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I'm Australian, and the thing is, for Australia at least, we _are_ a client state. I don't like it, but the facts are clear. Take for instance the leaked US State Department cables revealing Mark Arbib to be a US spy. The repercussions? Nothing. Nothing at all.

Or look at how the vast majority of Australians want Australia to withdraw from Afghanistan. And yet both major parties support continued involvement. There was a Prime Minister who announced that he would withdraw the troops. And within weeks he was knifed in the back by his own party, and a new PM, one totally committed to US interests was installed.

Or the permanent stationing of US troops in Darwin (closer to China). Or now in the last few days the revelation of plans being drawn up in secret to build a US nuclear weapons base in Perth, Western Australia. Or Abbots recent trip to kiss yankee ass. Or Gillard's address to congress earlier in the year.

If you want to understand the real game of Australian politics, then you need to read Mark Latham's "The Latham Diaries". Australian politicians and media hated him for what he revealed in his diaries. He spilt the beans. All of them! Basically, any parliamentary front-bencher that voices opposition to US foreign policy will quickly be removed by their own party.

At the end of the US-Sino currency wars, there will either be trading blocs, or a hot war. And in either case we will not be falling on the China side. The US is stepping up and saying to China 'hands off'. This is not about about espionage. This is about control. And resources. And regional strength. Things are going to get a lot hotter. Start digging that bunker!
Right, now we're talking about stuff that's a hundred years away (yeah I know Google car ...)
Yes, it's very mind-expanding, even if you don't use it much in your day-to-day stuff.
I think by that point we will be using Helium 3 so no big deal there.
The sequel was Ice Cube, I believe. :)
could be many forms but radar or what i was thinking is visual enhancment with camera's, that type of thing. You are also not ignorant by far as a ignorant people don't ask questions I have found, so don't put yourself down.
One more proof that no one knows how to monetize social networks correctly (maybe besides LinkedIn).
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I don't know how to persuade 'find' to identify files in directory A that are identical to files in directory B. But my point stands - I can accomplish this quickly on the command line, and know of no GUI tools that would let me do it.
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I used to be an avid consumer of demos. It's just not as much fun to watch when the limits being pushed are completely arbitrary.

Old demos were like watching a guy do world class running on springy blades that you didn't even know existed. Now they are like watching an Olympics where everyone agrees to use only their right foot for all the events.
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I always wished they had encouraged a clone market.
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I love the footer on that website:

"This site built with Open Source: html/css, php, apache, linux, vim, air, water.
and the awesome Lenovo ThinkPad — made in , working for — thank you, China! "

Open source air and water - brilliant.
"I think this chick should lighten up personally."

Someone actually posted that HERE, in the comments below, it got such a negative score that the comment disappeared and most people on HN won't see it unless they have "dead" comments turned on in their HN settings. I was responding to that person. Despite there not being a lot of comments like that here (you'd get downvoted into oblivion) There are lots of guys like that all over the place.

I get what you mean about it being hurtful to men. Being constantly shown as a primitive horny neanderthal with no self control makes all men look bad. It makes us feel bad to be represented that way. But it's not a "stereotype" it's a statistic, don't be in denial or run away from it.
"One effect is that it is much easier to cheat at math than cheat at writing an essay."

Interesting point, but the context is people failing algebra, and I don't immediately see how the ability to cheat contributes to that problem. Can you elaborate?

"Graders look at how you got to an answer, what techniques you used..."

