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Are you arguing that we should share our degrees, grades, upload a CV with a picture (maybe I'm more believable when we're talking about white middle-class people if I prove that I'm white a middle-class guy)? A driving license showing that I'm allowed to drive trucks of all sizes, for the off-chance that I'm making comments on stories relating to that?

Your idea starts out simple and innocent, unless you think it through. You are not entitled to know these things. If people argue about math and you cannot judge who's right: Bad luck. That's not a reason for them to prove anything to you. If you actually care about math topics and notice that usually X is supported by most people or - after investing some time of your own - is right according to your own investigation, X gains your trust. Y, always arguing against X, is probably talking bull..

It's the same in real life. If you meet a guy in a bar and you start talking about something other than weather and nonsense, how do you judge him? Unless you're way out of line you probably need to learn if he's talking sense or regularly pulls things out of his rear end as well. Do the same here.
Hey guys! Thanks for the great feedback! Yeah I think that the people likely to use this are young, digitally savvy individuals that are becoming more and more comfortable with sharing things with strangers (e.g. using AirBnB / couchsurfing). To the second question, I'm doing some customer discovery on the kiteboarding forums I'm on, and so far the response has been quite positive. Because although a lot of people each other, they don't necessarily know who is going kiting on which day or to what location (and don't want to message 20 people).
What are some correct results discovered with incorrect (or no) proofs?
You caught me. In the past, I used to express my opinions, which are often strong and controversial, aggressively, but over time, I learnt that it's in my interest to make a consolation point toward people with opposite opinions in public places. "So this is my opinion and that is yours. We differ a bit but we are still friends, right?" I don't do that in my own writings, however.
I don't agree with first point. If someone told me to visit doctor I would feel offended and I don't think taking "happy" pills solves the problem. You should deal with source of depression not results and snapping out of it with support of someone close is good way to do it.
Other points are really good advice though.
His overall criticism fairly explicitly targets the common MBA value of maximizing short-term profit. That's what he's being diplomatic about.
"Practically every revolutionary advantage we gained over the last century at least (e.g., public health initiatives and sanitation, public education in the early 20th century; establishment of publicly funded research; the space program, the internet) were all collectively funded programs by government - by us - the collective will of a people not held hostage by short-sighted "anti-government" rhetoric."

Yeah, like the Wright brothers, Edison, Tesla and Ford discoveries. Public health has nothing to do with some specific men that wanted to put filters on water pipes, like the space program has nothing to do with people that started playing with rockets when they were kids like Von Braun.

The same could be said about education, no private institution has made US better, everything of value has been created from central planning.

And never ever consider Ethernet invention having ANY role whatsoever over Internet.

Let say it clear: Everything of value is created by central planning and monopoly and despotic power over economy!!

The economy is failing because of the evil, the private and evil corporations, because the gov spending near 60% of the money that exist on developed countries, the central banks having a monopoly over the money and gov spending more money on killing that in public services has nothing to do with that.

Because we know politicians have not short term profit mindset like winning elections on a four years basis, they only have our best interest in mind.
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I adopted the metaphor which works for me here from Ken Wilber, though I'm sure that the idea appears in the works of other writers, and much earlier: hierarchies of growth vs hierarchies of domination. The former (your "one hand") are nested hierarchies (inclusive); the latter (your "other hand") are conventional hierarchies (exclusive). The way I understand this is that "I am nothing" puts the "I" - whatever it is - at a leaf node if the reference is an exclusive hierarchy (a "hierarchy of domination"), whereas if the reference is an inclusive hierarchy (a "hierarchy of growth"), "I am nothing" appears at the root node.

Edit: typos.
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"You will have to explore the solution space with the help of some sort of theorem prover (type system)."

Have you tried ATS (Applied Type System)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATS_(programming_language)
The worst part is that google+ does support pseudonyms... if you're rich or famous enough. Personally I thought google was better than that.
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I understand your point. Do not forget that he may be a marketing guru now but Seth Godin has computer science degree and started Yoyodyne in 1995, raised $4 million and sold it to Yahoo! 3 years later for $30 million. I think that's not bad.

