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Not only is it "important," in science, falsification is the ONLY method available, there is absolutely no other way. Proving any theory in reality is fundamentally impossible. In fact, the concept of "proof" only exists in mathematics and logic.

Karl Popper himself wrote:
"In the empirical sciences, which alone can furnish us with information about the world we live in, proofs do not occur, if we mean by 'proof' an argument which establishes once and for ever the truth of a theory,"

This flies in the face of our intuition and is very hard for people (even some scientists) to understand. The reason this occurs is due to an asymmetry between evidence needed to prove something and evidence needed to disprove something. Evidence cannot prove a theory correct because other evidence, yet to be discovered, may exist that is inconsistent with the theory. However to falsify a theory, one only needs a single inconsistent fact.
Sadly even if the only "unix" thing you want to do is compile a bunch of standard open source packages, you're in for a world of hurt. Need to use xlc on top of that? Better have your seppuku knife ready. At least IBM took our "suggestion" and now maintains modern gdb so at least you aren't stuck with quirky dbx tracking down issues.

There's still some bizarre stuff though. You can set separate text/data page sizes via env variables that differ from the system wide settings. Take a guess which override, if either, will be reported through POSIX calls? Neither! Fun when someone changes how they invoke your app. Just an example...
I read that. A lot of the biology is nonsense. (While Jaynes is also unlikely to be true, there it's more that it's a daring idea confined to high-level description and speculation, rather than incoherent gibberish about DNA and fruits.)
I have a question about IPFS. I don't mean this in ANY kind of negative way at all, but what problems does IPFS solve?

I got really excited about IPFS when I first learned about it, but after to talking to people for a while, I actually made a document titled "What problems does IPFS solve?" and thought for a long time. It's still blank.

I would love to hear from anyone involved with the project what applications this could have.
Okay, sure, that's fine that you believe in a different interpretation on history for the global drop of the gold standard.

I really don't care - but the point still stands that Bitcoin is still almost a century behind other currencies because it is deflationary.
I'm sure they'll tell you that you can do this using Xamarin.Forms but we quickly realized that it is only useful for very basic UI. Anything of more than trivial complexity is going to require that you learn the platform specific frameworks and idioms (on top of learning Xamarin). At this point I have no idea if Xamarin is going to save time or cost time over going native. My guess is that it will depend on how much domain logic you can share between platforms.
> … it made sense for humans to be lactose-intolerant as adults

> Nature's solution was …

What made sense for an individual human is for everyone to be lactose-intolerant except them. This is what gives the best results for the individual in the near-starvation scenario.

Your suggestion sounds very much like “group selection”, an idea with many high-profile detractors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_selection ). The only argument I read against it was in “The Selfish Gene”, but according to the Wikipedia page, I could have picked from other high-profile scientists. Something looking like group selection may work in some cases (“The Selfish Gene” itself describes John Maynard Smith's counter-proposal of Evolutionary Stable Strategies), but offering such an explanation as obvious amounts to ignoring a lot of debunking by many bright people.
The program appears to be oriented towards people who regularly visit Estonia or do business with Estonians. The Estonian ID card is used for authentication to many (perhaps all) Estonian government services and some private services, so it would be inconvenient to e.g. owe taxes there and not have an Estonian e-ID.
I got a call that I'd be audited, and the letter only arrived a few days later.
I think they meant 'if you have a custom requirement Intel won't make it, you can only choose between predefined options' as opposed to ARM or others where people will build custom configurations of cores and modules for you.
yeah double NATs are annoying :)
Something to keep in mind here is that once a viable market is found then the product will be fully commercialised and mass-produced. No longer will poor conditions be good enough when compared to the yield you get from ideal conditions.

Then we will start fertilising them, then tweaking the seeds etc etc etc. And before long it will be just like anything else grown on the land.
His book is called 'The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.' It's precisely the maladaptive aspects of bicameralism in the encounters with increasingly complex social environments that Jaynes postulates as the reason for its evolutionary deprecation.

Man is a function of his environment, instead of defining the environment.

Neither of these is true (I realize you are arguing against the first position). We are in constant interaction with our environments, neither simply acted-upon nor possessed of god-like powers of manipulation from whose consequences we are immune. I feel you must not have read Jaynes' book, since he postulated bicameralism at work in tasks such as agricultural planting, which by definition alter the environment. If you haven't read it, then I urge not to rely on the summary explanation that can fit in a blog article or even a longish essay. Jaynes' articulation of his theory is elaborate and discursive, but also rigorous and well-qualified (in terms of acknowledging limitations and the difficulties of falsifiability).
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Thanks bud. It is appreciated.
Huh? I am not a lawyer or particularly knowledgeable about the law, but to my mind if someone has paid a casino with fake notes they have defrauded the casino. They do not owe the casino a debt.
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That's one of the things Europeans (anecdotally Germans and French) who work or study in North America complain about. Cheese quality and selection (and price!) here is crap. In fact, food quality here seems to be a notch lower.
Lots of "likelihood," "probablilities" and "maybes" floating around in that article, and not a lot of certainty. I find the article scant on proof, and speclative at best.

