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In some respects, the Irish economy is collapsing anyway. It would arguably be worse without the presence of multinationals attracted by the low corporation tax, but the sad fact is that having a multinational in your country doesn't necessarily mean all the best jobs they have to offer are going to be available to the workforce. In some cases they'll just up and go somewhere else when it becomes more economically attractive, as Dell did.

Being Irish myself, I have very mixed feelings about the country's corporate tax policy. It looked terribly smart a few years ago, but so did a lot of other fiscal and economic policies that seem pretty foolish in hindsight. The low-tax regime has come at the expense of higher and higher rates of personal income tax coupled with crippling unemployment.
I plan to see the film tomorrow, but the video game does give credit to the world-building aspect. I was quite ambivalent about the key materiel being called unobtainium at first, but after reading a backstory article, it seems quite appropriate. Perhaps the movie itself is just part of it, but overall he seems to have brought forth a detailed universe, even if it is only glossed over in the movie.
> it comes down to who's killing who more effectively

Actually, it doesn't. It's better to take control of a situation with minimal casualties on either side, which is often greatly assisted these days using communications disruption and distraction. Wholesale slaughter is generally frowned upon, and is repulsive to everybody, especially the military. Also, it turns out that it's not actually necessary.
Thanks for the warning guys.

There is a first time for everything I guess - somehow my FTP account was compromised and a script added to the end of the page that injected code into the page.

The script has been removed and the FTP account blocked. The logs indicate that the work was done by a botnet, quite interesting. One IP logs in and gets a file, another (different IP) logs in and replaces that file.

The static content that was compromised is stored on a separate server with separate passwords from the machine that hosts my actual application and associated data.

What really concerns me is how that password got into the open (the logs do not indicate brute forcing). Virus checking here we come!
Do you advocate ruling out any giving of gifts beyond necessity, period?

If I earn money (or any asset really) and then gift it to someone does it matter if I died between me earning it and them being given it?
I would argue it is to do with the medium. The feature length film needs a plot to sustain interest, for me and apparently at least a few other people. If it's just a technology demo then it can be over and done with in 10 minutes - in Avatar they could have just started with the final battle. If Avatar were such a tech demo, then your comment would be unassailable, but as it is as a film is a bit lack-lustre.
Creating a 3D game with Ogre - Adding the Player
Fwiw, it was the first time I read the article and it had at least some grains of interest.
Maybe that it's hard for the audience to tell if the script is good before they see the movie?
Do you advocate ruling out any giving of gifts beyond necessity, period?

Yes.
It is. That is not what must be established. Why should a childs wealth (usually in the West it is an adults wealth) not be determined by the success of a past generation?

You need a pretty convincing argument here to change this particular aspect of the status quo.
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No. Anyone who can see a DNS query can hijack traffic.
Multiverse: Non Blocking Transactions
excellent. I was just wondering if they were going to add a 'Home Server' channel or something similar.
Since this sort of Window management stuff is clearly possible, why isn't it also possible to have XMonad or something lime it do DWM on OS X (or Windows, for that matter)?
It is fundamentally unfair.

Granted people are not born equal to begin with, but adding more unfairness to life isn't a good idea.
You use this word "better" like it means something. If all your users use Linux, you're fine. Otherwise, you need a real cert.
I have a theory that artists do not have the same desires as the public. In cinema a bias towards cinematography and SFX could arise because the plot actually does not interest the artists as much as it perhaps should. Even a good plot will not remain interesting after many hours of work and so the artists lose sight of the prize and indulge themselves with technical aspects of their craft.

(This is not supposed to be a complete explanation of what led Avatar to lack in original plot and verisimilitude).
Ouch, my age is showing. Again.
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> Yes, it looked real, but...so do movies that have no CGI at all.

Yea, but Avatar makes stuff that can't be real look real, which aids greatly in being able to suspend disbelief and go along for a ride in someone else's imagination. Movies without CGI just show me the boring real world I'm already very familiar with.
> Ah well, I'll answer the question posed.

Except that you didn't, you know. You said what rich people should do with their money. The question was what rich people should be allowed to do with their money. And that is really a very different question.
Read the GGP, it refers to punishing the rich to help society. I was pointing out that if you see taxation as a zero sum game of winners and losers, then of course someone will always be crying that they are being punished.

The rich and their multi-national corporations, evading taxes and lobbying for sweetheart deals from the government, are doing a lot of damage to the American lower class and middle class. I don't have to look far to rip examples from the headlines. The health and drug systems are messed up. The corporate welfare for Wall Street is messed up. Education is messed up. In all cases the poor are disadvantaged to the benefit of the wealthy. They are literally paying taxes for the excesses of powerful corporations and lobbies.

