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Russia has always been against NATO and lately it is pushing hard for a strong SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) [1] which is branded as Russia's/China's answer to NATO.

The current major issue with SCO though is it needs either India or Pakistan or both as its members to make it a formidable military alliance. But since India and Pakistan are archrivals there are differences between Russia, which has always backed India, and China, which has always backed Pakistan.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisati...
That is a pretty big simplification. If nothing else, consider Romeo and Juliet and the hundreds of similar plays: pre-modern women (and men) [EDIT: were not always in a position to marry/have sex with their first choice] - resources (food) were finite and the family was (sometimes) placed above the individual.

As to human fitness - I expect that we'll widely use gentech before that becomes an issue [1], and anyway I think "smart/succesful people have fewer kids" would be a bigger issue than slightly less careful mate selection, if indeed modern females are less careful in selecting a mate (I doubt it.)

[1] This is a prediction, not a value statement. I think it's a good idea, but I'm somewhat squeamish.
This makes sense.

There are two scenarios that could explain this.

One, the fact that a particular trait is present in a current generation only tells us that it is superior relative to just one iteration prior, and not necessarily any more. There is no rhyme or reason to evolution. In fact, it is almost an evolutionary disadvantage to incorporate traits that were once fit, but no longer are, as it likely costs more energy, diminishing efforts against current threats.

A non-biological example of this would be US foreign policy. We are very well positioned to battle the Soviet Union in a Cold War turned hot. That threat is no longer with us, but we're left with strategies and equipment that are useful in that sort of situation. Today, our problems in the Middle East are not helped by the fact that we have thousands of costly nukes and tanks (not suited for urban warfare and occupation in Iraq and Afhanistan!). I'm no military buff, but I think that this illustrates the point.

Another scenario could be that the relationship between clingy males vs. females is much like that of a predator vs. prey[1]. Very clingy males result, successfully, in clingy progeny, resulting in more dying females, resulting in fewer clingy progeny, resulting in more females, resulting in clinginess being more successful, and so on...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equation
AFAIK PayPal are a bank in the EU. I don't know if their behaviour is much different, but I suspect it isn't.
I'm sorry, I don't disagree with your point, but are you refering to Macedonia as part of the Middle East?

It's in Europe, north of Greece, east of Italy and part of the Balcans.
> pre-modern women (and men) could not always marry/have sex with anyone they liked - resources (food) were finite and the family was (sometimes) placed above the individual.

Doesn't that confirm what I said? She can't just marry whoever she wants, she needs to very carefully pick.

Edit: I see your clarification, and I'm not so sure it argues against me. Her first choice is (presumably) a romantic choice, but instead she must choose the practical choice. I would assume the practical choice is fitter.
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More ceremonial, yes, but more involved? People do spend a lot of time dating...
And this page is down ... Somehow I feel like we're entering the dark ages of the internet when it comes to political dissent ...
> They could accept, say, 20 million educated and/or wealthy immigrants from China over the next 20 years, with no shortage of takers ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2660178 ), which would strengthen America and weaken China.

This is the best way to weaken China. In fact, it's the best way to weaken any poor country. Just pay the best people they have to come to your country and become permanent citizens. It's still not too late. Within 20-25 years, there may be no advantage for them, but right now, there is still something for the Chinese to gain by moving here.
I believe he said "they're fine people."
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I understand they wanted to capitalize on their talent, but I'm afraid that Facebook, like any other mastodon, will drain their shine. That would be really sad.
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(maybe even give you a bit of interest growth)

You can't really do interest with BitCoins, since it's a fixed amount. Deflation is built in, so in way just holding the BTC will make them 'grow' in value.
Its more liking asking a football player what he does in his spare time. I wouldnt expect him to say i play football. Its his passion and its only right he gets paid for it. Since i already have fun doing it, i would consider going out for a bottle of beer something i do in my spare time. The contribution to open soure answer shows more less of a passion for what one does. More of need to see continuity in ones field.
I don't stitch in my spare time. Does that make me a bad tailor?
Apologies then
Wow! That was really interesting. They're fit to be in a hn post of their own
I am seriously at loss trying to understand RBIs objective in forcing this. Better tracking of money for business and individuals, sure yes, there are simpler consumer friendly ways to do that.

