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Let's think about this for a second.

The Abrahamic religions (which are the ones that the author is skewering here) teach that all humans are made in the image of God. This implies that (a) human life has inherent value, and (b) humans have a moral responsibility to God. This means that people have a reason - really, an obligation - to be compassionate towards each other.

On the other hand, an atheistic worldview backed by determinism implies that (a) humans have no more intrinsic value than a tree, and therefore (b) humans don't have a moral responsibility to anyone. This means that there is no real reason for people to be compassionate to others.

So, religious people with a proper understanding of their religion's doctrines should be far more compassionate than equivalent atheists. The fact that we don't see that compassion borne out can be attributed to three factors:

First, there are unfortunately many religious people who have bought into the "Gospel of Ben" - "God helps those who helps themselves." This isn't actually anywhere in the Bible, Ben Franklin made it up. And unfortunately this is something that appeals a lot to politicians.

Second, many religious people believe that charity should be handled by church, and not by the state. They also believe in separation of church and state and the limitation of state power, which were actually principles developed by Christians. The author is committing a fallacy in assuming that all charity must be state charity.

And third, many "organic atheists" are still operating based on their conscience, which the atheistic worldview does not actually have room for. There cannot be a supernatural conscience if there is no supernatural, and evolution has no solid way to explain the development of a moral system that goes against survival.
That is a tad to blunt for my tastes, but yes. Though I'm trying to allow some room for people unconsciously thinking like this, unintentionally.
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You make a decent point but there's a good reason for the downvotes. Downvoting before reading is not in the spirit of this community (though sometimes, in rare cases it may be okay). You should not be here to collect karma like some sort of street cred so you can play god with the comments. There's a lot of karma policing going on lately where people think that button is there so they can push down stuff they don't agree with. That isn't the point. Up and down votes should be to everyone's benefits and unfortunately there are ton of people lAtely using them on some power trip. Don't be one of the "Karma Police". Use the buttons judiciously.
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Facebook, CareerIQ, and I am sure you can find a few more.
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I do not see this start of work you talk about.
I got the same feeling. What differentiates Any.DO from Astrid, Google Tasks, Remember the Milk, org-mode, Taskwarrior or any of the thousands of other to-do applications/systems out there?
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> has raised $1M, and has 11 people.

If anyone doubts that we're in a bubble, ruminate on the above numbers for a second.

* There are a bazillion to-do lists apps, of varying colors and prettiness and integration with calendars.

* The barriers to entry are zero. Maybe less than zero, since you can raise money to do this sort of thing.

* The pitch has to be something like "The total available market is equal to the number of cell phones. Just imagine the revenue from 1% of that TAM!"
Fortunately for me, Amazon misspelled Kindel. As a result I get a pretty good picture of how the Kindle has been selling over the years.

In analyzing all my referrals since the Kindle shipped I know that most people who come to my site have simply spelled the name wrong. They tend to be less tech savvy.

Since the Fire went on sale not a single one has been returned (yet). I regularly see about .025-0.5% of Kindle's purchased via my affiliate link being returned.

My numbers only represent about a month's activity, but if the numbers are anywhere close to what this article suggesting I would have expected to see at least ONE return out of 44. So I call BS.

Note I'm not defending the Fire. I have one and think the quality and execution are disappointing. I'm simply pointing out that attempting to judge Fire return #s based on reviews on Amazon.com is an invalid approach.
What will the next business be that manages our business streams?
Just use tab completion to be sure you're getting what you asked for
Considering their about page was taken from somewhere else as well, not sure how much originality they are capable of achieving.

http://www.any.do/about
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Are you saying that if it wasn't recorded then we cannot discuss it? Obviously there are many people who have been to the event, and s/he would be a fool to make such a statement if it weren't true, specially on HN.
He's doing better than your bank teller. Lots of jobs pay less than 55k, even in New York.
Bayesian logic and reasoning.
Thank you. I can guarantee you that most people's startup do not make $55k/year.
A lot of the people that will try to ask for this info aren't that knowledgeable and won't realize there is a way around it. It can be a real problem.

My ex was career military. So was his father. He spent most of his life on or near military bases, where everyone will take a federally issued military ID. He renewed his driver's license by mail one year when we lived very far from the state where he was registered as a voting citizen (paying taxes and keeping his driver's license from there). It showed up with no photo and in place of the photo it clearly stated that it was valid as proof of license to drive but was not to be used as "identification". He was on recruiting duty, so we weren't actually near a military base. Which meant that for the first time in his life, no one wanted to take his military ID (with photo and SSN on it) as ID if he wrote a check or something. They all wanted his driver's license, which he would then whip out and show them it couldn't be used for ID purposes. This stumped a great many people in entry level retail jobs.
This is very useful.

