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This is only peripherally related. But since we are on the topic of Napoleon...

Charles Joseph Minard created and published a flow map of "Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign of 1812"[1]. This graphic is way ahead of it's time. It provides so much information in such a concise and clear form that it's hard to imagine that it was published in 1869.

Also see more information on Tufte's website[2][3]. That is how I originally found out about it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard and http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Minard.pn...

[2] http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/minard

[3] http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/minard-obit
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1. Assume self-interest on the part of (many but not all) other people.

2. See if you can convince some other person to give you money to solve a problem, where your solution involves something besides or in addition to physical labor. (Many but not all jobs qualify.)

3. Success? Congratulations, you are very likely not retarded.

3b. Not convinced because of the "many-but-not-all" qualification? Keep repeating 2 until you are.

3c. I admit that this will never refute the idea that every other person in the the entire world is conspiring to make you feel normal in spite of your deficiencies. (And now I'm part of the Conspiracy.) This seem identical to me to the problem of solipsism, so it doesn't bother me to not have a good answer for that.
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A world without Privacy laws would be similar to the one described in 1984, by George Orwell. Privacy was born as reaction to dictatorships in Europe, we can't forget it.
About Privacy Policies, I think there is space to do much, making them finally readable, accessible to anyone.
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Some time ago I was working two years for small corproration called IBM. Employes from small startups
being aqcuired by IBM was shoked by the amount of time they started to spend on email after joined the corporation, the best of them left very shortly after the aqcuasition.
> There don't seem to be any long-term health risks.

As long as you don't count psychosis as health risk...
The term "fine" in "fine art" is not used to describe "better" art. Fine art is just a term that has since been abandoned for simply "art." However, some people refer to visual art, such as painting, as "fine art."

IMOP "better" art is art that pushes the medium and makes people who consume it think or feel differently than they did before they consumed it. The more derivative the work, the less impact it makes on both pushing the medium and on the way we think.

In order to change the way people think and feel, it requires that the consumer of the art invest some effort in understanding it. The payoff to the consumer is they gain a new insight or feel the artist's conveyed emotion.

Pop music is not considered "better" art because it is often formulaic and designed to sell albums. Being derivative it often does not break new ground artistically. It's easy to consume (listen to) because we know what to expect musically. It's sorta' like comfort food. Listening to music that is ground breaking can often be difficult the first few listens, but then you get an "ah ha! Yes!" moment, and as your ears and brain realize what's going on, it becomes enjoyable. Then, other musicians copy it, make derivative versions that push the concept a little bit further, and you have a new genre.

There ya' go. My layman's answer. ;)
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I switched to the Play framework for my Java web development earlier this year and it is the first time in my career that I have stopped looking for other Java-based web frameworks.
"even possible on any Android device today".

This is probably true. The fact that the current Android SDK requires wrapping OpenGL calls in a Java layer is cited by developers (it's mentioned up-thread) as a hindrance in writing highly performant games. Gruber chose his words carefully though, this is true today but the next Android update supposedly fixes this. We'll see.
(Regarding your marijuana point: I have seen the impact of daily pot smoking on friends, and it is quite real. I have also seen the effect go away when they stopped smoking. Sounds like a cliché out of a book on morals, but it is the truth

Hi fredoliveira

Would you mind elaborating on this a little? It's an area of personal interest. Only for scientific reasons of course ;)

Regards
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The same thing applies to ATI or AMD graphic card too because without the accurate driver you’ll confront lot of troubles, for example poor picture quality, ineffective sound output, cloudy resolution and many more like that.
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If there is anything I hate OO is for the triumphalism of its proponents.
Anyway, that's what I've come to think of main programming styles:

Imperative style - programming with a global context.

OO style - programming with a local, implicit context

Functional - programming with no context. Or explicit context.

