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> I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible. I gave a party for time-travelers, but I didn't send out the invitations until after the party. I sat there a long time, but no one came.

Why would one need to send invitations if the outcome is already known once the party is over? It seems that merely giving a party for time-travelers is a plenty sufficient evidence.

> Another frightening possibility is intelligent life is not only common, but that it destroys itself when it reaches a stage of advanced technology.

Or that it transcends beyond physical 3D realm (as corny as it sounds) and so it's no longer detectable from within it.
This was written by Amber Yust, who was born a man.
Certainly. Personally I do not like the "it's not bad because it's not a choice" argument, although pragmatically that argument seems to be most effective. It can be interpreted like "it's still evil, but they can't help it so we'll let them". Even if it were a choice, it would still be OK; what matters is that it doesn't harm anybody, and it certainly doesn't harm somebody who's condemning it from afar. Fortunately things are moving in the right direction, especially in the US, but cultural changes take a long time.
The tm is "multi-sided market" in the economics literature. We're only beginning to figure them out.
Why should I have to correct something I didn't cause?
"He" is not gender-neutral, no matter how hard the Latin-obsessed grammarians tried [citation: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=12...]

If you want a gender-neutral pronoun, "they" works perfectly well. It doesn't matter what you intend when you type "he", everyone reading it will interpret it as male.
Further evidence that governments should be as limited as possible in their access and control of our lives. Nearly everything they touch has ugly short and long-term consequences spanning from financial to millions of people dying.

I know that the issues in India are far more complex than this. I am over-simplifying in a gross manner. That said, I can't help but feel that "civilization" has degenerated into the lunatics running the asylum world-over. I don't know what the solution might be, but it is almost unthinkable to see millions of people dying rather than millions of people mounting a revolt to take control of what is rightly theirs: Their country, their land, their resources and their very lives.

Here's a case where the actions of a few in power are likely a huge part of the reason for millions dying every year. What is wrong with humanity?
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H&P came out years after Convex was already practicing the ideas described by this patent. Probably Cray, ETA, etc, as well, but I didn't work at any of those.
You say this as if it were relevant...
In other news, #boycottApple helped Google+ realize that they need to design at least one feature correctly... If I am viewing a livestream, don't move the box that I am reading from. Goodness gracious.
what makes a lisper better at statistics teaching and exposition than a non-lisper? (say, a trained maths educator?)

fwiw, creators of R are Lisp weenies, so you might wanna look there more carefully :-)
Agreed! AngularJS makes the code so concise and easy to read! I'm even considering adding specific support for it in my LIVEditor project (a live html/css/js code editor).
Yep. It's why camera phones, in some places, have to make a noise when they a picture (by law). You have to announce that you are doing something.
Here you can see the software in Action:
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And here's another poll from the same organization, this one focused only on Christians, that says 20% of them believe in the rapture in their lifetimes.

http://www.pewforum.org/uploadedfiles/Topics/Issues/Politics...

41% in no way jibes with my experience, even as someone who grew up attending white rural evangelical churches. You might get 41% (or much higher) to say it might occur, but I am seriously skeptical of "definitely" percentages.

The survey I linked has some interesting facts about American Christian beliefs about science. Strong (79%+) majority believes global warming is a serious problem, for example. Even a slim majority believes in evolution.
Did you mean our design process?

* We usually begin with clients giving us a brief, and in most cases we prefer a mockup either on paper or preferably a tool like: https://gomockingbird.com/

It helps us clarify their requirements, notice the little things that would go missing or ambiguous set of requirements.

* We'd ask them to list a few sites/design they like. Based on those we'd come up with a few rough ideas, and go darwinian on it. i.e. kill the unhealthy ones, work on what we think works. Sometimes we do very basic/naive user-testing to figure out which mockups are easier to navigate. 'Cos the most 'liked' design is not always the most intuitive. And clients have a tendency to just do too much on every screen. But yeah we try to be very iterative.
>tanked their stock price right after their IPO

Why is this relevant? The VCs made plenty of money and even though the price is less than asked for, a social network just got validated as worth over $60 billion on a public market.

There may still be issues with creating a new social network, but I don't think FB's IPO price tanking is one of them. (Unless success requires a $100 billion exit.)
"One way to improve the situation is to invest in infrastructure to reduce the logistical cost, allowing the grain to compete across a wider range of market prices."

