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There's another issue.

Here in The Netherlands, it's very hard to sack people. For that reason you don't see the kind of salaries that you do in the US. An employer has less insentive to offer massive salaries, because with the massive salary comes an even bigger liability.

There's no way he's earning 250k a year in a data entry position. Or even as a developer.

Additionally, I've read nothing on the biggest dutch-language IT/Developers community. I can't believe that someone would boast about this on reddit and not on tweakers :)
Isn't this simply the cornerstone of functional testing?

At that level your tests should be executing business test cases. If a functional test fails there is either a corresponding unit test failure or the failure of the interaction between the methods rolled up into the business logic (functional test).
The anecodte the poster gives is spot on and huge. There have been many times I've thought "I wonder why I don't hear from this person anymore" and it was simply a matter of Facebook no longer prioritizing their posts in my news feed.

Just because someones post isn't "liked" or clicked on in some way doesn't mean it's not valuable. It's a passive form of communication.

I don't know if this is just my perception, and maybe Facebook doesn't prioritize things in the news feed. Regardless, it's a UX question that needs to be asked by their team.
No country is "defecting" the EU. Some talk about leaving the EUR. But even the larger leftist Greece parties do neither want to leave the EUR (which enables them to survive) or the EU. Why should countries - "poorer" ones - leave the European Union when it spends billions of EUR every year to increase the living standard of those countries and spends billions mostly on agricultural subsidies? The European Union has been a large money transfer project in the last 20 years.
pg did make it transparent in this instance. I think “make a note when you edit” is a good guideline, I've seen it in other communities.
> Anyone who says no one has ever attained enlightens through meditation is lying. I know he's lying because such a statement is literally impossible to support rationally and scientifically, no evidence can be provided for such a statement.

This is where there is a difference between your level and my level of understanding about the world.

What you said about knowing that someone who makes a non-falsifiable statement is a liar, is actually a lie. It's not only the fact that you didn't understand the statement (and therefore can't accurately judge if it's falsifiable), and besides the fact that you yourself do not know if there will be anyone in the future who manages to prove the statement (you're making the same mistake you're pointing out), but there's another, more essential reason that I know you don't know what you're talking about.

An apple tree only knows how to produce apples because that is what is encoded in its nature (origin). There is nothing in the world that shows some kind of behavior or result that it doesn't already have inside its nature.

The reason I can say confidently here that the practice of meditation does not lead to enlightenment and that no truly enlightened being would teach that it does, is the simple fact that meditation has a certain effect (result) on human beings (which sometimes differs slightly within small boundaries depending on individual, unless the person is already enlightened himself), and that effect on human beings is orthogonal to that of enlightenment as well as nirvana. Meditation will never be able to produce an Enlightened Being, and no one who had Supreme Enlightenment came out of any schools or religions, because they are trying to go in opposite directions - practicing meditation can create karma, but you have to remove all your karma to experience nirvana and have the possibility of being Enlightened. That is to say that Enlightenment (also known as salvation), as well as nirvana (liberation) are in the opposite direction of the goals of meditation (no suffering, darkness/closing your eyes, stopping the flow of your mind/one-pointed concentration, letting external spirits come in or practicing compassion for them, abandoning oneself, not having any attachments, and practicing not to be reborn again). The result of Enlightenment is that you save yourself, and can begin to save others. The result of meditation is that you kill your soul and die forever. So there are some basic things you've learned from others about Buddha's teaching that don't match the reality of life, and that in itself lets me know it's not the teaching of a real Buddha. Do you yourself honestly believe that a living Buddha would teach people the way to die forever? The point of him coming to the world was to show us that we are our own saviors and are capable of saving ourselves.
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I can answer that: they aren't interested in advertising and selling the device to consumers. If they were, they wouldn't have been announced at a developer conference. Although oddly, they are advertising the Nexus 7 off the Google homepage.
Actually Cobol is pretty much everywhere in the substrate, but not in visible places... banks, insurance companies, and the like have tons of cobol code in use.
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Then they would not be able to by those nice German cars :-)
Anyone with experience on 7" tablets, is it practical to take notes with in math lectures?
Yes, but when you start something in Chile you can't expect it to be like Estonia or elsewhere. ;)
C'mon space elevators!!!
PPAPI flash works in Chromium, scan this thread (unless that was your point). It's just that the fully open-source browsers aren't interested in setting up a distribution channel for it.
Head tracking with WebRTC
Does Dotcom have any legal recourse to sue the FBI/US Gov't if he is found not guilty/the case is thrown out?

