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I don't think they have actually taken it over. The leadership is not aligned with the tea party values. I think we are more at a split-purposes under the same house. To my mind, the 2012 primaries will be the break point.
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Religion is wrong in the sense that it is based on incorrect assumptions, namely that God exists. This is not a moral statement. Whether or not it is harmful is to be decided by the evidence (many terrorists are religiously-motivated etc.), and I agree this point is harder to establish, because religion also brings comfort and so on. Anyway for Dawkins this issue seems secondary to the first one.

As for your second paragraph, but of course this is advocacy! Dawkins is not acting as a scientist here, I think this much is clear. He is an advocate who draws on his scientific knowledge and his rational philosophy to make his case.
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Ask HN: How do you get search engines to reindex your site?
I changed the URL structure for one of my Django sites so every day I get error messages as spiders & bots try and crawl the old pages.

Is there a way you can proactively alert Google, Yahoo, etc that a reindex is needed?
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Having been able to create a niche in itself is no mean feat.

Surprisingly enough the lower noise is putting people off!
One of my friends commented that he missed 'mafia wars' and troubling random people (!) .

Wasn't it the same initially with orkut? Back then, especially in India and Brazil, people were skeptical about facebook.

Can you imagine that?
Every line of code written by a founder as he learned to program is a line I have to rip out when I come on board to do it right. By all means, scrounge up a little capital and let the professionals handle it from the start.
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The irony of the article is that Mr. Case doesn't want to share his identity because he himself works for these people he is making fun of. He then goes on to call out the Sticker Giant Guy and Kyle Bragger instead of protecting their names too. Kyle took it in stride, asking for more feedback in the comments.

Using a pseudonym to anonymously whine about people's bullshit projects is so cowardly. I generally agree with what he is saying but don't have much respect for this faceless ranter. Is it so hard to say no to the people who approach him with these bullshit projects, and move on? This isn't a new problem. There are plenty of clients especially in Brooklyn that are willing to pay a decent wage to work on a project that isn't completely soul crushing.

Building a good freelance client base is all about word of mouth. If you work a gig for a low wage and they walk all over you, chances are you will get more clients from the first client that want the same thing, to pay you a low wage and walk all over you. If you are choosy about who you do projects for, you will probably have a better portfolio because you didn't work on a bullshit project, and you will land more clients like first ones you chose to work with.

If you are choosy and still think the clients suck and the projects are bullshit, freelance probably isn't for you.
Why does every political argument resort to "tea party this" or "liberal that." Drives me nuts we can't have conversations without sweeping generalizations and broad attacks.
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I would go further and say anyone can claim they "broke" whatever system. Why do we even care about this. PoC or it didn't happen.

Also, 'SSL broken' it's a way abusive title to whatever hack relying on non encrypted http requests, javascript injection and so on.

But the real question: why do people pay so much attention to this here at HN? Why does it gets discussed as if would be given for a fact when all we have are rumors?
I think people just like to talk vaguely about crypto, throwing a few concepts and hypothesis around migt be enough for many to feel intelligent...?
I don't think I've ever been quoted on the Internets before. Thanks :)
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It really is the worst of both worlds. The existing republican establishment has harnessed the Tea Party's discontent to justify their policies without actually reforming how the party operates. All the tea party caucus can do is occasionally grind things to a complete and utter halt, and the leadership can to a large extent control when and how that happens.

What's the result? Tea partiers aren't going to get what they want (since it's never been on the table to offer them), and they're being used as a weapon to prevent thing that citizens in general agree with (the wealthy should pay more in taxes, the FAA should keep operating, that sort of thing).

This really is political coopting at it's finest.
> Meanwhile, my parents, who I love dearly, are still convinced they are both heading for an eternity burning in hell because they have yet to experience the born-again moment that Protestant Christians pine for. The problem, I think, is that they are too honest with themselves. They really just need that single powerful religious moment (aka hallucination) that they would get if they fasted for three days and prayed continually in a closet, but they haven't had it.

