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Wow good job, WSJ you picked up on a trend just about 10 years after it really heated up.

In addition to being about 10 years late this is a really, really bad article about Tesla. It does not mention anything about his very substantial actual achievements but makes him sound like a crazy dreamer who did not achieve much but became a cult favourite because of how weird he is.

The article did not mention that Tesla developed the system which pretty much everyone in the world uses to get their electricity, or that almost all electricity made now is made using one of his motors, or that after a lengthy patent dispute the US courts determined that he was the actual inventor of radio transmission, etc.

Tesla's contributions have been at least as influential as those of Edison and likely more so.
* I need help with: "A,B,C" (text field)
* I'm pretty good at and willing to help with: "X,Y,Z" (another text field)
* I'm in Seattle, WA, USA

I could certainly add this myself, but it wouldn't be possible to see all info on one page for many people - that kind of thing requires scrape-friendly format that enforces some kind of structure on the input text.
This brings to mind PG's submarine article. I wouldn't be surprised if this article wasn't the brain child of a PR firm working for Tesla Motors.
Let me quote a co-author of Quake:

'At this point in the book, I was originally going to present a BSP-based renderer, to complement the BSP compiler I presented in the previous chapter. What changed my plans was the considerable amount of mail about 3-D math that I’ve gotten in recent months. In every case, the writer has bemoaned his/her lack of expertise with 3-D math, and has asked what books about 3-D math I’d recommend, and how else he/she could learn more.

That’s a commendable attitude, but the truth is, there’s not all that much to 3-D math, at least not when it comes to the sort of polygon-based, realtime 3-D that’s done on PCs. You really need only two basic math tools beyond simple arithmetic: dot products and cross products, and really mostly just the former. My friend Chris Hecker points out that this is an oversimplification; he notes that lots more math-related stuff, like BSP trees, graphs, discrete math for edge stepping, and affine and perspective texture mappings, goes into a production-quality game. While that’s surely true, dot and cross products, together with matrix math and perspective projection, constitute the bulk of what most people are asking about when they inquire about “3-D math,” and, as we’ll see, are key tools for a lot of useful 3-D operations.'

(Michael Abrash, "Graphics Programming Black Book Special Edition")
I am not sure that was true. Many biographies I read said that he gave away his patents or at least sold them for a very low price when Westinghouse complained that he was losing money, and ask Tesla to help him as a friend.
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While it is possible to compare the same browser across two different version of jQuery, it's pretty difficult to do so: you need to manually "extract" the slivers from the two different bars and compare them visually, which is difficult and imprecise. I think it would be more useful to have one pair of bars for each browser (old vs. new jQuery version), and then a pair of bars for "total over all browsers" (old vs. new jQuery). That is slightly more verbose, but more useful too.
So by quite dangerous you mean that anyone can find out that you've looked at and/or edited that page.

Definitely a privacy issue for many people, but I'm not sure I would qualify it as quite dangerous.
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>>I don't think the Haitians have that sense of 1st World, consumer rights, entitled mindset.

If you want to see something fun regarding this type of mindset, go check Sweden in Malthus' book on population (added in some later edition).

Sweden is today the poster child of the cradle-to-grave nanny state. For good and bad.

Malthus wrote about how self sufficient the Swedes were, compared to the rest of Europe, not blaming and demanding help from the state/nobility... :-)
No, it is not a good visualization.

You cannot easily compare the same browser across two versions of jquery because each browser starts at a different point on the Y axis for each column; you cannot easily scan from one column to the next to see the difference but must jump back and forth figuring out start-end points and trying to guess at differences.

It makes it difficult to compare the individual speeds across different versions because the nature of the chart compresses the vertical space to make the larger of the two stacked bars fit into the graph, artificially compressing the Y axis (which measures the only thing we care about in this graph) and diminishing the scale for all of the items being compared.

The only thing it makes easy to see is an aggregate of browser speeds across versions (and since nothing runs on all browsers at the same time this measurement is not very valuable) and as a comparator of individual browsers against each other, which is the second least-important metric in these charts.
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Is "O-off" a subtle dig at OAuth, or an audio transcription typo?
I'm not referring to you, I'm referring to your comment that you get through a 12 hour day by not working a 12 hour day. It may be a technically valid statement but it's completely uninteresting. It's like saying that the best way to become a millionaire is to have a million dollars.
Woz is legendary for loving new gadgets of all kinds. Hardly surprising.
This leads to a related question. Assuming you're in a situation where it's your best option, what's the best way to kill yourself without tools? I assume dying of dehydration / exposure is not particularly enjoyable, and a set of circumstances might exist where it would be better to get it over with...

