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It's such a shame that people think that way, after all, it couldn't possibly be the case that a straight man thought that treating a gay man badly was the wrong thing to do.

Or even that someone might just think that a man who did great things for the world being treated so badly that he was driven to suicide was a gross injustice of staggering proportion no matter what stupid reason there was for the mistreatment. It's somewhat depressing that even today who Turing slept with is apparently more significant than anything else about him. Sigh.
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While I agree Google Maps aren't perfect, it isn't because the Google Maps team is dumb.

Would you believe it's hard to render perfect street maps? This isn't a million monkeys with crayons... they have a very nice set of cartographic algorithms that make stunning maps, and every street isn't going to be perfect.

The blog post is glib and doesn't say anything more than "this looks bad, fix it."
Well it's a new-ish idea that serves a single purpose and it's fully functional as far as I can tell. I don't really see the point in the answers section - it's not really related to the rest of the site, although it seems like people are using it. I would hire a designer if they're cheap and I think this site could gain some steam. Could you review my site that I'm trying to get off the ground? http://debate-zone.com
I sense a tongue being held firmly in your cheek, but I'll play to it. There are at least a few ideas in here, if the video is representative of a trend (that has yet to be determined) or boom area.

One off the top of my head: Provision of camera and interactivity systems for concerts, so remote fans and musicians can interact better. Imagine if Folds could get 50,000 fans worldwide paying $10 to watch a gig with more interactive elements like this.
I always thought this "urban warfare" stuff BS. At what point is it actually just law enforcement ?

The problem with the russians in afghanistan and americans in iraq/afghanistan today is what exacty is the objective ? Technically the russians and americans won easily in the first few days. The rest of the time was just pretend warfare that should have been just called law enforcement.

When you send soldiers to fight civilians you've already failed. There's nothing you can achieve except slaughter.
Ugh. 20 years ago this same guy probably would have recommended Kids Incorporated.

Does anybody remember that documentary about suck.com?
It's so much worse, except for a very few native Americans ALL others were imported, the scheme goes back hundreds of years!

Actually if we look far enough back all those natives came from Asia as well.
It's hard for me to provide proof but I've been a Ben Folds (Five) fan for 14 years and been to almost as many gigs, and I didn't believe Merton was Ben Folds for a second. His playing style isn't similar (as far as pop rock pianists go) and his voice is quite different (Folds' North Carolina accent usually comes out when doing impromptu stuff - less so with studio recordings). Merton also looks somewhat younger (Folds hasn't aged too well in the last cpl years IMHO).
Ask HN: What advice would you give college students about starting a business? 
So I have been given the opportunity to speak at the university I graduated from (Portland State University) about my experience starting Mugasha while I was an undergrad.

I thought I would get some of your thoughts on starting a business.

Here are few questions I plan on talking about.

- Why start your own business? Why start early?

- How to be a domain expert?

- How do you know if you have the right Idea?

- Why it will be the hardest thing you will ever do?

- How do you bootstrap?

- How do you find investors?
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Excellent point, thanks.
Midnight Children

edit: won the "booker of booker" prize (the best book out of all the booker prize winners over the past 40 years)
Sorry, disobeying implied design rules does not make you a sociopath.
> The "var fn" of course doesn't work with private member variables since you need one for each individual instance,

This makes me believe that you have no idea what you're talking about.
There was nothing in the article implying in any way that the Google Maps team is "dumb".

The article is about a real usability issue that exists in Google Maps--a product released over 5 years ago and that has long been out of beta.
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The problem with local banks is, as much as I believe that "too big to fail" is too big to continue existing, a bank that's too big to fail is also a safer place to put your money. (I know about FDIC, but I would also rather not deal with the inconvenience.) There's also the fact that Bank of Whitman only exists in Whitman County, so if I move or travel it's less convenient.

ING has nearly no fees at all.
Where were you when I was hand-coding my current Emacs theme??

Great work!

My only suggestion is that you could display the lisp code for the theme below the code window so I could both see it update in real time and be able to export it without clicking the button.

Surely you don't have to implement this because it was likely a free-time project and it is infinitely better than anything I've ever seen that tries to accomplish this, (because I haven't seen anything that tried to do this and when you divide by zero, well...) but you asked for reviews and that is my sole critique.
"There's simply no such counterpart in physical engineering to the iterative programming process."

Not true! There are so-called handbook engineering problems -- change the ratios in this gear box -- that can be solved by a monkey with a textbook.

However design-from-scratch hardware engineering usually involves a great deal of iteration. The first phase of designing a new chemical or fluid system is a mini-research project to measure the performance curves of various possibilities under a wide range of conditions, and if none of them are good enough it turns into a blue-sky science project. Radio electronics projects commonly start out as a pile of tiny two-layer circuit boards, one for each subsystem, so they can be cheaply iterated in parallel, instead of having to repeatedly redo a single massive board. ("We have to spin (redo) the system board" not being a happy phrase to a project lead.)

