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> fundamentally helping others is an act of hierarchal positioning

So you started with the idea that everything's about power, and then came to the insight that charity is also about power? If this were actually true, we'd have too many people willing to help. As you said, they just want to maximize their position in the hierarchy, right? In the volunteer organizations I've been in, I've never seen too many volunteers. (I'm in the 25-34 age group in a power-hungry East Coast city where people take themselves extremely seriously.)

Charity feels good because in our sacrifice we enter into another's needs on their behalf. This forces us to get over ourselves temporarily. I don't think it to be socialization; there's something more at work here.
I don't know about the reason behind low number of votes, but the relatively low number of comments could be because the general attitude on HN (for the most part) is to be silent unless you have something constructive to say :)

For example, I don't know anything about python for example, so anything I can possibly say would be completely un-constructive (except if it's a question), so I shut my mouth and don't say anything; even when I see a (provocative) comment saying Node.js, which I really like, is shit and we should all be using python.

I've done my share of posting useless things on this site, but in the paste few months I've tried to not waste other people's times with useless comments and have removed maybe 40 comments (I would write a comment, read it and see it's not important and don't press "reply").
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Guy points out that the dripping water is, in fact, not supernatural. Guy has to apologize for that.

Seriously?
Hopefully the SOPA fiasco has led the general public to pay more attention to copyright, which hopefully will prevent the term from being extended again.
Reminds me of this George Carlin's:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vmknnXoOJk

>> How am I? I am moderately neato.
At least it should allow one person selecting a block of text and make it also highlighted in the other one's window?
How do you know you are at a place for geeks?

When human interactions are being explained in TCP terms instead of the other way round ;).
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I just tried to see if there was something I could do easily with it that would be cool to learn about. Still have not successfully started up the engine without closing all other processes to free up memory.
Is he facing charges?

I donated. I may be broke, but I’m not being prosecuted for thinking logically. Least I could do.
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That was my blog article. We are getting better tools for knowledge management such as RDFS/OWL, lots of linked data sources, perhaps (Open)Cyc, and companies like Google demonstrating great things that can be done with statistical NLP to solve tough problems like machine translation.

All that said, I think we have a long ways to go before we can build 'real' AI real world knowledge based systems that understand natural language text.
No, it's accurate.

What part of "when a state regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or special interests that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating" don't you understand?

That is the definition of "regulatory capture".

Note that regulatory capture is not "balancing the public interest with commercial realities" or similar such wording.

If you're perhaps debating some other term, please provide us with an accepted term and definition of same, rather than creating a Lewis Carrol "glory" (see: http://sabian.org/looking_glass6.php) and passing off as accepted wisdom.

On my planet, the appearance of impropriety is considered largely as bad as actual impropriety. Taking an example from a US government website: http://ig.navy.mil/Complaints/Complaints%20%20(Appearance%20...

If the revolving door consistently operates between regulatory agencies and the organizations those agencies regulate, then yes, I'd say that this comprises systemic corruption.
The money supply has gone up considerably since 2008, hasn't it? Shouldn't that have led to an actual recovery, instead of the stagnant economy we've actually observed?
That's odd. I've been to these places and have never smelled anything unusual.
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What's wrong with ezPDF? IMO the best pdf reader out there on mobile, beating the now overbloated GoodReader on ios
>>Serving companies interests vs serving public interests isn't a dichotomy

It actually is, many times. Especially when companies are ready to pay up any amount of bribe to get their job done.

To give you an example. A manufacturer can sell, low quality transformers to electric board. This is goes against public interests. But at the same the manufacturer can argue he creating jobs by running a company, so he can cheat.

>>If you're the president of a state energy board, you don't need to break any rules to get a higher paying job in industry.

Regular job income is chicken feed for these people compared to the money they make in bribes, commissions etc.
Just wanted to say, in case the author hangs out here, that I very much enjoyed her writing style. Very funny and informative.
I read PDFs on my Xoom tablet all the time with QuickOffice Lite. It works fine.
“A third unwarranted statement is that the Pope or the Church is against Science [sic]” — Faith is by definition the opposite of science. One starts with “truth” and defies anything changing that “truth” (the Church’s eventual acceptance of heliocentrism notwithstanding). The other is a process to continually obtain a more accurate truth. The two processes are mutually exclusive.

