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The New York Times front page story has been a poor source of information since this crisis began, basically being a disjointed summery of "who said what" with a sensationalist headline. When radiation levels were falling (according to other sources), the Times headline stood as "nuclear meltdown near imminent" or something to that effect.

IMO,!f you came looking for realistic analysis or summarization of the facts as known, you had to scour both mainstream and non-mainstream sources and piece it together above the melodrama.
We can't have diversity in our media options, that would be too informative!
It wasn't long ago you were a one-man operation. How is your day different now that you have several employees? Do you enjoy management as much as coding? ; )
Thanks - this mostly was for clarification about what they were doing as there wasn't any status information to be had.
All revenues going to Japan Disaster Relief. Don't be shy everyone, buy as many as you can. This should be tax deductible ;p
Such an argument could only come up on some simplistic and dramatically uninformed media channel. One that no one would be using anyway. Oh wait... forget what I just said.
Rather than demand this network, we should all demand the fixing of the dozen news networks here in the US.
CNN is right of center?
Even the great Hari Seldon was unable to accurately turn mathematical models into true predictions of human society without the intervention of R. Daneel Olivaw.
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I've been enjoying their oddly formatted and ad-free live blogs. At the same time I'm curious about their revenue stream. Is it being done in speculation for cable company cash?
I meant less convoluted for the user. :)

It really sucks that there's no way to do native extensions in Chrome other than the NPAPI hack. Even an equivalent to Firefox's js-ctypes would be awesome.
Although India is seeing economic growth, attaining US levels for income is a long way off. The top 5% of Indians by income have approximately the same level of purchasing power as the the lowest 5% of US residents on average according to World Bank economist Branko Milanovic in The Haves and the Have-Nots, a Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality. [http://www.amazon.com/Haves-Have-Nots-Idiosyncratic-History-...]

That's not to say that there are not a large number of Indian individuals with substantial purchasing power (5% of Indians is 50 million people compared with 15 million in the US so there is a lot of disparity within the Indian group). Nevertheless, nearly everyone in the United States has more purchasing power than most of the top portion by income of the Indian population.

For Apple, it is a simple matter of economics - they will sell more iPads elsewhere and by creating scarcity they can sell older models at a high price to offset the lower profits Apple accepts when selling new products in wealthier countries.
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I know gender discussions make everyone blind with emotion but come on. How do you go from a few hundred casual drinking buddies over the years to blind-drunk nightly excursions? And from "not once do I remember anyone joking about men not being too smart" to "no women ever make any negative comments about men whatsoever"?

Of course "no women, never" argument is just as stupid as, "all women, always" argument. If I made the argument. You took my rather short counterpoint/anecdote and ran away with it. Far, far away.
Come to the dark side. We have better notifications, customization, and sideloading of apps. :-)

Also, (mostly important if you're not on a Mac) you don't have to use iTunes!
Sadly the idea that eating less of things like meat and other 'expensive' to produce foods will help feed the world is a bit short sighted. Not to mention that the majority of first world diets which are more heavily carb based is slowly killing us. There are many diseases that are caused by our diets and continuing to eat the way the government and many health officials recommend is detrimental to our health. Meat is an important facet of our diet, and it is a lot more healthy than the last 40 years of medical rhetoric has led us to believe.

I think locally we can do better by focusing on local produce and other food products. Maybe to the point of having vertical farms inside cities which could feed the local populace and cut down on pollution from shipping the food around as well as give higher quality fresher food to the local community. As another poster mentioned, we shouldn't try and force our mechanized techniques to third world countries, they just don't work.
"He was wrong, because the mistake of architecture astronauts is not that they want to solve a template to a lots of problems."

YES.

This idea has always bothered me: "don't solve a template of a lot of problems, solve one problem."

Isn't that the essence of innovation? To kill lots of birds with one stone?

The problem with "architecture astronauts" is that they over-think their problem, and they spend too much time over-thinking and over-developing before they really understand the problem space. It's a problem of over-engineering and isolation, not wanting to kill more than one bird.
Am I alone in thinking it is strange that so many people use their work email for non-work stuff? I'm guessing the data originates from a grocery rewards program. I assumed everyone (at least a tech co. employee) uses a personal email for these kinda stuff by now.
It's a surprisingly sparse document for such an important game
I agree that I believe the main focus for amazon has always been pre-installs on devices - similar to how they now pre-install the amazon mp3 store on a large number of devices.

