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It didn’t work before partly by design. There was a long discussion about this on the Python development lists a couple years ago.
I don't really see how you're contradicting what I wrote. The "look out, he's got a gun" excuse was largely a BS attempt to sell the war to the public, but the philosophical idea - the long-run reason for wanting to go to war in the middle east for a long time - has much of its roots in this domino theory.

I think they really did expect to find a few fragments of evidence that would back up the "he's got a gun" excuse. I think they were genuinely surprised Saddam hadn't kept something going in private. But I don't think it was the strategic reason for wanting to go to war; an unrealistic and naive (but profitable) ideology was.
I've heard of something similar being done in accounts in order to give any auditors or tax inspectors something to find. Nothing big, of course. I'm personally not convinced this would help get rid of them quicker but who knows.
I thought of the application as a way for freelancers to get paid for relatively short tasks in between jobs while helping the open source community.

The site isn't geared just for bug fixes. It's any task for any open source project that needs to be done for a price.
For example, this recent task http://nextsprocket.com/tasks/python-for-enunciate wants to port enunciate from ruby to python.
I was going to switch to an Extended keyboard type of clone until a friend of mine told me that the flat keyboards were pretty good.

When I'm peaking, I can hit around 80wpm (but not prolonged, at which point pain sets in), and I've got nothing but good things to say about the Mac chiclet keyboards.

I think the thing that makes me -not- hate them is that there's a solid banging sensation at the bottom of the pressing motion, as opposed to the mushy feel I've gotten from my Windows laptops in the past.
This seems to be directed at PC/Console games. But for casual Flash games, Kongregate has great tutorials at: http://www.kongregate.com/labs
Hi,

A while ago I bought 'Arduino' and 'PIC', they both provided a microcontroller and the cord that goes from your PC to the microcontroller so you can update the code in the chip etc.
I tinkered a little bit with Arduino and you can build quite a few little well working things such as robots.

So, I would use Arduino. The coding part is a lot like C, which is good even for a MC with limited memory resources and processor.

I'm still a beginner in that area though.
Solving a linear system of equations is not the same as solving a linear program. The article is about the former, not the latter. Linear programming is an optimization problem, subject to constraints that are described by inequalities. Linear systems of equations are finding values of relationships defined by equalities. There are lots of matrix multiplications involved in both, but other than that the solutions don't really resemble each other. For example, Linear Programming is not even known to be solvable in strongly polynomial time (simplex is exponential in the worst case, and the best method is weakly polynomial), while the algorithm in the paper improves from one strongly polynomial result ot another.
Right- I am confused by "avoided giving bribes" since typically bribes are something you go out of your way to provide.

I am guessing corrupt officials basically request money from you for no reason- and it's expected you give it to them (for no reason as well). Then, they just call it a "bribe". But I'm guessing... pardon my cultural ignorance.
Not all societies. Fighting wars has usually been a profession for adults, and even today there are countries without military: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_without_armed...
I don't believe it's just generational, but culture plays an important role in it. If a person's friends are over-sharers, chances are they themselves might be, too.

Personally, I never saw the advantage of location sharing. I like to know what my friends are up to and I like telling them what I'm doing, and there are many tools and sites for doing that. Why do people have to give their geo coordinates to some creepy service when they could just post "hey, i'm at pizza hut, everybody" on Twitter if the need arises?
I had something similar. We had two programs that you could leave school early for work stuff. They were work release which required being in certain related classes to the job, and internship. I was in to computers, taking the AP CS class, doing the school's website in another unofficial class, but not Novell networking which was the only computer work release class, so I couldn't get work release. However the internship teacher had been a PE teacher at my middle school, and I'd gone to him to ask about it, so when the counselor told us that I didn't qualify, he quickly offered to put me in the internship program.

Technically internships were supposed to be unpaid, but I didn't know that. I almost let the cat out of the bag that I was just going to work early at the end of the year presentation on my internship to other students, the teacher and a vice principle, but quickly recovered following my teacher's scramble to cover our asses.
http://www.estful.com/

A site for recipes. No-one uses it, and I feel that it needs a lot more work.
In the year 2000.
Ask HN: How does your company maintain an employee directory?
The current solution we are using at the startup where i work is a google spreadsheet of the team information - name, email, cell phone etc.

