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The LG KP235 is a low cost clamshell phone with Bluetooth and a very basic digital camera which is available on a variety of networksAt 79 grams, the KP230/KP235 is a very lightweight phone, and although it is not the most attractive phone we have ever seen
I didn't expect Canada to have 3 universities in the top 13 in the peer review category. Good for us;)
I read a book that devoted a chapter to this topic not too long ago called Exposed by Mark Schapiro. The end of the book had dozens of pages of reference citations. I think you could find the documents you are looking for by checking it out.

Anyway, this sort of stuff has been under review in Europe since the late 90s so it's not a "new consumer scare". The EU passed a temporary ban on certain plastic additives there just before 2000 and have made it a permanent ban in 2005. Old news link-> http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20050706/ai_...
I didn't make it, but I have an idea:

Create a paid-enterprise model (think RescueTime) that tracks corporate rewards on credit cards. That way you could maximize reward usage and possibly save on overhead costs.
the problem is that there are very little details on how the money is being spent. All we have any knowledge of is how much is being spent. The less transparency, the greater the chance for stuff like skimming (assuming the players in the game act rationally).
It's got a QWERTY-slider.

Features are more important than attractiveness.
There are certainly problems. But the post is factually incorrect.
http://mog.com is a great music site that is more centered around the community writing about music as well as sharing it.
fine - it's actually going to be 7.4 trillion instead of 4.6 trillion
Recruiters' decisions have nothing to do with how you actually are as a candidate, but are usually made on somewhat spurious grounds. Apparently, this is also true at Google!

At least the blogger that is linked to got the tired "well uh we've decided you're good but you don't have enough experience hurrrrr" excuse instead of silent treatment.

To give them credit, they are probably shoveling through thousands of candidates, so it's very hard to actually give them all a proper chance, and there are positive consequences (narrow the pool) for cutting people out.
Original: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/big-bailouts-bigger-buc...
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I understand what you want, but was restraining myself not to say something harsher, because I found your question rather offensive.

What makes you think that a PhD who has spent 20+ years of education becoming an expert in some particular research specialty, is going to want to solve your core business problems on spec, for crap pay and zero equity? If you think this stuff is so easy that you just can contract someone to solve your problems "with 98% accuracy" the way you'd order a graphic design from eLance, then you have an extremely poor understanding of what a PhD is trained to do.

(In fact, somehow I doubt that you'd order a graphic design from eLance, because by now, most entrepreneurs know the value of developing an ongoing relationship with a skilled professional. A PhD is a skilled professional, too.)
That's one ugly phone. Times are changing, let's hope Nokia does not get stuck in the past.
It's exactly the opposite in my experience: people will either commit untested junk to whatever the working tree is (usually trunk) or keep a bunch of untested code unversioned in their working copy and hopefully get it checked in at some point.

Git moves the 'good enough?' check from commit time- which a) is harder to perform (since the codebase is changing under you) and b) forces a context switch - to merge/pull-from-developers time (which is much, much easier to manage with git.)

DVCS is basically a partial technological solution to a problem (change control) formerly solved by process- interaction between the change control authority and developers. With DVCS the change control authority can avoid having to interrupt development workflow as much, which is a good thing.
Is this any different to adwords auto optimization?
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Any ideas on Hacker News easter eggs that are / should be unlocked with points / credibility / seniority?

Here are a couple:

- upload an avatar?
- custom header?
Thanks. Noisetrade is pretty awesome.
All the expenditures on the right side of the '>' sign, with the possible exception of New Deal, were expenditures of consumption or large payments to foreign powers, in other words money your economy will never see again. Expenditures. The government guarantees in relation to this series of bailouts are more akin to investments - some of the money will be lost, but not nearly 4 trillion dollars.

This story is so factually incorrect I am tempted to flag it. It doesn't belong on the front page. It seems that a lot of people these days get angry about the economy without having any idea what they are talking about.

Also note that 4 trillion dollars (or even 7) is less than half your gross domestic product. The United States can actually guarantee that much money. You guys are all buying houses worth more than three times your annual pre-tax income, right? In relation, this is peanuts.

