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What would that look like? It would have to be unable to spend money on anything or make any kind of economic or product safety policy. It would be hard to distinguish from no government at all.

No, lobbying is something intrinsic to any representative system. What can be tackled is the flow of money - once it's accepted that money isn't speech.
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> I'm not sure how much value there is in putting it out there

I'm sure there is great value in putting it out there if people find it later. The problem is two fold: firstly where do you put it (journals with limited space and limited time for reviewing content aren't going to be all that interested, and people aren't going to trust some random page on the Internet), and secondly will people even look for it before starting their work?

This affects many scientific area and not just this one - just think how many instances there have been of medical experiments going ahead based on the results of a study or two despite the fact that a bunch of other studies contradicted the findings? Those studies either were not where they could be easily found, were not searched for, or were not published at all at the time. This is particularly problematic when there is a conflict of interests due to studies being commissioned by those selling the products/processes/ideas they hope the studies will support: there is a commercial drive to publish every success and down play every less positive result.
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I don't know about the mobile app, but Google Maps on the desktop has supported multiple waypoints for many years.

Edit: as someone else mentioned, the app does support it.
I hope this is not off-topic for HN. This is a commentary on recent events that happened on social networks in the gaming community, but it is relevant to much more; situations we have probably all encountered just too regularly, including most countries' politics.

It is a bit long so if you would prefer to listen to it, the author reads it on Soundcloud here: https://soundcloud.com/totalbiscuit/this-game-supports-more-...
I always liked Ion3 a lot despite the conflicts the author had with distros. http://notion.sourceforge.net/ is a fork of it that is maintained.
> Everyone who evaluated the code said the same thing, to sum it up (in their professorial opinion) the framework was not utilized correctly which resulted in the numerous bugs and browser incompatibility issues.

How using PHP framework may result in browser incompatibility issues? Whole processing happens in the server side for PHP, not in browser...
Requesting a refund is different from a charge-back via PayPal. Working with any contractor be it an agency or a freelancer there is always a risk you wont be happy.

The correct way of dealing with it is to find an agreement you can both deal with. Not use shitty Paypal tactics to reverse the charge.

If you go for dinner and don't enjoy the food, you do not pay, leave and then call Amex and tell them your card was stolen.
Thats a great list thank you! I never heard of i3wm I promise to read the docs.

Yes, microsoft windows. I use version 8.1 and while most end users loathe the interface I've studied the "windows" key and "context menu" key and found it quite fast to perform all my daily operations (except web browsing) mouse-free.

My experience with linux is that some programs are great but too many dont follow standard on very common keyboard operations such as search, tab navigation, context menu. Also it seems many of these desktop windows managers such as ratpoison come with default key mappings that conflict with many of my application's default key mappings which forces me to re-configure.

I invested some time customizing key mappings that would alleviate the issues, but I have a large stack of actual programming work I need to get to, and after awhile I just felt like I was trying too hard at it and decided to go back to the system that works for me. I would like to learn a little more about developer's mouse-free success with linux, vim, browsers and ides such as intellij. 2 years back when i researched this it didnt seem like a very important issue to many people, but to me the little bits of speed gained from keyboard shortcuts add up into great savings in time and cuts in repetitive movement and I consider it to be a crucial part of any development system.
You're thinking of parallel or alternate universes, which is based on the "many worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics, where the universe "forks" at every quantum possibility into an infinite number of universes. That's one type of multiverse.

A "Multiverse" is a superset of that idea—it simply means a condition of many universes existing. They could have arisen in the same way ours did through a "big bang" in some larger space alongside our universe, they could be the many iterations of our one universe expanding and contracting over an infinite time, or they could be overlapping in the "many worlds" sense; we don't know.

The point of a Multiverse set is to explain our universe's existence statistically rather than empirically (as in, with a satisfying observational explanation). It says "we know that the chance of our universe existing is extremely small, so we must be one in an infinite number that had the right combination to result in life."

This is sort of like a car crash, and saying: "whelp, it happens with a probability of 1 per 1000, so it was bound to happen to someone" after a car accident rather than finding out exactly why and what caused the event—"whelp, the brakes didn't work, we should probably look into that."

