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>> there are a lot of organisms where they've evolved to have a large percentage of the population not reproduce, yet are absolutely vital to the species

>It sounds like post-hoc rationalizing to apply this logic to humans.

I don't think so. Perhaps it is less rational to apply this reasoning to the ability of a society to produce warriors (i.e. abundance of young males) but more so in philosophy, science, ideas, inventions, and thought. So long as these evolutions of thought are not lost to time (and they are far more fragile than genetics which sex is the only communication required) then it can be argued that they often times have a far greater impact on the human species as a whole than the passing of any certain genes over others. [1]

Humans are remarkable and unique in regards to this in the animal kingdom as far as we (humans) can tell.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates
While you're looking at the alternate options, try to look at it from the user's - long time user's - perspective.
> Since the interview process doesn't include any sort of personal question or assessments other than one's ability to memorize algorithms and such, How do you measure "culture fit"?

It's very subjective and falls clearly in the category of "You recognize it when you see it".

Typical example of a hiring committee deliberation at Google: "He didn't find the optimal solution but he looked very excited about the problem when he was trying to solve it".

Enthusiasm, interest, being personable, excitement about solving problems, all these things count when you interview, especially at Google.
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If users of Wordpress.com were the "capable of building their own business type" they would not have been under Wordpress.com.

People can armchair quarterback all they want but until and unless you see things from Wordpress.com's users perspective, you won't get the point.
"Why are they even bothering? Really, who cares about PATCH vs. PUT?"

Lots of people care. It's about following existing standards to allow for more predictable behavior. What if people didn't care about status code 200 vs 404?

And if you don't care... what's with the rant?
And did you see that comment: "we’ve got 25 million beta testers".

Hope no one brings out the "free card" here.
M&S hawks Israeli produce:

http://www.boycott-israel.co.uk/business-links/133-marks-and...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marks_%26_Spencer#cite_note-53

Unfortunately I can't refer you to a comprehensive information source on companies supporting Israel, but you might find more information by googling for "jews for boycotting israeli goods" or "boycott divestment sanctions"

I did find references to several other companies at
http://www.inminds.com/boycott-israel-2012.php
This is a political piece on a political issue. Solar/wind energy isn't new or hacker newsy more than building a house is.

I'd love to further express my opinion on the subject, this just isn't the place for it. No matter how hard you spin it.
Thank you for the explanation. I think your view of their position, that teenagers will not be adversely affected by exposure to the language is a better interpretation than how I took it when I read the article.

Wishful thinking it may be but I am more inclined to consider the typical 13-year-old as more innocent although I do see the potential irony.

Still, I would prefer my kids to see the movie without the more extreme curse words than with it so I feel like the MPAA is performing a useful role here; that of alerting potential viewers to the general level of 'unpleasantness' they will encounter.

Regardless of the rating we'll still watch it but if the threat of an 'R' causes the producers to bleep the worst language I think its a win since I don't think the overall message regarding bullying will be impacted.
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"Keeping the javascript logic "subordinate" to the Ruby elements in a Rails project causes more bloat than anything else. "

I have no idea what this means. how is it subordinate? The location on the filesystem?

"Look at any thick-client Rails project and count the number of gems managing javascript"

I've made a few that have no gems managing javascript. They talk to rails via REST. Rails doesn't need to care about them, and they don't need to care about rails.
-2?

This Angel is getting a good 'vibe' for the average user already ~ and here we were thinking this was different from Reddit or Zero Hedge.

>Here's a tip: if you downvote, add a response to the why, otherwise, we ignore your input<
I would love to see something like detexify: http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html but that worked for unicode chars as well.

I think the guy who made it has some posts about how it works on his blog at http://detexify.posterous.com/ as well.
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This is rad: http://graphemica.com/search?q=apl
Onswipe’s Jason Baptiste on being a CEO: "I am a 2012 equivalent of Dr. Seuss"
If you want to learn about STM, I recommend Simon Peyton-Jones' Beautiful Concurrency, which is a chapter of the Beautiful Code book:

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/74063/beautiful.pdf
Yes I am caching the data starting from today :)
Thanks for your comment.
I will improve the interface and add more statistics about the sites later, possible the two sites you just mentioned.
> cool stuff on the cjk characters, including definitions

The Firefox add-on "Character Identifier" does some of this too.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/character-ide...
> "Why are most of the top comments up in arms about this article and not the magic secrets of Teller one?"

