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Governments apologize... sometimes... usually decades later when most of the affected people are already dead... and no one that was culpable is in a position to get in trouble.
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If A and A+ both explain the data and make the same predictions, then they have exactly the same probability of being wrong: If A is true then A+ is true and vice versa. The additional complexity in A+ does not correspond to additional information about the world, and this is why we can safely choose A over A+.
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Why does this happen? You don't have all-german tv channels, movies, music and whatever for everybody to parrot the "standard" dialect from?

I mean, why would people be blissfully unaware of the standard form.
Since this article is only about the technical side, let's add to this.

Another game has the same issue with loading times and general performance: The Sims series, until the 3rd.
The Sims 2 was excruciatingly slow when you had lot of elements on screen, even of fast computers.
The reason? It's a game in which people make their own "levels", by adding items, which can even be of external source. So it's hard to really scale for it like for other video games.

The Sims 3 is faster, improved performance a lot, mostly because it is streaming as much as it can, now. Most of the time you will see dirty loading polygons, blurry textures, before it loads. Because that's the only way to deal with a level on which you have no control.

The issue is the same with SL, with the increased fact that people can really create anything, import meshes, make objects from thousands of polygons. And they can run scripts in each of these polygons, potentially able to launch scans of the whole area several times per second.

I'm not saying that this is as optimized as it can get. But it's far from being a "laziness" issue. The basic problem doesn't really have an "easy solution".
Is it just me or is this perhaps taking the story of YouTube Instant a bit far?

I mean ya, I guess it got some press and got him a job offer, but it's not like he invented cold fusion or something. It was a cute idea. Can we really draw any kind of real conclusions from it?

Seems like that type of success, of a cute meme taking off is actually rather common, it is the longer term, build a sustainable company, king of success that is much more difficult.

PS. Hate the font formatting, ugh.
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Since orange is the complementary color of blue, it's a no-brainer that it's used to add contrast whenever blue is involved.

Blue is a color omnipresent on earth - water is blue, the sky is blue. Also, on sunrise and sunset the sun's light gives everything an orange tint. The combination itself is the easiest for our eyes to tolerate as we can see it everyday. Other powerful alternatives would be red/green and yellow/purple, but these aren't so generic having limited applicability and are hard to bring in harmony (when trying to pick a harmonious color palette, almost all recipes exclude complementaries). And the reason for wanting complementary colors is because complements add contrast to your image, being the easiest technique you can use.

Even though you may be pissed about seeing blue/orange everywhere, the fact of the matter is that it's a working technique, also used by photographers.
Whoa, whoa - I actually agree with stuff you say, but you do yourself serious discredit by saying Ian Tomlinson was 'beaten to death by riot police' as if he was a protester somehow set upon by multiple officers with truncheons until he passed away. The guy was a drunken bystander, not a protester, and was hit on the knee (by an arsehole, yes, though one that had been on duty since 5am in a 14 hour shift) before being pushed out of the way and falling to the ground. Swearing, he got back up, walked off for 60m and collapsed of internal bleeding from where his elbow (which he fell on) had bumped his cirrhotic liver! His death has more to do with biological misfortune (not all of it cosmic, since the liver cirrhosis came from his serious alcoholism) than the sort of brutality associated with 'beatings to death' - to my mind, at least.
This was my precise point. Australians have been buffered from the rising price of oil by the rising price of the AUD, but there's no reason why these two prices should continue in lockstep.

If the AUD goes down, petrol prices in Australia will soar and the government's already dismal ratings will sink. Plus, as was pointed out, a weaker dollar would embolden the RBA to raise interest rates. Two nails, one coffin.

Folk in Australia forget what a minnow this country is. Our mindshare of worldwide attention is utterly disproportionate to our economic status.
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> Two factors that the government has little or no control over, yet the libs will attempt to heavily capitalise on.

Sure, but they're the opposition. Blaming the government for factors outside their control is the job of an opposition[1].

Taking credit for factors outside their control is the job of a government.

[1] You may recall the libs copping a beating over rising petrol prices circa early 2001. For a while it looked like it would cost them government.
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I think that applies to all programming languages :)
He annotated a passive-aggressive annotation on a patch I made and basically hijacked a presentation I made because the library I presented did not fit his aesthetics & work style. I don't remember ever acting in an uncivil way toward him.

If you regularly act like an asshole, expect to get a reputation and to be treated like one (even unfairly).