As a Christian myself, it's sad to hear there are people who don't seem to understand what they purportedly believe. I'd love to sit down with people like your parents to discuss things, as my own knowledge of scripture is fairly advanced (and I would dare to say sound, despite knowing that many in this thread would see it as a crock of BS). But I do fear that type of discussion can be difficult. I've spoken with so-called fundamentalists in the past, and I find their knowledge mostly based on whims and hearsay, rather than actual scripture. Therefore, it becomes tiring if they are not willing to have a 2-way conversation.

It is ironic, because the word "fundamentalist" would indicate to me an adherence to basic fundamentals. In that case, I would call myself a devout fundamentalist, but the word unfortunately does not have that meaning in our society. I wonder why these people are called fundamentalists, and not simply extremists or something else that makes more sense.
That doesn't explain why traditional medicines are stacking up shorter against placebos. If there was an increased belief amongst study participants that they would get better regardless of what they were given, the placebo effect would be just as strong for those who got the real medication. That is, if the medication is 50% effective and the placebo is 30% effective, then those who got the real medication would obtain some benefit both from the medication itself, as well as from the belief that they would gain some benefit from the placebo (which they don't know they didn't get).
Ironic isn't it that the people that are most effected by financial polices - the working class and poor - usually don't come out to these kind of things.

But I wouldn't give up on it yet, a core seems to be prepared for long-term occupation and it could grow.
It stands to reason that people would think that hard drives are the least reliable component. A bad hdd tends to be very obvious, and for anyone with bad backup hygiene also memorable. Something like a flaky ram stick just makes the machine crash a little more often.

That said, on my desktop I run a raid-1 setup. When a drive fails, I immediately replace the whole pair. Just lost the third one in 6 years this Saturday. And there isn't even any infant mortality distorting the stats.
I recently caught Episode III again. Among other nice touches, it has a lovely scene showing Obi Wan heading into a sinkhole (cave) on a planet surrounded by moons (water/aggression). On his arrival a character walks over and says "there is no war here, unless you've brought it with you."

It's probably fair to say that Lucas made the same film six times, but I find the moral center and symbolic subtlety of his work interesting. I've never gotten that feeling of thematic consistency and purpose from Star Trek.
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This is akin to saying that human sexuality is wrong and harmful, or male competition is wrong and harmful.

logical falacy: is != ought

As scientists, we cannot make value judgements on these natural phenomena.

The evolutionary explanations for the origin of religious behaviour is entirely irrelevant to the question of whether the claims made by religions are true. Religions make testable claims like the existence of miracles, science can be applied to these claims. More broadly, Dawkins uses a scientific approach to make a very strong argument that religions are not accurate descriptions of reality.
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From my iiNet DSL2+ connection in Perth, Australia to tokyo1.linode.com, I get 204ms ping and 14 hops, and from a Telstra fibre connection, I get 174ms and 15 hops.

That compares to about 250ms and 12 hops on iiNet, and 210ms and 14 hops on Telstra to fremont1.linode.com.

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OK, I had read the emulator wasn't ideal but didn't know if maybe other people had better experiences. Is it necessary to get the newest phone? I've seen an unlocked Nexus One, for about $350, seemed like a viable option. Woot just had the Galaxy S WiFi for $175, which seemed like an even better deal (faster, though I don't know if it'll run 2.3 or have Market access). Anyway, thought I'd ask; thanks for the feedback.
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It`s actually only a technique where you replace the like button with a static img and on an mouseover event or first click you replace it with the original like button.

Its good for improving page loads because you dont have to wait for 3rd party servers and also its an improvment for user privacy because your site is not automatically sending content informations into the graphs of all these sites just because someone opens a webpage.

I can only link to one project i know of, but its in german only atm
http://www.heise.de/extras/socialshareprivacy/
another example would be techcrunch but as far as i can tell they only use it to improve the overall pageload experience.
Thanks for mentioning your product; I signed up for Convergence using the sign up link at the top of the page. Is that the process to sign up for the trial? It looks as though your page is targeted towards University IT rather than individual professors (which is probably the right approach I suppose) but it makes me suspicious that I can't get the "5 professors, unlimited students" trial on my own.
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This looks like a great little trick, but I can't get it to work on OS X Lion. Has anyone else on Lion gotten this to work?

I've got Xcode 4.1 installed with dev tools, and it seems like the version of gdb provided doesn't support the -eval-command flag which breaks the script.

