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I'm assuming the categorical imperative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative i.e. any morality I take to be true should be universally applicable.

The inability of non-human predators to reason about morality (a) is relevant because I would not wish imposed upon myself (say, by an extraterrestrial race) a morality which I am utterly incapable of even understanding the existence of. Since that is true, by the categorical imperative, I cannot hold to the same morality non-reasoning animals (or those which I cannot prove to reason).

The inability of non-human predators to survive on a plant-based diet (b) is similarly relevant. I would not wish to be held to a morality that precludes my survival. Most apex predators are strictly carnivorous and therefore cannot be held to any morality consistent with the categorical maxim which precludes eating animals.

(c) Can you please clarify why you do not consider the statement "we should exterminate all predators" to imply genocide?

I don't disagree with the alternative argument you provide, but it relies on degrees of suffering, which seems inherently difficult to measure. I am trying to provide an argument based solely on the logical (in)consistency of the GP's statement without introducing any new measures.
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Whenever I do a rebuild on a droplet it sends me a new root password in the email.
> Cars make more of an impact of peoples lives than their computers do but we don't have someone constantly saying how we need to make everyone a mechanic

Actually I have seen many care enthusiasts who criticize people that don't change their own oil and spark plugs.
Sorry -- my fault. I skimmed your article and I guess I missed this part.

That is a bit ridiculous that they retained your password. Still though, logging in after rebuilding and configuring your system would have been a sane move.
Very, very nice. I'll happily end up switching back to Firefox again if you can keep up the pace. Keep us posted mozilla.
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Where is the source code to his bot? I don't see it. Maybe I over-looked it. Without seeing source code, I find this story hard to believe.

Also, who is the person behind it? The PGP key published is to an anon Gmail account internetcensus2012@mail.com.

If the story is true, the legal liability of doing this may be the reason the author is hiding his/her identity.
"By contrast alt-med is open. Anyone can learn about it. Anyone can become a practitioner. Anyone can experiment.

It's also unmitigated bullshit. It's tolerant of different views and opinions because none of them are based on evidence.

Alt-med is actually more free-enterprise. There is more patient choice. It's less expensive.

The 'choice' is an illusion. None of it works so sure, choose what you like. It's less expensive because it's nonsense.

The bedside manner you get...

Because it's a con game and that's all they have to offer.
TL;DR: Dude's server got hacked with a password-based SSH login. Doesn't definitively find source of hack. Doesn't like host security procedures he could have circumvented (changing password, disabling password-login). Posts on HN: ZOMG, ROOT VULN IN WILD!

Edit: Disclosure, I met one of the co-founders at SXSW. Seem like cool dudes.
What a stellar response to feedback. Thank you Mozilla. I'm currently a big Chrome Dev Tools fan, but I, er, am currently thinking of that beautiful girl I ditched again, if you know what I mean...
I've found that, at least amongst 20 and 30 something age groups, women tend to be more religious too. Now that is my crappy anecdotal observation. It would be interesting to see some real data on that.

I'm convinced that the whole C/AM thing taps into an instinctive love of purity. We are wired to care about cleanliness and purity in our food sources. Perhaps women are wired even more this way (the fact that they have superior senses of smell to men might also explain it). The Nazi movement took advantage of many people's innate belief that purity of anything (in their case genetics) is a good thing no matter what.

There was an article posted not too long ago about fireplaces, and how bad for you they really are. There are two kinds of people: those who will readily evaluate facts which contradict their pre-conceived beleifs, and those who will immediately dismiss them.
Wow. I haven't had a chance to read the article yet, but the video where they are editing live in sublime text is awesome. Does this have to open in a new file or can it override an existing file?

It'd be really cool to be able to do the latter. I usually make changes in chrome dev tools and then copy the results into the relevant CSS file.
I read so much about small talk from a historical perspective, I'm curious..can anyone explain how and why it matters now?
The explosion of humanity is possible because of the development of technologies, most importantly agriculture.

Population is certainly a measure of success for a species, however it is not a particularly good one in my opinion.

China's population boom occurred during one of its least successful times in history. China's current success comes at a time of minimal population growth. What's more "successful"? A prosperous society with a static population, or a starving one with a rapidly growing population?

Was China of 1970 more successful than Europe of 1450? It had more people...
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Greylisting is pretty common, and this would obviously fail:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting
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Well, that's omitting the rules required to get an SSH packet to that chain. I also hope you've already ACCEPTed ESTABLISHED,RELATED so we're only considering these rules on new connections, otherwise you've entirely locked out SSH after the third packet.

