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> From a utilitarian standpoint, all you look at are the possible actions and the possible results. From a moral standpoint, actively killing someone is much worse than letting someone get killed.

I disagree. What the trolley problem shows is that it's better to save many lives than just one, thus most people decide to pull the lever. As for why in real world you don't go and kill people for the greater good, is that our brains run on a corrupted hardware. "The end justifies the means" is a valid line of reasoning, but not for humans - because we predictably end up doing more bad than good when we follow it.

Here's a good analysis of the topic: http://lesswrong.com/lw/uv/ends_dont_justify_means_among_hum....

> Would you be willing to let everything and everyone you love perish?

If you put it that way, then killing one person to avoid this outcome is just like pulling the lever in the trolley problem.

>> I would shoot only if shot upon, not because its moral, but because I'd feel like a coward idiot to do otherwise.

This is a complex topic. I bet GP would shoot back when shot upon just because survival instinct kicks in. But barring that, social pressure is indeed a strong factor. I recall stories of Jehovah's Witnesses (die-hard pacifists) who got conscripted during First World War, back before the movement developed the idea that going to prison for your beliefs is a Right Thing; those soldiers would keep intentionally missing when shooting, in order to follow the "do not kill" commandement while avoiding getting imprisoned/executed for refusing to fight.
It's based on a faulty premise that modernism and postmodernism are the same thing and seemingly ignorant that postmodernism is a rejection of modernism. Ergo author wasted time writing the article and you saved time reading it.
Sounds really interesting to me, but for Oakland. Big solar fan here. Could you share links to up to date info about solar growth, which companies are big in the space, etc?
He's wrong about music too. A postmodern composer would certainly not ignore traditional harmony.

Even if you know nothing about art, you only have to look at Wikipedia to find out more about postmodern art and how it differs from modernism.
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I think the web server could use some superoptimization.
The original image can't be changed to match the original just by adjusting the white balance because it has an extra red hue added to the black regions. That could be due to the fabric not reflecting colors evenly, which is not exactly unheard of, but I've been been wondering if that's an artifact from the way the camera processes the raw sensor data to determine color. It's easy to imagine a horribly lit and exposed scene like this one hitting a pathological failure in some sort of adaptive color processing algorithm.
I don't see how you could do that without ruining the experience of watching the film.
I don't know. But, Mozilla has shown itself capable of taking on the biggest companies in the world with open web technologies, and holding their ground tenaciously.

There are zero switching costs associated with a browser. It costs nothing to download and run Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE, etc... The switching costs associated with phones is obviously much higher. Mozilla has to win ground in the mobile OS wars before they can even think about defending it.

Not trying to be a downer, I would like a viable mobile OS to break up the current duopoly, especially one that really embraces the web. I just think Mozilla has a hell of a fight ahead of it and it can't win it on merit alone.
looks very handy.
How complex can queries be?
Ok. Maybe they can. But maybe they shouldn't.

What good is it bringing to kids to see this? Are you better after watching a mediocre and violent entertainment movie? Good movies make you better. I don't think there is any good reason to spend precious youth time seeing movies that don't make you better.

I'm kind of tiger mom here, which some may not like. But I wouldn't be surprised if data analysis could demonstrate the success of tiger moming (success being the general well being and satisfying life of the resulting adult)
To add on to that the complexity of developing such weapons grows considerably when you take into account the uniqueness of each target - various resistances, adrenaline, different body composition, hit area and so on. If you fail to incapacitate the target they might retaliate lethally.

Which is actually possible with lethal weapons too - people don't always die from a shot or two and not always instantly. So to ensure the threat is defused the weapons must be very effective and the best way to ensure that is by making them as lethal as possible.
Replying to the edit of your edit - yes, seriously. HN is a place of discussion, not monologue. We all learn from one another. Just because you were wrong (IMO) about things (especially about cats), doesn't mean that I didn't seriously consider your arguments. I evaluated them, learned from them and decided to reply - even if to express disagreement. You should do the same. Deleting good comments (as in, civil, on-topic) is not the way to go - it hinders other readers' ability to understand the discussion and reach their own conclusions. You're of course free to not reply to comments - but please, for other people's sake, don't retroactively delete your comments.
If you are going for full enforcement of traffic laws, distraction/intoxication would seem many times more important than speed.

