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The term "bloat" is not used anywhere else than in the URL.
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What does Chrome use Speex (a low-bitrate voice codec) for?

edit: answering my own question, a speech-to-text in HTML proposal from Google

https://docs.google.com/View?id=dcfg79pz_5dhnp23f5

http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2010-May...

http://www.jeremyselier.com/entry/speech-attribute-demo
>>Consider somewhere like Sweden.

Sweden has the world's highest taxes, but lots of the common functionality works badly.

For example, it is really hard to get a doctor to put work into diagnosing any problems you have. There is IMHO a business opportunity for a travel agency to organize vacation trips for this...

(I had knee problems for half my life -- this did lower my life quality. The private doctor that in the end diagnosed and cured it (easily cured, by the way...), said that he'd seen quite a few cases of that problem uncured for decades!)

Also note that if something isn't solved by the one-size-fits-all state systems and you end up paying privately -- you have little money left over after you've paid the world's highest taxes.

(Also, room/board isn't free for students. They generally take loans. Remember that part about having little money left over after taxes..?)

That said -- the US health care system seems worse than anywhere else in the western world.
I'm all for vengeance but it just seems ironic and unfortunate that Johnny Boi will almost inevitably get out of prison sometime in the next 2 years more hardened and better equipped to be a complete fuckup, undoubtedly progressing to even stupider but possibly more violent and disruptive crimes. Just saying.
Or is there..
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Fellow Belgian here. Left the country 4 years ago & honestly I'm not sure if I ever want to go back. I'm raving mad about the political insanity. Despite the high tax levels, we managed to become a country that is virtually bankrupt & instead of tackling the problems we decided to focus on bullshit politics instead. I am not getting my money's worth and am actively pulling out, even if it saddens me because I used to like the country & the people.
It's much more likely that the two year prison sentence was due to the young man's violation of his probation than for petty theft. Anyway, I didn't think the author was bragging about the prison sentence -- that was up to a judge to decide. Rather, the author was bragging about tracking the guy down. Surely you don't think the thief should have gotten away with his crime scot-free?
I'd like to see the department of education put out a list of skills that are needed and for what purpose, or end goal. There needs to be some grand vision, perhaps to unify the country like the moon landing did. Clinton wants people to instantiate jobs by focusing on alternative energy projects. Mostly I just see this desire for jobs, schooling, and a few other things as a means to keep people busy and to fit the mold or dream of a finely balanced social, psychological, utopia.
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I am also a Hungarian, and I think Hungary is a worse and worse place as you get older. I've attended one of the best high schools in Hungary which was very high quality. Universities on the other hand are not bad, but also by far not the best. And jobs are mostly the boring outsourced stuff. Attitude towards starting up is very poor. I am so different from the people surrounding me. I literally live physically in Hungary, but virtually in the Valley (reading HN, Techrunch, etc...)
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I wish this post were closer to the top. Now that knowledge can finally become instantly available, it's biggest enemy is large amounts of misinformation. This is a much more effective strategy than censorship.
So, the better option for dealing this thief would be...?
I don't see any actual problem with those exact changes — well, actually, I don't get all that "oh noes, information I've specifically made public, is being read by others! my privacy is being violated!1" thing.

I believe when one publishes something as visible for everyone he must assume that everyone and his mom will read that. Being "public but private" is logical nonsense, possible just because most of time nobody cares about your data.

The real crap they do is when some part of data I've made private becomes publicily visible. I remember about Perl's excellent "taint mode" each time they do this. Or when there's a new hard-to-notice opt-out feature which may expose something I didn't explicitly wanted to show.

What they really added this time is a somehow useful ability to completely "not notice" someone's request. Or I'm wrong?
It's perplexing to me how a country with a great primary education can have mediocre universities. And then you have the exact inverse phenomenon for the USA.
Kids tease other kids about ANYTHING. If it weren't about your name, it would be something else. Doesn't mean white society is conspiring to keep Chinese people down.

And that UNC Chapel Hill thing is just disgusting. Not sure someone who would do something like that is a good representative of the attitudes of white people in general.
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I'm not sure I understand. Xcode is free with OS X. Apache on OS X is just like any other Apache, it has mod_proxy, etc.

