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I'm pretty certain that I am only alive today because of a cycling helmet - I had an accident a few years back while mountain biking where I fell off and skidded along on my side (feet still in the SPD pedals) with my head hitting a gate post.

I woke up a while later with the helmet completely disintegrated - if I hadn't been wearing it I'm pretty sure it would have been my skull.
If done right, they no longer have to go to ticket disputes!
Right, 6 something is all I remember at this point! Huh... looking at that list, it might have been even earlier, because I remember Breezy Badger and Hoary Hedgehog. I recall Dapper Drake being a particularly good release, so you jumped in at a good time!

So, I guess actually 5.04 was when I moved over from Debian. I think it was before Debian Sarge was released, which apparently was 2 months before Hoary Hedgehog, so that makes sense.
Paper and pen..
Suspend works perfectly for me on a Dell Studio XPS, an EeePC, and a MacBook.
At least the voters are entitled to choose a government and the government should write the laws themselves. Lobbyists have no constitutional basis.
"America's research universities are the envy on the world," he said. "We have 90 percent of the top researchers in the world. We also have a bizarre policy to train people and then kick them out by not giving them visas, which makes no sense at all."

I think he has a very good point there. Even more so for graduate students. If they've been here for 4+ years, and are skilled it should be very easy for them to get permanent residency.
True, that used to be a big problem for me as well until about 1 year back. I think it was Karmic that finally solved it on all my laptops.
Ask HN:Intel's Array Building Blocks(was Rapidmind):What do the purists think?
Increasing programmer productivity has been a grand challenge since time immemorial. In current times, every program written has to be parallel to take advantage of many core processors. The next great parallel programming language is still waiting to get invented. With Array Building Blocks (ArBB), Intel has taken a library based approach to parallel programming. ArBB uses a mix of clever C++ operator overloading and arguably ugly preprocessor macros like _if, _for, etc to mimic C keywords to let programmers express parallel programs. People who know what they are doing could indeed write portable and scalable programs with ArBB. However, novice programmers could easily trip themselves because of the fragile nature of the macros. So what do language purists out there think? Is it wise to promote such unsafe approaches to parallel programming?
The comment thread on this article is over 200 posts. Mostly a heated creationist vs evolunist debate, but there is some interesting reading in there. It is hard not to ponder how such a complex set of behaviors came to be through natural selection alone. However, one comment that I found particularly on point is posted below:

"I have a suggestion for how this evolved. The initial sting to the cockroach would obviously make the cockroach's escape part of its brain light up like crazy. If the wasp then goes to find the most active part of the cockroaches brain, i'd imagine this would be the escape area. I believe there are simple rules which build up to create complex systems. These simple rules, like the active neuron sensor, help to create shortcuts to how a creature evolves. If you look at the recent darpa challenge, involving the teaching of a car how to drive across unfamiliar terrain, it managed to convince the team it was working by using just the rule of keeping the grass equally distant on the right and the left. It hit a bridge and swerved so the guy onboard had to grab the wheel! But the point is simple rules can lead to complex seeming actions." Posted by: Rob Levy | February 4, 2006 4:28 PM
It's so true - when I configure a Windows machine I can't believe what a pain it is to go find and install all the needed software (go to web page... click... find download area... download... double click... click 800 more times...). And then, uninstallation is a mess. That's one of the things that I think is so silly when people say Linux isn't user friendly, that the package management is really so amazing, and people who have never used Linux really just have no idea.
Well, it has to be, because it's too difficult to second-guess when Perl will DWIM and when it won't

I've personally never seen this issue when testing perl code.

So you have to move a whole lot of complexity out of where it should be, the compiler, and into your own head and your own code

Actually the perl compiler with use strict; use warnings catches a lot more at compile time compared to most other dynamic languages.
This advice, in true zen fashion, is both good and bad.

Still, there's something about writing a blog called Zen Habits that seems rather un-Zen.
I definitely haven't written off switching back to Linux - if I ever do it will probably be because of apt (and maybe xmonad). For now, installing the vanilla versions of stuff like ruby 1.9, SBCL, mit-scheme from Macports, and pre-packaged versions of MacVim and emacs are working for me but that may not always be the case...
I'm in college at the moment, taking a "Computer Systems" course. The last project involved reading a disassembled "bomb" and "defusing" it by figuring out what inputs it wanted.

Like danilocampos said, the solid state notes were the key. Having a physical copy of what was on the stack and watching it change made the assignment so much easier.
Here is a link to ArBB website : http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-array-buildin...
I'd forgotten about Homebrew but found it again when I went hunting for the earlier discussion on HN... I'll definitely be checking it out soon, thanks.
I think you can sell it to the cops as something which is in their control and which can't be used to witchhunt them. It will not actually be in their control and will certainly cost some cops their jobs, but as long as it feels like it is in their control, I think you can make that sale. (Compare: wiretapping versus ubiquitous phone records made of all employees at BigCorp.)
I thought Qwiki isn't meant to replace Google. And yet it can make certain kind of information retrieval sexier and very helpful - esp. when you might be multitasking. It can very well focus in a vertical markets where it solves the problem well.
It doesn't have to fail. Or it might fail but the idea will prevail.
That would be interesting. Get a bunch of sufficiently sensible people, and give them enough time to think things through, and I doubt they'll have a bubble.

