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> Global worming, simplest explanation for the 100+ million direct and indirect measurements of atmospheric chemistry and temperature we have taken that fits in with the basic physical laws.

Umm, you're missing an important detail. The additional absortion is orders of magnitude too small to produce the predicted temperature increases. The predicted temperature increases are based on feedback and some other effects, which took a decade off.
The Internet giants could come out and cry about how congress is killing the people's future as well the children's future.

Extended: They are willing to take a day's loss and a loss of a politically neutral reputation for this brief event because such anti-Internet bills will harm the people and children. They believe it's wrong that the biggest support for the bills are from groups with a conflict of interest for death of sharing instead of adapting to newer technology that empowers people.
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This reminds me of MySpace's method for searching messages by downloading as much as they could to the client and storing in local storage.

Unfortunately for me, as mentioned (in my second response), I need to search over 6million place names, and then I need to take the result of these locations, and figure out the number of documents that have been "Tagged" as being inside of them to display an interface such that you have place name followed by item count.

I could definately save a small selection of the first XXX possibility locations though. And regenerate this every day to reflect recent changes.
The pop band Devo have been pointing out since the 1970's that people seem to be getting dumber as technology advances.
They might argue that it is their idea, I argue its mostly in the execution, which you will be a large part of.

Right the mantra around here that ideas are worthless exist for a reason. I would go even further and evaluate what the other person will be doing while you are building the product. If the answer is be the idea guy until it is done then he is going to market it, then I would argue that even 50% is too low. Because you could build it, and then get a sales guy to push it for 10% of the take after it is done. Now if he will be doing business dev and other work while you are working then I would say 50-50 is the right split.
The Huawei is available for $80 unlocked, and without contract in Australia [1]. It's a pretty decent - if low end - phone[2].

[1] http://www.uniquemobiles.com.au/Items/huawei-u8150-blk?&... and http://www.uniquemobiles.com.au/Items/huawei-u8180-blk?sck=1... - unsure what the difference is.

[2] http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/review/mobile_phones/huawei/id...
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Correct me if I'm wrong but there is no employment obligation for 18 months. You go through the same interview process and you can get fired just like any other employee. This is no different than hiring any other employee.

> Long terms lead to more conservative hiring, leading to less placements overall.

I would argue that less higher-quality placement is a Good Thing.

> From the student side, ...

As a student, your goal is to start building your value and getting proportionally compensated as quickly as possible. Since most value as an engineer is gained well after the first few months of ramp-up you experience at every new job, you end up getting very minimal value out of a bunch of 4 month terms. Not to mention you won't be getting paid nearly as well as someone who is not labelled as a "student".

18 months is marginally better because you're actually growing your skillset, integrate as an important and dependable part of the team, and gain valuable engineering experience. On the other hand, you're still under-compensated and it's trickier to switch jobs half way through if you realize that you've made a mistake.

Finally, my argument is that the most optimal path is skip coop/PEY and find a relevant job right out of school. Even if it's not the best job in the world. You'll be far better off sticking around for 12-18 months, quitting, and getting a second real job, than to do 18 months of PEY and getting your first real job. Both in terms of real valuable experience and compensation.

When big companies look at your "industry experience", the counter doesn't start until you're no longer a student. I've been building and selling software since I was 14, but none of that went into account with HR of big companies when they were deriving the offer for my salary or position. Negotiation and positioning, on the other hand, did make a big difference. But that's another story.

The best value for coop/PEY/internships is to students who lack confidence or experience in finding a job right out of school, or they simply have no idea what they want to do when they grow up or want to drag out their student status for as long as they can. These are all very valid reasons.
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See the response I gave to potatolicious. Because you didn't know what you wanted to pursue and wanted to sample around, I'd say you're within one of the cases where coop is a good value.
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Agreed, and I worked on some really cool large-scale projects when I got my first job right out of school.

I didn't have great grades, I didn't have the top scores on coding sites, but I did have some personal projects and I networked, interviewed at a lot of companies, got a few offers and chose the best one.
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> What Americans typically refer to as "salsa" is not interchangeable with guacamole.

It is for people who don't want either one.

This effect explains why different people see different amounts of inflation.
Totally agree with this. By the time I'd graduated I'd spent 4 months at a large communications company, 4 months tutoring college-level math, 4 months coding in an astronomy/astrophysics lab and 4 months writing medical physics code at a privately funded research institute.

