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Most religious people believe that stories from thousands of years ago are basically reliable accounts of what happened. Atheists believe they are not.

Both sides have evidence for their beliefs, it depends on which evidence you find most compelling.

Science shouldn't be thought of as a noun that you believe in, but as a verb that you do. You don't need to hold a certain belief to be able practice "science" you only need to be able to conduct a repeatable experiment.

A person could believe with all his heart that he is 10,000 year old alien, and still be able to form a testable hypothesis and design and conduct a repeatable experiment. You don't have to be a strict empiricist to realize that empiricism is directly useful in day to day life.

A theist can use the scientific process even if it means working with models he doesn't believe are wholly correct. Just like you can use Newtonian physics even if you realize it isn't a correct explanation of how things really work--because it is a useful model.
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Neither does Hulu. https://hulu.com/
Amazon redirects to HTTP: https://www.amazon.com/
Netflix redirects to HTTP: https://netflix.com/
Etc... Etc... Etc...
Why pick on Bing?
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I didn't say it was invalid, I just found it amusing.
A bit off topic, but I really feel like this type of "article" adds absolutely nothing to the video. I'd prefer to be linked directly to the video rather than give away a pageview to an entity that isn't even producing its own content.
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Cool stuff, very interesting concept, would love to see an example working with a Rails RESTful API.
Note the phrase "associated" in the excerpt:
"They, too, find lower growth associated with periods when debt is over 90%"

This episode emphasizes that the original study found no causality; one would expect a country with low growth to need to rely more on debt and less on tax revenues to fund government, especially if expenditures were planned based on a higher-growth scenario.
I am shocked to see that NASA still uses analog video transmission systems! (I can tell because of the type of visible video artifacts: discoloration, etc).

Elon Musk is right when he says government-funded space research programs are stuck using decades old technologies due to inertia, conservatism, and lack of competition.
Apple has never had a meaningful market share in the server arena. It's virtually 0%. It can't shrink because it doesn't exist in the first place.

Xserve and XSAN were never specifically for enterprise, but rather as support infrastructure for things like large Avid or Final Cut installations. There have been only a handful of cases where Xserve was deployed en-masse.
Yeah, I agree it wasn't the best priceonomics blog post. I'd be fine with a really strong/insightful analysis of the firearms or weapons industry (the way all their other posts have been in the past), but this one looks mostly political.

Interesting "priceonomics-worthy" aspects of the global arms trade would be:

1) Longevity of weapons -- I mean, I saw maxim guns in Afghanistan.
2) The weird market in EUCs, embargoes, etc.
3) Stuff like Brown Moses/CJ Chivers where they analyze the weird origins of weapons used in current conflicts (e.g. Syria and Libya) -- weird low-volume US prototypes found in Libya, and Croatian knockoffs of other designs as part of some "elimination of stocks" by post-Balkan countries.

The NRA/domestic politics parts are the least interesting. Outside of small arms, the NRA has basically no relationship to the munitions industry, either.
I don't think browsers should assume that http://blahblah and https://blahblah refer to the same resource.
Curious! I can't say I agree with that – at least, not the way you just phrased it; could just be linguistic ambiguity – but it's interesting nonetheless. I have to say, that's a mindset I don't usually expect on Hacker News; now I'm wondering just how diverse the beliefset of this community is.
I think you missed missed point. Many of the features listed there are draft spec. Rapid adoption of early draft specs are what caused the current Webkit mess.

IE 10 doesn't have the most features available, I never said it did. What I did say that that the features that are present are more correctly implemented than other browsers.
Another way to go would be to use some functions that conceal the mechanics of Maybe. For instance:

(fromMaybe 0 a) + (fromMaybe 0 b)

This will always produce a number and it's pretty clear why you'd get the one you'd get.
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I'm shocked at how high quality the video is. It's being beamed from outer space, and I can watch in practically real time. Who cares if it's analog or digital? It works, and it's awesome.

I don't want NASA messing with the latest technology just for shits and giggles. Don't fix what ain't broken.
>watching horrible decisions made by those for their own benefit

Always consider you have imperfect information before coming to this verdict.

As developer sometimes we think we know whats going on but really don't.

As a new startup founder I find myself making tons of what I would previously classify as horrible decisions just because I have much more information about what is going on.