Just like that car crash, finding out exactly why our universe exists, and how likely it is to have the reality we enjoy, gives us far more information than a simple philosophical statistical conclusion. It doesn't mean that the statistical conclusion isn't correct—there still may be a Multiverse, we may never know—it just means we know more about it than just how often it happens.

But, knowing how likely our universe is to happen is a big step. If it's very likely, then we know a lot more about universes. If it's unlikely, then we could just chalk up our existence to chance and it would be perfectly valid. In the latter case, however, it would be extremely unsatisfying scientifically. We'd love to know more.
I often think about that quote when I'm thinking about the universe as being a simulation in someone's computer somewhere. So imagine us clever little monkeys on the inside, have been probing the behaviour of the simulator by conducting science experiments. We're basically conducting targeting fuzzing of the simulator, which probably results in quite a few bugs going off. At which the compsci student running the simulation sighs, corrects the bug, and launches the simulation again.
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> I'm not sure how much value there is in putting it out there.

A lot. Failed experiments can be the basis for an improved one attempting to fix what made it go wrong the first time, even if "only" for a master thesis study. It can also be a real asset for anyone writing a paper on a similar subject with working results since they can cite the failed experiment to quickly justify why they didn't test some variations of their hypothesis etc. In a world where paper are often limited in number of pages, being available to list failed attempts with citations is awesome compared to having to write a small paragraph with approximative and most often bad explanations for each failures.

A first step might be to put such (non-)results in short papers and upload them to an open access repository in the kind of arXiv or HAL for instance.
Depends what the contract is for. If it's for "programming", then you have to pay, no matter what program you receive. However, if it's for "complete and functional product", then unless they produce that, you don't need to pay. Like in a restaurant, if you order pizza, and get steak, why would you pay?
True. It absolutely depends on the specific contract each of them signed. If the contract were to say "Not satisfied? Full refund!" or anything like that, they technically are not under contract to NOT use the code.

They would literally have legal basis, in that case, to run a startup from the very code they refused to pay for. Albeit unethical, it would be legal.

Either way, the contract would clear this up. It's still bad press. With $2M in funding, just pay the dev and move on with a stable image of doing the right thing even if it isn't legally required to do so.
>The only thing I use my mouse for is browsing the web.

I love vimium and vimperator. The only thing I use my mouse for is browsing pages with flash or embedded video. Some other browsing as well, but it's nice to be able to pop back and forth between term and browser, scroll the tutorial page down then pop back without a mouse.
The ethical problems arise, because when you allow for such human experimentation given some conditions are met (like informed consent), then various agents (people, companies) will have an incentive to game around those conditions. Suddenly human experimentation becomes a valid business practice as long as you can figure out how to get people into consenting.
From what I have seen people do arrange drop points once they get to know the delivery guy. If the guy leaves to another location it has to be arranged again with the new guy.

By having a standard UPS/.. could be notified that you have a "A1" container available. Any parcel that fits in that container can be delivered without arranging a meeting time.
It could be done today in rural households but in cities, room would need to be made for these new containers.
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Just focus on the first two sentences. Take the notion of causality. It underlies all of empirical science, yet it is not something that can be proved empirically. It is a given, a built in part of how we perceive things. You can read more about this if you check out the work of David Hume or Immanuel Kant.

There is nothing naive about recognizing that human knowledge is limited by our knowing apparatus. What is truly naive is to mistake the models of science with "reality itself" (a nebulous term)
Firstly, there are bugs. In everything, all the time. It's definitely not valid reason to not pay someone.
Secondly, it's YOUR responsibility as the client to make sure what's being delivered is what you asked for.

Developers are not mind readers, you need to put yourself in a position where you are regularly reviewing progress, you don't need to be a developer to do this, just sit down with him/her each week and ask them to show you how the functionality works for the user.
Sounds like a case of poor product management to me.
Your error looks like there might be an extra space after the line continuation (backslash) in the example.

The trace command is split in to 2 lines for readability but the web page's formatting introduced a hidden space if you try to copy/paste the example in to a tcl script.
This sounds like a bad idea. We are not King Solomon, nor should either party want his help. For simplicity's sake, neither party should take the opinion of anyone other than a lawyer on this.
A backend PHP framework causing browser incompatibility issues. Eh?

