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The scope is different. China censors all its population and is very aggressive in doing so. This is more on the lines of "Here we do lots of bad things in order to protect the freedom of our country. Tell nobody about it. And, BTW, we will be watching you".

It's despicable either way.
Help me understand how that isn't a total non sequitor.
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We file as an S, if you're really wondering.

(You annoy me, but I think your comment is mostly in good faith [I'm pretty sure you'd rather not come out and make the honest argument, which is that you think everyone should be able to opt out of Social Security]. I voted your comment back up to "1".)
With CG, the preconditioner also needs to be SPD (or have suitable factors). You can get by pretty well using only GMRES and spend all your time thinking about preconditioners. Once you have some good candidate preconditioners, you can try other Krylov methods, but the gains are rarely very large. I have frequently found SPD systems that are more efficiently solved with GMRES and a non-symmetric preconditioner, and even more so for symmetric indefinite systems where popular wisdom says to use MINRES, CR, or SQMR.

For amusement, it's really worth knowing about

http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/nick.trefethen/publication...

which shows that each of the popular nonsymmetric iterations can beat all others by a huge factor.

But this is all justification that you should use a library like PETSc for your linear solvers. Then all aspects of the solve become run-time (typically command-line) options including an algebra for composing preconditioners and other components, with a plugin architecture for every component.
Who said that algorithms are everything? No, of course they are not. In C-languages you have about 50% memory management, then you have code architecture. But algorithms are the very heart of programming, and the most important topic. Look, if you have the algorithm to carry out a task, then its just a question whether you have the tools to accomplish it, and if you know your tools to do it. The latter could be the equivalent of knowing your programming language.
at its current state it's probably the least oppressive government it's ever had.

That's a commonly made statement, and I don't claim to have a basis for definitively disagreeing with that statement. But I have heard some historians claim that many of the regions of China had better governance in the 1930s (some under "warlords," and some under the KMT central government) than China has had at any time under the PRC regime. That would be an interesting historical question, and probably depends on which forms of "oppression" one counts and which subgroups of the population are most regarded in the analysis.

Even as I knew Taiwan in early 1982 when I first arrived there, when Taiwan was still a one-party Leninist dictatorship that practiced censorship and even political assassination, it was a less oppressive place than China is today, in my personal view of what is oppressive and what is not and who is most oppressed.
If some putatively "creative" person has taken the effort to learn HTML and CSS, then they're already working in an area which to them may as well be programming -- odd as that may sound to an actual programmer. (And besides, isn't a significant portion of jQuery's audience comprised of web designers? What does that tell you?)

I find it hard to believe that anyone who has worked with CSS on a regular basis would be intimidated by Sass. As the article makes quite clear, it's conceptually simple and provides obvious maintainability advantages. If anything, it subtracts rather than adds complexity.
Are you developing the software yourself, or working with someone else? It's very clean.
Cute, but really kind of dumb, unless you can trace the Civil Rights Acts, the refusal of the Democratic national conventions to seat all-white delegations, etc. to air conditioning. With obvious & rare exceptions such as the Bush family's displacement from Connecticut (The Grapes of Cash?), the Republican Party in the south is made up mostly of the descendants of the Democrats who dominated southern politics all those years.
you should get the bars to pay you to increase their rating :P
It's remarkably ineffective bullying. Oh no, the web site was down for several minutes, and some unnecessary expenses were incurred! We're doomed!

What these guys need to learn to do is say "Fuck you, you're an idiot, and here is a coherent rebuttal:" and submit it to the news aggregators that gave the original article its popularity. There are enough contrarians that it should be easy to get a lot of people to read your rebuttal and take it seriously. Launching some half-assed attack on a server is the equivalent of just flinging poo, and it just doesn't work.
I appreciate your comment. However, I am having a little trouble understanding it. I personally find my design easier to navigate than Craigslist and less crowded. I understand this isn't the case for you, and I would really like to hear more detail about this.

As far as filtering, you're absolutely right. I wanted to include a sort of advanced search that constantly narrowed down the options using AJAX as you selected things, but it proved too difficult to implement and I settled for second-best.
Those loopholes should be closed too. I just don't see an intellectually honest argument that concludes that an $80,000 "bonus" over a $10,000 salary is somehow, through the magic of small business, less taxable than a $90,000 salary.

