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It won't be better for them. It may not better for their children. It will probably be better for their grandchildren... if we continue to be generous. But by that time we'll probably be disgusted and resentful because they haven't assimilated well enough to be productive members of the middle class. The alternative, of course, is forcible assimilation and cultural extinction, which would be a horrific fate inflicted on two generations for the sake of unborn ones.

To accomplish what you suggest, it seems like the "cleanest" and most humane way would be to kidnap every child under ten and every subsequent child born into the tribe and put them up (separately) for adoption in wealthy countries. Let everyone older than ten live out their lives undisturbed, except for the tragic disappearance of all of their children. I challenge you to either endorse this method or describe a way that causes less suffering.
It's very possible to exist in a culture without thinking that it's the best.

I didn't adopt my culture, it adopted me (I was born into it).
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Has anyone tried this? I'm very curious since I'm thinking about trying it out.
Seems spot on, but rather puzzling. They may be huge, but I'd have thought they'd still avoid risking duplicate content penalties and just use a 30x redirect for it.
>We must not contact them, unless they want to contact us.

And how do we tell?

They can't know about us unless they... know about us (contamination: our existence, and any visual differences). They can't contact us unless they know where we are (contamination: we're watching them, and they see us doing so). Then they can't express desires until we understand each other (contamination: language and ideas). At that point, you've already significantly altered their culture, at least for the individual(s) you directly dealt with, and any they told. If we "must not contact them", then we must not contact any, because every person is part of a group, and arguably is a group of one, so you've already contaminated a person, a group, a sub-culture, a unique society that will never be the same again.

We either force contact, or we deny them the knowledge of our existence. There is no middle-ground, because any step away from zero contact is contact. Inaction is just delay of choice; what happens if they literally walk in a straight line until they hit a city? We are forcing contact by our mere existence, we could pick up the city and move to avoid contaminating them against their choice, since if they didn't know about us they couldn't have chosen to contact us.
The poor viewing angles where the screen looks almost like a negative image are the worst. Cheap junk keeps this problem alive.
Thanks, this is really helpful.

git stash is exactly what I was looking for in order to save my index without having to make a random commit. And then the -p option is icing on the cake (ps, it also works for stash).

I ran into a tiny problem with git stash. Assume I have a file called README. If I do the following:

$ git mv README README.markdown
$ git stash save
$ git stash pop

The index no longer knows that I did a 'git mv'. It turns out the --index option will try to reinstate the changes made to the index, but it might cause a merge conflict.

Also, the patch interactive mode documentation says "g - select a hunk to go to" yet it never gives that option. I thought it might not allow it if there are a small number of chunks, but I even tried it on an old repo I have with 7 modified files and 'g' was never an option.... Have you ever used g?
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You're correct, except that the heat doesn't come from the earth's core, but from its mantle and mostly its crust.
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It doesn't matter how compressible it is, its temperature still rises from pressure. That is why ice is so slippery, pressure (from a tire, foot, or ice skate) melts a thin layer of water on the surface which acts as a lubricant (which is also why ice stops being slippery when its temperature gets low enough that normal pressures can't raise it enough to melt).
How is life expectancy not easy to measure? (Unless you mean without disturbing them)
You certainly don't argue or write like you studied anything but Glenn Beck's wikipedia page.

Can you please explain to me how I am 'trashing' freedom, and human rights? Cultural rights ARE human rights.

And please explain to me how Karl Popper somehow supports your theory of 'objective value.' Popper's arguments concern the contingency of analyses. Contingency, not objectivity.

I only reserve the ad hom's for close-minded dipshits like yourself.
@phlux "Make it so that you can see "all flights out of SFO/into SFO" by that carrier - then list the tickets available for each of the flights/destinations in the next few days."

Agreed, and then...

- Contact the site admins for the major airport hubs (SFO, LAX, ORD, JFK) and sell to them
- Contact all those independent Wifi operators at airports and sell them, they're hungry for content
- Contact Virgin, Richard's guys are always up for something new & different!
- Add Twilio.com SMS API, a "GroupMe" for flight notification?
I love the last few sentences:

"I feel very excited but once we do it there is no going back," Alexei Ekaikin, a scientist with the expedition said from Vostok Station. "Once you touch it, it will be touched forever."
Went to Wake Forest and William and Mary, now live in Denver.
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Video since it seems down now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYqE-ZbEPj8
Last summer, I met the guy who does the R&D on these. Is that the coolest job ever, or what?
I hope the day eventually comes when "The X is a killer for me. I think I'll hold out for Y" is not the prevailing pattern of existing vs. future Android devices.
Spork is a great social network for foodies and a good way to connect others with the places you love to eat!
It really is immensely complicated - I have no solutions, but I do know that we have to learn from history.

