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This is an ancient field and its name is rhetoric.
I don't really see waking up early as a "life hack" that you need to train yourself to perform on regular basis. I simply activate my intergalactic ear plugs and make a general announcement (unfortunately I live with night owls) - good night everybody, the one to wake me up will be defenestrated and that's it. I'd rather be fully aware and productive at 5am than keep my brain up with infinite stream of coffee in the middle of a night.
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HTML table is one of the Gimp's built-in output formats.
That looks pretty good. I also have a homegrown solution that does something similar but uses a css-like syntax but isn't like css. It's sufficient for my purposes though lacks many of the things your solution has. I'll have a more detailed look at CSSApply, and see if I can add to it :)
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Quebec, for instance, needs shipments ( of say electronics ) to be in bilingual packaging at least. I have seen that many new products are not released in Quebec alone but rest of the country gets it.
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She joined the sinking ship. She just there to soften the landing.
> arguments essentially boil down to moral relativism based upon gut feelings (environmental or genetic factors)

There are many pieces of this problem. A few of them at random:

1. The US education system doesn't do a good job of teaching people to think rigorously and analytically. Up to 12th grade, math is largely memorizing specific algorithms, science is memorizing vocabulary words, real programming courses are usually optional and don't exist at most schools.

2. Our education system actively beats down original critical thinking and encourages people to do what they think the teacher wants.

3. In college, a vast majority professors and students are very liberal. I have never heard or come up with a satisfactory explanation for the causes of this; for me personally, many of my innate leftward biases actually declined through high school and college as my logical reasoning abilities became more acute through application to harder problems, and I gained more experience of the world.

But the prevalance of a single political point of view in our institutions of higher learning may actually cause great damage to our country's political problem-solving abilities: Many people who are highly intelligent and formally trained to think critically avoid questioning liberal ideas because everyone they know and respect thinks the same way, while they are overly dismissive of conservative ideas because many of their proponents don't have the tools to effectively argue their positions.
If innovation == blatant copying, yes, this will muddy the future of innovation. If, however, innovation == trying something that hasn't been done before, I fail to see how this will do anything but help.
> "Those who don't learn history is doomed to repeat it"

Even when they have learned from history?

We understand more now about exactly why the Nazi eugenics was wrong than we've ever known. Comparing the quest for a mythical Aryan Superman (Super-Duper-Superman!) to the hunt for a method to eliminate Tay-Sachs is useful how?
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> Watching your code run and hitting a "next" button repeatedly isn't really a good use of the tool.

It's really useful to get yourself familiar with someone else's code.
And as far as I can tell, it's never been objective.

Where's the studies comparing multiple styles of argument and determining which had the highest percentages of "wins"?
He didn't say that it makes him "happy and productive", he said it makes him "happier and more productive".

You do realize that there is a difference here, right? I assume that you are an intelligent being that knows basic English grammar and hence you must have simply misread that comment.
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The answer is simple -- the fact that one species branches off from another species doesn't mean the initial species must die off. There are any number of counterexamples.

Also, the simian species from which we evolved in fact no longer exists. I emphasize this is just a coincidence and doesn't prove one or another point about evolution.

Darwin's finch species from the Galapagos Islands all coexisted, even though most of them branched off from each other, or from a single initial species. There is no reason to assume a priori that species B, which branches from species A, requires that species A must go extinct.
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When someone says that piracy or taxation are theft, they are not necessarily appealing to intuitions about theft. They may literally hold and mean to state that they share with carjacking whatever makes carjacking theft, WITHOUT sharing other properties of carjacking... in effect, this is a thesis statement rather than a knock-down argument.

Of course, it is also possible that it is not even an honest appeal to intuition, rather just an emotional tarring which will never be substantiated. This is usually what is irritating about hearing those arguments.
So, growth hacker is a marketer. Fine. But not all marketers are growth hackers. My understanding is that, growth hacking is a specialty in marketing which focus on consumer web marketing. It is also a very technical and hands on position. As a growth hacker, you not only need to have a marketing plan, but also need to implement or help implement the marketing plan. There is nothing wrong for giving a name to a sub-category of marketing profession.
How do you objectively pin down the concept of "win"?
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> The most powerful form of disagreement is to refute someone's central point.

Which is denied you when the person's argument is so ill-formed that it does not have a central point. At that point, you either point out the flaws or you walk away, apparently conceding the point to the pointless one.

(Also: I love the word point, apparently.)
As a programmer, I'm already too embarrassed at this point to call myself a hacker. If our marketing team starts calling themselves growth hackers, I think the once honorable label will have been irrevocably soiled. If you haven't worked at a big company, this may seem puzzling, but just imagine the job ads, the Business Week covers.
Cool, if you do manage such integration then please let me know by DM'ing @modernprogrammr

Best of luck!
There is really no point in this unless you are arguing with someone who is trying to be honest to begin with. In that situation you don't need so much artifice anyway.
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Considering you need 8-9h of sleep, is it not enough to just go to sleep at 8 or 9pm, to wake up at 5am? Sure, that's not for everybody - you would have to give up evening TV, but I think it should not be that much of a difference to a 11-7 rhythm. In summer, even the sun is already shining at 5am.
I saw a post on HN yesterday, someone from the bay area looking for interns. So just look around :)

And good luck on your new journey!
For a moment there CrowdTilt had me really excited, but then I came across:

1) Need to be in the US and have a US bank account

2) Need to be on Facebook

I'm weeks away from starting a £25k funding round by tapping up my users (who have been badgering me to do this for the longest time).