In particular, there's this:

What this meant, says Kindstedt, is that “children
and newborns would be exposed to milk frequently,
which ultimately through random mutations selected
for children who could tolerate lactose later into
adulthood.”

Explain to me how childhood exposure to milk (the period when humans tolerate lactose) selects against lactose intolerance in adulthood?

For example, so let's say you have a mixed population of families, where initially there's a prevaling majority of hereditary lactose intolerance, but with a minority of the new mutants present, who decades later will comfortably continue to consume dairy.

Mutations are typically recessive so you might have households where one parent is lactose tolerant, and none of the children are, due to the lottery of gene expression in sexual reproduction. Maybe some intolerant children are carriers and some aren't, but it's still a roll of the dice.

How does consuming dairy products as a child select for this trait which will not be expressed until years later? What obvious mechanism of selection am I failing to understand here?

Are medieval societies filled with stories of the lactose intolerant humilating themselves with dairrhea on prom night and reducing themselves to social pariahs, doomed to die childless and alone? I mean really.
Having worked as an IRS contractor, I can tell you that actual calls from IRS land lines will also show up as UNKNOWN.
It wouldn't bother me much although I would initially assume they were rewearing the same clothes and not clean ones each day. Over time, when they didn't stink, it would sink in.

But that said, if it's all about points 1 and 2, you don't need to spend more than 10 seconds "deciding" what to wear. Make sure all your clothes are neutral enough to go together (but are not necessarily identical) and then just pick the first things at the top of the pile. They don't all have to be identical for this to work.
"For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years."

Source here:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-w...
My parents got scammed by this last year. They definitely were scared into giving up a few thousand dollars. These people must have their script down really good to make it seem pretty believable. I havent heard anything after reporting it last summer. Either they are really good at covering their tracks or there's just not enough law enforcement into this type of fraud.
Packed? A lot? In 100g of dandelion, how much vitamins & minerals do you think there are? I'd be surprised if it was more than 1 gram in total. It's more likely a lot less than 1%.

The fibre is the most beneficial component by mass by a huge margin.
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This is the thing with Rothko, when you see them in books they do in fact just look like coloured splodges. That was very much my opinion of his work until I saw one in the flesh in the Whitechapel Gallery for the first time. It was just one but the presence it had was hypnotic. I recently went to the Rothko Chappel in Houston, a spiritual setting really is the perfect place to experience his work (note I'm an atheist).
Until a few hours ago, I would have little to say on this topic. I've been staying in Houston for the last few days and was lucky enough to stumble across the Rothko Chapel. From the outside it looks like any other single level brick apartment block. Once you step inside, the atmosphere is surreal. Each wall of this octagonal chamber presents an obelisk-like Rothko painting. Natural light is directed onto the grey walls via the obscured skylight. This visual simplicity combined with the silent environment perfectly presents what I get from Rothko work - mental clarity. If you get a chance to experience this place, I cannot recommend it enough.

http://www.rothkochapel.org
I have been developing cross-platform mobile apps for the past five years, initially on Phonegap and for the last three years, on Titanium (Appcelerator).

If I was starting from scratch today, I'd take a good look at Titanium, React, Xamarin and Ruby Motion (in that order). In general, I think cross platform will save you time and money if you do it properly.

Titanium has been a timesaver for me. My current backend (stocklight.com) is written in Rails. For iOS and Android clients, Titanium gives me about 90% code reuse on the front-end.

ie. It allows you to implement cross platform GUI's using the same view code and you just make platform specific adjustments (eg. Action Bar versus NavigationWindow) where neccessary.

There's no way I would have had time to develop both backend and android/iOS by myself if I had to write everything natively.

Having a single model/controller layer with Titanium has been good also but I recently made the effort to upgrade this part of the project to use Alloy and that has felt very Rails-ish which has been a big improvement.

This week, Appcelerator have announced their new pricing structure ($39 per month) and are pushing a new service called Arrow for managing your back end. Personally, I don't think i'll be using Arrow (Rails seems like a better choice) but it will be great to get LiveView 'instant updates' with their new SDK.

