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But it wasn't his gut that he went with. The general reporting is that Powell was against the war, against the fiction of an imminent threat, against the "intelligence" he was advancing. He chose to go against that and do as he was told. That's what makes him a tragic figure. (That's the narrative, anyway. Obviously at this distance there's no way to know if it's true, but based on everything I read and heard at the time, I believe it.)

Other parts of the presentation seem ironic, too:

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess
more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred...

Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

Painfully ironic, in the light of history. Two points, though. First, no one who hasn't been in that situation has a right to claim that he wouldn't do the same thing. Second, Powell was not the leader.
This decision is the perfect illustration of why Ubuntu has a very long way to go before becoming a true user-friendly operating system. You just cannot remove the feature this way. You just can't. This forces dramatically new user experience down every user's throat. Honestly, how many people do you think will like being treated this way?

If you want to remove the feature, deprecate it. Turn it off in all new installs, leave it as is in all upgrades, and optionally notify the user about the deprecation.
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How about this: Employers who don't give proportional ownership of the company to workers are terrible employers and living off of your sweat.
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+1 for 1Password. It also can generate difficult passwords for you, so you're not even aware of what they are. Add private sharing via Dropbox and your secure passwords are with you on every machine.
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Upvoted for dragging Spolsky into the discussion
> 666 == emphatic rejection of the influence of the divine in humankind's affairs

Not really related I suppose, but in Judaism 666 has exactly the opposite meaning. The three sizes represent: the number of days it took to create the world, the 6 cardinal directions (NSEWUD), and the numerical value of one of the letters of gods name.

So in other words 666 is a number that represents the creation of the world.
I like Apple Products, but I hate Apple Retail stores. I buy online every time.
I agree that we need to change the current UI paradigms. I am not a fan of "if its not broken, don't fix it".

However, I've written a small applet that uses notifications and I don't quite understand how things will change when what he describes happens. I have not upgraded it because the notification mechanism in karmic sucks.(I will update the code when I finally install Lucid)

Does anybody know? Will applets disappear completely?
> As a woman in tech, I've never experienced any hostility, any implication I didn't belong. I was never intimidated by male professors and TAs and lab partners

It is great to hear that this is possible. In my area, the only way to ensure that women aren't discriminated in a group is to

1) make the group consist of at least 30%-40% women, or

2) have a women as an authority in the group (presenter, boss, teacher, ...)

Sometimes, even that doesn't help. So although you suffer from positive discrimination, I think it is really great that you don't suffer from any negative dicrimination.

> Whatever the reason, women in tough, competitive fields are rare, and the tougher and more competitive and more elite it gets, the rarer they are. I don't know why that is. Frankly, I don't care.

If I understand you correctly, you don't care because you are part of the elite. But what about the women who are just "average" in tech?
They are preparing to fight off 4G wireless.

Here in Austin, Clear is marketing their wireless full tilt: all the media and even door to door (had two salesmen come by). The pitch is that the service is as good as cable broadband (for the "average household") and available everywhere (home, office, kid's school, on the commute).

No idea if that is true yet, but its easy to see how it could eventually be. Makes sense to band together against a common threat.
yes - it's just password protected and encrypted with the passphrase you use when gpg asks you. all you need to open the file on another computer is gpg and, of course, the passphrase used.

even better - when you need certain password you can do:

$ gpg -d passwords.gpg | grep yradunchev@mail.me

and you will get the password for that mail account only and the entire encrypted file will stay encrypted and never will be saved as plain text file on the system you use at the moment.
No, he's saying Apple got a basic level of security for free but if they don't fix their broken security auditing the issue will creep up on them (and their users) as they gain market share.

