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Maybe because you grow tired of silly arguments being repeated over and over again. I don't know much about climate science, but for example I think I know enough about evolution theory to be able to debunk the arguments of the creationists. Yet creationists won't give in - clearly reasoning is useless with them after a point. After a while I even suspect that the "opposing side" might have hired some people just to be obnoxious and bind the resources of "my side".

For example I felt it was sad when all new books by evolution researchers stared to be 50% arguing against the same old tired creationist arguments. I felt the energy would have been better spent advancing the science.
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/06/29/free-free

It will be free.
Not sure about iPod but many players like the cowon iaudio or sandisk sansa series act just like USB drives. So you just drag and drop songs to or from any computer so its easy to share songs with friends.
True, but let's assume that he/she is telling the truth if what he/she says corresponds to what others perceive as reality.
To be fair, those 13-year-olds also don't have a BBC editor and their parents at their disposal. Well, maybe their parents :)
"one just can't reduce all that complexity to one single bit."

Seems to me that either the temperature is rising or it is not. Perfectly suitable for one bit of information.

The reasoning for determining the value of said bit is another matter, but I think your argument does not make sense. Unless the climate is stuck in some sort of weird quantum entanglement.
I thought there never really were any medications to begin with.
This is going to have some pretty big reprecussions for the restaurants in question. A few years back the same thing happened on the east coast when someone ate a vegan philly "cheese" steak at a vegan joint and swore down that it could NOT be vegan. They ordered one to go and utilized their campus laboratory to discover that, yes, it had casein in it. Turned out that the supplier of the restaurants vegan cheese had not been entirely honest. It looks like the same thing is happening with a lot of these cases. Most people source their vegan "meats" from central import supermarkets and the people doing the translation seem to be leaving out a few crucial facts i.e. "this vegetarian fish contains fish" etc.

This is another great reason to source your food locally. When you are having to trace the contents of what is going into your mouth across state borders let alone oceans you're going to have some difficulty.

One of my long term plans is to open a restaurant which sources everything locally (with in the county) - it will be inherently vegan but will not champion that so as to not turn people off of the concept but rather push the idea of healthy food supporting local business and thus the overall food security for the community.
We'd love it if teachers didn't have to input any information at all! Unfortunately, email addresses are the only universally accessible means of communicating with students when we aren't integrated with their school systems. It also fits better with the typical student's workflow.
So the lube commercials are too explicit, but the ED commercials are too circumspect (modulo the four hour erection disclaimers) and therefore do a poor job of selling the product? What's an ad-man to do?

The reason that commercials are getting more explicit is that people don't remember subtle metaphors. If you make a phallic sandwich, the easiest way to make people remember it is to make a penis joke. The reason no one sells tampons by showing women running through a field anymore is because it doesn't work. The more specific you are, the more effective it is, and that quickly turns into a race to the bottom.

If it makes you squeamish, don't watch it, but I don't think this trend is going to change anytime soon.
May be the cialis / viagra ads should be reserved for late nights. I feel its over advertised. Everytime i turn on the TV, i see that ad a couple of times.
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Let's assume that the majority is correct as to what corresponds to reality. Otherwise, we will get nowhere.
Man,there are a lot of raw foodists chiming in on this article.
It's easy to say where the line is right now, but you imply that at some point "intent" might be usurped by the computer. I don't think there's any clear way to define that limit. If the driver merely tells the computer where to go ("the 7/11 on 4th Street") and the car does the rest, does that cross the line? Does that usurp the "core human task of driving?" You are ready to let computers calculate the most efficient way to brake, and I am ready to let them do much more, as soon as the technology is available and reliable. Where is there a clear line in between?
Ask HN: Initial thoughts on my new web app: TweetFreeCars.com
TweetFreeCars is designed to give away new cars and trucks to a few of my Twitter followers. It incorporates the use of Twitter for marketing purposes and an online auction to select the winners of the giveaway cars.

The domain URL is http://TweetFreeCars.com and at the moment this redirects to a friend's development server. Please share your comments, questions and suggestions so I will know if I'm on the right track, thanks.
I do exactly this. Make lentil soup in the crock pot on Sunday's for lunch all week. I got the prep time down to <30 minutes (before coffee).
Also, I believe that the power of FREE is not about money. It's about avoiding the hassle of paying.

