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I am a ham and as a kid I used to visit the local Radio Shack weekly. For a while they even stocked ham radios. I haven't been in one for over ten years.

I just attended an all day Arduino workshop a few weeks back and it was a blast. Talking afterwards it seemed everyones number one request was to get a local vendor to stock some of the more common Arduino parts. I sure hope Radio Shack is listening.
This advice is ridiculous. First, I don't believe the intent of most Ph.D programs is even to create "a rounded, open, and engaged intellectual citizen". I know quite a few people with doctorate degrees, and while most were quite happy with their educational experience, I doubt they would describe it as he frames it. Second, most of the great programmers I know are deeply interested in the humanities and tend to be quite well read in many disciplines. They just prefer to spend their creative energies and career creating software.

Furthermore, I am highly skeptical of the idea that you need a Ph.D to have a meaningful understanding of the humanities. Despite his assertions about the "thought leaders", it seems to me that those who have made the most progress on the big questions in the last 100+ years did so through science and technology, not through the humanities.
And I think that that assumption/argument is invalid. I'm sure I've read somewhere about studies of user behaviour in, say, iTunes (your personal music) compared to on a subscription service like Spotify. The studies showed that people who had access to a limited amount of music of owned music would listen intensively (fewer songs, lots of times); whereas people with access to a subs service would listen extensively (more songs, fewer times). There was some stat about a favourite song being listened to far less frequently when there was more to explore.
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Here is the thing I don't understand - why are people acting as if failing to raise the debt ceiling is the same thing as default?

I.e., I might run up my credit card until I reach my $1500 limit, but I don't default if the bank fails to raise my credit limit. I only default if I fail to stop spending more money than I earn and refuse to pay my credit card bills.
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Not just china. Most states are reliant on the feds for transfer payments, that means 2 million or so households losing their apartments. It means foodstamps stop or get cut, nationwide. It also will mean reduced police coverage in many of the larger cities of the Southern US (remember that thing about blue states being net tax exporters and red states being more dependent on federal dollars...).

If you were trying to create race riots in the US that's pretty close to the recipe you'd follow.
Even Neanderthal's have African roots,so i do not see why anyone is struggling to make distinctions
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Florian Mueller, is that you?

You copy/pasted this comment from your identical comment 14 hours ago, which was rebutted and downvoted into oblivion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2797179
This is basically a confirmation of Reich's and Paabo's 2010 work sequencing the Neanderthal genome. Interesting and totally consistent with their findings.

Also, for those of you who read this article, the Nick Patterson quoted in the article was, in another lifetime, a cryptologist: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990DE6D81431F...
> there's nothing to suggest that you'll be able to get the playlists on your computer out as easily as Spotify does from iTunes.

It is actually really easy, I think they have an API for this. Once Spotify launched in the U.S., my friend switched from Spotify to WiMP (wimpmusic.se), and they could easily just import his playlists and boom he had all his music again. It's sure a heck of a lot easier than dealing with DRM - I still have a ton of songs from iTunes Japan (which still uses FairPlay DRM) I can't play on my Android phone at all
Once upon a time, a 24/7 persisting network was expensive / out of each for a lot of people.

Now, I at least have been enveloped in 3G / Wifi wherever I go (maybe I should go out a bit more ? ).

Even from an analysis perspective, buffering over networks (which I use) is good enough for music consumption (44.1 * 4 bytes in 1 sec if we consider wav being streamed. That's 44 KBPs needed to repro at original sampling rate. Our networks do several multiples of that right now. I can't listen to music faster than that.)

It is convenient, it is the future.

OP's conundrum is the same my grandfather faced a few decades ago when my grandpa thought "Oh Shit, if the local library closes, I am owned and have to listen to a radio or something to pass my time".

And the MAFIAA ? Well, they're setting themselves up for some severe disruption. I-Will-Fuck-The-World is not a sustainable business model.
> Even Neanderthal's have African roots,so i do not see why anyone is struggling to make distinctions

All life originated with a single common ancestor, but I still find distinctions to be useful. Neanderthals and humans were considered to be different species, so this is a fairly weighty finding. Anyway, making distinctions is perhaps the essence of being human.
The source is obfuscated? It's just one-lined. Copy-paste here: http://jsbeautifier.org/

I don't know why they even bothered un-white-spacing it. Doing so doesn't save much space, nor provide any kind of real obfuscation. At best it just makes it un-debuggable (hmm. seems like an oversight (that most debuggers also miss) that you can't set breakpoints inside a single line of code...)
A related question: what, if anything, are you doing to shield your savings from a crash in the USD?

