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Ask HN: Why isn't average karma displayed in my profile?
Does anybody else have this issue and how to fix it? I can't see the average karma in my profile by myself or with another login id as well.
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Justice Potter Stewart explained in 1967:

"The Government stresses the fact that the telephone booth from which the petitioner made his calls was constructed partly of glass, so that he was as visible after he entered it as he would have been if he had remained outside. But what he sought to exclude when he entered the booth was not the intruding eye—it was the uninvited ear. He did not shed his right to do so simply because he made his calls from a place where he might be seen. No less than an individual in a business office, in a friend's apartment, or in a taxicab, a person in a telephone booth may rely upon the protection of the Fourth Amendment. One who occupies it, shuts the door behind him, and pays the toll that permits him to place a call is surely entitled to assume that the words he utters into the mouthpiece will not be broadcast to the world. To read the Constitution more narrowly is to ignore the vital role that the public telephone has come to play in private communication."

Replace telephone with Internet, it's the same scenario as today. Except instead of stretching the 4th amendment, they've stretched probable cause.
I don't think those are the same: two different uses of "that". The example from Bezos seems flat-out wrong to me. I had to read it three times to figure out what he meant. Would be interested to see other examples.
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The extra encryption is mostly for keys that I use with the passwords on Keepass.
Usually a hydro power plant is used as a "battery". When the demand is low, the electricity produced by wind/solar power plants is used to pump the water uphill. When the demand is high, the hydro power plant releases that water to produce energy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped_hydro
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I don't even think it's primarily a problem of subsidization. The costs have skyrocketed due to factors unrelated to education -- massive increases in administrative staff, new buildings, more luxurious buildings, vastly improved housing options etc. These come with a cost, and unfortunately it seems that we've over purchased/overbuilt thus making college unaffordable.

It's just like every hotel moving up to the 5 star level, it's unnecessary and expensive.
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Honestly, when we start talking about these huge distances and the vastness of space, the scale of things just seems to lose all meaning. Maybe it's because most of us are engineers and these sorts of numbers only exist in our heads in abstract terms, but I find that I really have to look around me and ground myself in relative terms before I can fully grasp how mind-bogglingly huge that is.
No Microsoft means no (or at least a very drastically different/less funded) Gates Foundation. No Gates Foundation means a world much worse off, particularly for those in the 3rd world.

Granted, Google is more directly involved in positive projects as a corporation than Microsoft has been, but "The world is a worse place because of Microsoft" is a very shallow view, and IMO very wrong.
Paul Thurrott just doesn't get it (on Apple's WWDC announcements)
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The Gates Foundation does great work. They are certainly one of if not the most effective anti-poverty charities out there. But positing a world "much worse off" is stretching things. Even huge charities are dwarfed by the sizes of governments. Almost all aid is delivered by governments. How much money has the Gates Foundation spent in total over its decade or so of work? What is the USA humanitarian aid budget for a single year?

Again, my point isn't to diss Bill's charity work. But arguing that we should tolerate abusive monopolies in our tech industry because the owners might one day get rich and give the money to poor people is ... borderline insane, honestly.
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Not sure which 'this' you're referring to, but my joke is now at 38 points. Does it really matter? They're just points. And don't worry, i'm still not able to downvote people :)
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Yup. My Telecommunications prof back in University told us you can approximate the speed of a network as 2c/3, so that sounds right on the button.
>How about hn peeps meet in channel HackerNews?

I'm taking a coding break and will be on for the next hour. HNers are free to add me on BNET using the email in my profile.
I said often, not always. Also, it tends to be an amalgam of different pasts. Like right now what the US is doing in the Middle East looks a whole lot like Athens during the Peloponnesian War, and what we're doing financially looks like what Japan did.

So, I do think it is an accurate phrase, but misunderstood.
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Huh? I'm trying to get my head around today being less 'classically literate' than in the early 1900s. For example, in the United States, 10% of the populate was flat-out illiterate. Only 50% of people were enrolled in primary education (reaching a middle-school level education). [1] Secondary schools (High School) just started around the 1890s. Enrollment in schools that are now mandatory was 10%. [3]

Since 1942, inflation-adjusted cost per pupil increased by 700%. [2] Some of that is surely inefficiency but most is because we spend more on education. This means better teachers and better materials.

And this is in a country with one of the largest GDP in 1900. You can pretty safely assume we've had far less drastic changes in our own education system compared to the rest of the world.

I'm sure Thomas Jefferson could destroy you in Classics knowledge. However, he was one of ten his age that had the means and passion enough to spend much of his life reading them.

But, this all adds up. This leads to people reading War and Peace, Jane Eyre and Great Gatsby before they leave mandatory secondary school. And while not every country is at this level, technology and humanism has given people a much better chance in life to explore these types of works all over the world.

