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>The guillotine certainly went a long way toward securing the freedom of countless peasants

Uh, I disagree. (What did you read? Are you being sarcastic?)

The French Revolution and accompanying Reign of Terror were symptoms if wild political instability, in which hundreds of people were wrongly killed at the same time the government troubled itself with renaming every month (for lulz?).

This instability was seized upon by Napoleon, who restored the rule of law at the cost of dictatorship and many _extremely_ costly wars.

The effects of the _idealism_ of the French Revolution reverberated around Europe, yes. But the effects of the blood and turmoil did, as well.
The D in DARPA is for 'Defense'. For some time it was just ARPA. They added the D so that nobody makes the mistake to misunderstand the nature of their research: advanced research for military. Automated warfare, weapons of the future, soldier of the future, robot drones, ...

The other stuff like material, sensors, etc. is just basic research needed for weapons.

I would propose to shift the research money to projects like cleaning up nuclear weapon production sites, energy efficiency, cleaning the old coal power plants and more. Probably more people are endangered by the emissions of the aging coal power plants than from enemies in foreign countries...
It's stranger because you only receive words instead of both words and tones. Communication is 7% words, 38% tone, 55% body language [1]. With the phone, you get 45%. With chat, only 7%.

[1] http://www.bodylanguageexpert.co.uk/communication-what-perce...
Hi Brad. I'm glad that you found a message in it for you. Makes me think that the message works on kid and adult levels.
Who said dinosaurs are extinct... They are hiding in plain sight...
I dunno. Google's already had bright minds working on it for some time. Trying to do it in a browser will probably always be inherently problematic. Why they don't launch a standalone "Google Voice and Video" client... if there's an opportunity there, and they really want to own it, that'd be the route they should go, not more browser-plugin stuff.

Heck, perhaps this is part of what facebook's recent spate of desktop-engineer-hiring is going after?
Because I had to check the link myself... The costs are 19c and 10c respectively, or $0.19 and $0.10. 0.10c would be pretty cheap.
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Though I wonder where "Wizard" lies on the spectrum between praising for "Hard worker, lots of effort" and "Naturally intelligent"?

I was under the impression that it draws heavily from both.
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It's strange that load_models appears to be the culprit. Do you see the same slowdown in development mode? Did you compile the assets?
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I think "probably always" is not a safe phrase to use when talking about the future of browsers.

And whether or not you agree with that, I think it's clear that's where Google's money is.
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Thanks for the advice everyone. I forgot to mention it above but most of the recent projects I've worked on have been JS/Canvas stuff (how I managed to forget about the only somewhat formulated work I've done outside of the projects mentioned in my post I attribute to late night posting). I think I'll work on some more general HTML5/CSS3/JS stuff in the future and try getting through some OpenCourseWare material. Also, being able to link to a GitHub repo wasn't something I'd really thought much about but that's a really good point; I'm moving my work there now.
I have five kids. Three went to public schools, the two youngest were home schooled from an early age. One of that latter set elected to attend the local high school - he wanted to wrestle and they offer the engineering focused curriculum he wants.

The idea that home-schooled kids aren't socialized properly is a myth.

All of my kids have friends, attend church, tear around the neighborhood. Are there stereotyped 'home school' kids? Sure. In my experience they are a very small minority.
There are really two problems here

* enterprise app development that assumes that there will be no need to maintain an application once developed

* corporate IT people needing to justify their existence.

Web applications benefit from being easier to install and can be run from a central location; but, as a result of that you can't just toss the running of an app over to IT. You need a small core to maintain it. For most applications this makes the most business sense as the trade off of having one or two people still on the project is less expensive than having IT manage the installs of native applications. The result of moving the enterprise to web apps should have been a massive shrinking of corporate IT head counts and a small increase in dev head counts. Instead we see them defending their budgets by inserting themselves between the user and the browser and performing these massive test cycles. It's simply an inefficient use of resources cause by enterprise empire builders don't want to see a shrinking of their power.
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>it is unreasonable to imply that they could (let alone should) have made Skype's existing employee stock purchase agreements a point of negotiation

If Microsoft knew that Skype's agreements exposed them to significant legal liability, which now seems the case, they would have made it a point of negotiation.
If you don't get the idea of NYC being a startup hub, take a look at this post: http://ventureminded.me/post/5891689041/why-nyc-will-win-out...

