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This article is just so silly and prejudicial, I will not bother writing long about it. But a few points - what does geographical proximity have to do with compassion? If people are afraid of planes, will that not split up the world even more? Why make blanket judgements and reinforce deadly stereotypes with phrases like "Aboriginal health, African AIDS, Middle Eastern pogroms, Chinese tyranny"?
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In the eighties and nineties in China, Russia and other countries it was possible to buy NES clone that would play pirated NES games. It was called Dendy. Obviously it didn't have the CIC chip.

Typical game cartridge contained multiple games (i.e., for example, Mario, Contra and Ninja Turtles could be on the same cartridge) and was quite inexpensive. I didn't realize for years that in US one game would cost 10 times more than 10 games one cartridge for Dendy. Ah, golden days of piracy.
Basics of the Unix Philosophy
Excellent list, I was wondering if someone bothered to make it.
Thanks, I had interpreted it as a confused comment on the capitalistic folly of paying people to dress as dead rock stars and go parachuting.
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I think this is one of those "religious" wars things - although us proportional fonts people are much the minority.

I've used proportional fonts since the early nineties and written thousands and thousands of lines of code since then in a proportional font. I have occasionally tried to go back to a fixed width font but I can't be bothered trying to get past the "it makes my head" hurt stage. (and likewise I can't imagine a lot of fixed width people getting past that stage going in the other direction).

We can rationalise our choices all we like but I doubt that there is any serious advantage or disadvantage in either.
Yeah he seemed hilariously biased.

Also his comment that the free market is lousy at fighting poverty seemed particularly egregious since:

a) Capitalism and free markets hav done far more to fight poverty in the world than foreign aid; just look at China, capitalism is lifting over a billion people out of poverty.

b) Protectionism helps keep poor countries penniless. The Western world frequently subsidises the hell out of their farmers, depriving poor countries of an export market for something (staple foodstuffs) that they can actually produce competitively.
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So if I call you a motherfucker, you think I should be censored for "discriminating" against you? Then you really are a motherfucker.
I know this is 'hacker' news, but 100,000 is much more readable.
Maybe the erosion started when I arrived (sorry), but the last 6 months I have not noticed any decline. I read HN daily, and each and every day I find it equally useful.

Take that for what it's worth.
I used to invest a lot of time in HN precisely because it wasn't at all like the rest of the internet. I'm not sure using the internet as a measure of quality is a wise choice.

(Although one could argue that targeted spam is inevitable when a community grows beyond n users, regardless of the quality of the community.)
i agree, but did you notice that monaco 9 point without anti-aliasing in this article looks very similar? which seems like good news to me, because if schumacher disappears then there's something to fall back to...
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Yes, but describing it as "inherently unpredictable" gives the impression that you could take one of the simple equations that are chaotic and do things like produce truly random numbers on your computer. This is not the case.
Only if they were in Spanish - here in Uruguay we have the OLPC deployed for all schoolchildren, but most students don't have the level of English required :)
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Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust."

Actually, I'm surprised this hasn't been posted yet: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html.
Sometimes I hope all bleeding-heart activists will eventually see how governments use their actions as a pretext to expand censorship more and more... but then hope goes away and reality sets in.
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I encrypted my email address, so one has to install ruby at least before sending me spam.
Good to see I'm not the only person who makes that typo

Ah fudge!
Yep, a process per core.

The beauty is that since your app has to be written to be multiprocess capable then you can also extend past one computer when the need arises.

You pay a memory tax overhead though.
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And the master himself says :

Terry Pratchett: "I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did"
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A lot of the people on that list at least went to college. It was a lot easier to get away with this back then, whereas today no one will even look at you unless you have a diploma of some kind (in most fields, at least). I am far more impressed with the ones who never even started, or who never even finished the equivalent of high school.

