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Haha, it's true, the Conservapedia really is quite a slanted read, e.g. Despite censorship of dissent about relativity, evidence contrary to the theory is discussed outside of liberal universities.

Talk about skewed. Of course there's more to explain about the physical world, and of course new discoveries can and do change everything we thought we knew. Rational scientists and laypeople must be open-minded...but we all gotta have a quack-filter too.

It's pretty funny to attack science on its strengths like that.

It gets better: Some liberal politicians have extrapolated the theory of relativity to metaphorically justify their own political agendas. For example, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama helped publish an article by liberal law professor Laurence Tribe to apply the relativistic concept of "curvature of space" to promote a broad legal right to abortion.

Reading the original text which they are referring just saddens me, Conservapedia is taking issue with a metaphor describing layers of complexity in the nature of subjugation of women:

Laurence H. Tribe: "The Roe v. Wade opinion ignored the way in which laws regulating pregnant women may shape the entire pattern of relationships among men, women, and children. It conceptualized abortion not in terms of the intensely public question of the subordination of women to men through the exploitation of pregnancy, but in terms of the purportedly private question of how women might make intimately personal decisions about their bodies and their lives. That vision described a part of the truth, but only what might be called the Newtonian part. ... [A] change in the surrounding legal setting can constitute state action that most threatens the sphere of personal choice. And it is a 'curved space' perspective on how law operates that leads one to focus less on the visible lines of legal force and more on how those lines are bent and directed by the law's geometry."

I find it ironic and sad that both the science metaphor that they don't like and the woman's rights topic it addresses are both issues the religious right has an extremely poor track record accepting, even today, 2010. If someone disagrees that pregnancy and childcare have historically made the sexes unequal then perhaps they should say so and back it up (good luck) instead of freak out about a metaphor.

http://conservapedia.com/Theory_of_relativity#Lack_of_eviden...
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No. It is almost exactly the same as Garmin Forerunner (which also can use a pedometer).
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Mostly I just took issue with your usage of "scripting language" (which has more to do with a REPL and no discrete compilation step than anything else). The edit clarifies things a bit too; I confess to not following the original iOS app development details.

Thanks for taking the time to write an awesome response; you are definitely more savvy on the performance topic than me, and I'm disappointed to learn that the crunching power of modern mobile CPUs tends to be squandered.
For me it was strange that Ruby used "end" as the block ending delimiter in a world and era where so many other languages were using "}" quite effectively, thank you very much. And Python was showing you didn't even need that much. It felt like a throwback to an earlier era of programming, like COBOL or Pascal.
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What would be the point of a fork?

If the fork subsets or supersets Java, or if it fails to comply to the Java specification, I believe that Sun's patent promise does not apply, and so the fork would be vulnerable to Oracle patent suits.
For anyone whose interested in this sort of thing I highly recommend The Elements of Computing Systems (http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/).
Note though that there won't be any more binary releases of OpenSolaris - so you'll have to build the whole ball of wax from the code drop yourself. And of course you won't be able to build the /usr/closed components.
that's good-strange, though, not bad-strange.

i think in the OA they were mostly talking about bad-strange.
Invent http://icanhascheezburger.com/? ;)

But seriously, not being commercially driven is what gives the chans their credibility. Commercializing that crowd is a million dollar question. Now that moot has taken VC, it will be interesting to see how his new project will monetize.
It's McSweeney's. It's a joke.

I think having to point that out is a sign that HN's decline is near.
"In short — those who don't know CSS shouldn't use frameworks, those who do know don't need them."

Whatever.

I get the results I want in an effective and efficient manner, using simple, direct markup I find easy to follow and easy to maintain. And it will be easy to follow and easy to maintain by the people I turn it over to, who typically do not employ anyone who has to time or inclination to devote themselves to the minutiae of reliable cross-browser sanctimonious markup purity.

YMMV, of course.

The horror of littering code with presentational crap (hyperbole much?) means, in real life, pretty much diddly squat, because patting oneself on the back for hand-crafting pristine HTML + CSS has near zero value relative to other concerns.
I'm in Shenzhen at the moment. Look in my flickr (little icon on blog), I've got recent photos there.
An example of how biased and closed Slashdot discussions have become
Frankly, I groan too. It was really badly written and I will change it.
SomethingAwful's solution: membership & service fees.
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Sell archive-power, e.g. for US$0.10, you can prevent this thread from being pruned for ten minutes.
I spent more money than i should getting my license north of Seattle, and i don't regret it. it was a confidence builder and something i really recommend to hacker types - learning to fly is such a perfect combination of the technical and aesthetic, satisfying the need for beauty, freedom, and aventure and challenging your mind at the same time.