Any time line on when bitbukcet and googlecode integration gets added?
Anybody here who actually used Opera Unite?
Right, but why can't I downvote overall submissions? I understand there is a karma threshold for downvoting comments, but I'm unaware of any mechanism for submissions.
I use Springpad for the simple fact that it synchronizes across all my computers/devices and lets me categorize my task a little better (work mode vs home mode). Springpad also benefits from other non-task related features though which is why I use it over more specific task list apps.
But also the audience for ereaders skews older. see[1].

It's hard to tell if it's because older people read more , or because they like ereaders.

But:
"
“Tablets and e-readers are relatively easy to use. Couple that with light weight and the ability to increase the text size (not to be underestimated with older owners), and you have a very appealing product for older demographics,” Kellogg said.
"

And without physical books What left of the bookstore is(almost) the public library.

[1]http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/08/mobile-tech-demograph...
> total stranger for free. I suppose we've all hit rock bottom then?

First, you haven't actually had your marrow sucked out for 6 hours after 5 days of medication. Second, there's a distinct difference between the people who donate their organs for free and those who sell them. Go back and read the statistics I posted.

> For the sake of poor people, transplant patients, and sex workers everywhere, please don't impose your own backwards morals on everyone else.

I'm really not, I'm just expressing my opinion. I'm sorry you're so offended as to feel imposed upon, but it really is just a block of text on the internet. No need to get catty.

Find me people begging to sell their organs and I'll concede that it's a good idea.
We do say this in the UK, but .......

its really rare to be asked for ID, it happens but only on the really big stuff (loans, getting a car, buying a _house_).

You would not need to provide a driving license to buy an iPhone.

I have just moved to the US for work and I am amazed at how often you guys get asked for driving license / SSN etc.
and yet a pretty interface and catchy name may be the key to success...if this market hadn't already been oversaturated
While the merits of going to space are certainly arguable, stating that we haven't gotten very far from earth since 1980 is particularly irrelevant. We have been to the moon. We could go again, for less money, if we wanted to. Does the fact that we have decided not to have any bearing on the economics of spaceflight?

The linked article is not particularly convincing. Rather than begin with a short introduction and then present factual evidence for why space is infeasible, the author complains emotionally about the entertainment industry and how the public in general has inaccurate views of space.

Then he goes on to say that space is big.

Then he tells us that space is dangerous.

I seriously found it hard to finish this article. At some point the author says that if a life dingy is lost at sea edible fish may jump aboard (has this actually happened?) but hamburgers do not hit the side of space ships...Really?

Also, he says that biospheres have not been successful even though they have:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
Though the crew reported hunger, they were able to survive for two years without importing anything at all from the outside world. Though not the best possible outcome, it was essentially (to my knowledge) the first time any one has attempted to do this, at least on this scale. No doubt our technique would improve with additional research.

I could go on...but the truth is that the only thing this article proves to me is that the author doesn't want space to be a feasible option.

I am convinced that we are currently biding our time and improving our technology. It makes little sense for us to spend a ton of money getting someone to Mars now if in 20 years we can do it for a third the cost. My bet is that we will start serious space exploration in as little as a hundred years (even I am not that optimistic). But to say that the space age is dead never to be recovered is ridiculous.
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This is now groupware software. No real need to run it on your home computer you can download phpgroupware and get a $5 web host.
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The world would also be a better place without a lot of social-media crap startups with "sell more ads" business models using other people's money to bid up the price of talent and office space. Nonetheless, the people starting those companies are entrepreneurs and so is this guy. That's a lean startup, right there. ;)
Is there a way to get such data ? Other than going out an actively contacting the taxi companies ?
Remember folks, Apple are not patent trolls, they just want justice and to be given credit for their innovations, like the rectangle and the rounded corner.
> paying a premium to reduce your risks.

It's an exchange of risks, not a reduction. You incur a sizable business risk by putting a nonprofitable company in your critical path.
There was a big discussion a week or so back about Dwolla's operations not being legal in California.
I see this worry about the historical record disappearing, and think it is misplaced. We have plenty of knowledge of civilization from hundreds of years ago, despite a near total lack of written records at the time.

