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Yes. Though it would be hard to just out-compute the hashes without the community noticing. Just to put it into perspective: currently the network is crunching away at 16344 TeraFLOP/s ( http://bitcoinwatch.com/ ).
The Samoan companies that do business mainly with the USA are in a minority. They're also a heavily religious and family-oriented culture and aren't about to start working on Sunday. It sounds like you might be confusing Samoa with a more business-oriented culture.
returning from a recent trip to continental Europe I was shocked at how dilapidated most of the UK looks compared to Germany and Austria. I wonder to what extent this is a matter of cultural priorities and taste rather than an indicator of economic well-being however.
Or lack of a chair.

Putting a 60 x 60 x 42cm box on top of your desk, and putting your Mac on that, so you can stand leads to:

1. More regular breaks away from standing at your computer (and more perspective on and thought towards your work).

2. Significantly better health and posture.

3. Increased metabolism and improved concentration.
I find this an interesting angle of attack.

I firmly believe that law and regulation are the only thing protecting the poor and the weak (and if you're reading this, that includes you) from the avarice of the rich and powerful. But I also thought, "Hmmm, why yes, I would like my whites whiter." So well done.
That depends a lot on your working setup. If you do most of your work at the same desk, then iMac is probably better.

I do most of my hacking on the road, visiting other companies etc. This is why I go with MacBook Air as my only computer. I want to keep my working environment consistent so I don't even use external displays in my own office
Just out of curiosity, what does a circular 24-hour clock look like? Midnight at the top, and noon at the bottom, where 6 o'clock would normally be?

The benefit is in avoiding the confusion that comes from mapping a new concept (a 24-hour clock) onto a very familiar, almost instinctual one (a 12-hour clock).
1) They just picked a new time zone which is more convenient for doing business with their neighbours. No dates disappeared, the new time zone just happens to be off-set 24 hours from the old one. Timestamps can still be converted between the old and the new time-zone, just like you can do the conversion for any other pair of time-zones.

2) The Gregorian calendar was introduced in 1582, not "thousands of years" ago.
It does. They're skipping december 28, which is a Wednesday.
Here's a question that's purely hypothetical, and is so unlikely to ever need answering that is basically isn't worth asking, but I'm intrigued none-the-less.

Let's say there is <something> that requires a certain length of time, whether it is a 3 day waiting period to buy a gun (totally made up law, I have no idea about Samoan laws), or some prize given to any Samoan who turns 100 years old. Would it go by number of actual days, i.e. how many 24 hour periods have passed, or would it go by date?

Yeah, two terrible examples, and like I said, I doubt the answer would ever have any practical use. And for that reason, perhaps there is no definitive answer. Is there?
It's not a choice! NYC was a sad place for a long time. Remember "Escape from New York"?
Author of the JS implementation here. Let me know if you have any questions about the implementation or problems integrating it. I was hoping someone would pick it up and integrate it with Readability-like service. (I've slowly been working to add support for it to Treesaver http://www.treesaverjs.com/.)

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It's part of the HN comment-formatting parser. It often seems to happen with wikipedia URLs in particular, most sites just take apostrophes and such out.

The solution as shown by delta1 is to escape it.
Clients need to download and verify the entire block chain; but they don't need to store the whole thing.
How long are we going to continue sharing this hallucination of "time zones"? Long live UTC, the one true time. Death to all the pretenders!
Hiya, I kind of get the interface but don't really know what I'm looking at. Maybe something when a user first comes to the site to explain what's going on? Specifically, where do the stories come from and what determines their position on the page. And, some explanation of why I might 'log in with Facebook'

Cheers, congrats on putting something out there.
OEM margins are still pretty low while volumes are very high and increasing. A small difference in Windows licensing can make a huge, bonus-defining, difference.

It's very dangerous to ignore their usual ways.
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That's an excellent paper; thanks for the pointer. I think it correctly notices that a lot of both sides have been talking past each other lately, because the old 50s/60s oppositions aren't quite there anymore. In some ways, Chomsky's critique is obsolete, but that's in part precisely because Chomskyian ideas have now been taken up in the statistical community, in ideas like grammar induction. ML is now willing to study grammar models higher up the Chomsky hierarchy than the simple Markov-chain models they investigated in the 50s, which does owe something to Chomsky's studies in formal grammar (like the existence of the Chomsky hierarchy), even if Chomsky himself has been slow to notice that they have indeed taken up some of his ideas.
There is suprisingly little information on their site, considering it is due for release on June 30th (even that date isn't on their site, but on their distributor's product page.) The cost will be $199.

