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> So which is it? How can the USA be the richest country in the world if Norwegians make more money?

Norwegians make $62,767 per year per capita on average.[1]
Americans make $49,965	per year per capita on average.[1]
So an average Norwegian makes $12,802 more every year.

You know that Norway is a pretty small country compared to the USA : 5 millions inhabitants vs 300 millions.

That is you should try simple maths :

5,000,000 * 62,757

300,000,000 * 49,965

I'm pretty sure the second result will be slightly bigger.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP...
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He does not sound like a paid shill. He's asking perfectly valid questions.
That's an interesting idea, but how does a language distinguish between memory leaks and regular non-leaks? Maybe some kind of metadata that informs the GC about how memory will be used so it can optimize memory usage and issue errors when the code fails to follow these rules?

If we really start hitting these kinds of walls, I think that Javascript subsets (like asm.js) will become more prominent, but it's an interesting idea.
Aaaq
But that's obvious.

The journalistic article isn't worth reading. I don't have access to the real paper, but it should be more interesting and informative.
It's not the corn subsidies; it's the tariff on sugar imports. The US cannot produce much cane sugar domestically.

Corn subsidies are only about $2B a year, and 75% of corn is used for animal feed or ethanol.

http://farm.ewg.org/progdetail.php?fips=00000&progcode=corn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize#U.S._usage_breakdown
I've found FF's 3D view to be very useful for debugging. Perfect for the times when you need to find that one div that is wide enough to cause horizontal scrollbars on your responsive design.
While it might seem logical in the peaceful times we've grown accustomed to, it is going to still be a tough sell for nations like the USA that have a war-centric mindset. A starving population is how you lose wars, and the work the government does to maintain the local food supply exists for that reason.

Also, there is growing concern for our ability to replenish food-stocks as-is. If farming ceases in these nations, you lose a lot of food people directly eat too.
Just a side note: somehow the official Perl website is one of the fastest websites I've come across on the web. Is there a reason for this ?
Where does one grab such a root data dump?
I run https://www.dozeo.com, a online meeting tool, and we had 2 minor changes in our software. We listened to customers and coded what they wanted to have.
A public API was our biggest move towards a bigger customer base... My guess is that everyone wants to build his own thing and we can provide them a good software...
This is not true and Facebook is getting tedious for many people. The web is what matters not Facebook.
I'm not sure Computer Shopper either. There was loads to read. I used to keep them all for reference because of all the multi-part articles, which were like courses. That was the good thing about it, tons of ads and lots to read.

Frankly, I owe a lot of my knowledge and interest to that mag.
The problem with the free market and agriculture is that demand is highly inelastic. Therefore the natural price difference between a good year for a crop and a bad year isn't 10%, it is more like 10x, and lots of people get to be hungry from time to time.

However if you can convince farmers to always grow extra, then the difference between a good year and a bad one is closer to 10%, and you never have famines.

After repeated bad experiences, every country with the capability has decided that they want farmers to grow extra in normal years. After that the question becomes how to subsidize them.
Is what you noted in the post still what you use for the nginx ssl_ciphers string? When I ran that through `openssl ciphers -v` I got wildly different ordering from what is shown as cipher priority in the post.
If you read the article you will find that Ctrl+Alt+Del was selected by an IBM employee, not Microsoft.

Alt+F4 I believe was also picked by IBM as part of the Common User Access standard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
Would you mind sharing a bit about how the process to gain access to the root zone file works? I've seen the application form, but I'm curious how the whole thing goes from application to access. Any insights you can share?

I've been kicking around a few ideas, but didn't want to go through an involved process if it would only end in heartbreak. Does it require a specific use case as part of the application?
Hitler was primarily defeated by the US in western Europe at least.

He was fully defeated by Russia and Americans+UK.
Ask HN:Which programming languages are hip right now?
The title tells it all.Which languages are the smart and cool folks learning at this time?
I love the approach that showed up recently where the developer uploads their own torrent to pirate sites. The torrent has the game, but it's a slightly-modified "pirate version" rather than the regular version. You can beat any pirate group's release time, and if the modifications are subtle, people won't notice until the torrent is already entrenched. This has pretty much zero risk of punishing legit customers unless you cock up your build process and accidentally ship the "pirate version" to them somehow.

