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I'm uncertain about the strong form of your #2, for the following reason.

Suppose you desire to be a billionaire (and stay one -- it's not that you want to get $1B so that you can give most of it away to deserving recipients, or use it to lobby governments to improve the world).

In particular, you would prefer to have $1B than to have $0.5B in your hands and $0.5B transferred to the world's poorest people.

The thing is, half a billion dollars can do a lot of good. A typical estimate is that you can save a life (i.e., something like a life's worth of quality-adjusted life-years) for a few thousand dollars, if you're happy for it to be a life in what used to be called the "third world" and if you take care to put the money where it can be used most effectively. Let's be conservative and suppose it's $10k/life.

So our hypothetical would-be billionaire would rather have $1B than have $0.5B and (5e8/1e4) = 50,000 Africans' lives saved.

I'm sure it's very nice to be a billionaire, but damn.

Something like this sort of prioritization of one's own welfare applies to pretty much all of us, of course -- would you rather have a car or save a life? would you rather have a slightly larger house or save ten lives? etc. And maybe this means we're all monsters. But, so far as I can tell, the difference in personal well-being between having a billion dollars and having half that is really small, and the difference that money could make to the lives of others is really large, and it does seem extra-specially monstrous to prefer that really small difference to saving tens of thousands of lives.

So I really do think there's something morally iffy about a very strong desire to be dirty, rotten, filthy stinking rich, in a way that there isn't about a desire to be merely rich. Wanting to have, say, $10M seems to me morally quite a different sort of thing from wanting to have $1B.

Of course if you want to have $1B and then give most of it away then, please, go for it. As long as you select the recipients of your largesse with some care. Likewise if you have other plans for your billion that involve having beneficial billion-dollar-sized impacts on the world. Fund important scientific research, bribe politicians to do things you think are valuable, whatever. What strikes me as problematic is wanting to have and keep all that money. You don't need it that badly. Really, you don't.

("You" above, of course, doesn't mean you personally.)

[EDITED to add one more remark (because the above wasn't long enough already). I'm assuming that "want" means something like "seriously intend, to the best of your ability" rather than just "find yourself with some sort of desire". People want all kinds of things and that doesn't have much moral significance until they start actually trying to get them.]
Cameldrop.com
Hi guys, I have just built this quick web app to share and view files, presentations in lecture halls, hope you like it. (http://cameldrop.com)
Not much different from Stockholm....
The post to which I replied said "[m]ost staunch opponents", not 'some opponents'; I would like to know where the 'most' comes from.
That's an insane price.
There are many contenders for the title. E.g., I'm thinking of one about Cole Porter that focused on his heterosexual love affair ...
Just to be complete: rtc.io has a signalling server at https://github.com/rtc-io/rtc-switchboard . Choice of library is up to you. :-)
They are cheap in Australia as well since so many people drink tea. I had a $10 one which lasted for years.
I'd say in general they allow different types of risk to be stripped out from investments and passed on to people who specifically want to take them. That makes it easier for businesses (and individuals) to make plans. For instance a company could invest in a foreign market but hedge out the FX risk. They could even find a company in the foreign market who operates in their country and do a currency swap, meaning both parties get rid of unwanted risk.
The design is American, the manufacturer is Italian. And I believe the design for that kettle in particular was done in New Jersey.
- I think indentation is one of the things emacs does best tbh.

- For jumping between files, did you try ido-mode?

- Evil in emacs is very well integrated if you're into vim emulation. You can just do package-install evil.

- I don't use html/javascript so I can imagine issues with conflicting major modes or less than ideal minor modes.

I'll be honest, your struggles to me seem somewhat strange but glad you seem to have found something that works for you. Everybody has different requirements. For me, the ability to write lisp to add whatever I want is a huge win (it's really the only reason why I settled on Emacs + Evil over vanilla vim). It's when you code in languages like Haskell or Macaulay that you really start to see Emacs shine.
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>>>> All fonts in Chrome-Windows look awful once one is used to Firefox or Internet Explorer's rendering.