Edit: To reply to the naysayers in one fell-swoop - unless CakePHP is identifying the browser from the request header and sending different templates/CSS accordingly (which sounds unlikely, and like a bad idea to me), there's no way for the framework to introduce cross-browser compatibility issues.

Obviously the developer could create issues in the CSS or templates directly, but that's nothing to do with the framework... which is what I was getting at.
Thanks for your feedback, just like tomp I've also tried to use the link in a browser (IE) where I'm not logged into Quora, and it worked out fine (I just had to click "Go and read Quora" button, without logging in, and for me it's not a big deal).
Not sure what exactly do you mean by "false assertion in the title", especially assuming you were not able to read the linked Quora post's content. Point is that this specific Quora answer is summarized by the author with the sentence "All VC Funds Have Engaged in Some Arguably Questionable Behavior at Some Time -- From the (Non-Objective) Perspective of a Founder at least.", and this whole sentence is just much longer than 80 chars, so I had to truncate it somehow...
It's been a while since I used vimperator/pentadactyl. I recall it not being compatible with newer versions of firefox, but from what I gather those issues seems to be resolved. I should take another look.

Most of my day is spent using OSX, and I am quite alright using a mouse in that environment for most things.
>Instead they should show the rate money is being spent based on the current price per gallon.

That would be incredibly complex. You'd have to have internet connectivity and a central server to download that data. Average where? Average in Hawaii or Kansas? Gas prices change every day, too. So the solution would to be have a GPS on when you fill up your tank and record a timestamp and average price for the current area where the tank was filled up.

I'm not convinced that the benefit would be worth the work and privacy implications and would only be available on the highest end cars. It could be argued people spending their money on a higher end car are less worried about how much they are spending on transportation so less worried about how much they are spending on gas...

I'm also not convinced anyone would pay attention to that number or if they did understand how to improve it without clear instructions. It is just another number being displayed. They would have to be paying really close attention to notice a pattern at all and if they are paying so much attention I'm arguing they aren't paying attention to the road.
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That would be nice but it doesn't scale. For instance in particle physics they only have one LHC.
Regardless of how the contract was worded or the outcome of your relationship, requesting a chargeback on PayPal as your first option is really underhanded.
I don't doubt Mr. Park's talent. It sounds like he was an excellent choice for the position.

I can believe this while also noting that Obama, who has vocally encouraged more young people to get STEM degrees, didn't choose someone with a stem degree to hold the highest technical office in his administration.
How does airing even more dirty laundry in public around this help anyone involved?

Both sides need to seek professional (paid!) advice on how to handle this situation and then handle it in PRIVATE. Bitching about something that happened on the Internet is not productive and will only give the other side's lawyers things to use against you if a suit happens.

Someone needs to sue someone. Otherwise just shut up, both sides.
I agree with this but for a different reason. No matter how much we discover, everything we find is still something in existence. No matter what force or object you are observing, you can't doubt that it exists at some level, in some way (whichever multiverse or reality it is).

This means that at some point, existence must have been started by something non-existent. Because we only comprehend cause-and-effect, we can't possibly find the origin in a provable way while researching from within existence.
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This is a known problem with C's (and other functions in languages based off C's) "rand" function.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10984974/why-do-people-sa...
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I agree, please post some screenshots.
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> That post claimed that Pigeon.ly is using stolen code to run their product, while Pigeon.ly claims they are not using the code in their product.

Does it really makes a difference if the code is currently running or not? Let's say, hypothetically, the code was not production ready but used in an alpha version to pitch an investor ?

It is impossible to prove one way or another, but I wonder, if you could sue someone, on the basis that it "could have been used".
I believe Cake is like Rails in that it puts out JavaScript code automatically for AJAXing things.
Maybe I just dislike change, but the new icons in the sidebar are wasted space in my opinion.
> Requesting a refund is different from a charge-back via PayPal.

Anytime Paypal's involved, the waters are so muddled who can say what happened? To even be entitled to a refund, the person has a limited amount of time to file a complaint.

