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But you may have run across monads. What are they, if not a design pattern for "dealing with global state"?

No, monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors ©

Jokes aside, there are monads for function application, for software transactional memory, for prolog's backtracking, for call/cc, for quantum computations and for running BASIC programs. And many more

Can you stop saying “design patterns” please?
Why should the TSA care how much US travelers hate them? Minimizing traveler ire does not affect their funding.
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Say I want to work for Google, want no more than 15 minutes commute, and want to live in a house of ~2400 sq.f (which I live in right now).
How much would it cost me per month (both net and gross, considering that I have to pay taxes prior to paying my rent)?
It's because if you change your mind frequently enough, people stop listening to you or giving your opinion any weight. I'm not saying this is right, or that it occurs as often as is feared, but it is the fear, and it does occur.
I fail to see why voting for someone who you already know will not win is a satisfying experience, especially when repeated year after year.

You seem to be using extravagant rhetoric ("patently false", "send a very clear message") to justify your ideas, rather than thinking realistically about the presidential electoral system. The RNC and DNC are not losing sleep over third-party presidential voters -- as we all can see, they're focusing on spending hundreds of millions of dollars elsewhere.

Only for a very few fleeting times in the country's recent history have third parties had influence at the presidential level other than as spoilers or cult-of-personality gadflies (Nader, Perot). There are overwhelming structural impediments to third party presidents.
hey, this is really cool! How do I get it on the ipad? (I can't wait to try it out)
Ohhhh, nice! This is sick, I could see using this as a way better CopyCopter replacement.
Wow, that's barely worth anyone's time. They must not really care that much.
I would argue that this is the defining factor in what makes someone intelligent or not. If you're always revising your ways of thinking about a problem, your probability of converging on a solution is vastly greater than someone with a narrow, one-track focus. In fact, another article on the HN homepage (http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/streams-of-consciousness...) elaborates on this point of trying multiple "solution paths" to arrive at an answer to a problem.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of people get it in their head that they've discovered the "right way" and dismiss every other idea. This problem is particularly notorious in subjects like quantum mechanics. The field is so confusing that people find some kind of local comprehension maximum that they get stuck in and refuse to budge from that sort of ideology (which is often the wrong ideology by the way since QM is such a deep subject. Throw some quantum field theory or standard model physics at a quantum chemistry professor or TA and they won't know what to make of it).

To give a more concrete example: did you know that a spinning ball weighs more than the same ball when it is stationary? Tell this to someone decently knowledgable in physics and there's a good chance they'll argue vehemently against you based on their misunderstanding (or misinformation) of what they've learned in the past. Sometimes the effort to convince someone of an idea like this isn't worth the time; these people are locked into one way of thinking and take it as an affront to their ego. There's limited intelligence here. Don't want to be like this? Don't get angry when someone challenges you. That's the best way to start. I've never understood why so many people get upset if you try to point out a flaw in their reasoning. I've noticed this sort of anger much less frequently on HN (on the other hand, there's significantly more "you're wrong" posts than a normal discussion board).

In fact, do a little experiment if you wish. Look through HN stories and find places where people challenge each other in the comments. If you notice someone who says "you know what -- you're correct" or "yeah, that makes more sense", there's a good chance they make a lot of intelligent posts on here. If you find someone that never concedes to anyone else, it's likely they are locked into one and only one way of thinking and are unlikely to ever do anything considered "genius".
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Excellent project. I noticed you released a video demo in 2010. Do you have examples or documentation on the latest updates?
> The hypothetical cleverest, most correct person possible would be right 100% of the time and therefore would never change their opinion because changing it would go from right to wrong.

The problem with this, is that most opinions are applied to most circumstances in highly contextual ways. What's the best database? It's one thing to talk about it in abstract and another entirely to talk about it for a specific project.

> Therefore a simplistic view is that the closer to that person you are, the better. Some people may even think they are that person.

When human knowledge, technology, and political circumstances mostly changed slowly, this was a good heuristic. Now, it's pretty rotten. It's better to take things up one level of indirection and instead of observing their opinions, note how they absorb new knowledge and circumstances instead. Observe if they are a good listener. Observe if they can alter their mental model in the light of new facts.

> Some people may even think they are that person.

Stay away from that person! Things change too fast nowadays. Look for the "beginner's mind."

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Poison is about dosage and duration. The dose during the flight may be the same, but the duration certainly is not.
Actually, I got the timezones from WikiPedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone) not Windows. I manually went through the WikiPedia list and built up the list. Then I have a checkbox; is daylight savings [ ].

The name list is just one or two major cities. The assumption is users know their offset.

