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Yep, exactly what I was going to say.

There's a certain mindset that delights in anything that goes against conventional wisdom. Sometimes this is really useful, but the thing is that conventional wisdom is actually right most of the time. A knee-jerk reaction to believe anything that goes against conventional wisdom is no better than a knee-jerk reaction to disbelieve it. A lot of people have this tendency, even very smart people. I'm sure I fall victim to it myself sometimes.

The "Turing didn't really commit suicide" article was perfect for that. It takes a classic story that's attained the status of modern (albeit relatively obscure) myth and turns it on its head. It's attractive for the same reason that articles about radiation being good for you, peak oil being a myth, and the civil rights movement being bad for minorities are attractive: they're intriguing ideas that make you feel smarter than the average joe, since they contradict what "everybody knows".

It's often pretty easy to pull off, too, because most people don't do much research into the things "everybody knows". "Everybody knows" Turing committed suicide by eating a poisoned apple. But few people know the details. Thus, when an article says that the apple was never tested for cyanide, it's extremely convincing, because few people are aware that it was found in Turing's stomach. Likewise, the article discusses Turing's cheerful mood in his last days as evidence against suicide, even though it's actually at best neutral if not evidence for suicide. But most people don't know that elevated mood prior to suicide is common, and not having researched the "everybody knows" story, they'll take it as evidence of the alternative theory.

It's an interesting phenomenon. People will go their whole lives knowing the official story but not knowing any details. Then one single article comes out with a few details and suddenly they're convinced that what they knew their whole lives was wrong, even without doing any further research on their own. I must admit that I went through this exact process with this story, reverting to a sort of generic detail-free skepticism a little while after reading the Turing-didn't-commit-suicide story, and only realizing how silly it was after reading jgrahamc's comment here.
It seems the HTML rendering is not part of this release? I am seeing HTML printed as a string instead of being rendered. Is there something that I am missing? Thanks!
I already use google as my preferred giant corporation with access to every email I send. I wish there was a way to turn off all facebook messages or at least send an auto-reply saying that I rarely respond to facebook messages.
Both of these analogies are wrong. CDMA is unrelated to OAM. Think of CDMA as a way to trade-off effective bit-rate with signal power, even in noisy environments and a way to minimize cross-signal noise.

What you're describing is a description of polarization.

As to OAM, it's a bit hard to explain because it's difficult to visualize. Think about an ordinary radio wave going back and forth like a sine wave in a single plane. This is linearly polarized light. Now, with the same frequency and phase another photon could also be polarized at a different angle, say 90 deg. to the other photon. However, you can essentially combine both aspects of waves in varying degrees, creating elliptical and circularly polarized waves. You can think of that as the photon "spinning". OAM is on a different scale. Normally we think of light as traveling in purely straight lines other than the wave effects. However, take that model of a rotating photon wave-packet and at a larger scale imagine the photon "in orbit" along a trajectory, taking a cork-screw path.

Circularly polarized light is like a spinning football being thrown. Light with non-zero OAM is like a curve ball (although admittedly the analogy breaks down).
The best thing about this is the collaboration atmosphere that is generated. Instant help and Feedback!
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Remember, you'll need $5-10k USD to front for airline tickets, housing, etc before the reimbursement process kicks in. Supposedly it can take 1-2 months after arrival to see your first reimbursement.
He could have easily avoided this fate? How? As far as I know, Turing's choices were either 1) chemical castration 2) prison 3) stop having sex with people he was attracted to. Which of those alternatives qualifies as "not oppression"?
Thanks for the suggestion. I definitely want to get some more examples on there, especially some examples integrating with other services... like showing how to use this service along with Sendgrid to a/b test email subjects and stuff like that.
Great initiative! Your are really making it work!
No, inflation is measurably delayed and hurts the poor and middle class more than it does the wealthy because insiders have preferential access to credit, allowing them to benefit from inflation.

The same applies under demurrage. You're just shifting the loss of value form the real variables to the nominal variables.

I've read a lot of advocacy for demurrage, but somehow nobody is ever able to put a finger onto where the difference is supposed to be exactly.

Demurrage reduces interest, where interest can have negative/short-sighted effects.

