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Please don't editorialize the title of the HN submission. If you listened to the story, you'd find that they talk to a few different people with differing opinions, including someone from the Tor project who seems to have mixed feelings about it, and is generally pretty informative. Their headline is somewhat misleading, if this is actually about SOPA, but your headline is just as bad.

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Is this actually about SOPA? This is the bill discussed:

http://intelligence.house.gov/bill/cyber-intelligence-sharin...
Calling this a "supercomputer" is a bit disingenuous. The most powerful supercomputer today can do 10.5 Petaflops on the Linpack benchmark [1]. The 500th most powerful supercomputer can do 51 Teraflops.

If the authors actually tried to measure Linpack scores on their cluster, they'd find that peak performance would be much worse than the 12 teraflops they're claiming as "peak" performance. This link [2] seems to indicate that one S2050 along with a fairly fast CPU gives you about 0.7 teraflops. Even if they get perfect scaling across GPUs, which they won't, and if they could solve all the heating issues with their design, they won't get more than about 0.7*6.5 = 4.55 TFLOPS peak on linpack.

In any case, many (39 out of 500 to be precise) of the most powerful supercomputers in the world also use GPUs to accelerate certain applications so there's simply no way this thing would be faster than those computers.

[1] http://www.top500.org/lists/2011/11/press-release
[2] http://hpl-calculator.sourceforge.net/Howto-HPL-GPU.pdf
I enjoyed seeing your debugging process and picked up a few tricks.
Yeah you're right. I'd be interested in seeing some designers at these companies build something using only the layout and styling tools supported by most browsers of the day.
The real name policy was a defining feature of Facebook. A site that doesn't have that can hardly be called the same thing.
He said, and I'm quoting, that the pure waterfall method is a good concept "but is risky and invites failure." He described how it leads to massive cost and schedule overruns. It was definitely a process that he did not think you should use.

His proposed solutions that you call "modified waterfall" are modified quite a bit. (As an aside, he never used the word "waterfall.")

The paper is here: http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2003/cmsc838p/Process/wate...
You are conflating UTF with Unicode.
Have you looked at MQL? - http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/MQL

There are some good examples here: http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/MQL_Cookbook
It is also very visible in the Indian sub-continent.
Is the incentive any different at the state level? Or are we talking about vast deregulations?
I do that sometimes with java code. My support guys have given me some "thanks, your code is easy to read" type emails occasionally. Good naming helps, although some consider it overly verbose. To wit:

public static final BigDecimal BY_100 = new BigDecimal("100.00");
...
BigDecimal amountInDollars = amountInCents.divide(BY_100);

Sometimes I do it just for my own amusement, too.
A few things to keep in mind. First off, the President appoints judges and justices, but in no way does he guide them once they've been appointed. When appointing these positions, the best the President can do (keep in mind they have to be confirmed by 2/3s of the Senate) is to try to pick someone who will not undo years of jurisprudence the President agrees with. Once the position has been appointed, the President no longer has any control, and I believe the evidence says Presidential initiatives have both been supported and torn down at various times by the same judges and justices they've appointed.

Additionally, the President is the leader of his party,but there is a significantly greater power to being the leader of the Republican party than that of the Democratic party. This is because the Democratic party is much more fragmented and pulls from a much wider pool of underlying ideas than does the Republican one, so legislators representing their communities will be much tougher to keep on a coherent party message on a given issue. This is why, despite the strong hand he was dealt, the healthcare package passed by the Congress was lackluster at best: the Republican support was uniformly against it, while the Democratic support was extremely fragmented.

The President gets a free pass insofar as one has to look and see whether he's used the tools at his disposal to try to guide things in the right direction. You don't judge him by the result, but by whether he did what he could to influence it “correctly”, no matter what the result ultimately was. In the specific case of lobbying/corruption, mind you, I think (a) the evidence is unclear-to-negative and (b) Obama quickly decided to lose the focus on that in favor of trying to pull out of the recession as best he could and passing some of his legislative priorities. Whether the latter was a good decision or not is definitely up for debate. In a similar vein, the civil rights verbiage from the campaign for the most part went into a tailspin within a year of his taking office.
That's actually the wrong way to look at it. You should have iterated the idea with potential users (not just people who like the idea but are committed to using your product) before building it (at least ideally). I assume you didn't do this step from the way you made it sound.

Next, once you've gotten your MVP built, the next major step should be to get those users together to try your MVP during a private beta. This will help you fix bugs, adjust the MVP, and add features that the early adopters suggests. This should be the step you guys should be working on now. You shouldn't be out there trying to do a massive launch, but rather find a small group of people willing to try your product out.