And although free-form answers do make it a little "softer" of a subject than it may seem at first glance, there are good objective standards to go by. The fact is, a good multiple-choice test can tell you a lot about how well a student understands algebra; it's hard to devise such a test for subjects like writing.
I can barely get a pizza delivered in an hour, and they've been doing that since the 1970s (I guess, I have no idea when pizza delivery started). Do I have to worry about Instacart maniacs driving like banshees on the road?
Don't worry dreamer! I bet in a year or two (if this is mainstream that is) we will be seeing Super HD coming in. Imagine Retina HMD. All in good time we will be transcend the confines of our mere monitors and reach for the realm of <insert dream>.
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This person hasn't experienced the hopelessness and defeat that comes with a failed idea. Getting a summer associate position that brings about a 160k job is "winning" the protocol for law school success. There is no such protocol path for startups. Also, Amicus Labs, which maps Legal Genome, better have a good plan for attacking the high barrier of entry into these BigLaw firms.
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It took core.logic ~1100 msecs on my Macbook Air.

(time (sudokufd
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;; "Elapsed time: 1029.618 msecs"
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I think what he means by 'historical decline' is that in centuries past the vast majority of people were either farmers or what would be considered small business owners. Only around the time of the industrial revolution did there start to be mass employers in the private sector.

Also it's probably a bit misleading to throw out the 244% statistic without giving the overall relation of self-employment to regular employment.

"In relative terms, the share of self-employed within the labor force grew from 14% in 1969 to 21% in 2006 in metropolitan counties, and from 11% to 19% in non-metropolitan counties."

So while there has been a 244% growth, the self-employed still make up around 1/5 of the total work force. Historically I'd assume more than 60-80% of the work force would have been considered self-employed. Ignoring certain circumstances such as slavery, the only historical mass employers would likely be governments/military. Perhaps in times of war a large portion of the work force would be conscripted into military service, but most of the time the majority of the population would be farmers or local tradesmen.
To enforce it properly, it would be best to require one or more directors to provide guarantees for the money that would potentially be owed.

For comparison: in the UK, it's not uncommon for suppliers to require a director of a new llc to sign for the goods guaranteeing payment if the llc can't make the payments. I imagine this is mostly for fraud-prevention purposes, but it seems to be the best model to follow here.
If that doesn't work try dragging directly into the extensions page
If nothing else, they were at least iconic. People remembered them. What microsoft ad campaigns do you remember?
> I suspect without parental engagement, those that succeed are really motivated self-starters and autodidacts, outliers.

There's a fourth category: natural talent, which carries you so far without real effort but no further. Still an outlier, though.
> I'm really excited by how much better kids' aptitude and quantitative cognitive skills
> will improve over the coming years for the ones who have access to tablets.

I say we will see zero improvement caused by tablets (or any other technology of this kind).
This is not a technological problem it cannot and wont be solved by technology. Technology might aid
a tiny bit with it, but just that.
Yeah, but Guru VPs can help attract and retain those other people.
Plenty of us around.
>The article claims that the US is "near the bottom in terms of actual social mobility", but only supports this with some points about how social mobility in the US isn't that good.

They clearly reference several books by the people quoted in the article. I assume that their claims are quite thoroughly discussed within said books. You may not believe or agree with them, but it's not as though they are pulling them from nowhere, sort of like this:

>The US is still one of the most meritocratic countries in the world.

And you base this claim on...?
I had a feeling that the Linux version would actually run faster. I can't put my finger on why that is though. Valve says it's because of the underlying effeciency of the kernel.

However, I'm still very much concerned about the things that come with proprietary games on the Linux platform. On the one hand it will open up Linux for a lot of users but then again I want a fully free platform without any DRM drenched material or proprietary code. This is what made Linux so powerful in the first place.
Well, based on your story, the important thing is not really to know math, but to not be incorrect about knowing math.
Threads inherit the process's interpreter (which is how they share the GIL). Contrast to multiprocessing, which spawns a new interpreter and communicates with it via a python IPC, such as multiprocessing.Queue, which shares the interface with queue.Queue or the slightly clumsy multiprocessing.Value class:

from multiprocessing import Process, Value

def f(n):
n.value = 3.1415927

num = Value('d', 0.0)
p = Process(target=f, args=(num))
p.start()
p.join()

print num.value # 3.1415927
I am not that knowledgeable in US education and policies, but
there is/was some "no child left behind" thing going on and I may be completely off, but my impression was it has something to do with all this.
My (again, possibly completely wrong) understanding of it, that the end effect was "let's pretend we don't have dumb students" instead of "let's help the bright students".

