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> in such socities women are, by necessity, second class

Not necessarily. Please take into account that in all but most extreme climates, most of the raw calories in a hunter-gatherer group comes from the gathering part, which is mostly a female activity. The problem with a pure gathering diet is that it tends to be protein and fat deficient, so one strategic contribution of the male hunters is not to keep the bellies full, but the diet balanced. Neolithic farmers discovered the hard way that a belly full of grains still leads you to malnutrition.

The other big strategic contribution of male hunters to their communities is protection. The only way a bunch slow moving, child bearing women can wander safely in the wilderness gathering food and wood is to bring a couple of armed men along. This men were probably too old or too young to join the hunters, but would provide a valuable service in protecting their people of predators (human or otherwise).

Not to imply that women are unable to defend themselves... but Nature does not care about political correctness. Females are more valuable to the reproductive capacity of the tribe, so it makes more sense to have males run higher risks.
From the same site, stories from back then:

"My Cajun country upbringing had never taken me any further west than Dallas. And since I wanted to make a good first impression on my new California friends, I purchased a spanking new three-piece navy blue polyester suit, super-wide ‘70s tie, platform shoes and the finest imitation naugahyde briefcase I could find and made my first reservations at Rickey’s Hyatt House.

I arrived at the lobby of PARC, resplendent in polyester and cheap Old English cologne, and was met by Charles Irby… ponytail, scruffy beard, tie-dyed t-shirt, khaki shorts and Birkenstock sandals. He welcomed me warmly, and then took me around to meet the eclectic cast of colorful characters and future luminaries that made up the Star development team. As we toured the offices, and the more folks I met, and the more beanbag chairs I saw, the more conspicuous, foreign and puritanical I began to feel… a penguin in the company of parrots. And yet, I was embraced and welcomed into this cadre of characters. It would not take me long to assimilate."
If this moves forward, I expect Mr. Levin's tragic death in a small plane crash.

Edit, apparently people are not familiar with cases like that of Paul Wellstone, or documentaries like "Conspiracy of Silence"
It would be interesting if app stores worked like retail stores. Developers sell apps to the store at their desired price, and the app store sells it to a customer, usually with an added markup of 30%. If Amazon wants to sell a popular app as a loss leader Walmart style, they are free to do that without screwing the developer.
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Indeed. Paired with gnu screen and some bash scripts Terminal is very nice.

I've got, for example, ctrl+a+t setup to trigger a script that opens a new screen tab, prompts for [user@]host:, starts up an ssh session to the host, renames the tab to host for easy reference.
One benefit of points displayed that is totally lost is the ability to compare the points of a comment with the /replies/ to it. This lets me get a general idea at a glance if a commenter was mistaken or incorrect or misinformed or whatever (this happens for example when a thread has one comment and one reply, and the reply has 100x more points than the comment)
For a long time people had that idea, but new findings may challenge that view. The Gobekli Tepe site, near Urfa, Turkey (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-te...) is dated to ~ 11K years ago and is thought to be the world's first temple. This pushed back the dawn of religion quite far back.

"To Schmidt and others, these new findings suggest a novel theory of civilization. Scholars have long believed that only after people learned to farm and live in settled communities did they have the time, organization and resources to construct temples and support complicated social structures. But Schmidt argues it was the other way around: the extensive, coordinated effort to build the monoliths literally laid the groundwork for the development of complex societies."

This view has not been accepted by all, but it had generated quite a bit of excitement and discovery.
Cheapest you get a 1BR apartment is maybe $1000-$1200 in Oakland or closer to the valley you can get some deals in East Palo Alto, but you'll probably be held up at gun point some time in your life (Two friends in North Oakland have been held up at gunpoint) In general though, $1700 for a decent 1BR except in SF, where it's probably closer to $2k.

Cheapest homes in East Palo Alto for sale will run $350k. Everywhere else is at least $500k for anything. The government locality pay difference for the GS pay scale in SF is 35% vs. 28% in New York/Newark.

I'm sure the city of SF is very comparable to NYC, although you can find some cheaper areas here, but you'll be living further away and commuting, same thing probably goes for NYC (and New Jersey for that matter)
Not really for the area, this would be ideal.

It's also not rare skills; high level LAMP work; varnish proxy, random legacy stuff to interface with. The problem is wanting someone on site; there are just so few local developers.
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Raw sockets sniffer for Windows with loopback support. 17 kB size
I would wager part of the excitement is that Panic is an excellent and long-standing company in the Apple community, and they've proven time and time again they can release quality, beautiful software.

As the type of Mac user that has one foot in the console and one foot in the pretty GUI that is OS X, it's pretty great when someone can bridge that gap -- be it a kickass Terminal like iTerm2, or what I can only expect is an excellent app from Panic, Prompt.

