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I think push/pull terms get confusing. Push often means servers can tell you something. Like push email is a notification that you have email.

What this requires is a frequent and periodic push to the servers from a background process. This means the app process setup needs to change, because in my understanding, the apps can't have running processes when you're not looking at them. They start fresh every time you open them.

Push email will probably come before persistent apps. It's also more compelling to apple because it would mean they could take a bigger chunk out of blackberry.
Yech. YouTube is such an ugly environment. Low-quality videos, ugly video player, ugly web site.

Hulu gets my vote because it's just so perfectly-done. You go there and you feel like you're watching something that's worth it. I tried watching on YouTube, and even when it's high quality, it's worse-looking than Hulu, and I get that ugly video bar at the bottom. Everybody else gets rid of it, YouTube. Why don't you?
Adolescent behavior is a pretty trivial threat to the status quo. Most of the lashing out is justified by their acceptance of the idea that they'll have to be working stiffs later.
could you post quickly how many lines your routes.rb file has?
Very few pages have well formed mark-up. The few large scraping projects I've seen have started out with a mark-up based approach and then switched to regular expressions.

What experiences has everyone else had?
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As well as anyone else might be a median performance, which isn't too encouraging.

The choices should probably be within the set of things that have been done - and good sportsmanship would make us avoid answers that are all about money.
He said "rarely", not "never". I think that's pretty accurate.

As for William Lane Craig and the others, I would argue the difference between reflecting deeply on a topic with an open mind, and simply acting the apologetic for a collection of preconceived dogmas. Besides, isn't Craig with the Discovery Institute?
> 90% of the clock cycles are spent in C libraries no matter what, so I don't see much of a downside

Which of course raises the question: why C#/Java instead of C++ in conjunction with something like perl or python?
Except that they aren't Hacker News.
1900 req/sec What kind of requests?

Typically dynamic content usually is well below 300 req/s per core and goes down fast on many factors (e.g. non-local database.) Most web frameworks are usually below the 300 req/s mark. Of course it is a very complex subject as there are many things to consider. Good cache management, CDN, SSI, and reverse cache come to mind.

About databases, it can become a problem if you do writes on the same database as locking starts to show its dangerous tentacles.
That's an extremely simple minded way of thinking.

First of all it's impossible to know which is correct. So instead you look at the effect on people.

Second truth isn't everything - it looks that way, but when you run a civilization entirely on truth it fails, and can not survive.

I have a feeling you're not going to understand this, it took me years to understand it - I wanted only truth, and was utterly miserable, until I understood that truth isn't everything (and I'm not talking about religion BTW).

Sometimes believing something that is wrong gives a better outcome. Which is more important? The truth? Or the outcome?

Don't answer quickly - philosophers have been arguing about this for millennia. I chose truth and was miserable. I recently changed my mind.
Ask out each hot girl I saw. After a while I may get tired of that and ask out all the other girls.

Really.

What type of answer were you looking for? :D
Hulu's not yet available outside of US :(
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Sell mugs with Obama's face on them in college gift-shops?

Sorry, didn't read the article.
As you've noted, "atheist" is a very specific term, which simply means one affirms the non-existence of a god or gods. "Skeptic", of course, is probably the word that would best describe one who does not believe in any supernatural things, including god, elves, gremlins, and Eskimos.
Hey, now that brings about an interesting question: If we were to discover the correct view of the universe, but that view would necessarily brings about our own demise, do we tell the world the correct view?
It may make sense in the technical sense, but I for one have never met someone who claimed to be atheist that believed that humans had a soul that continued after death.

I've met ones that didn't discount it as a possibility, but not any that professed a belief in it.
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He really says:

the world WOULD clearly be much better off without so many of us [1]

There are varying degrees of mendacity involved in making the above statement. The most honest thing to say would have been, "I want my share of natural resources to be higher than it is, therefore I want fewer people." It becomes more and more dishonest to say, "I fear for the planet/environment, etc". But what is this "the world"? Is it the trees? That would be an interesting thing, to be an herbal supremacist. It goes FAR beyond the typical yuppy habit of paying 80 dollars for a pound of Darjeeling. But, really, by "the world" he means "the people", thus

the people WOULD clearly be much better off without so many of us

And who is "us". Who else could "us" be besides "the people". Therefore,

the people WOULD clearly be much better off without so many people

Clearly, we are dealing with an idiot. Even if the roundaboutedness of the above statement were accepted, his prophecies of apocolypse should be self-correcting by killing off most of us anyway. His is a college-level equivalent of the grade school bestseller "Ishmael".

