlet's attempts -which even they admit has shown its stripes with its Egypt coverage- to get carried in the US? A bit disappointing.

The linked controversy-generation article just rings so hollow: "Wow, this news network is BUYING ad space! Trying to BUY its way into eyeballs!"
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Meanwhile, what, Fox/MSNBC/CNN/etc are completely non-profit? And that's without even getting into comparisons of content quality.
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Definitely satirical. At least, that's what the snarky post titles are telling me.
Why? An early termination fee is necessary in a model where carriers subsidize handsets. Why should the termination fee be below breakeven?
WITH RECOMPILE does opposite effect. It's kind of anti-hint.

You force SQLServer to never use cached plans and regenerate query plan every time you run query. So you have always "plan generation overhead".

Also, such SP can have only 1 running example in server because of SP:Recomile Lock. Kind of singleton in SQLServer.
I fell onto some hard times about ten years ago. Eventually I was able to pay the debt off but my credit was in the toilet for years. I went from a credit score of 530 to 600 and then it just sat there...and sat there..and sat there for a few years until the magic date passed where crap fell off and it jumped to 750.

The other lines of credit people are mentioning might be helpful, but in my case I just had to be patient. If I can manage to never take out a loan again in my life (it's been ~10 years) I'd love that. Debt sucks.
Plane tickets aren't that expensive (I see about 550 USD New York / London round-trip on Virgin Atlantic, and that's just the first search I did). If your trip is city-focused, you'd probably save a substantial portion of that on car rental.

And why does a cross-atlantic vacation have to be "luxury"? Most of the appeal of going such a long way is experiencing a different culture. Most of what you're buying with a luxury hotel is a more expensive lobby with more expensive services. (E.g. internet access cost is usually inversely correlated with room rate.) All you really need is somewhere safe, quiet and conveniently located to sleep, as you'll spend most of the day out of the room.

EDIT: I did another search, except in March instead of May, and I was seeing round-trip prices of 377 USD.
see: dependent typing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_type

and restricted languages such as Spark
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I hate to be so negative about something so positive, but the only word that comes to mind is ghastly. I was actually thrown off a bit by the dissonance between the positive tone of the article and the product being described.

>themed Stars with messages like “UR CRAZY,”"UR CUTE,” “BFF,”"Frenemy”"Bromance,” and (!) “Mom Jeans.”

I don't think you're going to find too many adults who are really all that interested in embracing their inner 12-year-old girl.

>Both the actions of giving and receiving Stars cause new and more diverse stars to be unlocked

The reason games like WoW work, IMO, is because there's enough shininess to distract you from the TINO (time in, numbers out) nature of the game. If you distill that down to its core I don't know if people will like what they see. Kind of like how I'll enjoy broccoli smothered in butter or mixed into a cheese dip, because it doesn't really taste like broccoli, but eaten plain it's a chore.

Hey, I'd love to be wrong. I generally want people to succeed, and I'm sure everyone involved here is a nice person...but I'm not sold.
They look real job/partner postings to me. Wharton is the business school of University of Pennsylvania.
In SQLServer in general it's better to write one time SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED, than write hint NOLOCK agains each table.

Result is the same.

This is not a hint for planner. You can write it for PostgreSQL also (I mean SET TRANSACTION).
A tumblr making fun of job/partner postings by business students. Wharton is the business school of University of Pennsylvania, one of the most prestigious business schools in the country.
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Geographically the US is varied, but pretty homogeneous culturally. Yes, there are differences, but compared with the differences between most countries, even in Europe, they're quite small.

I guess I'm exposing my own biases; I don't travel for geographic or climate related reasons.
I would take a semi technical path, maybe as a BI consultant. You work with people, take leadership roles but also work with new technology.
You know, there actually is a lot of value in good business people. Problem is, it's really tough to identify someone who can do business and someone who can talk but can't.

I think about this a lot. I'm now thinking the fastest way to figure it out is (tactfully) ask them how much money they've stacked up in various endeavors. The university teaches a lot of things, but those don't necessarily translate into stacking up money. If you're technical and want a business guy, figure out if he can stack up money. A pretty good predictor of that is how much money he's stacked up in the past.
Have money.

Tell them you're building a team to do X, and you're not looking for free labour.
It is known to all that both use user data in whatever way possible.But what bing seem to be doing it is use it on users searching on google (through IE etc. or maybe even windows) and find the more relevant ones.Did you guys notice Harry Shum mentioning about "cost cutting" in the video where Matt, he and the blekko CEO discuss on this issue.

So, it looks like bing is indirectly using google's data by incurring lesser cost and this is how they seem do it.Spy on google searchers and build the right database. instead of spending on innovation and new ways on the algorithm.
Let google do that part while we piggy back on their good ones.

This is what has really irritated google.
having recently acquired a facebook, my current answer is probably an hour or two a week. My interaction with facebook is posting links of stuff I'm releasing (which, at the moment, has a target audience of people at my uni, when this project is more general, I'll post it on HN), answering friend requests, and answering messages posted to me.

Of those three, two of which I do after facebook sends me an email telling me either "hey, this guy requested to be your friend", or "hey, this guy sent you a message, here is the content: [...]".
Wharton is largely populated by entitled douchebags. Not entirely, but largely.

I was invited to a dinner once where a bunch of Whartonites made up the body of the group. They really thought they were the future gods of industry and knew everything about business (mind you they were playing on daddy's money). When the check came they suggested we play "Credit card roulette" to see who covered the bill.