And yes, Virginia, complex problems will stay complex no matter which style you use.
Yes that is a bad idea because you are moving the focus from the job to the interview
Yes there presumably is. If you want scientific research, you should go to scholar.google.com or better yet to the library of your nearest teaching hospital / medical university. There have been thousands if not tens of thousands papers on the issue. You'll never get a scientifically valid answer on the internet, and probably not even in the library - but at least there you'll have data.

Anecdote time: I know a doctor who is convinced that he is right on his opinion that marijuana causes depression, has near-100% gateway properties and causes long term brain damage even after short periods of use. The rub? He works at a psychological hospital that get a lot of patients with acute drug-induced psychoses or other drug-related issues. From his sample, of course he comes to his conclusions! I have tried to explain the concept of 'sample bias' several times to him but either he is incapable of such numeric thinking or just refuses to do so.
Given a world in which we are free to choose, as much of the US is becoming, these are the right questions to ask.
For now the fraction of the cables that has been released is actually pretty small.
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You're basically saying that only non-users can make a cost/benefit analysis of drug use. One could equally well claim that a portion of non-users have an anti-drug bias for self-justification reasons. Where does one draw the line? The only solution is to not rely on 'opinions' and naked theory, but on data. Which is hard, but even when accounting for error margins, there is to the best of my knowledge no reason to accept that people who have at one point in their lives illegally used controlled substances have a statistically significant bias that distorts everything that comes from them.
This is at the heart of the problem. Nitpicking at Gruber specific points is one thing, but the fact is that paid apps on the Android store are getting nowhere. Arguing that "this doesn't matter because free is the way to go" is a reasonable opinion to hold, but misses the point. Android developers don't get to make a choice about that whatever their opinion, while iOS developers do. The counter argument is that as these platforms mature and become more capable the apps will become more functional and sophisticated, with attached services and customers will be more willing to pay for them. iOS developers have a shot at making that future happen, unless things change Android devs don't.
For a more clever criticism of OOP:

I find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting - saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them work.

-Alexander Stepanov

edit : interview here http://www.stlport.org/resources/StepanovUSA.html
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Btw, for context, here is his publications list: http://scg.unibe.ch/staff/oscar/onpubs

He's not an anti-OOP guy, he's a pro-OOP guy who's giving a roast as the banquet speech at ECOOP.
On the other hand, most heat transfer relations are proportional to delta-T, so a T' = 1/T definition would make thing like

q = h (T_2-T_1)

become

q = h( 1/T'_2 - 1/T'_1 )

Perhaps unlike the case for pi, I think there's a good argument here for keeping temperature as-is.
> There's no evidence that any of the ddos'ers are on board with this at all.

And given this groups nature I don't think there will be much evidence about anything they do at all, other than initial communications, side effects and occasionally apparently an arrest.

That's the nature of the beast, and that is exactly what makes it so hard to come to terms with it for many people that would like to see 'organization'. To the extent that anon has an organization you'd probably have to name them 'core' or something like that and even that does not really do it justice. This is a fairly complex issue and even talking about it I find it hard to pick exactly the right terms without almost automatically falling back to using terms that somehow subtly do not apply.

What evidence would satisfy you that some people of some anonymous group are partaking in some activity claiming that they partook in some other activity ?
We don't have those. Do you think it might be related to my dilemma? :-P
I disagree. Amazon's cloud is great for getting started, no doubt about that. And yes, they take care of all the administration. But the hardware and bandwidth costs are absurdly expensive. Probably somewhere between 2x - 10x as much. Netflix is outsourcing it because they are rich and can afford the scalability that Amazon offers.
As I understand it the point of the leaks or not the documents per se but the actual leak of them.

