skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you install KDE4 on top - that might actually be a very good way to get a clean KDE4 over MS Windows if it works; http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Windows.
China is not stupid. They already look bad, and retaliating by ruining a few Google employee's lives is not going to make them look better. When China starts alienating the western companies, they are simply going to leave, leaving China with nothing. That would not be good for them, so I think they will try and avoid it.
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What is the difference between the security tag on http://serverfault.com/? http://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/security
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I don't think there's any deep meaning to it, just that strong emotions will upset one's connection to the Force. There are a lot of emotional, willful heroes in Star Wars--Han and Chewie, for instance--but they aren't Force adept so they can be emotional with no side effects.
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I guess the point I'm trying to make is that allowing 'written' morality (written in a holy book or written by Sam Harris:)) to supersede personal morality is harmful because words can often be twisted to mean what you want them to mean.
I think it's just another idiom. It has been around, in this form, for a long time.
Ok, thanks a lot. In my example(www.newsite.com and my LLC is CoolCorp), what would be the correct wording? Something like: "NewSite © 2010 is an affiliate of CoolCorp LLC."?
Haven't read the new book yet. Should I expect the same approach?

I kid, I kid ;-)
Hey J.

Any specific requests on what you would like to see in a color scheme app? It seems you have some knowledge in the color science space and we'd love hear your ideas.
Great! Thanks for that, thread scope looks interesting...
his caricature of religion was awful. i think most religious people in an educated audience like a ted talk would think of it more as encoding communal priorities than delivered over a phone line from a guy with a beard...

...and an emergent system that can encode ideas in persistent forms cannot be decoupled from its history. you are pretty much going to have some kind of activity close to religion. if you listen to the talk, where he's arguing for universal truths, and domain experts in morality, it's surprising just how close he is to arguing for a rather traditional religious approach...
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> If you plot track record vs. cost, you'll get a curve that rises exponentially.

I've got a pretty good track record. How do I get to work in your world? :-)

IME, for regular employees, the difference in pay between a respectable senior developer, technical lead or project architect and a junior developer straight out of university is perhaps a factor of 3-4x. Unless you go into management and rise to a senior level, it pretty much plateaus after that in most places.

On the other hand, the difference in productivity between the same types of people can be a lot more than 3-4x. By the time you factor in the improved communications and general reduction in overheads from having a smaller team of individually more productive people, top people are easily worth a disproportionate amount, if only you can find them and convince them to work for your company instead of someone else's (including their own).
"Mundane business advice in any other industry."

Never having debt isn't mundane business advice. Mundane business advice is to borrow as much money as you can given that you can mitigate your risks and have an average return on that money greater than the interest rate you're borrowing at.
Not funny; not HN.
I really don't care what he built by duct-taping motors to PC-104 boards from the back of Nuts-n-Volts. If he throws away scopes and iPhones he's not someone who impresses me as a Hardware Guy.

Edit: keep in mind that his cartoon is mostly a bunch of whining about how he can't do this and can't do that because of how modern electronic equipment is made. Meanwhile, a friend in Portugal just used his homebrew wire-bonding machine to repair an 18 GHz YIG-tuned oscillator for me. (He failed this time, which is damned rare for him, but he sure didn't balk at trying.)

I do respect his generosity, though -- hopefully, some talented kid's going to get a nice present out of it. I try to help out in the same spirit when I can, because I benefited from similar generosity as a newbie.
I didn't really "get" why oData was cool until I watched the keynote about it at MIX. They start getting into it around 61 minutes into the keynote

http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/KEY02
Yes sorry, however the point remains.

It's perfectly legitimate (and common) for a patent holder to sue a single strategic competitor while leaving a larger player alone.

An impartial (commercial) industry body could decide to sue only FOSS implementations in order to keep the field open for their members.
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www.schmeebs.com

I built this site in two days. I tried to make it a fusion of Twitter + Digg in that people will be able to follow certain "domains" of news then be able to see popular stuff from there.

Its as real time as it can be at this point. Would welcome any thoughts on it!
I've always found that experts-exchange was really scammy. For a while they weren't so bad when you could view their otherwise login-protected data via google's cached content, but eventually they figured out a way around that. This always seemed to me to be a violation of Google's TOS.
Nobody should genuinely expect a "Dennis-Ritchie- or Claude-Shannon-to-be". That's just hyperbolic way of saying "good employee".
Here's the discussion on Bruce Schneier's blog

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/03/pdf_the_most_c...
Small businesses not being able to provide insurance seems to be a bit of a state by state issue. I've worked for three small businesses in the last ten years. All of them offered significantly better health insurance plans than the large companies I've worked for. The largest of those small businesses had just five employees. The last company I worked for ended up dropping their insurance plan, but that was a desperate cost cutting measure on the way towards bankruptcy. It seems that similar businesses in California (I'm in Nevada) don't offer health insurance due to the cost. My wifes insurance currently covers my wife and son. It's prohibitively expensive to add dependents to the plan and it's actually worse than the plan I had previously. Her employer has around 3k employees.

