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> I've never understood how biologists could argue non-selfish evolution couldn't be a thing. If you look at groups of organisms as systems, and you pit the systems against each other, surely eventually the system that evolved to be superior would win in the end, regardless of whether that means any subspecies in that group of organisms would evolve to not reproduce?

Of course, all other things equal, when you pit groups against each other then group selection will occur. But the problem is that a huge body of science, both theoretical (game theory) and observational, argues that things are not equal: At the same time as the groups are competing, there is in-group competition. There has to be, because the groups consist of organisms that are being selected for, unless someone can propose a mechanism that would suppress that.

What this means is that group selection is unstable. A group behavior might be selected for, but individuals in the successful group will still be selected for "selfishly" - normally - breaking the pattern. If selection operates on the gene level - and almost all biologists believe it does - then it is inherently going to act on a scale much smaller than that of groups, and in an inevitable manner. And that is going to destabilize any group selection.

For these reasons it was thought that altruism couldn't be easily explained through evolution. That's why kin selection, reciprocal alruism, and a few other theories are so revolutionary - they show how useful group behaviors arise from selection at the gene level.

> Is it not just a question of whether evolution could produce specialized one-offs that don't reproduce but do serve a purpose?

That does occur in the "eusocial" animals, such as ants and bees. But it is generally believed that happens due to how genes are passed on in those insects (different than we are used to among mammals), and they are a large exception. In practically every species we are aware of, group-level selection does not occur. Hence any evidence, as in this article, is very interesting.
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Why aren't any australian startup jobs listed in HN?
Why are most jobs listed in HN mainly from United States ? Why aren't there any startup from Melbourne, Sydney or other Australian Cities listing jobs here?
I'm a Chicagoan and and as jaredmck mentioned, there aren't any breakout successes. However, there are a number of companies are gaining steam like FoodGenius, Simple Relevance, and TempoIQ. Here's a link to the legacy Excellerate Portfolio: http://exceleratelabs.com/portfolio/
I'm probably misinterpreting your requirements, but you should look into Korean IPS monitors. They're generally very cheap, are far better at reproducing colours than standard LCD monitors, have higher pixel densities (1440p@27") and can often be overclocked (90-120hz). The best deals are usually on ebay, shipped from Korea.

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> Every day, humans are producing more data than ever before - around 90% of the world’s data was generated in the past two years alone - and there will come a point when our data storage centres and the cloud can no longer keep up.

Is this true? Can anyone point to a some kind of study showing convergence of storage capacity and data production over time? I was under the impression that we've got far more storage than we'll need, at least in the near future.
Oracle designed their Database In-Memory Option specifically for these sorts of scenarios. But it's a fairly crudely designed column store cache and MemSQL are right to bash them.

But the strength of Oracle remains OLTP and I don't see customers fleeing to MemSQL for this.
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Also Localytics (TS Boston 2009) is well positioned for a big exit or IPO: http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/localytics

(Disclosure: Hackstar in 2009, Founder in 2010)
The much bigger problem with Oracle In-Memory is that a lot of operations like joins and sorts often happen in the SGA, in row form. So you end up needing a truckload of SGA for temporary calculations. And when the SGA runs out, which it invariably does, you end up using TEMPDB. And everything comes to a crawl.
This^^^
> Without that, the basic market problem exists: why spend a bunch of money building infrastructure you have to lease to your competitors at cost?

Well, they don't get free access to the lines, they still pay rates, typically, from what I understand around 15-35% lower than the usual consumer prices per customer to the "main" provider on that line. If that's really not enough for them to continue maintaining and improving their infrastructure perhaps it would be an issue - but it certainly appears to have been sufficient here at least.
I don't see how this is relevant. The proposal is for ble to broadcast a URL. Native apps can open URLs too.
Extending the deadline is exactly what we would expect if it was a high pressure sales tactic without a legal purpose. Sending legal documents without giving the time for legal review is horrible. You should not be encouraging your startups to skip consulting lawyers.
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> But have you personally tried it? The most important "evidence" may be how it affects you, personally.

It sounds lame to say, but I agree here. I fairly consistently meditate. I don't spend more than five or ten minutes doing so, but regardless of whether or not it increases an objective measure of my health, I do feel that it's provided me with some positive mental tools for approaching certain situations.