As stated elsewhere

According to his essay, Julian Assange is trying to do something else. Because we all basically know that the US state — like all states — is basically doing a lot of basically shady things basically all the time, simply revealing the specific ways they are doing these shady things will not be, in and of itself, a necessarily good thing. In some cases, it may be a bad thing, and in many cases, the provisional good it may do will be limited in scope. The question for an ethical human being — and Assange always emphasizes his ethics — has to be the question of what exposing secrets will actually accomplish, what good it will do, what better state of affairs it will bring about. And whether you buy his argument or not, Assange has a clearly articulated vision for how Wikileaks’ activities will “carry us through the mire of politically distorted language, and into a position of clarity,” a strategy for how exposing secrets will ultimately impede the production of future secrets. The point of Wikileaks — as Assange argues — is simply to make Wikileaks unnecessary.

http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/julian-assange-an...
Go the a big cities website, or the police department's, or a criminology researcher's. Find a map or report of areas where known drug dealers or prostitutes hang out (there is often overlap between these). Go there late at night in the weekend. Walk around a bit, don't make contact with anyone. After a while you'll get a feel for the environment and can make (short) eye contact with people. Dealers will pick you out, if they haven't approached you before.

I walk through parts of my city regularly where I am often approached in this way, even though I don't want to buy anything from them. So I only know about the first part, I don't know anything about any transactions after that would take place, or how to keep yourself safe. Maybe dressing like a bum will make the chance they'll mug you smaller.

Alternatively, associate with someone who most likely has some underground connections. Call and meet a prostitute, approach a group of youths hanging around on the street, approach people in a clubbing area, things like that. All of this I got from watching Law and Order but it seems reasonable enough :)
Object oriented programming has vastly simplified and improved programming. Come on! I would hate to develop an average GUI app without OO!
good theory. but, it just almost never happens, and when it does- it happens temporarily in a very short amount of time:

"players actually improve their payoffs if they make the best decisions (for themselves) that he or she can "

-- the problem is that statistically, folks make bad decisions/ - often because, the motivation for that decision isnt clear.

motivations play a key role as well as the individuals understanding of fairness.
I don't know where you live, but if you think you don't have bums, you're probably not looking in the right places or only driving from your gated compound to your office and back in an armored limo.
I've noticed quite a few times on HN that people demand a new site/startup have a ToS - or they wont touch the service with a barge pole. That always struck me as a bit strange too. Particularly in the HN/startup community, I don't think having a ToS has ANY bearing on the integrity of the site or it's owner. It's a startup - chances are it'll be down next week anyway.
It often breaks my heart when some of my best friends and family reach the limits of their cognitive abilities and display all the intelligence of a Labrador. I love them all unconditionally nonetheless, even if they don't get half of my jokes or most of what I say in the course of the day.
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Its amazing to see varieties of the same plant have such a broad range of effects on people's behavior and state of mind. This chart does not even consider the consumption method.

Its cool to think that in places where consumers have both information and choice (like SF and Amsterdam) the taste for weed will get refined. Strains will be grown for states of mind that consumers desire and demand.

'The Botany of Desire' is a really cool book/video that describes how cannabis DNA has been evolving according to the human brain's desire to affect its own state (the book also talks about apples, potatoes and tulips for other examples of human-driven plant evolution). We're probably looking at the results of strains that were originally selected for a market primarily driven to the potency of THC. I'd love to see the strains that self-select in markets where consumers have information and choice.
Recent studies[1][2] have shown that psychosis only may be a risk if you already are prone to it.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=S...
[2] http://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/ebm/record/16936704/a...
Wish I could upvote this comment twice. Flowers for Algernon is one of the most moving stories I have ever read.
I wonder if news.ycombinator.com could be changed so it fetches the page of any submitted article and looks for the original-source meta tag described here recently:

http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/credit-where-cred...

