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> or communicate with each other in a manner more complex than what we hear as a bark or a chirp.

If you're suggesting the supernatural, that's just silly. If you're suggesting linguists have been missing the bit between the formants all this time, I'm pretty sure the literature stands in opposibtion.

> How do we know they aren't communicating concepts as complicated as "Be careful there is a human approaching and it looks dangerous." with one syllable?

Because we already understand the difference between various and sundry monkey calls. In one group, one shriek means a particular ground based predator, and a doubled shriek means a particular air/tree based predator. There's no (physical) room for the nuance you seek to impute.

> If you look at trends in human communication, across all languages, then you'll find syllable reduction increases as the word frequency increases.

And yet, all those other words stick around, and we don't fall into monosyllabic speech. And yet, from monosyllabic "speech" of animals, you jump into advanced consciousness.

It's not the case that we don't understand animal communication. Very simple hypotheses explain a great deal of animal communication. Compare this to quantum physics, some bit of it that we don't yet understand, and see where the difference is found.

> I don't know any animal, other than humans, that will kill another animal just for the sheer pleasure of it.

How do you measure animal pleasure? Have you studied the motivations for chimps killing other chimps? Have you examined why bulldogs attack children, or perhaps, why dingos eat babies? Aside from the fact that you stacked the question to favor your presupposed answer, the "I don't know" defense doesn't hold when you don't seem to have done any research.

(Ever watch a cat play with a mouse? Seems pretty fun. This is not an argument for an advanced cat consciousness.)
What's you seem to be missing (I think) is that you do not pay taxes on buying a coin for $950 even if it's only worth (face value) is $50.
Well, if you're considering Lua, look at LPEG. (http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html)
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That blog post is no longer accurate. We don't count LOC for language popularity, we count the number of non-fork projects that include a language.

If your project includes both Ruby and Perl, Ruby and Perl each get a +1.
Booya! Your comment somehow reminded me of a firefox addon I used and I totally forgot about ... until today.
I am very happy, thank you.

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Do you know what you'd rather be doing instead of writing software?

Because, if you do, then you should probably make a list for yourself. On that list you do this:

#1: Job I don't like.

#10: Job I want.

Steps #2 through #9 should be the next N things you need to do to do whatever it is you'd rather be doing.

Software is not the only place for smart people to work, a lot of people burn out or discover that it's just the wrong career for them.

Don't force yourself to work in an industry that you don't like. You're young, and it's far better to work towards something different now instead of wasting away doing something you hate.

Fortunately for you, the world rewards smart people these days; regardless of the field. You'll do fine anywhere if you did fine in software.
That's the direction we want to take it.
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what doesn't exist is all this material aggregated and organized into a curriculum.

A physicist has gone a long way in that direction.

http://www.phys.uu.nl/~thooft/theorist.html

And see a FAQ that starts nearer to the beginning

http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=660...

and a Wiki based on the same site.

http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Do you honestly believe that I don't realize this?

The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of the visitors to this site believe that most problems have a technical solution. I happen to believe that this technical solution has the potential to exacerbate an existing problem and that other non-technical solutions are possible. What is needed is a combination of 24 hour clinics/urgent care centers, more fast-track departments and convincing certain people that there is no need to visit a doctor for a bad cold unless certain symptoms appear or one doesn't recover in a reasonable length of time. Encouraging more people to visit the emergency department for non-emergencies does not seem prudent to me.
Nifty idea -- I work for a Hospital with California's largest ER, and several ERs in other hospitals owned by the same company. Unfortunately, I'm having a hard time seeing something like this working in our environment (for a variety of reasons). However, I CAN see how this could be killer for small Urgent Care clinics. I can't tell you how many times I'd love to just go on a website and see what the wait times are for all my local urgent cares -- and then reserve/travel to the one I can get in quickest. Nice idea, clean design... really cool. Best of luck with it.
brilliant deduction :)
Ask HN: Review my WebApp: SongTwit - Share Music on Twitter
Hi Folks,

I've just launched a new app that I've been hacking together to keep busy while home for summer break. It's a quick and easy way to share songs with your Twitter followers.

It's pretty straightforward for now but I have a lot of plans for additional features depending on the response. Any suggestions/criticisms would be appreciated as well as a heads up about any bugs/cross-browser quirks etc.

http://songtwit.com

Thanks!
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"Bill Gates had rigged - excuse me, programmed ;-) - the course scheduling program at his prep school to seat him next to all the pretty girls, and had done decently as a consultant doing traffic-light control software. Steve Jobs had a prior profitable business with Steve Wozniak selling blue boxes."

