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I definitely wasn't expecting that because Jason Fried didn't give his company a month off. Jason Fried just gave his company a new role for a month. People still had to show up to work and do work, it was just they could do whatever work they wanted.

For me personally, I wouldn't enjoy that month. The main reason would be purely selfish. I know that my idea and implementation could make money and instead of releasing it on my own and profiting, it would become property of the company. I would also feel pigeon-holed into working on stuff that the company already does or in the same realm (which in my case is Business Intelligence tools to work with Cognos) which, while interesting, is not where my interests lie which would also limit my creativity.

It should be interesting to see what comes out of 37Signals in the next 6 months to a year.
> I don't really understand this view of therapy. In my experience, it's something you choose for yourself, because you recognize the need.

That would be nice, but it doesn't reflect reality. In schools, children are frequently given autism spectrum diagnoses against their better interests, or wishes, or the wishes of their parents (but not always -- sometimes parents force these things on their children). But the patient's wishes are often the lowest priority.

Ideally, people would volunteer for therapy solely on issues they choose for themselves. But this isn't how clinical psychology works in modern times. Schools have a vested interest in getting diagnoses, because special-education funds are only available for those with a diagnosis.

The reason Asperger's is being abandoned is because it was applied in exactly the way described above, until everyone realized it was a scam -- even the therapists who benefited the most. Now it's slated for removal from the next edition of the DSM, and further, the diagnosis criteria for autism spectrum is being reworked to prevent another epidemic of nonsense diagnoses such as we have just seen.

> The odds that you receive a psychiatric evaluation against your will and be compelled into therapy are amazingly slim.

On the contrary, it's an everyday occurrence, especially among children, who aren't mature enough to realize that psychologists aren't doctors.

> Especially for something like 'autism-spectrum' disorders, where the majority of sufferers appear to be high-functioning.

Yes, and that is the present problem area -- bogus diagnoses, using vague criteria that can be applied to nearly anyone, with obvious advantages to everyone except the patient.

Mental health professionals, aware that autism spectrum diagnoses are out of control and no longer have any connection to reality, have joined an American Psychological Association task force charged with redefining ASD to stem the tide of nonsense diagnoses. One of those behind the redefinition effort (Dr. Fred Volkmar, director of the Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine) says of the diagnosis surge, "We would nip it in the bud."
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Here's Moxie Marlinspike's blog post about the MS-CHAPv2 vulnerabilities: https://www.cloudcracker.com/blog/2012/07/29/cracking-ms-cha...

Bruce Schneier also wrote about MS-CHAPv2 vulnerabilities back in 1999: https://www.schneier.com/paper-pptpv2.html
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Interesting view which I had not thought of previously in quite that way.

Devil's advocate: My old workstation has a 440w power supply but uses much less than that most of the time. A small percentage of the total electrical power that my house uses. What pressure is there to switch the workstation for a more efficient PC?
Agile is best practices around iterative and incremental development. It's not a standard, it's a marketing term. Because it's not a standard, criticizing it is like criticizing "good ice cream". What's good ice cream? Any damn thing you'd like it to be.

Excellent analogy. If best practices and incremental development are like good ice cream, then Agile is like Tasti D-Lite™. What's not to like?
Maybe it doesn't work as well as we want it to on the fringes. Maybe, just maybe, there are bugs in their software. I know, it's hard to fathom, bugs in software. Google is not immune to this just because they're Google. The fact that everybody seems to think they are entitled to perfectly working free software products is an amazing testament to the quality of what they produce.

Google products are in fact written by humans, and are therefore imperfect. It will have bugs. So let's all rein in the misplaced outrage and reflect on all the amazing stuff Google provides to us, free of charge.

Then, please go watch this Louis CK clip, and then re-evaluate whether this is worth a blog post.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk
Your grasp of English seems to include subject-verb number agreement, and I suspect you can handle pronouns. You'd do just fine with Perl.

Yes, lots of tutorials explain it badly, and yes, lots of people say "Why should a programming language take cues from natural language?", but implicit variables and context are concepts that primary school children have mastered. They're not that difficult.
I'm assuming that the number tied to your account would be verified, in which case that becomes the new traceable tie between you and the account. If it's not verified, I certainly agree.
"too many liberal arts degrees and too few agribusiness BAs", indeed.
This happens semi-regularly. Not really sure why.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4073961
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3481174
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As per the senses, yes you are correct testable. But in order to verify those tests we have to be able to sense in some way shape or form the results. The natural sciences are limited in that nature. I can't feel, I'm using the abstract idea of feel not that of the sensation we get through our skin, the results of an experiment.

