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I just feel helpless about this country. I go to these shopping malls and night clubs and see droves of people unconcerned or even aware about the apathy that this country has been fostering. We're no longer a role model of a democracy we enshrined in our pitch last century. Sometimes I feel we're no less bad than North Korea, except for the ton of money floating around that lets a section of people off the hook. Or political power.
You make it sound like it's not OK to be antisocial.
Oh I know. But I can still want hacks to make the most efficient use of space :)
Surely these individuals would not go to such extents to hide their lack of belief if they knew that revealing it would be free of consequences. I can only assume that they know their communities better than you do, and so it seems unlikely that you are correct.
None of the demos work correctly on safari iOS
I have 12 years of professional experience. In that time, most of what I worked on shipped. It would be a serious failure if we committed to a feature and were unable to deliver it. To be fair, I have tended to work on mature products, which have predictable lifecycle. Perhaps you've had a different experience because you've worked for startups or on early development?

Anyways, the way I see it, if I'm OK with my project being cancelled, I am working on the wrong project. We should not be comfortable with delivering results "once in a while."
I'm not sure in what sense you mean real numbers could "construct" anything, but you can make physically impossible shapes out of rational numbers too, so their cardinality has nothing to do with that.
In courts all around the (Western) word custody courts are heavily biased towards the mother. It would be very surprising if religiousness where a more important factor in New York State. I think the article is plain wrong on that point and that the religious level of the parents doesn't make any difference at all.
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9674606
This title speaks to me, because lonely and creative are two of my main traits. I created so many projects, mostly startups, that people often can hardly believe it. Some of these have been successful, so I am leading an financial independent life. People constantly say that my work is based on unbelievable creativity. Yet, I am completely isolated.

With people, it just does not work. In no setting. Love, friends, business, family - you name it. I do not have a single person I am close with. The strange thing is - even though I consider myself very smart - I never was able to figure out why. People just disappear. Do not have time for me. Do not call me back. When I ask them straight away "is it because I am a somehow unpleasant person?" they say stuff like "No, I was just busy. And I am still busy. Bye.". I wonder if I will ever find out, what the underlying cause is.
genkernel?
Same here. It was difficult at first but became a very beautiful experience.
I was going to rebuff about not necessarily needing a second earth, but after re-reading your earlier comment and considering sustainability issues like oxygen and food production, you may have convinced me.

I guess I should spend more time being productive and less time considering how I could survive the heat death of the universe.
It's refreshing to see the positive and appreciative comments on the original article instead of the knee-jerk sorts of reactions you often see in the mass media.
Ah yes, the "They reject me because they are too stupid to appreciate my brilliance" theory. Occasionally accurate, usually ego-stroking.
I've signed up for a 10-day course in mid August and am stoked about what I'll gain and also about the sheer difficulty. Could you talk more about the long-term effects of Vipassana on your body/life?
I think everyone on the tour group was jaded at the end!
Stability is generally rewarded - sudden drastic changes to a primary parent's living situation, religion, employment, etc. is not seen as great for children. Also, sudden shifts in behaviour can happen because of serious mental illness (not saying that's true here), which courts would understandably be worried about.

If a family was mostly happy, healthy, and stable, and one parent decided to leave the family and make drastic changes (to a new religion/community/city/whatever), the safe thing would probably be to leave the kids with the piece of the family that hasn't drastically changed. Most of the time, anyway.
I desperately want to agree, but this is HN.

The other week someone suggested an app that gamified escaping homelessness as a solution to homelessness.
Which term would you use to describe it? I don't get the suggestion. I solved the problem using Topology that is one of My favourite topics in mathematics.
"Since 1945 hardly a single contemporary artist has achieved significant fame after death, with the vast majority of great contemporary artists actively engaged in dialogue with others."

Doesn't that have a great deal more to do with the art industry than creativity itself?
> hand out credits to whoever is currently using the resource

Sounds like the IPv4 allocation system. I agree it's politically palatable, but if a nation is going to distribute a good, it's more sensible to allocate an even chunk to every resident/citizen, and have them get paid for its usage.
The elephant in the discotheque: the Bee Gees (2014)
"Racist" is essentially a term of abuse which no group or party has ever applied to itself.

To be a little pedantic, that's not strictly true; as Frost points out, "racist" was originally intended as a literal translation of the German völkisch, which the Nazi Party certainly self-described as. But I suppose you could say that's the exception which proves the rule.
Well, no. I've been reading this book about the daily schedules of the greats [1] and there are many artists who had very active social lives while in their prime. Some more so than others - Francis Bacon would wake at 7am and work hard until lunchtime, when he'd share a bottle of wine with a friend in his studio and then drink, eat and party until the middle of the next morning, getting to bed at 3am. Rinse and repeat.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Daily-Rituals-How-Artists-Work/dp/0307...
"Nominal consequences"?!! Eich lost his job. The scientist was forced to make a tearful apology on national television on what should have been the proudest day of his life. Would you be comfortable with losing your job and being humiliated world-wide because some mob was offended at you? If not, why not?

