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I'm sure you have at least as much research and data backing your hypothesis as this article does. Please do link it so we can take a look for ourselves.

I'm sure you don't just have an unreasoning, politically-motivated, knee-jerk hatred of anything that strikes you as "environmentalist." That would be silly, after all.
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I didn't downvote you. Did you read the chapter I linked to? I'm guessing not, because it contains answers to your implied questions. In particular, how England might use solar and the fact that the argument above applies equally to wind. I also gave an example from the book for tidal energy. If you took the time to read the book you'd learn that solar panels are actually not that far off their absolute theoretical efficiency, so we're never going to get another order of magnitude from them, or anything like it.

Basically, from here on in I'm just going to be regurgitating arguments from a book that apparently you don't care to read, so I'm just going to leave it there. If you're really interested and not just trolling, the answers are in there.
Wikipedia says it is still available in "Algeria, Iraq, Yemen, Myanmar, North Korea, and possibly Afghanistan."
Nice project. I've been curious about internet (TCP, IP, whatever) over DNS for a while, but it always seems like a lot of work. Is there an X-over-DNS that's trivial to set up for Mac and phones? I'm aware that iodine works for those, it just looks .. complex.
Thank God for the corruptness of islam's implementation. After all, the real islam was by the prophet. Who, amongst other things, is a genocidal massacrer, paedophile, a thief and a slaver. Feel free to pick any of those adjectives and write the traditional muslim defense "yes, he massacred, but only because God asked him to kill those Jews", which of course makes everyting ok.

Yes there is no relation whatsoever between the wealthy class in Dubai and islam. No relation whatsoever. Doesn't exist. Nothing. Nada. Zilcho. Rien. There is absolutely no relation between the facts that islam pushes slavery, slavery was only outlawed in that region under pressure from Christian states and the fact that they are having a movement to undo that external influence and go back to their roots. I cannot see any connection at all here.

Why do people keep making defenses like this ? Do you honestly believe what you're writing ?

I note that you never actually refuted any of the claims I made. Let's take a few, so you might actually feel inspired to respond :

1) islam is a law system that includes inequality

2) islam defends slavery

3) islam demands homosexuals be put to death (actually worse: islam demands that victims of homosexual rape be summarily executed )

And you're right, these things are in theory. They do not even necessarily relate to real muslims (who of course they do base their behaviour to some extent on that system). Why is a system like the above (and this is just scratching the surface of islam's depravity) not summarily outlawed ?

Civilized beings have no use for this despicable religion. It should be attacked until it is gone from the planet, then serve the rest of eternity, without followers, showcased as an example of just how bad a religion can be.

and yes, I've read plenty of Roman and Greek texts, enough to know that homosexual rape was actually reasonably common in the Roman empire. And if you lower the definition of rape like we have done these days, ie. you count sex without use of actual violence but without consent as rape, then that was very common indeed.
he is trying too hard to sound like Ben Horowitz who he has admitted is his mentor, there is nothing original with this blog post
I take it to imply the 'system' they are programming is the distributed/concurrent complex they are running. To other people, 'system' is below that, and this is application programming, or "middleware"

It seems like at any level, you write the system, and applications are above.

-dB
here's an extremely engrossing thread on building a clone of the coveted Gibson '59 Les Paul (strangely enough, on a forum about Fender Telecasters).

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tele-home-depot/194271-1959-les-p...

the mixture of meticulous attention to detail (he rolled his own bumblebee caps) and sometimes simple yet clever methods was a joy to read.
How about having all of the following, only because you were lucky enough to be born to rich parents and no other reason:
- better parenting
- better education
- better nutrition
- better accommodation
- better connections
and countless other advantages over 99% of other people? Kids of billionaires having all that, and kids of poor people having nothing of that, seems to me the biggest injustice and the strongest argument against capitalism.
Milanovic's review of Piketty's book in The Journal of Economic Literature is Matt Yglesias's first recommendation for an in-depth treatment of Piketty's book:

http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/52384/1/MPRA_paper_52384.pdf
>An official executive statement on almost anything is a sign that X is a big problem. Otherwise they'd be focusing on something else.

I disagree. I think his point was that he is choosing to focus on culture over other tasks because it is the thing he values more than anything else. Wanting to improve something doesn't mean it is inherently broken. Ex. working out when you are already in great shape.

It's funny to me how most people in this thread assume his attention to the culture automatically means it's messed up. Can you not put conscious effort into things proactively?
Midgley is perhaps among the most damaging engineers the world has known: he is responsible for both tetraethyl lead additives to gasoline (the subject of this article) and chloroflorcarbons, responsible for damaging the Earth's ozone layer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley,_Jr.

