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I love Singapore, except for the climate, which is oppressive.

There is amazing hawker (street) food everywhere and, thanks for strict enforcement of health regulations, it's pretty cheap too. At least it was. It's been a few years since I was there.

I kinda view Singapore as the Zurich of Asia. Zurich (and Switzerland in general) is very regulated (although Singapore more than Zurich; there are no rules against chewing gum in Zurich). Both cities are clean, almost sterile, safe and they basically work (public transport and other infrastructure).

Some people chafe against what they feel is an intrusion. You see those same opinions about New York where I now live. Some feel that NYC has lost a lot of the "grit" or "character" that it once had (back when, you know, muggings were common). One wonders at the psychology of danger and character going hand in hand.

For those who think Singapore is overly-regulated, which it is, you have to remember that English-speaking countries are pretty much an outlier. In continental Europe there are rules about everything, from how to throw out the trash to have to register with the government every time you move and what kinds of window treatments you're allowed to use.

When I worked in Zurich a colleague once described it succinctly: in England (and, by extension, the US, Canada and Australia) you can do whatever you want except for those things that are banned. On the mainland (of Europe) you can't do anything unless it's specifically allowed.

While not true in the strictest sense, that delineation that is tantamount to blacklisting vs whitelisting does, at least in my experience, embody a lot of the cultural differences between English speaking and non English speaking developed nations.

That guy's wife is Finnish and she found it unnerving in England. She wanted that structure of essentially being told what to do and how to do it (within limits).

The only thing I don't really like about Singapore (apart from the weather)--and this is probably true of most Asian countries--is the importance of face time at work. You're expected to be at work a lot even if you're not doing anything. That whole "appearance of work" thing and regimented approach to work in general (ie being very much concerned with the process rather than the results) is something that I've always chafed against.
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you forgot "tiny screen too". the op is apparently in need of medication.
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I assure you I am not confused as to what constitutes free speech.

In the comment to which you replied I'm merely countering the claim that "anybody is free to do whatever they intend to in Australia, so as long as it doesn't impair other people doing so", with respect to speech.

Mind you, I did admit the example was simplistic, but it captured the essence of the three most contentious classes of prohibited speech without verbosity.

The only claims I have made with respect to free speech are that:

a) Australians have no constitutional right to free speech.

b) There are laws that criminalise certain kinds of speech.

c) There is no constitutional impediment to the creation of new laws which criminalise other forms of speech.

d) Political speech enjoys some protection.
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I seriously doubt iOS users have any kind of Android anything envy. Especially if they tried Android and its rightful predecessor, Windows Mobile. That is where widgets came from, actually.
Or beating people with canes until the meat is hanging off the butt and legs. Cruel, but not quirky.
Distributed computing does not involve the kind of shared mutable state that functional programming can protect you from. Distributed map/reduce systems like Hadoop manage shared state complexity despite being written in Java.

Isn't map/reduce kind of drawn from the functional paradigm?
> With the general public, all it takes to be influential is good writing. e.g. Jesus Christ is popular

Huh. What did Jesus write again?
"I don't have any obvious or immediate itch to personally scratch"

Put yourself into the shoes of someone else and fix their biggest problem. Can't think of one?

Go to a non-nerd party and ask around, "What's your biggest problem?".
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Just updated the concept into more of a business card / resume hybrid.
They need better tactics.

That may sound trite, but I honestly believe that they could win this quicker and with fewer casualties if they were more strategic with their protesting.

Easier said than done though, especially from my sofa a few thousand miles away from it all.
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I would really love to know how big Apple's approval team is. It's mind boggling to think that at least one person personally test each and every one of those 400,000 apps.
>>But most people don't realize how easily they can be accessed by others, Edwards said.

This sort of FUD is really annoying. Rather than use this as a great platform to preach strong passwords and confirming URLs/SSL before singing into web services, they just induce fear into people. ugh.
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I first encountered IRC at the age of 9 or so, when I installed Linux for the first time and randomly opened X-Chat, which took me to Freenode. By the time I was 13, I had engaged in screaming competitions with GNU fundamentalists in #gnu, asked hundreds of stupid questions in ##linux, and provided support to countless others in #pearpc and #distrowatch, and obviously grown a much thicker skin.
I'm sure you know this already, but I think the best ideas and the ones that you will be strongly motivated to work on are those that solve a problem for a lot of people, but principally for you. Something in your business life or elsewhere that you have found frustrating or lacking, but that has no good tech solution. But I'm sure I read it elsewhere and it made sense that it's easier to find solutions than problems. Don't look for a solution, look for a problem, a tough one, then cast about for ways to solve it.
What are you doing to feel uncomfortable?
Very funny quote from the article:

