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Don't we already have both? We have a "socialist" component (accepting the paper's terms uncritically for the moment), and we still have private investment for gain in many areas. In theory they complement each other. In practice... well, perhaps not, but I would have a hard time swallowing the idea that it is somehow because of the split, mostly because the deficiencies we observe on both sides would almost certainly still exist even if the alternative system were entirely eliminated.

(I would observe, in semi-reply to many people in this thread, that incremental improvement and the relative drudgery of bringing tech to market manifested in real, concrete objects is actually very important. A system that only did "fundamental" research would produce an impoverished society every bit as much as a system that does nothing but "capitalist" work... and measured in man-hours, the "capitalist" work is often harder and longer than the fundamental research. You can tell because small teams can make "fundamental" breakthroughs but the actual act of bringing to market requires further engineering, design, integration into existing large engineered systems, logistics, scaling work, etc.)
It doesn't matter how the idea comes to us; we can still argue and come up with truth.
There's nothing quite like seeing "10K+" results loaded into a single, infinite page.
What about the http://thefunded.com/ ?

PS
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=VC+ratings :)
Further discussion from a libertarian (and capitalist) POV: http://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/august-2013/who-pays-scie...
This is daft.
This is all trivial knowledge under the "application performance" banner. All of our development staff are capable of diagnosing these issues and providing suggestions.
How is it that basic research has gone away in industry? Don't we see really interesting stuff coming from Google, pharma, all kinds of materials stuff that we never even see going into textiles and building products...

Why would you say that (a) Capitalism has caused basic research to go away, and (b) that it's bad at science in general?

Added later: after a moment's thought, it seems to me that we have a great example in head-to-head competition. In the competition between private and government-run science in the Human Genome Project, it seems pretty clear which side played the greater role.
Along the same lines, I'm interested in how people handle the case of auto-scaling their web app (or anything that updates frequently via deploys). Is there a better solution than imaging a machine on every deploy and updating the auto scaling group to use the new AMI?
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Your boiled-down version of the question leads on to the following questions:

* Why is impossible to know X?

* How can we prove that X impossible to know?

* How close to knowing X can we get?

* What else can't we know? Is there a model for these kinds of unknowable?

* Given that we can't individually perceive X, can we infer X by other means? Is it valuable to do so?
Ah, that's too bad. It would be nice if setting user-scalable=no was all you had to do to disable the delay. And anyway, despite using an iPhone for god knows how many years, I didn't even know that a double tap on iOS scrolls the page!

Edit: I mean double tapping on an unzoomable page.
I think there is a difference, but my view is that it is impossible to reason without sufficiently accurate prediction, and that the concepts we use for reasoning are largely formed based on how predictive they are. Consider playing a game where two players throw dice, and the one with the larger number wins. There is no predictability between turns, so there is no point in reasoning far into the future, unlike in chess, where the positions change slowly, one piece per turn and in predictable patterns. In chess you still don't know what the other player will do, but you can reason about it, because there is a level of predictability.

I would define reasoning as answering a question or optimization problem, e.g. What is my best move? What is a good move? This can be formalized as calculating some kind of score for a possible action, whereas prediction is just about assigning a probability value to an event.
I'm not sure how this matters - can you explain?
These are coffee table books about interesting/ironic details of our world, not any actual reshaping. I used to read such books in the pursuit of being an "intellectual," then picked up Marcus Aurelius and realized how puerile all the coffee-table folderol really is.
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Could you give some more examples of how you use `-t` ?
"The economic structure of basic science is currently socialist, funded by the public at large through taxes for the benefit of the public at large."

Except where the benefit goes to the capital, ready to charge you $20 for a publicly founded research paper.
Currently working on Fit Coach: http://www.fitcoachapp.com

It's software for personal trainers and nutritionists that allow them to put together workouts, meal plans, and also help out with billing.

I'm hoping to get it out there before the new year.
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But this "capitalist science" has already existed for ages, hasn't it? Plenty of companies do science, monopolize the results through patents, and exploit them for private profit. That's capitalist science.

> The economic structure of basic science is currently socialist, funded by the public at large through taxes for the benefit of the public at large.

Yes, but increasingly less so. The public may fund it, but too much of the results get copyrighted by Elsevier and patented by other parties.

> Capitalist science will better align the incentives of scientists with taxpayer interests,

No it won't. It will align the incentives of scientists with the interests of corporations.