Not to mention you can install Nginx or any number of other web servers.
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In many places, there's too much left over for the staff to eat (even if they wanted to), and it can't be donated to the hungry either because of sanitation regulations. The amount of food that gets thrown out every day is enormous.
What about documentation? A few months ago, I was interested in Mojolicious, but it seemed to me, that the docs were hidden and incomplete, I completely lost my interest for that reason alone.
Care to explain? Thanks.
I'm doing a startup, check my HN profile.
I think what your argument centers on is when you say "must assume" it will be viewable by everyone. The way I see it, Facebook started as a private communication channel: only my friends can see what I write. Over time this has evolved into a very public channel but users are not aware about the changes.

To me, this is a bait and switch move much like Scribd's switch to a paywall. See this discussion from yesterday http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1709308 , particularly this thread about why such a switch is perceived as a betrayal of trust by users http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1709593 .
+ points:
Like the simplicity, if customer experience is good I would definitely try this for my blog

- points:
Need to support more payment options e.g. Paypal and Google checkout. No way am I putting my credit card into your application. If you are storing these details I also hope you know you have to be PCI-DSS compliant
Small bug: edit profile to add address etc gives you an error because the change password verification box is empty
The problem is that it's a unhealthy mix of missinformation, summer slump politics and unreasonable fear, with a little dash of propaganda.

One more thing: If a potential employer won't hire me, because the facade of the house i live in looks like a mess, I don't want to work for this employer. (The same thing is true for drunken Oktoberfest pictures on Facebook or whatnot.)
Both of my parents are/were teachers so of course I'm a little biased. But I just don't understand where this teacher hating attitude comes from. Teaching is hard work. In addition to the hours they put in actually teaching they spend lots of time preparing and grading. And since most of them are salaried it's not as if they get paid for all that overtime.

It's true there are huge disparities between good teachers and bad. And maybe a meritocratic injection would do the system a whole lot of good. But to boil the entire problem down to this is simply naive.
Well, there are some different questions:

First, do they have a right to use a camera mounted in a height above the normal eye level? Why should people be required to adjust the height of their fences to protect themselves from Google's view? Just because there are no laws against this yet, doens't mean Google has a right.

Second, even if they have the right to make the photos, do they also have the right to automatically make them public? There's no human judgement involved, so who's responsible when Google camera catches you naked while sun-bathing in your own garden? Who can be sued for taking these images down and who's paying for the damage that is created while the photos were online?

Third, do the have the right to connect the photos with street addresss so the views are searchable? This decreases search costs and your home will be public not just to bypassers, but to anyone. Who said, they are allowded to do that?

And this is the point: They asked noone but just though they could act as if they are free do however they please. This may work in the U.S. but this doens't work here. Or, at least, that's not how it should work.
This is a great article. Thanks for sharing.

Reading how one can exploit tech to accomplish something gives way to entrepreneurial ideas.
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What the hell is social entrepreneurship?
Das Telefonbuch have a system where you can look up someone's name in a town, and list their address and provide links to view satellite images of the street:

http://www.dastelefonbuch.de/

If Germans were really more conscious of privacy then I suspect they'd be worried about this, but as previous posters have said it's more down to misinformation and exaggeration.
>Sweden has the world's highest taxes

Pretty sure that's actually Denmark.

>For example, it is really hard to get a doctor to put work into diagnosing any problems you have.

As opposed to the US where you'll pay substantially more money for it? In my experience doctors tend to check symptoms and form a matrix in their head of possible causes, applicable medication, removing medications that conflict with each other and just give you the whole remaining set. You'll be paying for all that medication, btw. If it works, they can't know for sure what it was or what fixed it. If it doesn't you enter round two, a subset of the previously excluded meds. Get out your wallet again.

>Also, room/board isn't free for students. They generally take loans.

Is this new? I used to hang out regularly with about 20 different Swedish students (an online game) and this is how they told it me worked. As far as I know none of them were working, just going to school.
Another thing that comes to mind is that using current devices (such as two 22" displays, i.e., a much higher resolution like 3360x1050), the time to do anything meaningful with a pointing-device increases, too. I, for instance, switched to a big trackball device because all this mouse lifting and re-centering became annoying.

As for the simple tasks: Something like Emacs macros enable effective processing of raw text input data--something that would take a lot longer if it had to be done manually, if possible at all.
The way I interpret is as follows.

Forcing yourself to do something (like smile) when you don't want to is like erecting a tall building. The more you work on keeping the structure of the building steady the more the more you are required to consciously and unconsciously work on solidifying the foundations and the structural integrity of the building.

