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M.N.SHAH:Young artist in Hyderabad makes amazing pictures out of rubber stamps
A young artist in India's southern Hyderabad city makes amazing impressions out of rubber stamp, which include famous cartoon characters and high profile political leaders.
M.N. Shah, who follows an art not many of his counterparts would venture into, has been chasing his dreams since he was a second class student.
While grown ups admired the dexterous pictures of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, federal ruling Congress chairperson Sonia Gandhi,, first Prime Minister of India, Jawahar Lal Nehru, Hindu saint Sai Baba, kids found the pictures of their animation character Spiderman and Bugs Bunny quite interesting.
Though an intricate task as it requires Shah to carve his pictures in inverse position, the fineness of his art speaks of the labour and passion involved.
Shah uses ordinary pocket knife and ERASERS of various sizes which range from an ordinary eraser to larger sizes.
"I use normal eraser and normal pocket knife. Whatever the impression which I select should be totally Drawn in the inverse position. The inverse position picture is then carved by blade, ordinary blade, keeping in view that even minute parts should be covered in it. By impressing on ink pad, the selected impression will be once again pressed on eraser and an impression will be formed," said Shah.
Shah had recently put an exhibition at SALAR JUNG MUSEUM HYDERABAD WHERE Smt PRAVEEN MATHA (IAS & AG ) HAD INOGRATED THE GALLERY WESTERN BLOCK WHERE SHAH PUT AN EXHIBITION to bring forth his Talent before others who are Creative Minds M.N.SHAH 0091 89 77 999 222 SHAH HAS ALL SET TO WAIT FOR THE INVERTERS WHO ARE INTEREST TO BRING OUT A NEW MUSEUM TO HYDERABAD INDIA
M.N.SHAH 0091 89 77 999 222
If that's a project for yourself, maybe you can use python 3.x if you don't depend on libraries which need python 2.x.

If that's project you intend on distributing, then please support python 2.x. First, given that python 3.x has few killer features compared to 2.x, it won't bring you much, frankly. Then using python 3.x in production is near impossible ATM for many people. Third, it is easy to forget that other people may have other dependencies than you, which means that even though you don't depend on python3, other people may want to use your package in an environment where python 3.x is not possible.

Note that supporting python 2.x may mean different things. It could be that you restrict to the subset common to 2 and 3: while painful, it is possible, and some known packages have done it (ply I believe, for example). It could be that you write your code such as 3to2 can produce a workable solution (I have never used it, so cannot comment on it).
Ask HN: Why most of the HR Departments suck?
Although I have worked only in IT industry, I have seen and experienced this over many years. Most of the HR departments for function very badly. I wonder why!
If you were reading a relationship advice column, you'd assume it was written by a woman. That's not sexism.

And do we need more men in 'relationship advice'? Only if they want to be there.

I really wish this ridiculous and unhelpful "There's no women in tech because of evil men" meme would die.
Gene Sharp: Author of the nonviolent revolution rulebook
A physicist can never certainly say that something doesn't happen.

We have models that describe the world very well, but those models are never the whole truth (and even it were, we couldn't be sure of it).

Special and General Relativity are experimentally very well tested, and these theories predict that a particle that has a speed < c can never acquire a speed > c. There are solutions for speeds larger than c, but those solutions are quite weird, and can't interact with "normal" particles.

But the mere scientific approach of observing facts, modeling and verifying means that one can never be sure that something can't be - only in the limits of the models can we be sure that a thing can't be.
Automatically attributing all the high quality posts to men is enormously much worse.

And it will only perpetuate the problem or even make it worse, because it makes it harder for women to get the recognition they deserve.

You might say that the recognition they deserve is equal recognition. I would agree. IFF they were currently getting equal recognition, then everything you say about giving them extra recognition would be true. It would be condescending, belittling and sarcastic.

The problem is though that they don't get equal recognition. So until the day they do, you can put that "condescending, belittling and sarcastic" attitude right back where you found it.
Grumo's videos are always great, that guy's voice can sell anything. He's like the Spanish James Earl Jones.
It is definitely not the recommended nor the common way of doing it. Many projects use 2to3 at release time (which hopefully include testing time) to support python 3.x. Numpy and scipy do exactly that for example, and we won't limit ourselves to python 3.x anytime soon.
That too, but more specifically: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

In that article, he talks about Netscape's biggest mistake being the decision to rebuild from scratch for version 5 (which went on to become the Mozilla suite).
It's all about the liability. Ran into the same thing when trying to rent out desks (coworking). Since we're an intermediary we can't bare the full responsibility: the actual things we rent out are outside our control. We were denied because of that.
Luckily most consumers here in The Netherlands don't have credit cards, so not having CC checkout is not a big deal, and businesses are accustomed to paying invoices within x number of days. The number of invoices that get defaulted on is worth the risk.
Why Don't Microsoft Make Their Own Laptop?
(1)I think this article is rubbish and (2) I am not qualified for much more than an uneducated opinion. That said:

There might need to be some new categories invented for the purpose of determining appropriate multiples. Technology and software in particular does really have the potential for very high margins and growth that do (often) justify higher valuations than retail/consulting/whatever. But the companies we're talking about are not really comparable to MSFT or Adobe from a valuation perspective.

