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The dialects of technologism emerge.

Look. If you want to get into modern research on Logic, see http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-free/ and http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-modal/.

This entire discussion falls under Rhetoric, or metacognition anyway; on its worst days, Politics, often codified in polemics. Nevertheless, Psychologism has been abandoned in modern conceptions of Logic[0].

Now is Psychologism true or false? Take that up with the history of philosophy, but is this a question about Logic? Are the theories of paraconsistent logics or the laws of excluded middle this or some way in virtue of facts of psychological, not even necessarily biological features of hominids? Or even that we persuade everyone of it so? That's certainly a debate to be had — but this discussion is about what counts as valid satire, and that is a question of Rhetoric, not Logic. And psychologism is a question about Logic, a question thought to be settled like a century ago.

Like the Sokal Hoax, it doesn't change the illogic of No True Scotsman. Feminism absolutely means something, and it doesn't boil down to some artifact of the history of feminism. Can it change its meaning? — Inevitably. Is this a question about, in, within, therein Logic? Modern logic? No. Is gender equality an issue in, within, therein Logic? Modern logic? Yes. — Our politics are right fucked, and distributions show gross marginalizations across demographics. But is this a problem of Logic? — Again: No.

[0]: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/psychologism/#ConSto
Actually if you watch Raw Iron, the making of Pumping Iron, the shirt stealing joke was set up for the documentary and wasn't by Arnold. It was done as a docu-drama, not a documentary. Pumping is like cumming, missing dad's funeral, etc weren't true.

Very important factoid!
I see cargo cults all over, its my favorite way to explain the problem of people conflating causation and outcome.

In business I see lots of folks who do this: "Well, if I do what XYZ does, I'll be successful just like they are!" So they do what XYZ does without understanding the WHY part of what XYZ does, and invariable either fail, or succeed and making a very poor copy.
The city has failed to police the situation, so protestors are taking out their anger on those committing illegal activities.

Doesn't make it right for the protesters, and guess what, it doesn't make it right for Google to keep on doing what they're doing.
A minimum wage would definitely help the wages of a lot of servants. But it would (probably) mean some percent of them becoming unemployed because they can't be afforded/aren't worth the cost anymore. It might also decrease working conditions, because those unemployed people are now competing for your job. You can't compete on the basis of wages anymore so now it on the basis of how much you can do/put up with. Also because it then becomes harder to leave your job and find another.

That doesn't mean there isn't a net benefit to doing it. An ideal solution would be a basic income. Tax everyone equally, not just those that hire lots of servants, and benefit everyone equally, not just employed servants. But I don't see that happening anytime soon.
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What is the template engine used to parse https://github-camo.global.ssl.fastly.net/c58b91097c12fa39e4... ?
And, he expected to be, and was arrested for it plenty of times.
Directory Opus is insane. Best software I've ever purchased.
Startup culture is a cancer. Quite trying to sway him from true greatness. All hail Emperor Bozos.
That does indeed settle the matter. Thanks for the clarification.
WASPs idealized virtue, which to some extent promoted it within their culture, but there was certainly corruption. Allan Dulles is named in the article, for example. He literally used his power to foment wars in other countries to advance his personal interests. And corruption allegations against the Bush family are voluminous.

I think a big difference in the perspective of today's elite is due to globalization and technological advances. The population of the US was valuable in the past because outsourcing wasn't feasible and war was less mechanized. Now the population, judging by the federal government's development of counter-insurgence measures over the past decade, seems to be regarded more as a threat than an asset.
Yes, Exactly!
I just wish there were a better interface for actually exploring more than a single frame at a time of Street View. Like http://www.gaiagi.com/driving-simulator/ but more so.
Yes, I was sort of trying to point out that "service" has the same word root in there.

I don't think I've ever had a conversation with someone that had an Au Pair or live-in gardener, so of course I haven't heard them talk about their servants. I've known people who were sort of uncomfortable about paying a maid (but I guess this was more rooted in the protestant work ethic than any sort of queasiness over servitude, never mind that these people weren't very religious).
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A lot of good stuff here. I've been using org-mode haphazardly for a few years, mostly for time tracking and organizing project notes and plans. I've also used it for estimating on a few occasions. I want to figure out how agendas work.
You are an idiot.

The person who "owns" the group you are going to reduce the work of is the person who makes the decision. If you don't get this, you haven't sold to Enterprise. Small Business this doesn't hold true, Medium it only partially holds true. But in Enterprise the best sales are the ones where you are going to sell someone $100k worth of stuff that will put $200k worth of people out of a job.

The only way you overcome this is when a group is in a growth stage and doing more with less means not hiring people.

