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It's certainly unscientific. Believing something to be true despite evidence to the contrary is fundamentally unscientific.

Edit: Since people don't seem to understand my point, there is more to the theories of celestial mechanics than just path prediction. Our understanding of the path mechanics is derived through our understanding of gravity. To believe that the Sun revolves around the Earth one would have to completely upend our theories of gravity, which have been shown by experiment to agree with predictions in almost all cases.
This is not about "is there a God or not". It's about the question of why rational beliefs are so easily overridden by 'common sense' or religion.

As a counter-point: why does America, a liberal western democracy, still believe in God so fervently?

Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Europe have all experience a significant decline in religion over the last 100 years. Why not in the US?
This:

"In 1982, forty-four per cent of Americans held strictly creationist views, a statistically insignificant difference from 2012."

Incorrect use of the term "statistically insignificant" and other stat terms needs to stop.
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It's controversial among tech geeks (but that shouldn't be surprising considering the PC vs Mac fanboyism) but really this article is just linkbait.
Draw a picture on a piece of paper. Sign it, write your name, arbitrary words, whatever. Hold it up to a camera.

Could something like this be made to work? Work in the sense that a variety of cameras could read the same "password"? I guess QR codes have a fair bit of redundancy built-in...
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And Bill Gate's contribution to Vista was what, exactly? I think you're missing the point of this article, not to mention stretching on your math.
Malcolm did not assert this statement based on Gates financial contributions to charities. He says Bill Gates will be remembered, because he (almost has) will eliminate Malaria.
Apparently. Why are you hiding their IP?
Obviously, you can't let them all fail, but if you don't let significant banks go under, how do you address the systematic moral hazard that encourages this behavior? It's a big problem, that, if anything, is worse now than it was in 2008.
Was Bill Gates even around for vista? I thought he stopped his msft day job years ago?
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Maybe the numbers are stable because people who reject the theory of evolution have lots of kids that they homeschool.
But philosophy can only offer logical proof, non-observable/measureable.
John von Neumann’s minimax theory
Timehop is why I signed up for foursquare (back when it was 4square and 7 years ago). Before that I was a skeptic, but I've since convinced a few friends to join. It's an interesting service with a lot of potential.

I'm curious if you guys still use Scala (yay!) and Lift (meh.)?
> I suppose though with the possibility of eternal damnation and all

Pascal's Wager? Perhaps the way to avoid that eternal damnation is to not worship $DEITY.
It's just like how Carnegie wasn't spoken of very well until later in his life, after he became a philanthropist. On the other hand, Fred Harvey (a very Jobs-like entrepreneur and a hero of mine) is remembered by very few.

I'm sure you could find dozens of other examples throughout recent history, but the thing I've noticed is that the true heroes don't care if they're remembered; they're content in knowing they made a meaningful contribution to humanity.
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https://twitter.com/about/logos

someone at twitter must have had to much time at his (or her) hands.
Most people's minds are very good at finding or making up that one thing when it is needed for survival. For happiness, that is a different head of cabbage.
I don't think they really expect everyone to listen to their guidelines. However, in order to maintain their trademark, I believe they have to defend it actively. I think this page is more a way to appease the lawyers than anything else.

Of course, I know literally nothing about the laws in question and could be off base entirely.
True. I think that people who think that they are scientific like to believe certain things just as much as people who are not scientific. I am sure that if you sat Jonah down and asked him to prove any of these things there would be a squirt in his 'A.C.C.' circuit!
So you're completely discounting the value of Gates attempting to inspire others to give- particularly other rich people?
This is a really great story
You can verify donations to public charities when they file their (publicly accessible) information returns for the tax year. If Steve Jobs was a generous donor, he will show up in their returns for 2011 or 2012 (which should become available in the next few months, or next year, respectively). A lot of research has been done by a lot of journalists looking for a Steve Jobs entry in the donor lists of many charities (in prior years, i.e., 2010 or earlier), and they haven't found any yet. (This doesn't mean that he never made any donations, it is however strong evidence that Steve Jobs did not donate much, if anything, until the last few months of his life.)
I disagree. Jobs achieved the greatest comeback in business history. He was ousted from his own company, the company almost goes bankrupt, he returns, and with one innovative and wildly successful product after another manages to make it the most valuable company in the world (in terms of market cap).

I don't think this story will be forgotten in 50 years.

