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The problem with academics is that all of their knowledge is theory, they have no practical experience. I think you should only be able to spend a maximum 1 year in government, you should not be able to make a career out of working in government.
I have never lived abroad, but everything you've said is obvious to me, because I interact with and learn about the World outside my country and have a natural tendency to question anything that politicians or people in power have to say.

People don't need to live abroad to come to these conclusions. I suspect that you're probably mistaken that living abroad did this to you, and that it would have happened anyway. It's what happens to (most) intelligent people as they age and mature.

EDIT: Re vending machines on the street, I visited Connecticut once and where I stayed, there were boxes on the street that you can put money in and take a paper out of. I'm from the UK and if you had that here, it would be fine in a lot of places, but in some places, people would set fire to them for fun. Re car crime, on the same visit I noticed that people were leaving their car windows open in a car park (it was very hot). Like hell would I risk that in this country, but I'm sure there are plenty of places where it would be fine. Every country has their share of good and bad areas. Anecdotes are fairly useless here.
With a big site like HN I don't know how you can control it. However, in a more focused site, the answer would be hands-on involvement. It doesn't take that much involvement, just a little.

The thing about systems is that we tend to think of them as if people are not a part of them. But people are a part of them.

One thought I would suggest is that it might be worth giving people with very high karma (maybe high enough that only a few people have this) an ability to post highlighted reprimands, and an automatic banning of a user if he or she gets more than, say, 5 of these in a month. These could then be reviewed of necessary.

One thing I would think about is that rather than having a system where computers try to control people, have a system which empowers the community leaders to set standards of interaction.
I am surprised by the fact that there were no news about Pussy Riot getting jail time for dancing in balaclavas in the church, Quinisext Council (692 A.D.) being cited in court in 2012, but instead there is an article about Kasparov arrested by police. Oh wow. Don't worry about the guy, he'll be released in 15 days tops.

Not that I think that any of this should be on HN front page.
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You wouldn't get a free rug in a Turkish rug store but Apple do go out of their way to appear inviting and helpful way beyond any of their competition.
Good start would be to edit their respective Wikipedia pages to be more clear on the issue.
Typically PD as an exercise is a one-time case. PD in continuous cases has been pretty widely discussed over the past few decades: it's been awhile since I've done game theory so I'd love to hear some thoughts on someone who's a domain expert.

If I understand correctly, the "big deal" is about reframing the question in an evolutionary game theoretic perspective, though I don't think the revelations themselves are that groundbreaking.
Seems nice, but I'd really like to know what sets it apart from the competition.

My takeaway is that it concurrences skype and facebook for group conversation, with maybe a better UI (how so ?). The big feature is "branching" conversation so as to not get side-tracked from the main topic of each conversation. Is there more to it ?

A few points to address: branches seem to effectively mitigate some pain points in current solutions, however to use the service I'll have to go trough the much greater pain to move friends over. How do they plan to address that ? I.e. is there more value that would justify switching, or maybe a scheme to ease the transition into the website (like private urls you can use without creating an account) ?

Secondly, conversations are only great if people actively contribute to them. How do they intend to promote user contributions ? A very basic but important thing would be to be notified of new contributions. A desktop app with warnings would be worthwhile, I think.
Callable strings? Only in Python (oh how I love thee).
In Iceland they would get 2 years for simply insulting a religion group (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech), as well as in many other EU countries (but not in the US).

That's what Pussy Riot have been jailed for - hate speech, not for singing an anti-Putin song. In fact they were screaming profanities in the cathedral, and their anti-Putin song was added later to their YouTube video.
I'm using Firefox 14 on OS X Lion.

Just triggered the error again, I got:

Communications Problem

Sorry, there has been a temporary network error. Please reconnect to Mars Frontier. (code 0650)
I wouldn't judge your like of the RTS genre on this game - if you are looking for a good one, StarCraft II is probably the best recent one. Going back a little, Dawn of War (I and II), Company of Heroes, and World in Conflict are all worth a shot too.
It's good to see Go officially supported.
>When it had been broken into Ive been trained to blame myself for leaving something visible or parking too near the wrong neighborhood. But living abroad I learned some countries don't have these issues.

Granted there are definitely some countries with lower crime rates, but for most property theft the US is actually ranked pretty well. For auto theft, which is the closest comparable crime I can find to stereo theft with available data, the US ranks below Sweden, Switzerland, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland. And for residential burglaries we rank below England, Scotland, Canada, the Netherlands, and Australia.