Maybe I used the wrong term, but I consider education a social program. We spend far too little on it. We were hemming and hawing about funding HeadStart not too long ago. We underpay our teachers and then lower our taxes and call it a balanced budget.

There are social programs that are important beyond welfare, so just ignore that one if it is distracting you from the main point.
So I can't give my son a chocolate bar for Christmas unless he needs the energy to survive? IFF you'll concede this then what if I die before he opens his present, should it then go to the state?

I'm sure you'll see the fat end of that wedge. How about if instead of chocolate it is €1 to buy chocolate? OK? What about €10. €1000 but he buys a car that he can use to go to work in? €250,000 but he buys a house for orphans? ...
If you can find any Egan books, read them. you will probably love them, I find myself day dreaming about them YEARS after I have read them, and then have to go back to read them again. He is a genius.
And if I say (I'm just saying!) "it's not unfair". Have you a response to convince me?
Did the rules change to allow running code not bundled with the application or did this slip through Apple's review process?
All new technologies are first paired with non-risky material.

So they use a non-risky script, with nothing objectionable in it.

Once the technology matures you can use a better script. The price of better is that sometimes it's worse, that's why it's a risk. If it was a sure thing everyone would do it, but it's not easy to create something great. You can try, and sometimes you'll make it, and other times you'll flop.

Which is too much of a risk for a new technology - better to have something good enough, with little risk.

Remember: Everyone thinks what they are doing is great. But if you are wrong, and it's a flagship product you are doomed. For example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavens_Gate_(film)
See my reply here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1009207
That why it's a good thing to get rid of the founder when
the company gets to a certain point some times. Broussard was never really running a business. It may have been a lot of fun, but never really a business.
I ended up here under exactly the same pretense, ready to rumble having just been abused by a particularly knarly bit of Java...
In the same sense that "Welder on the Titanic" would, yeah. Everyone knows you weren't steering the ship, but...
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An op-ed should really never be on HN. It really sucks that this site has turned into this.
Apologies for the confusion, although it was intentional. Let me explain: Yes, you are right, 1,440 is indeed the number of minutes in a day which is not a widely known fact (outside this website that it). People always use what they know (i.e. hours) to describe their lives and not surprisingly get to similar, predictable results. Proving this point, you expected the post to be on a familiar subject so you quickly rejected it because it wasn't. But that is the main premise of the post: when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. And to be true to the subject, I deliberately made the post short because I didn't want readers to invest more than one minute.(7 or 11 sentences to quote the other reader). Thanks for the comments!
feedback is always welcome, even negative. Apologies for the confusion, although it was intentional. Let me explain: Yes, you are right, 1,440 is indeed the number of minutes in a day which is not a widely known fact (outside this website that it). People always use what they know (i.e. hours) to describe their lives and not surprisingly get to similar, predictable results. Proving this point, you expected the post to be on a familiar subject so you quickly rejected it because it wasn't. But that is the main premise of the post: when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. And to be true to the subject, I deliberately made the post short because I didn't want readers to invest more than one minute.(7 or 11 sentences to quote the other reader). Thanks for the comments!
It's capped at a few million dollars. A pittance for Mozilla.
IMO, software has cycles. Early systems have lot's of known issues that can be quickly fixed. Then mid cycle have little or nothing minor wrong and so you tackle one or more major issues. Then your back to having lot's of little bugs to fix. Microsoft has discovered you can sell both parts of the cycle both new features aka Vista and then bug fixes Windows 7. But, when people talk about the minimum valuable product what they really mean is the smallest cycle where you get something people will pay for at the end.

The secret is to setup your cycles so you make enough money to keep going and or know when to let a product keep without investing in the next cycle. EX: Windows ME. Or Coke with sugar, new Coke with corn syrup, Classic Coca-Cola with corn syrup. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola
Sounds like it's made out of plastic. And what's so special about it?

Also notice that the fingers have a flat surface. That implies that the hand was pressed against some surface, which would be glass in this case.
This is great, I've been wanting something like this for OS X for awhile.

It would also be nice if you could make windows snap to various edges, as well as offer a virtual "pane-splitter" to adjust the dimensions of stacked windows (and maybe group certain windows together, though I suppose Spaces could be used for that)
Interesting thoughts, but you shouldn't editorialize titles. The title of the article in this case, given by the author, is actually more accurate than the one you chose.
That does not seem to make sense here. BitTorrent is good for distributing many copies of a file to many clients. The large number of BitTorrent clients with full or partial copies of a given file can help transmit pieces of a file to another client requesting a download.

In their case, the producers of Avatar needed to transfer large quantities of data between two points - Los Angeles and New Zealand.
Like maybe umm... a scanner... making the scan perhaps?

