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> Atheism is just as unprovable as theism.

Perhaps, but what matters is that it asserts less than theism. When you start from no evidence, you need to believe in as little as possible until enough evidence presents itself that you can change your mind.

This is especially true given that religion has a highly plausible explanation as man-made, a creation of human imagination. When you have a collection of assertions, with no evidence, and the only physical source is the human mind itself, why would you believe it has any correspondence with reality?

> And it's fairly easy to reconcile a belief that evolution is true with a belief in a complex force that influences things in the background

I never disputed this.

> To believe that this is impossible and that we're capable of observing/measuring every part of reality is hubris.

I feel like you have created a strawman, because I never used any of these arguments.

Yes, of course we don't know every happening in the universe. Yes, our senses and reasoning skills are limited. That doesn't make religion true. How could it? Religious people have the same senses, the same access to knowledge as everyone else. I don't believe that religious people have any insight into the workings of the universe that no one else does, especially given that there are so many religions that can't agree with each other about even basic tenets. It's a very human creation - not a truth of the universe.

But I'll never assert that theism is impossible. That wouldn't be defensible, because we don't have all the information in the universe (or outside it!). Of course it's possible, but that doesn't matter, because we have no evidence whatsoever to believe it.
I guess it could be useful if you wanted to switch from HAXE to Coffeescript.
I thought this would be about content restrictions that prevent international users from seeing the same stuff as US users.

Most of his arguments seem to apply to access from the US just as they apply to international access. He describes his experiences with slow network access in various countries, but slow mobile internet access exists in the US (and other developed countries) as well -- either because you're so rural that you're lucky to get even 2G data, or because you're so urban that the 3G bandwidth is clogged. Granted, slow access is probably more widespread in non-US, developing or underdeveloped countries.

Either way, yes, obviously you should try to minimize your site's download size, and a full-featured but minimalistic version of a site is a very good thing to have.

The only thing that seems to me to apply only to international access is the advice to make your site available through an international CDN.
Meebo to shut down after acquisition by Google.
This has a paywall. Fail.
Bought the app. It's a lot bettter than the official one. Keep up the great work.
Rhapsody ran on x86 and PowerPC in 1998. This story says that by 2000 OS X no longer ran on x86 and required 18 person-months of effort to get it working again. That's a lot of bitrot.
Ask HN: who started something that wasn't profitable but then posted on HN?
I created http://cleverrun.com as a dashboard addition to RunKeeper, built in about a month as a MVP. 2000 people signed up (promoted by RunKeeper), seems to have good user retention rate of about 8%. Didn't enable paid upgrades till April, currently revenue has been $30 (yearly repeating). Intend to make it profitable or try something else.
Similar thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4090845
Does Apple's use of famous stars in ads show weakness?
There are going to be much better discussions about this in Chromium discussion archives but I'll cover one of the main reasons why Chrome and Firefox (by default) do not have a master password. If someone has physical or remote access to your computer it is an endgame scenario and it does not matter if you have a master password enabled or not. The most basic attack is just to install a keylogger and steal the master password. They could also just copy the password database remotely and brute force it.
The advice about cloning a regulated startup is wise in that meeting a certain set of regulatory requirements can be a great differentiator. That said, the specific experience, network, and skill set required by a team to crack a particularly regulatory regime is if anything tougher to assemble than to crack a particular technical problem.
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Introducing 2 factor authentication for identity.kde.org
Just to be clear, any security they could put on top of that would only be a deterrent to inept or non-criminal-minded people since encrypting those passwords is reversible and not allowing them to be seen inside Chrome wouldn't stop other tools. One alternative is to require a password to unlock the keychain, but I suspect most people don't actually want that (to have to type in a password in order to allow Chrome to autofill a password for them).
Microsoft Active Directory servers store passwords as plain MD4 hashes and have done so for more than a decade and will likely continue to do so for another decade. http://16s.us/ms_ad_hashes/
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You are right. I am saying Apple's branding is masterful. I'm not saying that Apple products are bad or that the people who buy them are stupid. I'm not saying anything about those because I don't think there is anything interesting to say; I only see computers and people buying computers. Brand tribalism is a great thing if you can get it for your product.
Moles, Warts & Skin Tags Removal Review | Ebook and Softwere
Moles, Warts & Skin Tags Removal Review - Dr. Charles Davidson has developed a course that helps in order to urge rid of moles, hpv warts as well as skin tags. This program is actually understood because "Moles, Hpv warts and Skin labels Removal"; and it's been modified lately in 2010 release with a lot more updates.
This should be easy. If you're technical there are tons of people searching for you.