I think the power of free is mostly about money. Look at Freecycle(.org) - the hassle in offering something that you give away for free, sifting through all the responses, going through the whole arrange time/place shennanigans, then somebody has to drive for miles to get to you - sure the person posting it has some non-monetary satisfaction about keeping something out of the landfill, but the person getting it? They are coming because it is free. If you offer one item on Freecycle for free and one on Craigslist for a cent, I bet you will have better uptake with Freecycle, even though 99% the hassle of the transaction is unrelated to paying.

That said... I agree that in the case of online news content in particular, the payment hassle is a factor, because it is a barrier to people (like me) who are not averse to paying. For example I would be perfectly willing to throw $100 in a yearly pot (or whatever a subscription to one newspaper would really cost), spend a year reading whatever I wanted hassle-free and upvoting (karma-style) the stuff I liked, and then at the end of the year have that $100 get distributed in the same way I distributed my karma. It could work, but the infrastructure and co-ordination is beyond what is plausible, I suppose.
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"Seems to me that either the temperature is rising or it is not. Perfectly suitable for one bit of information."

Temperature of what??? Temperature is a function of space. If you fix the spatial coordinates, you can tell if the temperature increased at that point between time t1 and time t2. However, there are an infinite number of points, and thus you need an infinite number of bits. And to make it worse, all these bits only tell you what happened at time t2 relative to time t1.

No need to bring quantum entanglement to the discussion. If temperature is a function of space, it's an infinite-dimensional problem. You can discretize space and transform it into a finite-dimensional problem. Still, there are an enormous number of points at which you need to measure temperature.

Last but not least: the atmosphere is some 80 Km thick. You need measurement at high-altitudes, too. Measurements at the surface are easy to obtain, but they're only part of the picture.
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To be fair, the average programmer is not earning $180-200k per year, not even the average contractor.
Something is missing from this article. It's talking about treatments involving adult stem cells. The controversy (and heavy regulation) in the U.S. concern embryonic stem cells. In particular, under GW Bush, federal funding for experimentation involving embryonic stem cells that were not from approved lines, was prohibited in the U.S. But there is nothing controversial about adult stem cells, nor anything about them that is specially prohibited.

Now, perhaps human medical treatments and experimentation are over-regulated in the U.S. But that has nothing to do with stem cells.

And so I suspect this article is complaining about the wrong thing. Whatever problems it is pointing out, are really unrelated to any issues surrounding stem cells.
> Your own stem cells from your own body which may (can?) regenerate damaged parts of your body, and people are against this.

Actually, I don't think anyone is. See my comment:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=679541
hardly a review..
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I have been on a "gluten-free" diet for a couple years now. This means that I have to carefully inspect the ingredients list of everything I eat, something that I didn't really do before. The results are unappetizing to say the least. Even worse, sometimes potentially harmful ingredients are not necessarily listed, or are listed by some rarely-known name.

If you wish to have good control over what you're eating, whether that means avoiding gluten, casein, animal products, soy, etc; your best bet is to prepare all of your own food. Don't eat out, don't buy preprepared foods at the market.

Disclaimer: I'm not quite disciplined enough to follow that advice, and I know that I end up eating small amounts of gluten. It's a trade off between stress and nutrition, I guess. Since vegans usually don't get sick by eating trace amounts of non-vegan food, my advice is to just deal with it. And be happy that you don't have a lot of real food allergies (unless you do, of course).
I remember seeing some statistics on traffic accidents from a swedish government department. And here it is (sadly all in Swedish):

http://www.socialstyrelsen.se/NR/rdonlyres/2B5A6B25-2026-470...

Page 51-51 has graphs of fatalities ages 1-15 years.

Page 71-72 has graphs of fatalities ages 16-24 years.

Page 117 has graphs of fatalities ages 25-44 and 45-64 years.

The green area labelled "Fordonsolyckor" are those that are traffic accidents.

Summary: At young ages, traffic accidents are a large part of all deaths, but after 45 years of age, the reason of death is dominated by cardio-vascular diseases.
When I saw this submission, I remembered seeing it a few months earlier so I tried using searchyc.com to find it. I had no luck, so I tried Google. Got it in one shot ("How to be a Programmer" site:news.ycombinator.com).
classic quote from the article above:

For all his accomplishments, Gell-Mann couldn't be happy until he had written a best seller like Feynman's. Adding to his melancholy, "Surely, You're Joking" was followed in 1988 by Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, which sold more than nine million copies. To Gell-Mann's colleagues, a book of light-hearted anecdotes told by their intense and pedantic friend seemed a dubious prospect. It would have to be called, one of them said, "Dammit, Murray, You're Right Again!" Others remarked that Gell-Mann, unlike Hawking, didn't have the advantage of being confined to a wheelchair.
Suggestion: It's easy to see how creating an assignment works with the "try it now" link, but it'd be nice to have a demo of the grading interface as well without the user having to create an assignment.
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"People who take risks are usually more successful than those who don't."