I also don't think Gates will be forgotten either in 50 years. Maybe in the much longer term Gates will be remembered more than Jobs.
Yes, by donating a huge chunk of his wealth to funding malaria research, treatment, and prevention programs.
I don't see how "do you believe god created humans 10k years ago" can be answered affirmatively while simultaneously believing in evolution, unless you're thinking of a God unlike any of the generally known concepts. A yes carries the weight of rejecting enormous amounts of empirical evidence for evolution of the species and historical accounts.
Very well said...it is not the destination but journey that matters most...
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I think you misheard. The epicycle system is, in essence, an n-termed complex Fourier series (not transform). The point that the person who told you this was trying to make was that any path can be represented using enough terms in a complex Fourier series, so it's a fairly bad system for deriving physical laws.
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It's somewhat odd that folks are suddenly measuring greatness along the dimension of philanthropy and forgetting that people who make history come in all shapes and sizes--good, bad, greedy, selfless, originals, remixers, creators of that which has fallen and creators of that which is still with us. To suggest that Jobs won't be with us simply because he didn't donate to charity is to forget a great number of reasons why people are remembered.
I would suggest logic is a tool for measuring and observing in the universe in the platonic forms just as the large hadron colider is in the universe of the physical.
Or perhaps giving publicly is what you do when you want to rehabilitate a tarnished public image.

Regardless, Gladwell is taking the lazy columnist's approach of irresponsible prediction, intending to provoke indignation. There's plenty of room in history books, and both Gates and Jobs will have significant entries. I'll submit Edison and Telsa as examples of contemporaries in the same general field who both remain widely known decades after they passed on.
This depends on whose memory you are talking about. For leader-types, academics and historians looking to study someone with massive charisma and ambition, it's Jobs they are going to remember. Videos of speeches and interviews will be preserved, and where Jobs and Gates are side by side it's clear that Jobs is the one with the presence.

For everyone else including the general public, it'll probably still be Gates, but Jobs certainly won't be forgotten, if for no other reason than his involvement in Pixar. Pixar's original string of hits (Toy Story{, 2}, A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo, etc) are definitely going to survive in public consciousness longer than 50 years. The narrative of Pixar itself will probably survive that long as well.
very good, I laughed a lot.
Eradiacting a disease that has killed millions...that is a meaningful contribution to society. Helping fund massive innovation in the education system...that is a meaningful contribution to society. Selling electronics gadgets for a lot of money is not a meaningful contribution to society.
rprasad wrote:

> You can quibble over whether he donated a dollar or two to some bum somewhere, but ultimately, Steve Jobs donated less to charity than either of us.

I don't know how to reply to individual posts, so I'll write in the main thread. Rprasad, you are still assuming many things about Jobs' private attitude in regards to charitable giving. After the New York Times opinion piece that appeared to stir up controversy after Jobs' resignation on Aug. 24, 2011, Bono wrote this as a response:

"Apple has been (RED)’s largest contributor to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria — giving tens of millions of dollars that have transformed the lives of more than two million Africans through H.I.V. testing, treatment and counseling. This is serious and significant...

You don’t have to be a friend of his to know what a private person he is or that he doesn’t do things by halves." [1]

What most people don't know when they compare Bill Gates and Steve Jobs is that Jobs' Buddhist beliefs probably influenced the nature of his charitable giving, which is to do it anonymously.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/opinion/bono-praises-steve...
Neil deGrasse Tyson does a good job of explaining the difference between modern science and philosophy at the 1:02:00 mark in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zXYTwuwsyI
Good point. Check this list of the top hundred richest people in US history, ranked by their wealth as a portion of GNP:

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2006/07/29/the-wealthy-100...

A. T. Stewart, anybody? Frederick Weyerhaeuser? William Weightman? John I. Blair?

Mind you, you don't have to be a big-name philanthropist to be on that list and remembered. Rockefeller was so goddamn rich that he's famous just for being incredibly rich. Howard Hughes is remembered for his eccentricities. Samuel Colt is remembered because he invented something. And then there's George Washington...
You have to be kidding me, it took you two hours to plug a cat5 cable into the back of a computer? DHCP would have assigned an ip address to the pc within 5-10 seconds and you'd be on the internet, there are many reasons to hate on Vista(like over aggressive prefecthing for one), no need to make up some nonsense.
Well, what is the alternative to that? You could replace the expensive machines with human hands, perhaps, but nobody is willing to do the work. Farmers already struggle to find help as it is. With some skill, you can make programmer-like salaries as a farm hand on the right farm right now, and they still can't fill the positions.
This was an announcement; "someone" in this case is a co-worker of the author. The author of xip.io (sstephenson) came on thread to discuss this and a related announcement about Pow.
Not everyone is as inexperienced as you are in Windows Vista networking. Just because it took you two hours to figure out something, doesn't mean that it is the same thing for everyone.
You've got the right idea--there's lots of recent literature treating the typical IRT problem as a Bayesian inference problem. Some of the references listed at the bottom of the article (especially the Kim one) provide great literature surveys.
It mostly looks like sync code, but just works. The examples I've seen in F# are much simpler than the 900 callbacks/continuations approach.
I love when people write these kinds of things, and include all the details. Makes it so much more memorable.