The point that I'm making here is that religion needs to stay where it belongs. In the realm of behavioral side of the argument. I'd argue that anyone who said, "God created the universe" means that they are uninterested in the science behind it and that it is immaterial to their belief in God.

I'd argue that most religious don't associate God with controlling the atoms of the universe and setting it to begin. Sure they get comfortable with this explanation if it is presented long enough (2k years or so), but it doesn't matter to the abstract idea of God.

The "proof" of God comes not from what we can prove through observation (using our 5 senses + any tools we can create), but rather through a sense, a feel, a concept that there is a sixth sense in our minds. There is something we cannot touch.

In that case there should never be a proof for or against God. It's an abstract idea coming from feelings that we have of a spiritual core.

Also, philosophical debates have a great deal of practical consequences. If someone takes a philosophy to heart they can do a lot of damage. I know that many people argue that religion has caused harm, but it isn't the religion, but the institution that harms people. I think people can use anything to justify their behavior, God or no. It is when people objectify others and treat them as such that we have a problem.

So I'd suggest that we could look at the different disconnected cultures in the world that have "religion" as a set of evidence that there is something in us that wants to believe in an external being.

My theory is that there is a God, and anyone is free to disagree.

That is at the core of religion. The only truth I hold is that the later part of that statement is the most important.

Also, I realize that a hypothesis like that above is subjective and not capable of being dis-proven, thus most scientists worth their salt should and would never waste the energy to create an instrument to test it.

But that doesn't mean that it isn't possible or a valid explanation.

I freaking love this topic :-) P.S. Thanks for the post, I love reminders of things long since forgotten, I've been working in the industry way to long and most religious people aren't interested in this kind of discussion.
Like Netflix
Facebook should just setup a deal with Google. Have a Google search box somewhere prominent in FB and get a cut of all ad revenues from searches.
Reddit was an early PR win. But, if you made a pie chart of returns for YC, Reddit would be a nearly invisible sliver. That said, it established a relationship with Alexis & Steve, one of whom is repping YC in the east and the other came back with Hipmunk, which just raised a huge pile of money in a huge space. So I think it WILL be a huge win for YC... But not from the Reddit exit.
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It represents a lambda in Clojure.
How about watch more TV? None of the people I know in Silicon Valley watch the top 10 shows in America, among those that even have a TV! When I go home for the holidays I get an education in how the rest of the country thinks through the television.
I've noticed the same problem, where people tend to rate a 5 or a 1.

As a benefit, I've noticed I can usually find the best reviews on Amazon by looking for 3 star ratings, and to a lesser extend 4 and 2 stars. People who rate a 3 have looked at pros and cons of the product, and generally compare to similar goods. 3 star reviews usually provide FAR more information than glowing or glowering 4 and 1's.
I don't see a problem with it TBH. I pretty much knew exactly what to expect because of this wording, which is a good thing.
I can't stand this either. People constantly blame the medium (TV) but in reality, it's (some of) the content that's bad, not the medium. There is plenty of good television out there.

I enjoy watching certain TV more than others, for various reasons. Sometimes it's to learn, sometime it's for relaxation.

Where does it stop? Are movies bad too? They're just like TV, except (usually) on a bigger screen and longer. What about theatrical plays? Are those making me dumber too?

</rant>
Beautiful site and extremely polished. Well done!
Just found another version, don't know the original language or culture: "To the unclean mind, nothing can be clean."
Umm, "lines"?
It's only insecure if MS-CHAP is used for authentication, ie when used in WPA2-EAP mode. More commonly WPA2-PSK is used, which remains unaffected.
Can't agree more. Its about creating more wealth for the founders. That is the whole idea. A lot of funded "startups" are just websites with big names behind it. great post.
I agree there's a difference, I was just using it as an example to illustrate a point; that the fact that people will print something is not an excuse for that behavior.
Right! Speaking of that, have you looked at Grok (field extractor)? It's pretty awesome.
The author completely lost me at:

"The Higgs, of course, has been labelled the ‘god particle’ because it accounts for the existence of mass in the Universe."

No, it is called the "God Particle" because Leon Lederman called it the "Goddamned Particle" since he had so much trouble defining what it was and how it behaved, and his publisher shortened it to "The God Particle" because it had a snappier name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Higgs#Political_and_relig...
I don't get what you're saying here. Is your input set a bunch of outputs of bcrypt? Is your input set `dictionary`? Either way, how can you invert the output of bcrypt more efficiently than brute force?
Go to Burning Man.

Along with the outrageously friendly crowd willing to strike up conversations about anything, it's has the greatest density of diversity that I've ever seen. In one day, you could easily discuss politics with Republicans, Democrats, moderates, and extremists; religion with Atheists, Muslims, Buddhists, and Christians; and science with research scientists, conspiracy theorists, and mystics.
I suspect it may actually be related to the energy cost of higher data rates on the device itself, rather than the network costs.