Also, even though Foursquare opened up a SF office, the key point is that it is BASED in NYC. The app still says "made in NYC." Dens is an East Coast guy, and that's what matters. If Zuck started Facebook now, he just as easily could have stayed in Boston or come to NYC (he's from just outside the city). However, in 2004, he had no choice but to go to the Valley.
Turntable.fm restricted access to only the US
This is what they show anyone visiting outside the US:

We're very sorry, but while we would love to let you in and rock out with us, we need to currently restrict turntable access to only the United States due to licensing constraints.

We are working very hard to try and and get you in as soon as possible.

If you believe this is a mistake and you are located in the United States, please e-mail help [at sign] turntable dot fm

Again, sorry, and we hope to see you soon.

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Feedback here. It sucks!

There are 300 pieces of equipment with bill acceptance devices that have to be upgraded where I work but I've been transferred to a different section at work, my current job plus the out in the field, where there are 7000 more devices which have to be upgraded. That's just the hardware.

When the $100 polymer banknote is physically made the Bank of Canada sends the data to device vendors who use the data to create firmware to send to their clients, but they can only make the firmware once the Bank of Canada sends them the specs of each new poly banknote.

After the $100 note the least used by the general public then will be $50 the next least used. Then the last three which I would say will be released also from least to most used so: $10, $5 then finally the most commonly used is $20 bill.

Each time the notes are releases the device vendors get it first and make the firmware so that means five different firmware changes spread out over two years.

Add to that some bill acceptor devices have limited memory which means they may be able to hold data for one or two types of banknotes, different series version of the same denomination, other may be able to retain ten of each note.

It sucks but it's expected and it will improve security, I hear bill acceptance devices for Australia's poly money has nearly 100% acceptance rate of valid banknotes (100% rejection of fake notes).

I'm guessing since the notes are not paper there will be less bacteria (especially impetigo) contamination and shedding of paper dust which is a big problem if you work with currency.
There is (or was) a similar system profiler program that installs itself from Windstream's DSL service, and will not allow itself to be removed from a PC by any means I am aware of. Totally unacceptable on my machines that I purposefully kept perfectly clean!
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The system works consistently through heavy rain, smog and a couple of good sized trees.

2.4 miles at 11Mbps.

What frequency is this? 900MHz? Not 2.4GHz.
Position: fixed is also coming in iOS5, but it's not a perfect implementation yet. For instance, zooming does weird things to fixed elements if it's enabled, and it still covers the scrollable page area.

For my own purposes, native div scrolling is a godsend. The JS hacks were okay, but they still weren't as smooth, and worse, I had to do a lot more event juggling to handle both scrolling and the other touch controls within divs.
The point though is that these vague promises to unDRM products are probably not permitted even if they thought about it and had the patches ready. And this isn't just a Valve thing, id software said something similar when Quake3 first required an online auth check to play on registered servers.

But considering how much you'd lose if Steam went away I can see why people are nervous of using them versus buying CDs.
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In India you would never have this kind of article because the students with the highest grades

There is something wrong here. Someone with high grades is not necessarily a geek. A geek will probably rank well and get good grades. I actually think, geeks will have not so good grades. That's because they are busy doing other things: like programming, or free-thinking.

In Tunisia, high school encourage stupidity. I can't imply the same for India, but I'm almost sure that it is the same case. With little intelligence, lot of hard (repetitive) work and sometimes private courses, you can get incredibly good results.

If someone has the highest grades in a high school that encourages stupidity, he is probably not a geek. There are more than Maths and Physics in high school. I doubt geeks will be interested in subjects that focus on dumb-memorization of a few sentences. This will decrease their rank.

I would like that you comment more about this subject, because I have been there (High School) and lived it.
Artful trolling. Well played...
Just another socialist idiot claiming that "market failure" is the cause of problems in the industry that has been the most highly regulated and controlled for over a century.
I agree that there is an engineering void but engineers isn't the only element that makes a startup. There's lots of creative talent in NYC and plenty of live ecosystems to tap directly into that aren't narrowly defined by technology. Also Boston isn't all that far from NYC (short train ride really) so I do see lots of talent moving between these two cities.
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Rule #1 when calling AT&T DSL support: Always, ALWAYS say you're running Windows with IE. Lie. Fake it. Whatever.

If you say anything else you'll derail your support. Your goal is to get through the level 1 did-you-plug-everything-in-lets-restart-your-machine gauntlet.

That, or go to the forums at dslreports.com and hope you can contact a sympathetic AT&T engineer.
My understanding is that Cisco has EOL'd Guard.