I keep seeing mixed arguments about the exchange. There doesn't seem to be any conclusive evidence that it is actually going to make health insurance more affordable for small businesses. The only thing that appears to make it more affordable is not the exchange itself, but the subsidies for small businesses that offer health insurance. That's just a cost shift to someone/somewhere else.
The actual website for the protocol has recently been updated with a lot of good information: http://odata.org/
Ask HN: Best practices for creating unique IDs
Would you use your database's "auto increment" function, GUID function (if any), or simply assign a randomized alphanumeric string of N characters? Each method has pros and cons, but I have never been able to really settle on one. Lately I've been using random generation on the assumption that a sufficiently large number of characters (say, 32) makes the risk of duplication nearly non-existent - but not impossible.

When you've written something from scratch, which method have you most commonly used? I'm more interested in security than readability, but I can't find any data suggesting one method over another aside from the possibility of guessing an auto-incremented field.
We used a somewhat similar geometry "case study" when interviewing at a place I used to work, also related to the CAD industry. It's remarkable how many people who wanted to work there couldn't do the most basic mathematics by the standards of the project. We didn't do the whole-day thing, just a bit of maths and a bit of coding on a whiteboard, but even that was a sufficient filter to rule out the majority of candidates almost immediately.
I don't agree.

From what I know of Harris having followed quite a few of his debates his point simply is that to the extent that you can talk about right or wrong moral systems, science actually allow you to back up your claims.

This is in grave contrast to the moral systems that base their logic on premises that have no merit at all.

I would much rather live in a society where moral claims can be accessed and debated than in one where it can't.

Not to because I believe that science leads us to a more correct version of morals but because it's accessible to everyone.

Religious moral systems aren't hindering bad moral behavior, people are. So studying people would in my mind give us a much better basis to discuss morals than consulting 2000+ year old books.
I'm not sure why it should be better this time around.

Because today instead of WMV/QuickTime/etc. we have H.264/H.264/Flash (which streams H.264).
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The only thing the contradictions show is that moral is relative and contextual.
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You miss the point entirely, and your "counterexample" is a non-sequitur.

The purpose of Harris's speech is to argue, against the current postmodern fashion, that ethics and morality do in principle fall within the scientific domain, that there are ethical and moral truths to be found even if we cannot yet discern them. In response you mount a straw-man argument against a coarse implementation of utilitarian ethics, but this doesn't even relate to Harris's point.

To answer: yes, it would be a bad idea to kill all children found torturing small animals. Why? Because, as human beings, we would suffer greatly in such a society (to put it mildly, we find the notion of murdering our young unsettling, and children don't flourish into healthy adults in a society where their murder is considered acceptable), even if a naive implementation of utilitarian ethics incorrectly indicates that such an approach leads to the greatest overall happiness. That this is a fact subject to evidence, rather than a simple matter of opinion, is Harris's point here.
U.S. Support for Nuclear Power Climbs to New High
Now the thing that really bothers me about HFCS is that it is so hard to avoid. It is in nearly every type of food. For example, most ketchups and breads contain HFCS.
There are a few misconceptions about Carlsen in your comment.

The most obvious is that he is not the World Chess Champion, but world #1 - the difference being that you have to defeat the previous champion in an extended match in order to claim the title.

Second, both Carlsen and Kasparov think that Carlsen is stronger and weaker than Kasparov in certain areas. What they have mentioned to the public before is that Carlsen has a better intuitive sense of a position, while Kasparov has greater facilities of calculation. What they both agree on, it seems, is that Carlsen, in large part due to the aid of computers, has reached such a high level of ascendancy in chess at a significantly younger age than Kasparov was able.

Finally, as he plainly states in the article, Carlsen is trying not to be crazy, by living as normal a life as he can and not becoming obsessed with the game to an unhealthy degree.

Aside in relation to a response to your post, since I don't feel like posting twice: It is insanely difficult, if not impossible, to say that Carlsen would beat Kasparov - especially now that Carlsen has been using Kasparov's advise on openings against other opponents, we observers cannot tell what recent innovations have, in fact, been his original work and not that of Kasparov. Another point to consider is that, even with the amount of rating inflation there has been over the past several years, Carlsen's 2813 rating does not come close to Kasparov's maximum of 2851. Finally, Kasparov was uncontested at the top for nearly two decades, whereas Carlsen is still having troubles overcoming some other top grandmasters (specifically Kramnik of late). Unilaterally saying that Carlsen would be Kasparov in a match is, realistically, a rather uninformed opinion.
A head's up: Looks horrible in Firefox 2.0.0.15. Yeah, I know, you'll say everyone is using 3.x. But no, plenty of weak old PCs out here still. If I could see how it worked, I might use it. Good luck.
"Anything that starts from the old will never migrate to the young. Old people are not leaders."