The decisions you make change once you have to consider cash, timelines, resource availability and potential sales.
Did anyone else try going to the YouTube video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShpcjWG_Me0
Here: http://www.cppgm.org I'm learning a lot of this features!
There's also hoodie + yeoman, but there aren't any adapters for angular yet. For some reason angular doesn't get official love from libraries like rendr and meteor.
You will think much about this :)

I don't think the EUR is designed as a competitor or alternative "equivalent" to the USD. Rather, it is a "readily available" option --differing in a few substantial aspects (rather than outright mimic USD)-- for anyone, anywhere to consider at their own pace.

Even if "they" wanted to, they couldn't just, as in the past, once again "compel" the world to use their national currency for your reserves and trade-settling, then remove the backing, break promises and debase and inflate for 4 decades straight. No one would fall for it again, nor is it really desirable anyway for any productive (say, net-exporting) country.
actually had the government after them in numerous enough occasions to be statistically significant.

The government? No, that's not what I'm talking about when I talk about authority. I'm talking about managerial authority.

That's why we were talking past each other.
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I was going to say the same thing. I guess I've been doing C++ for too long to consider these obscure. Any nontrivial C++ codebase is likely to have several of these.
I think the largest hurdle I have getting running with maybe, is that it just isn't in my fingers yet. As such, it can really slow you down if you were trying to build a bare bones prototype without layering. Which, given the popularity of dynamic languages, I would think is fairly common.

That is, if you are going to use Maybe, you either want to do so from the beginning, or you want a good layer of abstraction between where the value is optional and where it is not. Moving something from guaranteed to optional is a bit more combersome with Maybe.

Also, I have gotten really used to "truthy" values.
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Or how about you do a good job providing something people will pay money for. Unfortunately for tech people, what the market will pay money for isn't always what tech people want to build.
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My personal belief is that the earth was created as if it were much older than it actually is, although their really wouldn't be much of a difference to us.

For example, if God created the first tree, just snapped his fingers and poof, there it is full sized. Would that tree have tree rings? I think it would.
Haha. I think a blog article on this would be helpful to me. :) Still learning on holds/wipes/cleaning and how to maximize my two hands.
The app template is such an example, consuming the public GitHub API: https://github.com/airbnb/rendr-app-template

In the future, we'd like to come up with some more in-depth tutorials.
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Ah, this is very wise advice. I have so many features and revenue sources bouncing around in my head, this is the path I need to follow. I have at least one early adopter I can call on, I'm sure I can get a few more with the right deal.
IIRC, they are using node.js and rendr for their mobile site and still use Rails for the main website.
I understand Hulu and Netflix but I have a hard time understanding why Amazon wouldn't support SSL. It does put a heavier processing load on web servers but you would think that if someone wants to encrypt their shopping traffic Amazon would be open to accommodating that.

It is not, by any means, trivial to find out what products someone is looking to buy and could be the basis of a social engineering hack.
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What would be the point of creating something and then faking its age? Is it a test, for us to ignore empirical evidence and determine that God made it anyway? Or are you suggesting that, perhaps, the world began with us humans, and that the universe pre-humanity was manufactured to seem like it gave rise to is (but it couldn't have, because it started with us)?

I'm interested in where such a belief comes from.
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Agreed, I still have insults a plenty in my quiver.
Well, let me do a comparison:

I can watch much higher quality videos streamed over the Internet, from servers thousands of miles away, around the world, through many routers, fiber optics, and complex technological stacks (DOCSIS, TCP/IP, fiber optics signal modulation, video codecs, etc).

Yet the ISS has a clear line of sight to ground receiving stations 230-1000 miles away (or to satellites which are perfectly able to transmit digital data), yet the video signal quality is that bad?

Don't get me wrong. As a space enthusiast I love being able to watch live spacewalks. But as an engineer I sigh at certain technical aspects...
Even if it can't be null now the calling code may change in the future. And did you check all the possible error conditions (e.g. failed allocation). If you are relying on a non-null call best to check every time.
The behavior of [] is from C -- it's not a bizarro C++ feature.

The "redefining keywords" is the pre-processor. That's what it does. There isn't anything magic here. Strictly speaking it can be run entirely ahead of the C/C++ compiler, on any file you want. There's no requirement that it is C/C++ - you could use it on a python script (as long as you weren't using # comments anywhere :D )
Energy inflation doesn't naturally track the real world at all. You're not richer in real terms for travelling on a thirsty old MD-80 than a new A320neo using little more than half the fuel, and the US is not better off in real terms than 1980, when per capita energy use was higher than it is now. A Google search or Kindle download is not materially less beneficial than a drive to the library/bookstore.

