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The World Cup is finally being forgotten in France, and the Laurent Blanc era begins at the Stade de France on Friday when Belarus visit.

Scars caused by the summer’s events in South Africa are slowly starting to heal, and already Blanc has shown he will be a very different leader to predecessor Raymond Domenech. Out have gone a whole host of World Cup participants – including Patrice Erva, Franck Ribery, Nicolas Anelka and Jeremy Toulalan, who have been banned much to the annoyance of the former Bordeaux coach – and in come fresh faces, many discarded under the previous regime.

But the confidence of les Bleus remains fragile. A fringe France squad was defeated in Norway in early August, though Blanc had suspended all 23 members of the World Cup squad from that encounter. Positives were drawn from that match and the side is looking towards the future with optimism, though at the same time the past is not being forgotten.

Blanc, himself a French footballing icon after his exploits at the 1998 World Cup, has rallied figures such as Fabien Barthez to help him prepare the side, while legendary midfielder Zinedine Zidane even made an appearance at training on Wednesday to help inspire this new generation of hopefuls.
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Indeed I agree that there exist a gradient of trust. But it is this that seems to be so difficult for the non-scientific literate to understand. In part I think it's a problem that society seem to use "shown scientifically" for "it's true". If there is one thing that people should learn at school is statistics and the scientific method: a LOT more useful than trigonometry nowadays!

However my point is that it's not enough to have consistent predictions to show you are right. The examples of alternative medicine or even evolution are a good case. In the former we can do new tests, and we have: a lot of money has been spent trying and trying again different studies on homeopathy and friends. However the alternative practitioners always come up with an excuse why the scientist is wrong, or his result not meaningful. Their answers are not scientific in any way, but they can muddy the water enough that the audience feels they can't know either way.

As for climatology, I agree with you that it's hard to call those predictions. Partially I think the very clear statements of the scientists get lost and simplified through different layers of repetitions so that when you read it in the mainstream newspaper you get a very partial version.

There is also a problem that part of IPCC was _not_ strictly science. The IPCC has 3 panels from what I remember: the scientific stuff, the effect these will have on society, and ways to prevent them. The former gives proper scientific assessment but the later two less so. One of the problem of the IPCC is that many of its complains came from mistakes in the latter two groups, but they cast a shadow of doubt to the first one (the scientific one) despite the three groups have little connection to each other. (the stuff about the Himalaya melting, for example was something added by the second group, not the first one).

I am not sure how easy it is to predict climate. We do better than random guesses, so I guess there's some help there, but it's not great so it shouldn't be reported as such. (of course if people knew what error bars and standard deviation were it wouldn't be so difficult).

One problem though with chaotic systems is how difficult is to "fix" them. Maybe you can increase a variable (say pollution) up to 1000 (in an arbitrary scale) without any effect. Then if you take it that extra 10 points the whole system goes bad. People seem to think that in that case we can simply fix it by lowering the variable again, but that's not how it works. If your system moved from one attractor to another (in state space) it may be extremely hard to move back. This is why I think our best bet by far is to keep things as they are: better to err on the side of caution. (of course those are just my opinions: scientist should make predictions, but then it's society that decide what to do with them ^_^).
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"When ... T = 10, weight A begins to rise".

No; the Tension the guy is supporting at rest is bigger than 10 (there are 2 other weights) so at T = 10 he would be moving backwards. He needs to apply a bit more than the tension at rest.

(edit: this is for when all 3 weights are in the air, I see now some people see them in a floor that is not drawn)
It's Intel-only, sorry.

10.5 are both 10.6 supported though.
When you build a bridge, that's engineering, not physics. It's a physics convention that unspecified factors are assumed to be unimportant. If they were important, they would be specified.

Anyway, it's implausible that the elasticity of the rope or the friction of the pulleys are going to matter. Unless you have really rusty pulleys, or something.
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Well, the thing is that you could follow The Doors all you want, you wouldn't be informed of new albums, new concerts or new posts from the band any time soon. I'm not exactly surprised it's not there.
That's fantastic news. From hobby project to this. It makes me have second thoughts about my AppleTV order.
That’s how SSL/TLS does the authorization step, but the typical encryption of the actual content sent back and forth uses a symmetric-key block cipher (the two sides negotiate and it’s pretty modular, so I think you can do whatever kind of encryption you want on the messages, even just sending plain text after a TLS handshake if you want).

