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hn link for original post on his blog he's referring to:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=860913

hn link for sfweekly article he's talking about:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=998554
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I second everything you said.

For me Settlers is at the sweet spot for board games where "casual" and "serious" intersect. You can play it with non-gamers, games last an hour and a half (Monopoly never finishes that quickly!), and pretty much everyone enjoys it on their first play and understands it on their second. On the other hand, board game geeks happily play it and the game rewards skill. It scales well with player experience.
It's dreadfully easy to shop build a rocket, especially in America where places like Radioshack exist.
The omega-3/cardiovascular disease prevention is a weak link at best. From this Cochrane Collaboration meta review: http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab003177.html

It is not clear that dietary or supplemental omega 3 fats alter total mortality, combined cardiovascular events or cancers in people with, or at high risk of, cardiovascular disease or in the general population. There is no evidence we should advise people to stop taking rich sources of omega 3 fats, but further high quality trials are needed to confirm suggestions of a protective effect of omega 3 fats on cardiovascular health.

There is no clear evidence that omega 3 fats differ in
effectiveness according to fish or plant sources, dietary
or supplemental sources, dose or presence of placebo.
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@tsally is advocating having 'real' hackers hack on the thing to find vulnerabilities. In this case though, the vulnerability was known but it would have cost more money to actually fix it. Having people attack the thing for vulnerabilities still wouldn't change the fact that you would need to pay however much money to do the fixing.
It's possible, though unlikely, that the entire report is deliberate misinformation.
You haven't listed valid reasons, but rather arbitrary reasons. That's fine, but let's paint them for what they really are.

I think it may be you who missed the key point. Large swaths of the web are real time now. Content, metadata, relevancy, and reputation change in real time. If McAfee wants to play in the same sandbox as all the real time kids, it has to become a real time kid itself. If they don't, then they instantly become useless and irrelevant in a real time world.
It would be really sad if VLC on Os X goes , that's one of the main apps i use.

QT + Perian and MPlayer are nowhere near to VLC in terms of functionality. I can get any ol format and get VLC to play it , as an example .iso files.
Storage space is cheap, and it's pretty cool that this guy has realised that and has taken the time and effort to make an entertaining (at least the first time) plea.

In the days of chemical film cameras I always made sure the first shot was of a card with my name and a contact address. I recovered three films that way which had been delivered or given to the wrong people by the people developing the film. For the cost of one photo per film, it was definitely worth it.

I need to go do this again, although if I lost the camera, I doubt I'd get it back. If a reward is offered, returning someone's photos is clearly a win for the person who has them, whereas the camera might be of greater value than the (reward plus warm fuzzies minus effort).

Then again, maybe not. I'm off to take a photo ...
...Except for the fact that in California, with the inability to increase Property Taxes quickly (Thank you Prop 13), an inordinate amount of revenue actually comes from commercial taxes (Sales Taxes being a large one). As a result, counties engage in a game of _discouraging_ residential zoning, and encouraging commercial zoning. I'll find a citation. [Edit - http://www.caltax.org/MEMBER/digest/feb2000/feb00-4.htm - See: What are some of these side effects? ]
Nicely done. The only comment is that everything seems readable on a small camera screen, exept for the most important part: Your email adress...
I don't think it's a conspiracy, just the result of a couple variables.

At any rate, #1 supports my point. Since they are the most expensive areas, they'll be even less likely to host families. On the other hand, if gay people tended to live in low income areas, that would invalidate my hypothesis.

#2 doesn't really cause problems for my argument either. I suspect that if anyone is going to be gay-unfriendly, it is going to be heterosexual couples who have children. Especially if they have a large family they likely belong to a religious tradition that considers homosexual sex to be immoral. So, if most people, invariant over whether they have families or not, make an effort to be gay-friendly, I still suspect a random sample of families vs singles will turn up more gay-unfriendlies.

Finally, childlessness may also cause people to choose homosexuality. Most people want sexual intimacy, but they don't want the risk of having children. They can use a bunch of unreliable methods to avoid producing children in a heterosexual relationship, or they can take the easy way out and choose a homosexual relationship.
Ask HN: What kind of subjects do you (a HN user) expect?
Can anyone tell me what this animal (hn) is all about? I don't get what audience is targeted. Sometimes I find the educational stuff very informative - other times I see hopeless BBC-kinda of news about a war, which usually adds no value to me personally.. I don't get why we at hn should deal with world politics.
Hmm, why must all judgments be self serving? For instance, if a soldier thinks it is the right/good/noble/beautiful thing to jump on a grenade, I fail to see how that is self serving by any normal definition.

