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My position on birth control comes from seeing human life as something worth bringing into the world. There are so many wild cards, so many variables, that all these "but what if" arguments aren't convincing to me.

In terms of resource depletion, I'm confident that the human race is capable enough to solve its major sustainability problems without stifling this major source of creative and resourceful potential.
That was not my reasoning, I thought you had some examples in mind.

I think the only solution to respect the copyright for this kind of content (amateur content with no identified author) would be to stop publishing it: you can’t sue Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter etc.

Just to be sure: are we talking about the original authors, or the websites who add their watermarks on it?
Super-fast is not what we need. We need super-low-power for the next tier of internet of things battery devices - when are we getting that? :)
It does appear that way, but pg had said that they'd been planning this before all the controversy, so it's just a case of unfortunate timing.

See email snippet at the bottom of this post:
http://paulgraham.com/wids.html
pg was already planning to run this conference before the whole press thing happened. See http://paulgraham.com/wids.html (towards the end)
Any good Podcasts?
A Simple, Tiny Exercise to Help You Make a Big Change
I get that some people despise Klout, but it symbolises "one score to rule them all" (aka the mother of all online map-reduce) better than any other service I can think of, among a tech-savvy audience.

Also it's OT, but there are actually many positive aspects of Klout to businesses dealing with multiple accounts and thousands or millions of followers and interacting accounts. They are less applicable to individuals, which is why it can come across as a narcissistic "social media guru" gimmick.
I can’t find the original paper, doi is not working (?).

I found a much better source. It explains the technique they used: “Solar wind and space dust create new source of water, laboratory study suggests” http://theconversation.com/solar-wind-and-space-dust-create-...

The “water found in stardust” part is real, but it’s a very tiny amount of water.

The “suggests life is universal” is only an optimistic linkbait from the press.

I want to believe, but I need evidence fist.
Try "Windows Remote Assistance" it's super easy, as long as they are on Windows 7 or Vista.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/get-help-windows-...
Weixin, China's Killer Messaging App, Blazes Its Own Path
How do you distinguish "manufactured desire and the exploitation of people's addictions" and "genuine" or "natural" desires? Similarly, how do you distinguish "fake happiness where the person just thinks they're happy but isn't really happy" and "genuine" or "natural" happiness?
There is also research being done and even practical use of that research that shows how some video games can help soldiers who are suffering from PTSD.

The basics of the theory are that our brains haven't really evolved to truly tell the difference from what we are seeing on the screen and what we are seeing in real life. So, you can guide a soldier through a really violent battle scene in a video game, with things exploding and people shooting at them, and their brain can eventually "rewire" itself to not be afraid of these things because no harm is happening to the actual person. It's fascinating stuff.

[edit]

Here's one reference but there are loads more:

https://intro2psych.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/can-video-games...
Solar wind and space dust create new source of water, laboratory study suggests
Cardano, you think, cannot be coerced by Romanian security services to backdoor their products? Also, check out the link at the bottom to polimedia.com, the parent company.

I don't think I would entrust my private keys to this outfit, sorry.
That is like buttah. Thanks for the goodness.
> Normally diversification is absolutely the way to go, but once we've found a drive with low failure rates across the board, we'd want to move mostly to using that one drive type.

With regard to deployment, but also with regard to the drive reliability numbers you guys are putting out there: do you worry that variation between manufacturing runs is going to hose you? Do you find looking at the drives that you're getting a good variety of hardware from multiple manufacturing runs?
This doesn't integrate with enough things, and there isn't a way to delete my account, which I definitely want to do if you're not going to support any of the trackers I already use.

To be honest, a lot of the tracking apps already try to become the dashboard, and integrate with each other pretty well. I don't really see enough differentiation here to give me a reason to log into yet another thing.
Neither of which enable mass surveillance though, which is the major threat from what I can tell. Rubber-hose cryptanalysis has been possible since the Caesar cipher.
I posted one of my reasons as a reply to my original comment, but I think it's going to get drowned out in all the requests for it. Irony?
1094 ellipses in CSS
MakeGamesWithUs Summer Academy receives 1,000 applications in first month
Ok I'm back. Just googling "South African grants misuse" will give you plenty of sources. I wont link the top results, but your more than welcome to look for yourself. The system is rife with corruption and abuse. Also of note is that about 2 - 3 million tax payers carry the burden of upwards of 12 million grant receivers. An unsustainable system collapsing under its own weight.
remember this all starts February 1st :D.
And he's probably high enough in the list of NSA "persons of interest" to warrant a field agent's time.
NoMachine.com is worth checking out. The client is kinda heavy, and uses a fair chunk of ram, but it's free and workable.
Japan has been a relatively developed, industrialized country for a very long time, judging by the fact that they spent the 1930's and 1940's trying to conquer east Asia and were doing a decent job of it.
I think that, in this context, "wealth redistribution" refers to forced redistribution.
As I read it, your original point was that you oppose the idea that global availability of contraception is necessary to increase sustainability.

