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The US sure does have cameras watching fuel stations, at least here in Michigan. When you drive off without paying, the video is immediately sent to the State Police. CCTV is in almost every store, as well.

The only difference is the wide swath of area between CCTV installs. They don't tend to watch the roads.
One example from history (railroad spike through the head in 1848); https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Phineas_Gage
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Besides grubwithus, that is exactly how Groupon got started.
Show HN: Restless to RESTful - are we doing it right?
Following on our previous discussion on HN [1], we've gone ahead and implemented a REST interface for our online fax service, where we previously only had a SOAP API.

Documentation [2] is 90% complete, so this might be a good time to get your feedback if we're doing it right.

As always, brutal honesty appreciated!

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[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3467287

[2] http://www.interfax.net/en/dev/rest/reference
>If someone scans my brain, builds an artificial copy, instantly cuts out my brain and inserts the new one, I clearly die (because I got my brain/me cut out) and my copy lives on. From the outside, I'm the same, but the first me died.

If you look at the physics the right way, your brain is cut out and a copy inserted billions of times a second already.
>I never said borrowing was wrong. I said borrowing without having means to pay back is wrong. You almost make it look as though Greece did nothing wrong in borrowing, but now Germany and alike are committing a huge sin in not bailing them out.

Actually it's a long and convoluted history.

Do you know for example that when the newly independent state of Greece was established (after fighting for liberation from the Ottoman empire), Germany (the Bavarian state) appointed a king and cabinet of it's own there?

The new state, being very poor and having an immediate need for money to bootstrap itself (for the army, to build infrastructure, etc), got a series of loans from abroad with very ominous terms, worse than usury that they had to accept, because there where no other sources of income at that early state. The terms were like you get only 60% of the actual loan value and leave the rest 40% as insurance against not paying --but you have to repay everything plus interest. Even those loans were embezzled in large part by the bavarian cabinet (and Greeks connected to it), leaving like 10-20% of the actual loan to the state.

So, those were some of the starting steps of the new Greek state, 180 years before.

Now, in the WWII, Germany not only invaded Greece and destroyed it's infrastructure, but also took a loan (Germany FROM Greece), amounting to something like 1/5 of the current debt in today's money. When I say "took a loan", actually the appointed government of the occupying German forces gave them one, it's not like the Greek people approved it. Then, after the war, they refused to pay the recuperations...
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I can't test it because when trying to register I get "internal server error".

What I would like from a startup like that would be following:

1) Post an invitation that you are interesting in meeting (x day, x time)
2) Choose a place
3) Choose a topic you want to have a conversation about
4) Meet up

So if you are in other city for an example and have a spare time, you would have a chance to meet new people to have a coffee with... maybe there are startups like that already but I guess it's always a chicken/egg problem when it comes to finding people to use the site.
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A billion times, this. I just learned of GNU Parallel about 3 months ago and wish everyone knew about it. Have seen it used to stunning effect with a comically large pipeline (OCR patents) across a comically large number of EC2 instances. Very awesome indeed.
Thanks Cushman! Glad you like it :D mysqlgame was certainly one of the inspirations when I started writing this a couple years ago.
The rates always follow the needs of Germany and sometimes France. The rates are discretionary and set by the president of the ECB.

Borrowing in most countries with a "hot" Real Estate market was unstoppable. Only higher rates like they historically had could have controlled it. The dimension of the damage done by this policy is incalculable.

There was no compromise. If a middle-ground, 5-6% rate had been set, the cost would have been shared. Now we're like Japan, the UK and to some extent the US: way over-leveraged, and the problem is our asymmetry and the fact that we really don't believe in the Union. When push comes to shove we shift blame. In the US nobody talked about expelling California from the Union when it went kaput and their hole is of a much bigger dimension than that of Greece. Germans will never consider Greeks as equals, it's a fact, so we either enforce it or call it quits.
Since multiple competing browsers use webkit, no, this doesn't bring back memories of IE 4. Spyglass maybe.
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Hey Roy, good questions. Let me answer you now:

1) You don't have to have it in your house. It is very free form. After you have been matched up to your 5 strangers, you are shown a communications box, where you communicate with them as a host, on where and when you want to have the dinner party. It can be a lunch, it can be brekkie at the top of the hill, or it can even be a night out at the pub. That's where you describe it in the party description.

2. Not knowing where to go? That's a usability problem and it's our onus to fix it. We'll do that. The flash message that says your dinner party has been saved is clearly not doing enough. We WILL fix it.

