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Harvard University, for example, dates to the Ming Dynasty.

I do not disagree that there are no traces of old culture. However, go to any random city in, say Europe, the middle east, or Asia. Chances are high that you will easily find artifacts from the roman age until now. Most of the US is new, in many cities you'll have to work hard to find something older than one hundred or two hundred years old. This is not a criticism, but many people appreciate cities and artifacts that are old ;).

Also, with respect to culture in the other sense, the difference is huge. US city centers tend to be boring (with notable exceptions such as New York), since much of the activity is in the outskirts, and are only reachable by car. Compare this to many other countries, where city centres are cramped with pubs, small theaters, etc, and people tend to hang around until the early morning. I liked some cities int this respect (e.g. Portland), but in comparison it's still a bit dull.

The United States also has new culture such as ragtime, jazz (various genres), blues, soul, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and hip-hop music that compare favorably in the aggregate to traditional music from anywhere in the world,

It's just marketed a whole lot better. E.g. I am into jazz mostly, and American musicians are the most well-known. But Europe had (and still has) a lively avant-garde scene, which was at least as progressive is the scene in the US. In Africa, mostly isolated and in parallel, what resembles modern jazz developed (e.g. check out the excellent Ethipiques series). One good example is Getatchew Mekurya from Ethiopia, who developed his own weird flavor of jazz, that sprung directly from traditional ethiopian music. Anyway, I digress. The rest of the world had thriving and progressive music scenes, but often failed to package is for mass consumption.

broadcast media and motion pictures that were largely invented here

Are you kidding? Ever heard of Nosferatu, Battleship Potempkin, Le voyage dans la lune?

but now enjoyed around the world

Hollywood movies are often looked down upon as superficial, but 'ok if you want something easy'.

and this cool thing called the Internet that links all of us together on Hacker News.

True, ARPAnet was invented in the US, but the 'interface' that we all use was invented by a Brit in Geneva ;). Sure, it had its precursors, but the point is, that in contrast to popular belief, the US did not bring us to modernism. It's a collective contribution.
I can imagine Seinfeld and possibly The Simpsons would work.
Unfortunately I don't have anything particularly constructive to add, just that I hope this does take off - it's definitely needed and I would be a customer.

The reason I'm not a customer yet (and there is a domain or two I'm toying with picking up) is that I don't know that you are going to be around next year, and I've no idea what happens to my domain in that situation. As much as I hate GoDaddy, I don't see them disappearing any time soon so unfortunately that's where most of my domains currently are. Can you do anything to reassure me on either of those points? Do you know how much you need to make to stay in business and make it worth your while, and how likely are you to meet that?

Best of luck!
[blah blah blah] that made me want to work for myself. I want the freedom to be myself.

Don't confuse working by yourself with working for yourself. When you work by yourself, you can do as you please.

When you work for yourself, you have employees, customers, investors, landlords, and many other people with whom you have complex relationships full of consideration for each other's objectives and feelings.

Do not start a business with the goal that since you're the boss, you will be above the consequences of words or actions that hurt people. You are a person. When you deal with other people, it's more than a few bits here, a few dollars there.

We can disagree with whether the word "bitch" is appropriate or not in a presentation at a conference, but I implore you not to think that somehow running a business means that you need never worry about hurting other people with your words or deeds.

This isn't the world of stodgy HR policies and training manuals.

Leona Helmsley once said "We don't train people to be nice, we hire nice people." I bring this up to say that no, I abhor HR policies at least as much as you do, but I suspect for different reasons.

Your words suggest that the problem with HR policies is that there will be a rule that you may not use the word "bitch" in a presentation. My problem with HR policies is that there is a focus on following the rules rather than taking responsibility for making choices. Kinda like the difference between law and morality.

Like you, I prefer to work in an environment where people speak their mind. However, I also prefer to work in an environment where people apply their own filters, where people take responsibility for their words and don't shrug it off as automatically acceptable since there are no rules, no HR people vetting their decks.

To summarize, like you I love the freedom of small startups. But the whole point is to use that freedom in positive ways. Perhaps you and I disagree about whether the word "bitch" is negative or not. But I hope you can appreciate that with freedom comes responsibility, and by ditching the HR department we voluntarily take on the responsibility to make good choices, and we accept accountability for our actions.
I hope that none of those military contractors re-use their passwords. But let's be honest with ourselves...
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The choice of what to, and what not to photograph, what to include inside the frame and what to leave out, can do more to change a photo's interpretation than this edit. This policy does more to give the appearance of credibility than it does to actually ensure credibility.

With that said, I understand why the AP did it.
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I tried Googling, but why are Scala and Haskell automatically classified as "academic"?

