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#2 never seems to materialize. People who change the world when they made their money (Bill Gates) generally keep trying to change the world with their own philanthropy. Whereas the path of: 1.) Make Partner at Goldman -> 2.) Commit your money & agency to solve problems - isn't shown to happen in most cases. Sure a % to charity - but that's far less than what's possible if you're really taking that route.
A lot of this is just because unemployment is 9% and fewer people have jobs to drive to.
Tyrone is just not a common name at all anymore. You're not likely to meet someone named Tyrone at a Crip hangout.
It's Gamestop. I don't personally know anyone who shops there, and their entire brand seems to be geared towards tweens and their respective, non-game-aware guardians.

I'd be willing to bet that internet kerfluffles aside, 90% of their regular customer base has not heard of this issue and wouldn't care overmuch if they did.
Anyone remember the NFL spoof video "We Are Kickers" that Saturday Night Live did in the 80's poking fun at kickers being of a certain ethnicity? I want to say middle-eastern, but I can't remember for sure. If I followed the sport at all, I'd probably know. I tried to find it on Youtube, but couldn't.

Anyway, it seems that certain ethnic groups have long been perceived to gravitate towards certain athletic functions.
i think i got the parent comment's point.

it's not about race in this case, but assuming --even if with the back of the mind, how the candidate would fit into the cultural aspect of the organization.

Imagine a guy in a organization that has a heavy crunch time every friday until late if needed. in the several interviews when he mention that, he noticed that the group of people that turn down the position because of this is of some cultural group. The next time he is hiring, even if only on the back of his mind, he will go past the candidates that have names indicating that said cultural group, because his brain will fast forward to all the time wasted interviewing and then being turned down. it's not like the guy has anything against that group.

In the article, the point made is far worse than this example. From a moral point of view. as it hints to a macro-social preconception on race.
That's probably why they're trying to get into the online gaming arena, although this is literally the first I've ever heard of their service.
This just seems odd given that you have a page of information which is probably a lot more informative. But that's kind of the definition of racism -- even in the face of evidence that would contradict your stereotype you'll cling to your stereotype.
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What could it be, genetically, socially or culturally that would make white people have better arms?

In the American population there is actually a genetic difference: For any given height, the average black Americans has longer legs, while the average white American has a taller chest and longer arms.

The other sport where this has a significant influence is swimming.
The entry that Chris Granger (ibdknox) and I submitted is Node Defense: http://wrench-labs.nko2.nodeknockout.com/

The lobby is actually a full-on chat room (a la old school blizzard.net) and the game itself is all custom code (no libraries for the canvas stuff).

A full list of everything we used is on our entry page: http://nodeknockout.com/teams/wrench-labs

(And updates are coming as soon as judging is over!)
I seem that this article contains a lot of good points about Javascript cryptography. The error of the author is that he is unable to see a reason to build a secure application based on Javascript because his prejudices are too strong.
I am the founder of Passpack. We use Javascript cryptography from 2006. We have 16,000 active users and nobody ever reported loss of data. I think that if you are conscious of all the issue connected with browsers and their problems, you can build a good system that is able to protect not only the security of the users but also their privacy.
And the privacy can not be protected with a server-based cryptography system.
2 billion? I think you are forgetting about their recent acquisition of Iron Mountain Digital. I would say the companies were worth 4-6 B. They still paid too much, but there is a big difference between paying 400% over value and paying 60% over value.
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The argument seems to be "someone else said otherwise, using different data, therefore they're correct." Or did I miss something?
Computers might not be profitable for HP, but supposedly they drive other, more profitable sales. (I'm not sure what those other products are, though!)

Printers and ink, baby.

Example tie-in: Kid going off to college? Tuition is expensive, buy a low-cost HP laptop and we'll toss in a discount on an HP inkjet printer! You don't want to deal with library printing and waiting in lines, you'll want a printer in your room!
I used to work for a logistics company, and about half of our customers (all major US companies) required us to integrate with their SAP system. SAP may do most of its business in Europe, but it certainly does have an international customer base.
I don't disagree with his conclusion, but the article is just a puff piece with a link to his book at the end, in which he "...debunks many cherished myths" including "that we are restricted by our genetic make-up".