"August 2011: Your accountant, your Uncle Sal, and the garage attendant at your office building all confide they are cultivating start-ups on the side."
Check out indian politics - for a real taste of chaotic democracy in action. Here folks get to talk crap about a whole bunch of governments - from city, state and national - and there's a whole bunch of 'em to talk crap about - unlike the two-party plutocracy of the US, as one point of contrast.
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Personally the implementation of nth_element is a much more interesting thing to see than just knowing it exists.
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When the X-Men: First Class producer Bryan Singer has already announced in November last year that Logan aka Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is not to make the presence of the film
Ask HN: What if we had a place to create a Top3 List of anything?
I just joined the world of startups and ideas, and of course I got to know hnews, and since then I have been around the news here and trying to answer questions and help others.

I just launched a new service a more than a month ago, and it was very nice because I could learn from a few users some other features that the service could have.

The idea is simple, a site where you can create a Top3 list about any subject you want and people can agree/disagree, comment, and leave another version of that top3 (and after we provide a consolidated rank on that subject).

I would like suggestions, critics and opinions about the service.

url: http://mytop3.me
And they will probably be lucky not to be fired, instead of getting what they should, which is getting more funding. Of course this is assuming that your guess is correct.
All of this started with the geohot affair?
Barbara Sher - Refuse to choose. It's book about people similar to you.

Also, if you work well with a particular extrinsic structure (and enjoy it), why not leverage that. did you enjoy the uni projects that were for grades? Why not create the same type of conditions. All motivation is ultimately intrinsic anyway.
I think a more "Apple-y" design choice than full-scale widgets will be "active icons".

There would be an API for an application to update its icon. The canonical example would be that the weather app could actually show the weather as its icon. (Similar to how Apple's built-in calendar app shows the current day.)
The two most relevant acts are The Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act and The Sedition Act. Both allow for prison sentences for saying things that could be percieved as offensive. In 2006 a young blogger were detained for posting cartoons of Jesus.
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مشاهدة مباراة مصر وجنوب افريقيا بث مباشر 
مشاهدة مباراة مصر وجنوب افريقيا بث مباشر مشاهدة مباراة مصر وجنوب افريقيا بث مباشر مشاهدة مباراة مصر وجنوب افريقيا بث مباشر
You mean

Google - B$6 + Groupon > Google

or

Google - B$6 + Groupon > Google - B$6 + investing in other ideas or companies
Nicely done, worked perfectly in FF4.
At this point I'm curious if this is the result of any large company becoming the whipping boy of multiple hacking groups, or if this is just unique to Sony.

For example, if Microsoft were focused on next... or Ford or GE or IBM, would the same endless embarrassment ensue?

When Sony originally got hacked, I commented like everyone else: Sony is incompetent, their security team is subpar, etc, but after the 12th hack... is this just how shoddy most systems are and they just have the spotlight on them at the moment?

I believe back on the announcement thread of the latest hack here on HN, there was an entire sub-thread about "Is this the norm at big companies?" and the consensus was "yes". Someone mentioned security was between "horribly broken" and "totally laughable". Of course that's always juicy to read, but I wonder how true it is.

If this endless list of penetration is any sort of barometer, it looks to be true.

I'll be curious what the global fallout of this is. I would hate to be the next company that does something socially unacceptable that gets the baton passed to them from Sony.
I wrote something along those lines originally, but it seemed simpler to leave the details out. I trusted HN readers to fill in the rest :-)
As far as love, and other personal matters are concerned, why do you care what other people think? ( with apologies to Feynman )

If you were to judge Asian women purely on looks, they might feel like they belong to a different class, but more often than not, they are using the 'white' guy to escape the grinding nature of their poverty and a pretty cruel life back in their hometown.

For folks with a western upbrinding, they also seem to like the calm, obedient, slightly docile nature of asian women - though i believe education and other opportunities are making them more outspoken and discerning than before.

If you find yourself dating someone - and sense stigma from friends, relatives etc ignore them initially till they get used to your partner/gf/bf etc. As time goes by, folks come around. It's really difficult to hold a grudge or stigma for a long period of time.
Also, if any business model pops to your mind, just share here ok?
This is the first time that I have looked at any of these 'Sony' hacks. I had a quick look at their website, and the credits at the bottom clearly say that it was designed, developed and run by two third parties - yet they aren't mentioned in the headline.
Once people find a doctor they like (and a foreign hospital), they stick with them, and would be going behind your back to get follow-up/repeat treatment. Not to mention all the redtape
I've always thought a Kickstarter for startups / websites would be such a brilliant idea, but not feasible. This guys idea sounds fantastic, but I think the whole registering in Malta wouldn't be too appealing.
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Your "just" is just gigantic. But yes :)
Most of the entries seem to be in Portuguese. It might be a good idea to split this off into a different site for each language. Otherwise there's not much reason to have an English interface.
More or less.