You don't necessarily have to go to "business-oriented" events. Just go to some startup-oriented events and you'll meet tons of people that could potentially be co-founders.
I used haxe for all my games(e.g. http://cardinalquest.com/) for over a year now & it's working quite well.

There are some annoying differences between the different targets but it's >99% the same and you can work around the differences.
I'm not talking about computers and I have no interest in going through a laundry list of marketing claims for any computer. Many computers are silent and SSDs are fast in general. People are entitled to do what they want with their money and if it gives them joy then that is great.
LinkedIn: 'No customer accounts affected'
The "reality distortion field", "fanboys", etc, mostly BS from people trying to justify being cheapskates, or feeling some envy for others that can afford more expensive gear"

I agree that it's BS but I don't think the reason is mostly about envy or cheapness. I believe it's about feeling superior for not using the expensive trendy thing. It's a way of saying "I'm good at my job and more skilled than you are which is why a MacBook is beneath me. I prefer the Linux machine because I'm one of the elites who knows how to really use it".

People are just religious about their OS, even the ones who claim not to be and go off on diatribes about whatever gear being too expensive or just trendy. I'm a Mac and Xubuntu user who has recently been forced to develop on Windows while at work and I can say that beauty is important and the Mac exudes beauty. Win7 is decent too. But I bring it up because as a user of all 3 OSes I'll often get asked what I develop on. Instead of explaining in detail how I use all 3 at different times and appreciate each for their specific upsides I'll usually just say "Mac" or "Linux". No matter which I choose to say though the person asking usually always says "oh, how come you don't use Mac, it's all Unixy but pretty and easy" or "Why aren't you using Linux? Are you a fanboy or need your hand held to use a computer?". In all of these cases it's obvious the person has a superiority complex about their choice of platform.

And there's a hierarchy of how people think they're superior for using whichever one with Windows at the bottom:

If you use Windows, well, people just like to hate on Windows (and I personally don't blame them but I can still see why some like it).

The Mac users talk shit about Windows users because they believe they're part of an elite club full of design-minded hipsters. Web dev Mac users will add that Windows sucks for development (which it kind of does unless you're deploying to a full MS stack).

Linux users look down on both Mac and Windows users. They'll say the Mac users prefer form over function, need their hand held, don't like to control their PC (implies lack of skill), and are just following trends. They'll say much of the same about Windows with some added remarks about MS being the devil (as it pertains to FOSS).

No matter what one says about the other I think it's all about superiority. People justify their choice of technology by making themselves believe their choice is the best. They tend to ignore the fact that people have certain personal preferences, different use cases, and different backgrounds when making these criticisms. Developers especially will tend to think every other developer has a similar workflow and is working with the same technologies, therefor their choice of platform is what everyone else should use because "I get shit done more efficiently with this so if others don't that means they're somehow less skilled than me". Envy and money no doubt do play some role but I think it plays a smaller role than you say it does.
As am aside, I think your freecell rules are wrong. As I recall, you should only be able to move a stack (pile?) of cards if there's enough free space to place them all. Another way to stay it is that you can only actually move one card at a time, but the game will assist you if there's enough free cells.
At 12/minute your not going to be able fire again before someone 20m from you get's in range. Second 80lb is light on the light but useful end of a medieval bow. Also, their arrows where much heaver and less stable in flight than what most people use now days.

PS: There is something of an arms race with bows, if you use a 100lb bow and your opponents use 80lb bows you can slaughter them before they get into range. (Ignoring wind, and terrain issues.)
> If that were true, no intellectuals would ever convert to Christianity.

That doesn't follow. Intellectuals are also susceptible to cognitive dissonance and compartmentalization, especially when there is social pressure to change your beliefs, and doubly so if you hadn't explored the rationality behind being an atheist (speaking in general, not necessarily about Strobel).

I glanced briefly at the Wikipedia article and some of its references but couldn't find anything particularly noteworthy (perhaps you could point out some examples). My first impression is that there's no reason to think he used a rational process over a process motivated by some other reasons.