Also: I'm wading into deep water by saying this, but the issue isn't income uncertainty at all, is it? It's not how much you make, it's how much you list as payroll-taxable income. Sure, your salary may be uncertain over the year, but if you end up at $90,000 from your company, your whole income should be liable for FICA just like a BigCo worker's.
It also keeps the fat, slippery laces on my hiking shoes securely tied. The only bad thing is that if you try to yank it undone and the single end has made its way through the loop, you may have a mess of untangling to do.
Can you provide a reference for the tens of thousands of hackers to break into companies and servers? Surely there would be some whistle-blowers, after all hackers are such an unreliable bunch!
That's exactly what the parent is talking about: all this smells fishy. Google says it and 34 other companies have been attacked and the world goes crazy. Companies exist to make profit, government is here for security.
I think it is quite realistic to assume that Google did it to make more money, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1062059
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I've been thinking, with the bi-factional government coming in 2012, legislative reforms, and all the changes happening while the communist party insisting on its supremacy, perhaps the party will one day be reduced to a figurehead only, along the lines of a constitutional monarchy (constitutional politburo?).
If you are using CG on a matrix that isn't SPD, then you are doing something very wrong.

Actually, this isn't so weird. There are a number of domain decomposition schemes that use CG, but keep all iterates in a benign space on which the operator is SPD, even though the real system is indefinite (porous media and Stokes/mixed elasticity). See work by Axel Klawonn, and recent stuff from Xuemin Tu.
Doesn't she know she can just become a "Yelp! Sponsor" and have the offending reviews removed?

My whole Yelp account was banned for calling out a local restaurant owner for being so psycho that he made my date cry. It was a mighty coincidence that my account ban and deleted reviews coincided with his shit-hole restaurant deciding to sponsor Yelp.

But I'm sure Yelp has excuses. Maybe I didn't log in frequently enough, or they thought because my experience was so out-there that it must be fake. Either way, I'll never trust or use Yelp again. It's pay for play all the way.
Better video via the link I submitted a year ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=468063

This item has also shown up several times before:

http://searchyc.com/shoelace

It's one of the methods I use to assess how to present things:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1059659

It lets me know if someone will like puzzles for their own sake, or if "everything has to have a use."
I submit this comment as evidence for why articles like this are toxic to Hacker News. Note that we're now arguing about whether military censorship --- and, don't you people watch WW2 movies or M.A.S.H.? --- is evidence of some startling new trend.
Jesus as /dev/null for Sins a Moral Quiz by Aliens, Tied to Calendar Technology
I have looked at the code and the GET request is sanitized before being passed on.
how to waste 6 and a half years in grad school...
Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html <-- for your reference.
I know precisely what you mean. I'm just like you, well, almost. I'm a programmer who started in design. But we are exceptions — we are not the norm.

The norm is that programmers like to program and designers like to design. Most programmers suck at design, and most designers hate programming.

Sass is great for the relatively few of us who actually like to do both. But we are exceptions, not the norm, which is why Sass won't spell CSS's "demise" any time soon: most people who write CSS don't like to and don't want to program.
Haha. Ratings will be authentic unless some obvious tampering happens or something. I do have "sponsored" functionality built in for the future. I.e. for a fee, any bar can appear first in the search results that they appear in.
Swivel, tilt and rotate would be a great feature to add to the new e-ips imacs.
Yeah this feature pisses me off. I hope that they only use those ratings internally and don't factor them in to the reviews on the App Store.

It's just insane to only actively solicit the opinion of people who think "I'd rather have this 60x60px area of screen real estate and a few megs of space than ever use this app again."
I'm working with a Ruby on Rails coder, but I am the sole owner, brain, designer, etc.
Ah yes, I wonder how many thousands of hours humans have wasted on this issue. (Thank goodness for the /\r?\n/ regex eh.)

I'm old enough to remember those CRTs, teletypes, and line printers where CR, LF, and VT triggered specific motions of cursor, paper roller, and print head. (I'll never forget that special day when I discovered that ESC could be used to move the cursor around on the ADS terminal.)
There's a bunch. http://www.google.com/patents?q=fused%20deposition%20modelin...

They cover many different parts of the process, support materials, anything you can think of.
To stay in a domestic mood: How to fold a T-shirt in two seconds, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An0mFZ3enhM
This is true, in my context I was referring primarily to software available in your favorite distribution's repository.
This is why I want Foursquare to start handling reviews. (Foursquare lets people "check in" at a bar, restaurant, or other venue and notify friends.)

Foursquare's developers say they're working on winnowing out false checkins with GPS, which should give them a good idea of where their users are actually going, and when. I'd trust reviews written on the spot more already.

I'd also trust reviews from my friends. And since Foursquare is a social network first, I've built an actual collection of real-world friends, not a network of people I only know through a web site. These are people who largely share my taste in venues.

It's obvious that a lot of people want an alternative to Yelp. I'd try out others, but I particularly want one that verifies reviewers were actually there, and one that pays attention to what I already like and my friends like.

