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The essay question seems to be mainly about teaching. Things that are taught have usually been through some sort of evaluation process. This evaluation process is the right place for the voices of deniers’. If they manage to make a convincing argument their views should certainly be presented to classes.

One of the things I would probably emphasize if I were writing such a essay is that there should be no automatic process of exclusion but also no automatic process of inclusion. Evidence matters and if deniers don’t have it their views and voices have no place in classes.
Yep, I like it too. The old one was tacky and busy it seemed to contradict the sleek, lightweight nature of the product it represented.

Perhaps I read too much into logos, but I'm convinced this change is for the better.
Although I think this long overdue, and I support the move in this direction, NYT is makings a big mistake by charging too much. The price should be $5.95 per month (perhaps a discount for seniors and students).

The problem is that they can't charge that little compared to the paper delivery. Indeed, they must cut the paper cord and think digitally, small fee will multiply exponentially, worldwide.
The reason is that Angry Birds is written in C and certainly accesses the Linux kernel, almost certainly using the Bionic library. If that one is GPL'd, Angry Birds has to be GPL'd. GPL copyleft affects derivative works, and compiling a library into your program is a clear case of a derivative work.
Khakis and blue shirts? Annoying capitalist and entrepreneur attitudes, talking about the next big thing, etc. People who focus too much on social media, people who actively spam social media and spam real-life in some twisted definition of "marketing".

I think that about covers it.
going to University of Antwerp :) I'm from Belgium.
The NY Times is my main news source, and I think it's worth $15 a month.

Honest question, why did you wait until now to get a subscription?
I can't believe that 2,047 signed the petition
One problem I have is that Holocaust Deniers, I think, realize that they aren't going to 'win' the argument, they are mostly looking to plant the seeds of doubt. They're not trying to convince you the holocaust didn't happen, but they're trying to convince the public that the evidence is debatable in order to weaken their opponents position. So giving them a voice is basically the same as letting them win.
my friend, I am not anti Google or anti Go. 1 year in tech is like 10 years in real life. I am glad you mention "systems development" but Google is marketing or at least the Go lang site is marketing it as a mainstream application development language. The repeated thing I hear and see is Go is fast and simple, which I don't disagree. If it is so simple and fast why is this not even listed in any of the rankings at http://langpop.com/

Before java was even officially released colleges were teaching Java classes. I remember it, cause I took the class and I still have the book that says covers beta. That's how popular java was. We were wowed by animations (feels funny to think about it now) and how easy it was to write screen savers, moving robots and shooting games. This is not the 90s. Look at the success of Android development (different topic). It came from freakN no where wowed everybody. Made stupid HTC (who knew about it before Android) a huge competitor of Apple. We are wowed not by what a programming language can do (this is what we are getting from Google) but by it's demo implementation. Again, look at Android, App Inventor and google has tons of such examples. Go marketing team (if there is one) failed miserably in my opinion.
Hope the banks push it too far and create a financial incentive for new players in the finance industry.
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I see your point and suppose I stand corrected for the most common cases, so then I'm really wondering what the benefits of security questions are. They generally degrade the user experience and provide a publicly accessible avenue for compromising a user account.
"start toggling all the levers"

I think this is the 2nd lever ever pulled if you count TimesSelect back in 2006.
Guess how well this article encouraged the readers to go out there and do something.

When you think about the huge number of patents the big companies sit on, it's pretty much Russian roulette to try and to something new. At good chance to shoot yourself in the foot and waste a couple of years even if the idea works.
Ask HN: What is this Geiger Counter measuring on CNN?
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-573238

Some people are panicking after seeing this. I'm no radiation expert but it seems to me you have to know how this is calibrated and what it's measuring. Can anyone out there tell?
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Linus is saying that programs that use the Linux kernel HEADERS need to be under the GPL or LGPL. If you're using system calls(and associated headers), you're fine with any license, but using kernel headers to directly access kernel calls in non-GPL code is not allowed.

Most non-GPL userspace programs use glibc, which is LGPL(and therefore can be linked by any license).

If Google copied the headers verbatim, then created a non-GPL licensed wrapper around those headers, that is a GPL violation.
This would be the price of emerging 'do not track' policies and a hostile climate towards advertising targeting. The money's got to come from somewhere.
Sorry, we're gonna have to take away your hipster programmer badge :-(
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I wonder if Times Select users who paid their annual renewal fee about a month before nytimes.com reverted to free again will receive any credit toward this new pay scheme. Hypothetically speaking, of course.
All I know about Diogenes is that he lived in a trash can and told Alexander to move because he was blocking the sun. What's this story you're referring to?
Really depends on Google's policies. I'm imagine that Google was consulted and gave their approval for this setup. Perhaps people coming from a Google link will be automatically allowed entry, in the same way as the expert-sexchange site works.
What content does the NY Times create? They cover the news, with some help form the AP and Bloomberg, does that count? Would anyone pay $195 for a year's worth of editorials?
I expect they will. However its fair to say that the large number of people that use them will be eclipsed by the number who don't.

