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This article makes the important point that user-generated content is less advertiser-appealing than professionally produced content, because so much of user-generated content is schlocky and likely to degrade any brand advertised on the same screen view.
"Never" is a very strong word. "Subjective" experiences ultimately manifest as a series of electrical / chemical state changes in the brain; both the brain and those state changes are well within the realm of scientific understanding, so it seems quite plausible that science could explain subjective experience.
Unfortunately, for every competent artist/designer/musician out there, there's at least one (and most likely more) hack that can't cut it and isn't competent at their job. And for someone who's job doesn't deal with what is more traditionally thought of as needing creativity, it can be hard to distinguish the competent people who are good at their job from the hacks who imitate.
4chan is basically the definition of silly.
That sounds like it would nearly eliminate the tax preparation industry.
I don't understand why they are saying this is the first time someone is saying that genes, and genetic association, are not sufficient. Eric Schadt has published some great work on network analysis and eQTL (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18552845). Others have argued about the importance of studying copy number variation.
MySQL replication is pretty broken too. It was one of the biggest problem ares while I worked their, tons of customer issues with it, slaves constantly getting out of sync with masters. I think it's fundamentally because the lack of ACID makes it impossible to serialize and replicate updates deterministically.
There were in fact some people who worked at banks who refused to participate in the fraudulent lending activity, falsification of income statements, no-doc loans etc. - they quit or were fired.

It may be "reasonable" to engage in fraud when the government is enabling it - but its not honest. Hopefully our country can come to a point in the future where being honest is viewed as the "reasonable" thing to do.
At what valuation would you invest in Facebook?

Oh, come on. I'd put down 50K for 51 percent of the whole. How's that? Obviously, a one-sided bid is pointless.
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And they missed Richard M. Stallman.
The point is you cannot distinguish between something that has subjective experience and something that appears to have subjective experience.
I don't know how, but it's easy to imagine Excel pulling data from DBs using some sort of interface (ADO maybe?). All you need is some code the implements that interface for SQLite.
Here's the most important domains for me at this point in my life. (I'm just pointing out how subjective their list is.)

google.com

gmail.com

auburn.edu

news.ycombinator.com

reddit.com

slashdot.org
I have to say I've always questioned the logic of not having down arrows on stories themselves. It would cut down on a lot of the non-tech stuff.

I guess the YC folks just don't want to risk losing a really good story.
I'd argue that many bits of user generated content do a better job at establishing an emotional relationship. Take this article for example, which is obviously "professional journalism" at work. It has the typical, sterile, non-authentic smell to it - nobody in the real world says "30 million Megabits".

I have no idea whether I'd be more likely to click on an ad next to this article or next to a youtube clip that made me laugh. But I think the latter...
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Not to burst your bubble, but not all autistics are geniuses.
If you believe a story shouldn't be here, you flag it. Politics, crime and sports are considered potential off-topic unless they have good reason to be here (I remember reading about a start-up's device that was improving baseball performance IIRC by cooling the body faster; very good article, very on topic).

Religion is very risky and IMO doesn't really belong here, I believe a few rare instances will spring up. This isn't one of them.
Are there any good tips for thinking better here? I'd like to request a summary of anyone who read it.
if the numbers are anywhere close to accurate, that's a hell of a deficit to make up before turning ramen profitable.

The coming youtube redesign will likely relegate user-generated content to the backburner in favour of premium offerings. UG content is a nightmare for risk adverse advertisters. Uknown creators and potential copyright infringing content don't make for a great recipe. Not to mention, the bulk of youtube's videos don't exactly have the kind of high production values you'd want to hang your shingles on.
even more fun

wget http://www.wikipedia.com --output-document=- > /dev/audio

Download a webpage, output to soundcard. Works pretty well, I need to find a bigger page to work with though.
Interesting how he accompanies his text with one of the worst logos I have seen in a while.
You are absolutely right. I do see well targeted ads based on my preferences, but I'm on facebook from september to may at school when I'm broke. In the summer when I'm making solid money I don't go on facebook and thus don't see their ads. Maybe when we all graduate from college and have more money their user base will be more valuable.
My only issue with that is I fee the flag reflects on the person who posted it. Like I'm getting them in trouble or something. I think the people who post this type of thing are well intentioned so I just feel about about flagging them.
This seems far simpler than SQL Injection of Buffer Overlow attacks. Why doesn't Time require some kind of registration? They could use registered users as a basis for, dare I say, "Web 2.0" features.
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> Subjective experience, or "consciousness", is a property
> for which this reduction doesn't hold, since an exact
> physical clone of oneself would hold a different
> consciousness, even at the zero moment when they were
> physically identical.

