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Thank you for sharing your opinion. I do agree with you, and maybe what I was trying to say and what you are saying are different things.

I couldn't find the exact citation from the book, but I will try to write down what I remember.

Colvin explains that with an example of Tiger Woods. He says that Tiger never subconsciously hit the ball. When he starts the movement of the arm to hit the ball and someone from the background screams, he can stop his arm halfway, and then after he is no longer distracted, he hits again.

Normally, when a mediocre player starts moving his arm in order to hit the ball, he no longer able to stop halfway through the action of arm swinging. And usually he would miss, because of concentration loss. He addresses that kind of behavior due to automation of some actions. He says that after some action has gotten automated, person performing it has almost no control over it. He also gives example of the professional car drivers and average drivers. Average driver will not be able to control the dangerous situation on the road due to the fact that his actions are almost automated. While professional drivers are able to see the situation much earlier, and steer and break more efficiently, because they are in better control of situation due to less automation of driving action (Less habit more conscious control).

I hope I could convey his words clearly, because I am not a native English speaker

Edit: Regarding programming, I noticed, the more code I write subconsciously, the more stupid bugs I get. Sometimes I write mysql_real_escape_string() instead of mysql_fetch_array() and then wonder whats gone wrong. I even look at the line with this bug for several minutes, until I stop, look away for a bit, and try to switch from autopilot to manual mode. After I fire up my real brain, I spot the bug in seconds, and have a stupid smile for a half second or so :)
> ... making something retroactively legal is vastly different than making something retroactively illegal.

I can see the difference. But the similarity is (as I pointed out) that accepting either of them makes the case for the other stronger by removing a barrier - that barrier being the presumption that the law is fixed at a particular point in time.

> The first happens all the time and is the entire point of a full pardon.

I can't think of any examples of illegal acts being made retroactively legal (and certainly not "all the time"). Could you cite some examples for my benefit?

I think you're wrong about what a pardon is. A pardon is a way of publicly acknowledging that a (guilty) individual has fully repaid their debt to society. It's used explicitly to release people who have undoubtedly broken the law from the consequent obligations (i.e. prison/gallows) and is done at the behest of monarchs or their governments.

Pardons are a very thorny issue in general because they do not respect the notion that all individuals should be equal under the law. It would be unfair for a convicted murderer to escape the noose on the whim of a King (for example) while another murderer is left to hang. Similarly, pardoning Turing would not be fair on all the others who suffered under the same laws.

> your approach assumes the law that allows for chemical castration because he was gay was a legitimate application of state power.

I don't understand where you get that from.
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He was absolutely right.
Yes, but this has been happening for years, and in many other countries. There are instances from 10+ years ago of places like Germany and France trying to and ultimately succeeding in banning the auction of Nazi memorabilia from Yahoo and etc. because these auctions violated domestic law.

The scary thing is what might happen if companies who are forced to censor their content become unwilling or actually unable to censor the content to the extent required by whatever domestic law. In that case, we wouldn't even need some sort of overarching international law to "control" the internet because the most restrictive law any given nation puts in place will be the controlling law. This has already happened in all manners of international law, where a given country, often the US, has the most restrictive law that all other countries and therefore de facto obligated to follow.
I don't think permissions apply since the files in question are served from a CDN.
Sure. But warranted or unwarranted, it's anything but a whitewash.
Saying you're a programmer is like saying you're a writer. It's not an overgeneralization. It's a broad field. There are technical writers, business writers, novelists, journalists, poets and hacks. Some write soaring prose, others mundane workaday text. They write in different languages. They right for different audiences and cultures. There are amateur writers and professional writers. Those who write for love. Or the love of words. Those who write for money. They're all writers.
To me, programming is a lot like writing of other forms. And in more ways than this. So it is an apt comparison.
That is a good idea, but most people can find one or more offensive words in enough data, even if it is just the dump of names in the local community.
I'm not sure if anyone noticed, but Samsung actually superimposed the iPhone FaceTime interface on the Samsung phone. Below are two images of it (sorry for the poor quality).

http://imgur.com/a/IB1mE
It really needs a small "experience" section. It should be small, so a recruiter can still scan; but I really want to be able to differentiate at least between junior and senior people.

