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And the battery in my car is made from simple plastic.

(They left out the carbon nanotubes, lithium, and electrolyte when they said plain copier paper.)
I boot-time scanned my entire computer which ruled out virus infestation. Since I have only recently started using this IP address (4 months), I am guessing that the person using this IP address before me may have either been a spammer or may have had an infected system. I don't think it is because I goofed up in some way.
So will this IP be blocked from HN for eternity? Shouldn't HN take into consideration that my account from which the comment was posted is older than a year with frequent activity throughout? (Mainly upvotes on submissions and comments) -and without any history of spamming or any wrongdoing?
I would very much like to participate in the HN community. I request you to allow this IP address.
Half.com (ebay) has it for $30 http://product.half.ebay.com/Peopleware_W0QQtgZinfoQQprZ6570...

It's probably worth the $95 anyway.
Overall I think he's right, but it also reminds me of arguments in the 1960s and 70s against seat belts and air bags: that by adding a new safeguard, people would come to depend on it and neglect other more effective precautions like driving carefully. There is indeed a "risk homeostasis" effect, but history suggests that extra precautions do reduce overall risk.
Can you give me an example of what you are thinking about?

There's is no doubt SimpleDB especially can be a bit odd, it kind of forces you to create your own munged columns if you are doing queries across fields etc, but I've yet to run across anything I couldn't code around. (I've also built some libs to help to that end)

Another thing which may not be obvious, is that SimpleDB in particular allows for more than one value per attribute, which often will save you the need for a subtable. IE, a user 'row' can have more than one value for the email 'column' or whatnot, and you can query on that intelligently.
"Plenty of studies point out the negative effects the vibration of wind turbines has on fish."

URL? I live in an area where they are considering sea-going wind turbines and the 'anti-wind' group has mostly consisted of wealthy waterfront property owners with well funded 'studies' that don't hold up to scrutiny. Would love to see legit evidence for either side.
"Pictures or it didn't happen!"

Edit: I tried searching for anything related to IBM and their Black Team. It seems Google saturates my search request with everything linking back to this article.

Perhaps someone could help?
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Well, I doubt that would work too well either. A rash of e-mails of the same general form will probably be attributed to a few spammers spoofing return addresses, rather than to a genuine movement. These people probably get spam about political issues all the time.
Yeah, that's a good argument. It should be discussed and balanced against the true intent of the legislation, not against the phony and disingenuous idea that it's meant to protect performers.
Setting aside all other factors (complexity, progress made, resources available, etc), I would argue that the culture of bug acceptance has lead to more bugs in software than would have existed had it been less tolerant.
One of the key points that Clayton Christensen Innovator's Dilemma makes is that many customers can be "over-served" by a mature product: it has more features and capabilities than they need or can use. They do this by listening to their best customers, who tend to be power users.

Microsoft Word and Excel are clearly an examples of this, where simpler web-based solutions are gaining traction. What Wingify has shown is that Google Analytics may have crossed the threshold into "Swiss Army Chainsaw"--every blade you might ever use all in one handy package--when a simple handsaw may be all that many folks need.
First, I own one of those new-fangled web apps (http://agilezen.com/). It's built on jQuery, has a fairly complex Javascript-driven UI, and nowhere do I manipulate hundreds or thousands of DOM elements.

Second, I wasn't arguing against libraries -- I was saying that the difference in performance is probably not what you want to use to decide which library to use.
You are scratching simultaneously on the doors of a huge semi-religious war (oops, block that metaphor!) and a seriously open set of questions.

(I think this has been asked zillions of times. I don't know why I feel compelled to throw in my 2 pence...)

It's hard to say "better" in a multi-dimensional question like this.

The things that seem clear are:

* Without the absolute simplicity of the prefix-style paren-delimited Lisp syntax, true macro power is almost impossibly hard/complex/messy.

* For some reason, most people find the Lisp syntax hard to internalize. (Likely due to its prefix nature.)

* Progress generally happens by evolution, not revolution. (Revolutions take about 20-30 years from idea to success in the market, if the latter ever happens.) C is the granddaddy of the "worse is better" philosophy that swept the computing world about 30 years ago, and, so C-style brackets are part of the "comfort zone" that most programmers inhabit. (C++, Java, Go, etc., all stay within that zone.)

I'm not sure you can say anything more before the discussion breaks down into endless rounds of fruitless bickering...
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For the most part they have a pretty good system. There are definitely artists that shoot to the top of the list every time they upload something new which causes a lot of artists to be overlooked. That said, the community itself tries to make up for it by finding those underloved of songs and making them visible.

