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I'd define journalism (not cynically at all) as having the objective of filtering through all the stuff that is going on and telling us what is important AND what is not important.

In essence it's not what was not in the paper at all but what was in the 2" article on D4 that makes the strongest statement about journalistic values. We know what's on page A1 -- it's the big story that everyone would hear about even w/o journalists. But the stuff that is buried is where the paper pats us on the head and says "let someone else worry about that little detail".

I'm thinking of trying to figure out a way to make some sort of tag cloud view based on the above -- maybe showing "important" stuff on the left and "unimportant" stuff on the right. Both statements are equally significant and subject to the same editorial discretion.
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Anyone else find it humorous that the posts by those with ADHD that take pills for it are much shorter and concise than posts by those that have untreated ADHD?

:)
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That's not a good reason. It's simple to spot that and enclose it in brackets.
It is a beautiful article and I'm sad that they have allowed it to be ruined by allowing comments on it :'-(
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I think it's been posted before, but it's relevant. You can see Jon Bentley give a talk on that here:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/three-beautiful-quicksorts/
He actually has pretty good credibility. You may not like him. Many people don't, for various reasons, though I'm not among them...I think he's usually extremely nice to the folks he ought to be nice to: small, early stage, startups; and harder on the folks that are able to defend themselves, like well-funded startups and Google and Facebook. Sure, he's made a few douche moves over the years, like laying the blame for the financial crisis on a bunch of kids who went to Greece for vacation and made a music video, for example. But Arrington and TC aren't in the habit of just making stuff up.
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I don't think it's the normal state for most humans, but it is descriptive of one end of the spectrum of normality, when testing for a limited set of properties.

That's why I'm opposed to people medicating for it generally.

Basically it's "people who have trouble motivating themselves to do things they don't really want to" (though may think they should). It can be inconvenient if your view of society is that smart people should be interchangeable. My personal belief is that this is just friction between relatively recently evolved (post-industrialization) social norms and the way that people actually work, and those two pieces not fitting together all the way down has been labeled ADD (among other things).

To put a very fine point on things: what some people call ADD is why I am a founder. I could probably medicate myself into being a contented employee of a "good" company and stay there forever. But honestly, fuck that. I don't feel like getting shifty when things start boring me -- usually every 3 to 4 years -- and needing to do something else is a disorder.

My best friend on the other hand lives in the US and takes amphetamines for her ADD. I hear her describe what she struggles with and can relate to it, but what I hear is, "Wow, she really hates her job," rather than, "Wow, she has a hard time focusing." American psychiatrists apparently disagree.
Ouch - you just made me snort coffee through my nose. I wish I could up-mod that dozens of times.

It's interesting to go back to Moore's original words. Quoting from Wikipedia:

The complexity for minimum component costs
has increased at a rate of roughly a factor
of two per year ... Certainly over the short
term this rate can be expected to continue,
if not to increase. Over the longer term, the
rate of increase is a bit more uncertain,
although there is no reason to believe it
will not remain nearly constant for at least
10 years. That means by 1975, the number of
components per integrated circuit for minimum
cost will be 65,000. I believe that such a
large circuit can be built on a single wafer.

For reference, the transistor count has been roughly doubling every two years since 1971.
They're well within their rights to do so (heck, everyone needs to make some money) -- but they also make it quite difficult to download these photos. If you had 200 photos, you would have to click the "Download Full Resolution" button 200 times individually. If these photos are mine, then shouldn't it be a little easier? Sorry, a product manager in some stovepiped organization said no.

I don't exactly spend that much effort making it easier for people to defeat the need to pay me money, either.
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It's rare to have the plaintiff as an active member of your community. Any comments, thinkcomp, or is this a hush-hush type of settlement?
What about computer science specifically ? In Belgium, we're at 100% of cs students getting a job, most often even before they graduated (they get employed before-hand).
I'm pretty sure Microsoft themselves having contributed to mono projects would invalidate any such lawsuit. Also, Microsoft submitted the whole common language infrastructure (CLI), the core of .NET, to ECMA as an open standard.

