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When people domesticate animals to be pets infantile traits become prevalent in mature specimens. It's possible that this might be happening to humans as well. We consistently are becoming less violent http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violen...

Infantile traits such as imaginativeness and playfulness become selected for in environment changing faster than ever.

Cut-off point to adulthood is completely arbitrary and cultural. Attempting to motivate it with science is bizarre. So what if brain and body changes from 18 to 25? It also changes from 25 to 35 and so on.

I think it's bit of a myth that you take some time (18 years or so) to reach your final form that then gradually deteriorates. I believe it's a continuous process and there's no final form (unless you mean it to be gray haired, wrinkled corpse in a casket).
You say a lot, what you really mean is <5% of PC users, that's a high end estimate.
Thanks! Editing is a huge effort. I've gotten it down to a science, and I still spend about 60 minutes editing together a 15-minute video.

Part of the time is spent adding titles, notes, and transitions (such as when I zoom out to show a web page), but the majority of the time is just spent going through the episode with a fine-tooth comb to strip out pauses, ums and other filler, and to speed past necessary but uninteresting work.

The monthly specials take a lot longer. I typically spend a full week on a 15-30 minute video. Sometimes longer. Editing probably takes 2-4 hours and the rest of the time is on scripting/outlining, animations, coding the examples, and so forth.
What's really heartbreaking about this is growing up in high school, the most respected older adults in my life -- indeed, the ones most responsible for steering me out of the abyss -- where high school history teachers, and local university history professors.

Every long-term educational trend points towards the end of the professoriate. States continue to slash funding for higher education. Retiring professors are not replaced, or replaced with part-time faculty. Technology promises to provide education with far fewer teachers--and whether you buy into this vision of the future or not, state legislators and university administrators believe.
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A 99 dollars havfdware? That would stink bad in terms of performance.
Am I the only one who is instinctively skeptical about any discussion of "adulthood", "responsibility", and "maturity"? Although some aspects of adulthood are obviously good (paying your bills on time), these words often seem to also mean "willingness to conform".

I recently moved from San Francisco to South Carolina. San Francisco is often derided as a city of eternal adolescence, whose residents still live with multiple roommates, party at odd hours, switch jobs often, don't think too much about the distant future, and disvalue stability. In contrast, traditional adulthood is alive and well in South Carolina. There's a counterculture, but overall SC is much closer to Leave It To Beaver.

SC has some merits, but personally I'd take SF over SC any day of the week. It is more fun, and it's also contributing much more to technological and cultural advancement, the creation of wealth, and the economy overall.
The feelings of entitlement harbored by some of those posters is astonishing.
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Did you edit your response after I posted mine?

Anyways, the world isn't a ball which is pushed once and moves with constant velocity.

There are always forces tugging and pushing to modify the default. So unless the military is actively changing the default, they aren't not manipulating the default.
IE9 and IE10 can switch browser mode to IE8 and even IE11 can set a IE8 user agent.
The Surface Pro, with OneNote, works extremely well for this, more efficient than paper. OneNote is buggy and crashes, and the Surface is sometimes slow---so it isn't perfect---but it is still better than paper. High-quality pen input (except at the screen edges), different colors, copy-paste and undo.

For reading pdfs, the widescreen is annoying and claustrophobic, and I haven't found any Windows PDF reader that is comparable to Apple's Preview application. Occasionally I've "printed" pdfs to OneNote, to read and edit them there, but this doesn't work great. (You can't drag pdfs into OneNote because Windows and pdfs barely work together at all.)
This seems like a good alternative to the new Wacom Cintiq Companion ($2000) geared towards digital artists.
Uh, I've known several engineers (ages 22-30) with very questionable drug/alcohol habits who work incredibly hard (65-90hr weeks being the norm). I don't know if it's addiction per se as much as the desire to 'go hard' at all times.
...on the other hand, if you're in the US you can't buy alcohol until you're 21.
Although I appreciate what Ted J is trying to do, I think he's missing the point. When 50 users say "we really need this feature", the answer rarely is "you don't need it, you only think you do because you've always been wrong about it".
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What baffles me is that David Salzberg is a professor works tirelessly to get the science correct on BBT, and yet this gentleman was unable to correct the incredible, mind-bogglingly bad episode "The Tenure Turbulence", where every possible aspect of tenure appears to come from some alternate universe unrelated to Earth. This episode is so far beyond wrong I don't know where to start. David knows how tenure works: indeed he might be the only person working for the show who does (besides maybe Bialik). Why wouldn't they consult him?
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>When is Apple going to have touch on Mac Books?

