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Notice that militaristic entertainment was culturally well entrenched way before there was anything to play video games on. War adventure films, boarding schools, Scouts.

The military industrial complex was at its peak in late 20th century. As the author says, military spending per GDP has substantially declined now.

What I think has happened is the abolishing of draft, giving the rise to modern action movie and related video games later. This and the readjustment of gender roles in modern society has bred a crop of men who never had a chance to grow out of playground war games.
What makes people stupid?
The sliders on the article seems inverted from iOS's sliders.

The article shows: [OFF [ ]]

iOS: [[ ] OFF]
I like the idea and I want to steal it, but are there any options for super-thin batteries? Something that would be literally paper-thin.
All these senior management types that praise Welch's philosophies seem disconnected from the real world. They seem to think that by constantly managing out under performers (even mediocre staff) and striving to only employ high performers, everything will be peachy keen.

Sorry but this just doesn't fit the real world because in every company, there will be menial tasks. Menial tasks that high performers will refuse to perform.

Look at sports teams. The Chicago Bulls needed utility players to surround Jordan. Does anyone think a team of 5 MJ's or Lebron's would succeed over the long run?
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It's a long article, so it should've started with the simpler options, shouldn't it? :)
Really? I think your above-average knowledge of the intricacies of web design may actually be misleading you here. My guess is that normal people can't actually tell radiobuttons from checkboxes until they click around and find they can't select two options at once.

I think these look incredible and I can't wait for a usable version.

[Edited for clarity]
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People say this all the time, but I have never once had this problem. I set it to one time and that was it.

I wonder what causes the difference?
I'm afraid you're glasses are a bit too rosy. It's true that while you're still at home you could start your own company. But some people don't get that inspiration until a bit later in life. Once you have a wife and kids, you cannot make a business unless you get funding. So if people who give funding are racist (I have no idea if they are) then minorities have less chance.

So at the very beginning anyone has a chance. But once you have some responsibilities white males still have a lot of opportunity to make their own business and other groups may not.
> If you follow this reasoning I think you'd also have to shun line breaks and indentation.

Not quite. As I'm sure you know, written languages have evolved over time in order to meet the needs of readers and writers alike. That includes capital/lowercase, roman style (i.e. non-script) lettering, spaces, leading and paragraph indentation (thanks to printers), etc. It isn't helpful to blindly latch on to seemingly cute analogies, but in this case I think it's a pretty fair comparison. I imagine others who don't use highlighting all the time would agree that it's a happy or at least comfortable middle ground. I'm a little sleepy-eyed now and shouldn't still be typing, so sorry if my tone reflects negatively. I think the response below (corwinstephen) brings up the same thing, except if you like highlighting then your middle ground leans further towards an explicit, notated style.
I have tried it and also Classic Shell which is mentioned in another comment. Both work pretty well, however I prefer Classic Shell due to better configurability. Not sure if Start8 has been updated since I tried it though.
I'd rather outsourced HR than no HR. When the people you have a grievance against are the people you need to file grievances with, you're better off just leaving.

(I'm talking things like having a raise agreed in writing, and then getting paid significantly less. And, when questioned about it, the owners saying "oops, yeah, should have told you, we decided we can't pay you that")
Re: Greed Trumps Race
I read [1] and discovered some stuff there, but it's a bit hard to find new things there when you don't have application for them. In this case [2] really helped me - I subscribed to some top-solving users and after solving a problem I learned alternative approaches.

[1]: http://clojuredocs.org/quickref/Clojure%20Core

[2]: http://4clojure.com/
Good question.

* First: It's employees. Founders don't need to be employees. In fact, I'd say most are not.

* Second: You have to go through a basic first-aid course when you get your drivers license. So most people actually are basically trained. I think you have to refresh that course every two years to comply with the regulation, but that's a refresher only. It's really a basic first-aid class that's required if you're a small company.

* Third: This is the kind of regulation where you get a slap on the hand the first time you violate it. So I'd assume the answer is "Basically nothing"

Btw: Paul Grahams view on the regulations in germany is a bit outdated. SAP started in a garage. And you don't need 20k to start a startup. You need 25.000 Euro to form a GmbH which is one kind of a LLC. There's a lot of reasons why big startups mainly happen in the USA, but the garage issue is none of them.
They didn't do this out of the goodness of their own hearts (well, they might have but why would we assume that?). It's great PR. Just book the lost revenue under advertising expense.