Flying, after a while, can become routine and at a certain point the marginal value is low - it's expensive and if you're not going to be a professional pilot, it begins to seem like a very expensive and pointless hobby. but the experience of learning to fly is worth it.

At the time i got my license it was a minimum of 40 hours so the sport pilot rating makes it a lot easier. however, i'm not sure that at 22 hours it's very safe to go up with someone else - it's easy to get overconfident in the pattern, make a turn a little too tight, and stall, and at 1000 feet above the ground, it's generally not recoverable. i didn't feel super confident in pretty much any situation (crosswind, busy airport, low clouds, etc) until around 80 hours.

edit: pattern is the nice little box you make when you're flying around an airport, preparing to land... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airfield_traffic_pattern
To this excellent list I'd add:

First Class Continuations like in Scheme.
1) Space for algorithmic innovation? (which is the coolest thing to be in front of but I guess there must be already some algorithm application to handle this case)
2) Why? Could you give some examples? I ask because I also think that rating-less like is dependent on the subjects personality. For me a dislike button should be much more meaningful because as a optimistic there is a bigger range of things I like with a bigger variation of likeness, while when I (would) hit dislike I must be pretty sure that I don't like it.
3) I agree but the implication is that sites should use negative qualifications differently, it shouldn't be shared with others in the same way the likeness is shared unless, as in your suggestions, they enable you to find better content. I don't go telling people I dislike that I dislike them, I just avoid them. The approach should be similar.
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At work I use KeePassX across Mac, Windows, and Linux systems and it does the job fine.

At home I really like 1Password for the Mac except that the version I have doesn't work with Safari 5 or Chrome.

For secure files on my Mac, I keep a password-protcted & encrypted sparsebundle disk image in Dropbox. You can create one using Disk Utility. It's really handy and always backed up.

I can't speak to proving the security of these solutions but work for me otherwise.
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I briefly had dealings with Google on a similar issue. There is a concept in US and perhaps other law, "tortuous interference" where a third party does wrong by interfering with business between two other parties. Think someone refusing to let you walk into a store because it sells meat or leather. It's possible that google could
run afoul of these things. In practice I've yet to see any offensive use of delisting, aside from one case of a Belgian newspaper which I may well be recalling in correctly. They are very aware of their position and have not abused it.

edit: ah, this is the case:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/05/belgian-pape...

Google lost a copyright battle against some Belgian newspapers for news.google.be. So they delisted ALL pages from those papers.

"When Google lost the case, it not only pulled the stories from the News archive and stopped indexing them, but it yanked the papers from its main index. Apparently, this wasn't good for business, and the papers soon worked out a deal to get back in the index while remaining out of Google News."

An example to the others, indeed.
I don't think that follows. The causes could be primarily historical, for example. One would have to have detailed knowledge to make a case here.
You can use {} instead of do/end if you'd like.
great! wonder why most people don't use it? I keep seeing "end" in almost every chunk of Ruby code I see on the web.
Did GTE CyberTrust issue certificates for money? If its customers' secure web sites stop working because browsers revoke the GTE CyberTrust certificate, can those customers sue Verizon for malfeasance?
List of acquisitions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Yahoo!
Founders can be found through CrunchBase
Founders current status can be checked at LinkedIn

I know, it is a lot of work :)

Some cases where I am sure:
Zimbra, Yahoo Groups, Flickr, Delicious
> Oracle has a $113B market cap. google has a 155b market cap. granted, both those numbers are large, but Google's is significantly larger

Market cap doesn't translate into assets that can be used in a fight. Some more relevant comparisons:

Oracle: 115000 employees, Google: 22000 employees.

Oracle: $27 billion revenue, Google $24 billion revenue.

Oracle: $9 billion operating income, Google $8 billion operating income.

Oracle: $60 billion total assets, Google $40 billion total assets.

> Could Oracle write a search engine? No. the idea is just silly.

Considering that a single determined programmer can make a great search engine (duckduckgo.com), I find it hard to believe that among all of those 115000 employees, Oracle would not be able to find a few who could make a good search engine.
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I made the point in another comment but, in the case of jQTouch, I would like to see some evidence of any real development to be stalled. It seems they've transfered focus to Sencha Touch. As for that, it's a commercial product; if anything, this announcement should accelerate their development.
Vorg is simply saying -- and is quite right -- that APL is regarded as unreadable only because it's unfamiliar. People who know APL-based languages are amazingly proficient with them. The "write-only" slur is a canard. (Actually, these languages constitute one of the truly great contributions to programming. APL belongs on a short list with Lisp, Smalltalk, C, Forth, and very few others.)

