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>Sass is technically superior to Less; it can do a lot of things that Less cannot. That does not mean that you should use Sass over Less.

No, this does mean that you should use Sass. This is how technical decisions are made. You create a list of categories with weights and then you score all available options and add their points. You then use the one with the most points. Y'know, the best one.

>This is something SASS cannot do and.

Sass also has a watch mode. Well, you'll need Ruby, but so what?

If you use a static website generator (like Middleman) for your quick and dirty prototypes, there is zero overhead involved. You use "example.css.scss" as file name and reference "example.css". That's all you have to do.
He's right. Link for the lazy:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2009/02/1111/
Like almost everyone else who will comment here, I haven't read the study, but studies normally statistically control for these sorts of things.
Did you immediately understand what set of behaviors I implied by saying "wild Indian" and "slovenly Barbarian"? (Why isn't anyone upset that I included the Barbarians?) Then you know exactly why I mentioned them - a literary short-hand mechanism.

Simply using existing stereotypes is not racism. I have neither commented on the superiority-level of Indians and Barbarians, nor have I modified their access to resources and opportunities.

From le wik: Racism is generally understood as either belief that different racial groups are characterized by intrinsic characteristics or abilities and that some such groups are therefore naturally superior to others or as practices that discriminate against members of particular racial groups, for example by perpetuating unequal access to resources between groups.

In fact, stereotypes can be quite useful, for example, when you are trying to determine which VC to impress or what demographic is most likely to use your kitten-photo sharing Facebook App.
Gosh I hope this doesn't come off as too negative, but what is the point finding these 'links'?

Science is about trying to explain the world, not looking for random facts.

We learn nothing of substance about coffee, health or anything else from this article. Yet it has the appearance of being scientific, for example, it mentions antioxidants.

It wouldn't be fair to label it pseudoscience however it does share some of the features.

People are starting to learn by now that correlation doesn't imply causation, but they still think it is suggestive of causation, or makes causation more probable, or something like that.

To try to dispel that: the fact that coffee drinking correlates positively with life expectancy is logically consistent with coffee acting to reduce lifespan. More importantly, knowing causes is not very helpful since pretty much everything causes pretty much everything else.

What is useful is solving problems and trying to explain the world. That's what people like Newton, Darwin and Einstein were doing.

FWIW my guess is that drinking coffee causes people to eat less food which might indeed result in greater health, though this doesn't seem like a fruitful line of enquiry.
I believe that is the point, honestly.
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Why would you expect, or demand, it to not be US centric?

I, for one, would not. But "The World" in the title seems unwarranted. Just as it does for many "World Series" that only apply to the US, even if everybody deems American teams of sport X to be clearly above the rest.
Try out my iPad app, Imprys[1]. The iPad screen really lends itself to that kind of arrangement, because it's just so intuitive to zoom and pan around.

[1] http://imprys.com/ or http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imprys-lite/id523769425?ls=1&...
You cannot renounce your citizenship while in the country. The process requires you leave the US, enter an embassy or consulate and declare your intention to renounce. File some paperwork and you're no longer a citizen.

The catch is you'll probably want to do this in a friendly country or one you're already a citizen of.
Even worse: someone who was born in country B and lived his whole life outside of country B, still needs to file taxes and pay social security every year as if he was living in country B.

That's my particular case.
I wonder what would happen if it wasn't such a waste of money to give it to the government. Would people be
more inclined to stick around and do so? I don't blame him one bit, seems like most of his money would end up bailing out a bank or something equally disagreeable.
"Shouting "That's racist!" every time someone expresses a non-Leftist opinion here is a symptom of your limited viewpoint, and frankly is embarrassing for you."

You are drastically missing the point. This has nothing to do with Left vs Right at all. In fact I agreed with you completely up until this point in your rant.

You're implicitly calling all Native Americans (a racial group) "wild" and comparing them to barbarians. That's dictionary-definition racism, plain and simple.
The effect is cool, so I hate to ask this, but-- in what sense is this "photorealistic"? They look like normal soft shadows to me.
The racism those photos document is startling. Just 50 years ago?

Imagine what "Marriage is between one man and one woman" people will look like in 50 years.
To be fair: the source of this discussion was a verifiably distortionist graph produced by a very mainstream libertarian think tank. To my mind, you're simply arguing the converse fallacy. The fact that there are smart people who hold any given opinion doesn't mean that the group associated with that opinion is worthy of praise.

