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That word "Predicts" is dangerous. It strongly suggests causation, though it only reflects a statistical correlation.

Many external causes are known to negatively effect both creativity and life-span. Most chronic illnesses reduce both. Alcoholism reduces both. Genetic disorders such as Down's syndrome or Huntington's reduce both.

Given many known mechanisms for external factors causing both factors in a correlation study, and only speculative mechanisms for how one factor causes the other, even hinting at causation is bad journalism.
If you like scratch, check out BYOB (http://byob.berkeley.edu/). It is just like scratch except you can "build your own blocks" - i.e. abstractions.
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I didn't tell you to look at the first Google hit, did I? But if you're going to voice your opining, I do expect a minimal amount of effort to educate yourself. You can easily find reports hosted by for instance NASA, and to discredit those you have to thing that pilots are imagining things or part of a worldwide conspiracy.

However, most people here seem content to disregard any evidence that may contradict their beliefs.

The real reason why PEDs are still banned are because neither FAA, airlines or manufacturers have been willing to perform comprehensive studies in order to determine the effects on planes.

The reason we have WiFi access on planes nowadays is because very detailed and expensive studies have been done, and improved shielding has been added to certified planes. Apparently such studies are underway, but risk-aversion in the aviation industry means nothing is going to change before the results of those studies are in.

I'm a private pilot and I leave my cell phone on as a safety measure in case the radio breaks down. I disable cell data and try to place it away from the avionics so I get a minimu amount of noise in my headset. However, if I was instrument rated, I wouldn't attempt an instrument approach in minimal weather conditions with my cell phone on. I can't conclusively prove that my phone is incapable of influencing the instruments, but I'd rather not find out "the hard way".
When are you going to support some enterprise-grade technologies like Python and PostgreSQL? Sure, those tools you have now are great for hobbyists and part-time hackers (with maybe the exception of Ruby), but a real dev sandbox should have some better tools to work with. Take Google for instance, they chose Java and Python.
I suggest you start to prefer learning from people instead of insulting them - you'll do much better in life. At least learn to either be polite or keep quiet.
A good point badly made. If you don't like it don't buy it.
Both sexes' lives before conception and pregnancy matter - in both cases, cumulative damage to reproductive cells is more likely the older they are. (Women in addition have pregnancy, during which there can be big affects on the embryo, for example if she binge-drinks.)

The point of the article was that we knew little of the non-pregnancy effects before recent years. And while that information applies to both sexes, it is socially more significant for men, who previously were not considered relevant in this matter, but now are.

Higher ages of conceiving babies in both sexes may be contributing to a rise in autism and so forth. But what is novel is that we already knew that was true for women, now the data shows it is true for men as well.
What exactly does this do? I have no idea!
Just because it hasn't been done well doesn't mean it can't be. And as other comments have pointed out, visual programming works extremely well in domain-specific contexts; the challenge is to translate that to general-purpose programming.

The core of the problem is twofold: first, visualisation of higher-order functions in a way that doesn't suck; second, an easy way to move back and forth between details and the big picture. Those are two things at which text is already very, very effective.

Though the project is still very young, my horse in this race is a statically typed concatenative programming language. Visual programming is naturally point-free, and visualisation of higher-order functions is actually rather easy if you have static typing. Most importantly, the program can be edited textually or graphically.

I regularly see comments and articles here that indicate a desire for such a tool. They give me the resolve to keep working to fill that gap.
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So if I understand you correctly, you're saying that the spite Gruber mentions comes from the fact that they can't track you I'm the native app. That's a perfectly reasonable assumption but I don't think it really has much to do with spite. I read in another comment that maybe they're getting rid of all traces of the old guard's legacy and that seems to me more likely to be where the spite Gruber mentions plays into this.
Django is a definite must have. People are finally starting to see the value in it and its powering some of the most heavily trafficked sites on the internet today (e.g. Pinterest, Instagram, etc.). Plus, the GIS tools in Django/PostgreSQL are unrivaled in open source offerings and beat some commercial ones even.
in the U.S. you can end up in some pretty bad situations, perhaps homeless, and lacking things such as internet access, nice clothes, or a permanent address ... it can be very hard to get back out of it

True, if you are relying on government/social programs to get you out. Such programs tend to keep you in your bad situation, as doing so perpetuates the survival of the social program and its budget.