Once you're done with that, then you potentially will try to get the word out to the masses and garner traction. Without social proof, without any form of traction (user or revenue), and being first time entrepreneurs, you'll have a much harder time raising capital if you don't get at least have the above done (albeit anything is possible). You absolutely do not need funding to get that much done.

There is a saying that it is better to get a few users who absolutely love your product early on than a bunch of users who somewhat like your product. Focus on this.
That essay is full of incorrect statements. 1) The Earth is not "just within Sol's habitable zone" since the estimate of that zone is between 0.75 and 3.0 AU. 2) "there is no other satellite closer in size and composition to its mother-planet (if one discounts the dwarf-planet Pluto)" ... so if you throw out any of the counter-examples then it's true! In any case, 8 examples gives a large error range. 3) "the Earth/moon system is the only tidally locked pair"; but quoting Wikipedia "Most significant moons in the Solar System are tidally locked with their primaries."

4) "All of the other worlds either lack satellites or have captured them from other places" ... this after saying that the Earth captured its satellite from another body in Earth's L-4/5 point. Also, Wikipedia claims "co-formation ... does not explain the depletion of metallic iron in the Moon
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GM would have gotten off the hook in their labor contracts to pay for retirees' health and pensions but, then, by law, the US Federal Government, that is, taxpayers, would have to make up the difference.

The PBGC is capped at $54k/year and no benefits. The government would not have had to pay for retirees health benefits (often described as "gold-plated"), and only would have had to pay for part of their pensions.

http://www.pbgc.gov/wr/benefits/guaranteed-benefits.html

Also, in the event of bankruptcy, secured bondholders would have been paid before unsecured union benefits. The bailout was circumventing the rules of bankruptcy in order to minimize damage to the UAW. I wonder why?

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000070
Very interesting.

Does the font render as ... ugly, to anyone else? I'm on a Windows box using chrome, and it looks awful to me. Here's what it looks like: http://img585.imageshack.us/i/image000kr.png/
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The really frustrating thing about Tauzin is that he and his party love to say that government can't do anything right or efficient. Well, government certainly can't do anything right or efficient if laws are written specifically to make it less efficient. There are plenty of examples of Democratic politicians doing the bidding of vested interests for pay so I'm not claiming this is a problem for only one of the parties.

I wonder if the system would be less corrupt if the difference in pay/lifestyle from the top 1% to the top 0.1% were much less. That is, if incomes were taxed at a much higher rate. Going from a $200000 salary to a $2.5 million salary and keeping most of it is too much of an incentive for corruption.

I suspect that countries with the least amount of corruption have the least amount of income inequality.
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> Don't get carried away with conspiracy theories

Followed by a conspiracy theory of your own:

> I also find it highly probable that this was a targeted effort to get the video into the sights of whatever process it is that UMG uses to issue notices

Classy.
antirez, can you recommend some good hashing resources?
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Well not at 400' and 130knots... That is way they were performing a windshear maneuver ( incorrectly) at FL 340.
> If 'illegal' was as binary as you want to imply, then all penalties would be exactly the same

What a ridiculous statement, which bears absolutely no relation to what I said.

> This statement implies that UMG was making a deliberate effort to shut down MegaUpload's campaign

... That's because DMCA takedown notices require deliberate effort. Are you being intentionally obtuse?
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I'm sorry, but I just don't think the iPad design is that innovative. The consumer electronics business is full of similar-looking designs like this. If Apple had designed the first modern flatscreen TV, they probably would have patented that. I mean, look at these two TVs:

LG TV: http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/public/yEUu64G5sUWGrdYWPYOk...

NEC TV: http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/public/UUeHqPaLSeGY7av_FuyC...

Imagine what the world would be like if only one company could produce a TV that looked like that!
> Anyway, these measures are treating a symptom. The real problem is that the federal government is vastly too large in size and scope. Reduce the power and programs run by the federal government, and radically simplify the tax code, and you'll dry up the opportunities for corruption.

And that would only treat the problem of government corruption while exacerbating issues of social inequality. I'm all for fiscal responsibility but the empirical evidence seems to suggest that cutting social services and public good projects leads to net harm for society as a whole (see: Texas.)