Getting to experience 4 different work environments/subjects (in 4 different cities) was much more valuable to me in the long run than it would have been sticking at one place for 16-18 months. Those varied experiences also look great on a job/grad school application.

Many of the programs do (did?) allow you to go for an 8month co-op as well.
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Sure, there are bad examples, but it is still a terrible language. It has a horrific type system, encourages the use of globals, is the epitome of TMTOWTDI to the point where there's still no standardized module/object system which impedes collaboration and lacks language features like operator overloading that are present in most mainstream languages today.

I'm not saying you can't write good, elegant code in JS, I'm just saying that you have to fight the language to do it.
Thanks! I added a few to the post and attributed you. I'll be sure to use the icon sites in the future.
No I haven't yet. It's just what I observe when testing it myself. That's the concern, I could port this to node.js for example, but it might take me 4 days to migrate the environment correctly, which could be wasted if I don't see a significant improvement.
I'll ask them about that (AFAIK this issue is still outstanding), but I'm talking about a major publisher with good connections at Apple, and a game that has been in the top 25 grossing of ALL iOS apps for much of the last 3 months, and so either they don't consider this to be a "critical" enough bug (only 1% of users, remember), or they simply don't know about that procedure.

In which case I'd also like a link to the "expedited review" page. :)
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Maybe. You have to look at how many other customers agree on the "this is nice" and are paying for it, and how many of them would agree on the "what I really need is" and pay for that.

It's common for a basic product to satisfy many customers, who then all have slightly different needs for additional features. Taken to extreme, you end up with Microsoft Word.

On the other hand, you have Spolsky's claim that the #1 way they increase sales is by adding new features.

Finding the right balance is difficult, so it's easy to say that it's a common cause for loss of focus by entrepreneurs.
I think that Node.js should have been implemented in a language that supports generators or coroutines as it's a more natural paradigm than callbacks.

I also think that rather than passing in callbacks, functions that do I/O should return Deferreds which allow for more elegant error handling and better flow control.
I agree except for the relatively few people who are familiar with this type of discourse. Those that are good at it can destroy the original framing attempt and reframe it for their own purposes. Newt Gingrich is quite good at this.

I simply don't have the verbal chops to compete. Newt studied rhetoric as I recall.
I'm wondering whatever happened to Wikipedia's blackout. Since they're the first ones to actually put forth a serious blackout suggestion (as opposed to this one guy's just announcing a day), shouldn't people be coordinating with them?
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There are bad tests.

However, we have a problem. Most of us would like kids to get as much education as possible given the money we spend. Very few of us are willing to spend money on "education" that doesn't actually educate kids.

So, how do you propose we figure out how to spend money on education?

If your answer is "spend more", my question is "how do I know what I'm getting for said money?"
> Why does a white/asian guy with a 3.5 GPA have a lower future potential than a black/hispanic guy with a 2.6 (all else held equal)

As far as I know, no one is arguing that he does. Additionally (and I could be wrong here as I don't know where to find the data), I suspect that that affirmative action is never responsible for a white/asian guy with a 3.5 GPA getting passed over for a black/hispanic guy with a 2.6 (all else equal). A more fair question would be:

"Why does a white/asian guy with a 1250 SAT have a lower future potential than a black/hispanic guy with a 1225 SAT (all else held equal)?"

...which is easier to answer. There is a marked difference in SAT scores among races, and a lot of debate about the cause amongst people who know a lot more about this stuff then myself (and given the wording of your comment, I expect yourself as well). At the very least, it's reasonable to suspect that there may be some racial bias in the wording of SAT questions.

Obviously, the issue of unequal opportunity amongst races is huge and complex, and I don't pretend to know how affective affirmative action is at addressing it. What I do know, though, is that it's not as cut-and-dry as you seem to be implying.
As a former Waterloo co-op (and founder of a YC company), I'd have to say that the 4 month co-op program added a LOT of value. I learned more in each of those 4 month co-op terms than each of my school terms. Additionally, from all my interviewing experience (i.e. interviewing for full time hire's), those that come from a co-op program (any co-op program, even UofT's) are way better prepared and have much more practical knowledge.

This is a core reason why we still recruit heavily in Waterloo, for both co-op's and full-times. In fact, we're going to be in Waterloo on January 19th, 2012 for a tech talk with YC and a number of other YC companies. Please feel free to drop by if you're in town.
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That's all reasonable enough, but does it really excuse this UX?