I don't think my hearty "go fuck yourselves" was appreciated.

These are the same assholes whose arrogance helped crash the market.
Maybe $400 or $600 isn't expensive to /you/, but it is to me.
I've been in a situation where life sucked and racked up some debt and fouled up my credit, so I can sympathize to some extent, but what I thought was pretty bad debt (including student loans) was less than that 'average' wedding figure.

After spending a year or two putting all my extra income toward successfully retiring the debt, my future wife and I looked at engagement rings and weddings and thought, "this is crazy." She has no engagement ring (wedding band though) and we eloped, and we're just as married as my brother and he spent $30k.

I have a friend whose parents offered to give them money for a down payment or to pay for their wedding. They chose wedding.

What the hell people? It's one day. The wedding madness is just nuts. "Hey, we might want to buy a house and have kids soon. Let's spend all of that money we might need entertaining a gaggle of family and friends, half of whom each one of us doesn't particularly like."
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EVERYONE is on Facebook

No. Not everyone is on Facebook. Sure, it's useful, but it's not the be-all and end-all of communication, and it will not replace every other means of communication ever invented. Stop this nonsense.
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I think kylec was talking about leisure travel. People did not immigrate to the United States (or emigrate to Oregon) because they wanted a vacation, but because they wanted a better life. As a result, the mental calculus is different.

Also, one could argue that international travel in February 2001 was significantly easier and less stressful than a similar trip today.
A plane ticket to Europe or Asia often costs less than what I've seen people set aside as their gambling budget in Las Vegas. It's a matter of what you think is important.
Wow, I'm glad that this is limited to 3 adores.

awesome, so me and my (currently 20) low friend count remain anonymous because nearly all of those 20 friends have 250+ friends.
I agree. As a non-technical founder my main focus is on that initial capital raise to be adequately funded to build a solid team and pay them what they're worth.

You wouldn't ask a mechanic to rebuild your engine for equity in your car when you eventually sell it, neither should you expect coders to work for free.
Yeah, we felt that by restricting the number of adores, we can stop people from just firing it out to everyone. We also stop you from repeatedly unadoring and adoring really fast.

The goal is to make each adore feel special. Still a work in progress. We like iterating fast, so things break sometimes!
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Atomic Web Browser, Mercury Web Browser, iCab Mobile, Terra and Opera Mini are some examples of alternative browsers that have additional features to the standard iPad Safari install. There are many others.

Not that an alternative browser would matter in this case, because The Daily is an app, not a website.
I must say this article helps me; I usually work from 11 am to about 3 am, but I notice that after 15:00 I'm less productive. So i'm trying this now.

About the 'longer than 5 minutes to fall asleep'; I have noticed, most of my life, that when it takes me longer than instant to fall asleep, I won't be asleep for many hours. So for me, the author makes a lot of sense. When I go to bed when I'm not completely ready to fall asleep, I can do whatever (assume sleeping position, close eyes, relax, whatever) just to be wide awake 2 hours later. So I have two modes; fall asleep instantly, or read a book for 3 hours. The latter usually turns into reading a book completely and sleeping too little.

So i'm trying this method now and see where it leads me. Thanks for the post.
As a coder, I've historically tended to think poorly of non-technical people who have the "next big idea".

The truth is that a really great business person with the right skills can be immensely important! I didn't fully understand that until this last year between meeting some hustlers on the Startup Bus and my coworkers at my last startup.

The real problem is separating the hustlers from the blowhards. In my experience, they land in 2 camps.

1) Hustlers - They will make something happen w/o you. They'll put up a splash page or a wufoo form or something to get things started. They'll be actively working on their idea, even if it's just prototyping things on paper.

2) Blowhards - These guys are just waiting around for you to join to do the work. They usually have an inflated sense of importance (about themselves and their idea). They also tend to think you're lucky to work with them.

It's the latter type this site is making fun of.

The former are the people you want to work with, and are super valuable.
I'm a huge, huge news junkie. I read the NYT and WSJ daily. (NYT online, WSJ in the APP). I also read several magazine via Zinio, and get the new Yorker, economist, and wired apps on my iPad.

There is no easy way to say this - the first revision of "The Daily" is an embarrassment. When I pick up the WSJ - it's about 10 seconds after I launch that I start reading that days paper. The Daily not only takes so long to start, that I've _already_ lost interest in trying to read it, the total download time is so excessive that I never bother to let the entire thing download. WSJ is quick, snappy.

I realize a lot of this is because of the massive video / photo content - but they need to do something about this App quickly or their going to lose 80% of their potential audience before they even _try_ reading the darn thing.
Is The Daily available outside the US?
The body of the messages seem to be (excerpts of) real job postings, but the titles are of course made up by the editor of this satirical site.
The more intelligent you are, the less religious you get.
Isn't each consecutive Super Bowl the most high-tech ever?

Maybe one year they could do a "Super Bowl Unplugged" and be the one off, odd year that they digress in technology.
Did you invest specifically in star.me or in Ze Frank Games?
Very true...they might be doing this as part of their "cost cutting" exercises.Hasheem had mentioned this and I am not sure what made him to mention "cost cutting" in that panel discussion where Matt and Blekko CEO participated.
That is really well thought out.
Stacked up money for himself? For the company? For the company for a few quarters?

I agree with you, definitely. Finding good business folks is as hard as finding good programmers. Really damn hard.
No, but +574 is the same in Kelvin or Fahrenheit :)