So, unlike most things Adobe and Apple, Microsoft has actually made the .NET infrastructure open, but you don't see people decrying people for wasting their development efforts there.

So if that's a perfectly fair question, the FOSS world should immediately start reviewing pretty much all efforts not currently centered around POSIX, OGG and Theora as possibly wasted.
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Congrats Aaron! Ignore the haters.

Lest we rehash an unnecessary, counter-productive, and very mean-spirited discussion, here it is. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=505291.
Anything that:

* Doesn't repeat itself. This includes languages which involve marking out blocks of code once for the interpreter and the second time for humans.

* Is short, because it doesn't reinvent common modules, and modularizes out general logic.

* Uses descriptive names, including using dictionary keys rather than vague list element numbers. A good test is if you can show the code to someone who doesn't work in computing and have them understand it. ZS had a talk on this where he showed lawyers SOx code and received feedback on the rules, changes to the order, etc.

* Uses tree structures for tree structured data (eg, etrees and xpath) rather than treating such data as strings and using RegExs.

* Has docstrings.
Thumbs up aaron, was well smelly and good that you get something for your contribution.
I tend to view TC as the National Enquirer of tech, and possessing roughly the same credibility. It mainly reports overblown startup gossip and AFAICT tends to be about as accurate as you'd expect such information to be (e.g., the approximately 9.5x10^53 companies which have been reported by TC in "late stage talks" to acquire Twitter).

Also: having known a couple people involved in stories reported by TC, I believe quite honestly that they do just "make stuff up". There's no other way to get from the actual facts to the reported "story".
Thanks for the explanation. I hadn't thought of the my-macro problem because I tend to think of macros exactly as a clever copy paste mechanism, so would expect it to always use public variables, but I guess some people might have a problem with that in some cases.

In the first point I was asking to be convinced that you can't have hygiene solely through the use of a package / module system and without needing multiple namespaces.

Although your workaround argument (for allowing variables to be shadowed) is convincing, in that case the package system wouldn't really be providing any safety at all and only the convention would be helping. I guess we can sum it up as CLers really don't see a problem at all, and Schemers require macros to be completely abstract.
The zombie film flick "Colin" is succeeding on the strength of the filmmaking and the PR made-for-nothing-story.

I have two friends who have made documentaries and films. Startups and film-making are very alike. Making films for people to watch is very much a labor of sweat and passion. Even finishing the film is a feat. Making it into a film festival is a success. There is a whole circuit of local/regional/national/international festivals. Everyone has heard of Cannes - but the Big Sky (Montana) festival? Making a film that is accepted into Cannes? That is a major accomplishment. Making a film that gets picked up by a major distributor. Probably the equivalent of an IPO.

As Chris Holland of the Film Festival Secrets blogs writes:

"I think this [Doonesbury] strip pretty much sums up the indie film experience for many filmmakers"

http://filmfestivalsecrets.blogspot.com/2009/02/doonesbury-d...

Chris, an indie film insider, on the realities of getting your film distributed:

"So while you're on the ground at the film festival, do the following:

» Set discrete, measurable, attainable goals. Of course you should think about what your overall goals are for your film and your career, but for the purposes of any one event you need to write down the bite-sized goals that you can accomplish while you're there. "Find a distributor" is not a bite-sized goal. "Talk to ten distributors and establish contact with an acquisition rep at each" is more reasonable."

http://filmfestivalsecrets.blogspot.com/2009/01/last-minute-...
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Thank you for great insights. Gives me pause about... possible mixed-blessing that ADHD (at least if mild) can be - or the drawback of being too focused (beyond what real discrimination would want).

One issue for me: I find that caffeine makes me physically jittery and muscularly tense. I wonder what smaller doses of ritalin might have done for you (or might do for me)?
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My friend Matt who works as a PA (production assistant - meaning you basically do stuff like go grab a very specific lunch for X movie starlet at times) says Hollywood operates under its own rules.