This story is also a very strong argument toward both regulation of markets due to externalities (lead in gasoline and paint were defended vigorously by their respective industries for decades), and of the argument that there are some products and services which, despite being profitable to those dealing in them directly, impose a net negative cost to society as a whole.

Such activities are often difficult to recognize strictly because of the nature of externalities: they're diffuse, affecting many individuals, often incrementally in a small way, often indirectly and, in the case of environmental lead, with impacts lagging cause by decades.

This is also a very powerful case of negative impacts accruing largely due to socioeconomic circumstances not ascribable to the conscious and voluntary decisions of those directly affected: neither the infants and children exposed to lead, nor the victims of the criminal acts they transacted on a probabilistically greater scale, had entered into any sort of voluntary or legally recognized agreement with the manufacturers of leaded gas and paint. Punches a bit of a hole in that whole libertarian argument which promptly ... sinks like a lead balloon.
Cliche or not, in this case and many other cases, it remains true.
You're missing his point a little bit. He acknowledges that the rich will keep getting richer, and places like Harvard will continue to act as gatekeepers. But the intrinsic value of education will largely be available both to the rich and the non-rich. The credential and social signal of Harvard won't be, but the actual learning of things will.
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From the title of the article, it's apparently some kind of brothel.
>Thus the question remains: What kind of policy one exactly wants to base on 'human's irrationality'. And whether it is good to base policy on irrational behavior.

That isn't what people are saying. What people are saying is that Capitalism is predicated upon the notion that people are at least mostly rational actors who act in self-interest, and so a free market will give people what they want. The criticism of Capitalism is that humans are not mostly rational, and regularly don't act in self-interest, and this leads to large amounts of human suffering.

People like Piketty aren't looking to eliminate the disparity between "irrational actors" and "rational actors"^, or to increase the amount of "rational" behaviour, but to eliminate the human suffering that Capitalism is supposed to eliminate if it worked as claimed.

^ Which is not a synonym for "wealthy". What Piketty is talking about is wealth accumulating to the point where the skilled and hard working don't have upward mobility. The hereditarily wealthy don't need to be particularly "rational actors", they just need to not spend their wealth faster than it accumulates.

P.S. Even "rational actors" suffer losses caused by the irrationality of the market.
Nicely said. I don't know why you are downvoted :D
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Model checking deals with two kinds of properties - safety and liveness. Safety properties effectively say nothing bad ever happens while liveness properties say that something good will eventually happen. For example, "my program will never crash due to a null point dereference" is a safety property. "My arbiter module will output a grant for every input request" is a liveness property.

It is true that model checkers are much better are proving safety properties than liveness properties. I think it's not too far from the truth to say that model checkers are no good at proving liveness properties in real designs and that only safety properties work (somewhat well) in practice.

An alternative here is to abandon model checking altogether and focus on a powerful static analysis. I think the main challenge here is coming up with effective property specification schemes. A powerful type system like Haskell does in fact enable you to prove quite strong statements about your program. But you are inherently limited in terms of what you can prove to whatever it is that the type system can express. To me, it seems that model checkers allow more flexibility in specifying your property, especially when you take into account the fact that you can do your model checking on an augmented/instrumented version of your design.

> That's a different problem scale than "prove the whole thing works as specified".

On a vaguely related note, equivalence checking between designs, especially in the hardware context, is one thing that formal tools have had a lot of success with.
I cite:

> Of course, Mr Wilders leads the farthest-right party in the Dutch political landscape, one with which most Dutch parties have refused to cooperate.

False. The labour party announced a cordon sanitaire with them, but went on to propose legislation that this right wing party had described in their electoral programme, almost 4 weeks after the announcement.

The article concludes with:

> The fact that such statements are not welcomed in American public discourse is one reason why the American model of integration and tolerance works better than the Dutch model, and why the Netherlands continues to be wracked by tensions over Islam and integration—years after those tensions forced Ms Hirsi Ali herself to leave.

This is entirely nonsensical.
Why must an income gap mean that only the rich have good parenting, education, nutrition, and housing? Which of those benefits can you allocate exclusively to the wealthy in an argument backed by evidence? Poor school districts spend enormous amounts of money on students. In the span of half a century, we've moved from a society where the poor lacked electricity to one in which families below the poverty line have air conditioning, a car, and Internet access. His argument is that this is a result of price pressure caused by increasing competition driven by a need to keep capital invested in order to achieve the 'r' that Piketty talks about.
The norwegian countries(and maybe france) seem to indicate innovation would still happen in more socialistic countries with high taxes.
The only way to really be sure that you control your devices is to use free/open source software.
This is one of the reasons I use the built-in always-on VPN to stay connected to my firewall at home which then blocks all advertisements.