Plus, many artists and other geniuses live horrible lives by evolutionary standards, all for the sake of something they consider beautiful and transcendent.

Finally, most people will report a subjective sense of self-transcendence when contemplating beauty and moral goodness. If we want to fly in the face of common experience we can say this is all selfish, but at that point it looks more like you're bending the data to fit your worldview instead of letting the data change your worldview.
Do enough people care to fund it? I personally do use VLC, but if it became unmaintained I'd just switch to another player.

I'm (theoretically) willing to maintain it if I can make enough in donations to pay the bills. (Contracting fills that role right now.)
http://diydrones.com/

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My experience differs. I find the game offers plenty of ways to recover from an early bad placement, and that while a bad run of luck can hurt you, your choices over the course of the game have a bigger impact.

(It's true that if you get the initial placement wrong enough you're pretty much screwed for the rest of the game, but I don't often observe that happening except to first-time players, so I try to help newbies set up. One exception is when a couple of players deliberately box you into a corner at the start so you can't expand, but I don't see that happen much.)

What I find interesting about Settlers is that while every player is susceptible to chance, you can control how much so. You can choose to bet strongly on certain resources or strategies, or try and spread yourself around so that most rolls of the dice get you something and you can gain points in multiple ways.

I hear good poker players sometimes lose hands purely due to a run of bad luck, but if you think poker is "largely all due to luck", you're probably doing it wrong.
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What an idiotic headline (not the one here, which is accurate, but the headline of the linked article). "The Russians" don't confirm anything. The Institute of Economic Analysis (http://www.iea.ru/), a Russian NGO, claims that the CRU didn't use all the availible temperature data in Russia with the intent of showing warming where there is none.
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In the UK version of this debate, politicians supporting copyright enforcement measures keep saying "we feel that taking someone else's work without paying for it is wrong". This is especially hilarious in the wake of a Parliament-wide expenses scandal. When exactly did career politicians win the moral high ground?
I'm in, living in Enschede, so I'd prefer Utrecht to Amsterdam.
"... There is a reason the AK47 is so much more reliable than the M16 ..."

There is nothing worse than "language" or "editor" wars, except maybe arguments over "weapon of choice" ~ http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/m16-vs-ak47-iraqi-...
Worst game ever.
Do we really need a post full of swear words? This is link bate.
I think just like the rest of life, it is what you make of it.

If something sounds interesting to you, great. If it doesn't, it doesn't mean that one article is a flaming pile of shit, it just means it's not your cup of tea.

Vote up what you like, and show the community what you want to see more of. Seems pretty simple to me!
The problem is they can match these profiles even if you haven't signed up for gravatar at all. Your email hash is always sent to gravatar.com.
1. Twitter

2. See above

Also, this guy has issues.. really.
I ended up stumbling onto a link to it hosted on a service that uses a more slightly more ubiquitous plugin to play videos.
3 - but usually around 10.
This is from 2004, there has been serious criticism of their conclusions. See for example http://www.issfal.org.uk/index.php/lipid-matters-mainmenu-8/... two key paragraphs (but they list several other concerns as well):

The null conclusion of the Cochrane report rests entirely upon inclusion of one trial, DART 2 2. This was a randomized dietary trial with clinical endpoints testing the effects on total mortality of either giving advice to eat fish or providing fish oil capsules to men with angina. Surprisingly, while total mortality was not statistically different in the two groups, there was less sudden death in the control group than in the intervention group. Upon exclusion of DART 2 from the meta-analysis, the overall decrease in relative risk with omega-3 consumption became similar to that reported in a previous meta-analysis by Bucher et al: 0.83 (95% confidence interval, 0.75 to 0.91) 3

In our view, the weight of the evidence available in May of 2006 is sufficient to conclude, even in light of the Cochrane analysis, that EPA and DHA reduce risk for cardiovascular diseases. Not only do we feel so, but also the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology 15 , the European Society for Cardiology 16 , a systematic review conducted for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality at the NIH 17 , the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis 18 , and a number of other national and international bodies 19-22
All Erlang all the time.
I like science and technology. Science and technology impacts society and therefore politics, politics impacts science and technology.