And frankly, it's probably a good thing that a lot of records disappear. How many books about WW2 can you read? Is it remotely useful to keep all the accounting records of every company for future generations? There's a lot of angst about half of the silent movies having disappeared, but let's be honest - most of the silent movies were trash churned out for a quick buck.
Can't wait for the star-shaped tablet.
Actually, it's not even all Abrahamic religions. Muslims and Lutherans believe in predestination, Catholics seem confused and Jews like to argue about it (the wikipedia article doesn't describe Jews/Catholics views very well).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination
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I agree, but not in the sense you mean it. The demographic for lemonade stands is little kids, while the demographic most closely associated with trying to earn money in the subway is desperate adults. One of these demographics is drastically more likely to commit violent crime if they can't make money another way.
Maybe I would be helpful, if downvoters could leave a short piece of feedback.
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If I remember correctly, Uber is also facing legal action about the legality of their car service.
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Thanks, Peter.

Good point re: the iPad stuff. I would say the other main feature is that everything is edit in place (live-updating), which is also not clearly explained on the homepage at the moment and definitely an advantage over our competitors.
We're the country that invented the TSA. You shouldn't be surprised we have a long tradition of security theater. :)
This is the second shitty TC article I've seen here today. The author begins with a point then starts rambling off a list of "evil" things and the companies who did them.

There's maybe a couple of lines toward the end that relate to the title. Overall it was just a bitch-piece complaining about mean things that doo-doo head companies have done.

Cry me a river. This is old news. Cover something that hasn't been covered a trillion times before especially by your own publication.
That's exactly what this post reminded me of, Unite is precisely the sort of thing this refers to. Sadly, nobody seems to have used it much, and I'm a hardcore Opera user, so I'd have heard something.
We've offered a cloud transcoding service since before Zencoder was spun out. But we don't really market it, it's normally an consultative add on for our VDN customers (we interview about reqs then configure transcoding profiles for customers not interested in having to know), though you can buy it alone.

That said, love what Zencoder's doing. Very good for the industry.
alias it to ask "really? (y/n)" perhaps.
Their iphone app is usable, definitely not amazing.

Try ordering two of the same kind of dipping sauce or removing toppings from a pizza.

(I just had used it haha)
If your startup develops, sells or uses software, it is undoubtedly breaching someone's patents. Cardinal Richelieu needed six lines to hang a man; A good patent troll will hang a company in five lines of code.
I was there a few weeks ago. It's not free, but $15 is probably trivial for anyone visiting the Bay Area.
SAP guy here (well I work in the industry). I know Enterprise Software is not highly regarded here on HN, but this is pretty big news considering the onslaught of Workday and SalesForce.com to enterprise software.

What is interesting is how SAP manages to handle disruptive technologies to its existing portfolio. Does large enterprise now use SuccessFactors or SAP HCM (via NetWeaver Portal/ESS/MSS)?

For anyone interested in the theories of the Innovator's Dilemma this is an awesome example.
Yeah, I'm really eager to find a mirror. I like playing with data like this and I'm flying to India tomorrow.
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yet another todo list. how is this one better than wunderlist?
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well, as Emerson said, good men must not obey laws too well (probably talking about slavery). In this case, I think there are valid reasons for the law. Just because something is a fact of life doesn't mean it's desirable.
Well, think of it this way: if you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all. The cream always rises. I think it's great that all submissions have an equal chance of getting noticed. If enough like it, it goes up while inevitably surpassing the crap that languishes at the bottom. Most unpopular articles don't need any help getting ignored.
The fact is Samsung is obviously mirroring the industrial design success of Apple to cause market confusion. To root for a company like this to succeed is disgusting.
I think you've got the lack of understanding - people adopted internet gateways long before ISPs 'allowed' them to.

Contract fundamentalism is orthogonal to the rule of law. Fundamentalism presumes that following the base rules of the system (unbounded contracts) is more important than following the behavioral rules (actual contract law).
You'd be amazed at the number of "uninteresting" entrepreneurs out there. Just because he's not in SV and his latest funding round wasn't featured in TechCrunch doesn't mean he's any less entrepreneur than any other business owner.

Besides, doing something because other people find it interesting is a terrible way to make life choices.
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Does IBM really apply here? They seemed to do alright with the PC.

'web interface' is not the first or second thing I think about when ordering pizza. Here is what I care about:

1) Taste
2) Time to door
3) Price

Everything else has little or no impact. Now if I could say 'Siri, order me my usual' and siri ordered my usual from the closest Pizza Pizza and had it delivered to my determined location? Gold!
This guy is a jerk. Last week he called my wife a white bitch because she didn't buy any candy. I respect the hustle but not the man.
I've tried out a bunch of them. And NirvanaHQ beats the competition hands down. https://www.nirvanahq.com/
What's so great about NHQ is the combination of long-term 'projects' with short term to-do lists, and being able to seamlessly manage both your grocery shopping list and that new programming language learning project.
I'm not sure how you can read that article and decide Apple is the reasonable party.
Because those suggestions amount exactly to that, right?

