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This is well known to anyone who does scent work with their dog.

I do a game called k9 nosework with my corgi. You take a qtip dipped in certain scents and hide it in boxes in the beginning then progressing to furniture and outside areas. The game is for the dog to find the qtip and identify; there's even a contest / sport [1]. If you decide to do the sport, the handler has to read the dog and decide if the dog is identifying a given bit of car or whatever as the location of the goal scent or if the dog is just sniffing. The point of this rambling is even the plain trainers that do k9 nosework know that the handler has to go blind and can't know where the scent is or the dog will learn to read the handler instead of learning to use its nose to find the scent. The idea that the police are unaware of this is ludicrous, since this sport grew out of nose training for police dogs, and it's a major training obstacle.

[1] http://www.funnosework.com/
Your "authority" is crap. The original article explicitly compared Finland not only with Norway but with individual US states that had similar population and percentage of immigrants. That's about as apples to apples as you can get, considering that US schools are primarily subject to state rather than federal guidelines, and Finland still came out ahead.

By way of supposed refutation, you present a source that is full of strong claims substantiated by little more than the most blatant cherry-picking. The author's "correcting for demography" is no more than throwing out the data he doesn't like. Ignoring the fact that the immigrant factor has already been examined, he pulls tricks like comparing second- and third-generation immigrants in Finland to native Swedes. Notice how the obvious comparison between native Finns and native Swedes isn't made, because it wouldn't support his conclusions. Then he goes on to say "In the case of America, 99% of the population originates from other countries" and suggests that we compare such loosely-defined American immigrants to people in their home countries - without regard for such things as economic differences between the countries. After arbitrarily excluding Asians because they pull the results up, Hispanics because they pull the results down, and undeclareds for no methodologically sound (or even fully explained) reason, he comes up with a highly suspect graph purportedly showing how the US "beats" most of Europe.

Here's the kicker: even after cooking the data that much, Finland still comes out well ahead of the US. No matter how hard he tries, he still can't manage to reverse the original conclusion. In the end, citing that does more to discredit your position than to support it.
This makes no sense.

If I declare that tomorrow I'm going to launch a satellite, without going through official channels, I go to jail.

If I don't announce it beforehand and just launch, then I'd better hope I don't start a nuclear war.
>So it's not about closed-source or open-source, but rather it's about trust.

And that's my point. How can I trust someone who's unwilling to show me the source of their software and denies me my basic freedoms?

What I am not saying is that Free Software should be blindly trusted - that would be stupid and reckless. What I am saying is that for security[1], proprietary software cannot and must not be trusted, under any circumstances. You cannot even verify what the program you are using does? It's not secure, full stop.

And again, it's a massive difference between hiding a backdoor in a binary blob as opposed to essentially trying to hide it in plain sight. It's possible, but highly unlikely to go unnoticed for a prolonged amount of time. And if it is found, it will probably be fixed pretty much instantly as per Linus' Law.

Finally, corporations and businesses are bound to law for the most part. If they are required (or ordered) to include a backdoor for the FBI or NSA, they will most likely have to oblige. Not so much for Free Software. You essentially cannot force such a backdoor since even if the original maintainers include it, the project will just be forked, and law enforcement - to put it bluntly - can't do shit against it.

[1] And arguably everywhere else, too, but I'd prefer to stay on topic.
There's some discussion of this in the notes from their release announcement: http://xph.us/2011/04/13/introducing-doozer.html
An interesting TED talk on the more general effects of equality that talks about many of the issues you raise. It is titled "How economic inequality harms societies" [1] (link below). Looks at correlations between income inequality (defined as the average income of the top 20% / average income of the bottom 20%) versus measures such as homicide rate, mental illness, social mobility, high school dropout rates, prisoner counts, infant death, etc. All the data is both compared on a country level and on a US state level.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html
Gosh, a lot of harshness here for such a simple and nice thing that this guy did.

A kid loves his dad, his dad makes some good songs, so he decided to show him that you could sell them online without a lot of complications.

He referenced Louis CK, which I think is appropriate. Different scale, but in the spirit.

I'd like to see more authors, artists, and musicians do this. It would be quite a poke in the eye to the DRM-loving companies that are pushing SOPA right now if they saw that indie artists can thrive without them.
When he was vocally making the rounds at USENIX in the mid 80's telling everyone that soon you'd be able to get UNIX with source code for free instead of paying AT&T five figures I don't know anyone who thought he would pull it off and there were a lot of jokes.

Even though his project got bogged down lots of other activity sprang up. BSD dropped some code in '89 and then things went crazy in the early 90's.

