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But isn't that like saying an experienced software developer is a douche for asking for a salary higher than minimal living wage?

He brings value to the startups, seems perfectly OK to me to ask them to pay him back for his time, and a lunch is hardly expensive in exchange for the publicity.

Maybe it's some social convention I'm missing, but personally I have no problem with what he's doing.
Dolphins in two separate research centers understood the words, presenting convincing evidence that dolphins employ a universal sono-pictorial language of communication.

Hmm... I would have assumed that interpreting dolphin sounds as pictures is the first thing you'd try after realizing they can echolocate... Is this really the first time that's been explored? Or is it just that no one's been able to figure out how to reconstruct an image properly from dolphin clicks, but it was already a widely suspected possibility for a long time? (I'm not really up to date with dolphin research, unfortunately.)

If they're right about this line of reasoning, then I wouldn't be surprised at all if they come back and point out an animation structure soon (akin to sound detection of a moving object over time) -- and if that's the case, I'd bet you that it isn't "universal", and that different groups of dolphins will have different variants in how they communicate more complex concepts. For example, one group might give an animation of a dolphin swimming around something in one direction a meaning that a different group might disagree with. Another sort of animation that might be interesting to look for would be a change in the composition/texture of an object (e.g. animation of dolphin turning to stone, or stone turning into dolphin or something like that). It seems reasonable to me that even if you communicate in animated 3d images, you'd probably still have to have some less literal meanings too... and the sorts of things you could represent with something like that could get pretty complex, actually.
> * IPv4 addresses are NOT free by any means.

You can use SNI but you probably have one website and one certificate for all customers anyway.

> if your site uses StartCom then you're doing it wrong

Why? (honest question)
Looks nice, can/should i include PYSMELLTAGS into vcs?
Actually, thank you. This is very weird because when I tested it on Firefox (beta) it didn't display any CSS difficulties. I'll have to go in and change that.
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Yep, that too. I didn't mention the fast-track as I wasn't sure if it was still open.
Well, no, I didn't mean myself :). However, websites like DaringFireball - very good about pages.
I don't really focus on "topics", I pick something I really want to build then try and work out what the best suited tools and technologies are for that objective, then take it from there.

For my web startup idea this was Grails, because I work with Java in my day job and like the Rails convention over configuration philosophy. This leads to other areas like modern JavaScript frameworks.

For my video game idea it's Unity, for mostly productivity related reasons. This leads to JavaScript again (doesn't everything these days), C# and programmable shaders.

I don't want to spend my valuable time learning the latest new thing just for the sake of it. (I see loads of 'weekend projects' on here using Node/Backbone/Redis that seem to be this kind of thing). I want an immediate real-world application. I want something that will help me solve problems and smash my personal deadlines down like a pile driver. :)
Or maybe just follows the pack. US, UK, Canada and others have been doing this for a while.
The article already explains this, doesn't it? The code had both a Trace-JIT and a Method-JIT [1], but that switching between the two to use the fastest is problematic and that its apparently easier to get the Method-JIT to incorporate more advanced optimization and outperform the Trace-JIT in the end.

If Mozilla would adopt the same method LuaJit uses they would have to reimplment everything from ground up. Witch probebly wouldn't be a smart move buisnesswise.

I'm not an expert but the existence of "SpiderMonkey" "TraceMonkey" "JeagerMonkey" and "IonMonkey" (which can apparently be disabled independently) seems to suggest they have no problems with that.

[1] I presume there is always a fallback interpreter as well.
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From my understanding there will be a single one-off UAC popup which will allow a service to be installed with higher rights - that service will then carry out installations from that point on, and will be able to do so silently, as it will have the rights to do so.
For the interested, here's the best non-brief intro/tutorial to Org-mode that I was able to find: http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html

It helped me immensely when I was just getting my feet wet with org-mode.
I'm going based on what I see in my traffic, you're right, it could be wrong, but in my experience it seems to be true.
OK, I am convinced that I should take a look.

The "fluff" I was talking about is all the contentless puff comments that appeared, couched in un-HN-ish language: I guess they are a fan club from some SEO social network or another.
Huh? No kidding. You think I misread it?
I would argue that it is also difficult to reconcile the idea that these worlds are flip sides of a coin with the idea that there are fundamentally different assumptions made about the data.

Indeed I would further argue that the the awkward handling of NULLs in SQL is in part because it assumes too open of a world.
That's not really what I meant. We sift through hundreds of pitches every day, and only some are interesting. Of those, we'll go with the one that agrees to an exclusive, given a choice, it's that simple.