3. Yes it is fully functional. You might get an email IF within your vicinty there are more than 10 people.

4. Couples. That's what the Plus One button is for. When you get a list of people to rank, you'll be notified if the potential attendee is bringing a Plus One.
You mean that giant pill shaped toolbar ?

If so I hate it too. Raised a bug report for it being too large and one of the developers told me to buy a Retina Mac and that my 17inch MacBook Pro has too small a resolution.
The standard tools, I guess - it's just an image like any other. Maybe vector based graphics apps are better suited for this, like InkScape.
Where you there at the show? Is this whole thing being overblown?
Probably a dumb question; have you tried reading glasses?
This doubles up as a great explanation of how fork(2) works.
Please feel free to send me some details (address is in my profile) and I'll pass it along to the team.
And the fact that the slime molds didn't create the same layout every time implies they don't provide an optimum answer.
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So you believe that you should exhaustively explore 100% of your options, collecting rigorous data about every possibility, no matter how numerous the options are, rather than narrowing down your possibilities early in the game and focusing on the best candidates? Now that is a waste of time.

Furthermore, sometimes your data is inaccurate, and that means that you have to build in error margins in your estimates. Doing that uses exactly the same skills as making rough estimates based on vague information.
This is where the following thought experiment comes in:

Imagine science advances to the point where medical science can replace individual brain cells with perfect robot replicas. These robot cells interact with surrounding cells in exactly the same way as the real ones and can be initialized with the state of the real cell they are replacing. They're small though, so all the real computation work they may need to do is offloaded to a computer (over radio signals perhaps, or whatever.) Perhaps we can even optimize their operation such that communication with other robot cells that may happen to be next to it takes place inside the computers modelling both cells, instead of actually firing off the connection "for real".

Preform this operation once, and few would argue that the mind in question has died, been replicated, ceased to operate and been replaced with another... anything. It's just the same mind.

If you are willing to accept that (and if you're not, we'll just have to disagree), then preform the operation again. And again. And again.

This is what sodiumphosphate was referring to by "metamorphosis", and it does not require dualism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_brain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus#Human_body
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Let's assume one neuron is replaced every second. No problem, nice and gradual. What if it's one every millisecond, every picosecond? Should make no difference, because it's still one by one.

It should make a difference how long it takes, though.

Assume that consciousness is a physical process. If new neurons take part in this process after the old ones die (so that we have continuity as part of normal "healing"), there must be some time scale over which those neurons become an effective part of the consciousness process.

At minimum, if consciousness is a "network effect", this would be on the order of the latency of inter-neuronal communications. If the cells are doing some processing which forms part of consciousness, the time scale would increase.

To throw out some wild numbers: neuronal latency seems to vary, but I found a number for visual-cortical neurons of about 80 ms. (http://redwood.berkeley.edu/bruno/npb261b/whitney-reading/kr...) And you can't replace more than a few cells at a time (I wonder what fraction?) if you want to avoid impairing consciousness during the process.

(This also doesn't include whatever the time is to make an effective copy of a given neuron and it's state; we're assuming instant perfect copying.)
What you said doesn't necessarily negate tikhonj's statement.

You said they were interviewed. You didn't say if they were hired. If they weren't hired then was it partially due to a bias against people without a college degree?

You also said "know of", which means this is a friend-of-a-friend account, with bearing on the usefulness of that information for this question.

Better would be a pointer to http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/07/so-you-want-to-... where someone who was on a Google hiring committee "acknowledges that the 3.7-or-higher-GPA myth is widespread, but she discounts it." and says "Academia is merely one way to distinguish yourself, and there are plenty of others. So if your GPA, or your school, doesn't stand out, look for additional avenues. Besides, you'll need to excel in multiple areas to get your resume selected."

I read this as saying that good grades from a good college help, because it's one of the ways to show that you excel in an area. This also implies that excelling in college is one possible indicator on success in working at Google.

That's very different than saying that "99% of their assessment comes from the interview." Indeed, it's the very opposite since the interview is not where you show that you can |excel in multiple areas."
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Google Penguin Update is based on three new google internal attributes. If one site links to another, link relevance is counted by these three attributes.
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The idea is quite good, but I can't even change the color (a message box indicates that this feature is coming soon !). This isn't beta software. I expect from a beta version that all the important features are done.
Sorry if I perpetuated your anger, it turns out that I have limited number of processes that I'm allowed to use on the VPS so as a stopgap measure until I can move SfD somewhere else, I've written a chaosmonkey like script to randomly kill processes to throttle users. I'm going to bed soonish though, so, again, sorry.
This article would be much more beneficial if it went beyond pointing out inaccuracies in common beliefs, and explained where they came from. As given it simply regurgitates self reported government statistics and provides no insight.
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I think the distinction is that Lisps have a separate read and eval, while other languages (like Ruby) combine the two operations into a single command.