It also isn't a case of enabling unsigned applications (I believe all applications still require a developer signature), but a case of enabling installs from somewhere besides the google android market. Google won't let other "app store" type apps on the android market on purpose, so it is unlikely that the rules will be relaxed or changed unless they have a philosophical/competitive change of heart.
Agree entirely. It's never been for the news consumer; my mind boggles when I read opinions like this, things like criticism of techcrunch. With today's high competition, countless aggregation services and worldwide audience, _you no longer are stuck with reading mainstream media from your country!_

I get my daily news from Al Jazeera, BBC, Guardian, and a host of US daily and weekly news sites. Tech news is aggragated for me by HN and techmeme. Niche topics are read in my google reader. I can send all these sources to my ebook reader for later comsumption. Read something of which I question the veracity? I'm a google search away from differing opinions, original sources, intelligent discussion and critique. We have sites like wikileaks, governmental websites, Guardian's 'Data Is Free' and others putting out free datasets to enable anyone to dig deeper and find the stories.

How awesome is all this! And the vast majority is free!
atdhetv.net is an example of the net routing around censorship. Aljazeera.com just demonstrates that when you are funded by an oil rich emirate you can easily afford to provide "free and unlimited streaming options to all".

If Oman bought CNN tomorrow, you'd probably get that for free online as well. (In fact, considering AJ's success and western media's woes, maybe Oman buying CNN isn't so outlandish)
"We at ArabCrunch condemns this move by Facebook and call it a racist one,"

It angers me when people use the word racist completely out of place. A useful journalism practice, if your purpose is to attract the attention of as many people as possible, but a despicable one, if your focus is on telling the truth.

(Now, I agree that Palestinians and Israelis might be of different race, but the rest of the article emphasizes the religious differences between the two groups.)
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How the heck is AT&T a monopoly?
But what about great people with a really bad idea that they are committed to?

Seems to me that that would be a bad investment.

Also:

Be careful about your metric of great. The metric of great must be "this person is a genius with lots of energy and creativity," not "this person graduated from the right school, knows the right people, comes from the right part of the country, lives in the right zip code, etc." It must be first-hand meritocratic, not based on second-hand derivative indicators.

DropBox's founder went to MIT, but that's not what made him great. MIT is just a good school. The guy may well have been just as great if he'd gone to Ohio State or some other less-prestigious school.
Speaking as someone who works for Google (in New York), I can't speak for Microsoft buti basically get fed 3 meals a day during the week. The same is true for Mountain View and for other larger offices.

So for many Googlers there's no reason to cook at least 4 nights a week, if you're so inclined.

In New York in particular there's really no reason to cook at all as it stands. My fridge has soda and expired milk in it. Sad but true.

Maybe Microsofties buy more foodingredients because they have to fend for themselves?
LOL - "scam" is probably the wrong word to use. More like a "prank" or some sort of DOS.
If you really "demand" it, it's widely available...just not through your typical cable company.

I get AJE plus a bevy of other Arabic channels with Dish Network's Arabic Package[1], as well as via a settop box from Islambox[2] (not the best quality streaming imo, but ymmv).

There's pretty clear instructions on how to get a crystal-sharp image for really cheap via satellite[3] from AJE themselves.

If you do go the roll-your-own satellite route, you'll probably be surprised to find tons of other awesome news and entertainment channels floating out there in the ether for free, all at virtually no cost other than initial setup, and at hi-def quality.

[1]: http://www.dishnetwork.com/international/Arabic/default.aspx...

[2]: http://www.islambox.tv/tv-channels

[3]: http://english.aljazeera.net/aboutus/2006/11/200852518552950...
> It is worth mentioning that Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is Jewish.

Not really.
What's wrong with another perspective on things?
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Nothing to see here, move along. I'm sure they'd do the same for any page getting significant traffic for the US. Facebook has no obligation to free speech.

Edit: that being said, come on. Israel is a US-favoured state. I don't blame Facebook, but don't be intellectually dishonest. It is quite probable that the removal is politically motivated.
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I understand how quantum computers can break RSA; by factoring numbers quickly. That's exploiting a known "weakness" in RSA.

I'm curious as to how quantum computers would break other encryption algorithms like AES or ElGamal. Do you have any details?
Personally I also use X network transparancy a lot, and I would be very sad to lose that. Apparently some constructive people feel the same way, because looking at the wayland-devel mailing list there there are apparently some people hard at work right now adding network transparency to Wayland.
Only Americans think that CNN isn't right of center. Many think the BBC is fairly unbiased, and CNN is definitely well to the right of the BBC.