A good number of people on the list are entrepreneurs, too. Even today, you can get away with having far less formal education if you strike out on your own.
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For bonus points, extract the names, get the years when they lived, and plot them with simile timeplot or something similar. It seems to me that a lot of them were born in the 1800's, but maybe I'm wrong.
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"Bob Ellis has had a long and close involvement with politics, covering as a journalist twenty-four campaigns in Australia, the UK and the USA, and writing speeches or slogans for Kim Beazley, Bob Carr, Mike Rann and others. Ellis's work for film and stage has won numerous nominations and awards for writing and direction. His most recent book is The Capitalism Delusion and is also the author of And So It Went: Night Thoughts in a Year of Change."

You also have to remember that he is writing for the ABC, a government funded "independent" media. Make of that what you will.
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yeah, like here in Europe :)
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"after 378 pages, <Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead> were able to talk about how you could prove that 1+1=2. But they couldn't actually do it yet, because they hadn't yet managed to define addition."
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If you can make it happen, I am only glad for it. I think it is a shame that so many people miss out on maths. I haven't tried to teach it yet, so I can't really say. I've tried at times to come up with real world applications for the maths taught at school, but didn't come up with much.

I think one exercise I would give my pupils would be to determine the real prices of mobile phones.

Enjoyed the shoelace link, will try it the next time I tie my shoes.
He is not calling China free market in that quote, he is listing things which he does not like (tsunamis, earthquakes, tyranny) which he thinks are not dealt with by only the forces in a free market.
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PayPal was bought by eBay after IPO. That means founders had several liquidity events.
If it does not fit your definition of spam then that's fine with me, but it definitely fits mine.

Anybody that would not even take the time to read the profiles they're sending these emails to are spammers.
I am awake 30 hours more a week than on the regular 8 hour sleep. By the time I'm 50, I've have been conscious 5 years longer than most people.

I don't think you'd meet any older person who won't trade 20 of their older years to be 5 years young again.

So while my absolute life span may become lower, I'm living more of it now rather than later; Besides, who knows when you are going to die anyway, could even get hit by a bus tomorrow.

Also the abuse my body is going through, I doubt it will live to a ripe old age, I both smoke and drink and have cancer in my family history. I doubt I'll make it past 50 anyway.
The point of hate speech / hate crime laws isn't that crimes motivated by discrimination are worse. It's that they affect the whole group. If I kill you because I want your money, then you and your friends and family suffer the consequences. If I kill you because you're gay, Christian, black, Jewish, female, or whatever, then in addition to the effects on you and your friends and family everyone else who's part of the same group feels just that bit more afraid and that bit less able to be themselves; and everyone else who hates that same group gets just that bit more inspiration to go out and do likewise.

Unless you give this zero weight and think every reasonable person should do otherwise, then I do not think you have any excuse for saying that approving of hate-crime laws means being "against freedom of speech".

(Unless by "you are against freedom of speech" you mean "you think that there might be other considerations that sometimes justify limiting freedom of speech". In which case every reasonable person is "against" just about everything.)

There is no hate-crime legislation making it extra-bad to kill geeks because there aren't a bunch of malefactors out there killing geeks. It's arguable that hate-crime laws should be written in a more general way, instead of calling out particular discriminated-against groups, but if you'd accept that then congratulations, you're "against freedom of speech" in your own terms.
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The issue is not the instruction you get at an university, but the environment. If obesity is contagious, education is so much more so.
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"If it does not fit your definition of spam then that's fine with me, but it definitely fits mine."

hmm it does fit my definition of spam. Hence my suggestion to "Mark as spam".Maybe you aren't replying to me?

So yes, I agree it is spam.

"Anybody that would not even take the time to read the profiles they're sending these emails to are spammers."

I agree(again perhaps you aren't replying to me). I don't see where we disagree.

I don't understand the surprise (and handwringing) about spammers harvesting any publicly available email on any webpage. This has been true since the beginnings of spam. Why should HN be immune?
Lucky you, I only have 1 share of preferred founder's stock in my own company which has 1 share outstanding.

OK, technically I guess it's not a "share" if it's just 1.
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I think the main problem here is that it seems to be HN'ers spamming other HN'ers.

