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Statistics, no. But for evidence, talk to any religious person for 5 minutes about why they're religious.

You're right; it is not irrational to seek community, but believing a religion is correct in order to join a community is.

For irrational reasons, here: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1uvp3i/why_are_or...

The explanations on that page is a cavalcade of cognitive errors. There's plenty more where that came from.
Ask HN: Co-founder bails right before interview with startup accelerator, help?
We were offered an interview at a major startup accelerator. I have no idea why my co-founder backed out and can't really glean it from them.

I guess I'm looking for a new co-founder. Might anyone be interested?

We are in the Bitcoin space and our frighteningly ambitious goal is the analogy of how Google used the http protocol to index all webpages, we are using the bitcoin protocol to index all valuable files.

If this sounds cool to you, could you PM me or email me at stuckfounder@gmail.com.

thanks!
YPlan for Fitness app launches in London
It strikes me as something that will do a lot of things poorly, rather than a few things really well. I want a cooler that's big, waterproof, has wheels and strong handles. If I want music, or for some reason a blender, I'd much rather have dedicated appliances. Weak/cheap blenders are terrible, basically anything less than $100 winds up being more frustrating than useful. I can't imagine that the battery powered DC blender in this cooler is going to be a winner.
This will nip in the bud whatever traction Microsoft was getting in India with Windows Phone.

Between this and losing the Nokia name, it's difficult to see why many Indian consumers would opt for a "Microsoft Lumia" over one of these high quality low cost devices that come with the vastly richer Android ecosystem.
...As if somehow Minecraft isn't real, running on real circuits, on real hardware, making impressions on real brains.

Question: Are they nearly as enthusiastic about building "real" circuits?
> On top of that, cash is king, simply put: there is absolutely no uncertainty at all.

Because currency values don't fluctuate at all...

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EURUSD=X
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The title of this posting is wholly inaccurate. Comcast is DENYING that any threat to cut off Tor users occurred. They deny most points in the article on DeepDotWebm including all alleged evidence, and have flatly stated that customers can use Tor all they want.
Have less scruples than the next guy. Being free of moral bindings allows you greater range to maneuver.

Understand social proof and signaling. Practice dropping positive signals and social proof in all your stories; have a rehearsed story showing vulnerability to have when you need to make yourself appear more personable. Practice mirroring as people like those similar to themselves. If you're an well educated white male, you're already halfway there.
Games have always tried to implement DRM, whether it was requiring a game disk to be inserted or a funny graph to be consulted or a word on a specific page from the manual to be entered.

You know what happened when you lost any of those physical assets before the rise of the Internet? Go buy a new game.

As someone who feels that it is a moral imperative to pay for creative works or forgo them, Steam is just fine by me.
How teaching can make you a better programmer
Brazil is the worlds vice-champion at fiscal complexity (looses only to India). Few things invented here would make sense abroad.

Brazil occupies the shameful 81th spot at the GEDI (Global Entrepreneurship & Development Index). It is behind way poor countries like Bolivia. What Brazil needs is a f*cking genocide, it is unbelievable that a country this blessed by nature can be screwed like this by his people.

By blessed I mean: no hurricanes, no earthquakes, no snow (meaning two crops a year), 80% of the worlds drinkable water, plenty of land, beautiful shores, the list goes on...

Brazil is doomed.
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yep, a common copout/rationalization for programmers is that videogames etc. are "educational" because your mind starts digesting tech

i am a professional programmer, and see programming time as productive because it is akin to circuit-building, engineering, etc. Even video game CREATION can be that way. But playing them..... I do it, but it is the worst bit of myself -- pretty much total rubbish lazy brain stimulation, on par with TV re-runs
I heard about this a while back so my friend and I made this search engine: http://www.flyshortcut.com/. Only works in North America, and like most people say - be mindful of the risks!
because the phone explodes automatically after these 2 years ?
The flaw with this plan is that one would find out at the gate that the layover city had been changed.

