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A current dramatic shift in biology (with wailing and the teeth and everything) is the fight between the people who favor group selection vs. the people who think group selection is bollocks and kin selection is to be preferred.

This has been going on for the last 50 years, with kin selectionists "winning", but E. O. Wilson recently published a book defending group-selection which Richard Dawkins ripped apart, so right now the fight has come back.

Check out this article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sloan-wilson/richard-daw...

I think we don't see any major paradigm shifts in molecular biology (or my field, bioinformatics) because these aren't "declarative" per se, but rather "explorative" - meaning that there are no big theoretical frameworks like evolutionary biology has, but rather tiny steps of fiddling around in the dark and _then_ using theory to explain what was found.
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iOS-like Twitter integration (and eventually Facebook too) is a feature I want to add to a project I am working on.
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I'm a CIS student and a telecommunications professional, with aspirations of eventually being a professional programmer, so if this is a dumb question, please forgive me.

If there are people who can't solve fizzbuzz that are getting programming jobs, what do they do at work?

I can solve fizzbuzz easily, but I haven't ever built an application that I would consider useful. I've solved puzzles like fizzbuzz and completed lots of programming assignments (mostly involving stuff at the command line) and I feel like I know nothing when it comes to actually building something significant. I feel like it would be impossible for me to get an entry-level programming job right now, but from the sound of it, maybe not.
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One thing I have noticed is a delay in tab completion with the `git checkout` command.

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> If there are people who can't solve fizzbuzz that are getting programming jobs, what do they do at work?

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Brillant_Paula_Bean.aspx

This is just one example, but it's a very accurate description of all of those people who can't solve fizzbuzz and yet still manage to get jobs.
No, I think this is a great way to discern reasonable from unreasonable people. Unreasonable people would miss the question entirely and bring up these issues. Reasonable people would quickly disregard such jibber jabber, see what the question is asking, and get on to solving the problem.

The alternative is to specify the problem in purely dense mathematical terms. However, I think this way is much better because to understand what the question is really asking without getting into this "eggs break easily" stuff is actually common sense. If someone can't use common sense to figure out what the question is asking without coming up with second grade smart aleck reasons why the problem doesn't work then I think the interviewer would have the answer they would looking for out of the exercise anyway. :)
> If the trend holds up then in another 20 years alms tall our electricity will be produced by wind

The entire point of the article is that these trends don't hold up! It's very easy to grow fast when starting from nothing.
I didn't even know they had a messageboard. I just found a coat in the trunk of the mini cooper I just rented. I had the strong urge to just throw it away because it was taking up space I was using for groceries.

Instead I left it in the car, in case its old owners came looking for it. I didn't want to get charged for leaving trash though...
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This isn't a dig but just a note: every human being in all of these photographs is white. Even the parade picture at the end is, from what I can gather, all white. Makes you think about the real exclusion happening then, and how much progress we've made today, where its almost unsettling to see pictures of major events with political figures containing all whites, and where the president we have today apparently wouldn't have been allowed anywhere near these events.
I'm not sure how you can even ask this question - obviously, restrictions reduced the freedom, by definition, that's why they are restrictions! You may mean Australians don't care about their freedom being reduced - or even gladly accept reduced freedom as the price of greater safety - but asking for some special argument for reduction of freedom doesn't make any sense - it's there by definition, you don't need any special argument.

>> one reason is that Australians like to be free of being shot to death by crazy people in public places.

Any statistics to back it up? Note that Australia has about 1/14 of US population, so if US had mass shooting every year - then same level of violence in Australia would have one incident every 14 years. Of course, since these incidents are random, that could mean with high probability there can be 20 or 30 year period where the same level of risk would produce no incident at all. That's of course not counting differences in population densities, etc. which also influence the data.
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Source: I don't run, but I read an article once.
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Nice one. JsFiddle.net actually gives a lot more features. Did I miss anything?
Not sure what the draw is to Twitter. However, if you are using Twitter to somehow define your app, then I would be weary. I think you know why...
Fair point. I should have mentioned that some (most) of those listed have more than one car --but from what I coud find (in other lists), the cars listed seemed to be representative of their other cars. Ellison has other rare cars, Ballmer another pedestrian car and so on. DiCaprio seems to buy anything with some ZEV cachet, but he's been consistent since the EV-1's, I think.

I mean, basically some people feel they need to be flash, others find their cars to be more utilitarian.
You don't have to guarantee anything in order to make the consequentialist-rational choice in the face of uncertainty. You just approximately weigh the expected outcomes.

You can't seriously argue that the consequences of creating+controlling a software patent (while advocating against software patents) are always net negative. All you have is your "if we all did our part" Kantian argument, which I respect, but decline to follow.
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I use FFx+ Adblock all the time, and Ctrl+Shift+P (Private Mode) when I need the added protection of invisibility (as well as Torbutton to use Tor for a 3rd layer of safety.)

Google, by it's past record, is a company I can trust (ofcourse only to a certain extent) with my data.

Facebook on the other hand...

