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User revolt over Java bloatware
I am surprised no one has linked to the youtube video provided by the manufacturer about application of the product[1]. They recommend the use of a respirator during application; this doesn't necessarily mean anything, you won't get sued for telling someone to use a respirator when a product is safe, but it at least indicates they aren't comfortable yet to tell people to apply this without protective equipment. Like many things that require a respirator to apply, it likely becomes much safer once dry (the carrier solvent evaporates away, making the actual coating nonvolatile)

[1] http://youtu.be/Ord6dTARWfo
Every elite in history has called itself a "meritocracy". Who defines "merit"? The elite. They will always look out for themselves in doing so.

If anything, the "dumb", brutal aristocracy of medieval Europe had more of a claim of innate superiority ("merit") than the current elite. Because of superior nutrition and better working conditions, they were half a foot taller, probably 20 IQ points smarter, and overall more physically, aesthetically, and intellectually fit than the peasants.

If you're "in the know" about these sorts of things, you realize that raw intelligence isn't what's valued by our society. It's still about connections. More specifically, it's about adopting the behavioral patterns and attitudes of well-connected people.

What we actually have in the US is some degree of social mobility within the middle class. The parasitic upper class is still a problem, and resistant to improvement. The lower class (which is about half) is still screwed. But it's relatively easy to move from the 50th percentile to the 95th percentile either through unusual talent or extreme sacrifice.
With any money transfer/payment service, DON'T keep money on it. Withdraw to cash every week, and spend or keep in a bank vault. I normally don't even put real mail address anywhere and ask different people to do ATM withdrawals. I am not doing anything criminal at all, but WHO KNOWS? It's always better to be protected especially when it doesn't cost me anything.
John Carmack Argues Against Native Linux Games
Copyright is not property, its a privilege given by the state to the author. Its a state enforced monopoly, given under a perceived limited timed.

Privileges aren't properties. You can not own it, only be given it by someone in power to enforce it. No matter of semantics, you can't turn a privilege it into a property. State enforced monopolies are not properties. Copyright is not property, Patent is not property, trademark is not property. I can't make it clearer than that.

If you believe that the land is owned by the state and that the individual is given state privilege to use it, then it too is not a property owned by the individual. If however you believe that the state do not own the land, then the land is a property of the individual that work it, builds on it, lives on it.

Its an illusion to think that just because one can barter with privileges, it suddenly become a property and all the economics regarding property will suddenly make it all right. Its false. You can't turn privileges given by the state into something it isn't and what it isn't is a property owned by the individual.
That's because that journal is doing it wrong and someone there is getting too much money. You give me 3k and I'll seed a torrent for one thousand papers as long as my Internet is billed per month instead of per GB. I just saw some redditors link a torrent with tens of gigabytes of technical books, so the method appears to work just fine. And if the author's intent is to distribute it wouldn't be violating anyone's copyright.
Shhh, the Ants Are Talking
Making University education free won't solve the problem.

If Education was free, entrance exams would be much more difficult. Rich kids could still pass the exams, because their parents would pay for more tutoring/education.
I disagree. Except for the ultra-wealthy 0.0001%ers, it is as close to a true meritocracy it has ever been because the ones with merit rise to the top. A good surgeon can make 3-4x a poor surgeon. A good programmer can make 2-3x a poor programmer. If you are a fantastic programmer and you make $50k/yr in US, it means either (1) you don't care about money (2) you don't know how to negotiate. There is no way a fantastic programmer is going to be stuck at 50k in the US today. A poor programmer can end up with a 100k salary through connections/seniority etc. but more often than not, most of them are in the 35k-65k range.

It is entrenched because only those on the top can afford to pay for good education for their children so they can become good in their professions. Doctors can afford to send their kids to top tier private-schools and Ivy League universities, which means their kids have a better shot at being a good doctor or engineer learning under Nobel Laureates compared to the kids of auto-mechanics and park rangers, whose teachers might not have the best credentials.