Notably, only one of those things (traffic-light-control software) is considered a socially acceptable use of one's talents, though rigging the course scheduling program is more of a prank than a crime.
Real quick: SIFR for typography not a win. I'm not some crazy paranoid, but I block Flash by default because it kills my browser.
Great idea! Right now we have a fairly small network of participating hospitals (3, to be exact), and engaging visitors who aren't in our current service area is a bit of a trick. I'll pass this one along to the designer for our next revision.
thank you for such high signal to noise.

(plus, protecting the user is priority #1.)
Drugstores in Illinois and (I thought) California can handle this problem, when they are staffed by nurse-practitioners (as many Walgreens are). NP's are the future of US health care.
I'd recommend some hard physical work, be prepared not to work amongst your peers, but do level with them.
It can be most rewarding doing physical work, and see society through different eyes for a while.
This service doesn't bypass triage. It just puts your name and info on the triage list and allows you to wait from home instead of taking up space in the waiting room. The hospitals are (apparently) intensely involved in this process.
Just for a note as to my experience, there should be a "relinquish" or "Cancel" when setting up an appointment. I clicked next step and it booked my time temporarily. Ten minutes later it'll be open, but if you're releasing this you're going to want to allow us curious folks to cancel out.
I'm not suggesting "supernatural" but rather, "superobservational." For example, due to our use of human range sound recordings, we had studied elephants for a very long time before understanding that they use low frequency communication through the ground over distances of many miles.

With those monkey calls, how do you know that an increasing freqency through the life of the monkey call doesn't mean something different from a decreasing freqency? Perhaps the length of the call indicates the size of the predator?

The trend I have noticed is that as we study them more and more, some of the ideas we thought in the past incorrectly assumed that communications between animals is less complex than recent ideas. The impression of the complexity of nonhuman communication and, according to the linked article spawning this debate, even moral decision making, is increasing over time.

How do you measure human pleasure? A smile? A wink? A laugh. These same outward expressions of emotions are found in other species as well.
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The list is much larger.

For example here is the list of states which CVS operates clinics in:

http://www.minuteclinic.com/en/USA/Clinics.aspx

Here is the list of conditions they can treat:

http://www.minuteclinic.com/en/USA/Treatment-and-Cost.aspx

Note "treat and write prescriptions" in the very first sentence on the page.
A killer idea. Every friend of mine that has had kids echoes my experience, which is that you end up going to the ER way more than you expect to --- your primary care pediatrician sends you there any time the answer to an "is it serious" phone call is "maybe".

If this scales, it will let me pick which of 4 local ER's I'm going to go to based on wait time. I'd pay $50 a visit for that. I'd subscribe to a service like this simply in anticipation of needing it eventually.

Good luck.
you serve yourself in a cafeteria. you have a server in a restaurant.

you have a project until you form a company. then, you have a start up.
VCs have an acceptance rate below 1%. Any VCs who really think 99% of the teams coming before them are built of bumbling incompetents are douchebags.
The wire is the greatest show ever to land on TV. It has a novelistic approach which introduce characters slowly, however once they are established the show becomes almost too good. There will never be a show like this, ever. Please give yourself another chance, you will not regret it.
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If a law can be violated in secret (meaning that there are no public side-effects), and "for one's explicit benefit" (meaning that the private side-effects are entirely positive) then it is most likely a consensual crime. There is already a very good case[1] for not specifically violating, but rather just completely disregarding the existence of, such laws.

[1] http://www.drugsense.org/mcwilliams/www.mcwilliams.com/books...
That is a nice feature. Up 'til now I've been using git_remote_branch (http://github.com/webmat/git_remote_branch/tree/master).
welcome to burnout. its absolute hell. before depression sets in and you become irreversibly emotionally detached and drained, you have to branch into hobbies that bookend your life as a hacker.

personal advice: buy a synthesizer or a nice digital camera. or a bike (but you have to use it though, that part is key, my friend. key.)

professional advice: use a reasonable chunk of your vacation time and money and get out of town for a week or two, sans computer. dont stop thinking about what you want to accomplish with hacking away, just learn to prioritize thinking about it, and to be a little more clear-minded. i find walking about from something for a week both annoys the hell of out everyone around me (not so good) and gives me the presence of mind and matured sense of whats do to and how to do it that i can walk back in and, well, do it.

just find the hobbies and then find the balance.
I understand the competing preferences here, but even in this guy's best-case scenario, he hasn't avoided income tax; he's just shifted it from payroll tax (which is FICA eligible) to capital gains.

