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> true but that applies more when you are starting off, no?

Maybe. But I am uncomfortable with an argument, that could just as well have been used in favour of, say, Microsoft sticking to Windows 95. It was the most popular operating system in its time after all.
I remember vaguely from my time using Griffiths' book that he uses a lot of non-standard (or at least not the same as other, more introductory textbooks) notation. He pretty freely reassigns the symbols used by things that you're supposed to understand, in order to free them up for other purposes.

Or at least that's my vague recollection. It's been a few years now since I've cracked open his Electrodynamics. It was a pretty decent book though, better than a lot of textbooks (I kept it and still have my edition around somewhere, something that I didn't do if I thought a textbook was crummy).
Funny I was about to post exactly that. Have an upvote.
Australia is starting its own technology Reddit, with hookers and blackjack
Douglas Adams on the Internet (1999)
Interesting Details of Modern Spycraft (Cladestine Communication)
Great idea! A design question: why is there a huge chunk of white space at the very top? On a 1280x800 monitor I had to scroll down to reveal the rounded rectangle and the shady character.
I'm sure that taking a time off to raise small children until they are school age plays a big part in these stats. From birth to kindergarten that's about 5 years of being a stay at home parent.

If you're a developer, think of what difference 5 years makes. 5 years ago Rails was just a blip on the radar of web frameworks. 5 years ago, JQuery had not been released. 5 years ago, the Motorola Razr was a high end mobile phone.

So much can change in 5 years that your skills could be completely irrelevant. I couldn't blame anyone (man or woman) from switching careers completely after a multi-year hiatus. IT moves quick and the barrier to re-entry can be very high.
no dude. If you are so interested post your email id. I will send you a mail from my account.
Poor Nokia took the bait. Now every story covering this will almost inevitably include links to Nokia's own phones exhibiting this issue.
2010 Gotham Ruby Conference [videos]
Erghh meant to upvote this. Stupid little unchangeable close arrows on a touch interface...
Microsoft failed the dHTML buzzword campaign or didn't even care. Apple and Google did a much better job with HTML5.

dHTML+TIME could even use dynamic generated music

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX_Media

But I guess Microsoft is too obsessed with .Net and Silverlight now.
I also find annoying that Posterous, for some reason, appends numeric suffixes arbitrarily to certain post slugs (for example: http://blog.pablohoffman.com/hi-posterous-58). It's like they have to make the post slug "globally unique", instead of "unique per blog", although they shouldn't have to.

It wouldn't be that bad if you could change the slug/url but, as the article correctly points out, you can't.
Ooh, just noticed you're using node.js. Sexy.
Tesla IPO Raises More Than $226 Million
Having been elected to a position does not absolve you of moral responsibility for the actions you take while holding that position.
Granted, it's not terribly insightful.
The "earned income" credit is a negative tax ("refundable credit").
The first of two linked PDFs is a really good read.

http://www.justice.gov/opa/documents/062810complaint1.pdf
This is great feedback. We hope to get this in soon. Thanks very much for the support and suggestions.
I disagree with this popular beleifs. No one managed to explain with a scientific proof what happens in Benvenist experiences. It is mainly beliefs and assumptions that bias the data analysis.

Experimental data points undoubtly to EM effects in water. This is the only way, using rational and actual science, to explain what has been observed. And ther is at least one possible explanation proposed by my father, physicist, that explains how it could. How the activity could be reccorded and reinjected in inactive water, the oscillations in activity during the dillution process, why shaking is needed, etc. He presented his explanation at a conference on Homeopathy in France last year. He is a theorist and his theory should be tested experimentally. None of the people present conducted these experiences.

There are still a lot of strange and unexplained effects in water. One scientist who reported such effects he saw in his experiments on EM effects was forced by the scientific community to pull back and say it was mistakes. I don't remember his name. I think he was german. It happened well before Benvenist discovery. This happens just because the data didn't fit to common beleif and assumptions.