I have seen these sort of 'inversions' as well. As an engineer I've pondered whether or not you could create enough infrastructure to create a non-spoiling product which returned enough capital to move the rest. So in the grain situation you might create a simple distillery which produced grain alcohol, which was sold to cover the cost of moving excess grain to locations where it could be used. Grain alcohol has a number of used and it doesn't spoil, further processing grain into alcohol is a relatively self sufficient process (you can use the alcohol produced to run the distiller and still get net positive output.) It of course presumes free grain.

One of the more curious social effects I've witnessed is that someone will dump grain which is too expensive to move, but they are less willing to simply give it to you for your distillery. They note you're getting an economic benefit from their grain (which is true) but they are unwilling to build their own distillery and capture that value but still won't cede the value to someone who does that original investment.
Because a convention which many people consider harmless is causing you harm. Using 'he' when gender isn't known is not a tech-specific phenomenon.
People have no need to write "he/she" when referring to the author when using "he" is correct 90% of the time.

If women really want people to be know them as women then they should make it clear that they are. Hell, the suffragettes persevered through much worse than creepy internet comments.
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You can run cygwin shell from FAR, or any other shell. Seriously.

Think of Far Manager as Midnight Commander, more or less.
There was a better way. The code logic was exploited and I got myself 70 points more than the maximum expected .
We have this 'equal right' in the form of one-man-one-vote (democracy), but that doesn't stop the richest actors from exercising great influence over the results overall. In the end, the ability of wealth to buy marketing and power will always exist.

I would like to see inequality reduced, but it seems like the 'right to create equal demand' has been provided already. There's always more work to be done, I guess.
The south is a horrible place to live? Why do you say this? I live in Georgia and am quite happy with my residence.
I fail to see how it's irrelevant. In this article, someone who was a man until a year or two ago used herself as the perfect example of a woman who succeeds in the tech world.
Because you are outnumbered, basically. You have to make a stand or this problem won't ever go away.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4187333
> On the other hand, you've exhibited a classic indicator of unconscious bias by assuming that a woman was complaining. Especially when, as in this case, she clearly isn't.

"complain: to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief"

If people can't disagree with you without being accused of bias at the drop of a hat, then we can't have a true discussion.
The center of population is somewhere near the center of the Earth. The standard map with Europe in the middle is just an historical influence too!
Yeah, I can also handily disagree with this. My test machine has a 6 month old CPU and 6GB of RAM. I can reboot, wait 5 minutes and try to launch PowerShell and still be looking at a 5-15 second wait.
Sure - but the only way to use it at the moment (as was shown in the demo at Google I/O was to stream via a bluetooth connection to a mobile device) and Sergy Brin has also indicated that it will contain mobile connectivity
I am a bit at a split
As a programmer: its a CLI for GUI apps, yeah!
As an average computer user: Are you crazy...?
You might find Prof. Joseph Tainter's assessment of Rome interesting. he has a very different view of what caused the Roman collapse.

In his view, the problem was that Rome based their economy on conquest and pillage. As they'd conquer places, theyd bring back gold into their economy and this would allow them to lower or eliminate taxes. During this time of expansion they did well, and the complexity of their culture increased quite a bit, but in the end, this phase had to come to an end, and Rome was unable to sustain their economy internally. Their attempts to do so involved additional complexity and a great deal of additional attempts to regulate their way out including quantitative easing of their currency.

In the end, the problems were too great and the society collapsed from within, through the very process by which they expanded (greater and greater complexity of society).

One interesting thing I would add that Herwig Wolfram suggests is that the Western Empire was particularly poorly suited because of the concentration of wealth into fewer and fewer hands, which limited the tax base and made taxes harder to collect.

The Byzantine Empire listed much longer but a couple hundred years after the Roman Empire fell, they too experienced a massive simplification when faced with the Arab invasions. They did so in a more controlled way however and survived but in doing so, Tainter suggests, transitioned from a Roman society to a medieval one.
I agree with you, I wonder why someone downvoted / flagged your post. The US has 1000+ bases around the world and spends a lot of money maintaining troops in "friendly" countries and client states (Middle East puppet regimes) and occupying and bombing other countries. The real total "defense budget" including all the offensive actions, DoD, Pentagon, TSA etc is more than $1 trillion (that's $1000 billion, or $1000,000 million). All of that could be spent at home but we'd rather bomb / liberate those civilians than to spend money on healthcare of our elderly or food or education of our kids.

http://antiwar.com/blog/2012/02/20/the-real-us-military-budg...

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/us-govt-ran--13-trillion-budget-d...

The Federal Reserve has printed trillions of dollars and given it to their buddy banksters and have no trail of it, and we the taxpayers have to pay it back by inflation. Poor suckers who saved for their retirements can go to hell.

http://www.dailymarkets.com/economy/2009/05/14/federal-reser...