And again, nothing prevents us from covering startups later.
It is a big deal. Sometimes :)
Firefox also upgrades plugins automatically, provided they pass a bunch of automated tests. Unfortunately, it seems many don't.

The openness of their API is certainly a two edge sword; in one way, it lets developers dig deep in the browser's internals, which means addons can be immensely more powerful than on Chrome; on the other hand, it means they have a dependency on those same internal APIs.

They've launched the Jetpack SDK as a stable API for addons that doesn't require browser restarts to install them, but almost no one uses it:|
> Whereas Chrome has a stable extension API, Firefox really breaks at least one very popular plugin withe each "release."

It's not really the API which breaks, it's the versioning.
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Last time a polish newspaper featured an article about Indect, they wrote that Indect is going to infer your intentions from cameras before they even occur to you, and call the military for intervention (seriously!). There's a bit of minority-report-like fear in the news.

EDIT:

Source: http://www.polskatimes.pl/fakty/kraj/384367,inteligentny-sys...

One of the paragraph says about brain-wave reflection registered by computers that will be used to determine criminal intentions. And no, it doesn't seem to be intended to be a joke. God, I hate this kind of journalism.
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There's only one downside. If you generate your password based on a phrase and add the service name to that, it could be easily guessed in other services.

If you use RedBananasFlyReallyHighAmazon for Amazon and RedBananasFlyReallyHighPayPal for PayPal (which, by the way, doesn't work, as PayPal for whatever reason blocks the word PayPal), one could guess the password from the other service, if one gets compromised.

Ultimately, you can only hope for the service to store the password hashed and salted, but in reality, that is not always the case or there's some novice programmer trying something out and all passwords are logged in plaintext somewhere else, while the database stores them hashed and salted.

But generally, I prefer this approach, as it provides a lengthy password, different for every service and easy to remember.
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It is a step in the good direction, but there are still too many datasets where the best available version under an open licence is from the US (that's often the case for french geographical data).
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How was your grandmother's quality of life in those last 8 years after the doctors said she had just a few days left?

As for "The doctors gave him 6 months to live and that was 5 years ago," keep in mind that you get a horribly biased sample. People don't generally go around saying "The doctors gave him 6 months to live and he died 6 months later," even if that may happen far more often.
I think it's in a separate .exe from firefox.exe specifically for that reason, i.e. so the browser doesn't get blamed (or crashes) when dealing with crap plugins. I'm not sure if Firefox can kill off that process (and reclaim memory) when no plugins are running.

The other browsers should have the same problem, right? They have to run Flash somehow.
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That's a problem with cell-phone providers who overcharge for SMS. An SMS is almost free nowadays, in some cases it actually is free since it goes over channels that would otherwise go unused. SMS seems like a good, cheap, ubiquitous solution for most of the developed world.
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I don't quite see the argument for don't get comfortable, no supporting facts either, not even anecdotal evidence - quite the contrary, he says that he waisted time, even though revenues had risen.

Am I missing anything? This makes no sense.
This is a lot more data than I expected for a launch! I guess they wanted to get a lot of stuff organized before going public with it. Looks like some useful data that wasn't previously publicly available (or available under a free-enough license), from some brief skimming. There's some discussion on the French OpenStreetMap list about using it in semi-automated fashion to improve French coverage on OSM, especially for things like landmarks and landforms outside of the major cities, or adding metadata to existing landmark nodes.
You're just wrong. There are several very good reasons why the 1999 mode is both useful and important, at least for the time being (and the next several years). Here is a brief list:

- Cross-testing. My team is responsible for roughly 150 enterprise apps of varying scale, platform, age, and quality, ranging from a few disgusting classic ASP apps to monstrosities we pay nearly $1m/yr in licensing fees for. It is neither feasible nor the best use of people's time to keep up with 12wk release cycles.

- Security. There are good reasons why not to allow local admin privileges for most users. Chrome is the first browser we've deployed that we've allowed auto-update to remain enabled, and if it didn't provide silent updates that didn't break extensions AND install in user space, we'd never have been able to do that.

- Antivirus. I'd have thought you'd know this based on the verbiage in your comment, but apparently not. Enterprise AV doesn't work like consumer AV. An orchestrating server software is installed, at which configurations are defined and from which rule sets are distributed to clients.

- Big ERP. As an example, Oracle ERP isn't compatible with every version of Java, and god help you if your users are running Linux and get confused between the official JRE and independent distributions like OpenJDK & Iced Tea. If your apps team has built extensions/interfaces to the ERP that also rely on Java, it's entirely possible or likely that they're dependent on a specific version & patch number, too.