If someone can shed more light on it I'd appreciate that a lot.
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But surely there is a disctinction to be made between a liberal western democracy, and an oppressive one that doesn't respect human rights?
Have you looked at the financials of this? 10$ for 1 hr delivery means that either the carrier is paid less than that hourly(and I guess at least 20% less than that) or he is supposed to deliver more than 1 package per hour. Considering transportation costs and idle time, I am not sure this will work smoothly. It will work if there is a list of carriers ready to drop what they are doing to go buy groceries and make some money. Basically, it will work in cities with lots and lots of students...
Perhaps by leaning, as with a Segway?
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"And in either case we will not be falling on the China side."

Why on earth would you want to? You know they're a dictatorship with no respect for human rights?
I wish more places operated like this here in Australia. Sadly the consensus at every single company I've ever worked for is if you don't have an IDE, debugger or textpad instance open on your screen you're slacking off. You don't succeed in business by burning out the talent that drives your company, you nurture it and if 20% of spare time yields you no result 80% of the time you'll be getting better output from your team because they're focused.
I have tension headaches often. I've been thinking of tracking for each day things like:
- Did I sleep bad and woke up with headache?
- Did I avoid driving to work because of headaches or fear of a slightly heavy head turning into a nightmare in the afternoon?
- Did I avoid driving to work because of medication?
- Did I say no to going out for beers because of headaches/medication?
- Did I work out or talking a walk?

I'm fearing I lie to myself about this. :)

Would I be shocked seeing a yearly overview with the answers to these questions?
Would I realize my quality of life is far too low?
Could I see a pattern of other things I do / don't do that causes my headaches?
Could perhaps the app calculate a number for my quality of life?

matt11 - Would your app help me do this?
HN - Any suggestion for a method / iOS / Mac / web app to do this?
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You can wrap native ui by hand,It's best way get good looks.But it you just want feature works,tkinter is the best choice.
Can you tap fiber? I thought it was only possible to tap underwater cables that emit electromagnetic waves?
As a programmer I use the most basic skill algebra teaches— manipulating abstractions—every day.
I don't get how programmers claim that they have no use in thinking.
Great idea in principle. In practice there's always too much to do to respect this in a lot of places, even where it's nominally part of operating policy.
I would have preferred a .dvi! (font embedding issues notwithstanding).
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Would have been more helpful to link directly to the original post, that has a lot more information and which he just copied to his site on the most part:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-threadingpy...

But I think that doing so wouldn't generate visits to his blog.
tl;dr but I guess his point is that if you're a kickass German scientist, you don't have to use CSS and make your posts more readable. <3 the attitude!
Yes, but sometimes the actions of the liberal western democracies aren't always so worthy.
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http://bls.gov/opub/mlr/2004/07/art2full.pdf indicates self-employment has fallen a lot over the last few decades.

It doesn't have any data after 2003, so maybe there was a massive spike in self-employment, caused by casualization (fake self-employment, to avoid giving benefits to workers) and retrenched workers setting out as "consultants".
Wouldn't there be a problem with vendor support? Presumedly you'd have something in the contract where they'd fix things that break when it's their fault. That would include hardware and firmware. For the later, they might just insist that remote access is the only way they can fix it. If you need to upgrade the firmware then you need to do the audit all over again. Maybe an open source firmware would help, but at the end of the day you still need a vendor you can trust.
just glanced though it but most of the stuff regarding Germany is pretty outdated
OK. I was just taking it for granted that it was easy, because the same is true in Knockout (viewmodels are entirely independent of views, and so are trivial to unit test with QUnit or whatever else).
> The reason many web developers aren't able to either
> grasp or accept <…>

