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> If the proposed intervention would result in an enhancement, why have we not already evolved to be that way?

Really? This is getting upvoted here? How disappointing.

"Evolution doesn't have a goal, it doesn't make future plans. Evolution is an accident."
- Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene

Did you know giraffes have a nerve connecting the points in it's head that are about 5cm apart? But instead of connecting those 2 points directly, the nerve goes all the way down through the neck, then all the way back up, to connect its end point. Is there any advantage in this design instead of just connecting directly? No there isn't, giraffes are that way only because, historically, that's how they evolved. Evolution doesn't make intelligent plans. Mutation happens randomly, then natural selection will sometimes prune out bad mutations. That's all. Evolution is imperfect. Alluding there's anything intelligent about evolution is alluding to intelligent design and creationism.
I presume you mean MeeGo (an open-source mobile OS) not Meebo (a startup Google recently acquired).
Tarsnap is a _great_ product, but I worry that I'm not paying you enough money for it. It's super cheap for what we get from it. The very last thing I want is for you not to be making enough from the business to warrant putting in the kind of effort and energy that you do, and to then have the service go away. If the current pricing structure achieves that, then brilliant, but if it doesn't, please raise your prices and keep kicking goals.
I blogged for us: http://www.gaiagps.com/news/article/Bad%20App%20Store%20bina...

I also sent the App Review team an email asking if they will expunge all the bad reviews once this is over, but I doubt that's going to happen.
I definitely agree that the use of teleological terms to describe the process of evolution (as in this article) is inappropriate. However, I will note that biologists often do so anyway as a shortcut because our language doesn't really provide any good concise way to describe the actions (happenings?) of a process that is without intention (English certainly, probably most others as well). I would hope that most biologists understand the intellectual shortcut they are taking by using such terms, but I suspect that in many cases they may not.

I know that I have definitely described evolution in such terms when explaining it to non-scientists, but when participating in discussions with other scientists I try to stick to purely the intention-free ways of saying things.
Okay, fine -- but bear in mind that there are computers which run everything, from the CPU to the memory to the I/O, off a single (variable) input voltage. Most microcontrollers, for example, meet this description. I googled one at random to get some specific numbers; the PIC18F4550 runs on anything from 2 to 5.5 V, and this is not unusual.
> Nokia's windows phones are competing with Android so pretending that they are in some different "pool" is just lying to yourself.

This.
Tay Sachs is highly correlated with certain types of Jewish people. The same group is highly above median iq. I don't think smart East Asians populations have higher rates of Tay Sachs. The Cajun and québécois who also have high rates of Tay Sachs are not statistically smarter than median.

It is probably more generally that closed mating groups are more likely to amplify traits good and bad.
robots.txt...humans.txt nice! It reads like a movie's credit roll.

But do you really want to make it easier for a recruiter to poach your team?
He's also got the top result from Google (if not the only one) for an actual complete purchase process & site review[1] of The Silk Road[2].

[1]: http://www.gwern.net/Silk%20Road
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_%28marketplace%29
Just to reiterate: upvoting an article does not mean "I agree". It means that it's interesting.

If I see a well-written and interesting article that may not be correct, I'm likely to upvote it. Why? Well, I want to read an interesting discussion about it: perhaps its premise is wrong, but I'm not equipped to answer so I want to farm it out to the HN reader base.
A few paragraphs down the article is a list of answers to the question you quote, from the same author. It includes this:

> There is a discrepancy between the standards by which evolution measured the quality of her work, and the standards that we wish to apply. Even if evolution had managed to build the finest reproduction-and-survival machine imaginable, we may still have reason to change it because what we value is not primarily to be maximally effective inclusive-fitness optimizers.

The actual thesis of the article is more interesting than what you seem to have read into it.
I have been using igoogle everyday for years.

I'm upset that google is discontinuing igoogle.
Correct, an individual does not evolve, but the process of evolution is the result of selection on and reproduction of individuals. You can't just change it to be about selection on and reproduction of populations and then treat the individual-level stuff as an implementation detail that you can ignore.
Whoops, poor wording on my part.

Imagine flipping a perfectly fair coin 100 times. You'd expect to see 50 heads, but you don't always -- it's just an average. Suppose you see 75 heads. What is the chance that you'd see 75 heads with a fair coin? Very very small. The chance that randomness could produce such a result is small.