Stem cell research in the US for example is a clear example of politics affecting science, for that matter most drugs policies in the world are an example where politics ignores the science.

So I want to know about politics to see how it will interact with science and technology.

It would be nice to live in a little cocoon where we only saw things that we liked and all that messy RL stuff would just go away. But it wont go away, so I want to know about it.
No, Selenium works with all major browsers.
A user script would be preferable.
Oh Ford, not more bloody climategate stuff. Flagged.

Note that "the Russians" means "a right-wing think tank in Russia". Which is not what anyone would think from reading the headline or any bit of Delingpole's article other than the one sentence in which he says which Russians he has in mind.

Note also that, prima facie at least, there is at least one obvious candidate explanation for lots of Russian temperature data not being used in the CRU dataset; see the section on "Russian temperatures" at http://www.john-daly.com/graytemp/surftemp.htm and note that the author of that page does not believe in AGW and therefore isn't likely to be preemptively covering up for the CRU.

Note also that Delingpole is not any sort of scientist.

I would say "note also that Delingpole's past writings on global warming are totally full of shit", but that would be rude and I'm a very polite chap so I won't.
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Wonder how soon they find a way to spoof drone video streams with some open sourced software, probably VLC ;-)
The point concerning building an ecology of products is key.

Part of the persistence of the blackberry is accountable to its adoption in the business world which is very hesitant to change, especially in IT.

Apple, in many ways, is trying to tie down consumers as RIM does with blackberries. iTunes - iPod/iPhone - Mac is a (nearly) black box solution that is hard to extricate yourself from, especially for the average user.

Palm started too late with too little resources and simply cannot swim fast enough upriver. Shame.
>> his specific experience of that country's political environment.

Totally irrelevant. I quoted:

>>Any opposition to the government is considered treason and punishable by life imprisonment.

My SPECIFIC point was:

The "joke" here is: I wonder what would happen the poster if he wrote anything different?

To be absolutely clear: The poster couldn't write anything else out of self preservation, according to HRW/Wikipedia.

If you can show HRW to be spinning that much, please give references.
I think that the purpose of a business should primarily be to help people and do good, and secondarily charge only what they reasonably need to ensure their continued operation in the long term. (I guess that is "make what people want" and "create wealth" in pglese.)

Conversely, it seems to me currently that businesses are here primarily to make money, and then secondarily help people and do good only up to the extent that reasonably ensures their right to continue charging -- often more and more -- money.

Note: I don't mean the business owner shouldn't prosper nor should pay as low salaries as he can. Quite to the contrary, actually. But making money is the wrong baseline reason to run a business. If people, including the business owner, can afford to not have everything, to not rip as much as to themselves that they possibly can, there will be plenty for everyone.

If the business is just to make money, it doesn't give out more to the community than merely what it takes back from them. The business will run in an endless fear of not making enough money and not having enough, and that will inevitably govern all its activities. That is missing the creation part of creating wealth.
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Another data point:

Doesn't mailman email out monthly reminders of passwords, with passwords in plain text? I know you can opt out of the reminders, but it's default behaviour.
And you'd be right. That figure is way old, and even small for then.
Well I was assuming the user was using a TV, but yeah, obviously you need a PCI receiver card if you want to interface with a computer. But thank you for the much needed technical details. I haven't played with it in a year or two and was basically just going off of memory.
the U.S. military found pirated drone video feeds on other militant laptops

What is the meaning of "pirated" here? Are they going to sue militants for copyright infringement?
The author misunderstands the performance impact of atomic operations.
Iran has nuclear technology now, so they're no longer idiots, just evil dobaddies.

Nobody claimed this was logical or reasonable...
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The embedded paper is on Facebook's engineering notes as well:

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=203367363919
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The channel itself has several good videos, which present interesting arguments for atheist views and/or against mystical ones. Check them out if you're interested, before they disappear.

If the linked video is too bland for you, the main guy (I think) behind QualiaSoup has also posted this angry rant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQgA0zACaJM
From Littlewood's (wonderful) "Mathematician's Miscellany":

I read in the proof-sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends." My reaction was, "I wonder who said that; I wish I had." In the next proof-sheets I read (what now stands), "It was Littlewood who said ..."

