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I was not trying to write some deep criticism of the article, those are simply my thoughts while reading the text in question; some are negative, some are less so. Clearly I was not impressed in the author, but you may have noticed that I consider the idea to have plenty of merit.

Now to start, my line of thinking is that you should try to exhaust a reasonable number of counter arguments before deciding that your point is well made. To ascribe to me the ridiculous notion that you must seek out an infinite number of counter arguments is really quite insulting. You do no one a service by tossing together a few popular thoughts and calling it a book. Granted, maybe he'll go more in depth in the actual book, but given the synopsis I find that less than likely.

That brings me to my main point. A synopsis should try to emphasize the best points of the work he is trying to advertise. Instead, I see strongly worded opinions without any concessions or even hints of why and how people arrive at contrary thoughts. I see not even a hint of analysis of the phenomenon in question. In fact, all I see thinly disguised self-congratulatory masturbation regurgitating the same arguments that have to this day not managed to significantly sway the numbers of believers of the bullshit he rails against by any significant amount. I get that the author is a scientist, but there is plenty of material by scientists discussing this very topic.

As for your argument about patterns; my point is that I have seen more patterns at works in the minds of these people than the few you seem to describe. You can learn much about how people think by not being insulted at the mere idea of a silly view or belief. Unfortunately, most of the arguments the author, and other people like him use serve only to reinforce these patterns instead of dismantling them.
Mozilla, where is Firefox OS?
It looks somewhat like the new Microsoft OS / phone screen
Does anyone know how open this device is? It runs MeeGo but can I do a "sudo apt-get install bash4" like I can on my N900?

The specs look pretty good but as a flagship device from Nokia, I was hoping for an HDMI port, MicroSD card slot and FM transmitter.
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Ask HN: What is your opinion? 
Is it right for a freelance Web Designer, to use Themes and Templates (ie http://www.woothemes.com/)and then charge a very high price because it is such good work?
The last paragraph mentions a single bus (instead of tiles), so they can use a bus sniffing cache coherence protocol (MOESI etc). No problem here.

As far as i know, the frontier is at 60-80 cores, where bus sniffing gets too expensive. However, i'd love to have some references for this.
4x as wide as SIMD. Wow.

(SIMD is four 32-bit floats wide, i.e. you can multiply four floats AAAA with four other floats BBBB in a single instruction = AB AB AB AB. So 4x that is 16 pairs of floats in a single instruction!)
You would think that a politician would see that as a prime way to get votes. "The FBI cares more about you downloading a song off the internet then about your child being abducted. We need to get their priority straight. Vote for XYZ 2012"
Nice! Short, real and lots of ground for interpretation! You made the point! (So similar is product development)
1. The tone MUST have been apologetic.

2. The error is presented like casual news. Sort of downplaying the incident and not acknowledging that they screwed up. If the accounts were freely accessible for 4 odd hours, it is pretty serious.

3. No actual details of bug introduced were provided.

4. The communication was done on blog, and emails were not send. Again, it is an attempt to downplay the incident.
Sure, if I wanted the full treatment, I also hear there's this "Believing Bullshit" book. Unfortunately, I recall reading a synopsis, and I get the feeling that I would be wasting my money were I to buy it. The tone and content of the article in no way suggested that the book would be anything but more of the same. This isn't something you could fix with a footnote, or by writing 150,000 words on the topic. It is, I feel, a fundamental flaw of the author.

Maybe I'm being too hard on the book, and it is actually much more interesting than the article gives it credit for. Unfortunately, I'm not particularly interested in looking into the matter, and that is where the article failed for me.
This looks great, but Microsoft really needs to get focused on marketing this to the public. I never would have thought to use skydrive (even though I have a wp7) until I saw this video, but it won't appeal to the average user.
Nokia produces another slick computer-animated video showing how fast, responsive, and stable their phones are.

Doesn't anyone remember this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJpEuMidcSU
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I think it's awesome, thanks! I found it really easy to incorporate.
It may not be a representative example, especially when you consider corporate and banking password policies, but it does show how lame people will be if allowed to set passwords without restrictions.
I thought this too. And then realised that if Apple were heading down the "iPhone Nano" path, a design like this would suit that device really well (albeit a little smaller). Super thin, iPod nano-like, curved screen, vibrant colour options. I wonder if any toes have been stepped on here.
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Bookmarks, message threads, tweets, emails, source code commits, issues, etc.
The regulations are such that building new nuclear reactors anywhere within the NRC's jurisdiction is a long, slow, uncertain, and excruciatingly costly process. It's a de facto moratorium.
After Kevin's detailed and eloquent explanation of events, the best they can do is show that he was logged in at the same time as the hacker, or whoever it was?
> Invoking "the grown-up world" to describe BitCoin is absurd.