Good intentions almost always fail. People deserve respect. Superiority is often an illusion. Motivations are multifaceted.

I know I'd be happier with a simple life, and - perhaps romantically - I imagine that these people might have a better life than we do. Realistically, that's just as likely as the opposite - because, for all the interesting things our lives have to offer, there are some deep-routed problems we face, that we're very far from solving.

I think I said it in another post - but I'll reiterate before signing off .. I really hope this tribe is left alone. If a lot of contact is made, I'm sure no good will come from it.

EDIT: Nice debating with you btw.
To the extent those can be papered over, they have been by most good runtimes; the remainder is evenly applied to all languages and runtimes under discussion because nobody can escape from them at all, no matter how awesome the top layers are.

This is what I was referencing when I offhandedly mentioned the fact that some layers can make papering over them actually impossible; if the kernel can not be convinced to do it with any series of syscalls, or worse yet the hardware itself can not be convinced, you lose, game over. Another example, Haskell's very strong type system can do a fairly good job of making really damned sure you don't escape from the system, which is useful for making an STM that is actually usable precisely because the smallest escape hatch tends to bring it down. But the downside is that a library or something can actually make it impossible to hack around a problem (with any reasonable degree of effort).
Any currently in UC Berkeley? I'm an undergrad here at the moment.
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Obligatory: http://lesswrong.com/lw/y4/three_worlds_collide_08/
AFAIK the Google cache is just that: a cache. If a page is deleted, the cached version will also expire after some time. For permanent record, you need the wayback machine, but that has much fewer sites in it than Google.
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I can proof/edit up to 1,000 words for you, for free, and with no strings or expectations attached.

For the curious, here's why:

1. I'm between jobs and need to do a little work in an area of strength to fend off lethargy

2. This also tests a potential market that suits my skills and which may be worth pursuing

3. I enjoy HNers, helping people, and helping HNers

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You're the one who made the specific assertion; it's up to you to deliver the citation. "Read book X" isn't sufficient.
I didn't mention --index since I was trying to keep it simple.

-g works for me, but it's only an option if there's more than one hunk in a single file. You can use 's' to split a hunk up if its non-contiguous.
That's awesome; I built my own stand so I could lay in bed and watch with out my arms/hands getting tired. I used the original box to get a perfect pit molding that I could attach to a broken arm lamp desk (used by architects).

I wager this would put some strain on your neck, but still.
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Hey HN, any chance you could help me help myself with a few suggestions?

I am looking for an issue to inform others about and take a persuasive angle on, but ideally one that will help me learn about something related to programming, startups, etc.

Needs to be a reasonably big issue - big enough to get in an Australian newspaper (since Sept 2010)

Some ideas I had:

- the Chris Russo POF hacking (persuading for/against this)
- the Microsoft/Google search results debacle

What would you choose
Meta about some of the comments on this post: I've never seen such unbridled arrogance and xenophobia in a post on HN before. The our way or the highway attitude is shocking.
I've come to hate the usage of the word "chops," outside of the music industry.
If you're willing to move, and live with roommates, it's fairly easy to live comfortably (assuming no children) on 12k/year total. Assuming you're making minimum wage-ish, that's 8k to put in the bank every year.
Would it be wrong to create an online memorial for all large losses of life? If there is I don't see it. This just makes it all a little bit more real to me.
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I don't have any data showing that, but come on. Think about alllll the people out there who log into Facebook by Googling "www.facebook.com". That's your average internet user, not you and me.
Popper also wrote the books "Objective Knowledge" and "In Search of a Better World". These titles are perhaps a giveaway.

Throughout he advocates the existence of objective truth, and things like the possibility of a "better" world. He is no relativist. He thinks some ideas and values are better than others. He makes explicit statements (and arguments) in favor of objective ethics in, e.g., _The World of Parmenides_, ch 2, addendum 2. Also of course he favors the open society and thinks it is better than the closed society.
I was going to disagree, because I thought you were talking about the ones who died in assaults. But I think you're right about the ones who just set themselves on fire in protest. That seems like a bit of an empty gesture.
The scope of human sacrifice was largely exaggerated. The book 1491, by Charles C. Mann, puts the amount of people sacrificed per year by the Aztecs at 3000-4000, out of around 30 million people. He compares that to England, which executed 75000 people between 1530 and 1630. England had about 1/10th the population of the Aztecs, and if it had the same, it would have been executing 7500 people each year, around double the Aztecs were.
It would not seem prudent whatsoever for someone - especially with no local knowledge (or language ability?) to go to Shenzhen and attempt to bribe anyone, much less government officials, to solve this problem. Guanxi aside, even if you think some local cadres are very 腐败, not a good idea. Cannot emphasize enough how many potential problems could arise from this course of action.