Assuming that's true, now guess what happens when you do this during a crisis:

for i in backup-file-{0..999}; do
scp $i that-machine:/var/db/
done

Unless you're muxing in your local SSH config, you will cause the firewall to intervene on you during the absolute worst time, and you will have no idea why. Promise.

I really wish we could reverse the trend of fiddling with iptables when it comes to SSH. Everybody does it and nobody thinks about the ramifications.
I think that you miss the point here: If paleo diet is not the silver bullet than what diet should I have? I'm not a paleo advocate by the way. I tried it out but I'm not having a paleo diet at the moment. I'm still trying to find some alternate diet which is proven to be healthy. It seems that this may be one of the most difficult endeavor I've ever undertaken. Any suggestions?
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The point is that if cancer and heart disease are disease of aging, but were rare in paleolithic times, then a life expectancy lower than the age at which they are expected to strike does not preclude the possibility that there were other factors than early death that reduced their incidence.

If a disproportionate number of people died before the age of 5, a life expectancy of 40 means that many lived beyond that age, and would be expected, all things being equal, to have contracted cancer and/or heart disease.
The part about not moving SSH is wrong. It's almost always a good idea to move it to a high-port; none of your arguments hold water (QoS is irrelevant to most, bots do not scan !=22, and if an attacker can launch daemons on your server then you've already lost anyway).
A couple of points:

1. Most or all of the mummies studied were from neolithic societies, not paleolithic. The only one that might be considered paleolithic is the Unangan, but even these are from decades after they were conquered by the Russians. So they may very well have had white flour and processed sugar in their diet. I couldn't find information about their diet during this period.

2. The time needed for natural selection to work. I'm not convinced by this one. The examples that were given would have had higher selection pressure on the young during their child-bearing years. I would guess that the selection pressure from diseases of old-age would be much less, and would take many more generations to be felt.

Still some good points to be made about the naturalistic fallacy.
Here's a secret:

regex: /^(.+)\@(.+)\.(.+)$/

maxlen: 254, minlen:5

Aside from sending your verification email, that's all you need.
Nah...there's tons of workarounds these days which make things way faster / less latent. Couple quick examples:

* look at memory mapped data in java (basically using sun.misc.Unsafe lets you deal with things like malloc and free)

* look at increasing use of primitives and collections that utilize primitives appropriately

* properly profile / size your eden space

yada yada ... i think a lot of HN people have generally just wrote off java as not as fast as C, not as productive as python/ruby, and not as exciting as lisp, haskell, FOTM. Java's a fine tool like anything else...just need to use it appropriately.
For lots of users, they have to send _something_. And while they could build a PGP-whatzits system for the small fraction of their people who use PGP, those people are already going to be immediately changing their passwords anyway.

Heuristics like "keys are better than passwords" or "don't email passwords" are good heuristics, but they shouldn't become absolute rules.
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Same here. That's the biggest problem IMO.
> I'm at a total loss as to where this gender disparity comes

> from, but there has to be a vector somewhere. If anyone has

> any ideas, I'm looking forward to hearing them. If there is

> anything to be done about this, I'd like to volunteer my

> time for it.

I'm not sure, but I think a lot of it is marketing. I'm not sure about the numbers but I have a feeling there are more stay at home moms then there are dads. Commercials during the day are highly targeted at this demographic and its possible that this is where most of the misinformation comes from.

Also, I know women are proven more emotional than men. Does this also encompass the "spiritual" side of things (a trait which a lot of alternative medicines have)?
It opens a new buffer, than can be saved as an existing file.
Does anyone know the claims regarding saturated fat and coconut oil? I have some friends who in the last 2 months have become zealots and they encourage "high quality" fats (coconut oil) and denounce canola oil.
There was an interesting study done - and written up on SBM - that suggests that the theraputic effect of Alt-med, at least with acupuncture, is entirely due to patient-practitioner interaction.

As someone on the cusp of becoming a Doctor, I understand this. I even understand why traditional medicine fails at it (and it is many of the reasons you mention). And I understand why Alt-med succeeds here.

I think it's great that alt-med can deliver a measurable placebo through the clinical effect.

HOWEVER

this does not excuse the intellectual dishonesty of alternative medicine practitioners.

Please anyone who replies to this suggesting that 'We don't know enough about alt med, bla bla bla, big pharma won't study it because it can't be milked for the elixir of life, money/human blood, etc' - Stop now. There's 3 types of treatments. Medicine proper, Stuff that has been tested and found wanting, and stuff that hasn't been tested. The second category is almost exclusively the whole of alternative medicine.

please excuse my divergence as I return to the train of thought:

We should continue to deny alternative medicine practitioners legitimacy. As I argue in the SMH article (3rd contribution in the article) referenced at the bottom of this post, it causes an economic misallocation of resources away from real, practical science towards, for want of a better word, magic.

