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Comments are interesting too, e.g.:

On Mann, or one of those other remote British islands, bird conservationists noticed (some years back, before the internet, so I don’t have a link) that there were a lot of gulls or terns or whatever with one wing or a shortened wing. On further inspection they also found a lot of chicks with zero heads (they did not survive this). The enigma was studied, and it turns out that the grazing sheep there were regularly grazing of bits of nest-bound pre fledglings probably because of a lack of calcium and/or other minerals in the local soil, and thus, generally, food chain (and dirt … grazers also eat dust every time they eat anything, which includes minerals).

Because the sheep were good at snipping, the amputations were often clean enough that the chicks would grow to one-limbed adults.

or:

About Indian cows: Europeans are unaware that lots of city cows in India rarely have a chance to nibble at any grass or leaves. They feed on paper, torn cloth, household scraps and small quantities of food stolen from market stalls. It was amazing that if you drop a bit of paper in India, the nearest cow turns with interest, comes and eats it.

Re: Well, I’m one European who is certainly aware of this :) Some of my friends watched an Indian cow consume paper and other material from a burning fire… you have to feel sorry for these animals if they are really this desperate.
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cross fit is really an infiritating thing. The people who do it are sometimes diehard fans with absolutely no knowledge of how to build strength or an "elite athlete". A lot of people just like the brand...

But the diehard fans aren't the worst part. Cross fit the organization loves to shut people down who speak poorly of them. They also have made a lot of unsubstantiated claims about the type of results that can be expected by following cross fit programming (which is laughably bad). Its also thought that they run the cross fit games unfairly since there is a conflict of interest in sponsoring their top athletes and putting on the cross fit games where their sponsored athletes and no sponsored compete.

The worst part is the bad programming and the dangers of having a coach who is instructing you to do things that are obviously bad ideas. Extremely high rep oly lifting is a reciepe for disaster since the lifts are very skill based.

With all that said. One thing about cross fit is really good. They have got people training with barbells and started a lot of people down a path where they can start getting information they need to train better and smarter. But I'll be saving my 100 a month..
It also comes with pronounced income uncertainty. Software gigs run 2-5 years very typically. Spending 6-12 months in a job search (there are bust times as well as boom) when you've got mouths to feed is particularly stressful.
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So, basically you want a uniform way of defining data structures that can use different kind of indices on different fields. Let me add a few more desiderata to your list:

- It would be cool if these data structures could be transparently saved to disk, because data usually lives longer than code;

- It would be cool if they could be used by multiple applications, with some sort of guarantee that each application sees a consistent view of the data at any particular time;

- It would also be cool to have a declarative language for accessing several of these data structures at once, "joining" them on the values of certain fields and dynamically picking the best indices to use. Since you want a marketplace of implementations, it would make sense to standardize that language, so different data structure libraries can support it. A good name for it would be Structured Query Language, or SQL for short.

Tl;dr: You are completely right that network databases (object graphs and special-purpose data structures) are inferior to relational databases (declarative general-purpose data structures that separate querying and indexing, and allow a host of other general-purpose functionality). That idea has the potential to transform the whole software industry and lead to billion-dollar profits, as it has amply demonstrated since the 1970s. But since today's programmers are a forgetful lot, perhaps you could rebrand the idea and sell it to them as "Big Data 2.0" or something.
It's even more complex with women. Their perception of male attractiveness is also tied into where they are in their menstrual cycle.

Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16848141
That's the weirdest thing about US police series.

When I was younger, I never really believed that sort of thing actually happens for real, just thought it was an over-used fictional "cleverness" trope. I mean it's so obvious this is going to lead to abuse and false confessions if actually used for real-life confessions, I figured it had to, because in a TV-series you can assume that the police are the smart/good guys so they could safely use this clever (if somewhat unfair) trick to get the (obvious) bad guys.

As I got older, and perhaps as the themes in TV series got a little more complex, I started wondering sometimes, how are these even the good guys? For all they know they are now convicting an innocent man or woman, by pressuring them into confessing to a crime with the only leverage being "an offer they can't refuse" (a much larger sentence).
Seeing this thread made me remember to vote - with half an hour to spare. Thanks HN!
pua is usefull only when you want to get sex, but honestly considering the time you have to put into mastering pua, you can safely get a second job and pay for hookers, at least it'd be less random.

