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I've looked in big book chains before, and while they always have some stuff the selection is pretty small: often best sellers and religious books only. I'd like to find a shop specializing in spanish language because I think they'd have a broader selection of topics, hopefully including some interesting nonfiction.

I know these books exist because I see them in online shops based out of Europe, but I'd like to avoid paying the high exchange rate + shipping to get books all the way from overseas.
The Aquatic Ape theory is not new (proposed in the 1940s) and has never generated any scientific scholarship apart from repeated debunkings. It was proposed, and is today promoted by, people without any formal education in anthropology. It's not supported by any rigorous physical evidence--fossil or genetic. It's got nothing going for it other than an energetic former TV writer and a credulous audience.
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AnyPerk.com (YC12w) has engineering team in Tokyo as well.
After reading this thread all day, i felt like i should try out the feature: was as perfect as the work and mathematics behind it, intended ;)
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This reminds me a lot of Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science. A great read!

www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html
I think of it as each language making functionality trade-offs, in their design, for specific goals. Each language tweaking the recipe to make a language that best fits the programming model they advocate.
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Touchée. Although "dumb" ideas are much more easily dismissed, as they are often disproven by evidence or easily shown to be implausible - that's what makes them dumb. It's the smart ideas that we seem unable to disprove which are most likely to cause the establishment to react strongly, since they can be a formidable challenge and ultimately disrupt many careers. As far as I can tell, none of Sheldrake's hypotheses are "dumb." Some are probably wrong, some may be right.

As others have suggested, Sheldrake does have quite a bit of research behind him attempting to find evidence or disprove his hypotheses - and he does not claim them to be any more than hypotheses.
I think that the article's defense of immutability is a bit poor. Making a date mutable means that it won't always reference the same point in time: yeah, a birthday will remain constant, but an appointment may not; the same goes for a lot of types. That's why C and C++ gives us the "const" keyword: the same object can now be used as mutable or immutable, depending on circumstances.

The other points, especially the second, are spot on, although they have a lot more to do with the Java culture than with the language itself.
The reason I will never even consider trying Path again is the fact that I am still receiving text message invites from when my wife briefly signed up a year ago. Better yet, the last one came through at midnight. I'm pretty sure she cancelled her account and would never give an app my cell number so it leads me to question whether or not Path did actually delete all of the contact information they stole last year.
The history of science is filled with ideas and theories that were heretical or even nonsensical at the time they were first proposed - only to be accepted later as part of mainstream science. That is how science progresses. Just a century ago, wave-particle duality was a heretical idea, as was the notion that gravity bends space-time, or black holes exist, or even that the universe is expanding, and so on. Even Einstein could not accept the "spooky action-at-a-distance" implications of quantum mechanics - a theory he helped formulate early on. In fact, every major shift in our worldview has come from such paradigm shifts that start with fringe ideas that challenge conventional wisdom or dogma - starting with Galileo challenging the Church's dogma about a geocentric universe. Every age has its own sets of dogmas and beliefs that preclude other ways of viewing the world. The current scientific dogma is that the universe consists of stuff and phenomena that are entirely explainable by a materialistic, mechanistic worldview. It is dogma because it is an unshakable belief that automatically excludes any other ways of looking at the world. And even more revealing, in every age, it is just a handful of scientists - never the majority - who challenge our most sacred assumptions, and overturn the old paradigm to usher in a new way of looking at the world. That said - does not mean or imply that every heretical idea should be embraced. But at least let us consider them first before dismissing them out of hand - just because they challenge our most cherished notions about how the world ought to work. That is all Sheldrake is asking us to do here.....
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Rebuilding the servers, when I could of easily done it during the week if we didn't have live data on the servers.
It is very strange to me that people can be illiterate (as in, unable to read anything) in Mexico considering how easy the written Spanish language is (compared to e. g. English) and how prevalent is it around the globe.

They should be seeing written phrases everywhere and these should be trivial to read once they know the alphabet.
Maybe a little ambitious, but a programming language optimized for A.I code generation, modification, and evolution.

Just planning at the moment, mostly trying to get the overall concept in my head before I write it down and put it on the wiki.

Will probably be years before I even get to coding anything.

If anyone is interested in helping me brainstorm though:
https://github.com/OrganizedIntelligence/Jackal
Invariably all the researchers / organisations competing have developed their exploits well ahead of the event. The exploits are now pretty involved.

I've linked to a blog post from the Chrome developers that details the exploit that won late 2011 [1]. 'Pinkie Pie', the pseudonym of the person who won it, is pretty infamous in those circles.