It could then suggest to the submitter that they submit the original source instead. Alternatively, it could keep the link to the submitted article but also add an (Original Source) link next to it.
Well to be fair, it is his company. jerk or not; you cant hate on the guy for running his business the way he wants to.

btw,

"Not some kind of unique and interesting jerk, fascinating in his jerkiness, but just a regular garden-variety jerk. I know those guys. "

I think that deserves to be on a tshirt or something
This post is difficult to understand. From my understand, correct me if I am wrong, New Zealand is providing aid by allowing Tongan workers come work for a season, then return home. This leads to a marked improvement in the lives of those who are allowed to migrate to work. Is that right?
Yet despite all that they appear to have sold out their pre-order run of the PixelQi version.
A similar (primary-source) article was posted about 5 months ago, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1449813.
You might want to explain why you think it is complicated and why you think machine parseable feedback reports are pointless.

Machine readable feedback reports would be highly useful if they were common, and I see nothing overly complicated about that RFC compared to other email related RFCs...
Oh come on, the 'gentelman' is referring to the spirit of the statement, is a figure of speech and does not refer to any gender at all. In the concept of Anonymous there are no genders, faces or names, all are equal.

If they'd start to bend it to contemporary political correctness, it would loose it's meaning.
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I should imagine that switching to Amazon Route 53 would mitigate many of the attacks!
Reading the thread, it seems there's still an intention to roll the JIT into py3k at some point, but the project devs don't have the time and the community doesn't seem to have the inclination to take over the work. I think calling it dead might be overstating things slightly.

Or, seeing as this is Python we're talking about: It's not dead, it's just resting.
I'd be surprised. The heuristics type facebook engineering puzzles are more long term type puzzles. These multi-problem fixed time competitions like codejam, icpc, and even top coder, are typically algorithmic masturbation combined with a handful of interesting tricks and an in-depth knowledge of your language's standard libraries. The contest setup and configuration help to make the context fair and scoring easy while still allowing for a decent variety of problems in a very small time window. The more challenging heuristic problems you see on their site don't lend themselves well to the format or nature of similar contests. It will be more so unusual insightful variations on textbook algorithms than something like their Dinosaur Island puzzle.

While it would be interesting to see otherwise, I don't see facebook doing anything other than exact answer solutions for this initial contest.
Doing anything in this space?
With PyPy moving ahead so well, I wonder if there's much point to Unladen Swallow anymore. Weren't they always expecting to be a stopgap until PyPy was ready?
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maybe because they're all in ireland
Ask HN: How do you deal with a dull co-founder?
A few years ago, I started a startup with a friend of mine. This friend was not a technical guy, but he was hardworking and did all of the manual tasks that the startup needed. His role was invaluable at the time.

Fast forward a few years later, and the guy has not changed in the least. Even though he studied business, he has not learned any new business skills. He does not participate in any strategy discussions, because he has no ideas. He is unwilling to learn to do software development. He cannot manage any projects - you need to manage him to manage a task.

Basically, he just stayed the same and could not adapt to the changing needs of our startup. He's very comfortable doing manual tasks, but the tasks that need intelligence, he cannot do.

He would be a competent guy as one of the extras in the startup, but due to his founding role, hes at the top. He refuses to part with any money, so I cannot hire anyone else, and he knows that he will not get this opportunity to work in a company like this, so he does not want to sell his shares or quit.

He's extremely poor in communication - often not replying emails or misunderstanding what was asked. So right now, we hardly even talk, much less strategize. His dullness has seeped into me, and the people I manage.

What can I do? Is my only choice to leave the company?
> Just because your Java program compiles does not mean it has no errors (even type errors).

This is because

a) Java allows arbitrary subtype casting of object reference types

Object s = "string";
Integer foo(Integer i) {
return i.intValue() + 2;
}
foo((Integer) s); //runtime error

b) null is valid value for all object reference variables.

foo(null); //runtime error

Java should not be used to point out the faults of static typing.
MonoDevelop gives me that feeling too, that's why when I did a small project with Mono I went to my trusted toolchain ... Emacs / Rake.

Debugging is also painful; I'm still waiting for something like Python's debugger.

On the other hand I trust that I'll get shit done with my favorite platforms (Python / Ruby / Linux) more than I trust Java, even though these are considered toys by other people, so it's a matter of personal preference / perspective.