As an example for me is that I used to be pretty anxious about falling asleep, and I think it caused it to be more difficult to fall asleep. Some of the insight meditation practices helped me deal with the anxiety feedback loop. It wasn't something crazy or mystical; I mostly just learned how to stop thinking about something, and was able to stop thinking about the anxiety. Honestly, I don't think I fall asleep any faster, but I do find that I just don't care anymore because the anxiety isn't there.

I continue with it because it's pretty easy to carve out five or ten minutes here and there. I have no idea if it's causing any long term health benefits. Subjectively I feel more relaxed right after I meditate, but that's about it. Honestly, I'd keep doing it just because it feels nice. I don't do any crazy postures or full lotus, or anything like that, so it seems like there's a low likelihood of it causing harm.

My two cents
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It sounds like they don't really care about that. And good for them.
I was referring to this specific library which isn't really that big and isn't that hard to immitate...
While I'm not sure the effect the fear of prosecution might have, it is very important to stop conditioning people that they are above the law. Operant conditioning works, and it is a very bad idea in the long run to put people in a Skinner Box that teaches people not only that they won't be prosecuted, but can gain benefits like the occasional promotion for efficiently getting "results".
Source? I don't think that's true at all.
Well put! Selfless behavior may sometimes evolve, but it is unstable and will eventually be selected against.
The older I get, the more I leave things alone.

Me too, but I'd never discourage anyone from tinkering. Sure you might break stuff, and that's a learning opportunity.
And then people complain about how "useless" the app is. This is much less of a problem for Amazon where there aren't any thieving customers in the store.
That sounds awesome. Are you using localStorage?
>there is no way anyone could decide whether it was a "net benefit" to society,

That's a viewpoint problem in itself. Liberties and individual rights should never be added because they are a 'net benefit'. I see the converse as being true, liberties and individual rights should only be removed if they are a significant detriment to society. In your example of gay marriage there is no data that it is harmful, therefore no reason to prohibit such actions.

Of course proving something is harmful is not a carte blanche to prohibit most actions. For example our 'war on drugs' motivated as doing good against the evils of drugs as turned into a rather harmful system in itself. Other systems that treat drug users rather than punishing them have much better outcomes.
Oh not at all. I'm not well-read enough to make such decisions. Though not it good to pose such a question for the sake of discussion.
I actually didn't say that $99 is unreasonable. I'm just saying that I would see the effort involved in adhering to this license in a commercial or open source project wouldn't be justified by the functionality.

In this licensing model, it is far from certain that the library will continue to be developed and supported.

I do understand that buying code can be a very good choice. But the decision isn't just "purchase price" vs "features".
It is like having on a dapper outfit, stepping out but then your outdoor jacket looks bad. A jacket compliments an outfit, like how a frame compliments art.
> We have to make these decisions all the time whenever we vote or suggest perspectives to influence friends and acquaintances about one public policy or another. If we don't make the decisions, someone else will, and it matters for things like how we respond to acts of terrorism, road safety laws, funding for the treatment of diseases, and so on. And ignoring the moral weightiness of the decisions doesn't remove the consequences or our responsibility for ourselves as a society.

You make a good point. It is (more often than not) better to make the tough decisions as opposed to passively going with someone else's choice or not taking a position at all.

> He uses some examples of Buddhists who choose to devote their lives to helping other people--they avoid experiencing empathic attachment because it burns them out, which would defeat their entire purpose.

I see where the author comes from with this statement, and I think I better understand his stance. I reacted more emotionally than I should have to this text and threw out his ideas altogether. However, I still remain wary of its benefits to larger society as opposed to certain circumstances.
Nice I like this, it makes me feel somewhat better about choosing to pursue graduate education (in engineering) over getting a job at a bigco in my field. I will certainly learn more fundamental concepts, and frankly, work on much more interesting technical problems.

That being said, regarding having domain expertise on the furthering boundaries of a topic (presumed technical), I'm not sure if evidence suggests that this is the best way to go. Did this help any of AirBnB/Dropbox/Reddit? These are not "technical" companies, at least what got them started.

Maybe I'm reading too much into how technical the domain expertise should be, though he did mention computer science in his fractal analogy. Perhaps I'm just having a tough time having faith that doing research on the forefront of computer vision will lead to good startup ideas.
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Unless you're developing for Mac, I just don't get why it's so popular with developers.