What we should also do, I now believe, is actively encourage these people to become 'Lifestyle practitioners'. They don't practice a form of medicine, or at least drop the pretence that what they are doing has any scientific backbone, and instead do what they are doing now - that is, interacting with patients, talking with them about their lives, encouraging positive lifestyle interventions (cutting out smoking, drinking, increasing exercise, etc) in an environment that it seems they are more responsive to these interventions.

You can't have both. It is false and misleading for Alt-med practitioners to continue to pretend and/or believe that what they are doing has a real scientific basis in the same way as taking a drug that has been through a RCT does.

But you allude to the root of the problem when you talk about the shabby operation of many hospitals etc.

The difference is, they are built for really sick (or in your example, pregnant) people. Lots of them. Because there are lots of them. And alt-med practitioners will kill them by the bucketload if we were to get rid of hospitals and doctors tomorrow. and then society would go through the process of re-inventing something similar

Maybe one day hey?

* - http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/legislative-al...

* - http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/the-question/should--universit...
Looks nice, but as far as i can see this is using Reflection, which might be a performance penalty you don't want to take in your app.

B.t.w. I never really worked on data (input) intensive apps on Android.
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Keep in mind parent was talking about industrial labs, where funding is obviously a bit different. I don't really know much about academia beyond what I hear from peers.
The problem with "Evidence Based Medicine" vs CAM are two-fold, according to my friend who is an MD in internal medicine at the local VA.

1. 'Evidenced based' medicine is not really 'Evidenced based' because (again this is according to an MD) 50% of what they practice has not been subjected to scientific study.

2. Also there is not the time nor funding to test every aspect and modality of CAM. So some CAM practice might really be working for patients but there is not time nor funding to discover why.

This seems like yet another rant by some Physician whose 'religion' is actually evidence-based medicine.
I made this because I'm always trying to find good new music that's usually distributed free online by the artist themselves. My friends know this and are always asking me to tell them what new music is out, where to get it, etc, etc. So I made this as an attempt to let them know what I think is good and also for other people to recommend music to others. This is also my first Node project (I mostly program in Python and Scala).
Because the purpose and value of speech are subjective, speech must be protected even when it appears to have no purpose. That was the principle at stake in Synder vs. Phelps.

Consider the facts of the case. Members of the Westboro Baptist Church protested on public property, over 1,000 yards away from the funeral of Matthew Snyder. Although the signs were certainly offensive, they did not mention members of the family by name so as to start a fight. And they did not urge people to commit acts of violence. In other words, the protest clearly did not meet the standards of fighting words or incitement to violence — categories of speech that are unprotected by the First Amendment.

I agree that the protest was morally despicable. So did the justices. Still, Westboro members participated in a peaceful protest on public property. To ban that behavior would set a very dangerous precedent.
I pay £10/year for my VPS, I think I spend more on domains. There are many cheap boxes[1] available out there for exactly this kind of purpose.

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I came here to post the same thing. This is its own fallacy.

It was used to market estrogen supplementation, among other spurious remedies, to post-menopausal women. "Women didn't used to live very long after menopause--the life expectancy was only about 50. You need to take estrogen pills to keep you healthy into old age."

This of course was people using statistics to lie. The average life expectancy was lower primarily due to high infant mortality. Life expectancy is NOT the average age at death.

But then they found out that the estrogen pills were causing breast cancer, so that put a stop to that.
I'm not a Paleo dieter, but I am familiar with the gist of their claims. I do not understand how this study is a response to those claims. The 137 mummies studied are from "Individuals from ancient Egypt, ancient Peru, the Ancestral Puebloans of southwest America, and the Unangan of the Aleutian Islands were imaged." Of those we have 3 agricultural civilizations (Egytp, Peru, Pueblo) and one hunter gatherer (Aleutian). So 3/4 of the studied civilizations don't argue agains the basic Paleo claim at all. I can't see from looking the the links what the results from the Aleutian cohort were.
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Our site, FiveYearItch.com, is growing nicely with new software engineers and employers.

Functional improvements with user feedback have paid off. However, the overall graphic design is still where it started -- it's not easy to replace L&F.