From the guidelines[0]: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

[0] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think you are taking the post too literally. In my experience, make an offer. You could get a response in a day or a week, or even longer. But, make an offer. You can always raise it later, even if they don't respond to the first.

I've used some of the domain negotiating services, though only for private domains. You can always make a direct offer to the private registration companies, if you don't want to go the negotiator route.

In my experience, you just have to start the process w/ a serious offer. You have a pretty good starting point w/ Brad Feld's blog, so a 1-2k offer is as good a place as any to start.

On the flip side, start with the highest number that if someone offered to sell you the domain at that price, you'd buy it as a no brainer.
Best of luck.
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and large parts of our genome is bit-rotted and non functional

Larry Moran has a lot of good material on this
http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2008/02/theme-genomes-junk-dna....
You're still coming off as as really, really insulting. That doesn't help you get your point across.

Besides, you're missing the main point, which is "Wow human biology is a huge mess." Did you read the part about the same hormone being related to both blood pressure and pair-bonding?
Steve Jobs owned ~1% of AAPL shares vs Zuckerberg's much larger stake in Facebook. They are nearly on opposite ends of the spectrum of that particular spectrum.
I think this is a general problem in the app release process because you have cannot be certain when your app will be approved and your app is released at different times in different international app stores.
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Looks like Once has 24 f-bombs. Why is the R rating shocking?
I wonder how paint.NET and GIMP stack up compared to Photoshop.
Shades of gray on IE7 support
You got a response; your first post had an awful tone not suited for HN. You can do better.
Neither am I, though I confess to hanging out with a couple of them, arguing about language design. We used to argue about religion, but programming languages are more objective and just as contentious.
Coke outsells Pepsi in most areas of the US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi#Rivalry_with_Coca-Cola

I think some people might have a misconception that Pepsi does better due to the very popular Pepsi Challenge marketing campaign. But if you think about it, that campaign is a classic "underdog" campaign. It would be silly for a product that's already winning in the number one position to "challenge" the number two product.
Speaking from personal experience of having watched Schindler's List in a high-school history class, it certainly is possible to see 'R' rated films in US schools if the teacher wants to show them. Not sure if that's specific to the state (VA) though and I have to believe it would be shown more if it was PG-13.

(incidentally, I'm glad we watched it and I think it was important to give perspective but I can see how some parents might have objected considering the brutality of the subject matter. I still remember the shock of seeing that red coat in that pile of bodies...)
the microsoft behavior of disabling SS completely seems downright immoral to me. Who cares if the internet melts as long as they can deliver their home page a few ms faster. And it's not even a very interesting homepage
I'm glad to see this make it into 4. I'd love to see it get backported to 3.
> Iterating and more importantly, having the right mindset to learn from those iterations is pivotal to succeeding.

That's exactly the approach taken at Pixar, and, at least in my mind, one of the more significant reasons they've been so successful.
Try Shapecatcher (http://shapecatcher.com/). Could be improved, but hey, it works.
I am not necessarily advocating the whiteboard, but am advocating attention to detail no matter what the situation is. I agree the whiteboard can be stressful, but so can a server outage and needing to get a fix out quickly. I don't want a programmer that generally has good attention to detail unless they are under pressure... under pressure is when you need it most.
We're not paying enough for apps
Only in Basecamp, where I wish I could use Markdown.
In theory it might be possible to test this experimentally. Rather than genetically modify them from the start, synthesize the protein in question and try to get it into cell cultures. This should make it possible to get an idea of what will happen in that situation, e.g. will it kill the cells or cause anything obviously wrong. After that test it on some animals with similar Vitamin C problems. Shouldn't be impossible to test this, after the animals test it in adults to find out. etc.
This is a horrible issue with modern development. Basically we are getting into sectarianism. Don't like a doctrine of the Brethren Church? Fork and become the Grace Brethren. Don't like a small doctrine of the Grace Brethren? Fork and make the Conservative Grace Brethren.

I know that GIT and the like have made it really easy to fork and run, but does this fundamentally help? Does having X versions of some framework really make sense?