Btw, I'm glad you are bringing civility up. For some reason the lack of a civil vibe (at least from my experience in the Ruby community) really bothers me.
Yes, but culture isn't immutable. And a top-down, company wide focus on security and proper training is a damn good place to start.

The problem is getting middle management on board. It's no good if mid-level managers tell their direct reports to go to the training and then go back to business as normal with the same old priorities and no extra time/focus on the new security aspects.
Vint Cerf has stated that the theoretical capacity of fiber is 38THz of analog bandwidth:
http://www.nnsquad.org/archives/nnsquad/msg01402.html

I'd be interested to hear how close this record gets to the theoretical maximum, and where the intrinsic limit comes from.
Actually, Minecraft model and appeal is different, because it's a game which is mostly geared towards your inner will to create, assemble, like a kid (or, you know, grown up kids) with Lego bricks.

SL has two sides, the creator side is one, but most people, like you describe, are here mostly to "be" in a different world, and chat, not to create or shape it.

Creating something in Minecraft takes a few minutes, you hit blocks to gather them, you reassemble them somewhere else.
In SL, to create, you have to be in a place which allows you to create (most likely one you rent, or a sandbox). You have to know how to create, and the learning step is quite high. You have to pay actual money to upload any texture or mesh to the game.

So the "god" possibilities are high, but not accessible to most of people. Minecraft is the opposite on this point.
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"A bit" = "some". I know that 3 > 2.
Well, millions or billions have been made on anti-virus software. The overhead to have every file or network operation read by some scanning program is too much. This needs to be avoided at all costs. Especially since there are better ways.

Again, the proper solution for the kind of people who would actually install a virus manually is to simply point them at the App store.
No, Orion is not e5, as far as I can see it's a set of browser-based tools for developing web apps.
E4, by the way, is alive and well, it's release schedule is aligned with Indigo's. So, you can download the latest build (it's a RC1), and the final release should be in June.
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>Religion, for one.

Wrong. All religions have, in fact, adjusted to changing realities. The Pope has made changes, the Jews don't sacrifice animals anymore, etc. You have a point with "alternative medicine" though.
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Same video posted yesterday:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2571158
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> Ask me to reverse the order of words in a string and you'll get:

"Words in a string".split(" ").reverse.join(" ") #=> "string a in Words"

Which is, of course, the best answer you could provide. Unless you're applying for programming microcontrollers, that is.
Which is one of the reasons I chose to leave London.

My brother is in his 30s and still has to flatshare, despite getting a good developer salary in London. What's the point of working there again ?

I'm not a student any more dammit: I want my own place to come home to after a hard day's work.
You're welcome. I found this article while looking for a credible source that could explain the fonts.conf settings, as most of the information about that on the web is either plain wrong, or just lacking any kind of justification.
>It's marketers and salesmen (laypersons) that take one scientific study and go crazy with it.

In most case; scientists are salesmen/marketers. They have to be because they're salaries come from grant money. There are plenty of examples of scientists themselves trumping things up.
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From the Eclipse wiki: "Orion's objective is to create a browser-based open tool integration platform which is entirely focused on developing for the web, in the web. Tools are written in JavaScript and run in the browser. Unlike other attempts at creating browser-based development tools, this is not an IDE running in a single tab. Links work and can be shared. You can open a file in a new tab. Great care has been taken to provide a web experience for development."

So, to spare me finding headphones and watching 10 minutes of video, is this meant to be more than a syntax-highlighting text box without a right-click context menu? (FF 4.01)
Invalid comparison. AdBlock is most likely using less resources than the ads it blocks. Virus scanners are overhead on all stream operations.
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I wasn't claiming Labour are any less opportunistic, though I do seem to remember they went after Howard's policies on boat refugees on humanitarian grounds, rather than a hysterical stop the boats platform. Which makes their attempts to reinstate it all the more despicable.
According to a Wikipedia article[1] Microsoft did a good job when it comes to resolution independence, and Apple also makes progress on that front.

"Microsoft Windows has supported DPI aware programs since Windows Vista and allows user specified DPI settings for the windowing interface. [...] The Windows Presentation Foundation from Microsoft, and consequently, WPF applications, are also designed to be resolution-independent."

"Apple has included some support for resolution independence in recent versions of Mac OS X, which can be demonstrated with the developer tools Quartz Debug, which includes a feature which allows the user to scale the interface."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_independence
This seems like it would also apply quite well to variable naming in programming. Naming a variable 'a' just because it's frequently used would be misguided.
Yes there are on average about 8 public holiday 'everyone gets a day off work' days per year on top of those annual leave entitlement (which you can usually take at any time of the year for your own holidays).

