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> lutusp has strong anti-psychology sentiments. Conversations about it tend to be, uh, unproductive.

You know, you could address the topic, not the participants. To fail at this is the very definition of counterproductive.

> Psychology has a lousy history of weak science.

Yep. People have asked me why I focus on psychology, since all fields have embarrassing episodes in which the principles of science are ignored. The answer is that, although psychologists have clinics, they don't have enough science to justify their existence.

Sociologists are equally unscientific, but they don't have clinics.

Doctors also have clinics, but they're much more scientific.

This makes psychology a conspicuous gap in the system meant to protect the public from charlatans. But the gap is closing -- the director of the NIMH, the highest-ranking psychiatrist in the country, recently decided to pull the plug on the DSM and, by implication, psychiatry and psychology.

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...

Quote: "While DSM has been described as a “Bible” for the field, it is, at best, a dictionary, creating a set of labels and defining each. The strength of each of the editions of DSM has been “reliability” – each edition has ensured that clinicians use the same terms in the same ways. The weakness is its lack of validity."

And that of the fields that created it.

http://xkcd.com/435/
After reading this article, I checked out logstash.net today nearly after an year.... I am happy to see they added so many connectors and it has grown so much.... This open source software can be serious competition to splunk..
Ask HN: Surviving Open Plan Offices
So I am presently stuck in an open plan office unable to really concentrate or get as much work done as I would like, leaving me feeling pretty down at the end of nearly every day. How do fellow coders in open environments get their work done? Besides headphones, which I already have in 99% of the time, any tips/tricks?
No, but it tells us that it's not rigorous enough to resist such exploitation. There's nothing inherently evil or morally wrong about sloppy measurements. That comes from its uses, not the thing itself.
For now. Watch what happens when Mir ships:

1. Noone will use Mir because xlib apps and non-ported toolkits will fail miserably.

2. It will not get tested properly.

3. Release+1 with XMir will be shipped and Mir will be turned on.

4. All hell will break loose.

If it doesn't happen, I'll cook and eat my laptop.

The only flag waving so far has been "shuttleworth installed it on his dell and it worked ok for a couple of weeks with some problems".
>> Yet despite all of your issues, Ubuntu is by now by far the smoothest desktop experience I've had, and I suspect that's the experience most users have

In all the time I used Ubuntu with the exact same conviction, it went through 3 different desktop environments, every time breaking things left and right, or removing features I depended on for my workflow. Like the guy you are replying to this includes forcing PulseAudio on me and breaking audio in various ways, and deprecating the Gnome 2 desktop in favor of Unity (which doesn't run in my VM because of a lack of 3D acceleration) first, and then deprecating the only viable alternative that did work in a VM (Unity2D) one release later.

Eventually I just gave up on Ubuntu and switched to Mint, which isn't perfect in itself, but at least it doesn't break my workflow on every release.
I know I sound like a fundamentalist, but how is anything like REST? It's an RPC protocol! Nothing against RPC, but it doesn't fit any of the REST constraints, except for the client-server; it's not stateless, it can't have middle-man caching and it doesn't really follow an uniform interface. It's nothing like REST (and as such it doesn't get its benefits).
It's not self-publishing, it's indie publishing. There's a difference. Self-publishing meant paying for the manufacture of physical books. There was no distribution. Normally the books sat on a pallet in the author's garage. Readers consisted of the author's family and friends.

Small press publishing is a business, just done at a smaller scale than the majors.

Indie publishing uses digital media and distribution networks to put texts into the hands of readers. Hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of readers may read the author's work. This is indie publishing.
I have applied but I haven't heard any news from you guys :(
Debunking Microsoft's "Bing it On Challenge"
'At the end of the day, a task force led by Gen. Clapper full of insiders – and not directed to look at the extensive abuse – will never get at the bottom of the unconstitutional spying,' said Mark Jaycox, a policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy advocacy group.
> Interesting how you never bothered to ask that while reading the fraudulent book itself.

This is your evidence that Gould is a fraud? Nice dodge, but scientists and educated people will notice you avoided your responsibility to back up your words with evidence.
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Great effort but I really don't want this.

I've lived without Flash for a year now and all is good. We just need to break the crack addiction!
Somewhat confusingly, most companies that ship via UPS or FedEx do not accept my P.O. box as a shipping address, claiming that UPS and FedEx do not deliver to P.O. boxes. Others accept my P.O. box, and UPS or FedEx happily delivers the item to my local post office, which will then deliver it to me via my P.O. box. Go figure.
Google Chrome Redesign & New Tab Page Rolls Out To All
> If the Earth had a uniform climate, terrain, and so on from pole to pole, this presumably would not be the case.