I'm wondering if someone else can confirm this problem, and whether there is an easy way to to install a supported version of gdb.
Ask HN: Is the 'new' page the best way to pick news?
I feel that new submissions have a highly randomized chance of getting picked up by upvotes due to the nature of the new page.

There are already a lot of submissions, and depending on the rate of submissions at the time you submit, and the number of eyeballs on the new page, it is a matter of chance that a good submission catches any interest.

I would rather prefer that the effect of luck is reduced and good submissions always get picked up. For example, new submissions could be organized in a different way for people to upvote. E.g. I should be able to have a day's worth of time window to check new submissions and upvote them, and search for keywords in submissions. Any comments?
I'm not sure it's the best way to store sets. It's seems like potentially doing a pointer dereference per bit is quite an overhead. It would be 8 times faster (for dense sets) to have a crit-byte tree. Though then obviously if you did that naively, there would be a huge associated storage cost. To mitigate that, you can do what AMTs do and have a bitmap per node followed by an array of pointers.
Wouldn't the iPad be a good way to spread germs?
I was referring to "business" types as referenced in the article (who treat techies as glorified typists). I don't think either should be dismissive of the other.
The leadership can be aligned with whatever it wants; what matters is how they actually vote, and it's a fact that at the moment, the congressional leadership (as well as nearly all of their presidential candidates) is playing the tea party tune.
The article isn't keeping up with the best research. (I'm glad that the submission title notes that the article was published in 2009.) In actual practice, placebos only look effective when the statistical tests in a study are poor, and most especially when the symptoms are self-reported by patients. Placebos are NOT effective in treating actual disease states or improving "hard endpoints" such as reduction of all-cause mortality or major morbidity from specific diseases with verifiable physiological signs. See

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/placebo-effect...

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/placebo-effect...

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/the-placebo-ef...

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/placebo-effect...

Placebo effects are strongest for patient self-reported subjective symptoms (classically, pain) and weakest for objective clinical signs measured by experienced observers.

Previous submission of same article as that opening this thread, 622 days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1032149

An earlier comment there

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1032710

had it just right: "As I've said before, this article is incredibly wrong and quite misleading. If you ever wanted evidence that most Americans do not understand how medicines are developed or what the Placebo Effect is, this article (and the responses here) serve as ample evidence.
For a more rigorous refutation by a trained professional, please read:

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=1248

I'll pull the zinger quote from the article above for you:

>No, it’s not like that at all. Perhaps the studies are just that well done, or maybe the drugs being developed suck, or maybe companies are studying more candidate drugs and screening for efficacy. Just about any explanation that doesn’t involve aliens is better than 'placebo is getting stronger'."
Just want to point out that your demo is broken and/or odd: http://nylira.com/en/projects/

If you view it under Chrome on a wide screen monitor:

a) To the right you can see a tiny slice of the next site in the slideshow. It's unclear at first if this slice is part of the current slideshow box, or not.

b) Clicking on any one of the links, breaks the page---removing all of the links and displaying a screen that shows two different sites side by side (but only half of each due to the window size).
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He was rightly slammed by many for this, but the guy sounds like a dick to me.

Irrelevant, and a logical falacy to boot: if Dawkins is wrong on one thing does not show he is wrong on other things.
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No way... I've never heard of a start up that had a product with a great potential but didn't manage to pull it of due to bad business strategy. The key is putting up a quality produce. No marketing/business mimics will do it if you don't have a proper product to offer.

I hate to put it this way... but business intelligence is a field that engineers can grasp quite easily while technical knowledge is reserved to those who have the skills it takes.
I actually know of companies that only hire engineers to their financial jobs.
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The government spends wastefully in defense, education and every other service it seeks to provide.

I agree in principle that it's generally beneficial for individuals to pool resources in order to address common needs. But this happens on its own in a marketplace. It's called the division of labor.
Like I said, I do believe the primaries for the 2012 election will tell the story. It either will be business as usual or the leadership takes a beating. I am particulary interested in Hatch's seat.
I'm in the same boat working on a simple web application. There are great lessons to learn when you try the other shoe on for size. Things that I thought were trivial become real difficult, especially when you don't plan them from the start and you have to re-architect your entire code. However I do find the process enjoyable and in the end it feels fulfilling to actually create something instead of just dreaming all days about ideas.
You have a slight typo in your link, it should be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality
> Positions rooted in science are by definition not dogmatic and therefore cannot be fundamentalist.