Another data point: the Democratic party would be considered a centre-right party in most countries.
I agree with ArabCrunch.yes it is racist to keep pages that insults the profit of islam and remove anything that criticize israel also considering Facebook CEO Mark is jewish
Thank you so much for this answer. The detail that some HNers put into comments really astounds me at times. I'll take all of this on board and see where it fits with my concept for ranking/coding. I'm sure GetFounder will benefit immensely from the content you linked. Cheers!
hmm.. but what about Xzibit - a per window VNC app (https://github.com/tthurman/xzibit , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLyjz2BuoEg )

I think it is basically sponsored by Collabora
I certainly use my gmail address for pretty much everything (unlessi need to use @google.com to confirm a discount or something).

Particularly for software, if you think about it, it's a potential security risk to identify yourself as someone working for a prime target for hackers and (D)DoS'ers.
If I were smarter, I'd call out the type of rhetorical attack you just made, but since I'm not, I'll just point out that you provided no evidence of bias and simply played off of stereotypes.

Al Jazeera is widely respected in the journalism world.
So, out of interest, where do you get your news from?

For me, choice is great. The Murdoch-owned Sky satellite service in the UK has a great selection of news channels:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_channels_on_Sky:_News

It's kinda interesting to flick between the different channels during major events to see how the same event is reported in subtly different ways.
Nothing. Another perspective is always good.
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That again may be implementation detail, and may vary upon toolkit version and target platform.

In general, Qt encourages use of QBrush and QPainter to draw on QWidgets. A lot of shape-drawing operations is abstracted; application code supplies coordinates and drawing style and platform is supposed to do the actual operation. Another versatile widget is QGraphicsScene (along with QGraphicsView) which works in terms of sprites and probably maps pretty well onto 2D acceleration of graphic cards.

Under very heavy load you can sometimes see steps of Qt widgets drawing -- it's usually frame by frame (as in, rectangle by rectangle), rather than pixel by pixel.
he is jewish and the page was criticizing the Jewish state israel
Interesting story. I think you're saying it's a bad thing to treat our estimates as commitments though. I don't necessarily agree with that. I think you need to commit and just accept the fact that you won't always be accurate, but that over time you will become more accurate. Most consulting companies pad their estimates to cover this risk, but I think it's better just to bill out as high as you can.

Billing out higher but still committing has a couple of advantages. 1) You eliminate the cheap customers who would've cost you money and are generally a pain to deal with. 2) You're client has peace of mind since you're committed to finishing what you started. 3) Your client will generally respect you more because it seems as though you're time is worth more (even if others padding an estimate with hours works out to the same final amount).
people moved from VHS to DVDs because DVDs have are random-access media. No more rewinds, no more fast-forwards and searching for parts of the movie.

I miss VHS fast-forwarding. It was impossible to accidentally skip scene, which always fucking happens when I try to rewind a DVD to catch some dialogue I missed.
>He has the unique ability to speak about technology without actually talking about technology.

This sounds like a euphemism for talking out your ass.
thanks for your explanation ... this is the exactly what I meant to say that when multinationals are given presentations by indian advertising agencies they say the same thing that you said above that "we can't make sense of your presentation".

Let me give you couple of examples - 15 to 20yrs a go there was this indian TV maker company that was giving toughest fight to multinationals like Sony, Samsung, LG etc. - these multinationals just couldn't get it how their product which is such a huge hit worldwide is not selling in india, the reason was that the indian TV was having more meaningful features than any other tv in the market ... also when Coca Cola and Pepsi came to india, they failed horribly in the beginning, in fact coca-cola realized very soon and bought highly successful indian brand "THUMPS-UP" but the biggest benefit they got is they also brought-in those indian executives to re-shape the strategy for Coke ... this is true for almost all the foreign companies , in fact Nokia is a huge hit in India, the reason being they innovate and market product specially made for indian consumers , one of the phone has a flashlight which is a huge hit in small towns where it gets dark early in the afternoon and there is no electricity on the road ... this kind of innovation is needed when you develop product for specific market/society - you just cant guess that what is successful in western countries will be successful by default in developing or third world countries where the consumer are very price conscious but won't sacrifice on quality and features ...
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You might find this useful: http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/quantum-computing-for-everyon...
You might find some useful into here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2320545

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2309722

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2293542

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:news.ycombinat...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:news.ycombinat...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:news.ycombinat...
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And to be fair, what would they do about it anyway? Trade it in?
Gary, I am not sure if developers would be interested to partner/share the stock of non-profitable company. Usually good developers get at least one inquiry as such a week. Therefore, they got to be very careful. Besides, nowadays it is extremely hard to get a startup developed by an individual, you need to find a team.
I would strongly suggest to hire a team. And make sure you hire the best of the best, not the cheapest of the cheapest. Of course, it costs money... but... in software development you always get what you pay for or less.
I would suggest joining a solid software development team as a marketing or sales pro and get hours-for-hours deal from them.
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WordWatch lets you squeeze the most out of your AdWords budget. They're giving out free accounts to the first signups.
I use the term 'city' quite loosely (which I'm using to refer to a metro and it's surrounding communities), so yes, I would count Silicon Valley signups along with San Francisco signups.
It appears I'm heavily in the Target Demographic for Hacker News readers who respond to posts about their favorite text editors/IDE's.