> channel more money into basic science, lower your taxes, and generally improve the quality of your life.

Nice talk. I think you're trying to sell me something, but I'm not buying it.
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This is a major issue Google needs to deal with in Android IMO. I'm surprised that this feature ever existed in Android because of how coupled permissions are with applications. Since applications request all permissions on install I imagine most developers don't have much conditional code for their failure, unlike iOS where you have to because there's a possibility a user may deny access to a single specific thing, like location data. I'd really prefer to see Android go more towards that. When you look at the permissions an application like Facebook requests on install it's just insane.
I thought the other conventional wisdom is that we get our theories by building mental models. I throw a ball, and I can either remember how it flew in the past and use that to predict, I can also built a mental model from first principles to find out what will happen. Maybe run a short 5 second idealized simulation in my head and I can predict what might happen. Well then I might realize that there was wind that my original model was too idealized.

My current understanding of how sports skills are developed is closer to what you first said, than the bit about 'running a simulation'.

The pro ball players have practised enough that they've seen the ball coming in at this angle, at that angle, and with this wind condition and that wind condition. And so they 'remember' where the ball is going to land, and they remember how to move to get there.

Our brains are not, as far as I know, running any kind of recognizable simulation like we would with a computer.
It confused me for a second I thought the author was on about Jon Snow of Channel 4 news...
We did something similar at work. We had to poll for changes in a table. So instead of polling the tables we added triggers to insert events to a MEMORY table and polled that table. It performs good enough for us.
I'm Jewish and all these "weekend hackathons" leave me half as much time as those who participate the whole time. Because I don't work from friday night to say night, I basically have less time to complete the project. I view that as an additional challenge.

At TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, which I attended every year, the first time I built a real-time, quora-like Q&A app with questions of the type "What is the Adj Noun in Noun", which invited people via chat requests. The second time I built "spreadourmessage.com" which generated a widget organizations could place on their page to let people "donate their fb profiles to syndicate some organizationms posts. Neither one won anything. The third year I realized many people were cheating and using existing sites, so I updated our existing app, YouMixer.com (which doesn't work well with fb connect anymore) and presented a real time social jukebox backed by youtube like a free itunes. Didn't win either.

This year I'm going to build something from scratch using a sponsor's API and our Q framework (http://qbixstaging.com/QP) if it does its job, this should beat the pants off the other entries.
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No idea. I've asked the same question; I've read all of Gladwell's books (and essays on his site). I've enjoyed almost everything he writes. He's great at telling pop-sci stories. Most can be read in a sitting or two. Sometimes it's nice for your non-fiction to not read like a textbook.

But, apparently the HN crowd only reads Shakespeare, Dostoevsky and Hemingway.
And one fine day another leaker will reveal Reddit's tie-ins with one of the 3 letter agencies
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>Register to watch

Any site that requires me to register an account before I can even look at their product is going to have a bad time.
Something other than inappropriate feedback due to absence of any strong performers in the immediate environment to compare with, plus reality distortion/denial and unwilling to look farther around?

People who have managed to read two or three books in a whole life (well, one of them three times) are absolutely sure that reading is a total waste of time and should be even forbidden, while they are totally convinced that if they might be not the best person on earth (due to some external, uncontrollable misfortunes), but definitely right at the top of the whole humanity. Why, we have a full country of these.)
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In my case, the vat contains coffee. ;-)
as for 1), it's also possible that there are h.264 patents that aren't part of the pool.

Thomson created what is essentially an MP3 license pool, and yet, Sisvel cleaned out Cebit (one of the larger electronics fairs) booths every year (with the help of German customs) because some asian vendors showed unlicensed MP3 players.

It's still possible that some non-MPEGLA party stumbles over a patent that covers some tiny aspect of h.264.
I think there's a strong argument to be made that the answer to this question depends on exactly what you mean by "reason" and "predict".

If you mean "predict" in the same sense as it's used in the phrase "predictive model", then the answer could be a resounding no - there's a hypothesis that the brain implements just one basic learning algorithm, and everything else is just emergent phenomena coming out of that.
I converted one of these ugly PL/SQL unmaintainable mess from Oracle to the MySQL query language.

Because the boss told us MySQL was cheaper.

Because of MySQL limitations, I think it is even more unmaintainable now. In real world terms, it is ugly and about ten people out of 500 can fix stuff there.
I was thinking of more serious crimes. But before you start prosecuting people for the offenses you listed, you first have to make sure there are adequate options for the people committing them.