In fact, for a developed country like the US the anticipated trend in energy use is in the opposite direction to the anticipated trend in real GDP.
http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/MT_energydemand.cfm

An energy-based theory of value is more wrong than the labour theory was in the time of Smith and Marx, and similarly it's increasingly wrong. This forum is full of people who create economic value with computer technology that decreases the demands on physical infrastructure.
Why would POWER be affected by this decision?
Everyone and their mother sells a x86 server. Hard to make a profit when everyone is competing. How many other companies sell POWER hardware?
I would imagine the answer is no, but it's not something I've ever tested. Likely will do sometime soon now you've put the idea in my head.

The reason I think no is that Google are probably clever enough to fingerprint you in a hell of a lot of ways, but I could be wrong..
Used everyday in 3G/LTE networks to setup the data paths through the network.
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You can also make Maybe an instance of various typeclasses for even nicer syntax:

instance Num a => Num (Maybe a) where
(+) = liftM2 (+)
(-) = liftM2 (-)
(*) = liftM2 (*)
abs = liftM abs
signum = liftM signum
negate = liftM negate
fromInteger = Just . fromInteger

> Just 4 + 2 * Just 6
Just 16
> Nothing * 42
Nothing

Notice how the fromInteger method allows you to freely mix Maybe and non-Maybe numbers.
most importantly, have the ability to focus on your paper while same-age/younger folks around you are earning way better salary and banging much prettier girls.
Yeah, the thing about investing in job creation is that there is so much churn in the job market--not just in terms of employment rate, but in terms of the jobs themselves being created and destroyed, as we figure out how to use technology to automate them.

And I'd like to point out that just because that hypothetical job being created pays $50,000 per year, doesn't mean it only contributes that amount of value to the economy.

But you certainly wouldn't want to bet on any job that is repetitive (or "concave" to use a michaelochurch-ism) being around longer than a few years, because that work will be distilled into a software program and handed off to a machine sooner or later. It only makes sense to invest in creating jobs that involve creative, "convex" work, which has a smaller chance at a bigger payoff in terms of value creation.
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This was bound to happen once servers all standardized on one architecture. Not that standardization isn't a good thing, it just became a race to the bottom just like the desktop market.
Did you see his wrist watch? It was fascinating. Like a living organism ...
I had this idea when I was employed at Facebook. I was even considering doing something similar to it on the Hackathon. I believe in your idea and if Facebook won't do, in my opinion it it will be big (I didn't see anyone there interested in picking up this idea, so I don't think they will).

Graph search solves part of this problem - on example you can search "Friends of my friends, who like tennis, programming and Game of thrones". The problem here is that it's awkward to contact these people - you won't message person "hey, I found out that we have similar interests, we may be friends". The whole problem is "breaking ice". The fact that you know who could be a good friend doesn't solve this problem, because you don't have a good way of meeting these people.

I had a few ideas how to solve it, any wasn't perfect. Core thought behind is that you usually meet new people not through internet, but either on parties or by introduction through common friend. Maybe you will have any use from them:

1. Facebook or your site could algorithmically organize events for people. But honestly I don't know if people would be interested in attending such parties. You would sign up for a party and Facebook would find ideal group of strangers, that according to some machine learning would be your ideal friends. Having enough data is is possible to make awesome selection, but I don't know if people would be interested in attending such parties. Some slight modification is organizing "lunches". Imagine you are working in big office or at big school campus. Then your site could find ideal people to eat lunch with.

2. This is slight modification of point 2. There are tons of public events and venues. You could suggest what are good public parties and venues where I could find the most likely minded people. This is probably the least awkward option, but it is also the least accurate in finding likely minded people.

3. Introductions. Likely minded people will probably be close to you in your social graph. There's a chance that you have common friend. He could get a suggestion from Facebook or your site - "Hey X, we found out that your friends Y and Z should know each other. Do you want to introduce them to each other?". But here I am again sceptical if people would do it.

4. Having option of posting a status to result of graph search query. Then you could on example post a status "Hey, who wants to play tennis?". Problem here is that to initiate a conversation another person needs to write a message to you. Messaging a stranger is always awkward and in my opinion won't work, unless there will be big mental shift among people.

