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First, women are just 20% of all AIDS victims. Mind not blown, Mr. Un-PC Dude.

Second, that shows a fair degree of missing the point of fiction. Sure, in real life, where everything happens according to cold statistics, promiscuous women will tend to get more AIDS than non-promiscuous women and non-promiscuous heterosexual men. Granted.

But this is fiction, a work of art which has an audience and a message, where everything happens because the author wants to. Even if you don't want to, even if you're scared shitless of communicating a Message, you are in fact, as an author, putting a point across. It might not be a message that you as an author subscribe to, but the work is there, and the point is made; and you're just a bad author. And people are naturally adept at finding the core message of works of fiction; we as a species seem to like narrative a lot.

We look at those Nazis melting at the end of the first Indiana Jones movie, and we instinctively get it: they were punished because of their arrogance and evilness (in this case Naziness). Even one Nazi got stigmata, as a symbolical punishment and marker of his inherent badness, that is, Naziness. It's all narrative, and a message gets made, namely that being Nazi is kind of a bad deal. Take Elon Musk, he's the hero in a narrative that pits the Startupy Original Innovators (good) against Sclerotic Big Corporations like Boeing (bad); and it's hinted that badness will be punished at the end and good will prevail, as it is defined in the (narrow, a bit unfair) context of that narrative. A very common and crude narrative structure; and very powerful, by the way.

So, this guy watches Forrest Gump in a culture that tends to shame women that have casual sex, and sees that it just so happens a woman that has casual sex then has (is punished with, the mind readily answers, since it's just too much of a coincidence...) AIDS, because this author just decided for it to happen. And this guy then infers the writer has made a moralizing tale where sluts get AIDS. Now, maybe this author was just clueless and didn't think through the implications of his, or her, decisions; but I wouldn't blame the GP for looking at Forrest Gump that way.
http://youtu.be/WgJGc-wRS9g?t=58s

Not the best quality, but it works.

Interstella 5555 was co-produced by Leiji Matsumoto (Space Battleship Yamato, Captain Harlock, Galaxy Express 999...), by the way, who Daft Punk were huge fans of as children. Need I say any more?
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> through reasoning that is published for the world to see and analyze. (Which many do. In great detail.)

And why is that relevant or useful in any way, since "the world" has no legal authority to influence the justices in any way (except for Congress passing new legislation after the fact)?
I am not sure it is ever true that there are no doubts about C++ being "right." It might be "good enough," but it is a generally bad language that would not be my first choice for anything (I would sooner use C, but even that's not my top choice).
I think you should put kijiji in here, and it would be better if we can sort by relevance, otherwise, it's great.
I think a useful feature would be to be able to add listings through your website as well and distribute them to all the networks.
How can a computer have 1337 threads?
I'd also say his supreme court position is not necessarily lifetime. A supreme court judge could conceivably be impeached and removed by Congress, with the executive branch providing the muscle to hall them out of their chairs.
Gamma rays are ionizing. Couldn't that cause problems, discharging the batteries faster (see e.g. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=641274... for an indication that there will be some effect)?

I also don't know how large such a tomograph is. It might just be impractical to move it (or can these bells be moved?)
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I agree with "disable automatic updates," unfortunately.

But "review the code"? You have no chance.
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In particular, prices will rise gradually over time, which will encourage investment in cost-lowering research and development, as well as into energy generation.

The market is what helps the world adjust. Unless a dramatic event causes a significant change in prices in a short time, things will carry on just like they always have.
It's a non sequitur. It does not follow that because the anti-war protester that Jenny hooks up with beats her that the movie is trying to portray anti-war protesters as woman beaters. It can only be a shocking bias if it's so shocking for it to occur.

It also doesn't fit the actual movie. The movie has Jenny making the same poor decisions over and over because that's what her background leads her to. Her personality leads her to protest the injustice of Vietnam, her view of normal gravitates her to the worst of the other protesters. Her personality leads her to being a liberated woman of the 70's, while at the same time drawing her into the culture of abuse and self-abuse that put her in the position to be one of the early contractors of HIV.

There is no bias, this really happens. Jenny was a complex character that was controlled by her demons.

The major characters of Forrest Gump are really portrayed quite realistically.
I have shown my ignorance. apologies.
I use Sublime Text 2 for rails development. I've heard good things about RubyMine, but I'm content with sublime plus a console for development, deployment, and source control.
"We wanted a Steve Jobs feel so we decided not to bath for months."

But more seriously -- I see two real weaknesses in this idea. First, hospitals typically don't have the doctors directly on staff so they have visibility but relatively little leverage. They provide an army of nurses but the doctors are independent contractors. Second, you need scale to make it work. It's not clear that a single hospital has the right scale to be an insurer.