Perhaps it reduces the nominal interest rate. Why should it reduce the real interest rate? (Unless you suppose that after introducing demurrage inflation stays the same; but then you might as well go ahead and increase inflation to achieve the same effect)
Thanks JJ -- We do plan on having a JS SDK though so you can use it as either server side or client side.
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One thing to keep in mind is that Start-Up Chile only administers the grant process, they do not provide any mentorship or advice.
Wow, what do you use a 1,500W LED array for?
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Spamming HN with positive comments is the worst way to convince us to apply: http://cl.ly/3C2T0B1X1s0e222c0m2C

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/r/askscience is nearly 600 thousand subscribers, that's hardly 'only'. subreddits are as good as their moderators and that's also true of HN.
> (Your lemonade analogy is ridiculous though. stealing=/=copying, artist distributing music on iTunes=/=leaving lemonade in the open)

I think you misunderstood that example. I wasn't comparing stealing lemonade to stealing music/movies/tv shows. I was trying to give an example of how you're not entitled to make money any way you want. Legally you have to pay for the lemonade, but that doesn't mean everyone will pay for it if I leave it out unattended. The only reason selling lemonade is viable is because it's easy to enforce payment by having someone at the lemonade stand.
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> The problem is that the assertion that Turing killed himself because of oppression is not founded on facts. We'll never know why he killed himself--we may not even be sure he did kill himself. I believe gay rights are an important issue, and certainly evil things were done to Turing. No truths need to be bent to support this cause--and no cause benefits from illusory bolstering by half-truths and semi-lies.

You admitted that terrible things were done to him -- which is enough. It doesn't really matter whether he killed himself over the oppression or not, the argument isn't predicated on that, but whether or not awful things were done to him, which they were, and which are undeniably documented.

But, yeah, I agree that if it's not known whether or not he killed himself specifically over that it shouldn't be brought up -- but there is plenty of substance in what we do know happened to bring up.
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Sorry, I had meant I wanted the GP to elaborate on why he or she failed :)

I know all about survivorship bias so I yearn for stories of failure.
Nice idea, and nice implementation, did you find using only Clojure freeing or limiting? Would you recommend anyone to do the same? Or was it just an experiment?
Github doesn't give the option for "read-only" on private repos. This is something I have struggled with at my startup.
Frankly, this article scores low on the list of things ESR should be ashamed of writing.
I'm not sure what you mean by communicating through "status messages". It doesn't seem like a good way to operate. Posts are not limited in the same way as Twitter messages. You can add various attachments, and create messages longer than 140 characters. In most companies email is the dominant form of communication and other tools (including discussion boards etc.) just don't get uptake because people drop back to email.

In very big companies (> 20k) there is more of a need for a tool that that can connect people in different "silos". I've seen how Yammer has helped people in this type of organisation.
Another reason not to use GPL - it breaks the ability to add something funny to licence.
Feature Request: SEO stuff

One thing I miss about wordpress was the SEO plugins to look at my article, heading, meta, etc. This is the only thing I actually miss from wordpress. However, I miss it so much, I am thinking of going back. Please save me this frustration.
Interesting. Not sure how it compares to Wealthfront's continuous deployment[1] one though (which also includes automated rollback based on business metrics).

[1] http://eng.wealthfront.com/2010/05/deployment-infrastructure...
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Somehow the name makes me think of a tourniquet...
Besides the somewhat strange economics, the greatest problem of any scheme like Bitcoin is that it is a gigantic waste of resources. Mining, which is needed to operate the system, basically amounts to an arms race between miners. If Bitcoin were actually used as a global currency, it seems realistic to suspect that a significant fraction of all global computing power would be used just for mining.

Does that seem right to you?
You're arguing with ESR, not with me. ESR implies that there was another alternative. My role in this is to explain ESR's position and to defend its correctness assuming his premises are true. My role is not to defend his premises, which in fact I am unqualified to do.
I have a floppy drive and my PC will run some old PC games that ran bare-metal (i.e. booted off the floppy). Macs by design, can't boot those.

Also it's a bit freaky that my disk from 1987 still works in a machine I built last-year. Some games assumed a 4.77MHz clock though, and I there's no turbo button, so they don't really work :(
The Menlo Park, Calif., company has come under fire from corporate governance advocates who have criticized Facebook for having no women on the board. They questioned why Ms. Sandberg, a strong proponent of women in the workplace, wasn't on the board.

In February, California State Teacher's Retirement System's Director of Corporate Governance wrote a letter to Mr. Zuckerberg saying, "We are disappointed that Facebook's board will not have any women."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230478240457748...
I'm also participating in the current round and happy to answer questions. Start-Up Chile isn't for everyone, but it is an awesome opportunity if the fit is right and a great way to experience a new part of the world.
Is my comment above re: needing $5-10k out of pocket pretty accurate?

Also, how much time do you find yourself spending on program overhead (preparing receipts, meetups/mentoring/trips/presentations/etc)?
This is pointless and misleading.