Stuff that tries to detect piracy by looking at its runtime environment or whatever is bound to go wrong, of course.
What meaning have (intellectual) property if even what you store in a safe box can be extracted at will and used in not disclosed ways because they are secret, like giving them to a competitor?
"Why are genetic testing companies getting sued?"
I agree completely that corn subsidies are out of control, but it's not clear that getting rid of corn would solve the health problem. It would likely be replaced with 'high fructose' <some other starch>. Fructose has properties (very sweet, doesn't crystallize like sucrose, etc.) that junk food purveyors love and corn doesn't even contain any fructose naturally.

Any starch + amylase makes a syrup (my personal favorite is rice syrup). An extra process turns part of the glucose to fructose making it very sweet.

Sorry to crap on a point I mostly agree with in the name of technical correctness :)
OFF TOPIC: What's the purpose for everyone making a new account to submit a completely random link, especially when anonymity isn't important?
I might be misunderstanding, but are you implying there is something wrong with that pattern? To me, it's a founders choice, and in my book there is nothing wrong with changing from the original disruptive idea - and selling something else that clients want to buy (enterprise or otherwise). Is it not a better fate than trucking along with a product that doesn't have enough customers to meet its cost base?
I believe that if one first resolves domestic problems they become more effective in helping people outside the home.

> Thanks for the laugh.

Speaking of which, please don't abuse the other members. It only undermines your humanitarian intentions.
>That said: The author (and others) mention people getting surgery and the like for free. This doesn't seem accurate to me: doctors and nurses must be payed, medicines acquired, hospitals run, etc. The cost may be collected differently (taxation vs. insurance or at time of service) and various systems may be more or less efficient. But except in rare edge cases, no system is free.

Well, for one it's not overpaid 10 times, as is in the US.

So essentially, even in the numeric sense, it's almost free.

Second, for free means "without having to pay directly".

Yes, people pay through taxes.

But then again, you pay taxes in the US too, and that doesn't give you free surgery.
I realize I can't police the internet, but I just want to say that when someone works hard on something and wants to show it off, and your gut reaction is to show off something you didn't work on at all for karma points, it's the ultimate form of troll-dom in my opinion.
This is docudrama. The only known film of Orwell is a scratchy reel from 1921 of a bunch of kids walking like stick men at Eton, of which Orwell is said to be one, though you'd never guess.
That takes me back! I still remember the sound of inserting the floppy disk and the disk controller reading from it... nostalgia.
That's not the case for everybody.

I personally live thousand kilometers away from my family and friends, and it's just hard to keep in touch with everybody without a social network. Phone calls, mails and chat would never be as efficient/cheap/time-saving that social networks. Plus, they lack that "social" thing.

Regarding that "elitism" when you talk about your friends, there's "family and close friends", and there's "friends", the ones that are not _that_ important in your life, but with whom you'd still like to be in touch with.

Take for example the "keeping in touch" point. I'm going home in few weeks, I just had to post a Facebook status to tell all my friends so we can meet. How would I do it without Facebook? Send mails? Not everyone use emails. Call them, it's freaking expensive.

Privacy concerns scare me, and that's why I'm trying to leave Google stuff, but leaving Facebook is just impossible at the moment, simply because it's useful and there's no alternative.
The huge assumption that Nathan makes here is that "problems I have" can always be extended to "problems that a profitable target market has."

You can spend 24 hours a day researching a given topic, sure, but it's still going to take a lot of research to catch up to someone who's been living engrossed in that topic for years and years. I'm reminded of the great comment thread for Storage for Photographers, where the most valuable insights were given by actual photographers saying "Hey, this is what we would absolutely pay money for."(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6020969)
Ruby on Rails and Hadoop in my experience. I like Perl because it is old.
I have a modest proposal.

All FISA court decisions are published, with identifiers (names, IP addresses, country names, etc) redacted, after 10 years. After 30 years, unredacted copies are published.

This lets us know the scope of the spying. This allows for public feedback to let the FISA court know what people do. This lets everyone - including our intelligence services - understand that there are real consequences to spying on allies, and we shouldn't do it when they don't want it.

For those who complain that this limits what we can do because revealing our programs will upset allies, I would point out that history shows that programs tend to get revealed anyways. Therefore we should assume that people will eventually find out what we are doing, and not do things that are objectionable. Having an explicit timetable keeps our secret agencies from continuing to repeat this elementary mistake.
I have Ctrl on Caps on all my keyboards and my main keyboard, a Happy Hacking Keyboard[1], comes with the Unix layout* anyway.

Why Esc? For Vim?

*Control instead of Caps, Delete above Enter

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Hacking_Keyboard
I'm a fan of http://namevine.com/, it includes twitter/facebook/etc registrations.
I was hoping for some sort of nice link between the fields... like doing quantum mechanics with game theory or something like that. This appears to be playing a game with a quantum channel. Cool, but not that cool.
http://www.sohcahtoa.org.uk/legacy/blog/maths/spreadsheets-t...