I think the right way to kill health insurers is just by fiat. Medicare for All.

Health Insurance is not, and has never been, a real market with normal economic behavior. Imagine if car insurance that let you drive like an maniac but only based your premium of age of the car, then if you had an accident, it would spend unlimited amounts of money to fix your existing car. And after your car is ten years old, the government takes over. That's our health care system.

A rational system would accept that everyone dies, share the risk of rare accidents across a large pool of people, and spend a lot of money earlier in peoples lives rather than waiting until they get to the emergency room.

I'm a capitalist to the core but it just doesn't work with you don't have a free market with a normal price-elasticity curve.
Not exactly. Now about half of the Facebook developers use C++ (the other half PHP)
Well, I might have over-emphasize on what is "right". Blame this on the language barrier :)
It is quite hard to think of any jobs in western economies that are only intended to bring in $6/hr revenue. Automation increasingly means that people are used as quality checkers primarily who also do some kind of manual work. You could use a robot but you would still need a pair of eyes to check things. Certain tasks can't be automated but that tends to be in higher value products. You could argue that minimum wage forces companies to be more efficient and focus on high profit activities.
Oooh, that's a good idea. All 4 of those are within a 5 minute drive of here. Toss in Hardees to round things out...
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Why the ISC license? The site just says "Kore is licensed under the ISC license allowing it to be used in both free and commercial products." but don't Apache 2, BSD, and MIT all satisfy this as well.

IANAL, but here's a quick summary of ISC vs MIT: http://www.tldrlegal.com/compare?a=MIT+License&b=ISC+License
Show HN: Learn about a new country every day (my side project)
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Is it still good practice to have opto-isolators on anything that you're wiring up to your body?
The old API used RSS as its data format. Yes, really.
Was HIV even identified in the late 1970s and early 80s though? I thought it was identified as a consequence of looking at the causes of the AIDS epidemic.
Additional video of the same bird solving different versions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm4V2tOEsbA
Author here.

I found myself wanting to learn more about history/culture/politics/etc of more countries throughout the world, so I built a little web app that provides you with one country to learn about each day.

The information provided is intended to just be a starting point; I see the using this as a study guide.

Any feedback is welcome. This is the first personal project that I've shipped!

Edit: I hope you guys don't mind if I add a personal plug. I'm not a full time web developer, and I would very much like to be (I currently design and maintain safety systems for commuter transit). I'm especially interested in Ruby/Rails, but I can generally pick anything up quickly. If anyone would be willing to help me out (advice, job recommendations, resume tips, etc) I would be very grateful. My email can be found in my profile.
"potatoes can't kill, because otherwise Ireland would be a superpower"
is not the way to argue it.

I never made such an argument.
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> Russia are not harboring him because he's not in Russia, he's in an international transit lounge and therefore not actually in any country.

That's a widespread myth. Russia owns, and exercises control over, the transit area. If someone inside the transit area is wanted on a Russian arrest warrant (or whatever their equivalent is), Russian authorities will go in and get them.

All a transit area really is is a small section of a country that you are allowed to enter without a visa for that country, provided that you are simply passing through. There's nothing otherwise special about them.
Is that the rest of some technical feature or set of features, or just that most college graduates can be expected to have some minimal competency with C++ coupled with the fact that the PHP interpreter was written in C? I am inclined to think this is more a pragmatic decision than a technically motivated one.
True, but that's not that uncommon either, when albums pick up steam post-release. For example, even though Nine Inch Nails' debut album, 1989's Pretty Hate Machine, was quite successful, it caught on slowly and never rose above #75 on the album charts (even worse than Daft Punk!). None of its singles broke into the top 100 on the singles charts, either. But still it was not that surprising when 1994's Downward Spiral debuted at #2 on the charts, because by 1994 NIN had built up so many fans that there was a ton of anticipation. I don't think you could honestly talk about it as a sleeper hit from an obscure Cleveland musician who came out of nowhere, even though it's technically true he had never had a top-50 hit previously.
I can hear them.
I talked to the guy on IRC about a month ago. They are still on target to ship it in August of this year so it's not too far away if they can meet their mark.
While I have not used it, I have thought about using it for things that require speed in mass. That is tasks that can be broken into small little chunks. Which if done by a few would take days/weeks/months. But having a virtual workforce of thousands it can get done in minutes/hours/days.

That is why this is slightly different. It is the micro payment for micro work.
> anti-fungals are extremely toxic since human cells and fungi cells are very similar

Anti-fun gals tend to be toxic, not so much because of cell similarity. Ergosterol biosynthesis is not performed by humans.
>2. This is pretty much a solved problem as far as they're concerned. Congress tends to tack "solutions" on top of "solutions". They rarely refactor.

