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> Yes, and the possibility of falsification is required for science. It's not a convenient option.

According to Popper's definition. I don't recall him being appointed the universal lawmaker for science. I mostly recall that he created a definition and then insisted, as you do, that everyone accept it wholesale and hurl into the outer darkness anything that didn't fit his square hole.

You're also fond of trying to create false dichotomy between Science, immaculately conceived, ever perfect, and the process of systematically searching for truth to the limits of our ability to observe reality and compound evidence pro and contra which inevitably varies according to subject matter. For example, you pin your hopes to neuroimaging, apparently unaware that subject variability means that eventually that too will rely on (gasp!) large sample studies to produce (oh noes!) statistical results.

I presume that you hope by saying "it's not a science" over and over that people will instead decide that it is utter quackery, astrology, akin to crystal healing and chakra-cleansing. Because you never address, or even acknowledge, the median between strong sciences with experimentally-friendly linear problem domains and utter falsehood.

Your other favourite debating tactic is to select particular very serious failures, reintroduce them over and over, and then to implicitly generalise them to the entire field for all time. By this standard Galen condemns modern medicine and Ptolemy makes physics a joke. You talk about science, but you refuse to entertain the view that psychology and psychiatry change when the evidence becomes sufficiently resolved. You give only one test for what is a science and ignore all the others.

I don't know why you have singled out psychology and psychiatry for this treatment.
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Obviously at this point we should begin ray-tracing.
> Fix that. Drop the desktop so there is no more confusion on the RT.

I don't understand this line of reasoning. This is a finished product, everything is right there and done. Why should it be crippled to be more like the iPad? The one thing the market doesn't need is another iPad clone. For once Microsoft changing little is their chance to be different!

If they can make Metro so awesome that nobody bothers to load the desktop, that's a win. Tablet users will (and should) spend most of their time in Metro. Removing the desktop to force the hand is a bad as crippling the desktop is now. Having the desktop there when you need it could be major selling feature!

Microsoft should do more than just remove the restrictions on desktop apps, they should be actively courting software developers (both commercial and open source) to port the most used software. Especially critical business software.

I understand your point about wanting to reduce the confusion between the versions. But the real market for the Surface (Pro or RT) is not the same as the iPad market. It could be, maybe in the future, but not now. Right now Microsoft needs customers and they need to leverage what they have. Metro/WinRT is playing their competitors game and they're already coming from behind. People who want to work, even a little bit, could benefit a lot from an RT tablet that supports metro and desktop equally. I've tried to work on my Nexus 7 and it's very difficult and I don't need much -- ARM ports of a few open source tools would get me a long way.
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I disagree with your point as I don't see any kind of major qualitative difference between an Air and Pro. Both are very similar computers that run essentially the same software - one just operates faster than the other. That's a quantitative difference.

As far as I understand it, a Surface and Surface Pro run completely different types of software. Windows RT cannot run normal Windows Apps. I would view this as a major qualitative difference in the type of machine it is and such a similar naming strategy is confusing and not warranted.

I think they're both actually looking like pretty good machines yet again and both have their uses, but I think the message about what they are is going to be confusing to the marketplace because of the naming. I don't work in branding for a big corporation, so maybe my opinions are wrong. But Microsoft ended up with a warehouse full of unsold Surface RT's last time and I think that this is a big part of the reason why.
I'm curious if things like Google Glass or any kind of AR device will help with people like this in the future.

For example, if the store is a Dixon's.. modifying the signage before he walks in as to make him believe it's the HMV?
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No, it was sarcasm.
He's a good programmer whom you and your colleagues don't like, and by the sound of it he doesn't like you either. The solution I'd recommend is to have him working from home. Put him on a contract basis or whatever if that's what you have to do to clear it with the bureaucracy, but you should arrange things so you get the results he delivers without having to see his face.
The rationale makes a twisted sort of sense when you realize that, to the people in power in the US, access to healthcare is no more a 'right' than is access to a luxury car. It's just another good, and suggesting otherwise is tantamount to legalizing theft.
If your interested in this in more detail I just finished "guns germs and steel" which I would recommend for a enjoyable (to me) overview of old history.
Logistically, this is a pretty big expense; there must be a significant number of people involved to make this happen, considering the likely FAA regulations concerning flight numbers.

