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This seems to me like something that could completely ruin productivity.

Just let everybody use headphones, that way they can put songs they like on their computer and only listen to those. The way this seems to be set up, all that everybody is going to end up doing is voting for songs that they like so that those songs will be played next, and they will be paying more attention to getting votes in than the work they should be doing.
Your discomfort is probably inherent to any stereoscopic projection that's really on a flat surface; this Slate article from April discusses the the issues:

"The Problem With 3-D: It hurts your eyes. Always has, always will."

http://www.slate.com/id/2215265/pagenum/all/
If only that were true in the US...
I believe that $10 an hour is decent pay for relatively unskilled itinerant labor. My wife says she made about that much working in an actual bookstore. And it's apparently more than the average full-time position at Wal-Mart will pay unless you're a department manager:

http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Employer=Wal-Mart_Stores...

It's not easy work -- you're on your feet all day -- but no harder than the rest of retail. Plus you don't have to actually deal with the general public during the holiday season, which is worth a lot right there.
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The thing is, these people are only separated from me by one degree - they are friends with a good friend of mine - and I confirmed the photo with the person who took it via email (and got the full-size version at that time as well).

I think it is very, very unlikely that the photo is faked. If that is the case, however, that makes it an interesting photo not just because of the subject matter, but because it is capable of making most people think it is fake even though it is not.

As far as the comments about the flash go, there is evidence for a flash. First of all, the tapetum lucidum is highly reflective (check out this photo of cats: http://bp1.blogger.com/_N9wtKAb3vvc/RdYLsh3L3VI/AAAAAAAAAA8/...), or do a search and you'll turn up some freaky examples (e.g. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/191/484118524_dce1f8c203.jpg)

Secondly, if you look under the arm of the woman in the foreground, you can see a reflection from a flash there as well, probably from a piece of metal.

The photo's been looked at by a lot of people but I have yet to see a criticism that enters the realm of the scientific. The best criticisms revolve around questioning whether or not it was a wolf, which I think is a much better line of criticism, since there is no way to be sure (but it does seem unlikely).
>what's to keep this from turning into a huge ungainly decades-long slog?

Aggressive willingness to rebuild based on new knowledge.

I don't really think it's going to be practical to try to make Alky encompass compatibility with all windows applications.

I don't think it's practical to even attempt 80% of the apps out there. Wine already works for most of the basic windows applications.

The issue is various, in particular performance sensitive, software (games, CAD) that are windows-only and a pain to get working in Wine (let alone performant).

The wine approach is fine if you're satisfied with neglecting niche software + games, but a lot of what's holding people back is the fact that their computer is an entertainment box and cannot migrate said entertainment to OS X / Linux.

That's the essential problem I want to solve. How much surface area, compatibility-wise, that'll force us to cover is at present unknown to me. I'll just have to see what happens.
Ah, yes - work :)

Not that there is anything wrong with wanting to love with/under Carmack...
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Alas, once you blog about it like that, it's probably too late to regift it.
There's a special relationship between NYC and inept telecom. I spent tens of years in DC, and never have had as much trouble with phone and internet service as one year in NYC.

Is it the infrastructure? All the buildings? Or just a sadistic local telecom culture?
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I think this guy is over reacting a bit..

Of course they want your information, there is a very select target demographic that could be suckered in with such an expensive puzzle. It would be nice to have those addresses for new product releases and introductions. His cleverness just came off as annoying and somewhat done up, down rate this please.
How It's Made has tons of videos of stuff like this.

http://science.discovery.com/fansites/howitsmade/howitsmade....
I'm finding it hard to make the jump from the description on the wiki page to how you get something like the 1st Principle Component image he has there. Can anyone explain further?
The real hackers perhaps ;)

I think there are many computer science students on HN. They have been taught the standard but complicated Regex -> NFA -> DFA -> Minimal DFA construction in school. Generating almost optimal DFA's directly from regex by simple pattern matching on the structure of the regex may appeal to these students.

Anyway, I personally get much more out of technical articles than "fluff" philosophizing articles.
There are two different values for Earth - one in the main diagram, and a larger one in the inset. What happen?
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A ham radio license won't help, as ham radio transmissions are forbidden to be encrypted, and there are limitations on speech, e.g., profanity, commercial transactions.

There are unlicensed bands that are available, but again there may be restrictions similar to ham radio, and cost might also be a factor.
Really? It seems kind of implausible that they'd bother to fake the EXIF data.