If it were for some large sum of money that I'm going to come in to it would be business as usual, this is different.
NOTE: Most of the people in the list are before 1900. So that is old school :)
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We know the UN is retarded because they don't proactively find and label all social groups? Also, the UN does crime now?
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" think the main problem here is that it seems to be HN'ers spamming other HN'ers."

Well (a) an HN'er is just someone who has filled in two text boxes. There is not even amoderator approval step to join HN and it is not like you have to have a certain amount of karma to see email addresses. (b) (I could be wrong about this but) you can see email addresses even when logged out if they are part of the "publicly exposed" part of the profile. So you don't need to be an HNer to harvest a good set of emails.

If I am wrong on (b) then maybe the moderators can do something about this, but I can't think what. Anyone can log in with pseudo name/password combo. quietly harvest all visible emails and hey presto targeted spam.
Make sure you read these two pages

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Before attempting to upgrade any drupal site to the newest release.

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For sites that are not so simple consider building a completely new installation using the drupal version that you intend to use and then migrate your data afterwards using a one-time-use script.
You seem to be very much intent on showing that this kind of behaviour is both to be expected and acceptable, we will have to disagree about that.
Cool. It was a Big Surprise to me that I haven't learned about Tesla & his inventions even after "studying" science for so many years.
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There are more full-featured web servers written in Lua, too: http://github.com/keplerproject/xavante and http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/HTTP.lua
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I always get a kick out of Android apps that would never be a approved by Apple if it was an iPhone app.
"You seem to be very much intent on showing that this kind of behaviour is both to be expected"

Yes. If you put your email somewhere public you are certain to get spam. So yes it is to be expected.

"and acceptable"

No, it isn't a nice thing to happen to you but there is nothing that can be done about it once you've put your email id on a public page. So it is not acceptable, but it will happen anyway. I guess i am not surprised when it happens.

" will have to disagree about that."

shrug.

I guess I just don't get the sense of outrage about first putting an email id on a public, indexable, crawlable web page and then groaning and moaning about nasty lowlifes sending you spam. This is like wandering around in dark alleys in shady areas and then being surprised about getting mugged. I agree it shouldn't happen and in an ideal world it wouldn't but it does.

If you don't want spam, don't expose your email id on the web. Or have an extra spamtrap id if you must enter email ids into web forms. Obfuscate the id to throw off regex matchers. Have a good spam filter. That's the state of play as of today.
> 17. Rule of Extensibility: Design for the future, because it will be here sooner than you think.

Question is "how much" design for the future is necessary today. The basic rule of thumb that I follow is to ensure that necessary means of abstraction have been applied and are in place today so that tomorrow we can extend without reworking all the parts.
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Ha. I post on that ticket several times, under another identity ; )

Those patches do work, btw, I've deployed some (not so critical) sites on 1.9 with them. But yeah, still broken out of the box - not good at all.
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Unix: Rule of Diversity: Distrust all claims for “one true way”.

Python: There should be one—and preferably only one—obvious way to do it.

Well.. I'm comparing an OS with a programming language.
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Take away:

...in any sufficiently large set of random data it is possible to find meaningless patterns of any required accuracy.
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The only real shame in this case is that HN is becoming a place for people to air their trivial meta nonsense.

You got an unwanted piece of email? Take a second to mark it as spam and be done with it. Sweet mother of god, you got it via HN?? Once again, take the exact same second to mark it as spam and be done it. But don't assume that it affects the big scheme of things concerning HN, because it doesn't. A single company trolling for emails is orthogonal to the evolution/erosion of HN.

P.S. You're feeling 'sad'? This is all it takes to make you feel sad? Jesus.
What I really seriously wonder about is if these authorities have nothing better to do than to follow up on ridiculous leads like these. Apparently you are no longer allowed to write works of fiction either.

The next attack that will succeed will do so in part because apparently the people that are in charge of sifting the stream of intelligence for actionable clues are completely without ability to analyze this kind of information in a way that would lead to a safer society.

All that happens is they waste tons of money and man-hours chasing nonsense.

