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we don't consider that a prerequisite for rights in humans by any reasonable interpretation.

You miss my point. It's not a requirement for any individual, but it IS a requirement for members of a species in general. Most humans are functioning members of society. The ones that aren't, whether it's temporary or permanent are protected implicitly and explicitly through social contract and the laws we've created.

No dolphin will ever be a functioning member of our society, thus dolphins are not part of society, thus dolphins do not take on the responsibilities of being in a relationship with humans, thus dolphins are not entitled to parallel status.
I think the term more accurately describes the north nowadays, so why not use it?

The DPRK deserves to be ridiculed.
So tired of this meme. Humans are like a virus in the way that every species on the planet is like a virus. Look no further than invasive species to see that any form of life given the ability to expand it's population will do exactly that. The majority of species reach what we view as 'an equilibrium' because they run into the constraints of their environment on a scale small enough for us to make note of, but humans do the exact same thing; only our scale is the entire planet and we haven't run into the constraints yet. The moment humans were intelligent enough to form agriculture is the moment humans inherited this planet.
Thank you - v interesting
Issues? I find that Commission Junction affiliates can't even get their links right all the time which is basically their entire business. Talk about a "shotgun" approach...
Why the iPad Mini is priced at $329
That's like saying your first test would be "complete project management system". That's not what you do. My first test for driving was "gentleman mid-pack", for biz, it was "$4K/month revenue". For Basecamp, the first test was probably "add a single post".
I would guess the majority of sales were the iPad Mini. I went in yesterday with my gf to buy a retina iPad, and the sales guy assumed we wanted the mini, which they were almost completely out of. When he understood we wanted a full size, that wasn't a problem - he didn't have to check their inventory count.

That doesn't say anything about cannabalization either way, just that I think there's a lot of Minis out there now
Safe to say that Obama is very popular with HN :)
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I find this line of thought extremely tedious. We have never improved as a society by lining up all of our concerns in a nicely organized list by priority, and then tackling everything on the agenda sequentially.

I am reminded of people who scoff at giving money to bums on the grounds that it is an inefficient form of charity. In most cases, here is what happens:

1. Bum asks X for spare change.

2. X thinks "That's not an efficient way to give. I would be better off donating the couple bucks in my pocket to a charity that I have researched carefully."

3. "Sorry I don't have anything on me."

4. X goes and spends the money on a cup of coffee and completely forgets about the incident.

Now, obviously that's not what always happens. But it's what usually happens, and it's ridiculous. I've had people tell me that instead of giving money to homeless people, I should go buy fast food and hand it out. Of course, when asked if they have ever done this themselves, the answer is invariably "no". It's so easy to do nothing instead of something if you can convince yourself that the something is not the absolute ideal.

Finally, affording dolphins human rights is not in conflict with affording humans human rights. We will not delay the process of preventing human rights abuses by also preventing the abuse of dolphins. To ask the question "How can we think about giving dolphins basic rights when so many humans don't have basic rights?" may feel righteous, but it certainly doesn't actually do anything to help either cause. All it does is to reassure yourself that you don't need to worry about the dolphin situation.
What do you have to say about the comment left by crusso above?
The office of the presidency has more power than you think it does. The president is expected to set the legislative agenda, meaning that he or she has a lot of influence over what the houses of congress will talk about. ie, the ability to block the agenda of others using veto power until they agree to discuss certain issues. The past several presidents have had control of at least one body of congress, and the majority leader will usually take direction from the president on what should be on the agenda.

For example, Barack Obama has had an impact on #5 and #7 from your list. He's most likely going to make a big push on immigration reform in his next term, though it most likely won't involve H1-B visas (though he has spoken in favor of the issue, at the urging of his many silicon valley supporters).

Your point is correct that the president is not all powerful. But if he or she really wants to push for any of the items you mentioned, they have the power to make it the subject of national discussion. A president who is particularly skilled at dealing with congress (like LBJ) can go a long way toward turning bills into law.
It's showing ads now :-)
Maybe Google is not the problem if a voter's idea of political engagement is typing in "one word" and voting for whatever pops up?
Usually in this context, "self-aware" is usually used to indicate the ability to recognize one's own image, voice, smell, etc. The research referred to is mostly several experiments of showing dolphins to a mirror and determining that they can recognize a) That they are looking at a reflection, not a window, and b) They are able to distinguish themselves from other dolphins.

This only applies to one (quite narrow and literal) definition of self-awareness, mind you, but it's something you only see in apes and dolphins.
The asymmetry always existed. Weapons, education, means of transportation...
I see people arguing that with Windows 8, the synergy with WP8, ability to remotely admin this new class of devices via group policies etc, corporate will jump on Windows 8 across the line, and somehow it will out of the blue be a clear contender in what is now a two horse race.