The editor of Nature was a strong disbeleiver, maybe not as agressive as Randi. The real problem here is that these people behavior has nothing to do with pur science research process as it should be. They forged themselves a model of how things works and any data that doesn't fit the model must be an error. Calling back into question the model is out of question for them.

I've seen this behavior on many occasion. This is not scientific and rational.
Google actually wants you to add a unique number to the URLs. It's in one of their FAQs. That's probably why there are doing it (to help with seo on Google).
Juju-only for now.
This is pretty stunning actually. Wondering, if this is borne out, how it gets handled in the Loebs.

Just wow. Great post. How did you come across it?
Agreed on the quote. It's so easy to get wrapped up in your competitors. But if competitors have bad products, that leads to focusing on doing a bad thing just a little bit better, which doesn't lead to a great product.

That's why talking to your customers and focusing on indifference, awareness and understanding are so critical.
How to turn ebook into musical podcast/audiobook
Maybe the "California corporation" ethos is a part of their brand image. Some people may associate the "Deleware corporation" designation with scheming and untrustworthy businesses.
It looks even worse when viewed in that light. Is "we're going to try to rip Apple off, badly" really the pitch they're giving HP and their other OEM's?
In my experience, the kinds of people who spend the most time on minimizing taxes are precisely the opposite of productive members of society: heirs and heiresses with large assets and passive incomes, but not much real capacity for earning income through their own labors. You generally see complex tax-avoidance trust structures in these "old-money" families much more than you see them in new-money families. For them, it's a rational decision, because the opportunity cost of spending a bunch of time/effort on tax avoidance is low: they aren't wasting time that they would otherwise have put to more productive uses.
Heh. What is that difference? Philosophers of science would love to know.

If homeopathy failed to conform to accepted theory but consistently beat placebos in a wide variety of good clinical trials, it would be good medicine; if it worked in theory but not in tissue, it would not be. Theory is generally constrained by observation.

Homeopathy is wrong because it doesn’t work. Conceivably it could have turned out to work in some way that violated previous medical understanding. Lots of things have done this – it’s one of the main ways understanding is refined.

Besides which, as far as I know (which is not far) there is no fundamental principle of biology, chemistry, or physics that it breaks. It just so happens that water molecules and immune systems don’t work the way homeopathy would need them to. While you could see this in terms of a violation of principles (in the same way that you can rewrite any false math theorem to 1 = 0 if you work hard enough), that doesn’t seem like a very productive perspective to me.

But I’m not a doctor, biologist, chemist, or physicist, so I guess it could be.
Apple is well with in its rights to do this and I do think there is a duty to shareholders to not overpay for things, including government. That said, Apple pays a lot more taxes than most corporations, simply because they are successful and they should be commended for producing so high a return on capital.

Some will be ripping their hair out over such a comment. Apple is successful and therefore worthy of punishment, they will tell you. I respectfully disagree.
10k-50k as of 10:15pm PDT 28 June
This is one of those "mom do I haaaaave to????" pieces of functionality that engineers (I say this as an engineer-type) hate.

I would procrastinate for weeks before implementing something like this. It's boring, complex, and affects a tiny minority of users.

However to engineers like me, we have to remember that even though the number of end-users might be small, in this case they are inherently more valuable than the average user. They bring a cache of readers with them and if they like the user experience, can potentially evangelize the product for you more effectively than someone starting a blog from scratch can.
Usually when companies mock their competitors it shows how desperate they really are. But then again, Apple also does this (They did mock Windows in one of their ads).
Apache Software Foundation sells out to Oracle
Knowledge is useful only as an input to action. Otherwise it's a dead end or it might have non-useful value such as entertainment.
Spam Gourmet offers something similar, plus you can choose your own alias:

http://spamgourmet.com/
I wonder if they will call it Windows 8, given that Windows 7 is a homophone for "Windows Heaven" and Windows 8 is thisclose to "Windows Hate".