[1] http://nces.ed.gov/naal/lit_history.asp
[2] http://www.cato.org/pubs/briefs/bp-025.html
[3] http://www.census.gov/statab/hist/HS-20.pdf
That's true that he convinces the youth of the value of philosophy. But, that doesn't mean there wasn't any value to the rest of life. In fact, it may give the rest of life more value, since the rest of life can be lived in light of the importance of philosophy. Socrates himself served in combat, and was noted for his bravery (recounted in Symposium). If memory serves, he attributed this bravery to his interest in philosophy.
We need cheaper battery storage more than anything I think.
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How do I opt out? I don't want users who send me these links to receive any sort of reward in-game when I click them.
Comcast came by and ripped the cable off the pole at just about midnight exactly. I've had no internet connection since and have no idea if it'll be back on before the day is over. I'm on HN through my phone.

Coincidence I'm sure.
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I've got a 17" Dell so big, you could hit someone over the head with it and kill them. This was the only "slim" case I could find that it would fit in easily. I'm hoping to move on to a 17" MacBook Pro later this year and this case should work for it as well.
I created another login id using openid and it displays karma average for that id. But specifically for this id, karma average is not displayed.
It's not like you graduate with a degree, and doing it again is redundant. It's a focussed networking and product development session where you get some much-needed advance from people in the know as you develop your company. Funding alumni is a no-brainer; it's a much safer investment.
http://www.quora.com/Aaron-Greenspan/Of-Round-Pegs-and-Squar...

Disclaimer: I'm biased, as I am behind FaceCash Register (https://www.facecash.com/register.html), but it means I also know what it took to build it.
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It'll be interesting to see if this actually does take off...in its current state though for firefox a lot of the ajax elements conflict and make for a terrible experience when trying to log activities which is why I stopped bothering with the site.
Hi evangineer,
Yes, I do believe that Huxley's vision has proven to be more correct in 21st century America... although anything is possible. Thanks for sharing the Neil Postman link, I have not read that book, it looks fascinating.

The comic version of the argument is extremely good. Thanks for posting that as well, it was well worth the look.

Author, Evgeny Morozov poses a similar argument to Postman in the book, "Net Delusion" that came out this year. It gives an interesting analysis of the Internet in the 21st century and attempts to debunk a lot of cyber-utopian myths.
We are currently trying to get in touch with Morozov to interview him for our documentary.
Objective-C types are optional and the language is dynamic, and that's considered (by Apple and most Objective-C developers) a feature.

id something = nil;
[something countForObject: nil];

Completely valid, won't crash your program, and only enough type information to satisfy the compiler (but largely meaningless for anything but the most basic static analysis). The only requirement for the above to compile is that countForObject: is a selector defined somewhere in the include path for the file. Even that is a relatively soft requirement since you can pass arbitrary selectors to any object.

And none of this has anything to do with ARC, as far as I can tell.

There was a first class language on Mac OS X which was fully statically typed. It was deprecated with Leopard and never introduced on iOS. The dual nature of Objective-C is one of its attractive properties.
Homeopathy can be branded as safe -- which it is. After all, it's just water. I don't think it's branded as an effective medicine -- there are things you aren't allowed to say on the packaging if you've only been certified as harmless.
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http://www.pacdesigns.com/

The site is ugly and unusable, but the bags are absolutely stellar. I have the Pro Ultimate and I use it with my 17" unibody Macbook Pro in a Booq Viper ballistic nylon sleeve. I used to use top of the line Booq bags and ditched them entirely for the Ultimate Pac Bag. It's 3-4 layers with truck tarpoline liner in the middle. The fabric is Dupont Cordura Plus, which is the best you can get. The bag is very very waterproof. I've been caught outside biking home in thunderstorms with torrential downpours and I got home with the contents of my bag completely dry.

If you get one of the two biggest models, opt for the secret compartment. It's so well hidden that I had to contact the company to find out where it was on the bag.

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It's not a cheap bag, but I have no doubt that I'll have this thing 10-20+ years from now. It is rock solid.
AFAIK, they still both have day jobs, so I'm not sure they're making enough to be casting full time?
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Facebook is special because if Facebook breaks the site for a release or two, it doesn't really matter, since the product is not business-critical to users (Microsoft software) and has a moat protecting against immediate revenue-losing defection (Amazon shopping).

At most large companies, if they break their main product (Vista, or a site outage), they will lose a lot of revenue.
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That's misleading. Many of the most profitable pharmaceuticals (e.g. SSRIs, as Irving Kirsch devastatingly established - see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2622912) are known not to work anywhere near that well, if "work" means significance beyond placebo. There is even powerful evidence against the claim that they work at all.
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get_flash_videos[1] covers more sites and has a plugin infrastructure, though I haven't personally written a plugin.

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…It's not like the source had been entirely ‘closed’ before, of course (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1920042). Anyway, now you can take a look at the back-end code, and a nice readme even explains how to deploy a copy of the book yourself (runs on App Engine). License is GPL v2.
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Likewise. I was like: OK, I guess there's a bit of clustering...HOLY CRAP!
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Sorry, I don't have any 'real world' examples in mind right now. But I have seen this sentence construction before.

"All votes are not counted".