Why do bars have parking lots? Why doesn't first-offense drunk driving destroy your life like drug possession? Why does it remain socially acceptable to text and drive? Why do photos clearly taken while driving on the freeway gather tens of thousands of upvotes on Reddit and not criminal prosecution?
An interesting explanation I have never heard before. Thanks!
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I sent a resume to you guys a few times but never even get a confirmation email of receipt. Can you check that greenhouse is working?
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>>Chronic fatigue syndrome and, now, chronic Lyme disease are probably more related to depression than to any external biological agent like a virus or bacterium.

As someone whose partner has CFS (since she was aged 12) I have to disagree strongly on this, although my experiences are anecdotal I'm more than 99% sure CFS is a physical condition rather than mental.

Having also studied much of the scientific literature of the past few years I'd be strongly critical of your assertion based on the results of any respected doctor or controlled study.

Unfortunately suggesting it's a mental condition has resulted in such helpful suggestions from doctors as "get a new hair cut to cheer you up" which is akin to telling a cancer sufferer that lipstick might help.

I'd be happy to discuss further and provide numerous studies suggesting it is a result of a (most likely) viral infection that has had long term repercussions on the immune system.

There are scammers out there, but it's not the patients or the majority of doctors - at least in the UK.

Disclaimer: I'm currently working on a data gathering problem related to this as a side project with a view to crowdsourced funding.
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Seems that your SSL certificate is untrusted. Is this intentional (personally signed?) or an error?
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Will be traded on OTC markets? I believe OTC is where most penny stocks are bought and sold, right?

So this should be a pretty good gambling opportunity. Wish I knew the exact date this thing launches.
I would say it's a realistic way to look at his writing. It probably seems negative to you because you believe Murakami has more merit than the GP does. Personally I am in agreement with the GP's estimation.
Someone once told me that what we need are three lists. A to-do list, a stop doing list, and a don't do list. I don't always end up with three lists, but the principle serves me well.
> I suspect that, in a way, the office of President is one of the least real power in actual politics.

Being a part of a corporation has taught me an awful lot about what cooperation looks like in that kind of setting. At my job, we hired a new VP of e-commerce last year, I didn't really understand what that meant for me for months. At first I kind of saw him as a threat, after awhile I realized that having a tech-savvy executive at that level means that the CEO is wanting to grow our department's role in the company and that I should stick around because it could be a huge opportunity for me in a few years.

The main thing about settings where there is a great deal of power flying around is that everything you do matters. You can't not make a decision, not making a decision is making a decision by not taking action. Everybody with power understands this and so learns how to read into these actions / inactions. Even if there's no real conflict, there's just not enough time to have copious amounts of discussion concerning intentions. You just figure it out and adjust your own goals and actions accordingly.

When you have change at the top, the entire executive structure under the new leader adapts to suit the guy at the top's sensibilities. You don't really see the multitudes of little changes or how they add up unless you know what to look for and have been watching it over multiple leaders. These things filter out to the public mostly unnoticed, but can be quite dramatic in their effect.

The biggest change with Obama is that he's an introvert and doesn't feel the need to pander to Congress. It's made a lot of waves and contributed majorly to the gridlock he's had to deal with in trying to push his agenda. Clinton was way more personable and much more pragmatic.
> The ecosystem of your backyard puts our battlegrounds to shame. You don't see the warfare, but that doesn't mean it's not happening.

It reminds me of a thing I learned when I explored the possibility of joining the OpenWorm project[0]. It seems that, as fungi wage war with bacteria, one side learned to secrete enzymes that make C. elegans worms more aggressive at eating the other, thus using them as weapons.

[0] - http://www.openworm.org/
As cool as this is, I still can't see myself playing a game on such a tiny screen.