Not that it matters, but you palmed a card there by equating holding the same position on gay marriage as Barack Obama in 2008, or wearing a tacky bowling shirt, as "reactionary." It kind of seems like anything which disagrees with a microscopic sliver of online activists is reactionary now.
Yes, it's applications are very specialized, this is true.
I'd love to use this. But in the back of my head I still think javascript should be optional if possible ... not that 99% of the rest of the world cares ...
>So if we have a bounded set (and I've not given a technical definition of what that means) then we'd like the measure of that to exist

Why in the world should this be true? I'd much sooner try to weaken this requirement than the additivity requirement or the axiom of choice. For example, I imagine restricting measures to (unions of countably many disjoint) (path-)connected subspaces of the ambient topology would solve the problem just as handily, without making any compromises on how well the math models our intuitive notion of measure. On that note, I suspect that to really have a meaningful notion of measure, one really needs to have at least a topology, if not an outright metric space.

Can anyone more versed in this area comment on this?
It's easy to find South Africans "holding forth" etc. For example: [0].

"The number of black people who believe life was better under South Africa's apartheid regime is growing, according to a survey published yesterday... In a rebuke to the African National Congress government, more than 60 per cent of all South Africans polled said the country was better run during white minority rule."

Yes, that's from 2002. Everyone who thinks the ANC has improved since 2002, please raise your hand.

While I didn't click on this thread to banter about details, details like this matter in a way - because South Africa is a real country and not a story or a song. In the real country, pressure from nice white people who live in America helped replace one one-party government, the Nationalists, with another, the ANC.

If the ANC governs South African blacks better than the Nats, the nice white people did a good thing for South African blacks; otherwise, they did a mean thing. Surely this is true whatever the names of the parties, the skin colors of the government bureaucrats, etc, etc, etc.

The possibility that, while listening to "Biko," singing "Free Nelson Mandela," and generally having a grand old time, our nice white people actually damaged the lives of actual real people (eg, there are 500,000 rapes a year in ANC-governed South Africa) does not seem to occur to our collective progressive consciousness. It seems much easier to express "guilt" about our 17th-century ancestors than to consider the possibility that we, ourselves, actually caused real harm.

[0] http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/12/12/1039656168811.h... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_violence_in_South_Africa
There are plenty of atheists (or let's say non-theist) churches and organizations trying to emulate churches. There are in fact plenty of books written on the topic. I read one recently but cannot recall the name or author, essentially promoting exactly what you said in your comment (he was a UC Philosophy professor I think)

As a devout religious person, let me say there are plenty of religious folks who don't believe in God, and who do not see a contradiction in this (whether or not they say so). There are those who reject the traditional doctrine of Christianity (God included) and who those who focus so keenly on the traditions that they care little for the concept of God.

On the reverse side of the coin, there are plenty of people who I know who claim to be Rational Atheists but who are barely able to reason. I have also met people who claim to be Atheists but who are at "best" Agnostic, or "worst" they are, deep down, Thiests.

Hearing someone "I am a Christian/Muslim" means very little. Hearing them say "I am Atheist" might mean a little more (as in it is not the default choice) but also says very little about what they really believe deep down.

It comes down to who you wish to associate with. It is easier to be a Christian politician in the USA than an Atheist politician, and, if my college days were anything to go by, easier to be an Atheist student or professor than a devout religious student/professor.
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From van Gogh to Huxley, and lots of subjective questions but it's lacking data. So we can't answer this empirically, or at least, the article doesn't. And it's hard to read because of it, just jumping around the various, well, anekdotes. I guess the only really valid answer that follows is this:

"who knows..."
> Perhaps somebody could start an "atheist church", but the concept is unpalatable to me

In France, a lot of atheist Jews joined Freemasonry at the beginning of the 20th century for this very reason: they were highly educated, atheists, and felt that they were missing something because they did not gather anymore for religious reasons.

But rather than flocking to pray uselessly (yes, this is a bit provocative), they used their time to think about and improve society - it would be called a "think tank" today I presume.

