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There have been some (recently a lot of) problems, but speaking in general terms, the US courts-martial have been and are a model of military justice the world over. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courts-martial_in_the_United_St... The main trouble lately has been the use of military tribunals against civilians or "enemy combatants" instead of courts-martial or civilian courts. I'm all for calling out abuses, but I think it's a bit much to say the whole justice system is a joke.
Just added a killer feature many people were asking for that I wasn't sure was possible given the iframe approach. In the latest Chrome and Firefox 4 (but apparently not Firefox 3.6), gtasker.com now saves your selections for which lists appear in each cell. Set up your dashboard once, use it forever. :)
You've now twice accused me of improperly reading other people's posts. Yet your reply to my comment about the risks in the unedited documents showed that you certainly are not reading properly.
It's ironic to see this article just days after the release of Gemini Rue, which is an outstanding adventure game. But I agree with the general message.
It must be ported to JVM! Is there any implementation of PHP for JVM? Everything must run under JVM! ^_^
Google uses Arial in the font stack across all of their pages, for consistency. I assume the following rationale is at least mostly correct.

In case a computer doesn't have that as the default for some reason, they don't want their page to look any different, if it is possible for the computer to display it correctly, because if it doesn't, it affects their brand image.

Imagine if you did a google search and everything looked just a little bit off (and you weren't a developer so you didn't know why): you might think someone was hacking google and stealing your information or changing your results. Consistency builds trust, and this is important to them.
Um... fix it and keep moving. Is this really worth a blog post?
These are exactly the kinds of antics I want out of a coworker. So far, nobody has lived up to this expectation.
Good points, but what makes you think the Taliban aren't going after these people already? Or that the information isn't already accessible to them - the Afghan government is incredibly corrupt, and I find it hard to believe that anything that they know would be kept secret.

Ditto for Iraq - the US went in woefully underprepared, and even today you have roving militants gunning each other down. If there were more transparency and more information about what was happening at the time, you'd have avoided (or at least mitigated) situations like Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, and had less violence.
I meant on the web, personal stories/advice/what-not-to-dos of entrepreneurs in the startup realm. I wasn't suggesting picking up a text book. My background isn't business per say, but I've learned a great deal by reading and researching. I also took several business related classes in law school so maybe that makes it easier for me to grasp.
There's a commercial computational chemistry software package called Gaussian that uses Linda: http://gaussian.com/g_prod/linda.htm
The non-compete is legal in many, but not all states (depending on its scope). It is legal in California, but cannot extend more than a couple of years beyond employment.

The bigger concern is the intellectual property clause of your contract; if your startup would be competing directly with your current company's products (in the market or in development), they would have a very strong claim to it.

Also, the poaching clause is legal in most states. It doesn't mean you can't recruit existing employees, it simply means you can't do so in a way that interferes with the target employee's contract with his current employer (i.e., by badmouthing the employer/its practices, etc).
I dare you.

Boston sucks! (Cambridge rules.)
I didn't say stuff along the lines of signing the rights away, or the like. I said the military justice system is designed that the military prosecutors have an inherent unfair advantage in how they decide and control the process of justice. eg indefinite detention under the guise 'building case', suicide call checks every 5 minutes under 'suicide watch', loss of time perception under 'terrorists use watches' etc.

I don't see why the military, a well-armed arm of the USA government to carry out extreme activities, can't have a neutral court that takes reasonable care of their own accused soldiers and has fair due process.
nah, there is a city switcher in the top left.
And... it was out of date the minute it went live...

Can't read the language. What is this? The SimCity version of China?
Leaving aside lack of pharmaceuticals, you describe my personal utopia.
I agree. This strikes me as non-news. Side-jacking is a bad thing. We get it. Use VPN, use SSH tunneling, in general don't be dumb when using an open network. If possible use the https version.
No marquee? Pud, I am dissapoint.
From the perspective of a reader not steeped in functional programming, your proposed solution to logging is probably unpersuasive, for the reasons the above commenter articulated better than I can.

* When using loaded terms such as "dysfunctional" to describe programming paradigms that the reader may be very comfortable with--and may have produced useful software using--make sure to thoroughly defend this characterization.

* Do you believe that there exist extremely intelligent, productive programmers who remain unconvinced of the merits of functional programming? If so, force yourself to adopt a charitable view of their skepticism. If not, what's the point of this presentation? Those committed to functional programming don't need to hear why their approach is superior, since that's just preaching to the choir; you can skip to the implementation section.
As is the rest of the Mac line- my 3 year old literally ran across my MacBook pro and no damage was sustained.
Bollywood will do to Hollywood, what the Japanese did to Detroit.

