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Do journalists want to be seen as human? I doubt it.

There's been plenty of exposes from insiders over the years claiming that news organizations are comically biased, both in their choice of what to cover and how they cover it. Yet journalists are still seen as fairly impartial, making their biased messages more effective.

Firing guys like this one is just self-defense for the journalistic profession as a whole. Too many journalists like him, and they won't be able to get their message across.
Bin Laden execution book on top of top 100 at Amazon
Mark Owen's first-person account of the Bin Laden raid has been on the top of the bestsellers list for over 10 days now.
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http://hiphopblend.com

The website is responsive, so check it out on tablet/mobile, too! I'm currently working on adding more features to the website. It's my first official project since I started to learn programming (PHP). I would love to get an audio player in the site, which would scrape the blogs for new audio, but I'm having some difficult getting there. I really appreciate any feedback about the site at all!

A little about me: I've been making Wordpress sites at a digital agency for almost 9 months now (from scratch). A few months ago I became really interested in learning programming. Prior to this, I didn't really see the point. I have to thank a friend of mine to helping me get started. My HTML/CSS skills are pretty high and I wanted to take it further. Making websites has always been a hobby, but I went into music in college. Graduation came and there was an opening for a Wordpress developer at a small company. I took a shot at the interview, taught myself to make custom themes by looking at their old dev's source code and now I am where I am today. I like the direction I'm headed. I'm in metro Detroit and dream of working out in Cali one day. Enjoy!
It's been fascinating to see what you have written about LoseThos earlier. It's an impressive accomplishment. Even more so given the challenges you are facing with your illness.
planefinder.net is similar.

I live in south-eastern Canada and I can confirm it's very accurate, big jets to and from Europe constantly rumble overhead.
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GNOME's directions isen't even targeted at the previous userbase anyway

Yes, this is a criticism that has been levelled at them by devs who have left the project: they abandoned their former audience without having a clear idea of who their new audience is.
Your point has nothing at all to do with whether a specific article about cheaters and liars is good. And. this. one. is. not.
"The long voyages in weightlessness are bound to substantially debilitate the crew," he added. "At Mars arrival, they must have a way to rehabilitate themselves before going to work, a tall order for the first mission in a very hostile environment."

Is that really a problem as gravity is much lower on Mars than on Earth?
> Among the linux users I know, there are two categories. Those who change their DE, and those who complain endlessly about it.

You forgot a third, important, group: those who can adapt to change and continue working. I would also consider grouping your two categories into one because most people who change their DE also complain endlessly (and quite loudly) about every other DE.

Unless you work on a desktop environment (as in "developing it, not developing under it") I doubt the time you spend considering its various virtues and shortcomings will ever pay off.
Strangely, the article fails to follow this up with the next logical sentence, which is:

"Also, a rotating spacecraft is trivially easy to implement, meaning that the entire zero-gravity argument is nothing more than a ridiculous canard by those who'd rather suck down a few more tens of billions of pointless microgravity biomedical research before allowing us to leave Low Earth Orbit and do anything interesting."
There are worse things people can be...
the line between what Oracle considers open and closed get fuzzier all the time. makes being a developer a pain in the ass.
I recommend checking out the Photoswipe source. It uses many of these techniques to create a swipe-based image gallery optimized for iOS and Android.

https://github.com/codecomputerlove/PhotoSwipe

Here's a simple HTML5/Photoswipe/Phonegap app I wrote that you could experiment with:

https://github.com/stungeye/HTML5-Tumblr-Mobile-App

Explained here: http://mobilehtml5.stungeye.com
Sorry. Forgot the <sarcasm> tag.
No, the point of insurance is not to buy into or share the risk of others

Yes, that is exactly the point of insurance. Everything you wrote is wrong, sorry.
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You don't think that spoils anything of the FILM at all?
The laws making the rest of us responsible for the uninsured aren't really optional, so it's probably better to just reason about this problem as if the uninsured were just intrinsically a financial risk to us.
The problem is finding a replacement. All the big players have decided at the same time that We Must Change The Desktop Metaphor Because... Just Because.
"Instead, they keep a Thing Table and a Data Table. Everything in Reddit is a Thing: users, links, comments, subreddits, awards, etc. Things keep common attribute like up/down votes, a type, and creation date. The Data table has three columns: thing id, key, value."