I don't quite buy it though. The place i have seen least enthusiasm for Windows 8 is in the Enterprise.
Great post. Very similar to PG's concept that ambitious ideas should be approached obliquely (http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html).
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I was attempting to comment on those on both sides of the spectrum, the finance gurus, and who fall through the cracks or otherwise don't thrive in our educational system. But I don't think laying the blame solely on those who choose a lucrative path is being completely honest with ourselves. People as a whole respond to incentives, and when we give a genius every incentive possible to buck science and research in favor of finance, we as a society bear a large amount of responsibility for this choice. We must change what we value as a society first, then we'll see this trend reverse itself. Admittedly, I haven't the slightest clue how to accomplish this.
keen to learn rails - maybe Ghost will be a fun little project
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Yea color coding character's speech would allow for some interesting changes in structure, for example, you could have characters interrupt another without breaking the line making it much more fluid.
>"but it IS a requirement for members of a species in general."

Is it? Considering we have never before in recorded history extended such consideration to another species, it seems unlikely that there are existing standards we can look to.

There are many things you can observe "most" humans doing, but that does not mean those things are all prerequisites for special legal and ethical consideration.
Not sure where to start. How about if you imagine that a member of Society defined here:

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

Participates in one.
Can the 'American Dream' be reversed in India?
Accelerating relativistically greatly increases mass, so enlightening is indeed the safe way to avoid these problems.
OTOH, I think everyone agrees that Apple is manufacturing constrained on these things. How long did it take to manufacture those 3M iPad minis? If it takes a month to make what sells in 3 days...
There is a implied statement that cetaceans would somehow need to learn English to receive similar protections as people.

This is of course a really bad requirement. A lot of people in the world do not know English, and would thus be unable to let anyone know that they will mutually honor some sort of Interspecies Protective Treaty. Mostly, they would be unable to read any such treaty, or reply with the word "yes".

First create a requirement that all human being will pass. Then see if cetaceans do pass it.
I remember a friend in high school who I used to go on mountain bike rides with. I tried to get him in to racing, and he seemed enthusiastic. However, he said he didn't want to race until he was fast enough to win. He never participated in any races as long as I knew him. I didn't win many, but did pick off a few here and there.
Brasilia was indeed designed based on automotive travel following Corbusian urban design principals.

These principles were developed in response to the conditions found in the world's slums using a central planning concept. Gehl's approach came about a generation later (in the U.S. Jane Jacob's Life and Death of American Cities was a response to the centralized approach to improving urban spaces).

Both Gehl's and Jacobs may be criticized for failing to address the horrible conditions to which Brasilia (and the CIAM modernists) were responding. 1960's Greenwich Village and Holland don't replicate the conditions of Brazil's favelas*.
You're saying there's no evidence that the mass market would buy things they might not need just because marketing tells them they should? There are a lot of people who buy the latest clothing fashions or buy a new car every year/two years when the newest model comes out, a lot more than a "small amount of loyal customers".

How many people bought netbooks only to find out they had no real use for one? Now tell me that people wouldn't do the same thing for a product they actually do find genuinely useful. Find where that intersects with the people who have a need for the new features of the latest iPad and you'll find the number of people who are buying the newest version of the hot device simply because they want the newest version.
I wonder if the effect times out? If so, it could be reasonably construed as an attempt to present more relevant results across a session.

If, on the other hand, Google accumulates history until you sink into a morass of similar results, it's clearly harmful.
I have only run across one host that didn't have Ruby / Python available, and they were charging 4x the market rate for bad shared hosting - we easily saved $15 / month by ditching them.

Anyone that only has PHP likely also doesn't have their PHP/MySQL updated to the point that anyone should trust them.
congrats on the site, it looks great. I tried a similar thing with the now defunct pricelive.co.uk several years ago, as others have mentioned the data you get back from affiliate window, linkshare and cj etc is an absolute nightmare to deal with. It would be interesting to try using modern machine learning techniques to deal with this problem now. As far as the content matching goes, are you using elastic search's percolator for this? I always thought that would be a good match for this use case
This might be true if you're Lieutenant Commander Data, but both I and others believe that reframing ``old'' information often results in something of value. If it makes you think differently (or think at all!), then it's most certainly ``worth the time it takes to read''.
I think there may be an issue with your driving analogy.

Your goal all along seems to be to achieve flow: "After all, racing to me was all about getting access to long stretches of flow, that sensation of being so completely engrossed in an activity that you lose track of time and place."

