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Which actually proves the article's point -- the criminal fraternity have to try even harder to distinguish themselves from the mainstream. I'll bet, however, that the programmers you know with facial tattoos look more like this: http://freshfunnypictures.com/funny-pictures/2113/facial-tat...
than like this:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/graphics/art3/0130063tattoo1.jp...
They've done nothing wrong. But what they have done is promote and campaign for politicians who advocate higher taxes, then turn around and do everything possible to avoid such taxes.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122446734650049199.html (Google CEO Eric Schmidt will hit the campaign trail this week on behalf of Barack Obama)

http://gawker.com/5119039/google-execs-pay-150000-for-obama-...
(Google Execs Pay $150,000 for Obama Bash)
There was a calvin and hobbes in the 80s that stated the very same.
I take that these comments would only appear to the poster? This means new users won't see these moderating comments / suggestions, hence may miss out on this education until it happens to them. How hard would it be to add a flag to each user's profile so that they will see these comments until their karma reaches a certain level (50?) and then they get the option to turn them off.
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This seems to be describing the inevitable end result of confusing mere words with the intent behind them.

Mistaking superficially "polite" language for actually showing respect to others will of course lead to those who most lack the latter taking cover behind thorough use of the former.

I think most of us have met people who are incredibly uptight about "profanity" but never hesitate to be rude or inconsiderate.
I'm not sure how I feel about that.
I love this smell too. Smells are emotionally charged to begin with, and this is one of the more powerful ones in my experience. The fact that it's so intermittent and fleeting (small correction to the title: it's the smell after it's just begun to rain) adds to its mystery. Because of that, I kind of hope it doesn't get extracted into a product. Perhaps I'm being too nostalgic, though, sitting in just about the darkest day of winter when it's been -20 for most of the past month...
Quintupling the drive? I guess "short" means a hour, for you. That is, a slightly longer than normal commute, for my co-workers. Are there beach houses even within an hour of most east coast cities at all? Atlanta is a major east coast city, and is over three hours from the coast. I live near DC, and I'm not sure I could even get to a beach in an hour or less. I expect the same goes for Philly, and having lived on the beach and worked in Orlando, I can assure you my commute was longer than an hour for that major east coast city, too. :)

I guess what you really meant was that your mythical working class man could afford a condo in a skyscraper on the beach, since that's what would be within an hour.
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Thank you; I thought he was talking about the physicist Landau.
Neither Canada nor Australia have as much population as Mexico City. The article author could be forgiven for overlooking them.

Edit: actually, it appears that the official figure for the Mexico City metro is 21M; I'd thought it was over 30M. Still true for Australia, though. :)
I don't think taxes were the only issue for Eric Schmidt/Google.
Just take a look at Ireland's current fiscal and overall economic position.
Its a good point, but it was done as a joint project with an art museum. From that point of view, I think it does a great job.
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More true to say 'it is no longer possible to say polite things.'
spanish! im going to mexico in < two weeks, hook me up!
Because I don't mean to keep the clean clothes in the basket. I plan on putting them away, but I don't get around to it, and then the clean clothes get wrinkled to the point where I don't bother putting them away - I just put them in the wash with the dirty clothes from the floor.

I'm thinking of moving to more hangable clothes (button up shirts, etc.) so that I can skip the folding step.
This looks like a job for ... Prediction Markets!

As in, seriously: has such a thing already been set up?
I do this too! I only own about 3 white pairs of socks none of which I particularly care about turning grey
It would cause quite the housing/employment bubble at first, and I wouldn't want to be there when the immigration flood stops and the bubble bursts. Slow, incremental changes are easier to adapt to (in a lot of relevant ways), and that's probably the best reason immigration is currently throttled -- although it doesn't justify how quotas are currently distributed.
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Posted here, with active discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1006695
Not to criticize this one, but it's interesting to see the difference between a diagram like this one and the ones linked. Definitely gives me an appreciation of technical illustrators that can make something that preserves information and looks impressive.
I have a similar site for European languages: http://inglua.com/en
I don't know about "professional" and depending on your ideal customer it is hard to say which is better for representing you but I think the new logo is a better "design". When looking at logos I think the following is important:
1) Are you proud of being represented by the logo
2) Who are you trying to appeal to - eg:walmart shoppers or Porsche buyers.
It still weakens the author's thesis, and the paragraph talking about the comparison to other major countries doesn't read like he overlooked them, more like he deliberately omitted them.