I think that's why people want you to expand on it.
I think it's more likely the person is being honest. I think the positive move would be to encourage him/her to express their rational and provide an example of how HN accepts different conclusions provided there is a logical process in creating those conclusions.

What you are doing is providing example to buttress op's point as being correct. Best to leave that attitude on reddit.
Wouldn't then all the fraud risks move to those businesses which take consumer credit cards and exchange them for bitcoins. So why would the aggregate fraud cost in the system be any lower ?

Also, I seriously doubt that 2.5% fee is all cost. Visa/Mastercard, etc. are massively profitable - they have plenty of room to cut those fees
I dunno. I would be largely annoyed by male only anything (except restrooms). Female only whatever (except restrooms) does not sound that much better.
I work for a big company where there is a lot of down time. It may sound appealing - good pay with minimal to no work, along with minimal supervision - but it get boring real fast and can be demoralizing.

I would rather be actively working on something that challenges me, than have my brain rot away.

I've even tried working on side projects while at my day job and it doesn't work out because it's difficult to really devote focus to something that isn't related to your job.
This is a great step towards getting more women involved in the startup scene. Thank you! Many people talk about the problem (myself included), but it's nice to see that some people are working towards resolving it.
This comment thread is almost entirely FUD.
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Snowden 'fears for his life'
It's economics. Nothing in the field is adequate.
I'm guessing msvan means that "Coinbase" wouldn't like that (at least in the short term) since they have a 1% transaction fee
Can males attend this conference? I do see an option for Male in the drop down but I figured it's best to ask...
How do monetize? Selling in game items? Advertising?
Very interesting. I have used a very similar service to learn html, css, js.

http://thecodeplayer.com/
Why housing costs keep rising in San Francisco
Lesson from this: buy yourself a hitachi.
But why would I want Bitcoin as a consumer? I want chargebacks if the merchant screws me over, I get a rebate/miles/points with every purchase, and some cards offer warranties and return protection. AmEx does a pretty good job at flagging fraudulent activity, and I'm off the hook for any related charges. Plus, there's still a risk of losing Bitcoin. The right bug/malware/vulnerability on my laptop or my smartphone can mean my BTC is lost or stolen. We all know that security is hard, and at best inconvenient -- and that people are lazy.

If there are clear advantages to the vendor, it should be reflected in the price to the consumer. A 1% discount may get me interested, considering they'd save more than that on cc transaction fees alone.
Fantastic! Will this be streamed? For women not based in Bay Area (and therefore realistically women with even more limited access to female tech/entrepreneur role-models), this would be a great resource to be accessed remotely and real time, and could definitely be the catalyst for some quality Twitterverse discussion/encouragement for female tech entrepreneurs.
There certainly isn't if you make a statement and then refuse to say why you made it. People discuss complex stuff on HN regularly, surely the complexity of the argument cannot be higher than exists in some of the maths threads.
None of the reports I've seen mention this, but Chris was the CEO before Tom (and became CTO to focus on product) so is already very experienced in the role :-) http://www.quora.com/GitHub/Why-is-Chris-Wanstrath-no-longer...
Spread the word if you like it! The bigger the community around node-webkit gets, the better :)
> Gender discrimination means that one gender is treated differently from another.

Yes, it does. Think on that more deeply.
Actually, arbitrary Googling works pretty well. Just start chopping letters of the end, and you get a hit on "OFWAIHHBTNTKCTWBDOEAIIIH" from 2007.
Then why did you even bring it up? Are you trolling?
Yesterday I read the Oxfam report that 85 people own half of the world's wealth. http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2014-01-20/ri...

Now this is amazing and simple fact. This shows we have completely failed at distribution of wealth. If we could fix this many many problem will vanish. Now instead of what Gates has written this extreme inequality is blocking the progress of poor.
> but I think it would be difficult to argue that many users actually find the experience objectively better.

Well, yes, it would be difficult to argue that, starting with that what users find to be better is by definition subjective, not objective, so to argue that would be self-contradictory from the gate.
chris, you're right in the context of HFT stuff, but of course different matching engines have different rules.

There was a big trade for a while where people had different account types. the CBOT matching engine, for example, had customer orders prioritized over marketmaker or firm, so customers actually COULD jump the line.

