skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If religion was necessary in the development of large-scale societies, can large-scale societies survive without religion? Norenzayan points to parts of Scandinavia with atheist majorities that seem to be doing just fine"

For the moment.

The situation in Europe is very interesting. There is a strong atheist movement, yet catholics seem to be on a comeback lately, and the mostly muslim immigrant population growing too - and at an even faster pace.

If religion says "go forth and populate the earth", and if atheist have less than 2.1 children, how long until they get outnumber and forced to chance their allegiance by the religous - at gunpoint if necessary? [nobody expects the spanish inquisition :-)]

So I would not base any conclusion on a punctual observation when you have partial derivative pointing to different conclusion in a longer timeframe.

Counter example : if large-scale societies survive fine without religion, how come there are so few of them ? Why do they have a tendency disappear in history, and be replaced by religious societies?

Also, the method of the prisoner game is questionable. The article says the amount was not insubstantial - around several days of work, but does not explain how it was chosen or how it was tested.

I would be very interested to know about the price elasticity of the acceptance rate and the price elascticity of the percentage offered.

I mean, do people in this group have a constant acceptance (fully inelastic - they always accept) or can you get to a point where they refuse because they think it's unfair?

Here's a quick example - go to any fast food join, eat normally, then when you have to leave, prepare the exact amount of cash in one side, and the tip in the other side of the table, and say to server the food was not to your taste, therefore you are leaving only a one cent tip (or a dime)

See if they take the free money, or if they feel so insulted that they refuse. Rince and repeat until you figure the amount they will accept without feeling insulted.

So I really wonder if there could be a cash amount where the remote people from this tribe would react just the same as all of us - which would just point to a calibration problem.
My current pet hate with a number of sites is the fact that a number have started capturing / for focussing on their site search - where in Firefox it's been Quick Find for ages. Slows me down something rotten.
This needs to get more attention (even more than it is already getting). This sort of blatant disregard for anything even approximating "justice" is disgusting and has place in a developed country (it has no place anywhere, really, but a developed country has absolutely no excuse).
Very awesome tech! I'm really impressed -- what is the loss in terms of frames/frame size? Is data or missing parts of a shaky frame generated based on previous shots?

Also, another thing that goes with shaky videos is bad or stuttering sound. If you guys handle both, I can easily see you becoming the go-to solution for filming on cell cameras.
Awesome, thanks Loren!
When I started learning programming it was book (often terribly shitty ones, full of mistakes and non-working listings) and hear-and-say.

I started at 11 years old or so. I didn't yet have a modem (not before I was 16 or so).

So it was trial and error and trying to figure things out. I remember printing a huge assembly program on a dot-matrix printer and going to a friend's place with the listing, explaining him that the routine would work for a few seconds then crash. Then he read the stuff and after a while he found the error : I was using 'jsr' instead of 'jmp', leading to an eventual stack blow.

And there were also "scene disks" or "news disk" from the scene or whatever they were called that we would copy from our friends. I remember one from some scandinavian group (I was in France), in english, where they were explaining various sorting algorithms and where/when we should use them in intros / demos (before cracked games).

It was all a "black art" because these stuff (learning assembly to code intros / demos / cracktros [but they weren't called cracktros yet IIRC]) weren't in books, nor in magazines.

Then came my first modem (9600 bauds) and pirate BBSes (and writing intros for these BBSes) and suddenly a whole world of knowledge opened to us. It was magic.

Then came my first Internet ISP. Long before Google and no need for Google : old search engine were sufficient to find gems (Like Fravia's tools of the trade tutorials to learn how to pirate games on the PC, very convenient when you just arrived from the C64 / Amiga scene).

And of course there was Usenet. Usenet and a good kill files was immensely more useful than StackOverflow. Heck, the amount of knowledge on Usenet still probably dwarfs SO today.

I'd say DejaNews (later bought by Google and more or less became part of Google Groups) was the most important search engine of them all when it came to code. A good Usenet reader was useful to stay up to date and to ask/answer question while DejaNews contained all Usenet's archive (and a search engine).

That's what I remember, more or less... : )
This article has almost nothing to do with Flash, despite the title. It's much more about casual games in general. Using ai2Canvas won't help you implement "gamey" features any more than drinking locally sourced coffee will.

Flash was brought up because it was a huge delivery mechanism for a huge portion of casual games over a significant time period. The general theme of the article is that because HTML5 is the up-and-coming technology in the casual games area, many games miss out on basic strategies employed by games on more less cutting-edge platforms.
I think my basic problem with this is economics. I'd be happy with a days pay, even if it meant the other guy got a weeks pay. But I might squabble about 10 cents when the guy got 90 cents.

