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> Maybe karma is real.

The Just World Hypothesis is antithetical to how justice works because it causes us to shortchange the process of always establishing, from scratch and without bias, the good or bad of any given case.

This is because people are uncomfortable believing that suffering
is often random, that sometimes bad things happen for no reason at
all. Instead, we prefer to believe that people must have done
something to deserve what they get. This is obviously a reassuring
and comforting belief, which explains its wide appeal. (‘If bad
things only happen to those who deserve them, and I’m a good
person, then I can be sure that nothing bad will happen to me‘,
Ulpian notes at one point). For us moderns, belief in the just
world can be thought of as a failure to apply the null hypothesis
in the moral domain: rejecting the explanation of chance, we
prefer to believe that everything that happens is deserved. As
should be obvious, the just world hypothesis manifests as the
doctrine of karma in a number of religious traditions.

http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2013/06/01/n-guilty-men-a-medita...
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The way they position Brython is pretty off-putting and kind of confuses the issue.

CoffeeScript page: "CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript."

Brython page: "Brython is designed to replace Javascript as the scripting language for the Web."

Maybe that's the end goal, but the reality is far from it. Of course JS is still required, and of course the Python gets compiled into JS.

Finally, the approach seems a bit off. I would think it would be better for the Python to be compiled with a pre-processor, not done on the client.
.pyc files are very reversible.

there are open source projects that decompile them to runnable code, the original symbol names are even intact - this means you don't lose the original naming of variables, functions, arguments, etc.
Virtually every browser has Javascript support today. Heck, even Googlebot is executing some Javascript these days.
Can you please provide a demo, animated tutorial, or something before requiring sign in via yet another third-party service?
This whole comment comes off as a sociopathic and mildly paranoid screed. The idea that software is an extremely anti-intellectual industry is remarkably out of touch. The numbers you throw around (95+ percent of all people, "cognitive 1-percenters") are pure hokum and your prescriptive advice is comical ("take mid-afternoon naps in a place your co-workers won't find you" -- what'd you have in mind, the broom closet?)

I'm surprised to see this comment at the top, it's hardly related to the article and reads like a tangential rant from a self-aggrandizing loner.
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You do realize that it's a python interpreter written in Javascript?

No, browsers cannot magically run python now.
I agree that tablets lend themselves to more graceful interaction in some scenarios, and that the cognitive delight of the interface is itself a feature that may spark new kinds of uses.

However, I have to place bets that the future of touch is going to be 99% consumption. And the production that's done on it will be "production-lite". Can anyone who currently produces multimedia at a professional level -- e.g. video, photos, music -- imagine that a sophisticated touch interface will replace their keystrokes and mouse?

In other words: is it possible for touch-gestures to replicate even just a handful of the keyboard commands (nevermind the keyboard + mouse combos) that we take for granted? And if so, would this new set of physical interactions be more intuitive to learn than Ctrl-A, Ctrl-Z, Ctrl-C, Alt-Tab, etc. etc.?

I don't think so. Sure, "Alt-Tab" and "Alt-tilde" don't map to natural human experience the same way that swiping four-fingers (or is it 3?)...but maybe that's the point. The function provided by Alt-Tab is very computer-dependent...multi-tasking between running programs. If "Alt-Tab" seems too non-natural of a "gesture", it's because it's handling a non-natural concept.

Already, we can see the problem with how Apple has tried to map iOS features to multifinger swipe. Does anyone else have problems remembering what 3 fingers in one direction does versus four fingers horizontally? And that's not even getting to the imprecision of detection, which I'll concede is something that will improve vastly in the near future.

But it's been about 6 years since Apple made the touch interface ubiquitous. And it's still cuss-word-excruciating to do something as simple as highlight a select few words out of a line (especially if they're in a overflow input field), copy and then paste them.

And 5 years later, Apple still hasn't come up with a better way to "Undo" something than by shaking your device. I wonder how many production professionals here could retain their sanity with Cmd-Z?
I (a go noob) somehow got the impression that you're supposed to version your API when writing go libraries. ie, your library should be github.com/501/foo/v1 rather than github.com/501/foo. Can any go users comment on whether that's expected practice?
Sure, I'll create tutorial demo soon.
and here I am dealing with a 6hr commute for what is essentially pocket change (if the recent SF income poll is anything to go by)...

more reason to start looking for a new gig sooner rather than later I guess.
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Here's an animated version:

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/hacker-news/salary-poll/output.g...
I believe the ext/mysql is deprecated, not the function names. Mysqlnd is a drop in replacement and unencumbered by the copyleft license issues that plague the original extension.
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Indeed, I have spent a lot of time no farther than about 100 feet from an operating nuclear reactor that was technically supercritical.
This is much less related to IQ or skills that to luck, breeding and catching the moment, so the question itself is meaningless.

