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This isn't relevant to the subject itself, but I found myself in the following pathway:

Click on the Google+ link -> Scan the post (by Scott Kelby) for links to a video demonstration -> Click a bit.ly link -> (it's actually a google link) -> which redirects to bit.ly -> which redirects to a blog (by Terry White) -> the blog post is simply an embedded YouTube video plus the video description plus an AppStore link -> click the 'YouTube' button to get redirected to YouTube so I can watch it in a decent size -> sit through 15 seconds of introduction that basically informs me that: A) I will be watching a video on the Adobe Creative Suite B) That it's a podcast C) about Adobe CS5 D) That my host is Terry White -> Terry starts out telling me that I'm watching the Adobe Creative Suite Podcast and that he is Terry White and that I'm now going to get my first look at Photoshop Touch for iPad -> "that's right: Photoshop Touch... on your iPad" -> it takes about 3 Minutes until I see the first interface demonstration

Somewhere along that pathway, irony ate itself and a couple of marketing geniuses were quite busy high-fiving each other.
You didn't like that I wrote that you argued non seriously.

But you have nothing to say about the facts I argued that you handpicked, re expulsions for racist reasons (wrong religion) as compared to in the middle of a burning civil war, which both sides did?

So you have totally different standards for different sides.

I wrote that "Israel doesn't glorify infanticide"

>>snipers from the IDF Givati Brigade

I don't believe you are honest here, either.

You do realize that there is a difference between an official policy (mural paintings and celebrations when children are murdered with a knife in their sleep, etc) -- and the attitudes of individuals.

(You will find individuals with most any opinion in any country and in democracies they can express most of those opinions, too.)

I already made this point re T-shirts, you had nothing to say then either.

And so on. Keep this subject and the fanatics off HN.
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The game mechanic of grinding is common across many MMORPGs for good reason, it is a proven money maker when done right.

If you think about it, this is a win-win scenario for both game developers of this genre and players: they get to wave the hypothetical equivalent of a carrot in front of their user-base that they'll never catch, and fans don't seem to mind one bit.
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http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings -- order by the second column. The US is #13, Italy is #77. Surprisingly, Macedonia is #6 (and #1 in Europe!), which proves that such a reform is possible.
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Interesting idea. You could probably get a lot of interest from users if you offer cloud based editing instead of relying on MS Word/PDFs. (offer templates, analytics, and coaching etc)

Alternatively you could tailor to companies, provide them with an API for accepting/reading CVs. Something they can white-label.

Or maybe you could do both ;).
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I think this should also have the added effect of being overall faster, as doing lots of addition would be quicker than doing lots of multiplication (log notwithstanding).
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It's nice to read the it was a rewarding experience for professor Widom as well. I attended the course and thought it was excellent - I wrote about it here: http://henrikwarne.com/2011/12/18/introduction-to-databases-...
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I don't like this statement at all, sorry. It's a very anti-intellectual statement. Are any concepts that are difficult to grasp inherently worth less? That would make all of logic and math bad. Logic is not inherently easy for humans. We are a very emotional and irrational bunch.

I don't agree that technologies are bad just because they are difficult to master. The learning curve is utterly irrelevant to their inherent value. There are lots of things that are both incredibly difficult and amazingly valuable.

I also think this statement betrays an incredible short-sightedness. You are looking at the technology you know and think "Wow! This is so simple! Why aren't those things I don't know this simple?" Your technology appears simple to you primarily because it is yours. That's not a relativistic statement to imply that all technology is equally difficult to learn, it's just how our perspective shifts as we internalize new concepts.

To me, C++ is a lot simpler than Go. I've tried to grasp how to use things like interfaces and channels in Go, but I haven't quite figured it out yet. C++, on the other hand, has been my primary tool for over two decades. The things that appear unreasonably complex to you make sense to me because I am familiar with the reasons they are there. Does that mean that Go is difficult and C++ is simple? Of course not. To someone who doesn't know a thing about programming, they are both absolutely arcane. Even the concept of variables is fundamentally difficult for people to grasp. It's an entirely abstract concept, and abstraction is not easy.

