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Would it be so bad if US setup a quota? Or is political and racial correctness so encroached that US would rather deprive itself of European workforce (which is probably more "compatible") than to stop the hypocrisy that is going on now. Since the system is currently setup the way it is to keep Mexicans and Asians out of the US?
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The Economist has been in favor of full legalization of all drugs for decades now. Fun fact: Milton Friedman was also strongly in favor of legalization, and he even convinced his friend and Reagan's Secretary of State George P. Shultz.

Even more fun fact: the National Review has also been pro-legalization for ages, as was William F. Buckley Jr.
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This is sometimes the best way. If you get them blocked from Twitter they may take that as meaning "the fight is on" and register many fake accounts to continue posting the reviews from.
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the salary is bobbins compared to private enterprise

Not true, public sector workers are better paid than private sector, and have absolute job security and generous, gold-plated pensions: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sect...
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I wonder the same, but from people I trust and what I do know, it seems that they are better than pretty much anything else being published this days. Their Science and Tech section is clearly not better than alternatives, and in many ways much worse.
Does it imply that? I got an explicit 'your browser is not supported' error in Opera.
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With a developer account, and old-school non-email login, it will not accept my password. It says it is incorrect.

I change it. Try it again. Same result. Changed it, tried all three passwords, still says the password is wrong.
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The video can be found at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk-2XE00fqY

And the Q&A after the talk is at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDcsM8n72OU

Funny that they both managed to be close to 15 minutes on the dot and I didn't use any timers :)
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That isn't a ring topology or based on a timer?
Identity is the aspect of one's personality (or something like this). Email is a contact method, which can be identity's representation - it can be associated with an identity, but it is certainly not the identity itself.

First of all, every human has an identity — it is automatically created, it's just that there are no ways to address it by itself. On contrary, an email is obtained and, moreover, provided by someone else. This is a fundamental difference which explains why an email just can't be an identity by itself.

It's only a person who should possess his own identity — and you can't possess an email address, you always lease it from someone else (even in self-hosted scenario the domain part comes from ICANN).

Please, don't ever mistake identities with methods to contact. Identity does not even imply that such may exist. If you want to contact someone — ask for contact data, not identity, like you ask for a phone number and not a name. I'd also note that this does not mean that identity and contact means must not be associated together — it's just that they must be loosely coupled. The article's argument is wrong — if I'd lose my phone number and get another one I won't lose my identity to my friends — they just won't be able to contact me for some time.

I just hope someday someone (with the help of software vendors, most important - browser ones) would get the identity right. And use cryptography, so, I could actually possess my own identities (i.e. my own keypairs). Sure, there are more enough problems with this approach, too, but at least the concept is not broken at the very core.
Can we stop posting anything by Ron Paul? The guy is a known lunatic, Ayn Rand objectionist, and as libertarian as they come... who wants to be the president of the country.

He would make GWB's presidency look like heaven. Anything Ron says is not news, and should not be taken seriously.
The "improved shadow" demo they showed was clearly ambient occlusion. It's impossible to say whether their particular implementation supports dynamic shadows but as a rasterization technique many of the same techniques used in games ought to work fine here (pre-baked lightmaps, various kinds of shadow maps, screen-space ambient occlusion, and even the fanciest new real-time GI stuff coming from SIGGRAPH).
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I don't know if you ever watch shows like NCIS, which looks like a crime drama, up front, but then you watch a bit a realize, actually, it's sci-fi, as they use lots of technology that hasn't been invented yet, and then you watch it a bit more and realize, actually, it's about superheroes - everyone in the team is impossibly talented and capable. I somehow doubt that real Feds are like that.
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Sounds like another overhyped Australian startup that exists only to get funding from the Australian government.
I built an in page editor like this a few years ago. I took a completely different approach however. I used jQuery to parse the entire page as XML and the used some dom navigation to work out path locations to the node I was on. There are jQuery libraries which will select nodes via xpath queries.

Then with some string functions I managed to break each node down into text runs (just wrapping spans around text blocks) so that I could apply styles to certain segments. Preserved the whole document in valid XHTML.

Just food for thought if you feel like making the editing functions even more granular.
Looks very interesting, it would be great if you could put a video of the app in action on that page. I don't have a Mac so I can't try it out myself.
Curious - who did you think was way off?
The games industry is one of the worst industries at learning from their mistakes. They're also downright awful at listening to customers. For a lot of publishers these days, PC gamers are "the other guys" (which is ignoring the fact that we are still far more numerous than console gamers), so PC ports are seen as "appeasement measures" rather than versions fully deserving their attention.

Dungeon Siege 3 is an unmitigated disaster. I will never buy anything Bethesda again, and Ubisoft might as well just roll over and die.

It's the time of indy games. Braid, Minecraft, Terraria, etc, go play games by people who actually care about their customers, and they're usually a hell of a lot better than the AAA shit we get these days.
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> Really? Looks like an improvement to me, because tabs have now consumed the titlebar area.