Like, I understand that mobile games is one of the largest industries in the tech world, and I just don't get it. Can someone explain to me how you're supposed to enjoy it?
Why are opiates classified as hallucinogenic and not rolled in with heroin?
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Some countries (eg. Australia, can't comment on others but I'm sure there's many), in addition to the monetary fines, have a demerit point scheme. Each offence gives you a set number of points (eg. 20km/h over might be 3 points, drink driving I think is 8-10 points, etc), and if you accumulate a certain number of points over a three year rolling period (24 I think in my state), then your license is suspended/cancelled. So you might be able to afford the tickets, but if you do it more than a few times then you're still stuffed.
Oh, you're right in that I was wrong. I was thinking of the movie Return to Oz (1985).
Hah good info. So far Fredericks is the only resource for my girl. Jenette was also in T2 and that odd ball vampire movie where some of the crew from Aliens were re-united. Don't recall seeing her in anything else.

Invariably whenever we run into a dev problem, somebody on my crew will always blurt out, "Game over man, we're fucked!" We're an agile shop of course.
Mozilla has already developed technology to make web apps appear as native on Android. Go and check out the Firefox Marketplace.
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Seems flawed. What is a "fact" anyway?
If you look at the certificate, it's issued to *.herokuapps.com, which indicates he's hosting it on Heroku.
It's quite patronising to be assisted by someone who doesn't really care for you, but is just using you to get into college, something that you might never experience.
This sounds more like a cooperative than democracy.

Democracy:
A system of government in which power is vested in the people, who rule either directly or through freely elected representatives.

Cooperative:
1. working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
2. demonstrating a willingness to cooperate :
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Why doesn't jquery have taint-checking/tagging, at least for data brought in through jquery's methods that read from URLs, etc.
FYI, he works for Facebook. It'd be weird if he posted it to Google+ ;-)
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It is easier to market it as a product with an annual maintenance fee than as "SaaS". I say this because there is an established process (GSA for feds, it varies by state and local) for selling products, even product with maintenance agreements.

Another route you can take, depending on the agencies you are selling to, is to sell it to existing federal contractors. There is usually a "materials" line in their contract for buying stuff to bypass the normal process. This is common with DOD, not sure about others.

Good luck.
Indeed. And on the other side of the equation, if you overdo your non-lethal weapons, they can easily become lethal. Tasers have already claimed many lives. That ball of fast-setting cementy thing you shoot at your target may solidify in a way that chokes your enemy to death. And this is all discounting the possibility of a disabled enemy falling to his death by accident.

Effective non-lethal weapon is a very narrow target to aim for.
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Do you find that PostgreSQL is different in this regard compared to MySQL?
I'm old enough that I saw Aliens in the theatre, with my Dad. I remember he had a similar perspective to you. His comment was how the original alien was smarter than than the crew, but in the second movie the aliens are just dumb animals. This may be true, but for me the second movie is one of my all-time favourites.
as someone else noted you can already run firefox os apps on android. you can go to the marketplace inside firefox and install apps. It seems like a lot of them are non-english which gives me hope that this is taking off at least a little outside the usa (but of course only being fluent in English I can't really tell if these non-english apps are any good or not.)
That difference is likely because reality won't believe you if you state the significance wrong, but people will.
> it has bugs and it's not good enough to begin marketing yet

Measure and prioritize the bugs. If you don't know how many people are dealing with them you can't figure out how many you need to fix.

> I'm learning Swift to build the 2nd version

I won't tell you what to do, but software history is full of 2nd versions the morphed into death marches.

tl;dr Figure out the fewest amount of bugs you need to fix to make it work for 80% of your users and then market aggressively. Do not rewrite right now.
Hey! I remember your app from your HN submission. Glad to see it's working out well for you.

This is tangential and not really an answer to your question, but you should probably work on your icon a little bit. At the moment, it reads to me like "sketchy website companion app". It'll be miles better just by removing the white/azure background and having the goblet a little bigger and by itself. (IMO.)
When I was about 5 I wandered into the room just in time to see my slightly older cousin watch the opening scene of An American Werewolf In London. That convinced me I wanted nothing to do with "scary" movies.

A few years later I saw an advertisement for Aliens and declared "I never want to see that movie!"

When I finally did watch Aliens at about 15 it immediately became my favourite movie. AAWIL is also pretty awesome :]
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I am impressed by how quickly the notebook goes from raw data to interesting patterns. Nice.

