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Here's the reason I expect to hate this "feature": I already hate the way my seat belts work and they have nearly gotten me into multiple accidents. Specifically, if I see a hazard coming from the sides/rear and slow down and try to avoid them, I need to be able to turn my head quickly and sharply to see them. And the GODDAMN SEATBELT IS PREVENTING THIS because the slowdown and my quick sitting-up-straight has caused it to lock me tight against the seat. I am now PARTIALLY BLIND with respect to whatever threat is incoming and I have to hope for the best. This is terrifying and it is not a safety improvement. Based on the descriptions in this article, the situation in these cars of the future will be even worse, because the seatbelts will lock down more often and the brakes will become hypersensitive and work differently than your muscle memory has been trained to expect.

No matter how much training and experience you have with your car, as soon as you get in a situation that requires precision handling you are suddenly transported into a car that behaves and handles completely differently, that you've never driven in before. Put me down in the "no" column.
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When you get it working, we should talk. My day job is being the head of integrations at FreshBooks. I'm also one of the leaders of the Small Business Web (http://www.thesmallbusinessweb.com) and know about a trillion e-commerce ISVs.

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Yep. Some animals even show 'empathy', the ability to figure out your emotional state by observing you and changing their behaviour accordingly.

But it doesn't give them people rights any more than a Dolphin asking for a fish does.

On the other hand even if they weren't intelligent at all we'd still have some moral obligations towards them.

Heck, I know people I'd gladly trade for a Dog or a Dolphin for that matter.
Here's a question that no one has asked yet:

Why should content sites be compensated at all?

When I first read this topic, I thought it was content sites as in nytimes going into Iraq and reporting on the war or netflix/ireel streaming hollywood movies or other such original content.

But really, what we're talking about here, is review sites. Personally, I could start a review site on stuff I liked for almost 0$. I could host it on a server I already co-locate and my peers would trust me simply because they have no reason not to. As soon as you start adding financial incentives, ads at all, you lose a bit of credibility.

You do gain that credibility back though by point out exactly what conditions you got the product under (free review product, paid out of your pocket, paid-for review, etc).

I don't disregard paid-for positive reviews. I just do more research on them. I'm sure that the future for content sites is to have a few sales people on staff to goad companies into buying paid-for posts which are clearly demarcated as such.

I don't care if a post is paid-for as long as the post itself checks out. If I see a post on gizmodo or a more obscure blog such as high-scalability mark itself as paid for I won't say oh that's wrong, I'll say oh that's interesting, better check it out. I'll google it and find many other source and if it seems worth my time try it out myself.

Personally, I think it's another avenue for sales, it's just one of the huge number of avenues for the next generation of marketing that is become increasing disconnected from the traditional avenues that have been well studied in the past.
Yes it does. A good local repo will cache it. They act as mirrors. Once its cached, and your build is working fine, you can force all your developers to use only your local repo. This solves all non-determinism problems by allowing you to have complete control over all version of all deps and plugins.

Take a look at how to configure settings.xml to force your users to use only your local repo.

As far as <dependencyManagement> tags -- the point of that is to hard-code the version of foo in one spot, like this:

<dependencyManagement>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.example</groupId>
<artifactId>foo</artifacatId>
<version>1.1</version>
<dependency>
</dependencyManagement>

In child pom, you then have this if you need foo:

<dependency>
<groupId>com.example</groupId>
<artifactId>foo</artifactId>
</depdendency>

And if you use something like Archiva, and force your users through it via settings.xml, then the first time someone downloads foo, Archiva gets it from the web, caches it, all other requests for foo go to Archiva. If foo has a transitive dependency, it will also get fetched from the web one time and cached in Archiva. Thus, guaranteeing that your build is deterministic -- unless you explicitly change foo/bar in Archiva yourself.
Humm... turning your head? Something wrong with your rear-view mirror?
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The article starts here: http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture_society/the-revolution-...
+1 for maven for me. I've used it quite a bit. I've set up (fixed) a lot of really, really bad Ant builds. I have nothing against Ant, but it is easily abused, and can quickly degenerate into a complex mess.

Maven has a learning curve -- although it isn't huge. It can be frustrating sometimes, but if done right, it has so many advantages over other tools. There are free online books on the topic.

http://maven.apache.org/articles.html
I think your right about that (besides the mice being in charge, which we take as given).

The funny thing here is that this is all fine and good as long as we're dealing with inferior intellects, wait what happens if a superior intelligence should come across us and decides to capture and domesticate us and treat us like food.

I'm pretty sure we'd be arguing for equal rights for animals :)

I really don't remember the title of the story, I think it was a short story in an anthology, it read as a 'care and feeding of your khod' or something like that.

