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The zeitgeist of each civilized age is that the world is on the highway to hell. The quote from Plato wasn't accidental, the Athenians condemned Socrates. Though something from Confucius or Rousseau would also have worked.

However, leaving literary and cultural arguments aside, the argument that natural selection has not or will not create a good balance for the human ecological niche seems to show no more faith in science than an appeal to a divine creator. Likewise, the idea that humans are somehow exempt from natural selection in a way which allows them to shape it, similarly relies on some notion of our holding some unique biological status.

If you're selling brain state materialism, then you lose traditional notions of morality and culture. That's just the price of radically redefining traditional notions of the mind.

Even more to the point, the idea that morality cannot cope needs to show why the Hobbesian view - developed during a time when the movable type printing press enabled spreading Protestantism to violently play itself out in the English Civil War - is not the correct path. In other words, the morality gap depends on the absence of political progress - an argument difficult to wage in light of modern history and the diminishing of colonialism, slavery and monarchy, and the rising of the idea that there are universal human rights and more recently pressure for their extension to other species.
This explains a lot to me, about my own life (anecdotal experience, I know...)

Since I can remember I am "Very Smart"[0], I was told that by my parents, teachers, and lots of other adults.

In the first years of high school, I would get the best grades on math without even studying, it was easy to me. But when the last years came, I needed to put more effort on study, I didn't liked it, and also didn't get the results I wanted.

Now I'm getting back to university, and it is really difficult to me to put all the effort I need to study, it's like I don't want to.

This article resonated a lot with me, and helped me understand a posible cause of what happens to me. Also, reading about how brain "exercise" helps intelligence, motivated me to get to study a lot more now :)

[0] I think I really am smart (not that it makes me better than anyone though) but I don't know how much, or how to measure that, if that's really and objectively possible.
Since you have already read ten things about it and don't understand it, it would help if you told us what you do not understand so that we do not waste our time rehashing things that you have already not understood.
It is a fine distinction. The effort in a CFAA case to resolve the distinction will focus on evidence of intent; of the state of mind of the person committing the acts.

The CFAA is a very bad law, but it's hard to resolve "authorized" versus "unauthorized" deterministically without coming up with absurd situations. I think a better thing to look at is CFAA sentencing and severity, which currently scale up with the counter in your "for()" loop and quickly produce dizzying penalties for minor offenses. Taking the piss out of CFAA sentencing would also reduce the incentive that US Attorneys have to throw the book at petty offenders.
What is Tengah?
From the same guy who built the WebLogic server 20 years ago.
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I never would have guessed. Pretty much all of the interaction I have with Emacs contributors is through packages on github. Emacs lisp is so ubiquitous and useful that it doesn't really make much sense to include most things in Emacs itself.
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As far as I can tell, Mercurial is being actively developed (i.e., updates being pushed out on a roughly monthly basis), and it's also actively being used. It isn't used as much in the open source community (probably the GitHub effect), but that doesn't mean it's "not looking real healthy" (anymore than OS X does compared to Windows).

Bazaar is a different story. Technically speaking, Bazaar isn't going away anytime soon. Canonical's development depends too much on it. The primary problem with Bazaar is that updates on Canonical's side are pretty much limited to dealing with issues that Canonical has, and there is little activity with respect to getting other bugs/issues fixed/addressed.

This is unfortunate, because Bazaar does do a few things better than either Git or Mercurial.
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Why an ad provider should have their own publisher platform?
'Galvanic corrosion' and applying a non-metalic layer between the cannon/deck would be my first thought. Now I'm curious as to some of the more 'colorful answers'.
I don't want to put words in his mouth, but I think patio11 would say that if you care about this, you can't afford him/it anyway. I'm just playing the devil's advocate.
In SQL, this would be an issue due to the date column not existing in the group by. Additionally, because of the having statement, the left outer join is being treated as an inner join with respect to the results given.

Something like this could work (without going for an alternate approach such as Unions or sub-selects):

SELECT a.name, ISNULL(SUM(s.price), 0.0) FROM authors a
INNER JOIN books b ON (a.id=b.author_id)
LEFT OUTER JOIN sales s ON (b.id = s.book_id)
GROUP BY a.name, s.date
HAVING (ISNULL(s.date, '20131101') >= '20131101' AND ISNULL(s.date, '20131101') <= '20131130')