If I wanted to be picky about statistics (I generally do), I'd note:

1. Equating enforcement-related statistics with usage-related statistics is a dangerous thing to do. For example:

a. The rate of non-CRACK incidents in TENDERLOIN is probably low (disproportionate with actual use) due to the focus limited police resources put on crack.

b. I would bet that the high rate of WEED incidents in INGLESIDE / BAYVIEW vs, say, MISSION, is due to police using weed enforcement as a weapon against gangs (and minorities). I mean, people smoke a lot of weed in the Mission.

2. Putting "AMPHETAMINE"-related crimes under "METH" is inaccurate, as is putting "OPIUM"/"OPIATE"-related crimes under "HALLUCINOGENIC".
One oftentimes hears arguments along these lines about Murakami. That his writing is just pop commercial stuff. I am not sure I ever really grokked what these complaints were all about. Can you say more about what makes his writing like a "cheap knock-off"? At the very least what is the argument that it is a knock off at all (deferring considerations of its valuation)?
That 'It's all equally meaningless, so here's some cultural irony' shtick gets wearing after a while.

It had its day in the late 80s and early 90s. Only academia is keeping it alive now. You pretty much have to be able to quote Derrida, Lacan, and Foucault to get a humanities professorship - which is, not nearly ironically enough, not a good thing, IMO. (See also: Postmodern Critical Theory.)

But I think rest of world, including rest of art world, has moved on already.
Well this is not good for price stability, has to happen though.
> And of course, the idiotic permissions system. Want to check to see if a user's on the phone? Gotta also get access to who they call and their IMEI and other permanent identifiers.

This bothers me the most about Android. What is the point of individual Permissions if it's all or nothing!!
Thanks! You're probably right about the icon. LOL
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The nice thing about computers (Turing Machines) is that they let us simulate anything, including having better[1] computers (that may just run a little slower). The big idea behind turning the file system into a "database" is that you would be able to simulate any kind of file system you wanted, including better ones. This is basically what RDBMSs like SQL Server and SQLite do.

I also like the relational model the best, but it's just one of the many available simulations of "betterness".

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Forgive me for answering your rethorical questions ;).

> If you are going for full enforcement of traffic laws, distraction/intoxication would seem many times more important than speed.

Can't provide a citation right now, but I recall that apparently most accidents are caused by distraction and/or speeding, often during the day, and not by drunk-driving.

> Why do bars have parking lots?

Because it's apparently not banned, and even if it was, someone would stand to make money by providing said lot next to a bar.

> Why doesn't first-offense drunk driving destroy your life like drug possession?

I don't know, but I very much feel this should be reversed.

> Why does it remain socially acceptable to text and drive?

People don't expect to get in an accident + well, no offense, but most of the drivers I know behave like entitled assholes when it comes to driving-related things. "Speed limits are stupid, and no accident could ever happen to me.".

> Why do photos clearly taken while driving on the freeway gather tens of thousands of upvotes on Reddit and not criminal prosecution?

I guess it has to do with the fact that it's hard to take a picture posted on the Internet and turn it into a lawsuit.

And to clarify - you're right asking those questions. IMO traffic laws should be enforced much, much more decisively.
Imagine trying to transport an incredibly fine and delicate crystal ball from Earth to Jupiter. You don't need to spend billions of dollars to create the crystal, you need to spend billions of dollars to not smash it. School may be similar for a child's intellectual development.
I happen to agree, I don't like Murakami all that much, and I've read 6 or 8 of his novels. I feel a bit similar about him as I do about Stephen King or TV series like Games of Thrones, Orange is the New Black or House of Cards: more manipulative and plain than genuinely interesting. Throw in a little bit of cheating, a little bit of drama, "lovely breasts bouncing violently in the air", "Emotions that, if cut, would bleed", a little bit of vagina, the "bloody weight of desire and the rusty anchor of remorse", to substitute for lack of substance. Then again, who am I to criticize, what have I written that has any substance...

All that said, I wonder what it is that makes us feel that trying to pander to the general public is so bad... If by using "cheap tricks" he reaches a bigger audience and connects with more people... More power to him?
Why did they choose OTC? Usually the shady penny-stocks or the Qs are traded OTC.
Can anyone explain to me what the purpose of owning bitcoin stock is as opposed to just owning bitcoin?
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