It also seems like the current system is showing some strain with a growing userbase. Things that worked a year ago don't seem to function so well anymore. Specifically, there aren't enough hearts given per day to spend on the growing number of songs uploaded. And since a song's visibility is directly tied to the number of hearts it receives, a lot of good songs go unnoticed because nobody enough hearts to go around.

Nits aside, I still love the site. It's done more for me as an artist than anything else I've done so far.
Corporations are amoral, they do what is in their interest; the people decide the morals (or laws) of their society. A lack of privacy is not Google's fault, they are simply respecting the laws.

Americans let the Patriot Act be passed into law, not Google. Stop blaming Google and start blaming your democratically elected government. People now have more privacy and liberty in continental Europe and Canada than they do in the US.
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I remember way back in the day, all the "hip" people were building flash websites, yet the web gurus would advocate against them because of slow connection speeds (dial up was still the norm back then), + SEO problems, among other things.

What has changed since? Were there other reasons (not) to build a website in flash?
Whether or not they are seeking or not, they are getting it.

20% of Angola's population is Chinese.

Also note that there are countries (although without such a Chinese influence) who will have major demographic shortages. A good example is Botswana which has an HIV/AIDS prevalence rate of 38%.
Except non-employer health plans rarely cover pre-existing conditions, which ultimately is what ails most people and contributes most to prolonged suffering in quality of life.

I'm of the opposite opinion, having grown up in Canada (now in the US). I'd much rather have a public plan, even if it means worse care for a moderately well-to-do individual like myself.

The whole American health care debate appears to me as a matter of the haves vs. the have-nots, with the added complexity that a lot of have-nots seem to incorrectly identify themselves as haves.
Note that I didn't defend his statement, I clarified what he meant.

But I have to disagree with your first point. I point out elsewhere in this thread that there is a $30k gap between starting salaries for CS and History. Your conclusion may be true (wages have not tracked inflation), but it is not supported by the point you made.

Also keep in mind there are two kinds of professors: professors with research expectations, and professors with only teaching obligations. All professors at my school will have research expectations. Some colleges (often referred to as "teaching colleges," which is sadly not redundant) have no research expectations of their professors, but will pay less.
Separation of science and state!
> Is it worth it?

Actually, I think so. Yes.
I think a lot of this trivia type questions come out of the frustration of going through hundreds of resumes full of crap and fake crap. It is just hard to filter out applicants out of a piece of paper.. so we "invent" tricks to "automate" this, and then blindly apply this routine to who ever shows up.

My personal recommendation is : Past performance is the best predictor of future performance. Look at the candidate resume, drill on the details as they pertain your requirements and use your knowledge of the subject matter to do the best choice.

It is not rocket science.
The "a" part is also hard.
if by niche you mean general dev niche, then yes. They cover a wide range of topics, ranging from iPhone development to Productivity.
Did anyone actually learn something from this blog post? I'd be interested in hearing what it was.
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I've had a look at your website and am not sure exactly what proposition you're offering. I also don't understand your EULA, which says:

"The API consists of Javascript that allows You to use the Effect Game Engine on your website, subject to the limitations and conditions described below. The API is limited to allowing You to use the engine only, and does not provide You with the ability to access or modify the underlying code"

This is incorrect terminology, because an API is just an interface; the code OTOH is a library. Given that JavaScript is distributed as source, how can I use your library without accessing the underlying code. Do you mean you've obfuscated the source?

Furthermore if the Effect Game Engine is on my website, presumably the *.js files containing your libvrary are also hosted on my website, meaning I've copied them.

Later on the EULA says: "Effect Games reserves the right to release subsequent versions of the API and to require You to obtain and use the most recent version."

How do I "obtain" something without "accessing" it?
What a disjoint, rambling mess. If this is the quality of thinking that concludes that science is dead, then I think I'm going to continue to put my money on science.
great stuff ! what the biz model ? are you going to license the engine or direct to consumer paid games ?
You are not a designer and I am not a musician
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I am shocked and amazed. Well done. This is the future of in-browser gaming.
>In any case, if there are people willing to pay for no-condom porn, then the world is sicker than I imagined in my worst nightmares...

You wouldn't like to see the other things people are willing to pay for.
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HackerNews isn't an IT forum, read more here: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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They lost me at "insanely easy to join" ;<).
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Arguments like this one, trying to make the point of a decline in morality, rigor, intelligence or what ever, tend to use the post WWII world as a point of reference. I recently watched a Noam Chomsky documentary, http://video.google.com/videosearch?oe=utf-8&rls=org.moz..., in which when discussing the history of social activism he made the point that the post WWII era up to the 60's was anomalous and that we are now settling back to business as usual. It is may be that this is true of many other activities.