I did read some of the articles as it happens, but I know what you mean...
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What is your take on marketing? I know you say that it's crucial to spend as much time on the product as possible. How much time should someone launching a website spend on marketing? Are there any tactics you recommend, or should you just depend on it spreading virally?
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I don't think so. Perhaps I'm wrong but I thought that:

a) Google CAN read single-page JS based websites

b) Google doesn't like it if you treat the googlebot differently to a real browser. That's blackhat and you'll be penalised if they find out.
The main feeling I get from european entrepreneurs is that Snowden is a hero but here on hacker news if you read the comment it feels like the opposite. Is it that americans in support for Snowden is afraid to voice there opinion agains the government of fear of having there private life followed and investigated by NSA or have I missed something?
Marketplaces are hard
Overcoming the fear of failure
Isn't being stopped by your fear the only real failure?
What to do with a popular project that you no longer want to maintain?
I've had a 4 char account for years - never did it because they were inherently secure though.

They're an American company with an American hosting provider. Only pro accounts use the encrypted email feature set.

Here's Lavabit's whitepaper on their process - pretty standard setup:
http://lavabit.com/secure.html
Roger Penrose has famously speculated on the connection between quantum physics and consciousness in his book "The emperor's new mind" and follow-ups, but as far as I know, the idea is not very highly regarded in the scientific community and the book is not very convincing either (IMHO).
Did another round of edits; if you sent me suggestions and they're not in there I decided not to include them for some reason (or forgot about them). Full diff here: https://github.com/SamWhited/blog.samwhited.com/compare/979c...
I upvoted but the current title ("Is Linus Tovalds 'evil'?") is downright horrible and I hope a mod will revert it to the original one soon.
You could just write a monad instead.
It is really, really hard for me to see this as anything other than utter paranoia. As one of the messages in the thread stated:

> Right. How exactly would you backdoor an RNG so (a) it could be effectively used by the NSA when they needed it (e.g. to recover Tor keys), (b) not affect the security of massive amounts of infrastructure, and (c) be so totally undetectable that there'd be no risk of it causing a ststorm that makes the $0.5B FDIV bug seem like small change (not to mention the legal issues, since this one would have been inserted deliberately, so we're probably talking bet-the-company amounts of liability there).
But the people who invest still need to be accredited investors, i.e. meet some criteria of annual income and/or net worth? Otherwise you will see a flood of scam and trash public image of the whole idea of starting a startup.
Intersting discussion, but incredibly bad title.
Sorry. If you're dependent on Facebook to keep your friends, they are not your friends. They are your "facebook friends".
Sites scrape heaps of our data, so why don’t we get a personalized experience?
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Before I clicked on this article, I had just been thinking about some game design ideas. I figured they weren't worth writing down, that I'd think them up again later if I needed them. Then I read that awesome Mitch Hedberg quote, which is clearly applicable to more than just jokes:

"I sit at my hotel at night, I think of something that’s funny, then I go get a pen and I write it down. Or if the pen’s too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of ain’t funny." - Mitch Hedberg
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>Next, by bringing quantum mechanics into the game, the researchers showed that players who can use quantum resources, such as entangled quantum particles, can outperform classical players. That is, quantum players achieve better performance than any classical player ever could.

Classical players can build a classical computer which simulates quantum computers. Of course, I really should read the paper instead of zero-content press releases..
I appreciate your asking the questions that a lot of people have when they hear that HFCS is "evil".

Generally, if people have been taught that there is more than one kind of sugar (yeah, I know), they learn about sucrose, glucose, and fructose, at most.

The name 'fructose' doesn't help clarify this situation. We are told that we (rightly) should eat more fruits and vegetables. But those juicy peaches and other fruits and fruitish foods (berries, etc.) are sweet.

As a result, we make a very direct connection between fructose and fruit, which is enough to create confusion about the HFCS messaging.[1] Points as well for knowing that honey contains a boatload of fructose. Honey's also good for us, or else they wouldn't point out that things are sweetened with honey instead of 'refined' sugar, right?

As with many issues, there's a bathtub curve of understanding. The completely ignorant and the very-slightly informed people are not confused. Nor are people with a high level of understanding about the combination of chemistry and human physiology.

It's that "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" zone that has trouble. You have a better than average understanding of the chemistry and the biological processes, but are having trouble putting together the whole picture. How the heck are you going to advise your kids on what to eat without laying down fiat rules?