And AFAIK European countries do shift days to the next weekend, in fact in some countries (Ireland) that's the legal requirement.
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I don't approve of her leaning on contractors so much, but HN comments have be to the most well written exemplars of armchair quarterbacking I have ever seen.
I was very heartened to see that there were quite a few young girls there, daughters with their dads. And they were participating: all the hands-on exhibits for kids were easily gender-balanced, perhaps even trending toward females.

But there was one thing I thought a little odd: there were a bunch of girls under 10. And there were a fair number of women in their mid-20s and thirties. But there were very few teenage girls.

I wonder why this is, particularly since a bunch of studies have shown that the teenage years are when STEM fields lose the bulk of girls that have expressed an early interest in them. I remember that when I was captain of the math team in high school, I had to do a fair bit of recruiting to round up participants for math competitions. The twelve year old girls would enthusiastically participate. At thirteen, if they were remotely popular, you could forget about it. Oftentimes they remained exceptionally good at math (some are working for large tech companies now, 10+ years later), but they refused to do anything that would show how good they were at math to their peer group.

Why? And how can we make it so that STEM pursuits aren't just something your dad teaches you when nobody's looking, but can actually be pretty cool among your peer group too?
So, that's the third branch from Eclipse projects? I mean Eclipse platform, E4 and now Orion. Will it converge? What shall Eclipse Plugin developers now do? Develop Orion plugins? Develop E4 plugins? Or just contact Cloud9IDE guys?
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Lesson learned: go fix your security issues _before_ pissing off tons of hackers by lawsuits.
Sony's incoherence just as a matter of how much surface area they have exposed to the public only multiplies this problem.
This sounds a bit like buffering, what impact would something like that have on latency I wonder.
I want to oppose to the impression that there is a lack of civil vibe within the ruby community. I work on the Padrino project and most of the communication with the ruby community, our committers and our users is highly enjoyable. Jerks can be found everywhere, but they are a minority.
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From the New Oxford American Dictionary:

“USAGE It is sometimes held that none can take only a singular verb, never a plural verb: : none of them is coming tonight, rather than : none of them are coming tonight. There is little justification, historical or grammatical, for this view. None is descended from Old English nān, meaning ‘not one,’ and has been used for around a thousand years with both a singular and a plural verb, depending on the context and the emphasis needed.”

You’re right though that it’s weird to mix both singular and plural verbs for the same subject.
Yes, but there is a tradition (at least in some languages) to name cycle variable as i for example: for (int i=0;i<n;i++).
Or to discuss the post without the #!, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2532271
That was my impression in the UK. One could argue the toss whether, say, being able to read ancient texts in the original Greek was easier or harder than quantum physics (or the relative usefulness of either) but there was general contempt for the seeming lack of intellectual curiosity and love of learning for its own sake among business students.

Most of whom, depressingly, would become our managers.
It's not that they're blissfully unaware. It's being thaught in school and almost all official writing is done in the so called 'written German'. But it's simply not the language you speak (safe for a reason to the contrary, like not everybody understanding it). Even in written (private) communication it's used quite a lot, like in mails, sms, ...

Oh, and at least for Swiss German: It is kinda a different language (but extremely related to the written German): It's not just an accent with some funny words, but has a slightly different grammar, too. Most glarious is the lack of most of the verb tenses in Swiss German. So pupils have to learn quite some stuff to be really fluent in written German.

And even just within Switzerland there are dialects I don't understand (as in no clue what they're talking about). People speaking these usually switch to a more conformistic pronounciation when talking to people from other areas and don't use some of the more obscure words.

And for the reasons this all exists (at least for Switzerland): It's cultivated and all kinda part of your local/national identity. Politicians who speak a "too good" written German are deemed suspicious, almost all of the local culture (theater, local movies, even most of the Swiss tv produciton ...) is in Swiss German.

[Native Swiss German speaker, here.]
This seems to bring additional evidence to the information content hypothesis: because it is common and expected it does not have a high information density.
I think you are over-cutting the python.

First of all, with the python the first things on the lines are:

def
for
if
egg

My eyes are naturally drawn along that list. While I could do the same thing for CL, I find the opening brackets slow me down.