(This is just one outcome of course. Another is that you keep forcing it and it doesn't help you get the foundations in order.)
Lost in the bashing of this professor who had the temerity not to want to pay higher taxes, is the fact that he had to invest lots of money to be able to earn his big salary. He probably has at least 7 years of higher education. His wife, as a medical doctor, probably has at least 8, if I understand correctly how med school and internships work. They sank a huge amount of money -- maybe close to $500,000 -- into investing in their careers, while most people in the lower income brackets have spent little, if anything, in that way. And the cost to the professor and his wife is even greater if you factor in the opportunity cost of not working high-paying jobs all those years they were in school. Call it a cool million sunk into their education and training, easily.

So it's hardly greedy of the guy to want to be able to at least pay back his wife's student loans before Obama hits him up even harder to help finance a new era of government expansion. There's a difference between revenue and profits, after all.

As for saying he shouldn't have bought a million-dollar house, that's hardly an unreasonable price for a couple with a combined annual income of roughly half that amount. As a multiple of their income, it's comparable to a couple who makes $125,000 a year buying a house worth $250,000. That doesn't sound so crazy, does it?
> The movies would have you believe that detectives work around the clock and would do anything and everything to catch a crook.

Well, to be fair, movies tend to deal with international espionage, zillions of dollars of diamonds/gold/cash/whatever, heinous murders, nuclear weapons, and things of that ilk, rather than stolen GPS devices.
Problem is your first Uni. degree is free for Hungarian citizens, so everybody wants to get in, after all it beats getting a job. And the gov't goes along with it, because it temporarily decreases unemployment. However, this decrease in quality of incoming students led to quality of education going down at most places, and completely bogus management/administration majors gaining popularity. As a result, now virtually everybody younger than 30 has a Uni. degree, but most degrees aren't worth the paper they're printed on, as the people holding have little real-world or even theoretical skills --- eventually they become secreteries or HR people. That's why many smart people, once they figure this out, pay and do a second degree at one of the few places that's not affected by this phenomenon, like me doing the Physics major. Fortunately Physics is scary to most people, so it's one of the last remaining oasis in our education system.
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None of them seem usable on firefox.
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> Have to reply here, since there's a limit to nesting depth.

Not as far as I know, and if there is, a depth of 4 or 5 isn't it!

Sometimes the "reply" link doesn't appear and you have to reply via the permalink "link" instead.
Looking pretty good. Nice one. :-)

I can't claim much credit for the design of Kelpie, it's mostly a direct port of Ruby's Thin web server. I guess there's a couple of notes I'd make:

- I'd recommend using the mongrel http parser rather than implementing your own. I wrote a PHP extension for it - http://github.com/dhotson/httpparser-php

Also, some cosmetic stuff (feel free to ignore):

- I prefer camelCase for methods

- public/private access control on methods

- PHP namespaces look and act weird to me so I don't use them

- I prefer using underscores in names and a classloader to avoid require statements
This reminds me of an incident on Friday night: I noticed an unusually bright planet in the sky, and checked it out with Google Night Sky on my Android phone. When I zoomed in, the software showed the disc of Jupiter overlapping with Uranus. I sure was amazed!

I checked now, and the planet conjunction list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_%28astronomy_and_as... indicates that this conjunction has happened several times recently, but won't be happening for a while now.
You keep hinting at Dancer's inferiority without giving any examples.

When I said Dancer is "similar" I was only thinking of Mojolicious::Lite. Feature-wise Dancer and Mojolicious are obviously not in the same league, and are not meant to be. People who just needed a small and easy solution were happy enough with Dancer.

Maybe nowadays Mojolicious::Lite should be their go-to solution - but you're not gonna convince anyone that way.

Also, completely replacing your comment without indicating it with an [edit] or similar isn't very nice.

I admire your work in the Perl web space, and have been following it via Planet Perl. There's no need to defend it with snarky one-liners.
it seems more like a management problem to me. I mean, if I had someone working for me who bullied my other employees into doing things that harmed the company, I'd tell the guy to knock it off

Unless he managed to convince you that he was actually helping.
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It doesn't say what the license is, so I'd be a bit careful with just including it in the web pages.

Also the CDN is not that great. It serves an E-Tag, has a short cache time, and doesn't gzip the Javascript file.
1. Three meters is not an unreasonable height, that’s about your eye height in a bus. People already don’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy from cameras that height.

2. They have the right to make them public. It’s right there in the law. And if something goes wrong you can sue Google - they are responsible, they have a German address and all.

