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"Society" has not been really trying anything; when we'll see it educating people in having a healthier lifestyle, that is, eating less junk food and doing sports, then it's possible to state that something is being tried.

The problem is that in a culture where junk food is cheap and pushed 24/7, there is no tradition of healthy nutrition, and there is much unbalance work/life, such education is clearly impossible.
I call bs. I'm certain there will be a large scale problem with XP. However, that won't run in the reputation of MS, but rather the company still using it.
So, this is "let us track all your browsing activity" with a reward system and marketing that tries to leverage the trendiness of alternative currency, right?
But that could be an effect of people being hungrier, rather than the cause.

I think the most convincing clue that there is something nonobvious going on is that lab animals are also getting fatter, despite being on a standardized and controlled diet (http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101124/full/news.2010.628.ht...).
India of 1977 is vastly different from India of today. Today, IBM India is mammoth.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/I...

My point is this: Google may not be entirely in the clear. The big G does lots of shady things (thankfully its pals in the US govt. help it out each time). There are lots of shady things done by the Indian govt. Lets us wait for more details before condemning an entire nation.
Source that coke is harmful to your health?
I think the main point illustrates that they are designing self driving systems under the assumption a human can correct for error. That assumption appears to be flawed when looking at other domains. People pay less attention the 10% of time they are needed when they spend 90% of the time when they aren't. You need to have that in mind when designing these systems and they should be as Antifragile as possible.
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You have to also consider that China, is a centrally controlled authoritarian state. If the government says we want to build something here it is going to happen.

In the US you have a strong concept of individual property rights. The government can seize property through a process of eminent domain, but its difficult, takes time, and is politically unpopular.
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Hi David! Great to hear that you are doing well with LiberWriter. That definitely is a pain point for people.

I like that you kept the layout simple using only bootstrap. that's a lot faster & cheaper than doing a full blown design.
> Conservatives (somewhat correctly) consider bullying to be part of how society maintains is social structure.

Have you ever been bullied?
Perhaps the company and customers are aware that all supposed "miracles" are actually technology.
Tell me why are Coke and IBM back in India if it is so bad there?
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Excellent idea. :-)

I love the tone
This article brings out many salient points:

1. NSA has put far more effort in subverting security and privacy than supporting it.

2. Using corrupt practices like bribes to get back doors destroys the government's credibility. For example, DHS's cyber-security head is quoted in this article "We all have to make sure we get this right and we will, with full privacy and full civil rights...” Is there any doubt she would have to stand aside if DHS discovered an NSA exploit?

3. Until we know how the NSA collaborates with the US high tech firms on the PRISM list, we can't trust Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, or Apple. These companies have made denials without supporting evidence, and have made no effort to uncover the reasons behind why they appear on the PRISM slides.

4. By raising expectations on the sophistication and audacity of attacks, and by breaking down any limits on using private companies to enable attacks, NSA has substantially worsened the outlook for cyber security, and has done nothing to mitigate this problem.
Actually, vacation / time off shouldn't be an issue. I've been doing this for 15 years and now my product runs like clockwork. Generally unless I'm doing new dev work, I only have a few support emails per day. As long as I go on vacation somewhere where I can at least have wifi in the evenings and mobile data during the day to occasionally check my email, it's not a problem. Also I regularly take long breaks during the day, or take days off to go on trips somewhere. I think you need to do this otherwise you'll be in danger of burning out.

It also helps to plan for the worst. Right now my slight concern is lack of RAID on my server. However I back up every day to a separate disk on the server (plus offsite downloads every couple of weeks), so in the worst case it will probably just take me an hour or two to get most things up and running on a new server. Obviously not the best thing to happen on vacation though :)
What is the population density? How does it compare to major cities like NY, LA, or SF? If you look at the United States, you'll see that we do have areas with high population densities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by...
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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
Heh, for funs note how the circa 10 mg/L error bars drop off the free amino acid measurements in Table 3. Would've been embarrassing to have the effect barely bigger than the expected deviation...
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please see my other replies - I'm not endorsing bullying, I'm explaining why many conservatives don't think it's a problem.
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I have two daughters, a niece and a nephew who might be moving from Spanish Immersion this fall to classes that are more rigorous in math, science, etc. Maybe I'm your target audience., maybe not. When I look at your website, the last blog post and tweet are from 2010. It makes things look dead. We're not homeschooling but http://homeschoolspanishacademy.com/ looks a lot more active. Also, "fair trade" often seems to translate as "expensive". Education seems more valuable than coffee (now that I'm on my second cup) but not having any sense of what pricing or structure is like is off-putting.
If you can get your hands on an emulator, you owe it to yourself to try "The Castle" and "Castle Excellent", two of the best puzzle games ever created.

