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Well, and I say this in the nicest possible way, no shit. Yes. Of course they do. What else can they do? Is the answer then never to worry an executive, or should it be to speak to them in the only language that can ever reach a corporation: make it less profitable for them to act like assholes?

The cost of assholery at the corporations is also passed on to the consumer - and everybody else on the planet - it may simply not be in absolute dollars and cents in purchase price. But we all end up paying.

Incidentally, gas prices have nothing to do with the disaster in the Gulf, and everything to do with (1) what the market will bear, (2) increased consumption in BRIC nations, and (3) profit-taking and commodity games. The oil companies, including BP, have made more money in the past year than they ever have. So they're not passing the price of disaster on; they're simply taking whatever they can grab because they know nobody is ever going to try to worry a corporation for fear they might not hire somebody. Like they will anyway.

Gah. Probably too much grar here. I'm going to go lie down.
"the aim is to threaten and arm-twisted big banks into exchanging their bonds"

You're basically saying that Greece renegotiated some of it's debt obligations. Which is a default.

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Sovereign borrowers such as nation-states generally are not subject to bankruptcy courts in their own jurisdiction, and thus may be able to default without legal consequences. One example is with North Korea, which in 1987 defaulted on some of its loans. In such cases, the defaulting country and the creditor are more likely to renegotiate the interest rate, length of the loan, or the principal payments."

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> On OSX this involves clicking, dragging and aiming
> at the correct space

No, it involves clicking, then holding ctrl and an arrow key to move in that arrow key's direction, or clicking then holding ctrl and hitting the number for your desired space.

So the only difference from what you describe on Ubuntu is that you have to click the window titlebar first.

At least this is how it worked in 10.6. Haven't tried 10.7 yet.
A rambling side note:

If you come from a javascript background, you will have a leg up on most people in terms of learning clojure. You get used to inlining functions pretty regularly.

What I am encountering as I chew through Programming Clojure though is that I had no idea what I could have been doing in javascript all this time. I would look at C and laugh about how they have to define an extra function for event handling. It just seemed so verbose.

Looking back at the javascript I wrote/write, I really wish I had understood what I could have been doing with functions, mappings, and apply. I didn't/don't write javascript: it's just C with some in-lined functions.

Moral of the story: Inhale the Zen of Crockford(http://javascript.crockford.com/) and exhale the suck of W3 schools.
And indeed in every industry.
I believe the only thing that a corporation can do that can count for "altruism" would be to produce a product / service that doesn't suck and practice fairplay rules with its competitors.Nothing more is expected of a corporation in an ideal society.
Funny story - during my stint in Grad School there was some sensitivity to how each person wanted to be referred to.

All Post-Docs insisted on being called "Dr." rather than "Mr."and all tenured Profs on being called "Prof." rather than "Dr."

Non-tenured Assistant Profs had the worst choice get called Dr. and upset themselves or get called "Prof." and potentially upset the people who could grant them tenure :)
Guess which one they choose?
> The thing is, Mathematica is too big and too rich to ever achieve standardization.

You need to disclose the fact you work for the company that makes Mathematica.

I also disagree with this whole notion: There's no upper limit on what can be standardized. Unless you're implying a patent portfolio or some other anti-competitive practice, of course, which is another notion entirely.
I thought so too (and I wrote The Tau Manifesto). The service looks good, and it deserves more recognition than it will get with this bland title.
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Well, physics is an exception. The preprints at arxiv.org are free and contain essentially everything.

Medicine, though - that's a problem.
Anyone can "build" a company from scratch.... But it takes a lot to build a successful company from scratch, which isn't what Fridge did here. I mean, I know not everyone is a startup founder, but the costs and barriers to being one is pretty low these days... just start a website, say you're doing something special, and you can call yourself a "founder".
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Also worth noting is Steve Souders' control.js (http://stevesouders.com/controljs/) which adds some tools for delayed script execution and solves a few document.write use cases that have been issues with deferred loading/execution.
Exactly, I don't think anyone would look at Hulu for either the technology or the brand recognition. It's only value would seem to be the content; and that must come up for periodic renegotiation. That must really cut into Hulu's long term value.