This is obvious.

It is neither “unwarranted” nor untrue.

Edit in response:

I’m ex-Catholic and aware of the so-called nuances here. It truly is fascinating how the Vatican does actually sponsor science in domains like astronomy, and yet claim dominion over totally unprovable, unsupported, and thus, yes, unscientific concepts like the eternal soul. One will note that not just Adam and Eve is discredited by evolution, but also the very notion of a divine soul (at which point was evolution paused so some godhead could insert the ethereal?).

The concept of “non-overlapping magisteria” (science for the real world, religion for the imaginary) has been thoroughly thumped by those daring enough to ask the relevant questions.

For those with any remnant of doubt in this area, a thought experiment. Hell, an actual experiment: Go to Mass next Sunday, but do not set in a pew; do not kneel; do not genuflect. Instead, stand in a corner wearing a lab coat and holding a notepad. Note the intense discomfort you both feel and cause. Then come back and tell me, with a straight face, science and religion are fully compatible.

For bonus points, name a scenario in which the lab coat is more out of place.
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I was confused by the switching of the pronouns regarding the eunuch, but wiki says that's Totally a Thing That Totally Happens - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijra_(South_Asia)
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You realize that's pretty much how the Soviets would describe their own interventions in other countries?

Oh yeah, we helped set up a leader friendly to the cause of righteousness, supplied him with advisors, gave him weapons or gave him access to buy them, ensured that he was friendly to exporting the mineral/oil/food wealth of his country via our companies and institutions, shared intelligence about his adversaries, installed a military base and ensured we had the right to conduct our wars using his territory.... but it's not like we took over the country! We are the friends of the common people!
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I've tried hard enough to be a good guy. But having my driving license rejected three times for no mistake of mine. I was forced to think of either forgoing my unpaid leaves endlessly or pay the same money as bribe and make things happen.

Economically paying the bribe became more more viable than all the hassles I was going through. This is a bitter fact. Or more appropriately, It has been made such.

Can you imagine how many such people are paying up at property registration offices, for FIR's and almost at the anyplace where waiting is not an option?
I usually like your illuminating comments about India, but here I think emotion got the better of you. There is no such sinister ploy or conspiracy (English or otherwise) going on here and neither is it unfair to claim that India has existed as many smaller kingdoms in its historical trajectory.
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You're right. "Just my nature" is usually rationalization for "I'm lazy." (I say it too.)

Nobody seems to talk much about wellness. Instead, healthcare focuses on dealing with the 'inevitable' illnesses, despite the fact that your body gave you multiple symptoms leading up to them.
Ah, I look forward to the day when all religion is an ancient relic of a bygone era. I doubt I'll see it, but I hope my kids do.

http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/dar...

Sad thing is, it isn't too far from the truth.
Doesn't Google only open source projects when they don't want to spend any more time working on them?
I was running it on a 4GB MacBook Air and I shut down other memory hogging programs like IntelliJ - then everything worked fine. I recently rented a 32 GB server for running a large RDF data store, and that is where I am trying to relearn OpenCyc (I spent a lot of time with version 1, but became interested in other things - I am going to give version 4 another chance).

I wrote that blog article. I would appreciate any feedback on the utility of loading the RDF data into an OWL supporting RDF data store (I have an Enterprise Stardog license, which is what I would use) or use OpenCyc as a service.

Years ago, the OpenCyc usenet groups were useful so I need to check there.
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I would not go that far, but I'd do make the data retention and disclosure policy clear.
>>how is moving from industry to regulation, or the other way around, inherently corrupt?

Because regulations work only if regulators are honest.
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The takeaway ...

"The company’s U.S. headquarters in Sunnyvale, says Kerris, now has a very startup-like feel. Even if things don’t work out for Nokia in the long run, he said, “at least we’ll have fun and go down trying.”
>I'm Chinese. Please do not seek to describe my own culture back to me with Wikipedia.

Well, Americans e.g. are pointed to Wikipedia (or other sources) for falsehoods they believe about America all the time. And most of the time, Wikipedia is right and they are wrong. Being a national or resident of some country doesn't mean you are always correct about it (or even that you are EVER correct: Glenn Beck followers come to mind). So let's stick it to the facts and numbers and point to sources and/or arguments.