How a person could get an mid-level IT position in, say, oil company or a finance institution etc? It is mostly about whose son you are, and then - which elite college degree you hold.
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The point of midrats is not "fourth meal", but "people don't work 9-5" -- it's for when you work at night (becomes lunch), or have to leave at 4am (so it's breakfast), etc.

Each meal in Iraq cost about $45/person. Not sure what it was in Afghanistan.
> > greater negative liberty

> What does this mean?

A negative liberty is a term used to distinguish it from a positive liberty. A positive liberty sounds like this: "The right to free speech." A negative liberty sounds like this: "The right to not be discriminated against based on X, Y, or Z." Differently, a positive liberty is "freedom to do" whereas a negative liberty is "freedom not to have done".

So, what GP is saying is that people under such a program would make for fewer impositions on individuals by the government.
I've only had a bad experience with them. The OS images needed were broken, and they just told me to use another one. Huh.
Circular motion can be thought of as analogous in many ways to linear motion. Consider that you are on the surface of Earth, which is rotating. Therefore you are also rotating, however relative to Earth, it makes sense to say that you are not rotating. Similarly with the moon. If it were rotating relative to Earth, then we would expect to be able to see what is on its current dark side, as it would be the lit side after half a rotation.

Also, a rotating object does not need to produce or receive any force. The conservation of angular momentum says that unless a force acts on a system, it will continue to rotate at whatever angular velocity it is currently rotating at. This is because the system itself is not accelerating. If you look at a particlar subsection of the system (say at an end), then that subsection is accelerating due to a centrifugal force, but that force is contained within the system.
I love webfaction and recommended it to everyone. Most of my businesses rely on them.
Noscript allows you to turn the Javascript off. Requiring javascript to see any content at all is a little absurd.
I worked from home for over a year before, moving to an office. I even wrote a similar blog post to this one last February - http://technikhil.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/distributed-devel...
I moved to an office finally because our company wanted to add a lot more people to our engineering team and as we rapidly started growing, the need to have a proper office and meeting face to face justified getting an office.
> However while statins are shown to lower blood cholesterol, benefits in terms of reduced heart disease are not necessarily clear, especially in people with no other history of heart disease.

That's simply not a balanced summary of the literature. On balance, statins reduce both secondary events (heart attacks after your first one) and primary events (first-ever heart attacks).

Even conservative groups such as Cochrane agree that, based on the scientific literature, statins are both efficacious and cost-effective for primary prevention [1].

Also, trying to throw away the cholesterol/heart-disease hypothesis is sort of like trying to throw away evolution. If you're right, that's Nobel worthy; but you're not right.

> A recent study found that "Statin use is associated with an increased prevalence and extent of coronary plaques"

That's not clear from the article you've cited, despite quoting a part of the abstract. You have left off an important qualifier that ends the sentence. Here is that full sentence, emphasis mine: "Statin use is associated with an increased prevalence and extent of coronary plaques possessing calcium."

The abstract does not state that statin use is associated with an increased prevalence and extent of coronary plaques overall. (I don't have access to the rest of that article from my hotel room, so if the article itself does state so, please feel free to quote it in reply.)

Also, this appears to be, effectively, a case/control study. The studies supporting statins are randomized, controlled trials -- the strongest form of evidence. Case/control studies suggest follow-ups, but are by no means equivalent to studies of highest-grade evidence.

1 = http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD004816/statins-for-the-prima...
You can if you want, and some folk do, but that's really outside the scope of the language itself and much more about your project management, revision control, and so on.
Interesting, but it is little more than a novelty.
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Statins are among the most scientifically supported class of drugs ever created. Your assessment is both wrong and potentially harmful if somehow treated as credible.

I have zero financial bias in making this statement.
> The problem is that this seems more like telling them what they want to hear (or at least what you want them to hear) rather than the truth.

Not as big a problem as you seem to think it is. You have to realize, 99% of people interviewing won't know practically anything about the company they're about to go to work for. Doing some basic legwork is a very cheap way to stand out.

> To me, turning around and answering with a question comes across like I'm trying to dodge or deflect the question.

Or that the question needs additional context to be adequately replied to.
> And it's still cuss-word-excruciating to do something as simple as highlight a select few words out of a line (especially if they're in a overflow input field), copy and then paste them.

vs.

> "I think there are lots of kinds of content that can be created on the iPad. When I am going to write that 35-page analyst report, I am going to want my Bluetooth keyboard. That’s 1 percent of the time. " Quoted from OP/Steve's.

Aren't the functionality that you mention like highlighting, selecting, pasting text come within that 1% '35 page analyst report' frame that Steve indicated?

