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>Why is it so easy to accept that pretty much everything in our bodies is genetic but not intelligence?

Because intelligence is much less understood than most of the rest of our bodies. For example, there have been various discoveries that seem to indicate our language has an effect on what we can know and understand [1, 2, etc.]. Perhaps there are dramatic differences in what each of our brains are capable at the "hardware" level, but the "software" (language) dampens the effect.

[1] The Piraha can't learn numbers after a certain age because they have no words to describe them

[2] An article a few months back about deaf people growing up without any language ended up bringing out the fact that some asian languages have words to describe some aspect of color that westerners do not. Babies are able to see the difference but gradually lose the ability as they grow up with no way of expressing it.
Why post articles that are behind a paywall? most people will not be able to read it anyway.
The most interesting part of that article (other than the rather obvious conflict of interest coming from Duke faculty) would be the first comment.
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Today's Wired article gives some more specific examples:

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/03/google-spam-side-effe...
It seems like a bad idea:

The site frames the google-developers as a conflict between enemies, like unions usually do. Neither Apple or Google are getting unreasonable profits from their 30%share as they reinvest more than 90% of this money in infrastructure, as Apple had clarified a lot of times.

If you make a great app, your users win,you win, and Google wins too. I bet they are too much wins for the site creator prejudices and believes. He has the mentality that for someone to win someone has to lose, the "survival" or "fight" mentality.

If you sell a software application over traditional channels like retail expect getting less than 10%, as every intermediary layer doubles the price, e.g that was what the game "Commandos behind the enemy lines" got when Pyro studios gave us a talk. Steam, Amazon, Apple, O'Reilly or Google are very good opportunities for direct sales today.

I'm not going to talk about the entitlement tone because other people had done already, but the "demands" I see are not the main problems Android has today, for example I don't see "Adding support for more countries in the world, like Apple does". He is focused on getting more share of the cake instead of making a bigger one, IMHO this is a bad strategy.
This is absolutely true. I would personally like few things more than to see the Euro gotten rid of (though that's nearly impossible at this point thanks to speculators).
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Because they don't have a surplus? The issue is multiple drastically different economies trying to use the same currency. All the reasons you try to appreciate or depreciate your currency are not available to most EU countries.
>>Making an app pretty is more deeply ingrained into the development culture on the Mac side.

This is actually my question, why is it like this? Any reasons behind it?
Whoa. I wrote jsonip a few months ago and never expected it to get noticed. What a pleasant surprise!

Here's the original post with some usage details. http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1896015

This is actually running on node.js. If anyone finds a bug or has some suggestions, email me or leave a tweet @geuis.
There are many conferences that deal with open access in the context of scholalrly publication. E.g.,

http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc/program.html

Peter Suber keeps a list:

http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc/program.html

Many library science journals are open access, e.g., Ariadne. Example article:

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue57/waaijers-et-al/
I basically meant the current center left coalition is slightly less destructive than the far left SPD, you are right, we are still somewhat left of optimal.
The last page of the article highlights a problem with your line of thought: Wages didn't profit (much) from the economic growth of the last years. And without money germans cannot consume more. This is a problem for an ever increasing part of the work force as cost of living is on the rise.

(There were people who benefited from the economic growth - I count myself among them - but that doesn't invalidate the argument regarding the whole work force)
The monetary union is voluntary and some European nations used it to load up on cheap debt that they are now asking the Germans to help pay down. Using a common currency always means that interest rates and exchange rates will not be equally appropriate for everybody. It's the same in the US.
It's common to ask authors to have their articles edited at their own expense.
Well if you include healthcare, you should really add another 13.5% to that, as it is funded by compulsory health insurance rather than tax.
Betty White was on SNL :)
Cheap labour in other countries isn't an infinite resource, I've seen estimates that in about 40-50 years the difference will be gone: China and other countries that currently have cheap labour will have become so enriched that they will have a middle class and social makeup similar to ours, and not so cheap labour anymore.
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He may be referring to more payment options - like PayPal. I get emails all the time from people asking if they can pay with PayPal.

EDIT: And until you've sold apps in the Android Market, you don't know the pain that is the infamous RED "Payment Declined" message in Google Checkout.
I wouldn't trust Apple to maintain an archive of peer-reviewed science for the next 100 years, which is what librarians aim to do. Institutional subscriptions are part of this picture: libraries receive all the publications of the journals they subscribe to and archive them.
No, this is not a zero sum game. Germany just makes better stuff. It's not cheating. If everybody else did the same, the world as a whole would be wealthier and the imbalances you're talking about would smooth out.
Should be "Scheme -> C compiler".
Don't use terms as "people in Germany" (implying all), "german people would vote" and "was never welcome (sic) by the people".