1. Excellent laptop displays (16:10, high-DPI that actually works).
2. Reliable networking and graphics drivers.
3. Battery life.
$99 isn't the full price. It's $99 for every installation, in a commercial application. For an open source application it means tracking the license and making sure every user of the application pays the $99 if he hosts the application publicly.

Also you still have to support the code yourself, even if you buy it.

I'm not saying that this is completely unreasonable. What I am saying is that small javascript libraries are a very tough sell.
Because /usr/local doesn't belong to homebrew and is not appropriate for homebrew to commandeer.

MacPorts was originally written by the BSD team at Apple; if /usr/local was where a packaging system was supposed to stuff itself on OS X, they would have used it -- instead of /opt/local.

The co-opting of /use/local breaks all kinds of stuff -- for instance, /usr/local/lib is in the default linker search path and can't be removed, which means that trying to not link against homebrew libraries requires some pretty evil hacks -- such as library symbol interposing to hide /usr/local from stat(), etc.
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AngularJS also earned that reputation.
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We got an exploding offer once, and it really rubbed us the wrong way. That's duress :P
Have you ever done A/B testing?

That's the real value if you want to actually measure things and improve them. Maybe doing so can even minimize spectacular bugs when you push. And how would you accomplish this A/B iteration with weekly pushes to everyone?
Sandisk just released a 512GB SD card a week or two ago:

http://www.sandisk.com/products/memory-cards/sd/extremepro-s...
Futurama called it:

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It's probable that HighCharts chose CC BY-NC because there has not been a clear legal consensus (much less any sort of case law) on whether proprietary/minified Javascript linking to a GPL'd Javascript library is in violation of the GPL. If you want to prevent that type of use of your library without people paying for a license, then CC BY-NC might be a viable choice.

For a sampling of how complex the legal issues around the GPL are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Lin...

However, note that, say, an MIT licensed or BSD licensed or Apache licensed project, developed for noncommercial use, would be prevented from using your library for their layout, because then the non-commercialness of the CC BY-NC could "infect" their project and prevent them from using those licenses. For instance, the Highcharts license caused this project to switch to a competing library altogether: https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/php-code-coverage/issue...

In general, there's no good solution, but I personally shy away from CC-licensed code.

(I am not a lawyer, and this should not be construed as legal advice.)
Thats a good point. In the US the ONC/HIT at HHS has put out recommendations and rules for the schemas for data storage. Which is what the documents you reference are about they are about defining the building blocks used to store and capture health data. But, they do not define how they are transported or exchanged. The C-CDA even notes this, the "CDA DOES NOT specify how documents are transported, simply how critical data elements should be encoded for exchange and interoperability". Its the same thing for HL7 and all those great ICD9 and ICD10 codes. They are just building blocks not rules for transport. (I also know a thing or two about the field. We are magnetic buddies.)
this lecture definitely has the most practical advice so far (not that the others weren't good as well).

adora also spoke at the female founders conference (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eP3-ra8nZY) and her story about her and her brother's persistence in systematically climbing the learning curve of product/market fit was one of the most memorable. you can tell that she was speaking from real, hard-earned experience for each of the lessons she related in this lecture.

and i love that she threw in a basketball reference, even though you don't usually just throw the ball around. =)
>Let's assume there are around 100 cable channels showing content in HD video 24/7 (with no overlap, there are more but a lot of duplication). That's 2,400 hours of content a day, 876,000 hours a year or 101 years back-to-back worth of watchable content shown each year.

I'm thinking that 100 channels provide exactly 100 years worth of content per year instead of 101. Unless you rewind the good parts :-p
Well, we both agree that high pressure tactics are not cool. Also encouraging startups to skip consulting with lawyers would be uncalled for. However on the second point, I can't see any mention of that. Do you have any evidence, or is this speculation?

In this specific case, I can see it going both ways.

So I guess where we perhaps differ, is that I would prefer to be certain of intent. Ideally, before reaching for the pitchforks to publicly shame someone.
Its a fun game to imagine 10 commandments for alien races. E.g. Thou Shalt Kill thy Father, Mother and CoProgenitors for a race that eats their ancestors to process their neurological tissue and preserve their knowledge and personalities.
There is also the potential of the USB condom itself getting infected with the malware.
Elon Musk was worth $160M and invested $160M in SpaceX, Tesla, and Solar City. His investors gave up on him during the hard times. He chose to risk all of his money instead of giving up.
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The entries on complex number, exponential functions & e, and many other subjects at betterexplained.com are simply amazing! It helped to clear my decade-long confusions or fears when dealing with them, Thank you for the great work.