Good read.
I don't think these password compromises were likely failures of management to say "let's build a secure system";...

The solution to this...would resolve as the parent explains--third-party vendors selling these companies multi-million-dollar "password appliances" with installation, support contracts, and all of that brouhaha--and then bringing in their support engineers to teach the company's own people how to securely call into the appliance.

Screw that. Just use a specific API in BSON structured with fixed-length fields to make the call. Build the appliance as proprietary software to install on top of an existing secure Linux distro. Sell to small sites for $1000 a pop or so, with different licensing for virtual server and cloud hosting companies. If Big Co. needs serious bandwidth, then they can do a project.

Hardware component: that we'd need VC funding for. Hardware is just harder.
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I have for the last few years personally thought about this many times over.

I am from India and understand the problems that Bill Gates is trying to help solve, with his money, management skills and time.

I am a tech fan-boy and love good gadgets, I work hard to earn and buy a gadget. But people like me are minority. And moreover those gadgets die in 3 years flat.

For countries like ours, it is crucial to solve the socioeconomic problems and head towards a better tomorrow. In that respect what Bill Gates has been doing, has inspired me to think differently. He has made capitalism also look much better (I come from communist backgrounds). You earn and then you give back, the way you want to, where you want to.

Having an impact on actual living conditions of people is far more important than building better OS with a Metro UI or even a better phone with dual cores.
Not when you have billions of stars as references to prove the opposite.
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Well if you want to be pedantic, they both revolve around their centre of mass, sort of (complicated by the fact that there are many other bodies influencing the motion).

But the intuitive view referred to in the article is that the sun revolves around the Earth once per day, as observed from Earth. That you cannot make work by fancy maths, without running into conclusions which contradict other observations.
It's like he's just doing a science project. That's totally amazing.
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"Gates's last full-time day at Microsoft was June 27, 2008" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates

"On January 30, 2007, it [Windows Vista] was released worldwide" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista
I'd love for this to do PgSql too.

Thanks very much Evan as well for our chats ages ago (Andrew here), was happy to see you release this tool!
The boltzmann brain arises from a statistical fluctuation. I think he is talking about the simulation hypothesis and in particular arguments put forward by the philosopher Nick Bostrom.
Ha! It's a long story. Let's just say I made a lot of mistakes over the course of the next few years.

You live, you learn.
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The beauty of item response theory is that you can infer both the test's parameters and the student's abilities. You can use EM or Gibbs sampling to estimate those parameters simultaneously, so there's no need to limit yourself to test difficulty or student ability.

In your described scenario, who decides each question's difficulty? Are we sure the teacher or test author understand the true difficulty of their questions? This kind of grading scheme is marginally better than some super-naive approach, as we can't be sure the professor fully understands each question's difficulty.
This would be a good selling point for companies once they have a little funding. Save yourself some embarrassment and plop down $1000 for a properly secured password db. There's also a strong selling point for the sites that have gotten hacked.
Time spent on this sort of stuff early in the lifecyle of a product can be invaluable to fixing/iterating the product for countless future customers.

Think of it as beta testing or customer-focused design that you are getting paid to do.
yeah, most vista users i know (mostly older family and friends) come to me (i - to 99% - refuse to do any of that stuff) after they wasted days and weeks.
Education system reform in any sense that an HN'er would generally conceive of is first going to be built upon a foundation of selling lots of cheap electronic gadgets for what still comes to a lot of money.

Are you sure it's not a meaningful contribution to society? If electronic gadgets are extensions of our minds, are you sure it's not a meaningful contribution to work out how to make them do more, more cheaply, for more people, until the utility of the devices is so great that it overcomes nearly everyone's reluctance to part with their money?

The picture is not so clear cut as that. Every leaf node on the tree of human accomplishment nowadays is built upon an awful lot of other less glamorous nodes, but take them away and the glamorous stuff doesn't happen. You may not understand how the sewer worker contributes to the cancer cure, until the sewer worker stops showing up for work on the cancer research facility's beat, at which point your nose may explain it to you.
I have a dd-wrt router with DNSmasq functioning as the DNS server for local hosts. DNSmasq resolves external domains using Google DNS (8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4). With this setup, domain names like 192.168.X.X.xip.io and 127.X.X.X.xip.io won't resolve, and I believe there is something wrong with my DNSmasq setup. Anyone else ran into similar issues?