In all the sensor and detector projects I worked on, the embedded real-time firmware was always the bright spot that was practically guaranteed to work.

Don't even get me started about designing research hardware for scientists ...
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@nailer, @hga thanks guys I will take both of ya'll suggestions into consideration.... I am actually a little hands on ith solaris 8 and 10 and even zfs I will look into the cloud setup as you mentioned @hga tat sounds tempting to me .... thanks again guys. My concern isnt as much as my skills but as to if there are any jobs as entry level system admin
India soundly defeated the U.S. in air-to-air combat in the Cope India 2005 wargames, their latest plane is also Russian equipment with modified Indian avionics\computers.
That was excellent!
Who cares?

Does his sexuality erase or amplify the work he has done? No.

Let's move on.
As someone who has spent more than half of his life as a sysadmin, I'd suggest only going into it if you're a masochist. It's really a lousy lifestyle. The pay is decent, but even in the best of environments, you're viewed as a cost center, disrespected by developers, and at the end of the day you're only doing a good job if you're automating yourself out of one.
I have a soft spot in my heart for this one.

http://colors.napcsweb.com/colorschemer/

There are several schemes to choose from (complimentary, contrasting, triadic, etc) and knobs to adjust. You get 5 colors to look at next to each other and 18 along the same lines that go together. The input is in HSV/RGB and every output color comes in hex.
The entire Russian army was fought to a stand-still in Afghanistan and later also in Chechnya by much smaller, less well equipment forces using modern insurgent techniques.

(In my admittedly limited knowledge,) I don't know if Afghanistan is the best example of the United States (I'll assume this is the state being discussed from marshallp's "the military") not being able to adapt; the Afghan mujahideen received a lot of training and weapons from the CIA, through Pakistan's IFI.

OTOH, (again, in my admittedly limited knowledge,) Chechnya is a very good example of a more "modern" style of war; Russia only really gained the upper hand and managed to force a ceasefire after the Chechen rebels lost popularity (which was after they took something like 1,500 people hostage, including mothers with newborns).
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I worked on the AGM-69_SRAM nearly 30 years ago in the USAF. India is certainly not the first to build a maneuverable supersonic missile. We quit making them because there wasn't enough benefit to supersonic. Subsonic gives a far greater range, and is about as hard to stop. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-69_SRAM
This is not what disturbs me. What disturbs me is the idea that international travel may soon be so difficult as to become impractical.
What's the first step to getting started?

(or in other words, "Just start building something")
You are totally right. Also, here you are writing on a piece of paper instead of typing in a text box. The viewing interface is also totally different as one is a either a monitor or a mobile device, and another is a crude bulletin board thing. And don't even get me started on ...

Lighten up!

:)
No problem. I think you can get A LOT of data from grad students. They hold the keys to a lot of it, and aren't held to some contract to never release it.
This isn't really a problem, though. All you have to do is zoom in, and the ambiguity resolves itself.

The post (not exactly an "article") comes off as a silly complaint that Google Maps isn't completely perfect, without seeming to understand that something as complex as this can't be perfect. There are always going to be trade-offs, and the label locations Google Map's algorithm chose seem perfectly reasonable to me for the zoom-levels displayed.
What's to justify? Cheap trikes are hard to ride and steer. I regret not getting my kids something decent, like a Kettler. Cheap kids' bikes are horrid too. I wonder: could a leasing system for quality kids' bikes/trikes work?
I think customer development (from steve blank's book: the four steps to the epiphany) is a really important subject rarely touched upon in schools. Often times you can sell the product before you even create it. That needs to be communicated to students.
On a related note - the Milk film that he references is fantastic. Possibly it was because I saw it knowing nothing about the story (I've got no idea about SF/gay politics) and so it was all new to me. Well worth watching.
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"The new costs, according to the budget office, would be more than offset by savings in Medicare and by new taxes and fees, including a tax on high-cost employer-sponsored health plans and a tax on the investment income of the most affluent Americans."

I have a friend who works in a tech company that is going to lay off people and move their jobs overseas once this bill passes. I have another friend who runs a medium-size business, who will stop offering corporate health insurance in lieu of salary raises. This bill is gonna cost 2-5X what they say, and is gonna bankrupt small/medium companies.
Yeah. Maybe. Or maybe the Air Force just wants to convince Congress to replace the F-16, which got its clock cleaned (so they claim) by the Sukhoi in those exercises.
"Soldier" vs "civilian" is a false dichotomy. In the middle, there's "militia", which you're a part of as soon as you pick up a weapon and start pushing back on the "law enforcement"'s encroachment upon your city.
Usually, if I have multiple domain names for a single site, I pick my favorite and just 301 redirect the rest. This avoids confusion and also avoids any potential "duplicate content penalty" from search engines.
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Why isn't it a problem? It makes the maps confusing.
Hardest thing in my opinion: perseverance. There are going to be ups and downs with starting and running a business. I don't know if anyone really started with the "right idea" -- but as you persevere and keep going ideas evolve and things will hopefully work out in your [business's] favor.
Right. It's not like Hackers have a sense of humour.