But...he's not really an idiot, as I've deliberately misinterpreted him in the very manner that he wants to be misinterpreted. The correct translation is this:

my group WOULD clearly be much better off without so many of your group

I agree that this is a rational thing to say. It indisputably results in a value true for all inputs "my" and "your". This attitude is very common as a result, and even if he never honestly advocated the genocide of x billion people, clearly it "WOULD" be a nice thing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mims-Pianka_controversy#Respons...
"Where there is no God, all is permitted."

As much as I like Dostoyevsky, this is bullshit in this context.

Perhaps "Where there is no God, as well as the lack of critical thought about what is best for group survival, all is permitted"

I'm an atheist, and I think that all common morality is based off of one concept - consent. I think one can very easily come to logical conclusions about how one should act towards other humans in the absence of a higher power - one just has to think about it.
sure, but if you're selling to assholes you have to dress and act like an asshole too.
if you're selling to real people you can act like a real person, but come on, how many of those are around?
It makes a lot of sense. Think of Christians who go to Church and are very devoted, but deep inside they do not believe that Hell exists. They will not say it out loud, but they truly believe that Hell does not make sense. It is a bit of a Dichotomy, but Religion, Life, Atheism are all dichotomies themselves.
Wad'ya mean 'The Issue?'

There are all sorts of issues. This one is important to quite a few people.

'what produces a better moral compass' is not very relevant to you if you are trying to find a rational basis for you beliefs or a lack thereof. It is relevant if you are an American that fears the rise of atheism or atheist politicians, judges or cops. It is relevant if you are an agnostic that can't or won't decide on a position but needs to decide if a 'religious foundation' is better for their kids.
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I write Windows applications. C# has Win32 bindings that are vastly superior to anything else out there. There are tools designed to let me leverage these capabilities that are much more polished than the comparable tools for Python, Ruby, or anything else.

C# isn't the best language out there, and certainly not the most elegant, but it's been carefully designed by some very smart people, and it shows. At the end of the day, for what I do, it's the best tool available.
I hope you eventually come to realize that people who disagree with you are not necessarily stupid.
The point was that belonging to a community is more important to the strength of your moral compass than your religion of lack of it and that in America, religion fosters community.

About communities, I agree.
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Although I tend to doubt that this is what he advocated, it would be a terrible idea in any case.

Killing 90% of the human population would actually cause greater ecological catastrophe in the long run. Society is, albeit slowly and unevenly, modernizing and becoming wealthier. This means that population is projected to peak around 9-10 billion (UN figures) and begin declining before the beginning of the 21st century. As technology improves, we might eventually reach a point of relative stability, where we can satisfy nearly all material desires (I believe they are finite, though immense) with a stable population, and I'd imagine that this is likely within a few centuries. This, of course, requires that we don't destroy ourselves or the earth first, but I'd give us a better than 50% chance. All bets are off, though, if we conquer death and aging and still have the desire to procreate-- then we pretty much have to colonize other planets-- but I'm not terribly worried about that one.

Killing 90% of the earth's population in such a way would result in a cycle of chaos and turmoil that would leave humanity in an utterly wrecked state, especially after the revenge wars that would ensue against those responsible (or blamed) for the plague. The state of humanity would be set far back, and we'd have to go through these ecologically net-negative phases of development again.
Apparently, scientist crowds are not smarter than average people crowds.

This Pianka is a shame for science and ecology.
We can find smarter solutions than this.

Am i wrong?
Python does support if-else in lambdas...
Just learned some tricks in #python in IRC-freenode:

I have heard a lot of complaints about Pythons lambdas being crippled but Python does allow if-else in lambdas, I didn't know before.
Not in the ordinary Python way but:

f = lambda n_: (lambda ns: ns.__setitem__('f', lambda n: n if n in [0, 1] else \
fib(n-1) + fib(n - 2)) or ns['f'](n_))({})

map(lambda n: n3 if n % 2 == 1 else n2, range(10))

>>> reduce(lambda x,y: x+y if y % 2 == 1 else x-y, [1,2,3,4,5])
3

>>> fib = lambda n: n if n in [0, 1] else fib(n-1) + fib(n - 2)
>>> fib(12)
144

also:
[n3 if n%2 else n2 for n in range(10)]

For soem reason * * disappears if next to each other.
This is great!