The basic idea was that the story was told from the viewpoint of an alien species that kept the obviously non-intelligent khod as a food stock. Lots of rules were laid down about how you should treat your khod if you wanted to get the most mileage out of them.

Particular care should be taken when slaughtering the khod, never do this in front of other khod that you do not intend to slaughter right away.

Only at the end of the story you realize the khod are captive humans.
They used AI for generating this..
Surely Adobe Acrobat Professional absolutely depends on the power provided to it by the mysqld process it launches!
I'm not trying to sell films for these producers. Especially since I'm targeting the long-tail, where a lot of the stuff is unsellable.
Like I said in my main post, I'm more like 37signals. I'm providing a service to the people who produce the stuff for the end user. Except in my case I'm also trying to slot in a great user experience for the end-user.

Amazon's CreateSpace has a 20-minute length minimum. So unless the Yoga videos are each longer than 20 minutes, this would be a barrier. On top of that I'm pretty sure Amazon takes a 50% cut, and their videos can't be downloaded to a mac because of DRM restrictions.

This is in fact an example of an area I'm trying to improve. You'll get great distribution platforms, but they're bottlenecked by a lackluster post-sale customer experience. So while the mechanism is there for someone to sell a video on a generic site, the mechanism is clogged up with gunk.

So I believe there was a misunderstanding. I'm not creating a marketplace. Not yet at least. So marketing is not my concern. I'm only trying to provide the tools to sell online, make marketing online easier, and a platform that will encourage people to purchase without being tied down to proprietary DRM. I also want to tailor this tool specifically to independent filmmakers.
A publisher will create a film, but after they finish it, they're going to want to find a way to get it seen and probably make a return on it. This is where my service steps in. I will provide them an alternative to their current options, and I will provide the alternative via the internet. Already I have several advantages over traditional physical distribution: instant gratification, less overhead from packaging and using a distributor, easier to market because word of mouth spreads at electron speed. And if after all that work creating something and they can't find a traditional distributor, they still have to get it out there somehow. I want to catch those potential customers.
What are some kinds (examples?) of code that you find ICC to compile better than GCC? Like, what's a typical loop that ICC can vectorize but GCC can't? I always have the damnedest time pinpointing when and where these optimizations fire and I've pretty much given up on the compiler when it comes to them. Rather I just develop code as normal and then when it's done find the top 3 or 4 functions in gprof (or Shark or whatever) and vectorize those by hand. Either that or try every compiler you have available and pick the one that yields the best time, but in my experience it's not always Intel.
I always liked those guys. The über-486 Centaur built was briiliant design and out-of-the-box thinking from top to bottom.

Weren't the VIAs able to trounce Xeons in some crypto stuff?
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Not sure I agree with that point. I admire those who are able to consistently separate emotions from decision making - and that's what I think economics training does for individuals when it comes to money and time. Of course, it can be taken to extremes and what may seen logical and rational on its face may not ultimately be viable/optimal especially when you take into account the emotions and reactions of others.
Moral of the story: you can't sell your cake and have it too.
I don't know what he's complaining about. The flag was uploaded as public domain. People should be able to do whatever they want with it. If he wants to make money, he should go produce and sell flags too.
My drivers education course (in the US) emphasized steering to avoid a collision first, and then braking afterwards. We were taught that colliding with a pole at 35 mph is better than doing so with oncoming traffic for a total effect of 70 mph. It also reduces the chances of injury.

After reading that pilots are the safest drivers, I've made sure to always look around my car as I drive.
It must be easy to publish research like this in a journal.

How could a reviewer -- even an anonymous one -- object? Doing so would put his/her career at risk.

Maybe it's best not to do research like this at all.
I'll cheerfully refute it: lower animals do have the capacity to feel pain (so we shouldn't be cruel) but not, it appears, the capacity to hypothesize about the future - that is, pigs don't suffer anxiety over the probability of ending up getting slaughtered for bacon when they're sufficiently bulky.

this is a major qualitative difference between us and other animals (that we know about).
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AMD voluntarily entered the desktop processor business, IIRC, at a time the US government required a second source before they could buy x86 chips. How does that make anti-competitive behaviour from a company many times their size nice?
I don't think he's complaining, really.
Maybe the contemporary way to get a new flag adopted is simply to introduce it to the masses (in this case via Wikipedia) and see if it sticks.
Scientists may opine but no special deference ought to be paid to their ethical judgments simply because they are scientists.

I agree with you. I'm sure the scientists mentioned in the article do as well.

