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> All you're doing by saying "ad hominem" is shifting the focus to technical delivery of the argument rather than focusing on the real matter of the discussion.

I agree, that looking for logical fallacies in the argument often is a straw man in itself, which is ironic and which is the reason many are skeptical about pointing them out altogether. But in the end you can't abandon logic and talk relying only on intuition and emotions and discarding all reasoning, which would happen if people "rather focus on the matter of discussion than shift focus to technical delivery".
I don't think so; it's pretty trivial to decode the JSON and make it a native object/array/whatever in almost any programming language.

So far I always did a "user[count]" or "user[timestamp]" thing and it was time consuming, dull and most of all didn't do the best job at presenting the app to the clients.
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I think you may be confusing HN with some other place. I have literally never seen someone being called dumb or anyone being "proven" wrong for being stupid. Honestly, I think most fallacies pointed out here are fair and especially "ad hominem" which is probably the easiest to grasp. Can you find any counter-examples?
Your question is like saying "if you define green as the colour of grass, how can you make grass yellow?"

If you take a sensible real-world definition of the poverty threshold, such as "earning less than 60% of the median full-time wage", then you can do so by pegging the BIG to 60% of the median full-time wage.
A little backstory about this- the most popular 2D plugin for Unity was NGUI (now I would say 2D Toolkit and NGUI are equally popular, but 2D Toolkit has more momentum).

The guy who created NGUI was hired by Unity about a year ago to work on their new built in UI / 2D system. And, this is what he's created. It's still massively lacking in features compared to the 3rd party 2D plugins but I think this is just a start and we should expect to see a lot of great improvements over time.

These are the 3 most popular 2D plugins for Unity, and they're all less than $100:

2D Toolkit - $65 (http://u3d.as/content/unikron-software-ltd/2d-toolkit/1Wi)

NGUI - $95 (http://u3d.as/content/tasharen-entertainment/ngui-next-gen-u...)

Uni2d - $90 (https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/3826)

Personally I use 2D Toolkit and I know for a fact he has plans to make his plugin use the new built in 2D Physics system and I'm sure he's looking at any other ways he can squeeze better performance and useability out of the new Unity 2D features.

I would love to stop using a 3rd party 2D plugin but I don't see it happening anytime soon.
> Adding a link just feels pretentious.

I sometimes find myself debating with people who never do any research, who expect to get by with flowery rhetoric. For such people, links can serve as a reality check.
One thing that opponents of BI are missing, and proponents fail to realize and explain is that there will be no "magic extra money" involved. The cost of basic income will not be higher than what currently is spent on social safety nets. Yes, every adult in the state will get ~1000$ and every child ~500$. That means that lover income or no income people with get enough to survive, without penalizing them for actually working low paid jobs. Middle class people will get the same amount, but obviously they are going to be taxed progressively more, so their net income would stay more less the same as now. Even the richest people will get this money, but I guess they will be net losers because of the taxes.

Now, if implemented correctly, there won't be extra taxes, no printing money, since the money will be distributed just a bit differently. No inflation, since total monetary sum stays the same. In addition to that, it might be even cheaper, since it will reduce administrations costs of current welfare system to almost a half. (No hard data, but remember reading that charity spends almost ~40% of revenue on administrative tasks). And, poor people will have incentive to work, since even a minijob would be a net beneficial to them.
The water cooler is a place for things like gossip, stupid jokes and discussions of television shows. I hope we don't all begin to assume this is what HN should be, particularly when consequential topics are being discussed (vaccination, etc.)

If I apply a corrosive black salve to my face and I feel that this saved me from cancer and really want to share it as advice, my story actually does nothing to establish self-application of black salve as an advisable practice. It is indeed an anecdote, not data. It should not be taken as data. This is very important, or people will be misled and burn their noses off.
Cliches get to be cliches because they're a good idea that everyone wants to reuse. And recycle. Until they're familiar and then over-familiar.

The top-rating issue is simply symptomatic of the lack of insight of many of the folks clicking the little arrows over their first morning cup of coffee. News delivers a brief stimulus; commentary even briefer: the spasmodic twitch of the mousing fingertip merely signals the assent (or dissent) of the mayfly mind.

Mea culpa: I'm guilty of this, too.
I think the worst is is when the top rated comment is a correction or contradiction of a peripheral assertion in the original article that fails to address the broader implications of the original article.