I always thought the gold bugs were nuts but if I'd dumped my savings into gold in 2003 when I was considering it seriously I'd be a very happy man right now.
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The article suggests that easier discovery might lead to smaller settlements, but what will probably happen is the settlement amount will stay the same and the cartels will just take the money to the bank.

While our justice system is ostensibly set up to allow a small guy to win against a big guy, this next generation of nearly automated litigation against anyone, regardless of a shred of plausible guilt, is a tragedy. The big guy can automate the process of suing any number of small guys and force them to pay up, even if they're innocent.
> People are going to stop buying Treasuries and the US is going to default.

But doesn't China have to buy treasuries because of their trade imbalance?

And isn't it in our debt holders best interest to avoid total collapse so they can collect interest payments? Isn't owning U.S. debt a way to collect a fraction of our economic output? And if we have Depression level unemployment, there is less tax revenue generated?
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Not sure if this is a rhetorical question or not. But the way I understood it is that it's a question of refinancing federal debt. I.e. the new issues are needed to pay off existing bond holders, and if treasury was prohibited to do so, the US would be in default. Have taken my eyes off the markets for the last few months, though, so "grain of salt" and all that...
If it weren't for the fact that there is a simple straightforward known solution to the problem: fixing the revenue side of the equation.

If we reset tax rates to what they were under Bill Clinton the deficit would be falling, not rising...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S._president...

Notice when the the numbers start climbing...

Undoing GWB's shenanigans would have us back on the right track tomorrow. But that is apparently an unthinkable concept in the current political climate.
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very interesting. I wonder if there are behavioral difference between Non-africans and Africans that can be attributed to the difference in genetic makeup.
Is there any reason to expect the US to default? Currently we can easily pay for our debt service using our tax revenue.
> Yeah,just like being racist is human too

Oh, right, I forgot that genetic research was per se racist. Or am I misinterpreting you?
what rebuttal? just a bunch of comments from people who are in denial of the fact that Google willingly and knowingly infringed on Java patents when they were developing Android.

Google already indicated that they are willing to pay and settle this thing with Oracle.
Could toy share some insights if it's a payed product (like basecamp) or the users are the product (profits from advertising)?
The U.S government cannot print money, only the Federal Reserve can. The government can only get cash from taxes and debt notes, which is why it's important to raise the debt limit.
Once you have a decent set of friends you're mutually following, it's kinda like an open IRC channel. Dip into it when you have a moment, see what people are saying, maybe answer a question or congratulate a friend who had something to celebrate. Maybe dump a little rant. People you know might reply, and so might your hangers-on. Maybe you want to reply to what either of them has to say.

The message limit is like any other limit - sometimes it's a pain, sometimes it's a restriction that leads to succinctness and focus.
Don't forget the borrowing cost of EVERYONE will go up. Since the triple-A U.S debt notes are used as a benchmark for all other debt.
Uh. That weird USB cable makes possible things which aren't designed into the USB hardware spec. It's the USB equivalent of a null-modem cable on RS232, something which cost quite a lot when purchased over the counter.
I heard rumors about this around 2005 but at the time nobody in the field wanted to say anything publicly for fear of being labeled 'racists'.
Was it something like this: http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=336658...

A standard USB cable is a type A plug to type B plug--is that what you mean by "male-male"? Did the RS cable have type A to type B or type A to Type A connectors?

Edit: Actually, I'm guessing it's this one: http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=107951... (My curiosity is now satisfied. :) I'm guessing my search failed earlier because the cable doesn't actually have "USB" in the name.)
The equality of humanity is not an empirical judgement. It is a value judgement. It rests, not on scientific grounds, but on ideological grounds.
I go to Radio Shack several times per year. I would be absolutely thrilled if they would just pay attention to what's in their parts bins and actually keep them stocked.
I don't see anything in that statement which admits to infringement, willful or otherwise. You may be reading a bit too far between the lines on this one.

Note that the alternative was to abandon "our work." That pretty solidly indicates that they believe that what they've made is their own.

But that's what I hate about software patents: it forces people to abandon their own work because someone thought of something that, when phrased in the broadest language legally possible, makes it sound like they've though of someone else's ideas, even when they've never actually created anything of the sort.
I appreciate the small reference to "The Elements of Style" by Strunk. That book has helped me refine not only my writing but also my software design.
Are you being serious? Even Germany after WWII hadnt fallen into such anarchy. The truth is even if the monetary structure fails en-masse(highly unlikely), society would find a way to function. People will work for food, cigarettes, coffee.
They can't, silly. They can just think that they observe it.
At one point in Android's development, Google was using Sun Java, and it is not really embarrassing to see the CEO of Sun congratulating google on becoming a customer. For whatever reasons, google later switched to their own VM, etc.