When you are selling solutions to reduce people you are often selling to the guy you are going to put out of work, or at least his manager.
Any suggestions for alternatives? I'm downloading my sales reports with the autoingestion tool but I'm curious what others are using.
It would be better to define HTTPS by default, and plain HTTP for exceptional cases. I would use HTTP only for strictly public and eternally cacheable big files.
This is the single worst comment I've read on HN.
I just typed a similar comment at nearly the same time but this is interesting to learn. I had no idea XP didn't like this? I know Android 2.2 and older wouldn't take intermediate SSL certs so I've already written off some of my traffic. Now I'll add XP to the group. In fairness, running XP or Android 2.2 now and you have bigger problems than SSL not working...
BZZZT. Preventive care in general is cheapest and study after study shows that it is. That doesn't mean that certain kinds of preventive care might not work. Of course if they don't work then they're not cost effective. But the fact that smart, simple tests to catch diseases or conditions before they've progressed is most cost effective method has been established for a long time. Heck, just having patients get in for an annual physical and quick look over from a doctor is cost-effective form of preventive care. That's why ACA requires it to be covered.

I do agree that unwise or poorly designed preventive care, usually in the form of excessive and expensive testing that is poorly chosen and often has too many false positives, is one of the big problems running up medical costs. That does not change the fact that proper preventive care is most cost-effective form of healthcare.
As others mentioned, you can run multiple sites using SNI. You can also get a free cert from StartSSL. The barrier to entry is really low.

The only scenario where I wouldn't do it is a blog. There's probably no sensitive content there and without SSL you can use the free trier at CloudFlare to HN-proof it.
Henderson Island: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Pitcairn+Islands&hl=en&ll=-24...

https://maps.google.com/?ll=28.188244,-126.650391&spn=34.626... - Midway Island

Pretty much as far north as you can drive in Europe: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=B%C3%B8rnesveien+17,+9763+Ska...

I love Street View!
I think it was wrong to strip-search and do cavity searches on the consular officer (in this case, a woman) "accused" of underpaying a maid. However,I'm not going to focus on that and I'm not going to quibble with some of the exaggerations in this column. Overall, I agree that Ms Khobragade must be prosecuted and the evidence clearly suggests that she is guilty.

However, I find it astonishing that so many people (most of them sharing my citizenship) can be so oblivious to some of the mind-boggling arrogant hypocrisy going around.

Recently, there was a news report on "diplomatic immunity" for an "information management officer" in the US embassy in Kenya. This American man was speeding in his SUV. He crossed the middle-line and crashed into another vehicle killing one man and injuring many more.

This wasn't just the garden-variety "hit and run" accident we see in America. This man didn't just flee the scene, he fled Kenya (with US government help) and the US government is asserting "diplomatic immunity".

Can any critic of India seriously argue that it is OK for the US to assert diplomatic immunity and spirit this "information management officer" out of the country - even though he killed one innocent man (in this case, a father of three) with his reckless driving.
Your sample is too small. India is more of a fragmented subcontinent than a country. There is no "city like Bombay" (other than Mumbai).
It's interesting how much startups tend to talk about how great the culture is. Can you elaborate on this 'developed culture.' I am really curious and hoping for a real response, not fluff.
And just how many 100K earning families will think that's "fair"?

Sure, this is insult vs. injury, but perceptions count for a lot. And perhaps there's some minimally objective measure of pain in writing checks twice as large, even if the end result is the same....
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I doubt it. Battery life is still too poor. If it needs to be charged even once during the daytime people will just stop using it after the novelty fades.
You folks are trying real hard to put words in my mouth. My parent asked if I thought those were violent crimes; I said no. I also added that if they commit violence in the course of those crimes, then yes they are now violent criminals. Maybe it was unnecessary extra commentary, but do you disagree with either of these statements?

I should try the words-in-mouth game, it seems fun.

Are you trying to say just because they aren't automatically violent, means they can't be violent? How could you say a thing like that? You are such a foolish person.

Man, that was fun.
Also check out the "Quick Wins for Better Website Security" talk that Dan Callahan (hey, I wonder where he works) at PyCon Canada.

https://speakerdeck.com/pyconca/quick-wins-for-better-websit...
Something I've noticed is that there's a real trend in easing developer effort by trade-off with computational effort. In some cases it's worth it, but I think the pendulum has swung too far in most.

What I mean are these efforts to build huge distributed compute clusters that do X by distributing the problem easily, but at huge overhead cost for each individual actually useful computation.

The distribution, tracking of the compute tasks, the coordination of it all and the frameworks to make it easy insert such a tremendous overhead that I suspect most of the problems that are approached this way would be better tackled with a single machine and some smart old-fashioned algorithm development and developer elbow grease.