I hope they introduced some NoSQL sweetness by now.
Erm, don't we already have a "native app model" for PCs?
Article is from 2010, if I remember correctly their architecture has changed substantially since this article.
I would disagree that DS and CR are journalists. They are smart, discuss political and socio-economic events, and while they do partake in investigative reporting, they are not in the same league of hard-reporting by as performed by the AP, propublica and other foundations, and local big city papers.
Having a notepad and pen next to the bed to quickly jot down ideas helps, it's low tech but it works for me.
What you say is true, and I may generalise more than I should, however I don't think you need a phd in astrophysics to see that this is a bubble. Or that's what I think it is, will see, I hope I'm wrong because many of my friends depend on the start-up ecosystem.
We must have different linux-using friends, then. Those I know that use Gnome3 don't particularly like it, but use it because it's just there (including me). Others detest it and use kde, mate, or xfce (with one guy on a heavily customised fvwm).
> Should journalists be allowed to have opinions[1][3]?

I'll play devil's advocate and say No.

> Should scientists be allowed to have opinions?

> Should programmers be allowed to have opinions?

No. You can't just -believe- that PostgreSQL is faster than MySQL or that ruby is easier to code in than java just like you can't just -believe- that our lifestyle is leading to the increase in global temperature.

Would you trust a programmer who answers a question with "Well I feel like X is true, therefore that is what we should do."

> Should journalists, scientists or programmers be allowed to have INFORMED opinions[2]?

Yes. Of course. That's our job.

"After doing the research there is no clear consensus on the performance differences between MySQL and PostgreSQL. However there are certain concrete and philosophical differences that lead me to choose PostgreSQL, they are as follows..."

Journalists need to be smarter than the reader. They need to give an opinion that isn't just pandering to their readers (or their investors). They need to provide insight beyond the facts regardless of what that does to their own personal beliefs.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion

[2] - “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”― Harlan Ellison

[3] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Im_entitled_to_my_opinion
It's weird how it looks very similar to mine:

http://resume.korokithakis.net/

We probably both stole the theme from the same place and I can't remember.
Gnome3, or forks of Gnome2 like Mate?
Hum, IRIX file manager had both editable path and buttons in 1994 or 95. The buttons were thin,over the path. Seemed quite easy and practical back then, search for IRIX on this page : http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/filemanager
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Exactly.

They turned their RDBMS into a NoSQL database that's still slowed-down by all the relational machinery.

Though I'm sure this was an informed choice at the time, I seriously hope nobody finds this advice actionable anymore. Use Cassandra. (Or your NoSQL DB of choice)
this is a bunch of BS. the founder of TPB were well within Swedish law and did nothing illegal. No copy-written content is hosted on TPB, just torrents.
There is no such thing as a free lunch. Advertising simply shifts the cost of the lunch to the price of the advertised products, and then adds additional costs.

Using Google for example, in addition to the natural cost of its services, we one way or another pay the following additional costs:

• Cost of building and operating Google's ad infrastructure and business. Huge.

• Cost of ad production, ad agency, and other overhead. Huge.

• Cost incurred by the advertiser's competitors who don't need to advertise, but are forced to do so to not lose customers to the other. Expensive advertising arms race ensues. Huge.

• Social cost. I'd argue this is the largest. The health of society, democracy and the free market rests on the populace being well informed, not misinformed, not manipulated. The rare cases where advertising is honestly informative are far outweighed by dishonest or manipulative advertising. If you don't see this, I won't try and convince you right here, right now. There are better ways to inform the public about good products, for example something like Yelp but without Yelp's conflict of interest which stems from, yes you guessed it, advertising!

Who do you think ultimately pays these new costs (in addition to the original costs)?

As to your point about the developing world, or the poor for that matter: I think you are trying very hard to feel better about your job. I understand. I had to work on an advertising system for a few years. But advertising often targets the least informed and the least educated in society, and when it does, it wreaks its greatest social cost.
When the store is the only way for ordinary users to load software, the store policy and what you can realistically do with your phone is the same thing.
Time to brush up on Postgres or Firebird.

Let Oracle shoot off all their feet.
Do we have anything that is better and more Stable than OS X interface? I know its not against it.

And Web developers don't just code on cloud,they need an OS to work on it. What is wrong if it can be developer centric.
whether they are web developers or kernel hackers, both of them feel right at home.
By what measure do European countries have better health outcomes than the US? We're seeing in this thread why the most obvious metrics don't work well:

* Cancer survival rates, because of the 5 year survival heuristic, capture people who's illness is detected early but isn't actually cured.

* Life expectancy captures the fact that people drive more and faster in the US, that the US has more violent crime, and that more people in the US kill themselves

Intuitively, "high cost" plus "shortest wait time to specialist" plus "problematic overprescription" (a problem common to all first-world health systems) plus "earliest cancer detection" just doesn't add up to "worse outcomes than Europe".

But, it does make sense that despite the money we pay, our outcomes are not different enough to justify the expense.

