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Exactly, gen Y isn't choosing not to buy cars primarily out of concern for the environment, it's that cars are expensive to buy, expensive to maintain, and expensive to run.

As a gen Y person myself, I've also noticed that a lot of things I might potentially afford that are marketed toward me aren't worth buying. In my opinion, all three current gen game consoles have great technology and terrible games. Why buy fashionable clothes, the clothing I have works just as well, and doesn't cost hundreds of dollars? A new car? Why take out a loan on a car whose value goes drastically down the moment I sign the paperwork?

In an economy where I'm lucky to have a few hundred dollars after I pay my bills and eat for the month, I save most of that for the next time I get sick without health insurance, the computer breaks down, or my car stops running.
How much has password cracking improved?
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There are apps (such as Filer) that make opening zip files relatively painless on the iPad.

That being said, using a site that zips everything sounds really annoying.
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> It's not all that expensive to blow yourself up.

9/11 was estimated to have required ~$400-500k. And I'd say it'd be quite a bit more expensive to repeat that feat these days.
Oh, I hadn't made the connection between those and the general statement. Thanks for the clarification.
Thanks for the kind comments Peter.

Yeah, filtering was one of the things we had planned but we just ran out of time to do it properly. Once the judging is over we'll take a look at it.
When the market raises salaries, it is based on ability.

I don't believe this at all, and in fact for teachers I think salaries and compensation have been effectively lowered with respect to their increased responsibilities over the decades. Put simply, teachers are sandbagged. See also: the fundamental attribution error, where an interesting thought experiment can be had by imagining entire occupations subject to its whims.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/06/leveson-...
this would be true if "western world" == USA. But it isn't. It's a subset of it, and certainly not true for all the western countries.
> Regarding what Einstein had to say, it can be easily detracted by multiple arguments that are usually a cause of long and heated discussions on HN for those who do not understand and support economics and free markets.

Feel free to flag. Personally, I prefer to leave the "socialism vs capitalism" debates to Reddit/Facebook.
The costs are also very difficult to determine, where $1 sounds a bit high to me. Lets try to do some random estimates for a random game: 30% of the users wont touch the game whatsoever, and will just have it on their "list". Of the buyers, 0.5% will require some sort of support effort in relation , where 65% are handled by the auto-response and 30% by the first email by an employe.

Say a total of 5,000 downloads are from this "free" coupon for any specific game title. Would $500 or $5000 sound closers to the actually hosting/support cost that the publisher has.
Is there a word for market based socialism? You know capitalism with hair cut upside (taxation) and a hard floor protected low side (poverty).

For example - in a developed world most people don't want anyone (lest themselves) to starve, be unable to afford an education for their children, be unemployed or be unable to access life saving healthcare.

However we must also encourage innovation and hard work (don't cap upside - just hair cut it for public utility use - aka taxation) - so people should be allowed to earn more - but they are not allowed to fall below the poverty line - ever. This is good for a mass market based economy that requires a large middle class with a decent amount of disposable income (1 rich person = 1 pair of jeans, whereas for an equivalent amount of wealth 1000 middle class people = 1000 jeans from the rich person).

If the pie is growing just like the market fundamentalists say - well then there's no problem with this. Just keep growing - you'll have more in the end - and pay for your disproportionate benefit from the use of public/common goods - aka suck it up and share children.

Indeed - with the automation I see coming within the next 2 decades - a lot of these free market fundamentalists will be, quite frankly, out of a job.

I look forward to mass unemployment.
Unfortunately, in the most widely used Email client (Outlook), it will show up as

"(your app's info) on behalf of (user's info)"

So at a casual glance, the mail will still look as if it's coming from your app. Replies will go to your app's address too.

While a good idea in theory, this behavior of Outlook kind of renders the Sender header useless.
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I wish he would provide any citations for that claim.

Wonder if he is aware that men die on average ten years earlier than women? Or that the human population is descendant from twice as many women as men, meaning men are much less likely to reproduce? (http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/is-there-anyt... )

I think the latter is a pretty damning point, given that reproducing is pretty important to the human condition. So perhaps there are more video games that cater to male needs, but that doesn't help much with the stuff that matters, like having children.

I am not even sure what exactly he refers to by easy mode. What was the easy mode I got that women don't get?
What if the needs of society and the needs of the individual are in opposition? Who works the coal mines in socialism's utopia?
Thanks for the comments. :)

Yep, the ranking mechanism is based mostly off of altmetrics, but we also modify the score based on the number of clicks through to the article, or the discuss* page and the age of the article (similar to the HN decay algorithm), plus a few other things.