Because they are inspired by 20th century mathematics rather than 18th century mathematics. This quote from wikipedia explains it:

These developments of the last quarter of the 19th century and the first quarter of 20th century were systematically exposed in Bartel van der Waerden's Moderne algebra, the two-volume monograph published in 1930–1931 that forever changed for the mathematical world the meaning of the word algebra from the theory of equations to the theory of algebraic structures. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_algebra

The academic languages are the ones aware of that change in the meaning of the word algebra. Everyone learns Euler in high school. Nobody learns Mac Lane.
I think you're implying that putting up a slide with a faceless person on it and calling them a "bitch" is inherently morally objectionable? If so, I wouldn't agree with that.

Louis CK called his 4 year old daughter a "bitch" [0] on stage, and I know I'm not alone in thinking it was hilarious.

Noah called an anonymous person a bitch. If it were a comedy club, probably nothing would have been said. But, it was a tech conference, and there probably weren't many females there, so it came off as sexist, and it alienated and offended at least one person. As the author alludes to when mentioning the style of presentation, the line between conference presentation and comedy routine is blurred.

Noah made an attempt at comedy, and it apparently didn't work out. (I wasn't there, so maybe it was hilarious)

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vRhr502wIc#t=1m24s
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My comfort zone is Python, C and Erlang. You shouldn't assume too much from a single comment.
personally it gets a thumbs down simply because it goes on too long, and the way it has been labelled as '10 easy ways to get rich', which would normally be an instant, 'wow! this looks like spam' <close page>.

I like the quality of the video, but it doesn't tell me anything about mo-grow. what makes it special, why I should trust mo-grow, etc.

You've definitely zigged where others in the financial services have zagged, but maybe you've gone too far. There is an element of trust that needs to be established, and the frat-boy voice-over, high-energy feel of the video just doesn't make me want to invest with you.

Now, if you were able to explain why your high-energy high-return mo-grow was the best investment plan guaranteed to make me millions, then I'd (possibly) give it more thought. But you've given me nothing but what is a bunch of useless facts about what I'd have to do to save x amount of money.

Ok, I'm not going to do any of those things. Why should I invest in Mo-grow? you forgot to mention that.

The video was also too long, and I can't imagine sharing it with anyone. What would make a person WANT to watch that video.

I'm sure you've seen this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0zEXdDO5JU - that went viral because it was current, intelligent, interesting, etc. etc. and it didn't sell you anything (well, not obviously anyway). Now how can you take what mo-grow does, explain what everybody else does, how their way is wrong and your way is better.

Educate your audience, don't be condescending to them would be my advice.

The tact you took may work very well for some services, but I think financial services and this just doesn't fit.
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It's not always about exploits and vulnerabilities, social engineering can also be extremely dangerous.
Yeah, you're right. We don't get much news on Canada. It remains largely outside our public conciousness despite its location.
The name to take away from this article is not "Google" this time. It's "iRiver". Though never vastly popular in the US, iRiver has made some damn good products. I've owned several models of their MP3 players and they were nothing short of amazing.

iRiver products are sleek, ergonomic, and very user-friendly. While everyone I knew was boasting about their iPods, my iRiver was outperforming their devices with features that Apple didn't implement for several models later (features like Video, Radio, Games, Album Artwork, Flash Player, Widgets, OLED display, bigger HD, and more)

You can count that this new e-Reader is going to be a great piece of technology. And with Google in on it, too. The Kindle may meet its match.
You should have said "... but without Farmville, yet." since we all know Zynga has a team clicking 'reload' 24/7 on the Google search "Google+ Application API" :-)
Thanks for the write up! The less time I spend looking at anything on ED, the better... I have heard this term before, but it always leaves me scratching my head. It makes no sense in the context of this disagreement.
I called, got a human in about 60 seconds, and they refunded me as well as told me how to disable auto renew. I see no problem here.

Three problems: 1) You had to notice the price change. If you have never not noticed anything, then you might have gotten taken. 2) You had to have the will to object. Willpower is a limited commodity. Is vendor bullshit what you could best be spending it on? 3) Your time is worth something, and GoDaddy just wasted it because they can make more money that way.

At my company, our rough rule of thumb is that a technical person's time is worth $250/hr. (We don't pay them that much, but we care more about opportunity cost.) Even if GoDaddy's shenanigans only take 10 minutes, that's still $41.67 lost. And that's not even counting the fact that next time I do something with them I have to spend time figuring out how they're going to try to cheat me.

Dealing with asshole vendors is rarely worth it once you take everything into account.
It appears as though the purpose of CSSLint is to promote the ideas of OOCSS, without the bother of defending OOCSS.
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This has been one of the interesting aspects of it. You can direct message someone by sharing it only with them.

