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I used to be curious about why it seemed like most baseball pitchers and quarterbacks (though certainly not all!) are white. What could it be, genetically, socially or culturally that would make white people have better arms?

I stopped asking because people thought it was racist. It always baffled me.
Just curious, but do you support IE below 9? If so, how? svgweb?
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Difference between Wi-Fi and WiMAX
Dial up is very slow and broadband is based on wires.Also, broadband is costly and unreachable in many places. In wifi the range is very small and it makes limited internet access. So we go for a new technology in internet access which solves the above problems. That technology is termed as WiMAX.
And I disputed it, which is what lead us here. You are literally making a circular argument by trying to use your answer to support itself.
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This is a terrible article. Their main error was buying palm. That was a huge gamble that was very unlikely to pay off in this market. You can't beat a 'free' OS on cost and you don't have the magic marketing and design to make a high-end product more desirable than Apple. There was effectively 0 chance web OS would be a "hit," and a low chance that it would even sell at all.

The only other valid point in the article is that they haven't handled their PR well.

I guess I am alone here, but I was very impressed that HP was willing to cut it's losses on palm/web OS so quickly.

Also, for better or worse, a publicly traded company needs to grow. If you look at HP's financial report...there is definitely room for growth in enterprise software. I think buying Autonomy (a profitable company) is a good direction for them to go (though I do admit they paid a very high price).
I just published something on my blog about the whole setup and experience. Let me know if it helps! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2935970
It's heartening to see so much interest in my little post; it was quite a surprise to come home from a weekend traveling around to dance contact improv and discover hundreds of comments waiting for me.

It's disappointing that so many of the comments focus on one or another point about why things are the way they are: spam filtering is hard and benefits from secrecy from spammers, centralized software is currently more usable, etc. My post was about values, about what kind of a world we can be building, not about which tactics are expedient in the world we currently live in. People with the same values can get together to discuss what tactics to use to advance their goals, but it's no use in suggesting to me that I should use a tactic that advances goals I oppose because that tactic is more expedient!
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A relevant article:

http://www.newstatesman.com/200009180009
This is not completely true. Of the 10 or so people I have hired, 3 had resume names different from their legal names. One had a Pakistani name, another was chinese, and one had a ghetto name.

It is well known that you can put whatever name on your resume you want. It is not until after you are hired that you have to submit documentation.
I think that's a good idea. It might not even have to be virtual, given servers the size of the Raspberry Pi: http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/raspberry-pi-25-pc-goes-i...
The huge gamble was the 10x larger purchase of a software company unrelated to HPs business...
The second most annoying thing about HP printers to me for the past 6 years has been their horrible 600mb driver software packages. (The first simply being the price of ink).
They once made a great consumer PC. It was the initial HP Envy 14.

All aluminum/magnesium alloy case, oversized multitouch trackpad, island style backlit keyboard, edge to edge glass over a very bright, very dense 1600x900 screen... You couldn't get a better display in a similar size from any brand, even Apple. Compared to the dull, sparse 1366x768 panels every other PC offered, it was amazing. There was true attention to detail and build quality there. I think it was easily the best laptop on the market, and Wired named it PC of the Year at the end of 2010.

A few short months later they stopped building it with that display, and put the same cheap 1366x768 panel in it as everything else, then started incorporating its design features into the rest of its lineup... but without the build quality rivaling a MacBook Pro the Envy briefly had. They came close to doing laptops really really well, but gave up on it for unfathomable reasons...
Classifying Hacking in 4 Dimensions: Impact, Illegality, Evilness and Complexity
* IMPACT
what sort of damage has been done to systems or to finances. a score of 0 means an improvement was made to the system due to the hack.

* ILLEGALITY
where on the legal scale does the event lie in the range of 100% legal to 100% illegal, or it might be a bit of a "grey area"?

* EVILNESS
yes, a bit subjective I know, but can we generalize that the motivation of the attacker is good, evil or maybe something in between?

* COMPLEXITY
how complex was the attack, is it a simple DDOS or an advanced threat like an online banking password stealing botnet?
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Facebook had 467 billion page views for June, not 1 trillion
Worked great on Chrome[1] for a couple of minutes with a few players then crashed with the broken tab icon.

[1] Chrome 11.0.696.57 running on Ubuntu 11.04 32bit.
I certainly don't believe that any "bigger, faster" mutations are novel to the slave population as they can occur within any group of people. But through breeding these mutations are likely to be more prevalent in the target population. This explains why the 400m race can be dominated by blacks but Jeremy Wariner (white guy) can still be the fastest. If that were true you would see similar numbers of sprinters from West Africa.