You can do a similar thing as an independent contractor just by forming an S-Corp and claiming your income as profit sharing instead of salary. And of course the outcome is similar: you enjoy a nominal benefit for awhile, and then you get audited and taken to court.

I don't think the IRS is shaking in their boots over this.
Follow Norm at Inc Magazine advice: go 3 hours away from home, and think of how do you want your days to be.

After you have a clear image of what you want think of the type of business that would allow you to live that way.

Probably in your case you also need to fall in love.
Keep in mind that Shanghai has its own local culture that is quite (in)famous throughout China and the Pacific Rim, so her experiences may not be applicable to China as a wider whole.
* We have two rounds, each round is voted on by three people, if there's disagreement on the verdict in the first round, it goes to the second round. If the second round disagrees - the items is failed as a precaution.

* We only provide a money back guarantee. We don't charge enough to cover any insurance. If you need that we've partnered with moderation companies who offer insurance (cover obviously depends on the amount of moderation you need).

* Yes, the Turkers are all warned.

* I think you're right. Initially I thought it it would be a turn off - but in retrospect that was a mistake.

* Very quick, it's about 7 seconds per item (once it's on mturk). Items are batched up into 20 and sent off every minute - so the complete turnaround will be a bit longer.

Let me know if you've any more queries.
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"a lot of projects get started in Ruby, but never finished."

how do you know that?
I'm mistaken about this. I confused it with the new translation of Pushkin's _Eugene_Onegin_, now by Stanley Mitchell (2008). My edition of _We_ was published in 1993.
They didn't lose the majority of the PC market; they never had it to begin with. To gain the PC market, you need to make/license/QA drivers—lots and lots (and lots) of high-quality drivers. Microsoft has spent the last 20-odd years doing this, and they still can't guarantee a high enough quality standard that my webcam won't lock up Explorer when I accidentally select it with Preview enabled.
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Awesome Idea!
While a very interesting idea, I don't think it would be practical. Both platforms have some very strict sandbox regulations which would make it difficult.
Recent thread of burnout may have some helpful advice:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=626616
This is a great service but it seems unfortunate that it has to exist at all.

The health system in Canada isn't ideal (or the Netherlands where I am now) but having to check emergency room wait times has never even occurred to me.
Better question, what is the likelihood that a hospital near most residents are busy enough at 2am where wait times are extremely excessive that you need to use a service like this to "schedule" your visit? I would imagine that the likelihood decreases considerably during the "middle of the night" especially when taking into consideration that there are probably more hospitals that are not level 1 trauma centers and/or county run facilities and are often the busiest between 11am and 11pm.
Totally second the travel, move to a strange place, do something random like work in events, theatre, a coffee shop, meet new people, get stories. I was in a similar depressed/burnt out situation & moved and it totally rebooted my life.

Could also try moving away from CTO to a CEO type role if you want to stay in web/startups without the coding. Loads to learn, plenty of cool people to meet and very intellectually stimulating.
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Bingo. Most patients fall into the general "low-acuity" category, which means that they are essentially seen in the order in which they arrive at the ER; this is the default case in our system. However, the ED caregivers do have the ability to change it.
If this is truly an "Oprah Moment", then attendees will also have to pay tax on the phone just like any other prize:

http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/22/news/newsmakers/oprah_car_ta...
Quit hacking? You should know better what to do with your life than anyone else. Find what you love.
Ontario?
Hmmm, unjust? Apple's busines model is to use the hardware sales to subsidize software sales. Hence the EULA which prohibits you from using OS X on non-Apple machines.

From the article:

"The only possible problem here is the EULA, which forbids installing Mac OS X on hardware that is not "Apple-labeled". I solved that issue by placing an actual apple on top of my machine"

To which I say - I really don't think you have solved that issue.
HN menu bar too bright: I see a green bar above all other text.
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Great idea, but why focus on the ER in your branding? The question that the end user has is "How can I get treatment for this health problem as soon as possible, without having to wait around in a waiting room"? It seems like the way that you're answering this could easily be extended to clinics and urgent care centers, couldn't it?

Also, I echo the calls for a map-based or local-search interface.
Right -- the only significant gain is if the coins are held longer (for long-term gains treatment of the phony appreciation) or sold in an unreported transaction (which itself compounds the illegality).