There are examples of people who have experimentally, deliberately put themselves in such circumstances and worked their way out in a relatively short time.
>Of course I can't walk into a job offer and explain to them how I watched coursera videos online...

Yes you can. I would put you very close to the front of the line for my group (data science) if you told me you self-taught yourself ML using Ng's classes and could show me some samples on GitHub.
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Impact on the industry != innovation.

Making something popular and widespread is popularization. It's very important! But making something hugely popular is not a "brilliant innovation".
There's hope for humanity.
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Only by being constructively critically reflective can we continue to grow. Pythonic is bandied about like a hammer. If people understood the intent of _pythonic_ I think they wouldn't use the term unpythonic so loosely.
Hi Holgers - Thank you for your comment, this obviously means that I need to do a better job selling how the service works!

Basically, you create a landing page for your product or service using a super quick and easy template that we host. This page then links to a pricing page and then when the visitor clicks get started they are redirected to a page that allows them to add their email and receive an invite when the product / service is ready.

What we do which is special, is take all data from the % of users that clicked through and through what price point and show this information visually on your dashboard so you can make an informed decision whether your startup idea / product is viable.

Please let me know if you have any other questions.
See also: "Leisure, the Basis of Culture" by Josef Pieper. A bit longer essay, but full of gems.
I guess it uses a mixed-radix number with radixes 10-10-10-10-12-31 or 10000-12-31 (or, maybe, 10000-13-32 to allow for zero months and days) if the config flag ALLOW_INVALID_DATES (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/server-sql-mode.html#...) is set.

I still fail to see why anybody would want that or even the default 'if you cannot figure it out, use 0000-00-00' mode, though. That flag makes a broken system more broken, and if someone wants more flexibility in storing dates, he could always use char(8) or so.

In the context of this article: if you use your database as a dumb store and put all logic in your application, why would you let MySQL decide for you that, e.g., 2000-12-34 becomes 0000-00-00 and not, for instance, 2001-01-03?
This is based primarily on the fact that the risk of Down's Syndrome and pregnancy complications is easily observable, whereas the risk of various other things associated to paternal age are harder to see.

For the most part, the bigger the risk, the easier it is to observe.

However, if you have hard numbers (rather than a piece that is mainly speculative), I'd love to see them.
Filing a false DMCA takedown is already a crime. It's perjury.
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Other Underscore.js ports (that I know of):

Perl - http://vti.github.com/underscore-perl/

Lua - http://mirven.github.com/underscore.lua/

PHP - http://brianhaveri.github.com/Underscore.php/

Actionscript 3 - https://github.com/amacdougall/underscore.as
My theory: Twitter with a pay-as-you-text phone plan is not wise (if you like to get tweets as texts). Hence the kids can't afford it.
This is great. Looking forward to more advanced topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering. To my knowledge only Coursera provides some of this, with Computer Architecture coming up.

It would be sweet to get some serious Digital Electronics/VLSI and Integrated Circuits courses!
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I think testing / experimenting with ideas is critical - Google (and others) taught us that it works. I think vetting a new business idea before investing time & money into it is also wise - nobody wants to waste their time and money.

But I'm left with an uneasy feeling when folks take the "tease" approach that this is advocating (and, currently, using).

* Here's an idea!

* Here's why it's great!

* Sign up now!

* Ohhhhh sorry -- not actually available. Give us your email though (and thanks for the conversion data point).

I know for me, it feels dishonest. There's no harm actually done - you haven't truly "baited and switched", but you've baited and not delivered, and I think that makes a poor first impression. It sets a tone of dishonesty with your earliest (potential) customers.

I don't know the answer - I wish I did. I understand that if you change the messaging ("Let us know if this sounds good" vs. "Sign up now!") you distort your experimental conversion data, but I think it's worth considering the cost of presenting a poor first impression vs. running the test.

Perhaps there's a middle ground?
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Yeah I get this. I never thought of this and it actually applies to me too. I manage like 6 accounts right now but since I use only one so much I forget. I tend to go on my other accounts on my iPad and iPhone more because of the Twitter app so good point.

I wonder though if Twitter really wants to encourage people to have multiple accounts? I mean, they don't do much to stop it but they also don't encourage it. So two questions:

1. Does or would It make sense for Twitter to frown upon multiple accounts per user? Honestly asking, I can see both good and bad in it and I wonder, if you (the collective "you", that is) were Twitter, would you want this, not like it, or not care either way?