Kind of hard to imagine IE actually renders something better than Chrome. I thought that would be enough to get them motivated to get this corrected. Guess I was wrong.
Most importantly, why are Ninefold's monthly packages more expensive (assuming a 30-day month) than were you to use their hourly rate in their calculator?
a. My bad for using chem e as an example. Switch in K-12 teachers instead and the comparison vs. humanities academics works out about the same, modulo more complaints about working conditions.

b. Humanities PhD programs also have enormous dropout rates. And many dropouts also end up in bad shape. I'm ignoring them too, so in the context of the breathtakingly unscientific anecdote, it's even.

c. Besides which, survivorship bias is probably not even in the top three things that make my personal anecdote not a valid scientific experiment. It's obviously not good empirical evidence for many other reasons.

Look, the basic point is, fields that people "love" but which are very hard to get jobs in, such as academia, the arts, architecture, nonprofit human services work, journalism, modeling, video game design, etc. do not tend to actually make them happy in my personal observation and experience. Another point is that I think people in high-demand fields tend to have more life satisfaction.

Things I did not address: getting a degree vs. getting a job/career; are the humanities terrible?; which specific high-demand career should one choose?; what happens if one can't hack chem e/nursing school?

I don't know the answers to most of those questions. Failing out of nursing school? I really don't know what to tell you. Would it have been better if you passed as a fine arts major? Possibly. But I'm more concerned about careers than about degrees here. If you graduate with a fine arts degree and go into banking you may be better off than the nursing school dropout, if you try to seriously pursue a career as a sculptor you are probably going to be worse off, unless you have family money.

I really am not offering advice on what career to choose, besides pointing to one big superclass of jobs that are probably a bad idea to pursue and another big superclass that are probably a better idea.

Sorry this got stuck on chem e. I don't know any chiropractors, otherwise I would have used them.
Seems like a modern version of seo rule bending.
Sidenote: You can tell Woz is an amazing genuinely good person with no hint of pretension or self importance.

A lot can be discerned about famous personalities by who they choose to follow. For example, you can tell whether the person has little utility for social networks but maybe started out following a scattering of experts relevant to their interests.

Usually though, the personality is using their handful of followed people as an importance signalling factor. Often they will be following somewhere between -5e6 to 10 hugely important to unbelievably hugely important people; people with names like Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, Paris Hilton, Bono, Lord Vishnu and Kanye West.

On the other hand we have those like Steve Wozniak - following nearly 5000 people and deigning to reply to someone even the likes of HN commenter OGC is completely unaware of.

That is, in all seriousness, an incredible sign of sustained humility.
> Correction: this is what happens when poor Cherokee receive a stipend, but let's not pretend that the Cherokee are the ones we're worried about here. [...] Successfully repeating this experiment in poor black and latino populations a few times would [...]

I can't be sure what you intended to say here, but the message it sounds to me like you are implying sounds quite racist to me.

I DO care about poor Cherokee -- and poor humans in general. I have little reason to believe that any particular racial group would behave differently. You seem to be implying that blacks or latinos have a "different subculture" particularly in how they "treat money". I have no idea why you would believe this and unless there is good evidence to support it I would speculate it is probably just prejudice. I say that because, historically, essentially every one of the "racial differences" (especially the mental ones) that have been claimed have turned out to be baseless and untrue.

You also seem to be suggesting that there's a psychological difference between money received as federal assistance and money received from "one of their own casinos" because of considering it "theirs". That's an interesting claim. If true, then perhaps it suggests that a stipend program, if one were to be set up, would best be presented as if it were an earned entitlement or payout -- rather like we do with Social Security.
There was one excellent biography of Bill quite some time ago. The part I could verify personally (and there was a lot) was almost all correct, and whatever the exceptions were weren't bad enough for me to recall them now.