It is accepted and known that if people are determined to get around the paywall they'll find a way. For that reason its deliberately porous - a convenience factor or sorts.
I think 20 articles a month is actually quite fair, this covers most of the uses cases of reading an article because X linked to it. It is a happy middle ground.

I wish them the best of luck, although I don't think it will work out.
Are you just testing if words are members of a dictionary? If so, have you considered using a bloom filter?

There is a slight chance of false positives, depending on how you choose your parameters, but it's a very compact way to store a set of strings.

To make the initial parsing fast, but retain easy lookup I would store the bit vector in an ascii string, 6 bits per character, adding 32 to the raw value to get the character.

The wikipedia article can guide you on the parameters needed to get an acceptable error rate and size.
OK, I'll grant you a window from birth up to two months after graduating from college (I too remember transferring my last $10 from savings to checking so that there would be a full $20 to withdraw). After that, you have no excuse not to be able to pull $500 from a cash machine every couple months.

Remember, once it's out you don't have to spend it all that day. I tend to pull cash out maybe once every month or so, depending on how much I go out. It's really just life skills we're talking about. ATMs only enter the discussion as a symptom.
I had an interview with Boeing, and found out that they did work with Sybase to develop some DB extensions for just that purpose. I think they license them out, but that's not going to work well with your FOSS desires. Postgres seems to have extensions to allow temporal work - check here.
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/temporal/
In my small European country (Romania) fees at other bank's ATMs came with the ATMs 20 years ago. I guess it varies.
One thing I take issue with, as an entrepreneur, is that he explains a 'tell' for a mediocre management team is that he'll send a talented member to a team and they say to me, “we don’t really have a role for that person.”

Well, I'd often get people sent to me, that my VC claimed were amazing and that I should to hire (they usually held senior roles at big/successful companies before). But, without fail, every single one I talked to was a technical idiot. They could talk a good game, and had lots of thoughts about process and structure, but couldn't code their way out of a paper bag.

To be polite, I'd usually tell the VC that there wasn't a good fit, or we didn't have a role for someone so senior, or management focused, or X right now. Would you tell the VC who just wrote you an $N million dollar check that the candidate he thinks is Einstein is an idiot because he claims he's a programmer who 'loves to get his hands dirty' but doesn't understand the difference between a hash table and a linked list? In hindsight, maybe I should have. But I suspect a lot of people won't.

And this was when I was literally the only coder in the company. We didn't need an engineering manager, we needed an engineer. And non-technical VCs couldn't see the difference. (Of course, in an ideal world, you hire someone who is both).
It is always fun to challenge people on their long held beliefs and make them rationally defend their position.

The view point that only one side needs to defend their position is not rational. At the same time you don't need to look at every piece of evidence. If you can't come up with 2 or 3 strong pieces of evidence to support your side and the other side can then you have lost.
I think people are objecting to this rather extreme worse case scenario because the C library can just use the LGPL, there is no situation where it has to be full GPL. (Or else how does glibc get away with being LGPL?)
Soon you are not going to know if anyone that you interact with online is who they say they are. The Pentagon has awarded a contract to a Silicon Valley company to develop software that creates fake personas that can then influence the "conversation" by spreading US propaganda. Each operator will be able to create up to 10 "personas". A friend just sent me a link about the Pentagon's decidedly Orwellian "sock puppet" software:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-oper...
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You know, nobody ever replies to these comments with an "I will", but I'm seriously considering it.

(It's a nice opportunity to publicly show off a specialty/core competency and brush up a bit on C++ a the same time. I'm not that easily provoked into action by internet commentary! ;) )

But, looking at the source, I think I will be probably a Bad Contributor and end up with a gigantic pull request and a (mostly) full re-implementation...
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In tiny text in the page footer it reads, "The SaveIE6 campaign was launched on April 1, 2009 and will last until April 1, 2010."

Something tells me 2K names captured across an entire year will not convince MS to change course with their own http://ie6countdown.com/
So someone spoofing a referrer link with curl would have free access?

Or are you also checking those referrer links somehow, to make sure they're legitimate?