Of course simple economics might decide if 20 machines doing something are cheaper than 1 developer working an extra 3 or 4 months so 1 machine can do the same thing resolves it. But I suspect that level of analysis just isn't done and the result is to just throw hardware at the problem.

I've had to remind my developers in the past that we're working with machines that are literally capable of doing billions of operations per second and can do something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJfceF0syK8 in realtime.

Performance on individual machines is way more than sufficient to handle even pretty large datasets in the TBs, but we hamstring them with layers of garbage way too often.

One unfair benchmark I've heard before is "if 1 machine can do X in k time using this distributed framework, then 100 machines can do X in q<<k time using the same framework" but it's like also true that the same 1 machine could do it w time with w within spitting distance of q.
I've never found much to like about policies pitched by any of our leaders left or right, but ObamaCare surprisingly seems to be something that is positive.

It may not be much different for single people or those under 30, but if you have a family, keeping them in an acceptable PPO was running $1200-$1500/month (total corporate or individual) - and for individual, that's if you don't get rejected for something as ridiculous as someone having been treated for allergies.

Plugging in some numbers on healthcare.gov, I'm seeing comparable PPO's for $700/month and if you play with the numbers you can see that the tax credit drops the plan cost as income drops below 4x the poverty level, so for example a family making $50K/yr would only pay $200/mo for the same plan.

This seems like a step in the right direction in so many ways.

I think most negative publicity is coming from polarized sources who would reject anything, and their paid media outlets.
The underlying web service, https://www.wakati.me/ mentions Vim integration.
Buried in the paragraphs of treacle is an important point about supposed "meritocracy":

"Having been a good student, no matter how good the reputation of the school—and most of the good schools, we are coming to learn, are good chiefly in reputation—is no indication of one's quality or promise as a leader. A good student might even be more than a bit of a follower, a conformist, standing ready to give satisfaction to the powers that be so that one can proceed to the next good school, taking another step up the ladder of meritocracy."

I don't think it's necessary to wax nostalgic about the heyday of WASPism to recognize this, though.
Don't most car insurance policies pay for repair of window chips on the very rational basis that a chip can turn into a much more expensive window replacement if not treated?
When I was looking for a flat in Berlin in 2003. I was given a key and the address of an obviously not empty appartment. When I opened the door that was clear immediatly.

Since then I alway change the lock in the main door. This has also the advantage that I can go for something better than what the landlord deems apropriate. Last time I went for EVVA 3KS. Is that still state of the art?

I am not saying this happened here.
That's how Google Glass works. It needs to talk to your cellphone.
Presumably, the browser still needs to interrogate dns even if it talks over https, no?
Hm, fair point. It's more of an issue in SF, from what I understand.
Though I think it is widely regarded as unseemly to treat people differently according to a ranking of professions or wealth, the US is not actually a classless society, and in many social settings certain amounts of deference are expected as the default even when people are off the clock. With the number of parties this time of year, if you look for it it can be a little ugly.

Another example that readily comes to mind is the comments in response to Mario Batali suggesting bankers as Time man of the year in the vein of Hitler and Mussolini a couple years ago. Many of those comments, rather than focusing on the quip being offensive or stupid, primarily complained that he should be more deferential to a great portion of his restaurant customers.

Throughout history many artists have criticized their patrons, and today there's the widely claimed ideal of not penalizing everyone from unskilled workers to professionals and business owners for their political beliefs that are independent of their employers and customers, yet the reality is different even if sometimes manifests itself subtly.
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If you go into Street View in Google Earth (I just zoom in until it kicks me into street view, don't know if there's a better way to enter it) you get full WASD control and it displays it on (pretty crude) geometry so the transition from frame to frame is continuous (and you can even deviate from the path in the street, though it gets more distorted the more you deviate from the actual car path).
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The famously biased in the other direction PolitiFact says otherwise and goes into some detail: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/feb/...
"Year of the Glasshole" would be a better title.
There you go. I'd start with step 5. At the root level of India's problems is the widespread belief that not everyone deserves equal opportunity. The faster that belief is changed the faster the other steps will be achieved.
Your mechanic and most of the others will give you an itemized bill, and you can't order him to make you a cup of tea for free.

In India and the Middle East this concept of "servitude" is really just slavery - lower class people are basically owned by wealthy families for their entire lives, are are given bare sustenance in return for total control over their labor and time, without conditions or restraint over when and how their labor can be used. Furthermore their work "contracts" actually prevent them from leaving or "quitting", and the legal systems in those countries will actually enforce these contracts and essentially uphold ownership of these "servants" (as did the Indian high court in this case apparently).