I find using a Magic Trackpad with a desktop Mac to be a wonderful experience. After working in a Linux/Windows world for a while, I was surprised at how quickly I stopped relying on hotkeys in favor of gestures. I'd say any Apple computer running 10.7 or later is actually built for 'touch'.

I always thought features like 'Launchpad' were useless for those able to type, but they feel more intuitive once you've practiced the gestures. Apple trackpads allow me to directly manipulate content while retaining the cursor accuracy needed for complex interfaces. I'll be surprised if Apple adds capacitive touch to their laptop screens.
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> Edit 2: Can we at least agree that laugh tracks are awful, even on otherwise-phenomenal shows (Seinfeld)?

BBT does not use a laugh track.
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I never had to do laundry until I moved out at 18. And when I finally did have to do my laundry, it wasn't exactly a painful struggle. It probably took 5 minutes to learn.

I may even be able to argue that since my parents did my laundry, washed my dishes, and never gave me chores, I had extra free time to explore on the computer and teach myself how to program.
I'm not too much of a conspiracy theorist but I wonder if the Chinese are behind Colony Collapse Disorder that is devastating our bee populations... They destroy our bees and we are therefore beholden to them in yet another critical piece of infrastructure. I guess the best way to determine that is to figure out if CCD is destroying bee populations in China at the same rate as in the U.S. and Europe.

Far-fetched? Cut back on the weed? Stop reading Hacker News and get back to work?
Sorry, derleth. It's not a matter of someone defining correct usage. It's simply a matter of looking at the dictionary definitions of the words 'affect' and 'effect'. Affect simply means to influence while effect means to bring about.
Throwing him in jail is an awful outcome for justice and for the precendent it sets. I'm very much hoping he walks out of court a free man. Once outside the court, he could get hit by a bus as far as I'm concerned.

When we want weev free, we're fighting for law and society, for just principles, not for the individual.
I was just thinking a dedicated OnLive / ChromeCast like wee box for the LAN, perhaps with a Valve designed controller (i.e. an analog something). All real processing would be on the host SteamOS PC really, with dedicated hardware to help reduce lag on the stream.
LinkedIn would be three times as useful if it changed a single line of code.

Instead of giving users the default "I'd like to add you to my professional network" placeholder text, LinkedIn should require users to explain how and why they want to connect with other professionals.

Would this make it a bit harder to grow your network? Yes, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. It would put quality over quantity, making your connections more meaningful and requiring users to stop and think before sending someone a connect request (therefore cutting down on email spam).
Is it just me or does Valve still rock? These guys really keep powering along, steady pace, good going guys, best wishes with your new platform!
I'm going to sound like an old codger here, which is a strange experience for a 28 year old, let me tell you. Bear with me, I'm not going to tell anyone to get off my lawn...

No, biologically people are adults at puberty. That marks a sea change where, among all sorts of other changes, people stop maturing based on time and so, from then on, primarily mature based on experience.

What we're seeing here is the steady march of a feedback loop that began when the terms 'teenager' and 'adolescent' appeared. Those terms represent a meme that has changed where the dividing line between someone being a 'child' and an 'adult' lies. Before, people aged 11-19 were adults. Young, inexperienced adults, but adults nonetheless.

Then teenager-hood was invented as a phase of life and the line began creeping upwards. They were no longer adults; now they were old children: not yet responsible for themselves and their actions.

The feedback loop comes from removing opportunities to gain life experience: treating someone aged X like a child means that they will gain less experience and therefore mature less by age X+1. If this happens to a whole cohort, it means that people aged X+1 will start looking more like children, which will cause older generations to treat them as children. Then the cycle repeats at age X+2 in a new cohort.

Apparently today, we're seeing the line creep into the early 20s.
For me the awkwardness started when I realized that Charlie Sheen was playing himself. A morally deficient, manipulative, self-centered douche-bag who happens to be hell bent on self-destruction, yet he always narrowly avoids it due to his disproportionate amounts of luck.
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Recruiter here. Would you rather have an inbox with 2000 unqualified resumes or just go find qualified people yourself?
Followgen? Experimented with it and although provided some value it ultimately got our account permanently suspended.
Tell the too bright astigmatism neighbor they're in luck, Apple offers an inverted colors function just for them.

Tell the font neighbor they're in luck, they can change both the face and the size.
Is this leading towards an upwards adjustment of the legal age of majority? I think Tolkien had it right with the hobbits' "tweenies", but the last thing we need to do is set it as law.

