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>It's such a shame. Humans were so peaceful, so quaint. We could have learned so much from them, because all humans lived in great harmony with each-other and with their environment...

>...Your reaction would be, "Well, that's about as much detail as is relevant, sure"?

No. In that case, they are making a blanket statement that all humans were peaceful, etc. In this case I was suggestion that the native Americans who were here before us were not necessarily inferior or incompetent. I think that statement stands for most any specific native American group, if not all.

>Yes, I certainly do have an axe to grind, and it is this: history is rich, and amazing, and valuable, and I wish it to be taught and revered, and not swept under the Rug Of Oversimplification with statements like, "the Roman Empire was grand", and "native Americans were beautiful".

Fair enough, but comments get long enough on their own without having to completely qualify every part of every point ever made.
Are Our Brains Wired for Categorization?
Sure. The split has existed since at least the second Assembly in 1993.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_demo_party#Demo_and_in...

I haven't been able to find an earlier example of the split; prior to that, it seems demos simply did not compete with size limitations.
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The Samsung Omnia II’s Amazing Virtual Keyboard
Yes, there's a lot of inertia in infrastructure. And the Internet's infrastructure isn't as centralized as, say, the power infrastructure. There's a lot of links in the DNS chain that will have to be replaced. And I shudder to think about all the links that won't be replaced until they die.
"I'm Bill Gates, yes I'm the real Gates all of you other Bill Gateses are just imitating"... ;-)
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It is possible for someone to make poor posts in the beginning and improve their post content when they realize their role within the community. Many new visitors to HN are likely to encounter this by simply making a one-line 'witty' comment that people dislike. When that gets downvoted, they may tend to lean towards more informative and relevant posts after learning their lesson.
It's just one year...the Internet in early 2009 wasn't all that much different from now. I frequent the same websites I did back then, personally.
The irony

s stands for stream

there is no s in ed
Did you read the article? The hole exists in all 32-bit versions of Windows, up to and including Windows 7.

So this affects current products. And affects virtually every Windows machine in use on virtually any corporate network.

The only good thing about it from the description is that it is a local privilege escalation only.
It's a flaw that affects recent products.
If I may try to briefly explain/defend the naming as well as expand on the need for it...

In Perl 5, 'reverse' did all of the three things: it reversed strings (in scalar context), or lists/hashes (in list context). The latter two weren't really distinguished, since a hash in Perl 5 is just an (even-element) list that you assign to a hash variable.

In Perl 6, 'wantarray' http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/wantarray.html is gone, and not even built-in methods rely on figuring out the void/scalar/list context of the caller. Which means that we don't do the trick described in the blog post to make 'reverse' do either string or list reversal.

Very well, no problem. What we lack in 'wantarray' we make up with a type system. We just stick the string-reversing 'reverse' method on the type Str, and the list-reversing one on the type List. All good and well. (In fact, we put the string-reversing one on Any, and let it coerce to Str when needed.)

But wait. There are some corner cases where this causes problems. Sometimes a scalar variable contains a list of things, and sometimes a list contains but one element. In either case, we try to magically guess between the two uses, and get it wrong. So maybe making those two behaviours homonyms wasn't too good an idea after all.

Hence the need for distinguishing 'flip' and 'reverse'. By distinguishing 'invert', we can make it a bit smarter in case of hash key collisions. The 'magical guessing' dilemma goes away, because it's clear you mean a list when you say 'reverse' and a string when you say 'flip'.

The names are fairly well-chosen, considering what they do. You flip a single thing (string), reverse the order of a sequence of elements (list), and invert a mathematical mapping (hash).
It's not a question of risk, but what you risk and what you gained from the risk. My point is when you earn above market rates it's often because of risk to capital not effort. If what's making money is Work you pay SS if it's Capital you don't. If it's a combination of both you first need to pay SS / Medicare on a reasonable wage for what you are doing, but the extra earnings from Capital * Risk don't require SS / Medicare payments.

Under the current system, building an iPhone App is really two things taking a risk with some capital and building the App. If you work for a year and it makes 120k then you pay taxes as if you worked a normal job. If you make zero you pay taxes as if it was a hobby.* If you make 10 million, you pay taxes as if you had a normal job that made ~140k AND made 9,840k from an investment.

This is reasonable because when you earn a normal salary from your work your risk had zero return so you pay zero taxes on the risk. If anything it's when you earn less than market rates when it gets tricky.

