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Interesting article, but it's a shame that like usual he launches straight off with a fallacious (and extremely boring) strawman argument that what science explains about how the world works is incompatible with any non-naturalist world view...
It is totally fair unless you're creating a web application but my idea is that the first priority of a content-heavy web site should be to make its content as accessible as possible. Also, inferior experience should not mean they miss more than half the content.
Times out...
My understanding is that Douglas hated the TV series. I think he had issues with the lazy and arrogant attitude that the director had.
Thank you, that's really nice!
Since the price was not mentioned, who knows what they paid for the tablets. I doubt that it was a usual retail price for 17000 tablets.
Exactly what I was going to say. Wood burning stoves are very common especially in villages and also among poor people as wood is more widely available and is cheaper than LPG. We ourself have wood burning stove as an alternate to the LPG stove because cooking in slow fire on a stone or iron vessel is considered to produce tastier and healthier food.
I understood that wood smoke was harmful but that it contains carcinogens is new for me.
This is great. I want a tool like this for other languages.
Thanks a lot bunnie!
Looks nice =) might have to give it a try
http://pinterest.com/pin/68117013083862439/
From the book:

> This is a book about hacking in the traditional sense: about the process and methods of exploration.

Probably HN is the most appropriate forum to post this. Thank you bunnie for making this excellent work available to all!
Ask HN: Should we have a Thesaurus in the IDE?
While programming/designing I find myself looking for more accurate words to describe concepts, variables, classes, functions, etc.

Do you think it would be a good idea to have a thesaurus in the IDE? Somebody know of an implementation of this idea?
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Now I have lost 12 kg for 2 months (114 to 102 on 180cm height) - from just cutting soda and anything with sugar, and limiting starches to minimum and eating unlimited amounts of raw nuts, eggs, meat, cheese, olives. I was obese and now my BMI scaled me into overweight.

There is no relation with the two arguments btw - "People adapt fast" - yeah but the ability to spike your blood sugar and insulin all day long into the stratosphere is recent, and because of the modern health system there is no evolutionary pressure. A guy with type 2 diabetes will have long life. Just crappy.

I think that every person could build a good diet for themselves following these rules:

1. Cut soda unless in the middle of a marathon or a brutal workout

2. Treat anything with added sugar as dessert and eat it in amounts suitable for dessert two times a week top.

3. Don't eat anything that has had its fibers removed.

4. Always start the meal with a big leafy salad.

5. Avoid overly processed meat products, products with too much salt and fats that have gone trough other processing than mechanical/thermal.
Very cool algorithm. I just incorporated it into my png optimizer project and it does indeed improve the compression ratios nicely: https://github.com/depsypher/pngtastic
This revolution in mathematics literally led to the invention of computers. I have been reading all about it when I go to the bookstore in the book Turing's Cathedral[1].

David Hilbert wanted to redo mathematics from square one, basing everything on set theory, axioms, and rigorous proofs. In 1900, Hilbert gave his famous address where he stated the Hilbert Problems. One of these was to prove that mathematics is "complete" in the sense that every possible statement is either provable or disprovable from the axioms.

In an effort to solve this problem, Alan Turing wrote his famous paper "On Computable Numbers" where he conceived for the first time his "Turing Machines". Although his approach didn't work to solve the Hilbert problem, it greatly inspired Von Nueman who at the time was pretty much working on pure mathematics.

Godel came along and proved that mathematics is not "complete", because there are some statements about natural numbers which cannot be proved or disproved from the axioms, but rather are undecidable.

Von Nueman was so upset by Godel's result that he decided he no longer wanted to work in pure mathematics, because if it's not complete then whats the point anyway. Instead he decided to work on applied math and physics. Since he loved the work of Turing, he wanted to build a physical Turing Machine to help out with computations, and he figured there would probably be a lot of other uses for such a machine that no one had thought of yet, and that would only become apparent once the machine was built.

While at the Institute for Advanced Study, Von Nueman fought a hard political fight to secure funding and permission to build the first computers, the MANIAC and the ENIAC, to the horror of the faculty at the time, including Einstein.

Since I am posting this at 4:30am in a thread that is 12 hours old, I will be happy if someone reads it :P

[1] http://books.google.com/books/about/Turing_s_Cathedral.html?...
He basically says that Hilbert relied on the law of the excluded middle by using proofs by contradiction, which is valid, because if you do not accept the law of excluded middle than proof by contradiction ceases to be a valid proof method.
As long as that's because you have realised a 'sucky' life isn't all that bad.
I totally subscribe to this vision. I just would have read it more clearly in the article, that's kind of ambiguous, like : "1°) religious people are hurted when you argue with them, 2°) here is what you would feel in their place".