It seems that people who think this is embarrassing to Oracle think that Schwartz is talking about google's VM rather than the Sun one in this blog post.

I think Oracle has been eradicating all signs of Previous Management of Sun from the internet. Not because of the litigation with google but because Sun's management was kinda embarrassing-- at least from the perspective of Oracle.

This post isn't actually damning because it reinforces the fact that Google was a Sun customer, and thus had access to Sun IP, prior to doing their own thing.
// in Enjine.KeyboardInput
Initialize: function() {
var self = this;
document.onkeydown = function(event) { self.KeyDownEvent(event); }
document.onkeyup = function(event) { self.KeyUpEvent(event); }
},
IsKeyDown: function(key) {
if (this.Pressed[key] != null)
return this.Pressed[key];
return false;
},

KeyDownEvent: function(event) {
this.Pressed[event.keyCode] = true;
},

KeyUpEvent: function(event) {
this.Pressed[event.keyCode] = false;
}

Sheesh. That's why it's jumping up and down when you use the arrow keys. All keyboard input is based on checking `IsKeyDown`, and nothing else. `event.preventDefault()` please. Why do people do this? .preventDefault() is missing in a huge amount of HTML5 demos that aren't full-screen; surely it's not that obscure.

edit: seriously, that's all there is to it. Pop open the console / inspector in your browser of choice, and run this:

document.onkeyup = function(event) { Enjine.KeyboardInput.KeyUpEvent(event); event.preventDefault(); }
document.onkeydown = function(event) { Enjine.KeyboardInput.KeyDownEvent(event); event.preventDefault(); }

Viola. No more jumping. No more keyboard scrolling either, which is why you check if the cursor location / last-clicked location is within your canvas.

edit2: that aside, very nice work. Smooth playing and so far no glitches, and highly readable code :)

edit3: if you're on IE, that code is `event.returnValue = false` btw. Yaaay, IE :|
I'm most productive in a silent, mostly empty room at 2:00am. I'm pretty much worthless as a programmer if I'm in the presence of other people.
I don't think that google was originally going with Sun Java is in dispute by anyone, thus I don't see the relevance of this to estoppel. This is just an admission by Sun that Google had licensed (at one point) Sun software.
Yeah, but only from their women.
Small-scale sequencing studies in Neanderthal samples were occurring back in 2006, and were being published openly and discussed in the New York Times.
"Purple air sounds like rage."

Take some acid, and that sentence might make perfect sense.
From what I understand, it wouldn't be as bad as everyone is saying. The US has been the safe bet for decades. Suddenly, we would no longer be the international currency, we would be less trustworthy. The international community would move away from the dollar, maybe to the Yuan, or a mixture of currencies. We would have a harder time trading, which would spiral us further down in recession. This wouldn't happen overnight, though.

Internally, I don't think any of the horror stories would happen. Decisions would have to be made, fast, about what spending to cut. Federal employees would probable get vouchers for awhile until things get sorted out. Lots of furloughs, but air traffic controllers and prison guards would most certainly stay employed.

By the way, this Planet Money on debt was interesting:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/20/138518262/the-tues... (TL;DL the US is near 100% debt to GDP, countries historically run into problems when they exceed 90%, but it's not a guaranteed outcome, and Britain reached debt to GDP rations over 250% after the war, yet still exists)
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No, they're just all making the same crazy omission: event.preventDefault();

I have a fix, if you're interested, in my top-level comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2798835
Completely agree. I find the article slightly silly in that what he is suggesting is the same thing as the purpose of any Liberal Arts degree... to create a "rounded, open, and engaged intellectual citizen."

It's interesting how we've fallen so out of touch with what our universities were created for in the first place, or rather that we're never told what we're going to school for and what our options are.
I was just trying to suggest that if subject C is related to subject B,and subject B is related to subject A,then it follows that C is also related to A,both A,B and C are related and there is no need for fine distinctions.
The US actually hit the debt celling back in May. The government has been using accounting tricks for the last 2.5 months to pay all the bills. Of course revenue is still coming in but with an estimated $1.2T budget deficit for 2011 that's not going to be nearly enough. So you're right -- the hitting of the debt ceiling back in May wasn't a huge deal because there was money left to pay the bills. What happens in early August is the government simply runs out of money. Revenue will continue coming in and would be enough to continue paying the interest on the debt for a while however the government would have to start making some very politically unpopular choices about which bills to pay.

Even if we can continue paying the interest payments you have something of a symbolic default if the US government is unable to get its fiscal affairs in order. While the US may not technically default there will be a crisis of confidence. The risks of the symbolic default are just as bad as a real default and the ramifications are almost impossible to calculate.
Andy's email, together with the fact that Google executives discussed obtaining a license for Java just weeks before Oracle filed a multibillion-dollar lawsuit is pretty damning.