-Make it mandatory to enter PAN information. Treat it like any other bank where with PAN you know exactly what money came in and where it went out/was spent.

Why restrict the amount to $500, why force me transfer it to my bank account, why not allow me to shop online using money that is mine and also due to the PAN card regulation, has been informed to the RBI.

I can still ask for transactions in multiples of $500 to start off with. It seems RBI is simply making their own job easier by imposing regulations which leaves no more work for them to track this money.
So now I'll use their API to create my infrared device, and block all of you from taking photos of the eiffel tour.
I think that's precisely one of the the points Zed is making. That is, that coding is a cool, rewarding pursuit. But that you shouldn't expect a coding profession to necessarily be the either cool or rewarding.

If you're happy in that profession, great. I don't think the chapter in this book says you shouldn't be, in fact I think it would suggest that you have the right disposition for such a profession and are therefore fortunate.
Oh please. You can't make as much money running a fast food joint and you will not be happier, unless that's in your blood. (I know one of the owners of a super-high-grossing KFC and have run a small business myself.)

Programming is a cushy, stimulating, high-paying job - and don't you ever forget it.
protestira.me its been up and down all day today! try again later it worked for me after a while !

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I don't think that this makes sense.

In the end, males and females are mating, so there is selectivity going on as before in terms of choosing who you want to father/birth your children.

The introduction of birth control could be said, though, to reduce the impetus for selectivity with regard to sex, but not mating.
> Most SQL databases trade off too much in terms of performance and features in order to have 2 things that are actually low on the need list of most web applications:

> * relational tables

> * transactions

Shudder... I think I'll hold on to my relational tables and transactions as the default core of my systems, and optimize when I see that they're not fast enough, thank you very much.
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I bought the Kinect. I'll use it as I see fit. Is that not a sale?

The previous poster's point was that the open source software allows one to use the Kinect in a cross-platform, standards-compliant setting. Microsoft's coming out with something half as featureful, with serious platform restrictions. Their SDK's only advantages are "officialness" and a more complete audio API.
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I thought of that, but once the person has spent a lot of time with another person they are more likely to continue to mating (as you call it) with that person, rather than find someone else.

Even if they would have never chosen that person in the first place (for mating) if they were more selective at the outset.
That's not quite true. The reason Gulf War 1, post-Cold War, was so lopsided was that the Iraqis had Soviet equipment and training, and the desert is open terrain just like the Steppe, and NATO had spent 40 years preparing to go head-head-to-head with the Red Army using maneuver warfare. There are other nations in the world that saw that and know that NATO will dominate them in any conflict even now 20 years later.

Also remember that the Russians haven't gotten rid of their nukes yet...
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I'm surprised than in this whole wall of critique, almost nobody has pointed out about the last 3 paragraphs.

I don't think "They can go to hell" is a good enough advice. There are nerds out there who are struggling socially, may be even virgins and I think they deserve better advice.
I understand you completely, but this is an apple patent, so it's likely that this feature will only be available for iPhones. And again, who the fk is apple to tell me I can't take photos if I want to.
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Let's say you and I started writing code at the same age or time, and you code only 9-5, whereas I code an average of 15 hours a week more than that in my spare time. Two years later, I've gotten as much experience (or at least put in as many hours) as would take you >3 years to gather. Five years after we started, I'm 3 years your senior in terms of experience.

It's not that you won't be a good developer if you don't work on side projects; it's that as compared to anyone your own age who codes in their spare time, you're going to have less experience. You'll probably be way better at the guitar, or taking care of your dog, or whatever else you're doing instead of coding, but they'll be a better programmer.
Elance has been sending jobs to the UAE for a decade and developers still make above median wage in the USA.

