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In Brazil they've filed Habeas Corpus claims on behalf of chimpanzees.

Just last week, animal protection groups filed a motion to have Jimmy released on grounds of Habeas Corpus, arguing that he is being denied his rights to freedom of movement and to a decent life, in Rio's Criminal Court.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/01/are-zoos-prisons-hab...

According to the article there are successful precedents for habeas corpus claims on behalf of chimpanzees in that country.
There are good reasons for saying hello.
I would think it would be lower.

It's at least a popular belief, if not completely true, that Mac+flash is slow because of apple's uncooperative behavior, and Linux+flash is slow because adobe doesn't care.

See these discussions:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1075440
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1139393
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1138266
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1100189
Wow, I didn't know that. Brad Pitt actually has to audition for roles? Jeez. Well, that's the problem with analogies.

But I'm not really a fundamentalist about the code test. I've gone through many, many, many of them. I just had a little epiphany the last time I was in one. I was thinking, "why don't these guys already know that I'm a good programmer? Why don't they already know good programmers?"

It made me realize as a programmer and as a manager that I wasn't really building my career the right way. I decided that I wanted to build a network and a reputation that went both ways - essentially, I wanted to have a large number of people out there, in different organizations, who are both confident in my tech skills and my value as a manager. I'll step outside that network constantly, and when I do, I'll certainly validate programming ability (and I'd expect people to do the same for me).

But every time I do this, it's a reminder that I failed on Plan A, which is the best way to do things.
Much of that was probably referencing the old version of the site - I don't think Google has crawled this latest version - it only went live a couple of nights ago.

I've have tried to be a little better on the SEO side of things, I've included some structured meta in the header of each book detail page. The honest truth is I haven't made it a top priority - you're right, I think I probably should.
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This is true for LCDs, but plasma TVs consume a lot less on a completely black background as opposed to a completely white one.
Ugh, you DO know the iPhone has a browser right? You do know what makes up 99% of the web, right? Let the pr0n flow...
What I mean is that there is a deliberately inefficient allocation of capital in some large coastal cities.
It depends on the display type. Some displays emit energy based on the intensity of the image (CRT, Plasma).
Others always generate light but then mask out the light with a matrix display which typically has a pretty constant energy usage (LCD, Projection). Still others only require energy only when they change (eInk, future color pigmentation eInk variations).

And of course power variations in each technology, FL LCD v LED LCD. Older Plasma displays vs newer Plasma displays. The size of the display, (your 52" TV v 3" cellphone)

For CRT/Plasma there is also refresh rate to consider...

etc etc etc.
you're right - I should make it less generic and include some site specific detail.
Thanks for the reply. I completely understand about having "one less thing to worry about" and it sounds like selling to the highest bidder is your best bet at this point.
Before anyone else seriously critiques this article, it is a parody. It is posted to a blog called "paroday" purportedly written by "Graham Paulo". Read "Microsoft is dead" (http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html) by Paul Graham for the target of the parody.
Source: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20070501/column-guest.html?partn...
I'd like to ask what is everyone using for accounting? Anyone have an elegant solution? Does anyone's web app hook into one of the online accounting apps using the accounting app's API?
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Thanks for the tips. I haven't checked out Postmodern. I'll check that out and try building up something with that stack.
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I worked on this little side project with a friend. I'm using the new Paypal adaptive payments API and entered it in the PaypalX Developer Challenge.

Not really aimed for facebook famous or mass profitability, but i hope it can help open source development. Useful idea? Would you use it? why/why not? http://nextsprocket.com/
ouch - thanks
The superwalmarts have really nice grocery stores in them. I've been impressed with the produce in the one near me, much nicer than what you'd get at a cheap grocery store. It's significantly cheaper than Safeway, and a little cheaper than sakNsave.
this is a perennial issue for me - I'm never sure how much weight to allocate to domain names, or how many bases to cover.
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit app is still live. Apparently, Apple's determinination of obscenity is a function of your corporate clout.
I figure it it saves me 10 minutes- then it was definitely work $12.
First, as someone who has done a fair number of technical interviews, there are a lot of posers. I have had people claim to be experienced that had no clue how to do even very basic programming, just as described in this article. Even more common, I have had people that grossly exaggerate their skills and experience. One that stuck with me was someone who was a "senior DBA" but when I probed further it turned out he mostly ran stored procedures written by consultants and didn't really have the knowledge right then to do much more than that.