There are serious issues worthy of discussion in relation to US government intervention (for instance the lack of oversight, or whether it was a good idea in the first place), but this particular comparison is lame.
Branching is much, much more expensive in SVN than git (or any DVCS.) If you haven't grasped the immense value of cheap branches, nothing is going to make the inherent added complexity of DVCS (of which git has more than most, to be sure) sound good to you.

I branch at least several times a day when working on a project in git, and often throw them away quite soon afterward.
Maybe we pay attention because... they have interesting things to say?

Why discuss an ad hominem argument here?
I guess I would like to see some accounting as to why $2T in loans would be considered a cost. Surely somebody is figuring out at least a ballpark value of those loans.
As in, a phone that slides out to reveal a QWERTY keyboard? Because I've definitely seen phones with very similar features. If this is at all new then it's a very incremental change.

Features are more important than attractiveness

First off, there don't seem to be any new features here. That's why I was curious about its being on Hacker News. Second: there's a counterstatement to your claim, which goes something like "If they can't make the external nice, don't trust them with the internals either."
I've been programming since before that car was built (if my memory of VW history is correct), and I've never seen that picture before (and I've been on the net since the late '80s).
I wish Google had an API to retrieve Adsense click data for specific ads, you could easily implement the same 'genetic optimization' process and drive your revenue to their max.
AlanT is most definitely not nuts.
Gladwell is so popular now that we'd better get used to this. Gladwell himself has lamented the phenomenon, but there's no stopping it, I fear.
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"If you haven't grasped the immense value of cheap branches..."

Why does every defense of Git seem to begin with a personal attack on the intelligence and knowledge of the critic? Trust me -- I understand the value of branches. I branch frequently in Subversion, and have never had problems (however "heavy" the branches may have been).

The primary feature of Git is distributed development, not branching.
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If I ran into a black guy on the street and he mugged me then I'm sure going to remember it. In fact if the topic comes up I'll probably tell people "Don't run into black guys, they'll mug you".
Nice link. One of the comments also points to the "Case of the 500 mile email"

http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
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Sure. Sorry, I didn't take the time to work this out on paper before posting or I would have realized that the condition itself is wrong. The condition lcm(|X|,|Y|) != |X| instead should be that |Y| has some prime factor that |X| does not.

Here is an explanation with the new condition:

Let p be any prime factor of |Y| that |X| does not have. It follows from Euclid's First Theorem[1] that p cannot divide |X|^n for any n [2]. Since every integer (> 1) has a unique prime factorization, it follows that |X|^n can't divide |Y|, because the prime p divides |Y| but not |X|^n.

[1] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/EuclidsTheorems.html
[2] We are given that p does not divide |X|^1. Suppose that p also does not divide |X|^(n-1) for some n > 1. |X|^n = |X|^(n-1) * |X|^1, so by Euclid's First Theorem, if p divides |X|^n it must divide either |X|^(n-1) or |X|^1. We know it divides neither, so p does not divide |X|^n. By induction, this is true for all n > 0.
This only deepens the mystery!
Like I said, I understand your point, I was making another point about the use of the word "offensive".

I'm Eastern European. The logical place to extend that list of countries outside of South Asia would actually happen to be in Eastern Europe. While it would bother me a bit (even though it would be overall more politically correct), it would fall far short of offending me.
I kind of like things clean and pictureless. What do you mean by custom header?
Maybe I'm reading too much into it, or maybe you missed this point: In response to a post that talked about an outsourced team that didn't even have the technical expertise to handle simple CSS bugs, he said he wouldn't consider outsourcing to India and Pakistan, which implies that those places have the characteristics of not having the technical expertise to handle simple bugs.
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Ok, a less elegant one then, but one that works for a reasonably simple reason. f gives 1 to 5, if it gives 5, try again, and so on, until you have a number from 1 to 4. Then, do that mod 2. You have a random binary digit, that's unbiased.

Now use that process to get 3 binary digits. You get a random number from 0 to 7. If the random number is 0, start again... eventually you'll get a number from 1 to 7, and all numbers have the same chances.
Assuming Alan is using a Turing-complete language, how exactly do you propose to "just try all possible values"? Given an infinite loop, what values are you trying?