Graphic design can make all the difference, but we'd like to ask HN: Is this sort of expensive rework worthwhile, when functional tweaks are available for A/B testing?
I have ssh keys set up so it doesn't do this. Instead what it seems to do is reuse your old root password for the new image.
someone just showed off a clone of this sometime last week I believe.
How can anyone not see that Crowdfunding will be the future one way or another. Why let some out of touch VCs pick who gets to play when you can ask your potential customers?
Yes, but my time is much, much more expensive. I can't spend hours installing and configuring that stuff, especially when exporting my feeds is easy and fast.
Damn! i am impressed. Good job, Mozilla!
I think you missed the part where they retained a root password over a machine rebuild.
Give me this now.

(ps - awesome work and communication!)
Hi, thanks for the bug report , it's fixed now. I used keypress event and somehow it doesn't work. Changing it to keydown event now has fixed it, at least in my Ubuntu box.
Thanks to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3417938/binding-keypress-...
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At the moment, I really like Chrome because I just find the behavior of the Omnibar superior to Firefox's Awesomebar.

But hot damn, you're making me question loyalties on my dev machine.
Thanks for your complement. It's fixed now. keypress changed to keydown event handler
Just To give some perspective to the $1000... it costs:

- < $1/month for a .in domain

- $20/month for an unlimited 250kbps internet connection

- $20-$100 a month, should cover phone bills for startups that need to make a lot of calls

- $200-$400 for a studio apartment ( my first startup had 3 startup teams sharing rent for a 3 bedroom apartment where we shared food/bills/wifi/etc )

- $250 for 30 pizza's a month, $150/month for 3 subways/day for a month OR ~$100/month if you spend $2 per meal

- $200/month for the cheapest dedicated machines if you choose to host at a good local vendor. higher for the cloud based ones of the same config.

- $75-$100, and you should be able to fly half way across the country if you can plan your tickets early enough, (or lesser if you're frugal about timings )

- $50 worth of free adwords is what new businesses get occasionally on signing up for adwords. i'd be surprised if they increase this incentive alone by 20x though.

Misc notes...

- $1.5/litre for petrol, $1 for diesel

- $100/month for an iphone 5

- $5000 is the usual limit you can withdraw at most ATM's

- $300-$1000/month, and you should be able to start hiring fresh graduates you could train

~B
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I do apologize for using "secret" in a context where it could apply to either a public key encryption scheme or to the content which is being restricted by the whole scheme.

Another issue is "tamper resistant" is just a big wrapper around a security thru obscurity design. Its not "mathematically provable" its just here's a secret number we hope doesn't show up on wikileaks.
Can you do more minor graphical changes, and A/B-test those?
I'm pretty sure that life expectancy figures generally discount infant mortality as a separate issue.

People did not live all that long in prehistory. Infections and diseases were more fatal more often. It's not like if you made it to ten you'd be as likely to live to 70 as someone is today, no sir.
I really refuse to accept that women are just "wired for faith", it sounds too similar to the Victorian notion that somehow women are naturally wired for irrationality. There has to be a social reason why this spreads among women, there is a gap somewhere in science education that leaves women more vulnerable to this.

And I actually watched it spread. The transmission seems to be helped by exploiting trusted relationships among network nodes, so to speak. But that still doesn't explain why someone is susceptible to the attack in the first place.

I'm also skeptical about the purity idea, because it's an arbitrary (and wrong) definition of purity to begin with and there is really no reason why women should be hard-wired to fall for these things. This is traditionally the moment where completely made-up cavemen analogies are introduced, but those are exactly as unscientific as C/AM itself.
Yours is a very common response I get to this - I wonder why, since there is absolutely no evidence for it. You vastly underestimate the number of plants in existence and vastly overestimate the fraction we have been able to study rigorously. You also hugely simplify the chemistry of it all, the main advantage of plants over modern medicine in its typical form is that they contain complex compounds of chemical substances which show a synergy in a certain direction e.g. they interact with the body in a different way when they are administered together than if they would be ingested separately. Analyzing such compounds and the interactions between them is still often beyond the current state of science and is also not as well funded as traditional drug research, simply because traditional drugs are easier to sell.

Please don't have the impression that I am somehow advocating herbs over traditional medicine, I don't, and there are surely problems with using herbs, but those are different problems that the one most often mentioned. The material you use has to be rather fresh because the concentration of active substances degenerates with time very quickly, the concentration also varies a lot from one area of growth to another so it might be difficult to come up with dosages, they can have serious side effects just like traditional medicine, they are inconvenient to store and use etc.

You can find scientific references for most of what I said and anyway it would come to no surprise to a second-year biology undergraduate. Just reading the wikipedia page about herbalism would clarify a lot of misunderstanding on the topic:

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