So true.
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I'm also curious about the whole taxi vs not-a-taxi legal issues after reading:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2675975

Searching HN for "uber" gives further insight such as:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2584140

but it isn't conclusive.

I think we need to turn on the grellas bat signal.
Me too.

PS - because votes are not publicly visible.
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The hammock sounds positively uncomfortable and terrifying from where I'm coming from.
That's a good point, but I think it kind of misses the forest for the trees. It's true that personalization might sometimes lead Google to mistakenly show you less relevant results, but it seems pretty certain that the opposite would also be true — a generic page will sometimes show less relevant results than a personalized one. One search result is going to be shown ahead of another either way. If showing a less relevant result ahead of a more relevant one is considered "hampering," I don't see any reason this "hampering" is unique to personalized search.
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MeeGo based Nokia N9 announced
Here's a hands on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSZssHGR-Qg
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Making t-shirts is not the end goal, but I read another post recently that correctly noted that most people in the startup community are pleased that they have achieved a level of "success" in their lives where they can earn great livings, do great work, and yet be in an environment where they don't have to wear a uniform or business attire, even business casual.

Company t-shirts can be an easy way for your team to keep that startup vibe, without uniforms of any kind, and yet have a cohesive feel about them, a branded vibe, a way of saying to outsiders that they are part of something special. It's a way of boasting about your company, your product, while also saying, "I support this, because I want to, not because I have to."

In particular, making really cool shirts can be yet one more thing your team can be proud of. I wear my company shirt with pride for more than one reason. The first, because it's our company, and I'm proud of that. The second, because it's cooler than a shirt with a collar and a little jockey and horse on it. The third, because it gives me a reason to talk about what we do. And the list goes on.

Getting shirts is not the goal. Knocking out enough goals that you finally have a moment to stop, breathe, and order shirts, is a nice place to be. Don't prioritize it ahead of things, but don't underestimate the value your team places on being part of something, donning the flag, and having an opportunity to show people that they're successful enough to wear what they want, and that happens to be a shirt about a company they're proud to be a part of.
I'd love an iPhone that can do what this phone can with swiping.
What really is the worst case scenario in nuclear meltdown?

I've understood that actual fission explosion is nearly impossible, given the delicate structure inside a nuke to make this happen.

Chernobyl scene will not be seen again (except maybe in Russia) because graphite is somewhat rare slowing material.

So it's something about bunch of radioactive materials that have buried themselves below ground. Then they get in contact with water, and steam explosion can occur. How big is this? How much radiation will spread? How probable is this?
Isn't most science the result/process of having ridiculous beliefs and scientifically validating your theories? Remember that, at one point, Heliocentrism was universally considered to be an utterly absurd idea.
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Ayn Rand's ideas come from a propaganda campaign launched eight years after she published the Fountainhead? No wonder rational choice theory is at odds with quantum mechanics!

I'm sorry, but I cannot make heads nor tails out of what the author means by "Rational Choice Philosophy" (which is apparently prescriptive) and how exactly it is different from using rational choice theory (which is completely descriptive) to model interactions of agents (rational or otherwise). I certainly have no idea how to make sense of his claim that quantum mechanics has some relation to the whole affair.
I'll tell you what's wrong with this article. McCumber tells us that
Americans' traditional demand for autonomy is really just a government
conspiracy cooked up by RAND. Okay all you NYT commenters nodding in
agreement---really, the clamor of the present-day Ugly American to
repeal Obamacare and reduce the tax burden and rein in the EPA and the
Federal Reserve and decriminalize marijuana---all these Americans
groaning about the financial and regulatory weight of the federal
government and its increasing impingements on our freedom---is
actually also a GOVERNMENT conspiracy?