I believe this is a big problem for a lot of people nowadays, especially introverted people not good at making new connections. I believe in you, good luck :).
Five? Is there some connection - the same industry, or the same company?
We have a dedicated deployment team, consisting of mostly H1B visa folks. They write some deployment and init scripts, then hand over things over to the offshore group. This ends up costing the company a lot of money and pain due to horrid process. Usually onshore QA or development comes in to fix stuff when things go wrong. Oh, we do finance-related stuff and use insecure standard passwords all over the place. WTF am I still doing here.
Definitions of obscure:

1. Not easily distinguished

2. Not readily understandable/expressable

3. Not commonly known

I didn't see the author use the word "bizarro" anywhere, nor make any claims about any of this stuff being weird. He actually presented almost everything in a fairly neutral tone, except when he said that using the preprocessor to override keywords was dangerous (which could be construed as opinion).
I thought the hotkey was more attractive, but I can't seem to get that one to work. Thanks for the suggestion, sudo!! gets the job done.
I'm not pushing you anywhere. Be here if you like. I was just trying to understand it.

Your comments here are about as appropriate as if I'd go to the golf course and go on melodramatically about how awful a sport golf is. At some point, people would ask me, "Why are you here if you don't like golf?"
I don't have a whole lot of Haskell experience ... but these "Maybe" unwrapping functions are rare right? Like a null check I'd think that most of the time you make the check when you get the unreliable input or allocation or whatever, and thereafter in the guts of you program you have the certainty that the input has been "checked".
This is so true. The country I live in has about the same number of inhabitants as NYC. Today I read an article in a business magazine local to this country saying something like "we [as a country] need to be able to compete with the world".

I mean, if we're supposed to compete with the bio mass of India or China, we're gonna have a bad time...
The grad student didn't "shake" the global austerity movement. He merely pointed out a minor error in a formula that didn't significantly affect the outcomes of the model. This isn't big news.

Besides, to attack austerity as a "bad idea" is like attacking having a budget for your own home income and expenses. Individuals and families are well-acquainted with the reality that you cannot indefinitely spend more than you bring in. It's idiotic to assume that a government can simply suspend this assumption and not have any consequences. Perhaps a government has a bigger "credit card," but in the end all debts must be paid or defaulted on--just like in the real world you and I live in. It is absolutely essential for a countries long-term economic well-being to keep expenses within the neighborhood of revenue. Yet the far-left seems to persist with the belief that money literally grows on trees, and that surely there's enough to be able to afford every desirable program. They're totally out-of-touch with reality. So they poo-poo the "austerity" movement as just raining on their parade. Just like the Greeks who had the nerve as their country was going down the drain to strike, wave signs around, and complain when the Piper comes to claim his due.

Last point. What we're calling "austerity" really isn't. It's a political fabrication which, in the case of the US (and I suspect many countries), means that the politicians have agreed amongst themselves to merely not increase the rate of spending as much as they had initially planned on. This is what they call "savings" and "cutting the deficit." I think people living in the real world would agree that such a definition is ridiculous. How can you be cutting the deficit when you're merely reducing the rate of the GROWTH in spending, not actually reducing the amount of spending. Does that make sense? So if they had planned to increase spending by 7% across the board, they call it "cutting the deficit" if they decide to only increase spending by 3%. Let's be real. Under Obama's recently released budget the US will hit 24 TRILLION in debt in the next decade. That's nearly DOUBLE what we're at today. Where are these horrible, painful cuts that are supposed to be reducing the deficit? Exactly. They're all wrapped up in some political hyperbole that allows the politicians on the right and left to spar without actually doing anything to make our nation more solvent.
Well here at HN they quickly steer the car back on to the track and disuade anything that isn't technical or related to "hacking". The ones that slip through I just ignore. The signal to noise ratio is much better and I feel like I can focus on tech here. Reddit is too wide open for that.
That's just what they told him, they really rather not pay the overtime.
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That's absolutely not what happened in that subreddit. The people who took the discussions out of context and tried to make things go viral outside of that reddit were the problem makers.

I watched pretty much everything that went on there, and everything these stories about "internet sleuthing gets it wrong" say is wrong. They're just sensationalist headlines. Journalists these days don't really care to get it right (you should note that many news outlets published factually incorrect data regarding the bombing claiming it was from a reliable source), they just want eyeballs.
Now tell me, just how exactly are you even going to combat deeply entrenched mindsets like those, which also happen foster the usual confirmation and survivor bias dreams in most, if not all aspiring "wantapreneurs"?

I don't think selling a company is a bad thing. I think building a company with the idea in mind that one must sell (because one's backers will flip out if there isn't a sale) is bad.
Aha, how timely! I just wrote this post on functors and applicatives that uses Maybe as an example: http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_...
that's the great thing about a tech interview. If you know your stuff you pass.
_why, Maybe is better than NULL. You can program without fighting NULL.
I was thinking it looks like assembling IKEA furniture in space.
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