*(I don't know what the actual tax ramifications of this are. If you do major home remodeling while unemployed you are not supposed to be able to collect unemployment even though you don't have a direct cash reward. In theory you might be required to pay taxes on the work you did.)
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I'm not saying anything a paywall: if it is "pay for everything", then you're right, it can be built very effectively. What they're saying is that they want to give free capped usage for users, and I'm thinking that whatever mechanism they think of can probably be circumvented easily.
> No mention of what will happen to the currently free (and super) iPhone/iTouch app.

I assume it will sadly turn into the WSJ app (few free articles, majority subscriber-only).

Of course, I can see Steve Jobs and Apple working a deal with the NYTimes to bundle a free 1-yr subscription for their iSlate owners.
The NYT used to have a pay model. I paid them something like $8/mo. I didn't really use what I got over the free side of the site, but I wanted to support their journalism. After a few months I got an email that they would no longer be billing me.
Ouch, that would be a pain to use. All four of them are on the same finger, even! The problem with leaving hjkl where they are is that it wastes a huge amount of prime real estate. In colemak -- as you've seen -- those keys are used for hnei, all commonly typed letters. jkl are much less common.
Wait, wait! Are you trying to tell us that NYTimes' content is as valuable as porn?

I beg to differ, Sirrah!

Also, if you, ah, investigate online porn, you'll find that the on-line porn sites seem to have a gentleman's agreement to not get all huffy if the occasional, incomplete picture set leaks to a free site.
If the system of moderation is broken (Which it seems likely to be lately), it's of interest to the community as a whole IMHO.
I would guess the value proposition is more a case of worrying about ...security flaws in software used on your network rather than ...security flaws in your opponent's platform.
At the risk of stating the obvious: No mention of Amazon? Really?
In C, parentheses mean expression grouping, function invocation and cast... depending on context.

In English, many words have different meanings depending on context: e.g. not to be mean, but you know what I mean, right? Ordinary human speakers have no problem with this, even without theoretical linguistic training.

I'm not convinced that Larry Wall (a formally trained linguist) has chosen meanings and contexts that really do fit in with what human speakers intuitively expect. But it could well be that it is just that I am personally familiar with C-style grammar, and not with Perl's. If I "grew up" with Perl, perhaps it would seem natural?

Perhaps it's exactly the same as with human languages: that languages with very different grammars are not so easy to learn for most people. And... perhaps there is a linguistic window for learning programming languages, as there is for human languages (which is up to about 7yo)?
BBC News - Can statistics help catch terrorists?
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Most people would rather be honest and pay a few dollars than mess with cookies/proxies/multiple accounts, especially if they don't know what a cookie is in the first place.

If someone values his time sufficiently low to make several email accounts to read the NYT without paying... he probably can't/won't pay, whatever is done.
[1001.2172] The complex network of global cargo ship movements
I'm still a Clojure newbie, but one thing I've discovered about programming as I study Clojure is that a lot of programming involves the processing lists.

Take Web dev: you have a list of parameters that a user sends to the server, you perform business logic on that list, you send the list of data to the database, and you return a list of data to the user.

Any technology that makes performing those tasks easier is a good thing.
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If there are no children on the list - why do they check children against the list ?
More to the point: I don't think it's obvious that HN is relatively unimportant.

There are people here now who are here primarily for what passes for intelligent discussion these days -- myself among them. But, that doesn't quite match this site's original intended purpose, which was to become a point of community for potential YCombinator applicants.

So, if someone gets banned by mistake, or if there's some imbalance or some feature or tweak that HN maybe should have ... as long as it isn't negatively impacting YCombinator applications, then it really isn't worth a terrible amount of pg's time or attention.
Well, "LISP" is short for "LISt Processing" after all :D
[0712.1598] The Price of Anarchy in Transportation Networks
Ah... Nothing quite like the smell of an unfounded conspiracy theory in the morning!
Huh? Everybody know it was the aliens from outer space...
[0903.5082] Quantum Darwinism
I wonder with advent of search widgets in browsers (and the location bar as search box in Chrome) how many users actually go to bing.com or google.com? I certainly don't.
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In other news, "billybob to stop reading nytimes.com"
"I have no choices but to acknowledge this possibility given the way they designed and engineered such technology. Moreover, as we all know that Haiti is close to tectonic plates, we can hardly ignore the mathematical probability that terrorists organisations could have used a similar device to gain a geopolitical advantage in Haiti while spreading terror and creating a artificial humanitarian crisis."

I have no choice but to acknowledge that this is pure drivel.

Since when does this kind of garbage pass as reading material?
How do you know? A could be mentally ill, and thus innocent. A could be an undercover officer, or shooting in self defence against a threat you didn't see. And so on.