[1] http://blog.chromium.org/2012/05/tale-of-two-pwnies-part-1.h...
Can you elaborate please? How can you use iMessage to share screen and interact remotely?
The APL guys had it figured out.
IE10 to me is like Bing, it almost doesn't matter what they do with it, the train has left the station. And as a web developer' even though they're catching up, don't get me started about it...
A plain-text version: http://www.korean-war.com/Archives/2002/06/msg00262.html
A little bit more nerdy here.

What about the opposite direction, ie. moving from a sub-menu to its parent menu.

I see both Amazon and new Khan Academy menu shows instant opening of another submenu when my cursor moves over another parent menu item.

I think there needs to be some delay when your cursor stays on another menu item in case you go back to the original parent menu item.
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polemic, you seem frustrated in your efforts to condemn.

Why? Are his ideas dangerous? Have they touched a nerve? Maybe that's a good thing.

This talk is not aimed at the scientific community anyway. It's aimed at a TED audience, who love a bit of creative, unconventional thinking with their rigorous scientific discoveries and rock solid demonstrations. So the talk was heavy on the creative, and light on the rigorous scientific demo, but that's ok... we have the option of not buying his book, and taking his ideas with a grain of salt.

No need to cry panic, no need to worry. Eventually, ideas such as these either gather momentum or die from lack of evidence. We don't need to put this speaker, or TED on trial just because someone speaks for 18 minutes about intriguing, exotic ideas that you don't like.
Would love to see that.

I'd add that if one can sense a stare, this opens the door to a huge array of psychic abilities. Perhaps we can communicate more than a stare, perhaps this really all is pseudo-science, experimental bias, and statistical anomaly. I'd like to know.

The mechanism may be as simple as the brain's high sensitivity to electromagnetic fields from other brains, or as mysterious as a cosmic consciousness.
Tangential:

OP reminded me of Google Testing Blog [1]. Misko Hevery used to share lots of great insights there. Awesome yet practical stuff on coding in Java world, which anybody will greatly benefit from but not many are aware of. I hope more people read his stuff. I wish he stayed a bit longer before moving on to the AngularJS project - Java needed him more than the script.

Another Google Testing Blog star was James Whittaker, who's now moved on to Microsoft. Google Testing Blog doesn’t seems the same exciting place any more. And to add to that the crazy new design of blogspot - some stuff keeps happening on the page that's beyond one's control.

[1] http://googletesting.blogspot.com/
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Yeah, did ya get the memo? http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/06/16870230-4-key-qu...

This isn't about true war and combatant enemies. This is about worst-case-scenario 1984 happening soon by having a perpetual war with a nebulous enemy. Whether you think this is a legitimate worry or not is irrelevant. The President is claiming broad, never before used power. Maybe he can be trusted with this, but no president ever has, and there will be future ones. (He's challenging principles from the Magna Carta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta which was the basis for various rights of due process in the Constitution)

Also, we drone struck Anwar Awlaki's 16-year-old son from Colorado while he was overseas looking for his father (whom was dead due to another drone strike). When asked about it, the administration (Robert Gibbs) commented, "I would suggest that you should have a far more responsible father". So we go after your family if you've ever been against the US and haven't since publicly renounced that stance. That's cool with you? If it is, keep in mind this is all hypothetical anyhow since nobody's getting a trial.
First, I'd like to thank you for your great work, I'm one of the many to have benefitted from it.

I decided to take journo for a spin and wrote this up in hopes you'd continue to work on it.

https://gist.github.com/david4096/5106218
They have the exploits ready to go, the challenge is whether they can exploit the target system (which is fully patched) within their time slot.

It's a useful excercise, I think, in that it demonstrates that even the most hardened of codebases still has security bugs and it also serves as a cautionary tale for people who think they don't need multiple layers of defence..
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Another scientist, Dean Radin in his books - "The Conscious Universe" and "Entangled Minds" has compiled a very detailed and persuasive meta-analysis of experiments and phenomena that defy conventional scientific explanations.
Off topic: I wanted to read the court doc at the end of the article, but it was nigh impossible[1] because the page uses only 728px out of the available 1278px width on the content. Reading articles on TheNextWeb feels as comfortable as riding a train during rush hour.

[1] https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/shepscreens/Screen+Shot+2...
Well for a file server for a HTPC, it will serve files fast enough for 1080p.

> Mostly to experiment.

With what though? We need more information.
Completely agree, jonasvp.

If it can motivate intellectual debate, then that's a good thing. Unfortunately on HN, it's motivated the book-burning brigade into a frenzy of condemnation.

Why don't people discuss the ideas presented instead of crying about how the ideas should never have made it to a TEDx video?
"All"? Not Safari yet (knock on wood). Which is a big change from back in the day when it was usually pwned first in this contest. Or are you saying it's not a major browser?
> If it was a good store of value you would print out your private key and put it in a safety deposit box

I have quite a number of btc stored in cold wallets.