If we look at Victorian Era science it was rife theories and notions that were scientifically somewhat mainstream, Phrenology, Spiritualism, ..., that we now consider pseudoscience. It is possible that some of the points raised in this article may be contemporary manifestation of what will in time become pseudoscience.

I think it more likely that we are seeing th normal state of science not the decline.
I'd never heard this before but I can see why naming the subject helps over using "I" or "we." Writing "Jason likes cake" on my website would tie me to the "cake" keyword moreso than "I like cake", right?
You could make the same arguments in every industry that exists

You could, but the argument would be false there. Building a car, constructing a house, sewing a shirt, writing a book, etc. are all not significantly more complex than they were decades ago. Software is orders of magnitude more complex than decades ago.
> Specifically, there aren't enough hearts given per day to spend on the growing number of songs uploaded. And since a song's visibility is directly tied to the number of hearts it receives, a lot of good songs go unnoticed because nobody enough hearts to go around.

What you've just described is a hearts recession. Paul Krugman will tell you that the obvious solution is to increase the liquidity of the hearts market. :)
Hi, we're revising our EULA and privacy policy to be clearer. Also, I'll be posting an article on our site so please watch for that in the coming days. fyi, we provide an embed function for posting a game to your site (via iframe), so copying isn't an issue. Thanks for the specific input! Again, we'll have updated policies that are much clearer up soon.
I find it ridiculous that people are quick to claim "science is dead" because a few scientists, being human, err or embarrass themselves, or because society as a whole may be having an anti-science backlash.

None of that has anything to do with science's value, and so long as science is valuable and some people are able to understand it, it won't die (barring a severe and sudden loss of knowledge by humanity as a whole).

Also, scientific consensus is meaningful. It'd be superfluous to say "scientific consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles from the earth", because that's basically a measured fact. On the other hand, that the species formed by natural selection is a scientific consensus, and a valid one. 99+% of those who have reviewed the debate have concluded that it's the best explanation there is, and that there are no good reasons for rejecting it.
That's a lot of "design and marketing" nonsense.

What makes you think there is a "rack full of legacy equipment", or that you're dealing with a "homogenized amalgamation of units"? You're just lining up straw men.

What multitude of devices does the Boxee Device replace that makes it an "all-in-one" device? It's one of many media streaming devices being released (though one based on very good software, granted), but all-in-one means it replaces a current multitude of devices. It does not.

I'd also like to point out that "literally" is not a term to be used when you want emphasis, the word you are looking for is "visually". Unless the device is a physical cube that you stab into the surface, it does not literally break the plane.

I think there are legitimate justifications for the design, if only that it needs to stand out in a market of plastic rectangles, but I don't think the reasons you gave are at all valid.
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I seem to remember a very similar posting from abtests.com last week. I would hope that people don't expect that you can magically copy the results of someone else's A/B test to your own domain.
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"great, you can pay them average salaries and they will be so loyal to your giant company"

The point is that they become loyal to each other, the company reaping a reward is just a side benefit of people working towards a common goal.

I was on a similar 'elite' skunkworks dev team in a company of ~ 35,000 that had executive support, and the results were insanely good. You can't manipulate people to do this; You can however give them the freedom to make it happen.
The engine should load assets in the background. For example, in the mario game, when I descend into a pipe, it pauses while it loads the level. Likewise, the Crystal Galaxy game should load assets while I am on the menu screen, rather than waiting for me to press Start.
Reading this (a year or so ago) was one of the things that convinced me that Haskell was worth looking at.

Another was a blog post about Haskell error handling strategies (update - decided to submit it as a separate link and discuss it there instead):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=986592
Science is dead. Long live science!
SEO is still quite valid. Accessibility is/was also an issue (screen readers, etc.)
In addition, today, more and more people have HUGE monitors, and I have -never- seen a good fluid width/height flash site.
In some sense, every email to or from a gmail user is an "open letter" to Eric Schmidt.

(No, I'm not implying that that he or the typical Googler does or would review private email... only that some non-null set of employees there, probably including the CEO if he were really determined to do so, could.)
It is not often that one finds a particular discourse shot through with the sort of threads, intertwined silver filaments, that touch at once on so many personal interests and gather so many errant thoughts into a larger whole that the emotional aftermath is best characterized as the shock of a sort of theoretical unification.

What?
Those small changes can be significant.