This led to major improvements in the french society at that time, and especially a law that separated church and state, leading to a fully secular society (so the "1905" law in France)

(And this is one of the reason why Freemasons were persecuted by the nazi-friendly governments in France during the WW2 - they were hated by far rights religious people for being atheists AND for accepting Jews, and because of previous secular laws)
The value proposition is declarative UI definition, vdom is how that proposition performs acceptably (or more than acceptably as it allows further optimisation due to pervasive use of pure functions) when layered on an imperative underlying structure.
Thank you For Your feedback, it is the most critic feedback I Got so it took me more time to answer. I am trying to improve my presentation skill and the issue here is that I was not able to expose correctly the concept so you was misled to think it is just "a parametrized GoL".

That is why I am preparing a demo that is a little bit different from the classical example: an Hexagonal Game of life.

This is a first minimum available working implementation: http://g14n.info/games-of-life/example/hexagonal/

Enjoy!
I thought so too! Well then, I suppose at least we're both creative enough to come to the same question.
Festivals etc aren't quite suited. Studies have shown that friendship etc forms best when you both "have" to be there, and regularly see eachother at these events. I'm not describing this eloquently, but basically Sunday church and weekday K-12 education are both prime substrate for forming strong friendship, while random run-ins at festivals and concerts are decidedly not.

Considering the decline in church attendance in young adulthood, and the fact that you don't attend grade school anymore, small wonder strong friendship is harder to come by.
You are not alone in feeling lonely. I suggest you try talking to a psychotherapist to help you answer those questions.
Component here is just to illustrate that the type is of a view component, and due to it being implemented on top of React. `component()` is a factory/syntactic sugar on top of React allowing you to have referentially transparent components (as you get arguments passed to the render function).

In time, React hopefully (and probably) gets support for stateless functions without the syntactic sugar (https://github.com/reactjs/react-future/blob/master/01%20-%2...). This will be supported when React adds support for functions returning VDOM elements.
"Lost his job." Boo hoo, he's still insanely rich, and could probably get a job anywhere less progressive and public than Mozilla. Also, no public indication that he was compelled to leave, although I'll grant you there's a better than even chance that that was the case.

"Forced to make a tearful apology" Rather say that he made a tearful apology, because he regretted his wrong action and felt apologetic. Or, if you have access to some sort of privileged information and actually know that he was forced, I've got another rejoinder: forced to apologize!? No! The humanity.

Nominal.
"As a friend texted me this morning: "the talk on Urbit could have been dismissed on technical grounds". Perhaps it's interesting to you, but it brings very little that's new to the table in terms of research."

What a crazy coincidence. This talk was accepted when nobody knew who Yarvin was, but now that you and your friends want to cast him out into the wilderness for disagreeing with your political opinions, all of a sudden you realize that the talk was technically uninteresting anyway. What are the odds, huh?

"Moldbug has no place in this discussion because the views he's defending –"

Was he going to defend those views in his technical talk? If not, what's the problem?

"Better yet, try asking them in person the next time you cross paths at a tech event."

Not going to happen, because that would be defined as "harassment" and get the asker fired. You guys have the industry locked up real tight.
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It's interesting how the people crowing "Free market in ideas! Free market in ideas!" tend to be opposed to free markets in almost any other context. How many of the people enforcing the thoughtcrime laws are self-proclaimed socialists, or Communists, or "Jacobins"?
Rather than speculating on what Apple did internally, I think the real question is whether Apple advertises DisplayPort 1.2 support, since this feature is part of the DP 1.2 spec. So far I can't find anything about this on their product pages. If that's the case it's basically users demanding features that were never put into the specs of a product.
It seems worth taking this criticism up with the authors of, for example, Risch et al 2005 [0].

From the abstract: "Genetic cluster analysis of the microsatellite markers produced four major clusters, which showed near-perfect correspondence with the four self-reported race/ethnicity categories. Of 3,636 subjects of varying race/ethnicity, only 5 (0.14%) showed genetic cluster membership different from their self-identified race/ethnicity."

It seems worth asking how a paper like this got published, as late as 2005. Scientific racism may be even more entrenched than many have feared...

[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1196372/
I did it first in 2011. I've only done one session. I've tried to go back a few times but have created barriers in myself to doing so.

It will do me more to go back to Vipassana than any single thing I can do for myself. It puts you at the center and you just follow along, being true.

As far as long-term effects, I came out of the experience glowing. Heat didn't bother me. I saw clearly. The afterglow lasted for about three months. Slowly, I became a little bit agitated by things that didn't bother me during the period of afterglow. If I had continued to meditate regularly, I would have been fine. Centered. Since I didn't...Because I made excuses for myself...I'm in a not so great state these days. And yet, if I found myself again in the state after Vipassana, if I took care of myself and meditated, I would be in a much better mental state.