Basically: Hayek being "right" about something doesn't make the Cato institute "not true libertarians".
I'm pretty sure Google crawls with a client that looks like a real browser to check you're not doing thus type of thing.
For what it's worth, I love your design and the strong call to action.
You can't renounce your citizenship whilst in the US. You have to do it at an embassy.

On statelessness:
Persons intending to renounce U.S. citizenship should be aware that, unless they already possess a foreign nationality, they may be rendered stateless and, thus, lack the protection of any government. They may also have difficulty traveling as they may not be entitled to a passport from any country. Even if they were not stateless, they would still be required to obtain a visa to travel to the United States, or show that they are eligible for admission pursuant to the terms of the Visa Waiver Pilot Program (VWPP). If found ineligible for a visa or the VWPP to come to the U.S., a renunciant, under certain circumstances, could be barred from entering the United States. Nonetheless, renunciation of U.S. citizenship may not prevent a foreign country from deporting that individual back to the United States in some non-citizen status.

http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/citizenship_776.html
My point was the cases that drag for years generally has two sides, but what if the case had only one side? Copyright Labs wanted certain sites banned and obviously Vimeo, Pastebin etc have zero ground presence in India so there wasn't really anyone protesting the case of Copyright Labs. I am betting, if there was someone opposing what Copyright Labs was claiming, the outcome would have been different.
It's definitely possible. But not as many say it is. And it's usually not a substitute for regular income from a job. It's a nice extra, that's for sure.

And doing nothing (which all people seem to think they like...) => by far most people I have ever met would have no clue what to do with their time if they didn't have to work. You'll do 'fun' things the first year or two and then you'll start feeling worthless about yourself and get all kinds of cool mental and physical issues.

Anecdotes a-plenty: my grandfathers (who are both smart and both were managers) were bored out of their skulls after pension as is my father. A few fathers of friends of mine literally dropped dead months to a year after they started with their pension. A friend of mine (smart guy, age 40) got 'independently wealthy' so did a lot of 'fun' stuff for a few years, then he began to get ailments like pain in his stomach, back pain, headaches (migraine) and started to get depressed. Went to tons of doctors; nothing wrong physically. Recently (few months ago) he took a 9-5 job and everything disappeared; he is happy and no more vague ailments.

There are plenty of exceptions to this obviously, but a lot of people I know, poor or rich, cannot live with themselves if they would have to manage their own time. They need the pressure, the fulfillment etc of a job or career. I have passive income sounds great at parties, but mostly these people are actually working twice+ as hard as people in 'normal jobs' or they are actually not happy at all. I built a lot of sites / apps for internet marketers and have been with them in clubs in Monaco or on boats somewhere tropical; not very happy campers, almost all of them; making millions /year on auto-pilot (just mail the good 'ol 'list' and plok, another $200k) but being utterly depressed, paranoid, weird and usually having 10s of small ailments (allergies etc) which they magically acquired after years of doing almost nothing. And having full days to feel every ache in your body, analyzing the type of pain and location in detail and talking about it on cancer forums doesn't help either :)
FYI, the original article has been updated with graphs showing reqs/sec, virtual, and real memory for both using 100, 500, and 1000 simultaneous requests.
Aside from virtual memory (do we care about that?) it seems to show Go as continuing to perform better.
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As I said, making no call on the politeness.

[obligatory] It is inappropriate and morally reprehensible. [/obligatory]

Can you not look at nuclear reactions and separate that they are used to make a nuclear bomb?

It was a succinct phrase. It is visually and connotatively arresting. As is evinced by the amount of ire it has provoked.

As a side note, I still read the phrase 'wild Indians' with an image of children misbehaving, especially as it is paralleled later by Barbarians, a generic term for uncivilized behavior. So to me the phrase 'feather not dot' was a preemptive defense against moral grandstanding; what's more, to me it conjured up (in just three words) the very history of the name 'indian' (which when googled on my browser, despite having no interest in baseball, only returns the Cleveland team) - a name misapplied by foreigners.

Now, reading the poster's later defenses[1], I can see that he in fact had no such thoughts when using it...but I am a relativist when it comes to art and believe the perception of the audience supersedes the intent of the artist, and so for me, the phrase still stands as evocative without being ugly.

