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Modern anthropology and the best science actually indicates that tribal hunter-gatherers experience higher levels of happiness and satisfaction than your typical citizen of an agricultural society.

So does the typical Oxycontin addict. 'Happiness and satisfaction' are weasel words that ultimately have no objective meaning.

Tribal hunter-gatherers have healthier diets, live longer without outside interference,

No, they do not.
I guess you didn't read the stuff on the website describing how they cultivate manioc and papaya in gardens. They've already adopted agriculture.
They go into various statistics yes.

But on a more qualitative note, tribal societies gain little from total war. "Total war" is the modern concept that every war is a struggle for existence and every avenue must be utilized to destroy the enemy culture/civilization.

In tribal societies most violent conflict was settled symbolically - Keegan goes into this in one of his books I forget which one.

For instance the tribes will line up against each other like in typical war and then attack each other, but due to various spiritual taboos against certain war practices, it's really more like a sport than what we consider war. There will be few casualties and most of the combat will be decided more like wrestling or, in some cases, even more like a dance competition. This is not a joke.

Obviously the particular superstitions and rituals differed among tribes, but hunter-gatherer warfare in general did not lead to even fractions of the amount of suffering that agricultural warfare leads to.

Having said all this, it's essentially impossible for hunter-gatherers to compete with agricultural civilization. It's a sort of prisoner's dilemma - whichever tribe "decides" to become agricultural will worse lives individually, but the collective is so powerful and efficient that it replicates itself.

Agriculture is better for our genes - we multiply far more. But hunter-gathering is better for our quality of life.
Previous discussion of a more in-depth Wired article here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2166555
The number of people who use that feature is not of statistical significance.
Maybe children weren't killed, but Australian Aboriginal society has been completely decimated - many of the stories involved are heartbreaking, and these people now have many many more problems that ever before.

I'm sure that regimes that take part in ethnic cleansing believe that they're doing the right thing. A sense of superiority helps them to make their choices.

Whether violence is used or not, in some ways, the effect is the same.

EDIT: If you read about these people and the problems that they're facing, it's not difficult to see that they were pretty much undeniably better off before. It's nothing but a tragedy - and their ill-treatment even continues to this day.
As a physics undergrad we were told "you should probably learn a programming language", but were never given any specific course requirements (or suggestions that I remember).

I actually took multiple programming classes and ended up doing my PhD in computational physics. One of the biggest issues is that much of the software written by and for physicists tends to have very poor design, because they tend to learn the bare minimum necessary to get things to work (in Fortran no less).

They still insisted you take math courses, correct?

This is true, but we still learned a ton of math techniques in our physics classes. I must have learned Fourier transforms about 6 times (and finally understood them after the 3rd time or so :) )
that's really the problem. Adsense doesn't factor into it... but it should. negatively. truth is, Google has created a superb "signal" that a website is crummy: Adsense. it would be funny if it wasn't so sad. and they can't do anything about it, since it would hurt the bottom line.
Indeed. There's actually a term for that: cultural relativism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_relativism
> 2) More importantly, why would Microsoft need to prove google is also using clickstreams? Microsoft does not believe using clickstreams is wrong.

If they can make Google a hypocrite, the issue goes away. that's motivation enough for Bing to investigate the Google side (though I doubt they'd find much).
I haven't read that book, but others have estimated (it varies between tribes) that roughly half of all males that make it to adulthood die of violence - either within (murder and vengeance killing) or between tribes (warfare). One source, though I don't remember what kind of numbers he gave is Pinker's The Blank Slate; which also excoriates the kind of "primitive worship" that seems to be common in these comments.
Do you have to include the way they were killed right under their name? e.g. "Bludgeoned to death"

Seems like there are better ways to remember someone.
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Somewhat related, Steve made a great post 5 years ago about news addiction and how he doesn't watch/follow the news anymore.

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/09/overcoming-news-add...

Highly recommended, even though I fail completely at the advice and am glued to Al Jazeera English right now.

And don't get me started on tech news ;)
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Seriously?
I would say that you haven't thought about the power of a bad peer group can have over a good kid.

I didn't think about that stuff until I had kids myself, so it is not that surprising, given your position, that you haven't thought of that.
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That works too, if there are any left.

Actually, a bunch of top colleges will give you a full ride if you're under a certain income, so if you get one of those packages, take it.
Hasn't this scam already been done?

Years ago there were a flurry of sites like this. They'd send spam to sadfsdfsadfhrtrth@yahoo.com (fake address that I'd only ever used once at some shady ecommerce site) telling me that someone had a crush on me, and all I needed to do was provide my credit card number to find out who.