I also take it from your other reply about curl (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2336371) that you're using ip address, as opposed or maybe in addition to cookies to enforce the 20 articles per month limit.
The problem is that in large companies, that is the way it works. Politics are an unfortunate fact of life just due to human nature.

In my opinion, the biggest reason why those upper management folks in big companies make those mistakes when they reorg is because they don't have a view of what happens in the trenches. The details are critical when determining whether a specific service can be provided by a specific group and be tracked by a specific system.

They don't get that a system's order database has a data structure that can't accommodate a new category of product types and a new way of doing work. They crunch the numbers, but the inefficiency lost from poor processes due to lack of understanding at the ground level makes those numbers meaningless in the end.
But people could just create a new free account once they reach the 20-article limit. Perhaps they are hoping that readers will not be clever/motivated enough to clear cookies and re-register...
The main issue banks are dealing with is the Congressional move to limit debit card interchange fees. I have spent a good part of the past 25 years working on systems that allow acquiring banks to claim the lowest interchange fee. It's not a trivial process, and acquirers and merchants make significant investments to improve things at the point of sale. They expect to recoup some of that investment by paying lower interchange fees. For a simple example, one of the earliest (circa 1985) distinctions was between electronically-capture and paper-keyed transactions. Electronic qualified for a lower fee because it was more secure, more accurate, and more timely. Then within electronic-capture, the networks began rewarding quicker deposits--deposit within 7 days and pay a lower rate, then 3 days, then 1 day. Now there are many, many (perhaps 100's) of fee programs worldwide, with each card network having its own rules and technologies. By crudely limiting fees to an unrealistic 0.12/transaction, Congress is destroying the marketplace effects that drive innovation in the networks. Banks are justified in an equally crude reaction: you take away our ability to price a service realistically over here, so I guess we'd better raise another price over there.
Anyone have any experience with brunch? Is it better than e.g. SproutCore/Cappuccino?
With the relatively recent rise of 'Obama is a secret muslim!' and various other idiotic statements, I question the ability of a lot of people to dismiss these ideas as stupid.
I actually think MS has this totally backwards.

They need to get updates out more quickly... quarterly. This "No Donuts" mentality is wrong. Google got it right.

And they need to talk less about the updates. A nine month heads up on a smartphone update is counterproductive. They really need to just spend less time talking about stuff that isn't ready to go.

The need to turn the crank quickly and announce w/ two week windows.

With that said, I think they may have backed themselves into a corner with their OS distribution model. I don't think they can support this number of phones (and this is just the first wave of them). At least it appears that they can't. If they can't figure out how to make this work, they may need to drop to one, maybe two, phones (different configurations of the same phone is fine though). Otherwise this platform is dead.
On the other hand, the few times I've been to the EU, it wasn't easy to find public restrooms without fees :) In the US, I've never seen a public restroom that charged.

(Actually I saw one, at a tourist destination in Martha's Vineyard, that had a suggested donation. I was flabbergasted.)
This is a widely documented legal issue, see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_United... for a list of exceptions on 'freedom of speech' in the United States. Most of these apply in Western European countries, plus then some.
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You could tell the vc that "he can't code his way out of a paper bag". Much better than talk about hashtables they won't understand themselves. :)
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Interesting... Assuming the article is correct in that Google's tool says that no copyrighted information is left, it seems that Google is saying that header files stripped of all of english/whatever-language text and left with only pure code are not copyright-able because it's just code?
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The fact that this guy makes something as boring as upgrading software over and over again actually enjoyable to watch is really astonishing.
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Awesome point, Bundini. Not all entrepreneurs need to be leaders, but "The One" in every venture needs to be able to influence others to believe. Cultivating people skills, understanding basics of business communication that Dale Carnegie published nearly 80 years ago.

Charisma, people skills, energy, good-vibe - call it what you will, but if you can engage people in a trusting and real dialog they WILL believe in you and follow you into fire.
From Reddit:

- someone: "Picol", as in "piccolo"?

- antirez: No, it's an obscure joke about the way Tcl is usually pronounced: "Tickle" that in Italian sounds a lot like "Ticol", so the small version of it is "Picol".
Bug free software is impossible

The main problem about unit testing is that you only can demonstrate that the software pass all your unit tests not that the software is bug free.

Also, your software usually run on top of other layers that you need to trust like the operating systems, VM, BIOS, hardware failures...
Denying the holocaust is right down there with claiming that the Earth is 6,000 years old and that humans saddled dinosaurs. Or that the Earth is flat. Or heliocentricity. These arguments have already been debunked. Repeatedly. Meticulously. Leaving no doubt as to their falsehood.

Raising these issues again and again, year after year, without presenting some new startling evidence to re-open the case is a lot like a convicted killer asking for a new trial without presenting any evidence of new information or errors in the original process.