I use Unix as well, on the server and on the desktop. But that doesn't automatically make all my code secure. What made Unix more secure than the original Windows was a particular attitude. An attitude that Apple doesn't have (or maybe didn't have until very recently).
wow. this actually makes sense. i'm shocked.
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Because open-source can only do some things. It took an Ubuntu to make Linux somewhat usable, and even then it is miles behind an OS X. Some endeavors can only be done when there is lots of money at stake, that's a reality of our world today.
This article had great perspective. We tend to believe our current fiat money is something "new" and "modern" when in reality metal/virtual currency seems to move in cycles (as the author points out). We also tend to believe this most recent economic crisis was a modern contrivance as well, when in reality it bears striking similarity to many crisis from previous centuries. Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart wrote about the similarity between the current economic collapse and previous valuation bubbles and currency crisis in their book "This Time It's Different" which might be good further reading for anybody who was intrigued by this article.

http://www.amazon.com/This-Time-Different-Centuries-Financia...
impressive, fascinating, yet a tad bit disturbing...
kudos none-the-less
I understand the policy, but they handled it fairly rudely.
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Apple's Balance sheet:

http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/Finan...

or

http://www.google.com/finance?fstype=ii&q=nasdaq:aapl

(click on Balance Sheet tab, cannot link directly).

The figures I quoted were for 2009/12. There are now for 2010/03, with cash & equivalent 10 bil and current assets 32 bil.

Total assets are 57 bil, current liabilities 12, total liabilities 17. Equity is 39.3 bil, but equity is not the same as "cash in the bank".

Apple is well-managed company on the financial side, but let's not get ahead of ourselves and apply reality distortion field to business side too.
I'm surprised one of the legions of Apple fans hasn't answered yet. I can guess what a fan would say though: "it's not up to users because computers are already too complicated and have too many configuration options and users just want something simple that works and they need the programmers/designers to pick the "right" way and just implement it.
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Many mac owners I know repeatedly tell me that they are impervious to viruses. This belief is quite widespread.
Yes, I understood that from your initial comment. The problem with that sort of judgement, though, is that it's so cheap to make. Cheap in that ad hominems require very little work, but also cheap in that they're so easy to upvote.

Largely content free but inflammatory comments are to comments what LOLcats are to submissions. The comparative lack of such comments here as compared to e.g. places like Reddit is one of the things that makes this site good. I wish you'd try to keep it the way you found it.

Incidentally, one of the things you missed by not reading the presentation is that it doesn't seem to be a lecture on leadership by Colin Powell, but a lecture by someone else who uses a lot of quotes attributed to Colin Powell.
That seems like an unwise gambit for them. People are probably willing to believe whatever you tell them about Indonesia, but Canada's generally well-liked, and considered an orderly first-world country (if anything, the stereotype is of this absurdly polite and well-behaved place), so there's a decent risk of losing credibility from being too hyperbolic about Canada as some sort of hotbed of lawlessness.
Ask HN: What have you learned this academic year?
With this academic year coming to a close, perhaps this would be an appropriate time for HNers to collectively reflect on lessons learned.
There is also the situation of someone that wants to code and not be a manger, if they continue to receive interesting projects, are rewarded with pay rises accordingly, I wouldn't say that these people have no ambition, even though they are not really moving up into management ranks.
If you'd read the article you would have known that the accused who later "stuck it to the man" was not the person who committed the act which got police involved, he was just an innocent bystander who refused to compromise his rights. The person who caused the ruckus behind the trouble was never arrested.
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It appears you can put a period anywhere within the ID after the initial "/" and it works:

http://graph.facebook.com/robot.stxt
http://graph.facebook.com/r.o.b.o.t.s.t.x.t

This guy's actual short-URL is "robotstxt."
Looks amazing! I'm working on a diagram editor (UML and business processes) for Google Wave where we had to solve command ordering/merging and a lot of similar problems.

We developed a javascript library to synchronize a command stack between clients and resolve all ordering problems that could occur due to commands arriving very late. Having a server like you do for synchronization and that stuff would make those issues nearly trivial to solve- but as Google Wave only provides a synchronized key-value storage we had to roll our solution client side only.

You might want to check out our approach in a little more depth at http://www.processwave.org/2010/02/syncro-real-collaboration... or take a look at the very well documented code at the bitbucket: http://bitbucket.org/processwave/syncro

We are planning on adding a paint canvas to our app, and yours looked the best I saw so far in a webapp. Cool work, it's not trivial stuff :)
also see: http://graph.facebook.com/default.aspx
80% of people trust Google more than Facebook
http://carbonmade.com is another webapp with a great and exciting UI.
Which comment are you referring to?
I was under the impression wireless bandwidth is always one generation behind cable bandwidth. Are they doing this because they are too lazy to upgrade their network and maintain their competitive edge over wireless? I can't imagine a state of the art cable internet connection could ever be seriously threatened by a wireless connection that offers what, 6Mbps under the best conditions? With the rise of internet video it seems like physical line internet providers are here to stay.
My guess is that you're 95% correct: they're likely warding off Verizon, who has become a major threat to all three companies. Offering FiOS TV, FiOS internet, phone, and wireless cell service is tough to compete with — even if you already offer three of the four.