IOW, it would require more energy to spin the disks faster, and burst a higher peak rate.
You're telling me its stupid to choose the 100% chance of some known amount of fun rewatching an old series than to bet compared to watching that latest Jennifer Aniston flick?
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That's what I was shooting for! :)
I think if he'd made a symbolic link within his Dropbox folder to his iCloud folder, it would have worked as expected. At least, that's how the Linux client works.
Completely agreed. I think it's fine to expect now that it wont render pretty, some divs may be in the wrong place... but shit should load.
Similar to what you said, where YouTube found most people only voted 5 stars, with 1 and 4 stars being used much less frequently: http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2009/09/five-stars-domina...
This looks great. Thanks for sharing! Backspaces is a cool concept as well.
But many people learn a language before going to a country, and some portion of those will want to use it because switching back and forth between languages can be hard. I don't think it's a bad question to ask, at all.
> The title is accurate. The article states explicitly that 3000 years ago the common ancestor of all of humanity existed.

The title -- "In 3000 years someone alive today will be the common ancestor of all humanity" -- is not accurate. There was no single "common ancestor", because modern humans owe their genetic inheritance to multiple sources. This will be true in the future as well.
This was written in response to a talk at Eurucamp over the weekend, about re-writing Sinatra in as few lines of code as possible.

While somewhat tongue in cheek it was as much about being creative with the language as it was about obfuscation and writing 'bad' code.

https://github.com/rkh/almost-sinatra
About the worst article on agile I've ever seen.
Especially for something like this. I might not need this to land a job for years, but when I do, I'll want to know that all the work I put into adding content to this won't have been wasted (i.e. service disappears for any number of reasons, OP is already 98% busy :/).

That's not so say that a hosted, subscription service wouldn't be useful for some, but self-hosing would allow users to solve problems for themselves that would otherwise be feature requests, and hard to design well for everyone.

I know OP doesn't want to be another LinkedIn, but there's no reason why he or someone else couldn't create an opt-in browsable database of these for better discoverability. How awesome would it be if you could click a link next to your hackathon entry and see the status page of other attendees?
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I'm not a member of the community in question. However, I guess I'm just in the mind that if you have problems with a person you take it up with them directly and privately (including only the people that must be involved).

This was obviously a long time ago but things like this "public shaming" just seem like a one sided mud sling designed to call people out and make people feel bad (or give other people bad feelings about them) rather than a method to fix the problem.

I don't want to make assumptions regarding values. Maybe we have different ideas on how to combat things like these. Maybe, our views or very similar and you thought this was the only way to make your point. Either way, bringing it back this far from the actual event (Not that your did this) only serves to dredge up old animosity instead of burying the hatchet and "Getting Shit Done".

I think I'm more of the mid that the OP shouldn't be submitting what amounts to old gossip-y mud slinging articles 5 years later.
the website name is really odd, I know it's off-topic, just wondering why people pick that.
I was buying posters yesterday and got fed up trying to figure out what size I actually wanted.
And why even stop with only visual mediums, why is listening to music any more fulfilling or beneficial than watching a 30 minute sitcom?

This might really come down to passive viewing versus active viewing,where in the passive case you're just sitting there flipping channels to pass the time, consuming whatever is presented to you. This isn't inherently a bad thing though. If it is relaxing or enjoyable to you, then there is no reason to stop. Not everything you do in life needs to improve you as a person on some deep level.

Sometimes, sitting there twiddling your thumbs to relax or recharge is just as beneficial as reading, learning, growing, coding, building, shipping, etc.
The article closes by asking press officers and reporters to be a little more critical of the material they pass on. Unfortunately, that is extremely unlikely to happen. There is too much information to be critical of and incentives are not aligned to make that happen. If the press passes on a breathless press release that turns out to be false, they just point the finger at somebody else, but in the meantime, they've driven traffic to whatever organization they're working for.

Ultimately, the scientist should be held accountable for this in his community. Similar to the massive black eyes Fleischmann and Pons got for cold fusion[1], Quach should be dragged across the carpet for this.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion (my poor alma matter :)
Grok, grep, multiline, date, etc. Logstash changes my events prior to reaching their destination, but logstash itself is not the end destination.
When will this be on MegaUpload?
I'd be interested to learn more about Backspaces, but didn't get much from its website.
History of land use is fascinating to me. I grew up and my parents still live in a house built by my grandfather. I love looking at old pictures and seeing what has changed or not changed in even that short 70+ years. And then to think how the land may have looked and been used in the years before that. I am in the process of building a home on land owned by my wife's family. They have only owned it for a short period of time, but the land has a rich history of settlements, logging, etc.