The fact that writing software is central to all these businesses doesn't mean they are in the same business. These are real businesses making real money. I just don't think they have the same stability.
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I am a native speaker(not born recently though). it still hard to speak or listen 'other' dialect, but more and more Mainland Chinese Speak mandarin instead of dialect， so it's more and more easy to communication.
Hooray! A pissing match that boils down to whether stacks are better than lists! //rolls eyes

Was very tempted to say "... match between two dead languages that ..."

But then somebody would nitpick, and they'd get 500 karma, and I'd get -20 and I would burn with the fury of a thousand suns... or if not that then at least the mild annoyance of a social worker watching a hobo be set on fire but not being arsed to do anything about it.

/sarcasm
There's also this video of him telling his students that there's no simple, philosophically pleasing way to explain the world. It just is how it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMDTcMD6pOw
Seems to work for Australia but.. the housing bubble is getting scary.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Australian_pr...
This reminded me of Isac Aasimov's foundation.
THIS IS GREAT, I SELECTED ABOUT 30 PEOPLE CAN'T WAIT FOR MY EMAILS. WHERE IS YOUR TWITTER ACCOUNT SO I CAN FOLLOW YOU FOR UPDATES.

I AM SO EXCITED
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It's Time for Server-Side Browsers
I am not so sure they would announce a new one. They are in a great position right now; Kinect is selling like gangbusters and they are topping the charts on console hardware sales. Their first party and third party games usually are above their competitors, and things just seem to be going well finally after five years.
FB is not really my thing but I (too) think you guys are doing some cool and fun stuff. Keep at it and let's see the next killer startup come out of your dorm!

BTW, if you all need some help with doing the whole geolocation stuff locally on your own server, let me know; I'll be happy to do whatever I can. (We just floated this site - a small by-product of a larger project we're working on: http://IPLoc.info )
God bless its resilience to all the non-round manholes around the world.
Doesn't apply yet because it's never been tested in court. The parallel is pretty strong so there's a good chance that the courts would extend it if they ever got as far as ruling on it.
Title Correction:
Not new xbox, new xbox related announcement (for example, kinect for windows).
Exactly. Also the article doesn't contain any clues about a new Xbox. Probably that is why the original title is "Microsoft to Unveil New Xbox Announcements..."
SO probably doesn't want too many unregistered users floating around. Also, one of success metrics for an Q&A site is the number of registered users. So, it does make sense to force users to go through almost painless process of registering before they really start engaging in the site.
I had a similar experience, 2 telephonics and 4 on-site interviews. This is a blog post from an ex-googler and it explicitly mentions the manhole question was banned.
http://www.technologywoman.com/2010/05/17/debunking-the-goog...
"Your solution is very good, but I do not believe it to be optimal. I am working on a better one."

Very well sirrah, I shall consider myself slapped in the face with the object with five extrusions that is topologically identical to a plane. Your challenge is accepted. :D Duelling algorithms at dawn it is. I keenly await your opening salvo.
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I found the part where Ham applied for a patent for the act of basically redirecting typo traffic from unregistered domains to a single domain( and bribing top government officials for exclusive access), quite amusing.

Considering that the patent system is downright broken, I would'nt be surprised if he was granted one.
This guy is math challenged:

>Let's do some simple math here, folks. Assume you bought an entire company that had $100 in revenues and 50% profit margins. And that you paid just two times revenues, or $200. It would still take you four years to break even with revenues holding steady.

The company he describes is in fact a fabulous buy, with a PE of 4. His mistake is to completely discount cash flows past the fourth year. You still own the company after four years, so unless it is set to self destruct, it is worth a lot more than the $200 you paid for it. A non-bubble growth tech company with those margins would typically be worth $1000+.

He's also ignorant of history. Great companies like Google and Microsoft had very high PEs in their early years, which many investors balked at. Those who could stomach the valuations made a mint.