IMHO, content created via iPad shouldn't be seen through lens of existing content, i.e text (HTML coded characters), images and plugins around it. Keyboard and desktops are good for that type of content. But with the iPad and tablets there could come by another form of content which rides on touches and gestures?
The argument for compiling the Python with the pre-processor seems roughly analogous to traditional arguments for compiling rather than interpreting languages - i.e. how many times the conversion from source code to machine instructions must be done.

One isn't necessarily better than the other - sometimes human generated python source code in the browser may be more useful than machine generated javascript.

If nothing else, it allows us to explore a new way of constructing web apps and determine whether it is better.
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Javascript is a prerequisite of the modern web. Refusing to accept that is absurd.
My biggest issues with Go are compatibilities with the C ABI and the lack of shared library support. I have not looked in a while, so I may be wrong, but here are my big questions: 1. Can C invoke a Go-compiled and exported callback/function? 2. Can I build a Go .so/.dll invokable via C or other non-Go FFI methods? 3. If I build a commercial Go lib for others to link with, how can I distribute it without distributing the Go source?
Probably no different than if a younger traveler was injured and needing medical attention: they'd triage it onboard, and provide emergency care at the next port-of-call if needed. Worst case scenario, helicopter ride to a major hospital.
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We have a service through which we send out our users their indian railway ticket status updates. The updates goes through SMS/Email. 90% of our users provide us their mobile number to get the status update via SMS. But we haven't figured out yet how we can monetize those SMSes. Any idea/suggestion?
Again, I personally can't see how you can read this implication into it, particularly without any tone or other information.

But you are certainly welcome to your opinion.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.
> However, many of the people I've discussed this with think the middle wouldn't be so productive if their livelihood didn't depend on it. I usually argue that with automation we don't need as many people working.

I essentially agree. Why do we need people to be productive? Why do we need people working? We do need this, but do we really understand why? What is the moral argument derived from, that we say people must work because otherwise they're lazy?

I tried to write out an answer to these, since I have it somewhat in my head, but it's too incoherent to come out as sentences right now, so I'll just leave them here unanswered.
Solve our biggest problems? I'm neutral here, but are you sure that's what is happening in the Bay Area and no where else in the world?
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I recommend this book as relevant to your interests: http://www.amazon.com/Walkable-City-Downtown-Save-America/dp...

Speck is kinda acerbic, but if you can get past this, his points are very good.
Yeah that seems fishy for non-manager positions even at large software companies. Maybe google pays that high? Or Netflix? Oracle?
I don't think the reasoning here is related to money, for once. As I understand it MREs are actually fairly expensive to procure through the logistics system even in CONUS (something on the order of $10 each).

The MSNBC article that is linked mentions the cause as being simply that the soldiers and Marines pulling security have to be the last ones there, so they need to start moving the support staff (including cooks) out earlier.

They're probably already almost maxing-out the airlift and sealift they're able to provide to take servicemembers and materiel back out of Afghanistan, which would give a plausible reason for why the cooks have to start leaving half a year in advance of the rest.
It's not the first time I had to turn on JavaScript to view a page. On the other hand, it is the first time that I have ever done so and discovered a totally logical reason for having to do so.

I got something of value by tweeking NoScript - knowledge, not just ads. Then again, I'm a yokel.
The ability to google and copy-paste the answer is as common as the ability to drive a car - it is absolutely nothing special and absolutely must have. And of course it isn't enough to secure a job, let alone to make something people will appreciate.

And, pardon me, but having a chalkboard in one's room is a sign of narcissism.) Get a Ph.D from Princeton first.)
But for the reasons i've explained, it does not do this, and this is not how it operates in actuality.

Maybe if the company had no turnover, no leadership changes, no nothing you could make this argument, becuase it would always be the same people.

But it's not the same people, and even where it is, nobody sits around and asks "in light of us deciding this wasn't evil in the past, is it now okay to do X".
That's not the question to be answered. It's not "is this evil in light of us having done similar things in the past", it's "is this evil".
Don't get me wrong - The past is evidence, and data, for sure. It would be stupid to ignore reactions, viewpoints, etc.
But the world changes, decisions look different in hindsight, society changes. If there was no evolution of thought, you would be right. But there is.
Is this similar to pinterest? It might be good to let users know a little bit more what your site is about.
I wrote this HN mobile client in less than 3 weekends. it works on Android, iOS and wp8. Also works on all desktop browsers. It took less than 2 weekends, but new chrome on android is a big pain in the ass. Had to rewrite part of it to make it work on latest android chrome.

http://hn.premii.com

Also, available on android app store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn

It's not easy, but I think you can write very good mobile web app using HTML5 that works on all major platforms.