Also the book was utter garbage i've read around 30% of it and fell asleep.
I'm sure it is a simple change. The hard part is to find out where exactly should you do that simple change and how exactly should you do it. If you do not have experience with related APIs, you will need a day for googling and reading. Eclipse framework is huge and not all its parts are immediately understandable.
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I believe in a fair living wage but high wages often just mean high cost of living. Unless your purchasing power improves it is kind of pointless. Australia's minimum wage is double the USA but everything costs twice as much.
The existence of ugly people is proof that their ugly parents did mate.
> With package management systems standardized within a language (such as Go) the problem domain is reduced

I postulate the problem domain changes. I don't have experience with Go's package management system or NuGet, but I do with PHP's Packagist (Composer packages).

Finding packages is easy; evaluating their quality, if they do what they claim, and how buggy they are.. not so much. The problem's shifted to become one of too many libraries for any task, most of which are a liability in any project.
So old, its capacitors grow hair :)
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Git and foo works too! :)
Developers in SV are overwhelmingly male, and generally of European, East Asian, or South Asian heritage. There are very few who are of backgrounds more typically found engaged in janitorial services, typically Hispanic or black.

Pointing out the skewed demographics, if not outright racism and sexism in the software world, is quite on point in the context of TFA.
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The article criticises the cheap prosthetic hand.

Sure, it'd be great if better prosthetics were available at an affordable cost. They're not.

The competition is DIY prosthetics using old soda bottles and hot air.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Yvev6shNvSg
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Fifa Worldcup being authoritatively facilitated in Europe and is broadly known as the Football world cup 2014. This tournament this year is asserted to be more glamurous and energizing than at any time in the past. Brazil champ Berti Vogts is known as Der Terrier for his persevering determination and constancy, he made 96 instances for west Germany, turning him to be a champion amidst the most dominating players in his country history.
Given how the swiss usually vote this has no chance to pass. And FYI lots of countries are doing this "experiment" with decent minimal wages,Switzerland is more in exception among western countries than the norm.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_coun...
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The Cabal met four days a week, six hours a day for five months straight, and then on and off until the end of the project. The meetings were only six hours a day, because after six hours everyone was emotionally and physically drained. The people involved weren’t really able to do any other work during that time, other than read e-mail and write up their daily notes.

I find this a staggering amount of work for the planning stage of a game. Is there anything like this amount of planning at games outside of Valve?
The article makes a good case for "when they get to know you, some of them will fall for you."

When I was still young and at least somewhat cute, I remarked to a friend how depressing it was that women always go for rich and arrogant men. My friend's reply absolutely changed my perspective on this: by choosing socially well-accepted and successful men they actually place a lot more emphasis on the inner values than males do. In a very real sense, women love you for who you are (=rich and successful) as opposed to what you look like (=a characteristic you can't do much about).

Contrast that with male perception, if you think a girl is attractive, everything she says suddenly sounds meaningful and important. Of course the article is correct, once you actually get to know people, this changes. But for getting the foot in the door so to speak, attractiveness and an aura of importance respectively are probably still the most important vectors.

I just want to mention for completeness' sake, and only because it would be taboo to express this in a magazine article: if you're really unhappy with the dating rat race, and it's genuinely not realistic for you to improve your chances by optimizing these superficials, it is possible to just opt out of everything. I know it's controversial and for some reason it upsets a lot of people when I tell them that I just stopped. Contrary to popular belief, this mating thing is not something which you absolutely must accomplish. I've crossed to this other side, and it's really really peaceful here. ;)
Always good to keep in mind when this kinda "evo-psych" stuff is brought up:
http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2010/06/30/mr-10-09/
Well it is their income being taxed, why do you feel they should feel obligated to give a portion of it up? (keyword: obligated) they obviously do not.
I rather like this interpretation of the male-female friendships and why this 'friend-zone' thing exists. I'm not sure how much I agree with it currently, but it's food for thought:

http://deepfriedcalamari.tumblr.com/post/10839417292/homosoc...

In particular:

> Homosocial bonding is different between men and women, and this causes a lot of confusion and why it’s assumed that men and women cannot be friends.

> Men see their friendships as camaraderie, hanging out, occasional complaining, and chilling. There’s plenty of support mechanisms in place, but they’re not intimate, per se.

> Women on the other hand are intimate, affectionate, they talk more about how they feel than how things happened. The support mechanisms are explicitly intimate.

> So, men who are not used to intimate physical contact and discourse have to translate a person of the opposite sex being physically and emotionally intimate beyond the boundaries of relationships he is used to.

Again, I don't want to generalize the linked text, but it was very accurate when I reflected on my own 'friend zone' experiences, and those my male friends have had.
Or, to use the desk analogy: if you just want a desk, you generally don't learn the basics of carpentry; you just go to IKEA (or a furniture store).