It does great things, but it's not a cure-all. It changed my life more than anything else has and is immensely powerful. It introduced me to myself. For that I will always be grateful. And I hope I respect myself enough to go back soon.
and this what we see in most tech companies, they go out of the way to hire people that "fit". I wonder how much talent we leave out because of people's natural tendency to hire people like themselves...
> javascript should be optional if possible

I got a blank page so I closed the tab.

Any page that requires javascript and I don't need to use (at the level of do my taxes) or that I don't trust the owners of gets the same treatment.

So yeah optional javascript is a thing unless 100% of your audience are absolutely required to use your site.

EDIT
given that sites today use google analytics instead of their own server logs I wonder if non-javascript users just don't even get logged by the javascript-for-everything brigade?
This is true of any "-ism", especially ideologies.

Every person will give a slightly different answer as to what it is.
I don't know if this is your intent, but you have in an instant completely flipped Judaism from something interesting to this agnostic, to something completely dead-end and not worth pursuing.

A compromising approach is accessible. A hard-line "nothing less than absolute and total devotion is even worth considering, and therefore fundamentally not worth your time" is not. Where is the unsure, dubious, or curious individual to even begin, if all that is even acceptable is absolutely unwavering, unshaking, unhesitating prostration?

I realize teachings don't care what is accessible and what is not. I'm not trying to tell you what should be taught. But, just, if you ever wonder why it is shrinking instead of growing- FYI.
This sounds like more feel-good pseudoscientific hogwash.

Is there any evidence that "not talking" can actually lead to an improved life, or is this yet another fad that makes people feel good about themselves?
From a strictly halachic view point, ars is actually right.
If you are sabbath observant and keep kosher, but don't actually believe in God, torah from sinai etc, no one knows and you're still a kosher witness for example. (By kosher witness I mean someone allowed to bear witness in Jewish courts of law, at wedding ceremonies etc).

Conversely, if you believe in God and want to serve him, but are not that interested in Sabbath Observance for example, then strictly speaking you would be sentenced to death if there was a Sanhedrin (old high court of Jewish law, non existent since destruction of the Second Temple).

Of course if you declare your apostasy that's a separate issue.

Your claims are more how you feel about the religion then what it strictly requires. Also the Rambam's tenants are 13, not 12.
As a disinterested (in both senses of the word) outside observer, I'd point out that while his (c) is pretty much the same as (b), sans the editorializing it's in no way incompatible with any of the previously mentioned Yarvin/Moldbug quotes.

Take, for example, the statement "America is richer than Mexico." By which is meant, "on average, Americans are richer than Mexicans." Someone else could say: "But there are plenty of homeless people in America, and Carlos Slim is the richest man in the world! There are vastly greater internal differences in wealth within America and Mexico than the difference between the two countries' averages."

Perfectly true. But, it doesn't then logically follow that America and Mexico must not differ in terms of average wealth, or that the difference in average wealth between the two countries is irrelevant or less relevant than their internal inequality.
"Who on the right today has been similarly "silenced"?"

Well, you just personally silenced Yarvin, so there's one.
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Think of it like email: Email is not inherently secure, but there is nothing to stop you sending an encrypted message via email.

So in this case you would push an encrypted message, and your app would decrypt the message before displaying its contents.
Aren't stood-upon shoulders of giants literally the reason why Atlas Shrugged.
> All that being said, a well rounded, Torah observant Jew, regardless of their denomination will have a healthy balance of faith, moral compass, and action that leads to living an optimal, healthy, happy, meaningful life to the fullest.

Why can't I say the same about hardline atheists modulo the stuff about the Torah and faith?
Scott Alexander makes a very good point about this here (http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy-...). I can't do it justice, but I'll try to summarize it, because that piece is very long.

Imagine you lived in soviet Russia. If you criticize the communist government, and said that the previous capitalist system was better, you would be shot. But if you criticize the government and said we needed more communism, you'd get praise.

If you are in favor of reform, and new policies, and support the direction society is currently headed, you won't be ostracized. People might not agree with you, but they won't have you shot.

But imagine trying to suggest we go back and undo the changes that have been made? Imagine someone advocated reestablishing slavery, or getting rid of women's right to vote, etc. They would be ostracized.

You might not agree with the person who wants to create a new system. But the person advocating we go back to the old system, no. He's trying to undo all the progress we've made!

Society has fought that battle and established that the losing side was wrong. It may have been controversial at one time, but now everyone knows that slavery is definitely wrong. The liberal isn't fighting lost wars, he's moving onto new battles. Where no one has yet been declared a loser.
10/10 would buy it as a screensaver! It has been years since I saw a cool screensaver that is just fun to watch when I am not doing stuff.

[edit] There is a screensaver and it works!
http://code.google.com/p/pixelcity/