I appreciate your comments thought.
Why would this man agree to interviewed? Does he like the attention? Does he actually regret his actions? Does he like when others think of him in disgust? His intentions here are suspect to me. Possibly one more troll?
Exactly right. Unsubscribe from all of the default subs, then find specific subs for your interests and subscribe to them.
I understand it in a similar way...

People like security and therefore stability, it's one of our basic needs. We like stable environment, including people's opinions. Imagine everyone changes their opinion all the time, it could be fun but not everyone would like that :)

Also, people who often change opinions may look dishonest, opportunistic and unpredictable.
> I'm still opting out because it's a blatant violation of the 4th amendment

Aren't you still being searched by hand when you opt out, though? It that much different?
Consistent opinions are a good thing as long as unbiased, informed data continues to support that choice. One must know, though, that it's not infallible, but it's good enough, given the information provided.

Consistency is good. Blind devotion is bad.
3x in pay just by moving from Memphis to Annapolis?

That means you were grossly underpaid and could likely get 2x increase just by changing employer and staying in Memphis.
I feel this weird sense of camaraderie with you since I've been getting the same call from the same number over the past few months. :P

Somewhat akin to having gone through the same class together under a terrible teacher.
On my Mac every textbox has emacs thanks to OSX's NeXT heritage. On my Windows box every textbox has emacs thanks to XKeymacs[1]. That's one area where I think emacs users have a leg up on Vim users, our editing style can be configured to work almost everywhere you input text.

[1] https://github.com/fujieda/xkeymacs
He didn't say it originated from jQuery. The question is solid, because jQuery is probably the most used implementation.
You could start tonight. Master your art, choose your weapon - django or flask - and hit the ground running. oh and have fun.
> The problem with this, is that most opinions are applied to most circumstances in highly contextual ways. What's the best database? It's one thing to talk about it in abstract and another entirely to talk about it for a specific project.

That doesn't prevent someone from being right 100% of the time. It may prevent them from saying "x is the best database", but not from saying "x is the best for y use, z is the best for... etc"

The problem is with the fact that no-one is capable of always being right, not that the hypothetical person couldn't always be right.
> "Every now and then I get a phone call from http://mrnumber.com/1-360-460-5964 on my cell that blares a ship's horn into my ear, saying I can get a free cruise trip."

I get that exact call constantly. It's quite fortunate actually, the blaring fog horn is very immediately tells me "you can hang up now" without having to think too much.
Ask any tech-inclined person in NYC and they will freely tell you that Yelp are scumbags
Hmm, that just might be what I'm looking for. I haven't really entertained a plasma since they initially launched and at the time weren't all that amazing.
I was rather encouraged by the headline, only to discover that instead of ripping out unnecessary security theater they're actually just wasting more money on new machines. Man do the companies making those things ever have good lobbyists! By screwing up they actually get even more business!
As a person who graduated 10 months back, I am not disagreeing with you that the raw numbers look crazy. However, when you normalize those taking into account environmental factors that I mentioned (housing, food and other expenses), I am not convinced you save remarkably more than you would in a different part of the country. Again, this is anecdotal evidence based on me living in SF and Austin, and knowing what salaries look like in both places.
It's a weird fall from grace for violentacrez.

Redditors, in general, loved what he did. His subreddits were hugely popular; /r/jailbait was once voted subreddit of the year by the community, and he himself was once moderator of the year.

Now he has been unmasked he is facing the wrath of the wider population, which doesn't 'get' Internet humor, the tongue-in-cheek nature of trolling, will never admit to finding teenagers attractive, etc. Meanwhile, in distancing themselves from him, the Reddit staff have thrown him under the bus.

You can see why it's tricky for him. Part of me thinks he doesn't really have anything to apologize for.
I agree. I never had a problem with my 3S screen until I had my 4S and turned on the 3S a few months later... looks terrible.
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People don't think about the fact that you'll start off every morning with a "full tank." The 80kW ModelS has a range of 250 miles, what % of your trips are more than that?
So the TSA is saying “if something slows down the lines enough and costs us headcount, we will eventually make changes?”

Sounds like a great argument to keep opting out!
Given the choice between getting felt up through my clothes and having a naked picture taken, i'll take the feel up every time.

That, and I flatly do not trust these machines and who's administering them. It's a matter of when, not if someone (or lots of someones) gets a bad dose of radiation through these things.
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I wouldn't say 'many', a while ago that was more true, but recently all the ones I've tried work fine with this trick, whereas only about half the videos play in 'desktop' safari sans flash.
You can't also drive the PCH at 75mph... trade-offs :)

(and that's probably even a bit slow for I5)
I'm with you on the whole government intrusion thing. I haven't flown since 9/11 because all of the security BS. My career has probably taken a hit, but we all gotta take a stand somewhere.
I don't think this will work well for investors. The best deals in Silicon Valley go to the best angels who generally don't need a website to be able to get in on the deal. There is no shortage of access to capital for proper companies in SV. The investors who put in small amounts of capital generally aren't going to see returns on investment because startups are just too risky.