You can say "in my opinion, A is a murderer" -- but the only time you should be making a statement of fact on A's guilt is after it has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

To do otherwise is to dishonestly masquerade your opinion as fact and to expose yourself to a nice fat libel lawsuit along the way.
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"But executives of The New York Times Company said they could not yet answer fundamental questions about the plan, like how much it would cost or what the limit would be on free reading. They stressed that the amount of free access could change with time, in response to economic conditions and reader demand."

Given the widely accepted disaster that was TimesSelect, this doesn't seem to be off to a promising start. How do you make such a monumental decision about your business, announce it publically, and say, yeah, we'll figure out how this will work soon, get back to us in a few months.

And it's not just business strategy. As pierrefar notes in another thread, they haven't figured out how they're going to achieve this anyway...

Will they deindex from Google? Wi
It's not a "gentleman's agreement", it's promotional material.

The porn sites themselves build the picture sets and if you have an affiliate account with them you see the available material (along with all the relevant html code that you can customize to match your colour scheme or whatnot and that already has your referral codes in place) and pick what you want to use on your own site.

It's basic affiliate marketing.
and besides, what would they gain?

Some companies in the financial industry use PE problems for interviews. People memorize brainteasers for these interviews, so I imagine people might also want to memorize PE solutions.
"Moreover, as we all know that Haiti is close to tectonic plates" - as is every other place on Earth, since the crust is made up of, you know, tectonic plates.
Apple in talks with Microsoft to make Bing default search engine on the iPhone
But, is it any more dicey that only accepting reviews from a small population of yelpers that are more loyal to yelp than to the business they review? Think of it this way a yelper whose never heard of your business vs. many loyal customers who've never heard of yelp. To some degree it turns into a yelps loyal customers vs. a business' loyal customers and yelp with always side with their loyal customers on it. Advantage yelp. If they don't let everyone participate in the conversation equally then a business can't put their best foot forward.

I did find it that the salon owner was much wiser about how she approached yelp than the bookstore owner. The bookstore person wasn't listening to her customers, and blaming the wrong person.
Do it with sign ins and require you to validate the account with a phone number (a la Craigslist). That has been incredibly effective at CL.
I just quipped to a friend the other day after the Cayman Islands got struck that Castro is going to start blaming the US for trying to hit Cuba with a quake and missed.

Come on guys they are little islands that have no strategic value. It is crazy to think that we would try to hit them with a earthquake machine. If we had it, why not hit Iran or wherever "Satan dominion on earth is these days", if "they" have it why would they not hit us?
This only a guess, but your comment may have been picked up by pg's bayesian spam filter. It seems like a word based spam filter may have mistaken your comment for some sort of scam telling people to "send payment" to a "business account" for details follow the link.
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Knowing about opponents security flaws is an awesomely powerful publicity/propaganda tool. MS release something on how IE8 is just as secure as Chrome (browser) and Google counter-release how it's got a hole the size of the Great Rift that's been inherited right back from IE6...
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And what are you using? I have observed the world and my observations about web designers are completely different.

I have asked before for references or articles supporting your point of view and you have not posted anything. @charlesr posted some excellent links below. Where is the evidence that supports your perspective?
That's a very fair point. My only counter to it is that us geeks will spread the word that using Chrome in incognito mode is quite effective.

Ctrl-Shift-N is quite fast, and Google is pushing Chrome very hard, and us geeks are called on for tech support quite often.

I think your honesty thought will win out most of the time, but not always. People like a free lunch and sticking it to the man, especially if they have the tools to do it very easily. We'll see.
Ask HN: How to encourage entrepreneurship at a company?
Hi. I am working at a small and great company doing mostly consulting. During my spare time I've developed a small web application that might get successful. (I actually have some evidence ;-)
I would like to continue my endeavor and I am looking for ways to do this in cooperation with my current employer. Our company is open to approaches. Any best practices/patterns? Examples of spin-offs?
I don't suppose this means that subscribers will get a version without banner ads. In the same way that newspapers have historically sold their print version for less than it cost to publish and made their money off print ads and classifieds, I imagine we'll get much the same experience but be paying for it. NYT doesn't want to trade ad revenue for subscriber revenue. They want to augment it.

BUUUUUT, since the internet is a dynamic medium, maybe they could offer a tiered pricing scheme (like every other for-pay web app these days) that includes a no ads option. It should be easy enough: just display the print version of the article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/business/media/21times.htm...
but in this case they are proving to be enough for anybody.
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If you compare iVideoCamera with Qik Video (both apps now allow non 3GS users to shoot 10fps video), I think iVideoCamera rose to the very top because it looked like a native app and functioned like a native app.