(See below for the link to the guy that cut his arm off to avoid dying. I don't think I would be able to make it through the bone, so I would like to have this option filed away in case I need it some day :)
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Federal funds are often disbursed to researchers. What is disturbing here is that Economic Stimulus funds were spent on a climate researcher who was already employed. There's no stimulation in this "stimulus".

FTA: "It's shocking that taxpayer money is being used to support a researcher who seemingly showed little regard to the basic tenets of science - a dispassionate search for the truth," said Tom Borelli.
There is a Firefox extension called dust me selectors that accomplishes the same thing. I have been using it for years.
Jamie Zawinsky has a simple backup plan that you may want to consider as well(http://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html). I would recommend one change to his strategy though, brand does matter, as in get different brands or at least models. What if there's a manufacturing defect in your Eastern Analog Brontosaurus drives? All three could fail in a very short time frame.
The real story is the Tulsa tech scene. First, the Ping.fm acquisition and now the Twitpic story. Tulsa FTW.
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This will strengthen their bond more than anything

The end of hate, not Haiti.
Can we do one of these for Angel Investing?
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What gave you the idea that they "need" to raise funds? The NYT article mentions they are "headed for a public offering someday", but that's about all I could see.
What you wrote is not a firefox attack, it's acrobat attack. You don't need Mozilla specific JS hooks to launch an Acrobat plugin - I don't even think there is such a thing.

Acrobat plugin opens automatically if you embed a pdf.
time to update the career page then:

Located near Union Square in beautiful San Francisco. Our office occupies a full floor with a ton of windows at the corner of Kearny and Sutter St

congrats guys.
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Although it might also be helpful to recall that the essay originally used a Business Week article about del.icio.us as an example of a 'hit', which it wasn't (del.icio.us did not have a PR firm). Sometimes an article is just an article. Probably most of the time.
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I think this article would be better titled "My J2EE Experience".

I've been working with Java professionally for 5.5 years in enterprise environments and I've never used EJB, nor do I know anyone who has.

The sad thing about marketing-type speak that ends up calling J2EE "a platform" is that it becomes very easy to misinterpret the nastiness of these APIs - that's what EE really is, just a set of APIs - as somehow reflecting on the state of the entire ecosystem/community.
A generic social network would work, where users can verify against one or many domains or sets of urls. To reach someone's page, you would type in: site.com/verificationstring edit: the string would have to go in the <head> otherwise it can be faked on ugc sites
It means that the only startups which get profiled/interviewed are the ones which do get get successful. Survivorship bias here.
You sure you read the article?

"Tesla was a scientist and inventor who achieved fame and fortune in the 1880s for figuring out how to make alternating current work on a grand scale, electrifying the world. He created the first major hydroelectric dam, at Niagara Falls. He thrilled packed theaters with presentations in which he ran high voltage through his body to illuminate a fluorescent light in his hand. His inventions helped Guglielmo Marconi develop radio."

Granted, the Tesla-cultism is a lot older than 10 years so the trend thing is just article-filler.
Hah. It'd be quite impressive if either of them manages to squander their astronomical fortunes. Then again, they're both talented people.
Coming from Trinidad and Tobago, where we get both, I assure you it's possible to build in a way to withstand both.
I think that a lot of people underestimate capacities of EMACS.

The problem is that unlike a modern IDE, EMACS does nothing to make it's capacities evident. Perhaps it's good to have a system which requires one to put a systematic course of study to fully understand. Or perhaps it's symptom of a primitive UI bound for eventual obscurity.

How shall we decide??
You're probably not a talented sales person. You had 2 years equiv. experience, and should have pitched yourself that way.
Great link, thanks. Looking at the patch I can now why it's n^2 -- I didn't realize it was that bad when I looked at the code before.
Junior people in VC are gate keepers who add friction to the system
Most of the time working with a game engine does not involve inventing any new mathematics, so there is an upper bound on just how hardcore it can really get :)
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Increased fluid intelligence and short-term memory when working with a deterministic problem. (I think I got the buzz-words right).
jQuery only attempts to deal with the DOM. Confusing a browser API and a programming language is a mistake to be avoided.
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No, really, sometimes it's "hard-work-discouraging-hard". I don't know anyone who thinks it's fun to pour through strace or tcpdump output trying to figure out obscure bugs at the OS or network layers. I've known a couple people who liked looking at generated assembly to debug compiler issues, but they are a rare breed. Race conditions or 1 in a million bugs really suck. Trying to debug any of these things while your company hemorrhages money or the phones are ringing off the hook with pissed-off customers; any "fun" you're having is just the adrenalin trying to keep you from being eaten by a tiger.

