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I think the mostly likely reason we don't see evidence for intelligent life in the universe is simply because we don't realize how unlikely it is to evolve intelligence.

Maybe there are a lot more evolutionary paths life can take on a world than just something similar to what happened here on Earth. Maybe typically it's unlikely for life to evolve to become much more than plant-like life forms.

I'm sure there are species in the universe which have evolved intelligence but I think they're much rarer than we would assume here on our perfect example world, Earth.

Thanks for this. I've noticed I'm a very status driven individual and consequently I find the journey to be often a hard thing to appreciate. I also know I'm always extremely discontented by what I have and I question whether I will ever find that holy grail of success I'm looking for where I will stop worrying about all of this and just accept I made it.

I think the only answer is to force myself to focus more on my journey. Try to enjoy the highs and lows as they come. My friend has rather good philosophy on this where he defines his personal success by the action he takes and not by the amount of money he makes or some other external measurement he doesn't have total control over.

Plus I'll be updating the blog very soon!

I'm currently looking for a house in the UK so I gave this a go. I found the interface incredible buggy.

The search tools didn't work correctly, adjusting the price either made no difference to the properties shown or just came up with an error, "Ad detail is not available at this zoom level."

The photo only thing doesn't seem to do anything.

When navigating around my city every I would have to wait for the search results to repopulate which only took a second but was very annoying.

https://aboutmybrowser.com/1VABv1jf

How effective are ads in local papers or even online search results?

The interface is beautiful, good job.

It would be brilliant if you could now extend the simple interface to some additional features like cropping, rotating, maybe even some photo filters. I'd definitely use it.

Maybe but I hope Google would take the higher moral ground and assume the user has consciously decided to enable it as they have no way to tell otherwise.

It would look a little bad if Google just straight up ignored the DNT header on IE10.

Personally I question whether Microsoft's main reason for enabling DNT is to protect their user's privacy.

If Microsoft can look like the good guys while sticking a knife in Google's back, preventing them tracking users and targeting ads, then they might as well go for it.

IE on it's own won't do much damage but other browsers will be under pressure now to also add DNT, after all, they don't want their users to think they're privacy online is safer in IE's hands.

If all browsers slowly make this move Google could be affected quite badly. And that is the logic I think Microsoft is using here.

The service provided by http://www.psd2html.com/ seems to be done by humans.

"100% human-coded. 370+ professionals"

When you create an MVP you shouldn't be thinking about the products success in terms of it's sales. An MVP is basically an experiment, you should be looking at feedback you're getting from it and how that feedback can be used to improve the product.

Do people like the product's goal but not a certain aspect of it? Great! Now go change that aspect and see what they think now. Repeat and repeat until the product is financial success.

If you're not getting sales that's fine, focus on just getting people more people to try a free account. Maybe change the homepage around one day, see how that affects the rate of sign ups. Keep experimenting and improving.

I'm dyslexic, I hate reading. I've always taken the attitude of 'just do it' and 'learn from mistakes' but a couple of weeks ago I decide I will start reading at least a book a month.

After reading the Lean Startup I feel like I've learnt more about building Startups than what I have reading various startup related articles on HN all year.

I'm sure this isn't the case with all books but I wouldn't agree that it's better just to go out there and try to do stuff you don't really understand. You'll probably just be wasting your time in most cases.

This shows how well browsers handle bad HTML.

It always surprises me when I make a mistake in my code and I don't notice it until I next few the source because the browser has understood what I was meant to do.

I guess although this is good for the end user it isn't always a great thing for developers learning HTML if they're able to write bad HTML without ever knowing they're doing something wrong.

buddy-fund.com - A way for users to sell their Facebook wall to advertisers. We should have done a little more research into the idea, it's against the ToS surprise, surprise.

clanbo.com - (The name is awful, I didn't come up with it) It was a free game server hosting service which also provided premium accounts. It got quite a bit of traffic and made me a little money back when I was 16 but the effort to return ratio is pretty low and in such a competitive area it would be hard to make it into anything worthwhile.