Another reason I do this is that ads are an attack vector, which I prefer to minimize.
That's just it: this article presents no data showing a definitive link between the two. Show me some evidence of that, and I'll be happy to agree with it. I agree with facts; not politically motivated opinions. It shows that one thing happened, and another thing happened. The tie (or, the much hated term "correlation") between the two is a stretch at best.
You can. https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/wiki/Using-libgdx-with-Cloj... (Bounce Away is a pretty fun game that uses both.) The problem I'm waiting for someone else to solve though (and maybe I'll just make it a side-project one day...) is a more idiomatic Clojure interface to LibGDX. Something like PyGame would be pretty sweet too, though PyGame is wrapped around SDL and the whole "blitting" pattern of getting stuff to the screen (which doesn't care if you're writing functional, oop, or procedural code) doesn't really work outside of 2D games.
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HN front page tends to concern itself with recently published news. It's a fair point that something doesn't have to be just-printed to be relevant, but I personally visit the front page and new page to stay up-to-date with what's new, and I appreciate the indicator of something that's not.
Sure, but that's a syllogistic non-sequitur. Norway drives innovation, the US drives innovation; either way, poor people get sharply increasing access to medical technology and services, not worse access (as an intuition of income inequality might suggest).
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... and in the meantime, the systems of thought (as I tried to argue in my other posts) that are erected to hide these basics behaviors will become increasingly intricate and complex and hide this very fact that people are people in increasingly interesting ways.

I believe, as I mentioned above, the idea that 'humans are not rational' is one of the latest such constructs to hide basic reality.

In a way, it is an interesting evolution of delusion, to the point where it gets extremely hard to avoid being drawn into it.

Thinking this line further, maybe the next restart will be rather due to the fact that the complexity is so big that people just accept reality?
All business-class planes (and airlines) have been extensively tested as an idea. They tend to only work on the longest routes (1).

I too try to get business class on anything above maybe 6 hours and certainly on overnight flights, but I think you'd have to be pretty rich to not flinch at spending 2x or 4x your normal fare just to sit in a larger seat for a couple of hours on a domestic flight.

(1) http://www.singaporeair.com/en_UK/flying-with-us/business-li...
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I am not aware of anyone. Would love to see this information on LA. Let me know if there is something I can do to help!
If the engines can be retrofitted to work on unleaded gas, that seems like the obvious way forward for the general aviation fleet, then.

I'm sure it won't be cheap. And this isn't just an abstract cost to me; although it won't hit me nearly as hard as some, I do belong to a flying club which owns two airplanes that would need the work. On the other hand, owning an airplane is painfully expensive anyway. Perhaps I'm off base, but it sounds like the unleaded retrofit wouldn't be too painfully expensive when, say, combined with a 2000-hour overhaul.

I'm sure there will be a number of aircraft owners who couldn't afford it and would have to sell their plane at a discount once the fuel cut over. I'd feel bad for them. On the other hand, they (we) are running pretty dirty machines that emit some nasty pollution, and it shouldn't be a big surprise that they (we) can't get away with that forever.

On one hand, the small size of the GA fleet means that this is a tiny problem compared to leaded gas use in cars. On the other hand, the general reduction in pollution in the US means that it's substantial relative to what's left. Leaded fuel used by GA accounts for almost half of all lead emissions in the country now, and that seems worth fixing.
Actual learning is only one of the multiple aims of college degree. One aim is also to improve career prospects in terms of better job opportunities and networking. And for that, Harvard has vast advantage over cheap online education.
It doesn't. You are correct. For any unencrypted WiFi but with a paywall / login page for actual usage - if the software is worth anything, DNS is hijacked and re-routed for unapproved clients.
In general, people who bring themselves to power tend to be extremely competent. Traditional classical Greek "tyrants" had a deserved reputation for solid, effective rule, but things would quickly fall apart after they died.

So whatever else we can say about Stalin, there's every reason to expect that he'd be more than able to talk about ideas.
Yes, but the two big names in C++ compiler technology—GCC and Clang—are largely compatible [1]. This is not the case with Lisp.

[1] http://clang.llvm.org/compatibility.html#inline-asm
Your feelings aren't material to the issue at hand. You're not supposed to feel good about CRLsets.

Google didn't invent this idea. It was suggested by the CABForum.

CRLsets are static, practically hardcoded revocations that every installation of Chrome receives. The idea that https://yourblog.com should expect specific consideration in Chrome updates is about as reasonable as suggesting that we revert back from the DNS to host files.
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Asus is also the company that ran an advertisement campaign titled "It's better with Windows".

No, thanks.
My friend and I built a couple fretted basses and guitars many years ago. We built the necks ourselves.