I would also like to point out that if you are up front about your lack of skills and applying for an entry level post, it can work out. I had one interviewee who had no programming skills, but was ready and willing to learn. She was up front about it, convinced the whole team of her sincerity, and willing to start for less than most people with a CS degree. By the end of her 3 month probationary period, she was competent. Still junior and with a lot to learn of course, but quite competent and a good hire overall.
Clickable link: http://www.shellcompanyfinder.com/home

This is a weekend project a couple hackers here worked on over the weekend. We hope to get more relationships in there as they are discovered and present them in a javascript graph that will show the connections between companies. It also allows the community to vote on whether or not a company is a shell company and list actions that may be harmful for the world and/or society so we can track such behaviors to the root cause.

The idea was inspired by this thread from last week:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1134813
Finished watching the video.

I can't tell if it was inspiring or intensely dystopic.

I can already imagine the anti-point backlash and the giant secretive forums for gaming the system.
Excellent comment. We are most likely dolphins compared to some other species.

But I don't think the scale is smooth. There are sharp divisions: the use of tools, the understanding of death, the use of language, the use of language to describe abstract concepts, the use of oral history, the use of written history, the creation of artificial intelligence aides, etc.

I absolutely agree that having a bigger picture than just "people are special" is a prerequisite for first contact, I just also think that going to the other extreme, that all intelligences are mostly the same, is probably much worse than just having a human-bias. Instead we'll need a graduated system with different privileges and rights depending on where species appear on the scale. Such a graduated system will be the basis to determine whether or not we're being treated fairly by E.T., if/when they ever show up.
When he writes about programming, he tends to be wrong. His thoughts on "leaky abstraction" and "architecture astronauts" are ... wrong.
It takes more than 10 years to get GC. It depends on which category( EB1,EB2 or EB3) you fall into. Many big companies file only EB3 and it takes more than 10 years.
I think I didn't explain myself well. I actually proposed that the "king" be democratically elected, so instead of hundreds of bickering congressmen, he would have largely unfettered power to then make decisions as he saw fit. The one thing he could not influence, at all, would be the process by which the cycle continued fairly after four years.

I don't see how that's all that different than today in terms of risk of executive takeover. I mean in theory the president could stage a military coup and declare himself dictator for life tomorrow. And the legislative branch could vote in measures by which it could be exceedingly difficult to remove the currently sitting members.

It was just a thought experiment, vary at your pleasure. How about dramatically reducing the number of legislators to, say, 12? Would that really be much worse? It's still democracy, just a different spin on it.

Seems like most of the arguments for our current implementation of democracy are a variation on the notion that government is so inefficient and bloated it can't act decisively on anything, thus reducing the likelihood of bad decisions (while of course throwing out the baby with the bathwater - no good ones, either). Well, that's a pretty lame defense.

All this talk about defending fascism etc is just wild extrapolation from what I said.
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Still sounds highly illogical to me.

IMHO whether we look at his from an individual motivation perspective, or from an evolutionary biology perspective, it looks to me like either perspective predicts greater, rather than lesser, promiscuity.

From an individual motivation perspective, increases in the effectiveness and convenience of contraceptives and improvements in preventing/curing STD's increase an individuals motivation and desire to have sex by reducing the potential for any negative consequences (ie, disease or unwanted pregnancy).

On the other hand, from an evolutionary biology perspective, the people who will successfully reproduce are either 1)those who are purposely planning to have children, 2)those who don't use contraceptives regularly or properly, and 3)those who have frequent enough sex that the slight percentage of contraceptive failure catches up to them. :-) In all three cases, but particularly in the second and third, those individuals who enjoy sex and have it frequently are much more likely to pass on their genes than those who don't enjoy it and don't have it regularly.

Hence, I would say that the evolutionary pressure to enjoy sex and seek it out will continue as it always has, relatively unaffected by our modern medical advances. :-)
This is absurd. Apple isn't insulting anyone. what apple has done is what apple should have done long ago. That is, they have made the app store more usable by removing the thousands off "iBooble", "Bikini Girls", etc apps from the store so that people who want to actually find apps for their phones don't have to wade through as much trash. These apps were overwhelming the already terrible app store so much that they often appeared 5+ times in the top 25.
The big problem there is that by definition nobody in the world is competent to judge the value of a patent on new technology, and the value of different (valid) patents is greatly variable.
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It's their store for their flagship product. They don't have to explain to you if they want to take out the trash.
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I've tried the multitouch-is-a-keyboard thing with a fingerworks device, and while it's great for graphical/point-and-click things, the typing speed penalty you pay for not having physically distinct keys is huge. Definitely not worth it unless you just don't type very much.
Fodor has a great response to this in the LRB:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n03/jerry-fodor/where-is-my-mind

(Not to this specific paper, but the general idea.)
Home Depot is probably waiting for "established tech with satisfied customers and reliable supply chain ready for large orders." Maybe this is one of those things that has to be funded by early adopters paying huge premiums to essentially be in the open beta. Never seems fair to them (which is why I'm not one, though I'd like to be).
I can't find a source for this, but I remember reading that dolphins are the only other animals besides humans that craft sex toys. Monkey find little sticks and use them, but dolphins will actually rub themselves against coral to sand it into an appropriate shape.
Why is this being downvoted? It's a good question that I'd like to hear good answers to.