My point is that because of Bitcoin, I actually have fluid wealth to move around and store, be it with metals or cryptocurrency. I didn't have that freedom with US cash, an instrument whose value is rapidly decreasing and has been for a long time.
Note to anyone who's designing cryptographic currency 2.0: stabilize the price next time. It doesn't have to be tied to USD but it should be tied to something. Control over the supply automatically gives you control over the price, you can peg to whatever you want.

Global GDP futures perhaps? It would be interesting to have a currency worth a particular percent of global output.
Because they use shiny mac computers that all have the same screen. If it looks bad on other screens they just dont care. They are designers , not UI UX specialists , nor know anything about readability or ergonomy. They are just trying to follow a trend , a horrible one born from only god knows where ...
Well that's not what the author means by illiterate. He uses it as a way of saying that they virtually never read books.
I am more worried that, in the most famous newspaper in the most powerful country in the world, opinion pieces are overwhelmingly dominated by emotionally charged anecdotes while actual data plays only a cursory role.
I'm on mobile, but does this have zotero integration?
AFAIK most have exploits ready before the event, and demonstrate them publicly (for the first time) at the event.

In general, skilled crackers/reverse engineers/security experts will look for new bugs -- and when found, can either a) Tell the vendor, b) Tell the world, c) Sell the exploit to the highest bidder, or d) Use the exploit for nefarious purposes themselves.

In general some combination of a) and b) or c) is the most common -- these events is a way to compensate people to do a) and b) -- and provide some incentive to avoid c) (and d)).
You say that like it's a new thing.
Or: Cogito, ergo sum. ;-)
Well, sure, I'm not sure I really care about what particular employers require of their employees. I think it is silly, but I doubt you care much about what I think, either. It was a minor point to me (not to you), which is why we've diverged I think. My moral imperative comment is toward the overall topic, not you.
Most teams have something which will work though, so the "winner" often depends on what order the contestants get drawn in.
They still have a monopoly. Or do you consider 80%+ share[1] to be non-monopoly level of control? The latest interpretations of the Sherman Act [2] still think this level of control is a clear monopoly.

[1] http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share....
[2] http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Sherman+Anti-T...
Have you tried Amazon?
I would guess the point is that those companies are probably very few. If your business can't extract $12 an hour from an employee then perhaps it should fail.

The harm done by these job losses is less than the boost to the economy by putting more money in low income consumers pockets.

I'm struggling to think of an example of labour that wouldn't produce $12 per hour in value and can't be reasonably cheaply automated.
Phrased that way, I agree completely. An established codebase needs to be verified in some ways. But writing code and running it against tests is not exactly equivalent to TDD.

TDD as I understand it is characterized by writing a failing test, followed by implementation code, followed by test-fixing, etc.

However, I can write plenty of good code that does what it's supposed to and works and is stable. THEN I'll refactor as needed, write tests, and since I anticipated my needs, making those tests good and the code testable will be relatively straightforward. That's not TDD, though. It's a pragmatic approach that doesn't prioritize setting requirements (or solidifying an API) over starting simple and iterating quickly.
Has anyone used an Academic ticket while University Staff?

I'm a development engineer at a University, with University staff ID. I imagine I prove this with a pay stub, and staff ID?
What do you compile your markdown flavour to? Is it public?
I too have been to every I/O, but the only year I ever got dibs on tickets was '10. I believe that '10 attendees who solved the puzzle on the t-shirts they gave out got dibs for '11, but I know of nobody who got dibs for '12.
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> Lawyers don't use Github for documents for the same reason nobody else uses Github for documents.

Funny, just earlier today I happened to watch a Clay Shirky TED talk ("How the Internet will Transform Government"), where he showed a hilarious screenshot: a Venn diagram of Lawyers and People with Github accounts.[0]

0. http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbkedsQ3EZ1qaxovpo1_500.jp...
I really like Matz. His kind, joyful attitude in himself and towards the language was one of the reasons that got me interested in Ruby. However, this latest news of misconduct on the Heroku part left me with mixed feelings about his place of employment.
woah! whats with the hp site permalink/URI/url formatting?

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/
Stickers are a brilliant move. Have you even heard of Line? What makes Line so popular? Stickers.

If Path becomes the Line of EU/US they will dominate the market.
Chapter 11, section 9 (on universality) is probably why! www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/section-11.9
> High software prices indeed harm tax payers. There is no win-win.

High software prices generally hurt businesses more than individual taxpayers. The 1EUR fine would be a catastrophe for Microsoft's PR, however.