I compared FF5 and these screenshots on my screen together, FF5 uses slightly less real estate. It's only a minor regression though, and hey, this is Firefox - I can customise it! It's just that prior to the current look, I had to modify Firefox quite a lot to optimise vertical real-estate, and it's quite nice that it's now good out of the box, so I selfishly want it to stay that way!
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maybe in general but not in software development.
Yup. That would be my worst fears.
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They are using point clouds, not voxels. Animation should be easier without the grid restrictions of voxels, though it really depends on their acceleration structure (which they're not saying anything about, in addition to the specs of that machine they're running on which are undoubtedly beastly).
OH: "I dont believe it is possible."
Thanks for the link, where did you find this? I just tried out FF8 and it didn't have most of this in it, but it did have the "inspect" tool. It looked beautiful, it was flashy but not in-your-face, and it was fast. In short, this ain't your mama's Firefox.
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If it really does end up being a free upgrade I'll download it and give it a shot, but Textmate really soured me on paying for a closed-source editor.

TextMate was the best editor I'd ever seen on a computer lab Mac, and when I finally bought my own one of the first things I bought was a TM license. Now there's been two years and three major Mac OS X revisions with almost no real news or updates except an id Software style "working on it."

In the interim I've become proficient with both vim and emacs, preferring console vim + tmux for now. A new editor would be hard-pressed to win me away from that, especially if they're asking for money.
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I agree with all that generally (and nothing at all against Peroni, or working with a recruiter at all, etc).

I still think it's best if he leaves this thread to direct company postings, though, and finds other ways to let interested HNers to work with him.

The ideal "Who's Hiring" page will have lots of postings, and every post will be as close to "ideal" as possible.

I define an ideal post in this context as one that links to the company involved, is posted by a current technical employee of that company (or a founder), and does a good job describing what they're looking for.

If I'd like to focus more on Ruby, for example, I can search the page for all of the Ruby posts, open all the links, and see what company is doing something of interest to me, and which poster has a tone that appeals to me.

A recruiter post can't possible be an ideal post like this, no matter who the recruiter is, and how good they are.
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Looks like the old AI Contest site ( http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/contest/rankings.php ) has been hacked. The "Google AI Challenge" header links to a random online game site)
I have to use a Mac at work and frankly none of the programs I use feel like Mac apps. Everything in the Adobe suite is the same as on Windows except slower (down to the 8 corner resizing), Firefox is as you say, and I have to agree with the statement I saw earlier today that Eclipse is a cross-platform Windows application.

Interestingly I have the exact same issue with Firefox on Android. The address bar isn't a native text box, it's fake! I have two non-standard things happening on text boxes, Samsung's cursor indicator and the Swype keyboard, and nothing behaves quite as it should.

Are developers giving up on using native widgets?
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While slowpoke's rudeness is to be deplored, you set yourself up for that. Attempting to tie your survival (ie whether you eat) with a political concept (support, or otherwise, of the current intellectual property regime) is a pretty poor argument. "Either you agree with me, or you want me to starve to death!"

I also don't appreciate the call to some kind of moral high ground - "I run a business which helps teach little kids to read". Yeah yeah. Maybe slowpoke has devoted his life to curing cancer in kittens. Wouldn't make any difference to his argument, either.
If the way that Google shows ads was entirely driven by the needs/wants of the ad viewers, then it's easy to make a case that the ad viewers are being served. But Google doesn't only have the ad viewers in mind; the interests of advertisers are also being served.

And where the interests of advertisers and those of the ad viewers conflict, who wins? To the extent that advertisers ever win in those conflicts, then the interests of the ad viewers are not being served. And in that case, it's perfectly reasonable to question the social utility of Google's ad-serving.

But it's hard to define exactly how and when the interests of the ad viewers aren't being served. And that's where this thread gets bogged down a bit, on the question of what the ad viewers' "genuine" wants/needs are.

But I don't think we need to nail that down before we can question the social utility of the ads, because the system accommodates a set of interests (those of the advertisers) that often conflict with the interests of the ad viewers. Now, if you can reduce those conflicts, that's great, but is it really controversial that they exist?
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"no homo" means "What I have just said might imply I'm a homosexual, since homosexuals are so terrible awful people, I must point out that I'm a normal healthy hetrosexual"

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This has been "announced" since 2010 all the while being only "a few months" from release. So far nothing has materialized. Vaporware. Also note this is nothing but voxels plus an advanced search algorithm, for resource conservation.
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I'm not a fan of this approach - did you notice that addition, for instance, just returns 1(!) instead of overflowing?