I'd like to know what solutions/approaches others are using.
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Poor eyesight stop robots from being among humans...for now.
The problem with this sort of thing is that the perceived benefit is often quite subjective. It is hard to define and get people to agree on a quantitative measure to use for evaluation
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Perhaps I type more quickly than a true hunt-and-peck typist. However, I only use my ring and pinky fingers for modifier keys, and I absolutely look at the keyboard. So there is a lot of room for improvement.

The thing to remember is that there's a difference between being taught something, self-taught (or "autodidactic"), and untaught. Someone can be any of the three and excel, but the first two imply a certain approach where there was an explicit goal to learn. Words like "professional" and "serious" come to mind. A "serious" programmer invests in improving himself, he doesn't just improve as a byproduct of doing things.

One way to read what Jeff has written is that a serious programmer invests in their keyboarding skill and equipment with the same mindset that they bring to investing in their programming skill and learning to use abstract tools like languages or frameworks.
I agree. That part confused me a bit. Was Pace's foot on the accelerator when Innes got out of the car to check on him as well?
That's low. I would expect 10% of people use their iPads as table mats, another 10% never got the "damn thing to turn on" and the final 10% just bought one because all their rich friends had one, without ever using it.
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Paper books only come on the original device and can't be upgraded for free as printing technology improves. No backup. I'm pretty sure most tablets (and many phones) that emerge in the next year will have a Kindle app.
To your point [1]

reputation has little if at all relevance here.

The US largely employed a strategy of asymmetrical, anti-access, area-denial. shock and awe etc... in Iraq initial phase of the war.

put simply, we see you on the field we turn you into vapor, essentially making open conflict with US forces a suicidal idea, because you can never match the fire power.

This strategy, and not the reputation you talk about, is what encourages the enemy to fight an attrition, largely non kinetic war, over a long time, its simply a prudent logical approach to a fight against an enemy with far superior capabilities on the field

Parts of the military recognized this, and hence the COIN doctrine was born, wining the battle is easy for the US military, it is done swiftly. wining security post conflict (re occupation) is something the US military had consistent problems with primarily due to the size and nature of the occupying forces (20 something marines make a very effective combat solider, but lousy and impatient occupier)

Another way of putting it, is that the US does not need a great number of troops to win armed conflict scenarios, but require a great number of troops (of a different sort) to secure occupation, this was the point that general Eric Shinseki made at the time before congress, and was ridiculed for it by the neocon know it alls.

I do agree with you that the US will continue to have an increasing number of low level armed conflicts around the world, It is the fist of globalization if you will.
I know, but often when people make that distinction, it's concerned with what performance ballpark the language has rather than strictly implementation issues.
Not sure what Homebrew is (not a mac user myself), but the App Store is intended for stand-alone (portable?) apps. The rules forbid libraries and system utilities.

So, if homebrew is anything like the debian package manager, then no, the AppStore probably won't kill it; at least not now.
I know, the doubletalk is really thick!
Programming and programming languages (Alan Kay)
I deleted mine as well after a similarly creepy event.

Also, after awhile, I just didn't see the point to it.
I had a really hard time convincing a large, corporate client to setup such basic things like a version control system, a central bug tracking system, or any kind of project documentation repository. Oh, did I mention this was only three years ago? It's 2007 and you're not using version control? Anyway, one day, another consultant who sat next to me got laid off and the company's IT guys never came around to remove his computer. So, I moved the computer into the cabinet over my desk and used it as my "phantom dev server" or alternatively "The Travis" (after our laid-off compatriot). I even used it as a staging server for testing deployments. There was one time that a clueless cable-jockey came up looking for the machine, I told him someone had come for it months ago, and we never heard from him again.

Eventually, I developed a simple content management system on the product website because the company's policies were preventing us from making copy and FAQ changes as fast as we needed. Unfortunately, I couldn't get approval to do the project, even though I had a little bandwidth and it was something we really, really needed. I told my confidant in the company what I was doing and he ran interference for me for two days while I cranked the code out. We had to wait a month for another project to get finished to slip it in along-side an approved site deployment, but once it was in the wild, our lives became incredibly easier.

We almost let the cat out of the bag once when we made a change too quickly, though. Management wanted us to change some of the contact info on the site, and to change most of the branding of the site. Since I setup everything to be hosted out of the CMS, including stylesheets, no deployment was necessary. What should have taken two weeks (1 day to finish and then 9 days of bureaucratic shenanigans), took only one day. The plan was to wait the 9 days, then tell them about the change, and use the time to get caught up on support tickets and other "secret" programming going on (like a complete rewrite of the desktop product software, this time without VB6... in 2008). One of the execs dropped into our area for an update, and the stupid phone-support guy blabbed about "oh yeah, that's already done." I stabbed him in the leg with a pen, and "clarified" that the "work was complete and was now in the deployment pipeline." That wasn't the first or the last time that stupid goober's mouth almost got us in trouble.