At worst, one would have to change their plans at the last minute and pay more money for a ticket to their true destination.

Now, are you going to suggest that airlines be permitted to post fictitious destinations on the marquees at the gates?
Would Minecraft be in better hands if Notch open-sourced it instead of selling it to Microsoft?
The actual title is "Comcast Denies It Will Cut Off Customers Who Use Tor, The Web Browser For Criminals"

The only organization that is moving against Tor is Business Insider, putting "The Web Browser for Criminals" in an otherwise non-story.
Microsoft to break even on Mojang this fiscal year
Africa, ApplePay and the iPhone 6: Resistance is futile
It's easy to forget about the bad games. I always think of the snes/n64 as some golden era where all games were great, but when I go to used game stores I remember that it's not true. There are a handful of great games from every era, and hundreds of forgettable ones.
You mean Java. The JVM was a way to safely run arbitrary code in a browser, write-once-run-anywhere. It was too early to come with DOM APIs to interact with the page around it, instead being like Flash in believing that the useful interactions would be inside the Java applet's window. But if we just took a headless JVM and gave it DOM APIs then problem solved.
1) It's more of a distinction between the virtual world and the physical world. My household values the physical world much more. Call me old-fashioned, but I take my notes on a pen and pocket notebook, rather than an iPhone or text editor or todo-app.

2) I used that phrase out of habit. I meant the physical world as opposed to the virtual world. But even though they're both "real", there are very important differences.

3) Yeah, I probably would have.

4) The fact that there is no official clear purpose for downvoting implies it's up to the community to decide. Which is actually a really cool social experiment on their end, but in practice it's just utterly stupid, and I'm really sick of it.
ls is a file listing in unix/linux. a 'bindshell' would essentially open a telnet port that goes directly into a command line shell. So, if your system was attacked, you might (since it's the most often command typed) use the 'ls' command to list your files. When you do that, you also open a shell on a specific port on your computer that has root access.
I bought a scanner earlier this year, but I use it exclusively for scanning film negatives. (and positives on occasion; slide film is gorgeous!)

I also bought a dedicated semi-pro photo printer last year. A full load of ink costs me $120 for 8 itty bitty tanks.
Pamela Druckerman is a fraud. I lived in Paris, France, for years, and I would not consider that society as a model of good parenting.
Daniel Ellsberg and Sunlight Foundation Are Opposing USA Freedom Act
I just can't help but get the feeling that those robots like this, like Boston Dynamics dogs and their cheetah, especially ASIMO and others resembling those, are mere "medieval automatas" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automaton#Medieval_automata) of our age. They lack something fundamental, maybe even as fundamental as shift from clock gears to digital processors.
You can use a similar technique to get ultra-cheap First/Business class tickets to places like Europe.

You book a flight to some poorer European country, like Poland for one example, it will have a stop-over in either Paris or London, you then disembark there.

The tickets will be partly based on the cost of living in the destination (Poland) so be significantly cheaper than a ticket to London or Paris direct in those classes (i.e. same exact aircraft, same route, same class, but cheaper).
Why Archeologists Hate Indiana Jones
Bindshells are shells that are bound to a port, see Wiki for a brief explanation[1]. Basically, without authentication you have no way of knowing that the `ls` you backed up is the same `ls` you get back out. If your remote backup is compromised and uses XTS, its possible for someone to own you by replacing an oft used binary that when run gives them a remote shell.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellcode

On the other hand, if the attacker needs to create the connection, the shellcode is called a bindshell because the shellcode binds to a certain port on which the attacker can connect to control it.
He's 35 and totally burnt out. Give him time, hopefully he'll do something ambitious.
This probably isn't quite in the spirit of what you're asking, but I like old laser printers. You can get an HP LaserJet 4m for less than $75 just about anywhere, the toner cartridges are less than $50 and will probably outlast any basic needs you have, and if it has any problems it's easy enough to clean and replacement rubber rollers can be purchased cheaply. The service manual is even freely available and it describes the device's theory of operation. Cool!
World's first car made by 3-D printer unveiled in Chicago
It's in Niels Ferguson's public comments to NIST regarding XTS-AES and storage that's not on physical hardware. tptacek explained it in his comments how this attack works if you search them https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7675698#up_7676864

