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I am non-religious, in the sense that I do not follow any organised religion, nor do I believe in the vast majority of the superstitions of many religions. I don't believe there is a God as described by the christians, muslims or jews, or supernatural beings as proposed by Hinduism, etc.

However, I think that anyone who dismisses religion as worthless is blind or stupid.

Religion, religious texts, concepts of religion, and so on, have been a natural repository for boundless amounts of human wisdom accumulated over the centuries. Each religion, with all its flaws, is trying to grasp at an essential Truth of human existence. That they fail to quite reach it (for most people) is obvious, but that doesn't make the attempt worthless. Nor is it intelligent to ignore the fact that there have been numerous people throughout history whom one could call "enlightened", who touched on something beyond our normal existences.

There is a very deep well of value in religion. Those who spit in that well are to be pitied.

I'll close with an idea from Rudolf Steiner, a philosopher of the late 19th Century, who suggested that much of humanity's efforts (in the intellectual spheres) aim to reconcile the physical and the spiritual, to answer the question of how it is possible that there is matter and thinking (two apparently fundamentally different things), and how it is possible that there is such a thing as matter that thinks about its own nature.

He suggests that this striving to reconcile the two is split into three great movements: art, science and religion.

Dismissing one in favour of the other is like choosing to ignore your left leg in favour of your right. A complete human being will not ignore one of the three pillars of human thought.
For anyone who can't get to the site (I guess a bandwidth issue), you can get the article off google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wznsub_...
Authority is my new Rails authorization plugin. Why another one?

Some things that make it different:

- 100% ORM neutral

- No new DSL to learn; just plain Ruby methods

- Authorization logic goes in authorizer classes, so any inheritance pattern you want is fine

- Helps you organize your logic, but that logic can be anything you can write in Ruby: check permissions in a database, or how many points a user has (like StackOverflow), or a weather report from London for all it cares.

Extensive tests and friendly documentation await you at the repo: http://github.com/nathanl/authority
An authors religion is irrelevant. If the content is good, it is good regardless. The only time I need to know an authors religion is if it's relevant to the topic at hand and I need to make a judgement on which way they might be biased.
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It's a small strip of the landing page image present on http://bing.com . Its tooltip is "Explore today's homepage". If you click on the small strip, you indeed go back to the landing page.

If you click on the bing icon, though, you also go back to the landing page.

So this little bit of refinement seems to highlight the ever-changing-landing-image as a part of the bing experience.
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Does this mean that Bing is on its way to being a billion dollar website? See number 1 here: http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html.
I really need to renew my LWN subscription; their articles are outstanding. I wish I could write as clearly on deeply technical subjects.
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I'm sure there were enumerable back and forth discussions about that. Bing differentiated itself in the beginning with the large background image on the homepage as opposed to the simple colourful logo on white background that defined the Google experience.

Then Google copied the background image idea.

Now Bing has gone minimal, but there's obviously still some residual pull/desire around using imagery.

That little strip is a remnant. Like a human appendix it's a residual organ that wasn't completely eradicated as it evolved into the current design.
Right. My comment originated by wondering, "How many HNers would buy his book". His book, that contains this story, is overtly religious in nature. Is this story enough to make you interested in his book even though you know some of the content will be in fierce opposition with your own beliefs?
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We've already got robot teachers in many states as they move to online education. Which so far has cost a huge amount of money, made massive profits for private companies and failed to produce decent test results.
The traffic most sites get from bing (or any alternative search engine) is so low that it doesn't make sense to optimize seo for anything other than google. Looking at my own sites, Bing is about 2% of search traffic
Around 90% of the searches I do are for "easy" things that any search engine should be able to find. Since I would only need to go back to Google for around 10% of the searches, if a competing search engine made the 90% case more pleasant to use would be a win for me.
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Every year I grow older brings a new understanding of the concept of nostalgia. Driving through an old neighborhood, even just 5 or 10 years later, can hit like a ton of bricks.

I can't even imagine what that taxi ride must have been like for her.
Why is non-blocking IO radical? Tons of libraries and frameworks offered it much before node, including twisted, Java's NIO, and the entire System.Net namespace in .NET.