"Our tendency to generalise rests on a deeper fallacy - the idea that 'black' refers to a genetic type. We put people of dark skin in a box labelled black and assume that a trait shared by some is shared by all." I'm no geneticist, but I wonder then how the author would explain the seemingly racist drug BiDil, which is more effective for African Americans?

A more difficult question to answer - that can't be explained away with extreme examples - would be why the regular professional sports (e.g. NFL, NBA) have a disproportionate number (compared to population) of black players. May have nothing to do with genetics at all, but would be much more interesting to read about than this article.
It's a shame considering that despite a million headaches that IE has caused me over the years, it finally seems to have gotten it's act together with IE9. I really like the version-changing feature too for looking at how code renders in IE 6,7,8.

Anyhow, a chapter on my life (hating on IE) is finally coming to a close. Makes me feel old, like time is passing too quickly (haha).
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With ~6 starting black NFL QBs they are actually over-represented (with respect to the population of the US). They're just under-represented compared to the population of football players.
I'm confused. Isn't this generally the accepted use of the exclamation point?

I can't tell if I'm being subtly trolled or if they're actually serious.
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HP better figure out how to get into the smart phone business. That's where it's gonna be at. I personally use a palm.... Get's the job done but I'll be moving on soon. HP made a big mistake by dropping that one.
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Greatest comment for me from this discussion: "In other words, if your code is read a lot more than it's written (and what code isn't?), then you should consider creating a fluent interface."

Good code is probably written once, and read a million times.
OTOH, it provided the inspiration for some projects: http://nodeknockout.com/teams/roo
Article assumes technology is adopted top-down, from the powers that be. While that was true at the time of mainframes, for a while now, technology is often adopted bottom-up, particularly in startups that are free to use the most effective tool for the job; and in non-mission critical systems within the enterprise. For example, this is often how open source was adopted.

The picture is complicated by libraries and tool-chains that can make an established language (c, java, python) a better choice by giving an enormous (e.g. x1000) boost to productivity, obscuring the intrinsic merits of the language itself. (Although, languages that facilitate library and tool use will promote creation of their ecosystems).

"Logic programming is a cool idea, but not that useful for most things" would be a better explanation for why it's not popular today. It strikes me as a rather narrow and dogmatic AI technique; and one that you're better off reimplementing on demand (Greenspun-style), or using in a library.
I've noticed the expanding use of the ~ over the years... it all started with just a simple desire for a way to convey sarcasm. It then grew into all these other monstrous uses. One they forgot is adding it "to be cute".
Sure, you have a page of information which is more informative. And you have Google, which is probably even more informative. And you could start phoning college professors and get even more information.

There's a point where the cost of gathering information exceeds its value. Unfortunately, that point sometimes comes halfway through reading a resume.
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For their sailing example, I would have switched the two pictures...just a thought~
> black quarterbacks get weeded out at the collegiate level is because their superior physical prowess

I thought this article was pointing out how racial prejudice around 'athleticism and blacks' was out right false. So then you justify a separate athletic ability using race again...
No, I mean a convincing idea to code it. I think everyone can understand the value of free speech, even if this story is not the best example of course!
(note: not the author)

At first glance, without going so far as to create an account, they do a lot of stuff right.

I note that the HTTP session cookies set pre-authentication are not 'secure'. I.e., they can be be sent in-the-clear for HTTP connections as well. This may or may not be a real problem in practice.
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That's not clear at all. The Palm acquisition was Hurd's doing. This column is knocking Apotheker for killing it, but a pretty good case can be made that keeping it going would just be throwing good money after bad.
HP focusing on software is like Google focusing on social.

Uh oh.
This is a dupe.
Original -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1648711
Joshua, not joshu. Probably went to Nick who is getting crushed by email.
> I find it hard to use the term "stagnate" to describe an industry that is developing its own specialized languages/systems (see Q/KDB) and is currently in the process of exploring FPGA technology to improve performance.

