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Someone (very likely from my country and even same town) had made a FaceBook page saying "He's God" and he's putting very bad content on it, merging texts from "Al Quran" with his own text.

The law in Tunisia strictly prohibit such behaviors, I wish if I could find that person and report it.

Here's the page: http://www.facebook.com/Allllah

1. How can we get this page deleted? (As fast as possible)

2. How can we find the admin behind it?

3. How can we get Facebook to react rapidly and effectively?
Luckily for us evolution won't catch up any time soon :) They still have the same hormones the same brains, etc.
I would rephrase this question as: How do we make public transportation more convenient?

The price of convenience is increased cost, which leads to fewer customers. So luxury will be a by-product of your approach, at least initially.

But yes, I really want more convenient public transit.
if they make this easily hackable for me to run different os's.. maybe android, or ubuntu mobile, this would definitely be worth more than ipad.
Luxury and public are mutually exclusive.

But I definitely see there being a need for people to have an alternative to public transit that's a tier above what there is now. I'm sure a ton of people would sign up for that.
The cover art for each of these books shows a "content from Wikipedia" badge, so it looks like they are probably conforming to the licenses.

It's a little odd that they'd state it so clearly on the cover, though, since it seems as though they're trying to exploit a knowledge gap in their target market.
I could accept that explanation for short "hops," but some of the Toyota incidents lasted for minutes/miles - surely that's long enough to realize you're on the wrong pedal?

Unfamiliarity may explain why some drivers were unable to switch off the car, though. I would not have known how myself. CHP Officer Mark Saylor was driving a rental car and might not have been familiar with the system either.
this was posted a day or so ago here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1179970
Reread the article.
Because telling people to be responsible has stopped all binge drinking.
True, but a mixed-mode system may be possible: polygons in conjunction with point clouds. You'd essentially "spray" your points across polygonal faces, like a sort of spackle or paper mache. With the points so anchored, animation/physics might be easier.
Very useful. It would be cool if there was a way to disable it for links that are dead on HN: there's no reason for an HN tab on the Facebook homepage ...
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Get a bike. It's healthy, it's cheap and it's environmentally sound.
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knowtu - tricky concurrency and indexing problems. Still fun though ;)
Love prototype, works around browser issues, is fast and if you really need special effects, get the script.aculo.us companion lib. Other bonuses, it enumerates, and navigating the dom is easy. If you need updating via ajax there is a lean function or full on functions and callbacks it can do that too.
Most people would agree with this idea. In fact it's used to justify most of the stupid laws reasonable people hate! In the case of the pet thing, making owners get a license and pass a test and pay for insurance, etc. is all there to protect others from your potentially dangerous pet. The same is true of all the TSA rules - they are justified under the guise of keeping people safe from each other.

You can't use such a simple-sounding argument to counter anything because it can be used just as well to justify the stupid stuff in the first place. What's needed is good old fashioned human judgement - but that's no longer allowed. We're slowly making it illegal to exercise your own discretion out of fear that someone else's discretion might be dangerous.
#1 problem with the bus for me is that I need to pay attention. Solve that problem (with a gps device that 'dings' when I need to get off, or the like.) and you don't need to build more infrastructure.

Personally, if I can ride the train (caltrain here in the south bay, or BART in the rest of the bay area) it's pretty good. I work rather than paying attention to driving. the bus is right out, not because of the poverty, but because I have to pay attention, else I end up at the wrong stop.

The thing is, on the train, I'm working. I've got one of those cellular modems in my laptop, so really I don't mind that it often takes longer than driving. In fact, I'd prefer to remove the complex 'express' schedules, as it's difficult to figure out what train you need to be on. (the shitty PA speaker is hard to understand, even when the conductor gives you clear instructions, which isn't often) Also, often in many trains it is difficult to tell which train you are in from inside the train, and the number on the cab flashes by quickly.
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I'll write a piece of an answer I gave to another person:

> Lets say we want quality control in dentistry. You like the government quality control the government gives and would like your dentists to count with their approval. I, on the other hand, think it's requirements are excessive. Most of what my dentist does is find black spots in my teeth, drill them out, and then fill the hole. This does not require 4 years of study. If I ever get to need a root canal I would need someone with more studies but until then I'd me happy with someone with less studies, maybe a certification given by the manufacturer of the equipment, I don't know.

If you like the government certification you can limit yourself only to government certificated doctors. No problem.
A group of people should be able do give public approval of university courses and degrees. If you like the government that OK.

I'm just object locking people in cages when they don't comply with these regulations. The violent monopoly is the problem.

