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I must point out that from a logical point of view "Because you don't like criminals, and Martin Luther King is a criminal, you should stop liking Martin Luther King." is correct.

Let us assume you like Martin Luther King. Then one of the 2 premises must be wrong. Is it "you don't like criminals" or is it "Martin Luther King is a criminal"?

I'm sorry to say that Martin Luther King was a criminal, and let us assume that means he still is in the strictest sense. Therefore, "you don't like criminals" cannot be correct.

However, "You don't like people who you consider to be a criminal" could still be correct, since you would probably accept that you don't consider Martin Luther King to be a criminal.

Sometimes you just need to teach people a little bit of logic.
You're thinking about it too narrowly. I think the lifetime is a limiting factor in human cultural development. Eliminate it, and you open the path to the Universe. If no one gets old and dies, then space exploration will be possible at any velocity, even if there isn't some unforeseen breakthrough that permits FTL travel. There is nothing stagnant about an infinitely expanding society.

Also, I think that instead of "objective", you really meant subjective.
Well from a personal perspective it's hard for me to distinguish, because evolution seems pretty incontrovertible to me.

But I have many creationist friends, and the parts they don't seem to accept as "fact" are:

- Speciation (how given any amount of time we could get things as distinct as flowers and dogs and humans from a common ancestor)

- Emergent complexity (how given any amount of time, small changes in the genetic code could have led to things as complex as eyes and brains and so forth)

- Sentience and self-awareness (how given any amount of time our brains could have evolved to possess this seemingly magical and qualitatively different trait)

Again, I want to emphasize that I don't personally think any of these are great mysteries solvable only by appeals to spirituality. However, I hope everyone reading this could see how there's a bit of a jump from the 'fact' of (say) evolution of drug resistance in bacteria to the 'fact' of longer-term cumulative evolutionary effects like speciation and the eventual emergence of "eyes from non-eyes", etc.
Yes - my music collection is entirely in mp3s from various sources, but it is still a good get-to-know you area.
Well that is exactly what you would fear if you hire someone from Dixons to run the stores.

In the UK they have a reputation for uninformed staff and the physical stores aren't bad but they definitely aren't Apple Store quality either.
Oh boy. Even when someone makes it clear they are trying to fill in the bias of the original article with an opposite bias, people still think you're doing it as a personal argument.
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The BLS at http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes533021.htm says the mean annual wage for a bus driver is $37,440 and the 90 percentile is $57,410. The mean annual wage for Spokane is $54,040, Olympia is $52,510, greater NYC is $49,050, Santa Barbara is $48,350, San Francisco is $47,280, and so on.

Those don't sound so extravagant. The annual mean wage for all occupations in NYC is $56,210, so the NYC bus driver is making below average for the city. The industry category 'Transportation and Material Moving Occupations' average is $37,840/year, in part because 1/4 of the people in that category are 'Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand' ($29,410/year).

Similarly, for San Francisco the overall average salary is $61,370, and the industry sector average is $40,320.

I don't see those numbers as being ASTOUNDING. What do you think they should be making?
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I suggest you read this book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Clean-Coder-Professional-Programme...

There's a social factor to being a professional too; it's not just raw programming skill or experience.
When I checked last year, gmail was indiscriminately blocking anything with an img tag.
Crawlers don't (usually) download graphics, much less from 404 pages. They aren't regular browsers.
Tel Aviv Meetup?
I've seen that the last HN meetup was about 2 years ago. Any interest in something informal in Tel Aviv?
I always found it amusing that Enron did stack ranking while at the same time cooking it's books. They were just doing it to be assholes.
Why do your points not really matter?

- twitter already has a huge community -> check

- twitter is known to normal people -> check

- integrated into traditional media -> check

- there are no alternatives with a comparable amount of members -> check

- All of your points don't matter for normal users -> check

What competitors are there to twitter?

- App.net: Probably too expensive for the majority to todays twitter users

- Google+: No good clients, too hard user discovery (no way to find users via convenient handles), real-name focussed.

- Facebook: Privacy Nightmare, real-name focussed, insisting on a limited amount of mutual friendships instead of breadcasting

- identi.ca/status.net: Would be perfect, but nobody seem to be using it

Considering all this, I would assume twitter is going to stay.
Sounds like he's trying to make the original article more neutral-sounding to me. He is merely saying that some people may immediately dismiss the author's article as trying to show that right-wing arguments are flawed. Hence, he proposed a few additional examples which are not so right-wing.
I'm an atheist and believe in evolution but I find these three things hard to grasp as well. I just find it fantastic that seemingly random mutations which grant marginally better chances to survival can lead to all these things.
8-9 hours sleep? Try just sleeping less... (you might even live longer as a result)!