I know that sometimes he's maybe too motivational but I believe he has a brilliant mix of talking and doing. Squidoo is a great hack to raise money for charities; same for the Domino Project to re-think the publish industry; and the work he is doing for Acumen Fund is really inspiring
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"object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing." -- Rob Pike

And Rob shared an office with Bjarne for quite a while.
History, especially in the case of China, did not start in 1900. During Han, Tang and Ming dynasties at least, the country was not in a military struggle for survival, and while dynasties die eventually, the country survived all them (until now).

Note aside, it is funny to see that when doing some quick blind generalizations on mankind, like "countries at peace die eventually", one can almost always use China as a coutner example. I can trow a fairly lenghty list of them.
I have done a few real, production projects with Haskell, and I've come to realize that a lot of interest in it is hype. The paradigm is neat, the language is relatively well designed (considering that it's an academic committee language) and the implementation is passable.

Programmers sadly forget that the greatest challenge of software creation very often happens outside of your text editor: it happens in the domain, in architecture, specification and communication. If you succeed in those, your project will succeed, no matter which language* you chose. If you fail in them, no amount of strictness in your programming language will save you.

* unless of course it's Java
As a Westerner, I'll also put in a vote for Taiwan -- great people, big pool of talent, but overall a western-style business environment.
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So surely Forth should make a resurgence, it has the most code density, the fastest runtime and the lowest error rate.

The only metric is loses on is its high score in impenetrability.
I beg to disagree. I still have my faithful 2600, and many games are still entertaining : Ms. PacMan, Phoenix, Enduro...

In fact they match quite closely the current trend for simple, easy to grasp games that you play for 15 minutes once in a while.
These lines of thinking that involve rejecting an entire set of propositions about something always end up devolving into something like Russell's paradox if you take them to their natural conclusion. In this case, being in a state of true nothingness would preclude the possibility of considering nothingness an ideal state to be in, as that is in itself an individuating characteristic. It's the same problem that arises with pure moral relativism, which is itself an absolute moral position.

I'd be willing to bet that human nature is as complicated as the system of natural numbers; perhaps we keep butting our heads into walls like this because we're trying to find answers that would violate Godel's incompleteness theorems...
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>As for your analogy, that our thoughts and selves are an object in motion, which we must curb to reach a desirable point in space: the reality is, there is no object.

Ah, how convenient, a single objective reality where nonexistence is possible :)

To more precisely define my analogy and convey my understanding: current thought is a recurrence relation with previous thoughts. Inertia is the strength of the recurrence relation, the degree by which previous thoughts determine present thought. This is measurable as neural adaptation and learning. Ego or self is an observed distribution of thoughts occurring during a certain duration. As with statistical distributions, we tend to construct parameter estimators to make sense of the data[1].

Now, as with statistics, whether these generated parameters contain information and are useful in describing the distribution is up for debate and dependent on the question the investigator seeks to answer. But simply stating 'there is no object' is as sensical and productive as claiming 'there is no mean, there is no standard deviation'.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_moments_(statistics)
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I wonder how many of us will be building platforms that build robots one hundred years from now?
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snitko, eh eh. Hacker News is home of very smart people and I don't expect The Bootstrapper Bible to be their only book.

Btw, the fact that you suggested that book made me understand how much the current way Amazon suggest you books doesn't really take in consideration your goals or background.

It should actually ask you "Why are you buying this book?"
Me "Because I want to make a startup"
AMZ "Oh cool, what's you background?"
Me "I am hacker"
AMZ "Oh ok then with Seth Godin you are going a little bit too businessy. Try Start Small, Stay Small"

Sorry guys, early morning thoughts.
I would guess that China will provide infrastructure to some african countries in exchange for raw materials. Political stability will also improve as China will support the regimes regardless of lack of democracy.
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HTML5 includes the noreferrer link rel: "If a user agent follows a link defined by an a or area element that has the noreferrer keyword, the user agent must not include a Referer (sic) HTTP header (or equivalent for other protocols) in the request." [1]

Not sure about browser support, but it's implemented in at least WebKit [2].