I say squabble because I don't mean fight or be offended. I might argue for the fun of the argument, not the actual value of the money. I wouldn't accept the 10 cents, knowing that we both then got nothing because $1 doesn't mean that much to me.
A pure opinion piece shouldn't involve intentionally false claims, so it's not really what I was talking about. A product review should contain a mix of opinion and fact. Obviously, my information about the NYT review was out of date, and the claims about him have been proven false. That's why, as I stated, it's important for an investigation to take place.

As far as holding a journalist to his word, I stand by it. If a journalist holds an opinion that is wrong or simply unpopular, that doesn't necessarily mean that he's untrustworthy, but if it's a grossly misinformed opinion, it might make him look like an idiot. I don't advocate firing a person for writing about an unpopular or wrong opinion, but if someone intentionally makes a false claim, it's definitely a consideration.
Why can't it be some of everything? What you said in your comment, unhealthy foods being the cheapest and easiest, and these foods not causing satiety when eaten.
well said. i was actually quite impressed that they were willing to pay the up-front cost for developer productivity by writing a targeted dsl for their app.
Hey guys, I'm a founder of CircleCI. Happy to answer any questions, or check us out and give me feedback!
This article is beyond terrible.
I loathe public praise. I was one of the top three students of my graduating high school class. Everyone knew who I was and mostly hated me for it. My adult experiences have not been any better. I typically cringe when anyone, male or female, publically praises me. It's horrible. So I don't know if I can help with that issue per se.

What I have appreciated is when men in positions of power have taken action to genuinely back my work. When I worked at a big company, I managed to impress one of the top three people in the department. I had an entry level job. We barely interacted, but his interaction with me spoke volumes and had I stayed at the company I strongly suspect that would have eventually led to something professionally.

I won a departmental award for improving a reference source that was widely used. It was announced at a big meeting that my version of the reference material would be made available via intranet. Months went by and nothing happened. I began asking around and hitting one dead end after another. After much frustration and run around, I ran into this departmental head in the hallway. I looked his way and he realized I wanted to talk to him. He stopped and came to me and graciously gave me a moment of his time. It was clear to me it was a mark of personal respect. Then he told me to email him the question.

I was only hoping he would give me an idea of who else to ask. Instead, he pushed it through personally and it finally went up on the intranet a few days later. I realized after the fact that I made a lot of ignorant, unthinking social gaffs in the process, which he covered over smoothly. I made sure he got a thank you note from both me and a supervisor who ended up being involved (turns out she wrote the reference and unofficially updated it and was finally getting recognition because of my award). I made sure it came from the two of us so there would be zero suggestion that this was "personal." I did not want there to be any raised eyebrows over the incident because it was clear to me I had basically gotten a personal favor from on high. I did not want anyone to take any notice of that fact.

I knew other men at the company in positions of power. One, in another department, asked me on a date. Another, again in another department, behaved in a way which I interpretted as a mild form of sexual harrassment -- he was attracted but I think married. He looked for excuses to be "collegially affectionate" that struck me as motivated by attraction and carefully covered as "not sexual, honest!" No other man did anything of professional value for me. I valued that small act of respect and of lending me his professional backing far more than any praise he could have given me. I find that being taken seriously by a man and engaged like that in a meaningful way is much harder to come by than sweet words, which are often essentially empty.
> For a one man operation like I am running, S3 is manna from heaven for scaling the serving of html files.

Have you tried putting CloudFlare in front of it? Buttered jelly-roll manna.
You sir, just made the most disingenuous argument I've ever seen on hacker news. Quite a feat.
I've also been using CircleCI for a few months and I can say that it's been excellent. When I needed help, then founders were super helpful and fast. Congrats guys! Can't wait to see what's coming next.
It does not change the fundamental problem: "Take this bargain and waive your right to a trial, or face <insert insane possible punishment here>".
SoFA v.1.1 - Dimensionamento Estático e Sísmico de Fundações Superficiais
A felony conviction and jail time is akin to a career death sentence for most people. You'll never get a decent job again.
The Idea That Launched a Thousand Civilisations (2012) [pdf]
I agree with you.

We have two separate views here on this; one is from the employee's point-of-view and another one would be from the company's point-of-view.

From the employee's point-of-view, especially for the remote workers, they have been working remotely and now suddenly a change in company policy which forces them to work in the office and that undoubtedly affects their lifestyle. Naturally, humans will resist change and we always look at home a changing scenario benefits ourselves rather than the larger picture. Sudden surge in cost of living due to the need to travel or to leave close-by definitely cannot be ignored.

On the other hand, the company would like to reform and revamp itself. In order to keep it on its feet to compete with existing Internet giants, it has to change itself from within. Fundamentally, in every company, the basic unit for it is its people. Employees must be engaged and the new company direction and culture being passed from top to bottom. Thus, the need to work in the same location together to engineer that environment. That will lead to growth from the inside out, which will contribute to the organic growth of Yahoo.