I think that would also produce an optimal IQ, just a different one. But all IQs, indeed all traits of living organisms, ultimately derive from the degree to which they contribute to fitness.
As far as I can tell as a non-American, Americans are getting the news coverage they want. Even ardent Democrats seem to be extremely reluctant to face the fact that this is not a matter of a major political divide, but a bunch of fundamentalists extremist holding the government hostage.

There are no two equal sides to this story.
Also, configurable after a few hours it can ask the password anyway. A trial and being compelled to place your finger on the phone goes way beyond that. Or if they're going to beat you over the head with a metal pile regardless to unlock then the difference between a passcode or your fingerprint becomes meaningless.
Even I got the same result. But this seem to do the job:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-caption-...

Edit:
aah got it. The OP mentioned that you have to use 'Nav bar on title bar' extension along with tree style tabs.
Hulu Plus now works with Chromecast
You are correct. medical products should be expensive. If they're not they won't sell. The thought is something like this: "High price equals high quality". Family of mine found out when they engineered a machine to transform biohazard medical waste to standard 'grey' waste. Standard waste is 100 times less expensive to dispose care of, but they're having a really hard time selling the machine. (They own the patents and everything).
Yes. Writing an article about software freedom without understanding the difference between "free as in speech" and "free as in beer" in 2013 is a bit strange.
Why didn't this come out of Adobe a year ago?
Hope you finish soon.
I am excited than for an review of meteor and derby, i think that this are the two most exciting projects at the moment.
I have several problems with this article. First, I don't see why it is on Hacker News. Second, the article seems to argue that the media should not be objective, but should take sides. One doesn't have to be a reader of "The Nation" and "National Review", as I am, to know that there is a full range of ideological media out there taking all sides of every issue. Finally, it is ironic to be lectured by an Arab news organization criticizing our democracy.
This is off topic, but does anyone else have a "This Week’s Top 5 Posts" section smack in the middle of the article?

Is that something new Medium are automatically injecting? If so, I don't like it. I do like the idea of being pushed to more content _after_ I've finished reading, not _during_ the middle.
I just wanted to present a counter argument to my reasoning: What if the list of companies (which is publicly traded companies) is missing the real head -- the non public companies that are either government owned or are governments themselves? If we look at the list of companies by revenue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r... it does look like the real head of the Power Law distribution is missing.
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Why We Don't Need Offices
The attempts go up quickly. First try, wait a minute. Then 5, then 10, then 30 mins, then an hour, 3 hours, a day, a week etc.
But moving floss vertically in and out is bad flossing technique. You're supposed to curve the floss around the tooth:

http://www.oralb.com/topics/proper-flossing.aspx

> Contour floss around the side of the tooth.
We've had quite a high conversion rate, so I'm pleased with it too. We're selling the journalist as the atomic unit instead of the story, so although people often say "why not show more content?" I don't believe they would convert anyway -- and at such an early stage, I'd rather focus on the people who are passionate about the product and journalism.
Cant access the site.

Install them a open source Webserver with enough power for $100K ;-)
Interestingly, 9 times out of 10, when somebody says that they have had a problem with PusleAudio, they later tell me that they were using Ubuntu while it happened.

Did I say "interestingly"? I'm sorry, I think I meant "suspiciously, but not longer surprisingly".

Ubuntu ships an unstable product packaged inexpertly, sells it to users as "the certified bees knees", then heaps all blame onto other projects.
So what you are saying, really, is that it's okay to have 5 different ways of playing audio on the machine?

Do we need three different display servers/ways to show things on screen? No, we do not.

If we managed to focus our efforts on one project to display things, one project to play audio, and so on, we would not need wrappers that are able to handle 5 different servers, and perhaps we could spend some energy improving a lot of other things that are broken.

Besides wanting to control the market or something, why does Canonical need Mir? Why do we need it?

Is it a better implementation than Wayland? And if it is, have there been arguments within/with Wayland as to why it's being done in a way that is not good?

I'm more of a hobby linux user (mostly personal servers, occasional desktop), I have not followed the Wayland/Mir conflict more than I know that Wayland was created and it's supposed to replace X, and then later Canonical makes Mir to do the exact same thing.

It's very common within the linux community, see every window manager ever. How many tiling managers are there again?

GTK and KDE? And so on.