An amount of luck was involved as well (I imagine there is some kind of exponential time decay function for app store new listings - e.g. if sales are minimal, you drop)

Most users don't care how the app was written - they just want something to entertain. Qik missed an opportunity - they did not focus on making the videos easy to share. Bear in mind that the 3GS can shoot video practically forever (battery life is biggest factor) instead of the 30s or less limitation of these non-3GS apps. However, the ability to shoot video from a previously non-video phone is huge. Yes, jailbroken phones could do it but not until Apple opened the API to grab camera frames directly was the App Store opportunity for non-3GS video available (the timing, the luck).
A great presentation. If you're thinking about trying this here Clojure thing, take out your wallet and pick up chouser and fogus' Joy of Clojure from MEAP right now. It's the most complete of its kind by a long shot.
That sponsorship costs $300/month. That's a lot of money for many small businesses and can easily push a business that's barely scraping by in this economy into the red.

And I don't know about you, but I get angry when I think of people trying to extort $3600/year from me. It is my business - not theirs. Yet somehow I'm the one getting my wallet picked.
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Typewar: Points and Levels
Indeed. And I think that Clojure's (I mean, Rich's) simple approach of abstracting lists, vectors, hashes etc as sequences is even more to the point, more powerful. (Of course, it is not necessarily his invention: something like this can be seen in older languages, like Perl, Python, etc.)
update: To respond to some of the comments here I must first say that my question has no intended malice. I was not aware that comments were auto-filtered which some posts mentioned and certainly the filters could be geared towards comments that mention payments, bank accounts and credit cards. I had thought the only spam detection system in place was the 'flag' feature.

As long as there are no repercussions for being detected by the filters and my HN account stays in good standing there is no need to for me to be concerned.

To the comments which suggested that this is not HN material and should have been addressed privately, I say that I did not suspect this post would receive as much attention as it did. I expected it to receive some sparse upvotes and an answer along the lines of "sensitive spam filter sometimes kills legitimate posts, known problem, nothing to be worried about". I did not want to clog up an admin's inbox querying it. I also wanted to check whether I was able to post.
Hong Kong is not a country. It is a region of the People's Republic of China.
I'm not sure. This is my third user account. Coming from reddit and slashdot, I had an abrasive posting style, which sometimes would generate hundreds of upmods for my posts, and sometimes would generate dozens of downmods.

Maybe this is purely me, but having a month or two of my posts going down the black hole 1. saved people from my vitriol and 2. forced me to think about why it happend.

Now, I think there are too many people that will downmod a comment because they disagree with it, or because it responds to one of their comments in an unflattering (but appropriately toned) way. If this happens to you early on you get put in the kill list.

You also get kill-listed if you upmod a killed account too much, which is to prevent shill accounts I suppose.

The real way to tell, however, is that whenever you are logged in every page view takes 10 seconds or more to load.

Overall I think that all these shinanigans are pretty effective at knocking down the number of people who are just angry and bringing that anger to the site. They might be perfectly smart people, but there are plenty of smart people in the world, and people coming here to rage are such a huge negative that it is best if they are eliminated from the site, even if there are occationally people who get kill-listed 'unfairly'.

This is a BBS, not a criminal court. If you feel it is unwarranted you are banned from posting to a Bulletin board, my suggestion at that point would be to create another account and proceed rocking out from there. If you can't get over the injustice of being slighted by an automated system on a discussion board, then your priorities are incredibly retarded, and probably you should reflect on your life and figure out why? I should say that this isn't meant to be directed at anyone in particular, except maybe to me circa 2006.
Ask HN : How do Twitter verified accounts work?
I was reading about Bill Gates joining Twitter (http://twitter.com/billgates) and wonder what's the process for having a verified account. How do they evaluate that someone is known enough to have a verified account? Is it twitter that communicates with the account holder or he has to make a request to twitter? How do they verify that it's the real person behind the account (probably with a special CNAME but maybe not?)
Appears to falsely not recognise quotes as coming from the page of origin. This may be something to do with stripping tags and formatting? It worked eventually when I chose a short plain section but not when the quote section had links or em tags or headers or whatever.

What's the point of the site?

Edit: don't get me wrong it looks nice, works reasonably; I just don't get why I'd use it. Also on a point of use, the "thanks for your voice" - is that a typo? I'd put it as a flag on the heart itself so that the "please upvote" flag simply changes to a "thankyou" when you click". Lastly upvotes use an up arrow, favorites (sic) use a heart, which is it?