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Good post, thanks :)

I have a similar point to this relating to young children (under the age of 15 and over 5 I guess), allowing a child to have what they want, go where they like and do what they want (within reason), this gift of freedom seems to make the child mature faster or think/act differently.

For example a child given the opportunity to go out late at night before being old enough for nightclubs, who isn't worried about rules that say 'be home by X' or 'no alcohol!' is more likely to find what they enjoy naturally instead of breaking rules just to spite their parents.

Another example, given the option to drink fizzy drinks all day or water, a child doesn't take long to realize water is a better option most of the time.

Most of this is from first hand experience, I think these ideas rely on a reasonably smart child/parent and an open & trusting relationship. The parent must still provide direction on what is right/wrong and communicate ideas.

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I watched this the other day and wished that her talk was WAY longer.
Not the blog I expected from the title, and as soon as I realised the topic I was disappointed... but it didn't take long to change my opinion.

Interesting suggestion and can't help but agree with him. (Still a loyal FF user, myself.)
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The Air’s Spot in the Lineup
While Apple hasn't been specific, I'm taking that to mean "no pre-installed JVM beginning with 10.7". Apple only mentioned 10.7 this past week (with very few specifics). Wikipedia suggests that the release date for 10.7 will be 'Summer 2011'. The problem may be real, but there is time to find solutions.
I only tried with VLC player which didn't present any immediate problems, but I don't know if it uses any of these libraries.
This. Whoooooooosh.

So, now he knows he's wasting money, but he doesn't know how to exit that state. Essentially, you've told him "You're doing it wrong" (in a helpful tone, to be fair).
Waterloo, Ontario startup chiming in.

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Hazlett on Apple vs. Google rivalry [EconTalk]
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Okay, how about this scenario. Someone with access to someone's office steals their phone and sells it or its information to the highest bidder. I used to work in the same building as FOX News. One day Rita Cosby's Blackberry showed up in our office space ... totally separate elevator banks, different floor, different everything. Our best guess was that someone from the cleaning crew grabbed it, got scared, and ditched it, but someone with other motives could do some serious damage in a day where smartphones provide portable access to a massive amount of personal and private information.
Another problem with GoDaddy certs is that they're chained: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1308619 (or at least they used to be), so going with rapidssl or namecheap instead is a better option, and not just b/c of the cost difference.
Summary: Thomas Hazlett of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the growing rivalry between Apple and Google. It is commonly argued that Apple with its closed platform and tight control from the top via Steve Jobs is making the same mistake it made in its earlier competition with Microsoft. Google on the other hand is lauded for its open platform and leveraging of a large number of suppliers for its Android phone, for example. Hazlett, drawing on his recent article in the Financial Times, argues that these arguments fail to recognize the different competitive advantages of Apple and Google and the implications of those advantages for the companies' respective strategies. The conversation concludes with a discussion of the move to application-based web browsing such as Facebook, Twitter, and the implications for Google.
Boy, C programmers really get riled up when you suggest that anything with a higher level of abstraction is good (heaven forbid you mention an interpreted language). I wonder if assembly programmers do the same thing when you bring up C.
My sister applied for the Winter 2011 batch with me as a co-founder. Frankly, her idea puts to shame all ideas I've ever had.

In my opinion, women possess a unique perspective of what people may want. With 99% of founders being male, it sounds that women founders are likely to introduce unimaginable ideas.

I may have pushed her a bit to apply, and she may have needed the push, but she had no trouble filling a well thought-out application.

(I am dying to see the response)
My immediate reaction was to run out and buy mousetrapster.com... not sure why, just seems like there's something fun one ought to be able to do with it.

...anyone got any ideas?
> Unless you think this wasn't motivated by <canvas> and WebGL getting more attention.

Maybe DirectAnimation, VRML, Unity3D?

Tons of people make 3D graphic games in Flash as early as in 2000. <canvas> and WebGL just made Flash evolute quicker.
With such a good service as Google, with all of their products/offerings, you would think if this study is in fact accurate (?) that Google would go after the other approximately 50% of the market. From a dollars and cents viewpoint it would seem like a good business move.

Going heads up against Bing without such a large portion of the market seems like unnecessarily making life harder for yourself. A high-quality service like Google offers is useful to everyone, and seems like a neutral moneymaker to me.
"Just" setting up Nginx to redirect http:// to https:// just comprehensively broke your site if it previously existed on HTTP only and used some fairly common web dev practices, like splitting images over multiple domains to reduce load time. You now pop Big Scary Warnings all over the place.
There are antennas[1] that let you sniff wifi from ~4 miles way. Some routers can be configured to drop clients more than N meters away, though.