Choice is good, but I believe that if we keep making a new "Y" every time we disagree with someone we will just end up a even more fragmented community than we are now, moving in no direction.

I guess until the community manages to communicate, linux will remain mostly used on servers and by interested parties that want to configure everything.
They're .com addresses, supposedly the court can get Verisign to pull them.

http://blog.easydns.org/2012/02/29/verisign-seizes-com-domai...
More reasons why hybrid laptops are a pain
I think we have seen this post before - if not then one with a similar complaint.

The key issue is that $16.89 is way more than the royalty for a single "play" on a radio station - where there may have been more than 1 million listeners.

If I buy the complainant's CD - I pay (by indirect means) a royalty - but I can play that CD a great many times.

Strikes me that the new channels for music pay better rates than any of the traditional models.
Attacking the organization that posted the opinion piece for being Arabic while ignoring the author is an experienced american journalist? I'm pretty sure there are a couple of logical fallacies there...

--
Dan Froomkin
@froomkin

Dan Froomkin is launching the Center for Accountability Journalism, at FearlessMedia.org. He has worked as senior Washington correspondent for the Huffington Post, as White House Watch columnist for the Washington Post; and as editor of the Washington Post website. Email him at froomkin@gmail.com.

EDIT: Arab, not Arabic. I apologize for the confusion.
A good example to prove the OP.

Your Second Life article probably has some interesting things to say, I wouldn't know, I didn't read it. Instead I clicked the link, scrolled and scrolled and before I'd even got to the bottom I'd calculated it would take me about half an hour of my life to read the thing.

I don't want to invest half an hour of my life in learning about someone's blow-by-blow account of their Second Life experience (I'd question anybody who does and point them to one of the numerous HN articles on procrastination/wasted time). An article that long devoted only to Second Life (condescension aside, there really are more important things, honestly) seems pretentious and serving the authors Ego more than the readers curiosity.

Richard Feynman however, the secrets of the universe and world around us, yes, I would like to learn more about that.
Came here to say the same. This is obnoxious. If it happens again, it'll be the last medium.com visit for me.
Charging a flat rate ($500) per company is leaving a lot of cash on the table. Have you considered a tiered model based on number of servers in use?

As well as increasing fees from Megacorps, the flipside is you could also offer discounts to non-profits, early startups, and so on, and in exchange for links on their homepage.
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This is great news. Now if only Mozilla made it easy to remove plugins just as other addons[1], we'll be all set.

[1] At present, you'll need to go to [your install folder]\extensions or check their path.

To do this, go to about:config and set 'plugin.expose_full_path' to 'true'. Now go to about:plugins where you'll see the full install path. Go to these and delete the .dll

Edit: Globally installed plugins, may affect other browsers installed on your machine. Renaming is probably safer in case you need to roll back.
I also found the book 'Selfish reasons to have more kids' interesting on this topic. It uses twin studies to suggest that although parenting does have an effect in the short term, in the long term genetic factors are dominant as long as the child is raised outside abject poverty.

The conclusion of the book is: provide a healthy environment, but don't agonize over violin lessons and other 'enriching' activities.

That said, I went and bought another book with advice on how to talk to your child to stimulate language development ('look who's talking') and we read to him a lot. So, I believe the twin studies in theory, but not in practice.

Finally, on this general topic, 'how children succeed' points out that character traits like grit (willingness to keep trying something hard and unpleasant) and conscientiousness (desire to do the right thing) are more important than intellect in success, beyond some modest intellect baseline. I suspect my son is plenty smart, but what really interests me is trying to foster grit and conscientiousness.
> Animals do not see colors, they react to physical phenomena including photons.

Come on. This is a roundabout way to try to define animals in terms of what they don't have -- not color perception, which many animals have, but words to describe the colors.

Of course animals see colors, in the most basic biological sense. Many see colors more efficiently than we do, indeed see more colors, colors we can neither imagine nor name.

> ... it just means that color is a human construct so they need human language to reason about it.

Believe me when I tell you, animals don't need us to tell them how to reason about color. Why do you think the Peppered Moth changed color over a period of 150 years? It was the only way the species could survive their changing environment and the acute visual sense of their predators.

> What physically exists are photons across a range of frequencies, but that's not the same thing as color.

No, what we call "color" or "color perception" is the biological sensing of electromagnetic energy, which many animals have. So, since we and animals have color perception, and since some animals do it better than we do, the argument has no substance.

While we're on the topic, here are my favorite colors:

* Unforeseeable fuchsia, the color you never see coming.