The biggest issue I've got is that I'm in the UK.

I dislike that the most cost effective and convenient way to do this is to use PayPal and build my own front-end.

PayPal.

I want to use Kickstarter, or Crowdtilt, or Stripe (if I have to build my own front-end). Anything but PayPal.

PayPal it looks set to be though. I can't find another <4% method of doing this if you're not in the USA.

If anyone knows a UK or EU based crowdfunding solution with fees 4% or lower, then I'd love to hear about it.
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By having a panel of judges and a formal debate, with strict rules. The panel then decides who is the "winner".
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> it's a fairly insidious argument to say that slippery slope arguments should be rejected

Of course it is insidious (and no true Scottsman would say such thing!) This is because the actual fallacy is a false slippery slope. The essence of the error is failure to demonstrate that the actual slope exists. If you demonstrate the causal relationship between the first step and the rest of the slope then it is no longer a false slippery slope.
I think in this situation the politically-charged examples were perhaps useful. To me they demonstrate the contrast between that argument type when expressed abstractly - which many people quickly dismiss as invalid - and when expressed in the context of something with emotional content where the same argument structure may somehow 'feel' more valid.
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Wow. The number of people who are responding to any of my little strawman arguments on their merits is surprising, and frankly disappointing on Hacker News. If you have replied to any of these "arguments" and asked me how I could possibly believe them, then you:

- Have not understood the meta-topic of the post

- Are unable to resist attacking silly arguments even when it is stated in my post that they are caricatures

- Failed to read the comments on the original article, in which many others also noted the examples' lack of balance

- Have provided an entertaining case in point of the argument made by http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/

Particularly in regards to my extremely silly and vacuous evolution example, I can not honestly believe so many of you not only thought that I believed what I was writing, but then went on to expend energy attacking me on it.

When I read the original article, I was amused at the disclaimer he put up front saying "I don't necessarily believe these things, they're just for the sake of example." I thought I could leave something so obvious out in a place like HN. Apparently I was wrong.
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Is it? Apple under Jobs was defined by complete perfectionism, which enabled it to create great products.

Steve had great taste - he was as much Chief Designer as he was CEO. Focus comes from the top, and the focus on design has been Apple's secret sauce. Cook is not a designer. His focus is going to be on operations, and Apple's design will suffer for it.

I'm pretty sure those recent Apple Genius ads would have Steve rolling in his grave. I predict that those are just the beginning.
Unfortunately, the idea that supersymmetry is "dead" has been propagated by journalists covering science who don't know any better and people with an agenda. Generally, it's people who just don't know any better. Unfortunately, you see comments supporting the idea even on HN.

The important thing to understand about supersymmetry (SUSY) is that in the most general case, there are approximately 105 new parameters. That's far too many to probe in a meaningful way, so most models choose between 2 and 5 to vary, and fix the rest. Then a bunch of models are chosen that hopefully cover a wide spread of different behaviors.

The true part is that several models have been excluded, basically as well as the LHC is going to be able to exclude/discover anything in the current energy regime. However, some of these models were just not chosen very well to begin with (but have historical importance) and others were chosen to have maximal signal strength.

So as time goes on, the search for SUSY turns away from "easy" models and looks at more complicated ones. With 105 parameters, there's a lot of parameter space unexplored.
You're not supposed to put these into your models. You should create a different class/method that accepts models and returns HTML:

class TweetWidget
def initialize(tweet)
@tweet = tweet
end

def content; … end
end
Interesting. So I can go around spamming my competitors site via email posing as if I'm looking for paid links and maybe even post them around somewhere and then have the sites page rank go down ? That logic sounds more than a bit flawed to me.

Basically, if I were to focus my efforts on generating distrust around my competitors site, this would be a perfect way to go about it.

(also, there is a spam list called surbl which follows this same method and I've had to have my site removed from their list twice due to someone else spamming it out there.. Quite a nuisance. Now I'm REALLY worried if people can mess with PR like this too...)
Actually it's kindof taboo on LW, hence the apology.

Thinking straight about politics is hard, so it's not a good practice case.

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> The original paragraph form is probably easier for someone unfamiliar with anything beyond arithmetic

Isn't this because of the fact that at the time (628 AD as you say) there wasn't that much to be familiar with beyond arithmetic? (I don't really know the history of maths, just curious.)

> and hold more of the proof in your head at a time

Is it really the case? I mean that no matter with which notation you start with, you need to parse and evaluate it mentally to convert it into terms you actually think with.

I can see that for maths 'natives' it is helpful, because their mental models are very closely tied to the formal notation. But for me mathematics is a foreign language, it seems that I think in slightly different terms and this succinct notation makes it harder for me to actually understand what it is really about. (I don't mean your example specifically - it's still well inside my comfort zone).

