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I suspect that the mean intelligence is a tiny fraction south of that of the general population (because of the incentive structure).

The US military is not legally allowed to take people with IQs below 80. They have dropped or relaxed requirements about tattoos, criminal records, drugs and other stuff rather than drop the minimum score required on the AFQT.

http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1997whygmatter...

Lest IQ 80 seem an unreasonably high (i.e., exclusionary) threshold in hiring,
it should be noted that the military is prohibited by law (except under a declaration
of war) from enlisting recruits below that level (the 10th percentile). That law was
enacted because of the extraordinarily high training costs and high rates of failure
among such men during the mobilization of forces in World War II (Laurence &
Ramsberger, 1991; Sticht et al., 1987; U.S. Department of the Army, 1965).
Minimum enlistment standards since World War II have generally been higher
than the 10th percentile, and closer to what they are today for the different ser-
vices: the 16th AFQT percentile (Army, about IQ 85), 21st (Marine Corps and Air
Force, IQ 88), and 27th (Navy, IQ 91).
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Here's a link to a BBC report (http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/15654086)

Here's a link to the researcher's page (http://www.biology.duke.edu/johnsenlab/people/sarah.html)

The 'glass squid' really is remarkable. And the rapidity of change is surprising.
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Another similar program is PPLive (also primarily Chinese). From a technical perspective it's quite cool stuff (if you google around you can find papers on the implementation and how they deal with buffering, etc) and I'm surprised it hasn't taken off in the US sooner - a great example of China innovating in software (as opposed to the constant copying pointed out by others).
AFAIK. Michael Jackson owned the publishing rights to the Beatles songs, not the Beatles recordings. Basically the sheet music rights, royalties when Beatles songs are played on a jukebox or the radio or someone does a cover version of a Beatles tune.

It's a complicated arrangement, When in 1989 Paul McCartney wanted to print the lyrics to Eleanor Rigby and other songs for a tour, he discovered he'd have to pay a fee to Michael Jackson.
tldr: They already have a general-purpose tool, called gcc (or more likely, Excel). What they want is a tool that solves their problem.
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We do. When we talk between us, tech people. Or in the special groups designing and implementing those actual features.

The fact that the world at large uses "HTML5" as an all inclusive term hasn't stopped anything from happening to the individual technologies.
I loved BeOS back in the day. Such a beautiful and clean interface. I loved the philosophy behind it, and the disdain for 'cruft' as they called it. I still have the discs lying around somewhere...
while all this is true, there is still some interesting possibilities - 300mph non stop around the world (25K+ miles):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Atlantic_GlobalFlyer

with only 1/5 of the fuel it would be a VLJ by weight (though not really by other parameters like wingspan, landing and maneuvering characteristics...) with range of 5K+ miles at least.
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Literally yesterday I had conversation about the coming wave of flash to HTML5 conversion tools and services. Expect to see alot of effort going into conversion automation. Yes there will always be a need for hand crafted conversion but a lot can and will be automated.
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So i attended a SW and saw this Guy pitch and annoys me. Is it alright to use a bulb (literaly) and a match for a final pitch in SW? We're building a company here not a children's party.

The call it Project KIO here is the vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-wqFNBPNXs
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Moderately complex intro animation from an old e-learning course I did converted successfully (failed on earlier versions of this tool so obviously they've been improving things).

No sound, not much scripting but lots of timeline animation with masked images.

swf: 205kb
html: 352kb

(not including the swiffy runtime.js)

Not bad considering all the images have to be base64 encoded.

Generated code looked... generated... But not too awful. You could probably do something with it if you needed to.

However - it's no worse than trying to modify a swf file. You just wouldn't unless you ran it through a decompiler first and I don't see why that wouldn't be possible here also.

In most cases you'd go back to the FLA file or the XML equivalent and modify that instead.
Except, you know, that goes against basic principles of usability.