If your last point were true we would see world class sprinters coming out of one of the West African nations. I can't think of any.
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Olympic Weightlifting is an interesting case. Some of the qualities that predict weightlifting success -- high fast-twitch fibre ratio, for example -- predict success in plenty of other sports.

Whether a country excels at Weightlifting seems in large part to be a function of whether there is a more popular sport in that country. So in the Carribean potential lifters become sprinters, in the USA they become NFL players, in Australia rugby and AFL players and so on.
I have read this also and I think your comment should be more highly ranked. Another link:

http://news.consumerreports.org/cars/2010/04/electronic-stab...

Money quote:

"Consumer Reports believes that electronic stability control is the single most important safety advance since the development of the safety belt."
irrespective of the article's content, that's a poor title: of course there's nothing wrong to simply note it.
They probably thought it was racist because the thing that makes a great quarterback (for example) isn't just an incredible arm. There are many more factors that go into it, and I'd wager the reason so many black quarterbacks get weeded out at the collegiate level is because their superior physical prowess is better utilized in other positions that rely more on speed, power, explosiveness, etc.

I mean, you've got a guy like Peyton Manning for example. He's not an athletic guy relative to other NFL players, but historically he has this incredible hand-eye coordination and mind for the strategy of the game. No one was going to look at Manning and say, "Hey you know, you have a great arm and are frighteningly smart at this game, but we could use your slow clumsy ass at running back."

To me quarterbacks and pitchers specialize into that position because oftentimes their other physical gifts don't even come close to their arms. In other words, I'm pretty sure there are plenty of black QBs out there in high school football teams who have the potential to be just as great as Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, etc., but coaches are going to want the speed and power elsewhere.
I'm not sure I agree. The speed over the ground means practically nothing from an aerodynamic perspective. You can fly a little Cessna such that it moves backwards relative to the ground if the wind is strong enough.

Once you get to airliner altitudes (say, FL350 and above), the plane does not really want to fly anymore; there is only a narrow band of throttle / pitch inputs that will result in stable flight. You can see this in your favorite flight sim: take a Cessna 172 up to 4000ft and try crashing it. Turn off the engine, cross the controls, and pull the nose up until it stalls. Then release all the controls, and the thing goes back to flying normally with no input from you (and without an engine). Then try this again at 13,500ft in a thunderstorm and see what happens. You can even have engine power. The plane behaves very differently at its service ceiling.

Airspeed data is critical, which is why there were three redundant airspeed systems. Turns out, it wasn't enough.
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"Names say something about the people who pick them. Yes, race; but also education, socioeconomic level, and community...."

You are forgetting one not-so-minor fact that the resumes were _identical_ to the white ones'. Are you saying that the recipients just looked at the names and didn't even bother to read the resumes??
I have played less than 4 video games in the last decade, all of them either flash or shipped with my mobile phone. I'll give this one a try (helps that it has a Linux port :-)
Thats's the first explanation for it that has actually made sense to me. good one.
I'm guessing this is a normal occurrence that isn't worth collecting statistics on. Recovering from a stall is simple; it's something you'll do very early in flight training (well before your first solo flight).

Planes crash when a lot of things go wrong at once. In the case of the Colgan Air crash, the problem was not the stall. The problem was that the pilots were sleepy, confused, and under-trained. The stall was too much for them because they were in a state where they could panic, and they didn't have the training to stop panicing and start flying the plane. So they randomly poked the controls, and that didn't save the plane.

Take two training pilots on a full 8 hour's sleep, and the stall probably wouldn't have even happened. If it did, a "whoa" would have been exchanged and they might have gone around for another landing approach. But I don't think it would be a big deal, it's just some randomness that is par for the course when you are trying to float twenty tons of metal through the air.
And a company that was worth 2 billion dollars with a decreasing revenue stream. As an ex employee of autonomy i can definitely say that HP made a very very big mistake.
I think the problem needs to be seen as a whole. The specific combination of the current warning alarms is more important than one single alarm.
Most people create content. See facebook, and email as proof if you are skeptical.
You don't see a lot of black guys named "Tyrone" walking around Harvard.

Latoya and Tyrone are common black names, and they're also strongly associated with lower socioeconomic level because lots of blacks are in a lower socioeconomic level. The sorts of professional, educated black families that send their kids to good schools and from there to good jobs don't name them these lower-class names.
The dual ownership trick by an individual is great. Lots of awesome details and tips. Thanks!
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>While your point is true, it seems largely technical and irrelevant to real world actions.