This is a nice assertion to make but it is by no means proven. Perhaps an exact physical copy of myself shares a consciousness with me, or has no consciousness at all. And even if it told me that it had it's own consciousness, why should I believe it anyway? ;-)
You find competent designers the same way you find competent electricians, surgeons or programmers.

Ask around, get recommendations, look at their portfolios and talk to them about their methods and processes.
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they were in mine. in fact, had a whole class and (private, disconnected, secure) lab devoted to them. covered everything from your basics (buffer overflow, sql injection) to more interesting stuff (analyzing/creating/decompiling viruses). it was my favorite class. good times.

i was thoroughly surprised when i started working in the "real world" and no one had any clue about what i thought was basic security practices.
The assumption of materialism is as superstitious and silly as most religious assertions. It's scientism, not science.

Science treats physical matter as first-class citizens; mind is not one. A large subset of Buddhism (especially Tibetan) takes the opposite approach-- mind is the first-class citizen, and physical matter is "an appearance to the mind"; it exists only because we (and trillions of other beings) experience it, and it's no more or less real than the world in a dream. These approaches seem diametrically opposite and yet, interesting enough, it seems that Buddhism is (of the major religions) the one most quick to embrace science, because of the mutual recognition that these two approaches (matter first vs. mind first) are just that: merely approaches, none of which have a monopoly on the generation of useful knowledge.
Beside the font size being bizarrely large (I believe I shrunk it 3 times before it stopped hurting my head), I believe the people included are largely poor choices too. I don't perceive Ayn Rand, Katherine Hepburn, George Carlin, Mick Jagger and numerous others toward the end of the list as brilliant atheists.

I'm sorry, but to be brilliant you have to provide something profound to society. I hope one day to be a famous writer and when I pop a cog and get my corpse torched, I hope to whatever that I never end up on a crappy list like this. I'd want to be remembered as a brilliant writer, not an atheist, just like every writer who believes in god wants to be remembered as a brilliant writer, not a Christian.
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and Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin. This article does not belong on ycnews...
As you sit at your desk, I clone you using advanced alien technology. Your clone appears in the middle of the room. I whisper a secret to the clone.

At this point, do you know what I said to the clone? If your consciousness is the same, shouldn't you?

Maybe not "experimentally proven" but seems clear to me nonetheless.
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This report is kind of obvious. Those of us using AWS and others knew about this a long time ago. Its pretty simple math to be able to see when your cloud will cost more than DIY.
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It would be extremely difficult to prove, since an exact physical copy of anything is impossible to make.

I think it's very likely, though. I don't exhibit a constant physical state; it's always changing. This establishes a range (albeit, a very narrow one) of possible physical states that can harbor my consciousness; there can't be just one. A clone of me would also have a fluctuating state. Although it's extremely unlikely that we would ever share the same state at the same time, it's plausible that his state would fluctuate into my range; there's no way of establishing how likely this is, because these concepts are imprecisely defined, but it's clearly not implausible. Philosophically, I find it unlikely that his fluctuations into my state-range would cause a merging of my consciousness with his. Any assertion of the opposite would suggest telepathy (of an involuntary sort).
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Many things that seem intuitively clear turn out not to be true. I don't know if my "alien clone" would share a consciousness with me and you don't know either.

It's not even clear if split brain patients (people with brain hemispheres that do not communicate or very inefficiently communicate with each-other) can be said to have a single consciousness or two consciousnesses or something else entirely.
My anticipation of the counterargument (which is not a bad one): As soon as you whisper something to the clone, the physical state of the clone is different from his.

The counter-counter-argument is that if consciousness is a product of one physical state, rather than a range of states, then a person harbors an entirely different consciousness from one moment to the next, which is utterly contrary to our notion of consciousness.

The upshot of hardcore materialism is that if it's true, the notion of consciousness is an illusion. Then there's no reason to be upset over death, since the thing that will be annihilated doesn't exist. It really is some other person in the distant future who will die.
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Excellent points.

Even sleep is problematic-- if I go to sleep and wake up after a nice nap, does the post-nap me share the same consciousness as the pre-nap me? Now while you were asleep I create a clone of you. Which one do you wake up as? Why?