I miss that job. It was hard to work in the stifling environment of an ossified corporate structure, but I had good friends I was working with, and despite our team being considered "black sheep" and "dangerous mavericks", everyone respected our productivity and we were always involved in all new policy decisions (basically, they were just upset to be told they were wrong). We skirted many lay-offs after that first round because of it.
It's based on the latest trunk code. The only changes are in the ORM layer and they're pretty small (maybe less than 100 lines). Which other questions do you want to see answered on the website?
horrible advice - NX is bound to suck up heaps of bandwidth even over ssh-gzip - probably more so than just using a local browser.
True. I have subconsciously raised my google game over the years to cope.

I use more terms "in quotes" now, include more negative terms, use more site-specific searches, and use inurl as well. I still get what I want, but I wouldn't if I wasn't tech savvy.
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*she.
appreciate the kudos
You're right. When I'm writing code, I often don't find the typing to be my impediment.

My first ideas are usually not quite distilled, and after the initial burst (or brain fart) of code, I spend a lot of time reducing/refactoring the code.
...would you favor denying the vote to people unable to make correct judgements, deal with political rhetoric or form opinions about highly technical issues? It seems that filtering the noise is far cheaper than increasing the signal, in this case.

As to your position that "filtering the noise" is easier than "increasing the signal", I think that you have perhaps...shall we say, not carefully considered the logistics involved? But leave that aside.

The danger with disenfranchising anyone, for any reason, is that of false positives. To paraphrase Blackstone, I would far rather that a hundred idiots were voting than for one wise person to be unfairly disenfranchised.

Fundamentally, society works because most or all of its members believe that they are better off as members of the existing framework than they would be by moving away, rebelling, etc. The last time Americans were bound by laws and taxes concerning which they had no voice, they threw quite a party in this little town up in Massachusetts...I think they served tea?
It's complicated. The unpublished work is certainly in the public domain insofar as copyright is concerned. If the work was edited for publication, those changes might be copyright. The final book is a compendium of materials including the autobiography, front materials, and so forth. The ancillary materials may have a different copyright than the body of the book. If there is only one copy of the unpublished work, even if copyright does not apply, other property rights may. Nothing is ever easy about copyrights.

What can be copyrighted is frequently confused. In particular (Section 102 USC17):

102(a). Copyright protection subsists, in accordance with this title, in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. Works of authorship include ...

102(b). In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.

On top of this expression/idea dichotomy there is a large body of case law which further explains what is meant.
I don't know if this is helpful or not, but I had a look at the site and don't really understand what its trying to do.

Perhaps you need something to engage new users - to show them what it is and why they want it? I don't know if I like it because, after browsing for a few moments (like every other potential user of anything, I have a very short attention span when checking out random websites without any prior goals), I still don't know what it does.
I haven't been to BK in a while, but during grad school the back of every receipt asked you to call a number, complete a survey, write down a code, and redeem the receipt for a free Whopper. The code consisted of two letters corresponding to the month (the key to which was easily found online) and four digits (which I just randomized).

The kicker was that BK would give you the free Whopper...and a receipt for the free Whopper. And the cycle continues.
Help stop the spread of NIBS (Native is Better Syndrome)
You should write blog post about how not to lawyer up. I I think it is a definite hit.
When did you learn to type, or are you still paying for this "hack"?
Every time I see a presentation given in SmallTalk, I'm deeply impressed and I feel so useless working on my web applications when even Children can use etoys to create amazing things like the ant simulator.

And seeing OMeta or similar systems makes me never want to touch e.g. Java again, where useless getters and setters alone take more LOC than the whole implementation of OMeta.

But: Today's browsers offer us a similar graphical environment we can easily modify with code and for instance knockout.js allows me to write impressively little code to achieve what I want. I'm looking forward to what people will do with the web while I try to understand what people started more than 30 years ago.
Copyrightability isn't really what's at issue here, as this is all written text, which is clearly a form of copyrightable expression.