It could just be a camera with a crappy little flash that isn't showing up very much (it is outdoors, after all).
And how do you suggest that we go about identifying muslims?
Fret War: Play a randomly generated piece of music.
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Corrections:
bottom-2, middle-1, top-0.
1×3^2+1×3^1+1×3^0=9+3+1=13
How can you exercise the freedoms free software gives you when you don't have the most basic freedoms? In this scenario, perhaps, the GPL is nothing but an empty promise.
Did this line:

"Without search neutrality rules to constrain Google’s competitive advantage"

make anyone else immediately think, "Atlas Shrugged"?
Rack was built on the design of wsgi, from the python world.

So if you didn't know that a lot of the design was copied, I don't think you can give him all that much credit for it as maybe you are.

In the README Thanks To section: '* The WSGI team for the well-done and documented work they've done and Rack builds up on.'
why not just link with libwine? it may be ugly, but there's a lot of people moving it forward, and leveraging that seems like a huge win.
Except that he checked beforehand to see if you could re-register, and only blogged upon finding you couldn't. ;)
I guess this is just asking for negative karma, but I too thought that the conventional wisdom was that the barrier to entry for search engines was relatively high.

No, not telecom high, but it does take a pretty significant amount of hardware to index and deliver that much data. No?
i bought the domain 'iamnotacriminal.com' on my iphone post-security at SEA after a particularly nasty interaction with TSA - i just felt violated and tired of the treatment. at the time i thought it might be a great project to let off some steam - perhaps a community wiki of TSA incompetence.

more lucrative projects have always put it on the back burner but it's tempting to have a HN 'hack fest' made up of only disgruntled unwilling participants in the 'security theatre' that are also hackers and launch the site...
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hmmm. mass of earth is M=6e24 kg, radius R=6.4e6 m, G=6.7e-11 m^3 kg^-1 s^-2.

so the "energy debt" on the surface (the gpe) is GM/R=6.3e7 J.

he's equating that to an equivalent height H for 1kg in a constant field of 9.8ms^-2, so H=6.4e6 m. so the 6,400 km number is correct (the inset) (curiously, this number is also the radius of the earth, approx).

perhaps the value in the main figure is a mistake, or he is folding in some other effect (i can't work out what, though).

edit: i see that he gives a formula in the well for jupiter, which is equivalent to what i just did, so i think the main diagram's value for earth is a mistake.
While an interesting idea and entertaining this is a horrible reason to buy stock since it's all hypothetical. There are tons of better reasons to buy APPL stock right now (although I am waiting till it dips again before adding).
To summarize: fish oil is a polyunsaturated fat which has been experimentally shown to cause shrinking of the brain and gonads in animals as well as early aging. While there are short term benefits to using fish oil we still don't truly know how harmful the long term effects are, similar to how X-Rays used to be prescribed to treat inflammation before we knew about the radiation that they caused.
Treating people with suspicion based on the fact that they are perceived as being in a particular demographic category is unacceptable. Essentially, it means that these people are having their rights infringed - freedom of movement and freedom of expression - in an ineffectual attempt to stop a very rare event (http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/12/odds-of-airborne-terr...) from occurring.

This sort of treatment is afforded only a few special categories of people: minors and people with criminal records. I don't agree with denial of rights in those cases, either.
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Why would a terrorist buy an apple laptop which is in the 1000-2000 range when a cheaper laptop which will accomplish the same objective work? Also, it seems like having a Apple approved laptop would be meaningless for our security and probably introduce holes because terrorists would figure out to subvert it.
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You may not be racist, but you're a bigot. No matter whether or not Muslims tend to bomb airplanes more than anyone else, preventing Muslims from flying is both unethical and inconsistent with the principles of Western democracy.
From my blog post response:

Comparing programming to an art form, and the process of maturing as a developer to the process of becoming a master, comes from the mindset of somebody who is trying to create something intrinsically beautiful.

And while beauty is a powerful concept, most software projects are trying to make something functional.

More over here -- http://blog.aparicio.org/2009/12/28/the-master-the-expert-th...
When you are outside at any distance from the target, particularly if it's dusky out (which it appears to be in this picture), the flash does jack-all except for reflect off shiny things like eyes. That's just from my personal experience, having taken photos under similar circumstances and not being able to tell from the photo that there was a flash, even though I saw it go off.
This article is a little puzzling to me. Uni-body MacBooks are very easy to open. About half a dozen screws and the entire bottom plate is easily removed. This is actually a bit easier than most PC laptops that may have hidden screws or require you to remove the keyboard first.
Yeah but how else can you get "terrorism" and "apple" into one succinct, linkbaity title?
Article makes itself pointless in last paragraph:

"Unlikely? Yes. But if it happens, buy AAPL."
Flying just isn't worth it anymore.
From the first follow-up mail:

'Then I noticed that "C-x v v C-c C-c" is enough to commit in CVS, but perhaps not in Bazaar.'