I want a Pandora for places.
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It just happened to my wife this weekend: she'd written a review of her trainer that showed up at the time, but at some point in the last few months it disappeared from the trainer's page, even though it still appears within her profile. She updated the review and it then appeared to her when viewing her trainer's profile, but it didn't show up if she logged out or when logged in from my account.

Simply deciding not to show reviews you've written and/or randomly taking them down after they've been up? Sketchy. Showing those reviews to you so you think they're there even though no one else can see them? Ultra-sketchy.
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I'm a big fan of Ian's secure shoelace knot, which I use all of the time on my hiking boots and hockey skates:

http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm

Easy to tie, easy to untie, and I've never had it slip or come untied on its own.
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This post has a list of websites that accept logo submissions, along with the link to their submission forms. The ranking and other details of each site has been included as well, for your ease.
Glad to see the community taking advantage of the open-source nature of ChromiumOS, but it would be difficult for me to enter my Google credentials into a system where this is the default login:

"Default username is facepunch, default password is facepunch."

(http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/wiki/doku.php?id=faq)

I'd like to see a build bootstrap script that downloads from the official repository from a given revision, applies some easy-to-check patches and builds using your own copy of gcc.
I've been tying my shoes this way for years and years. My uncle taught me when I was young, and now I cannot tie them the normal way anymore. It's also a nice party trick to challenge somebody to a "shoe tying race."
I personally didn't realize this was that inefficient. Can someone give the preferable alternative?
Ask HN: how to tell my co-founder that I gonna leave for about 3 months?
I and my partner are working at a startup idea for about half a year and we are hoping to push out beta product in next month. Since I am in school right now, I am the one who is not working on this idea full time. Because of that, winter break and summer break is crucial for me to keep the progress up. However, I got an internship offer from IT company X (a well-known one) for summer break about 3 months. It is my first internship in a well-known company and I really take serious about this because it is a kind of proof to my family that I can get an offer from industry if I want, so that they can support me for the startup (I expect to graduate and work on this full time in next year). How should I tell my co-founder about this? It is certainly not the thing he expected.
" it is unfair that a shift manager at Starbucks should have to pay a tax that a 6-figure-income small business owner gets to walk away from."

Indeed, the shift manager should enjoy the same exemption.
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That's actually a slipped square knot. But the way you tie it is sort of reminiscent of a clove hitch.

As he says on the site, you wind up with the same knot (slipped square) that you'd get by the usual method of tying.
I use one attached to a proper adjustable desk. It just looks like an iMac floating in the air, and you can push and pull it whereever you want it to go.

Of course, look at it from behind and it's obvious it's not Apple, but it's pretty minimal.

They sent an installer. I'm sure it's possible to do it DIY, but it's not quite as simple as normal flatpack.

The cost of using a computer too much is fancy furniture and slightly less beautiful equipment. :-(
"if you end up at $90,000 from your company, your whole income should be liable for FICA just like a BigCo worker's"

Why? By that reasoning, shouldn't profits that BigCo shareholders make (which become personal income when they realize them) subject to FICA? I'm both an owner and an employee -- why shouldn't some of my income be FICA-taxable as the output of "labor", and some be non-FICA-taxable as business profit?
Nokia previews next-generation Symbian user interface
Tipd.com started with Muhammad Salem as the community builder (a power Digger) so they have now over half a million visitors monthly...

Hope your site does the same in one year...
To some people, racketeering is a subset of extortion. To me, extortion is the simple extraction of money by coercion. Racketeering involves the protection from both the racketeer but also from other aggressors. The Yelp model fits this nearly exactly, whereas extortion is a much broader term.

From the wikipedia article on protection racket:

>In some cases, the "protection" is little more than extortion, with no real service rendered unto the victim. Otherwise, the racketeers will warn other criminals that the client is under their protection and that they will punish anyone who harms the client. Services that the racketeers may offer may include the recovery of stolen property or punishing vandals. The racketeers may even advance the interests of the client, such as muscling out unprotected competitors.
The fingers you have used to dial are too fat, to obtain a special dialing wand please mash the keypad with your palm now
I think Scala is more of a Java and Haskell/ML love child than anything else. Having used both of those, I found most of Scala pretty easy to pick up.

The main thing I found is that there are a lot more syntactic constructions you have to be familiar with than in most other languages, because Scala borrows a lot from ML-like functional languages but doesn't really leave much out from Java, and then adds a few things along the way.
I must confess I was incredibly amused every time they used "technically violated", "technical violation" or other euphemisms for breaking the law. They either followed the law or they broke it and should face the appropriate punishment (if any).