Forcing a user to stop and think about "what does this icon do" -- and yes, even your "heavy" users are going to run into this -- just to make something look pretty is basically always a bad idea.
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I too miss the alternative OSs. It'd be great to see what BeOS could have been, along with OS/2.
I still have my BeBox, darn it. I turn it on every year just to wonder at its humble beauty and try to work out what to do with it, exactly. Then I turn it off.
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I suspect parent may have meant silent updates, where the browser updates without having to notify you. (Whereas now it still asks you each time)

I think that can't work until "compatible by default" is enabled for add-ons, which hopefully will come soon.
> flash to HTML5 conversion tools and services

Which is a horrible thing. Images there are like 20 canvas elements on a page drawing animated ads. I am sure Macbook fans would roar higher than Flash
Gassée is just full of shit here. I was a die-hard BeOS fan even before R5. It really was a remarkable operating system, way, way ahead of its day.

But Gassée fumbled it when courting Apple [1], and then sold it to Palm, who promptly killed it. It has taken years for a dedicated group of followers to rebuild it from scratch, and by the time they finished doing that, computer hardware had advanced so much that there was very little demand for a high-performance operating system in the desktop market.

So, I guess he can claim to be glad that his baby died a lonely and ultimately unremarkable death thanks largely to his own mishandling of it, but it sounds like sour grapes to me.

[1]: I remember reading an article a while back about the meeting between Amelio, Gassée, and Jobs. Reportedly, Gassée thought BeOS was a shoe-in, despite asking an astronomical figure for the sale, so he showed up to the meeting completely unprepared. Steve, in typical Steve fashion, showed up fully prepared and blew Gassée right out of the water. I've spent fifteen minutes searching for that article, and I can't find it [2] -- and it might be apocryphal anyway, according to a post on Slashdot (http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=129504&cid=108...). Still, Gassée and Jobs have had an uneasy relationship in the past (http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...).

[2]: Woo, found it! http://macspeedzone.com/archive/art/con/be.shtml

edit: aside from that, it was great to see and hear Bill Atkinson, and Gassée had some funny quotes.
If you're curious, here's the HackerNews homepage and a few sample apps on Haiku, the operating system inspired by BeOS: http://bit.ly/sTLZne
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"You might make an argument either way that fighting to impose representative government is noble or not (or effective or not, etc.), but fighting to impose an oppressive regime is always evil."

So the Americans are evil to impose Karzai's regime on Afghanistan and maintain it by winking at massive election fraud? ;). No elections were held in South Vietnam because it was widely known in the American Administration that Ho and co would have won hands down.

"I doubt very highly if your notional American militiaman had sworn any oath to the King of England."

It didn't matter. For a subject (and pre independence, the people who lived in America were the subjects of George 3) to take up arms against his sovereign was treason, by the laws in place at the time, and the notions of honor in place at the time. Kings had "God given" rights to rule as they pleased.

Of course,in practice, rebellions happned all the time, noble or not, legal or not and if you won, you weren't a traitor anymore. viz the Shakespearean quote about how treason never prospers because if you prosper in treason then you can redefine the meaning to make yourself a hero. The Americans won. So they are "freedom fighters". If they had lost they would be mutinous traitors.

"in WWII, it was sometimes necessary to destroy entire cities in order to achieve legitimate military goals. "

And it was sometimes necessary to destroy Vietnamese villages to save them. Or waterboard and torture people to get information. Or drop an atom bomb on civilians to avoid casualties to your own armies in "honorable" combat against uniform wearing (but stubborn) foes. Use napalm against unarmed villagers. etc etc. Rendition and torture innocents. Protect mercenaries from prosecution etc.

If the people who do the defining of what a "legitimate military goal" is , can break the "laws of war" at will (the Geneva Conventions, which you quote also ban torture for example. By a strict interpretation, everyone from GW Bush down is a war criminal), and quote "military necessity" then they have no meaning any more except as political fig leaves.

All your examples of "dishonourable" fighting serves to illustrate my point that tactics which are effective against the dominant powers of the day are 'dishonorable' and as soon as they are adopted by them they become "honorable."