I imagine that developer information will come during/after Google IO this week, as right now, there are just six marketing bullet points on the site.

The distributor's page does have a little more information:

Add your own thread to the watch for special functions
Use the Meta Watch low-power application framework
No need to open the watch for in-circuit debugging
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Sample code which is an Open Source Android SDK project demonstrating watch connectivity to an Android phone. The project demonstrates watch idle screen use as well as notifications for: CallerID, SMS messages, alarms, calendar events, music control, email and IM.
> Nobody wants a free market. That's a market that includes slaves, child pornography, assassination contracts, etc.

Those things are perfectly compatible with democracy but completely incompatible with capitalism. An inherent idea to capitalism is the protection of individual freedom which those things clearly violate in some way or another. On the other hand, those things are perfectly compatible with democracy given that 51% of the population are OK with it. In fact, what nobody believes in is democracy (that's why most democratic countries have a constitution).

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Until you can pursuade the majority of the world that they should have dark days and sunlit nights.
That's why my "unless..." part was quite extensive. I'm not saying that there aren't reasons for laptops as primary development machines, it's just that making them the default or even the only option seems a bit overrated in my opinion, especially for work machines. There's a bit of wish fulfillment in there, as we'd all like to see ourselves as traveling a lot, writing our startup code in swanky coffee shops etc. But in the end, there's quite a lot of sitting around in your (home) offices...
It's not a computer that's attempting to be hacked, it's you & I.

"Libertarian" think-tanks, funded by wealthy corporations and individuals, attempt to persuade people to act against their own best interests through clever arguments and lies. Is that not hacking?
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On your last bit: I think clients indeed wo't pay for stuff like that, yet. They're learn the coming years that you either have to have a dev team (incl. front-enders!) in-house, or you should work with your agencies like they share your goals. Only then will they start to appreciate things like code quality...
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People would still get up when the sun shines and go to bed soon after it gets dark. You may be having lunch at 2200 but it'd still be near to when the sun was at its highest. The biggest problem I see would be elevenses would have to be changed in most places.
I'll buy a bluetooth watch as as soon as it has a speaker and a mic. Apart from the occasional "Dick Tracy" "head"set usage, this would be quite useful for recording meetings or notes to yourself.
Your example is talking about a company having longer working hours because half of it's staff are working at any one time (maybe with some overlap).

This change is because Simoa does business with people/companies in Australasia, so they want as much time when both time zones are working as possible, not to get the longest combined amount of work time between the two zones.

That said, because they are on the International Date Line, they are moving their calendar by exactly 24 hours, so their day/night (i.e. working hours) will still have the same relationship with those in Australasia. The difference is that, after this change, they will have five weekdays that overlap with Australasia's five weekdays, whereas right now they only have three, as demonstrated in the BBC story.
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Depends where you live. You can make hundreds of $ a day as a street performer if you're good, and you have a good spot (preferably one with some tourists who havent managed to quite work out the exchange rate yet.)

Bonus points for being student at the same time.
Judging from the map, it looks like the Cook Islands and Tokelau, both NZ protectorates, could be the next to switch.
Anyone fancy going to a some websites, setting your time-zone to Samoa and putting 28 dec 2011 into some date fields (birthday, shipping date etc.) to see which ones crash?
Totally agree, although I never actually enjoyed reading fiction. Never knew I enjoyed reading at all until I got older and discovered non-fiction.