The thing is, though, for a lot of the "problems" they found with Apple's UI, fixing it would cause other problems. Such is the nature of design.
What are you trying to do exactly? It depends a lot on the type of data you're trying to gather.
Clean and usable are great but what about web-friendly? All of the example texts were images.
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Uhm. I though any valid HTML is also valid SGML? Are you sure you're not confusing it with XML markup?
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It seems like I've seen a down voting option on some stories, but recently I haven't seen any. Is my memory wrong, or do I not have enough karma to be able to down vote?
I think the idea is not to avoid all problems, but rather avoid unnecessary problems.
I think he's saying that the HTML-parsing approach only works when the HTML is well-formed and for most sites, it isn't.
I disagree that it has to be one group vs another as you seem to have concluded.

I think it's more like if you're in a traffic jam. Everyone in that traffic jam would probably believe that the traffic would flow better without so much traffic. This is a reasonably assertion, and turns it more into your second assertion:

the people WOULD clearly be much better off without so many people

That's not a "roundabout" statement. The meanings of "people" are slightly different in the two positions. More accurately:

humanity would clearly be much better off if the population were lower
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Google observes how frequently a page updates, and refreshes frequently-updated pages more often than rarely-updated ones. I believe it also ranks new content higher than old content, all else equal, presumably to allow recent coverage of current events to show up even though it won't have many links to it (and thus low pagerank).
I meant as well as anyone you chose. So you could e.g. choose to run the 100 meters in world record time, but not in half a second.
So religion makes atheists mean.
Oh wait, I think I remember it better now.. It's when people tell Dawkins that he shouldn't call himself an atheist, but he should be an 'agnostic' instead because you can't prove that there's no god.

And he replies: I'm agnostic about god in the same way I'm an agnostic about the tooth fairy.
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If anything, GM is a casualty of the huge asset bubble caused by 4-5 years of 1-1.75% interest rates (Greenspan). That bubble had to burst, and when it did, it was obvious that companies in bad shapes would be hit the most.

The fact that GM was in bad shape was its own doing, though.
I think that a lot of the people that actively believe in supernatural things tend not to like to use inflammatory terms like atheist.

But a lot of people that do not believe in god are interested in 'spiritual energies' or something similar that really amounts to a supernatural belief.
Since when is "atheist" an inflammatory term?
Thank you for sharing that!

Pure gold!!!!
We've never had an atheist president, but we've had deists (whom most evangelicals would discount as Christians) including Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln. We've also had Unitarian presidents, such as John Adams.
they take away a quarter of my life (av age of death 75) holding me back and forcing me to learn for tests things that i dont want to know. i like volcanoes. i know how they work. i dont need to be tested on their intricities.

finally i get a chance at a college education and choose something that i hope better gels. if it doesnt its back to step one. if i succeed, im most likely stuck in a 9-6'er at a job that will eventually bore me, turning the cogs for the economy in the dream i am supposed to have.

the more money i make, the more things cost. meanwhile the politicians take summers off and long breaks, pay themselves handsomely and imagine that this is fair. they wonder why i am not happily churning out kids for them to support their economy and further wedge myself in their dream. i'll keep pissing about thanks.
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I don't consider it to be, but it certainly is for a large portion of the USAs population, mainly due to differing interpretations of what the word means, and the common perception (at least in small-town USA) of atheists being amoral as well.
My point was more philosophical, I guess. Obviously if you're doing Windows desktop apps you use whatever Visual Studio gives you. I'm just pro-dynamic language. I also like C++ and fail to see Java or C# as sufficiently improved over C++.
So, in other words, equality in America will be accomplished when someone like you is elected President?

How inclusive. My turn...

I'll believe all Americans are equal when a gay, handicapped, unattractive Muslim woman who never attended college is elected President.
I second that-I am pretty sure it is only for comments. It says that somewhere on the site as well.
Agreed on all points (except the use of 'simple' :). I found the book 'Life of Pi' useful in understanding this. I recommend it highly to everyone.
Note that traditionally company B and C aren't just arbitrary as the parent kinda makes it seem. It would usually be something like restaurant workers at A are on strike, and truck drivers working for B refuse to deliver to A in solidarity with them. It is totally illegal under Taft-Hartley, which certainly isn't only about constraining big business.
I tend to agree. Most people I know who would label themselves as an atheist, myself included, do not have any supernatural beliefs, unless you get ridiculously nitpicky on the semantic side.

The term itself doesn't exclude belief in the "supernatural", but it is (as far as I can tell) claimed largely by people who don't have any belief in the "supernatural".
I find this somewhat depressing for some reason. Seems like there are 3 tiers of people whose time could have been spent better:

1) the people who made the clones 2) the people who use them 3) the person that compiled that list.