[1] http://www.radiolabs.com/products/antennas/2.4gig/long-range...
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Why is sex special?
I'd like to second the recommendation of the fontsquirrel.com @font-face generator. Seems to work very well across all testing systems I can find.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90268

The long and short: changing the CSS of a parent element of a flash movie causes the flash movie to reload.
Actually, you'd probably laugh at them because they were naked.
> As it stands, Office 2010 and Office 2007 are brilliant, and all the rest are rubbish.

Office 2010 and 2007 are rubbish too. Aside from that minor disagreement, I agree wholeheartedly that the office suite market desperately need to be disrupted. However, I totally fail to understand why Mozilla would be qualified, much less positioned, to do the disruption.
I just tried going to https://news.ycombinator.com/ and got Error 102 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED): Unknown error.
As annoyed as I get when I receive downvotes, I think for the most part looking back, the comments were either divisive (and hence got some heated disagreement-based downvotes) or probably justified as downvote-worthy.

For the most part the moderation system works. But it forces you to think very hard about how valuable your comment is.
SimpleGeo is a startup that makes geo-enabled APIs like the one you are describing. They may have the tool you're looking for available for use. I think they are in a closed development phase, but should be out soon if not already.
It seems to me the problem is that there are many more opportunities for people working in computing to feel superior because of the way computers (and the internet, in particular) have become ubiquitous in our society. I mean, supposing you were a marine biologist. Not everyone is an expert in your domain, sure, but equally, people just don't normally ask you that many questions about it. If, on the other hand, a marine biologist gets asked daily whether a common species of seaweed is safe to eat, she might, after a while, start wondering why people are so stupid that she has to keep answering the same question. The problem is that in this hypothetical world, enough people eat seaweed often enough that this knowledge is required of our marine biologist on a regular basis, yet any particular person doesn't eat seaweed often enough that he would remember which species were safe to eat. Of course, it doesn't help that there are so many species of similar-looking seaweed or that there are just enough marine biologists around that she meets a group of them with whom she can feel smug at every party she attends!
I don't know what range of processors it supports, but it does run in LiveUSB mode on my ThinkPad x60 (core2Duo) for what it's woth.
Alright, say this glitch didn't exist.

Are you telling me that a sufficiently motivated entity couldn't get to the data stored on the phone? Once you have physical access to a device, things like this kind of become moot anyway, don't they?
Here's my experience. Whenever a C++ programmer uses the word performance, it's never to describe using template-based generic data structures. I do it and the performance is fine, but the hard-core C++ programmers seem to hate STL.

Incidentally, I asked someone about memory management in an interview for a C++ position. He said he wrote his own memory manager (object pool, basically), and never even bothered to use "new" or "delete".

Personally, I'm sticking to Haskell...
Read the owner's manual. Are you using the type and grade of oil and filter they recommend? If you're getting your oil changed at Jiffy Lube, I can assure you that you are almost certainly not.
I like the inscription on Henry Royce's fireplace mantle

"QUIDVIS RECTE FACTUM QUAMVIS HUMILE PRAECLARUM"
Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble.

I think that would make a nice employee handbook in itself.
All mine went fine. This actually was the least problematic upgrade of iPhoto so far. Is there some time thing on this or is it happen/doesn't happen?

// what's with the very un-HN headline?
Yeah, the thing with Flash drives these days is they get bigger and cheaper so quickly that I'm going to buy a new one a long time before it expired, even if I didn't lose it.
It is not Jon Gruber's job to shout from the rooftops when things go wrong with Apple products.

No, it's not, but given the influence that his blog has, being widely read both inside and outside Apple, it's a real shame that he doesn't. It would be a wonderful thing if he held Apple to account more often.
"However, new hire orientations now provide this card along with a full handbook of other more specific rules and legal regulations, as the way Nordstrom operates has changed."

That's what I call progress.
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I've been using this for weeks. It's 5:30 am.
I would use F.lux if I could figure out a way to use it and also have my monitor properly gamma corrected (at least during the day), sadly that doesn't seem to be an option.
> Maybe the problem will go away on its own. How many younger people read the manual for their cell phones, or a video game? And yet they figure it out anyway, by exploring.