Let's not attack each other with straw-men, we'll be here all day. The article never suggested that due to their status as "scientists" they are somehow better equipped to handle ethical issues.

The article simply said that they were planning on making ethical arguments related to the legal rights of dolphins, based on their research and their findings.

There is nothing wrong with that.

As the intelligence level of dolphins is not common knowledge, nor is it even well understood by the scientific community at large, their input on the matter is of importance if only for the purpose of facilitating and informing the discussion of any possible legal rights that dolphins should have.
Ask HN: Tools for making writing markup less painful
So I endeavor to spend most of time on the app server side of things but time to time I need to get my hands dirty and generate markup/css/js from a wireframe or mockup.

As far as tools go, Ive found browsershots and Litmus app helpful and of course, vm's as well for checking things out live in ie-{6,7,8}. Otherwise I do the heavy lifting in vim.

For generating new markup thats not tied to a target design I think some of the css frameworks & tools like sass look useful but Im skeptical of their utility when needing to generate markup to match a photoshop design. Am I wrong?

So what tips / tools do you keep in your markup generating utility belt when building solid markup from designs?
If it was that awful it wouldn't have the installed base it's got.

The simple fact that it has a very low barrier to entry alone is one of its major selling points.
The USGS Minerals Commodity Summary for Thorium indicates that Australia, the US, India, and Norway have 80% of the world's thorium reserve base.

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Monty did not 'invent' mysql, it is a partial implementation of a standard.

Losing the mysql brand would mean less than nothing, in the corporate world a brand has value in the open source world the name changes and everybody moves on.

See joomla vs mambo and a ton of other examples.

The only person that really seems to have a problem with this is Monty himself since he can't let go of his baby even after selling it down the river. Which plenty of people spoke up about when he sold it to SUN in the first place.
Could you please define what 'self control' is to you? I only ask because you seem to have a negative perspective on the article.
Radar is not for the people who don't pay attention. It's for the people who are driving in front of them who are going to get rear-ended otherwise. The less control idiots have over cars, the better. I would feel far more comfortable dealing with a bunch of automated vehicles than a similar number of typical drivers, to be frank.
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Knuth doesn't use email so the pkrumins will need to call him or send him snail mail.
Sure, buddy. And not wearing a helmet would doubtless make you a better motorcyclist, too. Fortunately, in the case of motorcyclists, people who actually believe this tend to kill themselves earlier, sparing the rest of us from having to listen to their bullshit.

Edit: I suggest not slouching to start with.
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I have my own assortment of todo list apps I've written, and what they all have in common is that there is a access to a text file.

It makes it much easier to write little helper apps that don't have to count on there being some exposed app interface.

And it plays nicer with SCMs.

I try to start with file-based text storage whenever I can unless there are issues of speed or data integrity.
I am amused. Although someone already has it flagged for deletion. Gotta add my 2 bits.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/...
Ask PG: Did you take away my voting privileges?
The voting widgets show up for me normally, update the page when clicked, and are gone upon refresh, but the effect of my vote is not reflected in the page (even allotting for server sluggishness). The vote is tallied but not counted.

Other users seem to be voting on things just fine: http://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments

I'm not hell-banned in the usual manner (yet (I checked)), but did you disenfranchise me following amichail's thread?: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1027702
I don't know why you were voted down. Yes, speaking out against the conclusions of the article has harmed people's careers. Even mild speculating that maybe there's inborn cognitive differences between men and women can derail a science career.

It's crazy that people can't investigate the topic thoroughly - arguing "all culture no biology" demands a really high burden of proof. Arguing "some culture some biology" shouldn't be academic suicide, which it currently is.
1. Is it even possible to run an AIR app from a local AIR engine, without installing AIR? That would be quite slick.

2. Assuming that were possible, how is this to be packaged for Linux and Win32 such that it Just Works?

First time I looked at an AIR app I was also annoyed about having to install yet another VM thing. But, a few actually useful AIR apps later, I didn't care. So long as there isn't some creepy eternal background process running (cough Google updater cough Apple's itunes spy cough ) as residue, it's not an issue.
"Hyde and Mertz found there are more girls in the top tier in countries such as Iceland, Thailand, and the United Kingdom–and even in certain U.S. populations, such as Asian-Americans."

I don't buy this at all, if you mean "top tier" in the sense of people who are at the Olympiad/math professor level. Look at the numbers- there have been ten Fields/Abel/Wolf Prize winners from the UK, all of whom have been male. The odds of this happening given "more girls in the top tier" are less than 1:1000.