Though I acknowledge this is a really tough pattern to battle since it's much easier to be certain a quick factual correction provides concrete value than it is to assess a reply with a complicated or nuanced argument. And there is nothing wrong with comments that make a factual correction, it just leads to poor results at the top of the discussion page.
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Stuff relevant to their product, customers and industry.

Not startup-fluff advertisements by their "content marketer" for HN.
I think "X (is|are) not helpful" is overused.
A lot of people seem to be dissing cocos2d here. The iPhone version is actually really good, it's the tech behind many successful iOS games such as Kindom Rush, Badlands, Megarun, Scramble with Friends, Tiny Tower, Feed Me Oil, Tap Zoo, Zombie Farm. Many of which have reached the top grossing list. How many 2D Unity3D games have reached high up on the top grossing list? Is there any other game than Bad Piggies?

Also, now with Apportable, porting to Android is a breeze. It's possible to have a running port within a couple hours.

And another good thing with Cocos2D is that you get the full source, allowing you to do basically anything you want and get good performance out of it.

Not sure about Cocos2D-X, but now thanks to Apportable, it's now possible to stick to Obj-C with is really nice.
Jezz, this is bullshit - you already have to learn English, now you have to improve your accent, then you have to look certain way. Stop following the moving goal posts.

I don't know where "strong accents correlate to business comes from".

People are building amazing companies all around the world - with or without 'proper English accent'. Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, Japan build super successful organizations and high GDP with terrible English accents.

Damn people, don't let people make you feel inferior.
I've only played bowling once or twice, and while I agree it's not the most entertaining sport ever I thought one of its most compelling use-cases was to bring people together.

Yes, you might be "less enthusiastic" when your friend gets a lucky strike, but that's the whole point, you don't go there as a professional player keen to win no matter what, what you did describe would be the perfect moment to make fun of said friend, a third friend might reply that "you're jealous cause he's better than you" etc etc, I mean things that people usually talk with friends and that do make life less stressful.
Good summary: This article sums up some of the comments that annoy me too, but not because the comments is wrong or inherently annoying, but because the comment is simply incomplete. For example, "Correlation is not causation" is one of my more favourite sayings, but one should explain what was wrong in that case too.

I, also, get annoyed with comments that are far too long for the point being made - go write an article in response if you want. Expletives are also a no go.
It isn't a request for a source. It is like saying 'if you want others to believe this thing you are claiming publicly, you need to back it up better than asking us to take you on your word.'
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I wonder if there's a way you could help this with software. I remember reading a long time ago about singing pitch training by realtime headphone feedback (like - if you're singing flat, you are feed back your voice distorted even more flat[1]). I wonder if you could detect and exaggerate differences in prononciation.

[1] - closest I could google now was http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8173617
which makes it look pretty ineffective actually :o/
I was thinking about this the other day- why don't some start ups implement a 4 day workweek? That would be a huge incentive for me to join.

Yes, it's less productive, but with 33% more weekend think about how happier the employees would be.

I would love to try this with my startup once we get into the profitable stage.
> "If you're not paying for it, you're the product"

This also sometimes misses the point. EG, when YouTubers complain about being cut off from monetising they're not the customer, nor the product. Google is the customer, choosing whether to buy the product or not.
I think the karma system can also be a contributor to this. Any comment you make has the chance to get a few upvotes, regardless of how little it contributes to the conversation. So people just spam comments to get a few points here and there.

This phenomena can be seen in forums without karma also but i think in places with karma it is usually worse, worst offenders being digg and reddit where everybody tries to make a silly joke as those are easy points.

A better algotithm calculating the karma as an average over all your comments maybe could help..
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But how's his English accent?
>I would be very surprised if there isn't a rush to the exits from people in their mid 50s if it looks like health care will be affordable. I know I'll be able to retire a full decade earlier if I can get health care for a few hundred bucks a month.

Is the subsidy based on income? or assets? or both? 'cause if you don't qualify for the subsidy, the affordable care act doesn't make it any cheaper, it just makes it possible for people with pre-existing conditions to get healthcare.

Without the subsidy, you are still looking at a grand a month or more for healthcare for a 50+ person.

>As to people working part time... I can see why people would want to (hell, I'd like to do that myself), but I don't think it's going to happen to any great extent. Employers don't like it because there are a lot of per-employee expenses (as opposed to per-hour). Two half-time employees cost more than one full time employee.

I am postulating that the affordable care act will make it realistic for contractors-without-bodyshops (or just part-time folks) to cover their own healthcare. that vastly reduces the per-employee cost. All of the times I've been successful negotiating part-time work, it has been as a contractor, where I had to provide my own benefits.