Not everyone can do that though, for some emergencies for you are emergencies for them too and raise their prices.
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> normal people can't actually tell a checkbox from a radiobutton until they click around and find they can't select two options at once

this may be true for a certain definition of normal, but the point for this game example is that you don't need EITHER: just have the user click on the desired option and let them be lead to the next/confirmation page... drop dead simple 'cause, as wise men have said before: "no UI" > "less UI" > "your UI" (where ">" = "is better than")
I read this article and didn't notice anything about voting at all? Strange use of the word 'democratized'
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Thank you for you're reply Ben.

I wish you luck (well sort-of - with great power would come great responsibility and all-that).

I wasn't making up the tachyon guy. If I have time, I'll dig the video (it'd be a little hard since the hplus website reorganized). He was presenter and not an audience member, had at least a paper at one of these conferences. I can easily believe the AGI conferences have gotten better.

I would stick to the point that AGI needs to make clear how it will overcome previous problems - clear to mainstream science is useful for funding but clear to yourselves so you have ways to proceed is most important.

I don't necessarily agree exactly with Herb Dreyfus' critique but I think that in the minimum a counter-critique to his critique is needed to clarify how an AGI could work.

A good summary of his argument would be: http://leidlmair.at/doc/WhyHeideggerianAIFailed.pdf

I mean, I have worked in computer vision (not that much even). There's no shortage of algorithms that solve problem X but nothing in particular weds them together. Confronted with a new vision problem Y, you are forced to choose one of these thousand algorithms and modify it manually. You get no benefit from the other 999.

As far as open source methodologies solving the AGI question, I've followed multiple open source projects. While certain things might indeed work well developed using the "bazaar" style, I haven't seen something as exacting a computer language come out of such a process - languages tend to require an individual designer working rather exactly - with helpers certainly but in many, many situations almost alone (look at Ruby, Perl, Python, etc). I would claim AGI would at least exactly as a computer language, possibly more-so. Further, just consider how the "software crisis", the limitations involved in producing large software with large numbers of people, expresses the absence of AGI. Essentially, to create AGI, you would need to solve something like a boot strapping problem so that you cause the intentions of the fifty or five thousand people working together to add up to more than what fifty or five thousand intentions normally add up to in normal software engineer. I suppose I believe some progress on a very basic level is needed to address.
Why use str constants with setuptools?
When we use setuptools for packaging our Python library, why write like this?

setup(
name='mymodule',
version='0.1',
)

not this?

import mymodule
setup(
name=mymodule.__name__,
version=mymodule.__version__,
)

Please answer.
Considering I don't even know what that phrase means, I will say 'no'. I'm curious, too, what level of schooling you mean: grade (K-12) or university. I have lived in the US my entire life and went through public school. I'll vouch that critical discussions of such things is not broached, generally. Consider the media frenzy a little while ago regarding the (minor) re-wording of the Pledge of Allegiance, as said in grade schools.

Having just finished Chris Hedges' "War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning", I will also vouch that main-stream US media is largely bereft of this level of unflinching critical discourse. I'm somewhat heartened to see this article appearing on NYTimes.com. The core of the message, for me, is the line 'But no institution — particularly one financed by the taxpayers — should be immune from thoughtful criticism.'

And the author nails the fact that none in the political sphere can proffer these dissensions without facing derision. The whole discourse seems like a ratcheting forward to an escalation of war-mongering. Finding alternative uses for funds and citing the possible security failure of a war mono-culture should indeed provide a viable alternative, but again, prime-time outlets don't trade in that currency. The tired sound bites of 'valor' and 'patriotism' reign ascendant.

The honest resistance against this tide will probably be quiet desperation for some time yet. Hedges came to my attention lately for standing the opposition to section 1021 and 1022 in the US NDAA 2012 in courts. But his work, and that of many others, doesn't make pleasant water-cooler talk. I was born in the waning days of the civil rights movements and often wonder why we don't mobilize for peace as well anymore. I think we've become contented -- fat, dumb, and happy -- but it might also be the gradual swing back towards a police state: useful response necessarily maintains a cautious economy of action.
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Do I have permission to use this concept in an iOS app?
Ah hell.

Go all the way. Most of human value has been created since 1700- medicine, transport, mechanisation etc. Most of that is down to a few thousand individuals, from James Watt to Feymann. If we focus on increasing their productivity (every tenured professor is given state funded housekeepers) we may well increase the invention rate

What we don't increase is the spread of that through society to the benefit of all.