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher_suite
Great post, but as a side note:

"Twitter has 145m users in the same way @MikeTyson has $400m in career earnings."

http://twitter.com/AndySwan/status/22880346280
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When a weight is at rest the tension in the rope is exactly half its weight.

Problem asks which weight would be first to raise (not "not be at rest" that could be going down) so that's why I'm supposing the guy can pull the whole thing. I'm also saying the first one is C (closer to guy).
Male vs female is a poor test because you can guess correctly about 50% of the time. Thats on par with some current CAPTCHA bots.
If you are asking the answer is probably no.

It is a very capital intensive business.

You need a large amount of capital to get started (single millions? maybe up to 10 million?)

You have a high barrier to entry: colocation at exchanges (expensive), expensive data feeds, sophisticated event-processing software...etc

Then after you have all that you need the brokerage relationships.

Then you need to actually develop a successful algorithm - and your competitors have many years more experience than you.

...etc...etc

You get the point.

However, you could look at automated technical analysis / to supplement your own retail trading, but HFT is its own game.
That is the only way to battle spam with 100% effectiveness, yes. But there are other ways to do it that can still be very good, even though they're not perfect. The filtering for comment spam in Ping is subpar, and I don't think the difficulty of the task excuses the fact that Apple has done a poor job.
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Ctrl+F9 ftw.
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Yes, I meant C. Too late to go and fix it now. Good catch
GHC has a comparatively expensive write barrier. That could be seen as taking advantage of immutability. The runtime system takes more advantage of purity, though. For example, it's safe to have certain races, because they will give the same result. Too much work duplication must be avoided, though, but that's much cheaper than excessive locking.
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The tension in the rope is greater than 30lbs, yet only one weight moves? I give up.
I've just spent three months this summer interning for these guys. They're a really energetic, intelligent company, and an absolute pleasure to work for.
"but then, the presentation talks about the value of free and open information, which nobody will pay for."

Red Hat trades and works quite freely in open source software. It's information is out there for everyone to use, change, fork, recompile, remarket, etc (for example, CentOS for a free alternative or Oracle's Unbreakable Linux for pay).

They're heading toward a billion dollars in revenue, probably within 3-5 years, and are continually profitable.
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No worries: I wasn't angry or shouting. Sorry for coming too strongly. :)

I understand what you are saying, but my point is that those two are in science a lot closer than you seem to suggest. Titles (such as a noble prize) are won thanks to reputation gained from those experiments and peer reviews. If your karma system is based on what you published and that is subjected to peer review and scientific methodology, then your reputation (i.e. your karma) are a good hint that the person knows what they are talking about.

In other words:
trust scientist --> high authority --> gained by good experiments and subjected to peer review
The "Legend" Of Zelda
Bo Peabody's 'Lucky or Smart?' is relevant here. Good short read, decent synopsis from Bo here:

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20050101/lucky-or-smart_Printer_...

Twitter's emergence from Odeo is pretty similar to Tripod's switch from an advice site to a homepage builder.
Ask HN: Is Perl dead?
I've been noticing that Perl doesn't get mentioned that much anymore in articles, blog posts, HN threads, etc.

A current example is the "Who's hiring" thread which is now on HN: Most of the requirements are C/C++/Java/PHP/Python/Ruby, and almost none are for Perl.

However, this is not just about hiring. In almost anything I read, there is barely a mention of Perl anymore.

FYI, I use Perl extensively for text file parsing and processing, and I'm not familiar with Python or Ruby, but it seems that these two languages are "winning the war" against Perl (although I assume some of you may dispute that these two languages are even comparable to Perl, for a variety of reasons)

Is my general observation correct?

Will Perl 6 be able to turn things around, or is it too late?
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It is Apple's style to some extent--which is why they released a smartphone without copy/paste, multitasking, picture messaging, or 3G. And also why they released an MP3 player with no wifi and less space than a Nomad.