This service if I remember encrypts files/container with user keys then they encrypt it again on their cloud backup with their key, so it's not an encrypted backup sitting on a dropbox server. Of course you have to trust their keys won't be stolen by somebody wanting at those XTS-AES encrypted backups.
I looked at the site for a split second (not even long enough to see any text) and closed it.

Why? Because it's default Bootstrap. Whether it's true or not, that makes me believe that the product is half-baked and just released. I want to use something that at least pretends to be mature.

Get over to Fiverr and spend a few hundred bucks on a design that at least looks like you've been around for more than a week.
Are you saying a child's imagination isn't part of the real world? How about books? The Hobbit isn't 'the real world', either.
Isn't this situation rapidly changing? A few years ago, people wouldn't dream of 'installing apps'. But now, many non technical people install apps. In fact, I know many non technical people who are more eager to install apps. A developer might think, ah I'll write a program to do this and do that. Non techies only think in terms of what apps can I do some job.

I bought HTC desire for my wife couple of years ago inspite of her insisting she won't have use for a big phone. Now, she uses it for Whatsapp, Facebook, Pinterest etc. In fact, she seems to know more about these than I do some times.
When s%^& hits the fan, what's your (data recovery) plan?
Relevant: http://wondermark.com/939/
Why Are Clams So Damn Happy?
The airlines care because they are attempting to engage in price discrimination -- charging different prices for the same product to different people, roughly in line with these peoples' ability and willingness to pay.

It does feel dirty, but it's worth tempering that emotional evaluation with the knowledge that, in those places where two or more airlines are competing for customers, they are very competitive indeed, and tend to operate on razor-thin margins (sometimes even negative margins! Airline profitability has been a recurring problem for those who have attempted to invest in them as businesses.) A system which is more predictable and feels less exploitative may in fact end up substantially more expensive and less convenient for all fliers (especially those now buying the cheapest tickets) and less profitable for the airlines as well.

(In Econ 101 terms, this is to say that fare regulations would have the potential of making the market less efficient and creating a deadweight loss to society.)
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Nerve impulses can collide and continue unaffected
I'd love to hear more about your opinion on what stereotypes I fit into. Please go on.
I'm intrigued by the parallels between software engineering (scripting, really) and legal work.

In a sense, a legal agreement seems like a cross-platform piece of software that is "executed" in the minds of the signing parties, their business associates, and occasionally the court system. Given that context, I'm a little surprised that lawyers and engineers tend to communicate and think so differently.
LOL!

He lost me at REGEX in the title... it gives me an allergic rash
Could you tell us some more about how you do it?
Ya dune2 is dos based. Once you get used to it, though, it'll be very enjoyable. You can't rely on the Fremen unless you have 5+castles and send them all at once. Watch out or you'll run out of spice and won't be able to repair your missile launchers.
It's sad. But it looks like he simply doesn't have what it takes to be the kind of person we all wish he was. Nobody can't blame him for that. Leading of something big is hard and exhaustive process. Especially for introverts like Notch.
Thats hopefully already obvious.
This is exactly right. Of course to understand it you have to have experienced an 'early' inkjet printer which would, if left alone for a week "break" by not printing one or more colors. That led to printers with a wiper sponge and a bit of ink solvent. Better but not really all that reliable, and that led to the current squirt+clean+vacuum sort of systems which had been standard in large format printer/plotters for a while.

And yes, given the price per oz of ink the process is quite expensive (I've heard that it is as high as 0.25/cleaning). And in the least expensive Canon printers the "waste ink" sponge is irreplacable leading to a planned obsolescence of the printer itself. Most of the 'key' ink jet patents have expired so it may be possible for someone to build a printer that is more economical but so far no one has. I suspect if they externalized the true cost of the printer and avoided the ink subsidy that they would not sell enough printers to stay in business.