I also would like to have an "interest". I don't want to contact somebody wanting to do games for my web startup. That just wastes both our time.
But that only explains it from the poacher's perspective. The question still remains, why would the poachee want to state their current salary?
If you count C as low-level, here I am. Now what?
> The method attaches the same event handler to every matched element in the selection.

Why is that a con for .bind()? This used to be considered a performance benefit compared to onclick.
I was going to suggest this, as well as a way to browse by category. Employers probably don't want to look for "iOS developer" and "iOS programmer" and "iOS engineer", so some kind of automatic way to combine these seems useful.

Also, filtering by salary.

Overall though, love the idea.
The Whois record for wesolveforx.com shows Google as the registrant (http://www.whois.net/whois/wesolveforx.com). TBA is a marketing agency that Google is (presumably) working with.
for a moment, I parsed the headline as "You need to scan 60% of the web to find an instance of each and every unicode glyph (being used organically)..."

Actually, outside of listings of all unicode/code pages, I'm 98% sure there is a vast quantity of unicode characters that is not used once (organically) on the entire Internet.

I'd bet even money you can craft a two-character 'word' such that you would be the top Google result for it if you use it just once or twice in any context on any page Google indexes, just because you're the first person to use those characters organically, to say nothing of together. /s
Alex - Great job handling this, I received the bitches e-mail and got a good chuckle out of it!

Hope the traffic sticks for your team
1> Current actuarial tables have us dying by 550-650 even if there was no aging. Stuff like car accidents, slipping in the shower, etc.

2> "I think the expiration date is there to prevent overpopulation" implies evolution has a purpose. You know when you work at a company, and the processes just change over time and change over time and 5 years in no one remembers why you file a tps report before going on vacation? That's what evolution is like: Whatever processes happened to survive. That TPS report may have some value, it may be easily replaced by a more logical item, or it may be completely useless. Just the fact the process of filing a TPS report before leaving for vacation exists, doesn't mean it's necessary for the health of the organization.

3> Populations the world over are manually dropping their procreation rates to near replacement levels. I'm sure many people would drop it further if they had a few hundred extra years. http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3201400.html
I expected to open this thread and see a bunch of "I've been using Macs for a long time and I've never seen a problem," and I was not disappointed.

Most people are not sensitive to minute changes in the way a mouse moves and feels. I've been a long, long time Windows user, and I absolutely love the way the mouse feels on a Windows system. I used to be a gamer as well, so I appreciate precise input, which is why I prefer high-resolution wired mice over wireless ones.

There is definitely a lag in OS X, and it drives me absolutely crazy. I started using OS X when Tiger came out, and I haven't seen any improvement through Snow Leopard (haven't used Lion yet). I mis-click on stuff all the time and it breaks my concentration having to focus so hard on the mouse. I am definitely willing to pay for a fix!

I should also note I tried USB Overdrive and another utility (name escapes me atm), but to no avail. Also, like many other people here, the touchpad is absolutely fantastic, I only see the issue with connected mice. This is probably due to the fact that I don't do graphics or precise movements with the touchpad, so it's much much more tolerable.
This ad definitely left me wondering "why do I want a pen/stylus"? There are a few cases with the tablets where I'd like to use a pen tool for input. I largely avoid taking notes on a tablet for this reason (this is behavior I could voluntarily change if I was more flexible on how I take notes), but why would I need pen input on a phone? I've never personally ran into an issue on a phone where I said "this would be easier with a pen". What are the use-cases for this and why would it appeal to people?

For me, the ad worked on the level that I'm now curious about why this pen is worth highlighting in a 3.5MM spot.

Regarding the insults to Apple users, this is something that is really divisive. I remember when there was a "leaked" BlackBerry commercial a few years ago that showed a black berry being shot through an iPhone. The spot turned out to be fake, or it got canned and never aired, or something like that. I remember there being a lot of people in the online tech community being upset over this. They wanted to see Apple bleed.

But that was never a good marketing strategy for RIM. I'm trying to think of the strategy behind this ad. Certainly, anyone devoted enough to Apple to stand in line for their products thinks enough of Apple to a) not switch and b) not to switch to a company who makes fun of them. Additionally, these people likely buy into's Apples stance on styli being antiquated.

So the other strategy may be to position itself away from the Apple "fanboys". Lots of people dislike Apple, and maybe making fun of those who do hit enough of a confirmation bias button to make them seriously think of buying this phone.