Now, imagine you test 100 perfectly fair coins. A few of them give more than 75 heads, just by luck. You conclude they're unfair, since the result is unlikely otherwise. The chance that randomness produced the effects you saw is actually 100%, because all the coins are fair.

There's a difference between the question "How likely is this outcome to happen if the coin is fair?" and "Given that this outcome happened, how likely is it that the coin is fair?" Statistical significance addresses the first question, not the second.
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That checks out with my experience. Typically an app will go from 'in review' to 'processing for the app store' in about 15 mins.
My government (the US government) does not currently block or censor any internet website. They may throw their weight around from time to time where some say they shouldn't, but no - there is no direct filtering of internet traffic - nothing is banned. In the US free speech is free speech - even if that free speech is anti-US or anti-government.
I getcha.cthe code will work if the blog author changes the layout still? That is, the children aspect works and doesn't need to be tweaked for each layout and works for all correct HTML?

That said, if it's a Wordpress blog or something and the layout changes any existing links might not work.

Did you try encoding the text you want to highlight (and maybe the ordered instance) and then have the code search for it? I figure this might be less straight forward though as you'd need to strip HTML tags, find the text, and translate that back into modified Dom which could break many things.
There's nothing illegal with being a monopoly. That doesn't mean it isn't wrong. I think in most cases (with exceptions like utilities), not having monopolies leads to a healthier market than having them.
Okay, okay, you got me. I'll concede the point entirely :) Feel free to disregard the analogy as it applies to computers which may be made to run faster by raising the input voltage.
Has Apple caught up to Windows in the 'post-PC' era?
They also check more expensive apps more thoroughly, according to the iOS developer guidelines.
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I agree a patent on simple gestures is simply not logical, but working within the constrains of the existing (and in my view, broken) system, I'd like to explore the idea of swipe to unlock, really how obvious is it?

This is a legitimate question, and I'm looking for real answers because these can be useful later on.

What is natural about swiping to unlock? The closest historical analogy I can think of is moving a bolt sideways on a door, but this is tenuous and certainly wouldn't extrapolate as the most natural/expected method of signalling to an electronic device that I'd like it to no longer ignore my touch gestures.

Would the closer analogy be the 'hold' slider as present on music players, including apple's own ipods? (And earlier devices.) Again, why is this the natural choice in lieu of a hundred other ways of telling the device that I'm ready to work with it.

Apple's love of skeuomorphs present many seemingly 'obvious' analogies, but they were usually rare or non existent before, so I'm curious to understand what is the line of innovation.
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Yeah, this is the most serious criticism I've heard so far.
Not possible without rejecting the binary unfortunately. If you submitted it a day ago or so, just reject it. It'll get dropped down in the queue but if the situation calls for it, might be necessary.
And he does double-blind medical experiments on himself, complete with statistical analysis of the results!

http://www.gwern.net/Zeo

http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics (uses sparklines!)
Update: We have a group of 4 college avoiders joining me for an AMLCA tomorrow at noon, and 2 spots left. Email me or reply if you want to join.
As I mentioned in another comment, biologists who know better often take the unfortunate shortcut of describing evolution in terms that inappropriately ascribe intelligence to the process, which tends to mislead both biologists who don't know better and the general population.
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That evolution doesn't produce enhancement is the flaw that undermines the whole of the article, you are correct.

This is well illustrated in longevity science by the large and growing number of comparatively simple genetic manipulations that extend healthy life in mice, flies, and worms - by all measures an enhancement for the individual. e.g.

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2009/08/a-list-of-interes...

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2012/07/an-engineering-ap...

A great many of these alterations are well within the reach of mutational processes, and would be selected for if they provided advantage. But they clearly do not - many come with obvious costs, and the rest with costs we haven't figured out yet, perhaps as simple as leading to lack of front-loading of energy expenditures. Evolution only selects for longevity in comparatively rare instances, such as:

a) We humans, long lived amongst mammals of our size, and possibly due to our intelligence allowing things like the Grandmother Hypothesis:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2009/02/why-are-humans-lo...

b) Sessile creatures like mussels and trees, where longevity is a way of competing for space for yourself and your lineage.

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2008/01/ouroboros-on-the-...

c) Naked mole-rats, in which longevity looks like some mix of a side-effect of resistances needed to survive their natural environment, plus a touch of the longevity stratification that comes with being eusocial.
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I used to be like that - cynical and suspicious of anything somebody says. If someone said something nice about me, I'd automatically assume he was trying to sell me something.