Yes, because everyone who uses the internet is young and because every great company is run by someone young. I honestly can't believe I'm reading a comment that seems to believe the web/business world exists only within a bubble of young people. A huge proportion of great businesses are/were started by "old" people and there are plenty of examples of tech businesses that have been spectacularly successful that were also started by "old" people.
I am a "PHP" developer at work. All day I sit around writing "PHP" code. Here is how I start my day: "You guys want this done quickly and reliably or should I do it in PHP" ..

We're a PHP shop with a huge Common Lisp code base.
Good call, I'm using 3.x -- Will focus on making it cross domain compliant with next update.
I don't need an account at something like Kickstarter to see what people are looking to fund. It should be the same here. Otherwise it looks shady.
I find it funny that Corn Refiner's Association are running adds to try and fix their image: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEbRxTOyGf0&feature=relat...
By that definition, writing a book to push the view that Scientology is bunk would be attempted genocide.

Seems too broad a definition to be useful.
Well, to do the least harm, you would probably send the kid to therapy, monitor them, or even lock them up, not kill them. The reason it seems so odd to lock up a kid for torturing a small animal is that it's really not that predictive. Not even close. So your example is just really, really terrible.

So, great, you're the Ethics (capital E!) genius of Hacker News. I still thought it was a great talk though. But what do I know.
Gruber nails it again. Mozilla's hypocrisy is as always overly evident. Their stance is fuelled by sheer greed, obviously - it's about money, about them not wanting to cut down on their yearly economical influx, not about being "open and free", as their actions of trying to sweep the bleeding case of Flash under the carpet is so obviously telling.

I wonder, did any of the non-Mozilla developers, whose work spans the majority of the project today, ever see a single dime of the _tens of millions_ of USD (yes, that's their revenue) going into the Mozilla Foundation from their search engine sponsor choice? No, I didn't think so either.
hmm, works for me. when does it redirect upon load OR upon clicking submit? browser details?
"Gift This App" appears in the app store
So they'd be combating sign pollution by putting up more signs? Doesn't seem like much of a solution. Even if they succeeded and people stopped posting up "real" posters, as soon as they stopped posting "fake" posters the "real" posters could go back up again.
You're probably confusing it with Theora, which was actually part of the spec for a while but was removed around last June for the reasons you mention. That's when the public shitstorms started. I was an avid reader of what WHAT-WG list around the time leading up to that and I never recall anybody seriously proposing H.264 be put into the spec.
> Having a working product with positive customer feedback is no Kevin Costner Hollywood gimmick; it takes tons of hard work.

Hard work != Good software development skills

Granted you have to have at least some base level of skill, but I don't feel that the bar is necessarily that high.

> 'If you build a good product that can attract users, you'll have an easier job of convincing potential employers of your usefulness' is the only point I'm trying to get across. Do you disagree with that notion?

I don't disagree with that. I just feel that you are putting too much emphasis on 'monetization' when you're trying to get that point across. 'Monetization' is a completely different skill set from software development. The product doesn't attract users all on its own. You have to market it, and marketing is not a software development skill.

Creating a profitable side business around a product that you created is impressive, but not everyone can do it because it requires an individual that has a number of skills that don't fall under 'software developer.' Acting like only the people that can create a product, market it and manage the finances surrounding it (as well as make tough business decisions, etc) are the only people worth looking at as developers is a little over-the-top.

> I'm perplexed and somewhat disturbed by what I interpret as an assertion that creating a successful product indicates a lack of software development skills. Am I misunderstanding you?

You are. Creating a successful product requires more than just software development skills. In fact, it only implies a base level of software development skills. You cannot use it to deduce the actual level of a person's software development skills, only that they have a minimum level. It's possible for someone to be a super-skilled developer, but have mediocre marketing/business skills. If the job only calls for development skills, why should that person be discounted for a lack of skills not related to the job?
The economics of the mushy middle
I see what you mean. There is a Google Groups about the class: http://groups.google.com/group/iphone-appdev-auditors You should be able to find or ask for hints or walkthrough.
Text of Chinese official comments on Google
From my possibly simplistic understanding:

Insulin resistance is a factor in Type 2 diabetes, which wrecks the body's ability to handle glucose.

Once you get to this point, damage to body systems starts to snowball, obesity, kidney failure etc.