In all the cases you are describing, the work is part of a regulated labor market, where there are conditions and laws against exploitation, that are actually enforced as has been witnessed in this case.
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It's not clear at all what this actually does, or what technology the hoodie contains that enables any of this... While I enjoyed the video, after I tried to read down the page to find out what this actually does, I was perplexed (and still am)
I've updated my post to clarify this point, thanks.
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Most of the people who work for us in Chicago live in the city. I live in Oak Park, 5 minutes walk from the Green Line, in a house that costs 1/10th as much as the same house in MTV.
So what? That doesn't give corporations the right to break traffic laws in SF, not just once or twice, but repeatedly for years. The city has failed to do it's job of enforcement, but the violator is still guilty.
I am not the developer but it is quite useful if you have Javascript objects that handle your app's data (the "M" in MVC), and the Views request data objects from these models.

If you just pass a reference then the View could accidentally alter the data object which would corrupt all other view's data objects and the Model's copy as well. Yikes.

My current solution is to create a deep-clone of the data object and pass that back to each view that asks for it. That way if a View changes the data object, it doesn't affect the other copies of the data.

The solution presented here also prevents the View from modifying its own copy (which should help reduce bugs within the View), and it keeps copies of the object up to date, which is a neat trick.
Disappointed that clink [1] didn't make it onto this list. :( Clink brings Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsoft Windows' cmd.exe!

1: http://code.google.com/p/clink/
It fits in mine... but I also wear 36x38 jeans since I'm 6'9", so I'm not a typical use case. My current phone, a Note 3, fits with a lot of room to spare so I suppose it depends on the size of your jeans.

I can also use these phones one handed whereas I don't see most people doing that.
side question: how do you make your blog entry like the Medium.com style? It's very easy to read this blog.
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Stewart Alsop called, he wants his book draft back.

http://www.amazon.com/Stay-Execution-Memoir-Stewart-Alsop/dp...

NB for relevance: In the late 60s, Alsop (the brother of Joseph in the article) would use his Newsweek column to rant about the lack of WASPs in the CIA and State Dept. making us lose the Vietnam War.
Oh yeah, good point.

> I've known people who were sort of uncomfortable about paying a maid

We've also been very uncomfortable with the yard service and maid service because it seem like something we should be doing. But long hours and a continuously ugly yard and messy house eventually solved those debates.
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"An ad hominem attack is not quite as weak as mere name-calling. It might actually carry some weight. For example, if a senator wrote an article saying senators' salaries should be increased, one could respond:

Of course he would say that. He's a senator.

This wouldn't refute the author's argument, but it may at least be relevant to the case. It's still a very weak form of disagreement, though. If there's something wrong with the senator's argument, you should say what it is; and if there isn't, what difference does it make that he's a senator?"

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
I hate the treacly, overly politically correct world of today, but these WASPs of the past that the chap in the article is lamenting so much were pure, unabashed racists. For this reason alone, I'm bloody glad they're not in power.

"The last unashamed WASP to live in the White House was Franklin Delano Roosevelt"

Yeah, a shameless person who refused to meet black athletes, including Jesse Owens after the '36 Olympics (even Mr. Godwin's Law is rumoured to have shaken hands with Owens), and was responsible for the Sith-sounding Executive Order for internment of Japanese Americans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9066).

We're much better off without this sort of rubbish in power. Good riddance.
Which words originated in your birth year?
Hope you understand that this is not an actual law, but a piece of satire describing social norms in a smaller provincial town in the beginning of the twentieth century. This was a very different and much more traditional and hierarchical society, and the attitudes bitops describe more stem from the reaction against these norms which happened in the 60ies and 70ies.
You mean like 2013 was the year of the smart watch?
The first paragrap suggests that the US currently is a meritocracy; whereas in the past few years, I've had the impression it was a kleptocracy run by bankers. It's probably just my own impression, though. Is there really any kind of meritocracy that goes beyond lip service in the US? (Or anywhere else, for that matter, since there was no such thing in any country I've lived in.)
Are you factoring in the mid-4/low-5 figure deductibles and total out-of-pocket caps?

You think that famous Albuquerque artist couple making 24K a year with 100% subsidized premiums are going to be able to afford to pay their caps, which could be up to $12,700, if something really bad happens one year? (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/04/business/under-health-care...).
I use and contribute to React. By far the simplest (and I mean simpler than backbone) and cleanest js framework I've used. It's also used by Facebook, Instagram's whole website and Khan academy. Scalability is not a worry at all.
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I do not think thats how these filters operate. No banking/shopping site would properly function. They are just stupid IP based filters.