I don't see it on my shelf now, but I think it was http://www.amazon.com/Gates-Microsofts-Reinvented-Industry-H... The cover looks familiar, the year is about right, and I have a vague memory of the author being named "Steven".
I would say that in most cases, people need to redefine importance in a way that is hard to accept. There is no need for scare quotes. The value is real, and when a person earns a certain amount, it's because the produce that much value (finance is kind of exceptional, in that there is a mix of true value and rent-seeking).

Now how can it be that nurse practitioners don't produce that much value? It is because the relevant quantity is the marginal value of an additional nurse practitioner, not the average value. And why is it fair to pay people according to their marginal value, and not their average value? That is because it incentives the most efficient behavior. An additional software engineer is worth more to society than an additional nurse. The fact that getting rid of all nurses would be worse than getting rid of all software engineers (assuming this was true) is irrelevant, because as people quit the nursing profession, wages will rise.

So the problem is not capitalism, but people's inability to accept that the implications of economics theory: first, that there is no ethical reason to reward people for the average value of a person in their profession, as opposed to the marginal value, and second, that frivolous things like Twitter can be as valuable as medical services (if people are willing to pay as much for either).
What's the opposition to MSG? I was under the impression that it was fine, though that there was a possibility that some people have adverse reactions to it — but if you're not one of those people, it's nothing to be concerned about.
It does work best with the signaller from the rtc.io suite:

https://github.com/rtc-io/rtc-signaller

That said, it wouldn't take much to write an signalling client that followed the basics of the messaging format if you did want to roll your own:

https://github.com/rtc-io/rtc-signaller#signaller-message-ha...
I think we can all agree that what's happening with bananas is not a healthy state of affairs. I was just trying to clarify that asexual reproduction doesn't exclude natural selection, and was using bacteria as an (admittedly not perfect) analogy.

I guess if you had simply said that there's virtually no selection pressure, you wouldn't have triggered my nitpick reaction. :)
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If you have ever written a standards draft, they are exclusively in plain text.

For examples, load up http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc821.html and start scrolling.
Same utility? Not if you fear your $10 plastic kettle so much that, after a single circuit-breaker throw, you have to discard it!

Never mind the $39 kettle. Totaled over ten years, the $150 kettle's seemingly-tiny advantages in reliability, capacity, features, and style over the $10 kettle can be worth way more than its $140 price premium.
Napwell hits Kickstarter goal for mask that enables the perfect power nap
Norwegian Dreamliner leaks fuel with passengers onboard
My community college offers electronics courses. I've taken only one to date but I feel like it really helped me learn basic EE skills better than a book or online tutorial did. It also helps that they have a proper space setup to tinker and a budget to hand out basic components. My suggestion would be to see if your local CC does the same.
"Over $100 million invested in our own hardware means big scale, better performance and a lower price per delighted user. "

This coderfactory article is actually a good advertisement for Ninefold in my opinion. I hope they charged them plenty, considering the fact that Ninefold is apparently rich. And if I were a Rails dev, I would probably check it out, if I didn't know about Digital Ocean or bash/Ubuntu stuff.

But $100 freaking million in hardware? ??
An old system and a SWAT team
His definition of "serious languages" pretty much precludes the post from taken seriously.

There are some CL folks that are real bitter about the success of Clojure.
It looks bad because they have a large liability on there balance sheet. Also you have to remember that your leave entitlement stays the same if you get promoted/ pay rise so the organisation actually has to pay more then what they've offset
I'm not suggesting that they pay you less and pocket the difference; if it was bad, that would be reason alone to leave. Instead I'm suggesting that there are reasons to stay at one job instead of automatically changing to another, better paying one, and that people are not being foolish by remaining at the lower-paying one. This happens all the time when people are working on a startup, for example.
You know what, I'm not a vegetarian - but that Quorn stuff looks interesting.

Low-fat, high protein - and it's mushrooms! (I like mushrooms...haha).