In my opinion, this stage is important to make Yahoo a force to be reckoned with. However, Yahoo can help to cushion this by at least providing some basic subsidies for the needy (in terms of travel allowances or living expenses - if applicable). Perhaps, that might decrease the resistance of the employees to work in its office.
Maybe it's just that the lines are massive because of the large font size, so you are moving your eyes way too much for just 10 words.
Aaron held the last one.
This is similar to the air guitar concept from Microsoft Research researcher Scott Saponas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=p...)
It's not just "refusing $300".

When the stakes go up, your partner is screwing you harder. He's not just screwing you out of $2 or $20, he's screwing you out of $200 or $2000.

Fuck him.
I love how if Carmen Ortiz actually goes to trial they will say things like "Of course, the Government just wants to make an example out of me" and put on some martyr act. Hey, remember when you were doing the exact same thing before? Yeah, thats what you're being punished for...
You can run batch routines (CRON) jobs on FatFractal
I'm sorry, I thought I made that clear with the opening sentence.
Android wasn't the only choice, though. I still wonder how would they have fared with Meego, especially if they had finished the Android compatibility layer (to ease porting).
Key words: "most people"

I have a felony computer hacking conviction and it is the opposite: I have to turn down job offers.
I know at least Sencha Touch provides this functionality for mobile sites. But it doesn't do so with hijacking the scrollbar, it implements it just like in native webapps.
I just submitted

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5282707

one of Norenzayan's articles for a general readership about the issue of influence of religion on societies. I invite you to join the discussion there too.
It wasn't that cringeworthy!

The skier used it at the top of the run and once at the bottom of the run to Share when the jump was complete.

Also, you should note if it works as well as is claimed, it would be every bit as fast as every other gesture in the human body. So, its not like you're fiddling with a touchscreen or mousepad while moving on mountain...
Irrelevant to the article: Why am I seeing with so much more frequency articles with one headline, where the title bar is something completely different?
I applied for a job posting at Khan Academy and ran into exactly this kind of interview.

It shows absolutely nothing about me other than I am not a good test taker, and without incrementally debugging my programs I am a fairly worthless programmer.

I dont see how putting someone on the spot like that really extracts any knowledge about the type of person they are.

All of my peers describe me as 'the best programmer they know' yet every programming interview I've ever gone to in this style doesn't work out for me. Frustrating.
That's not the point. The point is, different cultures had wildly different point that they saw as "fair". Hunter-gatherers might a large share - first in, best dressed, and the loser is content with picking over the carcass. Other societies (which emphasised gift-giving) would consider a 60% offer insultingly low. Americans saw 50% as fair.
Yep.

To put it another way:

You state you want to work with people more. And here's a chance to meet some people. Maybe an opportunity to at least network a little?

At the very very least, if they like you, but the job isn't right, they might flag you for another position...
I worked at an insurance company for five years. Part of my job was to get authorizations so I could request medical records. I had annual hippa training. I was not allowed to read any medical records or request any medical records that were not directly involved in doing my job. One standard of hippa is "minimum necessary." That means I am only entitled to as much information as is absolutely necessary to do the job and not more. So I suspect that some system to share records has serious challenges.
ಹೈಕೋರ್ಟ್‌ನಲ್ಲಿ ಭ್ರಷ್ಟಾಚಾರ: ವಕೀಲರಿಂದ ಕಲಾಪ ಬಹಿಷ್ಕಾರ ಬೆದರಿಕೆ
Where I live (Prague), religion among younger people is basically non-existent.
>If religion says "go forth and populate the earth", and if atheist have less than 2.1 children, how long until they get outnumber and forced to chance their allegiance by the religous - at gunpoint eventually?

Well, that escalated quickly.
And how it differs from WebKit2 http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit2
What common law countries call a "civil case" is not the same was what civil law countries call "a case". It's confusing.

As for the distribution of languages and laws, it's largely due to history. Civil/code jurisdictions show the extent of the former Roman empire and later the influence of Napoleonic Code. Common law countries are almost universally within the Anglosphere and have a common legal heritage commencing in the 1066 Norman Conquest.
I saw on your blog post that you use clojure - could you give an overview of your technology stack and how clojure fits into it?
While I don't think the offer was at all reasonable, Swartz's career prospects wouldn't have been hurt even a little bit by a felony conviction. He was in a whole different circle of career options.
This article assumes correctly that the technology will most likely evolve into something more than just weather reports and mortage offers on houses. We root our phones, PSP, digital wachtes. We control room humidity through Siri on the iPhone. Realtime face recognition is evolving every day and becoing more and more integrated and accessible to and for the public.