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1812420,00.ht...

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/15/us/study-ties-6-7-hours-of...
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> The eugenics example is even worse. In the 1930s, people were absolutely certain eugenics was the best thing since sliced bread, then Hitler showed the world how bad that could go. To deny "Those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it" as a guiding principle seems rather hubristic to me.

Erm, well, what we saw was that using social programs to engage in eugenics was a problem. Allowing individuals to change their genetic destiny, or allowing parents to try and use genetics to reduce the risk of disease is significantly different.

Of course, the stronger argument against eugenics is that narrowing the human genepool is dangerous. Genetic diversity is strength across successive generations. Then again, I'm not someone with a genetic disease, or the parent of a child with one, so I don't feel that I have any authority to say what should or should not be done. I'll limit myself to trying to make people aware of the issue.

> "Evolutionary psychology is sexist!" is a different beast: some people have decided, not through science, but though politics, that material differences between men and women (or the races for that matter) doesn't exist. Thus science finding otherwise is unacceptable. Of course it's a bad argument to reject science because it doesn't fit your political agenda.

Evolutionary psychology is a valid science, however, and this is an enormous however, untrained individuals attempting to use it to enforce social norms is absolutely 100% sexist. The arc of society is to eclipse our biology. Attempting to enforce it because of misunderstandings, willful or otherwise, of a novel field of science concerned primarily with our past is something I find personally disgusting.
Common problem on the AirBNB site. I've experienced it on a client site in the past as well. Indonesian detection may be over zealous.
Why do you think moving to an Asian country would make it easier to get a job? Do you think it's that much easier to get a job when you have more people to compete with? Do you think they only work 40 hour weeks? I really don't think that moving to any Asian country is going to help him out.

His best bet is probably looking for work in a different industry, or thinking long and hard about what he can do to make himself a viable employee.
Yeah fair enough, I just know that I could never get the internet to be useful. The email in my pocket was OK, but the Blackberry did it much better. The Apps were trying, but they just couldn't quite get there. I remember the whole frustration of the experience was because the Treo was so close to being a nice phone and yet literally so far away from being there. I was also an original Handspring user, so very familiar with the PalmOS, but that was another major annoyance - nothing had changed since my Handspring in 2001! Sigh.
Examples from Michael Behe's book Darwin's Black Box:

Blood's ability to coagulate is a cascading system with over 30 parts. Remove one part and it's fatal for the individual. How could a system like that evolve gradually over time?

He lists quite a few such systems. Bacteria having motors, the cell's operational system, the anti-body system (again a cascading system of large complexity).
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I think I remember someone doing this in the late 90ies. It's a cute idea and a fun hack, but doesn't have a lot of practical applications.
Some unsorted facts: Madrid is a very nice city, four hours from Cádiz by train. I'm a programmer. I have dozens of data points of univesity mates (more than half also moved) and people from my hometown. Please notice that I moved sixteen years ago, situation and myself were not the same, but I guess I would do it again now in a heartbeat.

I worked four years as a freelance some time ago. I wouldn't leave my day job to do it again, maybe would do it on the side. Anyway, I'd rather take a full-time job abroad though (there are flights from London or Dublin daily), and I wouldn't need to deal with customers' bureaucracy, internal fights, and late payments and requirements.

I think that you have many facts right and a passion for what you do. But there are many facts you ignore and tend to arrive to rushed conclusions and some contradictions. Don't take my word for it, just see how many things you find incomprehensible about people's behaviour. That's not a coincidence! :-)
Taubes isn't taken seriously by most dieticians and
nutrition researchers we talk to

That's an appeal to authority that dismisses the many studies given as reference in the Taubes book, studies which have results that are contrary to popular wisdom.

One of those studies involved a comparison between a group of people that were placed on a low-carb diet and the weight loss was more efficient than in the other group placed on a high-carb diet that ate less calories.

Of course, when it comes to nutrition, most studies are flawed because you can't do double-blind studies and because controlling the variables involved is hard. However, that's one reason why I go by my gut feeling and completely ignore "most dieticians and nutrition researchers", at least for now.

And I'm doing that because those same dieticians and nutrition researchers have recommended and are still recommending high-carb diets, with complete disregard to the health issues associated with consuming a diet rich in sugar, starch and deficient in proteins, fats and certain vitamins (the fact that we are omnivores that need a balanced diet should have rang a bell, but no).
Well, I'd say there's a continuum of honesty. And intellectual generosity tends to beget intellectual generosity in the other person--and, for thoughtful undecided onlookers, makes them more amendable toward considering your side.