End the corporate bailouts, bring the US military budget to a sane level, end the subsidies for big oil and gas, end the subsidies to banksters and we'll have enough to feed all the kids and the poor and provide universal healthcare.

Bank of America Pays No Taxes, Gets $1B Refund: Report
http://www.thestreet.com/story/11059978/bank-of-america-pays...

Bank of America, GE Pay Zero Federal Taxes
http://publicintelligence.net/bank-of-america-ge-pay-zero-fe...

Bank of America, Citigroup, GM paid no taxes
http://www.standard.net/topics/opinion/2011/04/04/bank-ameri...

Federal Reserve Cannot Account For $9 Trillion
http://www.dailymarkets.com/economy/2009/05/14/federal-reser...

We all pay for the research but when it's time for profits it's "capitalism" because socialism is evil!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies
A 2009 study by the Environmental Law Institute[5] assessed the size and structure of U.S. energy subsidies over the 2002–2008 period. The study estimated that subsidies to fossil-fuel based sources amounted to approximately $72 billion over this period and subsidies to renewable fuel sources totaled $29 billion. The study did not assess subsidies supporting nuclear energy.

The three largest fossil fuel subsidies were:

Foreign tax credit ($15.3 billion)
Credit for production of non-conventional fuels ($14.1 billion)
Oil and Gas exploration and development expensing ($7.1 billion)
The three largest renewable fuel subsidies were:

Alcohol Credit for Fuel Excise Tax ($11.6 billion)
Renewable Electricity Production Credit ($5.2 billion)
Corn-Based Ethanol ($5.0 billion)
> Socialism is an economic system; democracy is a system of governance.

Except throughout the Cold War, the socialist states looked more like other socialist states (to wit: The USSR, the PRC, clients thereof, and non-aligned socialist states like Albania) than like non-socialist states around them. These states often called themselves "People's Republics".

Of course, if you take that definition of 'socialist', then India most certainly isn't socialist.

My point: Language isn't simple. Politics isn't simple. Mixing the two simplifies neither.
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Where are you getting this stupid 20,000 year figure from? Even with current tech, we can travel at 0.1c easily, that is without any extra effort made in actually travelling outside our solar system. Near-by candidates are within 20ly, so at min it would take just 200 year, or 3 human generations.

And if it might give you some peace, there are thing called machines that can be built to contact other civilization without sacrificing your hypothetical children.
"New York, America's supposed mecca of culture and a truly international city, has airports whose decrepitness puts lesser cities to shame."

Living in Los Angeles, I notice the same sort of thing about our freeways. I think part of it is that they were the among the first built, and they haven't really updated.

Interchanges are a particular sore point. The 101 north to 405 south interchange is a joke. One lane, 270 degree turn. Traffic crawls through it. And it's literally at the busiest interchange in the world.

Or the 110 north to the 5 north. It's like a theme park ride it's so narrow and curvy and hilly.

Of course, the 134 east to the 5 north has no interchange ramp. You have to leave the freeways and get on surface streets to change over. There's a few of those around.
How do you know which version someone is wearing though, like you pass people in the street and think "shit, is he recording me?"
Can we just kill software patents already? Seriously, they need to go away.
Wouldn't hydrogen fluoride just be fluoride ions in solution? Water molecules tend to clump around charged ions, which might impede traversal of the membrane.
There were no fitness trails in NYC before this? Wow, the City really does have no conception of the rest of the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitness_trail#United_States_of...
Amber is A) a woman B) working in the tech world C) successful.

Chromosomes have nothing to do with it.

Obviously, you know that what you're saying is hateful or you wouldn't have created a burner account in order to post it.
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They just need to line them up. We know these icons are often going to be next to each other. I know Googlers are using these phones. It doesn't bother them?!
I started building a desktop app last year, but realized that many features I'd come to expect from using reddit/HN (like spell-check, and familiar keyboard short-cuts) weren't there, and I'd have to re-implement each one to mimic the web experience. (Do native apps for mobile get these for free?)

Webapps have surreptitiously become my standard for app features.
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First of all, "her"

Second, it's quite possible that being a transgender woman would subject the author to even more discrimination, so what's your point? That Yust doesn't count as a real woman succeeding in the tech world because she was born with male intellectual attributes?
Funny, sitting in the drive through today, my mind wandered to what it'd take to reimplement python.el in terms of an IPython back-end process. While I'm not terribly interested in notebook support per se, I'd love to be able to run OS X Emacs.app against multiple IPython "REPL servers" running on OS X, FreeBSD, and Windows. This project might be a good place to start.