(Which is a great thing for carpenters and furniture store owners. We're those people in the analogy, so why get uppity about people needing our services eventually?)
Niggers like Wonderbread. You cannot get a nigger to eat wheat bread.

Tinker toys suck. Legos are awesome.

Facebook sucks. It is nonintuitive. They try to make you do shit through coersion. Crappy. Little bastard trying to make me do certain shit.

God says, "Woe to those who mislead the little ones."
How would a program pass the fit and proper "person" test :-)
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The reverse is why I'll never get a tattoo... or at least today I won't.
It is true, and it's caused for evolutionary reasons.

When people have sex, the woman is in a much more dangerous place than a man.

Having a baby for a woman is very costly. She needs someone to protect her while it happens and to help raise the child.

The cost for a man is very low. He only needs a couple minutes to do his part in making a baby, then he can leave at any time.

So with that in mind, lets say the scenario is like this:

If a man impregnates a woman and he stays, the chance the baby survives to reproduction is 90%.

If a man impregnates a woman and he leaves, the chance the baby survives to reproduction is 10%.

So with those statistics, the man is actually in a very advantageous position.

As long as he impregnates 10 or more women in his lifetime, he is ahead than if he had stayed with the same woman for all his life.

Of course, the more healthy the woman, the more likely the baby is to survive even if he leaves. Beauty = healthy in evolutionary terms. If the woman is pretty, maybe she can even get another guy to raise his kids for him! So men seek beauty primarily.

So for a man it is genetically superior to impregnate multiple women (which generally means not staying too close to any of them).

A female on the other hand, can only have children a few times in her life. And she only gets a few shots at it.

If the man leaves, her shot is very likely to end up in failure.

So the woman needs to be very picky about who she has children with. She needs to judge his character, to see if he will stay with her and raise the child. And defend her, fight off aggression, etc..

So to a woman, character is more important than beauty, because that's what determines if her genes survive or not.

Erotic fiction is a billion dollar industry and the vast majority of buyers are women. Manly man stories = porn for women.
Talk of "social good" seems fairly shallow when you are failing accessibility pretty spectacularly. Obvious example being not having alt tags on images (and the few that they you do have are the file name).

Feels like another agency website... with above average hyperbole.
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I agree. In two years, things will be completely different, webgl and CSS3D will be supported by a majority of mobile devices and a nexus5-like phone will cost 100$. But today is a different story, and if your app is usable only on flagship devices, this is a severe disadvantage. It would interesting to see a study showing what are the smartphone used today, and if the majority are high end - low end or middle end. It would help us to know what kind of resources an app to be released will have to deal with.
Doesn't sound like you read the whole article. The author specifically addresses the "but my gym is doing it correctly, it's the others that aren't" cult-like mentality. Each gym does it, and it's a form of indoctrination.
How do you handle multiple stores which interact with asynchronous behavior?

In the dispatcher, it looks like each callback is executed in order if you use waitsFor, but they do not wait for any aysnc behavior to complete.

Do you have stores register listeners with each other during their dispatcher-fired callbacks?
The problem with that is that there are much more workers than CEOs.
So you're arguing that medicine is socialised in the US because it's provided by privately owner and run charities? Really?
As an outsider, a LOT of the backlash against crossfit seems to be snootiness from traditional weightlifters who seem confused that crossfit is not trying to be powerlifting or bodybuilding, although many of the same exercises are used. Crossfit looks to be a kind of sports conditioning training, and as such of course it's going to involve higher intensity, shorter rests and higher reps.

Now I don't know how possible it is to design a safe weights workout in those circumstances. There are almost certainly exercises that shouldn't be done quickly, or shouldn't be done tired, or shouldn't be done without perfect form. And almost certainly people are doing those exercises in crossfit gyms quickly, or when tired, or without perfect form, and increasing their risk of injury as a result.

But in a perfect world those people would __still be training that way__, albeit with better instructors and choice of exercises. Because it suits them to train for their sports or general fitness. They're not going to all change their minds one day and become powerlifters.
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Hey HN:

I'm looking a co-founder for Partsline.com (Mountain View, CA).
Preferably local to SF, but the world is my oyster.

There are over 650,000 parts requests in the system and currently receives approx 300 / day (~$200,000 gross per day). I will likely raise a small round after the initial launch after I capture hard growth metrics. This is a real opportunity.

I am needing someone to work with me and lead the front-end design/dev for the web app (consumer and admin panels). We need to scale the marketing strategies and drive the ship.

I built the stack (back-end APIs, data integrations) and am currently working on the mobile app. There is already a front-end developed, but it needs some love.

Email address is located in my handle. Or comment below.