I realized later on that life's too short for that kind of negativity. Most people simply aren't being sarcastic, they are genuinely trying to be nice.
Interesting. I don't think I've ever had one take < 1 hour, and most are 3+ hours from 'In Review' to 'Processing for App Store' or 'Rejected'. 12-24 hours is fairly common for me, and I just had one approved the other day that was 'In Review' for ~48 hours.
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Well, technically 5/7 replied, but two were little better than auto-reply e-mails mumbling something about sending a reply later (which never came in either case) so I discounted those to leave 3/7 and called it around 50%.

One of those was the utterly vacuous letter I mentioned, so I think I should discount that one as well.

So really, I got only two substantive replies (for the record, one was from a Lib Dem and the other from a UKIP MEP) that genuinely addressed the issue I'd brought up and explained their position.
This is a nice project, but I think it's a stretch to call it a port of the Flash API. At this point, HaXe+Jeash is a much more complete framework for bringing AS3 code to JS, and makes it pretty easy to port relatively simple projects. The framerate here is impressive and it seems this could be a good alternative to Jeash down the road. Still there's a lot more work to be done here (not least, flash.net.*) and having to rewrite core code in Dart is more labor intensive than porting into HaXe...
I see my saved stories. You should email info@ycombinator.com

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My hope is that the patch doesn't just replace the feature with an arbitrary and unpleasant equivalent.

Rather I'd prefer if they took their time and presented a solution that beats 'swipe to unlock'. Making it a real lemons to lemonade scenario.

Unfortunately if they repeat the past the financial pressure of getting to market tends to prefer the first option over the second.
I think understanding the universe is exciting, but only once we start applying it.

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I just updated the "CUE" app in the last few days and it crashes on launch every single time.
Widely communicating your key fingerprint makes sense. I put it on my business cards, etc. Back in the late 1990s people were talking about publishing root key fingerprints in newspapers, engraving them on stone tablets, etc. I.e. things which obviously required a lot of money be expended, thus making casual forgery less likely.
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My app always takes many hours to review. There are a lot of buttons.
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3 years away, right? :-)
Evolution is the result of the reproduction of populations of individuals. A single organism reproducing once is a non-event, evolutionarily speaking.

This implies effects in the population that are counterintuitive from the perspective of the individual, which is why it's important to make the distinction.
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What is the patent office's mandate? It is not to grant trivial patents so companies can sue each other. Patents are supposed to be preferable to trade secrets because they make knowledge public in exchange for certain protections, and they encourage innovation in fields that require heavy investment.

It would not matter if slide-to-unlock remained a "trade secret" and the investment in making that feature is low enough that they would do it, even if they were never granted patent protection.
I don't have any immediate insight for the difference in performance you're seeing (my hunch is that it's to do with where and how memory is being allocated), but I would suggest you ask about it on the Go-Nuts mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/golang-nu...

The Go authors should be very receptive and informative on such an issue.
Hopefully no one was relying on that income or those good reviews. More the reason why developers should make sure diversify their product strategy.
The problem is that space as a branding device can't be owned, it also tires easily. Indeed you can swap out microsoft for any vaguely tech related company here, they'd have equal claim and relevance.

Also consider the default apple desktop backgrounds/screensavers have been space imagery for a while with even the time machine interface presenting a flying through space appearance.

Space inspires wonder and technology, but as a brand it doesn't speak microsoft, nor apple... it speaks NASA and sci/fi.
I've never done that. But I have an example. Check out koding .com. They were earlier kodingen, and for the very same reason as you, upgraded to a new startup. AFAIK, there were no wait times. kodingen still functions, even though koding is still in private beta.
Actually that sounds fine. Good they are learning.
Imagine that, an 'addon'* to Steam, you could basically automate the whole process.

Mark games you didn't 100% need to have around all the time as sellable, so they'd go into the 'cloud' of buyable games. Whenever you wanted to play a game, if you still owned it fine, if you didn't it would attempt to buy it for you. Every game is traded for $1 automatically. To bypass credit card pain you could either put money into your account in one go (add $20 for 20 games at one time) or just use your current steam account-- if you have 100 games that $100 right there.

I have hundreds of games gotten cheap off steam sales, and games I never play anymore. I imagine at any one time there would be 1 or 2 games that I would mark as "don't sell this", but the rest would be fine.