"documenting the discussion could make Google look bad to a jury, which might conclude that Google knew it was using Oracle's technology without permission."

"I'm not saying there was willful infringement, but how are you going to answer this?" demanded U.S. District Judge William Alsup, as he grilled Google attorneys during a hearing in which he repeatedly probed for weakness in the arguments of both sides."

At one point, Holtzman directed Alsup to an internal email sent to Google Android chief Andy Rubin from a Google engineer.

Under the direction of Google co-founders Page and Sergey Brin, Google engineers explored alternatives to using Java technology, but ultimately concluded they "all suck," the email said.

========> Google should license Java technology, according to the email, which Alsup read aloud in court.

SOURCES:

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Good first step for them. Next:

- Price cables and connectors at only a slight markup from monoprice levels (cover the overhead costs, but basically sell without any profit margin)

- Stock every single high traffic component possible at just slightly higher markup than digitech

- Sell components for custom PC builds (a la Fry's, CPUs, RAM etc.), charge slightly less than Fry's, slightly more than newegg, etc., but only stock components that are highly recommended by Tom's Hardware and other respected build guides. Have employees build machines with these parts and know what will go wrong, advise customers accordingly.

So where do the big profits come from?

Service contracts.

Give free support to walk-ins, one time only, charge on subsequent support requests. Become a non-ripoff/know-nothing version of geek squad.
We will find out what the libertarian ideal of a world without government entitlements looks like would be my guess.
I wish I thought that getting an advanced degree in the humanities would give you a background in the (ever evolving group of) classics, but I am afraid academics must specialize and so don't actually get to be well-rounded (Oh, I don't do Plato, I just do Kant...) I have always found my advisors to be disturbed that I thought it important to read widely...
> "Purple air sounds like rage." Is grammatically correct and passes a wide range of linguistic filters, yet for some reason it has zero meaning. Still read it a few times, it feels like there should be some meaning there.

It does have some meaning, in that it implies that the one who wrote it has synesthesia.
Soooo... Africans are the only pure blood homo sapiens? Interesting.

I have a feeling a lot of supremacists groups are going to start making a point of how superior Neanderthals were soon enough.
Not in basketball or sprinting. There are huge differences between women and men [1] [2]. Not everyone is equally equal beautiful snowflakes, and that's fine with me. Do the best you can with what you have.

[1] http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/28/why-women-are-better-a...
[2] http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm?
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Unless I'm mistaken, a default only happens if we don't pay our creditors that service our debt. For August that's supposed to be around $29billion [1]. We have more than enough to cover that (the article predicts ~$150 billion in revenue). Every other expense is legally optional and failing to pay those is in no legal sense of the word a default.

[1] http://about.bgov.com/2011/07/12/august-invoices-show-u-s-tr...
I am no expert on this, but if you assume the cosmological principle which states that our universe is roughly isotropic, there is a natural set of observers called comoving observers who are at rest with respect to the expansion of the universe. One can define a universal time using the clocks of these observers. Presumably, this is what gives meaning to statements like the universe is 14 billion years old.
Don't you find emacs's vanilla key bindings highly inefficient? A few examples:

* A 3 key-combo for "undo", a very frequent operation

* A 3 key-combo for switching between windows

* A 3 key-combo for switching between buffers

Very frequent operations should get assigned to short key combos, even 2 is almost too long, IMO.
Maybe the easiest way to kill of patent trolls would be to regulate patent licensing?

Maybe even forbid licensing all together, at least for some kinds of patents?

Or, some mandatory licensing scheme dependent on the kind of patent with a low enough fixed percentage of the price?
I love, love love the book Guns, Germs and Steel. It's not perfect but the author throws in so many great ideas as to why certain groups did better than others. None because any group is inherently superior.

http://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Fates-Societies/dp/03...
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Of course, why be vulnerable? Back up your stuff, and be self reliant and as independent as possible. Sound principles regardless of whomever else is doing anything.
Can you give a reference about this assumption:

"At one point in Android's development, Google was using Sun Java, and it is not really embarrassing to see the CEO of Sun congratulating google on becoming a customer. For whatever reasons, google later switched to their own VM, etc."
That is not what "genetics confirm". I wish people at yellow journalism pseudoscience rag "Discover" would read the darn paper before spouting off on it.

The actual study found that Neanderthal DNA is present in a small percentage (not all) of people in each continent. Including Africa.

Anyone contemplating downvoting this, for the love of scientific reality please read the actual original paper first.