As a programmer I do struggle for "math literacy" because I have to. I need to be able to read proofs, understand some concepts to be able to use them and to know when I need them. The problem is it's not natural for me. Yesterday I found here on HN a book that just may be exactly what I'm looking for: http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/html/index.html (didn't have time to read it yet, but it looks promising).

> who invest the time to learn the notation

I think I said it before but maybe it's worth noting explicitly. I am somewhat familiar with the notation, I consider myself 'literate'. But I'm far from fluent and I probably never will be. Similarly, I can read and write cyrillic script (with pen and paper). But it takes me more than twice the time to read russian in cyrillic than reading the same text written with latin letters. I don't need someone to translate russian to english for me. It's just the character set that is a problem. I think it's very similar to what I experience with math.
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Well, for starters, because to properly eliminate genetical diseases, you will eventually need to forbid carriers of undesirable genes to procreate. That gets nasty.

So you have a voluntary regime, and the rich and well-educated (generally) make sure their children are free of genetical disorders, while the lower classes (generally) don't. Two generations later, you have "clean" people and "dirty" people. Why should the "clean" people, who did as they were encouraged to by the Department of Health, pay high insurance premiums/health tax to subsidize the totally preventable diseases of the "dirty" people?
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CSS is used for two different things: styling and layout. CSS for styling is great, since you can declare your colors or font sizes or whatever in one place, and easily make changes to them across the board. I don't think many people would dispute that is useful.

CSS for layout on the other hand, I've always found to be a massive pain in the ass, full of counter-intuitive weird hacks. (For example: the 243342 approaches to centering elements relative to one another, often requiring hacky nested divs to ensure things work in IE.)
The title of the article in no way reflects the outcome of the research. The study compared measured IQ to a decision to smoke pot. There is no control group, and the study is retrospective.

A reader may ask how this result could arise by something other than a cause-effect relationship? The answer is that people may find themselves under peer pressure to (a) smoke pot, and (b) reject the value of scholarly activities. Someone might answer that IQ is predetermined, that it doesn't have any environmental component. But that idea has been falsified in animal studies, studies that show the development of new brain cells in animals that live in stimulating environments:

http://jonlieffmd.com/blog/new-brain-cells-many-triggers-for...

There are any number of factors that might lead an individual to simultaneously choose to smoke pot and avoid activities that might improve his IQ -- socioeconomic, genetic, and so forth. The only way to control for these things is to design a truly scientific study that tells experimental subjects whether they will smoke pot, rather than asking whether they do. But such a study would be unethical, which is why there's no science in this field of study.

This study is much like thousands of studies I've read over about 35 years, and all of them suffer from the same flaw -- they aren't science. Correlation is not causation.

None of this is meant to condone drug use, only to criticize very sloppy science that draws a conclusion not remotely supported by the work.

The linked study represents modern psychology at work -- science in name only.
OP here.

I'm a student finishing up my computer science and piano performance degrees at Chapman University in Orange, California. I started SSD Nodes as a summer project last year, created as a solution to the pain of all the other slow/unsecure/unreliable hosts out there.

SSD Nodes was accepted into the Startup Incubator's first class a few months ago at Chapman. I've been working with absolutely wonderful entrepreneurs that have been helping me guide my vision. Being on HN for the past ~6 months have been invaluable.

I would love to hear your thoughts. If you want to contact me directly, my email is in my profile.

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> It's not clear that people started with "little confidence" in the concept.

IMO it's pretty clear. Find the 20 nearest people, ask them if they would pay for a social network. I would be amazed if one said yes. Just because through the power of Kickstarter and heavy word of mouth on blogs they managed to scrape together enough people interested in the concept to hand their money over doesn't mean people in general have a ton of confidence in an idea like this.

A small group of technical users had a lot of confidence in the concept or too much extra money. Do people in general? No. It's like asking them to pay for a browser or a search engine, simply unheard of. If you don't believe me, consider how many gullible users distribute those "they're going to make us pay $5 a year for facebook spam this wallpost a million times to stop it!" things even now.

> App.net just got funded for much more money.

Do you honestly think we won't be here on HN a year from now, discussing the exact same story but with App.net in place of Diaspora? I don't see this as a positive either, handing unqualified people with no plan huge sums of money multiple times doesn't fill me with joy. It makes me nervous, like the millions flying around for crowdsourced video games.

> The undiscriminating enthusiastic community now knows better what to look for -- it's learned a little the hard way, like any investor must.

You do realize that con artists use the exact same excuse, right? You live, you learn? It's a pretty terrible justification for mismanaging a project into the ground.

I also feel you'll quickly find out that without the "undiscriminating enthusiastic community" these projects will go mysteriously unfunded. I would think twice about happily burning your biggest bridge if I were you.

> Diaspora proved there was interest and tested a longshot idea.

They could have left that task to someone who was going to execute well, too. Also, not a positive. This would have happened the moment anybody competent launched the same project. Also, they wouldn't have helped breed distrust amongst the few people that are willing to fund this sort of thing.