Lack of simplicity in law is a serious problem, but not the main one, at least in this case. The problem is that laws increase the arbitrary powers of government, and rarely if every restrict them.

In most cases, such as the patriot act, they will simply find that vaguest provision and interpret it in the broadest way possible, And, in this case, that interpretation is also secret. The rest of the text is basically filler.
There is no trade-off. A product is either secure for its intended purpose, or it is not. CryptoCat is not. An insecure crypto product is a useless crypto product, and no amount of user-friendliness will make it useful.

There is no "charge of unbounded incompetence". The charge of incompetence is concerned with cryptography (though there is evidence of surprisingly basic programming incompetence, too). Their competence at UX or anything else is totally irrelevant.
Cheer up, I was being cynical because of this specifically:

"We need a new planet so we can try new things, create new ideas, and generally liberate ourselves of traditional conventions."

Of all the places to try out 'new conventions', the harshest frontier in human history does not sound like a good idea. And I agree, BioSphere was terrible, but the important thing is that it failed (mainly) for human reasons, not scientific ones. I think it is entirely possible we lack the capacity as a species to thrive outside our world.

I don't think the scientific problems are impossible to overcome, but I do think anyone who flies there with any notion of romantic exploration and a new beginning is going on a suicide mission.
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> You never know when you have enough coverage to rule out NPEs or any other bug. And to get confidence about lack of NPEs you want to have coverage of all lines involving dereferences, which means you need near 100% test coverage to have a reasonable level of confidence.

This is not true. In the example I spoke about above, if I take a CacheClient, and a ServiceXClient when my type is being constructed, assign them to local fields and then never modify that field again, then I don't need to exercise every dereference of these fields, just one. And again, I don't test that my code handles NPEs, I test that my code does what it is supposed to, and in the process of doing that, NPEs get flushed out.

> Generally types are far more concise and guarantee more than tests. I find 5 lines of types more readable than dozens or hundreds of lines of tests.

I think you are viewing this through red-black-tree colored glasses. Specifically, you believe that a lot of code has mathematical constraints the way that example did. To me, this is an extremely remote possibility. I think if you tried to encode even the smallest real-world example of this, say a service implementing a URL shortener, you would run into a wall.

> Your code is much safer simply by construction, so I am not sure what you mean here.

I should have said more reliable.

> I do think non-nullability aids reliability, but that having sum types, proper pattern matching and parametric polymorphism aids it even more. And Go lacks all of these.

Truly, it baffles me that people still harp on the reliability aspect. It is quite likely that every piece of software you use day-to-day is written in a language with nullability, without pattern matching, and no sum types. Most of that software probably doesn't even have memory-safety (gasp!). Probably every website you visit is in the same sorry state. I'm sorry, but your arguments would be far more convincing if the world written in these languages were a buggy, constantly crashing hell. It's not.
And I would sooner use modern C++, it is personal preference and experience.
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2Hz for 140 years? At PI seconds in a nanocentury, that's over 8 billion hits of those bells (http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/history.asp?page=exhibit1 claims ten billion)

Given that each hit produces a sound, it should be possible to estimate a lower bound for the energy loss at each ring of a bell, and from that, a lower bound on the amount of energy output by each battery so far. Anyone dare make a guess what amount of power each hit of a bell takes?

Also, this thing seems to operate in air. Air resistance will make some contribution, but movement of the sphere seems to be minimal.
Thanks. While the experiment still seems rather egregious, that is not quite as bad, and it's important to know the details.

Do you happen to know if anything useful was learned from the experiment?
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Don't you think that first off you need to be an expert in all those languages, in web-technologies, have vast experience and up to date knowledge in all of that, to make such claims?

I'm pretty sure you just have wrong impression of C++, or to put it simply, you don't know C++.

In what way does C++ have worse response time in terms of maintenance? What do you mean exactly?

In general, statically typed compiled languages are better at refactoring than dynamically typed interpreted ones. Changing programs in the latter without fair test coverage means teetering on the brink of a catastrophe. Just recently I have seen an article on HN claiming unmaintainability of dynamic languages.

The truth is that every general purpose language is general purpose, and the claim about language suitability is a commonplace and an overgeneralization. You can do 3D games in JavaScript and client web apps in C++. Different languages have different drawbacks and that may limit their applications, but C++ is not targeted for OS development, and JavaScript is not targeted for web development, both are just general purpose languages.

Speaking of "low-levelness" of C++, with all the modern features and libraries it is as high level as other languages, and in some aspects is even more high level, e.g. JavaScript or Python have no corresponding means as the template metaprogramming which is the high high level. C++ just allows you to do low-level manipulations, you are not required to.