Also, as long as we are using anecdotal evidence, out of everyone I know (well enough to know this), there are maybe half a dozen who have been robbed 4 of those have been while on vacation in Europe.
Please do not bullshit me. They were jailed for singling anti-Putin and anti-Church song, and everybody knows that. The official charge was "inciting religious hatred", but nobody in his sane mind can see any trace of religious hatred anywhere near there, they did not try to incite any religious hatred, did not incite any religious hatred and nobody ever believed they tried to incite any religious hatred.

Of course they had it planned, and of course it was a "provocation". In sane countries, such "provocations" - public performances aimed at focusing public attention on important public issues - are called demonstrations, and it is a regular part of public discourse. Rosa Park's actions were "planned provocation". Martin Luther King made "planned provocations". People that went to the Red Square in 1968 to protest Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia made a "planned provocation".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Red_Square_demonstration

Since the official Church in Russia is not only completely united with the state, despite formal separation of church and state, but also enjoys multiple benefits of such arrangement, both pecuniary and otherwise, it also is a legitimate target for protest.

As for "screaming profanities in the cathedral" - this is factually incorrect, they did not. But even if they did, it is not a criminal offense - causing somebody a mild butthurt is not a crime warranting imprisonment.

Your comment of "there are many ways to get yourself arrested" is classical case of blaming the victim - if they just would shut up and gave up their rights and freedoms as other good boys and girls did, nothing would happen. Probably so. But some people are not OK with their freedoms taken away. Some protest. Putting a blame on them for "provoking" oh so innocent regime into locking them up for 2 years is disingenuous at best.
Nobody knows how many popular votes Putin got - exactly because
he did not allow to count the votes fairly.

Not many dispute Putin's personal election results, even the opposition. The parlamentary elections before that -- is another matter, they were substantially rigged in favour of the pro-government party.

And let me correct you -- 63% of the Russian voters who have voted for Putin believe that they live under democracy, and are very happy that their votes count and their candidate has won.
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Interesting the point you made about US TV shows - it's very subjective but I'll say honestly I can't stand them. I'm from the UK and think it's something to do with not being able to relate to your culture as well as you do, and so I find them to be mostly deeply irritating. The same goes for US films - I much prefer European movies as a whole.
Brains, Sex and Machine Learning.
Sadly, the way the system is right now they really have no other option other than bring in the shit storm and hope reform happens.
Richard Dawkins framed Game Theory in a perspective of evolutionary stable systems as early as 1976.
You completely failed to address his question. The article made no large claims?

And the article you linked points to numbers saying that the large majority (74%) of Russians say the punishment should be "time served" (or, "let them serve a few months, starting from their arrest on May 6th"). And 63% say less than that. Only 26% of people thought they should be imprisoned longer. I honestly think you'd find people in the US that would this kind of punishment if you threw a punk rock protest in the middle of a large church.

So while it seems like you're suggesting (without saying anything) that the idea that these people shouldn't be kept in prison is some Western pushed ideology in some attempt to unseat Putin or attack his legitimacy... It's a pretty common opinion. Held by the majority of Russians.

At least, that's what your linked article said...

(And that's not even taking up my issue with Forbes.)
But it is way too simple. It's a problem we had to solve in first semester.
"We are on strike, we, the men of the mind."
> And is bankrupt France really a country to emulate

Yes, it really is. Its people are happier, healthier, and better educated; they work less, eat better and have better relationships with their families. And are substantially less indebted than those of the US.
I'm sick of that "LG Prada was there before" meme. The fully functioning iPhone was presented by Jobs on January 7, 2007, and "accidentally" LG announces the same design less than a month before? It's simply impossible that LG didn't actually have to produce something for the coming iPhone and in parallel just made their clone. That's the reason LG remained quiet afterwards.
This. I've found that business in America have a tendency to try and monetize the entirety of every business transaction. For example, I used to work at Circuit City, and if you came in to buy a TV you'd be amazed how quickly the salesperson would shift the conversation onto cables, power supplies, protection plans, etc. When the end of the day rolled around, and praise was divvied out by the store managers, no one ever talked about the size of the TV so-and-so sold. The praise focused entirely on the "attach".

On the other hand, a Turk will recognize that you are there to carry out a certain business transaction. Turks can haggle and negotiate with the best of them (another aspect of their culture). But you'd better believe that, as you spend half an hour negotiating the price of that rug, the rug seller will have had his assistant bring you tea and simit, and you'll have the most comfortable seat in the place (none of this "make the floor as hard and uncomfortable as possible so that customers complete their transactions quickly"...yes, that is a well known trick in the American retail industry).