Other than that, surprisingly sensible advice.
With "PC", you mean Windows. Right?
Because NetBSD's first priority is clean and correct code and it is often used for exactly this purpose.
Who dismisses religion as worthless? It obviously has both costs and benefits...

I don't think it's important to discuss how much religion is "worth". How much religion is "worth" bares no relation to how true it is. How true religion is, is the much more important discussion.
Thanks for compliments, I don't see stopping development any time soon.
If only the carriers/manufacturers made the ICS update available! I have a Galaxy S2 free from operator and I'm stuck to GB 2.3.4. Go figure...
Nice one. I couldn't quite put my finger on what this reminded me of, but you nailed it: the Holocaust.
Interesting. How about talking an existing product and reimplementing it? It would be different but not by design. I wonder whether this is a good strategy for a bootstrapped team.
I'd really like tabs to auto-hide. I'd really like a bunch of the UI to be auto-hiding.

Just hiding the tab borders does seem sub-optimal.
The split among three structures (movements), art, science, and religion, is entirely a human construct. There is no split in actuality.
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How much overhead does this setup incur?
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Unknowingly violating copyright is like unknowingly shoplifting; there are cases where you will have incorrect knowledge about licenses or somesuch (or you'll put a piece of fruit in your bag and not pay for it), but it's an extreme edge case. The problem with patents is that if you and someone else arrive at the same solution and the other person patents it before you put your solution out there, you are in violation of their parent. There is no such analogue for copyright. You and I can write functionally identical code for a decade and never once violate each other's copyright.
I've noticed that too; I had a similar experience when I asked for feedback on my project, only with Reddit. I got 0 replies and little traffic from HN (admittedly it was pretty sparse on data and I'll resubmit it soon now that I've vastly improved it), but got some wonderfully useful feedback and 100x the traffic from posting to /r/unitedkingdom. A more specific target market, I guess.
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If the only benefit of encapsulation is to make small API changes easier, is it really worth the additional complexity it adds to your architecture?

A strong theme in many of Rich's talks is that we should prefer "simple" over "easy", as the former will benefit you more in the long run even if it's harder in the short term.

You also seem to be confusing encapsulation with abstraction. Working with data structures directly does not mean you need to operate at a low level.
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You mean like a USB charger that syncs with your PC.
Aren't you describing philosophy instead of religion, in the sense that philosophy is thinking about it, while religion is extracting rules/guidelines and/or dogmas from those thoughts?

Also: Blind and stupid? Nothing against criticism, but i think something more neutral would be better, like short-sighted and willfully ignorant.
But on the other hand, you've created customers that are practically guaranteed to produce repeat business dollars.
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>the way it looks is secondary to its primary function: giving you good results.

I'm honestly not trying to be mean, but I'm not sure you understand human psychology in this area. Humans are very consistently swayed by looks over intrinsic value.

People aren't necessarily doing quantitative A/B tests between search engines, they're just plugging the latest search terms they want answers to into the search field and (in many cases) getting a search result that seems to fit the bill.

If the search engine displays results in an visually uncluttered (seemingly authoritative) way then that would seem like a good search engine choice.

There was that blog post the other day where someone updated and improved their site design and was lauded by users for all the new features they had introduced, when all they'd done was refresh the design.
> Patents are just fine as long as they are used defesivly

Not really. Good patents are fine, but in order to use a patent defensively, you'll have to defend against something, most likely the abuse of an actual patent (be it a good one or not).

And it's certainly sweet to see Microsoft tasting its own poison. They have extorted just about every Android set maker (or Linux embedder) with a secret list of patents they paid Barnes & Noble US$ 300 million to keep secret.

BTW, this seems to be the soft spot of their armor - future litigants should press hard for the list to be made public. Microsoft will settle before risking exposing a weak hand.
The only difference between Chrome's tab design and Firefox's is that Chrome's tabs have rounded corners and Firefox's tabs are rectangular. You refuse to use a browser because it has rounded corners? Really?