Also, re. speeding up Android development, you should definitely check out Genymotion.
> Or maybe the U.S. usage was always out of sync with the Down Under usage.

I suspect this is the case. I'm in the U.S., and I recall using "hack" in pretty much the HN sense as early as the mid-1980s.
Explain to me how childhood exposure to milk (the period when humans tolerate lactose) selects against lactose intolerance in adulthood?

People who are lactose tolerant will be able to continue drinking milk well after those in their birth cohort who are lactose intolerant will have to stop. They will thus be likely to be substantially better fed with subsequent better health.

People who are lactose tolerant will be able to survive famines where lactose intolerant people will starve.
Not only are all your points about Rust incorrect, but numerous people in both this thread and past threads have repeatedly told you why they your points are incorrect and yet you persist in believing that they have been unaddressed. At this point it's safe to say that observers have caught on to your campaign of indefatigable misinformation and find it easier to downvote your comments than to waste any more of their time making arguments that you will proceed to blithely ignore.

In fact, it says a lot about Rust's culture that people were willing to engage you constructively in the first place despite your acerbic and technically-naive ramblings.
Currently no, but I'm brainstorming a pub/sub system that will operate through the DHT, its still on the backburner for now as other things are stealing my attention.
> I don't like the term "lactose intolerant". It implies that having difficulty digesting lactose is differentiating you from some loosely defined norm.

Nonsense. It's a simple statement of fact, and any value judgement you derive from it is pure projection.
I'm gonna just be cynical and say that BMW just wants it to be expensive to maintain a BMW. How else is it going to remain a Veblen good?
I probably wouldn't notice. I would want to protect them from taunting of other colleagues although I guess that depends where you work.

If you're going to wear (eg) a Gap pocket T everyday it might be an idea to get different colours for each day. That doesn't add to the cognitive burden. (But I admit that I spend no time thinking about what I'm wearing)
I used to do the same, but then discovered my bank's fraud department comes up as unknown.. ugh. Calling them back is far more annoying than just answering all the calls.
The phrasing is wrong, but being lactose tolerant in adulthood would have meant having an extra possible food source compared to those who are not lactose tolerant. That is a pretty major advantage.

Also, 5500 BC is not medieval society...
North America is a gigantic place; can you be more geographically specific?
Thanks! That's one thing i've really enjoyed about doing this on livestream - i have a general plan each stream, but definitely need to adjust as problems are easier/harder than expected.
No I don't. Perhaps I should do more homework. I was appealing to common sense. If there is a famine or drought, people are starving and thirsty. Making milk is a lot of work and requires at least marginally decent nutrition. If someone is only eating one "meal" a day and drinking 2-4 cups of water a day, there's just not much with which to make milk.

N=1 anecdote, my daughters mother was very easily able to tell how her diet affected breastfeeding. A lot of it had to do with water intake.
I wonder if he read Bruno Snell's "The Discovery of the Mind: The Greek Origins of European Thought." A lot of what's described in the article about the Greeks and the Iliad/Odyssey is akin to Snell's approach. Though Snell didn't use the idea of the bicameral mind he traced the origins of conscious thought through the Greeks very similarly.
I am using the words "crank" and "charlatan" per their dictionary usage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_(person)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlatan

For those opposed to the general system of fractional reserve and central banking. I also said "mostly" because I do beleive there may be eventually a better system.

I think there's plenty of room to debate the policies and structure of the United States federal reserve.
Yes, it depends on the app if it's worth it.

You need to consider that developing two native apps is probably twice the cost of developing one cross-platform app for two platforms.

I think developers are overly aware of the differences between native and non-native apps, and overestimate how much a casual app user cares about a native experience to be honest. I'd love to implement native experiences for all apps I write but I have to take budgets into account.
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You're talking about 'cunt', right?
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One gets the same effect staring at a wall that doesn't have a Rothko hanging on it. Or at a sufficiently large monitor with a static display. Leveraging persistence of vision might make an interesting series, but when it's the only trick the pony can do?
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In a way, it reminds me of Cartoon Characters who wear the same thing every day, they're instantly recognizable, even if you can just see their shirt/pants.

The branding is the only part really noticeable to anyone other than yourself and once you explain the other two reasons, Im sure they'll understand.
It solves the hacky kludge that is the state of the web. I suspect this opinion is unpopular, but the web was never designed for web applications. It was designed for static text and images. JavaScript as it is currently used (to drive complex web applications) is an abomination. Browsers and their monstrous, labyrinthine, all-encompassing codebases and extension ecosystems and security problems are an abomination. They're also broken in every way in terms of security. Nobody's responsible; the current state of the web is just the accumulation of two decades of layering technology upon technology and making the mistake of continuing to layer where we should have built something new. The initial discovery that web apps ran everywhere by default kind of prompted a tidal wave of development just for the web that few ever bothered to take a second glance at. As a result the browser became an operating system.