The colons at the end of each of those lines tell me that each of the def, for, and if are one-statement lines. With the CL, I have to backet-count along the line to figure out if everything is on one line.

I can see instantly that ' if egg.color == white: ' is a complete statement, as it is a common pattern. With (when (equal (color-of egg) 'white), I need to bracket count to see where I have got to by the end of the line.
>The trick is to use what is known as a "fast Fourier transform" to unpick more than 300 separate colours of light in a laser beam, each encoded with its own string of information.

No, the "trick" is decades of hard work and research in materials, electronics, photonics, signal processing and more.

Journalists like to believe you can sum up any scientific result in one sentence understandable by mortals. It turns out it's not the case.
One thing I've always wondered.. if as an employee your stock options have a vesting period, and during that period the company is acquired, do you benefit as if you owned those shares? Or is it only on the options that have vested and you've taken up?
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Hah, nice. A long way from RoD :P
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I really liked the "old" Maker Faire, which was more focused on making stuff and not children or dressing up in vintage clothing (no offense, it's just not my thing). The fact that the city of San Mateo ran out of parking dosen't really give me the right vibe.

Is anyone aware of a similar event, but with more focus on things like chip vendor booths, demo pits for hardware projects, and a heavier hacker culture?
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If you have a graph with large number of elements, Canvas scales better. I have built a plotting library in Canvas which can plot about 25000 points (typical requirement with genomic data) in a couple of seconds. Doing this in SVG will not be viable.

http://icanplot.appspot.com/
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After reading most of the posts in this discussion, I really feel like people here see contractors as uninvested workers. I always invest 100% of myself in every single project I join as a contractor, and this is very important for me, which makes me read your comments like insults to what I do.

My age and relative lack of typical corporate experience may of course give me a bad vision of the market. Maybe most contractors are not working the way I do, which would make the advice Jessica gives a bad one. But even in this case, generalization may prevent you from working with interesting people.

Disclaimer: I'm working as a self employed engineer, mostly doing jobs with my team, and far from being someone "who would prefer a fulltime job but can't get one".
Here's how I call the various punctuation which I've found to be reasonably consistent with others' nomenclature:

Parentheses: ()

Braces: {}

Square brackets (or just Brackets): []

Angle brackets: <>
I have lived in Berlin for over 36 months and German is not required at all, ESPECIALLY in the tech community. Everyone uses English.
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You are forgetting - a bubble is a bubble.

The US has too many students, and not enough seats. Just like California had too many house investors, and not enough condos.

Of course, there might be some structural reason (the UK has better state sponsored education, or the size of the US means there's more competition for the top 2 schools), but it's mostly just transient.

There's a mad dash for the top schools. Don't ask me why. The top schools crank their prices through the roof, spending their gains on new buildings, or bonuses for the administration, or football scholarships, or maybe even research. The flood of new grads on the market means you would have to be nuts to employ somebody without a sheepskin, so the cycle cranks up a notch. Only to fly apart when the affordability ceiling is reached (and few grads have a sheepskin, and suddenly people start looking for bright high-school leavers for such essential jobs as keeping HR records in order), or you can't even get a job as a burger technician without a PhD.
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A few comments on the submission from years ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=787419
Aye, but the idea that our authorities can assault someone who is doing nothing wrong is a pretty fucked up thing. It'll be interesting to see what repercussions the inquest has.
tl;dr of 10 minutes video:

- All code uploaded to their orion servers

- Import of .zip files

- git commit and diff functionality

- Try your code with by running webserver username.orion.eclipse.org

- Syntax highlighting (at least for js)

- Use of JSLint for syntax navigation and error notification

- Keyboard bindings as you know them from desktop applications

- Handles huge files without any noticable delay (40000 lines+)

Oh and as I understood it, it is a beta and some functionality are not fully implemented, like the .git support.

Personally I believe some things are better of being a desktop application - and do not like the trend with _everything_ on the web, but the project itself is a cool idea and great implementation.
> Just like you wouldn’t get married to someone you’ve just met, you shouldn’t get into a long term partnership with someone you don’t know well enough.

This is IMHO by far the most important thing said in this article. I always find it strange when I see website proposing to match you with a co-founders or people looking for a co-founder by asking HN for instance. It's like asking on your blog "Hey readers! Anyone would like to marry me, I have an awesome idea about how we could raise our kids!".
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Second Life is not a game, just like the Web isn't a game. They are platforms/media where, in some places, people have made games.