For instance, speaking from both sides of the experience, someone who is engaged but being sniping or nasty in a political debate might well see that you're giving their point an honest go of it and in response clean up their act.

And even if they're lost beyond all hope, there's only a limited amount of fun to be had in poking holes in the small without really addressing their motivating concern.
I'm pretty sure Java in general is a good graveyard to check for "what not to do" save for choice libs like NIO, Netty, etc.
perhaps your resolution when converted is slightly smaller than the original, and thus, after compression, the size is smaller than the source?
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I think giving up a lot of TV is an easy win. If you want to be more productive pick shows you really want to watch and watch them when it is convenient for you. Make a habit of not just turning the TV on and watching whatever is on.
I partly agree to it. The web is full of buzz words meaning nothing. Growth Hacker, however refers to a combo of marketer +coder. I get totally pissed off at terms like python rockstars, javascript pirates rails ninjas. Seriously WhyTF do we need such pompous terms? An experienced programmer goes well.
Same thing done prior 2006 there: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/cssart.html
The lisp code in the article doesn't do indentation by a fixed number of spaces. It indents syntactically, i.e., aligns depending on the current depth-level of the s-expression).
I remember looking at Yahoo Pipes back in 2007, but perhaps the timing was not right for it back then. Now as the Web is getting more and more ubiquitous and the need for services to talk to each other grows, an approach like this could very well take off.
I used html tables as a poor man's pixel grid canvas for doing some very simple javascript software 3d object rendering animations many many years ago. Unfortunately, it seems I've lost the source.
Tests highlights problems. At beginning of the project they are showing that there is no good spec's for the project. This is the problem which you need to fix first.
This post by rsc should answer your questions and more. http://research.swtch.com/interfaces
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Aside from the obvious comeback of "the Android kernel is Linux"...

The reason NASA wants to use commercial phones is because it wants to use off-the-shelf hardware. That provides it with an already-extant platform with mature drivers, which doesn't need much custom engineering.

I'm not aware of any mature, free-as-in-speech Linux phones with the sort of power and sensor arrays of the Galaxy Nexus. I guess NASA isn't either. Are you?
I'd definitely be interested :-) Let me know if I can help. I'm @joelgascoigne on Twitter.
"Are brands basically a way to let people be lazy by outsourcing their thinking?"

I think not. Brands as I see them are much about experience and expectations. Myself; I am loyal to a handful of brands. Call me a Nike AF1 sneakerhead or a apple fanboy. But what it comes down to for me is the experience that these brands deliver; and I know what to expect from them.

With that said I believe that brands are built over time on customer interaction and the value provided.
Good suggestion. I'll ask the users how comfortable they are with paying via direct debit.
It's possible I guess, but in the case of Google Labs, perhaps the more significant factor is the raw amount of talent/ability, per square foot. :p
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I think your premises are incorrect. Create a machine that is like a human in all respects that you cite, tool use, language use, abstract thought, logical reasoning, permanent memory, and if it is just comprised of that, we will call it a very amazing robot. You could even add self-preservation routines, and we will call it an amazing robot that knows its own value.

But unless you add emotions that are recognizable to humans, you will find a very hard time convincing people that it is a person.

Similarly, I believe that emotional response is the reason why humans agree that it is not correct to destroy babies, but that some find it fine to destroy embryos. Those that disagree feel that the potential for emotions overrides any other concern.

Now, personally, I would hate to be a rationalist. Emotions provide the depth that make being alive worth experiencing. Divorcing my emotions from every decision making process would just be disgusting... well, see, I can't even describe it without emotion.
Sadly, Windows-only.
Thanks, it seems it fully answers my question!
Conclusion feels like meaningless fluff. There are people who genuinely don't realise that test first is better; it's worth sharing the fact that it is. "Doing it wrong" is just a buzzphrase at this point.
The new cost of doing business.
"we make CTF and recommend using chroot"

/facepalm
I can hear this guy talking. But is he saying anything?
however, and this is an enormous however, untrained individuals attempting to use it to enforce social norms is absolutely 100% sexist.

Here here. There are loads of people who "know the truth, and are jufdt trying to find the evidence" to support their beliefs about gender. This isn't real science, but cargo cult, pseduoscience for political goals.

Don't try to mask your politics in sciencey sounding arguments.
Thanks for sharing this. Looks very cool!