Apple does the same thing, especially with their stores. Their computers are not cheap. But Apple will hold free workshops telling you how to use them. Store employees will help you transfer data from your old computer if you need it, and when you come back in a week, you'll get the same reception as you did before you made your purchase, even though you're unlikely to be buying another computer.

Mostly, it's about recognizing your customer as a fellow human being, as opposed to "the next mark"...
Certainly some of the suggestions in the article have merit. Encouraging people to browse and vote on stuff in new would be good.

But I agree with you. You don't fix human problems by adding technical controls. You fix human problems by adding technical measures designed to enable human controls.

My proposal is relatively simple: figure out a high karma number (high enough few people have it) and allow these people to issue an incivility warning. If you get more than a certain number of incivility warnings in a month you get banned, first temporarily and on the second time perhaps permanently. These reprimands would be public.

People need feedback. People need to know when they are stepping out. One of the real concerns I have with hellbanning (though I recognize in some corner cases it may be useful) is that it denies people this feedback and therefore does not encourage people to stay within the lines of acceptable conduct. So make hellbanning only for cases of people who are long-term repetitive problems or spammers. Implement a system that gives feedback to users for the rest. And allow the most senior people to enforce civility constraints.

Technology needs to empower people to manage people. Software should not manage people.
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Mueller is not exactly a reliable source of anything but what the preferred viewpoint of his current corporate clients. Sometimes it coincides with reality, but often it does not (see his coverage of Oracle's case against Google, for instance, and how it kept shifting as he was proven wrong time after time, and consider that Oracle is one of his known clients)
Ask HN:is it worth building a Mac app that can't be sold in the App Store?
I know that there are applications on OSX that are successful even without appearing on the App Store. However all those I can think of have been made before the coming of the App Store.<p>With more and more users shifting to the App Store, I fear that I would only waste my time developing an application that I know won't be approved because its functionality doesn't comply with Apple guidelines. What do you think ? Is there a way and is it worth to commercialise a Mac app outside the App Store nowadays ?
What?

They are suing at least Samsung (the most successful Android vendor) all over the world.
This is the first article i've seen that tries to explain the topic. It also is rather deep in not only explaining the paper in question (in a good way, i think), but also comparing it with work of Stewart and Plotkin.
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Then again, Samsung is a much more significant competitor than all of them.
Which is clearly insane.

Employees invest time and skills (since part of their pay comes from options) but somehow investing mere money (and possibly in more than one company) is rewarded with the better stocks.

And this at a time when the valley is nearly the only place one can invest money in honest businesses (that is to say, those that produce actual value, not just live of the actions of the past or sweetheart government deals).
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I'm not sure of the source Wikipedia uses - from experience working in South Asia / Middle East, there are certainly many economic 'slaves', people who's pay (or lack thereof) and contractual obligations make them de facto slaves, but outside of that there is a not inconsiderate amount of what you might more traditionally call slavery in countries such as Mauritania.
In Sweden, we have the Hets mot folkgrupp ("agitation against a people") law which forbids disparaging/threatening comments against ethnic/sexual minorities, and allows jail time for up to 2 years.
Apple doesn't need to support it.

At the same time, patents were created as a mechanism to distort the free market in order to promote progress and innovation, not to be used as a weapon against it.

Apple's profit margins clearly demonstrate that these protections are not necessary for the kind of innovation that drives the mobile market these days.

Society doesn't need to support Apple's destructive war when it is working directly counter to the purpose of the patents used to wage it.

Perhaps it is time to force Apple to actually compete on free market terms.
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I'm an American living in AU, going to move to Canada.

Couple of thoughts.

1. Family was discussing where to live. US didn't really come up as an option because of healthcare and education. Things are generally cheaper in the US, but standard of living for our kids was considered more important. Canada in particular is very close, nearly as cheap and has better education and healthcare. Win-Win.

2. People in the US generally don't realize A. how cheap things are and B. how bad things like education and healthcare are.

3. We are taking a significant tax hit in either AU or CAN...and that is OK because of what we are getting in return. I'm actually more mad at thinking of the things we DON'T get in the US for our taxes.

4. lastly (unrelated to the article), the difference between AU and CAN consumerism culture is amazing. The change is rather drastic and, I feel strongly about this, better for overall health to not be so wrapped in the consumeristic US culture.
"Imagine if a politician were to say, "France has a better health care system than we do." I can almost guarantee that politician would suffer electoral defeat "

Which America this guy is from? In the United States of America in which I am residing, lots of politicians talk all day long about pretty much every developed country in the world having better medical system than US (even though those systems are radically different and the politicians don't even bother to prove they are actually better) and they get regularly reelected. What is this thing with publishing articles in prominent magazines saying "Nobody in US dares to talk about it but I will! Yes, I'll do it and nobody can stop me!". Nobody wants a magazine opinion writer to be a hero - just a competent writer that does not insult the intelligence of their readers.