And we will be the winners.
He rang me back.

He's a bit surprised by the sudden attention and says he will be commenting on the thread soon.
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This would be a completely different thing though - parsing 404 error pages that incorrectly return a status 200 OK could cause broken links to appear as duplicate content when crawled. Didn't think about this before but I am sure this does require q dedicated team to be able to distinguish this kind of content.
Being thinner should allow for a better grip -- especially for little hands. My totally unscientific reasoning is the more efficiently you can transfer the weight into your fingers (being spread wider) the more comfortable it will be to hold the weight. This can also help with wrist fatigue if it allows you to find a more comfortable resting position. Lastly the sharper angle on the back should make it easier to lift when sitting flat on a surface. Perhaps all small things but for hours of usage it can add up.
I don't comprehend why anyone would want to experience with seeing just how far they can annoy a user, on purpose. It's like poking some poor caged animal with a sharp stick. Are you annoyed yet? No? How about now... are you annoyed yet?
Virgin Mobile, apparently.

http://www.julianbrowne.com/article/viewer/space-based-archi...
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The title says it all.
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So to the person asking about the slot machines.. they technology behind this is called "multi-layer LCD". I was in Vegas for the CES and I saw these slot machines.. and I couldn't believe my eyes! I did some research and found out that it is actually 2 LCD screens, and one of them.. or both are able to go completely transparent.. thats how you get the 3d effect.
Check it out for yourself: http://www.pcworld.com/article/130233/new_slot_machines_prom....
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While I take your point, the major factor at play here isn't what webserver you are using for development it is the fact that you (as the developer) are the only one hitting the server.
This is probably the biggest potential win for this feature as long as said developers understand the difference between the inbuilt webserver and the production server (the difference between python paste and apache/mod_wsgi).
I read what you wrote - I just disagree with you.
So what your saying is everyone would have access to all the data?

Where did I say that?
Not related to Twitter, but I saw this in the comments:

Facebook does now have an 'enable SSL by default' option.

Account> Account Settings> Account Security> Secure Browsing (https)
The OP should seriously reconsider how useful such a technology really is if you've really figured out a workaround to eliminate it 2 hours after launch.
A key concern is whether there will be enough good jobs for people with insufficient intelligence or training in post-material world.

It is common for anyone who has lived in a developing country to see a big divide between plenty of people who hold unskilled service jobs and a much smaller minority whose jobs require some sort of intellectual abilities or high-level salesmanship. Wage of the latter group is 7-20 times larger than the former. The middle group, whose jobs revolve around routine skills like clerical or secretarial tasks, see their jobs disappear one by one. For example, Google translation and IBM's Watson systems, once a bit more mature, will be better than lower-skilled translators and researchers.

If middle-tier jobs are reduced to an insignificant amount, the world of jobs will be divided into two major classes:

1) Jobs that require high-level of intelligence to make decisions/automate tasks/invent new technology or those that require purposeful human relations building and salesmanship.

2) Jobs to service those holding jobs in class 1)

The problem, as implied by the article, is that the number of people needed to do jobs in class 1) is much smaller than world population. The excess of labor pool for jobs in class 2) leads to much reduced wages and clear division in standard of living. With increasing wealth in society and distribution program, people holding class-2 jobs can still live fairly comfortably, but the ideal of egalitarian society will be even further from reality than today. (Egalitarian societies did not exist for most of history; they are in fact quite an anomaly to appear in quite a few countries in the world today--even in imperfect form.) Will the class-1 job holders protest ever louder about increasing wealth redistribution to the mass? Will the class-2 job holders be unsatisfied with status quo and seek to confiscate more wealth from the other group?

Is there a good way to preserve the egalitarian ideal or at least achieve a harmonious society without violent changes? I invite you to discuss.
I was completely expecting the standard startup site that has text like "This Site is the easiest way to do X! Join now, it's free!"

Your site was a pleasant surprise.
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"does he thinks that at least object oriented programming is more naturally understandable by developers? The question is about how they might use, say, OO DBs with more understanding. may we say that OO approach in programming is much less alien that map-reduce things? because if we say 'people don't understand', then they might even don't understand some other part of their programming job."