Modern switches can also drop packets based on reasonably complex ACLs (which in practice is much of what DOS products did). The real cost of DDoS attacks is the focused engineering time required to design and implement mitigation for each and every one of them.
Perhaps put the bong down now? :)
> I hope it is clear that I don't mean to attack you, I am just trying to understand.

I didn't feel attacked at all. :-) Thanks for the conversation.
I was not familiar with the author, so in answer to the biggest question I had as a result:

'Lee was not given a middle name at birth, but instead chose "8." as a teenager.' (from Wikipedia)
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I really don't understand this sentiment. Pogue has access to insider information that he's sharing with interested readers. People want to know the answer to these questions.
you forget EBay's exp..was no the same sort of not being forth coming and direct in negotiations than too?
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Usually you scroll the page when you touch the screen. In this case you scroll the overflowed element first when you touch. Traditionally embedded elements required two finger scrolling which was a usability kludge. You'll have to specify it somewhere and I think CSS is appropriate for this.
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Ask HN: Advice for a newly grad, avoiding an intellectual rut.
[tl;dr I'm looking for advice on how to spot an intellectually stimulating job]

I'm a newly grad in CS who's doing part time work over the summer while searching for a job. Fortunately for me, the jobs aren't in demand - I am. This comes with the consequence though that there seem to be a lot of crap jobs out there, lots of people looking for experts in Java or .NET.

I'd like some advice on how to spot a job that will actually foster my intellectual growth, and not keep me stuck using the same language/technology day in, day out. I want to be encouraged to learn new programming languages and technologies on the job (or at least for the job). I want to actually be using my computer science background (I know a lot of interviewers ask questions about algorithms, but how many jobs actually require this knowledge?).

I don't want to be a glorified IT professional, and I really don't want to get stuck at some company lego-programming Java code, which is what I feel most of my non-academic work has accumulated to over the years. Maybe I'm being too harsh on myself, but its hard to be proud of my work when every 30 minutes I have to lookup an example or reference of some part of an API, and then modify it for my purposes. Maybe this is normal.

I'd like to think that I'm smart and passionate, but of course its hard for me to judge. That said, I'm confident that with enough work, I'll be able to land a job at my ideal company. The trouble is, I don't really know where to look.

For what I'm pursuing, what do you think are the best types of companies to look for. Will tech giants like Google, Apple, and Microsoft have what I'm looking for? Should I search for smaller companies to start with? What about start-ups, would this be a good idea for someone straight out of college? (note, I have no debt, and money isn't much of a concern to me... yet) Lets not forget industry either. Which industries do you think encourage what I'm looking for, and which will tend to stifle it?

I'd like to hear your advice and learn about your experiences after college. Most of my hardcore experience is in Java, C, and C++, so advice on convincing employers that I can pick up other technologies quickly would be appreciated as well. Thanks.
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how useful is this feature, given the share of ios users still on 4.x? i imagine we have a ways to go before anyone feels comfortable using it freely?
"one kid out of about 3000 in the entire school who was intimidatingly competent with computers."

Thats me, although there are ~2000 kids at my school.
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My issues supporting Firefox in a "corporate" environment (okay, it's Windows SBS with 12 clients -- small electrical contracting office) have nothing to do with internal Web apps. It has to do with the whacked out way Firefox works. In particular, their use of profiles is a nightmare for anyone that has multiple machines. For backup purposes and to make things easier for the employees, I have their application settings sync'd back to the server -- this way when they log on they have everything they need. This results in a file lock and Firefox creates a new profile. They lose their Firefox settings constantly.

I really wish they'd bundle up an MSI installer as well, since that'd make upgrades & deployments much easier. Yes, this could be done outside the project, but it seems short-sighted to me.
Ok, so:

* It still relies on a non-renewable fossil fuel

* It still produces CO2

What about this development is something we should look forward to? I see mentions of 50% efficiency, which is awesome, but that's efficiency in energy production. You'd still have to run it through an electric motor. I don't have much knowledge in the field. Can anyone provide insight as to whether this would provide a net benefit vs a traditional ICE running on petrol or diesel?
> You're looking at more like 5+ billion/sec today.