I agree, this seems to be a problem I notice far more intrinsic to older generations.

I'm going to give another anecdote (I'm full of them today, see my other post in this subject): I once worked a very interesting job where we staffed people who traveled with an extremely sophisticated technology package into a workspace, and literally "embedded" as a super-user of the package, who acted as the user-lead for the package, and got the rest of the users up to speed by solving real world problems. There were literally dozens of components, pieces of software, data sources, etc. The data flow graph of the system covered a wall when printed out on a plotter.

Between cycles acting as a super user, we'd rotate on a cycle of training new hires (about an 8 week training cycle) to do this job. Intrinsically it was a problem solving job. You'd go to a site with the package, and when the users had problems, you'd craft a solution. Over time, you'd more or less build a work book of solutions to most of the common issues that particular user team would see.

From time to time we'd end up with an "older" person filling that position and going through training. I ended up on a couple of the training rotations with these folks, all great guys, but simply unable to put together a solution to very simple problems. To the person, every one of them asked us to build out a procedure manual covering all these various problem solving exercises.

Let me repeat that, they wanted to field novel problem solving questions by looking them up in a procedure manual for the appropriate solution. We're talking about a system with dozens of components, each of which with an operating manual the size of a phone book, and an 8 week training course covering thousands of slides, dozens of exercises, review, scoring, scenarios, private discussion etc. If a procedure manual could have existed for every conceivable problem scenario, it would have been tens upon tens of thousands of pages.

They simply couldn't fathom not having a procedure manual. And to the man, they left shortly after ending up in their field assignments because they "couldn't solve any problems and didn't have a procedure manual". Other than being a terrible waste of everybody's time, it was a repeatable pattern time and time again. Whenever we hired somebody over about 50, they always seemed to fall back in the need for procedures.

And as you've said, that's a terribly brittle kind of knowledge.
According to Rapleaf's blog, this site has a bunch of opt out cookies you can use: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

Nice find. Opting out by email doesn't seem that useful though. I probably have 20+ emails associated with my person, and figuring them all out will be a lot of work.

There needs to be some kind of statutory privacy protection that targets both keepers of such information and consumers of the information.
Much of political alignment is about status signaling and lifestyle choice. Ditto brands. You would expect to see overlap.

Relatedly, you can predict someone's vote in the last election very accurately by asking whether they have consumed sushi in the last 14 days. (This works less well in my kitchen.)
I think you could replace the word "electrician" in your quibble there with just about any other profession, with a corresponding change to the "dealing with megawatts" boast, and it could still be true.
Sufficiently motivated? Absolutely. But I contend there's a huge difference between something that takes technical skill to obtain versus something demonstrated on YouTube and is simple enough that my mom could make it happen.
Let's say I go to the mechanic with a light on in the dashboard, and he'll immediately notice the gas cap isn't tightly secured so it set off a car sensor. He probably went back to his mechanic friends, told them the story, and everyone laughed.

The computer and everything about it is our profession/hobby/passion and that is the main reason we know so much more than everyone else about it.
It's possible that silent data corruption occurred much earlier.

That is possible, but since flash uses ECC the controller should notice corruption.

Also, does the OP know whether any write buffering is going on?

There shouldn't be, since he's already using O_DIRECT.

why some writes took much longer than others

That's probably caused by erasing and data copying, since one erase is required for every ~1MB of data written.

If y'all are really interested in this topic, there are some good academic papers.

http://nvsl.ucsd.edu/ftest/
Nah, you can say all the bad things you want. They just have to be about Microsoft, government, or intellectual property.

Seriously though, nobody likes a negative Nancy. From looking at your comments it isn't that they aren't positive, it's that they are just ranting.
Most professions, sure. Still, I prefer to see people being assumed clever for their job than those who are assumed dumb for theirs.
Atom is still x86, but UNR has made some Atom-specific optimizations to the kernel. I don't know the details, but there may be some partial incompatibilities that prevent it working on some non-atom x86 cpus but not others.
Well I did not expect so many responses. Thanks everyone for both the positive and negative comments, I have read all of them and I will keep them in mind.

