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Following story had to be changed...perhaps...

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-573806-postdays-0-posto...
Sounds like pure speculation to me. But hey, the researcher has read 15 textbooks on genetics, so he must know what he is talking about. Not saying it is impossible, but there are a lot of other factors to consider, too.
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Internet content should not be recycled: Videos and pictures are forwarded forever through emails consuming bandwidth and storage and therefore energy and resources. This may also apply to copycat internet ideas whose number is overkill that most sites don't survive and can be considered just waste of resources. URL shortening is considered by the author as one of these.
Didn't any qualified security researchers do a security assessment of OAuth when it was in development? This spec was finalized in 2007 which means we've had at least two years to find this obvious problem.

We've known from the start that OAuth and OpenID are vulnerable to various social engineering attacks, and I guess the communities using each have accepted that as the lesser of two evils. But, you know, somebody has to check that the protocol actually works at least a little.
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What happens when your database is not capable of generating an efficient query for the data you want?

Then you use hints or a stored outline/plan stability. This feature has been in Oracle since version 8 over a decade ago.

Clue: MySQL is a looonng way behind the state of the art, don't base your opinions of RDBMS technology on it.
you can buy a domain back (more correctly, extend your lease, not buy back - because nobody can get a long hold on it in that time frame) at the same price in the time frame of 3 days - no matter what. Sadly, I speak from experience.
autonomous (even flying) cars need HW and SW advances. People have been banging on about brain-computer interfaces and augumented reality for years, both of which needs some serious hardware and design advances to be really usable (and would people be happy with wearing an OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator? lol). Futurist Michio Kaku reckons we might be close to force fields and telepathy.
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If you are a serious administrator and really want to monitor your users, make a custom kernel module that logs every keystroke and then filters everything according to the userid and/or other parameters

There is the snoopy logger program that just does that:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopylogger/

Beware of any legal issues, and ethics one...
But it's presented as being about the cost.
"But the idea that some groups of people are inherently smarter is troubling to many. Some scientists say it has such racist implications it's unworthy of consideration."

Why is this troubling? What are the racist implications? I thought being more intelligent is a virtue. Or are people afraid that, if there's someone who is smarter than average, clearly there must be someone else who is dumber?
In any case, though, a hypothesis does not become more or less valid because of its political or social implications.

Everybody can see that blacks in general (or I suppose with a certain genetic history) can jump higher than average white. The average European descendent can jump higher than the average East Asian.

So what?! You still get Obama and you still get Yao Ming. As long as the rules are the same for everyone (as they should), it's all about individual effort and luck. The average is irrelevant for policy or social efforts. It should be only of scientific interest.
I understand where you are coming from, but...

I wrote a bit of code on the Symbian platform -- the iPhone is a big step forward. It was much more expensive and painful to get applications signed on Symbian, especially if you wanted to run on many types of phones.

I think the background here is prior to OS X versions of the Mac OS. Lots of apps patched system calls etc -- and it was Hell to make new versions of the O/S (Microsoft was "famous" for breaking all coding guidelines in Word et al and e.g. patching system data structures directly). This was a big contributor to Apple's problems making the next version of the Mac OS.

(Excuses in advance for memory errors; this was some time ago.)
The organization "Svenska föreningen för upphovsrätt" that gets most of the press claims on their home page to be an apolitical organization for people interested in copyright law, with no opinions on its own.

http://www.upphovsrattsforeningen.com/foreningen.asp

I don't really see that membership as a problem, unless the reality of the organization is something different from what is stated. The other organization is "Svenska Föreningen för Industriellt Rättsskydd" which has as its purpose to strengthen industrial control over copyright, patent and trademarks.

http://www.sfir.se/Verksamheten.html

I'd say that membership should have been enough for the judge to declare himself as having conflicts of interest, and ought to result in disciplinary action against the judge.
Well, replacing SQL with a better declarative, relational language is an option. I happen to really like the relational paradigm, but the syntax etc. of SQL has plenty of historical cruft.

(As a bonus, ditching MySQL would probably help shrug off a lot of inaccurate assumptions about real RBDMSs.)
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The note about Facebook common stock valuation is interesting.
I think this is probably exacerbated by the comments with most votes being at the top of the page (but that's also the value of the system). For stories with lots of comments, I'm sure many people only read the top few and are hence more likely to further vote up an already highly voted comment.

I guess the solution is to find someway of giving emphasis to new comments that have not yet had chance to be voted up. I like the simplicity of the current voting system though.
And the internet was supposed to route around damage...