And it's a freshman problem to prove that the halting problem is undecidable. (It's also in about a million CS and math textbooks.)

You could always just say "To demonstrate that your program works, show the output of it running on itself, given this input..."
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Just fabulous.
We're actually working on both at the moment, and it's certainly not just a side project. Over time, the two companies will eventually each have an entirely dedicated staff.
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i think if he just wanted to hear himself talk, he'd either not follow anyone, or follow everyone that follows him and just ignore their updates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_analysis

imo they really should stop teaching the halting problem to freshmen. At least not without some practical results accompanying the theory.
I guess it's all in what you want.

An analogy: when I want to meet new people I usually go to parties that my friends are having because I figure that if my friends like the guests then chances are I will too. However, every now and then I go to completely random bars and gatherings because I want to be exposed to a completely new circle of people who have no common relationships with me or my friends.

Similarly in music, there are times when I want to discover things that are similar to what I have liked in the past, but also times when I want to discover things that are completely random and unrelated to anything I have ever heard or liked.
This happens a lot to me :-)

http://gridvm.org/images/hired.jpg
I'd be more willing to believe the death of the pixel is neigh when more people are using desktops larger than 1024x768, which still seems to be the minimum acceptable browser window size still.
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So I know it's generally bad practice to post your own blog entries, but I'm more interested in your thoughts than the karma. What do you think?
When I was working on Adonomics I built a system that does this across ad networks, similar to Project Rubicon.
I'm perfectly ok with the burden of proof being on the weasels pulling this shit.
'Grasped the immense value of...' isn't any more of a personal attack than 'apparently a lot of git users haven't heard...' :)

Branches (in the sense of SVN, p4, etc) are a subset of the functionality that distributed development entails (local history, cheap copy operations, fast merge, etc). You can get a ton of mileage out of git, hg, etc without any distributed collaborators.

The point remains, branching in SVN is much more expensive. There's no comparison.
Is this supposed to go to the first comment?
Seems like your business intern position is aimed at finding people from MBA programs. Is that correct?
There are some fiendishly good psd to html companies out there that produce good css very quickly. I think psd2html is the one I've used reliably in the past.
The title of the post is, "Schneier reviews: Here Comes Everybody". If the title had been "Smith reviews: Here Comes Everybody", it wouldn't have an upvote. It's newsworthy because of who wrote it, and comments about the newsworthiness of a story (and, if you read carefully, the content of the article) are germane to discussion.

We have to stop throwing around the term "ad hominem" as if talking about people and their authority is automatically out of bounds. We're a sprawling collection of personality cults, and the echo chamber affect is a real issue. Or am I not still reading Zed vs. DHH spats here?
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He got famous by writing "Applied Cryptography", a technical book about cryptography that is well regarded among laypeople and poorly regarded among practitioners. "Practical Cryptography", the book you cited (which he co-authored with Niel Ferguson, a well-regarded cryptographer), contains Schneier's own disavowal of "Applied".

"Applied" is "definitive" among laypeople and generalist programmers. "Practical" is an excellent book, but I dispute that it is in any way "definitive". More people have the evil red book on their desk than the good black book.
gosh, you really do need help! proxy error on click. :-/
Without arguing the point, can you explain why merge is much, much easier with git? I just want to hear what things you bring up.

I like git, and use it, but I'll be honest and say the only thing "killer" about it for me is github.
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Excellent list there. I think all of your issues are all things I also see as drawbacks to Perforce. I think the main breaking point out of your list would be the merging instability you mention, which we haven't had at either of my last two companies.

We do have merging issues in a different way, but it's always because someone used the wrong flag when merging the two or didn't properly create the initial branch. Still, this is significant anyway because merging/branching really needs to be easy to manage (i.e. hard to screw up) for a tool like this.

In the mega integrations, we came up with a few tricks to work around the file size limit-- often involving merging subtrees one by one from the target branch. This is often needed organizationally for us anyway because the teams/experts are often different when it comes to resolving those merges. It results in more changelists, but it tends to work out okay and the integration history is actually in a better state regarding a proper contact for discussing it later.

We wrote our own Perforce tools at our company for sharing code for code reviews, or some teams use user/feature/"pre" branches for that. I'd like to see that improve in Perforce, but it's been pretty bearable.