I could go on for hours.

I don't think anyone -- at least none of my peers or colleagues -- would say rapid browser versioning & automatic releases are bad. Not being able to manage them can be risky. We have recently standardized on Chrome, but have deployed Firefox 8 as a fallback just in case, and our Windows users have IE8 (or 9, in the case of the few running Win7). For both Firefox & Chrome we included IETab in the MSI we distributed, customized with rules based on app compatibility. We also distributed a custom PAC file with proxy rules. Coincidentally, most of the web developers -- even if they prefer Chrome for browsing -- still prefer Firefox for dev & testing due to the superiority of Firebug & a few other add-ons.
It's a goldmine, there are 350k datasets available, and a lot of them that will not make some people happy (criminality by geographic zone for example).

It opens possibilities to create a really nice multi-factor (e.g. crime, pollution, education) "best place to live" application.

A lot of the data is available in a very manageable CSV, sadly some is only available in XLS that may be a bit harder to manipulate programmaticaly.
I've been out of the perl world for a few years, but seeing all those familiar terms makes me feel a bit nostalgic. Also I just appreciate the article as an example of open source working.
I used to sleep less than 5 but I realized I am way more productive if I sleep 8-9 even 10.
http://www.nhsconfed.org/Publications/Documents/Management%2...

> 59 per cent of managers and senior manages are female and three quarters of entrants onto the NHS Management Training Scheme over the past five years have been women.
I can't find any public headcount figures, but their weekly meeting notes often show multiple new hires for many weeks now (unsure about the amount of departures). I'm guessing part of the faster improvement is that they've increased headcount and these people are becoming productive.
My native tongue is German, I had English as my first and French as my second foreign language and also had quite a few years of Latin in school and I am dabbling in Asian languages just for myself.

I can see how Latin will probably not help with English much (and with French I couldn't see it either) but in comparison German has a LOT more grammatical possibilities and rules and they are very much like Latin except for maybe 2 cases and a few other Latin oddities. This probably makes German comparatively harder for a native English speaker..

The way we had to study Latin was very analytical, never like a spoken language but like dissecting word by word until you could finally understand the sentence. So through studying Latin vocabulary and grammar like that, you got a different and actually excellent insight into your own German mother tongue. And a lot of words, vocabulary and expressions (also in English) at least have Latin (if not Greek) roots.

Some university degrees used to require you to have had Latin in school, medicine was one of those.

The more interesting part of Latin, however, is reading all the great writers and learning about the times they lived in. In a modern Latin class, this should get much more emphasis, even if it happens at the expense of pure language analytical skills.
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Here's a presentation about it from Sylvia Johnigk at 27c3 last year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jerN8iSXCc

One of the contractors on the project turns out to be in the audience and there is some heckling. It is interesting.
As far as I can see, it's not different from all the other solutions. When you logged in to Hacker News you had to notice that there are tons of already working alternatives out there. It's also one factor authentication and requires password. So why not to use OpenID, Google, Facebook? Because it's linked to browser, it's most probably possible to steal your identity. So it's not prefect solution either.
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Well, the US is actually the exception regarding GIS data; not France.
As would a pay-for-treatment medical system, like in the United State, which simply skews decision-making in a different direction.

(Or, if your uninsured/indigent, reduces the choices you have available to make a decision between anyway)
Compared to what? Are you using different browsers, or the same on different OSs?
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I was very pleasantly surprised by the security question system used by Ally Bank recently. They let you enter your own security question.

Why haven't they thought of this before!? I can come up with very good security questions that incorporate inside jokes with knowledge only I know and things I know I wouldn't share with anyone publicly.

These are things I will remember all my life and that nobody else will know (unlike say, my father's middle name).
Unfortunately, Ally asked me for answers to three pre-determined security questions right after.

But there is hope!
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Thanks, but I'm afraid I was snarky. Still, that was one fishing-for-lunch kinda blog entry, and deserved some kind of whimsical response.
Doesn't matter, the end-user result is still the same: the browser breaks on every upgrade.

It's beyond inexcusable that this is still not fixed, and I'm sure its part of the reason the userbase declined further.
Points * 1.25 / 100 = Dollars.

Assuming retail price for points purchased.
I so tire of this complaint. It's very consistent if you understand what it does. Think of Android Activitys in a stack. The back button pops off the stack. There, you're done. Unless an app overrides it in a broken way, that will explain all cases.