As a whole, I find the prevalence of libertarianism among tech types curious. As a whole they (we) are often rationalist and evidence-based in orientation but the libertarian position derives more from principle than empirical evidence -- the same charges many libertarians would level against religion-based politics.
Simply is the cheapest when you want to go all digital.
It definitely makes sense to have it in the query string, and I think people are already doing it that way, but the author makes a good point - it isn't a resource in its own right, it's merely a different representation. But in my experience, requiring Accept manipulation outside of .json versus .xml makes your service less usable by clients, which often don't expose anything besides the url.
"Microsoft released to the Web on December 9 Silverlight 5, which could be the last major release of Microsoft’s"

The last major release of microsoft. Does that include IE?
Is this really a bug in grep, rather than a bug in Solaris's libc? I've never seen grep so slow, and I've been using UTF-8 locales for years.

I'm not denying that grep was buggy (there's a link to grep's bug tracker to a bug that was closed more than a year ago), but I'm surprised at the magnitude of the slowdown.
You are right in that example, but saying that downloading a file illegaly is stealing is still wrong. It is an broad and overreaching definition of "stealing".

Stealing is the substraction of an object. If I steal something from you, you don't have it anymore. You lose it. If I pirate Avatar, you can still sell it to someone else. If steal your car, its gone unless you get it back from me.
You are missing one important qualification to work at McD's: (3) conscientiousness.

When the boss says "someone pooped in the urinal", a McDonald's employee needs to say "yes sir" and go put on gloves. They also need to show up to work on time, take the 6AM shift when asked to, etc. Not all people are willing to do this.

According to many sociologists, a large number of lower class Americans lack conscientiousness. Go read this dead-tree book, for example (sorry, online sources are hard to find):

http://www.amazon.com/Promises-Can-Keep-Motherhood-Marriage/...

The focus of the book is on why poor single women choose to become single mothers, but it gives a great look into the work habits of the lower classes as well.
As far as I know, no one anywhere uses universal hashing. Are there some modern, serious uses of universal hashing that I'm missing?
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The problem is that I can't stop like that. If I try to stop in the middle the problem just haunts me until I come back and finish it.
Not to mention doctors have a disturbing (and it honestly seems like this should lead to lawsuits and loss of license) habit of lying about the effects of prostate cancer treatment on men's sex lives [1]. Key quote:

The findings, based on a study of 1,000 men in different treatment centers,
suggests that surgery and radiation treatments take a far greater toll on
male potency than most men are led to believe. Among men in the study who
reported good sex lives before cancer, fewer than half were able to achieve
normal erections two years after treatment.

Also, it's an unattributed quote, but based on some of my interactions with doctors, this rings true:

Such sobering statistics are a rarity in any discussion of prostate cancer,
partly because surgeons and cancer experts worry that a man might forgo
treatment rather than risk his sex life.

Fuck them. That's not their decision to make.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/sunday-review/the-side-eff...
Who do you think you are? Knuth?

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html
I love this idea. Do you have a source where Hemingway describes it? I wonder if others have suggested this under other names (I see the Red Test Pattern below.)

I know when life forces me to do this, it works very well. The trick is doing it on purpose.
I wonder if it has to do with techies being a lot wealthier than almost any other type of industry as a whole.
All great points and a finer tooth comb of nuances than my own analysis :)

It all goes to show that the system in Washington is a complex piece of machinery that requires a hacker mentality to succeed. I absolutely and truly believe that the same mentality that makes great programmers also make great political operatives. Regardless of political ideology, I think we, as a community, can get involved to a much larger degree to help influence and shape the world from the other side of the business/government divide.
> Additionally, the U.S. Constitution does not really permit blanket restrictions on employment for individuals.

As far as I know, blanket employment restrictions for individuals in the form of "will not do X for N years post-employment" have never been struck down under a U.S. constitutional rationale. Some states (such as California) ban or heavily restrict them, but federal law doesn't appear to.
SL5 would not be supported until 2021 if there was going to be a SL6.
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Me too, but to be fair, cellspacing="0" was well understood by serious web designers at the time in contrast with these examples.
I can see it from the perspective of a non-empirical rationalism, which attempts to analyze from first principles how markets/societies work (Austrian-school style), and sees it as a sort of rationally understandable clockwork. Although in my case the rationalist approach is actually what makes me skeptical of libertarian positions, because if you analyze from the first principles of dynamical system theory, you get a very different picture of what an economy is, which doesn't have much to do with efficient allocation of anything.
>No, more likely they'll just move to the state level. And it'll probably cost them less at that, since state officials are significantly less visible and will have less power.

Isn't this also a function of our federalized mindset? This country was designed to function almost exactly inverse to the way it works now -- the more local the representative, the more powerful he should be. It was set up this way to allow more influence from individuals and less influence from outside forces; when you have 3000 or 30,000 constituents, it's a lot easier to pay attention to individuals and to engage in meaningful discussion than when you have 3 million (or more) constituents.