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Religion isn't the only thing becoming extinct in those nations.

Go to Wikipedia and search for "Demographics of X" where X is a nation from the list given in the above-linked article: Australia, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Switzerland.

(Nation/ Total Fertility Rate)
(Australia/ 1.97)
(Austria/ 1.41)
(Canada/ 1.58)
(Czech Republic/ 1.49)
(Finland/ 1.85)
(Ireland/ 2.1)
(Netherlands/ 1.66)
(New Zealand/ 2.1)
(Switzerland/ 1.46)

Those numbers are for the years 2007 to 2009, depending on the nation. Note that only Ireland and New Zealand are at replacement levels. Residual Catholic natalism may explain Ireland's current fertility (given their loss of religion, don't expect that to last). Reading between the lines in the Wikipedia article for New Zealand, it seems that the Maori and Pacific Islanders are doing more than their fair share of baby-making. My guess is that they are more religious than the contracepting whites.

Bottom line: Lack of religion is either non-adaptive from a fitness perspective, or it is strongly tied to traits which are themselves non-adaptive.

UPDATE: I can't get the formatting right on that table of fertility rates.
See: http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574
Nuclear accidents are scary because people don't understand reactors, they don't understand the actual dangers and there, frankly, haven't been a whole lot of them, so FUD can snowball.

On the other hand, mine collapses, refinery fires, oil spills, explosions -- the causes of the day to day death toll of the fossil fuel supply chain (to say nothing of its use) is familiar, understandable and all too common.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/25-oth...
(25 fossil fuel energy disasters from 2010, claiming 668 lives)
The transfer time improved by 0.6s (first view) and 0.2s (subsequent view), but the total load time worsened by 9 seconds (first view) and 3 seconds (subsequent view).

What am I missing?
I don't understand this article. I learn as much as I have time to learn while still getting all my work done. I'm constantly trying new things and developing my expertise on a number of topics that I don't currently consider myself an expert in. It seems like other people are doing this too so what's the issue?
Whether or not older people, as a rule, can perform as well as a 30yo isn't really my point -- I suppose some can, and most cannot. My point was that I don't agree that the vast majority of people who make it to old age have never become expert at anything. Older folk mostly want to talk about their youth and their grandkids, but that doesn't mean they really don't know anything other than that. They're just no longer interested (or think you aren't interested) in things they are or were experts in. Those subjects may well now be obsolete, of course; I'm not denying that.
Why? We don't need news on TV anymore. Let it die.
Congratulations, first off, for responding to an argument I didn't even make. Kudos on your strawman.

>Trying to 'cure' gay people and recruit them into a religious organization and culture

>having available for download someone's religious opinions

You do realize that these are two completely different things, right? You do know this, yes?

Sorry, but a group of bigots who want to "cure" people because they don't like their sexual orientation is a lot worse than Apple corporate coming up with a policy you don't like. By your own argument, you don't like what they're doing, don't buy an iPhone.

In the worst case scenarios, Apple becomes a restrictive company and no one wants to buy their products anymore, vs. a group of bigots gains enough traction to incite hatred and violence against a minority group.

Guess which one of these is worse? If you really think someone diddling the apps on your iphone is on the same plane as a hate group, you need to sit down and do some serious thinking for a long, long time.
Thanks for the links, one thing made me curious, can you elaborate on the choice of acme? are you running plan 9? I always thought plan 9 was a great idea but I never found anyone (near my circle or friends) who used it daily.
I learned more about the relevant participants in Egypt from watching Al Jazeera on the net for 15 minutes than from weeks of US coverage.

How is the coverage of Japan though? The BBC is still my favorite for international events.
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He doesn't have cable or satellite.
I'm not so sure. Of course some people are completely closed minded, but I think there is still a lot of ignorance out there that can be cured. You wouldn't know it staying on sites like this one but there are a lot of people who's primary source of information is the TV and they'll probably give most things they see on there a chance.
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But it's not worth mentioning, because the odds are 99.99999999% against that having anything to do with the page's removal.

Honestly, these kind of racist twitches really do a great disservice to certain Muslim authors. The knee-jerk "BLAME THE JOOZ" response might be understandable if Israel has been systematically trying to kill your family, but in a world of rational discourse it makes me want to write you off as a nutter.
It also doesn't work on AT&T.
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