It takes awhile, once you're finally allowed behind the wheel, to develop a sure hand and a discerning eye for steering the course of your own life. That's going to be true no matter where they set the age below which you're not allowed to drive yourself. Better it be when the brain still has the described plasticity so the needed life-lessons are learned well.
He belongs in prison for a long time, but not for what he's currently being prosecuted for. It sets a terrible precedent, and I'm sure that, given his personality, he'll be prosecutable for something again soon enough.
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Reminds me of an incident that happened not too long ago, with my daughter. She got the dog's food from the bowl and started throwing it out on the floor. I told her to stop it, and then she started walking away, slightly dejected. I then told her to clean it up, and she turned around, and starting putting each little piece in the bowl again. She's a few months shy of two years old, but I was pretty proud of her. After she sat there a minute picking up the pieces, I came in and helped her out, but I made sure she continued working.
I've worked on content-based Bayesian voting schemes. They work well weighting votes by content words. tptacek + cryptography should matter more.

Here, though, it seems as if HN experts and novices may be representative. pg used to run the front page based on karma. Comments seems like a place where that simplistic approach could work well.
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Sir Thomas More: What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!

Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?
There is also a wealth of biological evidence to show that a human's brain and body start deteriorating significantly before age 25; you can pick and choose the evidence that supports the conclusion you want.

In practice, our supposedly rich modern society is becoming mentally unhealthy to a degree that increasingly outweighs the material gains of recent generations; mental illness is common, suicide has become a major cause of death among young people, birthrate has crashed below extinction level. We can fix what we are doing wrong - a large part of which is treating young people like prize animals in gilded cages - or our society can end up in Darwin's bit bucket. We can decide which of these options we prefer, but I don't see the universe giving us the option of "neither".
A good point. A better phrasing would be "you can't move engineers around like that and expect them to be instantly productive". The problem is that engineers are viewed as being one dimensional as in "amount of engineering". Swapping for cross training, skill building, or just plain variety is quite healthy.
I suppose the real answer is to just use Excel. The last time I used Google's spreadsheet was probably about 2 to 3 years ago and there were major deficiencies then. I used the spreadsheet in Open Office/Libre Office for awhile. And then I went back to Excel. It has been refreshing.
Most people with Masters in engineering degrees got them as part of a BS/MS program in 5 years. If you're doing that then it seems reasonable to pay for the MS part as you would normally pay for the BS part.
Well, it's not like American news sources don't assume everybody has an American pop culture either...
Huh? The article repeatedly calls the 10x assertion 'mythology'. It disingenuously tries to 'debunk' the history of this assertion while blithely ignoring testimony from throughout the industry.
If, in any given language, you need to write out a prose recipe or code template for how a design pattern is implemented in that language, then that's an indication of a limitation in the expressive power of the language. If you can implement the pattern generally (not just a specific, limited form of it) in a library/package etc. and just use the implementation from consumer code, then you aren't running into a language limitation.

This doesn't mean that the pattern itself, even in that case, is a missing language feature: while in some cases things that can be patterns in one language may be basic independent language features in another -- e.g., "classes" or might be recipe-driven "design patterns" in C but basic language features in Java -- they are just as much not a sign of a language expressiveness limit if you can implement them as library code in a general form, even when they aren't basic language features (e.g., "classes" in JavaScript.)

And, even when language can express them in library code, that there is a value to doing so may not be clear until the patterns have been catalogged.

The basic upshot isn't that design patterns are missing language features so much as that the design patterns you need a cookbook rather than a library for are a function of language features (you still -- whether in cookbook or recipe form -- benefit from understanding the pattern, motivating uses, considerations that apply to using the pattern, etc.; the difference in whether you are going to need to code the specific use yourself or be able to grab library code and call it with appropriate arguments when you need to use it.)
They mention car accidents as a statistic that drops off after the age of 25 (I only briefly skimmed the article).

I have thought for a long time: leave it to the insurance companies/number crunchers to best predict when "maturity" sets in (at least for the average young adult). The fact that you can't rent cars until the age 25 always suggested to me that the insurance companies had run the numbers and pin pointed this age as when it is "safe" to trust someone with their assets.

When there are legitimate business interests at stake (read: $$$$) they tend to get this stuff right.
The modern world is more complicated and difficult to navigate. It is also increasingly abstract and we don't (collectively) do a great job with helping our youth really understand the connection between those abstractions and reality.

My father got paid in cash for many years while in the Army. Today, a lot of employers require you to have a bank account and only pay by direct deposit. My oldest son likely has dyscalculia. Kind of like a dyslexic doesn't deal well with reading, he doesn't deal well with numbers. I gave him cash and made him do the household grocery shopping for a while. It helped him wrap his brain around budgeting.