And now a fourth- me for clicking on a few of those links out of curiosity.
I am basically trying to track prices of certain products easily so I do not have to worry about doing it by hand and checking myself every once in a while.
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Yup - and you only get downvotes when you hit a base karma level.
This was awesome, but I recommend viewing the high-res PDF instead: http://www.createwithcontext.com/landing-iphone.html

Incidentally, Scribd and Slideshare have given me a newfound appreciation for Adobe Acrobat. A couple of years ago nobody would have said "I just want a good old PDF."
That's the normal python idiom for the ternary operator in other languages if I'm not mistaken. Its lambdas are still crippled, for the same reasons people called them crippled before, which is fine for python, IMO.

If I recall correctly, the if...else for ternary was added mainly because people were doing stuff with and...or to achieve the same effect.
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i have asked this question on a few related forums lately and have either been flamed out of it or given no response.

for me at least, there seems a fair bit to know to do it right. it might be that it's one of those topics that you learn organically and take for granted, but i registered a few domains recently and having worked in the design end of things i am in the process of getting the sites up. it has be stumped.

i would like to have an in depth knowledge of all the dns settings, how they function, security issues, how to apply sub-domains properly etc. maybe there is not much to know, but from the list of options at my registrar there seems to be enough to warrant a large drop-down menu (10 items). i don't know what i need to know.

anyone any pointers in exchange for muchas gracias?
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Can we get a definition of the terms and abbreviations used in this? For those who couldn't watch the show, and aren't lawyers?
Do startups outsource their hacking needs?
I'm an American hacker and I've lived in the Philippines for almost a decade. I'm considering the possibility of re-launch an outsource programming business that failed several years ago due to shall we say "less than steller" marketing efforts.

I can provide highly skilled engineers in C++, PHP/MySQL and many other languages for labor rates in the $1200 - $1800 a month ($7 - $11 per hour) range and the Filipino programmers I've hired in the past have been more focused and motivated than most others I have worked with throughout my long career in this industry.

Yet I'm struggling to understand whether or not IT startups are potential clients for outsource programming services, and I'm also not sure how to market the business successfully this time around. Having a salesperson in the USA is something we didn't try the last time and perhaps it would be a productive approach, but perhaps other marketing techniques might make even more sense.

What do you think?

Are there startups that might hire me to provide their programming services on an outsource basis, or is my market limited only to well-established web and IT ventures?

Or should I be looking at other industries to find the best clients and customers for this type of business?

And what type of marketing should we be engaging in this time around?
2500 lines in routes.rb? That's a code stench.
"... Polling and focus groups, including participation as a permanent member of an ongoing polling project ..."

So is this a Sub for these companies to target & market stuff? ~ http://www.healthtransformation.net/cs/our_members
Before you get too cocky, remember the Singularity. Someday, the computers might decide they don't need you to program them anymore, Mr. Smarty Pants Hacker.

And if you have your doubts about the Singularity, maybe you should also have your doubts about who exactly will be automated out of existence and who will not. One of the things that surprised AI researchers initially was that it was a lot easier to make a computer good at chess than to make it good at, say, digging a ditch.
i can see how it would be useful, especially in work related sectors like taxi-services, hospitals etc. i would always dread if myself and my girl-friend had it that she would ask me why i had turned it off at such a time and grow suspicious...not that i am cheating on her or that i have a girlfriend...but its the sort of present that if i got it from one, i would break accidentally. great ap for parents and kids though. not great for cool kids.
I don't think there's anything wrong with the idiom

condition and trueaction or falseaction

Am I behind the times? On a separate note, the code in the examples above is very difficult to read...a lambda really shouldn't be doing if/else operations like these in my opinion.
"But even so, could you imagine what it would do to the startup community if you required every company regardless of size to offer its employees health insurance?"

This would be an argument for "single payer" government health care.

How much easier would it be to find people willing to work for startups if they didn't need to worry about health insurance?
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Qt is my favorite gui API of all time. Their new IDE is amazing as well:

http://trolltech.com/developer/qt-creator

It feels like google made an IDE. It's got Chrome like simplicity and power. Certainly worth a look if you're Qt hacker.
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The formatting got messed up but yes I agree. They were just examples, not the best ones perhaps.

I have felt a need for it sometimes though. Very complicated lambdas are perhaps generally better off as normal functions.

But I hate creating one-time-use functions if it isn't necessary.
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