> But the article is dead wrong in concluding that we're better off removing all licensing requirements.

The key word here is requirements. Not removing all licensing. The distinction is not expressed clearly. If you don't comply with the "required" licensing they lock you in jail, or the demand money from you, and if you don't comply, then you go to jail.
They've probably read Joel's article explaining how the average school leaver is likely to be much more talented than the average unemployed programmer.
While I appreciate the sentiment, biking in San Francisco is far too risky. The time savings vs walking isn't worth the health implications and the stuff you have to carry on you.
The vibe of this and their accompanying website is plain weird.

Either they're hoaxing clowns or they have no idea how to communicate in a way that appears legit!
That's both funny and an evil character assassination. If you leave his career of trolling usenet aside, he does in fact write good tutorials on Emacs, Linux, Mathematics and Lisp (even though he hates them all.)
If you're going to take the point that incentives don't matter, you're going to have to back it up, because it sounds like you're saying that capitalism - the profit motive - doesn't work. Is ordering an extra test - just in case - malpractice? Is not doing another scan, because it's expensive, morally superior? Are you saying that we should expect economically efficient care from doctors out of their benevolence?

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." Are doctors different?

Adverse selection is also a pretty basic economics concept. You can read more about its applicability to health insurance here - and cites more:

http://ideas.repec.org/p/wbk/wbrwps/2574.html
I was about to say 'Astonishing, a blogger that grasped the point of Atlas Shrugged' - and then I noticed it was written by Yaron Brook. False alarm, everyone.
It's been done. Trains in Japan have the option of paying more for the "green car" or a "liner" instead of the regular railcars or regular trains.

But really, how often are people actually defecating on the public transit? Maybe one time you read an article where someone said they saw that? Either public transit is really good in the cities I've lived in, or the problem is you rather than it. Just sayin'.

I am in a pretty high tax bracket and I would never consider "luxury public transit". If I don't want to take the train, I ride my bike instead. (I don't have a driver's license.)
Being able to reproduce without needing functional male/female sex organs, using only skin cells and technology, is an interesting step. It could theoretically apply to same-sex couples, the elderly, children, or people with various disabilities, injuries, or other forms of infertility.

The same-sex focus of this article (specifically, the "OMG this totally defeats an objection to gay marriage" bit in the intro) is an unnecessary politicizing of an otherwise technologically/biologically interesting concept.
Do you dismiss everything he says or does because of the one thing you disagree with?

People are complex and have many facets. You (or anyone) are not required to agree with everything a person says or does to also respect some of what they say and do. I'm not saying you are required to agree with what he says (or even to give a shit about what I say) - I'm just saying that it'd be nice if we (everyone) didn't always seem to be looking for the shortest path to writing off a person as useless.
A good starting place would be googling "ayn rand" libertarianism. You will hit a lot of cited remarks by her among the hagiography and such.
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s/0.000001%/0.003%/ – it is ~3000 times more common than you think.

(number estimated from 879,000 substantiated child abuse cases in 2000, of which 10% where sexual in nature. Granted most of those are in a home environment not a school. If you want to just think about non-family member abductions (about as rare as things get), then you get down to something like one in 250,000 per child each year.)
There used to be this fantastic game called Outcast on the PC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcast_%28video_game%29) That used Voxels too. The resolution was limited because of the processing power required but the graphics were impressive for the time.

Hoping one day that GOG (http://www.gog.com) has it.
Downmodded why? I. M. Wright's “Hard Code” (published by Microsoft no less) pretty much makes this claim. Apparently they used to laugh at GM's layers of management, and now they have a similar number.
I think it is more than convenience. The real question is, how do we make public transportation less like a public service, and more like a profit-driven business? Call me a classest, but I don't want to have to share my commute with a schizophrenic who thinks the floor is a public bathroom, or with someone that's about to make Youtube's "best of fistfights on transit".
> The price of convenience is increased cost, which leads to fewer customers.

Yes and no; all public transportation in the U.S. save a few exceptions is vastly underused in my experience. An influx of people to meet even expanded capacity would also mean more revenue...with sufficient patronage, convenience and coverage can be increased without bringing up the price much (if at all.)
It is strange that transit agencies that have services with different stopping patterns don't buy railcars with destination signs on them. In Chicago, Metra Electric recently bought new railcards, and the front of the trains have digital destination signs... but they just use the internal railway coding on them, so normal customers have no idea which train is which. It is kind of dumb. (Sure, I figured out their code, but I don't expect that out of most people.)