Conclusion could be as well "stop arguing with religious people, you're wrong too" as "don't push their feeling too hard and have some compassion when explaining your arguments" :)
What if being aware of this mindset problem and yearning to be more content and calm is just another iteration of the exact same generalised problem of being overly mindful of the imperfections in one's life?
the documentation has improved rather drastically as of late. the router api is stable going forward, so it's actually a pretty good time to be experimenting with ember (though this was not true about 4 months ago).

Personally, I really like ember. I think most people would have a better experience with ember if:

(1) they avoided learning off of the master branch during the crazy api changes over the last few months

(2) avoided ember data for the time being (or ever, I have my doubts about how viable it is)

(3) they asked questions on stack. the ember core team is actually pretty snappy at answering questions.

but there is still a bit of lingering weirdness with the router that people should look out for, the things that come to mind are:

a) back button errors

b) awkwardness in the serialize/model hooks depending on whether you're navigating through the app, or trying to get to a url in a new browser window

but despite its shortcomings, I've really grown to love the organization that ember gives to my javascript code base, and how it would make my program scale as it grew in size and complexity.
(going to continue the above structured 4 bullet points)

1) Stories are today more homogeneous then ever before. People used to joke that you could set your clock to a james bond movies, and know what plot, what characters and what events will unfold. Then other movies copied it, and they too could be set to that same clock. Asking for originality is what we consumers should do but it is not what sends money to the bank if you are a producer. I would not know how we even could began fixing this.

2) video games do not present a wide variety of male types. Since when did you see a undecisive, meek, emotional erratic male protagonist? How often is he a gear of wars massive hulk made of 99% muscles, with so low base sounding voice that he likely has a serious sickness in the throat? How often doesnt he act like an emotionalless robot, creating a flood of corpses and steals anything that's not nailed down?

3) while I am not a game developer, I doubt that having strong women would lower the numbers of sales to boys. I don't see anyone arguing this. I do however think that the industry is lazy, and is not going to change their products if they don't have to. Movie producers and game producers are in this aspect very similar, and focus on what ever sold the most yesterday. In media, only books tend to have reached a level of diversity that we as a society is happy with.

4) I don't think the commenter is angry. That would imply intent in a very few written lines. I also think you are missing the point. Stories are complicated, and good stories require more than simple resprite work or pronounce changes. This goes same for making games that present role models for boys as well as girls.
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Aquatic therapy and exercise. Not being sarcastic.
Simply run with -o 0.0.0.0, I think the number of people running without firewall or having an annoying firewall warning every time they start a Sinatra process is larger than the number of people developing on a VM. Also note that this has no effect if you use some different way to run your Sinatra app, like rackup.
would anyone recommend Nutch as a scraping solution. I would think there would be some way of integrating with Webdriver (within the Java ecosystem) or with Casperjs.

Isnt Nutch state of the art right now?
You can't swim in a gun. Guns have no useful purpose. The fact that pools are more dangerous doesn't justify owning a gun, so there is no "cognitive dissonance" here...We can eliminate unnecessary risk (like guns).

And you can't kill your potential killer or rapist, unless you invite him in the pool and hope he drowns, with pools being dangerous and all. I hope you never have to wish you had a gun near you. Personally I have no pool, but...

Pools, unless they are Olympic size ones used to do laps for most people are useless, "just [extremely dangerous] fun." Fun, like shooting a gun which also can save your life, or the life or your neighbor. Mighty useful if you ask me and much safer than pools.
Lots of possibilities allowed by general relativity (e.g. computers orbiting black holes and information traveling backwards through time) that may or may not correspond to our universe allow for computation beyond that of a Turing machine. Until we understand quantum gravity it seems premature to write off those possibilities.

But that's completely irrelevant when it comes to the functioning of the brain, which operates in the oh so mundane medium size, medium velocity, medium energy scale which modern physics is able to model extremely accurately.

I know that a few folks (Penrose, most notably) think that quantum gravity may be relevant to the brain, but that's an extreme fringe opinion, and in Penrose's case it's practically earned him full fledged crackpot status despite his numerous indisputable successes in physics.
I think it's more likely the cup of tea is the one used as a Brownean random motion generator for the infinite improbability drive.
Fucking buzzkill
Of course, it's an assumption which isn't universal, and probably not even valid for a majority of religious people.
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I'm not a evolution scientist, so I would love to have some educated response to that :

Now that we are over 6 billion humans on earth, with migration way easier and common place than before, shouldn't on the contrary human evolution been speeded up ?