*I say 'addon', Steam obviously wouldn't want it, so it would have to be another frontend to your steam library that managed the whole process.
In the same spot. We have multiple apps with updates, partly to get our keywords back together after the "Chomp" store search update. I had been hoping we'd get reviewed in the next day or two, but now I'm happy to wait a few more days so we don't hit this issue.
Oh yeah, I forgot. Man, that's despicable.
"evolution is not a teleological process"

We don't really know that for sure. It could be a teleological process, but it doesn't have to be, so we can't really say either way.
Thanks for another interesting suggestion. Reading the fabricate "how it works" page, I see that you can subclass it to implement your own dependency-determination code, which is cool.
Reddit was a very bad analogy for us to use. We're so much more, especially for musicians....

All the content is submitted by the artists themselves under a creative commons license. We don't add any content ourselves.

You able to share any track you like, we just don't display it's pretty link in the url, yet.

As our future plans unfold you'll see why we need some of your personal information. :)

Thanks for your suggestions!
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Thanks the first two I had seen and my eyes glazed over. The third one helped...
Yes tablets had existed in the past but did any of them have scaled down, touch optimised UIs?

Yes. None of them were widely commercially successful though. Products that come to mind include the Crunchpad (which I'm not sure actually made it to market), the Always Innovating Touchbook and the Pepper Pad. Of these, the Crunchpad was most similar to the iPad.

So no, Apple didn't invent a new product area with the iPad. They were just the first to find commercial success in that product area.
When putting together speculative work, it's best to avoid big companies - it's like trying to rebrand Christmas, everyone has their own idea.

Microsoft already has huge creative endeavours, trying to compete with that is a folly (Christmas example above.) Instead the designer can shine by showing how they can invigorate 'boring' brands, how they can elevate the mundane to fantastic.

This on the other hand doesn't look any better than what MS already does. Where do you want to go today?
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AS3 -> Dart -> JS, a bit much don't you think? I'm not sure who is trying to use a web stack three levels deep and dart based no less. I'm skeptical of how long dart is going to last at google, but this is definitely an impressive piece of work regardless. If it was AS3 -> JS and worked as well as it does now, i feel the web would collectively lose its shit. Unfortunately though this is tied to google, and i don't think many people want to be stuck being supported solely by google anymore.
I find it legitimately interesting that I am getting downvotes for disagreeing with the illusion of a perfect world where everyone is honest.
Hawking bet $100 that the Higgs Boson didn't exist. Does that make him a quack? If one or more creationists believes the earth was created in 6000 years, does that make all creationists quacks? Where's the scientific method in that?
The whole premise of his argument is based on the statement "There's no such thing as a free lunch". His logical conclusions are then derived from this. However, he never actually proves the statement, and I for one don't believe it.

Why must there necessarily be a tradeoff for anything good? There's no law requiring that, and what makes one person happy may make another person miserable.

EDIT: I just realized there's about 15 people on HN that said the same thing. And that's why I visit this place!
The patent they are getting caught up with is for the Universal Search. I read that the patch will dumb down the voice + google search bar to only perform google searches and not search through apps, contacts, etc... Supposedly the suit does/will not affect Google Now, though.

Just another example of how terrible it is that patents are stifling progress. Also hilarious since Google's core is basically universal search.
really how obvious is it?

I think you're approaching the question from the wrong angle. Whether the idea of swipe to unlock is obvious is irrelevant; ideas can't be patented. Only implementations can be patented. Do you think a programmer familiar with touchscreens and mobile development would have difficulty figuring out how to implement swipe to unlock when presented with the idea?
Of course every non-moderated service has spam, that was kinda the point of my post... Maybe the part you missed was that they introduced a new way of spamming via forking pages... I don't think I ever made any allusions to something not happening because of it. Thanks for the pep talk though, I'll keep it in mind as I do my nightly task of helping clean up spam on the sites where I moderate.
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Could be they want to set a precedence for the patent with a smaller target, and then aim at the big stuff that is more commonly known by the non-tech crowd.
Such a nice project, but both the name and logo infringe on Atari trademarks. Why risk it?
Running code in parallel across multiple cores is going to lose to SIMD. I don't think SIMD is going away anytime soon.
thank you for using gifs to explain exactly how i feel.
Why? We need a better reason than "she ruled in a manner that she saw fit based on the evidence at hand"
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Upvoted. If anyone knows about great technical experiments that were terrible products, it's someone named Taligent. <:)
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Easeljs does this pretty well, but in pure js:

http://easeljs.com/