Some companies had customer accounts specifically so they could insert orders in higher priority in the queue (the tradeoff is that customers pay for CXLs, but you can just do the math to see when you should be using which account)

to @panarky of the comment, its not on the order of microseconds -- the stuff people used to rip on were flash orders, which are exactly 30 milliseconds.

So @panarky has a bit of a point about knowing the order in advance, but its still damn hard to profit from it. The narrative of just front running trades by having order information in front is just not feasible because of the bid-ask spread (the flash orders are to try to help maintain some semblance of BBO consistency across exchanges)

So as yummyfajitas says, it's not possible to sell ahead (saying "short ahead" in that way exposes you as not really knowing the trade, btw) or buy ahead in a way that necessarily affects price.
> Some radical feminists only accept 'born as women' to their conferences. And if transwomen are accepted, what's their definition of that.

Really. That's interesting. I know... a few feminists 'round these parts who might be characterized "radical." Can't think of anyone getting their hate on against trans women. And I don't know why you would raise such a specter of exclusion with no basis.
Yes. Learning Python at the moment, and after I do a practice problem I often look at the writer's solution to the problem. I would find it much more informative if done in this way, with comments saying why he's doing what when he does it.
I guess he thinks it sounds like an official release.
Hacker News without the Hacker News (on Meteor)
does bitcoin have an intrinsic value? if so, what?
I see Zach just responded to his own answer pointing out that the reverse of 2012 is true again.
Proposal: Revision of policy surrounding 3rd party and non-free software
We want to give priority to women, since we have limited space.
Unfortunately cmd+return does not work on my iMac (it does the same thing as return, which is add sibling).
Today my startup failed
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I wish you would have elaborated on your question because it seems pretty obvious to me and I'm not sure what your experience level is (or what language you're using). Or maybe you're thinking, "I don't get the point of Grunt, isn't X better?" I can't tell.

Grunt is to JavaScript as Ant is to Java. "The main usage of Ant is to build Java applications." So, "The main usage of Grunt is to build JavaScript applications".

I'm making a game and I use it for many different tasks:

1. Every time a coffeescript file changes, compile that file to javascript

2. Every time a js file is added or deleted, change the list of script tags in the html file

3. Every time a sass file changes, run compass to compile it into a css file

4. I've got a test suite (qunit, it runs off an html file) that uses the same script list that my main game uses (and more). I've turned the script list into a variable so I don't have to modify either html file by hand if I add/remove a coffeescript file.

5. Every time a js file changes, is added or deleted, run unit tests in the background using phantomjs

6. If a unit test fails, beep 3 times

7. Every time a coffescript file changes, is added or deleted, reload the page so I can see my change. This is configurable so I can turn this feature off.

8. When I build for production, concatenate all the files and minify them.

9. Every time any file changes, update the html file to have a new build-time variable.

I would be super unproductive if I had to do these tasks by hand. Grunt.js lets me automate these tasks and reuse them as many times as I want. For example, I used to run my qunit tests by hand by going to the .html file and refreshing the browser. But sometimes I forgot or I didn't want to lose my train of thought. Sometimes this would lead to me accidentally committing broken code. That's why I automated the tests to run in the background whenever a file changes. Now I can't forget to run the unit tests and I don't have to lose my train of thought.
GitHub's growth in 2013 has been fascinating to watch. They've been relentless with new functionality, and the overwhelming trend with that new functionality is a marked increase in the scope of their operations: stuff like generic data support, baked-in visualizations, and quality-of-life improvements points to the conclusion that GitHub is going to stop being the "best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers" [1] and start being the best place to share your work and data with everyone.

2014 should be a great year for them.

[1] https://github.com/about
I just got started using MindMeister (http://www.mindmeister.com/), while not open source, it's a nicely polished product.
Ah yes, this question has not been asked yet. Such economic insight.
I can't read the first article as it is behind a paywall. It starts with the NSA installing software in nearly 100,000 computers worldwide to conduct surveillance. I suppose it explains somewhere after the paywall of how they use that to spy on adversaries such as China and Russia?

The second one seems to be more about the British spying on the Middle East of which they share information with the NSA. I admit I skimmed it but does it accuse the NSA of spying on adversaries such as China and Russia?

So far, they just seem to spy on everyone.
Thank you for your correction. I have removed the incorrect term from my comment.
I'm assuming some HNers are soon to arrive saying things like "why does it matter that a founder is a female?", "why make an excluding event? isn't it sexism all the same", "imagine if someone make a 'male founders conference'?"

I would like to ask you to think for a moment, before raising this concerns (I am not bothering here to debate with haters, only with those who are genuinely concerned that this might sexism all the same).