Working on hard problems, of your choosing, on your own schedule, can be fun and rewarding. But the reality is, you're not always going to get that.
That's awesome. I may move to Tulsa area later this year and I've been wondering about the tech/hacker scene.

Anyone else?
In regards to Kai-Fu Lee: his track record might be one of large corporations but now he spots an opportunity to capitalize on it and start something that will net him much more than working for a big corp ever could.

In China, business is like no other place. It is fully about connections and relationships and Lee is a unique individual -- he has connections from his days at all the major corps (Microsoft, Google) and finally he is using them for his benefit. If it takes off, he could be incredibly rich -- much more than the $10 million Google was (rumored) paying him. If not, he can always go back to any big corp: they will be falling all over themselves to have him.

Point being: you cannot correlate Lee's departure with a their projected performance.
It depends where you're talking about. In an area reasonably prepared for disasters, they actually do bring about increased prosperity -- Florida has periodic construction booms after hurricanes, and a majority are insured, so financial losses are constrained to the big insurance companies.

On the other hand, even in a developed nation, a major disaster can end the life of an area -- New Orleans is perhaps two-thirds of its former size and looks unlikely to grow.

In this case of Haiti, a steady and dedicated stream of aid could help rebuild the country, but history has shown that the international community's attention to the desperate plight of that nation has always been short-lived.

Sadly, I fear it will be worse than before, and remain so.
Sort of ironic; a "conservative think-tank" pushes a political agenda in condemning a scientist who is suspected of pushing a political agenda.

It may be true that the funds shouldn't have gone to him.

This press release isn't really helping its cause with its incredibly biased and politically driven tone.
The quick answer to "why not fix Somalia" is "we tried, and they ended up shooting at us, so we left".

Oddly enough, we tried fixing Haiti a few times, too. It's not very successful, but they don't seem to shoot at us quite so much.
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The problem with using that model is that it assumes that once the war/disaster ends, there is a reasonable amount of time (10-15 years) in which the rebuilding can take hold and the economy can develop.

Haiti gets a significant natural disaster every three to four years - generally hurricanes and floods, but in this case, an earthquake. So every time they start to rebuild, they get hit again and it all gets undone.
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I had heard you didn't like DHH before as well. I thought it was DHH being DHH.

I couldn't have been more wrong.
Here's a link to pics of the last Xobni office (dated May 30, 2008) http://www.officesnapshots.com/companies/xobni/

If you are into office setups, you'll probably love Office Snapshots. Office pr0n.
this too http://bighow.com/news/10-things-you-must-know-about-apple-t...
fields: about, email, 3 urls, location text, location lat/long, looking for people with, interest areas, skills, comments, (pre-existing HN metrics: karma, posts, username, date created)

You'll need an API to access it, or else a viewer on site that presents as a sortable, paginated table.
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i'm pretty sure that much of the performance-critical core is in C++; javascript is th UI/extensions layer, to the best of my knowledge
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This totally doesn't belong on HN, but I couldn't help but click. That can't be real can it?? It looks horrible.
Did anyone else hear the NPR special on Haiti the day before the earthquake? They were saying how even though the country was extremely poor, investors were lining up to put in money to train workers and start companies, in part because of Clinton. They were saying how this was probably Haiti's last chance, and if anything else went wrong it would probably be the end of the country. Then this.
awesome! i really hope projects like this gain traction and are actually used by hackers. staunch supporters of statically-typed languages often criticize the lack of IDE/static analysis tool support for dynamic languages like python/js/ruby, citing that it's simply harder to create a good static analysis for dynamically-typed languages. while this is true in theory, in practice type, type inference and local dataflow analyses work pretty darn well, since people aren't just using types willy nilly in these languages --- there's actually a lot of implicit structure
Grrrr, so what? are we going to post every birth defect and physical anomaly now?
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I've opened this in a new tab but I'm not sure if I should look...oh Jesus, that's horrible...just don't.
I had problems with that after some Firefox version upgrade, and haven't looked into it after.