As you I usually have a few topics on the go that I am interested in. Good to see I'm not the only one.
You've got it all wrong. Those things are the antithesis of capitalism. I really don't know where to start... May I suggest you watch this documentary: http://www.freetochoose.tv/
So they just change the definition of when Sunday is to accomodate?
On the off chance someone reads this, I'll try to describe it: over the top of random, unintelligible babbling, a voice reads alphanumeric characters. Parts of it are about as difficult to understand as some captchas are to read recently.
It would just make it even more confusing. Right now if I want to speak to a business contact in, say, America, I have to find out their time zone, work out what time it is, and call them up. Under the new system, I would know that my contact in Los Angeles has the same time as me, but I wouldn't know what that actually means. It's currently 1pm here in the UK, but at 1pm in LA will they be in the office? Will they be on their way home from work? Will they be fast asleep?

Obviously, it would be possible to learn these things, but it's much harder to look up. Imagine a table of different countries, how do you define this stuff? Much easier to define what time the 24 hour day starts based on the sun than to define people's behaviour, as not everyone will have the exact same schedule for when they start work, when they wake up, etc.
More realistic examples: loans, fx swaps, or anything related to interest rates.
For quite some years every other Sunday I'd leave home1 early evening and arrive at home2 early Tuesday morning, having travelled on average about 21 hours (all those mandatory inspections of my underpants, you see), thereby skipping an awful lot of Mondays.

A day really is just a thing: I'm not any younger.
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TI has had a similar looking programmable watch out before. Going by what's available on google searching for people developing with that one, there was no uptake at all. I wonder if that will happen for this one too?

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/EZ430-Chronos
>Many, many people have used "p2p" and anonymous means to attempt tax evasion

Suitcases full of used nonconsecutive notes have always done up until now.
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Well, I'm on the outsourcing end of the equation (although I haven't had a hand in the actual outsourcing itself), and I can say from firsthand experience the 'cheap' meme is accurate.

The reason given for removing existing personnel to replace them with outsourced people is twofold. One is cost, and it is the large majority of the sum total of the reasons. The other reason is the erroneous idea that the company can train up a bunch of outsourced people and have a flexible, dynamically sized, workforce.

The justification is that "they're just as good".

In the 10-12 or so years I have seen this tried, it has yet to even COME CLOSE to what was promised. The reason it keeps happening is the person in charge of the decision gets his bonus for cutting the costs, then moves on, long before the actual long-medium terms costs become known. By then that person is long gone and/or up the corporate ladder to where no one dare say "this sucked, he's the guy that caused it".

My view is cynical and jaded, but it is from experience. And I say this not having ever lost my job over it, so that's not a factor.
Thanks for the feedback.

Especially as ironically enough the post does not seem to have made it to the frontpage, so yours is pretty much the only feedback it received ;)

(...guess my post was too academic even for HN users' taste...)
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One thing I don't like about the iMac is that you can't use them as an external display. Displays last much longer than computers IME. My friend reluctantly junked a 20" iMac w/ a PowerPC processor. The computer was useless but the screen was still great.
IANAL but I would have thought this is really no big deal.

If the stipulation is in days (eg 3 days cooling off) then 3 days is 3 days - the date doesn't matter.

If the stipulation is months or years, then the missing day is simply ignored.

I mean, we have a February 29 every 4 years. We already have "months" being an indeterminate number of days (28, 29, 30, 31). So December will have 30 days instead of 31. Big deal. Lots of countries have a time change twice a year, and it doesn't cause any major issues.

For the sake of computer "elapsed time" (interest calculations and so on) it's equally a non-event. The easiest way to handle interest for example is just to treat the missing day as if it had occurred. So it was a really short day, a holiday, which you slept through. Folks will still get paid for the "whole month" of December and so on.

I'm not sure what they'll do, but as long as it's trivially simple I suspect people will adapt very easily.

The worst that'll happen is that everyone will miss out on a whole Wednesday worth of TV. Bummer!
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Disclaimer: I am not writing any of these to brag, just to encourage first time entrepreneurs who are finding it difficult.

I recently put out my new app wolfpacktales and like any Entrepreneur will do, I pitched the big name blogs/sites. As it usually happens, I didn’t even get a response from the writers I pitched. I wasn’t deterred.

Wolfpacktales: Just think Campfire meets social networking. It’s a group conversation app, where users create private groups (I call wolfpacks) and invite people from their social networks – Facebook, Twitter, Gmail & LinkedIn – to join the conversation.