For example: #3 on the "top" list is Danger. According to crunchbase (where this site gets its data from) it was acquired for $500MM. And the founder went on to start Android. Why does it matter that danger.com is now dormant?
Since nobody has said it yet... the Development Seed team is awesome. First MapBox, now this. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
that's what I ended up doing - working fine now :)
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You're arguing with ESR, not with me. My role in this is to explain ESR's position and to defend its correctness assuming his premises are true. My role is not to defend his premises, which in fact I am unqualified to do.
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[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG
You seem to come across as petulant rather than someone who is challenging an entrenched competitor with innovation or whatever. Less talking, more doing. Just a thought.
Again, Apple gets all the attention
I live in a major metro area and have moved each year for the past 5 years, and each year is worst than the last. Renters need SERIOUS help.
Just wait until somebody starts selling clothes made out of this material without telling people what they're buying...
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Back around 2000 I took an old full-tower PC I had laying around and built a MP3 jukebox for my 1993 Volkswagen Fox. It ran Winamp with a plugin for a X10 Mouse Remote. I had a power inverter in the glove box and a fancy new stereo that had a 1/8" jack on the front. With a few bungee cords I secured the tower in the truck and the PC would boot every-time the car started. I skipped school for two days to build it. Without Winamp, I probably wouldn't have been able to do it. Kind of crazy that I can now hop in my car and play pretty much whatever I want using my iPhone & Bluetooth.
This is tangential point but if you need to make images fit into a smaller bounding box, crop them. Do not just rescale with a different aspect ratio. Stretched/squashed images look terrible.
>Less can be more. The better you understand, the pithier you can be.

The one real weakness of this idea is communicating with others, if you don't share the same understanding you will lose parts of your audience. This is part of the problem with C++ I have read repeatedly on HN (I don't know C++ myself), that everyone uses a subset of the language, but too many use different subsets.
Was Einstein the victim of oppression? How about Feynman?

If "No", how does that jibe with your definition?

If "Yes", is being a victim of oppression necessarily that big a deal? (Both Einstein and Feynman seemed to do OK for themselves.)

(Note that nothing here excuses or condones the antisemitism that affected both Einstein and Feynman.)
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But the SUP entrepreneurs are doing really great job, organizing themselves into groups and mentoring each other with a lot of practical results. It's just about creating a truly ecosystem ;)
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Legal or data privacy?
What's the problem with Google Apps emails?
yes :) that's what I thought! Thanks!
Yes, they make it pretty clear that you should have $5k per person to get you on your feet. I took it pretty lightly but it ended up being quite accurate and we ran into some cashflow issues.

As for time on program overhead, minimum probably 2 days a month. Much more if you want to be more involved with the community. You are not forced to do much more than the reimbursement process and finding some ways to give back to the Chile. You could go to meetups and such 3-4 days a week if you wanted, a lot going on.
Personally, I disregarded the story once it claimed that Turing being outwardly happy was evidence he was not suicidal. I thought it was well-known that someone may be suicidal and hide it from everyone. Once I realized the author didn't understand that, I had no trust in everything else he said.

Anyway, that's a good explanation of a phenomenon I have observed as well.
Of course not, it will be manufactured by Foxconn.
How useful is antivirus software?
That's not a 'dire situation' more of a plan coming together.
The author of this software takes precedence over all other licenses times infinity plus one!
If we're going to be technical, since they don't run a PC BIOS (they use the newer EFI), they're not compatible with the original IBM PC.
One thing to note is that there is no standard library. Most of your code will be dealing with modules. The most important thing is to get those dependencies right. Node comes with node package manager (npm), which is a great tool for the job. Still, be aware that you might be dealing with a lot of moving parts. Any tool that helps you with this should be worth checking out.

You should also check out modules like step or async, to make your chained callbacks look nicer. This way you will avoid long code pyramids.

Use a tool such as JSHint or similar, to detect errors and potential problems in JavaScript code. Try to integrate it with your editor or your complete development environment.

Regarding editors or an IDE, well, you basically have a standard pick here.

Although there is one interesting and somewhat new player you might want to check out - Cloud9 IDE, an online development environment for js and Node (amongst others). Since the code is available on github you can also deploy it on your own machines if the hosted options don't suit you.
If you're working 130 hours a week (18+ hours a day, 7 days a week), there's no way you're sleeping 8 hours a night.

You're probably getting no more than 4-5 hours of sleep a night, if that. And you're probably pulling an all-nighter or two every week.
How would you like them to run clojure, a JVM based language?
In my experience, test messages never work, but real messages always do. Somehow.
I agree, nothing is as secure as a well-aware user. I removed a virus for someone last week and when I asked her why she didn't have antivirus software installed, she said "Oh, Cox has their own antivirus running through the wires."

...Cox provides a free antivirus that you can download. But that sense of security that both ISP's and antivirus companies provide is the reason so many people still get infected.
This is great, I have had some scripts to do it for me manually but this is sweet.