People need to realize that this kind of action is not O.K., and those responsible should be brought to justice.
I'm with you here, but isn't betting against their clients exactly what casinos do?
If you ask your parents for money, they might give it to you at first. If you keep asking, they might increasingly make it less attractive for you to accept the money. Free money is attractive, money with serious strings attached is much less so. Germany doesn't want Greece to take the money, they want them to not need the money.

Alas, HN isn't the place to debate international politics. That's just my take on it.
Only if the barrier to entering the app store is high enough to prevent high quality apps getting into it.

Furthermore if the app store barriers filter out poor quality apps and allow in high quality ones, then it actually adds value.
> The only thing C has going for it is simplicity.

But it's an interesting /kind/ of simplicity.

FORTRAN is simple, for instance. Yet we don't use it much any more.

C is simple enough to not make you go bananas trying to learn the language [C++], but rich enough that you don't go bananas solving large, interesting problems [assembly]. It pretty much nailed the uncanny valley of just complex enough.

It's a bit creaky. It desperately needs namespaces. I'm on the fence about memory models (this is a platform thing, in my mind), and definitely Do Not Want threads jammed into the language. I would love a decent macro language, but that's probably a decade-long debate (if what happened in the Scheme community is any indication). I would love a compilation system that didn't suck [yes, macros and a Go-like build system probably don't mix well].

I've been writing C for over 30 years. I plan to keep writing it for another 20. The unscientific, neat thing about C is that it's /fun/. I know this doesn't go over well with standards types and cow-orkers who feel the urge to override operator = and take dependencies on Koenig lookup all the time, but C has a charm that other, similar languages have been unable to capture.
It would be great if Google+ Events can compete with Meetup.com. Meetup is woefully inadequate for more professional (such as the techie) meetups.
Supreme Court upholds health-care law, individual mandate
Neither I nor Wikipedia said "used wherever WebKit is used". The Wikipedia article said "JavaScript engine for WebKit implementations" and I said "part of WebKit". The fact that Chrome chooses not to use it is immaterial. It is part of WebKit. Check out the WebKit source and you will get the JavaScriptCore source as part of it.

Similarly, there's a GIMP-based image editor called Seashore that doesn't use a lot of GIMP's UI, but I still think it's fair to say that the UI code is part of GIMP.
Printing money and creating inflation has never historically been found to be a good idea. Germany are not forcing anything on these PIIGS countries, but if they want money they need to make some changes that will get their economies back in shape. Otherwise why would Germany lend them any money if they are just going to fritter it away like they did getting themselves into this mess.

Decades of inept economic, infrastructure and education policies by incompetent leaders has put them in this place.

Germany, meanwhile, has dealt with a the huge unification problem with its formerly communist sister, and they have prospered, so just maybe Greece and the other bankrupt sovereign states should listen to Germany and take the bail out with their conditions.

If you look at it from a bigger picture level, what's happening is that you have a bunch of countries that have a terrible history of running their affairs that are hanging on to the idea of their sovereignty, despite the fact that a more united federal system would be better. Economics is driving Europe into a United States model, where a federal policy making system of government helps prevent this kind of gigantic screwup by Greece and co.
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Cool article. Need screenshots :-)
I hate the thought of worrying about the future ramifications of my searches. For example if someone asks me to check the time of a sports ball game for them will Google Now nag me with sports scores I don't care about in the future?
I agree that wholesale copying is an issue. However patents are almost never going to be the appropriate response to that for software companies. With software you can always go for copyright violation and/or misappropriation of trade secrets. By contrast, given that it can easily take the better part of a decade to actually get your patent assigned to you, you are very unlikely to have patents that cover the innovative parts of your technology.

Instead software patents seem to be mostly used to sue people who independently invented the same thing. They enable rent-seeking and provide no educational value to spread innovation. (Which naturally arises and spreads in our industry on a time scale that is too short to get patents assigned.)

How do I know this? Because the one has happened based on my work, and the other came close to happening. At one of my employers, a rogue employee cloned the code base and then took it to some Eastern European programmers to reimplement the website. It was litigated based on copyright and trade secrets - no patents were available for that lawsuit.