After realizing there would be no success with these big blogs, I pretty much invited all 546 of my Facebook friends to a random wolfpack I created. I also took to the smaller blogs, startup submission sites etc and pitched about 50 of them. I knew all I needed to get going was just a little initial traction just because of the inherently viral nature of the app. That’s exactly what happened. On Friday, I had seen 120 people signed up, that number kept increasing over the weekend and as of this Morning (Monday), there are 2,567 users. I know it’s not a big number by any means, but it shows potential. And yes, I do realize that GroupMe didn’t take all that money just to market their product…I’m just noting that no money, and no big press doesn’t disqualify your product.

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Will write another update in a few days/weeks.

Link: http://wolfpacktales.com (It’s still very much new, so I welcome feedback!)
> but I sense it's about to swing back.

I'm curious what you're seeing that gives you this sense? From where I'm sitting I see things swinging even further toward closed which is rather disheartening but I'd be happy to be shown otherwise.
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For some historical context, losing one day is minor (as long as your birthday isn't 28 December) as compared to the 11 days that were 'lost' in the transition from Julian to Gregorian calendars.

And lest you think that's an historical artifact (to be fair, they didn't worry about sysadmins in Renaissance Rome circa 1582) many Orthodox / Eastern European countries like Russia, Greece, and Turkey made that change in the 1920s [1].

And yes, that's why Russia's October Revolution took place in November, 1917.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar#Timeline
Here, read this:

http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/power

I agree with you for the most part. But somehow, what makes us different from apes was some kind of keystone. Whatever evolved in the last two million years in our brains made a HUGE difference in our effectiveness. Perhaps if we understand it we'll understand something fundamental about intelligence.
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The site is basically just an RSS reader + voting system. These are sites that constantly show up on HN front page and in other community news sites: the idea is that you can repost from this site for instant karma.

The number of sites that I am pulling from is still kind of low. As I add more sites, the story quantity will get higher and then I will look at ways to increase story quality too.

The facebook auth is required to vote, which I need to add a prompt if you try to vote before logging in.

Thanks for the feedback.
This could easily be a xkcd comic. What a mess...
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I'm moving from Australia to Palo Alto next week. The no-fault firing worries me a bit. Knowing that I could have ten days to leave the country that I intend to settle in is scary.

I reassure myself that the company who hired me would not have spend thousands on the hiring process and then turn around and fire me on a whim. Also, firing a worker on a sponsored visa would look pretty bad on their part. It would make it much harder for them to attract talent from overseas in the future.
Sounds like somebody has a case of the Mondays :(
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Good stuff. It's certainly a good idea, and it gives me some hope! lol. Over how many days did you pitch the blogs?
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That's true. As long as you use packages in your distrib format you don't have the problem on Linux. If you manually 'make install' from source it's harder to cleanly get rid of everything. But that's not recommended anyway.

Edit: there is some commercial software for Linux has custom installers which can result in windows-ish problems.
In theory, you should still have to wait the full period. But in practice, it depends on whether the software actually counts elapsed time like a stopwatch (unlikely) or just calculates a future date for release of the gun. As long as the system clock got updated, it would probably OK your gun a day early.
I had a similar reaction. "So this is like Digg without a community?"
Wow! That's a serious jump in traffic over 3 days. Do you plan on making it into a mobile app? seems like that would help a lot.
Folks will still get paid for the "whole month" of December and so on.

Well, one example of how it could be problematic, is if someone is paid hourly (say a freelancer with a non-expiring fulltime-equivilent contract to a company). They would lose out on a day's pay, while their rent/other bills would still charge for one month, not for one month pro-rated down by one day.

As you said, different months have different lengths anyway, so it's not like an end-of-the-world problem, but for someone in that situation, they will none-the-less be losing money as a result of the change.

And as to your judgements on days vs months, it's fine to say "it doesn't have to be a problem if we do it like this", but when it comes to any sort of law or contract, that would rely on both parties agreeing, and it's not impossible that they would take opposite views to both try and improve the situation for themselves.

On a side note, if I were in Samoa, I would have great fun buying a 2011 calendar from as many shops as I could, then go round on December 29th complaining that it was factually incorrect and wanting a refund. Well, I say "I would...", in actual fact I wouldn't be quite that bored. But I like the idea of doing that.