Just my personal tinfoil hat marketing conspiracy theory.

edit: removed unnecessary potshot.
From M.S. Patients, Outcry for Unproved Treatment
An earlier article about this medical procedure was posted by pg,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1257229

so I thought I should post a follow-up.
I work on the Windows team and was front row at the big Win8 planning meeting. It was good fun with Steve Ballmer shouting right in front of me (I'd never experienced that before... he's amazing at getting a crowd going).

I can't say much... but these slides are laughable (and if real, designed for some other company's execs/marketers) I joined Microsoft this past September having never been a Windows person. I've done most of my professional development on linux, and you can pry my macbook pro from my cold dead hands.

With that in mind, Win8 is looking awesome and it's something that I want to use right now. Microsoft is really getting their shit together. Win8, if it's even a fraction of what is planned, is going to change things permanently. This is a good thing considering Steve Jobs seems to have given up on the desktop as of this most recent WWDC.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/28/apple-weve-sold-over-1-7-mi...

"most successful launch in Apple's history" ~ Steve Jobs

When was the last time anyone stood in line for 3 days for a Nokia product launch?
Syntactically Python and JavaScript are very different languages but the underlying concepts have a fair bit in common. With the emergence of HTML5 there is going to be increasing amounts of demand for more browser side JS coding. On the server side it depends on the framework you choose. Can recommend using Chrome, the developer tools are built-in and very good.
Finding Email ID of any Orkut Profile
How does this service generate income, much less pay for itself?
Http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pub=hwuweb
If Karelis is right, taking $50 from a poor person won't hurt them at all - what's one more bee sting?

Karelis's viewpoint is that they wouldn't have spent the $50 to alleviate the bee sting. They would have spent it on something that did give them utility. That nice thing (that they really couldn't afford!) what is taken away with the extra taxation.

That said, I think the point you make is reflected in a lot of real public policy. Poor areas get the worse public services, the most pollution, etc. They have so many bee stings that they can't be bothered to complain about one more.
Indeed. But the shareholders will find somebody to do their bidding.

Also you could argue that doing what you were elected to do, within the legal limits, is fine.

I'd say tax minimization is a patriotic duty.
I cannot tell if this is a serious question or a joke!
to poster: it's not april 1st. why do you post this now?
Google Coders Need To Go On An HTML Diet
Looks like Google adopting 'confuse competitors' strategy (similar to Windows and OS/2).
A few. Seems to be about a tenth of the ones not in my favor.
How about "omega" as the symbol?
1) It wont bother the physicists as much as tau.
2) Omega has a circular shape which makes it a 'natural' choice for the circle constant.
Unless you live in Australia.
They also have an emulator for 16-bit apps on 32-bit Windows, and for 32-bit apps on 64-bit Windows.
The best way is to ask around in logo design community, e.g. http://logopond.com. Just post your logo there, ask in its description for help with identifying duplicates and then follow up in Forums.

Second best option is to do a keyword-based search in logotype databases such as http://logolounge.com (though this one wants $100 in annual access fees).
The board of directors and officers have a fiduciary duty to do what is in the best interest of the company and shareholders. If the choice is to invest our extra cash thru a CA based corp, pay more tax, have a lower return and ultimately less $ to reinvest in the company, or, to set up in the neighboring state so don't lose money, and its perfectly legal, the choice is easy.

I think a better question is why have CA voters voted in so much spending and extra taxes, putting them at disadvantage to other states. Nevada actively encourages companies and individuals to come set up shop there.

Capital gains tax by state - http://www.thereibrain.com/realestate-blog/2007/10/capital-g...
I think the crucial reason is only that most people in paypal made tons of cash and they generally hired smart people.