Fretting is not as hard as you might imagine. The basic math for the fret positions is straightforward: each semitone lower in pitch is 1.059463

2**(1.0/12)

farther from the bridge than the last. The fret wire is readily available. The nut may need to be a bit closer to the first fret than the math dictates, to account for its being a bit higher than the frets.

Building instruments by hand is very rewarding.
Yes in the case of Bluecoat for example, which also is used to setup paywalls sometimes, you hijack all HTTP/HTTPS traffic and redirect it to the bluecoat server. So DNS goes through and when the portal is submit nothing is done to permit DNS traffic in any type of firewall.

But maybe this is an example of a poor paywall.
All of the tor exit nodes on campuses with good journal subscriptions have disappeared or they have been marked as open proxies by the journal cabal. I used to be able to get any journal pub via an exit node at BostonU or GaTech.

dx.doi.org needs to disappear too. Two of the three ipv6 endpoints are always down and unbound never seems to shuffle the addresses in such a way I get the working address first:

dfc@ronin:~$ wget http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJICS.2014.059797
--2014-04-21 00:32:13-- http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJICS.2014.059797
Resolving dx.doi.org (dx.doi.org)... 2001:550:100:6::203, 2001:550:100:6::202, 2a00:1a48:7805:112:2c13:65be:ff08:2e89, ...
Connecting to dx.doi.org (dx.doi.org)|2001:550:100:6::203|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Connecting to dx.doi.org (dx.doi.org)|2001:550:100:6::202|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Connecting to dx.doi.org (dx.doi.org)|2a00:1a48:7805:112:2c13:65be:ff08:2e89|:80... connected.
Many app developers place ads where you hit them accidentally, especially kids games. I rarely hear of any crackdown on this practice lately. When I open my online marketing to mobile devices on Adwords initially the top volumes tend to be kids apps from these types of apps. I then have to go through them manually removing as I'll find some with 1,000+ clicks and not one sale (I usually convert around 25% on the main site I advertise for). Google have to know what they are doing and it feels borderline fraudulent, not like years back when they jumped on any click fraud.... but got-to keep them revenue numbers up.
It seems tautological to say that one of the benefits exclusively allocated to the rich is an ability to be rich. Stipulate that the rich are going to stay rich, or even get richer. How are you rebutting the comment upthread, which argues that regardless of income gaps, the quality of life gap is narrowing? Isn't the quality of life gap the more meaningful of the two gaps?
Ask HN: Interview Saturdays instead of interviews during work hours?
As I know people and as I have myself interviewed in places, it becomes pretty clear that the process itself is pretty awful. You have to take off from work and then meet the prospective employers - there is the obvious aspect of lying to your current employer as to where you are really going. Then the whole process becomes even more difficult when you want to evaluate multiple opportunities. Most startups want you to meet the team, and when I say team I mean the actual team, the CEO, the office manager, the spouse, the resident dog and the delivery man. The whole thing becomes this massive time sink which, although completely necessary, starts intruding on the day to day operations of the current job. Some folks dont have the luxury of quitting before looking and I was wondering if the concept of Interview Saturdays make sense? The prospective employers and interviewers can get through their day jobs without constant interview interruptions. The prospective interviewee doesnt have to lie or get behind on work. Everyone wins! Except Saturday, but then if you are in a hot startup, then tough shit. The time spent interviewing folks during the week will carry over to your nights and weekend anyway. This Interview Saturday will help you figure out people who are willing to make the sacrifices (Saturday gone) and will lead to less drawn out interview loops - also more efficient tracking of time spent on interviews if you silo the time.

What do you think?
I did. Not wholly impressed. Needs way more options regarding the presentation.
wait no more (I haven't tried it)? https://github.com/oakes/play-clj
As someone who grows corn (in a country where the crop is not subsidized, I might add), the way I see it is that we're going to grow the corn anyway, so turning it into fuel is better than letting it rot away as was happening before the ethanol program was put into effect.

The problem is that our crops need to be rotated. Corn seems to be the only crop that fills the gaps that is also compatible with the equipment we use to grow other grains. The market doesn't give us incentive to shell out millions more for equipment to grow crops that are a radical departure from what we're already growing (grains and oilseeds for human and animal consumption).

It's far from perfect and is really a stopgap measure, but I'm not sure what the alternative to growing corn is. That is the problem that needs to be solved. It's not simply a matter of no ethanol = no corn grown. The corn is going onto the market regardless. At least ethanol can recapture some of that energy.
Pac-Man was introduced in 1980. Many of the children who grew up with it have gone on to spend a lot of time eating pills in the dark while listening to electronic music. The link is clear.
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