EDIT:

Related: Would Twitter be better if your paid for it? : http://gigaom.com/2012/07/22/free-vs-paid-would-twitter-be-b...
This looks very handy, thanks!
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> It's a bad world. I am not sympathetic to the plight of those who associate with terrorists

So ... you are saying you are very much an anti-American. But your post indicates support for CIA, so I am confused.
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This is legitimately interesting but in the end it's very much away from the original point. Okay, caring/having motivation matters immensely. Even if you practice and learn logical prioritizing you still need to care enough to implement it. You won't get anything done if you see no problem with sitting still for hours on end.

But almost all other emotions can be ignored. When people talk about making decisions without emotion they mean without fear, anger, sadness, joy, disgust, trust, anticipation, surprise. You don't need any of those to arrive at a solid decision. Having a goal is something else. As far as wikipedia is concerned "Motivation is related to, but distinct from, emotion."
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Very interesting, thanks for the feedback/corrections. I find it especially interesting that gender reassignment surgery isn't always considered elective, but having your wisdom teeth removed is. Any links to information on how the decision, of whether it is considered elective or not for any given situation, is made?
Tormail. Afaik, there aren't too many anonymous services at all.
nuclear power. In Germany just lately there was another (though as always shortlived) surge of news about how politicians played their games with nuclear waste. Our final storage of nuclear waste is a joke from the past by corrupt politicians.

When you can't trust people to think about the (instead of their) future it's hard not to fear nuclear energy.
I don't know about you, but that part of the article felt a bit less authentic to me. One of the things I've noticed though are that people who are driven, are quietly rich, people who just happened to be at the company at the right time can be completely bonkers.

But the one thing I know for sure is that if you 'get rich', be it from the lottery or a company IPO or a relative you never knew dying and leaving it to you, how you will react is not predictable. Money changes your attitudes and if you are not careful your values, and that can lead to profound changes in people in unexpected directions.
Berlin's cheap because it's located in the middle of former East Germany, which has cheaper rents than West Germany. Also, most of the business centers are located elsewhere in West Germany. Frankfurt is the finance capital. Cologne is the media capital. Munich has a ton of large companies like Siemens, etc.
His writing is exceedingly lucid as well. Thanks for that link – there is a lot of good stuff in that thread. I found it interesting, for example, that Mike said that there's no intrinsic reason a JS JIT couldn't compete with LuaJIT.
I think its a personal choice whether you prefer a lot of information there or little. I liked the design for it "metro" look.
This title to this article promises a lot, and the article utterly fails to deliver. It's just some journalist's feel-good fluff piece.

I will feel gratitude if HN users decline to promote this junk any further.
It's not a Twitter app per se. But there is info users would want to share over Twitter and Facebook to their friends so it's an important to have feature and I didn't want to roll my roll API client for these services.
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$6b is not so bad when you consider that coal subsidies are in about the same ballpark: http://www.couriermail.com.au/business/coal-and-gas-paid-7b-...

And there's no moral problem. To paraphrase Winston Churchill - you're just haggling over the price.
this - http://rwer.wordpress.com/2012/03/12/energy-prices-two-trend...
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As an interim solution though, it's still pretty good.

It's an easy way to wean people from coal (particularly brown coal) while they figure out how to get solar, wind, geothermal and nuclear up and running.

As long as it's not seen as an end in itself - if we stop at gas, we're still doomed.
From the comments to the article, Chicago's I-Go Car Sharing's consumer survey seems to showed "helping the environment" as the 6th most important reason for being a member.

I wonder if this is about car sharing in general, or more a reflection of Zipcar? Do people just not like Zipcar? Does Zipcar have specific policies that anger people?
Gil Scott-heron (of "the Revolution will not be Televised") wrote a beat poem on that very topic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtBy_ppG4hY
It's fine to have new hires learn the particulars of your technology and domain on the job. It's not fine to have them learn basic computer science on the job.

Somebody who can't write fizzbuzz clearly does not have the fundamental CS background needed to do any sort of nontrivial programming. It takes most people years to get this background, usually in a university setting. You can't replace that with on-the-job training!
Gun is also a tool designed and optimized for self-defense. You may be willing to accept being defenseless in order to reduce risk of very rare events but not everybody wants that. I, for one, would prefer to accept this microscopic risk and be able to defend myself if more frequent situation - such as home invasion, encounter with a violent criminal intent on harming me, etc. - arises.
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I remember watching lectures by prof. Tal Ben-Shahar few years ago about happiness (yes happiness :)). He also mentioned gratitude, and a ritual of writing down 7 things that you are grateful for each day before bedtime. Namely, it should increase your base level of happiness. Other stuff he mentioned is having regular physical activity and listening to your favorite music tracks (this is something he called peak experience and it also gradually raises you base level of happiness). But I guess these two are obvious compared to practicing gratitude regularly.
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> Giant brainless animals roam the ocean looking to sting
> and absorb prey without ever really knowing they're even
> doing it. They're pretty much ocean zombies.

They do lack central nervous systems, but they're not entirely brainless. There's a non-encephalized diffuse neural ring that controls effectors which is sensitive to sensors input. Eerily, some jellyfish (box jellyfish, IIRC) have corneal eyes...