Anyone interested?
There was an interesting article [0] on Yahoo! about a month ago - which valued Yahoo! Core negatively. They have a large stake in Yahoo! Japan worth $10b at the time that article was written. Using your alibaba market cap (maybe too conservative, that article had $150b a month ago) that'd put them at about worthless.

The article calls it a conglomerate discount based on holding multiple companies with public price points, and claims alibaba/yahoo! Japan are probably deeply discounted due to tax. But it must be strange to an investor - the core ad business is profitable and it's $1b quarterly revenue (from the article) is imo probably a safer bet than at least 2 of them three $10b companies. Depending on alibabas ultimate IPO valuation Yahoo! could continue having a really bizarre valuation locking billions of dollars away for a while.. Which is at least something them 3 won't have to deal with.

[0]http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/04/the-pecu...
And as a sidenote, while some European countries do not have a national minimum salary, most workers are covered by collective bargaining agreement (minimum wage per occupation/sector).

This is the case in Switzerland, for example if you work in restaurant the minimum salaries are fixed, with a starting salary of 3600CHF/month if you don't have any diploma (http://www.gastrosuisse.ch/dbFile/282084/Salaires_minima__CC...).
I recently (2011ish) got SSH installed and working on DOS. I was writing a DOS utility for a client (who makes high end network cards)—all their manufacturing is done via DOS. I got frustrated at the slow turn around time of sneakernetting my code to the test machine via USB thumb drives and managed to get SSH up enough so that could scp from the network.

You might think DOS is dead (I did), but it still exists (thrives?) at certain places.
I don't think we'd need leaderboards or any thing like that. Maybe HN gold just gives access to the 'gold lounge' and that's about it.

I just wanted some way to say 'awesome job' for a good comment and help support the site. If someone's got a better idea, I'd be open to that.
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Some fine ad hominems; claiming I don't get ad hoc polymorphism? How dare you :).

Haskell isn't dependently typed, at least not yet.
Discussion from the last time this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7624189

I wrote:

>I wonder what OP thinks about things like the NeoNurture?

>I find the site quite disingenuous - it really feels like a First World Problem kinda thing. Yes, the prosthetic arm is lame and a poor design, but compared to having no arm, it's much much better.

>OP argues that design should be for everyone, and lays out 4 foundations of good design. He/She missed out the most important one: economics
Being rich is an inner value? I have the impression that how much being rich has to do with your own will is still not decided. If anything, social mobility has been shown to be very overrated in recent years. And then one can ask, how much did that one person striking millions have to do with ingenuity, and how much was it just being at the right place and time (lucking out)?

One could say that, 'in a very real sense, men love you for who you are (how is how you look not part of "who you are"?) and not for auxiliary things that have nothing to do with you as a person, such as money'. It's all just semantic quibbling, anyway.
The problem is that other than having a personal trainer I don't see anything better than CrossFit gyms. The 'normal' gyms are usually a lot worse than CF ones, at least around here (I am living in Amsterdam). Would love to hear other experiences though.
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evo-psych needs studies? It seems more that the armchair evo-psych people have just decided on a set of axioms beforehand that sound sufficiently "common sense" and are making deductions based on that.
Sea creatures don't need to support their own weight.

Though I'm anything but expert on the topic, my understanding is that many dinosaurs were surprisingly light-weight for their size, and masses of many dinosaurs have been revised downward. As ancestors of birds, whose own bodies are generally of very low mass, and incorporate interesting features (hollow bones and internal air sacs) this isn't entirely surprising.
Everything already costs twice as much in Switzerland.

Check it: http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_resul...
Isn't it well known that Schnorr signatures are provably secure (under a random oracle model) while ECDSA isn't?
The worst case is that today you promise secrecy for, e.g., the MUL inputs, and then realize in several years that you really want to make a faster variable-time multiplier; the commitment would then force you to add a new MULABORT instruction rather than violating the secrecy of the MUL instruction. Of course, if you don't make any commitments, then programmers have no choice but to rely on observations of CPU behavior; many of those programmers will assume constant-time MUL, and if you switch to variable-time MUL then you will be breaking cryptographic security.

I disagree with this and think he has it backwards; the majority of applications will benefit from early-out multiplication, and it's only crypto that wants constant-time. Also, MUL has never been constant-time on x86, ever since the 8086. My suggestion would be to add a control register bit that puts the CPU into a mode where the guarantees needed for crypto are true. All that software would need to do is set the bit before performing sensitive operations, and clear it afterwards.
It has to be a very very flat and even wall, otherwise the echo image will be distorted or "blurry". Such do not really appear in nature. Just like the only natural equivalent to a visual mirror is a very still pond, viewed under an angle.