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Constructive criticism: The content of ideas is infinitely more important than the identity of the person speaking the ideas. To deny this is to deny basic rationality, and is infinitely more harmful on a longer time scale.

That you come in arguing is likely part of the problem.

There is no such thing as an idea that is above criticism.

The problem here, the one highlighted by the article, is that the radicals being complained about disagree with both of these concepts - things which are the cornerstone of an open dialogue, which is the cornerstone of a healthy society.

With that in mind, how can you simultaneously hold the dissonant beliefs that rationality is important, and that one of its primary tenets should be ignored?
Can you elaborate on what you found difficult as you went to college? How long did it take you to be comfortable with it?

And what did you end up studying?
Is a train cool? A Saturn V rocket? A 3d printer?

I think so.

The same factors that make machines cool remain intact regardless of the application. Furthermore, there's much more kinetic energy involved when you're trying to take something apart quickly than when you're trying to carefully build it, and more still when someone else is trying to keep the thing intact. Is a controlled demolition cool? If not, why do people watch?

Nobody is arguing in favor of violence. The comments here are recognizing some of the reasons why war seems cool, especially to the young and especially to men.
I did not in fact accuse him of that. I specifically avoided accusing him of that. But that is exactly the sort of thing that gets said in "open dialogue". And then those people get all butthurt when people don't treat their disrespect with the sort of unearned respect they are used to.

It is also not a straw man response, and it is not pasted. Hi! I'm a real person, writing under my real name. These are things I believe. Would care to engage with the actual substance?
>While these cases are always launched claiming to be on the side of the angels, they ultimately ignore that all that extra legal overhead is not free, and only the currently large companies will be able to manage it, essentially barring any smaller competitors from entering the market.

This is a well known phenomenon in public choice economics, colloquially referred to as "Bootleggers and Baptists"[0] after an observation during Prohibition.

In brief, the morally righteous and the morally suspect share a common interest in some regulatory goal. The righteous, or "Baptists," want to make the world a better place, e.g. by restricting the sale of alcohol. The morrally suspect, or "Bootleggers," want the same restriction in place because it protects their source of income, i.e. it is more profitable for a bootlegger to sell illegal alcohol than legal and the illegality of their venture discourages competition.

That being said, I am never convinced by a statement akin to the article's "Deep-pocketed companies like Uber, which has raised nearly $5 billion in venture capital since launching, could surely afford the additional expense of putting drivers on its payroll." Being cash-rich, high-revenue, or any other sign of corporate success does not indicate that arbitrary costs can be imposed with trivial impact. It may be true in any specific case, but it is a bold claim requiring more analysis and backing than "they're rich." Affluence does not indicate immunity to costs, nor does it change any reasonable cost-benefit analysis.

Ninja Edit: An effect we see with this phenomenon is that the "Baptists" often move on to their next righteous cause after securing regulation/legislation against the first vicious behavior, content that they have addressed an evil in society. Authorities can point to the Good Thing they did, and bootleggers continue on with their vicious trade.

I would also like to note that I hope we don't get hung up in the language of morality I have used. I chose the morally heavy verbiage primarily because the name of the phenomenon lends itself to such discussion. I am not herein passing any sort of moral judgment on either side of the issue (in my examples or in the case at hand in the article), merely using the language to help identify the goals and motivations of the actors playing either role. The important thing to note is that, regardless of actual moral quality or efficacy, the "Baptist" believes they are doing good for society at large, and the "Bootlegger" has a self-serving interest. These motivations do not imply that the "Baptist" is actually doing good (intention != results), nor do they imply that the "Bootlegger" is actually doing bad ("It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."[1]).

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists

[1]http://www.econlib.org/library/Smith/smWN1.html I.2.2
Backlit screens and backlit watches are never going to be self-powered. It's more feasible that a passive e-paper like display could be self-powered.
Quick, someone get their child to request the truth about Han shooting first.
A lot of that desire is basically buying into government propaganda, and that is even more problematic.
Between public interest and privacy, public interest wins, especially when it is shown that powerful entities are mingling behind closed doors into matters of public interest.
>I bet you think women should vote, and be treated equally under the law. I bet you think women should earn equal pay for equal work (even if you think the wage gap is caused by parenthood / not asking for raises or some other explanation). I bet you think rape is wrong. If you said yes to any of these questions, you're a feminist.

