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Well, there is strong evidence that "The Exodus" (forming the basis of the claim to Canaan) in fact did not happen. So if you take this into consideration, it is in fact an illegal occupation. So I would take the "legitimate claims" statement with a grain of salt (or more).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus#Archaeology
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This is a good, solid assessment of what Rails 3.2 is like to work with. Like you, I don't totally understand where the animosity towards Rails is coming from.

If you want to make a drum machine that runs in your browser, like Giles Bowkett, then perhaps Ruby on Rails is really not good for you. On the other hand, if you want to earn a living, then the tremendous ease with which you can produce a reliable, secure, and full-featured application with Rails is really quite astounding.

I do think that some of the criticism around the thick-client support in Rails is justified, however. Rails was ahead of the pack when it came to AJAX support in the early days, but it is not leading the way when it comes to thick-client architecture. At the same time, however, when the core developers announced that Rails would default to Coffeescript, half of the developer community freaked out, including many people here on HN. At this point, there are so many people with a stake in Rails it is impossible to please them all.
I confess I actually sympathise with him.

At the core his point strikes me as inane - that he won't spend a tiny fraction of the cost of his other equipment to solve a problem, that he clearly underprices his time - but still, the pricing strategy here sounds flawed.

I use Synergy, too; I'm all Windows so Mac-compatibility isn't an issue, but it's a nice program. Note nice though. Not deal-breaker, not revolutionary, not transformative. Could I be persuaded to pay for a better version? Sure, but only so much. Elasticity of demand as highlighted in the article only goes so far; ultimately there will be a ceiling price above which your revenue falls.

It's a gadget, not a core tool, and (IMHO) needs to be priced at the 'impulse buy' level. $25 / machine is enough to make people think (even if it's a tiny fraction of total system cost) and you're suddenly out of impulse and into avoidance.
I don't understand your comment. Are you suggesting one side of the above argument implicitly condones slavery? Or do you feel that my argument is invalid, because it could equally apply to a discussion about slavery in which people resort to name calling?
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Against all odds, Sanskrit language is making a comeback thanks to the hard work of the Sanskrit community that refuses to see their language disappearing.
Sounds like you are an agent of positive change :)

Your message on HN means a lot because it gives people around the world a glimpse into the good hearts and minds of Belarusians.

Continue blogging and openly sharing your feelings. I think transparency and communication is the key.

"Out of sight, out of mind". Don't let that happen.
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Well we may have less entities like Bell Labs but we still have the T.J. Watson Research Center.
good fight
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Well, you can put your changes in /etc/sysctl.conf instead of coming up with a homegrown script to do a whole bunch of echos.

For me, I can just copy over a modified sysctl.conf to a server and have such changes applied (reboot may be needed).
Slightly tangential to the post, but Mocha produces really awesome test coverage report too:

http://tjholowaychuk.com/post/18175682663/mocha-test-coverag...
From most interview accounts, arrogance and combativeness are a very large part of google's culture.
Seems to be heavily inspired from Gmail and all the latest Google's new design hoopla!

Awesome nevertheless!
But you have to negotiate 50c discount on 20+ pens to save the same amount of money compared to a $10 saving off a single purchase.
It's almost like you've to wait till US wakes up before posting something on HN, if you want your post to be visible.

[zalew has provided a HN url that shows this news was posted 2 days back and got 0 comments/upvotes]
To root this discussion solidly in hardware, moving the trash can might not be such an easy task — in many restrooms the paper towel baskets are actually embedded in walls. There you would to actually take the basket from elsewhere.

To make the entire thing even more fun, I've actually worked in an office that had relatively strict sanitary requirements (the office contained some food testing labs), and opening the door with a paper tower was obligatory. Didn't stop the management from putting the basket on the other side of the bathroom.

I may actually care about the described issue in restroom context more than in piracy context. But then again, my most common download is books.
Thanks for the thoughts. How about something like:

Hey Guys:

Thank you very much for the opportunity to interview with <COMPANY>. While I understand that you don't view me as a good fit to work with you guys, I would greatly appreciate knowing what was incorrect about my submission, such that I can continue developing my skills to ultimately attain a point where we are a good fit for each other.

Thank you very much,
IBM has turned/is turning into the Bell and Parc of yesteryear. They've all but vanished from the consumers' eye, yet they're stil huge doing and licensing and all kinds of research and technologies all across the technology spectrum, from transistors to chips to software.
Nice Article. It is better to have few customers and provide excellent service to them rather than having lot of customers and providing mediocre/bad service. The price point should justify the quality of the software and the support given afterwards.
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> Random fun trivia: dogs do synthesize vitamin C.