I would also suggest everyone to use the asset pipeline for things like phonegap or pure html5 apps. It makes the entire process so clean and painless.
Read the blog post. It has a TLDR
This is partly true. Start-Up Chile makes a big effort to bring in speakers and mentors. That being said, Santiago isn't Silicon Valley, and Start-Up Chile doesn't have the network of a YCombinator or TechStars. I'll also say that outside of formal mentoring, there is a lot of value in the community of international entrepreneurs that take part.
I said what I meant by "obscurity" and I did not say anything about Windows being open, but I'll restate things in other words in case it clears things up.

OSX and iOS are used predominantly to run personal computing devices. In addition to PC's, Windows also runs a significant number of the world's servers (although Linux dominates here) and embedded systems (see http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/windows-embed...). Despite OSX and iOS gaining significant market share, virus-writers may still find that the sweetest targets are disproportionately running windows. OSX and iOS are more "obscure" in the sense that they don't run many of the systems virus-writers want to target.
That's what Lotus Notes was, right (news-feed style posts with threaded comments). At least that how I saw it used, in the mid-late 1990s.
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"The position and actions of various U.S. “churches” who actively promote harm to homosexuals both in the United States and in other countries. Their use of my tax dollars to sustain these churches in their fight to deny me rights particularly infuriates me."

Whaaaaaat? I don't think it's supposed to work that way.

Edit: a bit further down, it seems that he considers his tax dollars to be supporting Fred Phelps' church because if somebody tries to burn it down, the fire department will put it out. That's... certainly an interesting position, especially coming from someone who does not live in Topeka or even in Kansas.
I forwarded Valve's employee handbook to an economist friend a few months ago, and he suggested that whoever set up the company was actively experimenting with public choice theory, and that from that perspective the good and bad things mentioned in the handbook were not that difficult to suss out from the structure.
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I want the other way around so I can put a piece over my license plate.
Lol. "Their creative abilities are allowed to flourish by Steve Jobs’ approach, seeking excellence in the products he is after. As long as it’s his creation he believes it’s excellent."
4.5 - 5" phones are still pretty new, and they're still not remotely the majority of units being sold. Not to mention lots of folks out there have 1-2 year old phones they're not about to replace (and may not want a 5" screen.)

At least for reading, a 7" device like the Kindle Fire is a huge improvement over a 4" phone screen, much more than the simple size difference would indicate. At similar (smallish) font sizes, I can get about 5-7 words across the screen on a phone, whereas I can get 9-12 words on a 7" device.

For books, news and movies, a size increase of about 75% is a big deal.
(Current KA intern here.)

That video assumes that nonprofit jobs aren't high-paying, but that's not always the case. KA, for instance, pays competitively. If you can both have a high-paying career that enables you to donate while also using your skills to help advance causes you care about (especially if the skills in question are skills that many or most people don't have), then by the reasoning in the video, that's better than either option they present.
Again, you're just talking about the automatic switch, which I also think is an abomination. I was talking about the @facebook email feature itself, which for someone who uses facebook (unlike yourself) is a reasonable feature.
Ok, then, imagine that Einstein had died in such a way that it was very plausible (likely even) but not ironclad certain that he had died in the holocaust. I think mikeash's point still holds.

There's a level of uncertainty under which, I agree, it would seem forced and I'd wish that folks would look for another exemplar. By my analysis, and from my perspective the circumstances of Turing's life and death are not so uncertain.
I have a whole family of Windows users and none of them have gotten a virus in over the past decade. None of them except for me are very technically inclined either. However, they don't visit porn sites or pirate software either.

The last virus that I personally got was back during the Win95 days. It was the NY Boot Virus, which I got by accidentally leaving a floppy (which I got from someone at work) in the drive during boot.
Ironically enough, yammer started out as a twitter clone for the enterprise, and evolved in to something more like a private facebook.
I'm sure the story of bootstrapping Craigslist is very interesting, I don't doubt it.

But that's not my point. My point is, their bootstrapping was a challenge just like any other other startup has to gain users, but it was possible, with hard work.

Nowadays, if any other startup tries bootstrapping that is even better, with even more hard work and dedication, they'll still fail, because Craigslist wins via network effects. It's now virtually impossible.

Resentment towards Craigslist is not because they got to where they are now easily -- they didn't, it was hard. That gets respect. The resentment comes because they're staying where they are now, easily, and potentially better competitors have virtually zero chance, no matter how much they work hard.
The formatting got a bit screwy. I wonder why some of the newlines got preserved and some didn't. Weird..
Fair gripe.

If you'd started with the 'document'-.'html' naming convention, you could use any of numerous webserver hacks to preserve this illusion. How you request something has little to do with what the server does to satisfy your request.

What I was distinguishing earlier was the distinction between 'return default index of this level of the path' and 'return a specific document from this level of the path'. Specifically indicating 'index.html' is a tad gauche.