One way to do this is to make wifi laptops and mobile phones into routers - an ad hoc network http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_ad-hoc_network

So far, research in this is academic/hobbiest.
I wonder, has YCombinator considered creating one of their own? The number of portfolio companies (it never occurred to me until just now how possessive that terminology is) by now must be quite large so there would be a wide variety to choose from and there are probably accredited investors that would be willing to piggyback on the YC certification mechanism and let the founders cash out a little bit.

In fact, if the markets became liquid enough you might be able to skip the whole "round" feature of entrepreneurial finance all together and just release shares into the marketplace as needed on a week by week basis.

There are, of course, a bucketful of practical problems, and a truck-full of legal problems (the kind that get you in jail for violating securities laws) but in principle it could be worthwhile to do.

I suppose if you take that thinking to the logical extreme than any random small business could bring shares to market and the entrepreneur and investors can decide through the market mechanism whether they can deal. That would be an interesting world to study finance in.
> autonomous (even flying) cars need HW and SW advances

Actually, it appears that the only thing autonomous cars would need is the removal of traditional, unpredictable cars from the roads. (Good luck with that...)
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Good point, about redis.

I think part of it, also, is that a lot of peoples' exposure to relational databases is via MySQL and PHP, which is ... not representative.

Most people don't understand why the N-normal forms are significant, etc., because they learned SQL from a simple "how to save and load rows" kind of tutorial, rather than learning it from the big relational ideas outward. (I'm a "learn how it works as a whole" guy, but I recognize that most people aren't.) If you don't know why they matter, it just seems like a bunch of bizarre busywork, and then you get lousy performance.
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"Everybody can see" is exactly the problem. Can you really see? Can blacks really jump higher, or are there just more blacks playing basketball because it was the best way to get into a good college to play basketball (so more jumpers -> more high jumpers)? Are Europeans better in soccer than Americans because of their genes, or because more people play soccer in Europe, so it is more likely to discover the soccer talents?

Are blacks better musicians, because of their genes, or were there simply more black musicians because not many other professions were open to them - and there being so many good ones was just a result of statistics?

Are jews genetically disposed to be good with money lending, or are they good money lenders because they were not allowed to take on many other professions? So many jews became money lenders and ended up getting rich?

Not claiming that genes don't affect IQ, but to claim that it is not dangerous to talk about such things? I don't care much about jumping high, but if somebody would claim that my IQ is most likely 10 points less than that of somebody with another race, I would not like it much. I suppose you don't see many black scientists pushing the "genetic IQ" hypothesis. What is your race, just wondering?

Worse, as is explained very well in "The Logic Of Life" by Tim Harford, there is such a thing as rational racism. It goes like this: if employers expect on average black applicants to a job would be less qualified than whites, it would make economical sense for them to ignore black applications. In turn it would make sense for blacks to not care much for education, because employers will ignore them no matter what. It is explained better in the book (they run a test with randomly assigning black and white names to CVs, the CVs with black names received significantly less job interview invitations). Meaning: if it was known that a certain race had a lower IQ, it would be economical for employers to not consider them for good jobs, even if there could be occasional outliers of smarter people.
That's just because you don't have any sense of humor.

I find complaining about HN (especially the "whaa to much noise") on HN highly ironic.
I wonder if there would be a market for virtual vacations using a humanoid robot like this. I'm trying to decide what my price-point would be for a four-hour self-directed tour of Venice.
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Being very speculative..

Isn't this a free option? If it's enough to get the judge swapped isn't it enough to overturn a guilty verdict? They get an opportunity to try the case, the possibility of winning. Then they have an easy path to a retrial.

Being the victim of judicial corruption can't be that bad for their cause.
single page: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-jewish...
"The most important thing is that the comments are kept useful by constant vigilance on the part of the community. Did anyone see the reddit t-shirt thread yesterday? That sort of thing needs to remain unthinkable here. Not just the sophomoric sexualization and laughter-excuses-any-misconduct, but the parts of Internet culture which aren't relevant to programming/business/etc. (I like lolcats, anime, and politics myself -- just not here.)" - Patio11, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=555595
Intel does seem to be pretty well run and highly specialised. Microsoft seems to struggle with its internal structure and seems a little more dispersed than Intel is (think of XBox, Zune, Windows, Office, keyboards, home broadband equipment, .Net, Surface...)
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This begs the question: why were the microbes purple?
This story is a perfect example of flawed logic that we see so often here on hn that whenever someone points it out, they immediately get downvoted.