Another way to value companies is to look at comparables that aren't affected by the bubble. For example, Yahoo has been bouncing between 20 and 30 billion -- a valuation that has held up for years. Facebook has similar revenue potential but much better execution and vastly higher growth. Valuing it at 2-3x Yahoo looks reasonable in my book.

He may well be right that some of the companies in the article are overpriced, but he makes a very weak case for his argument.
What's wrong with the word meme? It wasn't invented by reddit, you know (or 4chan either).
Also, it is prof. Vakil who hosts the MathOverflow site you surely heard of. Literature recommendations are sometimes also discussed.

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/2446/best-algebraic-geomet...
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/3041/the-importance-of-ega...
Why ? Someone states its Brian Greene in the comments => http://www.amazon.com/Fabric-Cosmos-Space-Texture-Reality/dp... because that passage is actually in there somewhere.
I worked this way totally by accident when I first became a self-employed contractor.

I didn't plan it, nor did I consciously exploit it when it happened, but it did turn out that way. The upshot was I never had to spend a second on networking and getting clients. Just two good contacts kept coming up with referrals, and the most difficult thing I had to do was to say "no, I'm too busy" every so often.
Thanks a lot we appreciate it and we hope so :). The geolocation is actually exactly what we were looking for because Google's API has very strict rate limits. Do you have an API?
What Toy Apps would you write in order to learn a language?
Let's say I wanted to learn Lisp, Haskell, Scala, Clojure, Javascript and Ruby. What set of toy applications would I have to write in order to say I have a good feel for the capabilities of the language and largely understand it?

For example maybe: Quicksort, Directory structure read/store/search, ping pong game?

I would guess that this question might be too general and should be broken down into sub sections, what do you think?
VHF was one of my favorite movies of the 80s. There's a radio version now?!
The site showcases some nice designs - but am I the only one that is a little bit bothered by the fact that the majority of the example screenshots are sites of web or graphic designers? It gives the impression that the web design universe is pretty self-contained and occupied with itself.

I don't mean to be negative, the post does provide useful analysis of the designs. I would just love to see more examples of sites that provide actual functionality and/or information to users, instead of sites that are easy on the eyes and showcase design skills.
Photons and gluons are the only two particles that we know to be massless and therefore capable of moving at the speed c (some neutrinos might be massless, but we know at least 2 of them are not).

Since gluons are never observed as free particles and we're all familiar with photons, we call it the speed of light.
Because they don't actually sell their software, for the most part. They have deals with OEMs to preinstall Windows, and they get money for that. If they were to build and market their own hardware, those OEMs would be miffled to say the least, and their main channel for getting Windows out to the people would die to be or not be replaced, eventually, with the results of their own R&D and marketing and distribution. I don't believe Microsoft want to risk that gamble (yet).
I agree popular vote took it to the top of the first page, but it indicates a change in the composition of the community or a change of interests from startup-related technologies to more general discussion.

I, obviously, have an unpopular opinion.
This is called anal-retentiveness and is very frequent amongst geeks. Just ignore it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_retentive
Are they still limiting it to only PhDs and Masters? That to me always struck me as their biggest mistake.

The common perception from people in the industry is that many of the best programmers are self taught. That doesn't preclude doing a degree of course, however even the really good programmers I've met that did degrees say that they really ramped up their learning efforts after leaving university (and that was my experience too).
> HN should stop linking to external sites because if people are in a site X mood, they will go to site X, for any value X

Your reasoning is flawed. The value of HN is its community and the discussions it's capable of spawninf. There are sites for discussing an ampler spectrum of subjects (like, for instance, the nature of the universe and laws of physics) and sites for discussing news that interest specifically to hackers (according to the definition implied in the "Hackers and Painters" book).
FWIW, most jobs at Google or any other big corp are very boring and menial. And you have to deal with politics.
Arsene Wenger should consider swapping Bendtner with Jonathan Tehoue
体 in tradition chinese should be 體. People transliterating from simplified to traditional always miss this one.
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I think the article is not a good summary. For translation work for written products, web, apps etc you need to do both Simplified and Traditional. Traditional is used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, with the rest of the world follow China's standard use of Simplified.

For spoken language, Mandarin is the standard, the official one. The rest of spoken languages such as Cantonese, Hokkien etc are dialects depending on your province in China and community.

If it is the first time you are learning about Chinese languages, learn Mandarin and Simplified/Tradition written language.
This is equivalent to a version-controlled FS with storage redundancy.
As opposed to a framework based on....?
Wave cannot travel faster than speed of wave in medium.

Matter is form of electromagnetic wave, thus matter cannot travel faster that speed of electromagnetic wave in medium ("vacuum").

Everything that is not a form of electromagnetic wave, OR disconnected from electromagnetic medium, will be not bound to speed of light.