Whats special? Its minimalist and classy but very unique. Fits the woz well. The only thing I don't like about it is the duplicated logo. (In the mesh and as the central logo.) I know its a design no-no, but this is the first time I've really ever found it distracting. I think I'd have skipped the top mesh altogether.
rsync works really well. It's what we use at our company. One trick we have considered implementing is pointing the HTML root to a symlink that points to the current release. When you rsync, create a new directory named after the version. After you have verified the transfer, flip over the symlink to point to the new code base. Doing it like this will make quick roll backs easy and protect you from interrupted transfers or users hitting your site mid upload (it has happened... we spotted an anomaly in the error logs and our "wtf"s per minute shot through the roof).
dhimes, fraud has been illegal for centuries. Sarbanes-Oxley did not outlaw fraud. You are confusing issues of corporate governance with issues of fraud. There are some important issues that the law should address about how much power shareholders should have over their officers, and how much information the officers should be compelled to share. I can think of a 100 reforms I'd like to see that would give more power to shareholders. A CEO is a hired hand, just like a janitor or an electrician, but CEOs have vastly more power to do harm to shareholders interest than any janitor or electrician. Enron is an outstanding example of this. But of the 100 reforms I'd like to see, none of them look anything like Sarbanes-Oxley.
They took away our free popcorn at Silicon Valley Lab. It was demoralizing.
So if I buy a few stocks in microsoft as a %0.00001 stock holder and microsoft get's another anti-trust charge I should be held liable too?
In a nutshell, the audience for nuanced, elaborately plotted scripts is not as big as that for epic hammy ones. The movie industry (qua theaters) is not really about movies so much as it is a marketing operation for comfy chairs, sugary drinks, and popcorn. Hence the big-budget movie emphasis on the 'wow' factor, best appreciated via a 75-foot screen.

To some extent, it's always been this way. Look at Shakespeare: most of his plays are set in foreign countries which would have been terribly exotic to his audience, or are concerned with battles, magic, or murder - it's all pretty sensationalist stuff.

With this sort of big-budget production story complexity takes a back seat to putting the audience 'into' the experience. Gattaca is a fine sci-fi movie that turns on a clever script and strong acting performances, but it wasn't exactly a box-office sensation. But it was pretty cheap to make. with something like Avatar you want a story that everyone can follow easily rather than one that risks alienating any segment of the audience. Epic stories generally try to minimize ambiguity and complexity: the payoff is emotional rather than intellectual.
Thanks.

Gonna watch it tonight:
http://www.veoh.com/collection/phanviet/watch/v6364398zH9eBN...
http://business.rediff.com/report/2009/apr/15/bcrisis-no-mor...
Making a 3D game with Ogre - Populating the level
Having studied several languages, I think the biggest difference in difficulty is in how long it takes to acquire basic proficiency. For English speakers, it's obviously easier to ramp up in Spanish or German than Chinese or Korean, because there is much more vocabulary and syntax in common.

However I think putting a number on the difficulty of becoming a fluent, capable speaker of any foreign language is much more difficult. I'm not sure if it's any easier for an English speaker to become an idiomatic, witty, eloquent speaker of German than Chinese.
Different strokes for different folks. I would probably start looking for work elsewhere if we _started_ letting people work remotely.
How, out of curiosity, would one go about checking whether the article has already been posted a hundred times?
Anyone know of a chart lib that will do three or more y-axis, or a way to hack in three or more axis?
One of the terrible things about being your own boss is you have no one to push back against, and ridicule for their moronic opinions about cashflow, release it ready or not etc.

Instead, you have to play that role too.
It may be unfair, but I'd be suspicious; it's easier to start a project than it is to complete one, and there's a lot of end-stage stuff that they may not have experience with.

I don't think it's the engineer's fault that the product never shipped, but with no end product we can't make a judgment either way. They could be a bunch of architecture astronauts for all we know. There's something to be said for picking a tech, sticking with it, and pushing it to its limits.
If you're reviewing a movie then the weakness of the plot is something valid to comment on. Plot is usually considered an important part of a movie. I was enthralled by the movie from beginning to end; my friend was squirming in his seat and commenting on how long it was. Different people like different things about movies.
I'm not sure if there's an absolute scale, but you can't deny that some languages have more complex grammar than others. Conjugating verbs is a good example: coming from a Latin language, English verbs are almost trivial, but I doubt that the reverse is true. If you wanted, you could put together a list of criteria, such as complexity of grammar rules, how common exceptions are (very common in English, for example), whether the writing is phonetic or not, etc. etc., which should give a rough basis to compare languages.
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So, how to fix the religious, then?
Not really sure why this is newsworthy. It's a very common thing in the tech industry, and Yahoo! has been strongly encouraging employees to take time off during the holidays for years. The only difference this year is that the time off is actually mandatory for most employees rather than just being strongly encouraged.
Apple Making Progress On Plan To Kill The TV Business
You shouldn't editorialize, but you are allowed to change titles.