And another random fun trivia: chocolate is poisonous to dogs. I'm happy to be human! :D
Yes.

If you rent an apartment, you're expected to comply with your rental agreement.

If you buy a house, you're expected to comply with your homeowner's association bylaws.

If you use your house for criminal activities, you may forfeit it if a judge agrees.

If you're a convicted sex offender, you're required to register your address with the government.

Life is full of compromises, tradeoffs, and other restrictions to what you may consider your "rights."
I think he was making the point that you are fighting against psychology with your approach to pricing.
You have swayed me, old man. My next API will use headers for versioning, thank you. As far as the custom verbs are concerned, you might be right, I'll need to think about it when I next need to design an API. Thanks again!
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Yet another fun fact: if your dog eats something bad like a hotdog or chocolate, pour some hydrogen peroxide down its throat. It'll make the dog puke up the bad bits. Obviously, do this outside or in an area you can easily clean up.
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I'm glad you see this rationally. I don't understand at all how people see this as condescending. Why is it that in our society, people are offended by being asked to behave in an adult manner?

What irks me is that everyone thinks they're psychologists so they throw around clinical terms like "passive aggressive" which they have right to use. No more so than a layperson trying to sound intelligent by using terms like "exponential complexity"...
As jaded as I sound, it's a little naive to look at this like its about law or justice. Its much more about power and influence. And corporations have a disproportionate amount of it.

I think we're all going to be a little disappointed next week and we'll have three justices to thank: Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. They have regularly allowed conservative platforms and politics to come before law to influence their decisions. (And that's not meant to be flame-bait for conservatives because when the liberals have the majority, they pull the same stunts.)

The really sad is that after the Bush v. Gore decision and Citizens United, the court lost its credibility and left the public entirely disillusioned with the legal process.
The bees (like the ants and wasps) are hymenopters. The sex determination and matting habits are very different of used in mammals (and in particular humans). So a female is more related to her sisters than to her own children. Then for her it is preferable to help her mother to have more female offspring. (This behavior is determined genetically, not a "free" choice of each individual.)

So it is not a good idea to try to extrapolate the ideas of how a society should be organized from bees, ants or wasp to mammals or humans, or vice versa. (Like in the movie "Antz".)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenoptera#Sex_determination
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Now you're just being deliberately obtuse. Nobody needs to be told that demanding unpaid labor of open-source contributors is condoning slavery, and nobody is owed an explanation of why unless they're a small child or mentally handicapped.
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One problem with the article I realised earlier was that it described the broadcast to Kanto as a gamble because it wasn't broadcast anywhere else, which is wrong. It was broadcast in each region one after another to find out which region it was in. It wasn't a gamble at all, it was a very clever way of finding out where Kira was watching from.
Looking nice but for some reason after getting one wrong it often shows the previous mistake rather than the current one. Here's a screen shot of what I mean:

http://i.imgur.com/Wls9r.png

I'm running Android 4.0.3 on a Galaxy Nexus if that's of any help.
Was it easy to pick up the freelance jobs? One of my colleagues recommended just applying for contract work with a low rate - sort of just for a foot in the door - but I have yet to try this. How did you go about it?
police/fbi was caught lying many times before. I dont think stop using GPSes is an option for them. Any idea from a layer standpoint what would happen if they still track a car with GPS and this is proven? can someone be liable or is it just going to be a slap on the wrist, some one-page document saying "kindly please stop because you were told to by supreme court" ?
what kind of law works against FBI?
This was more my point that I didn't get across correctly. When apps fail due to weird proxy issues they are incredibly hard to figure out and almost impossible to QA correctly for without a huge budget. And if this causes it, sure the Rails programmer might know how to solve it once they actually realize why it's failing. The why is the harder part.
Without standing up and saying "no", there is no communication to new users of the do's and don'ts of the site, which including overtly political articles like this.

Put another way, the number of people interested in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and its importance in world events, far exceeds the number of people, and import, of "hacker news", so were the site to open its gates completely, articles like this would completely overwhelm what we came here for.
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Finished reading it. But where is the "Shocking Truth"? Wondering if I am missing something.
"Speaking to the article itself, water is only "free" (the consumer of the water didn't fork over cash on the spot) if you use a public restroom or a water fountain. You pay for the water coming out of your tap at home. Maybe you actually get a water bill, maybe it's bundled with your other utilities, or perhaps it's included in your rent, but you are directly paying for the water. (Sure, you're paying for the cleaning of the water - dubious distinction.)"