This is a logical fallacy (Association). If you believe in X, then you are Y. You can believe in all of those listed criteria and not consider yourself a feminist, because it is a broad topic and some viewpoints are more extreme then others.
They are both base units of the SI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_base_unit
1776's latest acquisition reveals its aspirations to be two things at once
What are your favorite movies of all time?
Agreed. But it doesn't sound as special:

Male programmer denied job because of his 'unprofessional' attire

Or even:

Programmer denied job because of the 'unprofessional' attire

Or:

Person denied job because of the 'unprofessional' attire

I always try to remove any words that can bias the interpretation. Now I can read it as a person got denied a job, based on 'unprofessional' attire. Doesn't sound so patriarchal and oppressing, after all.
They can at least reduce total power, and perhaps store power when not in use.
> You've got an author in a mainstream newspaper who can write that due process shouldn't exist

Maybe you do, somewhere, but the author of the cited article makes it clear she isn't arguing for a change to the legal system: "This is not a legal argument about what standards we should use in the courts; it’s a moral one, about what happens outside the legal system."
In slow motion, Tetris written in Nim. It's really just to get familiar with Nim again and to complete a game for the first time in a long time.

Working a full time job that requires being out of the house for 14 hours a day a lot and parenting at home so I expect this to be a long project. :)
I bike to work in New York, and I've biked around Berlin, and I would say New York still has a way to go before it catches up with Berlin.

The problem that New York faces is that it is embedded in USA society, so it has to face some issues that are not about bikes, but effect bikes. An example would be the reasons people use bike helmets. No one uses bike helmets in Berlin, because Berlin is safe for bicycles, and that is partly due to the respect that cars and trucks show to bikers. In the USA, car culture is stronger, and car drivers are much more aggressive. I've gotten into the equivalent of tug-of-war situations with taxis, trying to exercise my right to turn, when they want to turn in the opposite direction: the taxi drivers are willing to use the vast bulk of their car in a threatening manner. You never see that in Berlin. In New York City, one is justified wearing a helment, and one would be justified wearing elbow and knee pads (but I never had). It's an aggressive environment.

Also, in New York, the roads are often chaotic. In Berlin, I only saw chaos around construction sites, otherwise the roads were safe and orderly.

Also, I could rent a bicycle in Berlin, very cheaply, and then keep it for days. There is nothing exactly so convenient in New York.

All the same, I am pleased that the situation is getting better in New York.
As far as I can tell, Lucas' idea of celibate Jedi is just a Christian/Catholic artifact. There's no real attempt to justify it, and indeed there's no mention of such a thing in the original trilogy. Obi-Wan talks about Luke's father being a Jedi, and neither thinks this is especially odd.

In my own mind (and hopefully to some extent at Disney), the prequels and special editions are C-canon, to be disregarded whenever they conflict in any way with the pre-1997 scripts.
The thing is Uber drivers are independent contractors. The ability to work whenever the hell you want or to drop into any city and make money, at will, are fundamental motivators to driving for Uber. Regular benefits means minimum regular work hours. When that's it play it completely changes Uber's marketplace and value-add.
I wouldn't want to write that here, because I wouldn't want my partner to find out through HN. If you leave your email, I'll definitely get back to you
Will they only be able to marry other Jedi, or how does this work?
I compiled a Golang static executable on Ubuntu uploaded it to AWS Lambda (which is Amazon Linux) and it works.

Didn't tried with C/C++.
Why Microsoft as an example? They are pretty nuts about backward compatibility, including fixing other people bugs so their software would continue to run (the old SimCity bug). I believe I can still run Doom and, say, Ventura Publisher 3.0 on vanilla Windows 8 (although I'd prefer DOSBox, of course, at least for games).
I can imagine it. I guess the experience is sort of like the one I had with a cheap Android smartphone, where the hardware was too weak to handle the OS itself (and if you tried to connect to the Internet, you basically had to pull the battery out because it went totally unresponsive).

I'm not sure why such things happen. Selling a product where the hardware is below minimum reasonable specs for the software it needs should be banned, or something.
Human selfishness is a weaker guarantee than programming.

Human can still chose to abandon or misinterpret their self interest. Strong emotions, hatred, prejudice or a belief that punishment won't be performed or that the deed can be covered up make humans likely to do so under some circumstances.

OTOH, machine has no choice at all. It always follows the rules.
> Just by virtue of being a comfortable white dude

I've got news for you: People don't listen because you're a white male, they listen because you're privileged.

I've never met a "SJW" that actually knows what it's like to be poor, it's all well-off, college educated, mostly white people.

I think most poor people who make their way to the top don't actually get any help, so they end up forming conservative view points, whereas the rich white people just can't understand why poor people don't just stop being poor. It must be because they're black! Congratulations you're a racist.
I did not understand this headline at all. What it means is that Wikileaks leaked some Sony emails, and those emails show that there is a Dr Who movie in the works.
I don't buy into government propaganda to a large degree. I'm fiercely critical of my government. But you clearly have your preconceived notions, so I'll leave you to it.
Produce different behaviour in all versions of your language
Probably. But the kid would socialize while doing so, learn the skills of mastery, and basically learn how to manage their time in a fulfilling way. Kids at Sudbury schools often do spend a great deal of time on the computers, but that is rarely, if ever, the only thing they do. What they are learning to do is how to incorporate computers into daily life, mastering the machine.
> Many programs tried to appease both sides of the conflict by checking for both, and it was up to the mood of the original author which one it checked first. For example, the old DISKCOPY and EDIT programs would look for TEMP before looking for TMP.