Of all the potential buyers though, I'd see Apple as having among the best bargaining power and negotiating knowledge to get reasonable terms for the content.
And how many of those CDF files will still be readable in ten years?
Privatizing too much too quickly to pay off loans is analogous to chopping off limbs when you can't pay the mob. It makes the people owed money feel better, but means that they will never really get paid back, because the debtor can no longer function.
Reall Freaking Big One: Effective advertising.

It's still very much an unsolved problem. Google figured out their end of it, but the end-user is still left out in the cold. Ask anyone who uses AdWords if they think it's an intuitive or pleasant experience.

There are other kinds of advertising ripe for disruption too. A lot of people have money coming online and it's surprisingly hard to spend it effectively.
I don't think that really works. I've personally have handled a 1 million byte hard drive. So, if I want to understand how big a 1 trillion byte hard drive is, should I picture 1 million 1 megabyte hard drives? I've also got some RAM chips that are about 1 gigabyte in size, should I visualize the terabyte hard drive in terms of them?
One really nifty piece of code that I associate id-software with is the 0x5f3759df hack. Though it was probably known before, Hakmem would be the first place to look.

I am sure there are many more such bit twiddling and magic number hacks, but nothing quite as useful to me than this magic to compute the reciprocal of a square root. The only other floating point operations that comes up this frequently in what I do are log and exp.

In my day to day coding (not that I code every day, far from it) I have nothing to do with game engines, yet inverse square root shows up in almost every corner (pun intended) in the vector manipulation code, for example in finding the cosine similarity between two documents.

Does not work for double precision, 64 bit, and nothing I write is so performance critical that it demands the use of this trick, but its still fun

float Q_rsqrt( float number )
{
long i;
float x2, y;
const float threehalfs = 1.5F;
x2 = number * 0.5F;
y = number;
i = * ( long * ) &y;
i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 );
y = * ( float * ) &i;
y = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) );
return y;
}

Taken from the wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root has the fuller story.
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Apple certainly could, then again, Apple would probably shut down the whole Hulu Plus strategy and make Hulu part of iCloud. That feels very un-Apple to me.

Even if Apple acquires a company, it is usually for technology to integrate with other Apple products, not for someone else's product, so I don't know why they would buy them.

Also, with Apple's deep pockets it would only make sense if the exclusive content was cheaper buying Hulu directly than making a deal with the companies behind Hulu. Exclusive or not, money talks and Apple can probably buy out Hulu exclusitivity if needed.

I dunno, Apple + Hulu doesn't seem like a great fit. Google + Hulu sounds like the most realistic scenario to me.
Sony International and friends > I know they tend to make shitty stuff, especially music, but I have yet to have a single person be able to point to an action by sony that could be called "dominating", "abusive", "unjust", etc

Perhaps you are unaware of their removal of OtherOS or persecution of geohot?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2614698 (a previous comment I made on another article)
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www.videocopilot.net

www.digitaltutors.com

www.thegnomonworkshop.com

Many More...

For the tools:

www.autodesk.com ( Maya, 3DSMAX, Softimage, Mudbox )

www.pixologic.com (Zbrush)

renderman.pixar.com (renderman)

www.mentalimages.com (mental-ray) Nvidia company

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I've always liked the idea of polyglot programming. How much better would it be to not have to try & kludge programming paradigms out of languages that don't support them, but could just use a language that does what you want natively.

The problem, as the author found is the boundaries between the languages & having them all play well together. It's not hard to get related languages to work together but it's great to learn more about getting disparate languages to interact in a working program. The idea just seems cool.
"If you come from a javascript background, you will have a leg up on most people in terms of learning clojure. You get used to inlining functions pretty regularly."

You'd be better off listing the languages that don't have some sort of 'inline functions' than claims about javascript superiority here; Heres a handful of common imperative/OO languages that have an analogous construction: Python, Ruby, C#, Visual Freaking Basic Dot Net, Smalltalk, Objective C and other C languages with Apple's blocks extension, probably PHP and Lua…
I too perceived it as strange. I expected something cute, but it seemed somewhat manipulative instead.
"Consumers would stop buying phones that didn't have any apps."

No they won't, because the average consumer has NFI what version of the OS they're running.