Of course this doesn't solve the real-world bubble problem, where we have absolutely no idea what the future payout of an asset will be.
I inserted "Something in Chinese" into Google translate. It's just supposed to be jibberish because the hypothetical caller doesn't speak Chinese.
They must not want very good companies if they're promising to make life difficult for them before they even invest.
This article is good for sanity, but goals are necessary for business
Maybe I'm looking at this analogy too hard, but ...

If I actually did have $50k riding on the election, I'd spend more than $0.0005 cents determining which candidate is best, because assessing risk is necessary to plan for the future.
Stuxnet is real. Your scenario is unrealistic.
Hey are you the guy who just moved to SF from Atlanta and wrote a blog post about it? I like your post!
Or you can stay in nearby cities like Menlo Park or Redwood City. I used to live in Menlo Park and I went to Palo Alto all the time. You may want to get a bike, though ;-)
Being In The Game
Tips for Escaping Development Hell
I'd have said Microsoft in third place would be quite an achievement.
Because the average user just wants his computer to work, he doesn't want to try something unfamiliar and risk doing even more work to get the computer working. Maybe we don't have the same definition for "average user".
Well, I managed to make it after all, rearranging my Thursday evening plans.

I like the new venue. It was spacious enough to house those of us who turned up - I didn't count (damn) - and enough space around to let the sound partially escape, so it was possible to chat.

Met and chatted with a few people, but I feel that I probably missed chatting with a few people I should've. It would be nice to have some sort of loose structure at some point to let everyone introduce themselves, or something. Not sure what, and wouldn't want too much, but I feel there should be something.

But having said that, a good evening, even though I had to leave quite early. I look forward to the next one I can get to.

It would be really good to have these on a regular schedule - perhaps the last Thursday of every month? (Except December ...)
Personally, I find it tedious and somewhat pointless to handwrite code. I think the best method of approach is to print out something that you're having trouble on, and highlight certain parts. Then, take those highlighted parts and write in the margins.

For organization, I just use Simplenote. Notational Velocity on the Mac + the iPhone app results in a great combination that's always in sync wherever I am.
Like (it seems) most other here, I use text on paper. I write notes hierarchically, (sub)headings etc. Note that YMMV. How people remember stuff varies -- writing is how I learn.

I do the same when planning/thinking (code, todo, what to pack for a trip, etc).

I need the pen/paper because they "disappear" and don't take attention from my thoughts. It was like that all my life, until I read the rave reviews and learned Org mode in Emacs.

First, I thought "This was stupid. I've put lots of hours into learning Org mode; it would be minutes for a GUI app." Then I realized that I jotted down notes in Org mode as easily as when taking notes on paper! A big win, e.g. for backups and search.

Still, I must write notes on paper to remember facts. Org mode only works for organizing and exploring thoughts. (Too many years with a pen, probably.)

Edit: I might add: For me, the single most helpful thing to learn is to disconnect from the net.
This is utterly bonkers. I badly want one.
Haha yes that's me :)
You're taking a couple complaints and extrapolating that to mean his manager did not appreciate him. You don't know to what extent his manager may have tried to show appreciation in other ways or what their relationship was like.
This is to comments what the Fox network is to news: hyperbolic, uninformative and yet bizarrely popular
I've been thinking about this concept ever since microsoft debuted a pendant 'life recorder' a few years ago.

I don't know if you've ever read 'The Stars, My Destination", but it's an old science fiction book based on the idea of a change in our abilities that completely destabilizes the current manner of human life.

I believe ubiquitous recording would be an equivalent change. It may be my warped perspective, but I believe an incredible amount of our society is build upon lies and untruths. This sort of technology will create an enormous, disruptive amount of accountability to every single person affected by it.
It's standard form for writing news headlines, by-lines.
I think, considering recent events, such accomplishment would have more to do with the legal department than with the mobile product division and their own accomplishments.

In fact, I would consider it a miracle.
Why Domain Event Driven Architecture
jfb hopes for a Porsche 918, more than two weeks of sun in San Francisco.
> They can still dream.

Shouldn't they ground their goals in reality? I too want a warp-drive and teletransporters, but I am not willing to bet my bonuses on impossible things.
Let's first start by verifying that there actually exists such behaviour - there are no citations for larvae lifecycle part in Wikipedia and I couldn't find any reference in papers.