While I like HN's mostly tech/startup stories, something that occasionally make me laugh isn't a bad thing. It's just getting the right mix. Reddit is more about that HN which is fine for them. It doesn't we have to be some kind of spartan counterpoint.
I agree with you on many things, but your stance on "workaholics" is not one of them. Often "working a lot" = "workaholic". I'm not talking about people that are addicted to work and follow the same patterns of other addictions. That's rarely the case. I'm talking about the people that enjoy working because it isn't like "work". Why should they be made to feel bad about it? The workaholics you speak of (that get burnt out) generally have motivations beyond enjoying the work. They are trying to "get ahead" or make more money. What if you actually like your "work"?

Some people like to knit in their spare time. I like to code and do things that resemble work to many people. Maybe I'm not in the majority, but I refuse to believe that I would be happier or healthier if I went on a hike instead.
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I've only even heard of one of the Booker winners (Life of Pi.) Maybe I'm just that uncultured. Then again, maybe the literary establishment is just that insular.
Other idea: Keep track of other people color theme.
But, yes.. I use vim and textmate and I'm a bit jealous :) Good job!
Why start early?
Early is probably the best time in your life to do it.
You probably should have something to display hex codes/color name or something like that so that you can ensure that two colors for different elements are the same.
Sounds a lot like the people who said they would move to Canada if George W Bush won. It's one thing to make threats like this, it's another thing completely to follow through with them.
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I've heard "Tucker: A Man and His Dream" with Jeff Bridges is good.
Why are there businesses supporting it?

Someone I know just paid $27,000 health insurance for his LONE Califnornia employee. From his perspective, it can't get much worse.
That's real patriotic of him. By the way, wage arbitrage is old hat, if he was really hip to the scene he would have done that years ago.

Care to backup your claim that the bill will cost 2 to 5 times more? I can read xlsx format.

Also never mind the fact the bill covers 30 million more people, ends insurance caps on care, lowers per capita costs, and rids the hideous practice of denying care because of preexisting conditions.

The only set back in this bill is that we never got a Public Option, but we will get it, if it takes another 3 or 10 years, we will get insurance coverage that finally covers every single citizen in the United States.
Typo in the first sentence:

"Nobody could argue that the iPhone has been a revolutionary product in the cell phone industry"

Surely there should be a "not" in there somewhere?
Debt is a leading indicator of a temporary and artificial increase in spending and prices: people don't take out loans just because they want to sit on a pile of money, they take out loans because they want to buy goods and services. And when more money is chasing after the same goods and services, prices goes up (microecon 101).

If investors are making bad forecasts by assuming that such temporary upward trends in price will be sustained for a long time, or even permanent, then the result is a bubble economy.

A bubble exists because it is a self-fulfilling prophesy: when investors increase debt ("leverage") in order to invest in whatever good is currently rising in price (i.e. has already been bid up via debt-funded spending), those investors further increase the price and thus attract even more investors. This continues until a sufficient number of investors are cashing out in order to pay back the debt (whether due to the timeline of the loan or due to the lender calling them on their leverage position).

Investors who don't use leverage (i.e. use only their own money) are far less capable of creating large price moves: a leveraged investor can generate a trade volume two or three orders of magnitude larger than an unleveraged investor. Bubbles are much harder to sustain purely with unleveraged investments: to become a bubble, a price rise has to be sharp enough to attract attention, bringing in more investors to form the next layer of the pyramid.
Too many scare tactics and not enough meat. An article like this comes out every other month about America losing its edge in some sector and these articles never have enough backup evidence and just push some political policy. Ya, I get it, a start-up visa is a good idea so just say that and move along.
Watching the live debate in the House I'm really surprised the Republicans have let the most radical finge of their party control the debate on health care. I'm not sure that strategy is going to work politically. A big majority of people are for some form of health care reform we just disagree about the details. I don't think it was wise to create a situation where health care reform as a concept is being demonized. They should have offered a strong alternative and spent their time talking its merits up instead of talking out theories of Soviet take overs. It seems like satire more than serious opposition at this point.
They probably see the carrier\super-carrier group central to making America a military power, we have 20+ and only a few countries have 1.
Since the new reactor in the Gerald Ford class generates over 3X the electricity as the current Nimitz, it seems destined to be an advanced weapons platform for expensive lasers\railguns\robots.
Suggestion: I would make the "Go to app" link bigger because it took me some time to find a way to access the app I wanted.
There were actually two Chechen wars and they were fought differently. The First Chechen War was fought with the regular Russian Army being used indiscriminately against Chechens. Instead of intelligently targeting the separatist forces, Russian tank columns simply shelled Chechen cities. Despite the heavy death toll (into the 100s of thousands), the Chechens won a semi-autonomous republic in the terms of the ceasefire.