Go forbid Samsung actually tried "a not entirely flat front surface" for their tablets, right? You know, like the ones used in most of the phones they make. Or that they made it non rectangular. Or added a couple of buttons to the front face, like the Kindle had. Because, Samsung totally values "thin" and "non cluttered appearance" otherwise, right? Because that's how the company rolled pre-iPad.

Or is it because no one can produce anything other than the current iPad/iPhone form viably? So, when Apple redesigns the iPhone/iPad in a couple of years, it would be like they discovered non-circular wheels, right?
If convincing people to spend real money on fake farms on Facebook counts as an untapped market, then this certainly should count.
The p-value [1] criterion is often used to test a proposed hypothesis in medical and social science research papers. When you stumble upon something along the lines of "studies that shown that eating broccoli makes people happy" in your everyday life, it comes down to the p-value calculation being small enough <0.05 for the before and after gathered datasets.

The p-value method is practically a standard for scientific reporting in some fields. It also has some drastic shortcomings, including, e,g., dramatic instability for tests with only little data [2].

Naturally, people realize that and try to use additional tools and criteria when available. However, scientists are pretty brutally incentivized to publish positive results and, as a result, more often than it should be, too much weight is put on the single p-value criterion.

With issues like this in mind, in my opinion, it makes sense to be somewhat skeptical when seeing reports in the news that "A effects B" and definitely not to rush with the conclusions. Trivial, I know.

The [3] video pretty much sums it up and by all means is worth a watch.

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value#Problems

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e...
Record stores make poor promotional vehicles for records; people don't often go into record stores hoping for serendipity. Partly because it's hard to browse music, even when you can actually listen to it. Partly because people tend to have something specific in mind when they go to a record store, at least more often than when they go to book stores.
What actually got me thinking about this topic originally was this comic: http://xkcd.com/949/

It brought me back to my BBS days when I could send a file directly to a friend's system with no intermediaries. I didn't even need them to be there when I uploaded it to their machine! Even if they didn't run their own, I could post it somewhere on my own system and let them grab it at their convenience.

It was easy, it was direct, it was as fast as you could get at the time, and it was private. There were no intermediate computers or networks which had to bless your traffic. Like the xkcd suggests, there are size limits, filters, and all sorts of other crazy things once you start relying on those systems.
I'm getting really tired of the "cyber" warfare. It's obvious they are just now starting to push hard for it, thinking they'll get people to give up even more rights and let them spy all their activities online, so they can maybe catch some "cyber-criminals".
Yeah. But also misguide: Apple doesn't object to such trivialities. There are a lot of tablets out there with different designs which they don't challenge at all.

Samsung choose to copy almost everything of Apple's design. Hell, a representative for the company couldn't even tell between an iPad and one of their devices when they were shown to him in court.
That's funny, Norvig's papers on Scheme-on-Java are co-written by Tim Hickey. Including "SILK: a playful blend of Scheme and Java".
Cool project. It looks like you need to adjust relative image sources so they will load.

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There's actually a lot of research money and time put into the field called biomimetics.

One of the more publicized examples of this research was Stickybot [1], a gecko-inspired robot that can climb vertical surfaces. Commercial examples in robotics are not hard to find either: Boston Dynamics' robots, ASIMO, Festo's Seagull UAV etc.

The Ortiz Lab does fascinating research [2] on the material properties of exoskeletons.

Then there's the study of the camouflage exhibited by cephalopods. This video report on Science Friday is worth watching: http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201108053

[1] http://bdml.stanford.edu/twiki/bin/view/Rise/StickyBot
[2] http://web.mit.edu/cortiz/www/
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I used to run a BBS and there is no more community building like in those days. I used RemoteAccess and Maximus later. Has a lot of fun with it and with much of the people from that time I am still friends.

I think there might be use case, but it would really need a push to make it popular. I would really enjoy to recreate at least some of the community from that time.
Ex-Successfactors guy here. It is indeed going to be an interesting thing to watch. Successfactors was innovating big time in terms of usability and flexibility on their ESS/MSS suite during my tenure there.
ATM I feel that is my only option since 1) I don't have the money to hire anyone, 2) I have no design skills. To me it feels like stealing though and I have ethical problems with that. I want to pay, I just can't.