ADDED: When you're Apple, it's true you can't really afford a classic MVP. That doesn't mean perfectionism, it means that although you release something limited, you add in something great that's never been done before. The iPhone was the first phone with a multitouch interface. Plenty of people are willing to overlook not having picture messaging, or 3G, or third party apps for something that great. But you have to do something awesome and new--you can't just rehash the rest of the market.
My suggestions:

figure out a way to integrate it with xcode. The lack of git support is the main reason I still use vim for all of my non-cocoa development.

If this is already done, then congrats, I'm one of your early adopters.

Edit: realized I can't actually try it NOW.
I definitely feel this too. I routinely have around 50 to 100 tabs open. This USED to be perfectly fine--no crashes, everything was snappy. Now firefox is crashing sometimes more than once per day on me.

I use noscript to prevent anything from running that is not strictly necessary, but still, regular crashes.
That's exactly my point. The word "just" is not in the title, nor the post.

I know that it's very easy to take a review personally, but based on your comments in this thread, your sense of entitlement about getting a writeup and then your criticism of said writeup are the two things I'm going to remember about VWO (which is unfortunate).
I definitely agree that the need is there. This was me when setting up google apps recently http://twitter.com/jackowayed/status/22408310028

Since people really have no way to know what kind of challenges you offer, it would be good if you had some screenshots/demos on your homepage instead of a generic "private beta" page.

You also might want to think about doing things like Google's image rotation captcha experiments. I was really excited when they announced that they were playing with those because I was hoping they'd kill traditional captchas. Here's a PDF of a paper by some Googlers: http://www.richgossweiler.com/projects/rotcaptcha/rotcaptcha...
Just like everything else hipsters enjoy, indie music is "ironic".
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I am very curious to see if something like this gains traction, mostly because I wonder how many developers work like I do.

While I appreciate having repository support in an IDE (Eclipse and TextMate), I still find myself using the command-line most of the time (for Mercurial in my case). It would never occur to me to look for a Mercurial UI. It's just so easy to do this stuff from the command line.
"No" Means "Thank You"
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We have an automated trading system which plays the stock market and makes us a bunch of money. The job consists of extending the trading system, developing new strategies (note: strategy == code), and some maintenance work (making our FIX talk to their FIX, tax calculations, etc). You should be ready to be involved in all aspects of the company - specialization is for insects . Yesterday I did numerical optimization, today I'm trying to make trac work with apache.

Bug reports tend to start off very vague: "We haven't made any money this month on $SET_OF_SECURITIES" or "We seem to lose $BIGNUM in $SHORT_TIME several times a day, WTF!"

We don't much care about your experience with any particular technologies. We are a Java/Ruby shop, but my resume has neither Java nor Ruby written on it (I last used Java in college in 2001). We also aren't looking for managers (with 4 people management is irrelevant) or interface designers (we are all happy with the command line).

Aliens are cool, but you will need to move here (I'm the only USian here).
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Interesting trend from this world-wide data compared to a post from TechCrunch earlier about U.S iOS vs. Android usage:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/03/quantcast-mobile-web-browsi...
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It hibernates/sleeps, and does so basically instantly as far as I can tell. It's an OSX laptop. Due to driver issues, I believe Debian's hibernation isn't quite as smooth, though I've heard it's getting better (I only run Debian on my desktop, so have no first-hand knowledge).
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It's hard to drink Scotch in America without lining Diageo's pockets--I mean, they own Glenkinchie, Lagavulin, Knockando, Oban, Royal Lochnagar, and Talisker, among others. If you're claiming Talisker is mass-manufactured tat, I don't know if we can be friends anymore. And do bear in mind that Talisker is the largest component of the Red Label blend.
Gmail trimming privacy policies
I'm guessing Stephen Hawking has now run out of things to say.
Site looks great, well done!
Yeah, I agree. I don't think copying an idea is a problem. It's copying the execution of the idea that is a bit meh.

Google was a lot different than altavista despite aiming at the same market. That's why I wouldn't use the word clone.

There are a lot of people who made war games a la Risk, but that doesn't mean they use the same rules. If they do that's a clone and it's not a great way to start imho. But if you think you can improve it somehow, or make it different enough that you haven't just slapped a bit of paint on it, then I think those are good and should be encouraged (more competition ^_^).
Which is a win in my mind. I'm always out to find good music that isn't on the top 100 list. Connecting with people in an environment like this is great.