It's depressing how the computing world is overrun with majoritarian prejudice. Even here. I suppose it's just human nature, but an open mind is so rare.
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Hey, I just removed Oracle from Google search too! All I did was craft a special encoded URL, take a screenshot, and conveniently crop out the URL bar.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%D0%BEr%D0%B0c%D0%86%D0%B5
What I'd like to do is learn to fly in South Africa. Think about it - travel somewhere exotic, explore the place not only on the ground, but also from the air, and go back home a pilot.

Also, I heard South Africa is cheaper and have pretty high quality flight instruction.
Arguable, poor people make great targets because they're less likely to be able to defend themselves.
The general convention is that {} is for one line blocks, and do/end for multiline.

[1,2,3].each{|n| puts n }

versus

[1,2,3].each do |n|
m = n + 1
puts m
end

The reason? do/end is much prettier than {}, but {} is really nice for chaining...

[1,3,2].collect{|n| n + 2 }.sort
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Those people are "judgment proof" because even if you get a judgment that says they owe you a billion dollars, you'll never collect a dime.
Perl 5 has dynamic scoping for backward compatibility with Perl 4, which had only dynamic scoping, and not only that, it botched it so that this code didn't work right:

sub greet {
local ($who) = @_;
print "hello, $who\n";
}

$who = "world";
&greet($who);

This would print, "hello, " with a newline, due to a design bug called "variable suicide", which has been fixed in newer Perls.

Needless to say, this made the extract-subroutine refactoring quite a bit more trouble in Perl 4.
You're seriously suggesting HN users can't work out the difference between an 'o' and a '0'? I'd credit them with slightly more intelligence than that.
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I don't understand the whole 100 hour week business (unless it's an exaggeration). Even at 7 days per week, that works out to 14 hours a day, or 9am - 11pm. I could pull off those hours for a few days (and sometimes I do), may be a few weeks if really necessary, but no human being can do this consistently and do even remotely creative work. We run a startup and meet fairly aggressive schedules at half the hours. Why could they possibly need to work 100 hour weeks?

Yes, sometimes it's necessary. Yes, sometimes team spirit takes over and spending fourteen hours a day at work feels like fun. Yes, sometimes there's a creative burst and one could easily pull of a fourteen hour session. But I cannot believe someone could consistently put in an honest day's work and pull off those hours for more than a few months.
How expensive is expensive?
What he means is that it was better to go through the wake-up call earlier instead of losing millions of dollars and man-hours on a language controlled by corporate interests.
>Oracle: 115000 employees, Google: 22000 employees.

yes, but Oracle is /very/ sales and corporate support (sales) heavy. those people will not help you build a search engine, at least not a search engine with Google's target customers and business model.

Now, 'enterprise search' for internal stuff? Oracle could do that. Oracle might even be able to get corps to pay for a subscription-based 'search for corporations' that cleaned up most of the porn and more shady spam. but they couldn't do an ad-based search targeted at everyone, like google does.

If nothing else, most people are aware that google knows everything about you, and uses that knowledge to serve you ads. this only works because people, by and large, trust google to not go too far overboard.

>Considering that a single determined programmer can make a great search engine (duckduckgo.com), I find it hard to believe that among all of those 115000 employees, Oracle would not be able to find a few who could make a good search engine.

do you think duck duck go will last after it becomes worth spammer time to game them? I've said before that the search engine market has something of a negative barrier to entry; your job is /much/ easier while you are small enough that most spammers ignore you.

Another problem oracle would have is that Oracle isn't cheap. the are used to environments where you can shell out one or two orders of magnitude more than you would for commodity disk to get a really nice storage unit. Running a search engine is all about making the cheapest hardware that could possibly work run without going down when a bit of hardware crashes in a weird way.

Overcoming this cultural bias towards "buy good stuff" is pretty difficult. Then, they will have to face a set of technical challenges they are not used to facing. There are a whole lot of problems that go away when you decide to pay for a really high quality storage unit. I mean it's so bad that I pay 2x as much per gigabyte so I can have "enterprise' sata and not worry about most of those problems. Judging from, say, s3 prices (at scale, its $0.037 per gigabyte for four copies of the data, if my information is correct, which it might not be) it's quite possible that the big players use hard drives that are even more prone to failure than the consumer-grade drives that I have access to.
I don't like it either, but people are used to it and it serves its purpose. You can put it after 'mono' if you like.
Ah an RIAA rep, welcome to Hacker News. :)
This is ridiculous. And childish.
This is really inspirational. I've always wanted a pilot's license, and now it seems that at least the first step is easier than ever.

I am terribly afraid of single-engine planes, though. I'd probably get to sport pilot and immediately keep going to whatever the next level was that allowed me to fly twin-engines.
That's why I said 'language' and not 'APL'.
a cessna 172 burns 8gallons of 100octane fuel an hour.
add min $60K for an airplane, depreciation, insurance, etc.