There are many myths and prejudices against C++ caused by ignorance and frustration of those who have not cracked it at a time.
Wifi is not and will never be an acceptable replacement for a mobile data connection. I'm not happy to be an AT&T customer, but at least they provide me with consistent service everywhere I go.
> There's a recent quote going around, that if you are male, white and middle-upper class, you're playing life in "easy mode".

FYI, the source of this quote is John Scalzi: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-th...

Not commenting on it; just felt like it ought to be grounded in a citation rather than floating around as a meme.
PyPy may someday be a viable replacement for CPython, but that day is not today. The viability becomes much more questionable as more and more of the Python community moves to Python 3, which PyPy basically does not support.
That's the thing though. In the end, let's be honest, it's about money. We all know newsletters are to get us into your pipeline, and you know what? Maybe so, but not right now. Calling it a gift is just a bit arrogant. Especially with that footer. How is this guy going to get me to pay money on UX advice with that footer? I bet that's the common line of thought around here

And here's good a/b testing though, accidental as it was, because it was the people who read with noscript on that got the footer at the end and actually liked the content and it was those who saw the footer that got frustrated and didn't even read it.

Also, maybe I'm on the footer list? I hadn't thought about that. In that case, pencil me in as didn't like it, haha!
That's an excellent question to which I am fairly convinced there is no answer, but it's a good one to think about in any case.
You didn't, but the lawyer referenced in the original comment I replied to said essentially that.
Indeed!

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/framewor...
Why write a story about something you don't understand? I don't want to sound too critical, but you do a disservice to this technology and the people involved if you don't get the facts straight.

I think you did a reasonable job, but the add-in about cold fusion didn't make any sense and really affected the seriousness of the article. It calls into question whether anything else in the piece is valid or not.

There are tons of people here that have expertise in these fields. Some of them are commenting on this very page. Why not develop relationships with people that can provide domain expertise as needed for stories like this, rather than trying to wing it?
North Korea seemly can use both Plutonium and Uranium (or something else entirely even).

South Korea kinda does not care, because they know North Korea wants the entire Korea, not half-korea and half burned slab of ground.

North Korea in the past had enough non-nuclear firepower to flatten South Korea many times over, seemly they STILL have that firepower AND nukes, yet South Korea knows they won't use it...

Japan on the other hand, IS kinda paranoic, in the last elections a new party was formed, with a militaristic and nationalistic tone (including visiting WWII shrines and reacalling WWII as the good times), and they got expressive votes, also the current prime minister proposed heavily remilitarize Japan (to irritation of China, and both Koreas), including scratch the current constitution, and use a new one that follow confucionism (instead of illuminism).
I choose HTTP/1.1 pipelining. Uncompressed headers are useful. Ordered records are returned (unlike SPDY), where "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" is the record separator. Been using this for a decade. Can't see the benefit of SPDY.

Anyway pipelining is only useful where numerous resources are coming from the same host. But the way the www has evolved, so much (unneeded) crap gets served from ad servers and CDN's. Pipelining isn't going to speed that up.

HTTP/1.1 pipelining was never broken. It was usually just turned off (e.g. in Firefox), while most web servers have their max keep alive set around 100. In plain English, what does that mean? It means "Dear User, You have permission to download 100 files at a time from http://stupidwebsite.com. That is you can make one request for 100 files, instead of 100 separate requests, each for a single file." And what do Firefox and other braindead web browsers do? They make a separate request for each file. But heay, never mind all those numerous connections to ad servers to retrieve marketing garbage (i.e. not the content you are after), lets concentrate on compressing HTTP headers instead. Brilliant.

It's trivial to use pipelining: 1. Feed your HTTP requests through netcat or some equivalent to retrieve the files and save them to a concatenated file, 2. split the concatenated file into separate files if desired, 3. view in your favorite browser.

No ad server BS.

Now that's "SPEEDY".
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Let's consider a scary scenario. Someone defects and shares with them all the knowledge, the blueprints, all the data related to handling and processing plutonium. How much closer would they be then to be considered dangerous. In other words is it just a matter of having information, or a matter of resources and money?
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Pretty much ^^^

I think this is an interesting but (apparently) subtle argument, so lets take it a step further for illustration purposes.

The US could repeal the first amendment, and explicitly make being a buddhist illegal, if enough congressmen got on board. There is a clear well known process for this, and in fact even precedent as previous amendments have been repealed. This does not make it incorrect to say 'freedom of religion is a inalienable right in the USA', because it is such today, as the law stands, the fact that congress has the power to change this doesn't make it a false statement...