> Windows went through a similar exercise, but for whatever reason, the original authors of the Get­Temp­File­Name function chose to look for TMP before looking for TEMP.

For what it's worth, Python, which also supports Unix-like systems, checks for 'TMPDIR', 'TEMP', and then 'TMP'.
Agreed that implicits were one of the critical things that caused me to move away from Scala. I really couldn't justify in my head the use of such a thing.
Hi, I'm actually not Indian. I'm African, and I know Africa isn't a country, I just don't want to run the risk of my partner finding out through HN
How Forge.mil changed the way the US DoD develops software
Solar aircraft can definitely be done (what with the existence proofs you provided) but they're not very practical. Power consumption is roughly proportional to the cube of speed, so to get the Solar Impulse 2's cruise speed up to, say, 150kts instead of the 49kts it actually does would require 27x more solar collection surface area. If you want to carry two people instead of one, it'll need to be about twice again as big. You'll hit annoying scaling laws since larger structures are proportionally weaker so it'll get even worse.
In terms of the amount of good you can do in the world, it is probably better to be vocally moderate, and staunchly so, rather than silently moderate.
Asking "why" is a sign of curiosity, a desire to gain insight from the experience of those who are, apparently, willing to share it with us.

Using fashionable tech X is not bad on its own. But without the "why" we have no clue what the author's reasons for the given choices are, and how the end results align with the initial reasons.

Lots of small businesses have driven themselves off a cliff basing their tech choices on what their employees would "enjoy" most. It's a good reason to code Go in your free time, but not to migrate a company's infrastructure to it.

It's very strange to see that you wouldn't want to know "why". Maybe you're smarter than all of us.
Hi,
I'm not in India, though I'd like to visit some time. Thanks for the generous offer
The way I interpreted it, the first chord starts at the second column. The "start" state is necessary so you can see the distribution of songs among the first chords.
I was called similar when I started learning Python a few years ago. I think the simplicity and elegance of Go will let it catch on very quickly.
Indeed. SpaceX is already one of the cheaper launchers out there, and cutting their price by 1/2 or 3/4ths would be a huge deal. You can see why everyone is so interested in their crazy barge landing project.
Did you learn tech by only applying optimal solutions to well analyzed problems ? I bet that a lost of your progress has rather been fuel by sheer joyful experiments with technologies you fancied, thus validating them for less adventurous users who had actual problems to solve. Those guys make Arduino - they pretty much embody that spirit !
This is not exactly correct... "At least 10,000 Euros of capital that you were required to invest in the company.". You are required to "pledge" that amount, but you are not required to invest all of it right away. You can invest as little as 2,500 (and the founder will owe in the books the remaining 7,500). It's still a significant amount compared to what's required to open a company in the U.S. however.

The notary fees absurdity is true. A disgusting privileged class problem.

"a lot of people told me it’d never happen, so why bother". Sadly, it's a very typical attitude among Italians.
Kickstarter: PLEN2, the world’s first printable open-source humanoid
I'm not really sure what this has to do with street sweepers, shop workers, manual labourers, or military personnel? Would you care to elaborate?
> there's no mention of such a thing in the original trilogy

Then again, in the original trilogy the only trained force-sensitive people we hear of are 3 human male and Yoda. On top of that we have a brother and a sister. There's not a lot of room for romance here.
No, because the marginal utility of $10 is inadequate to me.

I didn't say that not wanting to die is irrational, but that fearing death abstractedly is. Not wanting to die is rational from an anthropocentric/evolutionary biology point of view, as continuing life increases the odds of genetic and memetic propagation. It isn't rational, however, as an external observer might see it. I suppose it depends on what the "goal" of human life is. If it is simply "to be", then it's a self-fulfilling goal and of null value in an objective argument.

So - what stops me is that same instinct for preserving the self and/or ones genes. It does not mean, however, that I have not accepted the fact that I will, one day, die, and the fact that it really doesn't matter. I won't be here to care.
> Evan Spiegel? Lucas Duplan? Miley Cyrus? Justin Bieber? Lena Dunham? They're detestable, but they reflect on their producers, the ones who made their careers, and not on "our generation" in any meaningful way.

I'm with you otherwise but this line of reasoning is pretty dubious, a sort of counting the hits and not the misses approach.

It doesn't reduce well. If we blame the boomers for "producing" millennials why can't we just turn around and blame the prehistoric Madison Avenue types that produced the boomers[0], and so on and so forth.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/The-Conquest-Cool-Counterculture-Consu...
B2R Finance is funded by Blackstone, not Bridgewater.