EDIT : I know evolution is not progressive but happen by sudden steps, but I suppose it still stands.
I don't think this example helps much, because it's not that we don't know what an unpleasant truth feels like. Everyone knows what that feels like. The difference is in what comes next. Do we accept a painful truth or accept a happy lie? To me, rationalists like Sam Harris, and probably most programmers, truth wins over feelings by quite a long shot. A better way to understand the other side, is to realize that for a lot of people this isn't the case.

Here's a better example. If you were being cheated on, but this had no affect on your otherwise perfect relationship, would you want to know? What if it was a one time thing that your partner was extremely regretful about and would never happen again. What if you're in your tenth year of the relationship, the cheating occurred nine years ago, you currently share a mortgage and two children.

I would still answer yes, and you probably did too. But many people don't care about truth that much. And I don't necessarily think they should.
Sam Harris is no libertarian -- quite the opposite. His prescriptions for almost everything come down to laws and regulations, developed and enforced by an educated, knows-better-than-you elite.

He should work for Michael Bloomberg. CNO: Chief Nanny Officer?
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This submission's title: "HackRF: Receive/Transmit from 10 to 6000Mhz"

The article: "operating frequency: 100 MHz to 6 GHz"

I would have liked to see a range of 10 MHz to 6 GHz, but not this project.
"We chose Samsung devices for select workgroups after months of testing different devices and gathering employee feedback."
A quick Google search throws up instance of people buying medicine on-line which contains arsenics. Is this not similar to how we get fake English medicines. I do not see any source which says that ayurveda advocates adding this. Can you link me to some relevant source?
I have been using medicines from arya vaidya sala one of the trusted ayurveda centres in India and never heard or had any issues.
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Finally, a tablet simple enough for a woman to use /sarcasm
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Depression is a long period of negative thought patterns. The person is locked in a loop of insatisfaction, disappointment, health concerns, feelings of wasting life (guilt), followed by feelings of worthlessness. It is a terrible place to be.
And unfortunately a lot of smart people fall into this mental trap.
I am emerging from such an episode myself and I can relate perfectly to the article.
I was helped by the book "Feeling good: The New mood therapy" and I highly recommend it to anyone who seeks help.
bunnie's book launched a revolution in hardware hacking. I hope it will continue to be the start of many more.

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There are times I wish there was an option to use some of my karma points to upvote a submission further. This would be one of those times. This is the kind of thing I come to HN looking for that I'm unlikely to find other places.
I'm fighting my instinct to refute the fireplace argument in order to get to the more important question.

Feel the author is missing the last, important piece: To what degree is this affecting himself? How many beliefs does he hold, against seemingly rational arguments? (None? I wouldn't believe that for a second)
Yes, fans of either reductionist fad diet of the day are all ignorant.
I don't get this flat look, it reminds me of Windows 8. Is it a new trand in web design?
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No chimney? Wtf? :) Where is this?
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Why I'm switching back to Firefox
1.2.x was last released in 2011, is just for ruby 1.8.6 compatibility (with 1.8.7 reaching end of life in june)

It's just the logical step to get rid of old deprecated stuff.
Pretty nice. I'd like to see how it goes in a real world scenario with concurrency, manipulation of extracted nodes and general HTTP post/auth/etc. I'm not sure about Ruby+Nokogiri but Clojure+Enlive may well be a great choice.
> Now that we are over 6 billion humans on earth, with migration way easier and common place than before, shouldn't on the contrary human evolution been speeded up ?

Evolution speeds up as a result of either an increased natural mutation rate or extreme environmental challenges (lots of death produced by unfitness) -- or both. But we're not seeing either in modern times.

> EDIT : I know evolution is not progressive but happen by sudden steps ...

No, this isn't true as a rule. In evolutionary theory, the overall rate of change,and the presence or absence of abrupt changes, is entirely dependent on what produces greater fitness. In other words, the rate at which evolution happens, and the shape of the change curve, are themselves driven by considerations of fitness and natural selection.
People with guns are more likely to get killed than people who are unarmed.

OK, lets looks at the facts. At least, the facts available despite the NRA's diligent shutting down of as much research into the role of guns in American society as possible.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/pro-gun-myths-fa...
• A Philadelphia study found that the odds of an assault victim being shot were 4.5 times greater if he carried a gun. His odds of being killed were 4.2 times greater.

