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Maybe, maybe not. While I can't deny the visceral satisfaction of responding physically, you also sometimes have to deal with the legal consequences of those actions. Short of defending my or a loved one's life or property, I personally find very little reason to respond to someone else's physical threats.

What I'm saying is that I think you probably did the right thing.
Not an illusion in this case: that deep hierarchy of one-liners dominating the top of the thread is unmistakably Redditesque.
We are using it as an elastic cloud solution. To make a long story short we've decided Azure runs on killing innocent baby kittens and that the machines are provisioned by a man riding around their data center on a Segway. Hope that helps.
Oh absolutely. My father had a PhD in chemistry, was very intelligent, but never made more than a modest middle-class income. He worked in academia. If a high income means a lot to you, academia is a hard place to find it unless you are one of the few superstars that bring in a lot of grant money. At if you are, you are mostly a salesman anyway.
Cool, though I probably would have paid double :)
I'm an American in the process of getting a Danish work permit, and it's easy so far, but they seem to have a special fast-track category for "researchers", and a Danish university is sponsoring me. I assume I couldn't just move there on my own. On the other hand, Linus also fits a fairly easy profile, so could probably get a work permit almost anywhere (highly educated and internationally famous engineer with steady employment).

Getting Danish citizenship, though, is notoriously difficult, and among other requirements, they require you to renounce any other citizenships (unlike the U.S., they actually enforce this requirement). Many foreigners, as a result, live in Malmö, Sweden and commute to Copenhagen (it's about a 30-minute train ride over the bridge/tunnel), since Sweden's citizenship laws are more lax, and once you have EU citizenship you're essentially good anywhere in the EU.
so now we can dynamically load content chunks to the dom... and the server can determine if the request was made by jquery.

dude, web development is getting impossible... there's just wayyy to much to keep in mind. especially while trying to utilize all the css3 and html5 features.

you could just optimize 1 site forever.
I don't think those two reasons should keep you from applying. We have the same "issues" - but we still applied.
I'm chronically late. It's a problem. I'm working on it.

However I notice the poster talks about 9AM meetings. In every company I've worked for, there are people who have a habit of scheduling meetings at the very beginning of the working day, at 8 or 9AM. There are also programmers who have a habit of coming in later, at 10 or 11AM, which is fine except the days when there are meetings.

You can write and complain and admonish and discipline, but sooner or later you have to realize scheduling meetings first thing in the morning doesn't work for non-morning people. They will always be late, or slow, tired, and out of it. If you notice that about 1/3 of your staff never makes the 8AM meeting on time, it's the meeting time and not the staff that's the problem.

Also, making meetings very long and irrelevant encourages tardiness. You've decided to waste my time by making me go to a big group meeting where two people are going to argue about something that does not impact my work. Fine, but don't expect me to make an extra effort to rush to it. I can get some of my time back by being late.
As I understand it, the complaint isn't over the "H" part, but the 'F'. Obviously nothing is going to be "higher" sugar than a spoonful of, um, sugar (setting aside issues of density).

But I'd point out that you've taken a page from the corn industry and edited your previous words. You had said earlier "table sugar breaks down into glucose and fructose during digestion", but revised that to "table sugar breaks down into fructose during digestion".

The controversy here is that (AFAIK) HFCS is all, or much more, fructose than glucuse, relative to table sugar; how does the body react to the difference between fructose and glucose?
I think the point of his comment is to see that viewing trade as zero-sum leads to absurdity.
I seem to recall that just like the Nexus One, the iPhone was supposed to be sold direct to consumers at the full unsubsidized price.

Excellent point. It was sold unsubsidized initially, but people were apoplectic about spending $600 for a phone. Apple quickly realized that joining the subsidy model was better than fighting it, so they announced the price "cut" on the 3G model and got glowing press, while hardly anyone noticed that with the monthly rate increase customers would be paying more over two years.

Apple has far better taste than the carriers, to be sure. But both agree that you should not have control over "your" hardware.
It does actually, but many countries such as Canada do not recognize it - they have their own process to renounce Canadian citizenship, and since you didn't follow it, you're still a citizen.
aww thanks Daryn :) Instead, how about using 2x as much?
Write more code, visit more BBSes, garden more.

As I get older (late 30s), I'm finding Internet culture more alien and less appealing to my demographic, so I've been spending less and less time on it.

Outside of work, I'm looking at about 5 minutes per day, unless I'm online gaming, but then its just to game, not chat with other players. I read a lot of online articles (Wired Danger Room++), I scan through feeds, find an article and Instapaper them for offline reading.