So overall, it doesn't seem like a great ad to get huge market share, but it does seem to be positioning itself firmly on a segment, and hoping it can draw in other segment share.

Personally, I don't get it.
It struck me as odd that I would want to hire people this way. As far as I can tell everyone is just asking for more money (big surprise, I know) but it says nothing about what they want to do, are interested in, etc. Do I just blindly reach out to a bunch of people and hope they match my needs?
True, if you do blocking stuff in the handler instead of in the worker threads.
I think it's even more interesting when the first number is more than the second, as it is in the listing below:

"I'm a Mobile Product Support Specialist, and I currently make $90,000 in Mountain View, CA. I'm ONLY interested in jobs as a Community Manager, Product Quality Analyst, Junior UX/Interaction Designer that pay at least $65,000 in San Francisco, CA."
I primarily do FPGA design and embedded software. I agree we are definitely under represented on HN though.
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All this is good as long as you realize that asking "Are you happy?" is much different than asking something like "Would you be disappointed if our product vanished?".

Your present wording will probably encourage a good number of default instinctive "yes" responses since it is a common question. On the other hand asking someone if they'd be disappointed if this was taken away from them requires a second of thought...and perhaps a more accurate response.
I got contacted by a recruiter within 20 minutes of posting.

Suddenly, I'm thinking that it IS kind of strange that if I reply to their email, I will be beginning a relationship with someone who already knows my approximate salary.

On the plus side, they contacted me knowing that information full well. No nonsense with lowballing. Maybe it's a great starting point!
Gnome 3 makes me feel like a smartphone interface is being shoved down my throat even though I'm using a laptop. It's tolerable when I have a browser and little else opened, but it becomes hell to deal with when I have a browser, Netbeans, IM, a few folders, Word, terminal, etc. opened.

I haven't tried Windows 8 personally, so I can't really comment on that.
Well, they spent it on the airtime, not the spot I guess.

It was fairly obvious that the placement cost a lot more than the spot itself. The ad's message was "OMG, it has a pen; I've gotta have it!" The people with me in the room at the time seemed slightly confused, mostly amused. The main points of confusion were whether the device is a phone or a tablet, and why we would want a pen for our phone/tablet. Maybe they should have spent a bit more on the spot's production.
What would you stick up your neck for? I mean what things would get you into trouble? Wikileaks is the only example that comes to mind

Things worth to stick up your neck for and/or that will get you in trouble if you do? Lots of things. From ACTA/SOPA/PIPA, to labour laws, to the bailout, to the mass (statistically imbalanced) imprisonment of blacks, to the profitable prison work-for-rent industry, to the death penalty, to mass surveillance, to foreign policy, the patriot act, to bio-ethics, to Monsanto, to the sorry state of news reporting, to the race for the bottom for jobs (moving to cheap foreign labour), to corporates getting their way, the list goes on and on. Seriously challenging any of those will get you in trouble.
>I believe Samsung should switch their ad agency asap.

I agree completely. As an iPhone user, all these adds make me want to do is look at HTC or Motorola for Android devices.

Also, the device itself was implied to be an iPhone competitor. Only it isn't. It's a tablet. I was thinking that it was a really big phone.

I'm also confused as to who the stylus is actually aimed at. There is a small subsection of tablet users(mainly artists) that would probably want more precise control of their device, but I would wager that those people are the vast minority of total users.
This probably goes without saying, but your user demographic has a lot to do with how this kind of mishap will be received. Our product sells to Fortune 1000 companies in the procurement software space. I can tell you, unequivocally, that the users of our product have a distinct lack of tolerance with regard to "lack of attention to detail".

We've had a debug message or two slip through to production, and the conversation that follows is never comfortable. The inevitable conclusion they reach is that if we miss one small thing, we're likely to miss another. Sometimes you really do have to sweat the small stuff.
The site's called "job poacher". You poach a good dev (who likes his job) by offering significantly more money than they're making now. 15k-20k more is usually enough to snatch anyone from anywhere.
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The UK concept of a pardon is the same as yours. Historically it was used in much the same way as your Presidential pardons are (i.e. to get friends of the ruling elite out of prison or spare them the gallows).