OO is not natural, in my opinion, it is simply popular for a variety of reasons way outside the scope of this interview. There is no free lunch: regardless of paradigm, the best developers have a deep understanding of what is going on inside and under their applications, where that includes things like the databases on which they depend, the networks on which they depend, etc.
It's one thing to want to have a formal profile for when you're googled. It's another to have your buzz attached to it. They want buzz to catch on so badly.
Am I the only one that noticed that his account username in Windows 2000 was 'twatface'?
What is brilliant with the Khan Academy is the man's effort and The Prover Of Good Enough, which is the essential part of Eastern philosophy. You don't need a lot of stuff (or technology) you need just enough.

For dummies: there are no special portal, stupid flash or useless java. There are just information and enough of simple technology to serve it.
He also forgot about Bob.
Hacker News, like spooneybarger I've got no Facebook.

BTW is de-friending Facebook the 'big thing' these days?
By far and away HN.

I just use FB for sharing photos with close friends and family and keeping (passively) in touch with others.
Wow... just... wow. The obvious question is... how was this done? Mechanical Turk?
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Oh I didn't know Facebook aped Google.
Sounds about right. I think it will be very hard to track down the market for this, though. Unlike commissioned visual art, these songs probably won't appreciate in value nor can they be hung out ad infinitum for the world to see. Good luck!
No framework. Just hacking it all together. I'm a product/business guy who picked up PHP/MySQL and JSON to achieve a proof of concept. If there's a developer out there that wants to contribute, I'd be happy to chat.
This is mind-blowing. How was this created? The detail is incredible: http://i.imgur.com/gmsu4.png
I think the bigger issue was with allowing him to retain access to classified data while obviously disgruntled and having issues with his chain of command. His unit should have pulled his clearance (if it ever should have been granted) once it became clear he was going to be separated from the army for cause, etc.

I hope his (transgendered, or gay, or something) sexual identity doesn't color public perception of the end of DADT; there are plenty of non-heterosexual members of the military who are not security risks. However, if he was getting separated over some "transition" related issues, that information would be relevant to a security clearance review in his particular case.
No. Why do you suspect that I am?
James while John had had had ... had had had had a better effect on the teacher
Which could be another indication why the Google logo itself is linked (besides it being in cache as well). The page degrades well imho in IE6 - the lack of the cutsey robot isn't essential to the page - the logo however is.
True. However, justice systems tend to be absolutists. That's why confessions under duress aren't admission-able for example. To see a select few can abuse the due process when they can, means that the system needs improvement.

Plus, as you say, it's being used against civilians and enemy combatants.
I've had no big start-up yet, but I've found mini-start-ups a great motivation and learning experience. If you have something that you want to make you can learn while you make it, it will give you the motivation you need to learn (get your site done) and it will provide a great learning environment (building your product).

I'm in school for web development, since I got the basics of programming down in my second semester, I've learnt more from my own projects then school.
i still see 0 use for twitter.
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This is amazing. I wonder how they do this? Surely it has to be automated somehow, I just can't imagine anyone building this by hand, even in China.
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Sanitarium was weird, frustrating, surreal, fascinating. I loved when the boss tossed you out of the barn with a complimentary wrench, just what you needed to wire the tractor battery to the gas drum or whatever, and blow up the barn.
Sure, you could look at it like that, but this is what marketing is at it's core, really. You run a campaign and you then judge whether it was effective or not. And yeah, when some marketing effort isn't effective, it could be because it was annoying.

But, the bottom line is that marketing a product or service is the process of figuring out what works on real people and a really good way of figuring that out is by actually trying it out with a real audience and recording the results, like a real experiment. You can call it purposely annoying users, but I don't see it that way, and for all we know some people might like the option of tweeting about the video they're about to watch...
Or, possibly, he was offering anecdotal observations, and he's not as dumb and lazy and unmotivated as people here are making him out to be. I know it's surprising, but people do come up with these things on their own sometimes.
Really depends the type of work you like to do. Consulting companies like you to know a bit about a lot of things.

Product companies on the other end tend to hire for very specific roles and will thus be looking for specialized folks (e.g. Apple hiring CDMA experts).

Hope this helps!
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I'm using that public video just as an example. As someone pointed out above, at its current state it's pretty easy to find out the url and watch the video. 1) It's a convenience thing, many of us download music on iTunes even though we can pirate the mp3s. 2) we can't assume the behavior of the average web user based on our own behaviors.
Absolutely -- these users make your best continuing beta testers! People that are already in the feedback loop and which are using the site. Much more valuable than the few bucks they had to pay for a paid plan!