I'm sure you meant about security, though. I doubt the blog spammer had anything in mind, he was pretty uninformed on the subject.
What!? Try to play the other side, at least.

Whack-a-launcher is way easier than whack-a-satellite.
> Attacking the general (innocent) populace for the faults of their government/military?

Generally agree but with one exception -- in places were the government claims it represents the people and most people agree with that. Then everyone who votes basically shares the guilt of what the government does.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned anything about CJK glyphs. I still use Droid Sans as my terminal font, both because I like to program in it and that it had really good CJK support. I haven't read anything mentioned about that with Roboto - I hope they didn't end up ignoring that.
Right. If one expert can make a compelling case to a jury, that jury will set a precedent for future defense lawyers. In fact, I'd be surprised if it isn't already the case in some jurisdictions.
In NSW, police with dogs are greatly disliked: http://www.nswccl.org.au/issues/sniffer_dogs.php

tl;dr: Dogs weren't effective, people were harassed, records say ineffective, ombudsman called on government to withdraw the abusive powers.
The article mentions another difference between the Finland and the US that is equally extreme and probably more directly related to results:

"teacher training programs are among the most selective professional schools in the country"
Well, actually, Anonymous didn't really chose the name - it was a joke made on default "Anonymous" username on 4chan. And it really grew somehow organically into this point.

That's what I don't like about people saying "You are not true Anonymous". First hackers under the name "Anonymous" posted other people MySpace passwords on 4chan and put blinking lights on epilepsy website. And the whole scientology movement was first meant as a joke, as a reaction to the leaked Tom Cruise video.

Really, people calling other people "not true Anonymous" are hypocritical. I think.
There have been other studies with similar results, e.g. http://norml.org/news/2011/12/15/false-alert-rate-for-drug-d...
It is mostly to cover their behinds not really to protect your data. When it comes to litigation they basically want to point to a piece of paper with your signature on it and say "see they agreed to be compliant" it is not our fault, we did all we could.
Yeah I've noticed that too. Extreme types on both sides think this way. My favorites are the ones who swing from one to another. Lots of hard core right wingers started out as communists. David Horowitz comes to mind. PJ O'Rourke too, though he seems more sensible.
To be fair... The classes were a joke. We wrote the same mortgage payment calc in Java, VB, and SQL. In other words, college programming is a waste of time.

iOS taking twice as long had little to do with Objective-C, although I do find the language frustrating at times. But that's just like any other language I guess. If I had a dollar for every time I cursed at Javascript...
>>demonizing countries like Syria

How can you "demonize" that type of brutal regimes? What more can you say about them? That Assad eats children?

>>One could say it all depends on your stance vis-a-vis Israel.

>>the ruling Saudis will be quick to repress it and assure Israel none of this will happen again

Sigh, so Saudi Arabia is pro Israel? :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_Arab_world#...

This is a model of what happens there without conspiracy theories:

Saudi Arabia is needed as an ally by the US. It is called "realpolitik" -- all countries, including democracies, use it and lie about it. (The difference with democracies is that they do support human rights, as long as it doesn't cost too much.)

North Korea sells/sold nuclear tech to Syria/Iran; are you really claiming they have "neutral" relations with Israel?

And so on... please don't write this kind of thing on HN.
Teachers are held in high regard in China too.
Sounds like a great way to get distracted every few minutes!
Sorry, but the part about picking Android over iPhone is just bullshit. Android is totally open source and it still came preloaded with Carrier IQ on it. I agree with the sentiment, but let's not be stupid, okay?
It's great to see the EFF recommending http://diceware.com for secure passphrase generation.
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In the simplest terms, this bill:

- outlawed billboards anywhere, period

- regulated the size of "corporate totems" (such as
McDonald's distinctive pole thing with their logo)

- regulated the size and number of times one can use
corporate branding on their business's façade

It's also important to note that sites that had been protected by previous acts as cultural heritage are exempt from this bill, which means we still have a few (rather charming) exceptions around.

São Paulo wasn't horribly polluted by billboards to begin with, compared to every other large city. This bill, on the other hand, had such extreme impact... we grew used to it very quickly.
A very good example of Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.
What part of calculus came out of US R&D? Or do they skip that and go directly to cell phone engineering in high school now?
Can you give me some examples of specific predictions he made that you feel are most prescient?
Other than prototyping new JS features (or to say you did it), what's the use? It will never come close to being fast enough to be a viable alternative, like PyPy is.
IMHO, the bar is currently set way, way too low. In the domain the iPhone was in, there was a very large amount of "must have" features for a product to be something that could succeed in the market. (Email, web, phone, SMS, etc.) In other domains, the amount of features for this is certainly lower. But, the bottom line is you should be shipping stuff you should be proud of that can stand on its own legs. The "embarrassed" point gets overemphasized and usually is misinterpreted to mean to ship garbage against your better judgement.
Yeah, but what is Pingdom hitting? I.e., is it the front page of each "app" or is it running something per app that tests the entire stack?
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ISTR several years ago seeing a study showing that racial differences are practically nonexistent for students at military schools (that is, children of military parents who go to schools on base).
Well, when this happens you could do ctrl-shift-f2 and get into a shell and see if you could work out what is missing. But for me the easiest way was to boot into a live usb, this way you are able to access the file system where your installation is and the just transfer the files.