A/B tests need to be as specific to one adjustment as possible.

I've noticed flaws like this many times on ABtests.com. But I guess they are like any war stories, its the overall idea that counts not the details.
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I kinda feel like, if you think the question of what "delete this" does is esoteric, maybe c++ isn't really the language you need.

One of the biggest advantages (or disadvantages, depending on your needs) of c++ is the direct control you have over memory management. To me, being confused about "delete this" says you probably don't need or want that level of control, and you probably aren't making the most of it, either.
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We've also pulled a bunch of grayrest's excellent patches back into Underscore -- the ones that work cross-browser. The latest 0.5.1 version of Underscore includes them.
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As mentioned in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=986586, this was one of two blog posts that convinced me that Haskell was worth looking at.

To summarise the part of this post that made the biggest impression on me, it shows how a function f can be written in such a way that it can report errors in case of failure, but leaves the choice of how to handle those errors entirely up to the caller. If f is called within a catch expression, it will throw an exception if it fails. If you're expecting an error message back, it'll return one. If it's called in the Maybe monad, it'll return Nothing. You can even implement your own custom error handling strategy in your code (e.g. collect errors and keep going), and f will play along, without having to change its source code.

This only works because of Haskell's expressive type system and pervasive type inference. (Pervasive as opposed to, say, Scala, which infers some types but requires explicit annotation for others.)

Seems to me these are utterly practical use cases, and they constitute real ammunition for the static typing lobby.
We use EBS for all of reddit's databases. We occasionally run into IO limits when doing a vacuum, but that is about it.
Schmidt's quote is clearly out of context and overblown. Rather than crucifying the man, we should seek clarification of his position. Personally, I believe that his actual stance is along the lines of: "Google does everything it can to protect the privacy of users. Unfortunately, we are required to retain some data by law and some by practicality. If you are doing something you don't want known, the only way to be completely safe it to not put that data in the hands of others. However, if you had to put your private data in the hands of any major internet service company, I believe that Google is the safest choice."
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What are the primary flaws you're seeing?
Unless you are seriously claiming that there has been no progress in logic, political philosophy, moral philosophy, the philoosphy of science, etc. etc. in the past few thousand years. Excluding logic I would agree with that statement.

If you disagree then [citation needed].

Philosophy is the study or creation of theories about basic things such as the nature of existence, knowledge, and thought, or about how people should live. To be clear Philosophy does not encompass math and it does not require testing of those theories.

PS: Skepticism is a philosophical attitude that questions the possibility of obtaining any sort of knowledge. It was first articulated by Pyrrho, who believed that everything could be doubted except appearances. (ca. 360 BC - ca. 270 BC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrho
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It's tempting to make a snarky comment about ivory tower geniuses trumpeting the discovery of the obvious

Don't. Ever. If something is true, we should be able to verify it empirically. If we can't verify it empirically, then it might not be true, no matter what "common sense" says. We don't know until we try.
> You know nothing about poverty.

I grew up in a relatively poor family in a third world country (in a rural area). So, don't make baseless assumptions.

> but we do want a world where people are free from worries about health care (due to our third-world health care system) and meeting basic needs.

These (healthcare, education, etc...) are privileges. You are lucky to have it – but it is still a privilege and not something that you can demand. Btw, Europeans go to the USA for advanced health care (such as Cancer treatment). Ever heard of the MD Anderson cancer centre? It is the best in the world.

Guess what, hospitals and doctors do not just pop into existence. They have to be paid and everything costs money. You want all this to be free (at least for you). I am quite sceptical of this – someone has to pay for it. It looks like everyone wants free healthcare and no-one wants to pay for it.

> You simply have a better society (more innovation, more creativity, happier and healthier people) if peoples' lives aren't clogged up by maintenance.

It seems that the list of entitlements only gets longer and the list of responsibilities gets shorter.

Wasn’t the USA founded on the principle that everyone can pursue their happiness? It seems more like you want government to guarantee it. I think that this says more about the current generation of young Americans than of the American system.
In general, at research universities, it's physics which subsidizes humanities. The university takes about half of every grant as overhead - i.e., science pays for the rest of the university.

As for my thesis that she's paid poorly because she is having fun, that's the situation for all academics (including myself). If she is truly underpaid relative to the fun of her job, why doesn't she quit and find higher paying work elsewhere? In fact, why do so many people apply for such jobs, when so few actually are accepted?

Hint: she likes her 3 months summer vacation, flexible work hours, relaxed environment, complete freedom to work on whatever she likes, and the possibility of never-get-fired-ever job security.