* Statutory grape, the color of a dress worn by a 13-year-old girl.
In something I'm building, we have to play all kinds of clips. Some of the more "legacy" ones are unfortunately in flash. We can't get rid of them for the next few years and nobody is going to redo them in something else. So this might a really good thing to be able to get rid of the flash plugin but keep supporting those files. Thanks mozilla!
I agree that this doesn't belong on HN. However, you're wrong about AlJazeera, they're actually a pretty good news company (and there are not that many great ones left). They also have a big contingent of quality english-speaking journalists.
What black magic is this? I wonder what the performance hits will be like though.
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Judge Koh actually didn't made the distinction, user profiles are also used for spam filtering and she talked about scanning for making user profiles OR targeting ads
Lua breaks backwards compatibility every 3-5 years in minor ways, and they support version n-1 in version n. And it is not very hard to migrate code bases between versions of the language.
Isn't that mainly related to the UI and the packages installed by default (I haven't used ubuntu in like 5 years, but back then it felt just like debian with more stuff installed by default).

If Valve makes a complete custom environment for steam OS built around big picture will they really benefit more from using ubuntu versus debian, fedora or any other distro?
He made that money with proprietary software based on the open source software.

No scarcity, no money, it seems: http://journal.dedasys.com/2007/02/03/in-thrall-to-scarcity
New Taipei City installed GNU/Linux on 10,000 PCs for elementary schools
Big thanks to the author for posting this, and for including some actual numbers!

This is also exciting because it shows that you can make money directly with an open source product, instead of making money with services surrounding a product.
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Yep. That works for "Einstein" and "fraud" also. In fact, it works for any well-known name in any field.

Gould missed things that happened after the writing of Mismeasure, and ignored some later developments that challenged aspects of his original work, but he made a number of important and legitimate points about IQ testing and its abuses, points that have stood the test of time.
Do you object to so called democracies criticising Arab states? Are you suggesting that only a democracies can can have a say, and Arabs should just shut up and do as told?

Hmmmm, no wonder they have problem with the West.
The fact that many libraries are "translated from" Perl packages does not mean they are old, it means a significant part of the Lua community has used Perl before. Actually, because Lua 5.2 has been released recently and broke compatibility, libraries that support it are by definition not "old" (or at least they are maintained).

That being said, the community is small and there are indeed way too few libraries available in LuaRocks (slightly over 300). We have been discussing that on the language's mailing list and I will probably talk about it at the upcoming Lua Workshop (http://www.lua.org/wshop13.html).
But apart from all that, what have the Romans done for us?
There is a player roaming the multiplayer arena named "Indefeatable" (sic) who appears to be able to cast the heal spell without any delay.

Perhaps an unintended consequence of allowing everyone to compile their own version of a multiplayer game.

(Defeating him/her was satisfying.)
If you actually care about test quality, (or want to catch cheaters) you can run test mutatation scripts to see if the tests would have actually caught any bugs.

Here's a random one that has a nice page.

http://pitest.org/
This is actually what we do in Lua, often written `require "pl.strict"`...
> Finally, it is ironic to be lectured by an Arab news organization criticizing our democracy.

No it isn't. US media doesn't own an exclusive right to comment on affairs of other nation states. Given the status of US economy in the world, what happens in US affects other nations more than what happens there affects US. They have every reason to report this. And journalism is more than just dumping facts. Though, a journalist's idealogical bias should affect the correctness of the article, his experienced analysis is usually necessary for most readers to understand the gist of the situation who are most likely to be unaware of the law/politics/technology behind the incident.
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Why would Adobe do something like this? It costs them money and it doesn't improve their position (and IMO, their goals) at all.
> Security researchers' time is valuable.

Maybe. But nobody asked these guys to do a thing. Ergo, no foul.
Why not to convert flash stuff to html5 directly? Using runtime is just extra overhead.
I read AlJazeera from time to time and find it mostly contains Arab propaganda. I have no idea what nationality Dan Froomkin is. The Arab network, AlJazeera, has editorial discretion to publish pieces. And in so doing, sends a message to its readers. Since the majority of Arab countries are autocratic, it is ironic to have the Arab media criticize America's democracy by selecting such articles to publish.
I don't doubt you, but that might also have been advice for after the filling perhaps? The stuff they fill it with is not nearly as hard as the stuff on the outside of your teeth (which is pretty damn hard). So a filling will always be a weak spot.
Al Jazeera has actually been doing a pretty good job of covering this mess. Better than MSNBC in my opinion.