The Second Chechen War began when Putin was installed following Yeltsin. The Chechen republic was predictably corrupt and poor following the devastation of the first war. Stupidly, the top military commander of the Chechens, Shamil Basayev, launched an incursion into the neighboring republic of Dagestan. Putin was then able to 'finish the job' in Chechnya. The Russian strategy in the second war was different—they used the intelligence services and local proxies to fight the war rather than depending primarily on army conscripts. They installed a Chechen named Ramzan Kadyrov in as the head of Chechnya, and he fought the separatist Chechens working hand-in-hand with the Russian FSB (successor to the KGB). The second war was a success for the Russians—they had a reliable client in Kadyrov, the Chechen strategies got more desperate (e.g. the seige in Beslan), and the top commanders of the separatists were betrayed and killed (Aslan Maskhadov and Shamil Basayev principally).

The Chechen separatists are still out there, but the fighting is very low level. Their current commander, Doku Umarov, hasn't led a major assault on Kadyrov or Russia yet. I don't think the Chechen cause rose or fell with their popularity. I think it had more to do with the anti-insurgent strategy pursued by Russia.
This is horribly shocking to me John. I didn't know you were British :-(
That is silly. Why is adding memcached to a PHP app need to be a "massive change that would touch every corner of your codebase"?? Like any web app coded in any language, if it's properly layered, memcached can be added to an app (PHP or not) in a couple lines, sometimes as few as 1 line (ex. ADODB w/ memcached).
Unless he claimed to be straight (and tried to rip people off with "going straight" seminars), it's not an issue. He wasn't exposing secrets. He was exposing deliberate deceptions which were used to manipulate other people into changing their behavior and beliefs.

He claims that miracle workers should put their claims up against a rigorous test. Fair enough. I wouldn't care if he was secretly (say) a Buddhist, as long as he didn't claim he (or anyone else) could work miracles. Faith in a higher power has a wonderful placebo effect - it's empirical. It doesn't mean you have to rationally accept it.
You could call that "militia" the local police department and pay them money to police that local population.

If the hearts of a population are not with you, sending a military in is just barbaric. That battle can never be won.
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If this bill fails to meet expectations expect it to be used as a red herring for why government run health care can't work in the US. That will set back true health care reform by 10 to 20 years.
I think the comment refers to the placebo affect for "I would feel like I wasn't fully awake for up to three days after taking it."
"will stop offering corporate health insurance in lieu of salary raises"

Which is a tax increase, moving tax free compensation to taxable.

As for those Medicare "savings", being disabled and on Medicare I'm watching them closely. E.g. the annual "doc fix" (every year since 1997), which if not renewed at the beginning of next month will cut the already low Medicare payments to doctors by 21%. Which they can't afford, nor can Congresscritters who'd like to avoid Rostenkowski's fate (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qre7DzEtxyc). That's 208 billion "savings in Medicare".
It's important for him to mention in that he is 81 years old and is probably contemplating a shorter future than any of us. It's a good thing for him to tell everyone rather than have it wind up in post-mortem articles that make it out to be some dark secret that could be used to cast his life's work in a bad light.
Or perhaps the president's a bad manager. If you send a manager off to another country to implement build a new team and implement a strategy that they think is doomed ... words fail me.
People need to understand what "insurance" really means.

Unless you're 65 or over, you do NOT have health insurance in the US right now. You may think you do, but you don't.

Good reading: http://baselinescenario.com/2009/08/05/you-do-not-have-healt...
"Don't be afraid to take an old school concept and reenergize it. Modern methods are essential to success" via @MassachusettsRealtor
I can not recommend the Stanford class enough. It covers pretty much everything one would need to know to develop an app and put it on the App Store, including your first steps with Objective-C and XCode.
The U.S. only has 11 carrier groups: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/where.htm

One new one, the Gerald Ford, is in construction.

You are right that other countries at best only have one carrier. And, as far as I know, no other country has a super-carrier. A normal aircraft carrier has a 40-50,000 ton displacement, whereas super-carriers have 90-100,000 ton displacement. All U.S. carrier are super-carriers, whereas other countries have only regular carriers.
No surprise there. As long as health care is tied to employment it gives any business an immense amount of control over their employee's lives and well being. No better way to keep your workers in line. They do not want that power taken away.
and if you were determined to use a regex, wouldn't you create a whitelist pattern (i.e. just numbers) rather than a blacklist (no quotes, whitespace, etc)?