Android is J2ME all over again. At least it's Java 5+. :)
No, academics who volunteer to review and edit are the stewards. The free journals have a cheap website and do all the work by email and some LAMP stack (EDIT:) maintained by a classified staff programmer to the tune of 25% FTE -- this is CHEAP, and the expensive part (the profs) do the work for free.

The non-free journals don't do shit except charge rent for their reputation, and print paper copies -- the free journals don't have the prestige as the non-free journals, so count less for your career. I am thinking in my field that Demography and Policy and Development Review lead to tenure, but Demographic Research doesn't lead to shit. This is changing, but not fast enough.

Academics have no means of evaluating their peers other than articles in prestigious journals. They don't make anything that anyone wants to buy, and really no one outside of your subfield of like 100 people will ever read you anyway (100 if you are lucky...) Popular popularity is actually a mark against you, so you will never be measured by sheer number of readers.

(It's a warped system.)
Please don't call them inlined functions. That has a very precise and very different meaning in common usage, so you're likely to confuse a lot of people.
Google will patch this quickly, AdWords integrity is critical to them.
Not sure on what's typical, but my University uses a "you get to keep your IP" as a selling point; so presumably there must be enough of other institutions where this is not the case. UMissouri's attempt to claim royalties for student's in-class developed iPhone app (although later backing down and changing policies) is an interesting example of the other extreme.
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Some banks do demand transcripts for fresh grads, as do a number of consulting firms.
And to clarify, grandparent probably wants the terms 'first class function', 'anonymous function' or 'lambda' (depending on the specific usage.)
And like any "industry" there are niche providers that specialize in different areas. This is where Community Supported Agriculture, farmer's markets, and supporting your local farms comes into play.

You don't have to buy all your vegetables and fruits at the convenience store or local supermarket. It may be easier, but in that case you're exchanging variety for convenience, so don't be surprised at the result.
I know at least my university does.
staunch13, this is a very fascinating area for me as well, and I am looking to disrupt it. What is your biggest frustration?
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Left and right has one frame of reference - facing. Up and down has another frame of reference - room ceiling/floor. Mirror inverses the facing frame of reference but not the room frame of reference.

Left and right, up and down are just convention in our mind. We human use facing to assign left and right, and use ceiling and floor to assign up and down. There is no switching sides in the mirror in reality. You red hand (if you color it) is on the same side inside or outside of the mirror, just as your head and feet are on the same side inside or outside of mirror.

We just assign a new left/right to the mirrored image because we see where the facing in the mirror is; however, our head is near the ceiling and feet are still on the floor so the room frame of reference hasn't changed, and thus up/down are labeled the same in the mirror.

The point my history teacher trying to make via this exercise was to say most stuffs (in history particular) were relative in a frame of reference. It's the same event but through a different angle would be called different thing, when moved to a different frame of reference. The mirror exercise is the terrorist/freedom fighter argument in physical illustration.
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It works now in physics: arxiv.org

The reason it works is that your peers read your work, and either refute or cite you. Remember -- everybody knows everybody in a subfield, or at least everybody's advisor. It helps when there is math involved which is either correct or not. If somebody random submits something to arxiv, people know they don't know him or his grad school and that is thus probably a crackpot and so don't bother to read it (except sometimes someone from nowhere gets a result, which would NEVER be seen in the closed peer review process).

EDIT: Also you attach your name to a finished product, not an unattributed ongoing wiki page. Your reputation is everything, so you win or lose based on the articles.

One of the problems in social science academia is that 98% of the articles are completely worthless, and they only serve to get a professor promotion based on an index of citation times journal prestige. The smaller state colleges require their junior faculty to "publish", but they don't have enough to say to get into real journals and the publishing houses fill the need with "Journal of Rural Sociology" etc.
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I have designed and developed large and small scale distributed systems. I have worked on web based applications, unix systems in user land and in kernels and build & release systems. I can code in C, C++, java, javascript, python, and a little bit of erlang. I can help with algorithms, math, and even a little bit of SVMs. If there is something specific you want, just ask.

I want someone with skills in UI design, photoshop, html, and CSS to work with me for a week in Bangalore. We will develop 4 simple web pages that will work across all popular browsers. I think the pages are simple because none of the pages will have more than 5-6 UI elements.