Sounds about right http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=43 And a few times more if it's md5.
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I ran a BBS, email, and later, web services, on a stack of used Apollos I bought from University Surplus, back in the day. They were stout and reliable companions, and also helped heat my Iowa apartment very well in the winter. I remember the Apollo Display Manager with fondness. I also remember lugging around the 90-pound monitors for my Apollos...with somewhat less fondness!
Are you from Canada? I am, and the only time I ever have a need to carry cash is when I'm in the US. Debit transactions are ubiquitous here; I really miss that when I'm in the US.
I don't think you could pay me enough to work for the government. As a geek, I am of the opinion that geeks care very little for bureaucracy which the government is by definition. Not that this article is about working for the government but rather "geekifying" the employees of tomorrow. What they can do is create programs to whet the appetite of impressionable young minds from every background. Those that take to it will persevere. Others will not. Let's not forget that this is not Soviet Russia where people became what they were told to become.
I'm 22 and I feel the same way. Hacker is not "cracker". But it's even less "entrepreneur" or "beginner webdesigner".
My experience as both a student and a teacher (in several different schools) suggests that a decent number of teachers (less than half, but more than a few) become teachers mostly because they really like the power games that can be played in school, and the lording of authority.

I don't mean this to disparage teachers as a whole. But the power rush is pretty substantial, if one lets it take hold.
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Cui Bono.

What if Microsoft pays AT&T on the side to force a large number of people to use their platform? Even if most people already do, it instills in people the believe that that Line-ux thing doesn't work with the Internet.
Because the plaintiff claimed it.
Steve Jobs.

Although you're otherwise probably right.
They've just (last hour) restricted to "US only". Big shame, loved the service from here in the UK.
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Seems closer to ii (http://tools.suckless.org/ii/) in that they both create FIFOs for communication.
We could lump 'founder' in there too. However, to be fair, twitter doesn't have a revenue model either. I suppose the confusion is that adding Ads to a site is the revenue model for many projects.
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Gads, its unfortunate that the site hosting this article is so filled with spammy ads -- the full screen intro is acceptable, but the full screen popup is not, and having both is just nuts. I like not using adblock, so site can get some impression revenue, but sites like this continue to make me think adblock is needed.
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From my experience of working in a large enterprise, it's that people don't really buy the software, they buy the support, the ecosystem, and (buy into) the sales process. In our case we were finally going to implement online code-review. There were plenty of "cooler" products out there, and my team tested a few of them, but ultimately the company decided to go with another company because it was established, their sales guy came out and schmoozed, and they liked the support contract that was offered over having to maintain things themselves.

I think the successful companies that make the boring software have simply realized that the cool-factor of the software is not a major selling point in their market.
I keep irssi connected to Freenode 24/7 in screen on a server, and I'm in channels for things like MongoDB, Rails, Git, EventMachine, etc. It's nice to turn to when I run into a wall while developing something.
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It's not what you see, it's what you don't see.

Comcast installation was/is similar -- done in my case during the course of the Comcast technician's visit. I got rid of their crap when I reimaged the machine. Didn't affect service in any perceptible manner. (It did get rid of their branding from the IE window title, though -- another useless annoyance.)

If I have to go through similar, again, I'm going to do it in a disposable virtual machine image (reverting back to the last snapshot).
Regular IRC user here. I think IRC is the communication technologies I use the most, after that there's email, then identica/twitter, and then IM and facebook.

I connect to IRC using ERC in an Emacs daemon running on my server. This way I don't need screen (I use it for other purpose thought), I just ssh and fireup an emacsclient.
Cambridge perhaps. Boston much less so. I've been there, it doesn't compare to Seattle or Portland in being geek friendly.
Technology is only one part of a solution. And in this case arguably a small one. The reason people use Skype is because all other people are on there. It's also synonymous with voice and video calling. Owning a "position" is an other important value.

Facebook seems like the only company that can bring a real network of users to something like this. Google has GMail, but they haven't been able to translate it into any type of social experience at scale.
I think that I am in a minority opinion here: I think that the new pricing structure makes sense, given Google's statement that they want AppEngine to be a long term sustainable business.

I like the discussion of what things are expensive to support, and it makes sense to charge expenses plus some profit margin. Call me old fashion but I believe that every business interaction should be win-win.

I have used AppEngine for several years to host one of my ancient domains that is a Java web app. The price has always been free but I plan on upgrading to always keep one instance running.

Virtually all of my customers deploy to AWS but I (also) like AppEngine for my own projects.
Means "not on credit". And I don't see why that doesn't make sense, because if buying on credit = buying for more 'cash', why would you want to pay more for the car?