As somebody who lived in 3 very different countries, I understand learning from different cultures and countries is very useful. But in order to explain that, there's no need to exaggerate the faults of the US and present it as if most Americans are wildly opposed to any foreign ideas or experiences.
'available'. It is listed, but they do not sell it to everybody: "Due to copyright restrictions, the Kindle title you're trying to purchase is not available in your country: Netherlands"

(amazon.nl links through to amazon.co.uk)

Amazon.de also does not sell it to everybody: "Aufgrund urheberrechtlicher Bestimmungen ist der Kindle-Titel, den Sie kaufen möchten, in Ihrem Land nicht verfügbar: Niederlande"
How about http://methodandcraft.com/?

The thing is, there's no such thing as "website design centric" techniques in Photoshop, except maybe the effects palette (but you can learn 90% of that just by playing around with the options).

The effects palette aside, all you need for web design is the typographic tools, vector shapes, and rulers (to set up your grid). So you can basically learn the technical aspect of "Photoshop for web design" in 30 minutes.
Now the entire world is participating in the way of doing things that the US pioneered in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The US was indeed exceptional for most of this time. It's not anymore, but it's more because the rest of the world caught up, not so much because the US stopped (although resting on laurels has certainly slowed it down).
Here's my take on the Node.js framework question: http://bergie.iki.fi/nodext/

Not so much of a framework than a way of keeping code organized and disabling/enabling different parts of an app as needed.
I never knew about the -a switch to OS X's open command, i've been using the full path to the executables inside /Applications all this time!
France and Germany are not so two-party. In the 53 years of France's current government, they have elected presidents from four parties. In the 22 years since German reunification, they have had presidents from three parties and one independent.

Meanwhile, in the last 159 years, the US has only had Democrats and Republicans.

Also, even if minor parties do not get elected, they offer healthy competition and keep the main parties on their toes. Candidates in the US hate to present concrete plans or answer specific questions. They only have one opponent, so they take the least controversial stance that will differentiate them against the other guy. Offering more information than this minimum required is bad strategy.

If other parties were in the running, candidates would be forced to take positions and offer plans, because they have to differentiate themselves from several opponents.

I don't think changing how we elect people counts as "rebooting the entire system". We would have to eliminate the electoral college, but who would be against that? It is a relic left over from the days when local election results had to travel on horseback with a trusted messenger.
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I appreciate the distinction between arrays and pointers, but the article fails to mention a similar pitfall: A struct is the sizeof its members., which isn't necessarily true.

It's like how everyone learns that (INT_MAX + 1) == INT_MIN (even non-developers seems to know this) yet that it actually is undefined (in C/C++), I feel that just noting that it isn't the whole truth (such as noting that the OS handles the memory behind your back) is quite valuable, even when learning the basics.

Otherwise you might end up feeling, as I do, that your foundation is shaky and built up on lies - not really knowing what "facts" you can trust.
Without knowing the details of the statistics, I wonder if the disconnect between perception and statistics has to do with population distribution? I've lived in the suburbs of the US, as well as right in Manhattan. In the suburbs, many nights we wouldn't even lock the door. In Manhattan I was attacked by thugs with a knife in the subway.

I now live in Ankara, a city with an official population larger than Chicago, but I can walk 15 min from my home and be in the middle of a field with no signs of civilization for miles. I think nowhere else in the world has urban sprawl that comes anywhere close to what you find in America. So, if you want an accurate comparison, I think you'd have to isolate and remove the statistics from suburbs, as they essentially don't exist outside the US.
> imagine an inkjet with actg instead of cmyk

Holy shit, this exists? Wow.
It is, sadly, a very common opinion - if I have the right to pursuit of happiness, the government must provide me with my happiness. Ironically, after a century of bigger and bigger government, the citizens' confidence in the said government and its ability to provide anything resembling happiness has eroded considerably - as the author of the article notices. Even more ironically, the author absolutely fails to make this link, and complains the government doesn't intervene enough to provide the happiness to the people.
Is Content Elitism the answer to online publishing's woes?
D does not implement NaNs, it just relies on the IEEE FP hardware to do it.

What D does do is expose NaNs so the programmer can rely on their existence and use them in a straightforward manner.
I'm stuck with Windows as my favourite image manager, ACDSee, doesn't work all that well under Wine.

When I want to do online banking, I boot into Linux.