Folks, here we have a university professor who, may he delve into
Hegel, Marx, or Quine, rather unsurprisingly comes up with the same
standard NYT lecture---you know, the one about why Americans do not
really WANT what they want (and don't deserve it, anyway, because
they're too self absorbed.) Oh, and besides, W.V.O Quine criticized
Rational Choice Theory. Now, WVO Quine was one of the top ten minds of
the 20th century, so it might seem portentous to cite his authority
here, however he seems to have been against many things that would be
dear to most readers of this paper, including public education. Here's
a wikipedia link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Van_Orman_Quine#Politic...
Funny you picked those examples, because I recall them both seeming quite obvious to me when I learned them. And I'm no great mathematician.

It's, um, obviously quite hard to explain why you find something obvious, but I think in the first case it's because you can just think about rescaling the number line (using a bigger unit) or shifting the origin, which to me makes it clear that bigness is completely arbitrary and implies that there can't possibly be any biggest number in this sense; in the second case, there clearly is no "next" number in the reals as there is in the naturals, and that insight gets right at the heart of the concept of countability.
Deleted by lawyers? Dropbox is doing a bang-up job of squandering their amazing reputation lately.
I've never understood the appeal of Onswipe or iPad themes. The iPad has a gorgeous large screen and a browser that is fully featured and capable (minus Flash), so why do websites resort to dumbing down pages for it? The iPhone, I can see a market for, but not the iPad or similar form factored devices.

Why can't websites be websites and apps be apps?
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Also hard to fake if their project's been up on Github for a year before you met them.
Nokia have also made a limited edition N950 for developers [1]. The interesting differences are:

N950 is physically larger and is made out of aluminum, whereas N9 has a polycarbonate unibody. N950 has a physical slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The N9 is a touchscreen-only device. N950 has a different physical camera module than N9.

I love the phisical keyboard on my current phone and wish Nokia released the N950 as a consumer device.

[1] http://www.developer.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/3744886f...
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I bet this was his personal account and he used an easily breakable password there. He has all interest to do a rollback there ;).
My original argument was that document sizes (pdf, web page layout, 80 char code, et al) generally don't translate well to 7". I am sorry if I was unclear.

But sure, I don't have references so call it an anecdote. :-)

That was why I asked if 'dagw' had good eyesight, or something. Maybe he doesn't want to read a page at a time? Never mind, I'll wait until I meet someone that has those unusual tablets...
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Full text: http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/11_19/b42...

(I'm tend to be annoyed that I have to read the first page of an article, only to find out that it stretches across multiple pages, then having to scroll up, find the print button, click it andthen having to scroll back down again to where I left off...)
Something tragic about watching the live twitter feed on their own product launch page mostly criticise this phone and MeeGo. I suppose censoring it would send a worse message.
I don't think we have the full picture. Nokia will continue to use resources on Meego. Only a fool would put all his eggs into a single basket.
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Canceling trades disincentivizes traders to fill the dry side of the order book during a liquidity crisis.

That alone makes cancellations bad policy. If you're worried about so-called erroneous trades, you should disallow market orders; make all traders provide an explicit buy or sell price and there is no such thing as a bad trade except in the event of systems failures.
Show HN: soundsofmychildhood.com lets you share your childhood sounds
I have been working on the following site:

http://www.soundsofmychildhood.com/

It's built on rails and fully translated to Farsi (for various reasons that I can explain to whoever is interested). The premise is that you can either upload sound snippets, or record your own sounds that remind you of your childhood.

People get to favorite sounds, comment, listen, etc.

There's a lot that can be done: translating to other languages, making the site look less ugly, etc. I don't have the time to maintain this full time. If there is anybody that would be interested in helping out, please email me.
s/SIMD/SSE/, methinks.

SIMD is a more general concept; SSE is a set of SIMD-style instructions (the second 'S' actually stands for SIMD).
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Scientists only have beliefs in falsifiable theories and are always working towards proving or disproving said theories. But yes, theories that are really hard to prove either way, like the string theory, quickly become what the article names intellectual black holes for same people.

On the other hand, believing in homeopathy is tricky as there have been evidence that it doesn't work that well.

I do take issue with this statement:

Any theory, no matter how ludicrous, can be
squared with the evidence, given enough ingenuity

Well, yeah, but it can take hundreds of years for said evidence to emerge. We still have no clue about how to predict natural disasters, we barely know the reasons for why tornadoes happen and we haven't yet fully cracked the human brain -- we have a long, long way to go before fully understanding the phenomenons around us.