EDIT: I actually read the whole article now, and he actually mentions Canada and Australia as threats to the US near the end.
Yes, in the short term, personalizable comment weighting seems like it would improve the signal / noise ratio, but in the long term, it seems less productive as it does little to foster the community that it seems pg wants. Does being able to ignore huge swaths of comments dissuade trolls? How would slashdot have turned out if Funny defaulted to be a -3 score?
The nanotech revolution in Africa.
Man, now I don't feel so bad about doing the exact same thing...
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Is Justin Kan still with the website? He seems to have disappeared from it completely, a bit surprising considering the fact that he used to be the only face of the site.
Indeed, though there is a financial element even for the middle class.

Speaking from experience, there are several reasons for British emigration:

* Older people often move to Spain, Malta, etc. to enjoy the better climate in their retirement (or before). I don't know precisely how big a portion that is, but it's non-trivial. (It would be nice to see a demographic breakdown of that 400,000.)

* House prices and the cost of living in the UK are insane, particularly alongside the heavy tax burden (an inevitable consequence of the enormous welfare state). I make two or three times the salary in the US than I would in the UK, and can actually afford to buy a home. This is not poverty per se, but there is a huge difference in how achievable are your life goals, and that's a motivation to move. As a young, then-unmarried man, there was nothing holding me back.

* The UK is an awful, freedom-crushing, oppressive, depressing police state where photographing national monuments is illegal, carrying a pocket knife can land you in jail, and defending your family against an intruder will net you a longer sentence than the burglar. I would never willingly move back.

Should I be granted US citizenship, I will be encouraging my brother to follow me off that sinking ship. Add two or three to that four hundred thousand.
I hadn't noticed the site getting nastier (and since everyone seems to agree that it has, I'm now regretting a recent nasty comment!)

Regarding flags on comments (not stories), I suspect it might have more of an impact to add just one new type rather than several at once. That would send a clear message about what we're all being asked to focus on. Along those lines, I'd say "uncivil" is more important than "frivolous". In my observation, over the last few months, HN users have gotten pretty good at using downvotes to regulate the merely frivolous.

If someone's comment has been flagged as uncivil it might be helpful to inform them of this with a call to action such as "Please be more polite" and a link to a fuller explanation of what they are being asked to do. I'm quite sure that many (though not all) people just don't realize how their comment might come across.

Perhaps comments flagged as uncivil could remain editable for a longer period. It's true that this would distort the history of conversations a bit, but maybe in a good way. If I find out that I made a comment that people found rude, I'd like the option (after my two editable hours have expired) of editing my comment for civility and having it marked as such. After all, if one is found "guilty" by a jury of one's peers, it's good to have a way to make amends in addition to the negative feedback. Besides, if people started noticing comments that had been "edited for civility", social proof might nudge their own behavior in that direction.
Have good tags (common, not blacklisted, thresholded) not be private and pre-seed list of tags. Have a karma threshold to see tags? Would talking about an article's tag be verboten in the article's comment, or just deserve a 'meta' tag? I could see an article's comments being a force for custom convergence.
Is anyone else getting a huge best buy video ad overlayed on the content? The close the ad button doesn't work, and I'm on a relatively slow connection, so it seems like I'd have to wait awhile for the whole video to load, and then watch it, to read the story.
And imagine how much worse it would be if Google (and Facebook, and others) weren't paying 12% Corporation Tax to the Irish Treasury.
I do that. I'll publicly admit to fully intending to avoid folding clothes.
I have to say, what they've done seems perfectly legal -- in British law as well as Irish law. If the Brits feel wronged by this, perhaps they should consider changing the laws that allow it?
Most clothes stop looking wrinkled within an hour or two of putting them on, so if you have a commute, it might not matter whether you fold them.
Nope, cause of Flashblock:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433

What I get instead is the outline for the Flash ad and a transparent gray lightbox background which at least lets me read the text behind the ad... but still with no way to close the ad.
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That gotapi.com link is sweet. Is it commonly known?
What the article is about is how little people in the eastern United States know about the western United States. Costco is used as an example because it is a large business corporation, in the news fairly often, that was founded in the west.
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Solve any problem, together. Interesting idea.
People really think 7 year olds should learn java/c/c++/etc... ? Thats absurd. All the great stuff these languages provide is only useful after you can deal with some abstraction. Till then, the most critical thing for kids is getting them to think in "small steps."
I think so. I've been using it in a fluid app for a long time now. http://railsapi.com/ is good for Ruby, too, especially since it's customizable.
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Except that nasty comments are sometimes voted up very highly, which doesn't help anyone.
Wow! Really nice job on that! I'm doing the English -> Spanish lessons, and it's really thoroughly made (it can tell me why something was wrong, if I was close, etc.) I really like the registration process. Play with the site for a bit, and then fill in a few fields to save your progress.
reminds me a lot of http://phpanywhere.net/