If we fixed the system and put power back where it belonged, wouldn't the prominence follow the power? Wouldn't individual state-wide media outlets become more important than national media outlets? Wouldn't our state representatives become visible again as the primary movers and shakers?

The federal legislature was intended primarily to deal with international affairs, boring stuff like treaties and tariffs. We should keep that their only sphere of influence. At least then corruption would have to work 50 times over to take effect in every state, whereas now you can buy a handful of corrupt politicians and the whole country is stuck with the results.
Show HN: Teach Special Needs children with a new customizable app.
http://www.aeirtalk.com

Core idea: Teach children new vocabulary and how to use words in sentences with customizable flash cards with your pictures and your voice.

How it works: Using two rows of flash cards, separated into “Nouns” and “Verbs”, parents can create new flash cards by taking pictures, typing in a caption, and recording their voice. When a card is touched, the parent’s voice announces the caption, and the card goes to the bottom of the screen to form short easy to learn sentences.

Some notes: There is no limitation that can be added. Numbers, pictures, people, anything. Oh and it can be in any language. Because the user types in the caption and records their voice it can be in whatever language they want.

I originally made this for my two boys who have Autism. I wanted a better tool for them to learn words by as most Autism apps suck. Let
Sites like these always trigger an upswell of nostalgia for me. Looking at these old screenshots I can remember how hip I felt after installing Netscape Communicator and browsing various sites. Perl was the new frontier.

The Internet still seemed like something you could wrap your head around in its entirety, if you tried.
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The example you give only proves that it's possible to create variety in designs with a single form. Both have the same design features (black borders and screen in the center), however the details in implementation is different. From color black, size of borders to the evenness of borders (judging from your small image alone, NEC's have larger borders on the side). If you considers the part that can't be seen from that image, then there's also location of speaker, back of the TV, raised border or even location of LED indicator, to think of a few.

And features a rounded borders or not.

Quoting the Expert Declaration (the one that everyone keep saying "Apple patents rounded borders!"):

> "[i]n determining whether a design is primarily functional or primarily ornamental the claimed design is viewed in its entirety, for the ultimate question is not the functional or decorative aspect of each separate feature, but the overall appearance of the article, in determining whether the claimed design is dictated by the utilitarian purpose of the article."
> It was set up this way to allow more influence from individuals and less influence from outside forces

Empirically that's not what happened: 19th-c local and state administrations were hugely corrupt, in bed with businessmen and power brokers (some local, some national) and largely unresponsive to their constituents. In fact that was some of the reason federalization was popular, to reduce the power of the local machines (and was also one of the reasons behind going to direct election of Senators). The 1950s-60s saw another wave, as the lawless Southern local governments and police forces had to be overridden by the national government.
UMACs, for example, are based on them. And it would seem to me to understand the power and flaws of hashing, knowing universal hashing seems important -- even if you never use them.
They are connected. Human beings need structure and a sense of purpose in their life. Games provide that structure when nothing else does. The problem is real life, overall is not as black and white as games. You don't become successful by following X, Y, and Z. There are circumstances we can't control. Whereas in RPG games, we know we can go to the next level, or beat that boss if we just keep grinding, just keep working. Real life doesn't work that way. It's frustrating.. there's no framework (well, there's a lot, but lots of choices = frustrating). RPG games, you just grind. Life is fuzzier.
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First, the president's only legislative power is the power of the veto. He can't sign a bill that isn't presented to him, so if congress never presents a lobbying reform bill, he never gets to sign it.

Secondly, the purpose of the judicial system is not to "legislate from the bench." It is to strike down unconstitutional legislation. Despite what some recent conservative appointees have decided their role is. Off topic, but I do find it somewhat telling that the few federal judges who think it is their moral right to legislate from the bench usually are deeply involved in right wing religion and other forms of crazy.
> This would give any client the ability to ask for exactly what it wanted with different depths to the structure if necessary. While you could serialize that into a URL, that seems like a kludge.

Not sure why: your structure looks like an ad-hoc (and hard to read) selection query language (e.g. XPath, CSS selectors, ...). I'm sure it sounds good when throwing the idea in the air "oh the response has the exact same shape as the body", but I'd expect it to not be very good in practice (much like Go's weird-ass date formats)
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Have you tried any of the note-identifying apps? How are they?
I'm not a huge fan of game mechanics, but an app that can critique you and lead you to more and more advanced guitar playing would be great. I've always wanted to learn to play the guitar.
But mentionning that wouldn't fit in the marketing speech of Google and Microsoft (which pulled _exactly_ the same stunt a couple of month ago, IE slightly on top of course)

Show how much truth there is in these "studies".