Imagine water and water waves. Water waves will never travel faster than speed of wave in water.

BUT, you can freeze water and push it faster than water wave just because it is not a part of water anymore.

I hope, super-cold vacuum (below 0K) or matter in cocoon of super-cold vacuum will be able to travel faster than speed of light.

PS.

Of course, I cannot even imagine, how we can freeze vacuum, because we cannot even interact with it.
be young, kidless and have parents to sponsor your living expences :)

(or have steel stomach to live off of pizza)
Isn't it how mobile Opera works already?
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Word and Excel. For non technical users, you need at least these two. If Open Source is serious about the desktop, interoperability with these two applications is job one.

EDIT: Some company should create a bounty for developing and implementing a process for achieving and maintaining 100% Microsoft Word compatibility for year. You'd have to put up a million dollars for something like that, but it would be worth it.
You might want to point out that this does not work under 1.8.* Ruby.

j-0.5.1/lib/j.rb:129: undefined (?...) sequence: /(?<status>(TODO|DONE))\s(?<title>.+)\Z/ (SyntaxError)
Demystifying Continuations in Ruby
"no regular job for a few years,"

Given your situation, and the fact that going to a couple of interviews is enormously low-risk compared to the potential reward, maybe you should say yes to the Google recruiters? What is the worst case scenario here?

Also, maybe they heard (through the grapevine) that you do good work. Stranger things have happened. :D
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We just noticed that somehow the app got deleted from Facebook - we're still not quite sure exactly what went down but we readded it and everything should be working fine. Sorry for the downtime.
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If you're going into 'tech' to get recognition, you're probably going into it for the wrong reasons.

This debate reminds me of the failed 'Women only shortlists" debacle in the UK under the Labour government, where they put forward only Women candidates, in order to get more women MPs. Regardless of their merit to actually do the job.
The basic strategy is:

Bulb 1: drop from the Xth floor, then the 2Xth floor, 3Xth floor, and so on until you pass 100. The bulb will survive a drop from the AXth floor, but break on the (A+1)Xth floor. For X = 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 the worst case number of drops is floor(100/X) = 50, 33, 25, 20, 16, 14, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 7, 6, 6. This narrows the break point to a range of values between AX+0.5 and (A+1)X - 0.5, and leaves X-2 floors whose result must be found.

Bulb 2: iterate over the X-2 unknown floors checking them too. Worst case performance is X-2 further tests. Total worst case performance is floor(100/X) + X - 2 = 50, 34, 27, 23, 20, 19, 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 19, 19, 20.

So pick X = 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 or 13. For example, drop the first bulb from floors 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80, 88 and 96. Worst case scenario is the bulb survives being dropped from floor 88 but breaks when dropped from floor 96. That's 12 drops.

Drop the second bulb from floors 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94 and 95. Worst case scenario is the bulb survives being dropped from floor 94 and breaks/survives when dropped from floor 95. That's 6 more drops.

Total is 18 drops.

The problem with this question is that you could just randomly pick 10 and find the right answer without having to do any calculation. Meh.
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Also Divvy for OS X which does the same kind of thing.
Or we could stop treating the HTTP/browser combination as an application delivery platform.

It's unpopular here, but it's becoming exceptionally obvious as the correct choice.
ouch.

I almost bet we wont see this posted on slashdot....
It shouldn't be relevant but given the state of female involvement in many traditionally male fields it is always important to highlight women making a contribution. The idea is it will both change perceptions without and within the field and attract more women.
"I can complicate this. I know I can!"
He said it would take 4 years to break even. He didn't say anything about whether or not profit would follow.
Really sorry about that!
Politics is what happens when three or more people get together to make a decision. It doesn't matter who you are, that is still true. The only way to avoid it is to work exclusively for yourself, and also somehow avoid all contact with customers. Good luck with that, and may the ramen noodles be with you, always.
I don't think this is the point.

You may wish to offer both Simplified and Traditional Chinese, but that's a choice — and the article is clearing up the confusion that most non-Chinese have about which relates to which nations.
The cost of experimentation is now the same or less than the cost of analysis.
I think so too, but how? It doesn't seem like there's a distance in an equilateral triangle longer than its edge.
Technology companies have higher growth potential, but also significantly higher risks (retaining a moat between them and their competitors being one of them), and hence have a significantly higher discount rate, roughly cancelling out the higher growth potential.
Almost definitely provisioning, though beta builder has made things a lot easier https://github.com/HunterHillegas/iOS-BetaBuilder

Changes to xcode breaking the apps plists on submission is perhaps the only other grumble.
is she Russian? :)
Doom on a calculator