Look at CircleUp for what I believe is a better model -- crowd funded capital for semi-established consumer brands.
>> what it would cost to maintain a similar standard of living in two different cities.

What is would cost to maintain a similar standard of living, when spending all of your money where you live. (like most families with kids :) )

Someone who saves $20k/year or spends large amounts on travel would have a much higher standard of living in SF than Minneapolis.
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I love how dissenting opinions get downvoted like this on HN. Moskie was not hostile or otherwise in violation of the site guidelines; this is exactly the type of comment that should not be downvoted.
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Money quote by the PR person.

> The radiation risk and privacy concerns had no bearing on the decision, Castelveter said.

/sigh
Getting to the new insight is only one reason why people change their opinions.

Often people change their argument istead because at new time different position benefits them most. Or because they don't think trough what they are saying. Or there are simply people who like to win. In my experience the later ones happen lot more often than people getting better understanding.

Changing opinions in smart people are often not oposites of previous one, but upgrade of previous position.
when are you going to open the Django section?
It's good PR for him, a chance to humanize himself, to explain his actions, and to appear somewhat remorseful.

He's not some vile monster, he's just a regular family man who enjoyed a bit of Internet trolling in his spare time. He didn't do anything illegal, and throughout his time on Reddit he was being cheered on by a broadly supportive community.
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"chasing votes"

Or perhaps another way of looking at it is they are trying to represent voters better. Since that's, well, their job.

We should not get onto politicians for representing voters, rather than themselves. Changing their approach to public policy is a very good way for a public official to better represent voters.
> Backscatter doesn't pose any health risk to travelers. You get a much higher dose of radiation from the flight.

Backscatter is set up so that the majority of the energy is deposited in your skin. The problem comes from the fact that most of the data we've collected is with X-rays that deposit their energy evenly throughout your body's volume. The heuristics based on that data erroneously suggest that skin is one of the least cancer prone tissues. However, we know on the basis of microbiology that this isn't the case. It's only because the skin constitues a small fraction of the absorption cross section of the entire body that biases the numbers this way.

This is a "spherical cow" assumption applied by self-interested bureaucrats. Such an oversight wouldn't be allowed in a PhD thesis defense. Why is it allowed when applied to the health and well being of hundreds of millions of people?

Yes, the dose is low, but the geometry of the delivery is radically different. For something that affects so many, more testing is warranted.

The only real health concerns are for the workers who are exposed to them continuously.

I agree that that's also a major issue.
Maybe there will be a new anonymous jail-breaker on the scene?
I'd say your claim of no health risk is premature. Backscatter X-ray focuses the ionizing radiation on the surface of your skin and immediately underlying tissue, so the effective local dose on your skin is much higher than other types of X-ray which are distributed evenly throughout your body. This is of particular concern to men, whose reproductive organs are located near the surface of the skin, as X-ray exposure to reproductive organs in parents is associated with leukemia in their children. For medical X-rays, measures are taken to limit exposure to reproductive organs.
Development of free software never stops. It only pauses until someone picks up a fork.
I find the people complaining about X-Ray scanners in airports as if they're some unprecedented weakening of the 4th amendment to be a little bit silly. Where we're you guys in the 70's, 80's, and 90's, when things like stop and frisk destroyed the 4th amendment for inner city minorities?
> Backscatter doesn't pose any health risk to travelers.

But we really don't know that, because no studies have been done using this equipment. In addition to concerns that the radiation, while lower in total than that absorbed during a flight, is absorbed over a much smaller volume of tissue, adequate validation that the machines can't break in dangerous ways hasn't been performed (and even the most basic detection mechanisms for failure such as having the operators wear dosimeters have been neglected or banned outright). It violates every principle of radiation safety.
I think a more important advice than follow the ultradian rhythm is simply to sleep enough. The negative effects on productivity of insufficient sleep are severe but hard to recognize. It's a widespread problem, half of everyone doesn't sleep enough.

I struggle with this myself. I've noticed that if i consciously sleep in excess of 8 hours a night every night my productivity jumps, but i always tend to drift back to 7 hours sleep.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" - Emerson.