That's fine. We disagree on what's the right direction for software engineering. I welcome debate on the subject. I don't consider migrating to customized hardware a cutting edge technique.

It seems like every second justification I hear for the toolchains I see seems to revolve around performance complaints that are only reasonable in a hard-realtime situations or 2001.

> which is all well and good except for the fact that you are going to end up with worse code than someone who doesn't ignore memory allocation and vectorization.

Actually, that's exactly not what happens. Modern GC is good, man, really good. The vectorization scene is even better for the FP world.
I don't mean it in the sense that they're somehow not developing new techniques. I mean it in the very limited sense that they're not taking advantage of the technology that's bolstering the rest of the industry.
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Not sad at all - he is better for it. He did what rich people are expected to do - buy shit, and found out that it isn't as satisfying as people are lead to believe.
Less Wrong talks about this a lot; their term for one variant of it is "superstimuli".

What's the difference between your "overlearning" and "hacking"? They sound like the same thing.

This phenomenon is the reason for the Wikipedia rule, "Ignore All Rules".
Non Apply Fanboy here.

You can say what you want about Apple: cut-throat business, closed platforms, etc. - BUT I don't think you can deny that they've been able to build the bridge between the oligarchs blocking progress (AT&T, music labels, etc.) and those building the future. The perfect bridge? Hardly, but I think they get a good deal of credit for making glass smartphones and tablets popular products.

Technology and social progress is often blocked because of business and other social issues - rarely just technology. Apple has been the marketing force trying to push throw this - while certainly securing its position and profit immensely. I think you can argue that they're a net-benevolent force for the world - unlike Coke which is certainly a net-negative one - while being as marketing savvy.
"The truth is rather different. There is far more genetic variation within racial groups (around 85%) than there is between racial groups (just 15%). Indeed, surface appearance is often a highly misleading way of assessing the genetic distance between populations."

This doesn't prove what he thinks it proves.

This is the exact same argument: There is more variation within male heights than there is between the male & female average height. This is true - the difference between the average male height and female height is only a few inches, and it is quite a bit smaller than an interval which covers 90% of men. But, this has nothing to do with his point. The height difference between males and females is still relevant to us, even though the in-group variation for males & females is also high.

tl;dr: male height variation is much bigger than the gap between male & female heights, yet we still think the male-female height gap is a real & meaningful phenomenon.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genetic_diversity:_Lewont...
If I recall correctly, names that are considered distinctively black but not actually African do tend to be associated with lower-class blacks. It's unfortunate but AFAIK that's the way the world is, largely because blacks historically have felt pressure to seem more "white" as they've moved up in society. So it's hard to disambiguate the two factors.

I'd bet you'd see a similar bias against lower-class white names like Bubba or Leroy or most of the names here: http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/forum/topic88623.ht...

If it is purely economic, you probably also wouldn't see as much bias against black-sounding names that don't have negative connotations such as Michael Jackson (it might get a smirk, but if it is indeed about economic bias, the name of a prestigious black man should be a good demonstration).
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Gmail doesn't use Postini for security/filtering. That's all Google/Gmail.
When I originally wrote the solver, it ran completely inside the browser with JavaScript. The main downside of this approach was that users had to download the massive dictionary file (~3mb uncompressed in Trie format) before the application could deliver results.

Since then, I ported the solver logic to Node and set it running on one of my boxes. It's pretty quick at solving, but the scoring algorithm has a rare bug - which I'm still hunting - that causes the score to be off by a point.
You want the HP Universal Print Driver:
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SQLite is a good engine, but it's still an in process (or desktop) style engine. In process engines have inherent weaknesses in terms of concurrency that make them a fundamentally poor choice over server-based engines like MySQL for web sites or other scenarios with the potential for a lot of simultaneous write access.
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The billboard (http://hollaback.no.de/billboard) shows a gigantic list of the
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* I'd argue that a developer building medical software can save more lives than a PhD working on a treatment for cancer*

Oh no you didn't.
That image was very fake.
> What's the difference between your "overlearning" and "hacking"? They sound like the same thing.