Skip the marketing (still good copy to read), find some way to use the app and judge Panic that way.
I also agree. I included some more information regarding what MyCourses actually does. I'm working on a few of the other things you mentioned, and they'll come over the next few days. Thanks for the advice.
don't know what worked for cmos but for me it was recognizing that most of my self doubts stemmed from irrational fears such as being uncomfortable/scared around meeting new people. I'm a bit of a workout junkie so I decided to apply principles from working out to my psychology- I would take an irrational fear or something that made me uncomfortable and do incremental "mini-workouts" until I became comfortable and the fear disappeared. For example meeting new people- I started using every chance I had to start conversations with people I didn't know. Say you're standing in line at Starbucks and see someone wearing shoes that you like say "Hey, cool shoes, where did you get them?"
I really like this idea, thanks for putting this up. I think it would be nice to additionally split it up into a data structures section and an algorithms section.
I desperately need to know what the Hivemind thinks!
If you're happy buying 3 or 4 CDs a month for £30, well nothing stops you now does it? Emusic even offer that kind of subscription package, or at least they used to.

Do you not see a risk to the company offering an unlimited download package that some (many?) would subscribe, download everything they've ever heard of, and can think of, then cancel? Or after 2 years of subscribing if they announced they were changing their model that people would do the same?
That's not really a clarification, as it's misleading.

Every single child inherits traits from its parents with variation, and the frequency of their being passed on to another generation is subject to selection pressure. That's all evolution is. Biological evolution happens with every generation - hours in bacteria, decades with humans. And since we're reproducing asynchronously, it's happening second by second across the population.

This is important to understand. Evolution does NOT operate on scales of thousands or millions of years. It can not, because there are no reproduction-variation-selection operations working on that timescale in biology (that I know about). There may be large time spans between what look like interesting things - speciations, the advent of birds, etc. But this is just in the mind of the observer.

Consider that the bacteria that cause infectious disease are becoming resistant to the antibiotics we've had for only a few decades. We can see evolution happening in petri dishes.

Don't try to draw any technical insight from Ricky Gervais' comment. Chimps today, like all animals today, are are equally evolved.
It also shows you the flaws in socialism. Since there is no monetary gain, most people work on open source on their free time and important bug fixes and features are many times never implemented. There are thousands of projects like this and only a handful of truly successful open source projects. This is opposed to the thousands of successful commercial/proprietary ones.

Almost all large, successful open source projects are sponsored by a company with money and they are benefiting financially from the work involved (It might be helping their services or support).

Is this bad for software? Not necessarily, it just results in bug-ridden and outdated code. However, when the same principals are applied to an economy, the results are much worse.
Believe me I am the first person to tell anyone that dwelling on the past doesn't solve future problems, but are you suggesting that accountability doesn't matter? Thanks for the link by the way.
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My first question upon looking at this article: is there really enough evidence available to presume the ability to make a conclusive judgment / argument?
"Life expectancy at birth in the pre-agricultural community was bout twenty-six years," says Armelagos, "but in the post-agricultural community it was nineteen years. So these episodes of nutritional stress and infectious disease were seriously affecting their ability to survive."

Life expectency is now 67 years. I'll take the extra 40 years and deal with the lack of "essential" amino acids.

Of course the real problem with this essay is the nonsensical premise. Agriculture can't be a mistake because it wasn't a decision. There may have been some individual people who decided to switch from hunting to agriculture, but there was no species-wide vote. There is no reason to imagine that there could've been such a vote, or that today there could be a decision for humanity to switch back.

Of course individual people can decide to embrace the hunter gatherer life. I find it interesting that the author is reaching for pen & paper and not loin cloth & spear.
>Anyway, a lot of happy-sounding words for [...]

I agree. I use ssh somewhere around 10 hours per weekday, have used a bunch of different clients, and really have no idea what sets this application apart from any other ssh client other than a bunch of vague adjectives. If they can't manage to set the product apart, at all, why am I going to give it a look?

I know some of the other comments here excuse that by saying its marketing, or that these words are to describe the interface. Thats good and all, but if you're trying to sell me an ssh client, its OK (hell, almost mandatory) to assume you're talking to a slightly technical audience. Show us the nitty gritty that will make me _want_ to pick this application over any other. As much as I clicked around, I couldn't find anything.
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Selling a company
So we have created a website, and although its quite complete we have not really gotten much adoption. We are very busy and dont have much time to work on it. We need to fill it with content before we get users on. We believe it is quite a good platform, and that it can be very successfull. We are thinking of maybe just selling it rather than look for funding. How different would it be to try to sell it compaired to trying to get funding?
If Google were to acquire ITA, Google would have an incentive to block access to QPX from competitors, and thus exercise an unfair advantage over the competition.