If you launch an app via the Launcher, it will try to restore state, and then the back button pops back through Activities to the "start screen". Likewise, if you're in an app and you go to a notification, the back button pops that notification's loaded Activity and you're returned to the app you were in when you clicked on the notification.
I know of a couple of websites that do this and the problem now is that I used the same question on multiple sites. I guess I could come up with a new one each time but that does actually take a bit of creativity..
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I also learn to be a programmer with languages like Scheme or Prolog (never really use those outside the classroom).

This experience give you a broader view of the possible solutions to a given problem, let's say it give you a complete toolbox rather than just a hammer.
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I'm pretty sure not all deaths are featured on this map. I checked stretches of road where I know there have been deaths near my spot of rural North Wales. Those deaths weren't on this map for some reason.
SNI doesn't work on IE on XP. It's still a big market, unfortunately.
I wonder if there's anything other than momentum holding Jetpack back. I would be interested in trying to get some add-ons ported just for fun. I do agree that the add-ons in Firefox are way more powerful; I like that Adblock on FF can block ads before they're even retrieved (leaving my Hulu experience punctuated by silence rather than noise).
That's true, and for more than GIS data, but it's nice to get alternate sources. Should improve both coverage and reliability, as well as reduce some systemic biases caused by which data is most available. For example, it's awkward that so many Wikipedia articles can only be illustrated with a photo of a non-American politician shaking an American president's hand, simply because no other freely licensed photos are available.
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Interesting information, but it doesn't support the assertion made by parent that experimentation has (often, it seems implied) been the root cause of poor bridge design implementation.
Traditionally, Americans applying to Ivy schools take the SATs sometime midway through their 3rd year of High School, when they're anywhere from 16-17. Many will take it this month.

Also, as you may know, many calculators today have a CAS, a Computer\Calculator Algebra System, that will gladly give responses as a surd or fraction (or even solve a differential equation). To my knowledge, College Board has yet to ban a calculator for a CAS.
why not just use dollars or cents directly?
Reading the text of the law[1], I'm surprised battery manufacturers haven't already filed an interstate commerce lawsuit.

States can usually place all the restrictions and requirements they want on retailers and residents, but trying to force out-of-state manufacturers to perform in-state acts like this is sticky.

[1]http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/materials_minerals_pdf/batterylaw...
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Most people aim to take rather than give and come from a place of insufficiency (not sure how that can help you) - maybe explains why business models based on donations don't work, and why Wikipedia is struggling.

Although very admirable, should've Sergey Brin (or Google) given more - how much is Wikipedia worth to Google?
I am not sure what you are calling a discrepancy. For a Database to guaranty the assumption in Halpin's definition, a database must guaranty all business rules and relevant facts are known, and followed.

Say we are going to insert a row in a database that has a foreign key, for Halpin's assumption to hold the database must verify that the foreign key is present and valid in the data set. If it doesn't we have violated the assumption. Same for the transaction quote you mention.

It is an assumption you make can make because it is a guaranty your database provides.
Exactly - because all of those solutions do not take into the account the possible active keylogger which might interfere with the "authentication code". In fact I think here in Belgium there was an incident where chunks of money were stolen from people.

I see what one of the commenters mentioned about the "extra gadget" - but I usually make internet payments at home - so no need to drag this gadget really. Plus, in theory I can use my friends' one - the gadgets are absolutely identical; the "something I have" part is on the card itself, which is in my wallet.
I believe this is the wrong approach. The law is mostly unenforceable, and I imagine it won't lead to a significant reduction in disposed rechargeable batteries as most people won't encounter the law on a regular basis. A better approach would be to do something similar to what is done with recycled goods; apply a tax to the product when it is first purchased and refund that tax if the product is returned at an appropriate facility.
this is microsoft's trojan horse that analysts aren't paying that much attention to in the living room wars (google/apple/etc)
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I'm pleased you posted the above. I visit the Highlands often (and love it) and realised that the locals drive incredibly quickly on these single-track roads - with passing places - and wondered what the accident rate was. After a few years I figured that they raced like crazy in the places where they could see and then braking sharply before corners. I bet the brake wear must be high!! Great place though!! I got married in Glenfinnan
I've always wondered----why can't you just install two browsers?

The old IE6 browser that can run your ancient intranet apps, and the new Chrome that can run the new SaaS apps. The new one auto-updates, and the old one doesn't.

Clearly IT departments are capable of supporting multiple programs since that's what they do when someone purchases native software instead of a ASP app.