[Edit] Well, of course it also depends on the number of users and your costs for providing the service.
" If you have drive and vision, then your employer will notice and you'll move up"

It pains me to say this, but this sentiment strikes me as seriously naive. Plenty of people work like animals, are driven like crazy, and have "vision." And for quite a few of them, their employer could give two craps.
Just do both. Your early code will probably suck. Your early startup ideas will probably be quite flawed. But working on real project will make coding more fun, and all your "failed" startups should teach you something for the next one.

I've been coding for a long time, and sometimes my code still sucks but it's better than it used to be. I haven't been bootstrapping "startups" for quite as long but I've already made a ton of mistakes, and learned from them.

PS. Wouldn't call myself an HN "Elite" by any stretch, but my $0.02 nonetheless.
If there's a ?callback=something in the query string, you could wrap the JSON in that callback so the service can be used with JSONP.
> Google's 5 minute response time might be better characterised as '1 week of sitting on their hands when the developers complained, and 1 rapid response when it went public in a loud way'.

To be fair, the first complaint was of copyright infringement, the second was of malware. You can hardly expect the same response time to both kinds of issues.
I strongly suggest you speak to an attorney.
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Blog post links to the startup (www.sprixi.com) which is an image search engine that focuses on helping people not just find, but also use an image.
The companion crate?
And here's the one from Shanghai: http://sh.o.cn/
Thanks for the suggestions guys, the course coordinator said he couldn't let me do it cause then anyone could say that is what they were doing.
It's manpower spent on a feature that's more or less already solved with 'apt-get install apache2 php5 && a2enmod php' that could instead be put towards improving the language basics or building out the SPL or other libraries.

And I think that lots of people (myself included) already see PHP as a pretty bloated system; throwing an entire web server into what is a scripting language won't do much to keep it lean.

Edit: instead of downvoting, can you explain how this isn't already a trivially solved problem and why including an entire custom web server with what is a scripting language isn't bloat? Installing Apache really is that easy, even in Windows, if we're just talking about a dev machine.
This seems to be a part of the upcoming social product. IMO the Google brand does not work well with social. No matter how well they execute this product, it will still feel too "efficient".

P.S.: Looks like they invested in eye-candy. try changing your profile picture for an example.
I upgraded from NT4 -> 2000 -> XP without any major issues. AFAICT it was mostly just a file replacement process.

The DOSWin to NT upgrade path always seemed pretty flaky though. The demonstration cheated a bit by using a vanilla VMWare config; an actual PC would be loaded with crappy vendor drivers and startup software which complicated any upgrade.
Do both, They will compliment each other.
This right here is an excellent point, and very well made. Everyone is pretending you can just run out and start your own business tommorrow if you want. Question is, who'd be unclogging the toilets, sweeping the floors, and teaching the children then?
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None of that is responsive to the original comment you tried to rebut. I don't support the Iraq war either, but that doesn't mean I share your opinion about Manning.
Maybe they're trying to take cues from Microsoft's "ribbon". That would be a tragedy.
If I was google I'd have a giant server room full of VM's running android hosting every app in the app store with monitors of their state. Then you can monitor not just what the code is predicted to do but what it actually does.
In my view, Webkit is the canary in the coal mine for the strategy tax. The most viable competition for iOS native apps is HTML5/Javascript applications.

If I ever feel like the webkit team isn't pushing into new technologies as aggressively as possible, I get nervous. For example, it would probably be in Apple's best interest for Mobile Safari not to support offline storage. It would force developers who need offline features into creating native apps instead.

In this way, I think the Google Chrome team is giving us a good yardstick for measuring Apple's willingness to compete.
The buildings are meticulously 3-D modeled and texture mapped--you can see the texture repetition artifacts. I've read some research about automatic modeling techniques from street view images+, but I'd suspect this was done by hand.

+ http://web.mit.edu/jxiao/Public/publication/2009/TOG/paper_h...
I guess they're updating incrementally across their sites
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It feels so nostalgic. I started using the Computer even since Windows 95 was launched. I first tried installing the Windows 98 on my PC. Man, I really appreciate this guy's patience.
Aww, some pages just make you want to hug their creators. I wish more sites had this kind of warm gems.
> Actually, reading the thread on the Android subreddit one of the affected developers said he filed complaints over a week ago with no reponse nor action taken. That is until it reached the (Android sub?)reddit-frontpage.

Well, he complained about copyright infringement of his app, not that the app was malware. I think if anything it commends Google that they obviously have a way to immediately sort and expedite high priority issues.