The affordable care act makes being a contractor (or working contractor-style, where you provide your own benefits) much more practical. That is, I believe, what might change things in favor of part-time work.
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Cultural things change rapidly once cultural meets financial.

Do those parents and grandparents really support their grandchildren or they only want them happen and then do nothing about it?

Anyway, children living near a large city are more capable than ever of giving them the finger, and that's what they going to do. See in the concurrent thread, "If they decide to have children" - meaning your default is to not have children.

World may be overpopulated, but is North America overpopulated? I guess it actually isn't. Most of places outside South Asia aren't overpopulated. Having some population growth and economy growth and no fears that social security would implode is better than having decline and being in panic like Japan does.
Yes you are correct. Most people just add comments to get points and karma. Especially when they are new to HN like me.
The use of that comment is to point out and perhaps penalize a form of manipulation which hurts discourse, the sensationalized headline.

This is valid in the same way that it is valid to point out when a headline contains a false and self-serving claim.

I don't think anybody is under the slightest illusion that having heard of Betteridge's law demonstrates any particular intelligence.
Yes, it's very helpful to have it be easy to understand you. If you don't like that, go live in a different universe.
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There's nothing wrong with useful critique or argument. But as others have said it's very easy to dash off a very quick rebuttal of a minor point in an article, ignoring the main thrust of whatever the article is about.

When I've read six pages of interesting and useful article it's depressing to see the top voted comment on HN is about a footnote on page 4 with little relevance to anything interesting.
If you struggle so hard to imitate an authentic native English speaker accent doesn't that have the side effect of ruining your accent in your native accent?

For example I changed to a Dvorak-like layout, and could barely type QWERTY. (I changed back to QWERTY because it's just too ingrained into everything.)
If having children is a choice that a sufficient number of people not take, you're going to starve when you get old.

Nobody asks whether you want to support the ill, the disabled and children, you just do that. You cough up cash because they are already there and you have no alternative.

You really don't.

I've recited my solution of preventing people who have large families to live off their children, it's kind of sad you don't bother to argue with it.
Oh no. Is Hacker News going to start down the ever-descending death spiral of angst that made parts of reddit so unbearable to me (until the angst became a self-fulfilling prophecy)?

Many of these classes of comments are fairly reasonable in many cases (as discussed in the rest of the comments here), and I really hope that we're not about to begin the cycle of "I hate this place, it used to be so much better" that seems to start up when Internet communities mature when I just got here.
Another thing that annoys me is people citing articles using numbered references beginning with 0 ([0][1]...)

I can maybe understand the point of using numbered references like this (although honestly it barely affects readability having links inline) but you're not a computer. It just comes across as pretentious when you start counting at 0 as though you're referencing an array of references or something. We get that you Know Computers.
Cool idea! Btw, your Ajax code snippet won't work, 'return' is a reserved keyword :) I would suggest using 'data' or 'response' instead for your variable name.
Note that Kevin talked a lot more than this small clip: http://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2013/aug/23/kevin-spa...

I highly recommend watching the whole thing.
I've seen a version on Reddit:

Law of Reddit XCVII:
You can make a redditor believe anything, no matter how outlandish, so long as you preface it with "Contrary to what you hear in the MSM...."

But I guess that's a tad more specific than generic second opinion bias, which is what we see here
I think your assumption that government can provide guaranteed (productive) jobs to everyone at any time is dead wrong. This sounds much more like a communist nightmare then BIG does as it would almost certainly introduce a massive dysfunctional bureaucracy to manage all those jobs.
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Well, Java compiles to bytecode. The bytecode gets interpreted at runtime by the JVM. In this context, the line between a compiler and an interpreter is fuzzy.

I guess the developer who wrote the challenge just wanted to find someone who is capable of developing and maintaining a language, written in java, to design 3d shapes for their 3d printer.
Accent has little to do with the ability to communicate clearly.
How many terrorist attacks have you heard after 9/11 in USA.

And how many terrorist attacks did we see before 9/11 and the massive increase in security? I imagine if you looked at the statistics, you'd see no correlation between massive increases in spending and safety. Please do provide figures if that is wrong (but I think you'd have to do better than counting attacks, at least used deaths caused).

Terrorism is a chimera employed to justify wars, drone strikes, and curtailment of liberty, not (IMHO) in some vast conspiracy, but just because it's a convenient and credible excuse, and life is easier in authority if you don't have laws getting in the way. Other threats to public safety are far more dangerous than terrorism anyway, and yet remain relatively neglected.