For example, apparently if you work for more than 14 days (or it might be 21) straight on a production you automatically become part of the union. So, what they do, is every 14 days they fire all the temp workers on the set. And usually rehire them the next day.
More on this:

The website received about 3500 visitors during 12 hours after I posted this review request here on HN. Thank you guys! Thanks HN! It has been way more than I expected!

There's a bottleneck somewhere in the algorithm that creates wordoids. That's why wordoid.com is irresponsive sometimes. The webserver and the database seem to run smoothly.
In German, it's "sickness" (Berufskrankheit).
you mean like the french version of your alias? ;)
Open source developers are not entirely happy with this and mirrors of the rtmpdump app which got DMCA request are popping up:

http://lkcl.net/rtmp/
I remember reading this comment on TC under the Fotolia $50-100M funding story yesterday:

"Is this the same exceptionally good source that told you that Last.fm handed user data over to the RIAA?"

Reply by Michael Arrington (@arrington) - May 22nd, 2009 at 12:40 pm PDT

last fm story was right. continues to be right.
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What a wonderful, well-written article. Thanks for the submission. Peace.

Also, the article vividly describes the moral dilemma common in corporate institutions of being forced to say or do one thing, while acting otherwise for survival.

Just one of the great passages in the article:

"I was actually told this by the trainer, Monica, as she stood before a whiteboard, diagramming an abstract. Monica seemed a perfectly sensible person and gave no outward signs of suffering delusions. She didn’t insist too much on what she was telling us, and it became clear she was in a position similar to that of a veteran Soviet bureaucrat who must work on two levels at once: reality and official ideology."
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They really are! I personally like the combination of French and Spanish in "Almost Natural" mode.
A lot of companies/founders aspire to be acquired. This is the downside of that. I have a lot of sympathy for Last.fm in this scenario.
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Thanks for the link.

I remember reading that, and thinking that Aaron was an idiot that I should hate. Now that I have thought about the issue for a while, and read more about it, I don't feel that way at all. I am glad I didn't say anything in that thread.
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"In Python 3, all strings are sequences of Unicode characters"

What does that mean exactly? Everything seemed really well explained until then. The line above lost me.

EDIT: I think I'm confused with the difference between UTF32 and Unicode. Is there one?
It's a shame there is not Redis among the tested KV DBs. I guess the networking layer is not an option in this specific use case.
Yes, (1993) might have improved the title. (Alas, I can't edit it any longer.)

Thanks for digging out the author's blog.
Amanda's limerick is excellent.

However, this is not reddit, so I flagged it.
Strange, it loaded for me yesterday. Now it doesn't load for me either.
What? No, they're calling it evil.
Flex has plenty of animation stuff built-in... that doesn't stop it from being clearly "for programmers"... though to be fair, Flex's animation stuff is basically effects/transitions.
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Cheers for that - got me started.

I did a better version, that formats it properly:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/andrewducker/hackernews
Let me know if there's anything I missed.
I was hoping it would rotate.
If that's actually the case, then they should come out and say that, rather than apparently randomly fucking over developers who are depending on this platform to feed their family.
Companies with VC money have to be acquired - by another company or the public (via IPO). The VCs must have their exit - their funds are not for long term investment.
Using twice as many characters, yes.
Well, 401 of us don't... But just because we voted it up doesn't mean we sided with last.fm. Sometimes, I vote things up because I think they are of interest. That reply was clearly of great interest - as is this article.
I like their new logos. As everything google does, it is simple and clean.
But it does mention it, it just doesn't make for a snappy headline.
I had a similar plan, about 25 years ago, to visit every Aubuchon Hardware store, and buy a single screw from each. There were 123 stores, all in New England and New York, so the mileage wouldn't have been that bad-- it seemed, at the time, like a good way to get on the Letterman show.

Thankfully, common sense intervened.
In some aspect it might. Most non-tech users never used RSS before, but are now following their favorites sites on twitter. So, instead of pushing them to using RSS, they will just use twitter for that..