I'm from Germany, I'm not pissed. I wouldn't vote against the currency and was actually glad when it was introduced. qed.
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I don't get this argument. Doesn't that mean that Germany are currently selling their stuff for cheap, and buying for too much?
In chrome I get a redirect-loop warning... (being logged in in gmail at the same time)
The basic idea is that when countries go into surplus an increased foreign demand for their products should push up wage levels, domestic demand and, in turn, price levels. With the rising prices there is less demand and the current account surplus equalizes.

I think the general argument is that Germany and China both run huge current account surpluses. China accomplishes this partly through structural regulations and by holding the yuan at an undervalued rate. Germany, on the other hand, cut taxes and reformed its labor and welfare systems in the mid-2000's but in a way that prevents the system from equalizing. The main reason the author gives is that wages don't rise because workers are willing to accept reduced pay raises for job security.
I will look into adding ipv6 support
Care to elaborate why this would be the case? I mean, it sounds great and I know the usual arguments that economy is not a zero-sum game, but this sounds way too much like "Hey, it works great in the short run and for one country - let us all do this and hope that it works in the long run!" to me.
Odd, I'm unable to reproduce. What version/OS? Just out of curiosity, what happens if you try it in incognito mode? Is anyone else experiencing this?
I'm releasing something similar soon. This is really helpful :)
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How do you describe a "socialistic" workforce?
Some suggestions:

Make jsonip.com dual stack IPv4/IPv6 and work for IPv6 addresses too. Return some other useful IP information, such as the PTR, the domain name part of the PTR, and the country code and name.

Example: https://grepular.com/ipinfo

EDIT: Don't use that URL for your own stuff or I'll block it. I only put it there as an example of how the JSON should be returned.

EDIT2: Might be useful if it included the IP addresses from any X-Forwarded-For HTTP header too.
Ask HN: Great idea but true passion lies elsewhere. What should I do?
Hello all

I've been a web developer for many years now but my main passion lies elsewhere (totally unrelated field), though I really enjoy my work and I'd like to think I'm pretty good it.

The thing is, I have an idea for a web app (yeah I know - bear with me!) and I think it could gain some serious traction if done properly. I have some pre-alpha stuff cobbled together and it's going well. Pretty soon I hope to bring someone else in and make a proper go of it.

But here's the thing - at some undefined future point I want out. In a full-time sense at least. As much as I enjoy this stuff, my other passion will require the majority of my time and given it's a huge money sink, I'm hoping this new hare-brained scheme will partly pay for it.

There's a lot said on here about having total ultra-focused passion to your project and how you'll fail to get anywhere/attract interest/attract co-founders with anything less. Is this generally true? I realise there are always exceptions but if it's true in general then it obviously makes things much more difficult. To be clear, I have every reason to want this to succeed and I'm willing to put the work in - it's just not something I want to be doing in 5 years time.

What would you say is my best way forward - keep quiet and see how things go and (hopefully) cash out in the future, or be totally upfront about my intentions at the risk of sounding somehwat flaky or uncommitted?
So you're suggesting there shouldn't be any (for example) instant messaging in the web browser, it should be in a separate application.

Well, it's pretty clear what you mean now, and I guess we'll just have to agree to differ. Real-time AJAX applications in the web browser are the future, and I know I'm not the only one who thinks so.

Also, if you think I'm trying to say the back button should do anything to an IM conversation, you're misunderstanding the whole issue.
It's not too expensive. They lower cost as much as they can. The only way to get any cheaper would be decrease the quality.

Personally, I think that if all capitalism can ever hope to give us is cheap garbage then it's a failure (I don't think that is all it can give us, but some people seem to).
People do argue that by allowing monkey-patching, you guarantee that groups of developers will step on each others' toes. Refinements in 2.0 (http://ruby.about.com/od/advancedruby/a/Refinements-The-End-...) are an answer to that.
Thanks Mike. I'll start working some of these in over the next few days
I'm not in the future yet, but I was under the impression that with IPv6 you would actually know your own public address, because there is no need for NAT. Is this not correct?
It looks like the closest Common Lisp equivalent is ECL? http://ecls.sourceforge.net/
For good friends I'll do it if I have the time (it's not like any have asked me to build them a facebook yet). For family I'll usually always do it - they've earned the favours many times over.
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I can't remember if it was asked or not, but I've had several investors ask the question 'What keeps others from copying you quickly?'
There is a -10% coupon as well: "fr10".