"All persons are not equal".

The problem is that they can be parsed two ways and they lend themselves to the opposite of what, in context, might have been meant.

In the same vein I am amused by "we're not going anywhere!"
"European IPO fees do not cluster."

I'm sorry, but this is obviously not true; there are clusters on exactly 3, 4, 5, and (faintly) 6 percent in the European market. And given that forcing to arbitrary whole numbers _happens_, it suddenly seems very possible that in a (larger) market like the US the forcing acts even stronger.

In other words, we need _evidence of collusion_ to determine for sure if there is a cartel, not just evidence that it is the same.

That said, however, the difference between actual collusion and accidental collusion isn't that thin.
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The author says that he doesn't particularly care about speed if development is nicer, but it's good to know anyways:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=al...
> So while C may be as lightweight as it can get, it's not really suitable for projects with more than 10k LOC.

What about the linux kernel? Or GCC? Both projects are on the order of millions of lines of code. The author's claim is simply not true.
C isn't suitable for projects with more than 10k LOC? Ever hear about the linux kernel? Or even libc?
> Trust me I know. I design hospitals and health systems.

I doubt that would encourage more trust in you.
Cute idea. Its a great idea for remote control of quick hacks. Except for the specific instance of working with one sketch, is there perhaps a more general solution which could have been used? Standard communication protocols?
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> It's the same kind of game Microsoft played in the 1990's
> and by attrition have lost to the Linux/OSS movement.

Meanwhile web browsing from iDevices surpassed that from Linux…
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More importantly, Amazon deals with real stuff. As in, if something goes wrong, real physical things and/or other people's money go missing. What're the consequences if Facebook status update gets dropped?

I say this all the time, Facebook's experience (and Google's, and whoever's) is simply not relevant unless you do what they do. All the people who would love to work at FB would be up in arms if their bank was run like that.
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but from reading the brief description, my initial thought is this: surely, once I had signed up, I would either avoid clicking bit.ly links, or always add a + to the links, to avoid being "killed". Am I missing something?
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Here's a thread with comments by Russ Cox about the article: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-nuts/bg7U2tD04Fw/di...
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This is a great article, although of course there are a few things to quibble about. One that stuck out to me was this: "One of the inventors is Ken Thompson of Unix and Plan9 fame, and he was indirectly involved with C as well."

I'd have to say that Ken Thompson was directly involved with C, not just indirectly!
I have a site that gets ~12 visitors/day and I make about $55/mo through that site all from the Amazon Associates program.

Referring someone through an Amazon link doesn't just credit you if they purchase that product you linked to - it credits you for any purchases they make during the cookied period. And for the whole amount of the checkout.

A couple months ago I made over $150 with that same amount of traffic because someone bought a MacBook Air (~$50 in commission), some fancy espresso maker (~$20) and a bunch of other things. Amazon has mastered the art of the upsell.
Keep in mind that last year was the 25th anniversary of the original Mario Bros. This year is the 25th for Legend of Zelda, and next year the 25th for Metroid.

While it does seem that they are rehashing old IP (and I agree that they are) they also have a slight incentive to push out permutations of their successful franchises here in the next few years.
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SPOILER maybe

they both have a wise man (Prof/Jubal),

someone with ridiculous power to get them what they need (Mike PC and the Frenchman/Jubal and Mike Smith),

someone rallying to the cause (Wyoh/Ben)

and someone who is central to the cause but is initially reluctant (Manuel/Jill)

and it's a fight for rights of the powerless over the incumbent rulers. They both have a rebellious feel, though "Moon" is more blunt about its political statement (anti-war, small government).
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A related humorous video from a popular meme. Hitler does not want to work in Infosys, TCS, or Wipro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRjM3d_Bseg
I don't think that "mind control" is the most PR-friendly term for the tech in question.
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Is the MRI C extension API compatibility an official
feature now?

Yes, because there's lots of code out there that's targeting that API and you don't want to throw good, stable and tested code away.

without having to worry about finding alternatives
for all the libs I'm using that carry C-extension
baggage

It's not really baggage that you don't want. It's only baggage in the sense that backwards-compatibility makes forward progress harder, but if you can come up with a way to maintain compatibility with an emulation layer of some sort, than that's the best of both worlds.

EngineYard really should clarify their vision behind
maintaining two VMs

It's not EngineYard's business to clarify their vision behind these 2 VMs, as both projects were started outside of EngineYard. This company is doing the Ruby community a favor by paying developers for working on these 2 projects, but the projects themselves would go on without EngineYard.
Ask HN: What's an IPO, and Stealth Mode?
People have been asking me lately, whats the best way to describe what an IPO is? How would you describe what an IPO is to a not-so-business-savvy person?

Also how would you describe a start-up when their in stealth mode?
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If you already have a programming background, my advice is build a simple app. Pick up a fairly easy framework (like CodeIgniter in PHP's case) to help you hasten your coding. Added advantage is decent security measures built-in that a neophyte can unwittingly leave out. Finally, tighten php.ini for production.