Suppose the labour market floods with a bunch of newly skilled programmers. HN folks will still have years of experience on those who just finished Learn Python the Hard Way. And: even post this book, there is still a huge barrier to learn basic programming.

Experienced programmers might even like working in a world where more people can code. Imagine if your typical Design Client From Hell could do basic CSS and tweak reds for him/herself.
There seems to be a common misconception that relational databases have no in-memory indexes and query caches and therefore are intrinsically slow. I don't understand why this is.
Except in the name there isn't much distinction between what we call "dating" (of the co-habitating type) today, and what they called marriage in the past.
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Most of the post are from YC companies that haven't publicly announced that they're part of YC, hence the secrecy. Often they'll want to announce the YC connection as part of a press release as it helps them get press coverage, and they don't want to lose that advantage.
I did not have backups or source control

There’s an important motto to bear in mind here: data you haven’t backed up is data you don’t want. To be fair, this does bite us all at one point or another, but once it’s got you once you make damn sure it doesn’t get you twice.

Also, these days I get shaky just doing FTP deploys. Give me capistrano and git, or even better a direct Heroku push any day of the week.
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Maybe, maybe not. I honestly don't have enough info to feel I can make an assertion either way. My gut does say, however, that many of the same traits are required of both startup CEOs and 10k employee public company CEOs. The challenges are indisputably different, but a CEO who's tenacious, intelligent, creative and driven will find ways to surmount any challenge whether it's hiring the first employee or executing a billion dollar take-over.

Fair questions: would Apple be facing impending doom in 1996 if Jobs hadn't been ousted and instead been allowed to lead his company? Would that Apple be as successful today?
Oh, sorry, yeah, I misread.

The iPod really is dominating :)
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I was under the impression that the US "easily" dominated Iraq's institutional armed forces, toppling their government and "winning" (Mission Accomplished). What we're doing very poorly, though, is occupying and policing the region, now that we've taken care of the previous government.

In the case of war with the Soviet Union, I'm guessing that there was heavy emphasis on dealing with nuclear war or full-scale land combat in Europe, with the primary objective of beheading and toppling the Soviet control structure.

By contrast, in Iraq, our goal is (apparently) to occupy and subdue the entire region, which is a different, difficult problem.
A similar blog post by a UK police officer: http://nightjack2.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/a-survival-guide-... (some of it is tongue in cheek, like "get your complaint in first" and "allege homophobia or racism", but the point on not talking to your police without a lawyer is exactly the same.)
If your business is relying upon no-competition then you're dead long term anyway. If you're building a successful business then you will get people copying you, you need a better strategy than secrecy to survive.

If your idea is easily replicable then why would anyone want to acquire you rather than just copy you ?
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Ah, that's a good point.

Either way, I think that you can just as easily say that a woman is more likely to leave a "bad" candidate for mating, since she is not tied down by the presence of offspring.

I guess we'll just have to see :)
Zed, why do you think Haskell is spoken of so highly if it's so crap? Or are you being hyperbolic? I'm not in a position to judge, but when Peter Thiel gives a 19-year-old $100k to do a Haskell project, that gets my attention.

Really nice effort on this book, I wish I could teleport it back in time to my past self.
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Isn't it also a risk to bring out the big gun (lawyer) immediately? The way I see it, the police can always screw you if they want to. Even if they have nothing against you they can choose to harass you, like check your drivers license every five minutes, anal probing for drugs, whatever.

So it seems like a good idea to play nice and make them be on your side.

I have forgotten the contents of the video in question, though, and I live in Europe. Might watch the video again.
I don't think it does necessarily, although it might be a symptom of lack of confidence or dissatisfaction with your work programming. I think having a broad range of interests - reading, playing music, drawing, socialising, sports - makes you a complete human being but programming for yourself, at home, should probably also be something that gives you joy. Rather than asking whether you're a 'bad developer' maybe start from the other end: 'What is preventing me from hacking at home? What spoils it?'