* so this sort of does the upvote thing, but in a more subtle way - having the filtered list sounds like a great idea though!
Rumble was fun! We finished our app it can be found at http://www.fixmyglobe.com

Looking forward too see what others did.
> "(although it has failed quite miserably so far when it comes to Hispanic and African Americans)."

I wouldn't exactly describe African Americans as immigrants per se... It seems to imply a level of volunteerism that simply wasn't there.

Anyways, that's a nitpick.

> "Note that I'm talking about implementing stricter immigration policies going forward, not getting rid of people who are already here."

Right, but how do you know there aren't any bad apples in the people who are already here?

Also bear in mind that of all Muslim terrorists who have committed an act of terrorism on American soil, many were visitors to the US, not immigrants. Do you believe we should also restrict Muslim visitation of the USA?

How many more extremists do you think we will create within the existing Muslim population if we essentially had a big "Muslims go home" sign at every border checkpoint? What would it to do in terms of our desire to assimilate these immigrants?

Your idea is fun to think about, but IMO it's not realistic. There are too many moving pieces for "no more Muslims in the US" to be a realistic policy choice.

Not to mention the costs would be rather high. Go to any of the top US schools and look at both the grad student and professor rosters, count the people of Middle Eastern decent or of Muslim faith. These are all huge wins for American society - both in talent addition and talent denial to rival regimes. Do you really want all of these people to, say, go work for the Chinese? Or Iran?

US hegemony is ensured in large (and put large in big screaming rainbow marquee letters) part by talent acquisition. We took much of Europe's best scientific talent after WW2, and we continued mopping up all the smartest and most talented people from all over the globe - Japan, China, India, the whole Eastern Bloc, and beyond. The US's lead over everyone else is economic and technological - leaving a whole swathe of educated immigrants on the table seems to go very firmly against this model. Slamming the door shut on immigration would be like starving yourself so you don't have to poop - it would work, but why?
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I hereby propose that the term "hate speech" be written as one word: hatespeech. It's Newspeak, and we should spell it as such.
I created one for him simply by renaming the example.html file and host on github. Zero credit claimed.

http://chengyin.github.com/Balloon
> I'm realising that Twitter is becoming mostly low content replies

I'm more surprised that it took you this long to realize that. That statement sounds bit like realizing that 4chan has mostly low quality comments.
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Robots duh.

Your name is John Galt - however your ideas are decidedly 18th century. You do realise that a great deal of work is now automated.

Oh and libertarianism is just a tad lower at 3rd grade.

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Me: If you walk all the way over here you can have this toy.

Baby: Walks Takes toy

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Baby: MINE!

Me: Ok then.
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Even version 8.03 (august 20120)seems to be free (http://imperavi.com/webdownload/redactor/getold/), the new licenses got apparently introduced in 8.1.0, which adds a plugin system and some other stuff (http://imperavi.com/redactor/log/)
"pure javascript" ?
> In the 13 years he was in Mecca, he attained 150 followers. In Medina he embraced war, assassination, slave-taking and robbery. By the time he died, all of Arabia was muslim.

So would you please care to provide evidence to this assertion? How someone with a mere 150 followers could control a whole nation ?
I assume you mean s/scrap/scrape/.
I still found it interesting to read about your experiences, so I am bit sorry I worded my comment so strongly. To me it wasn't useful in the context of those two articles, but of course it is useful to hear about your personal experiences as an independent data point.
On a logarithmic scale I can easily get halfway to the top of Mount Everest by walking onto some hill. Doesn't mean I should claim I went there.

It seems the highest a balloon ever went was 53km. SpaceShipOne went to the 100km and it took them a lot more effort. The altitude record for jet aircraft is 37,650m, this is about the same as the height he jumped from and seems be a better comparison to me.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_altitude_record
Systems which are similar to this include both the Nordic model and social market economies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_market_economy
Consider marginal utility. 100th glass of water is probably useless for you. Also, in some situations a person may value something higher than a glass of water, even if he's thirsty.
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Your dosage was probably too high if it made you feel abnormally different.

Though I agree people with adhd each have their self medications. Mine was actually music growing up. My best friend likes cars.

Can you read text books and stuff? I have a hard time studying code, thinking about problems without my meds.