1. Sony removes "Install Other Operating Systems" option from the PS3 OS.

2. Out of frustration at corporate policy for REMOVING major features from hardware/device paid for and owned by millions, the hackers start working.

3. Months later, GeoHot releases (what I understand to be) the root private encryption keys for the device.

3.5 (forgot this) fail0verflow group circumvents the PS3's security system using this work from GeoHot - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4loZGYqaZ7I

4. Other hacking groups, now with the keys to the kingdom, begin working on hacking the PS3 to allow the installation of any software, not just officially released/signed/blessed releases. This results in a "jailbreak" for the PS3, much like what jailbreaking does to the lock-down security on an iPhone.

(This is when things start to go south)

5. A technique for loading your own software onto the PS3, circumventing the system's security checks comes out.

(Now the door to pirating PS3 games is open. Download images, burn the Blu-rays, pop them in the PS3 and play).

6. Another hacking group, using some portion of this manipulation, actually manage to get their PS3's logged into the private developer-based PSN network (it's a full copy of the real PSN network specifically for developers actively working on titles that need to test things like updates or addon downloads/installs).

7. It is discovered that the PSN-Dev network does not do real credit card authentication before items are purchased and downloaded. So for example, if I work at BioWare, and I'm on PSN-Dev, I can technically download any of the standalone games from the network and play them by entering a credit card of "111" or something silly - http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/gx6o4/im_a_moderator...

8. The hacking group is able to pull software off the network, for free, and leak it to the web.

9. Some point very shortly after this, the real PSN gets the full intrusion.

I forget if the two are related or not... I don't recall if the group went PSN-Dev > PSN and that is how they got in, or if there was another group that did the straight PSN hack.

That is the gist of the avalanche that started with "We are removing Other-OS install support". Different groups piggy-backing on each other's work to retaliate.

The endless backlash against Sony seems to have been the result of them going after GeoHot.Then at some point it stopped being about retribution for him and just became the popular thing to do.

It is sort of getting old, so unless Sony does something to re-ignite the flames, I imagine the groups will move on in a month or two.

[Links]

fail0verflow's presentation on how they circumvented the PS3's security (really cool presentation):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4loZGYqaZ7I

Post supposedly from one of the internal Sony folk during the total media black-out when the network first went down explaining the console-Dev-PSN-network issue:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/gx6o4/im_a_moderator...
I'm as hopeful as you are, but they hired Peter days ago. I think his hiring is more about picking up an extremely talented iOS programmer than anything else.
totally agree! did you create any top3 to see how it works? I will work on that right now.
funnily enough, many DB engines are written in Erlang -- a usually slow, high-level language. CouchDB, Riak, Mnesia, Hibari, Amazon SimpleDB, etc. They're not completely off the table.
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but facebook is mentioned because its the best out there. we didnt pick it arbitrarily to be the social network everyone uses
It redirects me to the home page any time I try. This is with Firefox 4.0.1.
>>Capital punishment is required for being in the company with someone possessing a small amount of weed.

Capital punishment is meted out to persons who possess or have reasonable knowledge of someone who possesses or deals in drugs. Do I agree with it? No. But it's very far from your claim. There is due process of law.

>>All members of Jehovas Witnesses were imprisioned in 2004.

The reason for this is because Singapore has a conscripted army. All male citizens are required to spend 2+ years of their lives in service of their country. They are liable to be called up for service any time up till they are 40, or 50 in the case of officers. Jehovah's Witnesses renounce bearing arms and thus their religion is in direct conflict with statute. They are not "imprisoned" in the sense of "rehabilitation" or "punishment". They are confined, so yes there are restrictions on their movement, and are given duties such as gardening, cooking etc. They are free men after they have performed the equivalent length of time as a regular citizen in the armed forces.

Edit: typos
Sure doctors "fix things" but that's an oversimplification of their jobs. It's like saying rocket scientists are like construction workers because they "build things". There is a vast difference in the knowledge/schooling required. I didn't think the simple analogy as a doctor/technician as an insult as much as the description of their duties (1. Look in manual, 2. Hotfix, 3. If not there, done) - this is insulting whether describing technicians or doctors.

And no, doctors aren't "done" when the problem isn't in the manual. You're referring to something completely different, "I don't have money or healthcare and expect you to work for free". Maybe they're like technicians after all.
did it open a popup for you to login with your facebook credentials?
I think the problem is getting terms mixed up. A client-server arrangement on multiple machines can run in single threads and not share memory and is still concurrent. And concurrent code can still be run on a single processor.