Wow.
Ah, I heard him talking about it in a radiolab episode.
I think the wording is something like "reasonable instruction". Is it "reasonable" to say that you have to freeze to death because of a secret rule?

(My guess is "yes", because that is how the US federal government works. If there is not extremely strong wording saying something is your right in the Constitution, it's not. Of course, there is explicit wording along the lines of "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people," but that's a little too broad for lawmakers or the Supreme Court to understand.)
This is moronic. The author expects TSA to 'approve' apple laptops? The TSA will have to go around and train every flight attendant to recognize what brand of laptop it is and then allow/disallow it? Never ever gonna happen. Far easy and safe to just say 'no laptops allowed'
Not this time. Pretend to be setting off a bomb, though, and see if the TSA doesn't react.

I am looking forward to the "mp3 player bomber" and the "paperback book bomber".
He isn't suggesting terrorists go buy an Apple laptop. He's saying that if TSA made MacBook(Pro)s the only allowed laptop on planes, it would be an added security measure and boost Apple's stock price.
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"Cheating has no meaning in the mind of the true predator."

When your safety or life is on the line, there is no longer any such thing as "fighting dirty", only fighting.
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And it would make "TSA Approved" laptops an instant target for ALL terrorists.

Because someone eventually WILL figure out how to subvert one without detection. And what TSA agent is going to question the integrity of such a laptop if it has a big TSA stamp on it with special instructions that this model is "safe"?
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Even if this were ethical or politically viable, which it's not, how would you carry it out? How do you identify Muslims? By name? Skin color? Clothing?

Every attribute can be spoofed or mis-directed by someone motivated to do harm.

It's as impossible as it is unpalatable.
ah, gotcha. Writing a script to make just one order at the right time seems fine, writing a script to make multiple orders is another story.
But it was sex. SEX!!!!
I want this in poster form asap.
i'm ambivalent about where the right place is to answer the 3 questions posted by the OP.

on the one hand, it seems efficient to put meta-data in the commit rather than clouding the code itself. on the other hand, i'm much more likely to go back to a piece of code and reread my comments and architectural diagrams then visit the repo logs. if documentation is too big or orthogonal to go in a class or function comment, then i put it in the docs folder.
Not to review a review, but this is not a very good review. Much more interesting is the linked wired article.

I have always been disappointed in the Star Trek films, being a fan of Dune. Yes, it does seem to me to be a rip-off of Dune, and a poor one at that. I think Avatar is a much better movie than any of the Star Trek series. I wouldn't say that it is the best movie ever, but it is certainly at the top of the list for special effects, by a large measure.

(Don't forget that James Cameron did Aliens, Titanic, Terminator one and two.)
There is some reception at a few stops. Take the 4/5/6 from Union Square heading South, and you'll get a full signal every few stops. It doesn't last long enough to complete a call, but you can send a text.
Do you similarly think sex offender lists are a joke?

Until we have murder offender lists, traffic violation list, and credit-card-bill-underpayment lists, yes. Why only shame sex offenders when we can exile everyone for one mistake?

I think the next step is to require sex offenders to wear little stars on their clothing when they go outside. That way they can be recognized and treated appropriately. I hear that worked pretty well for getting rid of Germany's Undesirables.
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Does this give Firefox a little breathing room from the coming Chrome onslaught? I've heard developing AddOns for Firefox is a real pain and that AddOns for Chrome are easy in comparison. That, plus Chrome's speed is supposed to really start eating into Firefox's user share.
As it is, the majority of fliers suffer both inconvenience and the possibility of being murdered.

Similarly, I think cars should be limited to 5mph, because if they can go faster, a drunk (or just plain incompetent) driver could easily kill everyone on the road. So what if drunk drivers are a problem that only affect 1 in a million people, we need to take action at any cost! Any risk of death is unacceptable.

I've had two muslim boyfriends in the past

Clearly you are a terrorist sympathizer and should be added to the no-fly list. If you want to leave your country, apply for an exit visa and swim across the Channel. (It's too risky to allow you to take the train; you would probably blow it up given your tendencies.)

Pretty intelligent sounding, huh...

This sort of logic is why I'm glad I don't live in the UK.
I heard the frame-rate is les horrible! 12fps for very simple flash games when running on mobile platforms. Maybe the tablet will run flash better, but I don't really see Apple having much of an interest in enabling this.
While I like XKCD, can we not XKCD on HN? It's not like you don't see good ones posted elsewhere.
But only Muslims commit terrorist attacks. Remember the Oklahoma City bomber? Muslim. Remember the Unabomber? Muslim.