Are you inattentive too? Or just hyperactive?
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I think you don't have to believe theory x to experience it first, though. You can also just try it out - "assume that x is true, what are the consequences".

I think a person's own experience should always form the bottom line of their world view, though. Otherwise you simply get completely lost. How do you know whom to believe? There will always be people claiming contradicting things. Ultimately you have to at least trust yourself. At least I have drawn that line for myself at some point. I still take into account that I could be wrong, but to sway me, more is required than a mere "believe me, I have more experience than you".

Of course there are also things where it doesn't really matter. Not every decision questions my whole world view. If I work together with somebody more experiences and they say "let's stick to Postgres instead of using MongoDB" or whatever, I have no problems following their advice (I would then perhaps try MongoDB on another, less risky occasion).
I want a Firefox preference or extension that makes all sticky elements into ordinary, non-sticky elements so that I never have to experience sticky HTML elements.
I call it "band-pass capitalism". Its socialism at the top and bottom, but a band in the middle is capitalism.

The upside is that no one is ever homeless, the downside is that no one can really make enough to buy a Caribbean island just for themselves.

I'm in favor. It seems like what we're fumbling towards anyway, we're just doing it poorly right now.
Pure, as opposed to using a library like jQuery. Plain would have been a better word.
Man! I'm noticing so many bugs and stuff. Not being able to change, fix, or edit this until next week is going to drive me crazy.
It is one of the minor features mentioned in what's new, but support for 'posix_spawn' is very important for users like me who want to use OpenBSD for software development.
One problem, which I suppose is hard to do something about, is that lines are not hyphenated. Blocks of text looks much more aesthetically pleasing if they are. That's the reason I'm reluctantly still writing my CV in Latex - it's the only software that handles hyphenation and kerning really well.
I've never heard of Valve removing single games from an account before. It's common knowledge though that if you ever do a charge back for a purchased game they shut down your account and it becomes irrecoverable.

It's a blanket policy and a reason why I never use Paypal for Steam, use a real or "throw-away" credit card for Steam purchases. Alternatively, you could not buy from Steam at all, I don't anymore but it's too late for me. I already have over 200 games with them and worry about losing access to everything.
If you just kept an eye out for recent updates and looked to see who had added them you could totally beat someone to a scoop. Or am I missing something?
I'd better say this while I still can.

Government is broken.
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The author fails to mention that different countries in the west have vastly different free speech laws. He then goes on to use examples from multiple countries to prove his 4 main points.

Am I expected to believe that the UK and the USA have the same free speech laws? UK libel law, which he doesn't even bring up, is regularly used to restrict free speech. German laws against denying the holocaust, which he never brings up, restrict free speech.

I fail to see this imminent common threat facing western free speech through his omissions and forced equating of examples from multiple jurisdictions.
Following passion is a good thing. But it's simple to say, not as somple to do - you still have to make your living. Kinda "catch 22"... I felt same way when I graduated college and found myself thinking about it more and more. Once it got all over me - I knew I had to make my choice.
It's hard - but if you're seriously thinking about turning your life to another path, which I guess you are, take a break for a few days and think deep. But if you make the approach to change your lifestyle, get ready to work twice as much to succeed for real.
Maybe my english isn't good enough for this article, but I don't have any clue what is meant with "RA" in this context. Neither the dictionary nor a quick google/wikipedia search gave any sensible explaination.

What is the "RA" of a student?

Is this story supposed to be fully understood by US citizens only?
Hyperfocus is just a form of self medication. People with ADHD find things they are stimulated by, grow a dependence on it and through practice naturally become great at those things. This is a misconception to consider "many hours of practice" as "adhd gifts".

I dont think it is a gift at all, rather the only option we end up having to escape.
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When facebook started doing this for groups it took me a while to work out how to filter the emails (I don't read email unless it comes from a real person - facebook group interactions, since they are scattergun announcements, don't count as real people..)

The answer ended up being to configure facebook's byzantine settings on a per-group basis, which still means I get hit for 5 or 10 messages when someone adds me to a group, and before I can get to the web interface to 'unsubscribe'.

This spammy RA would be less of a problem, as it would be easy to filter one Tabule user - but it does make it a pain to have a "MailingLists/Tabule" gmail label containing all the Facebook/Tabule/whatever messages!
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Thanks for the suggestion! Just added that to the CSS; everything will be hyphenated now.