There is so much difference in price between bottled water and tap water, that you might as well call it free.
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I've often found that journalists place a very low value on their time, possibly since they're paid so little. I had one conversation where I convinced a journalist that this software would save him 7 at least hours and cost $100...to which he responded, "If it's just 7 hours, why would I spend $100?"
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This cheat sheet is not "objectively" horrible. If it were, that would mean there can't be any debate about it being horrible. However, there is a debate, which anyone can prove by providing a single counterexample, such as this one: I personally believe the cheat sheet is not horrible. Yay, it's not objectively horrible, QED.

I don't mean to single you out. It's just that I find it really frustrating when people state their views as objective fact (and I'm often guilty of this too as I can be very opinionated, but I try to avoid it when I notice), so the above is just my request for us to isolate actual objective fact from opinion and to discuss our opinions using constructive language instead of destructive language. "I don't actually like that because of reasons x, y, and z" does a lot more to foster an exchange of ideas and possibly change someone's view than "Your idea is horrible. Here's why... ."

As for the actual cheat sheet, I don't know much about typesetting, but I think the author put the meanings of the keys to the right of the key symbols to make room for the section below the keyboard. Since I use a QWERTY layout, I have no need to scan the key symbols, so this horizontal arrangement of key symbols and then meanings doesn't hinder my ability to visually scan the image for content. I can imagine you're right that this cheat sheet is of less use to non-QWERTY users, but that isn't applicable to me.

What's great about this cheat sheet is its division of commands that can be combined with motions and text objects (it calls these commands "operators") and those that don't, also indicating which ones change the mode from normal to insert and which ones don't. It doesn't have an explanation for "WORD" because this isn't a tutorial. This is a cheat sheet. It's great for people who've already taken a tutorial on Vim and are working on developing the muscle memory needed to use Vim proficiently. One quick glance and you now know it was `w' and `W' that went forward a word, and either you remember how each defined word or you look it up in Vim's help. But you know what to look up now. You don't have to leaf through hundreds of lines of text in a tutorial. You look at this cheat sheet for 10 seconds and you realize your tutorial never taught you f and t. You look them up and you're now 10% more efficient with Vim.

This cheat sheet shines in its use as a reference (as a "cheat sheet") for refreshing your memory on things that you learned just slightly too long ago to recall easily, and it's also great for filling in the gaps and making sure you learned most of the important Vim keybindings. The cheat sheet doesn't go into text objects, but the same author addresses them here <http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html>.
First, welcome to HN, since you created your first user account yesterday?

>>It may not make it "worse" (sic) but it still doesn't make it right.

The point was not right or wrong, I argued that there are totally different standards -- especially if you compare with the neighbouring countries which destroy many Palestinian refugees' lives to keep the question alive.

You didn't answer that.

See my other comment for more about the different standards: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3635315

But if you really want to discuss the "worse" part, why should the Israeli question be treated differently than all other land areas?

Edit: You don't want to "bite" on one of the fastest population increases on the planet called "genocide tactics"? If that is not hate propaganda, what is?!
Isn't the whole point of REST/Hypermedia that the client holds the state instead of the server?
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I usually just use guard to run my mocha tests continuously. I have it check for .js files that have changed and run the test suite again.

As an emacs user, this is just running in a terminal window inside emacs so I have continuous feedback as I code. Makes TDD a lot of fun.
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I look at the Explorer window...

(http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/5892/explorer1o.jpg)

...and I see that the columns are titled:

120 items,detail view date type

So you can sort by date, or type, but not name? And you can't adjust the column width?

I gave up then.
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I think it revolves around the fact that these days we can afford to go hi-fi and seek something like finesse at nearly everything.

THis is usually a sign of filling some sort of a void because one needs to have the time, motivation, and energy to narrow yourself down in the array of products and options.

Some time ago, nobody could care less about the taste of water. It was just great if you got it from the tap and you didn't die of it, and even greater if you also got hot water from the same outlet. Water was water and the more pure and clean it was the less it tasted. Water doesn't in itself taste of anything.

Some time ago, nobody could care less about which make, model, or brand your car was. If you owned a car in the first place, that was in itself remarkable. Maybe there were cheap cars and expensive cars, but as far as everyone was concerned just about any car was more convenient than horse wagons or walking.