The reason is simple: they have already been burnt and know better.
The US will probably not allow the cable to land on their side if it was made using chinese components, so even if they did manage to crowd source 400MM, it wouldn't work.
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Thought this was going to be about watching the London Olympics at your desk!
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Nice one! It's cool to see these ideas expressed in such minimal code.
And then you try to use it for more complicated cases, run into limitations and switch to backbone.
It worked: http://allthingsd.com/20120801/facebook-platform-exec-ethan-...
There has been precedence for this happening. In fact, it happened at Apple 20 years ago.
They only sold the commercial licensing: http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/07/nokia-sells-qt-licensing-...

The actual development of Qt has still mainly been happening at Nokia, though with an increasing number of outside contributors thanks to the new governance model: http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2012/01/10/qt-4-moved-to-open-gover...
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> they'd have to go out of their way not to support ie6

Oh, how I wish! Try searching the Knockout source code for "IE" and see how many special-case rendering and event bugs it has to work around. For sure, getting 90% IE6/7 support might be quite easy, but that last 10% is a real pain and that's the value of using a mature framework where someone else has already debugged the heck out of it.
You may be able to tap the repeater units.
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Yep, Troll Tech (the company behind Qt before Nokia bought them) was making an annual revenue of about 25M€. I'm supposing this was partly licensing, and partly support and training

http://blogs.kde.org/node/3235/

With the licensing business gone through move to LGPL licensing and the Digia deal it would at least be hard to make Qt a business on its own again. So the probable acquirers are companies that are building products on Qt, like RIM or maybe some of the big embedded players. Intel would also be a possibility, I imagine.
Interesting. Do you plan to replace the weekly trip to Wal-Mart in terms of range, or will you limit yourself to the smaller product selection you'd get in a local corner store?

What will you do if all your drivers are busy? Will I be able to book an order for an hour-long slot in the future, or is delivery now or never?
Does a CPU get slower as it ages?
Maybe Youtube does?I heard they were using Python.And if you doing a video share site,you will use ffmpeg or something like that.It's must be written in C。
We're also using Qt for controlling our info displays: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/qt-air-cursor/
You are perfectly right that its the general attitude at defcon that is the problem, through I would claim its cause is the cowboy culture in the hacking community. It is the idea that hacking is all about the wild west, where some drunken, guns at the hip, "cool guy" can come and save princess and hunt down and hurt the bad guy.

That said, the bar example you took up is not very relevant. I could tell you about a mugging that happened, even make a blog post about it, but no one would care or do anything about it. I could talk about a car accident, even one including a drunk driver, but it would be meet with the same reaction. Common crime do not create reaction from society. Maybe if a 9 year old daughter of some politician got groped at a bar you might see some media coverage and reaction, but that would be true the same if she got mugged or was hit by a drunk driver.
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If you can get access to the cable then it is possible to splice into it using fairly standard techniques. Here [1] is an article from 10 years ago that looks at what was going on back then. There is speculation [2] that the US Navy has submarines equipped with 'splicing chambers' and cable laying equipment for this purpose.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/news/spy-agency-taps-into-undersea-cabl...
[2] http://defensetech.org/2005/02/21/jimmy-carter-super-spy/
The section on American internet access is pretty old. (ISDN?)
My officemate does this as well. What is the reasoning? Does it help you focus on the content? Do you always click on the next word to be read? I'm curious as to what could cause this behavior to emerge.
There used to be a website with dating tips for learning-disabled people (ask permission, don't touch inappropriately etc). It sounds like someone should run a session on it at DefCon.
Yes, they're not perfect by any means, but they are an order of magnitude better.
Dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4327654 (thanks to non-canonical URL).
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Other way round - When I'm talking to you, I can imply and you can infer.
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A typical patent lawsuit is so expensive that hiring a small engineering staff and tell them to go off and design something cheap that makes use of the patent would be peanuts in comparison.
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