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[2] http://www.webkit.org/blog/907/webkit-nightlies-support-html...
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Meanwhile Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg are focusing on making the world a better place, not on being nothing.
I write Erlang every day and love it, but I have to agree with most of the points raised by http://damienkatz.net/2008/03/what_sucks_abou.html
> Yeah, like the Wright brothers, Edison, Tesla and Ford discoveries.

Amusingly enough (or sadly, depending on your perspective), the Wright brothers and Edison are particularly known for their counter-productive attempts at locking their respective markets by unfair practices that badly harmed their businesses in the long term (airplanes, DC power, cinema...).

You're pushing forward the false idea that progress depends on some great spirits. Fortunately this is untrue; weren't it for the Wright brothers and Edison, someone else would have made the very same discoveries at about the same time. In fact it's exactly what actually happened; the airplane, the phonograph, etc. were all invented independently at several places around the world at about the same time (give or leave a few months).
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So is this proof that money rots your brain? Because this guy is very smart, but he sounds...like a homeless guy in Berkeley. I would know, I've had conversations with them. I mean, I wouldn't want this guy on my board if I was crazy/stupid/motivated enough to ask him for money for a start-up, just on the basis of this slightly alarming essay.

Two things come to mind: PUA theory and having so much money that the boredom literally drives you nuts. So I'm thinking this guy may be headed for cautionary tale territory.

Anyway, rock on, faggots.
Big difference I find between playing modern games or playing these old games is this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/The... . And for me it makes all the difference; I find controls on most modern systems wonky and hard to use for a whole group of games (notably games with a lot of action like shmups). I tried a bunch of 'pc' joysticks and they all seem to need 6000 buttons like http://images.gizmag.com/hero/x-arcade-dual-joystick.jpg (which is a sure proof the game that needs that is flawed anyway) and I pull the actual stick right off (on these kinds; http://www.techgadgets.in/images/genius-metalstrike-ff-joyst...) during a serious action game. The PS1..3 and WII controls are not really interesting either; during Gradius V on PS2 I always think I have leprosy in my fingers; how can you whirl around masses of bullets coming at you, enemies trying to bump into you and keeping outside of the boss lasers with those tiny buttons. Sure after practicing 1000x you'll manage and I can do it still (haven't played it for years), but with a decent joystick I can still manage to play those game round without dying, while this is kind of impossible with these dingy pads. Or maybe that's just me.

This makes me get back to my systems in the attic (MSX-2 & Amiga) when I want to play a game; I made plugs on my old NES + PS1 to connect the Arcade joystick. I didn't manage that with the others yet, so I find myself playing on the old machines. No rose tinted glasses; just less of a frustration to play.
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I wish startup management would be honest about the dollars in investment, And how much they themselves make.

I side with you on this. It also helps you gel with the team better knowing that they trust you so much that they share their numbers with you.
Relevant article: China's Education Army

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/158/china-education
Sorry for the negative comment. I think the headline just rubbed me up the wrong way :) I do think I would just be annoyed at being asked to use your site but I'm sure it's going to be useful for others.

I do sometimes (quite often actually) do programming exercises for fun, but if you want me to do them not for fun you'd better at the very least be wasting your time as well as mine...
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I still can't agree to the premise that depression always has a biological basis (except for the obvious that humans are biological beings). No doubt there are some cases, but it seems to me frequently if somebody is depressed they might have an external reason for it.

Yes, I know about the measurements of brain activity, serotonin and whatever. That doesn't necessarily prove that people are depressed because of a malfunction - those things could as well be a result of the depression, rather than causing it.
Thirty or forty years ago, people apparently had much stronger identities, according to an old french psychologist I heard on the radio. People were much more inclined to think of themselves as 'a communist' or 'an artist'. It's true that these thoughts are prisons, but not having them sends people to the psychologist for other reasons. Unfortunately I don't remember what he said about these new problems.

I guess one problem with discarding your identity as a father is that you are also questioning responsibilities that are vital to your children. Another problem of going without identity is that having a sense of belonging to some community becomes more difficult. That's something I have been missing personally.
It most certainly isn't better, in fact I'd say it's considerably worse (as the author, I hope I can say that without recrimination!).