Ho-ho-ho.
Uncontacted? It looks like they're looking right into the lens!
"Our way of life is better."

Are you asserting that you know their culture well enough to make a meaningful comparison with your culture?
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Teacher's unions???

Why don't we have state-wide, or at least city-wide financing of schools? That would take away the school district issue entirely.
You're right that I condensed her "Two-income trap" book into a single sentence. But she really harps over and over at this fact.
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I agree that saying that hints have zero value is silly, but the blog post is just Josh's opinion. If you read the discussions on this topic on the pgsql-hackers list, you'll find a more balanced view.
There are degrees of agriculturalism. How much of their diet is from foraging and hunting? Also there is still a big difference between cultures who cultivate fruits and cultures who cultivate grains and legumes.

If they adopt grains/legumes their population will increase and their lifespans will decline. But as long as they stick to fruit and animal meat, and avoid modern diseases, they will be healthier than our society.

It's NOT a foregone conclusion that they experience suffering/misery.

It's certainly possible but in order to claim this you need to provide evidence of their suffering/misery.

Most likely, it's quite the opposite. If they are anything like the typical tribal hunter-gatherers, depression is probably unheard of in their culture.
That's why I use Microsoft.FSharp.Collections.Map instead. No multi-threading issues with concurrent access and no performance killing locks.
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You can't generate a 404 on paypal.com:
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What's could their rational be for not following standard conventions?
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But the effect is the same - their society would be absorbed, and probably forgotten.

It's like time travel - you can't go back because you don't know what kind of effects you'll have on the future. In this case you don't know what kind of effects contact will have on their (the tribe's) future.
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>many many more problems that ever before.

That's committing the same error the OP made, but in reverse. Instead of viewing your lifestyle as superior, you clearly view theirs as superior, since adopting the new one has been a net loss. "many of the stories involved are heartbreaking" - I don't doubt that. But all change comes with cost, though that one was certainly far higher than it should have been.

Citing past injustices in the pursuit of improving life doesn't mean the pursuit is incorrect. How about all the successes? Slavery was partially under the guise of improving lives (recently. Slavery has existed for far longer than we have records, usually the losing warring culture becoming slaves for the winning), but so was/is removing it.

In some ways, at some times, the effect is the same. What about the others? Should the pursuit be abandoned entirely?

The debate can be made more general: should we abandon everything that has ever caused suffering? Should only 100% successful lines be pursued? And, as no action is totally identical to a previous one: what's the measure used to tell if something is adequately different to be worth a shot?

edit to match edit: OK, so their problem is current ill-treatment. That is wrong. But that's still not the only thing that happens with cultural assimilation, nor does it always happen, nor must it continue indefinitely. If it improves at any point in the future, would it have been worthwhile? If 100 years of suffering result in 1000 of improvement, was it right or wrong? Not "could it have been better", is it right or wrong to suffer to gain improvement, or to impose suffering to grant improvement? We're debating broad decisions, not issues with a single choice. There's always something wrong with a single choice, and those nuggets of wrongness don't decide whether the core choice was right or wrong as a whole.
I wasn't the one making the argument that these people are experiencing misery/suffering. Misery and suffering is no more objective than happiness and satisfaction. I would argue that both of these things are objective and can be observed in the brain and well as inferred from other criteria.

>No, they do not.

Yes, they do.

We can go back and forth like this all day or you can make a real argument. Read SEX AT DAWN and get back to me with your criticism of their anthropology.

Based on your statements regarding happiness I'm going to tentatively conclude that you're one of the ignorant engineers who has little contact with the social sciences.

Why do programmers believe they know more than everyone else in subjects where they are grossly ignorant? We need a word for this. Programmer hubris or something. I guess it's just the Dunning-Kruger effect striking again.
It ends with his own job ad for co-founders.
What's with all of these CSS posts that don't have an example of what it looks like right up top, much less hidden behind a link? The first thing I want to know about any CSS technique is how it looks.
Here's my input for each of your points:

1. Anonymity: I guess, but not sold.

2. Hosting & IT Infrastructure: Isn't this largely a thing of the past? Could you really offer hosting and such cheaper than the likes of Heroku/GoDaddy/the like?

3. How many start-ups, in the mode you speak of, "need" this? Hey, having an accountant ready to go is great, but most certainly you'll be charging extra for that? Payment systems are also something that has become easier and easier to implement.

4. Legal Umbrella: For me, this is the scary one! How am I going to get that umbrella without giving something major up in return? This is something I'm already working on...right? So why give it to someone else? Now, maybe offering up a GOOD set of standard docs and/or legal services to get ME setup with my own protection would be something worth considering.