Unless you go the homebuilt/experimental route. In which case you can fly something like a quickie q2 ($20-30K) and burn ~4gallons/hr of autogas.

Oh also, the zenair zodiac 601 recently had a problem with its wings folding up in flight. Check that they've been corrected before you take a trip in one.

Personally the sport pilot license bores me to death. Can't fly into busy airspace, can't fly more than 120mph or so, vfr only, single passenger, essentially overgrown ultralights.
i spent around 15K and i have about 150 hours, in cessna 172s, a bit of time in mooneys, some time in a piper or three, learned how to fly in mountains and was about 80% of the way toward an instrument rating. So, i spent about $100/hr on average but i had about $120/hr of fun :)
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Of the people I know who have a pilots license, the ones who seem pleased/proud/positive about it are those who are (lucky enough) to own/co-own a plane.

As was pointed out with me, the right planes don't loose value/much value and so once you own a plane your running costs are low. Then you can book a weekend in Tahoe (I'm in SF) and just fly the plane out.

The people for whom flying is expensive is, ironically, those who don't own a plane and have to rent. By the time you've rented (paid + time to organize that, you might as well just fly commercially)
On the other hand, why didn't they go after HTC and the other device manufacturers at the same time?
They tried that back in the 1800s. That's where the USSR came from.
> Oracle doesn't need to make a search engine, they have Oracle + Sun's patent, they could make it impossible for Google to build a computer and run software on it with enough lawsuits. Only IBM in my view could survive a patent attack like this.

if that's true, then yeah, google is in trouble. I'm certainly not qualified to speculate about legal issues.

Still, the question in my mind would be: "how many of those patents would stand up to determined scrutiny from a well-funded and very motivated team of competent Engineers and Lawyers?
I just finished a 2nd book about Richard Feynman in a few hours (I basically devoured it) and went searching more about him and his life. I ran into this video and it was the first time I've seen him. He's such a remarkable figure and his out look on life is amazingly as remarkable. I only wish I had come to know about Feynman earlier, but I'm glad I know and read about him. I'm deeply moved. Thanks Feynman for such wisdom in life and how to live your life like an adventure. And Touva does sound great as a next traveling destination.
No, but they can't tell the difference in axоd. (The о there is the Cyrillic lookalike.)
The only exposure that ZFS has is Patent Based. Some of the interesting ones are expiring in the next four to five years:

http://www.google.com/patents?as_q&num=10&btnG=Googl...

They'll all expire eventually. ZFS (like) file systems will eventually be very succesful.
Our research shows that all child molesters search for these 7 items. We randomly selected you for a quick search of your 20k search terms and found all 7 (separated by years but we decided that was irrelevant).

Since we have a "zero tolerance" policy when it comes to child molesters ("zero tolerance" meaning "guilty until proved innocent") we are accusing you of this crime (and telling your workplace and all of your acquaintances).

You may now use whatever meager life-savings you might have to defend yourself against these charges. This should not take long as you are also now friendless and out of work.

Have a nice day.
Hoedspruit in the Limpopo province is a good place to go for this, it has flight school due to it also being the location of an air-force base.

It's also in a central location if you're the type of person who enjoys doing outdoor stuff.

It's close to the Drakensberg mountain range (awesome hiking), like 100km from the Kruger National Park (recommended at least once), there's a lot of rugged touristy stuff to do.

Weather is great.

If you're coming with Euros it will be pretty cheap, just don't go to the tourist traps or decide you need to go do one of the package "safaris" as those are priced to what rich people can bear.

Disclaimer: I am biased, I grew up 3 hours drive from this area.
I can't afford to learn how to fly, but I've always wanted to do it. So, when I was a kid (8ish) my parents hooked me on aeromodelling, and I loved it like anything. I used to spend hours sanding away wood, which is quite incredible for an 8 year old.

I know that isn't a substitute for the real deal, but for those of us who can't fork out 15K regularly for something it's worth it.

Moreover, it's possible to make a drone these days. So, a lot of people over here could design a suitable balsa aircraft that could handle the payload and attach a battery with a small video camera to it and an arduino to control it. The biggest problem IMO would be the radio communication, but a lot of solutions exist for that too.

I think that if someone is fairly dedicated they could make one for under $300 using spare parts, and it should be worth it too. As it scratches that itch in a much much cheaper way, and learn a lot about design too.

A huge plus is that if you crash it your or other's life isn't, necessarily, on the line.
There are a lot stranger stuff hiding in Ruby.

Flip-flops. Do I need to elaborate?
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This article leaves a lot missing. When was the last time you saw someone who looked ripped but couldn't lift some heavy weights?

Lifting high rep low weight certainly doesn't prepare you for that.