You set yourself tasks to achieve that goal, and as each task was fulfilled, you may have realized that flow, again, required additional tasks to achieve.

However, your goals, your rules.
I thought the Cro-Magnons hunted down and ultimately exterminated the Neanderthals. Have there been any discoveries about their interaction?
Well, recall the reaction to the first iPad itself: many felt there is no need for the big one either.
I think this post title should be changed - why is the "yet" left off when it's clearly in the article title?
>It's not a requirement for any individual, but it IS a requirement for members of a species in general.

How can you possibly make that sort of generalization when there is only one species that is commonly accepted as having rights?
Never to this level of disparity.

This is satellites and fighter jets vs bows and arrows stuff.
Try to reach Seaside without a car.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncFCdCjBqcE#t=52

Baby steps out of the office.
My point isn't that everything is meaningless necessarily. I would say that the more one thinks about death the harder it is to make arguments for meaningfulness. I wouldn't make an argument for meaninglessness, I would just say that you can't really extrapolate a positive value system from the fact that life is short.

It feels like you're arguing in favor of narrowing our vantage as a way to preserve meaningfulness, which is totally valid to me. But it's basically using a belief (the meaning of temporary things as you put it) as comfort. My point, as was pointed out below, is that you may as well move but you also may as well stay still.

As an aside, it seems strange that Jobs is the illustrative example here, as if it's primitive that we should all want to be Him. Given the option to gain a problematic and presumably painful personal life and what I understand was a totally unnecessary early death along with creating apple and "changing" an arbitrarily tiny subset of human history, that seems like a very easy thing to decline. I take his decision to avoid treatment to reflect profound pain that I would love to avoid.
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That is why I led with "no insight". If it was an insightful analysis of existing information, that would be great, but it's not.
Re: Alfred/Quicksilver supposedly making OS X more keyboard friendly - The #1 use case for them is launching apps, and Spotlight (⌘-↵, Cmd-Return) searches apps, allowing you to launch them with Return.

Not saying that it's better; Alfred/Quicksilver still learn which apps you prefer to launch. It's just a vanilla alternative in case, like me, you prefer not to run nonessential background apps.
Thanks for the reply! Was only asking as with regards to CPM+CPC the major issue for everyone is fraud (to a much greater extend than CPA).

We tried other outlets for serving adverts, but with all of them trust was a huge issue for us which ultimately prevented us moving from Adwords.

Good luck with your business, looks interesting! And if you do move to CPC/CPM I hope you manage to solve the trust issue which so many competitors of yours seem to suffer.
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I think you misunderstood. I'm talking about the apps on the platforms. The devs are making slightly better apps, and they are making significantly more on iOS. As long as those continue to be true, it will compete with users as a phone and will compete with devs as a platform.
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The title appears to have been editorialized from the actual one: "Brasília: an excerpt from Urbanized". As the submitter is the site's owner, perhaps the altered title was thought to appeal more to HN? I was hoping to read about some interesting concepts that emerged from using Photoshop at the wrong zoom level.
For one picture I see in future is us inhabiting an exo-planet; and Elon Musk et al showing us that direction and so on...

In this dynamic, we as a virus race will choose the easiest way out even at the cost of all the species of this planet. 9 billion of us will, mark my words, only kill, eat or ridicule whatever that is left of the ecosystem today.

I am actually afraid about cannibalism picking up too in distant hungry countries which are already off balance today. It's pretty grim.

Dolphins will continue to be enslaved, slaughtered or even ridiculed for any "equal treatment" justified exactly the way this thread shows. Ground reality will of course be worse.

To which I do agree with your statement that "we are aware" and that there is an exit for us even though some will definitely try to mitigate, protect and stay behind.
FWIW, DNSimple (http://dnsimple.com) have been doing this for years, with a cleaner API and roughly the same pricing
The simple explanation is that, legally speaking, "do whatever you want with it" does not necessarily entitle you to do whatever you want with it.
There is some evidence of interbreeding, but more importantly, there is some evidence of cultural exchange.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cro-Magnon#Neanderthals

All if this tends to be very wishy-washy.
You've reached DH2 on Paul Graham's hierarchy of disagreement: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html . Please try responding to content, not tone.
Neither did I...
Let's switch Java for Javascript and Python for Coffeescript as far as similar syntaxes go. In any case, regardless of existing userbase, doing a forward looking project in backward looking technologies doesn't sound right to me. Go with Node, or Clojure if easily deployable today is a must.
>> Your opinion is correct but don't drag Christianity here. Christianity did enough violence on the name of non-violent Jesus. Better you talk of universal human values.