What I would agree with you on, is that this isn't too different from the past when children of top ranking military generals got better training and ended up being better soldiers and generals than the children of farmers and blacksmiths. Nobody's saying children of farmers or auto-mechanics are any less able. They just don't get the best training.
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> "Bellard doesn’t appear to promote himself—he politely declined to be interviewed for this profile"

In my opinion, that's the key.

Getting famous, comes in the way of a lot of people, whether they are a scientist or a programmer.

Read at some place, that many popular scientists, once they do something great and get popular, just have to interact with other people so much, that they don't get the time for doing something great.

Recently, on HN, there was a 'letter of note' by some famous author of why he was going to stop replying to reader letters. As that left him no time to write another novel/story[1].

Of course, for mere mortals (who don't taste that level of famousness) there are mundane hindrances like Facebook ;-)

[1] Discussion on 'The morning mail is my enemy' http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4409363

Update: Added reference
Sharpen Your Ruby on Rails Skills to Become a Hot Commodity..
Science of Slumber: How Sleep Affects Your Memory
I dunno. We did find that WW2 bomber on the moon once.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/62440303@N04/5683785190/
Shooting from behind the fence - DDoS & Anonymity
Yes, the article brushes aside the idea of wealth redistribution, but the simple truth is that, all else being equal, the more money you have, the easier it is to make more of it. It's like a marathon that gets easier as you go on. Even the wealthy acknowledge it: "The first million is the hardest." So we have (or had) a progressive system of taxation to attempt to counter the natural flow of wealth toward the wealthy.
The FBI is huge and has its share of poorly paid twenty-something interns. It's not that surprising.
Sounds gristly :O
"What we actually have in the US is some degree of social mobility within the middle class."

The article seems to contradict that:

"Using one-generation measures of social mobility—how much a father’s relative income influences that of his adult son—America does half as well as Nordic countries, and about the same as Britain and Italy, Europe’s least-mobile places."
Does anyone feels that what we are trying to achieve in case of piracy (stopping it) is probably the wrong way to handle it?

Obviously everyone is doing it even the people responsible for stopping it. That looks more like natural evolution everyone's trying to stop.
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"Except for the ultra-wealthy 0.0001%ers, it is as close to a true meritocracy it has ever been because the ones with merit rise to the top."

The article seems to contradict that:

"Using one-generation measures of social mobility—how much a father’s relative income influences that of his adult son—America does half as well as Nordic countries, and about the same as Britain and Italy, Europe’s least-mobile places."
"What we actually have in the US is some degree of social mobility within the middle class."

That pretty much describes the situation in the UK - very few people describe themselves as working class these days, you can't really become proper upper class (although your grandchildren might) so we're all left debating the silly distinctions between lower, middle and upper middle class!

[NB I usually joke to my wife that the easiest way of spotting "proper" upper middle class men is their trousers - nobody else seems to wear cords in quite those distinctive colours of pink and startling bright green.]
KeepassX. You can use the same file on OS X, Windows, and Linux. Keep the file in Dropbox (it has its own encryption, independent of Dropbox) and you can access it everywhere, including iOS and Android, which also have Keepass implementations.
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> Is the point to prove hypocrisy? As if we needed any further proof that people and governments are hypocritical.

I guess the point is when will somebody with authority do something about this? When will police start arresting FBI agents? It seems like we're all just okay with these federal agents being above the law they've sworn to protect.
Given the audience of this site, it's interesting that this topic has even floated toward the top. And, it's also interesting (but hardly surprising) that most of the comments are blindly for meritocracy.

Yeah - meritocracy sounds great in principle. And, we can agree that it's leagues better than aristocracy. But, over generational scales, aristocracy and meritocracy are very closely aligned.

Meritocracy begins first with a wave of smart, risk-taking, hard-working, uncompromising, (perhaps immoral) people who usurp the establishment. And, we certainly celebrate that. It brings a shift, and usually rewards many others.