Also if you send something to one circle and then add someone to that circle later, they get to see everything sent to that circle.
"If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution."
— Robert Sewell

Nice ;-)
I guess 'Venn Diagrams' wouldn't have worked with their target audience :-)
Because they remove RedHat logos and other trademarked bits, then put SL/CentOS bits in. Same approach in both distros.

So they compile from the same source redhat uses, but change the trademarked media. Is that good enough?
One really nice part about the implementation was I could just reuse the Ruby Mongo driver's test suite.
I would really prefer to be able to control my identity. Ironic that a product built on the internet, a medium that allows great flexibility in identity, is prohibiting that very freedom.
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I wonder if we are seeing the beginnings of a new revolutionary movement that transcends borders, yet has the ability to cause drastic change within borders. This has the potential to get very interesting for people like me who think the government has overstepped its bounds in the electronic age.

Anonymous may become catalyst, if nothing else.
While I really like the quality and features of the VC++ compiler, I really wish they would do something about the IDE that's gotten worse for C++ devs over time...
What personal information?
This isn't really a scam.

Yes, it's a scam. The fundamental basis of a contract is a meeting of the minds. If people think they are buying a cheap thing and then it turns out to be expensive, then there wasn't a meeting of the minds.

It happens to be a legal scam, but that doesn't make it much better.
> it's not like they were randomly going through customs
> or pulled over by a police officer and the contents of
> their computer were requested

That happened in one case. The problem with that case, is that the guy unlocked the computer for customs, customs found child porn, they turned off the computer, and later on the guy refused to unlock the computer of them again. The issue with this is that the border agent already saw that there was incriminating evidence in the encrypted volume, which muddies the waters a bit. Granted, if he mentioned child porn in passing to the border agent, they couldn't force him to testify against himself and make that same statement later on (e.g. in court, or on video).
Yeah, "defender's advantage" does not apply in the wacky world of computer security.
The 2011 version lists Math as the highest scoring major in the Math portion of the GRE,followed by Physics.
What exactly do you mean by Java-in-Python code? Do you have examples? I find that code written using Pythonic idioms gets a high Pylint score, without having the slightest whiff of Java about it. That's not to say that its defaults aren't excessively fussy in some cases, but it's easy to tweak so that it doesn't whine about too many public methods or using magic &c.
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as near as i could read, no one was attacking Noah -- just Noah's behavior, which seems out of line.

See the "i'm not calling you a racist, i'm calling your behavior racist" crucial line of distinction. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Ti-gkJiXc)

Noah can be a sweet, helpful, lovable teddy bear, and still have behavior that needs to be called out.
It seems to me that the point of having a version for a browser is for developers. Otherwise, it shouldn't matter.

What browser do you use? Safari. Chrome. Firefox. IE.
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The DoJ would simply get a judge to sign an order giving their forensics lab a snapshot of the virtual machine with the key sitting decrypted in RAM. Amazon would be under a gag order not to tell you that they even had it (not that Amazon would even care to tell you anyway).

If they wanted to pin it to you, they could easily show timing correlations between your client system activity and the VM activity. Probably they would also go to the person who lent you their credit card and threaten them with prosecution unless they fingered you.

Cryptography is not going to save you from prosecution if you do any noteworthy crime. There is no security "in the cloud" from any government with a jurisdictional or financial relationship with the provider. (Though Tahoe LAFS is an interesting project).
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One of the arguments for the high initial valuation was the 'rock-star' team : Which would lead to a decent purchase price for the company even if the product didn't take off.

However, the rock-star team is only valuable if it can stay together. Gathering up a bunch of rock-star soloists is much cheaper...
We are not in a recession, according to one particular definition of recession. Bandy about definitions all you like but it won't employ one more person. There is no way in which the economy is currently good, and most importantly, no way in which the predictions made about what impact our actions will have from several years ago are going to be correct retroactively.

I think perhaps I should have hammered on that point a bit more. Predictions were made based on a certain model; predictions failed. Anyone with a scientific viewpoint of the world ought to be able to see what that means: Model wrong. And the model being wrong has implications, not least of which is that your confidence level in all the people confidently lecturing us about the folly of actions like cutting government spending based on this model, this model already proved wrong, should be significantly lowered. After the performance of this economic model, after the endless month after month of "unexpected" economic news, we're really supposed to just keep pissing trillions more dollars away because by golly, hopefully, someday this model will start working if we just try hard enough? I recognize that pattern; it's a failure scenario, not an immanent-triumph scenario.
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Google's eBook strategy is excellent. Google licenses eBooks at prices that rival Amazon and B&N, and the eBooks can be read in browsers, on cell phones, on eReaders from B&N, Sony, and now iRiver, etc., and if and when Amazon enables the Kindle to read ePUB eBooks that employ Adobe Content Server DRM (e.g., eBooks that Google, B&N and Sony sell, and public libraries lend), then Google eBooks will be accessible practically anywhere. Pretty shrewd move on Google's part.