I kept expecting someone to make this extension as part of Firebug.
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If it doesn't belong on HN, do like I did and click the "flag" link.
Real technology enthusiasts have plenty of love & admiration to spread around. If you happen to be a fan of SmartPhones it's a great time. Lots of competition and things are evolving very quickly. I'm sure I could list a ton of things I don't like about my iPhone or Android phone but they're both marvels of modern technology. I still have a moment of child-like glee when I realize I can take this tiny thing out of my pocket and do more than I could with a desktop computer connected to a gigantic CRT 15 years ago. It still blows my mind a little each time.
Puerto Rico was invaded by the United States. Haiti has great sadness in it's history. A large portion of their population is > 19 yrs old. There's a well known problem of child sex slaves in Haiti.
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"Federal funds are often disbursed to researchers. What is disturbing here is that Economic Stimulus funds were spent on a climate researcher who was already employed. There's no stimulation in this "stimulus"."

Sure that guy was employed. But assuming his corner of academia works like the rest of academia there are a lot of other people who are now not unemployed. See researchers (Ph.D's) are more like project managers. They hire grad students, interns, staff, etc to do the actual work. The phds just just supervise, put their names on papers, etc.

Now, when this grant was awarded the researcher probably had a secure job. All the people I just mentioned however, were subject to cutbacks. Further depending on specifics, a job or two may have been created.

For a similar thing I know of first hand, we were awarded a grant out of stimulus money. I got to keep my job. Several grad students got to keep their appointments (and not require student loans). We may be hiring a staff member or two. The official PI (principle investigators) on the grant all have tenure. I don't know how you count "works", but a job saved is about the same as creating a different job instead by my reckoning.
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The case was:
NEW WORLD COMMUNICATIONS OF TAMPA, INC., d/b/a WTVT-TV, Appellant, v. JANE AKRE, Appellee.

The source (that I found) is LexisNexis' compilation: "FL Courts of Appeal Cases from 1957"
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I'm surprised they didn't mention that the SciFi show "Sanctuary" has Telsa as a character...who is a vampire...that can control electricity.
There are dozens of sources where you can read about this on the internet. Without exception the ones I looked at were of the sort of axegrinding, hissy fitting people that make me distrust their facts.

I did however manage to find the actual opinion from the court is available.

The opinion can be read at http://www.2dca.org/opinions/Opinion_Pages/Opinion_Page_2003...

The paragraph that begins at the bottom of page 3 and finishes on the top of page 4 is the meat.

While WTVT has raised a number of challenges to the judgment obtained by Akre, we need not address each challenge because we find as a threshold matter that Akre failed to state a claim under the whistle-blower's statute. The portion of the whistle-blower's statute pertinent to this appeal prohibits retaliation against employees who have “[d]isclosed, or threatened to disclose,” employer conduct that “is in violation of” a law, rule, or regulation. § 448.102(1)(3). The statute defines a “law, rule or regulation” as “includ[ing] any statute or . . . any rule or regulation adopted pursuant to any federal, state, or local statute or ordinance applicable to the employer and pertaining to the business.” § 448.101(4), Fla. Stat. (1997). We agree with WTVT that the FCC’s policy against the intentional falsification of the news – which the FCC has called its “news distortion policy” – does not qualify as the required “law, rule, or regulation” under section 448.102.
I just want to point out that based on personal experience last week, preventative surgery to remove your appendix is no longer preformed.
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I don't think you understand what "stimulus" means, or how it works. It's not and was never intended solely to go to unemployment benefits. Handing cash to an organization (say, a science lab) that it then spends (to, say, do flawed or fraudulent research) produces economic activity (say, buying computers) that benefits the economy as a whole. So at the end of the day there are fewer jobs lost in total.

There certainly isn't an "is the organization already solvent" test for stimulus cash; and to add one would be silly and self-defeating. Really, it doesn't matter where the money goes as long as it's spent. All spending is stimulatory. The biggest problem with the stimulus bill was actually finding "public good" projects (i.e. ones that don't look like pork) that can spend the money fast enough.
This is why the parents of affected kids don't trust the medical community to address their concerns. They see the impact immediately after the kids get vaccines, but your mind is made up unfortunately.
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