People make this out to be such a poor decision on their part, but it's incredibly convenient. Give it some more time and we'll see improvements.
I agree with most of your points, and the info about the IPCC's inner workings is particularly interesting. And yes, we can't expect the larger part of the public to become sufficiently informed to properly evaluate even the bases of scientific discourse (at least until, as you point out, the educational system changes considerably).

My point was directed more at the _intellectually curious_ laypersons (which is, I believe, a superset of HN's readership). It's practically impossible, in this age of extremely specialized science, for outsiders to understand exactly how various scientific conclusions are arrived at. Fortunately, the task of verification is much easier, and with a small amount of self-training it is possible, I believe, to judge whether or not a certain set of scientists consistently make verifiable predictions that come true.
Thanks!

1. I am going to add an interactive syntax check feature as a lot of people here have recommended. (As a side-benefit, I can skip asking for an email and present the results immediately after the test).

2. Funny enough, this was my original vision for the project, but according to feedback on a blog article I wrote to test the hypothesis, people preferred to write their own code from scratch rather than fix the nearly-working test problem code.

Please see:
- http://blog.codeboff.in/2010/07/03/will-the-real-programmers...
- http://blog.codeboff.in/2010/07/19/bug-fixing-test-problems-...

3. Might not be important enough to take time up in a test. As I understand, everyone hates long tests.
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Not just on an emotional level, I think when a bunch of clever people get together a sort of super brain is formed which is greater than each of them.

This is so since the super brain has the combined knowledge but not the combined biases of the individuals. To give an analogue this is like these comment threads where knowledge gets added and incorrect statements promptly and strongly refuted, but on a much much higher resolution when you work with a smart person face to face for a considerable length of time.
Maybe see how the REBOL guy is doing: http://www.rebol.com/
> the best people wouldn't put up with it because they can always get a job elsewhere.

How are you supposed to know that someone is one of the "best people"? Presumably by word of mouth and recommendations. I'm not saying that all applicants should be forced to use this system--if you know that someone is great, no need to test them. This is designed to filter out all the REST of the applicants, the ones who may be good, but don't have many references (straight out of college, etc)

> Absolutely not - I program in a real editor, and I won't be judged by some wannabe textbox.

Fair enough (I enjoy using a decent editor too), but:
1. These are not supposed to be hundred line solutions. You can live with a crappy editor for 30 minutes.
2. Maybe applicants could submit a video instead if they wanted.
3. It's not strictly necessary, it's just another nice data point.
Well, that's nice, but they're not targeting you. They're targeting the millions of people that listen to music through iTunes everyday which are likely wondering what their friends are listening to. If you don't use their product, or have very little desire to in the first place, it doesn't qualify as a failure.
It should be fantastic to its market, which it is. Everyone is not a market.
I think the OP misunderstands what drives the sale in these cases. It's not apparent complexity, its apparent functionality.

The problem is that the way to make functionality apparent at the point of sale is to expose it, hence the complexity. But I think as people begin to realize that functionality can lie beneath the surface, as Zed points out, you'll see simplicity with high functionality become more popular.
Space Shuttle and ISS transit the Sun.
Don't tell me your TV supports Twitter
Point taken. I'll change the title back, but I just wanted to share the "good news" with fellow HN'ers as I do believe Stormpulse to be in it's own category, and not really just a layout artifact for this blog post.

Not sure why you think we fit under the Google Maps mashup category, when we are not using Google Maps at all.
I think its Australian for kerfuffle.

Specifically, an argument amongst all scientists.

all-in: involving everyone

boffin: scientist

barney: argument (from rhyming slang: "Barney Rubble" - "trouble")
when I went to go sign up this is what i saw: http://imgur.com/QGEhB.png

I would suggest not using that banner on that page. While one could just click hide, it is just one more step for a user to say "nah, why bother".

BTW, that was in FireFox 3.6.8 on Windows 7 Professional
I'm au fait with US culture, but I got it wrong about a quarter of the time, which is no better than reCaptcha.
But wasn't the point about popularity, not about corporate success? Because the argument was about simplicity leading to sales. Not that simplicity leads to higher margins.