In modern times we've pardoned people who we consider to be wrongly executed (including all soldiers executed for cowardice in the First World War) and people who have been wrongly executed for other crimes.

However, there is still a general principle that a pardon doesn't remove the original conviction but instead removes the punishment that was applied. So in the case of a miscarriage of justice there is a tendency to allow the conviction to be quashed by an appeal court rather than pardon someone (unless time is of the essence e.g. they are close to death and the appeal would take too long).
I remember having two epiphanies related to this subject. The first was when I learned linear algebra and variable replacement and I thought to myself, that if it is all designed this is how the unknown becomes known. The other was the more profound and was when I first learned to code. I remember when it (programming logic) really hit me, I was in the bathroom watching the running water in the faucet. When I realized that with the natural laws of hydraulics and my own universe (the compiler and run time) I could build the same thing in another world. I then started to analyze everything in that form of logical pattern. I recall it vividly because it was an extreme moment of clarity in my life. It was also the point at which I questioned the realness of reality more. The more I questioned and read about the extreme edges of science like quantum physics, the more I questioned the realness of reality.

A while later, I read an article in which some individuals took computational theories that where belied to be the constructs of the human mind and not part of the natural universe, at least not part of them external to the computer they where designed on, they took these theories and went looking for them in nature to their surprise they found them, in many not only did they find them but many times there natural implementation was superior in efficiency and elegance to the one conceived of in the human mind.

Many times science discounts this kind of seeming connectedness of the universe by saying that it is unproven or coincidence which would be fine if they did not in the same breath say that philosophy is dead and that science has killed it. These mysteries in life are what keep me interested and I am glad that we have science, philosophy and theology as they all help shape the wonder-lust that is life.
Strangely, I'm using a Cyborg R.A.T. mouse on a MacBook, and I can see a noticeable difference between mouse movement when using the touchpad vs. the mouse.

I'm not a gamer, but I appreciate the precision of a gaming mouse in my everyday work. I have never been able to use a wireless mouse because the delay is too disconcerting for me.

Is it possible that I'm getting less lag with my mouse than I am with the trackpad? Or is that in my mind?
Yes I wondered this. I would love to see figures for incorrectly labelled on that chart.
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Exactly! In fact the change to green out of the ordinary lack of it might make them think something is WRONG, not better.

These are users who also keep their browser sessions going forever and therefore session cookies never expire - thereby making what was supposed to make something more secure, exactly the opposite.
That is the most insane reason I have ever heard for not pardoning somebody.

Especially since they did pardon the soldiers who were shot for cowardice during WWI (admitably a little too late to do anything by about 90 years).
Pay is probably a better indicator though. People can have years of experience and still not be good at the job, but pay highlights what kind of value they are generating. Someone who is not good at the job is unlikely to be in the position to earn top dollar.

There will be outliers. Like the talented person who is willing to work for peanuts just because the job is amazing. But that is why there is an infinite number of ways to find a job.
TF2 is completely unplayable for me. I have to dual boot.

The other area where it drives me crazy is highlighting text - for some reason, it always feels cumbersome.
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That's extremely interesting. Turing is dead and can't accept an apology, so an apology is completely useless. But a pardon actually clears his name. Given the reasoning "The conviction was correct", it makes the apology hollow even if he was still alive.

At this point in history, an apology and pardon would slightly clear the name of the Crown from a legacy as a bigoted hateful illegitimate government that tramples on rights and whose amoral so-called "laws" tortured a good man until he gave in to suicide.

By refusing to do so, the Crown can not harm Turing whose legacy is assured by history. They only harm themselves, and quite frankly, it is their choice to do so.

It is Turing whose pardon they must secure. Not vice versa. As he is deceased, that opportunity is past and their crimes remain both unforgiven and unforgivable.
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For example, this photo is only visibly by me,

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=706480749906

You can see it if I give you the special link which skips the permission check,

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=706480749906&l=a5...

Or on the CDN, which doesn't know about permissions,

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/432125_706480...
I like the idea. A nice start to something I'm sure will grow into something pretty neat.
I do compilers, and I'm usually surprised by how many people are around who "know a thing or two", so maybe it's more field-relative?
I agree, the lack of customization is very irritating. If everything would get out of my way when I'm trying to do something productive I would be happy.
Did anyone else think of Larry Niven's "wireheads" when reading this and other recent articles about it?