Hats off to both the airport staff for being willing and able to make this as seamless as it sounds like it is, and to the parents who realized the importance of making this a priority for their child.
[Update - 9/23/2013] – Today we filed a legal brief asking the court to confirm that we have the right to report the number of national security requests we receive, if any. You can check out our brief here: https://dt8kf6553cww8.cloudfront.net/static/docs/DropboxFISC.... We'll keep you updated about any developments.
I'm always surprised this show is popular among the user base here. From what I've seen it's aimed at 14 year old girls who think they are ``nerdy'' because they wear glasses and have a Nintendo t-shirt. Bazinga!
A lot of the people here are IMO rightfully criticizing that not more thought has been given to the possibility that being able to get into college and pay for college is simply a good indicator for a lifetime premium in earnings.

The only point I found in this article is the FSU study in which they try to control against factors by comparing students who barely made the cut. They came out with a 11% rate of return. (I looked up the study but couldn't find whether it refers to 11% return on the monthly salary or lifetime earnings)

It's left for us to decide whether this is a significant enough, especially given the option value of college and lack of alternatives to college.

P.S.: 75k (the cost of attending FSU) invested in a currently 3.7 treasury bond yields 118k after 30 years.
Could he be outsourcing his job? Has anybody seen him write the code?
Same here but I find few people comment on the articles or get involved in the comments. Seems that's one area where Google Plus is winning.
I think this would do a bit of a disservice to the disabled person. I'd think creating a somewhat dishonest alternate or augmented reality is a recipe for disaster. (What happens when he takes the glasses off and realizes that everything he has come to know is suddenly different?)

If the person can fully grasp the differences (and realizes that what they are seeing isn't reality), then I could completely be on board with that.
If real kids are getting real flu shots or whatever, who cares about the PR? Getting personal satisfaction from charitable giving doesn't make your donation less valuable.

"You're only saving me from a life-threatening illness because you have a big ego! I don't want your charity," said no one ever.
It was. But perqs proved popular with employers because their value were hidden from the employees. Thus large employers could use their negotiating power to procure health insurance for their employees at a relatively low cost. They were effectively getting cheaper labor, a huge competitive advantage. The ruse was up once health insurance costs started skyrocketing.
No, and you might have to reset it manually for upload, like some of the early and other barebones Arduino versions (instead of relying on the CTS reset trick).
I believe it was originally because of postwar wage/price controls, which led to employers giving health insurance to attract employees, which led to the IRS taxing health insurance, which led to Congress exempting health insurance from tax, which led to the current regime we have today, compounded by the McCarran-Ferguson Act as well as the HMO Act.
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I believe they changed it so that the height limit now depends on a single variable in the code, making it easy to build a copy of Minecraft with a different limit. Minecraft as distributed by Mojang still has a 256-block height limit, however.
His whole analogy only works because the librarian is a human, and if a human with some apparent authority lets you do something, you can reasonably infer that you have permission to do it. But you can't anthropomorphize a server like that. It's not a gatekeeper, capable of granting permission, just a dumb lock which may be flawed. Only humans can consent.

To repurpose his analogy, if you sneak into the staff room and the librarian doesn't notice and doesn't stop you, you can't use that to say it must have been okay.
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Right, exactly!!

When you build something to work for everybody, you make something that's not really great for anybody. That's Jenkins.

Instead, we built Circle to be amazing for a small set of people (web devs deploying to Linux). If you don't fit into that group, use Jenkins.

As time goes by, we're expanding our delightfulness to other groups of people (we only supported Rails at the start, for example).

In that vein, we're rolling out the feature to give you more than 2GB of RAM at the moment, so soon you'll be in the group that can have the delightful experience too :)
Relevant fictional short movie (6 minutes) about a future where AR is used to make people's surroundings seem better:
http://vimeo.com/7306050
I don't understand your argument. You seem to agree that the reason the unlocked house is not like the street is shared social conventions. That house across the street is definitely private property whether it's signed that way or not, and I'm expected to know that because, duh, it's a house. At least, that's how I understood this:

> So the right of the owner of a house to control access to his house is fairly well understood and accepted even in the case where a house might be unlocked or a door left open.

Then you discuss the technical and interface features of websites that differentiate them as analogs of houses and streets, respectively, like whether they have access control (locks). But we just agreed that the technical and design features of the door aren't what make a house not like the street. The differentiating feature of a house is not the security of its door, or even whether it has one; it's that it's a house and we're expected to know it's private. I don't get how that difference is analogous to access controls on a website. What's the social convention that's appropriate for determining whether a piece of information on the internet can be fairly accessed or not?