Oh wait... they were both Regular Old White Guys.
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What I like to do is reference a tracking number from the issue/bug tracking system in my commit messages. Yes, this has some possible pitfalls, e.g. the source code may outlive the issue tracking system, or may change owners without the issue history coming along.. but it works well in practice.
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By requiring them to register and wear an emblem on their clothing at all times. We can have the police visit everyone's house to see if the people living there have any literature sympathetic to the Muslim cause.

History has shown that this is a great idea.
Like the article says: what need is there to make updates to instructions to a mechanical puzzle?

Creating a registration system, taking steps to only provide instructions to those that register - all of that has a cost. I doubt this company would incur a cost unless they considered it an investment.
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Sure, but look at the MIT AI Lab environment from whence it sprang: their PDP-10's ran ITS (the Incompatible Time Sharing system, a jab at the IBM 7090-based Compatible Time Sharing System, CTSS), which was a completely open system. Anyone could create an account, and anyone could bring down the system with a few keystrokes (the terminal interface was an extended DDT, a single-keystroke-command-style debugger), and anyone could delete any file, including system files.

They had a radical open system, and defended it (yes, it was early in the life of the ARPAnet/Internet) with great backups and social pressure.

The LispMs were not much different.
Crawling a few million pages, making some sort of searchable index, and building a simple frontend is a nice exercise for anyone, and building a new search engine as such is nothing special.

Getting something up and running that has a good enough coverage of the web, constantly has fresh enough content, is able to catch up on sudden events (ie. Michael Jackson's death) and show relevant content within a maximum of a couple of minutes, is scalable and can handle the load if it becomes popular, has a low enough latency for the end user (a single server in a basement halfway around the world does not do the trick), AND offers something of significance that makes users actually want to change their habits and switch from their current search engine... Now, that's a whole different story.

Especially the last one is tricky. Even though I agree that in theory the cost of switching search engines is pretty close to zero, these habits die hard unless you have something to offer that is obviously much better.

So while Cuil and Powerset got a little bit of IT media attention, I don't think it is fair to say that they actually grabbed that much of Google's market share? And I'm not really sure it is that easy to make a new search engine that will be able to get the market share of ie. Yahoo!, Bing or Ask. Unless you can do most of the things mentioned above AND you have that extra special feature on top that makes everyone stop and stare. (Which then would have to be something the other search engines could not easily implement too and roll out within months :)

Disclaimer: I work for Yahoo!, but these opinions are mine alone.
What people find Reasonable is extremely subjective.

A frequent flyer friend of mine suggested the naked airline. Basically you take nothing on board, get shoved in a box, but you get to avoid the TSA. The funny thing is he thought dealing with the TSA would be the hardest part of getting this off the ground. I often wonder how many other flyers would find this reasonable.
Except--no offense--the Xerox Lisp machine couldn't hold a candle to the MIT CADR machine and its spin-offs (Symbolics/LMI) when it came to the development environment.
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It also (foolishly) assumes that;

6. Only Apple can make such a laptop and that Dell or HP can or will not since they do not currently make unibody laptops.
> 10. Square realizes its bottleneck is additional hardware, so it gives card reader away for free.

Isn't this what PayPal was originally trying to do back in the day? Interesting concept.
From the book web page:

http://www.davidsalomon.name/DCBiog/DCbiog.html

This is the website of the "Biographies in Data Compression" project. The idea is to have a free Ebook with biographies of people active in the vast, fascinating field of data compression. Anyone even remotely associated with data compression may have heard the names Huffman, Ziv, Lempel, Elias, Shannon, Fano, Rice, and others. Who are (were?) those people? What backgrounds did they come from? What were their principal achievements? What did they look like? If you have ever asked such questions, why not join this project? All it takes is for you to download the current edition of the book, browse it, and then submit your biography to the address below and wait for it to be included in the next edition of the book.
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Well they were computer science students who went to my university for 6 months during their master degree...

Now as to the working environment in Europe, well since I moved to Japan straight after graduating, I haven't really worked in Europe (save for an internship in Germany where the work went well enough although my german is far from perfect). So, I can't say exactly how it is...

As for racism, it exists, but actually my friends from Martinique (who are french citizens) had a much harder time with it because they are black than friends from Asia or Europe.
Accurate generalizations can be very helpful.
Lets give the author a break. I'm pretty sure it is written as a joke. Is it a waste of time? Yes. Should it have been on HN? Probably not.
I hardly ever listen to music while really coding. If i'm doing the same ole boilerplate stuff, then yeah, but if i'm doing data transforms or trying to decipher bug reports, its not a good idea to have music on while trying to comprehend. But since I only code 10% of the time, the rest is perfect for music listening, especially trying to drown out the insanity that is my office. Or signaling for people to walk away.