2. If the Twitter site had an easy way to switch between accounts like the iOS apps do, would this encourage more people to create multiple accounts? Or would only the portion of users who already seek out multiple accounts use it while those who don't have them simply not use the feature? To put it another way (sorry to repeat myself but I just want to be really clear) does having that feature encourage people only have one account to use the ability to switch between accounts just because they can?
Okay, but then why criminalize shots for which it can be proven that no child were harmed along the way? Talking mostly about children filming themself and the like.
The Gaza Strip, West Bank and East Jerusalem are not self ruled, no.

The term "occupied" relates to the fact that they are governed by the Israeli army, and are not self governed by their native inhabitants (the Israeli settlers unlawfully transferred there do vote for the Israeli parliament, and hence are self-governing in a way, as the Israeli army is under the authority of the Israeli government.)

You are missing some of your history lessons: Jordan and Egypt have recsinded any claims to those territories, instead recognizing the Palestinian people as the one who should rule those territories (the same was recognized by the State of Israel in the "Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements" aka Oslo I Accord)
"Due to demand we have had to introduce a waiting list..."

Wait, so did you actually build this? Or is this just an example of you testing your startup idea without coding it?

edit: oh man, did you steal that dashboard from Voziq? http://www.voziq.com/social-media-monitoring-tools/ I don't know if this is hustling (good) or shady (bad).

edit 2: odd that someone else used that exact same picture for a testimonial, but gave the guy a different name and title: http://www.fusebill.com/legal/terms.aspx

For what it's worth, HN is very good about giving early pre-MVP feedback -- there's no need for deception.
I've recently built a similar hybrid app -- one main UIWebView mixed with native components.

It's a great way to launch your MVP, but I've found myself slowly converting pieces to native due to performance issues and other minor quirks.

What the Tumblr folks have now is a great start, but I have a feeling they will make their way down a similar path over time.
edX offer a course on Circuits and Eletronics. https://www.edx.org/courses/MITx/6.002x/2012_Fall/about
I started last spring, but didn't finished because was a bit hard and time demanding.
Hi Nlh, that is a great point and it's something I have wrestled with myself.

I haven't come to a conclusion other than it's physically not really doing anyone any harm and if one stunning start up comes of it that changes the world for the better, then it has to be worth it.

You are letting the visitor know before they drop you their email that you're not ready for them and so you aren't deceiving them.
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But what if you have 100 people wrongfully accused while still not saving that one child? "Well, it was worth a shot anyway?"
Hi nostromo, I've currently got the product to MVP stage and I've around 25 paying customers at the moment.

It does need further work and polish, but everyone that is using the app has given great feedback that it's a really useful tool.
Why?

The West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights are all considered occupied territories (by most of the world at least. The State of Israel calls them ``Disputed''. I'm an Israeli citizen, and I must say I disagree with the official stance of my government.)
Please, expand in the amazon turk to turk for getting emails.
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I was eyeing the up the class on cryptography so thanks for the recommendation. The Human-Computer Interaction class looks really interesting as well.

This is just another great resource to supplement my experience. I also love taking a deeper dive on topics I think will really help in my day-to-day programming.
These images do not look like Photoshop.
I don't think the images fit the definition of over-colorful.
You think that being produced in Photoshop diminishes or alters the reality of these scenes.
You fail to demonstrate is why we should care where the color space and tonal separation come from.
You haven't demonstrated an understanding of is how color film has always worked.

In all fairness, I think you wrote this while I was addressing most of this in a side-bar discussion upthread. But it makes sense to pull some of these ideas out together just to think about.

To start, take a look at this image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/aa/Rhein_II...

This is Rhein II, an image by [Andreas] Gursky, [which] fetched $4.3m (£2.7m) at Christie's, New York on November 8, 2011, becoming the most expensive photograph ever sold. [According to wikipedia.]

So, why look at this? Well, it adresses a couple of things. If you think you know what does and "does not look like photoshop" this will expand your data set. In particular, its not high contrast, or brightly colored or really in any way showing "photoshop". In fact, its not even a digital capture, its film. But the reason why this is the most expensive photograph in the world? Its a tour de-force of photoshop. Its so good, its invisible. Its full of mind-tricks. The space is completely unnatural, yet it looks perfectly normal. Etc.