But, it's when those same people put their children and grandchildren in positions where risks nearly vanish that we worry about. They naturally give their descendents their connections, secret knowledge, wealth, safety and other benefits. And, they unconsciously change the rules to favor themselves. And, they seem to dismiss all those elements when their spawns happen to reach similar heights. And, slowly, they begin to believe that it's some genetic component, or something innate in them, that has caused it. And, then the new aristocracy is born.

I think the article is bringing attention to this, and it's good to do so. The new rich should be allowed to let their children and grandchildren live great lives. But, those descendents should not become the gatekeepers of the rest of the world's amazing talent. There are just to many brilliant, hard-working people in the world, who aren't connected, who need a chance.
Why does everyone assume that every immigrant wants to be an employee?Some also want to be founders,you know
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"Such a horrible arguments, no wonder it got down voted."

Like most things that go against that go against the mainstream opinion of HN, my opinion is silenced by the masses.

"If you think you can do better than Flattr and produce a service that charge less, feel free to implement it. Competition is healthy, and there is no software patents in Sweden, thus no state enforced monopoly to stop you."

I don't need to. I'm also not trying to defend to the world why I'm freely sharing other peoples content and making money on it (through ad revenue).

"As for the TPB site itself, there are not a single peer reviewed research that say that independent artists was harmed by the site"

You are really tying to tell me that If I am selling a product and everyone knows they can get it for free from a website online, that people will buy it from me instead if downloading it for free and I won't get "harmed"?

You can defend this all you want, but when it hits your industry, don't start blaming anyone. It will cause job loss in the future.

"Now days with the promo-bay, they have done more good than most labels but without charging a single dime."

Prove it. There is no peer-reviewed research on the subject.
Lesson Learned:  Coding should be left to professionals
Normally, I leave coding to developers. However….
Playing around in the middle of the night last night when I couldn't sleep, as my first app, I was writing the ultimate Droid Valentines Day App.
Spec analysis: Durango vs. Orbis
Of course, the situation is different because we're smarter than they are ;)

First, we aren't the real elite. Founders are yeoman project managers at best, engineers are less than that-- not even able to raise a family in the Valley-- and even the venture capitalists are, for the most part, merely junior elite.

I'm not so sure about that claim, anyway, given that IQ is relative. The intellectual edge of the modern elite is quite thin, by historical standards.

The upper-class average IQ is generally held to be in the upper 100s-- no higher than 110-- even if class is defined to include social connections, respectability, and educational pedigree in addition to income.

So the upper class is only about 0.5-0.7 standard deviations smarter than the general population. That's not that much. They're also a small elite: less than 0.1% is running the world. For every Davos Man, there are 10,000 people wanting to see him fall. In any pool of that size, there are some fiercely smart people.

Compare that to the medieval elite, which had superior nutrition by far. They had what would be close to average height and intelligence today. Charlemagne (Charles the Great) was considered a giant. He was about 6 feet tall. Average people were a foot shorter, and were probably at an IQ level around 70-75.
The Star Wars Route: Do a traceroute to 216.81.59.173
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Get any job (#), including part-time and temp jobs, and you instantly get a US social security number.

That said, Paypal are acting like dicks, as usual, since you do NOT need an SSN to open ordinary bank accounts in the US.

(#) You may need written permission from your school to work.

Source: http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/10181.html
The surprising thing is that you're surprised. Less than three years ago we learned that some well-paid members of the SEC were using substantial time and resources at work to view, download, and store porn from the internet. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/23/sec-porn-probe-staf... and I quote, "A senior attorney at the SEC's Washington headquarters spent up to eight hours a day looking at and downloading pornography. When he ran out of hard drive space, he burned the files to CDs or DVDs, which he kept in boxes around his office."
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"With help from BitTorrent monitoring company ScanEye" <- How does that work? Do they simply collect IPs from peers and seed of each file and dump them all into their own database? And they have a business around it? That sounds rather creepy. But I guess it's good to know there are people doing this at least.
Such nitpicking makes a lot of difference to an unemployed person.
>...it is as close to a true meritocracy it has ever been because the ones with merit rise to the top.