Also nice are digital signs at the stations that show which train is which, like these:

http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/Japan/Images/DepartureBoard.JPG

It shows the name and destination of the next three trains, and the stations that the next train stops at. Not sure why we don't have these in the US.
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Bicycles are not always the answer, especially not in a city as cold, hilly, and overrun by suburban drivers as San Francisco is.. People from Marin, Walnut Creek, and all over the peninsula & south bay shouldn't be allowed to drive in San Francisco, but they do, often hitting other objects on the road.
You know, it's open source, you can just grab the code.

This situation is kinda the point of free software mate.
There is no way to use it responsibly. It is toxic in all amounts. Any pornography consumption is too much pornography consumption.
I'm not sure if they'll make it or not, but Milo is one of those rare startups that actually solved a real problem for me!

I needed to buy a laptop battery within three hours in Atlanta GA and had no idea where to go. I messed around calling stores at random, finally in frustration I gave Milo a try. It worked on the first search! Solid work in my opinion.
When I say we will compete with NYT/CNN I mean that those are the users we hope to attract, I am not saying we will use that model. User generated content and content aggregation both need to be there to make a compelling experience.

I don't want to replicate anything that has been done previously, I think we are all trying to figure this out and its going to be an interesting ride.

And thanks for the insightful comments, there are some really smart motivated people here.
You make good and interesting points, but remember you can (at least hypothetically) have licensing and accreditation without the government providing it. For instance, there is no legal requirement for IT certifications, and yet there are a plethora of them, some meaningful some not but most in the industry know the difference.

Similarly, even if the government did not require a license, insurance companies would likely refuse to provide malpractice insurance for those without proper training.

I agree that when it comes to large public engineering and the creation of buildings, then there is a compelling public need to make sure minimimums are met. If a building collapses unexpectedly, likely far more people than the purchaser will be harmed and irrevocably.

But that compelling public good is far weaker in other areas that require licenses now. If I have a bad florist, only myself and the person I am bestowing the flowers on is going to be harmed at all, and only minutely then. If I have a bad lawyer, the stakes may be higher, but again only I am harmed.
I don't think the "losers" are people who are risk adverse, or incapable of playing political games, but rather have compartmentalized their lives and don't live for their career. The "clueless" are people who would be better off as "losers" but think they're "sociopaths", but they really are incapable of playing the political games.
Wmii and Ion2 are also very nice tiling window managers.
Wow, lots of non-database comments (not that there's anything wrong with that).

Design your systems flexibly, with a reasonable lack of assumptions. If society moves past your system, fix it.

I have one name. Very few online forms have ever allowed me to leave first or last blank. I generally try to get away with first-blank, last-filled in, and then surrender as appropriate.

What's worse, I think, is online groups where only one person can be known by a particular name. Stupid. How you call yourself should be unrelated to how the database needs to identify you uniquely.
When I think customer service, I think of things like a driver being able to alert you to your stop. Or even better, not purposefully accelerating and decelerating in a manner which makes you fall down (I have a friend who is a Muni driver who actively tries to knock people over, he says it's the highlight of his shift). Heck, why not have bus attendants walking the aisles to sell you beer and sandwiches, like on an airplane or a ferry?
Hey, he wrote it, not me.

With that in mind; his Lisp advice is terrible. After years of writing Lisp tutorials, he still hasn't actually learned it himself. Every time he comes up with a convoluted way to write something very simple in Lisp; and then formats it like he's writing C++. Very annoying. I ignore everything he says.
While I appreciate that sentiment, there are places other than San Francisco! Still, actual good public transportation is probably a better first step than trying to get everyone to ride.
Nice, but the claim to welcoming the competition doesn't ring true. They welcome the competition the way I welcome a knife fight. It might be exciting and will make a great story if I'm still alive after it's over.
Thanks for providing a possible explanation. A recall is also an admission that the problem is widespread, so I think that horse has bolted, but it's possibly the reason Toyota are behaving so oddly (at least in my world view).

If it is a software problem, it's certainly possible that e.g. the brake pedal might not work. I think it's likely that one of the three would work, because the code is likely to be broken into modules, and I think it unlikely that all 3 modules would be affected by one bug. Anyway, what's the harm in telling people to try the 3 step process? Right now, people think they're doomed if their car accelerates - I'm thinking that some people are panicking because of this and making bad situations a lot worse.

Take the case of the Prius driver in California the other day: he called 911, a police car was dispatched, to tell him exactly the same steps through a megaphone, and - sure enough - the car stopped. Why not tell people in advance so they don't have to make a cellphone call at 90mph?
I read the book "Never Eat Alone", basically a how to guide written by a Saul. Much of the advice is similiar.