Anyway, there will probably be add-ons to bring back the rectangular look if enough people prefer it to the rounded look. If I were a real fan of Firefox's current look, I'd be more worried about the big orange button being dropped in favor of an options button in the exact same place where Chrome puts it.
A couple questions:

1) Do you click the sponsored links in search results?
2) Do you run adblock?

Maybe you and I (and anyone else reading this board) are not the target market for Bing. I don't watch Wheel of Fortune either, but that seems to have a strong market.

The less links/buttons on a page to confuse my mother the more likely I'll send her to that page. As long as she can easily find what she is looking for (and is less likely to install another browser toolbar)

Here are some searches that worked perfectly fine for me in Bing and didn't need any sidebar filters:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=celtics+score (shows the box score)

http://www.bing.com/search?q=newton%2C+ma+taxi (same map/list of taxi companies as google)

http://www.bing.com/search?q=who+won+american+idol (I think Bing has better results than Google for this)

http://www.bing.com/search?q=movie+times (fandango outranked Bing's list of movies, while Google puts their list ahead of all search results)
Some examples of the "new atheists" or commentators who dismiss religion as worthless: Richard Dawkins, Bill Maher, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens
With web services, documents are your public API. Once a service is public, there is a contract between you and the consumers of the API that it will not change until a new version comes out. This is why we see the /v1/ convention in REST services. /v1/ MUST not change on people. You wouldn't do that with a public C library, you shouldn't do that with web services. It is anti-social to change that API on developers.

These documents are very complex. Just take a look at a twitter timeline JSON response. Having a getter and setter for every field in that document would get ridiculous.

The problem with JSON is it is so easy to change that it takes self discipline to enforce your own social contract. We all know that when faced with deadlines some developers get a little fast and loose to meet that deadline.
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>See, I'm not 100% sure about this. This could be Google spreading FUD to gain popular support

Well, the core of the case is if APIs are copyrightable or not. One could not care less about Google and still want a negative verdict on the matter.

>IANAL, but couldn't the ruling say that simply implementing an API is fair use, but the way Google did it isn't (because it's not quite compatible, or because it's too compatible, or because it was done in bad faith after they'd failed to obtain a license, or for whatever reason)

Even that would be bad.

If they keep it as clear-cut as "APIs are not copyrightable, period" it's good for anyone.

But if instead the courts muddies this to "APIs are not copyrightable, but you can be convicted if you copy them /in bad faith/not compatible enough/too compatible/whatever" then you can never really be sure.

Whatever pulls the law towards a more restrictive interpretation of the APIs are not copyrightable is bad, because it sets a precedence (a, so called "Overton window").

PS. I don't much like the notion of "FUD". A corporation could be spreading lies, sure. But FUD smells too much like a relic of some GNU-zealot parlance from the 90's Microsoft Wars. To me it's as dated as "information superhighway", and doubly confusing.
Weird coincidence; by the end of the story something had gotten in my eyes. Excuse me.
Apple has been fighting for their 30% since the beginning. Step by step any exceptions to the 30% rule have been removed.

Is it more ethical to give Dropbox special treatment? Should Dropbox-enabled apps be given that competitive advantage?
I...see. Let's recap:

You said that wealth should not be equated with job creation. I said that this was wrong, and it should be. You admit that this is true (and indeed, that it is "trivially obvious"). But your say that other people often simplify this true argument so that, while still correct, it lacks "nuance", and this means that you are justified in making untrue arguments against it.

That certainly clarifies things. I withdraw my criticism and apologize for my ill-considered tone.
Seems like the tl;dw version of "Trip to Bountiful"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090203/
Yes. As long as they don't sound arrogant and cocky (I would say the same for reading atheist authors)

I really enjoyed David Bently Hart's defense of Christianity a few years ago. Thick material, but it was fascinating to hear several popular versions of historical events challenged by somebody well-educated. ( Affiliate link: http://amzn.to/IupRsn )

But after thinking about your question a bit more, it occurs to me that you might mean reading religious authors writing about religion. The answer here is also yes, at least for me. A few years ago I completed an audio course in Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition and it included several religious authors. This makes sense. Modern western intellectual thought has deep roots in Greece, Rome, and Jerusalem. Can't study the ancients without understanding what they believed and reading what they said in their own words.
See also: Google Wave, open-sourced as Apache Wave.

http://incubator.apache.org/wave/

The architecture for Wave is really difficult to get a handle on, though.