So, does anyone or any startup want to trade skills for a week? Send me a email(in HN profile) and let us work out the details and logistics.
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To the folks downmodding: flash runs notoriously poorly on linux - it's far from universally accessible. Whether selected by MS or linux.com, it's strange that a more linux-friendly format wasn't chosen.

Or were you downmodding the typo? HN modding is weird...
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These links are often legitimate. Even Elsevier lets authors post their own articles on their own sites.

But I agree that this is not a good solution to the bigger problem.
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Given that Anon has yet use anything other than simple SQLi attacks, I wonder where this data could have been stored (and, by extension, how secret it is). If it was on a public webserver, then one would expect it to be not much more than reports and presentations.
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A lot of scholars will put a pdf on their personal website knowing that google scholar will link to it.

The university VPN thing: yeah, its just awesome that we limit access to research to people who are attending a university...
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This looks awesome!

Looking forward to seeing it out of private beta (or getting to peak behind the curtains).
This looks pretty cool. I recently set up a "band of the day" type newsletter site ( http://songsp.in ) , and member.ly would have made it a lot easier I think. It was a pain to set up the subscriptions in PayPal. Would member.ly work for something like a daily newsletter?
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If they're making money off my paper I want a cut.

They don't make any money by distributing your work. Nor does the quality of your work in any way affect how they make money off of it. I can't know if this is technically a violation of copyright, but -- it doesn't seem like it is against the spirit of copyright. Anymore than the requirement that you give a copy to your professor to grade.

I understand the plight of educators that want to stop plagiarism, but forcing me to irrevocably offer royalty-free licenses for my work to a for-profit company that is then charging the school (which if it is public is being funded by my tax dollars) is just insane any way you slice it.

I could be misunderstanding the situation, but from your own post you are granting no such license -- they are legally allowed to archive these. Copyright applies when you make and distribute a copy of the work, and they aren't (that I know of) doing any such thing.

(Disclaimer: I don't know anything about turnitin, so I'm not defending them in particular -- just responding to the objections of their model raised by OP.)
From some random Googling: Duke University does not claim any rights, unless more-than-normal assistance was given (http://www.du.edu/intellectualproperty/iprop.html); Coventry does claim all rights (http://wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/ipr/students/Pages/FAQstudents.as...); Waterloo does not (http://secretariat.uwaterloo.ca/Policies/policy73.htm); Leeds does (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/research/hbook/ipr3.htm); Glasgow does not (http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/datamanagement/creatingyourdat...). Etc. My old university (Utrecht) did claim all rights. (Note that, where appropriate, I have considered undergraduates; PhD students are typically staff, with the attendant work-for-hire provisions.)

Still, it seems that I should amend my statement to "Universities often have..."

(Note that this is based on a very quick skimming, and IANAL.)
Yeah, that is sort of weird if it is like that. I don't have any personal experience at all, not even secondhand... but I know Toyota rotates people around all the time according to the books I am reading about them (which do have rose colored viewpoints). I hate to say it, but I have worked with production factory workers who would whine about anything -- having to do inventory, learn a new skill, meet a new person; I am a bit cynical about their complaints. Does "getting reassigned" == "harassment" ? maybe...
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I was just curious about Apple's mergers and acquisitions, which lead me to this[1]. Interestingly Lala.com at $17MM is much smaller than recent acquisitions; they spent $250MM for Quattro Wireless and $121MM for Intrinsity semiconductors. They also spent $278MM in '08 for P.A.Semi, another semiconductor company.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...
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One thing I don't get: how does someone keep up with the news of that many different languages such that they know what the best libraries are for achieving x in five different languages?
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This is great news, it will help spread the word about Go since now everybody can deploy apps to the web easily.
Here's the commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6...

the tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6...

the diff: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6...

and the snapshot: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6...

It'll probably be a bit/longer for it to be 'officially' listed on kernel.org as stable.
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Neat idea, how many paid subscribers does songspin have?
Unfunded liabilities over long periods of time should be indexed for inflation: they shrink. this is why it's totally absurd to throw around the unfunded liabilities figures like they're meaningful. In 100 years, at 3% inflation, $1,026,647 will be worth $53,419 2010 dollars. Obviously those liabilities are paid out over time, so that's not a proper indexed figure, but it does give a point of reference.
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