I strongly agree: the way we finance health care in the US, primarily through a system of employer-provided health insurance policies that give way to a single-payer socialized system that kicks in right when patients are most engaged with the health care system, all without giving patients control or a stake in the cost of their care --- this system makes no sense.
Certainly things could go wrong. But I would argue having a set of people in established, stable relationships is better than either A) having unattached astronauts who will inevitably try to start relationships with each other, leading to a dangerous space soap opera, or B) having a unisex, hetero crew and expecting them to be celibate for years with no problem.
Touché. I guess so :)
I got upvoted, so I think I'm misunderstood. I'm not a troll, though. My internet has only democratic atheist linux zealots. It's like there are no republicans or believers in God, so it sure looks like a reeducation camp.

I heard 70% of Americans believe in God. That's a low estimate compared to others I've heard. WTF! I'm in a CIA camp!

It makes sense the CIA sure as hell does not want an operating system without back-doors and police tracking logs. Duh! Mine's not networked, so it's harmless. Guess not.

Find a single Republican or believer in God on this site: http://www.reddit.com/ Where are my people -- the 70%?
All i want to say is that we should take the positives from apples success and also focus on our strong points. Almost every developer or any company uses macs for Development. They can't be that bad for development can they? I am not advocating mac, I just want to say that we could learn from them.
> Every time the operating system decides that it’s time to run a different process, all caches are invalidated (on account of the virtual memory system).

Unless you have a virtually indexed cache I don't see why an OS would want to do that.
For procedures that aren't time sensitive, like eye surgery, wait times in France are upwards of 2 months.

I don't know what Germany's wait times are, but Germany isn't a pure single-payer system like France, the UK, and Canada; it's guaranteed-issue mandatory-coverage.
You need to jailbreak first, then install iFile from cydia. It's not free but it works great.
Your "My Startups" section should be renamed "My Projects" or something else.
> Would you trust a programmer who answers a question with "Well I feel like X is true, therefore that is what we should do."

Absolutely. Preparing formal proofs for every possible option is logistically impossible. A good programmer will have an intuition and form an opinion about which options are better suited for the given problem. With that, even the best programmers can get it wrong sometimes - they too are only human.
> Offshore is, most of the times, about getting the same quality of work at cheaper cost

The problem is that the person who evaluates quality has no real understanding of what is being evaluated. This leads to price being the deciding factor. Most of the code I've seen coming from price-driven software factories is awful.
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I think there's two things going into that: first, that Prawn's support for PDF forms is janky, and second, that the way they implemented the precise look/feel of the original PDF form was to use a cut-down version of the original as a template.

Which is a good thing to know how to do; I've had to deal with forms that were very annoying to reproduce with the tools available to Ruby programs.
I upvoted it because I like "long meandering human interest pieces". I thought it was fascinating the extent to which a pathological liar will go to maintain such an elaborate false identity.

I shared the article with a few other non-HN people into running and they thought it was an interesting story as well.
I'm a libertarian (small "l"). I'm liberal on most social issues but conservative on fiscal issues, so I tend to vote Republican. Do you know how many times media figures have implied that I'm a racist by proxy because of that? Calling someone a racist used to be a serious charge, but it's so over- and mis-used in this campaign season that I can't take it seriously anymore. Most of the time I just shrug it off, but when the Yahoo guy joked that Republicans delight in black people drowning, I was pissed. Really pissed.

I'm really getting sick of being called a racist because I prefer a smaller, less intrusive government. If the Yahoo guy has such a binary vision of the U.S., he should seek out work in opinion journalism. And of course, Yahoo was right to fire him. He offended roughly half of Yahoo's potential customer base, and no sane organization wants that kind of PR nightmare.
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new york beats silicon valley for one simple reason: If you're a programmer who just graduated college, would you rather live in suburban California and work at a sterile "office park" or would you rather live/work in Manhattan?
Agree, it's a great read. I also thought the mention of "Plebian Stable" Linux being "as old as dirt" was insightful (and a great play on words, because "pleb" means "of the people"). Packages on the stable version of Debian are so outdated that using it in production typically requires constant back-porting of more modern packages, introducing all sorts of operational risks that threaten its stability.
I did some digging and my statement only seems to apply to long-haul flights, as mentioned in this thread [1]. "Well,most long-haul fleets fly a lot more than short-haul ones.BA 772s and VS 343s fly about 17 hours per day." That is 71%!
Average utilization is between 42% and 48%. See [2], Figure 6.