if this thing can do things better and more intuitively than phpanywhere, i might actually use it.
I knew we sprayed bananas and tomatoes to ripen during transit to market but never figured plants used the same technique to delay a process (spraying the ground with an oil) to retard seed germination until it rains. Pretty neat if I read the article correctly.
A Turkmen government troll?
No, I'm saying nobody else in the media industry is prepared to buy them, and therefore the BBC is not remotely exceptional in this regard.
How one business is helping the unemployed...
http://danweinreb.org/blog/why-did-mit-switch-from-scheme-to...
This guy is a great presenter. The hypothesis behind the damages of fructose actually gets worse than what is presented here, as fructose is implicated in the creation of toxic AGE. For a more in depth overview of the science behind fructose that is accessible, I would recommend Good Calorie, Bad Calorie by Gary Taubes. Aside from fructose, I would actually recommend that book to anyone concerned about their health.

I think it is important to differentiate between normal (hunter-gatherer) levels of fructose consumption (< 5% of total calories, normally closer to 1%, except perhaps in the summer when fruit is more abundant) and the amount we are eating today. That is, if fructose is harmful, the dangers only seem to manifest at the high levels of intake seen today.

Pragmatically, we may not need to be concerned about fructose at all, as eating refined sugar is obviously bad for health, so it should be eliminated anyways. (You need vitamins and minerals, and refined sugar doesn't have any!). Unrefined sources of sugar are not very good nutritional resources either.

Tragically, the damages of fructose may have been multiplied by the government recommendations to replace saturated fat intake with polyunsaturated fat. http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2009/12/cirrhosis-and...
I can relate with you since a few years ago, after 5.5 years of Postdoc in Theoretical Physics I decided to leave academia. I was fed up with the system and tired of begging for a job. So I moved to IT and I am a programmer right now. I had to start everything from scratch again and throw out of the window 15 years of study. The good thing is that now I have a decent job, I got married and I am finishing to pay my mortgage. Most of my collegues are Physicists too so the environment I am working on is not really different than before. Of course the job is quite different but people are more important than the job, as you know. Good luck!
I have been messing around with C++ for a while but lately web programming has been getting more attention more and more. I'm a beginner when it comes to web apps and when I see websites like this (it almost feels like I'm running a native software on my operating system) I get very excited. How does one go about creating a website like this? What should I learn. What combination of technologies are used? Thank you and congratulations for such a great job!
Black-and-white fallacy, isn't all this? Because people can use polite words to suggest less-than-polite things doesn't automatically mean you can't be polite. Your intentions will come through, regardless of the actual words you employ.
I have never heard any one who has ever said that they do not like this smell. I wonder what is it in the that makes us so refreshed and happy. My spirits just sore at this smell.
It's not the shortest, but de Broglie's always impressed me by its sheer awesomeness: http://www.ensmp.fr/aflb/LDB-oeuvres/De_Broglie_Kracklauer.h...
This is an interesting anecdote from someone who claims to have cured his alcohol abuse problems by going low carb.
http://fathead-movie.com/index.php/2009/04/30/primal-body-pr...
Do you have a webpage?
According to the wikipedia spanish article for Petrichor, they haven't been able to synthesize the smell due to its complex composition of more than 50 substances.
Show/hide functionality would be awesome.

I actually strongly considered peeking at the html and implementing the necessary JavaScript myself - I
wonder if a contribution of this type would be accepted?
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As much as I dislike Basic in all of its forms, I have to agree with the author on this: it's a good way for Kids to learn programming. My agreement is partially based on my own experience: When I was 13, I wanted to learn how to program my 386 computer. I tried, and failed, to teach myself C++. I then bought a book on QBasic, and learned it. Afterwards I went back to C++ (well, mostly the C subset of C++ actually). I eventually had to come back to Basic in the form of Visual Basic, but by the time that happened, I was an adult and already familiar with several different languages.

At some point, my dislike for Basic brought me to the question: "What language is appropriate to use for introducing kids to programming?" Of all of the other languages I know, none seem appropriate. (And yes, people have suggested Python, but I'm not convinced.) Languages designed for children are dumbed down. Languages designed to meet the rigor of modern programming requirements have complexities that should be hidden for relatively simple operations. Sigh. I'm sure there is a better way out there, but to find it within the haystack that is the collection of modern programming languages is a formidable task.
I absolutely love seeing how Rails 3 is maturing. The fact that it seems to be truly Merb-flavored probably has something to do with that.