Edit: Actually might be better to keep the null in the results like the original query. It's definitely better to know whether a book sold 1000 copies for $0.00 each or if no copies were sold.
The Moto G is a great effort and I applaud them for it (and my Moto X is the best Android I've ever had), but the real next billion don't come from a phone that still costs $179 or so. It will come significantly cheaper smart or smart-enough-for-facebook devices. Think the even cheaper Chinese OEM Androids, think the Nokia Asha devices.
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I'll definitely give this a try! And thank you so much for making an app that only requires network access on Android! All those apps that want your location and access to your contacts and whatnot are so annoying -_-"
A very fun game :)
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NSA surely attracts some top talent, do they pay that well?
The lengths they are willing to go for spying seem to be as broad as their creativity. So basically, the NSA would read minds if it weren't for the technical hurdles... which they will probably overcome before we find out. We're going to need an idiom to replace "tinfoil hat" soon.
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They do this because they are signalling that they're not interested in your business. They are interested in the business of companies that can afford to pay someone to go through the dance of reaching out and setting up a call to learn about pricing.
Can it work without cloud? Saving data only to my SD card and export them to CSV files? I dont want to share my expense habits with you..
My FizzBuzz equivalent: do they say date-uh or dat-ah.
Unlike Snowden's disclosures of mass surveillance, this is not whistleblowing.

Mass surveillance, such as recording and correlating cell phone location data or searching all emails, is immoral and unconstitutional, and it's good that the extent of it was revealed.

Doctored USB cables do not enable mass surveillance since they have to be physically delivered to specific subjects. Assuming they're delivered based on some sort of probable cause, they are a legitimate law enforcement technique.

Revealing details of legitimate practices does no good. To the extent that revealing them encourages the NSA to resort to less legitimate practices, it's harmful.
A shot of creativity
IrateMonk is especially troubling - it installs itself on hard disk firmware, and supports all the major manufacturers: Western Digital, Seagate, Samsung etc. Now that it's known to exist, it's just a matter of time until some enterprising malware author will do the same...
I guess it saves you time developing and testing. It also makes you more confident the code actually works in production, since there is probably years of work behind existing libraries.
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Show HN: I Wrote a Book on ReactiveCocoa
That seems like a completely different problem to me, since all randomness is out of the system the moment you see the first flip.
Oh and if you're nice on Netflix's servers, perhaps at 1 request a second, it would still take 25 minutes to run through 90,000 requests without the overhead of the browser. Sounds like they averaged one request every 24 seconds.
Really? This article talks about the author's study on what white people are doing wrong, but neglects to say if she has any data from any other ethnicity.

Also, what she says people are doing wrong is exactly what job coaches encourage job searchers to do when they advocate networking and finding the "hidden job" market.
What are the actual facts in this case?

There are tons of people who use and know git. It's fast, it works pretty well. There's some value in the fact that it's widely known and used (network effects), probably enough that whatever takes its place will probably be not just a bit better, but a lot better, in some way. bzr does not strike me, offhand, as being a lot better. Is fossil?

So in this case, I think that the network effects are an important fact.
Right, why shouldn't people give up their homes and businesses to make this guy's job easier? Talk about a sense of entitlement! The truth is in a civilized society the interests of different groups of people must be accommodated. Next time it might be your house they want to flatten so people from one place you've never been can get to another place you've never been one minute quicker.
Interesting point to bring up. In the case of this specific app, it was designed and built by a company that designs and builds mobile apps for clients (a development shop). The app is used a marketing tool to showcase their (nice) abilities. In the case of the "I made 30 apps this year...", it was a 15 year old person that was trying to learn how to make money by selling apps. The age is relevant, because it is likely that his/hers resources are limited (and thus may have little to work with).

It does take time and skill to develop good apps. In this case, the company that provides that as a service is showcasing it through the app itself. In the case of the 15 year old, he/she is learning how to do so him/herself. I fail to see the issue surrounding this. They are both doing well.

Now, the OP took recent thread titles from HN and spinned it to its own benefit. That is good a good way to get attention on HN.
Cmd+~ is the same as Cmd+`, just with shift pressed down. Doesn't make sense to list both of them (since you don't also list Cmd+Shift+Tab).
Haha. Good way to put it. Feel the same way. We talked more about it here: "Why Your Secret Pricing Strategy is Overrated" - http://blog.priceintelligently.com/blog/bid/180265/Why-Your-...
There's also jinni.com which has a similar system, not limited by UI issues and that can be used globally. Usually i get great recommendations from them , and they're fun to play with.
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I'm not a lawyer, and every case is different, but you should be covered by his insurance or your own insurance in that case. If you're driving without uninsured motorist protection, that's an entirely separate issue.

And, again, we're talking about the equivalent of a car warrantee, not collision insurance. There's no argument that universal collisions insurance (and uninsured motorist insurance) is a good idea.