5. Moral Support - Can't argue with that. I get a heck of a lot of it right here on HN though! What would be better would be skill augmentation! I suck at graphic design/visual stuff and I equally suck at bizdev/marketing - and I would gladly trade some of my coding skills for someone to help me on the stuff at which I suck.

6. Solidly supplied by HN users, but can never get enough! This has a stronger impact in a "non-virtual" setup where you work next to these like minded individuals "x" number of nights a week.

Sounds like a negative response, but you asked if it would appeal to me and unfortunately, in this case, with the parameters described, I don't think it would. But I'm just one voice and wish you the best.
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A better example might be from Colin Turnbull's The Forest People where one of the Pygmies accompanied him to the edge of the forest and refused to believe a distant "bug" was really a buffalo.
If this could be formatted as a tutorial, you'd have something really superb.
fantastic app, thumbs up
The longer the runway, the longer you can go before finding out you don't have wings.
Have you considered a Livescribe pen? They record audio in sync with the notes you take.
The article brings a valid point. If you're a wanna-be entrepreneur and all you have an idea, that's not nearly enough.
"You are fortunate enough have programmers in-house but those individuals are so valuable that you don’t want them spending all of their time building reporting and monitoring infrastructure for your sites."

I get this but I don't see it always being true when you look at Ginza's pricing. The Agency plan is $599 and that only includes 20 sites.

If in-house programmers can build their own tools one-time, it might be cheaper in the long run than paying $7,200+ a year.
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Hi HN,

This is a very recent event, and I'd appreciate it if you can share your thoughts on this matter.

http://twitter.com/#!/csisimportant
http://csisimportant.blogspot.com/
Oh please. That's 12 years old, it can't possible still apply.

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This response is a joke, right?

What constitutes a 'civilized' lifestyle? Your concepts of 'backwards' and 'civilized' are grounded in normative assumptions about what is right and wrong. I am not a post-structuralist, but I expect someone to acknowledge his or her normative stance before degrading a culture different than your own. What do you mean when you say 'There is nothing good?' What do you define as 'good?'

There are 'tribes' whose languages don't even contain a sense of linear time, which goes against Chomsky's universal theory of language. Here is a recent article: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/16/070416fa_fact_...

No past, no present. I am sorry, but your narrow, ethnocentric mind can't cognitively understand what that kind of existence is like.

Look this up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology This varies across cultures and languages. At least pretend to respect difference.
I write with dry erase markers just fine, and that's not ideal.

I think the real key is an acceptable amount of friction. This looks like it could fit that bill.
A table for Love With Food, please! Go Aihui!
Unfortunately I think Hacker News, in this thread, is providing support to the thesis that there is something about the engineer mindset that is inherently authoritarian and extremist.

http://www.slate.com/id/2240157/
Their twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/csisimportant

I'd appreciate it if you can share your thoughts on this matter.
Except its water which kinda defines incompressible.

Answer is thermal energy from tectonic processes. Cite:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi...
I understand its not hacker stuff but it was entertaining!
Exactly. http://www.bonkersworld.net/2011/02/04/copying/
How is it that some peoples can remain in this state for so long? Please don't read disrespect in the question, I mean it neutrally. There seems to have been very little innovation or growth in terms of technology when you look at people still living like this.
I feel we need to get away from the word 'martyrs'. It glorifies death in service, and turns it into something to be expected; even welcomed.

One live freedom fighter is worth a thousand dead ones.
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And your data showing is....where?

I can of course say, I use this feature, and of course point to others who do, but I don't have data to say it is significant. However, you have stipulated it is not, but have not provided any data to prove it.
Dont you think this is a bit like ambulance chasing? Are we going to have to hear about (anything that involves death) + 1000memories? I guess one mans misery is another mans marketing opportunity.
See OP for hash_map. And std::map is dog slow because somebody thought a Red-Black-Tree is a good idea for a map.

So at least part of the penalty there is simply choosing the wrong data structure.

Also, IIRC, both hash_map and std::map don't support a reserve call. Which means you pay for quite a few allocations.
Nah, commercial airliners don't fly pretty much everywhere they fly between airports on predetermined routes. Through air traffic control "sectors" One of the things that is hard to understand for all of us who live so close to the civilized world, is how much of the world is uninhabited and poorly understood.
I don't have expertise in this area but I have been researching something similar with music. There are companies that have large collections (millions) of copy written material and you pay a small yearly fee to get a license to use it. This is done a lot with music and karaoke. You need to buy a license to cover the royalties.