A better measure for the utility of the technology would be to ask how well it solves the problems it is intended for. Empirically, it would seem that C and C++ are both the best tools available for different sets of problems. Go is new, but I don't see it being adopted anywhere outside Google yet. I've looked at it, and while it has some attractive traits, it is fundamentally shaped by a different set of priorities than my own. I just don't find the problems it claims to solve all that problematic.
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I was so furious after reading this article, I wrote to Rumblefish demanding an explanation.

Anyway, it's good news, I've just received this email.

Kristian,

Thank you for your note, just read your email and I share your concern. The YouTube content ID system mis-ID'd birds singing as one of our artists songs. We reviewed the video this evening and released the claim that YT assigned to us. One of our content id representatives made a mistake in the identification process and we've worked diligently to correct the error once we were made aware of it earlier today.

Thank you for voicing your concern. Very much appreciated. We're doing our best to improve the process as it's very challenging for our team to keep up with the massive amount of claims coming through which grow every day.

All the best,

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Do you think that bioinformatics is over-hyped as a field? What are the biggest issues preventing it to become relevant?
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Years ago I wrote about this for Dr. Dobbs. That article is here: http://drdobbs.com/article/print?articleId=184406064&sit... The important differences are that the DDJ article used log probabilities instead of simple probabilities because underflow is a real problem.

The other thing is that simple thresholds aren't the only solution to using the output of naive Bayes for determining whether a message is ham or spam. Back in 2007 I looked at calibrating the output to deal especially with the problem of messages that have a probability near 0.5: http://blog.jgc.org/2007/03/calibrating-machine-learning-bas...

Also for spam filtering it's worth testing whether stop word removal and stemming are actually worthwhile: http://blog.jgc.org/2007/03/so-how-much-difference-do-stopwo...
Even better, convert everything to log(p/(1-p)) log-odds, and halve the number of things to sum.
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Today I had to enter my password about 5 times. That included every time I went to the app store for 4 of them, and the 5th is because I installed Apple's Remote control software for Apple TV which decided I should also re-enter my Apple id just in case it is different than the bazillion other times I have entered it on the same device.
Me not really - Linus' critique of C++ had few points that could be rationally debated. A much better researched critique of C++ by Yossi Kreinin is here: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/

And yeah, I'd much better like to see Kreinin than Linus in a C++ debate.
Well, effecting change is their stated goal. Assange has spoken at length about the idea of exposing information in order to break down conspiracies which an informed public may consider corrupt. I think that Wikileaks is a long way from being able to do that yet — undermine the corruption/lawlessness in a govt to an extent where it's weakened — but I'm hopeful.

Their focus is not simply exposing private information. Again, Assange has repeatedly said that Wikileaks has no interest in violating personal privacy and has in fact explicitly said that an individual has a right to privacy.

Exposing all private information is a radical position, one for which they couldn't expect to gain popular support. In other words, that is not their goal at all. It's reductive to simply say that they want to destroy privacy.
Haha true. A monthly reminder would be key. Maybe a VC or Angel can chip in to back any defaulted charges. VC/Angels could only allow entrepreneurs to join their "secured" group after they are vetted.

Or maybe this could all be tied to a public profile like AngelList or Facebook, to ensure people aren't gaming the system. I'm just theorizing at this point...
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There is a fork in github https://github.com/firegpg/firegpg

From readme, https://tails.boum.org/doc/encryption_and_privacy/FireGPG_su...
Food aid is often delivered as grains (corn/rice) and water. I'm not really sure what you are getting at.

I agree that it's a complicated issues involving subsidies, nutrition, shipping, processing. Maybe it was wrong to assign a specific #...maybe I just say "you can feed a lot people from the energy that goes into growing a steak" ?
See how much of a difference successful framing can make to how you "feel" about a product?