So anti-trust cases can be filed for even potentially monopolistic behaviour? Seems a little like pre-crime to me. Or does "prevention is better than cure" come up trumps here?
What you're pointing out is a quality of the Mac community, which has a certain amount of overlap with the iOS community.
In this particular case, the company - Panic - is a highly regarded indie Mac developer so the copy reads like how it would for Mac apps.

Many Mac users geek out on user interfaces that are sparse and simple and uncluttered - this is the audience to which this SSH client is pandering so it's no surprise that they're marketing it that way.

In reality, most typical iOS users (not the same as Mac users!) want something functional that gets the job done and don't really give a hoot about having the app 'get out of the way' or be 'crisp' (and the AppStore top seller lists would seem to indicate this), which, as you have mentioned seem to have little meaning for a Unix command line crypto/networking/admin tool.
I agree with the goal in not showing points. I think it works and the benefits outweigh the costs mentioned by others.

The quality of comments on HN has increasingly suffered from people behaving like in hives. Let the content of a comment decide if you agree, not the number of others who agree with the comment.

Similarly, let the content of comments in this thread have a say in the future of not showing points on comments, not just the number of votes for or against it.
I still use Terminal.app on a daily basis but here are some missing features:

- 256 color support (for your pretty emacs or vim)

- advanced bookmarks, with tagging

- send to multiple tabs
Really? If the email actually looks like an offer to buy or sell securities, I would imagine the disclaimer could be viewed as either mindless boilerplate with no genuine intent behind it or subterfuge.

Like, I wouldn't imagine you could send an email along the lines of, "Hey, I'm looking to buy some securities. You in, bro? DISCLAIMER: This is not an offer to buy or sell securities."
Twitter turned down 10 billion offer from Google
I had no idea there was a backlash against jQuery, and though the slidedeck http://www.slideshare.net/rmurphey/the-jquery-divide-5287573 is pretty awesome, I am not sure most web-apps need somebody who knows core javascript vs. knowing jQuery.

I remember writing the whole xmlhttp stuff, and to me, that is ugly code. I'd much rather have $.ajax or $.getJSON. Not only is it easier to write or read, it is also easier for another person to come in later and understand.

I do think people should have a basic understanding of javascript, and I can't imagine writing NOTHING bug jQuery code in any web app, but suggesting that somebody who focuses on jQuery is any less valuable than somebody who focuses on javascript to me seems elitest without much merit (with the exception of a very few outstandingly unique projects which don't fit into the capabilities of jQuery).

Is any javascript app not spaghetti code??
The bootloader on a phone is comparable to the BIOS on a PC. If you reflash your BIOS with unsupported code (Openboot?) and brick it, you shouldn't expect the warranty to cover you for this. It's the same principle. Now, whether they can legally void the warranty if you don't actually break something is another issue entirely, but they should not be held responsible if you do do something stupid that bricks the phone.
How did "fraud and deception" cause the financial crisis? Do you have a specific criticism?

Or is your complaint merely "those guys in suits did stuff I don't understand, and OMFG bad economy, I need a scapegoat!"
I guess this is a bit of special case as the service this person is using only has these short URLs :-)
good point - of course I absolutely believe humans (as well as every other living thing on Earth) as still evolving. And of course evolution happens all the time, with every generation evolution must be happening. And I've written genetic algorithms to find solutions to problems so I know that evolution is not intrinsically a slow process.

My point really was that evolutionary changes in these time-scales are very unlikey to significantly affect society (changing to agriculture etc).

Thanks for the response and the great links!
I think it's based on your karma average, total karma, and popularity in that thread.
An old freelancer's rule-of-thumb for calculating hourly rates is to take your desired salary and divide by 1000. So, a freelancer would need to bill at roughly $70/hour to make the equivalent of $70,000 in a year.

This rule-of-thumb is fairly accurate, considering time spent on non-billable tasks as well as overhead and taxes.
Their mistake is counting years not generations...
My point was that once you assign the sound "ball" to a ball, you are also simultaneously (or eventually, as you see more examples) adding the sound "ball" to category of sounds that describe things.
Most animals spend 100% of the time conserving energy or hunting (primates and children play excluded). They don't do leisure.

Sorry, you missed several of the essential activities. All of the important ones are summed up in the 4 Fs: feeding, fleeing, fighting and fornication.
Open source is devaluing developers' salaries.

Why would a company pay an engineer with a college degree to build something, when they can get it for free and hire a software mechanic to make changes? It also makes it much easier to farm jobs out to countries like India and the Philippines.
Why? That's an analogy that doesn't make any sense. It's not like Sony was publicly telling people how to modify their hardware.
Ask HN: Good/Bad Comment Qualities?
With all this talk about the decline in comment quality lately on HN, I thought it would be helpful to collect some data on what people think the specific qualities are of good/bad comments.