It's no longer like that.

At some point of your life you buy your first stereo set. If you keep thinking about it, you'll probably upgrade to basic hi-fi loudspeakers and amplifier later. Unless the price ranges become too high for you, you will probably go through a few iterations of more and more expensive equipment that you each time consider a bit better choice for your audiophilic needs.

Depending on your financial situation and what matters to you most, you go hi-fi with some areas in your life and stay at a basic level with other areas. It can be it gardening tools, computers, biking gear, hiking gear, cars, power tools, mobile devices, clothes and fashion, restaurants and cuisine, hobbies, sports, ordering your latte in a coffee shop, or just about whatever you happen to get into.

For a lot of people in western economies, that is so. We can afford to distinguish ourselves and our appearance in search for who we are, and because who you are is a major question for everyone it is a huge void to fill. Pour in the brands and fool yourself to think there's a difference!

At one extreme, some people can be really anxious about their choices and it seems as if their identity fumbles down into pieces if they could only find a bottle of San Pellegrino instead of Perrier. Most people stick with something and try to rationalize it away to avoid constant reconsideration of their choices and thus, their identity. I'm a Perrier man because it's the most original water. Or a Marlboro man. Or I drive a BMW because it allegedly has the best technology that gives me the best drive. Or I chose my headphones because Sennheiser gives the cleanest sound.

At the other extreme, there are people who have some sort of innate balance about themselves and somehow they manage their lives without paying much, if any, attention to what water they drink, what car they drive, or what clothes they wear. And when they do decide to choose something, they understand the irrational and almost comical nature of their preferences. Some people can recognize tastes between different waters. Some people do, yet they decide it doesn't matter.
a book bell labs' innovations already exists, "three degrees above zero" by jeremy bernstein. highly recommended. i have a copy i got used off of amazon, but here it is for preview in google books.

http://books.google.com/books?id=N6s8AAAAIAAJ&dq=three+d...
In my mind, 'being asked to behave in an adult manner', is condescending. I am not excusing the people who litter, they could still use paper to open the door and then dispose of it elsewhere.

In regard to the article, my take-away from it is that all the media industry needs to do to lessen piracy, is make their content easier to access legally - not make it more difficult.
(Being Dutch) I've never heard of Dutch people not wanting to watch Black Book because it depicts the collaboration between Dutch people and the Nazi's.
Claims like that don't do much for the credibility of the rest of your comment.

For more insight into media reporting about conflicts in the middle east i recommend http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hello-Everybody-Journalists-Search-M...
the problem starts when you want to sell the same show in us, UK and Thailand. in uk it would cost twice as much then us and ten times as much then Thailand, why? because people can pay more, and the industry wants to squeeze as much as they can.

if they get rigid price, then in Tainan people may need a month pay for an episodes, and or the opposite, huge losses in uk.

solve that, and you got the piracy problem solved.
The Swedish name for a "digital nomad" is "Grötentreprenör" or "Porridge Entrepreneur" = need to break the habit of spending money on stuff you don't really need :)
I feel like the bombard-the-reader-with-images approach could be an artifact of thinking from the time when HTML images were still a novelty, simply because no one else had done it before. (I have absolutely no data to back this up though).

It just goes to show that quality > quantity.

Thanks for the link, good read!
However ... if we adjust prices lower, people buy more. If we set prices higher, people buy less. Sellers price their product to maximize their profits.
I don't get how it helps choose a font. Its a lot of disconnected graphs with 1 or 2 questions each. Do I read them all? Then I get dozens of font choices, not just 1.
I can vouch for this as well with my app (http://www.teaapp.com )--it appears to be unit price elastic, based on some price experimentation I did on it at launch (varying between $1.99 and $4.99).

In spite of this my intuition tells me to price it at $.99 when Apple features it, and between $1.99 and $2.99 when people are hunting for it.
"Regrettably, we now use ["innovation"] to describe almost anything. It can describe a smartphone app or a social media tool; or it can describe the transistor or the blueprint for a cellphone system. The differences are immense."

I cannot agree with this more. We may not be able to re-create the environment of Bell Labs, but I'm hoping to see more in terms of actual science (and it will be at the nano-scale) in the future, rather than seeing so many people create yet another social app, claiming that it's "revolutionizing" an industry.
I don't know if this is related but does anybody else think we should be given discounts for using self checkouts? I mean it completely bypasses the checkout chick but were still being charged for that service.