Everything else this post mentions is probably reading too much between the lines and is more similar to the over-romanticising commonly associated with fluff journalism pieces.
The thing about Windows is they don't really have to do very much and they'll still sell a boat load of copies. Windows 7 has sold tens of millions of copies. I would consider that a resounding success in such a short period of time. But the fact is, attention is quickly shifting away from desktop operating systems. So while it will be do doubt successful, I still wonder when Microsoft is going to step up their game on the mobile front.
Ask HN: why do you want access to my contact list?
I tried to log in with my google account, but HN asks permission to access my contact list. Why?
It worked pretty well, although it did produce some noise with my image. However that's probably to be expected with a service like this. Nevertheless, it made the picture much more readable.

Here are the before and after photos: http://imgur.com/wPgl8&G80Lz

I agree with some of the comments. The noise around the edge of the whiteboard can be distracting. OCR would be a nice touch if you can get it to work as well.

Another thing that could be useful is automatic cropping so that the picture contains more content and less empty space. Maybe have an option to divide the picture into individual photos if there's enough whitespace? That way you could have separate photos for separate diagrams.
I don't know how they are doing with monetisation but twit.tv is cool
The iPhone 4 launch was popular. I agree.

But how is this related to reception problems and Nokia's tongue-in-cheek post?
In more than one of them, that's for dang sure.
Not exactly what is meant by "negative tax" in the article. You have to earn money before you're eligible to get the credit, with the amount based on size of family. Whereas the negative tax of the article gives you more and more money the less you have. (The EIC's capped, and if you make too little money, say via only a part time job, you don't get the full credit. What the article calls a negative tax would pay you the maximum amount if you earned nothing for the year.)
The founder's gave us a very decentralized system and a very minimal federal government. Needless to say, this has greatly eroded.

The asian economies have become so successful because they have been adopting capitalism. We should be glad.

Our problems are of our own making. We've been incenting people to consume rather than to produce and to go into debt to do it. And government at all levels is borrowing and spending in the mistaken belief that consumption is economic success. It isn't.

We need to start dealing with reality.
Search engine techniques
The one feature that would make me consider using windows again is if it supported bash as a first class shell option and had a built in x server.
Ask HN: Cassandra, HBase, Hypertable, Voldemort. Lowest read latency?
I've got a great deal of information that I need to store in a key value format. I need access to that data as quickly as possible. Writes are only going to occur quarterly. Any thoughts?
You'll notice that in the JPEG 2000 example, the artifacts from using wavelets are much less noticeable than with traditional JPEG. This is exactly because wavelets are able to represent sharp edges with very little information (due to the fact they themselves are localized sharply in time). This avoids the blockiness that is inherent in traditional DCT transform based techniques at low bitrates.
Maybe they are answering the exact question the OEM's are asking: "How can we be more like Apple?"
Vim is awesome. NERDTree is a must for any developer.
Published 1st Apr 2010
And better off than most of the people in underdeveloped countries in 2010, including so-called emergent countries.
Links to erudite commentary on implications of Bilski decision
Except there are almost no Apple features listed in this deck. The only thing they really copy from Apple is to create brand loyalty. I'm not sure any company in the world would argue against trying to get the brand loyalty that Apple has.
> If you are transitioning from windows, then in order of preference you will probably want to use, evim, gvim, vim.

What advantage does console vim have over gvim
Overall appearance of the site is poor. Too much whitespace which is blinding and basically dwarfing the content. Design like this could've in principle worked for a designer's portfolio site, but for a media broadcasting website the design is inappropriate.

Also the small details, the way "TCTV Live" in my browser looks, for the lack of better word, - sloppy. Something from an 8bit Amiga era. Not polished.

In short - the site looks unattractive. You are loosing heaps of visitors by not delivering really good "first 10 seconds" impression.
I wouldn't because:

1. You need a lot of computing power for editors/IDEs. You want things to happen instantly, and that usually isn't the case with web-based stuff.