Here's what I'm looking for:

1. Positive and negative qualities are both useful (but neutral is meh, don't bother).

2. Ranking your qualities would be very helpful but optional. (1. helpful, 2. organized, 3. etc...)

3. Explaining your choices is appreciated (and will keep things interesting).

4. Everyone doesn't need to agree, in fact, I am more interested in the differences for my analysis (variety is good).

5. Bonus points for meta comments that have the qualities they list. (meta)

I'll tally up votes for comments too but it'll have to wait till pg reverts the system back or passes along the data some other way. Hopefully this data will be useful for making HN even better.

Thanks for everyone's help!
Oh look, it's 200 level CS algorithms.
Thank you for taking the time to post all of these!
The problem isn't the existence of middle men, it's when oligopolies form that can bully producers and consumers alike and in the process stifle innovation and creativity.
Also, once you have a permanent address you can trade. Civilization does well in places with trade routes (like coasts, big slow rivers, or well defended roads)
In face to face selling you already know who you're dealing with and have prepared to address that person's (persona's) needs. With a website you never know what person (persona) will see it, so you need to cover more angles.
because you can't get specifically what you want from a open source project unless you own that project.
They do today: http://mightyohm.com/blog/2011/04/sign-up-to-be-notified-whe...
For me the link redirects to a NYTimes login page. Maybe you are already logged into NYTimes, and NYTimes claimed their domain through Readability's service?
well if you sampled the 6 billion people in the world, yes, rich people drink alcohol.

I think its a bit like saying 'rich people drive Ferraris' - yes, of course! having a lot of disposable income will obviously lead to the ability to purchase luxury, non-essential items like alcohol.
Agreed. The facts about malnutrition and fitness are interesting, but more important is the author's point that historically 'Might makes right'.

The biggest 'mistake' of the human race is that we created surplus without any mechanism to distribute surplus for the greatest good.
I just want to thank everyone for answering my question (and not just pointing at the n00b and laughing.)
An Open Source Data Format for Puzzles (Crosswords, Sudoku, etc.)
If this was true I would think they would take it...
Whoa. #17: Green for down and red for up?
> As to the language: Clean and crisp say both pretty much the same thing in that sentence, crisp is only along for the alliteration (as is cheerful). My Latin teacher would be delighted.

Technically, an alliteration is based on the sound. So while "clean", "crisp" and "client" are an alliteration (beginning with the [k] sound), cheerful (beginning with [tʃ]) isn't part of it.
No, not at all. Actually I suspect crimes have been committed and I'd like to see an independent prosecutor with subpoena power. But I don't see how naming the names of middle managers at goldman does anything to help you, the news consumer.

And I believe all the quotes are sourced in the actual report, which others have linked to.
One counter example does not disprove a supposition of "very little".
Huffington Post Lawsuit related to NYT Pay Wall - Same bad misconception
DisplayCabinet - our 24 hour Internet of Things hack. What do you think?
Actually, it's more like "those guys in suits did something they didn't understand (re mortage backed securities, plenty written about this) yet still got a get out of jail card aka fed bailout"
A bit off topic but anyone know how they do the fancy header with the pushpin notes swaying forward as you hover over them?
-PC ----------------------------> Mac
-Regular workouts --------------> CrossFit
-Regular diet ------------------> Paleo
-finance > law school > dropout-> techie + entrepreneur
-being afraid ------------------> learning to fight
Very good points in here.
Categorization of results..
-if I search 'macbook' I would like to see results by various buckets -- Price, Year, etc.
-if I search 'sofa set' I would like to see results by Brand, Price, Year
It isn't the ssh protocol(mostly), it is the user interface.

Mapping a physical keyboard and display onto a touchscreen/display involves tradeoffs.

• The keyboard I am using right now is >50% larger than my entire iPad display. It won't fit even if I sacrifice the entire display to keyboard.

• Will you overlay the keyboard on the character matrix? How do you know where to put it that you won't cover the part I'm trying to see? I generally want to see the bottom, that is pretty much worst case.

• I need a control and escape key for command line editing, and I need a dozen symbols plus the digits to type normal unix commands. The keyboard is getting either pretty big, or multiplexed.

When you use ssh on a unix machine, you are taking advantage of infrastructure that isn't there on the iPad, like the ability to scp your keys and favorite configuration file into a .ssh directory.

• How bizarre is the sequence to get my encrypted private keys into my iPad?

• How complicated are you going to make the preferences? Just the default ssh client config on Debian is showing 34 options and I've got ones that aren't in the list in my personal config file.

What makes this unique to iOS?

# aptitude search '?provides(x-terminal-emulator)' | wc -l
32

… really? I need to sort through 32 terminal emulators to use ssh on my Debian machine? Is that before or after I choose between the 44 window managers? And they all think they are pretty special. At least I only have 5 display managers to choose from.

Nobody apologizes in their marketing copy for speciating.
Is this open source? Nice visuals.
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try haml for two weeks, you will not go back.
Unnamed sources...
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