I like knowing what I'm eating, not how you want me to feel about it. I am just fine eating artificial meat, cultured in a lab by people in white coats.
It does serve them right. As a rule they abandoned the helm of serious journalism years ago and have largely engaged in shallow pursuits that generate easy money since then. The amount of money spent on serious journalism at newspapers engage is so incredibly tiny it might as well be non-existent.
It's different in that neither party has claimed ownership of your content. If they delayed with intent to cause damage, sure, but otherwise a court would probably defer to the extra-judicial process Google is using. It's not ideal, and I'm not really sure if there are sites with similar revenue sharing deals like YouTube you could post it on, but it's how the cookie crumbles, unfortunately.
It's unfortunate that local newspapers' online presence is pretty pathetic. Most of the articles posted resemble amateur blog posts - lacking real journalism, containing grammatical errors that would have been spotted if someone proofread the article before hitting submit.

SFgate.com, I am looking at you.
Awesome concept! Thanks for building this.

One possible issue - There needs to be some kind of search for finding similar "VimBits". I wanted to add some of my favorites, but I have no way of knowing whether they're there already without reading through everything on the site.

You'll probably get a massive amount of duplication unless you can implement some kind of "suggested duplicates" on the create page, like Stack Overflow.
On the one hand there are tons off applications that don't need UDP and will do just fine with WebSockets. Lots of AJAX based sites can be made much more responsive through WebSockets. Email sites, sites like Google Docs, etc. Chat sites like Meebo or Google Talk. Even many types of games will do just fine with WebSockets. A WoW style game, a Diablo style game, etc.

On the other hand they, the w3c and the browser vendors, are working on unreliable (ie, UDP) peer to peer standard based off the WebRTC stuff so for those applications that can tolerate the unreliableness (ie, voip, video and real time games) it's not far off.
> but savvy ones will move online.

Did you expect the savvy ones to be more than 50% of the players? Only a minority of them will move successfully online, but they have no one to blame but themselves. This is common with most disruptions.
Just because our file management paradigm is 20+ years old, is it so bad?

When you have a "lot of crap", you want some sort of organization to it. Folders do this well; gmail-esque labels arguably better.

I can't see how you can get away with "hiding files" themselves. In the end, a file can have multiple applications handle it (view, edit, etc.).. somewhere the files need to be visible.

On another note, Dropbox offers plenty more features. It is among the easiest ways to share files with another. And it runs on almost every platform; I can't even comment much on iCloud as I lack OS/X or an iOS device.
Probably the most notable case involving slander of title was SCO v Novell. Groklaw explained the slander of title aspect: http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20040211161256...

It looks like it's not the easiest claim to prosecute, but in the case of YouTube videos where the content is entirely original and thus cannot be owned by a music label, the only hard part would be proving lost income. If that can be done, then the label can be held liable for actual and punitive damages, and legal costs.
Over 70% of indians live in rural areas. Many of these people live completely outside of the monetary economy. Counting these people in the GDP statistics skews the whole thing. Yet many of these people live just fine by farming, but do not need to use money, or use very little of it. To me it seems that when making GDP statistics, it would be wise to count in only people in urban areas, participating in the labor market. Of course this would look quite bad from the point of view of neoliberalist economists.
I would argue that an ORM does get in the way in a good way. A decent ORM can do things such as extra full-text indexing behind the scenes (Thing Hibernate and Lucene) to provide a much better search over almost any database. You only have to tell it to do so (i.e. configuration) and it springs to life.

Similarly, if you decide that you don't like PostgreSQL and want to move to MySQL. You can go through your code and change all of your SQL to match the PostgreSQL dialect. Or (with Hibernate) you change one configuration parameter (the hbm2ddl one) to use the MySQL dialect as opposed to the PostgreSQL one.

Hibernate (I'm using Hibernate a lot, because it's the one I use at work, so I'm quite familiar with it) can also be configured to check the database schema at start, update it to match your models, create a new schema or create a new schema and schedule it all to be dropped when your application terminates. This is useful, because your test configuration can be create-drop, and your live can be validate. When upgrading the live system, you can just redeploy with "upgrade" as the configuration.