In my case, we'd been approached.
Unless you count Asian people.
I don't know why they changed the rules, I do have a feeling how it could have happened though. They definitely could have gone about it another way. I believe the problem comes from the fact that downloads can be restricted by age and content, previews cannot. So if you've got a 5 year old who isn't allowed to download adult apps if they go looking for a Wubble app, wobbling bikinis might be one of the results shown. For some conservative parents this can cause a problem.

For most programmers an extra line of SQL could have fixed this so I don't know why apple is using this ass backwards approach.
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Poor people never complain about wal-mart. It's rich white people-- who shop at target-- and conveniently ignore the fact that their impact is essentially the same.
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People get so confused about freedom of speech in the US (and much of the free world). The belief we hold sacred about government censorship does not apply to private concerns. Apple has the absolute right to censor what occurs on their platform, it's not intrusive on any human rights. In fact given that they could be sued (justly or otherwise) for what goes on, they actually have the responsibility to do so.

You can argue about whether it's intelligent or not for Apple to do this, but it's certainly well within their rights.
Like every decision Apple makes, this has everything to do with business and nothing to do with censorship or misogyny. Apple intends the iPhone/iPod/iPad to be something that everyone on the planet owns. To do that, they think that creating an app store that isn't riddled with pasties and swimsuit apps on every Top 50 list will improve their chances of meeting that goal. It's the same reason they review every app. It reduces the chance that the average user will become frustrated with the apps they are downloading. Their market is NOT just computer-savvy programmers like us, it's the entire planet's population. If you keep that in mind, you'll start to see some logic in the decisions that Apple makes. Those decisions aren't necessarily what you or I want, but they do tend to be what will make the mobile experience the simplest, best, and least offensive for the population at large.
I think the intelligence part of the discussion is science fiction.

Intelligence only lets us know whether or not we can do things, not whether we should do things when it comes to matters of morality. Intelligence tells us how to capture the dolphin and keep it captive not whether what we are doing is right. Intelligence tells us how to exploit other people not whether it is right.

I think you are spot on that accepting other life on this planet is a prerequisite to accepting life on other planets (I think this is illustrated beautifully in District 9, BTW), but intelligence has got nothing to do with it. It takes a great amount of intelligence to mobilize a genocide effort but you would need to ignore some of our universally accepted morals.

For a person or species that possesses great intelligence but little wisdom, empathy, and other attributes that enables us to do what is "right" self-preservation and exploitation is likely the default.
Ask HN: Where can I find some great resources on investing in tech companies?
Hey guys. I've recently been pondering the idea of investing in the stock market, but have no idea where to start. I figured at first I would be interested in investing in anything, but I think I would find it more interesting to focus mainly on technology companies.

I'm not too concerned with making huge returns or anything, but I would like to get my feet wet, and maybe earn a few extra dollars on my potential investments.

That being said, does anyone know of any good web sites with advice on the matter, or does anyone have any advice that they would like to share personally?

Thanks!
It's probably designed against every SEO guideline in the book and then some.

The fewer people who get to this page, the better for Microsoft.
To quote a comment in the linked article that is in the same vein that stood out for me: "if I want to be titillated by softcore crap, I know where to go and it ain't the app store."
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The conditions of TARP for the banks meant that they could not hire H-1Bs. Since banks -- not tech -- were the biggest hirers of overseas workers, they still hadn't hit the cap in November 2009.
> It is not just 'putting in the hours' that matters (because then one falls into the trap of assembly-line-worker syndrome, where "improvement of performance was often arrested at less than maximal levels"), but rather what it calls "deliberate practice," which takes quite a bit of very hard work and practice tasks that are defined in a very specific way.

As my wrestling coach always told us, "practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect."
I have to agree with the author.

In fact I'd go so far as to say luck has more to do with success than being an expert–especially with regards to financial success.
This is exactly why I'm trying to steer free of anything tied to the Apple App store (not that I have any particular use for sex-apps, but first they came for ...).

But I have to protest to the headline: This has nothing to do with free speech.