The ability to stretch an application across more than one machine is obviously essential to the modern world. The internet is by definition a kind of distributed computing system.

Some languages have features that promote a particular kind of parallel programming. But they are not suited to every task and thats ok!
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The new investor money was overtly premised on paying old investors. The new investors were buying the risk from the old investors, who had just been asked to turn down $6bn. I think you're oversimplifying a bit.
Sounds a little bit like the prisoner's dilemma...
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Regardless: the approval process doesn't stop malware. They don't have nearly enough time, effort, or manpower to sift through the source code or traces of every single app they approve. People have been hiding playful or malicious code in things as inconspicuous as Flashlight apps for years now.
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kung fu panda, now you know there is a movie kung fu panda 2, which is directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson, the story is more exciting and funny than the previous kung fu panda, kung fu panda episode 2 is about a panda who is very funny, lazy but a lot of his ideas, since the panda (Po), small, wants to be a Soldier Dragon, to protect her village from criminals.
You didnt read the fine print. free for american citizens. i dont know any country that treats non-citizens well, but there are many who treat them better.
This is like Groupon for startups... a really natural fit.

Company: "I need customers, I'm willing to give away product/services cheaply to entice early signups."

Client: "I'm willing to try some unfamiliar product/service if I can get it for a smokin' deal".

And then you step in and introduce them to each other. Nice.
Good point, but it can only be said of certified auto mechanics. I don't know the percentage of auto-mechanics that are certified and tested to know "why" but I'm guessing it's less than doctors (100%).

Either way, it's a pointless argument comparing the systems and schooling required to understand automobiles vs. the human body.
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I avoid logging in with things like that. That's normally handled with a separate login screen anyway. A blind redirect back to the home page will only frustrate people and make them leave.
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Yes, they're back (yay!)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2621391
As a user of an Android phone... you have no idea how much you'll miss widgets until you've had them for an extended period of time. As soon as I unlock my phone I immediately see the weather at a glance, if I have any appointments coming up, the song I'm playing right now, and a ticker of the latest news from my RSS feeds. If either of those things are something I would have otherwise forgotten to check on, then it's given me an excellent reminder. If not, then nothing's lost and I can continue on to the app that I intended to use to begin with.

Not to mention all the stuff it gives to you as a power user, like being able to instantly switch my GPS or Wifi on or off without having to navigate through several settings screens.
hadoop is about concurrent disk IO, not concurrent use of multiple cores.
Singapore isn't perfect, but no place is.

These are some issues that Singaporeans face:

1) Rising cost of living through inflation.
2) Expensive housing.
3) Lack of financial liquidity. Singaporeans are asset-rich but cash-poor.
4) Apathy amongst the populace about social issues, legal and political process although this is changing, albeit slowly.
5) An extremely ingrained and fearful sense of failure. If it's not been done before, the default answer is "No".

Some good things going for it:

1) Public infrastructure is generally good but facing challenges from an increasing migrant population.
2) Personal safety. Women can walk home alone at night and not be assaulted.
3) Racial harmony. You don't read about hate crimes, skinheads etc. Some forms of implicit racial profiling and discrimination exists, but they are not widespread. i.e. there are always assholes of any color.
4) Low personal income tax.
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There's always a line when I go to McDonald's, especially in the city. Usually not out to the street but at least 10-15 people long. Think about Best Buy or Walmart on Black Friday - people are on the streets camping for days. Same with an Apple product launch, people get there many hours ahead (even though they usually have enough for everyone).

There's sick marketing and commercial brain-washing, if you call it that, going on all over the world.
Thanks for the insight Captain Obvious. Did you forget to eat your Wheaties this
morning?
hum ok, I will take this into consideration! thanks for your time and feedback
There has to be some research MD somewhere who was coincidentally working on curing the very disease that killed him.
There are 2 critical points leading up to that list:
When the very same GeoHot released a hardware glitch for PS3 OtherOS to let you use more of the system (extra SPU and GPU access rather than software rendering). It should be noted that this was ONLY OtherOS and required soldering. Did Sony really think that people were going to commercialize homebrew games that require hardware mods? Or did they know that GeoHot was onto something big?
As revenge, Sony took away OtherOS for everybody and reassigned Geoff Levand.

And when then GeoHot hacked the 3.21 firmware just to get OtherOS back. Sony blocked it again. This was the point forced the community's hand to looking for solutions that might also allow piracy (although the wheels may have been in motion already). Really, based on the PSP experience they should have known how this works.