The set of people who take risks will contain most of the total successes, but it will contain most abject failures, too. The set of people that don't take risks get a more mediocre result, on average.
The use-case is: I create a generator somewhere, then return, pass it around a lot, and finally use the generator twice somewhere else entirely.

This is just silly. You can't use a generator twice, just like you can't keep reading from a file. When you've reached EOF, you're done. What does this guy expect, code that magically determines that when you ask for 'next()', you mean 'restart_at_the_beginning()'?

I also fail to see what this has to do with laziness: the generator lazily generates it's elements. However, at some points it's still done generating elements. That's not a failure of laziness or whatever, it's a failure of using the generator.
Where's the free-market?

Has the free-market taken us to multiple wars over the past 20-years with countries that have large oil reserves so oil can keep flowing in our direction? Has the free-market kept interest rates far below reality, allowing us to go on a massive consumption binge?

Does the free-market regulate agriculture, discouraging small farms in favor of massive CAFOs? Does the free-market subsidize huge agri-business to produce more corn than we can possibly use?

It's these unchanging economic and foreign policies that encourage waste, consumption, and addiction to fossil fuels, which, in turn, have a negative effect on our planet.
The study you cite is neither predictive nor evidence based. It is a speculative, after the fact explanation: "We used computer-generated simulations to get this research result. I hope that in the future we'll be able to verify this result with real data through a long-term ice thickness measurement campaign." ( http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/06/050630064726.ht... )

That doesn't mean it's necessarily wrong. But it is not evidence, nor is it conclusive. There is simply no reason to believe Powell's explanation over the explanation I cited in my previous comment. The NASA explanation is based on actual observation rather than computer simulations.

The climate is so complex that you can always come up with an after the fact explanation. The only way to judge science is either a) by the predictions it makes or b) following the chain of deductive reasoning. Predictions are not really possible with climate science in the short term because there are too many variables. So that leaves b). I have not studied the science behind sea ice changes closely. But many of the global climate models have been subjected to egregious tuning: http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=2475

Given what we know about CO2, hard to see how it could be otherwise, but not worth arguing over.

The effect of CO2 on temperature is both a) logarithmic and b) non-cumulative. For models to predict a levels of warming that are actually alarming, the models must include feedback loops. No one knows if these feedback effects are real. They are entirely speculative.
Doug Coupland called these kinds of people "crypto-carnivore". :)

I enjoy meat and veggie food but I draw the line at egg and milk substitutes. Real vegan cheese is appalling and no amount of processing can make up for it. "Soy" cheese that uses milk protein is much better... and there are a lot more simple vegetarians than radical-Shiite vegans. Nor is there always a bright line. I have heard good arguments over whether honey is or is not vegan.
I'm assuming that your spam analysis algorithm will result in a "yes/no" answer that is also encrypted. You can return this value to the originating party, having spent your cycles on computing the answer, but you still don't know what the answer is, only the decrypter does.

That said, I'm still not sure how well this could possible seal off the computation from the data. Even if I encrypt a "yes/no" answer, can't I still return either an empty string for "spam", and a long, long string for "not spam". I very much look forward to a decent description of the actual process from someone who has chewed on the original paper for a while, and can process it down from "PhD in encryption" to "bachelors in comp sci + personal study" with minimal fidelity loss.
Yeah, dead right. And even if he was right and it "worked", I'd still be saying no thanks. My family is far more important than money.
I do not like Christians. They are idiots for believing in a fairy tale and I wish they sorted out their minds. None of that is assholish, that is because Christians are a majority in the country; saying whatever against Christians, causes them no harm which leaves society worst off. But in a Christian nation, saying you do not like muslims is dangerous, because that may then lead to a proper discrimination, even a burning of them in chambers, that is why it is not asholish only, but utterly abhorrent.

That is that nazi scenario, however things may get very colourful, I mean it is ok to say you do not like alqeada and sterotype and scapegoat them because well you know they are "bad" people, that is a sweeping generalisation however because many of them may be good people with a real grievance and perhaps a noble idea such as protecting their fellow brothers through whatever mean, still however as it happens their way of doing it is just not right, it is actually abhorent, hence if it means killing them so as to save innocent decent people, then well duno fine i suppose.