However if it makes you uncomfortable not to think of the US Army as some kind of paragons of honor and virtue fighting the forces of evil, go right ahead. To each his illusions.
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Yeah, you are right. It’s totally not a big deal that tablets will soon be able to compete head on with consoles. That totally doesn’t change anything at all about the future of consoles.

There are new tablets every year. At the very least this might force Sony and Microsoft to move faster.
That's what you get with Chinese. I guess they just don't see the problem with that. But the underlying tech is very impressive.
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Logo worked fairly well as an early programming experience for my oldest son (who is also an HN participant, but busy with his studies of computer science at university and with his hacking projects on GitHub). It certainly did a fair amount to prepare him for the LISP course that is the essential first programming course for computer science majors at his university. He took that course during his second-to-last year of secondary schooling, through our state's dual enrollment program for high school students. He also had finished the EPGY C course by then.

http://epgy.stanford.edu/courses/cs/
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Didn't apple choose NeXT largely in part of beOS notoriously hard to skin nature?
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Just in case you didn't know it: Firefox release stages are: nightly, aurora, beta, final. Had to look this one up.

Lessons learned from this: always describe in release notes with at least one sentence what you are releasing.
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That hasn't been my experience (I've been using a tablet PC for the last 3 years). With a precise digitizer and good software, stylus-on-screen writing isn't very different from that of pencil on paper. The convenience of permanence/editability/easy sharing vastly outweighs somewhat inferior tactile feel.
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They really need to get developer Inspect working such that simply hovering over the HTML highlights the relevant part of the page, not only clicking on it. Chrome is crushing them here with that feature.
No, I would like to see every kind of articles in HN.
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I think teaching a seven year old C is silly. Spending time talking to your son like an intelligent human being about things which matter is far more important.

A seven year old is not a small adult. I am confidant that you learned C despite being substantially older. If you are going to teach your child a language,Spanish is a better choice at that age.
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btw you can download/use seperate build channels to see how they work for you.
I like the name. What is the meaning of the word? If it is a legal(grammatically) word in some language?
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Worse is subjective. It was 'less ready for prime time'.

It was amazing technology. It is still the most reliable desktop I ever had. It could play more videos/music etc at once with my 32 megs on a dual 66 ppc than my macbook pro w/ 4 gigs on memory and some 2.8ish dual core processor does today. Anecdote-

I used to blow people ( including myself away ) by downloading large video and music files from the internet and then launching them and playing on a loop. I got up to play in the 20-30 range at once without any lack of responsiveness and with no stutter etc.
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I would hardly describe the article as "content-lite." I think that maybe you are not getting the same lessons from this article that others are.

To me, one of the big take-aways that is relevant to HN is that military service, especially in wartime, gives you experiences that you cannot get anywhere else, and that these experiences prove extremely valuable to veterans in the civilian workplace. The first part (unique experiences) is not surprising, but the second part (military experience translates well to civilian work) is surprising or even counterintuitive to some people.

Another reason why this might seem content-lite to you is actually something you got almost right:

>I suspect what Dan really learned from the war will be discussed only over drinks with his fellow soldiers and not on any public forum.

I get the impression that he would be more than happy to share his most valuable lessons with anyone who asks, but the problem is that anyone who hasn't had military experience will not be able to truly understand the full extent of what he's trying to say. Your statement would be more correct if rephrased as:

"I suspect what Dan learned from the war will only be really discussed over drinks with his fellow soldiers and not on any public forum."

The reason being that those are the only people who can really understand what he's saying.

You actually demonstrate this effect in action:

>It doesn't say anything particularly interesting (imo). Other cultures are different and working with a diverse set of people teaches you tolerance? Well duh.

He learned, from the Afghans, a level of patience that most Americans (westerners in general, really) are simply incapable of comprehending. He tried to express this, but to you it just came across as a minimally interesting anecdote about differences in cultures. You can't really understand what he was trying to say unless you have been through a similar experience. Similarly, the military has a level of racial integration that just doesn't exist in most of the rest of American culture. He probably thought of himself as being comfortable in diverse crowds before he joined the military, and then he found out what it's like to work with a truly diverse group of people. He tried to explain this, but to you it just came across as an obvious point about diversity and tolerance. Again, you can't really understand what he was saying until you've been in immersed that kind of environment.
I'm really really happy that mozilla keeps pushing firefox. I was for some time concerned that chrome's success would put mozilla in an less productive state.