That said, while I agree about the general "cultural imperialism" of Shenism, the gist wasn't it, but that Buddhism is not THE prevalent religion in China. Which you agree with as far as I can see.

>My contention is the marriage as practiced in China is not primarily a religious event.

Nowadays it might not be. But wasn't that the case in USSR too, when religion was frowned upon? (Not that PRC is that kind of stuck up nowadays, but from what I've read about the Cultural Revolution a lot of things got a remake).

Wikipedia, again, gives these "mythological origins" of Chinese marriage:

The story about the marriage of Nüwa and Fu Xi, who were once sister and brother respectively, told about how they invented proper marriage procedures after becoming married. At that time the world was unpopulated, so the siblings wanted to get married but, at the same time, they felt ashamed. So they went up to Kunlun Shan and prayed to the heavens. They asked for permission for their marriage and said, "if you allow us to marry, please make the mist surround us." The heavens gave permission to the couple, and promptly the peak was covered in mist. It is said that in order to hide her shyness, Nüwa covered her blushing face with a fan. Nowadays in some villages in China, the brides still follow the custom and use a fan to shield their faces.

>Or perhaps, alternatively, marriage in China is primarily a cultural institution, where religious motifs are applied, removed, and changed over millenia to suit the religious mores of its time?

Well, that happens in the west too, but we're talking origins here. At the time the ceremony/idea was established, not even Buddhism or Taoism was available, but folk and pagan religions were. Actually Buddhism is a quite recent phenomenon, historically speaking.
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I think OP is trying to say that 7 inch tablets are less than optimal for reading PDFs, not that the software isn't there.

I think I'd have to agree with OP on that one because for a month, I had to read a 2 column PDF on a 10 inch tablet and that strained my eyes to do. Would a one-column PDF have worked? Yeah, it would have, but I think just barely. I can't imagine reading a one-column PDF on a 7 inch tablet (I hate scrolling unless it's to change pages), much less a two-column one.
Straw-man.

Guy made statements, interpreted as untrue about the church, and is asked to apologise for that.
Yep. This resonates. AEs (the Australian A4) all the way through school.

I cruised through University getting a weighted mean of 75.1 because that was enough to receive first class honours, and the next step up the reward scale was the university medal, with a pre-req of 85.0 and competition from other people. If you missed out on being #1, you just got the same first class honours as everyone else. It didn't add up to me, so I took the lazy approach.

I have a few regrets about this, because now working for myself, I realize exactly how lazy I've made myself. I like working hard, but not on things I find difficult. Hacking and making stuff is fun; being the boss is hard. Taking a lean startup/Steve Blank approach is hard; giving up, making the product I want to make, and probably failing because I didn't put in the effort to make sure someone wanted it ahead of time seems easier. I'm beating myself up about this because ranting on the internet is easier than knuckling down and doing the hard work.

I need a wise and grumpy mentor to slap me around the head a few times. :-P
There are a lot of other Haskell features you can use. Term-level recursion works:

f :: a -> b
f = f

Type-level recursion works, even without explicit term-level recursion:

data T a b = C (T a b -> (a -> b))

q :: T a b -> (T a b -> (a -> b))
q (C f) = f

w :: T a b -> (a -> b)
w x = (q x) x

f :: a -> b
f = w (C w)

This is basically encoding Russell's paradox at the type level. You can write out f explicitly, just so that it doesn't look like you might somehow still be applying w to itself recursively:

g :: a -> b
g = (\x -> ((\(C f) -> f) x) x) (C (\x -> ((\(C f) -> f) x) x))

There are even ways of doing this using highly impredicative definitions involving GADTs and type families, without involving any explicit recursion at all:

http://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/impredicativity-bites.html

The GADT example no longer seems to work, so changes to GADT type checking might have eliminated it, but the type family one still does.
No. A recent example is http://code.google.com/p/vitess

The largest example is Chromium.
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The relationship between science and the church is a lot more complicated than you have illustrated. It is far from an 'obvious' position.
This is a very accurate portrayal of the hard parts of traveling as a backpacker in India. I'm not sure it's a totally accurate portrayal of India itself. I spent six months backpacking around India. A lot of what he said in the article resonated with me, especially eventually losing it about a few dollars with a taxi driver, hands shaking with anger over $4.

