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Trust us we have really good reasons and arguments but we just can't tell you. lol

There is a tradeoff between being selective and inclusive. If you are too inclusive (i.e. almost everyone fits) then you can't be very selective. On the other hand if you are very selective you must be definition not be very inclusive.

From what I know Valve is very selective. It seems that both Ellsworth and Valve thought it would be a good fit but for whatever reason it turned out it wasn't. While they lost out of her many talents they preserved their culture which has been very successful so far.

You make an interesting point that perhaps learning is NOT working. While learning can help you get more work done it is not work itself. In fact it is often an imitation of actual work - pretend or practice work: an essay the never get published, a program that never gets run or a calculation that never gets used.

This is an interesting distinction and depends on the exact definition of "work". However work is clearly not the same thing as learning.

This article confusingly referred to "qualified" investors but according to other reporting it is actually "accredited" investors [1]. This is particularly confusing because "qualified purchasers" is an even higher standard required for some investments [2].

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/10/us-sec-advertising...

[2] http://globalfundexchange.com/about/230

This article makes it sound like free public transportation is a new idea. It pops up in Toronto every so often as if it was the first time it was every thought up(1).

In fact this has been tried numerous (perhaps hundreds) of times, both in the past and ongoing(2,3). You would think that the pluses and minuses would be well understood by now. Why is it so hard for transportation systems to learn from each other?

(1) - http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-transformation-of-urban-lif...

(2) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_public_transport#List_of_t...

(3) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_public_transport_r...

Fascinating issue and the rest of the Retraction Watch website is eye opening!

I rarely read academic journals anymore but I had always assumed the top journals did a good job of filtering out bad papers and quickly retracting those that were later disproven. Like every human activity it is not so simple.

http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/

Edit: Warning this is blog addictive - I just spent a solid hour reading. It's kinda science gossip but still important.

Is all this secrecy just "security through obscurity" which is well know to be unreliable. In other words, would we be better off just letting everyone (citizens and enemies) know exactly what you are doing (e.g. tapping phones or not)?

The benefits are certain but the costs are uncertain.

The story was that they admitted this in a "secret briefing". I'm not sure if denying something in public refutes what you said in private.

Nadler seemed pretty sure on Thursday at the Committee meeting and when interviewed by CNET over the weekend but has now changed his story. The NSA released a very strangely worded denial. And in today's Q&A Snowden says this is exactly how it happens.

Not sure what to make of all this but is seems like we have been given a peek behind the curtain but not a long enough gaze to see exactly what is going on.

It is very hard to not love this guy.

tptacek why are you always defending ridiculous statements and behavior by the US administration and spy agencies? You seem willing to bend over backwards (or is it forwards) to justify any statement from the authorities but will attack the tiniest issue in a fellow HNers post.

Have you and/or your company ever worked for them? If so it would explain a lot.

Yes - it seems strange that this has not already been integrated into Google DevTools which I generally use. Perhaps there is a similar Chrome extension or Firebug add-in but have not see it.

Not the same thing but there is already a jslint Chrome extension <1> and a proposal to add jshint to DevTools itself <2>.

<1> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jslint-for-google-...

<2> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-chrome-develo...

Cool stuff - had not heard about the 3D rendering linked in the article either. These are not trivial features to implement or maintain and seem to have a somewhat narrow audience. GitHub has such an amazing team and the core functionality seems pretty complete. I wonder if the "ship code" ethic and loose management structure (both of which I think are great) will inevitably lead to a bloated, feature overloaded product eventually. This has happened so very often in the past to others. So far they have been pretty good at closing down unused features.