(Update) Problem solved by myself. The DNSmasq config has stop-dns-rebind option enabled, which filters out DNS results in private IP ranges from upstream servers for security reasons. DNSmasq doc has the following part:

-stop-dns-rebind

Reject (and log) addresses from upstream nameservers which are in the private IP ranges. This blocks an attack where a browser behind a firewall is used to probe machines on the local network.

In case you run into this issue, just comment out this option in dnsmasq.conf and restart dnsmasq.
So, a software baron in the same league as Pablo Escobar, who made billions in shady ways and tried to clean his name giving it all away, will be remembered more than a guy who was a living god among artists, creators, marketers and geeks?

Sure you can buy a couple of pages in history, a billion a piece, but your tarnished reputation won't wash away easily, no matter how many vaccines you fund or how many shills to down vote me you pay.

You can spend all your money buying a heaven but that won't make you a saint.
Seriously?

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/29/2822971/new-video-show...
One of the videos that will be circulating around for quiet some time is http://ed.ted.com/lessons/steve-jobs-at-stanford-university-...
From the comments:

I wonder why they are not accepting any Bids, one has been pending for over a day now.

That means they got at least one bid.
Facebook's app store.
I'd agree, if finding such an algorithm was easy! :)
Tyson appears to distinguish between the two on the basis of topics under investigation, but not by any difference between the scientific method and the methods used by philosophers. I am not sure I agree with this distinction from an epistemological point of view.
at the end of the day, if you have a service that other people/businesses/clients rely on, that they need 24/7 up time, then you really need to have a plan B that is not on heroku or aws. a REAL disaster recovery plan needs to be thought out and implemented. if you dont want your users to see the "there is a problem with this app" on heroku, then its your job to figure out that plan B is. If you cant afford it a plan B, then well, tough shits. as someone that has worked in the hosting business for years on the operations side, its also the responsibility of the client to plan that scenario where your primary host is not reachable (regardless if its an application level issue, network or power outage). the hosting company can only build so many N+1 backups (network/power/etc) as they can afford/physically fit. you can buy all the load balancing you want, redundant web servers and database servers. if you arent hosting in a secondary place and your primary host fails, all those redundant servers you are paying for arent going to mean a damn thing.
> What makes the human mind so resistant to certain kinds of facts, even when these facts are buttressed by vast amounts of evidence?

It's not human thing. It's USA thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Views_on_Evolution.svg

If you don't know Tim Minchin you might enjoy his take on this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9uIMR8yCPg
Bill Gates quit his day job at Microsoft in 2008. Microsoft Vista was released in 2006, they had worked on it since 2001.

So Bill Gates was very much responsible for Vista.
Pinch to zoom out. The bird is probably off-screen.
By far the hardest thing for me was finding something that:

A. I love.
B. Pays me money.

I don't think most people have trouble hitting either A or B alone.

Very few people find something that does both. I seem to have finally found that myself, but it took me 25 years.
Presumably, the service will be better.
Banks in Australia usually need a deposit of one years of sales if you take yearly subscriptions. Then you need to go to a payment processor, who charge their own fees structure on top. But the banks do give you decent service, in that you have someone to call when something goes wrong.

The worst part of PayPal is undoubtedly the service, I've had experience where they locked the account and demanded social security no.s and registration information (via fax) for which there are no Australian equivalents. After months of them asking for things that don't exist, it took a complaint to the Financial industry ombudsman for them to de-restrict the account to allow us to withdraw the funds.
That's fair, my snark doesn't help with that, as I was in that same position about a year ago and opted to just leave it and pretend it wasn't there.

I'm sure there is a way to improve it, but I don't know how, sorry!
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Where do you see them claim their approach is better? Preferably with quotes.

It seems likely but I can't prove that behind a couple of statements like "As defined the feature is not powerful enough to push non-request related content (such as new RSS items)" is the fact that their approach does do it (and possibly had to add it on later only after they discovered it was a problem), but the document is very carefully written strictly as an examination of SPDY, with no braggadocio I can see at all or any trace of marketing beyond the initial statement of "Hey, we've done some stuff and here's some observations we are in a position to make".

(Again, my compliments to the chefs.)
He mentioned the likelihood of existing in a simulated universe in the context of probabilities - the Boltzmann Brain is the construct I know of that directly addresses this.
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