I don't feel like I'm really missing anything. Any information important enough will eventually get to me.
Email ha@hackerangels.com. We mainly give advice--if you need any, that is.
Probably a small gap, just big enough to fly a fighter space ship through. At least that's what I find...
That last sentence is false. HFCS is not "much more" fructose than glucose relative to table sugar. It's "much more" fructose than other sugars relative to unpalatable plain corn syrup. Table sugar is metabolized very similarly to HFCS, with very similar (some sources would say nearly identical) fructose loads. The difference is that HFCS contains free-floating fructose, and sucrose is a disaccharide (of glucose and fructose) that is very quickly broken into plain 'ol glucose and fructose as soon as it hits your digestive system.

'carbocation may jump in here to set me straight (I'd be surprised but happy to have learned something), but my understanding here is that there is nothing more healthful about plain table sugar than HFCS. They are both very bad for you in the same way.
That's not the case with my family, at least. My mom was a green-card holder for almost 40 years until she finally got her citizenship a few years ago, and there was never any real hassle. She eventually got her citizenship mostly to simplify retirement planning (if she and my dad, who's a U.S.-born citizen, had different citizenships, apparently things get complicated with things like pensions and survivorship). I guess that's a kind of hassle, but a very cerebral one; she didn't get hassled at customs or anything, at least any more than I do. Probably being a middle-aged woman with an American family made her fit a low-risk profile anyway, but becoming a citizen has basically made no difference for her on that side of things.
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In my practical experience at the grocery store, avoiding HFCS will at least accidentally lead you to a lower sugar diet. This is mostly due to the fact that at a typical grocery store you won't be able to find many of the more processed goods that don't have HFCS in it (there is literally 1 brand of bread out of 10-15 at the local Publix without HFCS), so you'll basically be forced to buy more raw vegetables, fruits, meats, etc.
Few crimes deserve a harsher sentence.
I thought this too, until I read this: http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/

A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.
I think Google is past the point where it can attract talent on reputation alone. They're already public AND their stock has probably peaked which makes stock options worthless. I imagine Google, like other companies, are having trouble attracting and retaining the top talent. There's a lot more opportunity right now in building a startup, and all the top developers know it.
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Am I missing something? All the tests were based on interfacing with a screen.
> Android is only free of carrier abuse if you're geeky enough. However, Apple is only free of carrier abuse if you're affluent enough.

Not sure about that dichotomy: unsubsidized, both cost roughly the same, and for both, root/jailbreaks are free.
Given Google's approach to Android, it looks like carriers are going to treat Android phones as feature phones and not smart phones. This might be ok for the user, but it certainly is looking like it will hurt developers and power users.

The continued existence of non-commodity broadband providers is going to be a pain for everything on top of the stack.
Is this another lesson in why you should not invent your own crypto system?
> For every dollar McDonalds gets, Burger King is not. For every dollar Microsoft gets, Apple is not.

I'm pretty sure that's not the case. Apple and Burger King would probably never be what they are today without MSFT or Mac. And perhaps vise versa also.
Yeah, I'm going to compare the two more thoroughly before I buy. Right now I'm leaning towards the iphone4 but that's just because of the apps. Hardware-wise, from what I've seen, they're about in the same league.
Maybe, but the consumers have adapted.
Exactly.

We need to stop the carriers (through banking regulation, ideally) from behaving like incredibly dishonest banks the way they are now. At the very least they should be forced to break out the handset subsidy amortization on your bill - IOW your bill would show $25 for your voice service, $25 for your data service, and then $15 for your handset amortization. Moreover they'd have to list a proper interest rate and how much of your principle is left with each bill.

Once people visibly see the handset amortization on their bill, they can reasonably ask, "if I didn't upgrade to a new phone, why am I still paying handset amortization?"
Will self-aware computers be able to reproduce? Based on some optimal energy consumption models (in the future, this code will need to make moral judgments)? Someone's definitely already told them how much energy humans throw off. Then they print out a lollipop that's really a brain implant, and ...Poof... they own us. We feed ourselves to them.

Matrix movie theory be damned, this will have big implications.
Back when I was in Business School, I did some strategic analysis role-modeling as if I were in charge of Monsanto. At the time, Monsanto was best known for the "terminator gene", suing farmers allegedly stealing their agricultural IP, and BT corn that killed monarch butterflies.

I suggested that they change their name as the first part of their strategy to turn over a new leaf in both PR as well as core business activity. My peers mocked me, saying that no big evil corporation would be so brazen as to just change their name to clean up their brand, as their critics would see right through it.