So, one more time, here goes:

correlation != causation

It goes something like this...

"We have observed a and b together very often. Therefore, a must have caused b."

Kinda reminds me of the garbage strike in New York City years ago. Garbage piled up on the streets and rats appeared everywhere. One of these "experts" probably would have said, "Look at all the garbage these rats brought."

Maybe we need a new "correlation != causation" flag.
I think socialist utopias are a lot more palatable when you can know everyone you're sharing the wealth with, see the good it does first hand, have the scale small enough to make individuals feel empowered enough politically to change policies that are unpleasant or inefficient, and enjoy the freedom to move out at any point.
That's not a conflicting message. That's poor reporting combined with an attempt to imply drama that anyone familiar in the least with domains can see is highly unlikely.

Edit: The reporting is about this good: "man in valet jacket seen driving car he doesn't own to hotel entrance. Possible theft?"
What happens when the lawyers get a hold of this?
So who is the registrar? Seems pretty serious to screw up a domain like that, especially a domain that is so major in the web dev world. I want to know who to avoid using in the future.
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Tipjoy has been mentioned a few times. Let me just say that we're most excited about our API, because it can give a site a really custom donation form integration. Broadcasting over twitter is really hot too.

http://tipjoy.com/api

We're holding an API contest too, and I'd love to see plugins into web frameworks to make donations built into the site.
http://tipjoy.com/APIcontest
I have CS3 here at work, CS2 at home plus I have used every version from 5 up and I don't ever remember it defaulting to TIFF. In fact TIFF is at the very bottom of the list in the save as window.

Is it using tiff internal and still using the PSD extension?
what, and crawl the entire web to find infrigement?

Or pay for someone else to do it - but then, how would you enforce it? The costs of hiring a lawyer to threaten to sue would be greater than the money made from selling the typeface.
It's racist because of what the inverse implies, also mentioned in the article. It also plays off common stereotypes about Jews as inherently smarter / more astute than other groups, which is absurd.

As others have mentioned, this whole thing is silly. Correlation does not imply causation. One obvious potential reason for higher performance on IQ tests is the high value placed on academics and education by many minority communities in general.
Like many hobbies, you can make it really expensive, but you really don't need to. A few pots, a good-sized cast-iron skillet for less than $20, a decent knife (I like Chinese vegetable cleavers), a paring knife, a few wooden spoons, a cutting board or two. That's enough to start out, and (as with programming), starting small can give you a better idea what you actually need.

Alton Brown's _Gear for Your Kitchen_ (http://www.amazon.com/Alton-Browns-Gear-Your-Kitchen/dp/1584...) is a pretty good equipment overview.

Also, The Wok Shop (http://www.wokshop.com) has a lot of good equipment for very reasonable prices.
Not yet, but I am working on it!
You asked for it...

A salesman, a project manager, and a programmer are kidnapped by terrorists on the way to a customer demo. The company refuses to pay ransom so they are to be executed. The kidnappers grant each a last request.

The salesman said, "I have been working very hard on a Power Point presentation of our new release and I haven't had a chance to present it yet. It's only 143 slides and 2 hours long, and I'd like to present it before I'm killed."

The project manager said, "I have developed a new methodology for implementing our new release. I'd like to present 25 flip chart pages to describe it. I will only take one hour."

The programmer said, "Kill me first."
What are the legal implications? Can you openly trade shares in your private company in such a market?
Perhaps "everybody can see" was a bit offhand, since I don't specialize in these matters. But the point I was trying to make actually was this: In general in daily life, we should not care about the average but about the individual. I'm East Asian born in Europe so I've been aware of all kinds of stereotypes from both sides, good and bad. And you know what: It's just a blur and too broad a brush to paint the picture of my life or my decisions or capabilities etc. Same for other people. Of course I make snap judgments about them if I don't know them but they usually have to do with demeanor, language, clothing, anything and race is no factor usually (unless on a basketball court ;)

As for your last paragraph, however, I've grappled with that too and actually did not come to any conclusion. Obviously, you build filters as you go through life. In fact, if you face the same type of decision problem over and over, it's probably better to make it on a statistical basis rather than evaluate always fresh. But where is the line to discrimination and actually pushing people (who unlike most things adapt) into your framework, I don't know. Positively, statistical decision-making is "accumulating experience" faster; negatively, it's stereotyping. I don't know where the line is.