1. User visits website with late-model hardware/OS.
2. Website says "this site requires browser foo."
3. User installs browser foo and reloads website.
4. Website says "error - check system configuration."

A technology demo with highly-specific client requirements, especially on the web, especially when the demo plays the look-mom-no-plugins card, should try to enumerate the actual requirements. In this case, the requirement that after installing latest Chrome, the fool at the keyboard navigate to chrome:flags and hit the big "turn WebGL on" toggle.

I understand why these types of doc omissions happen, but it's really a pretty serious bug. Every user that hits 1-4 above is a user who is actively dissuaded from caring about the technology that the rest of the site was designed (at non-trivial expense) to promote.
For all the physical pieces of the company, I know he sent an email to the local tech-startup mailing list, at least. There's a pretty solid startup community here. For the digital assets, I really don't know, sorry. I assume it would be similar to seeking acquisition offers, but I'm definitely no expert.
I should refer you to the Feynman Series (from the Segan Series creator) http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL92F9FC91BBE2210D&...
The odds that a plaintiff would prevail in such a claim are close to zero. But defending against the claim would cost money. "Free" steps such as the BSD license give you a better shot at being able to stop the claim at lower cost --- think Spock with a Vulcan neck pinch, as opposed to Kirk having to slug it out out.
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couple of days back i started with writing a TFTP client+server program in erlang. the protocol is 'trivial' enough (to not get bogged down in complicated fsm's etc.) and still provides sufficient 'meat' to exercise core language features etc.

it is still going on, but is definitely great fun...
What a ridiculous statement. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of challenges that entrepreneurs encounter when starting or scaling a business here, but it's time to stop using the crutch of VC/Government/Telecom interference to support the assertion that Canada is "an absolutely horrible place to do a technology start up. The bottom line is that if you still think this is the case, you haven't been paying attention to what's been happening over the past few years in this country. Do the names Fixmo, Shopify, Achievers, Accedian Networks or BeyondTheRack ring a bell? How about HootSuite or FreshBooks? A Thinking Ape, Vidyard, Allerta, Upverter, Enflick, GoInstant, Wave Accounting, Well.ca, Chango...the list goes on and on - all world class companies run by entrepreneurs who spend their time executing, not complaining. Radian6 and Q1Labs sold for almost $1B combined - is that large enough for you??? Last time I checked none of those companies were being sued by RIM, being squeezed out of SR&ED credits by oil companies or being held in check by Rogers/Bell/Telus. We (iNovia Capital) have even funded some of them, and are proud to stand behind them and every other entrepreneur in Canada who are working their asses off to prove you wrong.
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A complete game that people love, and is growing like mad that is very smooth at 60fps.
It seems a pretty sensible decision to switch to a more suitable technology when you're only a couple of days into a project.
This was the case until the mid- 2000s (to the point where if you didn't take money out before New Years, you might find yourself penniless for a few days).

Over the last few years 24/7, 365 days/yr ATMs are have become much more common. As have ATMs that accept foreign banking cards. As has a more generalized acceptance of CCs.
The really tough part of picking a new language is learning the idioms.

If I handed you a book describing the French grammar and an English to French dictionary and told you to write some short stories, you might be able to put together something parseable by a Frenchman but you wouldn't be writing French.

I don't pretend to have a good answer except reading and modifying other people's code seems to help.
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(This is just my opinion.) I would argue that a company that comes out against the SOPA does it more out of interest in having control over its content, what it does and not having a monopolistic third-party shut them down. They do it for survival of themselves first.

I'm sure that most of them care about internet freedom (after all, companies are composed of people who have their own freedom of expression); and if it didn't affect them whatsoever, I'm sure that many companies would take a stand against the SOPA and we'd be in the same position as we are now.

Of course, companies that have supported the bill have done so out of interest in having control of their 'material.' So we have two different points of view, one for and one against. However, both come from a need for control of content (some would call it greed, but that has negative connotations which I don't feel like addressing.)

My comment that you replied to has nothing to do with companies supporting or not supporting the SOPA, for freedom or not, but rather that some politicians (see the ones who support the SOPA) see things from an individual standpoint: i.e., they support business freedom except when it interferes with either their supporters (MPAA, RIAA, etc.) or what they 'believe' in. In other words, they want their cake and they want to eat it too.
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I hope it was because of this: http://gosu-lang.org/comparison.shtml
Ask HN: Apple closes one eye for Flud duplicated apps?
Flud app has two distinct but exactly the same app under the same account. Did Apple closes one eye for them?
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Soooo because one person on Reddit said I should blackout my sites on 1/18/12 means I should?