1.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3987141 : "Note, in my comment, I am not saying all Indians are wild, I am only specifically referencing the wild ones."
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This is a great read. From someone who was recently on the entrepreneur train and had to make a stop at jobville, it's giving me some serious yearnings to get back on the train.
If one person has all the money, wouldn't the government just got an (literally) print more money?

The pre-existing money would be massively devalued, sure, but it's only one guy affected so who would care?
Gee, you mean to say that what we've been doing is the wrong thing? Funny, because all the rich greedy people seem to be loving it.

Greed will be the downfall of western civilization. This message will not reach those with the power to fix it. It's their death, they know it, and they're just in a race to bleed the USA out and run. Or maybe I'm giving rich people too much credit and they're really just greedy idiots who don't see the consequences of their actions. In any case, we're screwed.
I don't have an iPad, but this looks nice. Is it open source?
I agree with you except with that I am welcomed with some Eastern bloc POV :) I wont even try
Practical Irrationality - Dan Ariely

It changed the way I think about pricing, among other things, forever. He makes some wild conclusions then backs them up with scientific experiments. Its a fun read to boot.
I would think nginx would be better for holding open long "keep alive" connections than Apache or IIS if you are doing long polling etc.

Of course if you are just forwarding to another backend you may lose this.
Yes. If it really were able to deal with arbitrary Javascript sites this would imply that Google had solved the halting problem.
The school system we have in place was designed to train students to be employees.
"The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness..."

Given my dependence on coffee I'm probably going to end up floating in a tank of the stuff a few thousand years from now.
I agree, a fun & informative read!
A better idea would be to deport the Senators to Somalia or Turkmenistan or somewhere, and block them from re-entering the U.S.
Sure, lets keep foreign born past citizens who helped create $100B companies from coming back to the USA. That will show them!

I really don't think we could survive another attack on the order of Facebook!
Why not, after all actions must have consequences. If he wants to avoid taxes and it's legal by all means he should do it. But there should be consequences to his actions, this proposition seems like a possible one (quite extreme though).

I would like to remind all the wannabe rich on HN who believe that one day they will be in his shoes, nobody succeeds alone and your success has a price for the country. For example in the case of Facebook there are more infrastructure costs for the whole internet, additional regulations have to be passed, etc...

PS: Ghostery on Venturebeat: 17 spying widgets found... Not going on that website ever again.
That thing is awesome! Great work!
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Unfortunately not, as this needs to be my revenue stream in the near future. I do have plans to make it open source at some point, but first I need to earn some money with it.
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Did you actually read the article? The only thing that might imply causation is the word "linked". However that also could imply correlation.

define link: A relationship between two things or situations, esp. where one thing affects the other

define correlation: A mutual relationship or connection between two or more things

The definitions are close enough that even amongst the math/science researchers I work with, the words are frequently used interchangeably.

Everything else in the article talks in terms of "maybe", "plausible", "associated" and so on. All words that don't imply causation, nor rule it out. Further, the article is careful to point out that:

The explanation for the study findings "might not specifically be the coffee," Fisher says. "It might be some characteristic of the coffee drinker."

I'n all, I found it to be pretty good "science for the layman" reporting - to the point where I was surprised at how good it was.
Nope, you're experience mirrors those of mine. It's hard to convert redditors; in part due to neglecting the self-serve platform. With that said, $60 to bring in a brand new customer isn't that bad.

Maybe it would be cheaper to hook up with a subreddit mod and run a give-a-way. $50 worth of candy for a front page post sounds like a better value :D
"Why isn't anyone upset that I included the Barbarians?"

Because Barbarian isn't a racial or ethnic group. It's a term basically meaning "the savage foreigner." It's demeaning to call someone a barbarian, but there's no Barbarian peoples that are offended by the use of the term.

edit:
Gonna go ahead and disagree with this point too:

"Simply using existing stereotypes is not racism. I have neither commented on the superiority-level of Indians..."

Your interpretation of this definition seems to be that using a negative stereotype is not racist because it's not a direct value-judgement.
That is wrong.

Even if you're not passing judgement, it is very much racist to say that (for example) Asians are all martial-artists and computer experts, or that Jews control the world, or that Native Americans are wild savages.

Why is that racist? Because it pigeonholes these people into weird and untrue stereotypes, and is therefore offensive to them.

If it's offensive to a racial group, it's probably racist.
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"Perfect for eye-catching demos and landing pages."