BTW: It's not the Karma points that bothered me, it's the grayish color that some of my comments got and that some downvoters just downvote and don't respond.
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There was such force that the network card was broken. That's a bit more force
I started using this at the recommendation of HN. It has literally been lifechanging for me. I now get up willingly and into productive mode before 9 AM better than 3 days a week, which is approximately how many days I willingly accomplished that between middle school and this summer.
I think you could replace the word "electrician" in your quibble there with just about any other profession, with a corresponding change to the "dealing with megawatts" boast, and it could still be true.

Even IT technicians and PR guys.
FWIW, here's a good example of a smart guy, cperciva, disagreeing with pg in a goodly way:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35015
I'm eagerly waiting trying this out once a Linux version becomes available.. looks very nice! Unfortunately I don't have a Windows or OS X installation available to me at the moment.
I don't wanna read your posts no more, you empty-headed animal food-trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

Would you prefer that?

Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!
This has been my problem with all of these articles of late. Companies need to face the fact that, regardless of relocation package, people don't want to relocate. The only option is to either deal with job hoppers in your inbred local talent pool, hire from overseas or start looking at ways to make telecommuting work.

On the overseas part, I know some seriously talented ruby developers who would love to come work in the states. My h1b experience is fairly ancient (2001) but I can think of one guy right now who has serious chops and has the code to back it up.
I think you're thinking of naturists, not naturalists.
> It's most of a computer, but nearly impossible for a user to accidentally get into an unusable state.

Thank you for this. It seems so obvious now, but this wonderfully captures something about the iDevices I couldn't quite put my thumb on...I think I need to go and do some deep meditating on this.
I should have said, get a lawyer and threaten loudly to sue for damages.
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My ideal Digg situation would be this poor neglected founder who has plenty of incentive to perform being given an opportunity.
This makes no sense to me. He practically started the blog to write glowing things about Apple. He has the influence has has because he is an extremely good writer; he's tight, pithy, is relentlessly creative, and has a unique voice; he's also very well-sourced, which sets up a virtuous cycle for him. He didn't get his donation as a line item grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and he doesn't owe us anything.

I actually don't agree with the narrative that Gruber is a shill, but even if we stipulate that he is to avoid an unproductive argument: so what?
Kids these days have parents from those days who won't let them do dangerous things like build fires or play with sharp, pointy meccano.
On a related note, see also JoliCloud, an Ubuntu based distro with some UI customization using web technologies.
http://www.jolicloud.com/
Wouldn't this cause them trouble if they have a suit for wrongful termination?
An Amazon EC2 micro instance is free for a year.
One factor that's not accounted for here would be time. That is, how much degradation happens over time naturally. Given how microscopic these electronics are, minor perturbations are actually pretty major and might cause failures without any electrical activity happening on them. It would be interesting to see how this test goes over the course of several months or years.
A single MLC doesn't last 90M writes. These drives have pretty big hidden spare capacity (up to 25% of the declared capacity). When a write fails the controller marks that cell bad and uses a spare cell instead. So it took 90M writes to kill all spare cells.
I do not see how the caching comment here applies, and I think it is telling that this example still includes updating a subtree. I am wondering if you think by "library" I mean "cache layer": I don't.

So, either the NoSQL solution you are using is incredibly dumb (and your schema is pretty much "id->blob") or it is internally going to have to do just as many joins against separately stored data objects in order to rebuild a concurrently-modifiable tree.

In the former case your NoSQL solution is a really fancy object serialization framework (and probably one that is not optimal for your app) and in the second case it is implementing a database and has a library on top to help you store and index trees.

To be clear, and to go back to my argument: I feel the former provides no real value and the latter could be implemented as a library over a normal SQL solution without having also had to reinvent the storage layer, the transactional semantics, etc..
http://fairtradeauckland.org/

Fair trade is an industry that places emphasis on the producers of goods, rather than the distributors of them. A group of people in Auckland, New Zealand, are donating their time and resources to try and convert Auckland to be a fair trade city. With a population of over 1M people, this would make a significant difference to the lives of many producers in developing areas.

I've been managing social media and IT for the group, but we've yet to find a good design for our branding. The website above is a temporary page with some basic information, however as you can see it's nothing flash.

The entire project is coming from community efforts, so this would fit us perfectly, and if we're successful in our goal, many people around the world will benefit.
No, they haven't. There was one recently linked on HN, but it was a fairly recent experiment, and it's far more likely to be attributable to the strangeness of it; people used to signs go into hyper-defensive-driver mode when they get to an area with no signs. You take away signs entirely the novelty wears off and people go back to driving like assholes.