And then;

>Nobody's saying children of farmers or auto-mechanics are any less able. They just don't get the best training.

So it's a meritocracy but the training isn't available to all? Doesn't sound like a meritocracy to me.
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But it's probably: 1) against FBI employee policy and 2) easy to spot for network admins.

Doing it at work is surprising because it's something that is easy to catch and terminate the employee.
This Building Becomes Transparent at Night
The fact that wealth is not a zero-sum game doesn't mean that your second claim follows: it is not the case that all transactions are positive-sum. Not all accumulation of wealth produces a multiplier; it's possible to make a fortune by siphoning off money with no net creation of wealth, or even by net destroying some.
We're always looking for quality mobile developers on matchist (http://matchist.com/talent). We'll do our best to find you quality work with quality clients.
I have no doubt that there are problems in America caused by the fact that children who are born from poorer families have significant handicaps (i.e., it's hard to concentrate in school when you're hungry, and the sound of gunshots at night tend to distract you from homework).

It's also true, though, that to whatever extent that genetics influence relative income (and despite counter examples such as the Romney family, I'd like to hope that intelligence has _some_ correlation with income) that might explain some of the correlation between parental income and the income of their children. A proper study should try to study the correlation of parental income with the income of the income of adopted children (preferably adopted under the age of two). This is why sociological research is so difficult....
"Appstore/Google Play charges 30%. Have you heard about Envato? They charge 50% on all sales until you make $70,000. Thousands of people make a living out of Envato and Appstore/Play."

Those services are for giving donations to people? Can you show me where they state this, because I can't find it anywhere..

"I would say that Flattr's 10% fee is well reasoned and acceptable."

Are you a shill for Flattr? Your comments make me think that you work for the site..
Netflix to developers: More monkeys to come
Why those things?

My first thought is that it's a vein of metal that is exposed.
It's like a marathon that gets easier as you go on.

Marathons actually get a lot harder as you go on. Miles 0-16 are no different from regular short runs, 17-20 is hard and you start to flag, 21-24 is brutally difficult, and 24-26.2 is easier for psychological reasons.
Use any traceroute site/program (not just the one in the link):

TraceRoute to 216.81.59.173

206.214.251.1	episode.iv

206.214.251.6	a.new.hope

206.214.251.9	it.is.a.period.of.civil.war

206.214.251.14	rebel.spaceships

206.214.251.17	striking.from.a.hidden.base

206.214.251.22	have.won.their.first.victory

206.214.251.25	against.the.evil.galactic.empire

206.214.251.30	during.the.battle

206.214.251.33	rebel.spies.managed

206.214.251.38	to.steal.secret.plans

206.214.251.41	to.the.empires.ultimate.weapon

206.214.251.46	the.death.star

206.214.251.49	an.armored.space.station

206.214.251.54	with.enough.power.to

206.214.251.57	destroy.an.entire.planet

206.214.251.62	pursued.by.the.empires

206.214.251.65	sinister.agents

206.214.251.70	princess.leia.races.home

206.214.251.73	aboard.her.starship

206.214.251.78	custodian.of.the.stolen.plans

206.214.251.81	that.can.save.her

Trace complete

[update: additional hops ]

206.214.251.86	people.and.restore

206.214.251.89	freedom.to.the.galaxy

206.214.251.177	by.ryan.werber

206.214.251.182	when.ccies.get.bored

206.214.251.185	ccie.38168

206.214.251.190	fin
Google Seach Engine Flaw : Impossible Queries is equals to Porn Results
HTML5 v native apps: key considerations for your mobile strategy
And now we know the origins of 'no u'
Putting doodling on an application strikes me as strange.