The author specifically says he is talking about hard for english speakers, so the new title is correct.

Specifically:

"Languages tend to get “harder” the farther one moves from English and its relatives. Assessing how languages are tricky for English-speakers gives a guide to how the world’s languages differ overall."

and

"A truly boggling language is one that requires English speakers to think about things they otherwise ignore entirely."

as two examples.
This is completely speculative, of course, but the following explanation makes sense: a little while ago it came out that the iPod Touch is being positioned as an Apple gaming platform (lots of developers were writing games on the platform anyway, and Apple decided to roll with it). Thus, Apple essentially entered the hand-held gaming market, which means that it is now in direct competition with Nintendo. Allowing Nintendo games gives them a competitive advantage.
Sounds like Apple made an exception since NES games probably aren't much of a threat to the App Store or iPhone security.
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Actually, I do. Do you?

I found it strange that a guy got downvoted for suggesting that a hedge fund used technical analysis. I hate TA, but then, I hate Quant Finance, too. Whoever thinks that the smart guys at RenTech and the like use that kiddie Stochastic Calculus taught at MFE programs is living in a state of sin. Period.
There's relative difficulty, which is often a function of distance within the linguistic tree, e.g. Germanic to Sino-Tibetan, but there definitely is a character of language difficulty which is absolute.

For example, comparing English and German:

- English has simple plurals. In regular cases you add an s or es, and the number of exceptions is limited. Chair, chairs. Book, books. Jacket, jackets. In German plurals are, for all practical purposes, completely irregular: Stuhl, Stühle. Buch, Bücher. Jacke, Jacken.

- English does not generally have gendered nouns, nor an equivalently complex replacement.

- English does not have cases, nor an equivalently complex replacement.

- As a result of those two, the English words a and an correspond in German to ein, eine, einen, einem, einer and eines.

- English has almost the same tenses as German, but let's take the verb to run in the present tense: I run, you run, he runs, we run, they run. In German, laufen: Ich laufe, du läufst, er läuft, wir laufen, ihr lauft. Rather then two forms, there are five.

- English does not have formality encoded in its grammar.

It's pretty hard to say that German isn't objectively harder than English.
Did anybody actually pay that rate? Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding was that the rich had more tax loopholes, which they exploited more aggressively. e.g. if you drilled for oil, you got a 'depletion' allowing of 22.5% of the value of the oil you sold, since you were getting one asset (oil in barrels) and losing another (oil in the ground). Drill for enough oil, at a low enough profit margin, and your tax bill drops to zero.

You've heard of three-martini lunches, right? You know that they existed because the cheapest way to drink was to make it a business expense (paid for with pretax dollars) instead of a personal expense (after-tax dollars). At a 92% tax rate, it's 11X as expensive to drink personally as to drink professionally--so the tax policy you laud had the wondrous result of making a decent fraction of American executives half-drunk by noon.
A sample Mac application with complete unit tests
Your experience with a new interface will be improved by making use of the affordances it offers rather than lamenting the ones it does not. To do otherwise is akin to eating soup with a fork.
fraud has been illegal for centuries. Sarbanes-Oxley did not outlaw fraud.

yeah, no shit. We're saying the same thing. Sheesh.

But of the 100 reforms I'd like to see, none of them look anything like Sarbanes-Oxley.

Agreed again. So what is your point? Did you even read what I've been writing here?
English has a comparatively simple grammar (at least in terms of things like verb tenses), but then is complex in other ways (size of vocabulary, modal verbs, noun affixes, idioms). We notice the complexity of other languages’ grammars because that’s the thing that stands out when we try to learn them, but people coming from other languages to learn English will be tripped up in other ways.
How many of those people are recent switchers from Windows?
Would have liked to have heard about Farsi or other Arabic languages.

Also, would point out that Greek and Latin are not "cousins" to English, more like great-grandfathers, given the large amount of borrowing from both.
Question 1: Is it your money, or the state's?

Question 2: Do you like the ideas of the family farm and family small business?

Question 3: What about life insurance for families?
I love infrastructure-as-a-metered-service in general, but how do you expect to get any significant revenue from authoritative DNS? Even big sites have relatively trivial needs.

we're looking at DNS as a good platform for building low-latency, geographically specific services

Hmm. Weather reports over DNS? :-)
Learning German right now. Yes, irregular plurals and gendered nouns are killing me!!!! Just doesn't make too much sense to me :(
And if your users play it anyway, you know you have a real winner.
The jqplot library mentioned seems to do it.

http://www.jqplot.com/tests/multipleYAxesTests.php