The other thing I recommend is to do the kind of programming that YOU enjoy and NOT the kind of programming that you think is necessarily 'important' or 'difficult'. All you need is that ONE opening, that ONE gap into accessing the joy of programming.
I think the idea that you must program in your spare time and contribute to open-source has a sociocultural benefit. It might be more 'pure' to devote all of your time to your fellow developers and improving your art.

Yet the quality of your work has nothing to do with the time you spend on it. Quality over quantity, as they say.

Either way, there is certainly some benefit to be had in being passionate about your work and in keeping on the bleeding edge of technology.
Not to mention their growth in India. Where 50 million subscribers get added every month. BB is growing very fast here and iPhone is not affordable to most of the indians.
Oh man I hope you're joking!
Some weeks ago world's famous best living drummer Jack Jack Dejohnette gave a performance in my city which i also attended. Somewhere along the second song, he suddenly stopped and wanted from audience to stop recording/filming by saying: " Please respect the artist and their work".

There are some use cases for this, but like in every new feature of technology its open to misuse. My vote is against adding that kind of feature because artists already earning most of their money from concert attendees not losing from non-attendees.

Or may be Apple made an app store type control system for Event/concert organizers. For example an organizer can apply for a specific venue/time/place for switching off all ios devices (via icloud) and Apple do the job for them.
This is why I was very careful to say Gulf War 1! But the problem with Gulf War 2 was another Cold War assumption, that was nothing to do with equipment or tactics or indeed anything directly military: that the people of Iraq would welcome their liberators, in the way that the people of the former Soviet-occupied have embraced the West after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
To me, when discussing the long term future of an OS, a very valuable metric is how many companies are using it to build their hardware.

Apple is ridding the wave, releasing kick-ass products one after another; but you never know how tomorrow will look like for Apple. On the other hand, if Samsung stops making Android devices or goes out of business, there are others to fill in.

So it's not really so cut and dry.
In this scenario Apple aren't telling you anything. The owner of the venue and/or the performer are.
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1. As they did before(they tried to follow their own path but market disagreed with them), so the can continue losing market share even faster...

2. So people that is not North American, like Europeans, Japanese, Chinese and South Americans have more reasons to not choose it. Do you honestly think that you(Americans) are the center of the world?

3.4.Yes, they have to.

5. They can't kick their customers!! Remember that RIM does not have a direct sales channel as Apple has, they need cellular providers. It is terrible expensive to have it(you need billions of dollars in inventory).
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You read too much into that. Here's a bit of an inside view.

My father was a Soviet tank forces officer at the time. When they were given a brief of the incident in the morning, he remarked "this surely must be zampolit at work" (a deputy political officer, CPSU hand in the army). Dad got reprimanded for that right in place, by, well, another zampolit.

So some days after, the pilot was identified as deputy political officer to the airforce division commander. He forgot to turn out afterburn after the take off, misread that as engine failure, shat his pants and ejected.
It made a reference to the terminator movie where the male main character traveled back in time to mate with the female, so I'm guessing it's the latter.
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The technology is still in its beta period basically. Really, all this should've been expected, especially since we're talking about a currency and money. It was an early adopter risk, and I think most decided the risk was ok, because they could earn 10x,100x or even 1000x more money than they put in.

The only mistake was to believe Bitcoin was 100% safe. The technology will mature.
Personally, I use an Android as my primary phone, but I also have an iPhone 3GS for whatever development needs I might have.

Even though I like the iPhone and the apps available on iTunes, I think high-end Android phones are just better. For example I made the switch basically because on Android I can block unwanted calls and even make it do various tricks related to that and even if the API itself is not public, there are apps in Android's marketplace that do this (though eventually I ended up cooking up my own app, for fun). To do the same on iPhone, you have to root it and use Cydia.

This is one example of freedom the Android gives you that is immediately useful to some end-users that couldn't live without blocking some calls or SMS messages.
What still confuses me is the duplicate content issue. Doesn't it make sense to make some information reachable in different ways?

For example in a typical blog, the same text can be found via direkt link, latest articles, categories... How does one make that go away - and should it be done?