Atheists converting to religion is mostly support for religion's incredible strength as a meme (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology_of_reli...).
I built http://thecostofknowledge.com/

This is a place for research authors to support open access ~= the idea that research should be free to read when the authors want it to be. Specifically, the site is about boycotting one particular academic publisher, Elsevier, by pledging never again to do free labor for them (submitting, reviewing, editing papers). So far over 12,000 people have signed up. I see this as part of a larger movement of academics away from research-behind-paywalls.
Speaking generally, surely having a link to the site is attribution?
Teaching Kids Code Through Metaphor
Well, maybe because they are outstanding visual cues, and they can easily be used to discriminate information that otherwise you would have to _manually_ detect, look for and/or parse to extract some piece of information.
How to calculate real-world password bit-strength: http://16s.us/word_machine/bits/
Rubygem Rss-Motor v0.0.7 released ~ item filter match made case in-sensitive
Ask HN: why use tmux if iterm2 provides tabbed windows
It's personally more intuitive to navigate tabs using iterm and tmux just makes the screen space so limited. If I don't do pair programming is it recommended to just use iterm?
If you've not read it yet I would strongly recommend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm for more on this.
It could be fun to have a CoffeeScript to Haxe converter, though.
I think one of the main methods of monetary expansionists policies is inducing the major banks to engage in 'more fractional' fractional banking.
Interesting that you feel the need to start your refutation with nothing more than "smells bad." To me that reads like you don't even believe your own envelope arithmetic enough to not throw in some superfluous rhetorical support.
Well it's true they're domineering.
...that would still be a definite no.
More on JPOS, JPOSEE, Client and Server Simulators
Microsoft MVP compares VB6 to Ruby
Microsoft seems to have a lot of time to waste today :)
my pleasure. :) let me know if you have any questions.
iPad and Claustrophobia
It's always interesting to focus on China and I definitely do not disagree with the article. However based on the subject, what is happening in China is also happening elsewhere; especially in the West. I think it's also important to look in the mirror and get our own house in order first.
do they really have see-through apartment buildings in china or is that a mistranslation?
If they behave recklessly, then surely that would impact their performance score as they accumulate infractions, along with any ratings a passenger might give them, and probably the tips they receive.
Excellent work. I was wondering, do you process payments on behalf of the hotels or do you simply delegate to the hotel? I have seen you have a book room link there and I don't see a payment option. If you don't process, how do hotels confirm that people are actually booking?
Stupid question: Whenever I've used GPG to sign an email, it includes a line saying "Hash: SHA1". Does this imply PGP-signed messages are vulnerable to this, or does PGP/GPG do something different/smarter?
The Advantages To Staying In Stealth Mode
both are awesome sites. good work!
can you ctrl-w-w to focus between X11 windows?
The little code box on the front page need more space between lines. Currently they’re right on top of each-other.
That because somewhere in the bank, they still have mainframes in use and old Unisys guys are on call to support them ;)
A browser needs access to your raw password or it wouldn't be able to send it to a website. You could take Chrome to just not remember your passwords if it'd make you feel better. And alternative could be the master password feat but I'm not sure how that option works. I'm assuming (and this is dangerous) that it encrypts your passwords with your master password and decrypts them after you've entered that password.
People always take OS criticism personally. Some more than others. You could switch out Mac for Windows or any other platform and it wouldn't matter. I think he's just using OS X as a point of reference because it's what he uses. Yeah, I could see a little bit of taking your comment personally in there but he still makes a good point. Furthermore, your attack of Apple seems just as much like a justification for your own choices as anyone's defense of any platform seems like a justification of theirs. It's really hard to not take this stuff personally, especially for developers, because our choice of platform becomes part of our identity. I don't know of any other profession where you get so close and attached to your tools; choosing them, configuring them, getting an efficient workflow down. I always wondered why we get so religious about our choice of technologies but after realizing this it's not hard to understand anymore.
Quartz was written new for OS X and didn't use any of the code from Display Postscript. The licensing fee for DPS was cost prohibitive for Apple and NeXT/Apple did not own the code. I am well aware of the PDF and PS specs (I have programmed in PS for a while). It should be noted that PS and PDF have diverged and PS looks to be no longer updating.

I think you discount the complexity of Carbon a little bit.

NeXTStep's IOKit uses Objective-C and the OSX uses a cut spec version of C++. Driver code is not compatible.
I pointed out the Protocol Buffers comparison to a friend on IRC. He came back with:

"They rolled their own "high-level" serializer and deserializer for PB, built on top the lower-level stuff the documentation advises you not to use. Using the recommended interfaces, PB is faster than in their test. It is still slower than msgpack. Not sure why they'd make their test look cooked when they win in a fair test anyway. Further examination shows that the test is _mainly_ a test of std::string, for protobuf. std::string is required to use contiguous storage, whilst msgpack's test uses a msgpack-specific rope type."
TL;DR: Copy startups that have a significant barrier to entry in a country where you are familiar with ways to overcome said barrier. Use your knowledge of local regulations and how to maneuver them in your advantage. In general: aim to be a country-scoped Stripe versus a country-scoped Pinterest or Twitter.