At the end, I think that twitter will take some users away from rss, but never kill it.
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It's their life. If they are smart and understand what they want, I wouldn't push it. Sorry.
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My mistake - quoted from memory (comment system on HN locks edits after 1 hour), tried to edit later.
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The first lines of cdb.c and cdb.h read "/* Public domain */". I would expect DJB to spell this out more explicitly if he releases an updated cdb package. I say "if" because the last release was Feb 2000.
Unless I see a convincing citation, I strongly doubt this expression is originally french. As said in other comments, equivalent expressions exist in Spanish, Italian or German, where they are frequently used.

Conversely, I find interesting that very common expressions in the english language, like "procrastination", are almost unknown in Europe (saved the UK and IE). Spanish, for example, has the perfectly correct term "procrastinación", but it's very seldom used.
This is off-topic, but... I wonder if you could verify for me whether the "French-Alice" voice on that site pronounces this name correctly (please):

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I've always been curious how it's said, but whenever I run into native french speakers, I forget to ask. I found that site a while back, but I can't judge how accurate it is. Many thanks!
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yes it is jokingly said. The book cited above (The man who knew only numbers") is a great read. It has a picture of Erdos with Aaron receiving honorary degrees.

I studied graph theory for a year at MSU with Edgar Palmer in 1981. At the time the proof of the four color conjecture, which was very controversial because it used a computer program (egads!!) was making the rounds. Palmer related many interesting stories about Erdos and also had us work on some of the problems for which Erdos had offered rewards.
man this is totally sweet. someone should combine this with the Posterous API and make dead simple Kodak to Posterous converter. :)
A direct link to the google blog:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-logo-look.html
I find myself reading twitter more than my feeds, but do not follow the sites I read. The reason is that if a friend posts a link its a recommendation like one I'd get in person. This means less noise.
I hadn't noticed that. Wikipedia explains the licensing in more details (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_Data_Base#Library) - the library code is public domain (and included in the public domain djbdns), but the rest of the package is under djb's annoying "You may distribute unmodified copies" license.
This was a great book. The story about the taxi cab number 1729 was staggering to me in what it implied about how Ramanujan's mind worked. It was also profoundly sad that because the little formal exposure he had was from a book where there were no proofs he thought that one merely stated results. Many PhDs have since been awarded for proofs of some of these results.
Do you think that's a good strategy for getting people to be your customers? Really?

Notice how gleeful the author was to have "defeated" the company here. Is that how you want your customers to look at your company?
Well my Erdos number is 5. Can I get a few more HN karma points for it :)
Is that news? Irssi has been around and well-known for quite a long time...
"I'm pretty sure Microsoft themselves having contributed to mono projects would invalidate any such lawsuit"

No. It wouldn't. And, most of all, it has no effect on where they take .NET in the future. If they decide to break Mono by moving the reference platform and to make Mono developers run in circles, they can. If they decide to sue _users_ of Mono programs, they pretty much can, unless at least a significant part of the code being used is licensed in a patent-litigation-proof license, which, I gather, is not the case.

The whole case is that you just have to trust Microsoft to, for the first time in its history, act in a civilized way. You may judge it's an acceptable risk for you and your users, but I just don't think that way.
Well, if they only have an idea, and they're not bringing any money to the table, then I would refer to the following from the 37 Signals book "Getting Real" (free to read online)

http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch06_Done.php

Be An Executioner

It's so funny when I hear people being so protective of ideas. (People who want me to sign an nda to tell me the simplest idea.)

To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.

Explanation:

* Awful idea = -1
* Weak idea = 1
* So-so idea = 5
* Good idea = 10
* Great idea = 15
* Brilliant idea = 20

* No execution = $1
* Weak execution = $1000
* So-so execution = $10,000
* Good execution = $100,000
* Great execution = $1,000,000
* Brilliant execution = $10,000,000

To make a business, you need to multiply the two.

The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.

That's why I don't want to hear people's ideas. I'm not interested until I see their execution.
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