Hah! I think you're describing about 80% of content of sites like HN ;).
Well, you may be right here. Wikipedia says HP's enterprise net income was about 8.7 billion, in 2010 (off about 57B revenue). It's total net income? $8.761 billion, off 127B revenue).

But maybe PC sales help drive enterprise services (as businesses will buy their PCs from HP, then tack on a high-margin service plan, and finally add on some ludicrously profitable consulting jobs).

Services are hard to sell. Services masquerading as products are easier. Without the PC business, it might be harder for HP to sell their services bundled with products.

Intel scrapped its unprofitable memory division, to focus on CPU, and that was said to be a sound move. But PC builders are savvy customers, and won't buy their CPU from Intel just because they can also get memory there. I'd expect that selling non-core stuff to an enterprise needs a thin edge of the wedge, which the CEO can be fooled into thinking of as a product.
The PA office is a bit of a glorified regional sales office. SAP Labs in Palo Alto however does a lot of interesting and original dev work. There are quite a few very good engineers there who would take real offense at this statement.
In the usability/security tradeoff security companies will always try and scare you to the right (they make money doing so). most developers are comfortably being in the middle - after all, do we really need to implement signed client javascript (with all the problems and centralized infrastructure that imposes) just to store todo items?
Reasons
Loveless: Reasons

I lost all the right reasons to smile..
I fought for all the wrong reasons for my own selfishness..
I sacrificed everything just to remain beside you..
But you gave me a reason that left me no other choice
But to give you up...
Non-boring SAP job?
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Ask HN: What does this website do?
I started a travel website in late 2009, and went through three different version of our homepage (the third version was released yesterday). The problem I noticed about the two previous versions were that, after spending 20 seconds on the site, visitors still don't know what our site does. Our current homepage hopefully fixes that problem, and I'd love to hear what you get from your first 20 seconds.

http://duffelup.com/

FYI, the previous two versions are the following, both of which did not do a good job "showing" what we do IMO:

Sept 2009: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6068/6091344748_8571cf15b4_b.jpg

Sept 2010: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6087/6090794623_1f9b3a1116_b.jpg
This. Reading TechCrunch for the first time made me feel so embarrassed about my major.

Other proudly shallow businesses are probably acting and music, and many actors and musicians actually like to point to their side projects of saving the world. I guess it helps them feel more confident with what they spend their life on too.
1. Yeah, our screenshot service is getting hammered, it's down, but the contestant apps are up. We're fixing it right now. We had to roll our own, so if anybody knows of a better one, holler.

2. What aaron said about the judges. It sounds like a lot, but we want each team to have 10 judge reviews, and each judge only to have to review 10 apps. Hence the 1:1 ratio. It's really hard to get, but it makes the contest better.

3. People are complaining about Facebook auth for public voting. There are 750 million people on Facebook, and we wanted to pick just a single auth method for the public (that normal people know how to use), so Facebook wins. Contestants logged in with GitHub, and judges log in with Twitter, so it wasn't a technical decision at all, just a simplicity of use one.

Anyway, it's not about the contest itself, it's about what people create during it. So comment on those. What apps did you like?
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Please somebody fix the title to read "an ADSL" instead of "a DSL".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2mf8DtWWd8
Actually, I think the hamburger analogy works something like this:

McDonald's doesn't make much money on the burgers themselves. The profit is in the fries and sodas. The point being that it would be absurd for McDonalds to decide to kill off the burger, because it "wasn't profitable". The burger drives those other sales.

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!)
I am sure each employer thought they were choosing the best person for the job, not weighing the benefits of a black person vs a white person. The point is that when all these decisions are summed up a bias emerges. The author of this argument is arguing that our tendency to incorrectly clump people into groups is the reason for this bias.
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People don't always choose the things that make them happy, especially collectively. If we step back a bit from the internet, this point is obvious: the people of the US, for example, collectively chose to have the Civil War and then abolish slavery, when abolishing slavery without the war would have been a much better choice; and alcoholics who die of exposure in the street would probably have preferred, in retrospect, to never start drinking. Some of them will tell you that explicitly even before dying.

So it's not really disappointment. It's advocacy: there is a better way, a brighter future. And I have a selfish interest in telling people about it, because despite what you say, it's not a choice I can make entirely on my own.

> They haven't stopped the internet from the 1990s from existing; it's still there and available.

In the 1990s, I could email my mother from the mail server in my house; I could walk to the local bookstore and browse the books on the shelves; I could chat online with my friends without giving Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Google, and Facebook minute-by-minute updates on when I'm at my computer; I could read and post to Usenet, which had useful discussions on it, without broadcasting my reading habits to whoever was wiretapping (because my ISP had a local news server); and I could run years-old software on my computer without becoming a victim of the latest worm.