I think we all have a selfish tendency to think of land and property as being at its best when we knew it most intimately. But the land was there long before us and will be there long after.
I don't disagree; I was only trying to address the 'test suite gets very slow' part rather than the 'unit tests should not hit the database' part.

If performance wasn't an issue, the convenience of auto-created objects would mean more 'unit' tests (edit: usually closer to integration tests) that wouldn't exist otherwise. Sure it's best to de-couple things, but there's room for something between no [unit] tests at all and perfect unit tests.
In other words, take a spread-spectrum radio and add to it the ability to probe the individual carrier frequencies for usability (much like a V.34 modem), include some sort of coördination protocol between the radios and voilà!
hey there, co-founder at backspac.es here. happy to answer any questions you have!
New nuclear fuel source would power human race until 5000AD
We don't have conquerors and kings anymore, in most parts of the world.

The common ancestor would probably have to be the ancestor of a very successful nation that would rule (a big part of) the world, and no current world ruling nations let their governors reproduce at will, like they did in the past.

Currently the world is full of Genghis Khan descendants, but also, there are no Genghis Khan equivalents anymore.

Simply remember the Monika Lewinsky scandal.
Flemish is a dialect of Dutch and therefore they should present a Dutch language interface if available, but really the only sensible thing to do when detecting a Belgian IP is defaulting to English (or browser preference) and making it really easy to switch to other languages.

Google has been OK for me (except when it starts to display in German out of the blue), but other sites like myspace are pathetic. In a country where the majority speaks Dutch, they default to French and make it very confusing to change the language.
Thanks, I didn't get the memo since I'm still using an iPhone 3G.
It's odd how this comment appears so frequently on HN and yet each time someone makes it they seem to be under the impression they're making a novel observation. It's like the comment that copying music isn't stealing, or the comment that when women say no they mean no.

There may be a pattern here. Perhaps the pattern is that these statements are emptily true: they're either truisms if taken literally, or miss the point otherwise. It may be the latter disconnect with reality gives the commenter the impression that they have discovered some new insight that needs to be mentioned. I.e. a truism that was also true when applied to the world would clearly be something that everyone else also believed, and thus wouldn't be worth mentioning.
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Heh.. not very much on the "how" but I appreciate the effort!

I guess we'll be seeing a lot of these filters pop up in other apps now. I don't really mind, a lot of people gave shit to Instagram for being a billion-dollar-app which made photos look worse, but I think I prefer fake-shitty than the weirdly-sharp digital look that most cell phones produce.

Anyway, bravo, and that's for releasing this as free software!
For cumbersome directory paths:

$ tail -1 ~/.bash_aliases
CMBRSM=/opt/var/dont-know-about-FHS/local/etc/cache/config
$ cd $CMBRSM

Unlike a shell script an alias allows you to:

$ ls $CMBRSM/subdirectory
$ cat $CMBRSM/file.txt
Square is a way for businesses to accept credit cards. Paypal is a "bank" that offers a type of credit card. I fail to see how they are really competitors. Square takes Discover so the way I see this is Square just got the ability to accept Paypal?
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You know, sometimes the simplest problems are the hardest to solve. You'd think right? "What's the best way to know if this guy is who he is claiming to be?"

1. Shared secret/Password - He tells me something during registration and then I use that information to verify if he's saying the same thing when he want access the site.

2. PKI - Describes itself.

3. Something he claimed to have during sign-up, so let me check if he has it now.

The problem is, every system is going to have a point of failure/point of absolute control. This is because, you want someone to be able to reset their password/public key/auth token if they forget/misplace/get stolen. Sure, things would be a lot easier if you left the liability on the user, by explicitly stating that if Acts of God (legal term) happen to him, you are not liable. But in this day and age where I see every service tending towards dummifying and hand-holding, I don't see this approach being popular at all.

In the above approach, by pushing all liability onto the user, you tell him that HE and ONLY HE is responsible towards the safe storage of his credential. It's not like in real-life, people can't come up with a gun pointed at you and tell you to give up your auth token, assuming they MitM'ed your password.
Seems to be crashing when clicking 'show picker' on my iPhone 4... does it work on 4S only?
'Trumps' is the wrong word to use here
"... Asperger's is being abandoned.... Now it's slated for removal from the next edition of the DSM"

REALLY??! Wow. I sure thought I was seeing a bunch of misguided hullabaloo, but I'm surprised to see the "industry" itself is aware of it and addressing it. Do you have a link or any kind of substantiation?