In my opinion the three essential characteristics of a great teacher are expert level in the subject at hand, great communication skill and enthusiasm for teaching. Possessing two of them already makes a good teacher. You have all three.
Off-topic, but, I'm sorry, what is difference between Talkroute and Line2... outside of Line2 costing 50% less, allowing multiple in-bound numbers, and also supporting toll-free numbers and free existing number porting?
India and US also agreed to fight terror while US continued to fund terror in Pakistan.

Very likely US is going to put sanctions on Indian space research as soon as India declares its ASAT capabilities.
In a roundabout way: you can insure against data breaches and costs associated with it, etc.

And if you're contracting you'd better make sure you have indemnity insurance yourself: it's something software engineers who start freelancing often (always?) overlook. But you can bet that if - for example - some security breach was pinpointed to code that you had written as a freelancer that your client will come after you.
Wasting CPU time on a mobile device by 'transpiling' is pie in the sky webdev nonsense.
Maybe that's the NSA's real fear about Snowden: that his whistle blowing may allow the NSA's own employees to see a bigger picture, past the "need to know", and that employees might realise that they are part of illegal activities, resulting in a revolt from within?
From a linked article off this article...

>Moreover, Google lodges takedown notices it receives at ChillingEffects.org, so Verlander's demand now is public. That creates another issue because Google has in effect provided a road map for any voyeur looking for sites that refuse to remove stolen photos. Google has contributed to ChillingEffects.org for the sake of "transparency" — a funny word in the context of a now infamous privacy breach — but IP attorney Jon Steinsapir says Google "could use some discretion here for good manners and good taste."

No, Google cannot. Transparency that is not transparent does not work, every single removal demand will also come with a anti-transparency demand. While this is bad for a few people that have lost their privacy due to issues such as the listed in this article, the vast number of removal requests are by corporations seeking to control media they may or may not actually have rights to control and such actions need to be in the public eye.
I just dropped a couple $k on framing. So I love this idea And agree it's crazy over priced. . Although I do wish I could do more customizations. Like matte color. The matte with the color stripe. Stuff like that , hope you get there
I thought the only really legitimate gripe he had was the non-standardized interpretation of the edge cases, and once we get a number of decent CommonMark implmentations / refinements to the spec, we should be able to handle those fairly soon.

I use Markdown to take text notes; it's quick to write, and especially with my text editor's syntax highlighting it looks decent too.
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The difficulty of remote collaboration is fundamentally a bandwidth problem. People are cramming into the bay area not because they love the congestion and high prices, but because the bandwidth between brains in close proximity is quite high. When you scatter them across the nation, the bandwidth is limited by ISPs who own the last-mile network. Once video conferencing becomes frictionless, maybe remote collab will pick up momentum, but the US has some political obstacles to overcome before that can happen.
It's popular because it's Unixy without all the bullshit. I stopped running desktop Linux/FreeBSD years ago because the UI and system management tools in that world were such a clusterfuck. Now I can run commercial applications and not have to deal with all that configuration file nonsense.

Honestly, it's quite insulting when you presume that people who use OS X haven't considered the alternatives, or are unfamiliar with Linux.
It's embarrassing for sure. With all that cash, why didn't they buy an existing app?!
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It can always tell the OS that it is a USB hub, so nothing precludes it from being seen as two USB devices (HID and storage)
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I want to say upfront that I've learned a lot from Dharmesh Shah's writings and presentations. I don't know if the journalists misunderstood the S-1, but a 17% churn and marketing costs that require 24 months to break even is a bit alarming to me for a company preparing to go public.
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It's interesting that that famous quote about math is a von Neumann quote. I always use the same quote with language and I think that there is a strong connection between language learning, especially ultra logical and systematized ones like Russian. Still, for the sake of saying the full quote:

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
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They need to borrow money to do that...
Nothing new here, anyone who has written a hybrid app or a mobile web application knew about this day1. One of the advantages over native application development. It has nothing to do with meteor or anything like that.
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> I couldn't spell was because at the time I did not understand the rules behind how the letters form together to get words.

One of the main goals of this kind of learning (at least for me) is to recognize patterns and rules on your own. When I repeat something often enough, patterns and rules began to jump out at me.