Relative ease of use is a major benefit of ShareJS, though I can't fully vouch for its algorithmic correctness. I've been meaning to contribute some additional tests to the project.
Patents, maybe. Copyright? Oracle's case is all about copyright, no?
Weird. I use those tools on the left side almost every day.

Finds something posted within the last 24 hours --click--
Find only forum discussions with your search term --click-- (This is especially valuable since I get the most information about damn near everything from reading people's discussions on that thing)
Get a map of that restaurant I just searched --click--

The only thing that's bothering me on Google's search is that right column with the social stuff, especially if my search generated a lot of it. But my eye just doesn't tend to go there anyways so it doesn't bother me that much.
Well, you could at least link to the previous discussion now for those who missed it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3913919
Is there a chance a future iPhone would ever include this?
Just wanted to add a second set of 'data points' to this as well - we had a very similar situation, but for us the traffic we got from Betali.st was higher quality - while we had significantly less overall referrals from BetaList than from HN (~1300 vs ~500), the users coming from BetaList were much more apt to create an account, hang around and give us feedback.

https://www.trestleapp.com/blog/being-featured-on-beta-list

So I would highly recommend BetaList if you are just getting rolling.
What companies do actually provide value according to your definition? Don't most companies try to sell you stuff you don't strictly need?
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Oh, I see, I was confused by the "exact clone" part.
That's funny, cause I'd prefer literally anything that isn't called an enterprise framework.
Why is it strange? It's a huge money loser for them.

It cost them $5.5B between 2009 and Sep 2011.

http://www.techspot.com/news/45559-bing-has-cost-microsoft-5...
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Sure, knock yourself out.
By extension, since Apple is still in business, their behaviour is de facto accepted and thereby necessarily acceptable.
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Is it possible to just install the static analyzer, without having any actual compiler like Clang?
As long as they keep the add-on bar they can do whatever they want to the UI.
Google is making a huge and annoying mistake
I'd be a tad bit concerned about a patent troll obtaining Oracle's IP if they ever go down, though.

Oh, the joy of having to choose the lesser of two evils.
According to Groklaw, the jury will not decide whether copyright applies to APIs. The judge instructed them to assume it does, find whether there is a violation, and if so, the judge will decide whether APIs can be copyrighted at all. If they find no violation, he doesn't have to rule on the matter.
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Previously on HN:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3903867

Nearly 100 comments there.
Let me get this straight: Google premiered hangouts using with President Obama, Ban Ki Moon, the Dalai Lama, and even the Muppets. And it didn't even become more popular than justin.tv. And now they are trying to take it off by VC interviews? How many people would be interested to watch that?

Surely, the number of people interested in Muppets is far more than the number of people interested in VC interviews. The official recorded hangouts for Muppets has only 75k views (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hof5nlozAxU).
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How does Chrome OS resemble old Windows?

here's chrome os: http://cdn.techpp.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/chrome-os-a...

here's windows 7: http://www.techfuels.com/attachments/windows-7-2000-nt/28356...

Do you mean to say Chrome OS looks like Windows because the toolbar is on the button like Windows and not on the top like *nix?
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(translated) news message:

http://nl.babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwebwereld.nl%2Fnieuws%2F110366&lp=nl_en&btnTrUrl=Vertalen
It is a billion dollar website considering it loses billions every year. That means they are investing billions in it.

Also being a copycat doesn't work too well unless you have a completely different strategy than competing head-on, which Bing doesn't.
I am in the U.S.; can you post a screenshot too? (I tried changing en-US to de-DE in bitsushi's link, but the layout seemed the same. Maybe it's because I'm on an iPad?)
Do you have already any data on retention?
Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I can't stand using a webapp for something that should be a desktop app. I just don't get the responsiveness I need. It's like using Photoshop without a mouse.
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This made me burst out in tears.
I rarely post here, but i felt this had to be said.
I think you would really struggle to find adequate replacements for relational databases in at least two areas: reporting and ad-hoc queries.