That kind of move would also push a non-trivial population to alternatives (however weak) like Google Docs.
Being unable to disprove does not confer any special status to a hypothesis. Perhaps even the opposite. Things that aren't falsifiable are generally outside the realm of science. See Sagan's Dragon. Some of these "theories" seem a bit too close to invisible garage dwelling reptiles for my tastes.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Dragon_in_My_Garage
Those corporations sure have coerced Congress to remove the USPS's monopoly on mail pickup.
I think for me the sense of wonder comes from the fact that from very simple rules, complex behaviour can emerge.
Of course, but I still find bookstores more pleasant than Amazon for general browsing. So if there's a brick and mortar location with a lot of spanish books in LA, I'd like to check it out.
I was about to zone out, and then I got to: “Alexei Borodin, a mathematician from MIT, contacted us after we published a paper on how particle shape affects particle deposition regarding the coffee-ring effect. He saw our experimental videos online and was reminded of simulations that he has performed. I think this is a great example of the value of reaching out across disciplines – we never would have studied this topic without Alexei bringing it to our attention.”

Wow, small world. Alexei Borodin taught my freshman math class when he was still at Caltech.
As long as I write the tests roughly the same time as the code, it doesn't really matter which I write first. And I always adopt the practice of writing a large number of small tests regardless. Going back and forth is the important part for me, not necessarily writing the tests first.

In any kind of setting with shared code, it shouldn't be a matter of self-discipline, it should be a matter of standards and best practice. You shouldn't be integrating any code without test coverage. This is a standard part of how many projects handle pull requests.

If you're only accountable to yourself and writing the tests first is the technique that works for you, I can't criticize but you really don't have much to say to programmers in general, either.
Exactly the same issues I've had with Path.
It actually affects the entire economy because many contracts are tied to __multiples of__ the minimum wage.

I've not heard of this before. Is this common in federal or municipal contracts?
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My experience with minimum wage jobs is that employers like employees who would struggle to calculate their actual value.
Last time I looked the vast majority of Windows users don't need the console (or even a terminal emulator) and don't tend to compile software themselves or use large parts of the usual UNIX tools. So there are very few users who migrate away from Windows due to that and thus very little incentive to invest a significant amount of effort and money in that.

Then there is the point that Windows is very different from UNIX (even though you can support POSIX as an API layer alongside Win32). As Jeffrey Snover (one of the architects of PowerShell) once put it: They thought about that but noticed that UNIX tools won't help any Windows sysadmin as they are good tools to work with a UNIX system that's mostly based around text files scattered throughout the file system. But they don't work so well in managing Windows which is more centered around the registry and other mechanisms.
"I've looked in big book chains before, and while they always have some stuff the selection is pretty small: often best sellers and religious books only. "

Why does this doesn't surprise me...

Well, here it goes: look for a "Instituto Cervantes" maybe they have an attached bookshop (and Library)
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I'm sure Firaxis wasn't the first to think of this idea - but it does make sense as energy has intrinsic utility and value. If not pure energy, then definitely currency backed by resources that create energy (ie, solar farms, gas/coal mines, nuke plants, etc).
> it feels like Clojure went all liberal on one end, just to get super-conservative on the other.

In the brief time that I used Clojure, I also thought that the contrast between immutability and dynamic typing was very strange. Ultimately, I think it makes more sense than having the entire language be highly dynamic (or highly static).

I think Clojure's choice is not inconsistency, but that there is a kind of budget for craziness in a language. In Clojure, you can go crazy with dynamic types on the foundation of immutability, transactions, etc. In Haskell, you can go crazy with really awesome static typing tricks that would be utterly unfathomable if the language wasn't very rigid in every other way -- immutable, referentially transparent, side-effect-tracking. These two pack all their craziness into one corner of the language.

On the other hand, other languages -- Python, Javascript, Ruby -- seem to spread the craziness (I am not sure I picked the best word for this!) around, instead of having one super dynamic feature and everything else very inflexible. These languages tend to lack the really big flashy features: macros, typeclasses, etc.

It seems that you have a lot of flexibility as a language designer on how you spend your craziness budget, as long as you don't go too high (and become incomprehensible) or too low (Java?).
Same experience for me here in San Francisco. Easy to find good bookstores for Chinese, for Japanese, and for Korean, but almost nada for Spanish, and asking local Spanish speakers about it elicited shrugs. Ask about telenovelas, and you've got plenty of opinions, but plain old novelas, nope, so the crazy gringo part doesn't seem to matter.

I had my best luck at Barnes & Noble, believe it or not. They had a pretty good Spanish language fiction selection--bigger than any other I found on the SF Peninsula. It's not what I was looking for (I was more interested in nonfiction), but it's all I found.
This can be and it is said for many countries: "back when were in school...now teachers....all day on facebook...we were afraid of our parents...kids these days"

Maybe it's a generational thing.