I might see if it's available here in Australia - how do you find the taste? And do you use it as a major component in your diet?
I'm always surprised people yell about the U.S. not wanting to help those in poverty. I think that's pretty well refuted by noting that the U.S. is #1 in charitable giving.

Pah.

There's no way that you can assess a how well a society helps its poor simply by looking at one metric (like charitable giving) alone. It's just silly, on the face of it.
A company isn't affected by who holds the stock. If I decide that I don't want to hold a stock in a company building a bridge across a river, and sell it to Jack, why does that change the company's desire to finish the bridge?
I've been meaning to buy a kettle, and this post made finally pull the trigger. I absolutely love my Zojirushi rice cooker, I have a Zojirushi thermos for my coffee which is perfect, and now I'm going to have a Zojirushi CV-DYC40 kettle. These (along with my Vitamix) are the only appliances I constantly take with me when I move.
To be fair and not to mischaracterize the situation, I have been programming in lisp for at least 5 years in personal projects, so it's not like I had to learn it now and I also did not convert from Ruby to lisp.

I never liked Rails. I don't like anything that focuses on files, because in my mind the fact that code needs to be saved in the filesystem is simply incidental, so no code should rely on that fact; but Rails builds on top of that, telling you where to put your code (folder structure), taking control from you over what code sees what code (MVC), giving you command-line tools to use when it could simply provide functions at a REPL (gems, migrations, tests), etc. It simply doesn't get it at all.

In my opinion, a framework (loosely speaking) that solves only the easy problems (how to organize code) is pointless. But something like an FRP library that allows me to do GUI by focusing on how I want to transform data, and liberating me from thinking about events and callbacks - THAT to me is something that solves a hard problem.

So to answer your first question, I'm happy not to need to touch Rails again - right now I only need to look at it, rewrite it in Racket, and delete it.

Racket is a much nicer system than Clojure, it has immensely intelligent people behind it, the documentation is stellar (unbelievably so, in my opinion), there are libraries for everything you can imagine and more (like an FRP library). It also does native GUI everywhere, effortlessly. For things it lacks, it is easy to write an FFI.

I would never touch Java nor trust any library written in Java. The more I code the more I distrust code that relies on mutability. I haven't reached 100% pure code yet but I work towards that goal, not away from it.

EDIT: Yes, I am using Racket for a webapp that connects to a database and perform general CRUD operations.
They also neglected to include any information on the radiation dose you get from the radioactive potassium in an ordinary banana.

Brazil nuts are also naturally radioactive, as are a few other foods.
folklore.org, a site maintained by Andy Herzfeld, also has some good tidbits about the rest of the Apple and specifically the Mac team.
I'm using http://Newsvi.be. Love it.
Anyone here read Emotions Revealed by Paul Ekman? I think after reading this book it has helped me better to understand and connect with people's feelings. Building empathy isn't just about listening to people. It is also about understanding their body language, choice of words, tone etc.. More can be read from the body then what they are saying.

An interesting point of view is presented in a book Brain Rules for Baby by John Medina. He talks about how technology is destroying a growing mind to develop Empathy. Kids these days are more engaged on their smart phones messaging friends vs spending time in the play ground with them face to face. Their ability to build empathy by human to human communication is diminished. We are then left with kids that have social skill issues and instead of treating the root cause doctors push drugs into them. A spiral down into oblivion.
Please read the article. He's talking about temperature-controlled kettles. Yours only shuts off when boiling.
There are a lot of Cat lover sites http://voices.yahoo.com/top-ten-cat-lover-websites-2026893.h..., but it will be funny too
A mechanical spring thermometer that goes from 0 to 120 degrees C costs ~£3. Add a microswitch and a relay and you should be fine.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Budget-Surface-Pipe-Thermometer-/3...
Learning How To Avoid Mistakes
"A Beautiful Mind" is the worst I've ever seen:

- Most characters didn't exist, they are *inspired* by real persons
- He never had visual hallucinations, only auditory
- The hallucinations started *after* college
- He and his wife divorced in 1963, they only remarried in 2001.
- The pen laying and the Nobel ceremony never happened
- Near the end of the movie, he say he's taking "new meds" while in real life,
he stopped taking them after the mid 70's and he's vocal about it.
The scenarist added it because he or she feared it would encourage people
not taking med.
- Etc.
I tend to agree with the argument that "freedom of speech", as generally construed, is a thing that binds governments, and not private parties.