I did get a error message when I edited the kernel boot (press e in GRUB) and was able to see which file did cause the first hiccup. But it could be dozens of files corrupted.

The files was: /usr/lib64/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
and the error message was that it was to short.

After knowing that and with a internet connection (I run on a 3g dongle, couldn't get it connect via terminal) I could reinstall the pixbuf packages and hope that that was the only file corrupted (not likely from what I got).

As for a correct way, I don't know. One thing in windows that is good (and I don't know if there is this functionality in linux) is that you can just restore the system to a earlier state. The one thing I think linux is lacking, if it doesn't exist.
So Louis C.K. riffs on the online world's hatred of DRM, and it's cool, but a fellow programmer riffs on Louis C.K.'s success to help his street-performing musician dad, and it's disgraceful? I think both are cool.
at least they will learn to hate technology instead of the us.
I have a laminated wall map of Oregon from Raven. It sure is pretty but a bit lacking in details that the Imus and Benchmark State Atlases provide.

I might have to get one of the Raven maps for Texas, though. Thanks for the reminder -- I'd totally forgotten about them!
Wow, very nice. Congrats on putting the course into practice!
Louis CK's experiment was hailed by many people as a proof that independent artists can produce themselves and distribute their stuff successfully using the net. What is disgraceful about making an experiment to see if it would work for a non-celebrity?
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i can see some possible for this where you could add support to your application for plugin development or even macro-type scripting within a sandbox.
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> Many R books are organized like a statistical text.

Can anybody suggest one of these? I'd like to learn statistics and I find playing with a language is a great way to learn a domain.
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The devil is in the details. There is no way to know for sure what level of features or polish is truly going to yield unbiased results. It could be that if you were to add that 11th feature, you'd have hit the sweet spot where the product clicks for the consumer. The catch is that there's really no good way to know if it was the 11th or 12th feature that was necessary for you to get there. If your initial MVP with only 10 features fails, how do you know to plug in the 11th or just throw in the towel on that idea altogether?

My biggest beef with the lean startup philosophy is it seems to encourage engineers away from working on deep, hard problems for a long time. It's all too easy to release something basic too early, see it inevitably "fail", and decide to "pivot" based upon this. I feel this is often a symptom of a deeper disease: either not having courage in your convictions or not building something that you could see yourself (or someone you know) using regularly. In short: in creative endeavors it is sometimes healthy to have bias in your views based upon intuition and not direct evidence ("I don't care what the A/B test said, we're going with this idea anyway") because sometimes this intuition can lead you down corners that break you out of local minima up to another plateau.
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Of course there is a concentration on biotech & the medical industry. I know of a couple of startups that focus on harnessing all the documentation the medical industry generates. But no that is not all there is here. ExactTarget, Cha-Cha, Angie's List, etc.
I would say this whole thread took a wrong turn with noduerme's deeply rude, ignorant, arrogant an plain racist post. We would all have gained something had it never existed.
> The difference being that the people involved wouldn't be aware there was oil under their feet ...

In the modern sense of appreciating its immense value, possibly, but factually incorrect as a general statement:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_petroleum#Early_hist...

http://www.cyberistan.org/islamic/islmoil1.html
If I were to guess [wrongly, it turns out], I'd say grokking Interface Builder (or whatever it's called now that it's in Xcode) might have been the issue.

IB seems to be a stumbling block, given how many Mac development newbies post to mailing lists asking how to avoid using it to build interfaces.

Maybe because it doesn't generate code? And sometimes people have difficulty working out how their code relates to the objects in IB, and how you connect the two, and how the objects in a nib communicate to objects in other nibs.

Hell, I've been using IB and Objective-C since 1992, and am still figuring out the new Xcode 4 IB.
1. Brown (touristic) signs are still a bit rare here, but they're always bi- or tri- lingual. Most other road signs are pictorial and follow international standards. Street signs show the name of the street in big, readable type. That said, even São Paulo denizens get lost here pretty often (and Brazilians from other towns even more so).