Why not go a different route and just give up the one side and make another? Rather than forking, make something new.
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In human history there are always problems. An individual or group needs to change it only happens when they decide to. If we want to stop HIV we need to decide if we want to make a smart choice to have safe sex. Young people want adventure and like risks. This is why there are so many overdoses and young people who get STD's. The smart ones decide they value life and don't drug or do other risky behaviors. My main suggestion for change is to create an exciting dialogue that might change the "coolness" of negative acts. Smoking is being done less due to the real negative media ads, people knowing about cancer deaths, and many talking about why smoking kills.
it depends on where you're coming from. if you've never touched programming, regular expressions is probably not a good place to start in general. otherwise this one is top-notch:

http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorialcnt.html
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GIMP had a lot of the functionality (Photoshop has pulled away recently with all the content-aware stuff) but it never had the interface. I don't think paint.NET ever came close, though it could potentially catch up.
Ask HN: Someone has hacked my Wife's Gmail Account, how can I track him?
It's 6:00 am in Germany, my wife's sleeping and after 10 minutes of work, her Gtalk icon appear on my sidebar showing her online, off and back online again for several minutes now, since I know, nobody else has her Gmail credentials and she's sleeping. How can I find out who it is, I suspect someone somehow close to her in someway, Colleauge, friend...any Idea? I know about the last activity option of Gmail that shows the location of the last activity. Is there any other option to track the person?

P.S. I also know of teh two steps authentication and will enable it in the next couple of hours on her account
re: asset pipeline

It's beyond me why rails thinks it should dictate how to write/manage/package javascript.

As a newbie-ish javascript developer I am continually learning from great projects like requirejs, enderjs, nodejs, commonjs (AMD in general), backbonejs, etc.

How arrogant do rails programmers have to be to dip their hand into javascript best practices? Honest question, because the better I get at programming the more I feel like rails is less necessary.
If you really want to scare people, you should make every cause of death "Batman". Or maybe "space laser".
We are all naturally shy. The most effective leaders learn to come out of their shell. Business is often based on building connections. How many CEO's, founders, and leaders all know each other. It is for this reason companies are often drawn to Silicon Valley, New York and now China. It is so important to build your confidence to meet others. I know computers allow connection it is helpful to build both online and in person networking. We are moving more and more to an online world but I believe there is value in looking someone in the eyes (either in person or on Skype).
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Really? The world must unite to fight the possibly unethical enforcement of a sensible law in a country which has (for the most part, but with some exceptions outside of its jurisdiction) an excellent court system that has overturned similar decisions in the past?

This is a controversial issue, which doesn't belong on HN, partly because people's strong opinions on Israel are often disproportionate to their overall interest in human rights in the middle east. People in this thread have a special self-righteous stick up their ass for Israel, but can't name the neighboring countries which executed or imprisoned gays, woman rights activists, and journalists or even tweeters last year.
My group are using Redis at a really big Canadian company. It's a 'VMware' database if they ever ask! Haha.
This is simply excellent—beautiful and clean and just works. But if you really want points for improvement, I’ll do my best. :P

• For your CJK example, it shows “ZHAN4” for the Pinyin, which would be better rendered as “zhàn”, using tone marks instead of tone numbers.

• When a character name is too long, you omit the “Unicode code point: U+XXXX” altogether (e.g., for U+2918); it would perhaps be better to shorten it first to just “U+XXXX”, or make the layout fluid to allow that column to remain visible.

• It would also be cool to search characters’ descriptive text, such as that shown (and optionally searchable) in the Ubuntu character map. But that might be getting a bit on the extreme side.

• The /search?q=x URL could be prettier—/search/x for instance. Just my obscure personal preference though.
Bottom right of gmail you can see the account activity.

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"My favorite part about node is that it isn't opinionated. It leaves the opinion to the community modules."

Node is not opinionated because it is not a framework; it is a JavaScript environment built on V8 and some common libraries. It would be much more appropriate to compare Express* with Rails than Node with Rails.

If you want to compare Node with something you'd be more correct comparing Node and its modules with Ruby and its gems.

* Even though, from what I can see, Express has more in common with Sinatra than Rails...
> Twitter is sort of Blogger evolved

I think you nailed it.
what a pointless change.
What factors propelled Digital Games from $50M to $50B market in 30 years?
I am doing market research on the video gaming industry and like inputs on what (if any) inflection points there were that helped propel the industry from a mere $50 Million in 1980 to $50 Billion worldwide phenomenon in 2012.<p>I am curious how Gaming overcame the primary entertainment channels of the times i.e. TV and Cinema.<p>Is it a combination of great games, supporting paraphernalia (books, merchandise and movies), game evangelists, trade shows etc.<p>Or is it just great games and everything else fell in place?
I would take anything from quackwatch with a huge grain of salt. It is very biased against all non-synthetic, non-pharmaceutical medical treatments. The author either willfully ignores the science published on herbal pharmacology and nutritional medicine, or he isn't paying attention, or he has an agenda. In any case, I'd rather get my info on medicine from a more balanced source.