They are similar, but I think one difference between "hacking" and "overlearning" is that a hacker can learn to subvert/circumvent a system quite quickly, and usually does so in a way that breaks the rules. Overlearning usually takes longer to achieve, and is a more insidious problem because it achieves its goals without actually breaking any rules.
I wonder if that was related to their acquisition of Voodoo. Perhaps the original Envy was a case of putting an HP badge on a Voodoo design, whereas the later designs were from HP Personal Systems Group.
A back button should pop up when you select one of the search results (above the actual lyrics). What browser are you using?

And yeah we arent getting hit as hard as we were, so it's probably a bit quicker than last night
Your post implies that QB is a leftover position, which i think is far from the case. If there's a player that can be as great as [insert list of famous QBs], that player's going to be a QB...he isn't going to get promoted to a better position where he can have more impact (because there is no other position).
Nice clean cut site..I have a few suggestions to separate you guys from the others...I would make a 'bookmarklet', a few lines of js, that will spawn a input box asking for artist/track..OR the script can manipulate the current page they are on now, by copying what they have selected, because I know alot of people including myself, who see part of a lyric from a site, or facebook, and want to find the rest....Make a nice image, with the script as the url, and instructions for the user to drag it to there bookmarks toolbar so they can search even if they aren't at your site..Also, just as buro9 was saying.....
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People LOVE this, and here is a great example of it->
Say 'Harry & Sally' start dating..They both go to each of there homes after there date... and sally decides to post a song on her facebook about how she feels at that moment...Now Harry is wondering if this girl is really diggin him, or looking for a serious relationship etc..So over at his house, harry logs on facebook and sees that sally just posted a song just after ther date!!! What's harry going to do??? Look up those lyrics! And he might not completely understand the meaning of the song so he looks at what others have interpreted the song as...he now sees that sally doesnt want him to speak, she knows what hes feeling... (no doubt) lol just kidding but really, crazy example...I know first hand that this goes on alot..aha but anyway, ill post some more ideas soon!
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It depends on what you think "the rules" are. Generally speaking, hacking happens in a framework that has unbreakable rules, whether those are rules of a game, of a CPU, or of an OS. A solution becomes a hack when it exploits those rules in a way that was previously thought impossible.

Of course, there may be other, breakable, rules that are broken — "You can't render 3-D in real time on a PC!" — but those aren't the relevant rules.

Many hacks are not quick at all to achieve.
Yeah (gulp) I've checked this out and it's pretty serious. KingCope is a white hat security professional and luckily he's drawing more attention to the problem. If anyone hears more about this, post information here on HN.
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Plus most companies which actually use SAP have worldwide operations. SAP is definitely a global company in terms of customer base.
Pretty much every day I wake up and am happy to not be doing a hardware startup.
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> "Logic programming is a cool idea, but not that useful for most things" would be a better explanation for why it's not popular today. It strikes me as a rather narrow and dogmatic AI technique; and one that you're better off reimplementing on demand (Greenspun-style), or using in a library.

Particularly since confining logic programming to an embedded domain-specific language lets you keep it clean from any of pollution that was piled onto Prolog in an attempt to make it more of a general purpose language.
Leo Apotheker basically got FIRED by SAP.
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I bet that working in the German Apple headquarter is also extremely boring – that doesn’t mean Apple is not an international company.
Much of the world is hungry, but becoming a master hunter is not the way to solve that problem

Great words spoken like a true master.
See also: http://sivers.org/kimo
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I guess an example of hacking would be someone hacking the phone system to make free long distance calls. An example of overlearning would be someone learning the rules of society to such a degree that he gets free long distance calls (e.g. using lawsuits against phone companies).

The former would get fined or imprisoned if caught, but the latter is fine under our legal system.
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Here's some trivial YAML-driven python code: https://bitbucket.org/cdtitch41/itch41/overview

It doesn't construct books or anything else sophisticated but it may be of interest to ETL folks.