Across the country, the homeless are routinely prosecuted for relieving themselves in public, yet in many cases they're offered no places to lawfully do so. (I don't know about downtown SF; I'm saying if there aren't bathrooms available to the homeless, you can't fairly prosecute them for going in public.)

Similarly, it's unfair to prosecute someone for shouting at passers-by if that person suffers from a serious mental illness, and has been denied treatment, as is so often the case. Indeed, our country has been defunding mental health and bolstering prisons, with the result that many would-be psychiatric patients are now being warehoused in prison.

> I really don't know what you're trying to get at with your comment. It seems to consist mostly of straw-man arguments

The article quote an SF startup CEO who seems to be calling all homeless people "degenerates." So it's hardly a straw man I'm arguing against. In case it wasn't clear, I'll be quite explicit: My argument is directed against the attitude espoused by the startup CEO in the second and third paragraphs of the article.

> a lack of interest in confronting a real problem.

Considering I explicitly agreed there was a problem and proposed an admittedly partial solution[1], I'm not sure how you reached that conclusion. What is the problem I'm uninterested in confronting? The problem of homelessness? The problem of tech workers having to encounter the homeless?

[1] I proposed better community policing as a way of addressing legitimate complaints about street crime. I should have also discussed the dire need to address the root issue, which is homelessness itself. For those interested, "housing-first" is a promising model.
Had he said that Bayesian decision theory with optimization of utility functions etc. was behaviorism, then I would agree, but Bayesian formulations can be used for many other things as well. At least one can propose very complex internal models, which behaviorists were criticized for not considering.
40 years ago someone set up a village. The founder was entrepreneurial, and wanted to foster that spirit. The inhabitants of that village don't follow an organised religion. That means that every day can be a work day. Men and women can do all jobs. That means that there are more workers available to do the work.

These three things have made the village prosperous.

But the village is disliked by neighbouring villages. One reason given for that dislike is the lack of organised religion.

Gentle ongoing communication is breaking down that hostility, and is bringing more people into this village to do business. This might lead to some of the village's practices spreading to other places, thus helping reduce poverty.

This is a radio piece and should be listened to rather than read.
Wow, they've fixed some nagging bugs with X-com, like better inventory management.

Still no keyboard controls, though.

EDIT oh, they do have keyboard shortcuts now.
Can you expand on the Russ Norris part? Just out of curiosity as I also have much respect for Chuck Cox.
Have you read the article? It's interesting and follows the individual reward premise of capitalism, although absolutely impracticable not to mention it only makes sense in a very limited number of fields.
I disagree. dedicated DBAs are on their way out.

Is ETL considered a DBA task?
I have to find that HN thread. When some post on Warby Parker was here in the homepage, someone commented that the next "too big margin" industry to disrupt should be the mattress one. Nice going!

One question - did you guys come from a pure technical background? or did you also have significant experience with the mattress industry before?

well done!
What's really funny is to claim that the Java/C++ model is similar to the Smalltalk model.
Exactly. The Play Store does not allow me to sort by permissions and doesn't display them up-front, making concern about permissions a fruitless endeavor.

Give me a fuzzy-sort option where I can just apply weightings to how much I value out of
(1) Permissions, (2) Popularity, (3) Price and (4) Relevance
> *"Capitalism is great at technology and incremental innovation, but bad at science."

Be careful with those broad strokes - they're likely to be a result of selective perception unless supported by external fact.

I actually read the paper (not just the abstract), and I'll be the first to agree that ant that the paper is a little basic, and it makes too many "economics in a vacuum" assumptions.

If you're going to take the time to disagree, though, you really should be prepared to back it up with something. Anyone can spout their opinion ("Capitalism is bad at science") as fact, but that alone is meaningless and adds nothing to the conversation.
What's the theme? I don't understand the page.
I think it's a slightly better article in this case. But neither one is really suitable HN. They both presuppose too much background, I think.
That's partially because developers are somewhat incentivized to "front-load" their permissions. If you think there's even a chance you might use a permission, even if your app doesn't currently use it, ask for it on the first install.