If a group is underrepresented in some professional, economical, academical field, it is worthy to understand the causes. Sometimes is a historical gap in fields that have a self-perpetuating cycle of dominance (such as blacks in politics). It is tough to adress such underrepresentation, and it take generations to make any change (as it took generations and generations to create the initial gap).

This is no such case for female founders. Here we have a much simples issue: stigmatization. At least, this is how most people in this field, including the organizers of this event, seems to classify it. It is easier to address because a cultural perception is easier to change than institutionalized cycles of power (as in politics).

And, as I see it, this is the only goal of this event. No one is claiming that women are better than men in founding startups. Or the opposite, that women are worse than men in founding startups that they need special treatment. This event is only trying inspire women that founding startups does need to be stigmatized as a male club. Women can have a good life in founding one if they give this thought a chance.

So there the only assumptions I see in this event are that: (i) founding a startup is a good thing that they should inspire people to do (something largely supported by HN audience I would guess) and (ii) that women aren't currently being correctly or ideally presented, attracted and inspired to these opportunities of founding a startup.

These two assumptions may be contested. If you disagree with assumption (i) you a have a much bigger fight to pick, basically the whole illusion that Sillicon Valley sells to the world, this event isn't particular relevant in this broader debate.

And if you disagree with assumption (ii), that this event is not necessary, it means that is no harm done by such an event ocurring. It would by useless at most, but not particularly harmful.

This is my perception of this, and I am writing it hoping to avoid a thread full of heated debate based on false assumptions. Maybe I am being pretentious, but I swear I am just trying to help and expose my thoughts on the subject.
Yes, we are planning to stream this. Check out the conference site closer to March 1 for more details.
I find it amusing enough, to point out that your argument easily justifies torture

The moral standard behind the various "torture is not allowed" laws and proclamations is twofold:

1) Destroying people is bad mmkay? I think we can all agree on that.

2) It recognizes that any intelligence needs can be met by forms of interrogation that don't use such tactics.

And a not-at-all-morally-related but still valid reason is:

3) Using it carries very bad consequences for the perpetrators, PR, public support, support from allies, giving people who don't like you a reason to attack you.

So no, my argument justifies no such thing.

If you reply at all, you will of course weasel out of this by willfully twisting my words again to fit whatever you think they meant instead of what I actually wrote.
brokers often do not fulfill their fiduciary responsibility.

It's not uncommon at all and I've seen it happen quite openly in many situations. It's tricky business outside of the pure electronic game.
Are you trying to imply two wrongs makes a right?
Sometimes things are arguable and debatable, and sometimes the evidence is stacked on one-side so much that a contrary position is irrational.

Contraceptive access is a cornerstone of health policy in every developed nation. It has been endorsed by WHO and every study done has implicitly or explicitly has supported this position. What are the odds sdegutis has a good reason to object?
1. the photo you provided shows far more middle-class high rise dwellings than the low-lying tenament slums.

2. he was talking specifically about mexico city, not mexico as a whole.

the point is real, tangible progress is obviously being made, and that the work needs to continue. it's not "hopeless".
The bitcoin network's transaction verification mechanism, and all the hash power behind it (users) does give bitcoin "intrinsic value". Its true value comes from network effect.
Sort of building on my previous post and re: this post, there are interesting new ways of looking at video games as a sort of modern, digital puppetry and even digital performance. The idea is that as a gamer you are taking on a new persona and even an entirely new body and, with that, you act out different aspects of your personality or explore areas of yourself that you don't get to normally explore. It's interesting, of course, because people are drawn to so many different types of game, and so you can sort of see how they are expressing a normally repressed aspect of themselves. Violent video games in particular are interesting, because people are drawn to them for so many reasons. Sometimes someone is just violent by nature, but other times they are competitive (or they wish to be), or they are just looking for the comradeship that one gains from being part of a team. So playing video games can be really useful and highly therapeutic in that way.
If were playing that joke then a old geek would appreciate:

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Nothing is absolute, you might be hit by a meteor in the next moment. So what that there is a non-zero chance that if you're targeted by the right parties you may not be able to keep secrets?

Moreover, cryptography is more than just secret keys being kept secret.

For an example of cryptography which doesn't depend on secrecy, consider SNARKs (succinct non-interactive arguments of knoweldge): E.g. I can run a program and give you its output along with a compact proof that the output was the faithful output of the program. The size and complexity of verifying the proof is only a product of the cryptographic security level. Given cryptographic assumptions it is computationally infeasible for me to generate a fake proof.

The ability to prove the validity of execution in basically no more time than it takes the read the program being verified is a very powerful result of cryptography which doesn't depend on secrecy.

(The most efficient constructions of this currently need some secret data, but it's not a fundamental requirement)