I said talk to your lawyer because if you're not getting paid fast enough, there are creditors and insurance companies that needs to be negotiated with.
Unfortunately, humans don't seem to have the qualities necessary for this to happen. The more institutions cooperate to inhibit technological progress, the more there will be to gain by defecting.

Unless, that is, there're sufficiently solid reasons for all players to believe that defecting is like starting a nuclear war: destructive for everyone in very close future.

(I feel there should be a term for this situation.)
And if they didn't, they would probably get it wrong even if they're experienced statisticians.
Yes, but where is the fairness?

Take a single country, like the UK, why should hard-working folk who save their money be punished? Why should their savings be eroded with inflation and a real interest rate which is negative?

Why should those who were irresponsible, those who borrowed too much or took risky bets be the ones who are protected?

The problem is debt, and the solution is not more debt and reckless money printing.
They are too big and mature to be reinventing the future. For better or worse, the modern AT&T came about by Southwestern Bell being the most disciplined of the baby bells. While other telecoms invested in pie in the sky projects that didn't work, SBC invested in operations and financial discipline. Their increased market cap relative to size allowed them to buy their less efficient competitors. They won on efficiency, not product development.
Agree! I do actually work on more deeper problems. At the moment I spend a lot of time creating integrations, improving the documentation and the getting-started guides. As we do get new signups every day, I want more of them to get started and really using UserApp. But to learn how I can improve all that I need feedback, and things takes time. Meanwhile I wait for feedback and test results I spend my time trying to improve conversion rates on the website and to drive more traffic, etc.

Here are a few of my more important "hacks":

[How to guarantee continued operation for an SaaS startup](http://timothy.userapp.io/post/67053194467/how-to-guarantee-...)

[Day 25: Minimizing integration times](http://timothy.userapp.io/post/69135125206/day-25-minimizing...)

[Day 26: Codecademy course](http://timothy.userapp.io/post/69292858355/day-26-codecademy...)

[Day 30: A/B testing getting-started guides](http://timothy.userapp.io/post/70034047713/day-30-a-b-testin...)

[Day 31: Answering questions on Stack Overflow](http://timothy.userapp.io/post/70136752527/day-31-answering-...)

[Day 32: Customer development survey](http://timothy.userapp.io/post/70245235839/day-32-customer-d...)
You are getting downvotes because you didn't follow Bayesian reasoning, but there is some justification for your instincts here http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/ph...
It would, but not for the reason you think: lying on your back activates the mechanism you still have from when you were a baby that stopped you getting motion sickness when you were being carried by your mother. We advise people suffering from seasickness that one thing they can do is lie on their backs, and it often is enough by itself.
DAE just watch Dune recently?
I would imagine it is up to interpretation. It would probably be a good thing to ask the interviewer about to show that you are thinking about edge cases.

If it were me, I'd prefer to see those that made no sales based on the question. I guess if I didn't want to see them, I would ask for "where sales are greater than $0.00".
> My understanding is that he has actually been quite a bit more judicious than Manning about what he has released, putting out stuff that clearly shows what the NSA is doing wrong.

That was his claim, yes, but it's quite incorrect.

Various journalists have the data now and are piecing through it, not Snowden, but things like details of Chinese hacking or tapping into Merkel or Medvedev's phone calls are not violations of U.S. civil liberties and can hardly be said to have been judicious disclosures.

In that regard Manning actually ends up with a better case IMHO; Snowden claimed to have specifically looked at and identified every piece of data he took as requiring disclosure (although taking 58,000-1,000,000+ pieces in a year with a full-time job to do would tend to argue against being 'selective'), so any areas where Snowden leaked something that was only vital to national security happened after he specifically cleared it.

Manning, on the other hand, specifically released a few things but other than that let loose a bunch of data she never quite scanned through. This was definitely negligent, but doesn't seem to have been malicious.
>>>>> Knowing that they could have such a capability is not the same thing as knowing that they are actively exercising it.

I hope you don't give your government that much credit and really are not that naive. Considering the NSA and CIA's history, why would think anything other than they were actively using technologies to eavesdrop on the general population?

Conspiracy nuts have been screaming this from the rooftops for years and suddenly because of Snowden they're finally listening? Sure he deserves credit for the evidence he's released, but this is not something new by any stretch of the imagination.
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A Year Without Cameras (4 months in)
Quickest way to lose a sale is to provide pricing to non-expert buyers who are not likely to understand key parts of your product just from reading about it on the site. We have customers who are used to paying $5 bucks/mo for a shitty website; it takes some convincing for us to get them to pay us 10-20x more(for a much better product). If we simply put up the pricing on the site, we'd scare them away and never even get to speak with them.
Happened to my dad as well. He couldn't get accepted into a PhD for quantum physics so ended up studying physical chemistry.
It actually looks pretty wasteful, since it probably needed to load the full webpage instead of just the html.
Agree, at the end of the day your happy clients will be the best advertising for you, so happy client is the most important thing for sure.