However a different employer of mine took out two patents based something I did when I was there. Since then a number of companies have infringed on those patents, and could be sued for large sums. By luck the patents have wound up owned by an organization that is unlikely to ever let them go to a patent troll. But I've spent years fearing that that work will get used to stifle independent innovation.
Also, what the hell is a card? After reading the word "card" for the 5th time, even after reading the few paragraphs below the main image, I still have no clue what on earth a card is. Like an app in webOS? Or is it a game of some kind? Apps and websites that invent their own names for existing concepts and seem to assume that you're silly for not having inborn knowledge of what they mean are frustrating.
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Yes why microsoft I could seen Greeks geting upset at Mercenees, Porsche or Audi Dealers.

Could be some hard left Terorist group reactivating but an od choice of target even so.
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Anyone notice this has a GPS and Magnetometer (compass).

How useful will this be as a GPS without internet connectivity (wifi only)?

A 7" tablet would be a fantastic GPS device form factor.
No, casinos take bets, they don't make them. Important distinction. They don't initiate anything.
I bet Tony Stark is jealous now.
Looks awesome!
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Looking at this from Google's perspective I can't really blame them for what they're doing although its unfortunate they aren't being more forthcoming with you. Your app, while a great idea, has serious privacy ramifications and Google will receive a lot of the backlash if its covered by mainstream media in an unfavorable light.
So basically Samsung etc. are now competing with Google in the Android tablet space :-(

A big reason the Android tablet space has sputtered is the ecosystem (not enough tablet apps, etc). By supercharging the Play store and subsidizing a product that I confidently feel will sell in the tens of millions if they can produce them quickly enough, this will be great for the entire Android ecosystem.

Already have a household with two tablets -- an iPad and an Acer A500 -- but I preordered the Nexus 7. It is perfect to give the kids in the car for them to play music/movies/games like Minecraft. That price point is simple brilliance, and it was that or an iPod Touch. I choose that.

I think the most baffling thing about this release is the constant commentary that has this only competing with the Kindle Fire. The Kindle Fire competed with the iPad -- if you wanted something to read books, look at some websites, and maybe use a couple of apps, the Kindle Fire provided a somewhat competitive alternative to the iPad. Now the Nexus 7 provides a pretty serious alternative.

With the huge sales of the GS3, the incremental but overdue improvements in 4.1, and the killer Nexus 7...this is the first time in years I truly feel bearish about Apple's sales over the next year.
Just to reiterate, you can invite people using email addresses. They don't have to use G+, or even have a Google account, I believe.
This is relevant to HN because healthcare costs affect all businesses, including startups. This ruling removes a lot of uncertainty.

The best coverage is here: http://www.scotusblog.com/cover-it-live/
Its in the jelly bean release of Android, when you click on the Google search box it shows up.
Insurance companies will one day pay Google to find your searches/emails on what ails you. Then you'll get an insurance rate increase.
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we will need little more feedback than that :) it's "soooooo stupid" that i edit my comment on hackernews, and it doesn't take me back to the story.

but that's not the point...
It's purely anecdotal. I've heard the claim many times that people want to leave Facebook but are worried they wont be invited to stuff so keep it open just for the events functionality. If Facebook didn't have the events feature and it was basically just the status updates, games and profiles, I reckon it would be a lot easier for people to leave it.
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Not with the onscreen keyboard. If it can use a stylus like the Note then maybe. Although I'd probably go for an iPad 2. It's twice the price (at $399), but will be a lot more usable.
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The person who invented the Wall Street business model is the biggest genius in human history.

Their "job" is to gamble with other people's money.

When they're lucky and gamble right, they keep a big chunk of the winnings.

When they're unlucky and gamble wrong, taxpayers pick up the tab.

Wow.
When you start your own company remember that feeling. Then when you start hiring developers and other technical people, look for people who are in the same boat you are in right now.

I'll be 40 this year and cofounded a software company a few years ago. We just hired our first developer and he's in his mid fifties. I've worked with him for years and I have no doubts that he'll be a great developer for as long as he chooses to work.

As far as I'm concerned, being open to hiring older technical workers is not only the moral - and legal - thing to do, it is also a competitive advantage. Wisdom is valuable in a small software company.
It's weird none of them are making it into the front page. Are they being flagged or blocked?
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There are certain things we can know for sure through the scriptures, and finally I have a chance to talk about this question on this thread, so thanks for asking. :)

Gautama Buddha taught for about 40 years and met lots of people. If we try to summarize just a few parts, of _all_ of his teachings over his entire teaching career, what do we come up with?