There is the issue, though, of a copyright on a compilation of public domain works, or on the edits on top of a public domain work that create a derivative work. These copyrights don't subsist in the PD works themselves, though.
The probable reason online translators failed is interesting: davidst used nonstandard, but phonetic, transliteration. "Skolka" is closer to how it sounds but the normal way of spelling it in English is "skolko". Similarly "speciba" instead of "spasibo". Either he got these out of a traveler's manual or learned how to say them and then spelled them the way they sound.

By the way, people's tendency to misspell things the way they sound is what allows philologists to figure out how proununciation worked in past centuries.
I once had a client that paid with a bad check. To make matters worse, the check had arrived several weeks late. Rumor had it that his business was on shaky ground.

I knew something was up when the teller at my bank noticed the client's name and said they would have to verify the check (check was drawn on a different bank) And of course it was revealed there were non sufficient funds.

Bad check in hand, I went to his bank and tried to cash it, knowing they would not do so. Sure enough, the teller apologized and asked me to contact the client for resolution. Maybe it was her sympathetic tone that prompted me to ask, but she revealed the account was only $18 short of clearing. So I pulled $18 out of my pocket and asked her to deposit it on behalf of that account. She then cashed my check for $2,850.

The client called a few days later, very angry, because several of his checks to "more important" people had bounced instead. His business failed a few months later.
Everything I've seen on HN leads me to believe YC would rather invest in a Woz than a Jobs.
Off topic: Is Steve Ballmer supposed to be a good speaker? He sounds arrogant to me.
I'm reluctant to give up too much detail, but our infrastructure is very, very scalable and secure. It's pretty solid, and allows for very fine-grained control over many instances of any running application. Load balancing is taken care of, as well as redundancy.

Once we go public, it's possible we'll be more open about the architecture, but right now we're still iterating pretty rapidly, trying to make the user experience dead-simple without sacrificing stability or scalability.
Actually, this exact response tells me 95% of what I need to know. Another good thing to know would be how easy it is to use existing apps with it (provided they don't use JOINs, of course), but it looks like I need to give it a try, thanks!
Thanks for posting this. I'm committed to my current venture, but often wonder how long it will be until my curiosity takes me somewhere else. But Tony's line about "would you be able to say you’ve been doing what you truly care about today" is a pretty great litmus test for anything we do.
Yeah, I suppose I should have said moral hazard is rampant, instead of nonexistent. Hope that didn't obscure my point too badly though.
I bought the laptop that I am using now, the one I have used for the last three years, and earned with all my income during that time .. I bought it for $300, in 2007.
I'm rather inexperienced in all this startup stuff, but I thought the main idea of YC was investing into people, not particular projects, since projects sidetrack, change and pivot all the time and people either rock or they don't.

Considering this, I think both of them would get accepted.
Check out ach direct. Many of the big guys like Paypal used them when they were first starting out.

Good service and pricing. Www.achdirect.com
You can configure any readline-enabled shell to do this.

I wrote a post about it recently: http://semmyfun.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-config-secrets.html
I'm a 40 year old who concurs. I tend to think the gap is generational -or- personality type (oversharers).

I do like the find my iPhone feature, however. It could come in handy with family members in an emergency.
Comments on the thread are good -- here's the one that pointed me to the article in the first place: http://www.webdirections.org/blog/help-stop-the-spread-of-ni...
I agree, knowing the basic concepts is very important. As a way to teach OOP you could also use an existing 2D engine and start creating basic games in that. That would be an easy way for people to get something on the screen and at the same time get the feeling that they're actually making a game.
tilera claims to release a competitor to the x86 for the LAMP stack in Q4 2010, togheter with quanta(a big hardware OEM). but yes, it this requires proof.

for some tasks(like HPC , multimedia) , the gpu can handle most of the computation , and the cpu is somewhat of a sidekick(like in the nVidia ION netbooks , for example).

while windows would still dominate, the importance of a strong x86 cpu would decrease, by all the changes in the ecosystems , and the costs of the x86 processor will decrease.
Microsoft Windows on Itanium was once marketed as the path forward for x86 applications, too.

Intel hasn't had particular success with microprocessor designs outside of its core x86 business. Examples of other designs include iAPX432, i860/i960, StrongARM/XScale and Itanium.

These architecture transitions don't always work out. While Apple has some experience with porting and has maked it look (relatively) easy, Windows hasn't had particular success with its ports, whether via Itanium's x86 emulation or via translation tools such as FX!32.
Why Windows 8 we have barely used 7?