2. Ads weren't that localized to begin with. Billboards usually advertised appliances, commodities, magazines... not nearby places of interest. So they could have been anywhere, really, they were just "visual pollution" really. (I suppose by saying this I'm confirming your hunch?)

Concerning #2 still: when the bill got passed, the government started selling advertising space in the back of buses and inside the metropolitan transport system (trains and stations). I'm not sure if this is on purpose, but these ads have usually been far more localised (relevant to the route of the vehicle or the vicinities of the stations) than the billboards they somewhat replaced.
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It would be reverse engineered pretty quickly.

Reverse engineering code is pretty hard - but that sounds like a lot of motivation.
How long did you wait for your ride?
How long would you have had to wait for an alternative ride?
What's your time and comfort worth?

I'll assume you knew what the base price was, and where willing to pay that. Where was your maximum price that would cause you to find an alternative ride?
Congratulations, Peter. Impressive.
It's miscalculations like this that create most of your enemies. The US needs to act more responsibly.
At least the file, hosted on hacked sites, called israeli.rar, is without a password.
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Somehow I don't think this really counts as "written in JavaScript."
No, point of view has little to do with representation. For example, the gradual acceptance of abstract reasoning in mainstream culture is said to be responsible for the steady increase of IQ scores over the last century, causing testmakers to constantly shift the curve to keep the center score at 100.

But I don't think that was Kaye's point, either. I think he was saying if you have the correct perspective you will make better choices than smarter people who don't. Rather than decimal notation vs. Roman numerals, consider DynaBook vs. "computers". For some (easier to come up with) negative examples: People who realized that everything done by timesharing would migrate to the desktop were able to escape dying industries before they collapsed. Bye, DEC. Ditto for people who realized that performance of personal computers would overtake workstations. Bye Sun and Silicon Graphics.
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He's OK with that kind of firmware - as long as the code can not be updated the circuit is considered a black box.

He doesn't ask for open source hardware either, so firmware directly tied to hardware is considered hardware.
Thanks. Makes me wonder if there's a startup in there somewhere, for converting pdf to mobi or even a device optimized for reading pdfs.

I respect pdfs for their Postscript origins but man do I hate getting a pdf link, hate waiting for them to load, hate reading them on my computer. And yet much of what I want to read is locked inside them.
but what is the idea behind drinking milk before and after exercise?

If you look at the recommended macro percentages (carbs/fat/protein) for pre/post workout drinks milk matches it almost exactly and is typically cheaper than protein shakes.

Wouldn't you be more likely to regurgitate your stomach's contents by drinking milk before exercise?

Believe or not, your body can learn to deal with it. Look at ultra-marathoners who can eat pizza while on the run.
I'm curious about how your experience compares to mine: more often than not (say four times a week?) I see at least one of those indoor media terminals blue-screen dead. At any rate, their content is 100% generic (the only exception I ever saw was at the Daslu megastore's elevators).

Doing indoor media "right" seems to be a yet unsolved problem in São Paulo. And still I'm not sure how relevant these terminals are in the smartphone- and tabled-filled environments they're usually spotted.
A product or service that saves you time or hassle has value.

If you understand that and value your time, you'll pay for services that actually deliver value.

If you don't, you'll spend hours trying to save pennies.

So if you've effectively communicated the value of paying for the better service, your paying customers are naturally smarter to begin with and require less help.
>> How can you "demonize" that type of brutal regimes? What more can you say about them? That Assad eats children?

I was referring to the _relative_ treatment. I thought this was clearly implied. Syria's regime is definitely not above blame. But neither is Saudi Arabia and it deserves an equal share of 'demonization' by the government and the media.

>> Sigh, so Saudi Arabia is pro Israel? :-)

You musn't mistake public policy that carries no weight with actual behavior. Egypt under Mubarak was trumpeted as anti-Israel, but was clearly colluding with them in Gaza affairs. Saudi Arabia is unique in that there is a strong powerful extremist movement that needs to be placated by the ruling family. This makes for more empty talk that confuses many.

>> North Korea sells/sold nuclear tech to Syria/Iran; are you really claiming they have "neutral" relations with Israel?

They too have had their share of trouble as we all know, but I may be wrong on this one.

>> please don't write this kind of thing on HN

What kind of thing? When you see remarks like those of noduerme being upvoted, it's important that people understand that our governments are just as responsible for sustaining the abuses going on in the MidEast so that they don't misdirect their hate towards muslims/arabs.
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> I also really hate how you can't allow or deny any given permission

Sure you can. There's a nice big cancel button.

Also, the new version of the dialog allows you to remove most permissions on-the-fly if you don't like giving them. You can't remove the basic set of data or the e-mail requirement, but you can remove things like user likes etc.