Maybe larvae just consumes a little of every organ it can get to. The whole story about it consuming non-essential organs first seems quite fishy - how many of those do cockroaches have anyway? Even if that's true, after eating away few organs you pretty sure to get organism failure no matter what order. Doesn't seem very smart strategy to me.
When Kellogg's "invented" adding sugar to cereal
It's just to be concise. I'm pretty sure it's standard AP style.
wow,i saw the acceptance email today and am super excited! after watching similar videos on youtube over the years, i am looking forward to being there in person and meeting some of you folks there! thanks pg and ycombinator!
They really should go back to their medication...
Wow. I've been thinking about this concept for a while. It'll either be the best or the worst thing to happen to democracy. This sort of thing would make our representative democracy function as more of a direct democracy, which would feel nice, but it has plenty of drawbacks (cf. California).
As Winston Churchill said: "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
Microsoft hopes for iPhone and Android burial, pony
Last time I checked, Rails provides a lot of built-in functionality for building web apps.

But perhaps I got Rails confused with Ruby with my brief experience with it.
I thought Rails provided the tools to auto-create your project structure in an MVC style.

If you use something like Catalyst of CGI::Application you get built in things like MVC project structure, auto populate a 'class' from a table entry, etc.

Basically, you get all those built-in functionality for building web apps that you would in Rails.
But, I very briefly played with Rails, so I may have its definition confused.
> that's why Google and Apple are innovating and Microsoft is just playing catching up.

Has it ever been different? Not Google and Apple, but Microsoft. Has it ever invented something?

Even Microsoft's first successful product was a version of a language someone else developed many years before they existed.
This is a huge reason that I do not use Facebook to login to any site -- pretty much every site that offers that functionality asks to be able to post items for you (in your feed), to send emails, etc.

It seems like some site owners' dreams are to turn you into a bot for their own promotional purposes, or to just use your voice as their personal bullhorn.

I'll stick with registering to sites using a "plain" login (or OpenID, where available) -- at least that way, I have a bit more control over the way my online identity is used.
$250 just to get your application looked at? I think someone here is missing the point (or maybe the concept) of shoestringing.
I explain all this in my blog post. My beef with Qwiki is that it dumbs down comprehension, critical thinking, analysis, and learning. It multimediaizes Wikipedia, an unreliable source. If it succeeds on a large scale, it and the inevitable copycats will all combined contribute to hurting society more than helping it. This has nothing whatsoever to do with whether people like it. Of course people will like it. Just like they like 4000-calorie fast-food meals. Doesn't mean it's good for humanity.
Since you have to have your own merchant account, we (Chargify) do not have to deal with the fraud transactions but give you the tools you need like searching for the account to turn it off.
I'm sure it won't hurt their chances to have burned Verizon on the Kin and sued their key smartphone provider. WP7 is obviously going to be so good that it won't matter that they'll launch as second banana on the two largest networks in the US.
My Lessons in Life - Azim Premji
Glad you think Chargify is the right path, love to hear what flexibility you want that we cannot give.
> Caplan, however, emphasizes that democratic failure does exist and places the blame for it squarely on the general public. He makes special emphasis that politicians are often caught between a rock and a hard place: thanks to advisors, they know what policies would be generally beneficial, but they also know that those policies are not what people want

These three sources of failure (voters, politicians, lobbyists) don't have to be mutually exclusive. I'd say they're all broken, with the real problem resting in the idea that government is upwardly scalable. The inability of most people to understand actions and motivations other than their own (a requisite for computer security) leads them to thinking that affecting larger groups somehow solves more people's problems (while in fact the opposite is true).
The reason China will outperform the west is because it's not a democracy.

In a democracy, politicians rent the country. In China, the leaders own it.

People care more about their property if they have a long term interest in it.

"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
As a former bicycle commuter, I have been hit by eggs, sodas, and even a CD. A lot of people just shout things as they speed by, but they're driving too fast for it to be understandable.

I wish I would have got license plate numbers. The cars were usually too far ahead by the time I realized what happened.
US immigration policy is particularly inept. As a citizen, I had only the vaguest sense that this was so, but having started a company with two immigrants, the depths of the stupidity have become manifestly clear.

Personally, I'm largely in favor of the free migration of labor, but regardless of one's beliefs w/r/t immigration -- and there are principled arguments for all sorts of positions on this issue, I feel -- nobody can defend the pig's breakfast that we currently have. And nobody's talking about fixing it, either -- all the public conversation about immigration is about Mexico, which is surely important, but hardly the only thing what needs fixing.
I believed that Alien was inspired by The Voyage of the Space Beagle, but Dan O'Bannon (the screenplay writer) denied it: "I didn't steal Alien from anybody. I stole it from everybody!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(film)#Origins
I've had two machines: an HP DV5000 (AMD/ATI) model and a Macbook Pro. Both of them have not been reliable with sleep mode using a stock Windows XP/Vista install (plus drivers/updates). I haven't tried Windows 7 in sleep mode yet but it's not worth my time to risk losing work. I've only had OSX fail once due to a crash* in sleep mode in 2 years (and over a thousand sleep/wake cycles).