When I first read that quote in early High School I didn't understand it. It was the kind of thing that ate at me, I could not get what he was trying to say. To me, consistency was an important part of life; the old adage that you stick to your word. However, that quote transcends the idea of being consistent, because when you often make decisions without all of the information (especially in startups). As new information becomes available, you have to incorporate it into your decision. Sometimes it makes you look like a dick, or someone that doesn't know what direction they want to go to, but that's where different skills (leadership and sales) come in to be able to hold people together.
Steve Jobs was also well known for his strong, but changing, opinions.
Your philosophy needs a bit more development.

The first order of business in designing a democracy is figuring out how to mitigate the tyranny of the majority. Read the Federalist Papers. I wrote this a couple days ago: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4658896

To answer your question, the answer is "Everyone." The problem is that while this is technically true already (that's what consent of the governed is), the purpose of democracy is to make it explicit and transparent so that it can be criticized and reacted to.
Beyond /r/jailbait being voted subreddit of the year, and violentacrez moderator of the year, violentacrez was an important factor in Reddit's rise to prominence.

He drove a huge amount of traffic to the site in the early days with his porn subreddits.
I am not sure it is that simple. The bay area just beats the crap of other places hands down when it comes to starting companies.

Let us look at one of the closest competitors: Austin. This is a city that has a great cultural scene, no state taxes, cheap living, and a good C.S. school close by to get candidates. Yet, there are hardly any software startups in the Austin area. Most folks who graduated with me moved to the bay area. There are more latent variables in what makes the San Francisco bay area tick. If this is the case for Austin's competition, I am not sure how easy it would be for one to inorganically make a city, say in the deep South, become an innovation capital?
It's not at all improbable that I was underpaid, though I highly doubt that I could have gotten 2x.

It's also worth noting that I switched career paths at the same time and moved from a strictly engineering role to an enterprise architecture role.
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Some important restrictions to be aware of:

If I register my number on the National Do Not Call Registry, will it stop all telemarketing calls?

No. Placing your number on the National Do Not Call Registry will stop most telemarketing calls, but not all.
Because of limitations in the jurisdiction of the FTC and FCC, calls from or on behalf of political organizations,
charities, and telephone surveyors would still be permitted, as would calls from companies with which you have an
existing business relationship, or those to whom you’ve provided express agreement in writing to receive their
calls. However, if you ask a company with which you have an existing business relationship to place your number on
its own do-not-call list, it must honor your request. You should keep a record of the date you make the request.

Are calls from political organizations or calls soliciting for charities covered?

Political solicitations are not covered by the TSR at all, since they are not included in its definition of
“telemarketing.” Charities are not covered by the requirements of the national registry. However, if a third-party
telemarketer is calling on behalf of a charity, a consumer may ask not to receive any more calls from, or on behalf
of, that specific charity. If a third-party telemarketer calls again on behalf of that charity, the telemarketer
may be subject to a fine of up to $16,000.
It's a great idea, but it seems ridiculous how even simple arithmetic gets translated to an unreadable mess of javascript.

puts 4 + 2 + 5 + (19 + 3 * 4) - 8 / 10

translates to:

(function() {
var __opal = Opal, self = __opal.top, __scope = __opal, nil = __opal.nil, __breaker = __opal.breaker, __slice = __opal.slice;
var __a, __b, __c, __d, __e, __f, __g, __h;
return self.$puts((__a = (__c = (__e = (__g = 4, __h = 2, typeof(__g) === 'number' ? __g + __h : __g['$+'](__h)), __f = 5, typeof(__e) === 'number' ? __e + __f : __e['$+'](__f)), __d = (__e = 19, __f = (__g = 3, __h = 4, typeof(__g) === 'number' ? __g * __h : __g['$*'](__h)), typeof(__e) === 'number' ? __e + __f : __e['$+'](__f)), typeof(__c) === 'number' ? __c + __d : __c['$+'](__d)), __b = (__c = 8, __d = 10, typeof(__c) === 'number' ? __c / __d : __c['$/'](__d)), typeof(__a) === 'number' ? __a - __b : __a['$-'](__b)))
})();
Maybe not in an immediate or significant way, but over time the negative public perception and constituent complaints might affect Congress come budget time.

(Please don't downvote me for being naïve.)
It's not hate, it's a big sigh. Like -- jeeeeeeez. Some cool stuff bubbles up in Redmond once in a while, and it gets squashed, hobbled, cancelled, thwarted, squeezed, hidden.
If you are single or DINK (dual-income-no-kids) and don't really need more than one-bedroom apartment - you would probably be better off living in Bay Area and working for Google (or whatever). That way you would be able to accumulate cash faster or travel internationally a lot more.

With kids - it's better live in a provincial suburb, have big house with nice backyard while working for 30% smaller salary.