You bought a piece of hardware tied to an editorial process that you don't control. If that bothers you, learn from your mistake and move on. If it doesn't, good for you, but don't complain once it does.

Tying this sort of luxury problem to something as serious as free speech is an affront to those who live in fear for the live and livelihood of themselves and their families because they dare to speak their mind.
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Not only bundling. You forget all kinds of shady deals that effectively increased OEM licensing fees if any other browser was to be included.
Finally, this makes sense of Ozzie Osbourne.
Unconfirmed reports coming in indicate puppies, 7 -year-olds and the entire state of Alabama were also insulted by Apple's latest moves.
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"..they may be Earth's second smartest creature (next to humans, of course)."

This should read 'next to lab mice'
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This is a very misleading interpretation of the data. All it shows is that large companies like their best employees working at HQ. For Indian companies, that means they go back to India (5% immigration rate). For American companies, it means they stay in America (50%+).

Also, the idea that the H-1B program is supposed to be about attracting the "best and brightest" is new to me. The whole point of the H-1B is that America doesn't want any immigrants -- the government agrees, metaphorically, to hold its nose for 6 years while we dirty foreigners get the work done, but we're not invited to stay. That's why the H-1B expires.

If the government really wanted the best and brightest from overseas to come and stay, they would have a points-based system and give us green cards, not temporary visas.
That doesn't mean we can't question their practices and their choices.
Thanks for the excellent critique of my article!

You're right, the point I'm making is that becoming THAT KIND of so-called "expert" isn't the point of a company.

Actually I'm not refuting arguments about how to become an expert in the first place, I'm refuting the idea that you NEED to do that. I believe that theme is pretty clear throughout.

Finally, if it really does take 10k hours and ONLY if it's a special kind of dedication, then it's almost a tautology, and an irrelevant activity for almost anyone on Earth.
I suspect the beer people would tell you that wherever you find free beer, there's a lot more money at play than just the beer.
Wow. That's similar in vein to the project I've been working on slowly on the side for about a month now: http://bulletxt.com - it currently saves your notes via browser session but I'm working on making it like pastebin and having an account system. It'll be very much like a typical text-editor with the ability to sort tasks via drag-drop, copy-paste, and share task subtrees.

I highly doubt the emacs-type will end up using my app but it feels good to see I'm not the only one who has a need for organizing nested todo lists. I can't for the life of me figure out how everyone can deal with 1-level deep task lists.
The issue is showing up for a second, third, or fifth day of interviews. If you want to know something about my technical competence fine, figure that out over the phone or use a webbapp.
There is a bit of contradiction in your argument that these apps were so popular that they hid the apps people really wanted.

To address your usability concerns, Apple could have just fixed search results, perhaps removing these apps from 'top' lists or segregating them into a 'red light district'. Then the store would be 'usable' both for people who want these apps, and people who don't. (Usability does not require prudish censorship.)
Part of a reporter's job is to evaluate the veracity of a source. I did that, but failed, for which I'm sorry.

Proper respects to Gregg Keizer for the apology.
First, if they appeared 5+ times in the top 25, the maybe that's a sign that their users want those apps. Secondly, it sounds more like a problem with the app store then with the applications offered. If the app store is displaying information you aren't interested in, then that's Apple's problem. They didn't solve the problem. The App Store's ability to show you apps hasn't improved. It was the easy way out.
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The plural of radius is radiuses, and the plural of Prius is Priuses. I am so tired of comments where people make up ‘funny’ pseudo-Latinate plurals.
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This is a very interesting idea, but I think it would be virtually unlegislateable with patents because, among other reasons, you can (and people do) patent things that do not have a consistent unit you charge for (and that don't even go into the final product). For a cheap example, take two pharmaceutical compounds, one that works better in 1mg doses and another that works better on 100mg doses. Should the second be a hundred times as expensive as the first or not? Or suppose someone devises a new way of manufacturing battery cells that are exactly equal to current batteries except the process is a lot cheaper. The fee would apply one-time to the company that used this patented process or would it apply to all products built with this process? And how would, say, the fees of a 9volt and an AAA battery be balanced?

So I guess the patent system is too broad for its own good.
I can't see your original comment above, but I am sure you were talking about why they had put 'wasted' in quotes, and that you felt homoeopathic medicine was a waste of time, so your last comment is quite off topic.

However, while it may be debatable the NHS is one of the best things the UK has (I can introduce you to many NHS workers who disagree) that be it £4million or £40 billion wasted, wasted is wasted, and that's why the BBC article put it in quotes. Because any wasted money in a government organisation costs jobs.