But saying you do not like Muslims, especially in the subtle ways the media says it, just divides our society and is not really any different than a Nazi saying he does not like Jews.
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True story on Kalah being broken. This is the main reason why I added in the ability for users to be 2nd player. I will start to work on Oware sometime soon now that it seems like there is at real interest in it. Thanks.
The way Tor uses TLS/SSL is unique enough that it seems very possible to automatically classify Tor traffic.

I don't think this is really happening in Iran, but nobody knows for sure. My comment was misleading and what I really meant to say is that there is some evidence that encrypted protocols which can be used for tunneling traffic such as SSL and SSH are being automatically detected. Rather than blocking the connections completely, they are traffic shaping them to make them very slow.

Since the Tor link protocol is basically just SSL it will also be affected by any policy applied to all SSL connections.
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A) It needs a serious hand from a real designer

B) I can't escape the... scammy feeling of the whole endeavor. "Non-profit"? "Donors" that have to "donate" $27 bucks to bid for the possibility to win $20,000 towards a car that you have to go out and actually buy at a dealership yourself?

It's nothing personal man, but I wouldn't touch this thing with a 50 foot pole, and if I caught my family using something like it, I'd probably smack them in the back of their head.
I had not heard of that version. Thanks for the link.
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I'm loving the new features (especially the new WYSIWYG editor - much better than the old wiki syntax)
Disable Mail-Forwarding for Lotus Notes programmatically (with Python)
Lotus Notes has a nifty feature to lull managers into false safety: for volatile/unsafe e-mails (or users), it let’s you disable printing/forwarding and copying to clipboard.
Nope. But s/he shouldn't need to cut back, The boss is mandating a day off from work to help the needy, so the options are a regular's day work, or a day of charity. You're setting up a false dilemma.
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Great tips to consider before any major refactoring task you planning.
That site was hilarious.
so you'll need $7.3 million a year just to make this idea work...do you honestly think there is that much potential there?
I disagree. There is always something to be learned from Stackoverflow. It is impossible that 1 person has the same knowledge of all the users on the site. There are very interesting questions and answers.

Are there allot of simple questions? Yes because there are many people just learning how to do basic things in one language or another. However even in the most basic question answering it can be an worthwhile experience. You can filter out the simple questions and get on to the more advance ones pretty easy.
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Wow I am surprised there have been no complaints and this has not been flagged to death yet.
So, the argument against the sky is falling is not "reasonable"? I think you just proved his point.
I observe that when reading this code, there is nothing to show when the parameter is a list versus a generator. Modern programming is all about abstracting away detail to allow the programmer to concentrate on the structure and other stuff that matters, but it seems to me (and I may be wrong) that increasingly we find things that look the same, get used the same, generally behave the same, and then are different in a corner case.

It seems that allowing lists and generators to be used in identical ways generally makes things easier to create and easier to use, but the differences in the corner cases suddenly mean you have to know about the detail. Then it becomes hard.

The problem isn't that it's easy to fix. We all know how to fix these sorts of things. The problem is that details you need to know are being hidden, because you shouldn't need to know about them.

When I write a routine should I always "assert" that its parameter is a list and not a generator? Do I have to write the code to use a slower technique just in case the parameter is a generator? Do I "ungenerate" the generator out into a list?

That can't be right ...
Mel likely wrote the blackjack program before Kernighan ever offered that advice.
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Ask HN: Why so many meat industry lobbyists on HN?
There have been a few topics posted lately on the topic of nutrition. In some of these, various people have cited the work of researchers such as T. Colin Campbell and Michael Pollan.

In each of these threads, comments citing Campbell's work have been modded down mercilessly (and anonymously), and there have been very few comments articulating reasoned opposing views.

I would guess that it's because this issue is very emotional for people -- it's very hard to believe in something that is broadly rejected by most consumers and the food industry itself.

As a hacker I'm interested in figuring out what is the optimial diet for maximum vitality and longevity. Both because I am working on an entrepreneurial project along these lines, and also because I find that what I eat impacts my mental state and my ability to write lots of good quality code, etc.

Thoughts?

p.s. I'd be happy to discuss issues related to nutrition with any skeptics :)
I thought he was saying that if you think it's a list you might write the code to iterate across it twice. Then you happen to have a generator and you might think that "it'll be just like a list" if you pass it instead.

Doesn't seem quite so silly to me.