It makes sense that at one point we can link massive databases together. Which ironically could be generated by the very public who will wear these glasses. Something like Wikipedia, that can describe any person or object.
I suspect the first adoptations of these technologies to be homebrew and opensource.

In the end it is us who crave this information overload, Google will just wants to target us with relevant ads.
It all requires inference, though. The legal system just pretends that some inference comes "for free", and some doesn't. You never have "the victim's blood on the defendant's shoe", you have blood which you have reason to believe belongs to the victim on shoes you have reason to believe belong to the defendant. The only actual difference between your two examples is that of degree, i.e. the evidence linking the blood to the victim is much stronger than the evidence linking the fiber to the defendant.
I think that is cultural;

a practician in Latin countries (in Europe) would loose any credibility by acknowledging they have to check a knowledge base (although it does make sense). In a similar fashion a teacher would literally loose face in front of his student for recognizing he does not know the answer to a question on his subject from the top of his head.

That said, and by experience, I have seen plenty doctors checking their books on illness to match symptoms, but they did that in such a serious manner, you would believe they were just needing confirmation of memorized knowledge. Whereas I have seen plenty teachers/lecturers just dismissing the answer as obvious or the question as irrelevant.
From their faq[0], you have to perform an "unlock" style gesture to begin input.

0. https://getmyo.com/faq
TheLadders.com started exactly like this. IT was an email digest of 100k + jobs, went crazy viral.
Actually, the article says that the gift giving culture rejected 60% because it would entail a future obligation to the giver.
I probably should have specified a photo of the crime.

Circumstantial evidence is indirect, like you being in the area of something, hard evidence is actually of you committing an alleged act.
What are you guys doing with all of these ASPs? I used to need them but I don't have any ASPs registered on my TFA setup right now. Chrome and Android both support the TFA flow now and have for a while.
I haven't read the paper, but this seems blatantly obvious to me. Outside of most western cities, people interact with animals as food. Western children are much more likely to interact with animals as pets or, at most, "those things at the zoo". When you aren't confronted with the regular death of animals as food, you are able to form more of an emotional bond with the concept of "animal".
The Accidental Architect
Something else I do not understand: Why does the violent antagonism between Shia and Sunni branches still exist and so widespread? I am aware of the antagonism between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland, but that seems to be also based on ethnic lines (native Irish versus English immigrant stock) and everyone else in the Western World has moved on.
No, it is not terrible to aim an article (or a site) primarily at one gender or another.
Sure. They can't serve you wrong DNS results, but they can just redirect your IP packets directed at some server to theirs.

Or to paraphrase the Matrix, what good is knowing the right IP of a server, if you're unable to reach it?
I almost thought this was related to medium.com.

I wish they would have compared this to other existing products such as LastPass instead of comparing it to an excel spreadsheet.
While I'm a big fan of getting public records online and accessible, PlainSite isn't the place to do it — every link results in a paywall. This is the opposite of what Aaron was fighting for. Asymptote, on the other hand, I think is a good idea as long as the user has RECAP installed so it can benefit the entire community by making those records openly accessible.
Were/are you using the site yourself?
To clarify, it is still a social problem for you. It just isn't an ideological cause, because you're male.
> messing up with = and :=

Sorry, but I wasn't messing up those two. That's Makefile 101 knowledge; I'm talking about crazy advanced stuff, where := doesn't work the way you expect.

Even := doesn't do what you want if, after the Makefile has been loaded and you've used := three times on the same variable, ALL the instances of that variable are replaced by the last assignment. Here's an example:

FOO:=1

rule1 :
echo $(FOO)

FOO:=2

rule2 :
echo $(FOO)

make rule1 and make rule2 both echo 2. $(FOO) is evaluated in both cases AFTER the Makefile is loaded.
What about when the defense agrees that it is in fact the victim's blood? Many things in a trial are stipulated to be true.
>M$

Please, this is not Slashdot or /r/linux.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22
The most populous nation on Earth is by Western standards non-religious -- China. I do not mean that everyone is an atheist as demanded by communism. Rather, the folk "religions" that are most common (there is a large portion of the population, mostly educated urbanites, who are not believers in these either) say very little in the way of the issues you mentioned. They have more to do with granting good luck and curing disease.

Obviously this has not hurt their population.
> Well, "everything humans do" includes creating the law, so by that definition, the law is highly incoherent.

Which meaning of incoherent are we taking here?

> And a close reading of the law reveals this.

Do go on.
> I'd just like to emphasize: when you're browsing, you don't see that stuff.

This is strange since many people say Firefox is bloated but im my opinion it looks about identical to how Chrome looks like, so they seem to define bloat in some other way.

What you would consider bload, I'd call clutter. I de-cluttered my Firefox to this way that I only see the tab-bar, a command-bar and the web page.