Then again, the application process strikes me as strange too.
I think there is a clear distinction: Elsivier cannot go to an open access model, because it would cease to exist from lack of revenue, while the ACM and IEEE can continue to exist with an open access model because of membership dues.
Yes, the visual assets are different. But, the novelty is in the scrolling effect idea, which is quite the same in both. And I think spotify did it first, although I'm not too sure.
Jammin Java Corp (PINK:JAMN) Continue to Rise
Something like that has been available for years in Germany. I'm wondering why it didn't have the success I expected it to. http://en.dienanoexperten.de/
Upgradable OOCSS with inuit.css on Compass
Hilarious - does anyone have any backstory or more info?
Running a web dev shop for over a decade, as longs as you break down why it costs as much as it does then you are doing the right thing. If their budget is lower than what you need to be happy, cover costs, etc than walk away. The worse thing is working on a project knowing you got low balled. It affects productivity and can create tension.
it is as close to a true meritocracy it has ever been because the ones with merit rise to the top.

How? Please explain what magical elevator makes this happen, because VC-istan seems to be a combination of connections and luck, large organizations tend to be clueless and political, and academia has been dying for at least a generation and a half. What I've seen may be limited and atypical, but I haven't seen anything that looks like this. I've seen the same nonsense that humanity has been repeating for thousands of years.

A good programmer can make 2-3x a poor programmer.

That has more to do with the fact that the good programmers tend to gravitate toward high-COL places. Even those good programmers can't raise a family (in NYC or Silicon Valley) on what they make unless (a) they beat the VC-istan game (see above) or (b) they work for those large companies, in which case advancement is 90% political.

The closest thing to a meritocracy seems to be finance, which is seriously flawed but is more honest about its shortcomings.
Microsoft to get huge datacentre in China
59% may be perfectly adequate to provide herd immunity, passing the phase transition threshold. It depends on a lot more detail than "59%".
No, it's called hypocrisy and it's pretty clear.

But because he is the darling of the HN community (which seems odd, since many people here are interested in running startups), nobody cares.

I find the same thing happens with Al Gore. He made carbon credit laws that made him a billionaire and his supporters don't see this as filthy, corporate, greed. Yet, complain about the banks.
Looking for a Cofounder.
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I'm looking to actualize an idea that I had a couple of years back. With regard to that, I'm looking for a cofounder for a venture that I'm going to start. Following are the details:

This is mostly about making a workspace tool. A web based project — I am considering an iPhone app and/or Mac app for this in the future, but not as of yet. This is all the detail I can give out for now.

However, I'm not interested in just any random person. I have a few requirements:

+ Said person should know web development. HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
+ Said person should be interested in working, and have the time/temperament to transform this into a reality.

However, most importantly, the person should be a learner. Its fun to learn along the way!

Contact me on Twitter @Arsalan_Bashir

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If you want to understand the "huh?" reactions you're getting, you might want to wrap your mind around the idea that it's effectively impossible to prove a negative.

Take a look at Russell's Teapot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russells_teapot

Follow that with careful study of Occam's Razor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occams_razor
super cool. can't wait to scare the pants off people at office >:)
Darpa Boosts Python with $3 Million Award to Continuum Analytics
Unless they were gathering evidence. It's illegal to buy drugs, but sometimes cops do it as part of an investigation.

I know people can be stupid, but doing it from the FBI's network without their permission seems especially stupid.

It just seems easier to believe the former than the latter.
It can happen, but very rarely. Indy artists are like startups that have no funding for marketing or just don't know how to market themselves properly.
> TianoCore – Open Intel reference UEFI reference implementation, 7061 files, >100MB of code, 10% of size of Linux kernel. Bigger than Linux core kernel

From Garrets linuxconf.au talk, year ago. As it is reference implementation, it is pretty much untested in the wild. So you can expect those "slight changes" to be mostly bugfixes.

Punchline is that Intel DOES provide pretty much all code for UEFI. And it is still bad.