It's to bad the story went dead, this is just starting to get fun.
Okay, I have yet to understand what the heck postmodernism really is. Apparently, everybody I've asked cannot define it without resorting to incomprehensible explanations. Could anybody shed some light on what has become the whipping post of philosophy?
No. It was $3B versus $16B last year.
Their AB system works by you specifying certain elements by ID, for example, and they change it on the fly using manipulation of the DOM.
Advertisers on fb see poor results. People on a social network are there to socialize... not buy things. Imagine a vendor trying to sell things in a social atmosphere at, say, a bar. For arguments sake assume the vendor is selling something very relevant like taxi service or beer mugs. Image how annoying and out-of-place the vendor would be in that atmosphere. And this assumes a relevant product (good ad-targeting in the social networking case). The point is advertising online works but not everywhere. Contrast the bar example with an "ad-sense" example i.e. a person selling soda at a flea market. People are there to buy things and the vendor will probably be successful.
I've personally never had a problem with being criticized, I had professional editors criticizing some of my work at 17 so I guess I got used to it young. So I don't see flagging as reflecting on the person, I see it as a learning experience for them.

I do like that there's no Richard Dawkin's fanaticism here, unlike Reddit, so I guess I'm biased to nail all and every religion/atheism submission I see just because I disliked seeing every 5th submission being about atheism and I'll leave HN if it ever does.

There's some fanaticism about pg here, but then he made the place so that's acceptable. I guess if I was ever in one of the Queen's Palaces or in the White House, I'd probably complement them too... but at least they have roofs on their places.

I'd say if you don't feel flagging then that's your choice, but if you feel something breaches the guidelines beyond your tastes then hit the button.
>> Many things that seem intuitively clear turn out not to be true.

That isn't much of a counter-argument. Can you give me something better?
I think economics should be a descriptive science, not a set of arguments for one particular political system. Markets have certain consequences that we may or may not want, and so do certain types of government interventions. Planned economies don't tend to have very many desirable consequences, as far as I can tell, but that's not how most economic policies work anyway.

I'm not a good enough economist to give an intellectually honest account of what would happen in an anarcho-capitalist system, but I doubt from a historical and anthropological standpoint that anarcho-capitalism is likely to ever happen anyway.
There is no step 7.
So bacon is the basis for lightsaber technology?

Is it kosher? At least it smells good!
What happens if you're building an extremely complicated product (not web app)? Is a demo still required?
I did't catch that up too, but after he says:

"Nope, wasn't "implying" that! In fact, a careful read would have indicated the Chowhound logo was NOT created according to this advice. It was, in fact, done by a pro with vast experience, "condensation" or not."
I think you know all you need to know about postmodernism.
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You are still conscious during sleep, but you usually aren't forming memories. The word "unconscious" (meaning nonresponsive) and "consciousness" (as a metaphor for "mind" in the Buddhist sense, subjective experience, or "soul") shouldn't be connected because they refer to entirely different phenomena.

With practice in mindfulness meditation, you can remain aware in the early stages of sleep, and form memories nonetheless. It can actually be jarring, because you experience with full awareness the paralysis, the strange pains/zaps (that are actually harmless). If you get good at it, you can pop into a lucid dream (sometimes) or follow the mind into fairly deep levels of sleep... though it's debated whether or not awareness in Stage IV sleep is possible.
Is this really an issue with spec work? What recourse do you have if a non-spec designer uses stolen illustrations in your logo?
She is certainly not presenting extraordinary evidence. For example she claims that modern child rearing methods have no effect because there are still the same number of violent people in society - as if everybody is being raised according to the latest child rearing methods! I live in a rural area with a lot of poverty and trust me - what I see in the playground as far as parent-kid interaction is not what Dr Sears has in mind.

She is also terribly inconsistent. She says "The belief that parents have a great deal of power to determine how their children will turn out is actually a rather new idea" and then goes on to say in the old days, kids used to be beaten not praised. Well I have news for her - parents used to beat kids because they though they were affecting the way the kids would turn out! It was the same idea, just different methods. The idea that the parent (or whichever adult is in loco parentis - culturally not always the biological parent) goes back millenenia. Why were Spartan children taken away from their mothers, if their mothers were not thought to have influence on their upbringing?

As to the issue of adopted children not being "like" their parents - maybe not in personality, but I am willing to bet that a child adopted out of a primitive tribe by a pair of geeks will learn how to use a computer pretty damn fast. Is that of no effect on the child's life?