"Furthermore, they noted that a small math gender gap correlated with a higher rank on the World Economic Forum’s 2007 measures of gender equality, in which the United States ranked 31st, between Estonia and Kazakhstan. A similar correlation was found for the number of girls on International Mathematical Olympiad teams."

Yes, but what was the correlation? 0.02? 0.2? 0.9? The article doesn't tell you, conveniently for them.
Weren't the VIAs able to trounce Xeons in some crypto stuff?

Yes, since they had crypto instructions and nobody else did. Now I would expect Westmere to be faster.
But maybe for the good of society, this sort of research should be banned.
I've seen the same thing recently. I suspect it's a bug.
Note that I'm still wearing the seatbelt, and I'm not pushing for the repeal of seatbelt laws. If you'll read a little more carefully, you'll see that my objection is to the mechanical change in handling, visibility, etc, just at the moment when you need it the most, not to the presence of safety measures in general.
We often measure charity in dollars donated. Occasionally we measure charity by percentage of wealth donated[1].

What would happen if we measured charity in terms of lives saved? As PG has mentioned, things which you measure tend to improve[2]. I would rather improve charity outcomes than inputs.

Economists sometimes claim that most charities are very inefficient[3]. Maybe economists give to more efficient charities, so their dismal charity record might look better when measured in lives saved rather than dollars donated. (If this seems like a weak apology for the lack of charity of economists, I agree. It is sad that a disproportionately high fraction of economists give nothing at all to charity.)

[1] e.g. http://www.mint.com/blog/trends/charity-who-cares/

[2] Point 7 of Startups in 13 Sentences: http://www.paulgraham.com/13sentences.html

[3] http://blog.givewell.net/?p=480 and http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/09/lost-charity.html
Yes. In the public health course I took last semester, road traffic accidents were the most common form of death by injury, if I remember correctly. Turns out, tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide, a label applied to diseases that can be avoided through the use of vaccination or healthy behavior.

"Preventable" has a fairly specific meaning in the public health community, as opposed to its common-use dictionary definition. Obviously, the latter isn't very useful since most ailments are "preventable" if you think broadly enough.
This could work. In the interests of truth, perhaps it'd work best if we did it very explicitly and publicly: "All research on potential mental differences between men and women are hereby banned for the good of society." Then we could start brainstorming what other research to ban for the good of society.
I would personally not like to see this. Let's not.
Run it up the flag pole and see who salutes it, as it were.
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@gojomo- Would you object if it only pushed the comments out to the blog provided the commenter checked a box giving it permission to do so?

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It's very easy to criticize a paper's execution while at the same time supporting it's line of inquiry. Just bookend the review with stuff like "This is a very important topic that deserves rigorous scrutiny" and "I fear the authors' failure to address the points listed above weakens their conclusions." This kinds of reviews are actually the most incisive, because it means the reviewer cared enough to really reason through your arguments and find the flaws in them.
I wonder how it works - Ford own Volvo, who are pretty good with safety features (e.g. the 3 point seatbelt) and who have been building blind-spot awareness systems, brake-priming systems, etc. and their concept for the next S60 had distance-to-car-in-front cruise control and pedestrian detection and so on. ( http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/carbycar/index.htm?md=1468 )

Maybe Ford are getting it from Volvo?
I agree. It's pretty naff but it still beats my own county's eye-piercing real flag design: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Fla...
It's not a bug, happens all the time.

It's really annoying. Apparently PG has something under the hood that decides if your vote gets counted or not, so it seems like you can vote when actually you can't.
Ditto. The thing that seemed to trip up most people in the simulators was remembering to correct for the swerve. Most would turn hard right/left to avoid the obstacle and then forget to make a fast counter-turn to avoid running off the road.
Is there a ComplexTabView or is this another victim of the Simple Syndrome?
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We need a payment system for our website where we'll be able to reserve an amount against a buyer's account and settle it after wards. During the settlement we would transfer part of the buyer's deposit to a seller. We cannot go with Amazon FPS, PayPal or Google Checkout. What gateway and merchant account would you suggest?
I thought so too for a while, but then I noticed that other users were still voting on things just fine.

Given that PG is noted for experimenting with the site live, and a predilection for capricious moderation (like hell-banning (not that there's anything wrong with that)), I figured that it being intentional was a strong possibility.
The stickler-advocated rules of spelling, grammar and punctuation slow the speed of change and allow the language to remain united.: Poppycock. Wishful thinking will not influence the direction that language, particularly English, goes. The battle about whether or not to use an apostrophe before a trailing "s" is about four hundred years old. The word "ain't", despite excessive pedantry, has been in regular use for at least 100 years.

And it doesn't help to try to fit Latin rules on English. This just exposes the narrow world view of the pedants.