These two domains and sites are available for sell if anyone is interested. Full source can be provided on both. Clanbo.com fully functional and ready to host both TS2 and TS3 servers.

In regards to what language is best, it probably won't matter too much unless performance is critical to the application. Just pick the language you're most conformable developing in.

All you really need is an email.

Asking for first name and last name too, even if it's optional, will probably discourage some people when they see the form.

I worry with questions like this that we may never have a convincing answer. There may be things about the universe that are simply ungraspable.

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I think Square could have tried to be more understanding of this use case.

He did clearly explain that the linked account didn't keep a balance and that he was willing to pay the negative balance in his Square account with other sources.

I don't see this as shockingly poor customer service, but Square should have just disabled the automatic debiting on his account as he was a long time trust worthy customer.

Although I agree with what you're saying sometimes spending more time on eye candy than the actual design can be useful.

Eye candy doesn't help the user with navigation or add functionality but it can make a website look more professional and in-turn more trustworthy.

For e commerce websites getting the users trust is an important consideration and I'd argue eye candy is maybe just as important as the design.

Of course in the case of Hacker News I wouldn't like to see this kind of redesign implemented and would prefer the focus of the site's design to be solely on improving it's functionality and usability.

This opens up more problems though.

For example how would the Google Chrome browser work (and search to a degree), does a user who types "pepsi" into their omnibar want to go to http://pepsi/ or search for pepsi?

It also adds confusion for webmasters trying to parses URLs on their website. When a user types pepsi.com/coke into their blog for example that link can be made clickable to http://pepsi.com/coke/ where it can't for pepsi/coke

> "The other two big spikes on the chart were the result of discount promotions I ran."

How did you advertise these promotions? I noticed you got a huge amount of traffic from running the promotions.

This really is crazy, most analytic applications track users anonymously anyway so there isn't really much privacy concern.

It's basically the same as keeping track of the number of customers a physical store gets in a day, or maybe the time customers spends in the store. This type of analytics is essential to offline and online businesses.

As a citizen of the UK I'm extremely disappointed.

Apologies, I falsely assumed 'socialize purposefully' meant to socialise with successful people in aid of personal success.

> Or socialize purposefully - building relationships and allies sort of speak.

I would probably agree with this a couple of months ago but I don't know any more. I just love meeting people, everyone is so different and interesting.

Your approach is great if the only thing that's going to make you happy is money and success but I've realised, only just lately for me, that it's not everything.

Just do what ever maximises your happiness and feeling of self-fulfilment. I'm sure money and success are great and can even be a source of happiness but I'm know if I was a millionaire tomorrow, I wouldn't feel content.

Shame it never seems like that in the short term though.

One of the best articles I've read in a long time.

I'm 21 and about to graduate. I totally relate to this and am already trying to adopt this way living into my life.

My friends often tell me I'm being unrealistic and I'll soon realise that I need to grow up.

My plan is to work part-time when I leave university leaving myself all the time I want to work on my own projects and to socialise. That's what makes me happy, so that's how I want to spend the majority of my time.

Here is one of my favourite articles on the Turing Test.

The method described in this article appears similar in its approach, "Suppose, for a moment, that all the words you have ever spoken, heard, written, or read, as well as all the visual scenes and all the sounds you have ever experienced, were recorded and accessible".

https://sites.google.com/site/asenselessconversation/

What exactly does it mean to reboot a field of study?

Take a step back and try to find new, possibly easier approaches?

Interesting, but I don't think Google wanted to go social to decrease the damages of link spamming.

People already do social network spamming. There are plenty of sites where you can pay for a certain number of +1's or likes.

Using a combination of inputs, social interaction, page links, keywords, they can achieve a better overall ranking algorithm, which is probably one reason they wanted to go social.

However I think the main reason Google wanted to go social was to be able categorise their users better. The more they know about their users, the better they can serve ads.

I've only ever had to print code for college and university.

Even then a lot of my university tutors rather code to be submitted on a disk or by making it network accessible instead.