Alas, when humans enter the picture, it can get difficult. Human nature can be inherently very dogmatic, just due to political reasons alone.

> My doctor wouldn't be stubborn or dogmatic for considering me an idiot in that instance. My opinion has no value and therefore is owed no respect.

Have you had no experience or seen no experience of your friends where the doctor was wrong? Humans make mistakes, but they should be aware of that possibility. Doctors who consider their patients idiots are not sympathetic to listen to their patients' claims.

My dad's friend once went skiing and broke a leg. The doctor said there was nothing wrong because the x-ray showed no fractures. The guy was in pain. My dad convinced the doctor and technician to do more x-rays at different angles. They found the fracture. Had the doctor simply thought my dad's friend was playing games because the data said everything was OK, he would have been venturing on malpractice. There are many stories like this where malpractice actually was the result. People who think that understanding the data better gives them the right to consider others idiots run the risk of being the biggest idiots of all.

On the topic of medicine, perhaps the best known story of scientific dogma was the medical community's understanding of ulcers and how to treat them. Science can be dogmatic too, but it's not the fault of science, it's the fault of people who can be dogmatic by nature.
I tend to stick with the "new" page, yes. I prefer stability, and I know that when I return to that page I'll immediately see what is different (i.e. what's at the top). Then again, I probably check the site more often than most people.

I imagine the "crowd-sourced" front page is the most useful to people who won't be taking the time to click a lot of "More" links and just want to read a few interesting things.

Another reason I check "new" is because I occasionally flag things, and it's unlikely that posts requiring a flag are going to appear anywhere else.
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Congratulations on the awesome work, Storm looks really great.

A minor nit, I was looking at the code, and all the hanging parens make it look really sad :-(
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If the leadership was playing the tea party tune, they would have gone with Ryan's spending cuts instead of the costly debt ceiling raise. The leadership is ignoring the tea parties desires and doing business as usual.
The biggest difference is that Storm guarantees that data will be processed, whereas S4 can lose data. I also think Storm is significantly easier to use.
Well, feminists get upset that he does not drink their cool aid, but over all a pretty cool guy.
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While I do agree with the main point of this, the tone and delivery made it a bit hard to read at times (not to mention that it seems to skip focus part way through from freelance jobs to the definition of a founder). Granted, this seems to be framed as a rant less than it is an article. Regardless, it would have been nice to get a positive spin on these gripes (e.g. the author is working on a ratemyclient type site or creating a means for educating clients on good vs. bad projects).
"You're not a whole person unless you read enough science...to understand why you exist in the first place."
The specifics of their views are irrelevant, at their core they are identical. They both believe they know best, and they both believe that it is in everyones best interest that they push their view onto others. The fact that Dawkins is 'right' or that a religious fundamentalist's view is dogmatic is irrelevant to my point. (and to clarify again, Dawkins is in my mind, absolutely right)

The doctor analogy is interesting, because my health has been _seriously_ compromised by western medicine. They gave me advice that was based on 'the best information available through examinations and tests' and I'll forever pay the consequences. If they had respected others opinions then I would have never suffered the way I have.

I'm not saying science will tomorrow find evidence of a creator god that made the world in six days, not at all. I'm just saying that we don't always know what is best for others, and should never presume to do so. For some people, living a religious life is the best possible outcome. They have a moral and ethical system they can look towards when they aren't sure how to proceed. They have hope when everything else is falling apart, etc etc.

To you and I, and indeed to Dawkins the idea that some bearded guy in the clouds created the world and the universe, will help you through life and grant you seven virgins when you die is delusional and utterly disproved by science. But if this world view is helping someone respect others and live a happy and fulfilled life, then why does it matter what he or she believes? And more to the point, who does Dawkins think he is going around telling people like this that they are idiots?

Make the information available. Tell people about it, grant interviews, attend conferences and seminars and host talks about your ideas. Just don't be a dick about it.