And my point was: while any combination of stunts leading to less taxes paid is of interest to the IRS, if you instead engage in bizarro accounting but the end result is you wind up paying about the same amount of taxes, just via different line-item -- no "net tax effect" -- they may as a practical matter ignore you. They care about the money, not the principle.
Also, check out the list of the most watched projects. Ruby and Rails seem to dominate there: http://github.com/popular/watched
> With those monkey calls, how do you know that an increasing freqency through the life of the monkey call doesn't mean something different from a decreasing freqency? Perhaps the length of the call indicates the size of the predator?

Perhaps the bit where they react the same to calls that differ in the ways you are trying to suggest. There is no reason to impute a greater meaning when the more parsimonious explanation fits the observations.

> How do you measure human pleasure? A smile? A wink? A laugh. These same outward expressions of emotions are found in other species as well.

What I'm afraid of is that you don't think this is a facetious answer.
(As a hint, in case you are trying to be serious: http://www.ehow.com/how_2070118_fake-laughter.html and additionally a note that happiness data is generally gained by self-report questions.)
And gold has some intrinsic value?

Gold is worth what the person who buys it from you says it is worth.

Paper is worth what the person who buys it from you says it is worth.

As "money", both are valueless in and of themselves, and merely stand in for things of actual value (goods and services).

These are the fundamentals. Forget them at your peril.
Good going guys, spend it wisely ;)
I took a laptop and a digital camera with me and ended up hating them every step of the way. My first travels I did Africa and the middle-east, the second I did asia.

In countries where I have "based" myself, anything more than 4 weeks; the laptop has been a good useful distraction. When you're shocked by a local culture which you have to deal with for extended survival (anything more substantial than a western-style hotel and continental breakfast) you will end up missing speaking your familiar language, eating familiar foods, or just walking outside without a guide at hand (printed or in-flesh.) Also there is that strong sense of alienation when everybody around you is looking at you, even you have been with them for weeks. In these times, firing up your slackware box and seeing what you used to work on in more homely times is a good psychological aid.

Cameras I didn't like. I hated being looked at and treated as a "foreigner", and I feel like I am doing the same when I point a lens at a "local" person, building or artifact. It felt like I was capturing their soul to take back home with me as a novelty. I have no photos of my travels, but I have friends. Hundreds of good friends from all walks of life; fishermen, priests, pimps, students, political activists, drug traffickers, aid workers, moms, bicycle repairmen, white-house staffers, journalists you name them.

Coming back was hard. I have lost 80lbs and came back with more street-sense than I could imagine. When I landed at Dulles Airport I had $60 to my name and I had the photo of a new girlfriend in my wallet. None of my family or friends had the time to give me a ride home, so I took the bus, for the first time in the U.S. Before then I have taken the bus a few times on nights-out when I knew I wouldn't be fit to drive. This time it was just what I was used to do. My instincts where different; I took a window seat in the way back that was close to an exit door. Something that you do when traveling in dangerous places (you don't sit in the front, or police and bandits will pull over the bus and shake you up for bribes; and you don't sit sandwitched between two locals, unable to escape.)

I also came back with 2pack a day cigarette habit. Hi alcohol tolerance. A very unprofessional appearance. An appetite for anything served to me on a plate. A habit of carrying a bag with basic survival necessities. Indifference to crashing anywhere. Hitching rides with total strangers. And finally, a weird ability to connect with people in the underworld.

My first few gigs have been freelancing gigs doing anything and everything. It took my girlfriend the last few months polishing up back to shape; I don't think I would have come back if it wasn't for her, actually. I have seen many long-time Western expats dying in local hospitals of controllable diseases; the ex-military Americans are most prone to this. Diabetes, high-blood pressure, liver problems; I have pitch in $5 donations to so many expats in hospitals I didn't want to be one of them.

Allot of stuff, most of it unfit to print.
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Huh? You don't pay taxes on buying a $50 item for $950, because you've just taken a $900 loss.

If you sell something for which you paid $50 for $950, you absolutely do pay taxes for the gain.
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this stuff is endlessly fascinating and for once, NZ is well represented ;-)
My guess is there are a lot fewer of these clinics and the majority don't have access to them.

There are 5,700 hospitals in the U.S.(AHA) and ~ 4,500 emergency rooms.

Do you know how many of these clinics there are?
That's not the transaction for which you would be taxed. But if you're paying your workers something that you claim is worth $50, for which you spent $950, that $900 difference is money that would be an expense if you paid them normally. Instead, it's profit, and you owe $300 in taxes on it -- even though you have the negative cash flow from your $950 coin.

That's what's missing from the story. Either we're reading it wrong, or what he committed was a conventional tax fraud with a gold-bug spin.
I think you have it nailed. Reputation can not generally be quantified outside closed systems such as eBay.