3. It’s not illegal. You don’t have to ask anybody.

Google can take photos in public and I don’t want anyone to take that right away from Google because at the same time my right to do the same is also taken away. Can’t you see that? You also seem to have a poor understanding of the current legislation in Germany.
Site which posts huge amount of (non-hacking)problems to solve
I once found a site where people in general(I think) posts all kind of interesting problems to solve, ie not just hacking problems but physics, environment, chem, economy, etc.
Real world problems, not school quizzes. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
And it looks to me as if the only reason it's even in the URL is that that's the name of the tool he wrote to extract and display the information.
So we should just let him romp around, stealing what he feels like? I'm all for improving jails (and not filling them with people busted for drugs), but this guy sounds like he ought to be spending some time in a facility where he is not at liberty to steal people's things, however it's run. Like others have noted, he was already on probation for some other crime, which is likely what got him locked up, not simply stealing the GPS.
Part of me has always been kinda surprised that Microsoft haven't bought ReSharper from JetBrains and integrated it as a special add-in for the Ultimate branch of Visual Studio.

Interesting reading nonetheless, the original post has some good comments: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mikeormond/archive/2010/09/03/msdn-f...
There is if you count state and local taxes. In California you can be paying 9.3% + 1.0%, and in other places (NYC) it can be even higher. At 39.6 + 9.3 + 1.0, you would be above most countries in the world.
What stood out to me was this comment: "Dude!!! How do you not work? You win the freak'n lotto???"

So maybe the criminals often don't even realize that what they do is actual work?
Yeah, I am also astounded that the refactoring tools in VS haven't been massively beefed up.
I'm always amazed to see this come up again. (I do live there) The irrationality culminates when people are interviewed by local newspapers, which then put them in front of the or home in a huge image right above the article where they complain about the privacy issues they have with Google photographing their home.

On a final note there is a short enjoyable parody od the situation from the leader of the political party THE PARTEI, about Google "Home View" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYMGkQTpODY) language is German, though I assume one can follow easily without knowing any German. I haven't found a transcript nor English version. :(
Seems to be PHP-specific: it processes the output from something called "xdebug 2", which is a PHP extension that dumps detailed information about what your code is doing.

Not quite the same target audience as kcachegrind...
I am also doing my startup in the field of databases, but on the other end of the spectrum than Keyspace: I am working on bringing databases to ordinary people. What I am working on is a web based, multi-user collaborative MS Access-competitor. (I am relying on an open-source database engine.)
I patched it to support generation on 64 bit systems: http://github.com/martine/bloat/issues#issue/1
"What you'll wish you'd known", by Paul Graham, intended for high-schoolers:

http://paulgraham.com/hs.html
He looked like a neo-nazi. Most people who are convicted for robbery in SF do not.

For the typical Salon reader, if a homeless member of a minority group smashed their window and grabbed their stuff, they would feel resignment. They wouldn't want to throw the book at someone who had suffered so much. In fact, they would actually get more angry at a writer who pushed for harsh penalties and jail time. Contrast to their reaction to this criminal.

From a purely utilitarian perspective, if you are victimized, it is better if your attacker is from a group that has no sympathetic constituency, deserved or not.
>Unless he managed to convince you that he was actually helping.

Eh, in smaller companies, the truth usually comes out sooner rather than later. If the owner doesn't recognize the problem fast enough, the company dies.

That, and as the owner, I'm very directly concerned with the health of the company, and I'm involved with day to day operations. In a publicly traded company, the people who are directly concerned with the health of the company at best come to a meeting once a year.

Yeah, you can pay other people to look out for your interests, and sometimes that's even a good idea. But you are a fool if you think those people will put your interests above their own.

I'm trying to say that as the owner, you'd have to fool me. Possible, sure. But I'm going to work damn hard to prevent you from doing so.

In a public company, however, you don't need to fool your bosses; you just need to convince them that supporting you furthers their own goals better than firing you would.
I think people don't (at least in the US, and probably globally, generally) begrudge people what they view as "fair" rewards, especially if they themselves might have a shot at them. Most of the political supporters of low taxes in the US are actually not incredibly high income, but people who think they may have high income in the future.

If you view most wealth and income as coming from fraud/crime or deceit, then it is much more reasonable to want some kind of confiscatory taxes. I think in the past, most Americans with relatively high incomes (doctors, small business owners, etc.) were well respected for contributing more value to the community than they took out in salaries. It is a lot harder even for me as a libertarian to defend those who make huge amounts of money from wall street, government regulation, etc.

In most third world countries with pretty open class warfare, the rich have largely made their money from extractive industry or other exploitation. I'm not sure if this is cause or effect -- there's a strong argument that living in a country where wealth only comes from that kind of thing actually turns your country into a horrible place to live, any where anyone who would otherwise be productive would then want to flee to be productive elsewhere.