That requires the useless middle managers and useless peons implicitly referred to in this elitist piece of short sighted rubbish
Wow! I am a frequent visitor of HN and did not know such an awesome feature existed. Wonder why is it not used so often?

http://html5demos.com/contenteditable
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IntelliJ has a Community Edition for free. The author put up Eclipse and Netbeans for how long, rather than using the CE?

Sure the commercial version has more features than the CE one, but the example he gave would surely have been identified by the CE version of IntelliJ.
If the behavior is unethical, what exactly would be the correct and ethical way for these companies to calculate their taxes? If it's so cut and dried for you, maybe you can help us all out here.

You call it a loophole, suggesting that there is a design flaw in the law that is being exploited. What specific part of the law is flawed, and what was the drafting intent that has been misapplied in the law as it stands?

I'm really serious. It's disappointing to me that so many people are ready to assume unethical intentions, when the details and issues are far from clear to me (and likely not clear to them). Maybe there is a country that has done it correctly?

Accounting for business in multiple tax jurisdictions is really complex, and I can only assume that we had some really thoughtful people drafting the existing laws.
Instantly searched to see if someone posted this... so glad you did.
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Today, people in general is aware of the bad behavior of Facebook. Just a year ago, if I mentioned that I do not have an account, I was meet with strange looks, like it was something unnatural. Today, I get meet with a "aha, ye, I can understand that" instead.
Funny thing about the C++ example:
The API Mindroid implements in C++ from Androids Java API, is actually from BeOS originally where it was C++. It still exists today in Haiku. So Mindroid has gone full circle C++ -> Java -> C++.
Here is the Haiku versions for comparison: http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/kits/app/
Make any HTML element editable with "contenteditable" attribute
Hmmm, I think you and jvdh are right. Simple selection is better than a slider in that case. In general though, I still don't like radiobuttons:)

Thanks for sharing the UI quote. I hadn't heard it before and I immediately see the, ah, practical application it has to my own work.
Why would an ebook be cheaper? Is it not more convenient? Price comes from value, not what it costs to make so being easier to produce has nothing to do with the price (well, except the price floor).
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Is the crux of that argument that sourcing the funding would put at risk people who might support a candidate's causes, but whose safety might be compromised by identification? It is an honest question; I haven't followed that case closely.

So, for example, someone living in the rural south that wants to back gay rights, or something of the sort? That would tie back to the entire Google+ real-names debate, then.
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It is used often. All the WYSIWYG editors out there use it.
Brits do.

It's largely poetry from the first world war. If ou study the individuals writing it you can sometimes watch the poetry go from talk of honour, duty and glory to talk of death, confusion, panic, misery, blood, mud and damned stupidity at all levels.

It shows you that war is not an adventure, it is massacre.
It'll be nice if I could get a demonstration page without having to clone the repo.
Another Lua-based framework for iOS programming is Moai. I played around with it a while back and fell in love with Lua. Really simple yet powerful stuff.

http://getmoai.com/
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One of Sutter's argument is that C++ is more cost-efficient in a data center due to lower energy costs. Yet, I haven't heard of many SaaS applications developed in C++. The Rails-style "just throw more servers at it" way is still very popular (which Sutter mentions as optimizing for programmer productivity).

I suppose for startups the answer is to eschew premature optimization (for cost) and get the MVP done as quickly as possible (optimizing for programmer productivity). And, if and when demand requires, invest enough to optimize the bottlenecks.
'a few rouge hydrogen atoms'

It's rogue. Sorry, pet hate, can't help myself. That and people typing 'tounge' when they mean tongue.
Thats right. Though,as pg says, your choice should not be a subject to you being chosen
Allright, will do so! Thanks for the feedback!
Alastair Reynolds describes ice shields in a lot of detail.
Somehow the blog post does not even mention the iOS sliders, let alone compare the solution Apple figured out for this problem: colors. Grey is OFF, blue is ON.
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Not much, if any at all. Do Europeans?
related comments ( 11 days ago )

"Facebook, I want my friends back (dangerousminds.net)"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693655
Not necessarily, it is better to draw some attention at the beginning so that it motivates reader to keep reading.
You have to think of the constraints that informed the original design. There's very little horizontal space on iPhone and iPod touch, 320 points to fit a descriptive label and the control.

So labels on the sides don't work because of space constraints, on iPhone anyway.

The windowed version is also less space efficient than the stock iOS control but I think it has merit because it shows all possible states. What I'd change is reverse the tinting, to make the active state more visible and the other states shaded.
I've found that Opera crashes too often with 150+ tabs, often even at startup. What I would like Opera to have is a similar option to Firefox to let tabs remain dormant until you click on them. That might make me switch back.
When users had 10 active posters as friends and liked 10 things, it was reasonable to show "all that you like".