2. Browsers haven't reached the point where you can make really great editors in them.

3. You're usually dealing with local files, and browser-based editors wouldn't do well with that (you have to have local files because there are a lot of files, you need to compile them, etc.).

4. When I sit down to program, I usually sit down on a computer I own which has a lot of very specific programs and a very specific environment. This includes, but is not limited to, the editor. I can't do web dev these days without having Firefox + Firebug installed, not to mention having Python/Django installed for most of my projects, etc. So having a web-based editor won't help me in programming on other machines anyway.
"Google actually wants you to add a unique number to the URLs."

I think you're mistaken.
Interesting - definitely worth a look!
Because given that context, it's hard to resist seeing this sort of thing as sour grapes.

I'm not claiming it is, but that impression is hard to avoid even if they are very gentle about poking fun indirectly as the case is here.
One VMware per app would be the easiest way to fix this. Just put the whole mess in a box and forget about it.

If MS is worried about people using this for servers, it's easy to add limitations at a higher level.
Why the downvotes? The linked page points to the judicial concept of the "Race to the Bottom" in which countries/states/counties competitively weaken their laws to attract investment.
You can't run faster than the speed of light, i.e. it isn't just for lack of trying. Explaining things in those terms to the layman helps them to understand the issues. There's a large chasm between things that might potentially work, and things that couldn't even work in theory.

Homeopathy is squarely in the latter category. The whole concept of water memory is pseudoscientific nonesense.

Note that they're not just claiming that water has some special effect on the human immune system. They're claiming that molecules are capable of transmitting and retaining information in a manner that violates our understanding of chemistry and physics.
lame, particularly as its not April 1stt
Yeah, some things I've read have linked psycopathy with an inablity to feel empathy, and what makes someone a killer is also having poor impulse control.

I feel like to a certain extent that lack of empathy would help your career quite a bit (like if you were a Berkeley professor) I'd like to know if this guy exhibits any of the other behavioral traits associated with psychopaths.....
Plan9 resurrected the idea of files for windowing systems. (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/about.html)
I just use one gmail account. Any other email account I just forward. Eventually everyone just emails to that one account since I always reply from it. It's not a problem at all.

With filters, using the +blah functionality (email+spam@gmail.com for example), it works great! Never need anything else.
The menu bar looks off...
Do you know how Bash does shell integration? (E.g. program specific completion?)
While that's all true (one minor correction, 150 million Win7 licenses have been sold).

If you haven't taken a look at Win7 mobile, you might want to. It's a pretty decent and novel approach to mobile UI. Microsoft has stepped up it's UI efforts in the past year or so. You're starting to see this in most of their products. They finally got a kick in the nuts after resting on their laurels for too long. Win8 shouldn't disappoint.
If most of your pro experience has been with Linux, and you seem to love your Macbook Pro, I'm really curious to know why you went to work at Microsoft? This is a serious question.
Could you provide some sources?
I'd just run away with the money.
take a look at powershell, seriously, when i move to a linux desktop in the near future at work, my default shell will most likely be http://pash.sourceforge.net/
Having looked through the slide deck I can't help but to draw the parallels with similar plans for Vista. "It will have this, it will have that, 3rd and 4th" and in the end all that left was the protected media path and the windows-tab gimmick.

Perhaps MS has changed, but frankly given the history and considering its size and the amount of office politicking involved I find it fairly hard to believe.
Partitioning an already heavily used disk for bootcamp is probably the closest any relatively normal user would ever get to needing to degrag an OS X volume.

And pretty much the only time a normal user would ever need to reinstall OS X is if something went seriously wrong with the system files. It's a very abnormal thing to encounter. And even if you somehow need to do so, the option to preserve user information has been in OS X for a long time.
They can have an app store with sandboxed apps, without requiring that all apps go through the app store, with its sandboxing.
We used to have that, it was called TheSixtyOne.

But now it's just a hollow shell of it's former self.
so.. you want a unix operating system?