I like your interpretation of the name, a little effort gets a lot of work done. The meaning of the name is supposed to be a pun, i.e. a fulcrum is a pivot point.
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Agreed it would be impressive. And quite strange, if a vibration on the whole surface had the same effect as an actual physical change ona specific part of the surface, just because that's where your finger was when it vibrated.

(Reminds me of arthur dent, zapped to the RatEotU, encountering pain where-ever he touched his body, and eventually realizing it was his finger that hurt).

I wonder, if it responding fast enough, you could brush your finger across it, and it would feel like there was a pattern on the surface (by it vibrating/not depending on where your finger was)... Sort of a zero-dimensional display. Of course, wouldn't work for multi-touch (though the haptic patent does seem to manage this, by creating a waveform whose peak is sharply localized).
I'm Lithuanian guy working for American company. There is one factual errors in that article about Lithuanians public holidays: while we might have 13 public holidays but if public holiday matches with Sunday (like Mother's day) we don't get extra free day on Monday. Therefore we have approximately one week extra to four weeks of holidays we can take per year. So we have 5 weeks in total. Let's say in USA people have 3 weeks (2 vacation weeks + 1 week of public holidays).

Here is why I completely disagree with author's conclusion. We have 52 weeks per year. 3 or 5 weeks from that perspective is minor amount of work done. US people just spend 4.4% more time in the office but that doesn't mean they work harder (it is different for blue collars, of course). I personally never felt working less than my US colleagues.

Now about enjoyment of life. While I agree that those 4 weeks of annual leave makes a big difference (e.g. you can disconnect from your work and refresh your head) it is only small part of enjoyment of life. I will just say that here in Lithuania we have biggest suicide rate in the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra...).
I'm totally flying past you here. That's not a bad job, that's a good job. I worked a Xerox Cheshire (for addressing junk mail) for $10.50/hr around the turn of the millenium for between 40 and 76 hours a week. It financed a really comfortable lifestyle at the time (I didn't have kids.) My quota was around 10,000 per hour IIRC, and my hands got a bit chewed up, but I almost always hit quota (if the machine was on my side.)

My hands are keyboard-smooth these days, but I'm always suprised when people are suprised that people make things with their hands, when they spend all day surrounded with things made with someone's hands.

About automation: That robot clock has been running since Henry Ford. Most manufacturing jobs (if not all) are a human loading a machine with material, monitoring the machine so it doesn't jam, tear itself apart on, or shred the material, then pulling the finished product which is being ejected as quickly as a humn can keep up, wrapping it, and getting it to the next machine. Every hour the machine breaks down, and the operator figures out how to bring it back up quickly, or a mechanic has to come and do a medium to full scale repair depending on the damage.

I'm not sure how magic robot arms can change that, until they can figure out how to load themselves with rubber from the truck, and how to fix themselves really quickly.
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You seem to think that I think that the problem with languages with powerful type systems is that they are slow, and showing something as fast as C is a proof against this? I don't think your comment is relevant to the thrust of what I wrote, sorry.
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That's not what OP means... Your point is that google allows famous folk to use their RL pseudonym as their primary ID on google+.

What thristian means is that the system itself needs to allow a single account to present multiple nyms, depending on context.
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This wasn't only a "scientific piece" -- his stated reason for writing the post was to make a comment on the MSM -- and certainly it wasn't targeted only at scientific readers.

Anyone (like me) who read the commentary about the media, and mostly skimmed over the exhaustive detail on why the experiment was broken, was reading primarily an opinion piece, and certainly tone matters in that context.

I don't agree that tone "only matters for rhetorical persuasion" in the first place (or perhaps I disagree with the idea that rhetorical persuasion isn't always playing a role in scientific writing) -- but that's a larger discussion.
That is properly compared with the rest of the country.
Agricultural workers do not get paid substantially more than $13.00/hr gasket inspectors, they get paid substantially less and they work in the sun. A nursing job is a very high skilled job that is very well paid that you go to college for. Shit cleaners are not nurses, they are people who also make less than gasket inspectors. Don't assure people of things you're not sure about.

The pay might be shit, but we'll make it up in overtime:)
I think this happens in any context where you're learning from talented people and you still have your mind open. I think it's just part of growing up and maturing.
It's because it's more like a discussion than a question. And it's more suited here anyway: http://superuser.com/
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