[1] http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/re...
[2] http://web.mit.edu/airlines/analysis/analysis_airline_indust...
Except it breaks down completely when there are expensive drugs and procedures.
If someone really wants to read the full quote, they themselves can plug the quote into google.
I spend some time thinking through the ideas when I wake. Evernote works great for me especially when it's copy or marketing ideas.
File manager screenshots history of different OSs.
Great job, I'm actually very surprised as this is the javascript first animation I've seen that runs smooth on an iPad (3)
When technologies move from specialist areas to broad consumer usage, a more diverse (and less specialist) thinking also comes along, so people like zuckerberg, instead of data mining specialists with phd are ruling the techno start-up scenes, or stated otherwise, people who learn php and mysql, and not necessarily people with phd in cs rule this world. Moreover, to traverse all the possible space of innovation possible, more human effort, more dreamers are rushing into the field. finally, most are failing; this is normal in any problem solving when people simply traverse the possibility space with overlapping innovations.

A bubble is better identified in retrospect and a bubble predicator may be, the abundance of prophets such as this blog. Finally a bubble is good, and it simply justifies the fertile ground a certain technology provides. In this case web and mobile technologies have left no area of life untouched, and the bubbles are the golden medals they all carry going forward; showing their success and of course limitations.
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b) yeah that was recently introduced and seems to be causing an issue with some users.

c) the radius is actually dynamic (21km is the upper limit currently) and varies depending on the activity: the more activity, the smaller the radius, so that you always receive a manageable number of messages.
Ditto with this blog post - http://saidinesh5.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/4-weeks-of-unempl...
Unbroken link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koomey%27s_law
Their most recent infrastructure blog post was from January 2012, and shows that they're using Postgres 9, Cassandra 0.8, and local disk only (no more EBS). I'm curious if the recently-announced provisioned IOPS would enable them to go back to EBS.

http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/january-2012-state-of-servers...
Well, maybe, but this is also a great tool for the enterprise that wants a consistent look and feel across their supported range of devices with one code base.

Probably the biggest problem with PG is that it's frequently used with JQM, which in my opinion (after over a year of development with this combo) is slow. Mostly because it's browser compatibly goal is too broad.

I'd really like to see a mobile optimized version of twitter bootstrap for PG.
Yeah, but you're too young to understand the first one. I only caught whiffs of the tail end of it. Read some of the stories, some of the stuff they were trying to do was nuts.

The massive difference in this one is there really is a load of money to be made. Everyone is now online all the time. Back in 1999 there were bugger all people online and you wouldn't put your credit card details in for love nor money. Business wouldn't buy critical tools online. A lot of the industrial tools are moving cloud based rather than the old server install method. It's expensive to have your own IT team for a couple of massively overpowered servers
that still seem to go down every day.

And a lot of consumer faced products are making massive sums just because of the sheer scale of the marketplace now. Google is profitable and there really was a time when it wasn't, Facebook is profitable. Match.com, craigs list. You've got businesses like netflix and spotify. People buy digital goods online. There's a lot more opportunity out there.

Some industries have gone crazy in that they're not charging, the one I look at and shake my head at is the diet industry, what on earth brilliant tools like myfitnesspal and their ilk are doing I do not know, that seems like a sad race to the bottom in an industry traditionally worth hundreds of millions, if not billions. And others, like the newspapers, seem to be regaining their senses and are now charging (personal opinion, let's not derail the point :).

Your field, big data really is meaningful and it really is worth a lot of money to the right people. You'll usually get opportunities in the right startup to advance your learning far beyond what you'll ever achieve at most big companies.

There are exceptions to every rule, but big business often gets bogged down by conservatism and politics.

But in the end, do what makes you happy and find the culture that does. And there are plenty of great jobs out there with a CV like yours.

I partially agree there is a bubble, but only in certain startup sectors.
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Evernote makes good money. I know a lot of people believe there is a bubble, but this is a terribly thought out piece.
I can't really say, because we haven't done much testing on Android yet. My understanding is that Android's WebView uses a webkit rendering engine, but generally has poorer performance than the iOS UIWebView. So my guess is optimizing for iOS won't necessarily hurt anything for Android, but Android won't have quite as good of an experience. Hopefully this will get better with time... the UIWebView performance increase we saw from iOS 4 to iOS 5 is encouraging.
You ignored my single point in the short GP comment.

I wrote: "39% of the Muslim immigrants support antisemitism in a poll because the Swedes are Nazis and taught them?!"

You didn't retract that, you just wrote lots of other text (and attacked Sweden of 65+ years ago!)

that it is just bad propaganda and/or trolling. That stupidity was enough, I have nothing more to say to you, troll.

(As I wrote, it would be fun to copy/paste statistics from other countries to see more of your conspiracy theories -- since you ignore references if I don't copy/paste the content -- but it is enough.)
LibreSQL, where are you? :(
Apparently we have been in a bubble since 2007

Some Google searches show the talk of the bubble going as far back as 2005, if not even late 2004. I wonder what it takes for a bubble to become normal business?