It's also not only about ingenuity - sometimes you have that, but don't have the proper tools yet. Proving Einstein's theory turned out to be quite a challenge and the theory itself is so groundbreaking that many thought Einstein is a nutjob.

Personally, I admit theories that have no evidence yet, such theories only have to pass the falsifiability test.
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Why? That's absurd.
Perhaps there's more to it. One of OSX Lion's main features is "full screen mode". Hilarious when seen on its own, but potentially unique (we'll see).
They have finally unified the Qt-platform for Symbian and Maemo/MeeGo so it shouldn't be a problem. They also announced today that Qt will be extending to S40. Look at the new developer site http://www.developer.nokia.com/
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Ah. Yes, I've always thought the two were interchangeable.
Ask HN: Looking back in time, why did the iPod win?
I am curious about this because of the recent comparison between the iPod market share and what can happen to the iPad.

For reference, here's an article by David Heinemeier Hansson about it: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1397-why-an-ipod-killer-will-never-kill-the-ipod

In short, DHH talks about the three things a competitor needed to do in order to beat the iPod:
- superior industrial design
- iTunes-beating catalogue of content
- better desktop experience than iTunes.

This got me thinking. The iPod was overpriced when compared to the alternatives and did pretty much only one thing: play music. Even with only one task, the competitors took a lot of time to actually beat it experience-wise (and that's if we are optimist enough to consider the Zune a better experience).

Fast forward to the iPad, it does a lot of things so it's even harder for the other companies to beat it.

So why did the iPod win its battle? And does it make sense to compare the two markets?
Ages ago, when the world was young (say 1994 or 95), I thought ads on web pages were a fantastic idea. Unobtrusive, able to be taylored to the viewer, a one-click gateway to all kinds of information, and a nice way to get free content paid for. But, alas, after I clicked on a few ads, I was sadly disillusioned. Haven't clicked on ads in years.

But now, you post your questions. So I put on my experimenter hat and try again. For science.

Let's click on some ads.

Ad #1. A sidebar ad asking if I know who uses oil & natural gas. I click. I get a page listing lots of uses of oil & natural gas. Why do these people want me to know this? How does it benefit me? How does it benefit them? I have no idea.

On to the next ad.

Ad #2. Forex trading. Click. A page full of words like "spread" and "pips". No idea what it's talking about.

Continuing.

Ad #3. Schick Hydro. I can win prizes. Wow. Click. The Facebook page for Schick Hydro, whatever that is. If this is the same Schick we all know & love, then it's probably a new kind of razor, I guess. I'm supposed to "like" to continue. They want me to upvote them before I even know what's going on?? I'm seriously turned off. But, as a die-hard experimenter, I bravely forge ahead (for science!). Click "like". Get a box saying I need to sign up for Facebook. No thanks.

Sick of ads, I end the experiment.

Folks, I've been on the web since 1993. There must be an enormous amount of information about me in various databases out there: my habits, my preferences, what I like to read, what I like to buy. And this is the best the ad industry can do?

Consider: someone worked on these ads. Someone paid for them. But in none of the three cases did the ad offer me anything I wanted. Nor, I think, did the advertisers get what they wanted. Complete waste of their time and money. I know how oil is used. A page that assumes I understand "pips"? That does no one any good. And making me jump through hoops before -- presumably -- telling me about a razor, is not pushing me toward buying it.

In short: these ads all appear to come with a significant dose of stupidity -- or well intentioned incompetence at least.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

(1) Build an ad platform that isn't stupid. (I'm not saying I know how, or that it's easy, but my experiences above show some things not to do.)

(2) Work very hard to keep the stupidity out. Advertisers seem to want to be stupid and waste users' time. Don't let them; not on your platform.

(3) Brand the platform in a recognizable way. I think the web will always be full of worthless ads. Your platform needs to be easily recognizable and develop a reputation as something worth clicking on[1]. Otherwise, you'll just get lumped in with all the stupidity out there.

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[1] That is, if clicking is what you want users to do. There are certainly other ways of advertising on the web. But I should warn you that, if you choose to put your efforts into unskippable ads before videos, then I will most likely end up detesting you.
Why would they waste time showing the phone do what all phones do? I'm pretty sure everyone assumes it can make calls.