To be clear, I'm not saying there aren't good answers here (e.g. a house has walls which imply privacy, so you need some analog for walls on your site [1]). Or you could argue that the analogy is bogus (e.g. houses and streets just aren't like the internet). Or you could even argue that technical safeguards are the analogous social convention to private homes (I don't get it, but it's noncrazy). Or you could argue those conventions simply haven't been established yet, and that we should consider there to be no such thing as unlocked houses on the web. I'm just saying you have haven't made any of those arguments.

[1] completely off-the-cuff and, like my other suggestions here, in need of some substance.
No I did not, but thanks for the clarification.. which I quite like (though I don't really understand the double negative).

I think along pretty similar lines, and the ball analogy is quite apt. It took a lot of propaganda to get the ball moving in the first place, but only takes a little bit to keep it going in the same direction. But make no mistake, it is manipulation and it is forced, however gentle that force may be..
Who paid for this? I frequently fly from Heathrow and it's a horrible airport, run into service problems almost every time. Yet they can do all this for one person.
But war drives technology.
The authors of the book were the ones who did the research for their consultancy. But you could easily cite Peopleware itself for the research.
screw civilization.
Super interested in what you're building, huge fan (but not a customer) of your tutorial and story. If you could offer a SquareSpace type of solution for selling screencasts including international billing, account management, it would be killer! Where do I sign up for the mail list? :)
I already do help pay for the healthcare of the poor (as well as the not-so-poor over 65, and your father's VA care, by the way, as well as my grandfather's VA care). By any reasonable global standard, I am, in fact, rich. By American standards I am decidedly upper-middle-class. I make several times the median personal income in the United States. In fact, my 2012 taxes exceeded the US median personal income. I have excellent healthcare, a growing portfolio, and my only debt is a modest low-interest mortgage on an older but well-built house I bought last year and have already done substantial renovation on.

My taxes are too low. They should be increased. I regularly vote as such, as well as making campaign contributions to candidates and causes that would result in my taxes going up. I also make donations to charitable health care organizations such as Planned Parenthood and Doctors Without Borders.

Any more insulting questions?
Then that is a poor librarian. A good librarian should have just said:

400 BAD REQUEST

Whomever staffed that librarian, should interview or train their staff better.
> It saddens me to see one of the last first world country coming closer to the universal health care trap.

We're still quite a ways off and there's been quite a bit of pushback on the small steps Obama took. It's entirely possible the whole thing will be scrapped during the next presidency.
So, they are publishing this without the NSRs today, so we can diff it against future reports, is that the idea?
I ran my computer simulation (Civ 5) and came to the same conclusion.
What are your specific problems? Lines at security? Delayed flights when the visibility is one inch?
Maybe we should just stop throwing around analogies altogether when it comes to politics. Analogies are useful in teaching since it allows people to relate concepts they already understand. However, it's just an abstraction, and is inevitably imperfect.

In normative arguments, analogies are used to bend reality to make your position seem reasonable regardless of whether or not it actually is. It would be better to judge weev's case on it's own merits rather than try to justify a position using increasingly complex analogies.
Ten years ago it was ADD, now it's autism. Psychiatry is bullshit, and the pharmaceutical industry it drives is dangerous.
I'm sorry, but this isn't "layman use" of the term laugh track: it is simply wrong. A laugh track is a separately recorded or constructed track of laughter that didn't exist when the show was being shot. Calling a live studio audience a "laugh track" is an absurd black-is-white abuse of the term.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laugh_track

The laugh track has a long and sordid history in US television recording, and Lorre is ticked off that people think his shows have to result to fakery.
There are always other options. I suggest you watch "Kingdom of Heaven" if you have not yet seen it. Painfully bad movie, totally worth watching all the way through one time in order to see the negotiation scene in context.

I have negotiation skills in spades. But I tend to be a doormat. Being under the gun has been extremely uncomfortable but is getting results in ways that simply studying the subject intellectually was not. Getting over some things has been terribly difficult for me.

My situation is complicated and a comment or two on HN won't convey it. If we had more time to talk, we might find we agree more than it seems.

Peace.
Play vs. Work probably isn't the right dividing line between the two devices. The RT is more than just work, hence the 'Pro' moniker does fit well with that device. The problem with just calling it Surface 2 is that people won't get the difference.

We used to complain about Microsoft's multiple versions of Windows with "Home", "Media Centre", "Professional", but strangely, now we seem to be asking to go back to that realm.