Also I would say that using platforms such as FB and publish there to all your friends that you are starting your own business may help you spread the word.
Could this be used to create a 3D display? For example, when turned off, it's just a pile of styrofoam pellets, but when on, it can use standing waves to create shapes in midair?
I was about to try this too, but it wants to know my location, phone call information, storage access and whatnot :(
This explanation actually properly answers the question, in my mind. :-)
Or use it to stop blood flow while operating in an area
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> "To this day you can't have a simple workflow with git, the one that cvs/svn supported and practically all small project would benefit from"

What? Of course you can. I've worked on teams that did it. You are talking total rubbish.
According to the Apple docs XNU is based on Mach 3.0.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...
Trying it out, and pretty happy so far, but I also have a lot of applications that I've previously installed manually, and I'm finding it tedious to install via cask then delete from /Applications and hope everything migrates over properly. It is more challenging with stuff like iStat-Menus which I'm really not sure how to migrate.
The words we use have a hidden subtext that reflect our unconscious biases. Strangely, using different words to frame an idea is often enough to break through many distortions and biases. It's a mainstay of cognitive behavioral therapy.

And as it relates to the business of building software, which is a tricky and hard thing to do, having a positive outlook and focusing on the end possibilities rather than oncoming challenges is a better attitude for long term success. If you're the type to get caught up in the challenges of implementing stuff, you spend a lot more time saying no and less time finding clever ways to make it a yes.
That probability was determined the moment you picked the coin out of the jar.

It makes no difference what you do to it after the pick. Hold it in your hand for a day, flip it 10 times, sit on it, whatever - the end result is that p(heads) for that particular coin has not changed. p(heads) will be either 0.5 for a real coin or 1.0 for the rigged one.

The probability then comes down to what coin you picked at the start of the trial. There's a 0.999 chance you have a real one, and 0.001 chance that you have the rigged one.
"Sell me this pen"
Anyone can learn
This sort of thing is generally pretty easy. For instance, this would be a good start:

for i in {0..10000}; do
wget http://whatever.invalid/genres/$i
sleep 1
done

From there processing the results to pull out the genre would be a regex away; a single properly formed grep could probably do it.

Determining the top number would have to be done by hand; having holes in the sequences makes it more complicated but you could still use a sort of basic binary search.
I'm surprised he didn't mention GitHub. You can't ignore the luck that the guys that made GitHub used Git.
Do you think that your situation is typical? I don't think so
As a buyer, I feel the same way. The business guy in the back of my head wonders how much business is really being lost by those companies.

Imagine the answer was always >$50k/year. Would said company ever have anybody click the "add to cart" button after browsing a website for a while? It could be that the missing price is just a signal that this is not that sort of business and if you're looking for something that doesn't require sales people, contracts and purchase orders, you're probably better off just looking elsewhere.

I suppose they could say that directly on the site, but even that might turn out to not be such a good idea.

Unless you test these sorts of things, you never really know.
Agreed that some products (a lot in enterprise software or consulting) require a more buttoned up pricing strategy, but if you serve the mid-market at all you should at least provide them some sort of signpost. "Here's what a project sort of looks and here's where the price starts"

With good design you can make it happen. You'll actually help the sales process 10x, because you'll get rid of the tire kickers and people who are just sort of interested.
Either everyone that does this is an idiot (unlikely) or it actually works for their markets and increases their bottom line (likely).

I once worked for a fairly big (500m-1b market cap) company that worked this way. Pricing was customized for every client. They, like many companies, made a ton of money doing this.

One down side, however, was that this business model can trap you. Once you've sold customers at lots of different price points, you can never go back and publish pricing, since those customers that are overpaying will be upset. You could set your prices high, but that would turn off many new customers who need a lower price point. So, while you can make a lot of money doing this, give it some thought before committing to it.

This is why Google Adwords is so genius. It's both dynamic (charging more for bigger pockets) and it scales, which is hard balance to strike.
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The callsigns have been there for a long time - only two or three weeks ago there was some guy who ran Linux on his harddrive. Literally. I think even the #badBIOS affair might have had its roots in a NSA black op gone bad... and nothing's off the radar anymore, these days.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a leak of a satellite with microwave/RF radar able to penetrate and fry electronic equipment in a centimetre-fine location.
In fsf writing about it:

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system
because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about
the only component in common between Android and
GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.en.h...