Although Myth I also refer to you to:
#7: Guns make women safer.
This is interesting but not completely accurate. What is most mind-blowing, is that Turing machines were Turings approach to formalizing proofs as a means towards solving the Entscheidungsproblem. In fact he was successful in "solving" the problem, in that he proved the impossibility of solving it, later than Goedel, but in a much clearer way - Goedel encoded theorems using numbers in a quite crazy way. I also don't think Turing and Von Neumann can be given that much exclusive credit in inventing the computer, while they had huge impact, I think the idea of a computer was to some extent "in the air" and there were many people working on it concurrently, sometimes unaware of each other, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware
Right, I wasn't saying that he is doing a bad job of representing the libertarian position. I was just saying that he does a bad job of arguing against it (and in general does a bad job of presenting this entire idea). If that's not what you meant then my apologies for misunderstanding your comment.
We should also remember that Asians are Asian. A few of the high-profile genes that we know influence diet occur at far different levels in Asian and other populations, such as lactose and alcohol tolerance. To believe that there is one best diet for all mankind we would have to deny human genetic diversity.
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The reasoning is simple: if no random third parties ever get full control of your machine, than most likely the OS is going to stay intact (with the exception of possible local privilege escalation exploits).

If the OS is intact, the job of checking whether a user environment is compromised is easy and actually doable (as opposed to the case of trying to find malware on a compromised OS).

If, in addition, a user account has limited privileges (which it should of course), then even when compromised the chances of malware being able to do a lot are a lot less. For instance, turning off a webcam light being a root is probably easy, otherwise probably not. Setting up a server, listening for incoming connections and punching a hole in local firewall as root is available, but as a regular user is not.

Stop giving admin rights to your computer to random people (install software as an admin) and live much happier. As an additional benefit, there's never a situation 'I installed this and now computer is messed up, because Joe-the-dev ran "rm -f " with a wrong path as a parameter'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda#Scientific_appraisal

See the safety section.
Isn't bringing up potential killers or rapists just fear-mongering in order to justify gun ownership? Is there any data supporting that gun ownership results in fewer rapes or deaths?
I find defense being thrown about as a very valid reason for owning a gun, but in a country like the US, is there concrete evidence that gun ownership caused fewer home break-ins?
I don't hope to be in a situation where I need a gun near me, but I also don't hope for someone confronting me having a gun in his/her hand.
Yep, and that's exactly why they do it.
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The vast, vast majority of the "research" posted in that post is anecdotal and irrelevant. Just because assault "victims" (did they control for gang-related violence? for obvious malicious intent? etc) had a higher rate of being shot doesn't mean guns are useless.

Same with the "fact" that guns in the home are linked to suicides and assaults and not legitimate home defense. OK? Yeah, that's obvious. But that doesn't control for the fact that many people who purchase guns use them completely responsibly.

I understand you think it's a bad idea that on average, gun crime happens. But none of the "evidence" you posted presents a slam-dunk case for repealing the 2nd Amendment and probably many others (unreasonable search and seizure and the like).

None of this even factors into the whole intent of allowing citizens to own weapons, which is worth a fair amount.
Why isn't the price of a share set up to an unrealistically high value on the first day? The price would eventually go down to match the proper value of the share.
> in the developing world

cf. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05...
According to the linked presentation, slide 13:

"The C specification says that when there is such an ambiguity, munch as much as possible. (The "greedy lexer rule".)"

So j+++++k turns into:

j++ ++ + k

Which is clarified on the next slide.
The owner of a website can set whatever policies they please. But the users can vote with their feet. They can always move to other places with a set of more agreeable rules. Give it a couple of more years, you will see average joe will be able to manage their own websites, and they can host their pictures and writings on their own website, and grant access and set all sorts of privacy levels with their lists of friends of different levels. They will not need to join any social network. And they will have their full control of their "40 acres". Until then, they have to subject themselves to the restrictions of the site owner.

Someone will make a tool to make managing user's own digital asset and content so easy as to disrupt the current social network business model. We already see the trend with all the "cloud computing" thing...

I started a free classifieds website ( http://www.houseofnothing.com ) out of similar frustration, and with similar goal that I will place as little as possible restrictions on the content a user can post. I encourage my users to be tolerant and open-minded, and respect the freedom of expression of others. I even had the thought of placing it under public control. But I am not sure how that will work.
> In 1900, Hilbert gave his famous address where he stated the Hilbert Problems. One of these was to prove that mathematics is "consistent" in the sense that every possible statement is either provable or disprovable from the axioms.

> In an effort to solve this problem, Alan Turing wrote his famous paper "On Computable Numbers" where he conceived for the first time his "Turing Machines".

Whoa -- you completely skipped Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems. Gödel's Theorems answered Hilbert's inquiry, not Turing. It's true that the Turing halting problem and Gödel's Theorems are deeply connected, but the historical sequence is Hilbert, Gödel, then Turing. You can't leave Gödel out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6dels_incompleteness_theo...