The proper way to do this is still

if (a > UINT_MAX - b)
errx(1, "Too large.");
a += b;

and variants.
I think it is true but it is hype. Assuming it is based on voxels, then the earliest game engine to have used the technology (to my knowledge) is probably Blade Runner circa 1990s. The hardware at that time, ofcourse, dictated the quality of the tech at that time. By extrapolation I would say this is very much possible but may not be such a huge deal as it is made out to be. The results however could be amazing if widely adopted by the industry.
The interesting thing was that most of the piece was actually about how common simultaneous invention was. You'd think that that kind of questioning of the basis of the patent system would incline Gladwell to rip on IV, but somehow he ended up writing a puff piece. Maybe Myhrvold's personal charm won him over.
There's some problems with this editor still and there's very few updates or comments in the forums, to the point where it seems like a dead, inactive project.

".mahalo()" which is the destroy method is non-functional in the current release, even though it in the documentation. Artifacts from pasting and x-browser is a bitch too. It looks promising, but it ain't ready for primetime, and don't expect get much support either.
Just kidding, but some people aren't just able to accept a joke about Apple.

All this does not make my initial comment less true, though.
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Yes, completely. A universe with the beauty and depth of the Myst saga, but with no specific purpose would be awesome.

That's why I loved games such as Baldur's Gate so much: you can travel the world for dozen of hours without having to really participate to any quest.
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I noticed lots of the background CGI is architectural elements. We'll probably see this techniques used by architects to visualize their projects with moving images that includes real people.
"You unfollowed me. I insulted your tea. Now go away!" These kinds of people make me loose all hope in humanity.
I use VsVim on a daily basis, and really like it, but I've also found that it can bog down the IDE a bit at times (especially if you've left VS running but are doing other things for awhile). It's not a deal-breaker for me, though.
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I'd use the reddit/HN codebase, or a reddit/HN clone.
I wouldn't go more than 2. 1 is optimum to start out with, IMO.
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>>I can only assume you are coming from this viewpoint

My trivial point was that your claim about the down votes was contradicted in the first sentences. It seems you missed that, too.

>>if people can't acknowledge the flaws in a thing

Quite fun to do personal attacks like that after such creative way of misreading.

Edit: Sorry for wasting time/space, I am easily trolled.
I had some interesting problems with this in chrome. And by interesting I mean it became functionally useless very quickly.

It is a great idea and I see where they're going but it ain't there yet.
That looks like one fact to me...
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Can you cut the cryptic message and tell me what you're talking about? The Reinhart/Rogoff book? Or are you just trying to irrelevantly reply with a nice catchphrase?
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On the other hand the clear list of features made me realize it offers nothing I don't already have or want.
> A study shows that when leaders are randomly chosen, group performance actually improves

Interesting, if true. Where can one find this study?
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The OP cites three sources at the bottom of the page.

http://mindhacks.com/2009/02/12/leadership-can-be-based-on-q...

http://www.spring.org.uk/2009/07/how-newcomers-can-influence...

http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=1...

EDIT: cleaned links
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This can be solved to an extent by the "invisible text area"[1] trick. Here, whatever text is inputted or pasted goes directly to an invisible text area. And from that it is appended to the CE div/iframe that's is shown to the user. I think Cloud9IDE[2] uses this technique.

That and the way every browser reacts to the enter key press. Firefox appends <BR>, Chrome appends <Div> and IE[3] appends <P>.

[1] I don't know where I read about this. Sorry.

[2] http://cloud9ide.com/

[3] The IE behavior is similar to MS Word.
Ah, yes, that. I didn't remember it, since it was solved in a few hours and it was not a horrible security hole, just a problem with permissions in feeds: www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2014195
Some thoughts on that, not proven by anything that I know of:

People who desperately want to be a leader are rarely suited for it. They tend to hunger for power, rather than feel the need to help the group. It's possible they are competent, but more likely that they will use the group to suit their own ends, rather than working for the group.

People get jealous easily. If someone asks to be leader and gets it, others may feel jealous. If the leader is chosen randomly, it's harder to be jealous, since it was obviously fairly done.
Errm, you should probably do that today - and check for the presence of base64 encoded images - now that you told the world about it ;)
Think of the other direction - if you can't go on land (actually you can, but let's assume you couldn't), then folks from Silicon Valley can visit the ship. Project managers can sync periodically with developers on the ship, fellow developers can be sent on the ship for training sessions etc.

Working in your own country just doesn't seem to produce the amount of innovation that happens in Silicon Valley. Otherwise, we should be able to see lots of successful geographically-distributed startups made of software developers who use teleconferencing and other online tools. While that does happen with many open-source projects, it doesn't seem to work as well for commercial ventures.

Why might that happen? A hypothesis I find interesting is that face-to-face contact increases trust, which is a crucial aspect for a startup. Oft-cited piece of research that support this are Dahl and Pedersen, 2004 - "Knowledge flows through informal contacts in industrial clusters" (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733304...), and "Building Trust: A Matter of Proximity?" (Bruneel, 2007, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1064201).
Confirms my thoughts about every episode I saw of The Apprentice (UK version).