But do play them on an MSX; the NES version is nowhere near as good.
"Keeping the exact science under wraps" means "there is no science of note, we are charging a lot for household products".
Did you miss the bit where they used mice fed a calorie-rich diet as the control, and calorie-rich plus antibiotics as the experiment group? The latter got fatter.

Yes, yes, animal models != human results. But what about the experiments that were done on humans? The kids in Guatemala, or in Florida? The Navy sailors? I'm willing to bet they controlled for amount of food in those cases, and yet they all saw increased weight gain on antibiotics.

Net, that seems pretty indicative that it may not just be how much we're eating, and I think that's worth exploring further.
This is a New York State program, Bloomberg was mayor of New York City.
The energy requirements are magnitudes away, you could never do that for a "smart" device. By the way, we also have the much older self-winding mechanical watches which harvest body movement; those are pretty reliable and can also run indefinitely without maintenance.
The 1983 Malaysian plane crash mystery.
New York State. Not New York City. The program is designed almost entirely to exclude New York City.
There is a 2000+ year old patent on that.
Your random reference is funded by the ASAS which has every reason to promote industry practices that keep costs down:
https://www.asas.org/membership-services/member-information/...

However, you're right. This is a poorly written and researched article, and uses a fair number of unsubstantiated "radical" discovery claims to make the article more exciting than it would have been had an actual scientist been tasked to write it. But it's the NY Times ... they've got an agenda too right? (i.e. make money off subscribers and advertisers)
You're spot on. Archimedes said he could move the world with the right lever. Figuring out the right "angle" or abstraction for a task reduces the effort required and often reduces the complexity of the solution, and that happens more often "offline" for me than it does while staring at the code / problem.
I like reading about stories like this (from all the successful solo founders).

It proves that you don't need to get multi-million-dollar valuations to be successful and that the general entrepreneur is pretty content with the amount he/she is making (+1 to thousandaire).

These are stories entrepreneurs (who are realists) should read about and we'd probably all be better off avoiding those "billion dollar acquisitions" (for fear that it will consume us mentally, physically and emotionally).
It would be nice if we could do that here with comcast.
There are no common open source licenses which forbid commercial use, as that is against the various different guidelines for what constitutes open source or free software (the Free Software Foundation Free Software definition: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html, the Debian Free Software Guidelines: https://www.debian.org/social_contract, or the Open Source Definition: http://opensource.org/osd-annotated).

Probably the closest you can get in the form of commonly recognized license that meets those criteria is the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. It was designed for creative works (books, movies, music, and so on) rather than software, so it doesn't address some technicalities that come up in the software field, but it is a license which allows modification and redistribution but not commercial use.

However, you have to ask yourself, why do you want to do this? Are you planning on selling the software commercially yourself? If someone else happens to make some money by adding features to your software and releasing them back to the community for anyone to use (which they are required to do under the terms of the GPL), does that actually hurt you? Or if they don't change it and just sell it straight, why would anyone buy that over the free version?

Why did you voluntarily forfeit making any money, even donations? Would you accept donations if offered? How about accept a contract to add a particular feature? If you won't accept that, why would you want someone else not to be able to accept such an offer to add a given feature? If your users are willing to pay for development, but you don't want to accept the money, should someone else not be able to accept the money, put the work in, and release their changes under the same license?

I would recommend sticking to the GPLv3. Most of the kinds of commercial use that are actually objectionable, like adding proprietary features and selling that version at a premium, are not possible under the GPLv3.
My own product spread virally. I think that is about the only feasible way to do it. I've tried advertising a few times myself, but it never, ever pays for itself.
I can't really imagine putting something like "can use git" on a resume, seems far too fine grained. "Can use ssh"? Like applying for a job as a postman and writing "can tie own shoes" ... guess it depends on the level of proficiency that "use" is supposed to entail.
Correction: as was pointed out above, there isn't actually a whole byte of waste in this representation. It varies from 255 representations of zero, 17 of 10^-127, to only one representation of numbers that can't be shifted left or right without overflowing or losing bits.
> The guy is just a fucking idiot. Cant fix that.