@OP, I would concur with the "lawyer first" strategy. While it may be worthwhile to go to meet with your supplier(s) / contact to try to resolve the issue, the first step you need to take is to better understand your current legal posture and options, lest you find yourself in unpleasant territory once you hit Chinese soil.
I am currently using https://authoritylabs.com/signup with the 10 site plan.

Your system has more features (funnel, more keywords) but the price jump for me at least would be the issue.
No that's not what I said or meant.

Walking into the middle of the crowd of thugs and holding a mic/camera to them and asking why they are being violent, and then getting beaten by them, that's purposely making yourself part of the story and you can't pretend to be surprised.

But interviewing someone on the scene who was hurt by the thugs is being a reporter. Injecting yourself in the middle of the fight and knowing you are likely to get beaten is making yourself part of the story and not proper reporting.

Which do you think is proper reporting during a hurricane? Interviewing someone whose home was just flattened for what their experience was and now means to them OR setting up a camera and filming yourself jumping out into 100mph winds to get blown away?
(1) This really needs to be better explained. What is being proposed? Is it simply a matter of reorganization, with faculty and programs being moved to a different administrative unit? Or is it the elimination of programs and classes? Or is it the elimination of positions, and the firing of tenured faculty, etc.? The first is mostly an internal matter, of little interest to the outside world. But the other two are more serious, and some of us out here might want to take an interest.

More information, please.

(2) The grievances need work, too.

The first (Accreditation) is unclear. Even the complete elimination of a C.S. program is not going to stop the university from being accredited. On the other hand, if this is about program accreditation, then what is the issue?

The part about CS being an integral part of any good university does not make sense. Do the writers think all students take CS courses?

Most of the rest of the grievances amount to "Will we have the support necessary for the completion of our degrees?", which is certainly a worthwhile question for the students to ask. On the other hand, it is not one with any long-term impact on the university.

But a couple of the grievances have great significance: "Enrollment has increased in the department in the last 2 years. How can the Dean justify this type of cut?" An excellent question. Also: "What are the facts behind this decision? It is well known that the CS department has more enrollment than other departments. So why CS is being dissolved?" This is what needs to be emphasized, I think.
I particularly liked the first line on slide 48

"We require operational reporting on all services"

feels like everyone learns that the hard way, twitter just did it much more visibly
I don't think crowdsourcing is allowing many people to pursue happiness and wealth.

Well .. unless you include the company operating the service :)
There is a big difference between "primitive civilizations" and hunter gatherer tribes.

People often forget that the Aztecs were an agricultural civilization. So were most Native Americans like Pocahontas -- yes, Pocahontas' dad was a farmer. Shocking, I know.

The comparison is between different forms of past societies, not between past societies and today.

Until very recently, plenty of men in agricultural societies died from violence and war.
I think the best way to do this is observe, document and study as much of their culture as we can without contact, After that contact them to with the goal of medical help and protection. And proceed carefully from there.
I can agree with almost all of that except "almost always fail". Saying that means you think the amount of evil in the world outweighs the amount of good, to which I must ask, "how are you measuring?" I'd argue that good goes unnoticed and taken for granted because it's the norm; people notice exceptions far more quickly than what they encounter every day. We're able to debate on the internet; is that not good? How many billions (trillions?) of good interactions happen because of the internet?

Quite a few people choose simpler lives voluntarily. If they're happy, that's fantastic, they made the right choice. I de-clutter occasionally, which is a similar choice. But I see no reason that any style of life could be without deep-rooted problems. Ours is most likely ennui; I'll take that, because it's a personal problem that can be battled personally, and solved. Our culture could be better for such things, but not without other costs / problems which really can't be predicted, so I won't try. Many more "primitive" cultures have problems which are less solvable by individuals - food, safety, health, and yes I'm oversimplifying and it could be insulting, but it's more true of smaller, more isolated, less-technologically-advanced cultures than it is of the rest of the world.