I chuckled at the idea of using an old 24 pin dot matrix (or why not go seriously old school and use a line printer) printer, it is informative to note that people used inkjet printers that broke down a lot rather than use the older dot matrix printers. Granted the Canon system sucks, the Epson system is a bit better but not by much, HP, well HP can't really afford to lose any margins in their printer business.

So perhaps there is an opportunity here for a new printer from a new company.
> In this particular case, Ruby is not being compiled to JavaScript but being transpired.

First, "transpiled" not "transpired".

Second, "transpiled" is a special case of "compiled", so you can never correctly say that something is not being compiled but is being transpiled, in the same way you can't say something is not a rectangle but is a square.
I'd say this isn't quite ready for prime time. The errors I received were annoying and you're not going to get an end user or most IT admins to parse the python just to find the errors.

I've only had 3 major errors but they were significant:
1) I'm on Yosemite so GetAuditedSystemVersion() looks for a PatchVersion variable that simply isn't there. The header reads 10.10 not 10.10.patch as expected.
2) The Safari parsing snafu listed in my previous comment. Opening Safari isn't enough, you have to use the browser quite a bit. The same could likely be said for all browser tests and it would be a good idea to outline precisely what this needs to be. Hint: A new system or install of Yosemite for instance will produce the errors I saw.
3) There's a parsing bug in ParseMailAppAccount() and I just commented out the call completely.

Any number of these could just be Yosemite related but I don't think so. All of the bugs I ran into are variations on index out of bounds due to some hardcoded assumption that mostly works, except in this instance apparently. I'm not the only one with these nagging bugs based on the issues list but mine do seem very specific to Yosemite or how I do(n't) use my system.
And probably for the better in case of mobile phones. Can't say the same for cars personally.
FINALLY – Get rid of your free U2 album
Yeah, but going from eight to ten cogs on the rear isn't going to make that much of a difference to the rider.
That actually happened on the British railways in the early 1990s.

There was an evening express train out of London Paddington whose first scheduled stop was Tiverton Parkway, a middle-of-nowhere station roughly 160 miles from London.

Regular commuters knew that the train also made an unadvertised stop at Reading, a popular commuter town 35 miles west of London, to collect passengers heading for the West Country. In theory it was a "pick up only" stop, but with 14 manually-operated doors all opening onto the platform, this was never policed.

Until the one night when the conductor announced on the tannoy just before Reading:

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the InterCity service to Penzance. Our first stop will be Tiverton Parkway in approximately two hours' time."

And the train sped through Reading without stopping. (For Reading-Tiverton travellers, British Rail had quietly laid on an extra service that night, starting at Reading.)

The London-Reading commuters were not best pleased... not least because the conductor then walked through the train selling (expensive) tickets to Tiverton for anyone whose ticket was only valid to Reading.

The taxi drivers and hoteliers of Tiverton, on the other hand, were delighted.
Lithium is not like you describe. I've taken half a dozen SSRI's, which at times made me feel totally empty and without motivation. I've taken one antipsychotic (risperidone) and it made me feel like an utterly stupid zombie, so much so that I stopped taking it against my doctor's orders. I was put on lithium and I found that I'm completely capable of feeling a full range of emotions, but what I don't experience is the accelerated spiraling of emotions that can send me into depression or mania. Compared to more recent psychotropic medications, lithium is pretty mild in terms of unwanted side effects; the only drawback is that if you're on a high dose, you have to stay hydrated to avoid lithium toxicity. That's a pretty small price to pay to stay level.
My Mac seems to disagree with you on that.
one of the reasons robots like this look so unnatural is that they're trying to locomote entirely using active control (i.e., the controller tries to calculate the correct position and force continuously) with rigid limbs.