Still, I hold the line that the fact and truth is what it is, and should not be influenced by "what happens if the conclusion is A?". If we're afraid of truth, whatever it is, then something deeper is wrong and we better try to repair this rather than doctor the truth or our perception of the world.
I got the joke. I just don't think it's a funny joke - which is one of the reasons I'd rather people not try.

I like HN, and I think it's worth explaining how the community works. That includes why (bad) humor is downmodded so often.
Seriously, Penelope Trunk on HN?
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So is causation impossible to prove?

It seems like every single study ( at least those reported in the media) suffers from the correlation != causation problem.
> Kinda reminds me of the garbage strike in New
> York City years ago. Garbage piled up on the streets
> and rats appeared everywhere. One of these "experts"
> probably would have said, "Look at all the garbage
> these rats brought."

:-) I also like: "Most traffic accidents are caused by people who have a driver's licence. Therefore, the driver's licence is responsible for traffic accidents."
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Some people really don't understand the concept of "digital," do they?

Someone ran a test where they used wire coathangers vs. the best audiophile cable there was. No one could tell the difference.
The most amazing thing about this is that it took them so long to think of this attack. It's a pretty simple idea. Is it really possible that so many major companies implemented this spec without even thinking it through?
I am definitely in favor of not letting political correctness get in the way of research. Just thinking certain claims should be extremely well validated before they are being blurted out. And just because there is opposition to some "research" because of political correctness also doesn't imply the correctness of that research.

A flashback in history: some decades ago it was believed that the form of the skull could predict whether you are a criminal or not. Harmless research? Surely not, if you had the wrong kind of skull.

P.S.: I take it with Asian family background you are on the safe side of the race IQ debate, as Asians are deemed to have an higher IQ than Caucasians on average.
Does it work in Rhino? This would be very handy to embed in some Java apps.
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Well, you can buy dedicated devices with lots of RAM (look up violin memory).
But, cost-wise, they are quite expensive.
Any reason to actually believe it was manipulated or are you just tossing out suggestions of conspiracy?
Agree. I've written a PSD parser. My comments are also somewhat bitter:

http://www.telegraphics.com.au/svn/psdparse/trunk
The "explore our markets" section of the SecondMarket site immediately evoked "parked domain advertising".
Could someone please explain me what's worth 50 points in this article? Millions of people worldwide unlocked their 2G iPhones to pay less or to use their service provider. There isn't anything new or interesting in it.
next generation of tools that make hibernate and spring look as crusty

I might be biased but spring and hibernate have looked crusty to me from the get-go. Talk about solutions looking for a problem - or rather trading in one problem for two problems each.
I know someone who told me not to copy mp3s more than once, because quality gets worse with every copy. Moreover if you store mp3s too long the quality also decreases. This is known as a serious problem among audiophiles, because it prevents digital files from being archived for a longer time. (he REALLY meant it)
AnyBots was smart to make QA follow a visual aesthetic. Those other bots looked like they were parts thrown together.

I wonder if QA could benefit from a tiny projector, which could display the operators hand moving. The operator could have a projector display what the robot sees, and then just point on the projected surface, which would then be projected onto the real surface.
Yes, funded by that Wrigley.
http://www.wrigleygumisgood.com/science_institute.html

A three percent interest in a small group of about 100 doesn't get me too excited.
Thankfully I still have Fireworks and it's spectacular PNG file format.
Bear in mind that, in addition to concerns about maintaining compatibility, there are other companies who influence what features of the phone can be used directly by third-party developers.

Apple has spent many years and millions of dollars establishing these relationships and isn't going to jeopardize them to make it easier for someone to write a game for the phone, especially when it can be done with clever coding instead.

Smart hackers tend to enjoy working around such limitations.
Having been in the "real world" for a while (graduated college recently), it's been striking to me just how many people in the world aren't self-motivated. My memory of the Googlers I've worked with suggests that Google tends to end up with more self-motivated people than average, and maybe that's at least part of what they're filtering for?
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Please feel free to point out if I'm wrong on this, but I don't quite understand why this cannot be solved by stiffening up some of the requirements for the callback portion of the authorization sequence.

For instance, the Provider could return two tokens with the callback: the original request token (to identify which request the callback is for) and a second "callback" token. To obtain an access token, the consumer would have to provide both the original access token as well as the callback token. Since the callback is issued as a redirect to the user, it wouldn't be possible for an outsider to discover the value of that callback token (I don't think?).

To provide additional security, I would think you could drop the request token from the callback URL altogether, and force the consumer to save the request token in a user session or cookie.

Well, I'm sure it's not as simple as this but I'd be interested in hearing why not, if that's the case.