Sugar prices are supported by tariff in the US, and corn prices are subsidized. This abomination is wrecking the health of the population.

It was striking on a recent visit to Canada, that nothing in the shops, even cereal appeared to include HFCS as an ingredient.
Unarmed security guard.

Some friends of mine long ago have done this. I don't know what the money is like these days (does anyone here know?), but I expect it's bad. The advantage is: you actually get to work on your laptop or notebook or whatever you like most of the time. Mostly what a security guard does is let truckers sign in when they make deliveries. Between deliveries, all you need to do is be there.

Has anyone here tried this?
looks at Heinz ketchup packet ingredient list

Hey, why is there corn in my ketchup?!
One might assume that since our government now says that healthcare is a right, they might also say that it's time to end tariffs that are demonstrably damaging our health.
"Traditional Chinese characters are widely used, and are the de facto writing standard in Hong Kong."

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Hong_Kong#Written_...
They do now. The save-the-company Pre was CDMA-only until about last week.
I don't think it's a firefox issue, the thing is nearly impossible to read with that background (I'm using chrome), and the text overlays boxes of the same colour, so it is illegible.

I think I like your concept (even though feeling slightly blinded).

I'd play with your colour palette and background.
Try to take some 'weight' out of the design with lighter background and darker colours.

I like your sidebar nav, and collapsable menu may be good.
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if (a[i] < a[j])

That says that that array is completely loaded in your address space. :-)
Sorry, was unclear. The money is for whomever he hit. The lapse is raising the kind of son who gets into auto accidents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_services#St...

I see a lot of VP6 and Sorenson listed there. What we really have today is Flash/Flash/Flash. I'm curious about how much VC-1 use there is in the wild in the large Microsoft/Silverlight streaming video installations.
I wouldn't automatically come to that conclusion. Based on the article, he admits that Kasparov is better at opening and better at calculating alternatives. Two very important aspects of the game.
The original Xinhau article can be found here:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-03/23/c_132...
But there are many more misconceptions in your comment.

First, Kasparov became world #1 when he was 20 and then world champ when he was 22. Second, there has been ratings deflation among the top players over the past few years. When Kasparov hit his peak rating there were several others over 2800. Third, Kasparov was not uncontested. All of his victories over Karpov were by extremely narrow margins, as was his victory over Anand. He then LOST the title to Kramnik in 2000.
When you're in debt, you're in part beholden to your creditors. Ask anyone with a mortgage.

Reconstruction/guessing line of thought: When profitable, you don't need to indebt yourself to stay afloat, hence less people/entities to account to, hence more freedom.

Running a company without debt is liberating; you have a dozen fewer things to worry about.
Mozilla's money comes from Google.

Google owns YouTube, the world's largest video site.

YouTube is using h264.

If your theory was correct that Mozilla is solely concerned with money, your theory would predict that they would support h264, rabidly.
It's likely programs and libraries will refuse to work and complain they were not designed to run under your operating system.
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Actually, any technology designed to be useful after 10, 20 years is pretty impressive in our times. Which is pretty scary, if you ask me.

I've meant for quite some time to write an article about the fragility of human technological innovation.

Here are some examples that I can think of:

- I think I read about this case in a computer magazine: when the personal computers just started to be available they scanned and recorded in the digital form some ancient holy book so that it will be better preserved in digital form from then on. The year was 1982 maybe, the computer platform was not the one that would become mainstream and the recording media was some kind of digital laserdisc I think. The irony is, some 20 years later they had a really big trouble finding the computer to read the data back. (this is from my memory, can't find the source)

- Web platform once considered cutting edge (Macromedia/Adobe Shockwave), cannot run on modern operating systems (Linux) 15 years later. No replacement or emulation solution in sight; users depending on it are left in the cold.

- Geocities was shut down on short notice, with no exit strategy for its users 10 years after being bought for $3.5 billion

- Belt-clippable, battery-operated mp3 players like iRiver T10 (an achievement of its own, if you ask me) are nowhere to be found 5 years after they appeared (appeared ~2003, obsolete in 2008)
Great. You would get a KDE desktop without the Unix part on top of the famously solid Windows kernel. What could possibly go wrong?
How common is salary inequality among cofounders?
i know it's difficult or often impossible to accurately title talks like these, but this one is pretty far off. he stays somewhat on topic for a while but ends up drifting really far into compromising western and middle eastern values. i think "moral expertise" or something along those lines would have been better.
The wealth of a region and the longevity of its inhabitants go hand in hand
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They don't appear to actually quantify the difference between sucrose and hfcs-fed rats in this summary, which is the only part of interest to me.
There's nothing quite like checking your daily stats right before heading to bed and noticing you had 5x as many signups today as your previous max. :)