animal systems have passive-dynamic components (e.g., spring-mass-damper) that smooth out discontinuities and inherently self-corrects for many unanticipated situations. robots that incorporate passive elements (and this robot just might have some, it's hard to tell from 30 secs of video) would look more natural and have better self-stabilization.
I've been a little obsessed over these same lines. It seems ultimately to boil down to a tag-based fs (or at least that's been the most productive way to search for people trying to do it.) Here are a couple attempts I know of:

http://www.tagsistant.net/
http://web.mit.edu/6.033/2011/wwwdocs/writing-samples/sbezek...
Everybody can use some rant therapy from time to time. While anonymity brings tastelessness, it can also be therapeutic. Also for comedy.
> ...As if somehow Minecraft isn't real, running on real circuits, on real hardware, making impressions on real brains.

It's a virtual world. Our kids were not at all thinking about the Java bytecode that went into running it, or the x86_64 machine code that ran the JVM, etc.

> Question: Are they nearly as enthusiastic about building "real" circuits?

My 10-yo son was thoroughly loving the electronics kit we bought, making LEDs light up in different patterns depending on which SPST switch you pressed.
How to 3D Print Makeup from Any Home Computer
If you really want to beat high airfare, stop buying tickets and figure out how to accrue frequent flyer miles at the lowest rate. BoardingArea.com is a good resource. Few years back, people figured out US Mint was selling gold $1 coins at cost + free shipping, so people (myself included) bought them on their mileage earning credit card and just re-deposited the coins into the bank. Some people earned $1M+ miles for free. http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB126014168569179245
Apple releases U2 album removal tool
It didn't need to play Doom. It could have played Pong, it could have played Space Invaders, Pacman, Mario, Tetris. It could have played some variation of Flappy Bird.

There are lots of video games that are now more widely known than Doom. People who have never played an FPS have had Flappy Bird on their phone.

Doom was unnecessarily ambitious. Awesome, but unnecessary.
you put the ice cream on the bracelet?
It would also wreak havoc with the airlines' routing system. The reason this hack works is because airlines try to route connecting flights through hub cities so that many different passengers can get to many different cities; if they routed the connection through a different city, suddenly all the other passengers would find themselves with no way to get to a final destination.
The first comments and votes on this thread look fake. That's a bad idea. Please don't.

Even if we don't penalize you (which we usually will), other HN users will see through it and become annoyed. The discussion will become about that, instead of about your project. Since you've obviously put a lot of work into this, you shouldn't take that risk. Let the work speak for itself.

I suggest that you repost this (you may need to use a slightly different URL) without the comments, so you can have a fresh start. Good luck.
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Apple Creates Tool for Users to Delete Unwanted U2 Album
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Setting the Record Straight on Tor
Why did science make little real progress in Europe in the Middle Ages?
I installed my nephew http://minetest.net because this is free software and therefore better suited for learning to hack.

With this deal it is even better suited.
There are a few reasons why many people would not (or should not) use Cyphertite:

* It's been such a long time in development and there's still no client for OS X. Building from source should be an option, not the only way, if this is ever meant for mass adoption.

* There's no information about accessing backup files from mobile devices.

* Most importantly, unless you have more than 100GB of data to backup, you're better off with the premium plan (enterprise segment) than the expensive personal plan where you would get a lot lesser in return.[1] I had pointed this out to them a year or two ago, but there's been no change and this structure does not make sense for the section of home users who may have only a few tens of GBs to backup.

[1]: https://www.cyphertite.com/plans.php
You're totally right, The Hobbit is not the real world. Glad we're on the same page. Imagination is just imagination.
This is just what happens when you sell 54 million copies of your product. Granted, I'm not exactly entrenched in the Minecraft community, but I'm guessing it's just the usual case where the vocal minority start getting uppity. Whenever you have a group that large, there will be some bad apples.

Not that I'm disagreeing with you, however. There comes a point when the amount of vitriol you're receiving isn't worth the success.