But to a trained eye, this very much "looks like photoshop".

And it looks like alot of other images. Not all of which are so mind-bending, but in subtle and not so subtle ways may distort reality. Lots of PJ work has this color pallete and tonal range, but of course they aren't allowed all the fun that Gursky gets to have. And so often they just take their "visual look" and overall style from this school of Art.

The visual signature is very, very difficult if not impossible to pull off [in color] using modern analogue methods, not to mention more primitive. But MFA kids and the like can pull it off all the time, from just about and image input. Miracles of modern technology. =D

So, with that in mind, I'd direct you to more direct answers upthread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4494818

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4496128
Right. It's insanely hard to find copyrighted material posted without the author's consent on any of those sites, and I never hear stories about legitimate content being removed due to fraudulent complaints.
Increasing market utility under capitalism says nothing about increasing the quality of life of the market agents - it says nothing on the role of happiness or quality of life in a free market.

Are you claiming there is some huge gap between utility and happiness/quality of life?

Note that utility is defined as what people choose for themselves. How do you define happiness or quality of life?

...and what agents in capitalism care about (eg, profit).

You make the same fallacy the OP does. Agents in capitalism care about utility, not profit.

See this piece I wrote a while back, for example, which explains why we have such a large leisure class in America in a purely utility maximizing framework. (Hint: profit != utility.)

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2011/why_the_poor_dont_wor...
I'd assume you give people the blog URL and pay them to collect the e-mail address of the author. Verification could be done by having 3 different people tackle the same blog and checking that the e-mail addresses match. Pay $0.05 or $0.10 per e-mail address and you're set.
65.5% of the web browsing, any-other-demographic-and-psychographic-modifying-aspect-of-Google-Survey population. That makes it harder to say how boggling of a statistic it is. Far greater than 65.5% of my household accesses Facebook and/or Twitter.
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The complainant replied back with more links. That is when my boss became involved. She had very little experience with dealing with abuse issues, however, she was very vocal about the fact that our company was 'allowing' child pornography. She had us put the domain on "Client hold", which effectively disables the domain, removing the name servers from the registry. Afterwards, she scolded me and my two other colleagues for not taking the correct action (even though we were following our SOP based on our terms of service). Even the owners of the company heard about the situation and were glad that the site was shut down.

A week after, the complainant emailed us to thank us for taking down his competitors forum.
Yes this would be a great idea.

Most podcasts and blogs are about the success. I would love to read a blog about startup lessons learned.

If this could eventually be categorized and synthesized to provide cautionary/actionable data, that could be invaluable to the community.

Something like: 40 out of 90 failed companies without a technical co-founder fail within 6months. Or 40% of entrepreneurs try 3 companies before attaining profitability.
No offense, but this is what I meant when I mentioned that it fascinates me the way people react. You had a pretty extensive reaction and you didn't even GET to the site, you simply heard about its existence and formed an extensive opinion. FYI: it's run by NASA and collects safety incident reports from pilots and flight crew, air traffic controllers, mechanics, and so on.

Reports have at times been as detailed as reporting that crew determined that a passenger's device caused interference with navigation equipment by observing the effect of repeatedly powering the device on and off. This isn't what the site is for, it's more generally about safety incidents.

The interesting thing about this to me is that it's not exactly inexplicable for devices to emit RF radiation when they shouldn't, or for equipment to not be shielded as well as it should, but engineering-minded people are often inclined to treat this like someone sighted a flying saucer.

edit: if that seems too much like an attack, I can tell you that I thought the whole thing was idiotic until I started digging into the reports and occasionally talking to people about the issue.
While this clearly seems far fetched, it is the actual state of law today.

If fifteen years ago you had told me that these laws would be used to prosecute teenagers who take pictures of themselves, or of teenagers who have consensual sex with each other, I would have thought it absurd. No prosecutor could be that insane, right? And yet here we are.

When I was 16 (23 years ago), I dated an 18 year old. It's shocking to think that she could have been thrown in jail. This state of things is unnaceptable.
I use Excel a ton and do quite a bit VBA programming in my workbooks. I don't know what I'd do without names. I cant recall the last time I used a raw cell address. It is a nightmare trying to keep track of the ranges and gets exponentially worse when you have a multisheet workbook that has many references to cells on other sheets.
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