If the above is a no-go, you can always use Getty images, or search for images that are party of "public domain". That may actually be easier from the get go.
so how do you do this card trick? :)
For all we know they found those items in the jungle that were left behind by travelers.
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That's what you think. Who says there can't be a -1 degree Kelvin? Just because it doesn't make any sense sense to us whatsoever right now doesn't mean it couldn't exist.

Do I know how to reach -1 degree Kelvin? No. But 1920's physicists didn't know how to destroy entire cities in Japan with a hunk of metal, either.
The thing that I like about this marketing, is that they are not really marketing to people to get them to pay money. They are using a host of tools (here Promoted Tweets and Meetup Everywhere) to build a following that will demand Al Jazeera. Such tools not only allows them to build a movement a relatively cheaply using online tools (which is great), but also lets their users better connect with one another.

I wish more companies did something like this.
I'm hearing Half Life 2: Episode 3 echoes.
> It's amazing how much crap those guys produce and how little they do stir up interesting startups.

I don't think it's really that surprising. Let's be honest - is startup news or the "pop journalism" that you (rightfully) deride going to draw a larger audience? TechCrunch is in the business of drawing in as many readers as possible, and it does a fantastic job in that respect. TSF certainly fills a niche that we are very interested in, but it's a relatively small one when you look at the blogosphere ecosystem as a whole.
Not a joke.

You're mistaken in your assumption that I am ignorant of philosophy just b/c A) I didn't cite anyone impressive in my initial comment B) we disagree. Yes I am aware of Chomsky (in more detail than New Yorker articles offer). Yes I am aware of what ontology is.

Yes I have studied philosophy. Do you want me to counter-cite philosophers for you to read? You might learn something by reading _The Myth of the Framework_ and _The Open Society And Its Enemies_ by Karl Popper.

If you want to trash freedom, human rights, peaceful cooperation, and other aspects of modern Western civilization, and deny their objective value, don't pretend there is no serious and thoughtful stuff published on the other side and that everyone who disagrees with you is ignorant.

Next time you want to call someone closed minded, try to do it without ad hominem. Ad hominem arguments don't make you come off as tolerant and willing to have an open-ended discussion where you don't assume in advance who is right.
I prefer Weather Underground, because their predictions are a bit more pessimistic than weather.com's, I would rather be prepared for a snow or rain that didn't happen than be caught unprepared by one that did.
Care to explain the downvote? I'd be interested to hear the alternate argument. I'm not talking about censorship; I just think the idea that dying can make you more of a hero is counterproductive.
If only it was a one-time expense! Life would be much simpler for me. :-)

The truth is that, like any app, it requires ongoing maintenance, new features, monthly server costs, etc. For most of the companies I work with, they are glad to let someone else focus on building the infrastructure.
Man, you are clearly speaking from a position of privilege on that one. How the hell do you hold back 6-12 months salary when you can barely afford the rent, utility bills and the costs of raising some kids to begin with?

Haha, just hold back 6 months salary! You make it sound so easy!

It's not that they didn't prepare, it's that many of them have no means to prepare, and barely have the means to continue as is.

Many also believe that it is worth risking living on the edge to support a better school for their kids (ideally breaking the cycle), than moving to project housing and dangerous gang-controlled areas in order to enjoy their "margin of safety". I can't fault them for that.

And, if you're in such a position, and aren't fortunate enough to have your area of expertise and interest involving computers, good luck getting a job without a degree. So what do they do to pay for the outrageous tuition costs these days? Take a giant loan from Sallie Mae.

Now you have two problems.
some uncontacted tribes.

I'm not sure you can speak for all of them ;)
I think it's great. The site itself is the answer to the question of its own seriousness and worth. Many (most?) readers will enjoy the site (or not) and never know the name g0atbutt; those who do know will find it impossible to forget.
I'm on dialup, so the difference is even more noticeable to me. The new page takes more than half again as long to load as the earlier version, and it was already pretty slow (too many ads and images).
We see the same problem universally.

We're all brought up in societies which indoctrinate. We're all introduced to ideas at an early age, which we grow attached to. It's unavoidable.
Some more background would be nice.

Seems like they are trying to consolidate Computer Science, Computer Engineering into something new that may be more cheaper. It would also be a way to re-staff by picking and choosing. Does this affect tenure?
Yes, just saying this should be sufficient - "If your email address is our database, you would shortly receive an email to reset your password".
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Maybe the framework they built (or built their site on) automatically renders the homepage when a 404 error is encountered?
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