The web was not designed for web applications.

IPFS can fix this. Instead of putting all our shit in the browser, with the steaming mess of CSS, JS, JS frameworks et al, now you can write native clients that use IPFS to provide the same kind of functionality the Web does. The infrastructure is there.

The problem is that nobody wants to write a native client for every device. That's why the browser was popular to begin with -- it's an application as a runtime, an application that everyone knows about and anyone can install. That everyone does install. IPFS doesn't solve the problem of having to write native clients more than once for different platforms. But it sure as hell solves the hard part, which is the networking part. At least I think so.
Good point. North East. I suspect this is true for all regions in Canada / US.
I'm genuinely non-snarkly interested in the other commonly used alternatives your mentioning, in addition to json, anything else you recommend looking into?
Thanks for this. I grew up in Georgia and knew some of this, but a lot of it was new to me.

It prompted me to read more about the Trans-Oconee Republic, and I found an old 20 page academic publication about it on the Open Library. The OCR is screwed up in places, so I've been making my own corrected copy the last hour or so. Open Library doesn't seem to allow for corrected versions. Looking in their email list archives, they just don't have the tech to support that, which is a shame. Maybe I'll upload the corrected version to Gutenberg or something.

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6659849M/Elijah_Clarke's_for...
I have helped ship two commercial apps with MvvmCross and it works pretty well.
I think the idea that natural selection and sexual selection as the only players in gene manipulation is probably wrong. genes are somewhat dynamic and pressures and exposures to a parent will result in offspring more likely to have mutations to deal with them
No, that's really an awesome question. But I think it makes the exchange too one sided...to much of a cartel at play here.

Rothko, if you read about his life (I've spent way too much time trying to cultivate an appreciation of his work for my own good), despite having virtually no talent or skill, really wanted to be an artist and appears to have become convinced that his future was the life of a professional artist. Over his career he pivoted his work fairly specifically towards positive criticisms and buyers.

So I think your question boils down to "did the critics and buyers collude to con an eager artist into produce trivial nonsense?". I don't think this is necessarily the case. I think all parties participated equally in producing an environment where stupid inane bullshit could become the bleeding edge art fad, but maybe not with that specific goal in mind.

> What if wealthy people, lusting for something different with which they could lavish themselves and the world (in their name of course)...

I definitely think there's something there. When it's rarity and exclusivity that you're after, the focus of adoration can definitely become an absurd McGuffin.
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On the other hand, bug-for-bug compatibility requirement is not unique to Bitcoin. If your Doom fork is not bug-for-bug compatible with original Doom, replays will go out of sync.
Unfortunately in practice I've found powershell hasn't been much of a panacea. You give up all the problems of parsing text, but now have new problems dealing with tools that don't output objects and getting them to do so.

I used powershell for some moderately complex workflow & reporting stuff but at the end was kind of on the fence about if I should have just scrapped it all and done it with traditional tools. It really felt like powershell made hard things easy but easy things hard. I don't think I would use powershell again unless there was absolutely no other choice.
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this is great for synth players. The DX7 is extensively covered but i'm sure people on later Yamaha AWM and other wavetable synths will find it directly applicable. (I only have access to SY35 iwth 2 FM operators

The SOS Synth secrets covers some of this material as well: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may00/articles/synth.htm

SOS index: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/allsynthsecrets.htm
As the old proverb has it, De gustibus non est disputandem (in matters of taste there is no dispute, or no meaningful debate is possible). I have stood in front of many Rothkos for a long time and found them rather trite. I don't hate abstract art; I love Mondrian (though I consider his art almost representational) and am quite happy to lose track of time staring at a postcard-sized reproduction of a Jackson Pollock, never mind the real thing. I'm an enthusiastic fan of Dada and Marcel Duchamp. I think I'm pretty open-minded where art is concerned.

I think Rothko's stuff is art, no question, and that he has something to say. I have nothing against Mark Rothko, but I feel quite hostile to the critical establishment that has fetishized him into the role of cultural gatekeeper, using the reaction towards his work as a sort of socio-cultural litmus test designed to maintain a certain degree of inter-cultural homogeity. In short, I feel like curators make a big deal of him, though perhaps unconsciously, as a means of keeping people out rather than inviting them in.