So, these three companies are trying to prevent people from switching entirely to Verizon because they already have/are considering Verizon's wireless service. Or something to that effect.

(Note: I'm from the NY Metro area, so I've kept an eye on all these companies offerings the past few years.)
How about cheap, nearly unlimited electricity (nuclear), medical scanning devices that use radio isotopes, radiation therapy to treat cancer, or a variety of other technologies based on the early work of physicists.
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Eh this is the classic guns kill people vs. people kill people argument. Not having guns or bombs isn't going to stop a war. Some of the bloodiest wars in history were fought using swords and spears.
Important subject, but this article sucks.

Instead of just two states, on or off, as with transistors, memristors can represent many states. This means we can create new types of computing models, we can also create analog computers, which you don’t program, but you let them learn. You can then replicate the learning to other memristor analog computers.

- We might be able to use memristors in a similar way to synapses in the human brain.

_snort_
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Yeah, but Myspace was incompetent.
It's not just periods. They're filtering out certain characters [.,-]

hxxp://graph.facebook.com/-----r.-o....b....o-t-s-t....x....t----....///////////___%%20%22/test/robots

will still output the same result as http://graph.facebook.com/robotstxt
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Makes sense to start in an area where some of the big players have territory that overlaps.

To be clear though - companies like Clear and Sprint aren't just selling 4g wireless devices, they are selling hotspots filling the roll of routers that supplant a home internet connection all together.

When Verizon gets in the game - maybe FIOS for heavy need households, 4g hotspot for a light duty setup?
Yes, that would be very nice.
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I started playing with this new api today. My room mate and I spent an hour with various privacy settings and it does not appear there is any way to prevent your account from being accessed via this.
But if you're running security for a bank and you are depending on host-based security, you are in trouble.
Clever idea, but it's not hard to find out the identities of those behind this site. They'd get busted for fraud pretty quickly.
Huh? How can something that improves usability be bad design? I've grown accustomed to it because it helps me.
So, you need a typface?
He's a fossil of a bygone era who should probably just get it over with and die already, that movie was hilarious.
They would not be able to do that, if there was no audience willing to buy it at 3x price.

Just think about it: scalper buys all the tickets and tries to sell it for triple price. Nobody buys it. Concert starts, it is empty and the scalper end up with expired tickets in his hands.

Does that happen? No, because people are willing to pay triple price.
"(40 of 50 answers)"

What an impressive sample size they have there.
What's interesting is that you can put the id in the url and get their data (example: http://graph.facebook.com/677195182).

I'm not entirely sure about what you could do with this data, but it's there, for anyone to see.
The best part of the post was the "Jersey Shore" become a fan on Facebook ad.

I am not quite sure what it is mocking, but I like it.
so your name will be published out to the web?

you can set the userid as parameter and you get Mark Zuckerbergs Profile here : http://graph.facebook.com/4

Then you can simple count up to infinite to get the other profiles. The API has a Usage limit and blocks after a while
In practice, the belief that a liberal arts education has equal value to a BS degree is anti-science.
[something like] tor + [something like] rss + some kind of permission/auth mechanism

your browser client gets permission to subscribe to a "friend" and keeps up to date via [something like] rss over [something like] tor.
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Now its strange, I can downvote some to -5, I didn't see any -5's to downvote further and some -4's are invisible. Do posts get wiped if they barrel to -4 fast enough?
I use both, but maybe you can save me a couple minute trip to documentation. What's the equivalent curl command for "wget --mirror"?
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Yeah, because he was going through the trouble of relating a complete, nicely told, story. What's up with this Twitter attitude? "Bought iPads for others overseas; now banned from buying iPads as per Apple's policy" is the kind of story you like to read?
It's short and sweet, but I would have to ask if there really needs to be a protocol designed for this?