My take (only slightly off-topic): While I emphatically agree with the author on the types of startup one should aim to clone locally, I see little discussion regarding the inherent difficulties of even starting any kind of business in many countries. Mandatory expensive social insurance, high company formation costs, bureaucracy, all make bootstrapping prohibitive. In other words, maybe the problem isn't getting inspiration for the proper kind of startup to clone; it's finding a way to get the ball rolling.
Clean Code Book
I did say "some" sense. I was thinking choosing a string to collide and enter an account without it being apparent that you entered the account with anything other than the correct password. Alright the chances of someone wanting to do that seem slim but I can see someone saying in a meeting "if we leave the passphrase open at the max length side then people could enter a string with a matching hash".
Way to be overly sensitive.
tell them what browser you're using and what version.
Functions are public by default. You could leave that out.

The main function has to be static and will serve as the entrance point of the program, not the class.
So this might just look like too much when in fact this is just a very small code sample.

Did I address some of your concerns, or did I miss the point entirely? Just curious.
I'm one of the cygwin developers. Please feel free to discuss the inclusion of a new package in the cygwin mailing list. If there is an active maintainer for the package and the package works as advertised, then it is possible that it would be voted in.

It would be inordinately useful if you could refrain from name calling during any discussion.

http://cygwin.com/lists.html
Don't be. What, 20 out of 20,000? Even my daughters have had fencing in Jr. High.
Came here to post that. Oracle are known for being major assholes, over and over. I wouldn't want to work with anything they spawned. I'm not sure why you got downvoted. Believing in the tools that you work with is as important as what those tools can do.
These guys at the Generic Infusion Pump project should partner with vTitan and put up a Kickstarter page for a cheap infusion pump with open source software (or maybe vTitan could do it themselves), if it's the type of device people might buy directly. Many in need would love to sponsor this type of advance while securing early access for themselves, since they are so acutely aware of the device's value.
Honest and small mistake? I would like to know more technical details
Yeah.. replaced it with just a Beta message. I feel like it's right to indicate that it's still in development. Thanks!

I'm quite surprised I got any upvotes.
"Star Trek" was another Apple skunkworks project for x86, but Star Trek was running Mac OS on DR DOS in 1992!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_project
The situation in the US is insane.
Yes there are systems, like radiotherapy machines or pacemakers, that need to be developed and tested to Nasa like specs

But the FDA take the approach that anything medical is life threatening. It's as if the FAA demanded avionics approval for the point of sale machine in the McDonalds at the airport

You cannot use a camera on a microscope in the US for medical purposes, there is no approval and there won't be because the first company to do so has to prove beyond all doubt every concept of the camera, computer and display operation. Not just of their specific device - you have to prove that a camera is equivalent to an eye in basic principles. Then once you have done that every other maker can come on your coat tales.

That's why in europe your cervical smear test will go through an automated scanner which uses state of the art image processing to examine every single cell - and quickly enough that the entire population (or at least the half with a cervix) can be screened.

In the US it will be looked at for 5mins with 50year old eyes with a 30year old microscope by a doctor who will then guess (sorry use his years of experience) to decide.

Strange really - I don't imagine the FAA would accept an aircraft maker saying that they don't use CFD tools or computers but old Billy has a certificate saying he went to engineering school and so can estimate the load in a carbon fibre turbine blade by eye.
I built a site for getting notified when the border wait time on the US/MX border gets to a certain point.
http://garitas-tijuana.com
I think his comment could be refrased as "This language looks like Java"
Ray Bradbury is Not Dead
Actually functions are private by default.

"static function main()" seems to work as an entrance point, though, which makes sense somehow...
Also in the current color scheme, the preprocessor directives are dark red against a dark blue background. Not exactly pleasing.
I am writing a location service to allow people to add 'local interaction' easily to an application. There is a demo of a multiplayer tankwars clone using it at

battlewith.me.uk

The initial idea was that when I was young I played games on a single computer with a shared computer, things like Tankwars, Worms and Mortal Kombat. That was a lot more fun for me than fragging strangers over the internet.

After the web-demo I would like to look at mobile apps. Actually about to post a Show HN of it very soon.

Source @ https://github.com/fmstephe/location_server
This is so damn great. MUST ORDER THEM ALL.
The Great Depression in Outline [1997]