So the two internets you're talking about do not exist independently of each other. They interact in a lot of ways. Sometimes the interference is constructive (internet access is available in a lot more places now, and bandwidth is cheaper), and sometimes it's destructive (Usenet is dead.)

I don't think the problem is really even the wants of the majority. I think the problem is that the majority of people are getting tricked into choosing things they don't want, both because they aren't aware of the implications of their choices and because there are prisoner's-dilemma games going on. (Recruit all your friends to Farmville and your farm will be bigger!)
The middle half or so of my post is devoted to explaining why SDSL is a bad idea, which I think justifies the more general title. I take it you disagree? Why?
Not everything on kragen-tol started out as a comment on an HN article. Most of the linked post, for example, did not.
I'm certainly not claiming I could have done better. But the Pentium 4 was such a spectacular failure and Intel's competition managed to navigate that transition well enough that I feel a certain amount of pointing and laughing is justified. :)
So git becomes the presentation component of a spellchecker - a novel and interesting re-architecture.

You could do similar with peep-hole optimizations, bizarre bots that transform iteration to recursion (and vice versa), transforms to immutability, factoring-out common code, adding automatically constructed test cases ... I wonder what else.

It would be like helpful spam. EDIT or clippy "It looks like you're writing a loop. Would you like help?"
Actually, this could be a channel for code analysis as a service. You subscribe (for fee or free), it's all hosted and updated remotely and git-based (github public/private, or self-hosted).
I'm not complaining. Me, my fiance, and her friend have gone through probably 5 total HP Laptops over the last 5 years. All 5 were different models and had the power switch connection to the system board go bad after 1-2 years.

I ended up cracking and getting a Macbook, but I still have a 6-year-old Thinkpad that runs like new. Those things were, in my opinion, far better quality than anything HP put out.

Your mileage may vary, of course; I only have my experiences to go off of.
> especially since how many of these massive software consulting companies are actually needed?

more than you think since software touches every industry everywhere and somebody needs to implement all of that.

I went and met with an old pharmaceutical company client of mine recently. 10 years ago they were 500 people in the head office with a mix of departments. they had a tiny 2-3 person IT department that was in a far corner. when I visited recently, half the building was IT with consultants from big firms, a homegrown department, etc.
You're missing the point.

Raphaël is a simple, unified interface to SVG and VML. You ask for a circle, and it will make one, whether in SVG or VML.

But if you have an array of data and want to visualize it, you have to write the code that creates the circle (and its position, size, color, etc) for each point. And if that data changes, you have to write the code which adds circles, removes circles, or animates the update of existing circles with the new corresponding data.

D3 is a general library to help you write that code, but it assumes you are working with DOM objects. It will create/remove/update HTML, SVG, or VML elements -- whatever you want. D3 is not a renderer abstraction library like Raphaël; it is a data to DOM mapper.

You could make something like D3 for Raphaël, but it makes sense to just assume you have SVG support now. You get to use its groups, CSS, and standard DOM events, without reinventing those wheels.
“The problem is I’m older now, I’m 40 years old, and this stuff doesn’t change the world. It really doesn’t.

“I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much — if at all.

“These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

“But it’s a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light — that it’s going to change everything. Things don’t have to change the world to be important.”

Steve Jobs [Wired, February 1996]
That's true, and you can probably assume that people who will be doing this will use their 360s as media/file servers which need minimal restarting.
I'm saying that having seen the names people didn't read the resumes as closely, yes.
I'm not saying that people should do this. Only that they do, and (barring legal consequences) it's advantageous to do so.
The term 'judging' is a loaded term. It implies that the person doing the judging thinks less of people that are being judged. That isn't the case here. How could I? I've written video games and play them all the time.

If I had said something along the lines "working on your college degree is a better use of your time than gambling your money away in a casino" I'd not be 'judging' gamblers who do so. I'd be judging the acts themselves and how I see their relative merit and the rewards they'll bring the person doing them. I'd also be stirring up less controversy.

It's disappointing that people in this thread have tried to attack me personally or twist my words to be interpreted as 'judgements.' I don't think it's controversial to say that playing video games excessively is, in the long run, not the most rewarding endeavor. The question is, does this extrapolate to making a career of the construction of games themselves (exclusively on the software engineering side, the topic of this thread.) I happen to think that it does, particularly when I look at all the energy and talent that goes into creating them and the draw they have due to the fact that our generation was raised on gaming and that it offers enticing technical challenges.