I think you were treated unfairly in the reply to your post but it does contain some useful information. For the last laugh[2], I would suggest that after you get the understanding you need on the issue, you write a post/page/paper on the topic, targeting your current self as an audience.

Post it here knowing that HN is a culmination of people who are in the bottom of that bathtub on just about every issue, with some awesome representation of the "heavily informed". You'll help a lot of people and get some actionable feedback.

Just filter out the emotion[3] and revise as needed and you'll have a citation handy the next time this sort of thing comes up. Then you'll be that guy on the right hand side of the curve and can have the last laugh by encouraging education instead of discouraging the exposure of innocent ignorance.

[1] The Corn Growers' Association has created some biased but unintentionally hilarious examples of pro-HFCS messaging.

http://sweetsurprise.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ-ByUx552s

[2] and because I am lazy and want people to do things for me

[3] OMFG, he didn't talk about sucralose, galactose, maltose, and zymurlose!
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Well, this part has changed a little since the article was written in May.
Brilliant! I had always hoped CoffeeScript or somehow a JS library would add blocking channels like this. Writing JavaScript is a pain after being spoilt by Go.

I'm quite curious about what the compiled code looks like. (On a mobile now, I'll have a look when I can.)
Well, it is documented that the NSA made DES weaker by using less bits for key size (this makes brute forcing easier). I aslo noted that Schiener's AES submission was passed over (I speculate that Rijndael is easier to brute force).

The feds used to fight civilian crypto tooth and nail. Then they allowed it, and in one of the crypto books a story was related that the feds were bummed about RSA and friends. The listener questioned why, when surely their efforts were feeble compared to the government's. The response was the pace of development was much faster than expected.
Or third-world problems, such as when we started dumping all of that subsidized corn into the Mexican market.
No, it's that Bayesian players can take advantage of corellated quantum oracles in ways that give them acess to new equilibria in a way that preserves some of the old equilibria, such that the max of the new set of equilibria is always equal to or greater than the max of the old set. Which is rather non-obvious.

In addition, your statements "quantum-entangled systems can transfer information useful to game players" is wrong, or at least misleading. Entangled particles can't communicate information any better than classical methods. (Well, unless you're concerned about privacy, but that's a whole other issue which doesn't effect the game...)
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Your response to critique of a website's design is to question what use an entire industry is outside of entertainment when pooping. Its estimated that ~50m tablets were shipped worldwide in Q1 2013.

If you really want to understand why the PC industry is drowning and mobile is on the rise, go out into the world an interact with the people using these devices. The answer will be obvious at that point.
Because when people are considering aspirational activities, "People like me" doing those things helps a huge amount.
I did only one quick redesign for the launch (since the initial landing page was almost empty) and did not measure anything related to conversion yet.
Nifty!

A few questions if you don't mind?

- What is the source for your list of names to generate the Bloom filters?

- How many names do you estimate are in the list(s)?

- How long does it take to generate the Bloom filters?

- I would assume your filters are based on registered domains, so when you get a positive match do you verify it with a Whois lookup to account for the false positives Bloom filters generate?

Also - any thoughts on open sourcing this? My primary concern with third-party domain search engines like this is them lying / stealing my domain ideas. Running a search like this locally would be very interesting.
Very cool - I didn't realize that core.async has made it into ClojureScript. Seems more like a viable language for web programming every day.
Linus is (was?) one of my living heroes. But he controls the Linux kernel.

FTA:

"It's worth noting that the maintainer of record (me) for the Linux RNG quit the project about two years ago precisely because Linus decided to include a patch from Intel to allow their unauditable RdRand to bypass the entropy pool over my strenuous objections. " -- Eugen* Leitl

Linus has close ties to Intel and has for a long time.
If we take selective breeding, inbreeding, and hybridization into account, corn (maize) is one of the most genetically manipulated foods on the planet.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/science/25creature.html?_r...
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I was trying to be concise. I also put quotes around evil.
I read the article but all I got is that somehow the reasearchers brought quantum theory principles into game theory. I don't think that's enough explaining, even for a layman...
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Hanlon's razor help in this kind of discussions. Maybe when Linus took that option didn't saw Intel as something that would intentionally make predictable its RNG for following government orders, and just choose to not reimplement the wheel where it was already available.

Would he take another option since last month? Maybe in the light of this he could take back that choice.
Why do you call alts! input choices as non deterministic ?
Looks like it has been flagged, and is now dead. Too bad...