Just got the information as I do a presentation there, thought I would pass it along.
For one, most people with IPv6 have a fixed address. Also, the future is not very well distributed.
"... Could someone tell me more about this Jason Calacanis fellow. ..."

If you listen to others explain who Calcanis is you'll get what people think he is. Instead listen to this interview (and read the show notes), on Stack Overflow podcast, "Podcast #56 Jeff Atwood" ~ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/podcast-56/

He came across as smart, funny and determined. It's his determination that struck me the most.
I'm getting this too. Chromimum 8.0. I'm on Ubuntu 10.10.
If you really want Tor-style anonymity with BitTorrent, I suggest I2P. http://www.i2p2.de/

The core router software even bundles its own BitTorrent client. However, since it is effectively a darknet, regular torrents you find elsewhere won't really work. Still, it is interesting stuff.
Whilst I agree that the Tor network would be better off without Bittorrent traffic, it bothers me when I read things that say that Tor can't anonymise Bittorrent traffic.

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter...

Using the TransparentProxy mode of Tor, forces all network traffic out through Tor, and blocks stuff which can't be, such as UDP. Do that on a machine which only has a LAN address so doesn't know it's Internet facing IP, and it's anonymous... It can't leak it's IP because it doesn't know it, and it can't connect to the Internet without going via Tor...
It's called Bittorrent.
This is a great idea. A simple interface for my TODO's.
However I do not think iframing Google Tasks is the best idea, why not just create something similar your own?

Since you are iframing it I get this bug:
http://i.imgur.com/H7Ytb.png
I want three list respectivly "Done", "Today" and "Someday".
However as I change one, the others change too.

I'm running Chrome 11 dev
I think there's nothing wrong with doing your project with as much passion as you can, then sell it and totally switch to that other passion. You should just be clear about it from start when speaking with potential cofounders.
I guess a huge problem with exposing machine-optimized content to crawlers is that there are big chances that what the user sees in the end differs from what the crawler sees.

That doesn't have to be by malicious intent, it can be enough that a backend developer adds some fields, and the template doesn't use them.

On the other hand the machine-exposed data misses headlines that are usually present on all web pages, so that if the user searches for <company name> + <keyword>, special care must be taken that the <company name> part doesn't fail.
I think the most interesting part of the Bieber story is that he gives away all his music for free. He started on YouTube, so all his music is on YouTube. Sure, if you want it in a different format you'll have to buy a CD or go to the iTunes store, but if you just want to listen to it, it's free.

...and then he makes up for it by selling concerts and merchandise and now this movie, and he seems to be doing just fine.

But this business model is extremely disruptive, this is the exact opposite of what the recording industry wants and preaches. They want people to keep paying for the music again and again, and stop people from sharing.

I hope that the 1.3 billion views on YouTube can make more artists reconsider, and start giving away their music for free, and move to a business model that doesn't rely on copyright.

http://www.youtube.com/user/JustinBieberVEVO
Is it legal ? Can you legally copy all the content of a site and publish it while striping the ads ?

I've tough of this idea since 2 years, but I am so ineffective at building my own ideas that it doesn't surprise me that someone else built it, as the idea was really floating more and more since instapaper mobilizer.

Considering the legal aspect I had more ideas about that. It is to hide behind the DMCA takedown, and provide an email address to take-down a feed. But do not map the www.example.com/feed.xml to http://fulltextrssfeed.com/www.example.com/feed.xml , but use an alias, so the take-down just remove the alias not the whole * .example.com*.
> We are not born equal, BUT we can improve ourselves.

Why would you think we're equally able to improve ourselves, either?
Wages rose quite a bit in countries that were net borrowers. All the extra cash bid wages up and the higher wages even caused many to move to those countries to get those higher wages. Importing goods is not the only way to import labor.

The net lender countries didn't experience the same wage growth. But they didn't see their currencies inflate either. Except for those otherwise soundly managed countries that for some reason share a currency with a bunch of poorly managed countries. These countries got the stable wages and the privilege of subsidizing their partners.
In order to get multiple lists working, you'll need to go down to the lower-right corner of each frame and select a different list to be shown in each frame. Otherwise you are just using the same list in different frames.

I'm totally with you that this UI/UX is not ideal. If Google exposed more of a Web API we could do more.

There are plenty of good web-based todo lists, what I wanted specifically was to beef up Google Tasks.