Sometimes, however, that's a spurious distinction. This is one of those times.
That isn't to say Jobs didn't have his own talents, but he had to find the best way to use them. He said himself that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that happened to him. Some would argue that the later years w/ the iMac, iPod, iOS, etc wouldn't have happened without this.
Ask HN: I built this web app (Camel drop)
Hi guys, I have just built this quick web app, it allows anyone to share and view presentations and files in lecture halls. But since I am new to HackerNews I am unable to announce it hear. Can some one help me out with this and provide me with feed back.

Regards
Keshav(keshab@uw.edu)
@oracuk yes that would explain it.

I was wondering since there are rumours (http://techrights.org/2013/11/24/tpm-back-doors-patriot-act-...) of possible RedHat being too close to the NSA who is to rule out similar interests or ties between GHCQ and Ubuntu? Canonical is a UK company which could easily be convinced to add certain features. (see also privacy issues http://beta.slashdot.org/story/182197)

@wiml please see the link provided by @oracuk and also below:
http://www.zdnet.com/uks-security-branch-says-ubuntu-most-se...
http://www.muktware.com/2014/01/ubuntu-12-04-lts-declared-se...
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/linux...
Didn't Stalin try this?
Fly Or Die: 3D Systems Sense Scanner
Yap this is a brilliant piece from Scott Adams. Being systems-oriented gives you no cap to what you can achieve.
It works like ssh. When you send or receive securely, you can see a fingerprint of your peer's public key, and a fingerprint of your own public key. Your peer sees these too.

To mitigate MITM attacks, ask your peer for their public key fingerprint using something other than WireOver: phone, SMS, email, PGP email - whatever you're comfortable with. That's your "second factor of authentication".

Your approval is cached so you only need to do it once.

We'll better explain this on the website.
I've always found it odd that people would prefer an all-touch panel in a car. I find the knobs and buttons to be useful because they offer tactile feedback. I don't have to look away from the road to turn my volume up or to switch a track. The car is one of the few places where knobs/buttons make sense to me. Maybe I'll be eating my words in a few years.
http://cameldrop.com
Worth mentioning that you probably don't even need a library. The WebRTC API is not obtuse.
The employer I worked for operated under one of the 2 systems allowed by New Zealand law. Leave is accrued as a percentage of hours worked. Overtime and penal rates could have one of two effects. Either the hourly rate payed out when on leave was increased, or the amount of leave you got increased as you did more shifts, call etc. They did the latter. The odd bit was that you earned leave while on leave (which I supposed has to happen). So after I was paid out when I left, I wrote to them and asked if the 3 months leave owed entitled me to an extra percentage as I'd have earned leave while on leave had I taken it. They paid me. So I wrote again, and they paid me again. Obviously this had rapidly decreasing returns, but it struck me as rather funny.
It doesn't bug me much other than having to self-host font files and ensure they're in the hacky order to fix Chrome's issue. Then again, I don't use Chrome other than for testing web pages. I run Firefox on Windows and Android and sync them. When Firefox first started using DirectDraw, there were some issues with fonts, but Mozilla made it a priority and got it sorted relatively quickly (lightning fast compared to Chrome's font bugs).
J isn't on the home row! Are you being qwerty-centric?
I like to think that often the main difference between cheap and expensive is the amount of QA done so I don't have to do the testing for the manufacturer. Though that's probably very naive on my part.
The Problem With Facebook
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