Anything else you'd like to see in there? CSS3 handles most (all?) of what LaTeX can do that would be useful here, and this only needs to render properly in wkhtmltopdf.
I don't know if you are joking or not (I'm guessing you are), but I'll take a bite at this.

Those ceramic tiles have to be placed in the right alignments to dissipate heat. So we are now talking about a rigid 'suit'. So for the rigid structure we'll need reinforcements and ways to move and handle stress and structural load at high velocities - we don't want that transmitted into the human body. (We've tested supersonic velocities, but not re-entry)

The parachute will also have to expand in size to handle the extra weight. Going down this line I we soon get to a point where we may as well call the whole thing a pod and be done with it.

All of it pretty much hinges on ceramic tiles needing to be oriented and then added structural weight.
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thanks eskimoroll .
>Benjamin Franklin addressed that issue "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

I'm simply stating a fact, not making a judgement call. The main thrust of my comment was the lack of plain speaking in that article. It's not a very comfortable fact, but there it is: society often makes practical, rather than principled, choices about stuff like this.

So, more about how I personally feel about it:

I think it sucks that people get so infuriated when their religious figure or texts are abused or insulted. But it seems more practical to accept that the group has a mental problem, and to treat them with special care, than to provoke and punish when they act out. And what, after all, is so hard about not insulting Mohammad? Frankly, I think it's a genrally bad idea to insult anyone anyway, and while it's annoying in some abstract way that there is ONE GUY I really shouldn't insult...well, honestly, I don't feel all that oppressed by the prospect.

>Sometimes, I wonder what's the next target after free speech.

Well, first you're kind of tacitly assuming that all free speech has been destroyed by the islamists. It hasn't. A very narrow sliver of it has, and that's a shame, but let's not overstate the impact. The impurity of free speech is abhorrent - but what does this impurity get us? Attacked less? Saves some mentally unstable people some stress? Saves some lives maybe?
What the author forgot to say is that censorship in mainstream media is not a cage. Its a skeleton.
I call BS. I actually just finished a project that we first evaluated Appcelerator and Sencha as a cross platform solution.

I can say the only time I would ever recommend either is if you have complete control over the UI and design of the app - meaning go with standard look and feel of either framework, but don't expect to easily go beyond that.

If however you have a client come to you asking about cross platform, and they have a designer or their own vision for how the app will look - stay away from these "cross platform" frameworks. You will quickly be backed into a corner.
"Why Socialism?"

Mao's Chinese Communism

Hitler's National Socialist German Workers Party

Stalin's Soviet Bolshevism

Saddam Hussein's Arab Baath Socialist Party (Iraq edition)

Bashir Assad's Arab Baath Socialist Party (Syria edition)

Slobodan Milosovic's Serbian Socialist Party

Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge

Benito Mussolini: Member of Parliament for the Italian Socialist Party at age 24.

The Ayatollah Khomenei's Islamic Socialism (as he called it)
MIND is a non-profit and a neuroscience research institute, with the mission of improving Math education.

With all the hype around computer-based instruction, a big part of that goal has to be the ability to measure and demonstrate positive results on a large scale. With limited resources, the focus is on deploying the program direct to schools and providing the teacher training and support to make sure that the kids get the most benefit from it.
By fake additional anecdote I didn't mean your story, I meant that you took Laura's story and turned it into an anecdote supporting your view, because having the same beginnings, surely her story would eventually end the same as yours.

Anyway, as I wrote in another comment, I actually thought your personal story is interesting. I just couldn't cope with the "I learned that I was wrong, and so will you" aspect of it.
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That would apply to real-time simulations. But wouldn't every layer run successively slower? The inhabitants wouldn't notice how fast their simulation is running in the (grand)parent universe. So given infinite time the layering could be infinitely deep.
>Who's going to write it? How about the writers for The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, The Wilson Quarterly, The Economist, The Paris Review, etc. I could fill up the length of a long-form article with names of publications that have long-form writing.

Aren't those guys already writing for those outlets?

Plus, I don't know much about the others, but the Atlantic went from a high quality outlet I've followed for decades, to a lower quality rag, after Bradley lost most of the stuff in 2005. It's online presence, now, is even more abysmal, for people who value good journalism and the old Atlantic.
According to a community manager. EA is honoring all sales made with the coupon. I was kind of expecting EA to ban some people or revoke access to some games. But I guess they just ended the promotion early. Although EA does seem to be getting some complaints from people who filled out the survey and didn't get to use the coupon.

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/60/9040620.page