Joshua Adler is not head of the fund nor has he ever been, Jason Hogg is. Joshua Adler is co-founder of LaKritz Adler, a real estate investment firm based in and focused on the Washington, DC area.

The minimum amount you can borrow from B2R is $5M (previously, it was $10M) -- so this isn't something your average homeowner is going to take out on their home.

And the article only has one reference to a 'bridge loan', and that's a $350K loan from a Brooklyn artist to Cyan.

B2R's end game is to acquire rental properties, with B2R being an abbreviation for "Buy to Rent".
Unfortunately that's not where it ends. I wish it was only gender or sociological issues.

Beyond that, you don't have to be poor, or female, or black, or... etc., to understand empathy. In a world where empathy didn't exist, maybe they would have a point. But humans can and do empathize, and can bring in elements from that divergent background to improve the overall situation. But only if the discussion isn't cut off with, "STFU, what do you know!?"
If anyone hasn't had the chance, I highly recommend reading Scott Alexander's "Meditations" series, particularly the ones on superweapons and bingo:

http://squid314.livejournal.com/329171.html
http://squid314.livejournal.com/329561.html
> I'm 25, I feel like I'm losing at life already

Don't, I'm 37 and I never had a successful startup, when I was 25 I didn't even know what I want in life. It seems to me people more and more seem to put milestones in their lives "if I don't get to be X by age Y then I have failed"

You are putting yourself to failure. compare yourself to yourself, don't compare yourself to black swans like the Zuckerbergs of this world, they are one in a billion. There are more talented and smart people who are great that didn't create a successful startup than there are people on facebook.

I would say you are in a crisis mode now, and for now your startup is done for, but this doesn't mean that once you get back on your feet financially you can't go back and revisit that idea.

If you post your contact details and tech stack I'm sure you could find some temporary gigs to keep you floating.

I never went into startups because I lacked that financial backbone when I was younger, and had a family later. But I'm happily employed and like my side projects. Going into a startup is a long term game, you are taking lower salaries so you can pay top talent more than you are paid yourself, and you don't want to burn all that seed money (if you are lucky to have any, or using your own savings).

It sounds to me like you need some real remote, US dollar rate work ASAP. If you have been living on a $200 a month, I'm sure that there are people here that would hire you in an hourly rate that would make you earn that in a day or so at last...

I would personally take a break from the startup, use this stage to get some freelance pipeline, get my pockets full of money (or get a remote fulltime job in a startup), save 6 salaries, and only then go back and trying a startup.

Startups have very low success rates, it's all about trying many things, MOST startups fail as you know. this is why you need some savings first.

If you don't have a place to sleep, and food to eat, then you CAN'T RUN A STARTUP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
The value is not in the actual product, but in the lock-in that this solution creates. I find this outrageous, and I hope that soon a better and open chat/communication standard will emerge.
Ok no problem I understand. I'm simonswords@gmail.com.
Jedi: Autocompletion (Vim/Emacs/Sublime/etc) & Static Analysis for Python
Mobile? Strikes me there's been remarkably little innovation around bringing comment and forum-like functionality to mobile.

Given that typing hurts on mobile but you have easier access to other types of input (voice, camera, location, motion etc.) there's a need to reinvent the concept of comments
>> just that the reasons to not use it aren't rationally assigned.

I agree that many of the reasons people stay away aren't rational. However I don't think all are irrational -

Someone might compromise my computer or my wallet provider and get all the money. This has happened repeatedly. There may be nothing I can do about that, technically or legally. While this is a bit like Madoff, I don't have to interact with Madoff to obtain or use dollars.

To obtain and use BTC I pretty much have to take the risk of dealing with the BTC community.
Logic Pro X is Con-Sumer and not a professional. I did address that Con-Sumer wave editors do look nicer but they are limited in what they can do.

For single file wave form editing Audacity actually does more than Logic Pro. It is a good program and you can get a good end product but it certainly isn't professional nor extremely powerful.
An analog that sprang to my mind early in the article, and briefly raised with the comparison to Craigslist, but which I feel is more apt than Craigslist: eBay.

Some points:

* eBay can ban a seller for not following the rules.

* eBay absolutely requires its sellers to earn revenue.

* eBay can set expectations and incentivize behavior with its various seller-partner programs at different levels.

* An eBay seller may depend on eBay for their livelihood.

I am not proposing this as a slam-dunk against the case, but I'd love to see some discussion on these points.

I will state clearly and unambiguously, though, that I do not believe Uber should have to treat all of its drivers as employees. This does not imply that I am opposed to discussion or hearing opposing viewpoints.

Ninja Edit: Typoes (grammar-oes?).
If you are more into the songwriting / application side of music theory, definitely check out "Hooktheory I" http://www.hooktheory.com/music-theory-for-songwriting, which is the music theory / songwriting book written by the creators of the API used in the OP.