The thing the author doesn't mention is that being a traveler affects what you see and who you meet. There are places you go as a backpacker: Agra, Rajasthan, Bodhgaya, Goa, Bangalore and so on. And there are people there looking for you, expecting you, or at least someone like you. If you only speak to people who approach you, then you will meet a lot of dishonest people. Things tend to look pretty rough from the banana pancake store.

This is true in any poor country that gets a lot of wealthy tourists. Most of what he said was true in East Africa too. It's really true of anywhere you can get that damn banana pancake.

So, I don't disagree. It was spot on. But it's also possible that the 100% accurate description of what a backpacker sees in India is not an accurate description of India itself.

Also, I'm not advocating "getting off the beaten path" or trying to critique the "authenticity" of his "Indian experience". I hate that shit. But there is a bit of an Uncertainty Principle to backpacking. In my experience, you can't both travel a country cheaply and observe it objectively at the same time.
no, for example http://code.google.com/p/closure-compiler/ http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/ and http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/ are all active open source projects at Google, and there are many more.
Are you talking about the size? Both Adobe Reader and ezPDF Reader have text reflow, though.
Collaborative cursors and selection highlighting broke during the open sourcing. What we released contains a ton of brand new code since we essentially had to build from scratch a one-off local server to drive the parts of the client that it made sense to release.

Code churned a bit :).

I have it on my list to get that working again soon!
It's interesting to watch HN upvoting a religious article, from blogspam which links to New Scientist.
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As a strict atheist, I have to disagree with that.

There's nothing fundamentally incompatible with believing in the Judeo-Christian god and also believing in a systematic pursuit of knowledge. Indeed, many scientists over time have explicitly pointed out how they thought it was their mission to uncover the beauty of god's creation, blah blah.

More down to the point, religion is an extra-rational experience. It's totally perceived on the emotional plane. Few christians actually believe that a dude named Noah actually ferried two of every animal in the word for forty days. The bible is full of allegory and you have to pick and choose.

For instance, the Catholic church came out for evolution back in '96 if I remember correctly. I don't know how you can reconcile evolution with Adam and Eve without accepting that it's probably just a story.

Yes, it is complicated and inconsistent but… scientists are unlikely to be strict literalists. Feeling a spiritual connection related to the teachings of Jesus doesn't prevent you from having an open mind.
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>>The Church has not claimed any miracle, nor is this guy facing arrest for "debunking a miracle".

Biggest Miracle ever claimed is magical eradication of poverty, diseases and pain by just belief(In any religion and not just church/mosque/temple/synagogue/<insert any religion here>). Without doing actual work to make it happen. And this is what gets most of the people to conversion. And plus this is the promise of going to heaven.

This thing has left India in shambles.
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> ...newspapers are being clobbered by paltry returns on underfunded pension plans.

So that would be "defined benefit" pension plans then. The markets have no obligation to meet absurdly optimistic forecasts of returns on investment.

If you're looking for someone to blame, consider that 10-year Treasury yields are under 2%, of which the single biggest buyer is the Federal Reserve.

> The bread and butter for most of the [newspaper] industry is local information.

No, the bread and butter of the newspaper industry is celebrity gossip, which is the very opposite of local information, and is a commodity product, which is why people are unwilling to pay for local newspapers.
You would think with Bill Gates being the most influential philanthropist in the world that it would have been done by now. One huge way to help the world is to encourage intellectual/technological growth. Maybe this actually was partly brought on by his inquiry, anyone know more details about the root of this advent at Microsoft?
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This is an amazing quote that summarizes an incredibly complex problem in an incredible succinct way.

"For many, the regressive belief in superstitions and miracles is an escape from the hardships of life. Once trapped into irrationalism, they become more incapable of mastering reality. It is a vicious circle, like an addiction. They become vulnerable to exploitation by astrologers, godmen, dubious pseudo-psychologists, corrupt politicians, and the whole mega-industry of irrationalism."
Cool! :)

Don't forget that there's an author forum if you get stuck and need a hand. I check in every day or two.