The very next week, Philip Morris rebranded itself to Altria.
Great counterpoint example, however are there any stats on court decisions related to NDA agreements vs. other types of contract-related cases to show how often an NDA is useful enough in court to merit the attention they tend to get in business?
Can someone explain what "inbound call" and "outbound call" mean in this context? Do they mean the "up" and "down" duplex components of a single call, i.e. it's now cheaper if you only listen when people call in and don't say anything back?
So, it should be labelled what it actually is, not rebranded to something more broad and misleading. HCFS-55 or HCFS-42 or HCFS-90, or whatever.
The grammar geek in me likes the parallel construction between "corn sugar" and "cane sugar".

No matter what they call it, I will still prefer the taste of my imported Mexican Coke made with cane sugar.
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The way I learned it from the nice professor in the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM) was simply:

fructose = bad, poison

glucose = good

sucrose = fructose + glucose, unsafe because the composition preserves the fructose portion

HFCS = 25% fructose, not as bad as sucrose (IIRC)

Mitigate fructose intake with fiber. apple juice = bad, but apple = good because of the fiber countering the effect of the poison at a higher point in our internal food processing chain.

I noticed you were getting downvotes, and I suspect it is because of the general "Sugar is bad for you" statement, which is -- as far as the studies go -- half correct. The rest of your text makes the distinction, so I hope it is not wholly ignored. HFCS is a scapegoat, as you point out, and it would help if we focused on the one part that is important: fructose is poison. And it can be mitigated with fiber.

But that's just what I learned from some video. One thing that always bugged me: glucose is known commonly as "grape sugar". Do grapes have fructose? Without any fructose added, is grape juice a healthy fruit juice?
"This vulnerability (CVE-2010-2884) could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. There are reports that this vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild..."

Oh no! What if it gets my iPhone! Oh, wait...
An inbound call is when someone calls your application. An outbound call is when your application calls someone.
Most of those companies have pretty large complexes in Ireland. Intel has 2 fabs, Google has a large (for Dublin) office complex as their HQ and MS has their own campus.

As far as tax havens go we actually had quite a lot of people from those companies employed, it wasn't just your standard shell company running out of a solicitors office.
I'm going to wager that "all his computers" includes at least one Windows computer.
But if the guerilla were 800lbs, it'd be only 4-5 dudes...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/800_lb_gorilla
At some point, someone will enter the market and provide "just the pipe". Or, the telcos will fight themselves into that situation. We just have a lot of historical baggage to work through first.

Telcos are already a commodity, there's just a bit of cognitive dissonance going on.
It would be more user driven than automated. When you visit a site that you want to hear what it "sounds like" you press a button and it refreshes the page and runs the little app.

Might be interesting to hear what your own work sounds like.
Don't disagree overall, but I have three reasons for thinking you might be oversimplifying a bit. Given how much sweeter HFCS is than sucrose, there's reason to believe that our addiction to sweetness is partly the work of that industrial process; there's a pretty big difference between HFCS and sucrose (the latter of course being "only" 50% fructose); and the correlation between the HFCS growth curve and the obesity growth curve is remarkable.
Walmart of all entities may be disrupting this dysfunctional market: http://money.blogs.time.com/2010/09/14/introducing-walmarts-.... $40 per GB which sounds expensive, except that it doesn't expire. If like most people you use a few hundred MB or less per month, that's a great deal. It looks like it's only available on their crappy phones for now, but hopefully the idea of paying only for data that you actually use will spread.
Further, burning a disc has certain internal logic to it: Oh, the laser changes the medium's colour (like a sun burn, or a fire). This use of burn for a torrent doesn't really make sense to me. Why not grind or chop? (as in make a bunch of little pieces). Or maybe dice... this opens the door for silly puns quite nicely too.
While sugar is bad for you, there is some evidence that corn syrup is especially so. Not conclusive yet, but enough that some cautious souls are avoiding it.

In the vein of truth in labeling, I think the goods should be well enough labelled that is possible.
But only since about 1880.
Before that 'France' was only about 20% of the country and only about 20% spoke French.

There was a huge effort to create a single nation, similar to the unification of Germany and Italy around the same time.

Their attitude to the language rather shows that - nobody in England thinks English needs 'protecting'.
3DTV is the latest 'low hanging fruit'. The rest of the system has caught up and adding 3D support isn't that hard now. So they're going to milk it for what it's worth. It'll probably lead to better technologies that use passive glasses, and even work without glasses.
This happened to me, but not an such a large scale with an EC2 instance. I emailed amazon and they severely discounted the bill, with a warning to be more careful because they might not be able to do it in the future.
Marx was right about a lot of things. The only reason America didn't have a Marxist revolution, is that our democratic government implemented tons of socialist regulations (minimum wage, maximum hours per work week without overtime pay, etc.). Germany didn't have that option at the time, which is why Marx had to predict violent overthrows. America can have revolutions on the same scale, but working within the law and without resorting to violence.
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it's the same with Wall Street (the movie).
While this is mostly a non-story, it's probably the best headline I've read in months.
Bad choice of Mobile OS for the government. Android does not support Indian Languages, no Complex Text Layout in it. Should have went with MeeGo.
As a recent Google hire, I think the article gets this point right, the offer was competitive if not generous. At the new-grad level at least I'm in the high-end of what I was expecting to be making.