Well, who's the idiot? The idiot or the one who took him on as a client?

Again, screen. Don't blame the client. Blame yourself for taking him on as a client and then do a better job of screening. This will come with experience.
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I run a small online game called RPG MO(http://rpg.mo.ee).
It gets about 20k unique visits every month. Money wise it generates enough payments to pay for the server and associated services and leaves a little for advertising as well. It doesn't cover all of my bills yet so I have to maintain a full-time job while studying in the university. I still have high hopes in this project though.
Well it's not surprising it seems like a truism to you, since a big part of conservatism is maintaining the status quo.

But to be more precise about the benefit that conservatives see in bullying: bullying can be thought of as a social pressure not to be (1) weak and (2) different. I know some people will think that I am blaming the victim with (1), but I'm not. I was bullied in school, and I was physically weak and tended not to stand up for myself. Many of my friends were the same. Anyway, many people see discouraging (1) and (2) to be good things. (1) because society needs people (at least) men to be strong and vigorous in order to prosper and fight external enemies, and (2) because if there is no pressure to conform, people might do anything they liked and completely ignore societal norms.
It may actually be true that drivers can correct for errors now because you've got generations of drivers that have grown up... driving. Take that away from them, and... assuming that a driver can 'correct for error' during the time when it's most likely to be problematic, and when the person hasn't had 20 years of day to day driving experience... it'll be a mess.
So what you're suggesting is that the taxpayer subsidize Amtrak's infrastructure, even though Amtrak runs a profitable business already and practically has a monopoly in northeast commuter rail.
Indian here

- Indiatimes is a hype machine

- They write stories for headlines with little or no depth
I ran Scribie. http://scribie.com.

I started it in August 2008 and was the only person working on it for 5 years. In 2013 we established our first QA center and now we are around 20.
Holy hell, Karmaloop is eyeing an IPO? That's insane, they were always this street wear boutique to me.
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The take-away, however, is that the commonly understood models for relating microorganisms to health, such as the ones that guide doctors' decisions and health policy, do not predict that antibiotics would cause animals to grow more muscle and less fat -- or have any similar effect -- and are therefore likely to be incomplete or wrong in important ways. Most plausible amendments to the models that would cause them to predict the effects we observe in farm animals would also cause them to predict that antibiotics given to humans could have similarly complex and large effects.
I think that tests are a way for programmers to replicate some of these moves. Have the expected outcome the goal, and ensuring that the internals will always work as expected.

By taking each component separately, by developing and iterating each little bit at the time, like a chess move, a good program can be made.

Perhaps those genius programmers who don't need to write tests do this process automatically.
Actually, the sales for Windows Phone increased, it was just the market share that was flat (as the market as a whole expanded). Be careful about the difference between flat market share and flat sales; they are not the same in a growing market.
Just want to say that I'm using Docverter to try to make a new business :D.
Wow! You're actually on HN! I've visited your site before, and you must see a lot of click-throughs from review sites, because you guys are up there with divshot and the other site-builders.

I'll also be testing out the linux client, and I'm sure that you are probably aware of the fact that a lot of web devs use some form of linux as their main desktop.
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Ugh. Let's talk about media.

Commercially speaking, media has one goal - procuring eyeballs. Just because eyeballs aren't fixated on a particular story doesn't make it sad, it just means it's not a compelling story.

So why is WhatsApp a compelling story?

1. Broke conventions - company only had 55 employees and valued at $19b. This isn't normal for us. A telecommunication company selling for $9.5b makes sense.

2. Story of triumph - the founder of WhatsApp was "from a small village in Ukraine". You can't get any more American than this my friends.

You see, America is quite possibly the greatest marketing engine in the world. This is what separates itself from the rest of the world. We are engrained story tellers, not because of some magical gene inherited, but rather because we know good stories sell well.
"New machine turns ingredients of wine into wine."

Film at eleven.
The post is negative because the productivity posts are bad and make HN worse.

The alternative is to post ANYTHING other than "These 5 weird things are making you procrastinate" and similar.
Do you have any research to show that exercise is effective in helping people lose weight?
Also Metal Gear!
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It's interesting how the paradigm on "designing a language" has changed. I was very young in the pre-web native-only days, but it seemed like then you would have people writing their own languages and compilers that were pretty independent of each other and could be radically different (Haskell, Erlang, Prolog, etc).