Speaking of Windows, anyone out there have recent status on any efforts to port IPython to IronPython? IIRC removing CPython implementation dependencies was explicitly mentioned in the general design goals for the 0.1x refactoring, but I couldn't find anything beyond this when I looked into it a few months ago. I ask because it's actually a project I've seriously considered picking up myself if it's not nearing completion elsewhere.
You can't just assume future success to justify a course of action.
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The stereotype is primarily accepted by two groups of males:

1. Men who believe women do not succeed in the tech world due to social pressures

2. Men who believe women do not succeed in the tech world due to differences that are genetic in nature

For the second group, author Amber Yust only fuels the fire of the stereotype, because she was born a man. For the first group, using herself as an example of a woman succeeding in the tech world is invalid, because she was a man for most of her life and benefitted from all the consequent privileges.

I find it dumbfounding that she wrote this article.
she's always been a woman.
> Mind you, I agree that there is a rift that rises when people make the wrong assumption, but that's nil imo.

It's possible you are very open minded in such a way that even though you don't "see" a group, and its accomplishments, you still consciously afford them the same benefit of doubt as you do for the majority group. Unfortunately, this is not a trait shared by societies and social groups at large.
You should just write in caps "I don't get it". It would more helpful than what you're doing. You don't just seem to think it's okay, but you're actually excusing the fact that our society still defaults to male-first.

>Most of the time people use "he" when they don't know the gender of the author. It's not assuming the author is a man.

That's exactly what it's assuming. Why else would you "default" to "he" instead of "she"? Because you assume the author to be a man.

And what the hell is the suffragettes comment supposed to mean? In one sentence you managed to trivialize the way women are treated often in this industry and basically say the equivalent of "They've had it worse, so who cares".
It turns out that abetting criminal activity is a crime. The app would have to be much more circumspect to get any farther than speed trap apps.
So why use "he" when in contemporary usage, "he" almost always refers to male?
Wow, this thread is a hum-dinger already. People proudly excusing patriarchy and now some subtle (and soon to be not-subtle) transphobia.

Did you make a throwaway account specifically to troll? Why else would you be such an ass as to not refer to the author with the appropriate pronouns?
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In the first paragraph you just repeated what I said. Yeah, Alan is an idiot, but you can only conclude that comparing him with Charles. Otherwise he just behave as any corporate developer is expected to.

In the second paragraph, we have a problem of semantics. If you need to do some work in order to have a more stable, maintable and bug-free solution, it's not extra at all, just the necessary amount to avoid doing even more work in the future.

By planning carefully you are actually avoiding rewrites, bug hunting, failures and maintenance problems. In other words: future work. And I think that identifying the problem and its best solution from the start will always reduce the total amount of work in the long run. Always.

As both of us are saying, a poor solution means more work. So, someone who truly wants to do the absolute minimum amount of work required should never build a poor solution intentionally. It's not the truly lazy thing to do. They are not as lazy as us, lazy people for real, they just want to avoid work in the present ;P

If you want to work less, then get the problem right and build a wonderful solution that should not present complications in the future. I know it's not a foolproof method, it's a bit ideallistic, has many grey (and black) areas, but for me it's a great principle to follow at work.
Interesting notion....

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They have a hardware phone ready for a operating system that wont be around until next year. That in itself is not a good situation to be in and one that is being overlooked on the back of this delay until 2013.

That in itself will mean they are lined up to take a hit on hardware and this is a operating system that wasn't new. QNX has been aroudn for a while and they only had to add a few bits and in that they have failed and failed and failed adding delays and delays until everybody has lost faith. They were struggerling to embrace there developers on the old platform and alienated so many.

Who would develop for a platform that is constantly being delayed and has a development enviroment that is so behind other options that you are in effect limiting yourself to developers who have sado masacistic tendancies and are in no rush to see there product released.

Apart from some from of TAX write of I cant think of any reason to develop for RIMs new OS.

I also have to wonder what they have been doing to get into this state as they have not inovated in any way since 2007. How many wasted hows have they spent on developers in house who have failed to deliver, how many hours and people as the results they are showing are akin to a single person doing all the work. Even then I'd put a single person against what they are producing in the timeframes involved.

Sad part is they will eventualy do BBM as application for android and apple.

Only one thing going for them, or at least was and been overlooked by RIM's marketing and that is this question: If you have all the standard protection available enabled - what phone would you feel comfortable loosing with all your data? Would you feel your data is safe on a iPhone or a Android or a Blackbery, which one would you feel safest?