We have far more individual options than they do, if only because we can choose to do without them (see: Amish). Which may be the root of the problems with our culture. But I like personal problems. I can fix them. I can't fix society as easily.

edit: I've enjoyed it too :)
I once attended a talk by Carl Sagan where, during the question-answer session, someone mentioned how much we could learn from "primitive societies". Sagan replied that we should not glorify such lives. In addition to other things, he said that in 1900 the average life span in civilized countries was 35. As artificial and commercialized as we have become, technology has improved our lives.
Reminds me of "Guns, Germs, and Steel". I've started reading it a few weeks ago, following recommendations on another HN thread. Great book so far.

Part of the book focuses on diseases, and how epidemic diseases only spread in large populations. Problem appears when small tribes with no immunization are exposed to these "common" diseases...
They have reshuffled the program a couple of times in the last 15 years or so. At first CS was in the college of Arts and Sciences. There was also Computer Engineering (CE) in the College Of Engineering.

Then CS dept. was moved to the College Of Engineering into a combined program of "Electrical Computer Engineering and Computer Science". Then they split it up again between Computer Engineering and Computer Science (but within the same College of Engineering).

So now they have:

School of Computing Sciences & Informatics :

http://www.cs.uc.edu

and School of Electronics & Computing Systems :

http://secs.ceas.uc.edu

Now they want to eliminate the SCSI or merge it with SECS again...

WTF are they doing? If they spent as much effort on academics as they spent on administrative reshuffling maybe they would get somewhere.

There are some good professors there but there quite a few just riding the tenure wave, not caring much about teaching or researching. Overall it was a decent school but nothing extraordinary. I learned a lot there, or should I say, I taught myself a lot there, while waiting to get a piece of paper at the end.
And it doesn't download in the background!

Between the 1 minute wait and the requirement that you launch it daily it misses all the good stuff about the old dead-tree version.
If Ideas are meaningless, then why the first question everyone asks "What is the idea you pursuing?"
I'm Mahmoud, the guys at 1000memories are referring to.

I think that Rudy, Jonathan, and Brett had the right intentions with this post, but it backfired without having provided the proper context (which they tried to add in the comments here).

I contacted the guys yesterday with an idea for a project they can help execute with me and a group I'm working with. The idea was basically to setup individual pages for each individual that has lost his/her life during the Egyptian revolution. I thought having their families see the whole world's supporting messages could give them comfort and some closure.

The one thing that was missing was a front page that would combine all their profiles that would be a group memorial for visitors to land on first. I fired off the email and went to bed. I woke up 5am in the morning with 3 emails from Jonathan and an initial page already designed. I can't tell you how appreciative I was for the quick response and immediate action on their part. With this post specifically, the guys acted in the best interest of moving the project forward, but they just missed providing the proper context. It happens...so lets move on

This is an early project that needs all your help to improve it and promote it to something that makes these families proud.

I hope I brought some clarity to the situation.
How to 'impregnate' potential co-founders
There has been quite a bit of discussion on finding potential co-founders, so I thought it would be worthwhile discussing how to impregnate potential co-founders with your idea to see if there is any chance of them 'having your baby'.

A good entrepreneur will recognize an idea with potential when he sees it, as long as it is portrayed well when hearing the idea. A little change in the portrayal of an idea can be the difference between one person hating it, and the same person absolutely loving it.

I attempted to convince a friend help develop one of my ideas. He hated it, and said no. I then created a video displaying what the idea was about, and how it would work, with screenshots and images. After my friend saw the video, he thought it was incredible and offered to help develop it. He had been impregnated, and eventually lead to the birth of my first child (idea).

Any other thoughts for a successful idea portrayal, in hope to impregnate a potential co-founder?
>it's up to you to deliver the citation. "Read book X" isn't sufficient.

What do you think a citation is?
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Very true, its very overwhelming. If I showed you my stack of books you would understand. Register your LLC and obtain a TIN (Tax ID Number). When you get the LLC certificate, take that, as well as the TIN, and articles of incorporation to your bank and open a business bank account. Open a bank account with a bank that is located worldwide or at least all over the country that way you can have access to it everywhere.

Accounting wise, pay someone, it is a pain. Usually $500 won't cut it, I've seen average LLC registration go for $250, accounting work, even more. Therefor try to do the LLC work yourself, you should be able to just google that for your state.
Yes, as exciting as that approach may seem, considering recent immigration trends, I would think most anyone from China could extend their reach for revenge purposes into my home country with great ease....I think I'll be keeping this negotiation on the straight and narrow.
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