We are not saying that Holocaust denial should not be heard. It already has been heard, it already has been presented for debate, and it has already been defeated soundly and without doubt by rational persons.

At a certain point you turn to the Holocaust deniers and say, "Your argument is wrong, and this has been conclusively demonstrated. Your position will not merit re-examination and re-debate until you come up with new information and new evidence, and the onus is on you to present it. Until then, your argument has already had its time, has already been heard. It does not need to be heard again."

We passed that point decades ago. So my statement is yes, Holocaust denial is an argument that should be heard and it has been heard, it does not need to be heard again.
I think the real advantage to a company such as this one is if they're able to leverage their clout for K12 education startups to get their products into public schools.
This may or may not be true, but what is fundamentally different from the Oracle suit is that the GPL holders take a very pragmatic view of violations. Release the code as GPL, or stop using it, and you're ok. I never heard of a GPL suit involving damages... not even sure it's possible.

Oracle on the other hand wants either to hurt Android, or a (preferably large) piece of the pie.
glibc is LGPL'd because the kernel maintainers create it under the LGPL and all Linux kernel contributors know and accept that. But third parties can't just take code and relicense it. Otherwise why not take all of Linux and relicense it under BSD or Apache? ;-)
I was following two different twitter feeds coming out of conferences last week: DrupalCon and SXSWi. It was interesting to me how different the tweets were. DrupalCon's were mainly from developers looking for info, or excited about some presentation or technology. SXSWi was mainly people promoting one thing or another. That's not a bad thing necessarily, but speaks to the very different audiences in attendance, which might also explain why the more technical among us is put off by SXSW. I didn't go to SXSWi, am I wrong in thinking it's more of a marketing event then tech event?
I'm in the same boat as the parent... it's my main news source and I think it'll be worth my $15/month.

I've waited until now because they've never forced me to pay before. But when a choice is required, it's a fairly straightforward decision.
You can't "give someone a voice", they have that right be default.
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What group listed do you think are not malicious or unhinged deceivers?
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How much money do you really need?
I'd be looking for cheap beer too if I had just paid a thousand bucks for a badge, and at least $150/night for a shitty hotel.
As a member of a bank who gives me my ATM fees back, I say bring it on.
Great quote: "Brandon pointed out that the real issue here was that the parts of the software that allow sending of logs to Microsoft are removed from retail builds of the OS - only developer builds are able to do this."

Everything else (Android, Windows 7, Firefox, iOS, etc) ships with this functionality, so I was trying to figure out what would cause Microsoft to strip it out. Seems like an interesting Rorschach-esque blot of their culture/thinking. Under-confidence because of all of the lawsuits from the past? Hubris because Windows will dominate? Poor product management? Fear of the reactions from the corporations they'd try to sell this phone into?
Personally, I'd be surprised if Go replaced Java in academic contexts. Java has inertia, marketability, better cross-platform support, and bundled GUI stuff.
That said, were I teaching a general programming and/or data structures course, I'd probably strongly consider using Go. It is possible and not unreasonable for students to read and understand the whole Go spec. The language is simple and orthogonal enough that I think students could start seeing past the language and to the tasks at hand rather quickly.
What about telekenesis or other psychic abilities?

Actually, I think studies purporting to prove psychic abilities are real is something that students should spend time on. Remember this article?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2068105

I skimmed the study in question. There are no obvious methodological flaws, and by the standards of psychological publishing, it was worthy of publication. It's my opinion that ALL students of psychology should read it critically, and understand why it doesn't prove that psychic abilities are real. (Then they should apply that same skepticism to the rest of psychology research.) It's a great exercise, just like doing easy integrals, or spotting flaws in proofs that 1 == 2.
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This definition is far too narrow. Some of the greatest programmers are researchers and teachers.
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I know Alexander killed Diogenes in a drunken rage, but that's about it.
Interestingly I'd pay for the aggregated view thats provided on http://givemesomethingtoread.com/ but somehow don't have enough interest to pay for just NYT. Maybe that's Marco's eventual business model?
How will you prevent me from opening the links in incognito mode?

Because that is what I do currently just to get around the nagscreen.
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Wish you all a happy St.Patrick's Day. Wear green and enjoy the Guinness ;-)
I wrote a master's thesis on seed accelerators, and this was exactly my conclusion:

http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/2009/09/21/copying-y-combina...

http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/2011/02/23/looking-back-1-5-...

As you said, it's the next logical extension. The "Ivy League" of seed accelerators has largely been established. But other programs can become top-tier programs in their niche quite easily.