The iRiver device looks pretty good, but as duiker101 points out, the Kindle has the unique 3G advantage.
Interesting. So now I can test my mongodb app, without needing to install mongodb server on my machine?
Cool!
The photographer was a freelancer, so it's possible that he wasn't familiar with the AP's guidelines.

That said, not manipulating images is the first thing that gets drilled into you as a photojournalist (either in school, or when you start doing assignments), so it's pretty unusual for someone to not realize the importance.

A lot of photo agencies require submission of the RAW files specifically to combat this sort of thing.
> It makes no sense in the context of this disagreement.

It does (to me at least). teadrinker is obviously claiming that all of the guys defending (or just agreeing with) the blogger (Anne) are 'white knights.' You might not agree with that claim (as I don't), but it does make sense in context.
I wonder how this release schedule is affecting addons/extensions.
That was the only reason I ever didn't update was for plugin support (namely firebug/etc and 1password).

Any extension authors or power users care to comment?
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We're doing way worse than those recessions where we instead responded by cutting taxes and actually living within our mean

Which recessions were those?
The bottom right of that flowchart is a little scary. So anything you post, no matter how private you want it to be, can be seen by anyone that it gets re-shared to?

Nevermind: just noticed that that only applies to posts you share publically.
The part that struck true with me about this article was 'telling different lies to different circles of people'. That really is what people do in real life.
Here in Texas, it's common to have a door held for you by a stranger, whether you are old, young,male, female, disabled or ambulatory. I think it would be downright hilarious to watch someone get angry about it.
I had been considering the Kobo reader since Kobo is the only vendor that also offers an app for my phone as well

What phone do you have?
It seems like the author started out talking about stability, but then ended by talking about personal satisfaction, or some deeper meaning.

I'll say something more direct: full-time work at any company is not meaningfully more stable than contract-based work. The difference is that employers attempt to instill a sense of loyalty in you which is not reciprocated. Work for yourself. Create product independently and generate passive income. Work for others on a contractual basis and formalize the exchange of lifetime-hours for money.
Seems like it's more focused on multidimensional data compared to Thrust (http://code.google.com/p/thrust/), a C++/STL-like language also for GPU computing.

== Compare to Thrust below ==

#include <thrust/host_vector.h>
#include <thrust/device_vector.h>
#include <thrust/generate.h>
#include <thrust/sort.h>
#include <thrust/copy.h>
#include <cstdlib>

int main(void)
{
// generate 32M random numbers on the host
thrust::host_vector<int> h_vec(32 << 20);
thrust::generate(h_vec.begin(), h_vec.end(), rand);

// transfer data to the device
thrust::device_vector<int> d_vec = h_vec;

// sort data on the device (846M keys per second on GeForce GTX 480)
thrust::sort(d_vec.begin(), d_vec.end());

// transfer data back to host
thrust::copy(d_vec.begin(), d_vec.end(), h_vec.begin());

return 0;
}
Me too: It took me two failed attempts before my third version (the current incarnation of scoreBoard), could finally best me.
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Looks great! But the stinger is in the tail : "I think the next thing to add is indexes. Currently everything works
via a linear scan of the database."
But it's worse to hide and ignore the problem. The other poster hit the nail on the head. This stuff is happening on a much larger scale - it's only because of lulzsec/anonymous that anyone even has a clue how bad the situation really is.
Thanks. I updated the blog with a pointer to the module.
> Canvas on Firefox is hardware accelerated (at least on Windows), so it's really fast.

If your video drivers aren't blacklisted, after I found out by whining about the lack of speed with hwaccel--which wasn't actually active. Check it out at the bottom of the super secret "about:support" URL.
Reading the comments of this thread, I wonder if anyone actually reads the linked articles anymore. A bunch of discussions about why Google+ is better then Facebook etc... no one seeming to notice the article was comedy, and hilarious.
I find it helpful to at the very least split into social vs. fiscal conservatives. It is easy to be socially liberal and fiscally conservative, or socially conservative and fiscally liberal. G. W. Bush was socially conservative and fiscally liberal.

Of course you can split things much further than that; nothing really stops you from being an anti-abortion otherwise-social-liberal, but I really think failing to split out social/fiscal leaves you really baffled by who is aligned with who.