This isn't just "Rails can do what Django does" ... it's why it can, and how that could be used to do lots of other cool stuff.
It seems they should start 'advanced placement' much much earlier than high school.

A modular design to education with students mastering skill sets instead of growing older to 'move through the ranks' would allow students to always remain around their educational peers regardless of age, allow bright students to excel, and maintain support for those struggling.
The fact that you are asking these questions indicates that the company you are working at is probably not a good place for innovation.

You might think about quitting and spinning it out yourself.
I've only ever written one undergrad thesis. The dry subject matter and the extended length of it makes me believe that the last eyes that will be laid upon it will be those of my thesis advisor.

Seriously though, why do research papers have to be so long? Verbosity makes for a high barrier to entry and it is unnecessarily boring for everyone involved.

Educational institutions could learn a thing or two from the 5 W's of reporting.
It's nice to realize that there's more daylight ahead.
I suspect that on average the length of a thesis is inversely correlated to its brilliance. Computer science is a fairly established field at this point, so a mediocre thesis likely describes a large number of small improvements upon the status quo - along with charts, graphs, and explanations that compensate for lack of a single revolutionary finding. If someone can prove that P=NP (or that P!=NP) in 13 pages, there's no need for another hundred pages of explanations. On the other hand, improving the performance of Linux page cache by 5% on some workloads will clearly be accompanied with a hundred pages of methodology explanations and performance measurements.

Interestingly there are lots of long and brilliant dissertations - Chris Okasaki's functional data structures thesis comes to mind. However, I doubt there are very many (if any) short mediocre dissertations - in case of mediocrity lack of content must always be compensated by size.
pretty nice? That'd be an example of understatement.

I was impressed with the Heroku editor when it first came out, but this is in another league. Seriously well done.
Surely negative ions have got something to do with it?
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I disagree. People populate areas and the technology follows them, not the other way around.

One example of this is a place my family has vacationed since I was an infant: Crosslake, MN. Crosslake started as a small, sleepy fishing town with gorgeous views, nice people, lots of fish, and lots of wilderness--basically heaven for a Minnesotan. Because it was heaven, people started moving there in droves and drove the property prices to absolutely absurd levels. It went from a place where your grandfather might own a little fishing cabin, to a place littered with multi-million dollar estates that have $250,000+ boats parked in front of them.

This had nothing to do with technology. Only recently (within the last decade or so) has the town started getting "modern". This didn't prevent people from flocking there.
After having played with this a little, a couple of nits:

I sometimes know the mistake I made, it's minor, and I want to move on, so click the "Don't know" button in frustration. This then registers for the next question, rather than the one I was on.

I wish there was a non-click-through-a-list way to get the vocab. I'd like to be able to look at the words a little more systematically before even trying the interactive bits.

The pinyin below the symbols isn't big enough - I find myself frequently getting a word right, except I have no clue what the inflections are because they were too small to notice.

Also, maybe make it a little more clear up front about inflections - I knew Chinese was inflected going in, but some may not.
Only hypocritical if you don't understand what a tax is. Obama didn't go out and advocate that individual corporations voluntarily pay more in taxes. All that would do is make the companies that voluntarily did it disappear from the marketplace as they get outcompeted. He advocated that to solve a collective action problem, a majority dictates (with teeth) that all parties pay more taxes.

Presumably Google could be in favor of Britain fixing the loop-hole (if it really is one) it it affects their competitors as well as them, but they aren't going to voluntarily stop using.

It is like saying someone who advocates that we all quit ironing our pants in order to save energy, but in the meantime keeps ironing theirs, is a hypocrite. That isn't true, and it is a misunderstanding of what they advocated.
I don't think that the article infers that but it could be a plausible explanation for the effect of the oil seeping out but it could also be that the moisture seeps out first and then when there is none left the oil seeps out as a last resort.
Wow, this can be dangerous. Is it rated at all? (as Adult) Devious people out there could send any picture they wanted, and kids might see those pictures as well.

How do you deal with this issue? Can people tag photos to be reviewed.
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Agreed, but I think this article is railing against a strawman. The choices aren't between basic and C++. Python, for example, can be used with simplicity rivaling most dialects of basic, but it is also a fairly powerful and expressive language once they get used to it.

Then there are things like squeak or Alice that are aimed at providing a gentle and fun introduction to programming.

Learning basic is certainly preferable to learning nothing, and like a great many people here I also was introduced to programming through it. But as far as I can see there is little to no reason to consider it a preferable introductory language.
I have always had a dream of making a perfume out of this smell. Simply refreshing!