I would prefer the element name in front of the brackets. Like this:

h3{We can use google fonts easily}

This separates the element name more from the content.
That was always a problem for Tcl: the language is flexible enough that you can write an OO system in Tcl, or via its C API, but with several around, and non distributed with Tcl, you couldn't really count on any of them, or worse, you might find two bits of code depending on two different systems. I think they've finally cleaned this up some, but I view it as a mistake.
Multiple Roadsters have been running fine for years above the Arctic Circle. There are actually less issues than with gas powered cars. The second largest market for Model S, behind the U.S. is Norway.
Actually, I'm a HN regular and I find this story interesting. I find it interesting because it's an indication about how Twitter intends to treat developers - a signal that I should worry about about building off other APIs and not the Twitter API.
I'll be in Tel Aviv (or close to it) starting from the end of this week & would be interested!

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Most of these points rely on the belief that evolution is always made up of slow, small changes in the genetic code. While this is the case most of the time (and enables the fine tuning that we see in many species), evolution can happen very quickly.

Population bottlenecks cause species that were once very fit to no longer be fit for an environment, enabling vastly different organisms to become dominant very quickly.

Then there are phenomena like Chromothripsis[1] (only discovered last year), whereby the genetic code of a cell is literally smashed into thousands of pieces and seemingly randomly reassembled. No one is saying that Chromothripsis is a major driver of evolution, but it is interesting in that massive rearrangements of this nature can still provide cells capable of reproducing. In the case of cancer, where it was first discovered, these cells are even able to reproduce faster than normal cells.

The other thing is that even advanced life like mammals and humans have more than 10 times as many bacterial cells than human cells[2]. Since bacteria can evolve very quickly, they play a very important role in evolution.

The eyes from no eyes makes no sense to me, since the entire array of light sensing capabilities are seen in nature. From eagles to plants. The same is true for many of the examples of emergent complexity that are thrown out there.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromothripsis

[2] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but...
The verbal offers (and emails) have thus far put an emphasis on shares in the parent business, above market salary and a non-trivial purchase price.

From this I felt that the emphasis is towards working for the parent company over any continued growth in the community sites that I run.

As the web sites continue to pay me a very modest (read: barely but just about liveable) wage. I'm of the opinion that I shouldn't really consider the sale at all.

Right now: I don't need the money.

And, right now: I have the freedom to work on the startup and to being the idea alive.

That's worth far more to me than any monetary offer is. Mostly I'm trying to rationalise all of this so that when I explain to my girl why we continue to eat dry pasta and I turned down an offer of wealth that she doesn't thump me over the head.

I'm prepared to sell a successful, profitable and growing community website. But only if doing so helps increase the chances that my startup will be a success (by giving me funds to get an extra pair of hands and a good runway with no distractions). I'm not willing to sell if it in any way jeopardises the potential of the startup. And as the startup is barely mentioned but I'm expected to be full-time, then it undoubtedly would do that.
Not many transmissionless or clutchless diesels in the world. It's not even close to the same thing.
> I have honestly never heard of anyone not liking CSS before reading this thread, except for maybe people just starting out

Really?

CSS is fine until you want to build something specific. The amount of hacks required for even the simplest thing is amazing.

Want that UL to have it's LIs in a grid? Use float. Float was supposed to make text wrap around images, but we use it for the side effect of making block elements behave like inline. It also messes up the height of the UL, since it doesn't really contain any text to be wrapped around. You can fix it most of the time, but it's a hassle, and prone to break.

Want a UL to be on one line and centered? There's a hack for that! And it's completely unintuitive black magic.

Even the simple things like lining up elements with a fixed margin between each other and to the containing element was a great hassle up until just recently when we could finally begin relying on CSS 3 features.

It's a big stupid mess with missing features and features misused.

The basic idea was OK, with the selectors and rules. The execution as was 10 years ago, and to a large degree still is, was horrible.
This list is inevitable I think for anyone who is trying to ship or has some sort of deadline. The most important thing I find in maintaining large code bases is to vigilantly keep the broken window theory in mind (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory). It takes some discipline to actually go back and fix things that are broken, but it does help to avoid longer term software rot.

No codebase is perfect at any single given point in time, but when you see a broken window, fix it.

http://pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/extracts/softwa...
Did you see https://github.com/stigi/MountainGrowl#installation ?

Basically if you have Growl 1.4 installed you just need to double click the (one) file that extracts from the zip. Then select it as your default style in the Growl settings.
"Many" does not mean most. Cars which need to drive more than 250 miles at a time are a niche market. The only reason there is a desire for that amount of range is because of the incredible inconvenience involved in stopping at a gas station multiple times per week.
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Just a note for anyone hoping to follow along at home: clojure.contrib has been deprecated and the various parts have either moved or been left to bitrot on the vine. Pertinent to this article, "clojure.contrib.monads" is now "clojure.algo.monads".

You can find out what happened to the rest of clojure.contrib here: http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/Where+Did+Clojure.Cont...
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