Edit: here's a balanced source on the current research on vitamin C supplements. Scroll down to disease treatment (http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/vitamins/vitaminC/)
I find it interesting that Barbara Corcoran had no money, was working as a waitress and used her boyfriends real estate license to start her business. I've witnessed many entrepreneurs start companies. There are many examples of people building huge businesses with nothing. I believe a show like this could help a contestant but for tv they want the most entertaining stories. I am excited that YCombinator takes a more serious and calculated way to figure out who they accept. I hope to meet some of you on these boards. Blake
The word you're looking for is 'ecumenism'. :)
The taxi industry is heavily regulated throughout Australia. The article points out how the powerful lobby group controlled by a few big players makes competition difficult for new entrants.
The idea that every programmer should be able to write runnable programs under extreme stress without any errors is ludicrous. That has nothing to do with "attention to detail". It's like professors who give you a failing grade for making a single sign error in the middle of a complicated three page Laplace transform that is otherwise correct. What they really want is to just humiliate you for the power trip.

The "server outage" scenario is a red herring. The vast majority of programmers don't have to fix server outages under pressure that is anything like that at a job interview. Also, you might try hiring programmers instead who write reliable software to begin with. I've written server software, for instance, that has been running continuously for the last dozen years without ever being touched by a human being since. I was also a sysadmin for a seven years, and had to deal with various emergencies all the time. Never was the pressure anything like trying to code at an interview, and the systems I designed and maintained worked great.
> You just presented your product for 15 minutes on a nationally broadcasted TV show that will be re-aired at least two or three times and sell a ton of shows on itunes. That sort of advertising would cost about a million dollars or more.

Reality shows are about losing; game shows are about winning. But some people go into these shows with a completely different mindset: this is an interview and demo for the world, not for the on-show judges.

Top Chef players demonstrate how well they can run kitchens and work with people they didn't ask to hire and don't actually like.

Amazing Race players are usually demonstrating how well they can communicate and work effectively under severe stress in foreign countries. (If you're looking for a new overseas salesperson, look through a season of Amazing Race. You'll see what it takes to make them crack.)

Survivor players are either demonstrating team-leadership or diplomacy (defined as saying "nice doggy!" while picking up a rock). Choose carefully, there...
My thought is we are built for our world, you try tinker with the natural processes bad stuff will likely result. We know a lot about how we function, but we don't really get the big picture of how everything here on earth works with us and we with it.
They're not dictating how you use JS, best practices, or anything like that, it's simply a pipeline for compressing and delivering assets. You also don't have to use it if you don't want to. There is a "config.assets.enabled" option in application.rb that you can set to "false" to turn it off.

Bottom line is Rails is, and always has been, and opinionated framework, which you choose to buy in to. And even in recent years they've been better about letting you opt out of certain parts of it.
> (unrelated but I personally found the censored version of The Osbournes to be much funnier than the uncensored version)

...and perhaps that's why it's important to keep the language in? Bleeping it reduces the effect.

Something similar happened in Robocop; the scene showing ED-209 machine gunning the junior executive was originally very long. The MPAA gave the film an X rating, so lots of the the movie was cut. The machine gunning was now short, efficient. That turned a scene which was darkly comic, totally ridiculous, into something much more chilling.
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Is there a "Popstar" engineer?
> Instead of being able to use javascript libraries with one another natively, everything goes through Ruby.

You can still do that, you can turn the asset pipeline off and just throw everything in /public like normal if you want.

Re: "through Ruby." If you meant that the body of the CSS file is generated for a request by running through the ruby interpreter, that's not true.
When we have a passion, skill and master something we create magic. Have you ever seen an athlete, teacher, speaker, salesperson, dancer, lawyer or the written word that put you in awe? This magic is created by transmuting energy, love, skill and practice. These are great skills to master. Anyone pitching to an investor or gaining new clients will do well to learn how to develop this magic.
Robots/Automation already grows crops, builds houses and produces goods we use. 6 people are involved in the production of millions of TVs at Panasonic. Foxconn is adding millions of robots to its workforce. While not a virtual world, it definitely is a growing into a more digitally operated world.

Ubiquitous surveillance and a swarm of drones doing policing probably is as effective as most law enforcement is. I don't like it though... but not liking something does not make it less effective.

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