Now he can cope with a debit card but that would have been a disaster if we had skipped that first step of helping understand in very concrete terms the relationship between money and material quality of life. I think a lot of young people get a bank account, get their paycheck deposited and just cannot relate these abstract numbers to the need to eat all month, among other things.
Blackberry has rapidly declining sales (-50% in 2 years)... you'd have to hope to not just cut costs, but cut them faster (and repeatedly) to stay ahead of the current decline in sales. And you'd have to expect that decline to accelerate if you're cutting back on R&D (and probably facing general brain drain - why would a good mobile engineer keep working for a company in obvious wind-down? Nobody likes to work on an EOL platform.)
There is nothing quite so true as 'everyone is different' however you were ahead of the game when you wrote "until I moved out." If you read the article you'll see that folks who don't move out are more likely to be not quite ready to function as adults.

Going a bit deeper, that you did move suggests that you weren't worried about your ability to 'handle it' and where that confidence came from varies from person to person as well.
As someone born and raised in the South and now an SF resident, you will find that the South is often very structured and conservative. SF != South, by almost any measure.

That said, you're comparing apples to oranges, somewhat, too. A small-to-mid-sized metro area compared to SF is very different. I think the characteristics you listed to describe SF are popular in NYC, as well.
To elaborate a bit on what others are saying, while software algorithms are important the real advantage in HFT comes from physical server location that reduces the latency between you and the exchange. And like all real estate, prime location is expensive.
Ted J never says that they don't need it; he does try to provide workarounds given that they don't have it yet and don't have a timeline.
Can't trust that graph because the x axis doesn't start at 0 ;)
I have other brothers, sister. If we all get hit by the same truck, there is extended family such as her sisters and brothers.

It's social security. I take care of my own, and I am not around, my extended family should, if not, my neighbors should, so on and so forth.

All I am saying people should take care of their parents if they are old and cannot afford the basics.
I was with you up until wishing another human dead.
There are also SOT-23-6 parts in the TinyAVR series. The ATtiny4,5,9,10. Here's the 10:
http://www.atmel.com/devices/ATTINY10.aspx
They use something different than the conventional ISP protocol though (TPI) -- but I think people have come up with ways to do that even with third party hardware and avrdude.

I believe that it is true that Microchip was there first, though. For a while, the lowest pin-count AVRs were SOIC-8 and DIP-8.
You can in fact rent cars before the age of 25, but they charge a hefty premium. Source: I rented a car 2 weeks shy of 25 years old. There was an additional $80 fee per day.
It's not "society's choices", it is just the fundemantal limitations of society. Society only needs so many historian professors. If too many people want to be historian professors but aren't bothering to research their employment prospects, then we have a problem, but it is really their own fault (or if you want to be generous, their parents' for failing to raise them to be realistic). Society as a whole suffers for that, but it isn't society's "fault" that there are not unlimited History Professor positions.

If we go with the third option, parents teaching their children to have realistic expectations and forward-looking attitudes towards education, then there is no problem. If people understand that they can succeed if they pick the right field and try hard enough, but should not expect success if they don't, then we are golden.

Right now many people seem to reject the "pick the right field" part not because they disagree with it, but because they disapprove of it.
If you're against slavery and feudalism, you should be against pure unfettered capitalism (though possibly in favor of almost-pure capitalism, I guess).

tl;dr: "Pure capitalism is good", as a problem-solving strategy, is not entirely trustworthy; sometimes it leads to horrible horrible things.

The fundamental doctrine of capitalism is that it is just (not merely pragmatic) to let the people with the gold make the rules. This, of course, is the single biggest point of The Wealth Of Nations, and it's an interesting one, and seems to be largely correct. But if you take this to an illogical extreme, you are back in might-makes-right.

I think it's pretty obvious that slavery wasn't defeated by capitalism, but rather by a leftist people-other-than-the-rich-have-rights kind of movement. Master Smith had the capital, he bought the slaves, and now we're going to deny him his property rights, because someone else's rights (to freedom and personal security) are more important.

Feudalism is also basically free-capitalism-plus-ethics. If you conquer some land by the sword, you get to keep it. There are some people living on that land. You tell them "I own this land, if you want to live you can either leave (flee as refugees), or trade me your right to freedom and security for the permission to use my land, with the following caveats". I say "plus ethics" because there was an ongoing debate throughout the feudal period about what obligations the landed class had to the working class, a debate that is taken less seriously today.

And for that matter, cronyism is consistent with pure capitalism; why shouldn't I, the holder of capital, be allowed to allocate that capital however I like, including to my cronies?

I apologize if this is all sort of obvious, or pedantic. And overall, I favor socio-political systems that are more capitalist than anything else. However, as I said in the tl;dr, I believe that the "I favour pure capitalism" mindset is harmful, if you actually try to use it to decide between policy alternatives.