Having a separate read and eval can be useful, but in the context of a REPL I'm not sure it particularly matters.
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Some keyboard shortcuts would be fantastic (Especially delete!)
A little late to the party, but I've briefly used and liked SmartGit (http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/index.html).
Well, that's the thing: even in the US, as bad as it has become, saying vile racist comments on the internet wouldn't get you put in jail.

Is the guy a scumbag? Obviously. Should people go to jail for speaking their mind? That's probably where we diverge and think each other are crazy, but the key is: if you can be put in jail for, say, racism then a corrupt government need only make disagreement be framed as racist, for example. It's safer to just allow anyone to say what they want (with obvious exceptions like yelling "FIRE!") and point out why their argument is stupid.
The headline feature Django 1.4 is built-in default support for time zones: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/releases/1.4/#support-...

Essentially timestamps are stored in UTC but automatically converted to the user's time zone at the interface/template level, which requires adding just a couple of lines in your base template. It's very nicely implemented.
Factories is not bad in practice.

Essentially closures, curried functions, partial evaluated is the same thing: code that generate code.

I'm not a java developer
The thing that is most horrifically frustrating part about "infographics" is that they take the worst offenses of fad-driven web design and mash them together with the worst offenses of static newspaper graphics.

They're almost always ugly, scattered potpourri of unattributed factoids. For the minority that do list sources, they're encoded into a fucking image, so they're not clickable to begin with!

"Infographics" are an abomination, and it is maddening that these guys have built a rich editor that starts with an HTML representation of their objects, and then freaking exports to a format that loses some of the most critically relevant information!
I spoke in person to someone who operates traffic lights last year at a party, and he told me about this!
No Linux stats. That's too bad! I would really love to see how they would compare to mac and windows download counts.
If I'm not mistaken, Heroku runs on EC2, so you're already full-hog on AWS.
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Fun fact: at at least one college, the psych department has too many students. They knew they would get into trouble with the dean if they started failing them, and there was no mechanism to impose a cap.

So they added a calculus requirement to cut the numbers.
This looks like the perfect game for goofing off at work without anyone knowing. Especially if you're a DBA.
Yep, I can also generate SVG with a script. LMAO you said enough.
Clickables:

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3467287

[2] http://www.interfax.net/en/dev/rest/reference
There are just too many possibilities here. We don't even know if it is a double- or single-decker bus. If we worked for a company that actually did do this kind of thing (fill things with objects), we would not start making estimates and assumptions based on so little information.
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Not necessarily. The networks used by CloudFront may outperform direct paths. More importantly, CloudFront edge locations try to maintain a persistent connection to the origin and use a large initial TCP congestion window. This saves you from the delay caused by setting up a TCP connection over a long network path.

Simplified example (ignoring DNS latency, assuming symmetric paths):

User to CloudFront RTT is 30ms

User to Origin RTT is 100ms

CloudFront to Origin RTT is 100ms

It seems clear that User to Origin is faster than User to CloudFront to Origin, but not if you consider TCP mechanics.

If the User makes an HTTP request for a 4KB file to the Origin directly, it will take 100ms to set up the connection, 50ms for the request to reach the Origin, and another 50ms for the first response byte to arrive. Total: 200ms. If the origin does not have a big initial congestion window, it will take another 100ms for the last byte to arrive. Total: 300ms.

If the User makes an HTTP request for a 4KB file through CloudFront, it will take 30ms to set up the TCP connection. The request packet(s) will take 15ms to reach CloudFront. CloudFront tries to maintain a persistent TCP connection to the Origin, which avoids set-up time and slow start. The request to the Origin will take 100ms to complete, and another 15ms to reach the User. Total: 160ms.