I understand your sentiment, but 1) you're making an "ad hominem" against Christianity, which I could argue is not justified but in any case is not pertinent, and 2) what you're asking ultimately doesn't make sense.

We're having a discussion about what is or is not moral. Any answer you can give necessarily depends on views which can only be classified as religious, even if you are a purely a materialist; they involve the purpose of existence, what it means to be human, etc.

Consider this exchange:

A: "We should not commit genocide."
B: "Why?"
A: "Because protecting life is a universal human value."
B: "It's not universal if I don't agree with it. Why should I care?"
A: "Because we can't survive as a species unless we protect one another."
B: "What if I don't care about the species, but only about myself?"
A: "Genocide is still wrong. You shouldn't do it."
B: "Says who?"

Ultimately A has to answer "there is a larger moral principle outside of you which, whether you agree with it or not, you are obligated to obey", which is a religious statement.

The only other option is "many of us prefer that you don't do this and we will use force to stop you." That's pragmatic, but it's not about morality at all; it could just as well be applied to playing the bagpipes.

You can't exclude religion from moral debates because morality is inherently about religion.
Yes and no. Obama repeatedly pushed immigration in his first term and it got nowhere. If Republicans control the house, I predict it continues to go nowhere (although he might be able to bash them over the head with it and other issues enough that they get thrown out in 2014).

But yes, there are some things he can do (and has done) within federal agencies that directly report to him as regards cybersecurity and UX.
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The worldwide downturn/depression hasn't affected people uniformly. The upper class in China/India/Brazil has kept going, and the upper quantile in the developed countries has largely recovered already.
What you are suggesting basically just amounts to "dolphins cannot be a part of society because currently society only includes humans, and dolphins are different than humans."

We are proposing a re-definition.
Well, we interbred.
This is actually a pretty powerful mental hack while you're running or training. To get some extra mileage.

When you're getting tired, look ahead and pick an approaching landmark. Think "ok, I'll just run to there and I can stop." When you reach the goal, mentally celebrate then ask yourself, "can I make it to another?"

It's less daunting to run to the next lightpost than imagine a distant goal. My personal take away from this article is not that you shouldn't reach for the stars, but rather let the little goals take priority and save the bigger goal thoughts for when you aren't running.
Good luck with the strategy. Not sure whether the value of this will be solely in it's uniqueness but even that can be effective.

I think you're going to create unneccessary confusion though with a "Director" title while stating "with a salary range of $28-32k/year and uncapped commission." Even at a startup a Director level Sales/BD person would be around 100/100 for an OTE of $200K in a market like NY. So if I have a buddy who is a current Director level BD guy in NY looking for a new gig I'm either going to get excited then see the salary and go "Ohhhh, wooops, not a fit" or worse still send him your way and have it grind to a halt on comp. Or worse I might know a new rockstar with a year or two experience but never think of them for this because you're looking for a Director level person.
I made the same mistake in the discussion thread of a different article. That three million number is the combined total of all new wifi iPad products for those three days. Most likely they also include the pre-orders as well, which is slightly misleading.
This is known as "shaving" among affiliate marketers and it mostly doesn't matter. E.g. when you are choosing among 10 offers to monetize your traffic, you split test and keep the one that brings you most money, regardless of whether advertisers are honest or not.
A quick google search provides plenty of examples of dolphins rescuing humans.
I think if people like this didn't already own iPads, iPhones etc you could write off their sentiment as due to marketing. But this guy already owns one, He's clearly very well aware of exactly what it can do, how it works and what the benefits are.

But his opinion can't be due to rational, fact based assessment of his practical experience with his iPad. No. It must be irrational and mindless based on marketing. It can't possibly be that he's happy with his iPad because, you know, it's actually good and would appreciate one that's even better. That can't possibly be it.
Ok I see your point. But that only works because before becoming the podium winner, you have to go through the mid-pack stage. Product design is not like that. Take Square for instance, where is the small first step ? Build a device that works with iPhones and that allows people to take credit card on the move? that's the product, it can't be split into smaller chunks!
Care to explain why? For simply a domain registering company, it seems fine.
I really liked that design. I was really pissed when they changed it to something (IMO) inferior later on... :(
Total rubbish - Presidents are not wanted for their ability to program CPUs; They are wanted for their ability to adjust the programming of the human mind.

One speech, one vision can re-program millions of minds, one policy consistently followed can affect billions.

We need leaders who know how humans work. We would like leaders who use that ethically and for the good of all.

Here's hoping.