It just strikes me like the author is trying to minimize the impact by appealing to the use of technicality as "only appealing to a specialist" or in this case some "legalist". It's a disservice to the protection of civil liberties by minimizing the importance of crimes committed against said liberties.
That is, in fact, something. I could see how well educated and knowledgeable people would prefer yours to reddit.

I would suggest a more neutral color scheme, btw.
Cool, this makes me wish i didn't wear sandals to work today
Thanks for the post, excellent lesson
A man being able to run a super-marathon through a desert within months of switching to their diet and exercise regimen is hardly orthogonal. =)
It'd be nice if they made it 100% waterproof.

I used to perch a laptop on my lap whilst feeding my son with a bottle. That stopped reasonably sharpish after he puked all over the laptop keyboard.

How hard can it be to make laptops waterproof? Or at least resistant to water spills etc :/
Analyst: AT&T needs to spend US$5B to catch up
Is that APL?
What I found in example solutions, and is indeed accepted by the site, is truncating each number to 10 digits and then summing. You can do this with just double-precision FP so it's likely to be the most common solution in languages that don't have bignums baked in.
>Shrug<. The profits that private traders make are technically investment income too, but they have to pay self-employment on them.

I think the reality is that most of the income we're talking about here really is just the product of labor. I'd be interested in hearing the scenario in which a small S-Corp is generating profits that are meaningfully different from their basic payroll.
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Information wants to be free my ass
Hmm... I really disagree with this. From all the I've read on the situation, saying that "Google servers were hacked" is inaccurate. Everything I've read points to this being a rather sophisticated phishing-style attack against a few specific accounts. My understanding was that only the profile information of 2 accounts "may" have been compromised. Given the nature of other GhostNet attacks, I think the fact that Google got off so lightly is extremely impressive, and actually increased my confidence in their systems. On top of that, I've read several reports that Sergey Brin has been wanting to leave China for sometime, mainly for philosophical reasons.
'file' doesn't really read in any specific direction, it just uses a set of rules defined in /etc/magic or /usr/share/file/magic.* (there are compiled binary forms too, now)

The rules can specify any offset for a magic file identifier, or set of identifiers. What determines what file will report, in cases like this, is really more a case of which order the rules are checked in.
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"Clearly, the current system of suppression isn't working perfectly."

No argument there. How would you do it differently?

I have to ignore the history comparisons by you and more so the parent as they cover far too large time periods and I'm only familiar with China of the last 10 years.

China's leadership, for the most part, makes decisions based on controlling their own domain. I believe a balanced solution requires wealthy countries that trade with China to take a uniform stance to protect workers, environment, and property everywhere they do business. Citizens of these countries and their leaders have to push for this as China clearly is going to simply protect their side of the equation.

Which country or group of countries are going to step forward in a unified front to create balance? What conditions will force their hand? Perhaps we are seeing those conditions unfold right now. Time will tell.
I use Less and just run the lessc tool in --watch mode. A beat after I save the .less file, the .css file is updated.
The KPAX site (http://homepage.mac.com/svc/kpax/index.html) mentions this screencast (which is from 2005 BTW):

KPAX was featured in the controversial Lisp Movie ...[snip]

Anyone know why this is/was controversial?
i ask again, then, are you using something like filezilla, and/or do you log in as root without a sudo?
Nothing to do with iPhone, he said NoScript which is a firefox extension.

Either he doesn't know about background-attachment: fixed; either he didn't understood what the effect was.
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Who wants a long-term intern?
I hate to spam y'all, but I'm looking for a co-op (6-8 month internship) from June(ish) of this year to January of '11. The last time I posted something like this was before the summer and it ended up leading me to a summer internship doing a mix of IT and web development at EMC. I had a fantastic time there, but I'm thinking that I'd like to work at a company with a different style of getting things done (more getting things done, less bureaucracy) -- not that I don't love EMC.

Recently I've become enamored with the idea of working in systems stuff (GPU, low level stuff, etc) or Quantitative analysis, but I'm very much the kind of person who would try new things as long as it's interesting.

My ultimate goal in pursuing a degree in CS is to solve the problem of Strong AI through non-traditional means, but I love to play with either really big or really fast things when I'm not trying to build Skynet.

The farther away from Boston/New England the potential co-op the happier I would be, but I wouldn't mind working in/around Boston either. I've lived in and around Boston for most of my life, so I'm trying to spend long periods of time in different cities/states/countries.

I'm only a sophomore at Northeastern University, but I like to think that my actions speak louder than my words do.

You can check out my current resumé at http://vafflor.com/resume.pdf and you can contact me at mheld@ccs.neu.edu