* I've had four failures to wake from sleep due to low battery in a 2 month span I was dealing with an old battery that was failing.
>If all programs I'm connecting are .NET based and hence share a common type system

Well to set it apart from C#/F#, Powershell is dynamically typed, so you don't have to bother with the types of your objects.

To set it apart from Ironpython/ruby, or any other dynamic languages on the CLR, Powershell is made to be a shell scripting language. It means that tasks common in system administration are made to be simplified, that command to deal with the filesystem, processes, services and anything else on the system are builtins, and that it interacts very well with other apps, all things that are definitely not true with python or ruby. ipython brings you an inch closer, but with powershell you have the full thing.

> Apart from that, the power of the Unix shell isn't primarily the shell scripting language itself. It is the design of the programs it connects. You need small programs that do one thing.

Well those programs (grep, awk, sed, cat, and many others) are meant to be used in a shell environnement.
With powershell, most if not all of the utility of those commands is replicated in equivalent commands. Those are not binary executables, but built-ins commands. But you can add new ones very easily, by coding them in powershell itself and adding them to your environnement in a way that has been thought out for that very purpose. I see no diminution in power, quite the contrary.

But i see no real interrest in preaching to somebody who has already made up his mind. All i can say is, if you have the occasion to try it extensively, you really might change your mind on the subject :)
Compare and Contrast Essay Writing
A compare and contrast essay will take two subjects and compare its similarities and differences. This is a common writing assignment for many high school students. Therefore, it is a task which should be perfected with knowledge of the format and structure among others.
In all seriousness, if Microsoft can keep their phone software from getting captured the carriers, that would be a good thing in my mind. IMO, it is impossible to overstate the horror of a world run by the wireless carriers, and I'm afraid that Android is merely serving to empower them at the expense of the consumer.
... those who had been divorced or separated were 27% more likely to die...

Than who? Would the people that died after a divorce have survived if they had stayed with their poisonous spouses? I doubt it.
> democracy is the worst possible system for running a country, except for all the others.

This is one of those chants that everyone keeps repeating for fear of looking at the alternatives, or to excuse the horrors. Keep repeating the chant, and you don't have to take a close look at the problem.
The package manager concept is actually what I hate most about Linux systems and Ubuntu's strategy to not let you upgrade some packages without upgrading the OS itself is insane.

Packages tend to thrust some completely idiosyncratic configuration scheme down my throat that is documented nowhere and that creates conflicts of its own. They don't just solve dependencies they encourage dependencies because they are supposed to be resolved automatically anyway. But they're not. Things break all the time. The Linux dependency hell has far surpassed the infamous Windows DLL hell of the 90s.

I was called to help people fix their Ubuntu installation after some package upgrade had uninstalled half the system. I had an upgrade replace a working but proprietary wifi driver with a non functional "free" one, etc, etc.

Most of the problems I ever had with Ubuntu were caused by that completely broken package management idea. If I want Python 2 and 3 on the same system I can't have a package manager tell me that's not supposed to be when I know full well that it's no problem.
This suggests to me that the ancestors of this wasp would simply paralyze the roach and lay eggs inside, and this behaviour evolved from that.

That would be backwards evolution.

From the scienceblog link:

Amuplex is not technically a parasite, but something known as an exoparasitoid. In other words, a free-living adult lays an egg outside a host, and then the larva crawls into the host. One could easily imagine the ancestors of Ampulex as wasps that laid their eggs near dead insects--as some species do today. These corpse-feeding ancestors then evolved into wasps that attacked living hosts. Likewise, it's not hard to envision an Ampulex-like wasp evolving into full-blown parasitoids that inject their eggs directly into their hosts, as many species do today.
great, we can start by never returning to Hacker News again! See you never guys!
After re-reading the question a couple of times, I get the idea that oldmanstan may not know how to sew. There's a step between "sketching the artwork" and "making the garment" -- designing the sloper. As an apparel manufacturer, is this a service you provide, or do most of your customers bring you a set of base patterns?

If not, oldmanstan will probably need someone to take his artwork and turn it into a base pattern. Not that t-shirts and tanks are particularly difficult, but patterns can rapidly become more complicated when elements like pleating, draping, pockets, cuffs, collars, hoods and so forth are part of of the overall design.

To me, this is the absolute most fun part of designing a garment. It's pretty much all I think about -- to me, exciting design is all about clever seam placement. Textiles are a medium. A well-designed garment brings out the best of the fabric. So, oldmanstan, if you want to take a whack at that part, you can email ME, and I'll send you some book recommendations.