Can we stop creating stuff in JS/CSS that we would have ridiculed other people for doing in flash? I can't possibly think of any situation where this would be useful for a landing page.
Thanks for that. It's a little annoying that every time a study like this comes up, somebody jumps in with "Well, did they control for [obvious thing to control for]?"

You don't become a scientist because you're lazy and stupid. If you're reading about a study and think there's an obvious reason it's inaccurate, you are almost certainly wrong. Not that the study is not inaccurate -- many, perhaps most are -- but the reason is definitely not obvious. It's something that the authors, people who have spent a lot more time thinking about it than you, and who are probably smarter and better educated to boot, never figured out.
You're ultimately right, though future EBITDA (or future dividends) is more interesting than current EBITDA. Otherwise a pre-launch startup with no revenue and interesting technology would be worth $0, and a declining company with $1B of EBITDA would be worth the same as a growing company with $1B.

The question is whether Instagram can eventually contribute enough to Facebook's bottom line to justify the $1B valuation. Its current (lack of) revenues obviously don't get it there, but it's the future that matters.
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Indeed. This type of study, while really popular in the press, is often horribly confounded and hard to control for. I think the hacker news audience mostly knows to be skeptical, so I don't know why it was submitted.

I'll use this post as an excuse to mention the Lothian Birth Cohort. A really cool dataset of IQ test results at age 11 for (almost) all Scottish kids born in 1921 and 1936. While IQ tests are flawed in many ways, these data offer some means of control for follow up studies on these individuals. Many apparent effects disappear after controlling for age 11 IQ, for example: drinking coffee on intelligence — http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19995882 — nicely demonstrating the confounding problems affecting most studies.

Edit in response to sibling comment: yes, studies do try to control for these things. But it's hard, and often not really possible. This particular study might be ok, but we're not going to tell from a CNN article. We're also used to enough contradictory and over-hyped results in the popular press to know not to trust journalists to be a good filter.
Back in my BBS days, I ran a continuing story board. Something funny where one could knock off a few paragraphs and have fun writing it. Playing in that medium probably helped me more than most. It wasn't just me writing, so sometimes it was a challenge to twist the plot against others to something I wanted. It taught me a lot of phrasing, typing, and general grammar.

Today blogging is good, you just need to get into writing more than posting funny pictures. :-D
Does this mean we can stop Arrington from reentering California too?
Tangential: I was actually pretty surprised at how good this article was at not being too hype-filled. It discussed the report in terms that did not imply causation. It offered potential explanations (with caveats that they were just speculation), pointed out potential flaws with the stats (2 different places where unaccounted factors may be the real responsibility), and generally didn't say "go drink lots of coffee, it will save your life".

So my kudos to the author and editor for being reasonable.
Lots of Rich people pay less income tax than the middle working class or even the lower working class. Should we kick them out of the country too, for being intelligent?

Don't we all want to pay less tax? If there was a legal loophole would you do it?
The zoom issue is a security limitation in iOS's Safari: iframes aren't allowed to hide content or zoom, so you cannot hide malicious elements. I've seen the same issues with presentations using impress.js, built using my tool[1]. However, that issue should be fixable by loading the SVG directly (or embedding the presentation inside a div, instead of an iframe.

[1] http://imprys.com/
"What is useful is solving problems and trying to explain the world. That's what people like Newton, Darwin and Einstein were doing."

Of course. And that's why they are in the history books.

But now the most part of "scientific studies" have two objectives:

- Meet grant / tenure criteria of published papers

- Prove the new drug by "Big Pharma" is better than the old one whose patents are expiring. The fact that several are disproved afterwards is irrelevant.

At least we still have the LHC guys, the Hubble guys, MSL, AMS. But don't be surprised if those are accused of not being "real scientists" as well.
^ Wow surprised at the pushback on that. The term "Wild Indians" is referring back to the "Wild West" days and is no way indicative of actual modern day American Indians. Maybe another term could have been used however I think it was blown out of context.

I think what he was trying to get across by using the term is this: http://vimeo.com/25239728

Edit Never Mind: missed the "Dot" part. Yes that was clearly over the line.
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Isn't this completely backwards? Why would you be able to punish someone for doing something completely legal? Do we punish profitable corporations who pay no tax? Of course not; they're abiding by the laws. If you want to prevent this stuff from happening, change the law.
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