If the complaint is filed, Paypal may do the chargeback all by itself, even if this isn't specifically what the complainant intended.
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Leave that to lawyers. The HN audience is savvy, but I don't think most of us are capable of legally interpreting an agreement without taking a side on the matter first.
It would make a pretty big difference to the legality of their product. If their product includes code they don't own the copyright to, that's a bigger problem than a payment dispute with a past contractor.
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You really have no reason to post this here. If nothing else, you'll hit the programmer equivalent of the blue line. The people here will side with the developer reflexively. You literally have nothing to gain.
What are some examples of the questions that got this answer?
You don't "request chargebacks" on Paypal, you file complaints.

And not filing a complaint wasn't really an option. They have no recourse if they don't file a complaint within some short period of time.
It still amazes me that we laid giant bundles of cabling at the bottom of the ocean and they're as reliable as they are.
This might be the case for me
Right - but then why are STEM degrees so important? Then why is Obama encouraging young people to pursue them? Even he didn't choose someone with a STEM degree to hold the highest technical office in his administration.

I also have a different perspective from you on STEM degrees. It's true that tech has a "lower barrier to entry" if all you look at is official, legal, licensed barriers.

But majoring in STEM fields is vastly more difficult than a major typical of a law school graduate, and elite STEM graduate programs have vastly higher attrition rates than elite law or medical schools (like, 50-100 times higher). The coursework is exceptionally rigorous and difficult.

The difference is that you don't strictly have to do this to go into high tech - lots of people don't. And that's great. But then, again - why is Obama pushing STEM?
And, unlike the Wired article, it doesn't tell me I'm holding my phone wrong and cover up the content for no apparent reason.
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I'm sorry but I fail to see what this post is for. You made a post complaining about someone else's post (of which should not have been made in the first place) trying too win over people of whom have no opinion on the matter?

Or is this just you trying to get some PR cred by saying that it was buggy/not properly done/blah blah because a bunch of people (which could be entirely made up) said so?

And in my professional opinion (no offense to the CakePHP developers) but CakePHP is about as opinionated as you get with PHP frameworks, it's almost impossible to "use it wrongly". So sorry but that sounds like a load of crock.
Another vote for Ion3, I tried dozens tiling wm-s, none of them come even close to ion3.
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Pretty telling that this post's comments have become a place for us developers to warn and caution each other on how to protect ourselves from this kind of predation.
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Godel's incompleteness theorems only place restrictions on deductive systems. In mathematics, you can't perform "experiments" and measure what happens. As long as we can observe and measure physical quantities, even if those quantities are only indirect effects of what physicists are actually trying to measure, incompleteness is not a strong limitation of physics.
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You mean...the multiverse theory.
You asked for a refund, or you did a charge-back and let them find out that way? Very different concepts. Did you request a refund, get refused, then do a charge-back? What sort of checkpoints did you have during development?
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While that is true, the Javascript it inserts is thoroughly tested for browser compatibility issues.
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I know!? I was wondering the same thing. Language is a little strange.
Your statement that we will never get to the bottom may be true, but the reasoning is flawed.

Gödel's incompleteness theorems are about mathematical theories, not about physical theories. It may well be that for physical understanding a very limited arithmetic is sufficient. Also, there may be statements that are unprovable, but these might turn out to be irrelevant to sufficiently understanding the universe.

Also, an axiom, by definition, can not be proven. The things that are proven are theorems, statements, etc. An axiom is an assumption.

Eventually, it all depends on what level of understanding you want. But Gödel's theorems have little to do with that.
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I have some experience in this space. A decade ago, I led a talented team to design the largest (at that time) satellite-based network to expand India's largest bank (it was not then) to rural india.

The government, via Reserve Bank of India, earmarks specific sectors, in line with their current policy, as "priority sector". This can be housing, agriculture, rural electrification, etc. And banks are mandated to increase their focus and show metrics that prove they are engaging bona fide with the "priority sector". Rural banking is one such.

The cash deposits and reserves from these customers, broadly speaking, are not that much. They tend to be big in Gold Loans and a source of Agriculture / Animal Husbandry loans.
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Further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreality_of_Time
This is service work, this isn't Walmart. You can't get a refund, the best you can do is end contracts as soon as possible. Hiring software contract work is always, always risky for startups. This is why. Quality varies highly and it's expensive if you choose the wrong person.

Worse is that you did a 'chargeback' on paypal which is a dirty tactic. Considering how awful Paypal's dispute process can be.