Then, later, when you actually do want to use it, your app update won't say that you need any new permissions.
Agreed. It's certainly worthwhile to look into that. The fact is, people with political influence (monied downtown tech workers) are upset. That's likely to cause some kind of reaction from government, eventually. Given that, it's better to analyze the situation rationally and try to steer the government towards the right solution, than to sit in denial until we get a botched, inhumane overreaction.
they dont have to even edit the image. they can just put a tracking id in the image metadata.
I almost wish I needed a mattress! I'm so tired of scammy furniture stores, and think this is definitely a potential growth market. I'd love if you could eventually make a recliner that doesn't suck, and even other furniture as well (I'd purchase a well-made anti-allergenic pillow today). The website is beautiful, and speaks to an elegant austerity that should be pretty popular these days. Even though the price point is shockingly low, I don't feel at all like it's not still a premium product. The little vignettes at the bottom show that you're part of the handcrafting "movement". The only thing I'd like to see (and maybe I'm missing it) is how it looks/dimensions when folded, and if it works in a murphy bed. Happy for your success thus far, and wish you the best!
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.
Well, IMO, you're saying that you basically trapped yourself in a box there. If you're completely determined to embed your business logic into a relational query language, then PL/SQL is probably the best there is.

I'm saying that your business logic shouldn't be there. You've got a whole universe of programming languages, potential disk formats and all that available to you. If you're writing huge ugly queries, and I have, that's when I generally step away from the computer for a bit and think if that complexity is better managed someplace else.
At the danger of sounding insensitive, you can't schedule these things to make everybody happy. Shift workers, doctors and nurses, there are lots of people who don't have "free" weekends. Like you, I also have a weekend hobby that conflicts with LD. This year, I'm going to miss out on most of Saturday again, but I came to the conclusion that in the end it can be a good thing - it forces you to work in a more economical manner. I'd take the Jam, however, not the Compo (with more time being the only deciding factor).
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The theme will be announced once voting is completed.
Now I'm curious about the mattress industry. I have always wondered why mattresses need salesmen and dedicated stores.
The trope of a Brain In A Vat is an updating of it, yes. But the linked article is really about Putnam's argument that the thought experiment is somehow defective.
As long as the disallowed permissions simply return empty results (or random stuff) for the API calls, I don't see how this can break apps.
did you have previous matress or furniture experience? How do you make a matress?
This was initial thought as well, seems like both would fit the needs specified, multiple column search etc. I've had good experiences with both ES and Solr. They both have pretty healthy user bases and are well documented. Only hang-up is if you use primarily reg-ex style searching; turning on n-grams could work there, but it might be too slow.
Science does. Each discovery is the heritage of humanity, the beneficiary of being in the world that we are in. This suggestion is nothing more than an attempt to steal that heritage and dole it back out in limited amounts, expecting us to be grateful for it.
Why is the mental model building not seen as a special case of induction? One needs to generalize (i.e. interpolate/extrapolate) from the known instances. The mechanism may be just "replaying" known sequences, but there is still a measure of induction because one needs to decide that which simulation applies to the ball I'm seeing right now (and that what I am seeing is a ball, and that intuitive physics models of balls apply).
I think the article is a tad misleading here, and I think your first link is going to add to the confusion.

The ability to revoke permissions was built right into the System Settings app, but the ability to access it was hidden from view. Custom roms would usually add a link to it, and apps like AppOps by ColorTiger (your first link) was simply a pointer that would trigger that view to activate (I'm glossing over the root functionality here).

What Google did in 4.4.2 was remove the hidden view from settings. This means that apps like ColorTiger's AppOps will no longer work at all- there is nothing for it to call. The pointer has been dereferenced, if you will.

Apps like LBE (which I share your desire for a newly updated, open source version which doesn't cause bootloops on newer versions of Android), PDroid, and presumably XPrivacy (which I've never heard of, but am looking into now for the inevitable upgrade to 4.4.2 if OmniRom is unable to provide a new solution) work because they replace the functionality that Google removed, not just call something built into Android, but hidden.
The problem is that most science that is funded by private companies is done only to further their funding companies' interests, not those of the general populace. For example, Big Pharma has no incentive to make a cheap cancer cure, it makes too much money off of current cancer treatment. Furthermore, the capitalist approach leads to biased results, again, because research has no incentive at that point to be honest. (Imagine if the only crop research was done by Monsanto.) Capitalism hasn't caused basic research to go away, but if we only rely on science from capitalism, there will undoubtedly be a ton of problems to face there.
How did you identify the mattress industry as needing disruption? Did you have any personal experience in this space before?
The theme is only revealed at the start of the competition.

The theme is revealed and BAM! 48 hours to make a game. The theme reveal is when the clock starts ticking.