Does Surface 2 Lite work? Essentially, that is what it is, it doesn't have all the features of the Pro, and it's lighter.
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Most likely covered under the disability laws in the UK. It doesn't seem to make anyone go that far out of their way if there's enough warning in advance.
> This report doesn't include national security requests ... the government allows services to disclose only the aggregate number of all law enforcement and national security requests received

So does the total number include NSRs or not?
I challenge you to actually try to do this and see whether or not the librarian calls security.
FAA regulations in the UK? You're thinking of the ICAO or CAA.

I'm also pretty sure that there aren't many regulations on flight numbers. As long as ATC knows who you are, the government doesn't care what you tell your passengers you are.
It bothered me too, I thought about it and came to the same conclusion. Moreover, while watching the show (always at the behest of someone else, by now perhaps in four different countries) I am primarily left wondering how twisted the producers of such a show must be, and how sick the entire entertainment industry really is.

If you ask me, Buddhism got it right: communicating trivialities, distractions and divisive speech are things fundamentally unhealthy to ourselves and our environments that we should seek to avoid.

Hollywood, on the other hand, celebrates the same. Of course, people will interpret this as fundamentalism, and of course I'm not advocating zero entertainment (I believe we should all be free to make our own decisions about which company to keep and media to consume and produce). I am, however, advocating calling a spade a spade, and I do think novum's comments are right on the mark with this show.
The key behind this would be strong anti-discrimination EU legislation [1] which means both the airport and the airline are responsible for disabled passengers. [2]

[1]: http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/transport/air_transpo...
[2]: http://www.reducedmobility.eu/20130730347/The-News/airline-l...
Paying it forward and cutting your own throat are not remotely the same thing.
Amazing project. Change the name immediately. Concussion is a horrible name...
I wonder if there's some way to make a useful legal argument along the lines of: Since there's a well defined HTTP Status code for "Unauthorized" (401), then it's clear that ant request responded to with a Status code of "200 OK" is, by definition, being declared by the webserver (and it's operators) as "authorized".
I am very happy to see this topic opened for discourse by a longstanding professional.

Some of my closest friends in elementary school fell into the above-average + introverted group. To teachers they stood out like sore thumbs. To those of us with similar interests and abilities, but more extroverted, they were just kids who double checked their answers before blurting them out.

In an age where there is a tendency toward pills and therapy as solutions for almost anything (not trying to spawn a pharmaceuticals debate), articles like this feel like a breath of fresh air. Being intelligent does not a disorder make.
I think most of society can live with death threats being criminal.
People boil down to dumb locks--if presented with the correct context and input, if they are rational they should by definition grant access.

This library analogy was the best way I've seen the issue put, and one that is actually accurate.
Absence of proof in a place where you would expect to find proof is strong evidence of absence, though. A transparency report which includes sentences like "We want to report the exact number of national security requests we receive, if any" is a pretty blatant statement that the number is greater than zero.
All fair points, but I never defined adulthood, only disagreed with the parent which stated "the cut-off is not biological, it's social". Of course there are social factors as well as biological. I'm sure I'm not qualified to form such a definition, though if I tried it would have to include many factors.

I, for example, moved out of my parents' house at 18, but I wouldn't say I became an 'adult' until at least my early 30's. Even now I feel like a kid most of the time, in spite of my many responsibilities - even with a kid of my own!

I don't think we ever finish maturing, and I think we never stop learning, even though our 'peak' mental ability may come and go.
Access to life saving treatment when required, as required, access to free hospital and cheap/free out of hospital medication.

The issues are no more entangled than that 'healthcare providers' are a subset of 'healthcare' and within healthcare providers are going to be doctors administrating care that is not up to the best evidence. Universal healthcare is no defence against that, but either is any other form of healthcare. If you select your own doctor you have every chance of choosing one that may give you treatment against the best evidence.

It seems you are saying that universal healthcare means that you will get poor healthcare. I vehemently disagree with this proposition, not just based on your single anecdote but because I live in a country with a universal healthcare system and I have worked within it and in a few months I will be dispensing care from within it as a doctor. Every system has failures but this criticism isn't an indictment of the entire system
Damn, three trial days?

I have done some interviewing and such of candidates at my current place. I sincerely could not imagine asking a candidate with a job to spend three trial days (or a single day) coding with us. I think it's disrespectful. Not everyone who is looking for work is unhappy where they are. I don't want to put anyone in a position where they have to choose between respecting their current employer and seeing if they're a good fit with us.
This is referred to by some as "going past the Ballmer peak."

Remember Windows ME? Yeah.

http://xkcd.com/323/
So because there was some thoughtcrime regarding actual criminal activity we should accept the prosecution for scraping the website? No. Prosecute him for identity theft if and after he commits it.