I'll be a little more involved once I hear Google/Yahoo/Microsoft/Wikipedia/Facebook start mentioning dates.
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I'm a recent alumnus of the UW Architecture program. I know the faculty there are pushing hard to incorporate emerging technologies into the core undergrad curriculum and many of the graduate students there are doing really interesting work in computational design and UX.

Additionally I can't say enough good things about the co-op program. While I was there every single one of my classmates got a placement every term at a firm within our industry. The economy was better then, but most of us had our pick when choosing what city we wanted to work in abroad. And this is on top of the compulsory term at the school's Rome studio in 4th year.

Some of my classmates have gone on this year to create non-tech start-ups of their own, such as Our Paper Life (http://ourpaperlife.com/) here in Toronto and Factory Five (http://www.wearefactoryfive.com/) in Shanghai.

I wouldn't trade the education and the diversity of my experience there for anything.
"I don't mind that you're not a fan of Android, though I'm not sure you even have very well articulated the reasons you dislike it so much"

I don't dislike Android, I just don't think Google's version of it is particularly well-suited for users who aren't very computer literate.

"my only objection was your assertion that one is better than the other or that Android can't be perfectly suitable as a set-top operating system"

I didn't say Android can't be perfectly suitable as a set-top operating system, I believe it will be a great platform for set top boxes, especially once Amazon gets involved. I said that right now, Apple has the better platform.

"First it was Android will never take off on phones, then Android won't work on tablets, now Android is doomed on set-top boxes..."

I never said anything of the sort, feel free to browse my previous comments. In particular, I don't believe Android is doomed on set-top boxes.

""Dodgy" file formats?"

File formats of which it isn't clear whether they violate IP of others (like Theora). Containers that are primarily used to distribute pirated content in (like Merkava). Codecs that are installed with malware and browser toolbars (like Real). Pretty much all legally distributed movies are in MPEG-4 and h.264 formats, and all iDevices support those.

"No emphasis on security?"

There's little quality control in the Android Market and apps can be side loaded. That opens the door for all kinds of malware.

"How does an OS put "emphasis on content quality""

The OS doesn't, but we're talking about platforms. The iTunes Store and the App Store are curated. When you buy an iOS app, you can be assured it has no viruses. When you buy a movie or music track in the iTunes Store, you know what kind of file to expect -- which codec, resolution, and bitrate.
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There aren't any former actors, other than Franken (who was really a comedian, not an actor), in Congress. So I'm not really sure what you are talking about.
I wouldn't even call Github a start-up anymore. They're passed that phase.
I pointed out that a scantron can't discriminate. Now you are moving the goalposts.

A scantron cannot produce an equalized result because everything leading up to the test was already unequal.

I'm not moving the goal post - I'm simply pointing out that every goal post you set up (first it was college admissions, then it was scantron tests) is not arrived at from a position of equal opportunity. The "goal post" is prior to birth - every one has equal opportunity at that point, of course no one gets to choose to whom they're born. Once born, there is no more equality of opportunity.
Ask HN: What is the most compelling reasons to use Linux for development
I am using Linux for all my development work (C/C++/Python/Ruby). My friend, on the other hand, is using IDE (RubyMine) for Rails development in Windows. He was asking me "What's the advantage of using Linux for development work? I can work just fine with an IDE in Windows". I only could come up with superficial points like "command line is more flexible", "Linux has lots of tools to help development", etc.

What do you think is the most compelling reasons to use Linux for development vs Windows?
Of course, it's easy to fix. It just boggles my mind that they would have made that mistake in tmux to begin with when you consider that it's one of the main complaints people have about screen and tmux was supposed to be a "better screen".
which category does the candidates Google shoots for fall on? They're certainly not looking for "rock stars" as they work with "not cool" tech (eg. Java) and "get shit done" isn't really tested on their interviews (they test whether you have a good memory or great understanding of specific algorithms not always used by the "get shit done" jobs/people)
Is there really any shame on admitting that?
Couldn't disagree more. They're a successful startup, but definitely still a startup.
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Nope: see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3437898 or http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/military/bloope...