The two things are as follows:

1. Transmigration

2. The law of cause and effect

An Enlightened being tells about 'what is' in the world, and can teach people how the world works. That's exactly what Gautama Buddha taught, although he taught it quite a long time ago.

Finally, there's more evidence in the content of the prajna paramita sutra, if you have seen that one, which explains about some cases in perfecting oneself and opening one's wisdom eye. No one can explain that content without already having been Enlightened.
As far as I know, the whole South Pacific does not belong only to NZ. (i.e. the nuclear tests have been conducted on French soil)

Note that I'm not against your point per se, just a small precision.
You could tether your phone's cellular data.
It's convenient that there is nobody to punish because then there is no disincentive to acting in an illegal manner.

Abuses of the judicial system are precisely what I have in mind when discussing this topic: when the response to such an abuse is -- at best -- a fine paid by the public, why should such abuses stop?
I've gone "old school" (trying to connect to people in 'old fashion' ways) on many somewhat prolonged occasions and it doesn't work. It's a reflection of society not my particular grouping of friends.

I spent a year writing many handwritten letters. People loved receiving them but seldom, if ever, returned the favor. I try and try again to meet with my friends to catch up (ie, going for coffee). Almost never happens, and when it does it's a chore to actually set up. Instead, it has to be an 'event' and it should be 'social'. I text my friends and they respond rather quickly...because I know if I call, many times they don't answer.

Of course, all this means is that the LCD is either me or society.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4170398
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I agree with apl, just not the right size. The resolution is great, but the screen size is just too small, IMO.

With that said, maybe it's just the readers and file formats that suck. I can read Dover books just fine and the size of the paper is about the same as a 7" screen... Go figure.
Thank you folks.
Now they will even know what do I eat!.
Google will know me even better than myself. I'm not sure I like the idea.
Offline Google Maps in the next iteration of Android would mean that you could download the maps offline for the area you usually travel to/around and be able to use it as a GPS (not sure how the new offline maps would work w.r.t. re-routing and all that)
A reactive aversion to anything that's politicized.
Although some may argue the relevance of this ruling to readers of HN, thank you for posting the link to the PDF. Effectively, it comes down to this: (1) buy health insurance and pay lower taxes; or (2) don't buy health insurance and pay higher taxes. You can't refuse to purchase health insurance and refuse to pay higher taxes. This is relevant, because of the potentially adverse impact it will have on small businesses.

The dissent nails it: this act eviscerates the actuarial analysis many young, healthy people use to decide whether to purchase health insurance by compelling them to subsidize health insurance of the population. This occurs because the Act binds the hands of insurers: they can't use any health characteristics of those that that they insure in deciding their premium. Ultra-healthy individuals will not be entitled to lower premiums, which is to say that the active and healthy 50-something will pay the same insurance premium as the sedentary, overweight 50-something with diabetes.

Politics aside, the Supreme Court made it clear that the USA is not a welfare state (they didn't believe the government's arguments that this was legal under the Commerce Clause or Necessary and Proper Clause), and instead upheld the mandate because of a tenuous link with Congress's ability to tax & spend for the general welfare of the population. Phrased alternatively, the Supreme Court upheld the mandate as a tax--NOT a penalty.
A new feature in Jellybean allows you to download city maps for offline usage.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/27/google-maps-offline-andro...
Contrary to a lot of opinions, I think the 7" form factor is actually pretty interesting. I find the iPad large enough that I often just reach for my Macbook Air because it's far more useful and not really much larger.

But something closer to the size of a book is less cumbersome and more comfortable for reading and browsing, which is what I'm doing with a tablet 90% of the time anyway.

I'm going to go out on a limb a bit here and predict that Apple will regret ignoring this segment and that they're going to eventually have to shake up their developer tooling to deal with varying form factors.
Any Baseball fan (even those of us who are English) know that the home team are on the bottom of a linescore, and that the away team bats in the top half of each inning - no indentation is needed to explain this.
FORTRAN is simple, for instance. Yet we don't use it much any more.

Computing is like an iceberg, with the web being the bit above the surface.

rich enough that you don't go bananas solving large, interesting problems [assembly]

Two words: macro assembler. It may surprise you to know that not that long ago, sophisticated GUI apps were written in assembly language (in fact the IDE I use on my ST, Devpac, was written in assembly, and it's everything you would expect of a modern IDE - editor, compiler, debugger, etc - running under GEM). Many games were written in pure ASM.