A remark was made on a social networking site, boohoo. Disaster. Meanwhile the bad guys are having a field day and are going to slip through the cracks left by the thoughtcrime police being occupied elsewhere.
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That List of cognitive biases almost reads like a list of software bugs! Thanks.
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What is Twitter's obligation to the UK to disclose the IP addresses of posters, anyway? It sounds like this is a very flimsy case; they have to prove the guy posted the tweet, and to do that, they need to get a company with no staff in the UK to turn over IP address information. I am surprised they even managed to get an arrest warrant.
Thanks! I quoted this one as it is very simple (about 10-12 lines of code) and hence crying to be extended :)
I have no doubt that the intelligence people involved are fully aware that the comment was a joke. I imagine the theory is that by harassing all the people who purposely add noise to their intelligence stream they will get a higher signal stream in the long run. This is essentially the same reasoning they use to crack down hard on anyone who jokes around at various physical security checks at places like airports.
In that case you can compare Python with Perl ("there's more than one way to do it").

I don't think they necessarily have to clash -- you may have multiple ways but one would be obvious in a given situation.
1600 - 1699: 2

1700 - 1799: 18

1800 - 1899: 79

1900 - 1999: 58

Still, given the population explosion, it's unlikely that there were fewer autodidacts in the 20th century than in the 19th.

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The impression I got was that the offending post was reported by someone who knew him; presumably that person also provided his name and other details to the authorities.
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Well, it's a long story, but I think in essence software radio is to communications is what integrated circuit is to computing.
As far as I'm aware, there's not a true templating system around for Compojure. There's Enlive, but that's kind of weird. From what I can see, you write all your HTML and then perform operations on the HTML completely from Clojure. If you were looking at the HTML you wouldn't know that it was going to be modified by another program. It's one of the reasons that I haven't spent more time working in Compojure - it assumes that everyone wants to spend all their time in Clojure.

The problem (to me) is that s-exprs just make sense for representing HTML. Every time I've tried to think of how a "perfect" templating language would look for Clojure, all options have seemed silly next to just using Lisp. I guess that's part of its charm (and its curse).

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I've posted it because I think it's another marker that points to the continuing change here on HN. Yes, I've marked the email as spam, although not processed it the usual way because it is close to stuff I do for real. I've now made a tweak to the spam processing so that the email address I use here now requires the marker I name in my profile, rather than just being a hint. Sure, it took me 10 seconds to read the email, decide it was spam, check the source, adjust the filtering, and move on.

Submitting this item has let me see that others have got it, it is bulk, and to measure the expectation. At a casual glance it seems that most of the longer serving contibutors are saying the same thing - it's a shame, and it's a sign of the decline on HN. Most of the newer contributors are saying the same thing - welcome to the internet, why should you expect anything different?

The correlation isn't 100%, but it seems to be real. If I get time later I might actually go away and find out what the correlation coefficent really is.

But for now, it's information about those who visit/inhabit HN. If you don't find it interesting then you could take one second to sigh and move on, shaking your head about the sad state of people who post trivial meta nonsense.

PS: I'm not feeling suicidally depressed, but it has had an overall negative impact on my day. That's why I'm going off and doing more programming - that cheers me up.
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This article deserves to be upvoted in its own right. It's a nice detective story. (You deserve to be upvoted, too because you provided valuable information.)
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There are lots of one day training classes that are pretty effective taught by Miller Heiman, Huthwaite, etc.

I took one in grad school, the professor's background is a huge contributing factor. Fortunately ours was pretty good and certainly experienced in selling and sales instruction;

http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/Faculty/search/detail.cfm?p...
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Is anyone aware of an music library/player alternative that follows this philosophy?

I'm fairly certain a collection of tools for working with various media would be much better than the iTunes model. It is clearly the worst Apple software since it tries to fit everything into a one click trojan horse for installing on Windows and yet the mainstream Linux alternatives all cargo-cult the basic interface with no obvious signs they understand why all that functionality is bundled into one program.
For those who need to be infected that may be true sometimes. But to go to university you have to endure 12 or 13 years of school where everything imaginable is done to stifle any interest you may have had before.
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