Now that the web is becoming the dominant environment, EVERYTHING is HTML/CSS/JS (on the client side). That little package truly feels like the Assembly of the web (which is bad because that stack is too structured and high-level to be a good compilation target). And so now everyone just writes a layer of sugar on top of HTML/CSS/JS. These little toys that "compile" one high-level syntax to a slightly different one.

On one hand it makes sense, because what else can you do? Any radical non-JS front-end tech you might come up with simply won't be adopted. There's a chicken-and-egg problem, where nobody can adopt it until the browsers implement it, and the browsers won't do that until enough people are using it. Google, one of the few entities that has the power to get around that, has received mostly negativity and disinterest for their efforts (Dart). Is that just because it's Google? It even compiles to JS, because you just can't do anything that isn't JS. Seems like a real problem, and this is coming from a huge fan of JS.
He went to Philips-Exeter. He wasn't exactly broke.
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An average person can't write "hello world" in an average web page, because to an average person that sort of technical ability is the province of mysterious web nerds. I'm assuming you mean "an average web designer" or some such.

Could you understand those setups in 3 minutes? No. But installing them is just a matter of copy-pasting a few lines of code from the creator's website. You can do that easily enough.
The article explores hypotheses about what antibiotics might be doing to human health. A quotation from one of the expert sources sums up the conclusion: "'It’s still too early to draw definitive conclusions,' Dr. Cho said. 'And antibiotics remain a valuable resource that physicians use to fight infections.'" A couple years ago, a participant here shared a data chart from Scientific American that appears to no longer be at the original source but which has been mirrored[1] at the website of the journal Nature. The data chart points out that all-cause mortality has been steadily decreasing at all ages during my lifetime throughout the developed world. This is roughly the time span covered by the interesting article kindly submitted here. If human intake of antibiotics (which, after all, in many cases are "natural" substances emitted by fungi to guard against being destroyed by bacteria) has increased, as surely must be the case, it doesn't seem to be hurting us much.

On the specific issue of body weight, "normal" weight ranges for a given height were defined years ago on the basis of statistics on weight distributions in the general population. Oddly, current mortality and morbidity statistics tend to show that the persons with longest expected lifespans are not persons with "normal" weight as defined by body mass index but rather persons who are (slightly) "overweight." (This is however, most true for "overweight" persons who have good cardiovascular fitness.[2]) So if today's population in developed countries weighs more than populations a generation ago, the issue to look at is how many people have shifted from underweight to normal weight, how many from normal weight to overweight, and how many from overweight to obsesity. Obesity is definitely harmful to health. Moderate physical exercise, the kind I get by substituting walking or bicycling to do errands for driving, is surely good for pretty nearly everyone, independent of other lifestyle factors. But it has yet to be shown that antibiotic intake in the current amounts experienced by human beings in the developed world is harmful. There has been investigation in the last decade or so of the hypothesis that some antiobiotics may be protective against heart disease,[3] for instance, although maybe not all antibiotics have the same risk-benefit profile.

[1] http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v307/n3/box...

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/195977021257786739/

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20118386

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC387430/
"undertook" - ROFL.
The crucial detail is that some small HVAC company may not even be using an "enterprise/business software product"... In fact they're probably still keeping appointments on a sheet of paper.
I maintain an inventory¹ of Markdown dialects, editors, parsers, stylesheets, etc. — basically just some lists with links. They’re in YAML, though, so you may want to add extra info (like a short description with pros/cons), and file a pull request. I am considering to split the list of editors² into one for native apps, and another for web-based implementations (such as EpicEditor).

[¹] https://github.com/rhythmus/markdown-resources
[²] https://github.com/rhythmus/markdown-resources/blob/master/m...
I've been running http://www.vladstudio.com (where I publish my wallpapers and other stuff) for several years, and for quite some time, it was my primary source of income. Unusual, because my premium accounts are not really a "product", but just a way to "like" or "donate".
Yeah, it's a tough balance to keep. I think that notability requirements are important to avoid Wikipedia from becoming an unmaintainable, unverifiable pile of junk; but that there are some people who are way to quick to delete or revert, some people who are way too protective of "their" pages, and some admins who are a bit out of control.

It's a tough balance to keep; I don't pretend to have a good answer for how to steer it in a better direction. I have been an off and on contributor to Wikipedia for years, but never enough to get involved in the politics or become an admin.