It doesn't help to solve the problem of deciding whether j. random http client should or should not get my contact information, and if so what level of contact they should get. If I meet someone on the subway, I may want to give them asynchronous access to my attention (email or twitter) but not synchronous (voice, txt, IM).

That would be an interesting problem that could only be solved by a protocol. What you have currently is a spec for a weekend project that would be the base for a reference implementation.
No, in the first five seconds it's not at all clear what this is. Visual design says ignore me.
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Lord Oxburgh who "debunked" Climategate is the chairman of Falck Renewables, a company whose entire business is predicated on global warming. This is what counts as "peer review".
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That is because the info that is available at http://graph.facebook.com/name is <= the info that is available at http://facebook.com/name . What part of your account are you trying to stop from being accessed? This makes no sense.
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I changed the way downvote limits are handled. It used to be that -4 was the lowest score a comment could get. Now it is just the lowest score that will be displayed.

I made -4 the lower limit a long time ago because there used to sometimes be a very unpleasant atmos of piling on when someone said something unpopular and the score would go down to -10. But I noticed that some people were starting to take advantage of the fact that this meant you could make an asshole remark at the cost of at most 5 karma points. Now there is no limit to the cost.

The reason you see -5 is that the code that changes the score is just Javascript that runs when you click on the up or down arrow. View source and you'll see.
I agree, fonts (and their aliasing) make a big difference. But the UI font is the standard DejaVu Sans. (Only Google's page is in Arial.)
> Everyone goes into a job hoping they will work out so well at the company as to have no incentive to leave... at least for 5-10 years. All this is even more true for the best employees, because the number of desirable employers drops off faster than the number of talented people. (The best people, who want only to work at the best companies, have what is in a way the most difficult kind of job search.)

This is a great comment. While part of working for a start-up is being willing to do work that is "below" you (e.g., doing operations and release engineering from time to time, because it has to be done even though you're a software engineer), at one point you have to ask yourself: suppose this company sinks or has a layoff, will I still feel that I've learned and moved my career forward in the mean time? If the answer is no, politely bring it up with the management first (perhaps they don't realize you're underused and not learning), and if no concrete steps are taken to improve the situation, find another position.

The reason to bring it up before looking (or at least before submitting your resignation and accepting a job offer from elsewhere) is not to be tempted to stay when given a counter offer. If there's a genuine desire to retain you long-term, they should have responded when you brought the issue up; otherwise, they just have a business-critical project they want you to finish and can then let you go.

I do have one comment to make: when selecting a job, don't select by thinking "which company will be the most stable and profitable?". Think, instead, "if all of these companies were to tank in a year, my stock becoming worthless, in which one would I have learned the most?". The "paradox" here is that the interesting working and continuous learning will make one feel engaged and fulfilled, leading them to stay longer and contribute more to the company, becoming less likely to be laid off and earning respect from coworkers and business partners, leading to employment opportunities in case of failure.

Compensation and the perception of a company (especially a start-up) as possessing a unique business idea can also cloud people's brains. A lesson I've learned is that if I can't decide between several offers, as they all seem the "same" (in terms of quality of the engineering team, technology used, culture, interesting-ness of their focus), I should pick the one that seems the least financially lucrative to be sure I'm not being "blinded" by the money.

Paul Bucheit's experience at Google (taking a paycut to join Google, despite being convinced they will fail) illustrates this. He didn't go in thinking "I will build my career and become rich here", he went in thinking "I will learn tons here".
We so need an open & portable way of managing our social information online. I use OpenID to manage online authentication across different sites, and am pleased with this. I have a choice of providers, or I can manage it myself. But, it is limited to managing basic authentication, and is a long way from a repository for all the other types of social data that are needed for a full online identify.

Surely there is a market opportunity here? And whatever happened to opensocial?
Very cool. When I did http://flockdraw.com with @lunixbochs 6 months ago we really wanted to do it without flash but the updates-per-second really didnt cut it. Looks like thats starting to change (which is awesome). One of the features we really wanted was a iphone version/app but we wouldnt be able to use a flash socket shim on iphone, hence a total rewrite needed.

Again- Very cool :)
I'm not sure why it was down voted. It's actually true (from my observation)
That "almost" is where the big difference is. I think this theme is more balanced and pleasing.