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Sure, the PS3 is seven years old and even the PS3 slim is a few years old now. The thing is though, that even the slim is an appliance, it's something that you need to allocate space for in your living room. That level of power in a mobile device is a whole other thing.
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15 years later and he's still trying to spin his terrible negotiating into a positive.

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Buyout offer at $125 million.

Hold out for $275 million.

Get nothing and go out of business.
Possessing communication skills doesn't mean that you want to talk with everyone at every moment of the day. Not only people with lack of verbal communication have use for fake phone calls... It can be used to get out of various awkward situations.
I appreciate their effort and work. Nevertheless i believe OpenCV is quite easy to learn & use in a very short time. Why would i use this toolkit ?
Yes, all the talks are being recording by professionals and will be available after the event is over.
Most of those assets would be in the public domain anyways if it wasn't for those industries to lobby for copyright extension again and again.
People love to whine about changes to websites. OTOH, nobody complains when their TV remote changes layout or when their living room rearranges itself overnight.

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I'm not sure of Shuttleworth's credentials as the benevolent dictator/UI designer.

He made his money selling SSL certificates in large quantities, I don't really think he is a Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.

He reminds me more of the type of entrepreneur who makes his money then decides to buy an English Football club and run it into the ground.

That's possibly unkind though, there was enough good work going into Ubuntu providing good support and sorting out allot of the common Linux Desktop issues to award him some credit, but I don't really see Ubuntu as any kind of creative juggernaut.
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It is, no doubt but it's not really something you can switch to to get your gnome2 back.

If I had more free time I would love to contribute to something like Xfce (or E17) and turn them into a first class Desktop Environment.
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Memory's pretty hazy here, so someone correct me where I'm wrong

One of the major deficiencies in Apple's OS at the time was lack of real multi user capabilities; like Windows pre XP. NeXT, coming from BSD, had this built in but BeOS was pretty much a single user OS
Very different assertion from saying that the government forced them to lend via a policy which used discrimination as its basis. I'll take it that you've given up on that point?
Instead of Perl, Python would probably be a better alternative. Python is very readable, easy to learn, and helps ingrain good coding practices, plus there are tons of online lessons including Khan Academy, InventwithPython.com, with a more complete guide for tutorials here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers
Python is easier to understand for the new programmer as it makes everything explicit whereas Perl is implicit. That said, if you are more comfortable with Perl than you can stick with that. I personally would hesitate to teach more than some very simple C
I don't see how Standard Oil was a monopoly, it only ever had at most 60% of the market. And even then, oil prices fell substantially during its reign so what's the problem?

Windows for all its market share, has still coexisted with Mac OS for decades. During that time computers have become more affordable, more prevalent, and more useful and having a dominant single platform seems to have been beneficial to many industries. So again, I don't see what the big problem is.

The only monopoly that seems genuine to me is (/was) DeBeers diamonds, although the fact they have no control over the sale of second hand diamonds makes me question its authenticity.

Can't we admit that monopolies are basically a myth? Why do people keep bringing them up as if there's numerous examples of monopoly abuse or monopoly-induced misery.
That's the spirit. I suspect that the XFCE project will get far more support now if only from individuals scratching their itches.
It also doesn't free anything.
If you consider that the above example could be avoided with a single line of code, it does matter in the sense that he's avoiding a huge headache, not so much that he's offering any sort of guarantee to users.
Agreed. I wouldn't shed a tear over a 30 second buffer.
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Another important thing:

> All passwords are hashed with SHA256 before storage

SHA256 is NOT suitable to hash passwords. In this case it's rather unimportant, because only phone numbers are stored, but SHA/MD5 et al. are often used when security matters too. So, use bcrypt:
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