However, now that you mention it, there may not be a good multi-paned todo app out there. Someone should make it. Maybe me, maybe you! ;-)
Ask HN: Is it even possible for NZ developers to get a US work visa?
I'm about to make my first trip to San Fran (full story at http://startupbus.heroku.com/) which has reignited my dream of being able to work in the US.

I'm a developer currently founding my first startup. I don't have the PhD that appears to be required for the top US immigration visa, and unlike the Australians, New Zealand doesn't have any working holiday agreement with the US (hardly anyone does).
I've done lots of searching, but never found a reasonable path to follow.

Has anyone through first or second hand experience known of any New Zealanders working in the US?
Will the new Facebook Comments plugin take over the net?
TechCrunch already applied it and they now have a total mess in their comments (although you see your friends' comments at the top which is nice). Do you think it will take off and eventually take over the market share of IntenseDebate/Disqus/Echo and others?
Pitch your startup to USVP on Quora
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Do you really believe that making better stuff more productively is something that only works for one country in the short run? Sure, there are always factors like exchange rates and interest rates that skew the whole thing a little bit one way or the other, but the reality is that Germany is not cheating, they are simply better and them being better does not cause others to fail, it just highlights that fact.

If other nations became more productive, the German current account surplus would shrink and the global productivity level, by implication, would be higher than now. My argument rests on a simple assumption: Higher productivity equals greater wealth. This can of course be questioned on a philosophical level, but not on the basis of mainstream economics.
why not throw this up on kick-list.com and invite the community to contribute?
Some more insights: Facebook Rolls Out Overhauled Comments System (Try Them Now On TechCrunch): http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/01/facebook-rolls-out-overhaul... (initial TC post), The Pros And Cons Of Facebook Comments: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/01/pros-cons-facebook-comments... (TechCrunch), New Facebook Comments to Take on the Long Tail (and yes, Posterous should have it as well!): http://michuk.posterous.com/new-facebook-comments-to-take-on... (my blog post)
Physical makeup and mental makeup both count as talent.

Physical is easier to measure, but mental is just as real.
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Cool. No easy access to an Ubuntu box right now and it's late...I will check in to this when I get a chance. In the meantime, I would be interested to hear:

- Is anyone on Chrome/Ubuntu not having this problem?
- For those who are having this problem, any more information would be greatly appreciated.
- In my own testing, Chrome on OSX and Windows works fine. Has anyone had this problem on either OSX or Windows running Chrome, or in another browser on any platform really?

Thanks!
Some of this is already available elsewhere: I've been using http://ipinfodb.com/ to decide whether to show a region-specific alert on the front page of http://mappin.es
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"working hard" vs "hardly working"

The eastern part of Germany has big unemployment problems (http://ryouready.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/germany_by_unem...)

Baden Württemberg (South West) and Bavaria (South East) and basically the powerhouse inside the powerhouse
You made me look this up. *Is it "concision" or "conciseness" - http://raymondpward.typepad.com/rainman2/2005/11/is_it_conci...
thanks to speculators?!

try politicians, imposing their priorities on the population. soeculation has about zero relevance to this question. it's a matter of political will.
This is a pretty interesting use of Quora (which is more and more looking like a competitor to Hacker News to me) - it lowers the barriers between the VCs/angels and startup founders. Anyone can pitch, anyone can vote up startups, anywhere you live you can share what you did. I think it's awesome and will stay this way until the spammers discover the service.
I'm German and am very happy with the Euro and don't want the mark back. the problem ist that many people kind of understand the "Rettungsschirm" but don't understand the benefits of the Euro, especially that other European countries can't devalue their currency withe respect to Germany. This is a HUGE benefit for the German economy and therefore it makes sense that Germany pays more than other countries.
Its the workforce that was raised in philosophy that manual work is the epitome of human existence. The workforce that was raised in an era when management (at least where I live) could (officially) earn only 5 times as much as factory floor worker and when workforces primary motto was : You cant pay us as little, as little as we can work. In their age not studying and not developing critical thought was a rational decision.

So these countries are full of people who have "slacked" throughout their lives and are now expected to become competitive. This stands for public and private sector - with the difference that private sector had to improve a bit.

Everything is highly unionized - but unions are not the same as in western world. In socialist countries union was a paradox - so their existence in industry was limited to being a political propaganda apparatus - and they haven't changed a bit from then. So instead of working in the workforces interest - they are only working on their political position and promoting populist policies that will spell ruin in the future.

Thats what I mean with "socialist" - basically these countries are in transition to capitalism, declaratively theyre already there, but in truth it will take them at least a whole generation (or two) to catch up.