Using CloudFront as an intermediary could reduce latency by a lot, even if no caching is going on.
working longer hours != working more or harder.

much of the financial problems in .gr (and .it) have occurred because many citizens do not declare the bulk of their income, then, lo and behold, there is insufficient tax revenue to pay for the myriad government services. there are more porsche cayennes in .gr than there are people who declared over EUR 50K income in 2010.

based on the fact that .gr has essentially committed long-term fraud with their financials i put absolutely zero stock in any claim that "they're working harder than germany".

sure, there are some greeks who work really hard and are productive, but if you've spent any decent amount of time in other countries that border the mediterranean sea you'll notice that their definition of "work" is very different from most people from a less pleasant climate.
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I used to love VLC, pity they ruined the OSX version.

MPlayerX all the way now and I don't look back.
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Slightly more up to date article on an OpenCL back end for LLVM: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA2N...
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And your source is..? I think my post stated that this is exactly the problem: The 'facts' you list are disputed, the discussion ongoing.

This interpretation of yours is not proven. Opponents argue that most statistics are of the causation != correlation kind and that thinking that CCTVs stop crimes is like believing in stopping piracy by suing old ladys for downloading 3 Britney Spears songs.
The new VLC really has regressed. It crashes for me now (I don't remember the last time it did before the latest update). Also, the audio delay for volume changes is multiple seconds instead of instant, and for some reason, the "repeat this video" is always on whenever I start it up. Plus, the interface is ugly.

Even with all that though, VLC has regressed from being an amazingly solid piece of software to being merely above average.
Is there anything in his post that would suggest the review is inflated? The nature of their referral system [0] is that it's opt-in, not like an Amazon affiliate link, so he's certainly not hiding his interest.

[0] http://www.pskl.us/wp/?p=353
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Numerous mobile phone networks also already do this in the UK.
Is that compile-time or run-time? If it's run-time, do you need to traverse all your code paths to make sure it's really really right?

(I'm genuinely curious.)
My point was that the idea of cranking out CEOs/MBAs would replace the idea of doing traditional academics/science/arts.
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You don't always get what you want. When mona lisa gets destroyed 100% copy becomes just as good with it's own history of being perfect copy of something that had long history.
I guess most people get it from their distribution's repository, so there are no centralised stats kept for downloads.
Really interested to see generalists highly valued. I've always felt that it was the specialists, that everyone was being forced toward. It's good to try different elements, and keeps it lively & interesting :)
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When was the last time you ran your web server through erb, and modified small chunks of code, then checked how they worked without leaving your editor? I'm a professional rails dev, and for me it's "never". That "interactive development" is how all lisp coder work, and is probably what the OP was referring to.
I see your point, but I think you've made a couple assumptions that aren't necessarily accurate.

First, higher education needn't be solely one or the other. There have also been some important points brought up elsewhere in the comments about the "sticker price" versus what students actually pay.

Additionally, this is a complex issue, especially in the US where the perception of the value of a degree can vary wildly depending on the institution in question. One part of the original article that struck me as true is that high school students should be better coached during the process of choosing a college or university and then choosing a major or concentration.

The idea behind general human capital, though, is that it actually increases the ability of the student to thrive in a dynamic economy. The returns on an education with a significant "holistic" component are, at least in theory, higher than those on an education that is weighted toward job training.

For example, while it is certainly true that borrowing $100,000 to study pottery at a large university is probably not a good idea, there are enough colleges and universities in the US that if a student really wants to study pottery, he can do so for much less (for example, at a community college, where tuition costs are still quite reasonable).

But really, pottery (to continue the example, though this is applicable to many fields frequently cited as "useless") is closer to specific human capital. This actually helps explain why the students commonly featured in articles about these issues can't get jobs. They have been given "job training" for jobs that don't pay well or hardly even exist.

If their programs of study had been more "holistic" then perhaps they would be in better shape today (of course it should go without saying that there are counter-examples out there, I'm just talking about trends and averages here).

So in some sense, it seems that part of the problem is that we already focus too much on "job training", especially for low-return jobs. Of course a degree in finance (business schools do a great deal of job training) is far more lucrative, but the principle is the same.
I've lost count of the number of times I've gone to click play on the new OSX version of VLC and accidentally clicked forward or backward, completely losing my place in the video I was watching as it skips to another. Horrible UI.
"Learn enough javascript and jquery to make your portfolio images appear with a nice lightbox effect when someone clicks on them"

That, plus a CS degree and a few years of programming experience, should set you well on your way.
I just wondered why it is that so many people complain about the app wanting a FB login - now here's a hypothesis: (Some?) People who are interested in this service don't like Facebook and look for other ways of finding other people to have fun with. I don't think anything is wrong with Facebook login only, but in this demographic it's obviously a bad approach.