When users have 100 active posters as friends and like 1000 things, most of the posts do have to be discarded - and money can affect which ones are "more important".
Reminds me of how the experts argued that the passengers would die of suffocation, if trains were to go faster than 50mph, back in the 19th century.

If we could figure out how to approach light speed, I'm sure we can also figure out how to shield people and electronics from harm.
Part of the point is that this solution is known to pretty much everyone already, yet it's usually rejected for the reason people choose the unintuitive alternatives up top: It takes up more space for the same font and slider sizes.

I tend to prefer that solution too (or if you're really cramped for space, the old AmigaOS "MX gadget" which shows only the selected state, plus a small icon to indicate it will cycle between states).
In many cases this is true, but the thrust of the article is that enthusiasts are able to make more efficient use of the resources available than entry-level users.

Certainly one aspect of that is enthusiasts having the good sense to either fix or dump bloated software.
It's funny that those things reappear pretty frequently.

Google is sinking pages on purpose so they buy ads. Facebook is sinking posts so they buy promoted posts. Yelp is sinking down businesses so they buy ads.

It's possible that those are not without merit, but I am a little sceptical to those claims. In the long term, it's in their best interest to NOT downrate non-paying websites/posts/businesses.
I tried this before. I used to write all of my code without syntax highlighting -- for years. Once I switching to highlighting, my errors decreased, my productivity increased, and I was a lot happier. To each his own I suppose.
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Same can be said about hacker news... :(
>>The Chicago Bulls needed utility players to surround Jordan. Does anyone think a team of 5 MJ's or Lebron's would succeed over the long run?

To add further, if Chicago Bulls itself hire all Jordan grade players. Will they want to the menial job of surround the actual Micheal Jordan or try to become Micheal Jordan's themselves?
Someone needs to send that link to the Gnome 3 devs :)
It is not, as long as it has DRM.
Answer: inhomogeneous magnetic fields. See the Stern–Gerlach experiment.

So basically your spaceship needs to have the core part in a spinning sphere generating such a magnetic field. Also not to forget the gravitational attraction which would make the free particles in space quite attracted to your bulk spaceship, following you like mosquitos :).
I think the verb “to democratize” is used here in the extended meaning “to make accessible to all”, like democracy makes governance an affair accessible to all by making it an affair of the people.

But I agree that this use does seem strange sometimes in some contexts.
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Mexico has an interesting take on this: if you get into the upper echelons of academia you can get a salaried do-what-you-want-publish-if-you-want job. Some of the country's best thinkers are paid to think.
A good reference worth bookmarking.
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I find it quite funny. The author started by demonstrating that sliders are inappropriate when representing 1-of-N choices. I agree. Then he proposed a visual change that makes things better. This change makes the GUI element look like and work like radio buttons. The only step remaining is to stop calling this GUI element sliders and start calling it (fancy) radio buttons.
give me a touch screen and i will prefer the slider
something which you need to learn, and does not necessarily work with your design
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where do you get the data?
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The entertaining bit (similar to the standard floppy-disk "Save" icon), is that most people who have grown up with the web always present... have never seen a radio with true "radio buttons".
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The Bricks is a set of user interface components and elements united in 4 add-ons: Forms, Elements, E-commerce and Words.
To be fair they have their equivalents in the Apple threads.
I'm wondering if MoonScript (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4741331) can be combined with this Lua-based iOS (quick googling reveals nothing).

It's like CoffeeScript for iOS!
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I don't think this question is a good example of being culturally linked. Rather it asks for knowledge about the world you live in. What characteristic of an animal do you think is most important?

- that it's koscher? (very cultural)
- the number of characters in its name?
- whether it is born out of an egg or womb (e.g. mammal or not)?

If you seriously can't figure this out I have to doubt your intelligence - however I wouldn't say that about all test examples.
And your mobile browser could (if it agreed with you of course) actually render that checkbox as a slider. Semantics!
Looking into it today, it seems what a patch looks like depends on the tool. Git by default (using a command like git format-patch) adds a From: header value that contains the original author. Mercurial (using a command like hg export) includes the original author, but it shows up in commented lines.

However, looking at the devguide (http://docs.python.org/devguide/patch.html), they tell you to run hg diff, which creates a barebones patch file with no author metadata.
Yep it's Bali
But make sure to look into comments for insight, not the post itself.
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