I know that the reason I wanted to work at Google was to learn how to solve problems involving scale and massive parallelism. There really isn't anywhere else that can teach you that stuff as well.
Ask HN: is my domain blocked
someone recently tried to submit something from my domain to HN and it appears blank in the submission form: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1691132

Anyone have any idea what is going on?
Wow, you know what, I bet that's exactly why they picked the name. "Corn syrup" and "cane sugar" are comfortable and familiar. What could fit in with those better than "corn sugar"? One has to make a cognitive effort to distinguish them, and people don't make that kind of cognitive effort very often. This is brilliant marketing. The tobacco industry must be green with envy.
Ugh. Yeah, that wasn't the set of comments I expected to generate either.

Sometimes I post a comment that I personally expect to be genuinely worth 27 points. That wasn't one of them. You have my sincere apologies.
I don't eat HFCS because of semi-dubious claims as to health.

I don't eat HFCS because I refuse to help the industry that is most to blame for the algae bloom in the Gulf, and I don't believe that government subsidies should be what makes a given industry profitable (outside, say, weapons research, development, and manufacture - but that's an entirely different can of worms that I oppose on an entirely different reasoning).
totally agree, its just a job. even if you work with the most hacker-friendly company, you'll eventually rant out the same way someday.
Maybe the post should be "Founding a startup with zero revenue is better than a day job" (oh thats a cliche!)
I'd rather use (YMMV) Dropbox, because:

- Set & forget install and maintenance
- Select folder syncing. I don't want my personal files on my work computer.With recent Dropbox version, I can enable syncing on a particular machine folder by folder.
- It's a real, native OS folder. I've always had problems with virtual folders and drivers and the magic they use.
- I can store any type of files in a native folder :)
- Sharing files via the web is dead simple.
- Posting a photo gallery to the web is dead simple.
- 50 GB
- My files are available everywhere on every device I have.
Personally, I'd like to see Sugar Alcohols get more widely used (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_alcohol). Sugar alcohols are not metabolized by oral bacteria so they're much better for dental health (and used in many chewing gums today such as Trident). They also have fewer calories and are metabolized slower by the body. That means there's less chance that they'll contribute to obesity (fewer calories) and they have a lower impact on the body's blood sugar levels (with a low glycemic index due to the way it's slowly metabolized).

I'm guessing the reason that they're not widely used would be cost and difficulty. Still, if we could figure out a way to produce sugar alcohols cheaply, we could keep our sweet food while having a meaningful and scientifically proven positive impact on our bodies.
HFCS comes in varying F/G ratios. HFCS-55 is the most common, which is 55% fructose. The other two common varieties are HFCS-90 and HFCS-42. All HFCS starts at 90 then pure glucose corn syrup is added to dilute it down. HFCS-55 is about as sweet as sugar (unless heated, in which case it it significantly less so).
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Facebook's "Open Graph" is in reality a "closed" Semantic Web implementation. It is named so to precisely obscure this fact. Logically, Facebook's downfall will be an open Semantic Web.
Yes, but they happen on "other" platforms. Not "ALL" platforms.

I think there are too many developers out there in large and small companies that don't understand they power they wield or the responsibility they have.

I'm not a big fan of Flash. It had it's day. It wants to be everywhere, but it doesn't have the track record to be safe everywhere. I recently switched to Mac and have 3 (and only 3) crashes... all in Safari and all due to Flash.

I'm all for a company making a great product and making it prolific. I just want that company to have the integrity and follow through to make it right. After all, when an exploit takes over my machine who's out the time and money?
This article is very poorly written. It's as if no one double checked it. I've come across three mistakes and I'm not even finished yet.
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My partner and I have been working on something that's very similar to this description for some time now. Earliest feedback has been quite interesting and we're hoping to get a beta out in the wild sometime this year. Those interested in beta testing should let me know :)
I think you're perhaps only comparing the Android handsets that get featured on sites like engadget. They'll occasionally laugh at some low-end phone and wonder aloud who on earth would buy something like that but generally they just ignore them. Apple has as much intention of fighting for that market as they do of entering the netbook space.
Clearly the carriers should be regulated. In the Netherlands they are and we have the cheapest rates (between our narrow borders, outside the borders they screw us double).

For instancen we can keep our number when switching carriers or unlock phones after the contract's finished.

I'd say regulations are needed in order to keep the market from degrading into customer-slavery. :)