(What had happened was that Hardy had received the remark in silence and with poker face, and I wrote it off as a dud. I later taxed Hardy with this habit; on which he replied: "Well, what is one to do, is one always to be saying 'damned good'?" To which the answer is "yes".)

Until now I've always taken these paragraphs as saying that it wasn't really Littlewood who made the remark about Ramanujan, but on rereading it I've changed my mind: I think the point is that he did say it, and was annoyed that Hardy didn't credit him, and made a little joke about it which Hardy interpreted correctly. Maybe I'm overinterpreting. Littlewood's second paragraph doesn't quite make sense to me (i.e., what it proffers as an explanation doesn't seem to explain very well) on either interpretation. If he didn't say it, then (having seen that second set of proof sheets) he and Hardy effectively conspired to credit him for something he hadn't said, which would be quite a breach of academic etiquette...
The channel itself has several good videos, which present interesting arguments for atheist views and/or against mystical ones. Check them out if you're interested, before they disappear.

If the linked video is too bland for you, the main guy (I think) behind QualiaSoup has also posted an angry rant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQgA0zACaJM
That's like...worse.

I went to the "learn" screen to see some examples. It was just a text box with a scroll bar, except I couldn't use my mouse scroller to scroll it. And when I grabbed the scroll bar, there was huge latency before the text updated.

Tired of putting all that labor into creating sites that people can read? Having too much difficulty breaking the user experience with html, css, and javascript alone? Does your site render too damned fast? Getting annoyed by the pesky (and growing!) population of mobile users looking at your stuff?

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I think what is meant is that the artist cannot really define what he does as an art. There must be popular appreciation of the art to allow it to be defined as art, i.e. you cannot really have an artform until people who do not practice it, appreciate it.

When people who are not computer programmers can appreciate the art of computer programming, then you can define it as an art, not before.

I think of programming as something similar to carpentry. A craft capable of producing useful things that can also be appreciated as works of skill in their own right, and must be practiced regularly.
Shouldn't it be the other way around? Converting Flash into standard web technologies (html 5, css, javascript). Or using existing Flash authoring tools to create AJAX apps. I'm not sure this service is solving the right problem...
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What's so special about this? Laszlo, swfmill and Flex have been around for years. Just another implementation of the same idea. I think Haxe is much more interesting than this.
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The most extreme case I've heard of: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/81326...

This tangent is not a pleasant one, but I couldn't resist making a citation.
There is no clear evidence that omega 3 fats differ in effectiveness according to fish or plant sources, dietary or supplemental sources, dose or presence of placebo.

There are effectively no plant sources, except for algae.

25,000 years ago we consumed omega-3 and omega-6 precursors in a 1:1 ratio. Today, thanks to the widespread consumption of cereal grains and few sweetbread meats, that ratio is about 1:20. That has drastic implications for the production of essential lipids like EPA that the body cannot create on its own.
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And hardware can handle concurrency - you just need to switch to a dataflow language.
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Using a different, decent password for each site is a good idea anyway.

This doesn't apply to, say, the New York Times, of course; but accounts that you care about should have decent passwords.
Totally agree.

For one, languages like Erlang, Haskell and Clojure already make concurrent programming reasonably approachable and second, if people were to switch to using proper dataflow languages* then parallelization is implicit and automagically done for the programmer.

* What I really want is a proper dataflow/imperative hybrid that lets me choose the right tool for the job...
I see the problem description, now where's the guide to solving it?
From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find
interesting ... anything that gratifies
one's intellectual curiosity.

That pretty much covers it. Stuff that you're complaining about either contains something that some hackers might find intellectually curious, or sinks without trace.

Consider some of the other stuff an opportunity to learn both about stuff outside your current direct interests and experience, and about your fellow readers/contributors at HN. I've encountered stuff I wouldn't normally find, and some of it has been interesting.

Take the opportunity.
The example given is three patents on moving a picture to a server and back, done in 1997.

Then the article ends with 'and so you can make $ with a simple patent'

Well YEAH, because it's a scam!

How dare this SOB patent one of the fundamental uses of computers! He can stick his patent in his ear!

Greedy asshole!