Obviously by now it is generally accepted that children come out the way they do through a combination of pre-desposition (genetics), adult influence (eg. parenting and teaching) and peer/social influence. But saying parents don't matter at all seems to be a step backwards.
4chan, overall, might be silly, but /b/ is trolling elevated to an art form. absolutely, the most depraved and nihilistic of all the internet, so much so that it becomes something beautiful. /b/ is the works of Marquis De Sade, John Waters, Roger Corman, Banksy, Cortney Love and Dead Kennedys all rolled into one. (also, throw in Kant and Hegel for good measure, because /b/ operates under its own dialectic.)

It's the low points of humanity pursued with ecclesiastical rigor. /b/ will fuck you over in every possible way, for no reason, and you will get up whipping your bloody nose knowing you have made someone else's lulz possible. And what pleasure!
Her two books, "The Nurture Assumption" and "No Two Alike", make eminently clear _exactly_ what she means and doesn't mean. Then she analyzes previous studies, really digging into the statistics. Her writings are excellent demonstrations of proper and improper use of statistics.

Reading her books, I was astonished to see some of psychology's long-cherished ideas so thoroughly disproven.
As far as I can tell, just by loading up Linux in a VM, but of course, that's cheating :)
"Gene expression" is the key phrase. Genes on their own don't mean much with regard to disease. Diet and lifestyle drive how they are expressed.
"I, for one, would relish the opportunity to delete my Facebook account and go all-in with [the Facebook killer]. Anyone else feel the same?"
Oh, it's there -- it's just so panic-inducing, your mind has blocked it out.
I am not sure why people would use FireSearch.com (instead of Google or Ask.com), or for that matter, why someone who wished to serve up Google Searches would use an intermediary like ZuGo.com to serve up their "search start page". What am I missing? What is the business model? Even simpler: What is the traffic model?
Amazon very rarely has the lowest prices on anything if you shop around. Books, for instance, are usually cheaper on Overstock. I have a Prime membership nonetheless, due to the convenience and incredible customer service.
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It told me I didn't have their drive connected and to call or mail (not email, what gives?) tech support. Not too pleased with that. I assure you my X25-M was definitely "connected" to my MacBook.

The URL they pointed me to was http://www.intel.com/support/9089.htm
When I'm typing, I can revise my thoughts more easily. For instance, I just deleted that whole sentence, wrote "When I'm typing, I can go back", deleted the last two words, wrote "revise my thoughts more easily. For instance...". This would be awkward via voice.

Some people type thousands of words per day, or the vague equivalent. I hope your ubiquitous-computing future has room for drinking lots of water, because my mouth would get dry from all that yapping.

There's also the nice feature that I can sit down and have a nice quiet writing session, or a nice writing session with music in the background. My sound space is either empty or filled with something else while I'm writing. And if I'm in a lab or an office or some other environment around other computer users, I don't want to listen to their jabbering.
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Excellent points, especially the part about the constrained degrees of freedom in our actual interactions with the world. To give another example: the human hand has somewhere upwards of 20 degrees of freedom. Yet except in a few situations that require lots of training (like touch typing or playing musical instruments) the movements of the hand are limited to a small number of stereotyped poses-- a power grip for holding a coffee mug or a suitcase, a pose bringing the thumb to forefinger, a handshake pose, a thumbs-up pose, a baseball grip, etc. And that's not even getting into the physical limitations of the hand.
I have two personal addendum's, one to each point:

1 - I wouldn't invest in a company unless it needs a road for profitability.

2 - I grew up on the internet and I have no clue how the internet works. I have no clue how advertising works, but I'm probably unique against normal people that advertising doesn't make me buy a single thing. (Anecdotal example: My reason for buying an Xbox 360 was because it can push 720p to a HDTV and was cheaper than a new PC. I was never told it could do this through advertising, I found it out myself.)

I understand how Real Estate works, how all functions of commerce and trade works. I just do not get advertising. Does Coke advertising make me buy it over Pepsi? No, Pepsi is too sweet. Do all the dozen adult-phone services make me call them? No, these didn't even work when I was twelve.

The only place I've noticed advertisements to ever work on me is for movies, however I regularly go to apple trailers so I generally see the advert before I see it on TV or in the Cinema, which negates the point of advertising; IE you can't make me buy something I'm already trying to buy. This, however, doesn't extend to the crap they used to put on VHS's and now DVD's, which I find offensive and disgusting. I pay $30 for a movie, I don't expect there to be 20 minutes of trailers, just like when I go to eat my cereal I don't want fifty advertisements for other cereals.
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