So, sure, these things are super stereotyped. But so are many higher organisms, even among good ol' vertebrates.
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It is used effectively. Of course, programmers being programmers, it's also used to point out errors and typos. I've also read a bunch of good comments about choosing clearer wording for some parts.

If I was writing a blog (and I'll start one one of these days :P), I would definitely want free, crowd-sourced editing that way!
Those of us in the rest of the world really think America is crazy about this issue. Perhaps Americans need to understand that the constitution is not a holy document, it is the work of men and was created for a different time. The 2nd amendment doesn't make sense in a modern world.
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"Did you help somebody solve a problem? Write it down. Did you connect with a colleague or friend? Write it down. Did you make somebody smile? Write it down."

This sound more like pride/fulfillment rather than gratitude?
Andy Wingo's exploration of V8's Lithium interpreter [1] describes the reasoning behind the Ruby offline assembly generator.

Actually, if you're reading the original linked article, you should also be reading Andy's series on V8.

[1] http://wingolog.org/archives/2012/06/27/inside-javascriptcor...
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The key word there is if. If you catch a criminal with a gun, he'd usually be holding it illegally within pretty much any current US law. The problem is that catching those criminals before they do harm is problematic - because until they do, you don't know who they are. And doing random searches on law abiding citizens just in case they are hiding something would probably be too much even for Brady campaign.

Evidence shows that in countries where private possession of guns were banned - like USSR - the criminals did have guns and did use them to kill people. Government restrictions rarely make something wanted inaccessible - prohibition failed miserably, war on drugs did the same. War on guns would inevitably fail too, but would bring enormous amount of victims among regular citizens - just like the ones mentioned above did.
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What about games designed for a different demographic? These measurements tend to get muddy quickly when you compare a game that a designers might like to play - TF2, LoL, WoW - to those commonly called evil - farmville.

The games designers love are slot machines too, are free to play too, and are 'addictive' too but are skinned differently. Is farmville only unethical because it's a farm?
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One guy in the article touches on it: many succumb to the moral hazard to be a traffic menace. Some of the worst drivers on the road are car-share members.
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What is the point of this article? People should see the good in all things, not just things they're predisposed to like? Well, okay, but I that's fairly obvious. There's a reason the term 'fanboy' is never used in a positive way.
anthonyb - the article is not clear on what the subsidies were. It also doesn't factor in the royalties that developed fields will produce. So I can't really determine that.

However, in nearly every case where I see 'x industry gets y billion' in subsidies, the numbers are usually things like tax rebates on R&D, which apply to every industry, including software, and, in Australia particularly, the off-road diesel fuel excise rebate, which is not a subsidy but merely a refunded tax because diesel excise is for investing in the road network. Again, many industries receive a diesel excise exemption, including fishing and agriculture.

Whereas most 'renewable' industry subsidies are direct payments.
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> If there are people who can't solve fizzbuzz that are getting programming jobs, what do they do at work?

The good news: They cause the programming messes which you'll eventually get hired to clean up, while they're off somewhere else making another mess for you.

> I can solve fizzbuzz easily, but I haven't ever built an application that I would consider useful.

The bad news: All you're ever do is clean up those frauds' messes. Anyone can build a system with 100k lines of Java code (incl comments). But only people like you can come along after it's up and running and make it work, so that's all you're ever be doing. Unfortunately, the employers will expect you to carry a cellphone around and solve those problems at 3:00am. It's cheaper to pay you 10% extra for wake-up calls than take your time away from other maintenance clean-ups in the daytime.
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Seems like there should be a feature that allows you to alert the previous driver of belongings left in the car without violating that person's privacy by providing contact info.
I don't think I got what you really mean by that question.
> "When people talk about making decisions without emotion they mean [list]"

This is exactly the kind of point-missing people engage in when they talk about decisions or rational thought without emotion. They recognize how some emotions can be distracting, without recognizing how some emotions (even the same ones) can be extremely useful. They say things like "almost all other emotions can be ignored" because they don't have a good grasp of what "almost all other emotions" are or the role they take in cognition.

Emotions like surprise, curiosity, and frustration are incredibly useful for rational thought -- they help you realize that some particular line of inquiry is worth pursuing. Emotions make you care about getting something right, or finding a hidden answer, or solving a mystery. Emotions can positively or negatively affect your level of attentiveness, as well as memory formation. Even supposedly bad emotions like anger can serve to focus your attention on "high value" problems (problems often get solved because people are angry or annoyed enough to direct their energy to solving them.)

You actually do need emotions to arrive at a solid decision -- some in making value judgments at the point of decision, others during the analytical processes leading up to the decision. The key is to have a healthy level of emotion contributing to your rational process.
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Last I checked, oh-my-zsh was in transition to a new version(?), and the pull requests have generally been ignored because of this.
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Setting up a huge collection of straw men (all geeks are fanboyz), and then beating your own chest at not being one of them. Seriously?
Wasn't this here before? It's still cool though :)
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