In short, ORMs do have a lot of behind the scenes magic going on, but they can also offer developers a heck of a lot. Not to mention that they're thoroughly tried and tested bits of code. Hibernate even has the capacity to take on various transaction managers (Bitronix allows you to do one transaction over two databases, even if those databases are from different vendors).
In some countries (i live in germany) it is acutally handled like that, internet is part of basic services now and i guess it will be like that in most countries soon as its an essential service nowadays.
You are talking about a different issue (the OS having to support different hardware platforms).

I was talking about developers claiming fragmentation makes it hard to write programs for the OS running on different hardware platforms. My point is that the same level of complexity is involved in writing an Android app running on multiple Android versions and mobiles, and in writing a Windows app running on different Windows versions and PCs. And in both cases, it can be done relatively easily.
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Hey sumukh1, thanks for the great ideas re white-labelable system for accepting CV's ... will have a think about adding that to http://cvcloud.me

Also I might not have explained myself very well but you can edit your CV's directly in the cloud, the PDF function is just for downloading a file if the recruiter/agent wants something they can attach to an email. Otherwise you can just send the URL link.

You can start from scratch or import your profile from Linkedin to avoid excessive re-typing.

thanks for your feedback.

David
I personally enjoyed reading the FQA, and even learned about some C++ "subtleties" in the process. I note however that the FQA itself has its share of criticism. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3171647/errors-in-c-fqa
It makes a little bit of sense. When you come from a https site, you don't want to leak referrer (and thus which part of which site you were visiting) over the unencrypted internet.

Though in my eyes sending referrers always has been questionable "insecure by default" behavior, as the internal structure of one site is leaked to another. With hindsight, maybe it should have been restricted to the domain name.
> You don't publish 5 million emails and hint that there is material in there that could take down governments.

Unless you want to crowd-source analysis of them. Then you do, it seems.
Android Dropbox isn't quite this bad. It has a concept of "favorites". Once a file is Favorited, it is automatically synced. I imagine this is done due to concerns about space on mobile devices.
Thanks! I didn't know about WebRTC, so this seems like good news. Is it tailored to video/audio or are we talking about something you can design a protocol on top of?
Pretty terrible article considering that they only gave one example, and not even a good one at that.

We buy bottled water because we want to ensure our health and safety. I personally use the water filter and drink tap water.
There's something a little terrifying about this, which I can't quite place.
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Actually you are wrong. VisiCalc does not run on Vista and up as Microsoft dropped 16-bit compatibility.

Nonetheless, I agree with your general point that Microsoft puts a lot of effort in backward compatibility. But so does Google with Android! What makes you think the Android API breaks backward compatibility?

I have some (light) experience with Android development (Bluetooth app, basic UI, etc), across Android 1.6, 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2, and I have for example never come across an API that broke backward compatibility. I often hear theoretical arguments like yours being made, but I have never been shown a concrete case, like "they broke X in the new version Y of Android, so I had to do Z to workaround it". In my experience, once an API call is stable and works in a given Android version, it never breaks in subsequent versions. I am sure there are some rare counter examples, but they are so isolated that they don't warrant all "Android fragmentation is a problem" articles I read around. These articles do not represent the opinion of the average Android developer like myself.
The issue isn't really with JavaScript, which is a great language, but with the DOM. The DOM is rather clumsy and you endlessly have to worry about browser incompatibilities. And if you have to support IE6...
You make a very good point. Although I would add that money does play an important role as well. The article mentions that qualified writers and educators are leaving the field because the pay is so ridiculously low.

I suppose that what this shows is that simply "throwing money at the problem" is not a good thing. You have to throw money at people who are genuinely driven to solve the problem.
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Because our file management paradigm is 20+ years old and many people younger than 20 still don't grok files, yes, it is so bad.
I've solved that problem by stashing everything older away in rar archives. Sorry you've ran into problems though.
I have 400MB/50k files in my sync folders I haven't had any problems yet. Now that you've mentioned it I noticed that that Wuala spikes to 10% CPU load every few seconds. But I don't notice any performance impact (does not impact avg. load either). This is with all files in an encrypted home folder with a Phenom 945 and a SSD.
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5 years from now, I have a feeling SFgate.com will be like today's digg.com