Many posts are rationalizing Saul away as just another douchebag who'll never rise above middle management. I think this is the wrong approach.

If we divide "ability" between technical and people skills(an oversimplification, but useful), Saul is one extreme and we, at HN, is the other. That instinctal disgust you feel at the base of your gut is self justification.

Saul's skills would be EXTREMELY useful in a startup, to promote, to sell, to evangalize, to do a hundred things.
Remember that it takes 2 people to start an startup, a Saul and a Hacker.

Steve Jobs is a Saul.
Wow.

Of all these "must-have" apps for Linux, four are proprietary, almost all are specialized, and only one (Thunderbird) is something I actually use on a daily basis (even that one isn't a "must have", as plenty of people have had great success using claws-mail, kmail, mutt, pine, gmail, or other equally good mail readers).

Two of the proprietary ones even have worthwhile open-source alternatives! xpdf and Okular are both quite suitable as Adobe Reader replacements, and Marble, while lacking many of the cool features of Google Earth, is just as much fun for pretending to be learning geography while relaxing.

This list adds little if any value to the community and fails to perform its stated purpose.
Does anyone else who quit their job and went fulltime into their startup want to add anything about their experience? Did it make you a lot more productive? Were you worried about paying the bills? How were you able to stay on track? Where did you find the motivation? How did you stay sane and not go crazy?
Alpha particle detector, made from a webcamera.
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The Itemscript JSON Library has a common API for standard Java and the GWT Java environment.

It includes a RESTful in-memory JSON database usable in either environment, where values are accessed by URLs through a REST-like API that can also be used to access values over HTTP.
Proper health care and social services would probably go a long way.

But I suppose that is not compatible with a world of "profit-driven businesses"?
Actually, I realize we are both talking past each other.

Sp332 and myself want to hear an argument for gay marriage which does not logically lead to legalized polygamy. Aristus is arguing that gay marriage will not politically lead to legalized polygamy.
Interesting, i'm a technical sole founder who is very capable of doing EVERYTHING, though i would be much more efficient if i could compartmentalize. I'm constantly on the lookout for my "otherhalf" but can't quite find any non-technicals that seem up-to-snuff any tips on what to look for in a non-technical co-founder?

Nobody in the world has Bill’s exact skill set, and looking back on it, that skill set is exactly what we needed

What skill set should I look for?
"If one of those little people you fake-befriended and then got rid of ends up in a position where you need something from them in the future, you're screwed."

Or as my father put it, "The people you meet on the way up are the people you meet on the way down."
why is that these point clouds can't be easily animated, are the data structures that allow for the searching too difficult to update once they've been built or is there just too much data to process?
+1 about how hard it is. No wonder people stay in jobs, the stress and uncertainty is mind-numbing.
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I've watched at least 4 defecations in the past year, and uncountable urinations.. Add to that 6 or 7 fist fights, a purse snatching, and my personal favorite, a crazy man swinging his cane at me while ranting about homosexuals and family values.

Nevertheless, beyond my personal experiences, antidotes become facts in the minds of people who are on the fence about something. When suburbanites hear about problems on public transit they decide that if they take a bus in the city, they're going to get killed, and don't use it.
Lines like

"The result is a perfect pure bug free 3D engine that gives Unlimited Geometry running super fast, and it's all done in software."

Set off my bullshit detector immediately. I hope this is real, but I'd love to see maybe.. some sort of OpenGL extension, or demo app. I can understand wanting to be secretive, but he's got nothing to show at the moment but a lot of talk.
This is where emacs comes in. Emacs has several find and replace commands, by regex or by plain string, on a text selection, or entire file (buffer), or multiple files. The beauty is that it works all in a interactive way, with the option to do it in batch when you press a button.

Both Visual Studio and Eclipse have these features, I'm sure there are many, many other editors and IDEs that also have them. It's not exactly rocket science.

If you want to champion Emacs, you might want to point out the features that really are unique and unmatched, instead of common features that everyone else implemented 10 years ago. Yes, yes, Emacs did it 20 years ago. Woo.
This is the key, $20K in two weeks after spending 2 years posting good content every day.
Except it's not like that at all, right? It's a weird analogy. It's more like if you spent lots of time and effort implementing an idea, and now Google agrees that it is a great idea to the point of doing it too. It seems like good news to me.
Hehe, I only spotted that on the third reading of your comment.

I guess I shouldn't be proofreading anything :)
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