Just don't use any frameworks/libraries. They are quite slow on mobile devices.
> Aren't the functionality you mention like highlighting, selecting, pasting text come within that 1% '35 page analyst report' frame Steve indicated?

I can't speak for everyone's use case, but cutting and pasting text is certainly not something I only do at work or in 1% of situations. Sure, there are ways to circumvent it by building in functionality directly, but it's a consistent and jarring reminder of a touch screen's current limitations.
>Javascript is a prerequisite of the modern web.

Citation needed.
You can slowly move from this to cloud telephony sector offering SMBs sms feature. Competitive price and easy user interface along with analytics on ROI should provide an edge.
That is great if your project impact can be measured, but sometimes metrics aren't available for accurate assessment. If sales uses your tool, bringing in millions, that's not so easy to measure, and those projects will languish unless some value can be placed for the project. Good luck with that, or at least coming up with a system that can measure it and having it be accepted. That's a big gap and you don't want to be in that group.
Very impressive work!

Issues with the examples:

I got nobody walking on the 3d walker (Chrome on Ubuntu); also it was psychedelic fun clicking into negative territory on the pie chart.
I can't believe all the negative comments here. Someone has implemented Python in JavaScript. I personally think that is incredible.
paramedic on the window floor, or at ground level?
I'm glad to engage in this discussion with you but I'm not the best person to do it. My personal response would be to look at the marginal impact Jason Trigg is making, i.e. what is different about the world because of what he did or did not do. If he didn't take that HFT job someone elsse would have, and the overwhelming likelihood is that that person would not have saved twenty lives through their donations.

Now, government or political activism may be the best way for some people to do the most good. This is actually an active subject of research and discussion in the effective altruism movement.

If you want to discuss this topic with people who know and care more about than me this guy's posts are mostly about effective altruism/efficient philanthrophy.

http://lesswrong.com/user/JonahSinick/submitted/

Most of the background assumptions the people involved in this movement agree upon are in these two posts.

lesswrong.com/lw/65/money_the_unit_of_caring

http://lesswrong.com/lw/6z/purchase_fuzzies_and_utilons_sepa...
If only we devs can learn how to do this, we'd actually could become rich.
Just got off of a call with you on Skype. I really like what you've done and I hope we can work together in the future.
For starters, they already have.

Larry and Sergey have the majority voting power, and they have veto power over product changes :)

But that's probably not what you meant, so i'm going to assume you meant give "non-preferred stock holders veto power over product changes".

I'm not sure what this would accomplish, since institutional investors are not exactly who you want deciding the fate of products. Timeline wise, they are too short term of thinkers. Ethically, they are often very suspect.
Strategically, most lack the knowledge to make the right decisions, and even if you gave it to them, they lack the experience.

What you are suggesting is almost identical to hiring a large set of outside consultants, bringing them into a well-functioning company, and letting them veto every product decision at the exec level or below. Worse the consultants would be experienced in say "women's shoes", and the company would be one that did something like "making airplanes"

I'm pretty sure i know where this leads, and it isn't "don't be evil" :)
> But the environment matters a lot less than the fact that when I get home from work—which is a two hour commute each way (sorry, I can’t afford to live in downtown San Francisco)—I just feel like being mentally incapacitated.

Although this seems like a minor point in the article, and to some extent it is, I think this is still fairly significant. Four hours of commuting every day is a hell of a lot. I'd eventually come to hate almost any job if I had to commute that much.

I'm also quite confused on why this person didn't go to graduate school. By his own admission, he's not making enough to even live inside San Francisco (you can certainly share an apartment downtown on a modest income if you're frugal), so he's not really getting the main advantage that a career offers over graduate school: money. If he's not going to make much money doing something he dislikes, why not instead make little money doing something he loves?
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Actually in California they've already announced costs on the 2014 plan and that isn't vaporware:

http://www.medicaldaily.com/articles/15916/20130526/health-i...

"A 25 year old could choose a Health Net catastrophic plan for $117 a month or a more comprehensive plan for $147 a month from LA Care, the nation's largest public health plan."

I'm in NYC and as a single person I'm currently almost paying $800 a month at this point.
Is it caPStn or caSPtn? The logo says caSPtn while the url and description says caPStn.
Yes, cut-paste is certainly a very fundamental functionality given the existing landscape of computers, existing content and the way people have expressed using the medium so far.

I find typing on iPad's virtual keyboard clunky enough that I generally doodle my messages to my friends/wife when on the iPad. Good thing is that I am able to write in Hindi, my mother tongue, by doodling!

Cut-paste experience on the iPad is horrible. It's not just clunky rather an impossible feat for my fingers given the text being in a small area that I want select and paste elsewhere.