There is no proof that any of this increased 'security' actually does increase security (please provide some statistics if you have some), and what's worse, whether it works or not it sacrifices too much and gives too much arbitrary power to the government and allows them to harass without suspicion or court involvement.
What surprises me here is that virtually all comments are about whether peasants really had many holidays.

And not about the current situation (+ the macho 'my hours are longer than yours' trap that most of the California Software world seems to be in...) that drains much of the possibility of having a life besides work.

One idea that crossed my mind when I still worked in the Vallley, was that the situation might be reversed by a 'Union' that only concerns itself with working hours. Leaving salaries up to everyone for themselves to negotiate as currently.

This would:

1) Allow people a coming-out in terms of favoring work-life balance. Which many people confessed to me in private, but did not dare say in front of their boss/team (has nothing to do with a lack of love for the job/project/company, even love itself you can't enjoy 10 hours a day 50 weeks a year, or that would be the length of billionaires honey-moons. Also what is wrong with loving your life and family/friends in addition to the job, and needing some time for that?).

2) Create a bargaining position and a public face for it.

3) Dispel myths of long-term productivity gains through longer hours. Especially in a creative industry like Software Engineering long hours reduce productivity (there are studies of this + the many self-evaluations on HN over the years of people being able to code consistently and productively 4 to 7 hours per day max).

Just an idea that crossed a mind.
Before I came to the U.S. in the mid 1990's I geeked out on two grocery bags' worth of VHS tapes of StarTrek Next Generation. Nothing like learning English from the forever affable Captain Picard or the eternally proper Data. I found it very helpful then.

The other piece of advice I have which I didn't see mentioned is to date a local, or several. They care about you and will help you learn. They'll also teach you idiomatic and colloquial language and correct you if you get it wrong.

Lastly: talk to young children ages four through eight or so. Unless they grow up multi-lingually, they don't have a concept of people speaking different languages and will just assume you'll understand and will be able to reply intelligently. They also don't have much experience with accents. For them it's more of a binary thing either they'll get you or they won't, they have no judgment nor enough experience to adapt to you. When learning French that was always my own personal test of how intelligible my speaking was in the foreign language.
Shrug. Most of the "citation needed" posts I've seen are in response to comments like "almost all recipients of welfare spend it on smokes and alcohol." There probably doesn't exist any studies that disproves that vague claim. Yet whoever posts it shouldn't be allowed to get away with it, hence "citation needed."
It was pretty obvious that this site wasn't the origin of the pics, since there's no photographer credit and the rest of the site is linkbait. They've been ripped from all over eg the photos of the church were by Rick Harris:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rickharris/sets/721576208562575...

It's pretty annoying to see this. The originals were CC-licensed; all they had to do was give credit? And linking back to the originals lets you download them in hi-res, find out where they were taken, what camera settings were used... anyway.

Here's a different article from 2009 (containing some of the same images), showing that you can have a gallery like this and credit all the photographers.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/27/detroit-is-not-dead...
anigbrowl is talking about "[making] an extraordinary or absolutist claim absent any evidence", and you're talking about "even when the comment is something where a source could be found rapidly using Google". These are not comparable cases, and so, I guess I don't see how your comment really addresses anigbrowl's. This is what I see. anigbrowl: there are cases where it's appropriate. You: it shouldn't be used everywhere.

There is this (subjective) notion of relevance. When it's relevant, a simple [citation needed] communicates a lot more than merely these words.
It's a concept rather than a specific quote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Constitution
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In all seriousness, Linus might be OK. But RMS is too purist and never practical.
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Somehow I cannot find those "spatial" (for lack of better name) rules useful.

What works for me is "type declaration mimics usage". So I find the variable name, parse the declaration as usage and then reconstruct the type. It goes like this:

char *((*foo)[3])(int);

Ok, so if you dereference foo, then index[3], then call with int, then dereference, you get char?

Cool, looks like foo is a pointer to an array of size 3 of functions that take int and return pointer to char.
Ask yourself if you prefer IVRS interfaces on the phone, or talking to a human.

Neither, I prefer a decent mobile-ready website. Why should we be limited to a dumb audio pipe?
I have _never_ seen the 7 of 9 of those comments here. "FTFY" stuff is from reddit.
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I think that would be rude, the same way as talking on the phone while others are present at the table is rude.