What I really want is something with the maturity of Perforce in terms of tools/API/integration/monitoring/history/etc but is built on the premise of needing to do lots of merges and branches easily. I know some major organizations have gone with things like Mercurial because it felt to them like it would mature the fastest in terms of corporate needs, but I've yet to see any of the distributed version control systems that has gotten over the curve: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gartner_Hype_Cycle.svg

I can't wait until they do, really, because the perspective that merging is central to version control is something I agree with.
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Cisco is the closest thing technology has to an industrial company. At least a few regulars here have to have worked on Tasman before. It's not what you'd call an "agile" place.
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'Grasped the immense value of...' isn't any more of a personal attack than 'apparently a lot of git users haven't heard...'

Touché.
How so? Even if it is just a loan, it is -- as the post says -- the largest outlay in American history. The other expenditures listed are just for comparison, to give a sense of scale.

Like the bailout amount, all the expenditures were made with the expectation that the country would be better off having made them; no attempt is made to calculate the value of the social and scientific dividends of the moon landing, for example. Only up-front costs are given, which are reasonable to compare to the up-front costs of the bailout.
There is very little information in this article. In fact, the headline pretty much sums it all up. A quote or two to put this in context would have been nice. The article implies the shutdown is a cost saving measure, but provides absolutely nothing to back this up. It doesn't even mention whether or not employees will be paid for the four days. For all we know, they could just be giving employees a little more time off to enjoy the holidays.

[EDIT]
There's a better article on Reuters that least attributes the news to an email from a Cisco spokesperson.

http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/reuters/SIG=1165jh9e...
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Raise your hands if you believe Cisco is closing to "give employees a little more time off to enjoy the holidays". Anyone?
A founder is unlikely to abandon his startup (especially one that took venture funding.) And you don't want them to be working on a different company on the side or focusing attention elsewhere.
Umm... The other half of the issue is not only increased male fetus mortality, but also birth defects, like smaller genitalia and deformities thereof. So, yeah, the odds are better, but you have no dick.
Yeah. Look at his posts: he's having fun on this thing.
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Just gay. :)
You don't have to be a jerk about it. My point was that there was almost no substance to this article and nothing to back up its claims. It's simply bad journalism. That's a valid point no matter what the reason is for the shutdown. We should expect more from stories submitted here.
I read him because I get a little smarter each time I read one of his posts.
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Bailing out individuals (in the cases you mention) makes no sense either. People keep saying that we need to hold banks and investors accountable for the risks they knowingly took.

In the same logic, we must also hold individual consumers accountable for their own actions. Why should I, a responsible, fiscally conservative individual who has very little debt, bail out someone who's swimming in their own material extravagance, living beyond their means from credit card to credit card? Why do I, a person who has never owned a big-screen TV in my life, bail out someone who couldn't keep their wallet in their pocket despite not having the money?

Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of people who are in debt despite their best efforts - we should be helping these people, who I believe are a minority of all people in debt.

Likewise, many of the same homeowners who are getting wiped out mortgaged for a house that was well beyond their income to support. My folks had a number of opportunities during the last bubble to "trade up" - sell our house (which had appreciated massively) and trade up to something larger, so we can flip it for an even higher price later. They didn't, because they didn't believe in a free lunch, and they were perfectly happy with the house they lived in.

I despise how we are blaming banks and investors for their greed (they were greedy) but we look at all consumers as victims. Everyone is screaming for the banks' blood - let them burn for their own irresponsibility... so why can' we let consumers do the same?
I think part of the problem is that we already have bailed out consumers directly -- we just haven't paid for it yet.

Thanks to changes in governmental regulations, a lot of people got to live in houses that they couldn't afford, and banks used these mortgages as a base to loan out more money than was safe given the risk. With all the extra loan money around, we've all been enjoying a better economy than we otherwise would have, for years. And now we pay for it.
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maybe it's because the US gov doesn't have 2 trillion to loan. It has to borrow more from China and Japan =)
yes, that makes far more sense! ignore my previous delicious ranting.
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It's not even doing that. It's just printing more greenbacks and accepting inflation as inevitable.
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