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Gender Studies class, huh?

It was a requirement for graduation with a Arts & Sciences degree (I dual-degreed with CS from Engineering) that I demonstrated an interest in subjects covering things other than dead white males. For reasons which were never really clear to me, "I'm an East Asian Studies major!" was not sufficient, so my choices were either Gender Studies or The History of Jazz.

I will say this for required common curricula: if you only take courses which you're interested in or whose built-in intellectual biases are flattering to yours, then you're missing out on a good deal of the educational experience.

I will also say this against required common curricula: there were no gender studies majors in AI class.
I think it's the recent comments - their shallow attacks reduce the perceived quality of the submissions.

Recent comments tend not to collaborate with the article - they aren't filling in gaps, adding further instances, extending the concept; discussing where the article is clear or unclear; correct or incorrect. And they are neither respectful nor kindly. They don't build on, or with, the article to create something better.

Instead, comments compete with the article - they find spelling errors, logic errors, or denounce the article in a shallow, general, global and vague way, often labeling it with connotational language. They aren't trying to build value, but destroy it.

The only criticism I enjoy reading is what you'd get from a kind and wise mentor. If someone hates an article, I'd prefer it if they just ignored it.

But I can't make them do that - so, recently I've taken to ignoring the comments here, and going direct to the article to make up my own mind.
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From the title, I thought he was talking about the practice of determining the market capitalizations for publicly traded companies. I was actually interested until I read the post.
Firefox also gets you more hooked with its add-ons. This is getting worse with time.

Little things can make a big difference & FF leads the way in little things. Big things (big add-ons like firebug or colorzilla) are obviously deal-makers, but the little things are big friction points.

For example, the main reason safari irritates me is that they don't have the bottom of the page chrome. I like to see the URL of links before clicking.
Oddly enough, given the post subject, I knew who you were immediately after reading a comment of yours about a week ago (and it had nothing to do about bingo, though it may have been entrepreneurial). I read it and immediately though it sounded like your writing style but didn't recognize the username. Clicked through, and lo and behold, there you were. Just had to register and mention that after your comment.
How are they defining small business? There are quite a few definitions that exclude startups.

Still, since I've spent the last few months hearing rumors about a bill allowing the president to seize any business that "threatens the economy," this is welcome news indeed.
I agree. Also the post-script about the writeup in the newsletter highlights RMS's desire to distort the story.
Nice comment on the origins of the patent:

http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1231641&cid=...
You can turn those off, but yes, they are incredibly annoying and most users don't realize they can be disabled. If you do something like MS Update, where there are a lot of redirects, you'll hear 15 or so clicks in rapid succession. It's like they've never even used their own browser.
Ignoring the privacy issues, I think universities would be an exception, as many student/staff live on/near campus. I suspect people who work from home would make up a disproportionate number of the collisions (as they reduce two dimensions into one) - so perhaps their is privacy in that.
"I can't find anything that I wouldn't pay for". Had to read that a couple of times coz it sounded too good to be true :).

Most consumer firewalls won't block it, but most corporate ones will. Eventually we'll implement a server-based fall-back, but that would suck in a few ways.

Edit: That's really surprising that your voice and video are getting cut up. It usually either works very well or just doesn't (if it's a firewall issue). thorax, can you email zhyder AT dabbleboard DOT com?

As for the desktop sharing, we'll be releasing the feature to allow you to choose which rectangular region to share. But we probably won't have the ability to select specific applications to share though; limitation of a browser-based solution.
The article says:

"To qualify as a small business, the corporation, when the stock is issued, may not have gross assets exceeding $50 million (including the proceeds of the newly issued stock) and may not be an S corporation."
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I used to feel the same way, but alas command-/ turns it on and leaves it on for future sessions.

hooray!
I would have asked him do you watch or subscribe to cable TV and how many early adopters has Hulu voided the need for a Cable TV subscription.

Hulu is my favorite site and since im not a sports fan it saves me like $80 a month I used to spend on cable.

No doubt over next 5 years the cost of our monthly Internet bills will get jacked up; bill by the byte, possibly
The bottom-of-the-page bar in Safari can be toggled with CMD+/
At one point they all applauded spontaneously when I described
a feature of the system.

I really like these protesters. To me, the article suggests that if you invent something genuinely cool and useful, no-one will hate you for patenting it - even if they want to.
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Those days hackers replied with facts, but didn't hide others opinions.
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Mountains Beyond Mountains is the only other Kidder book I've read. It's certainly worth a read, but it's a really different book from Soul of a New Machine, just by subject matter if nothing else.
Ask HN: What have been your experiences using Piracetam?
Recently, I have heard and read some interesting things related to the usage of Piracetam as a cognitive enhancer.

It would prove rather useful to have the opinion of other hackers, whose most important asset lies between their ears.

What have been the benefits/side effects you have experienced? Would you recommend taking it, considering the pros and cons of its consumption? In which doses do you ingest it?

All this in order to make an informed decision about taking it, or not.
If you're in SSH you're executing commands on the remote machine. What you're suggesting would require a subset of commands to run on your machine, and a subset of commands to run on the remote machine.

As everyone else suggests, just use scp. You can always tunnel into your own computer from the remote machine to fetch any files you need.
As long as you have an appropriate training set, I don't see why it would be significantly different. You might run into problems if you train the classifier on some radically different dataset but then try to run it against twitter accounts.
>That's really surprising that your voice and video are getting cut up

It is strange. All the Flash P2P tests I have not had choppiness problems. Are you using the Speex Codec? What quality setting? I believe RTMPFP prioritizes low audio latency most highly, to prevent audio chop. Video doesn't get quite the same priority, being heavier, and less crucial in most scenarios. So video chop is a little less surprising.
But front page voters influence each other. How about doing the same thing for the 'new' page? That's a cleaner test.
Maybe that ad for 23andme was actually written by Sergey's wife.
Ask HN: Gift/book idea?
My little brother's birthday is coming up and I would like to get him an interesting gift. He's studying weapons and systems engineering and really loves what he's studying so I was thinking maybe a book pertaining to this subject area, but I would feel weird buying him something like a textbook. Can anyone give me some gift ideas?
too little too late mister president. I agree with winterspeak in that what we need is severely reduced payroll taxes to stimulate aggregate demand.
I can't stand class names changing all the time: class_name, className, class-name. Man, pickup one and stick to it.
I had an ever rarer beast : the IBM jx. I'm sure it went to the tip at some point, but that would have been cool to put something on. It even had two 720k 3.5inch disks plus an infrared keyboard. The thing was so heavy I swear the case was made from pig iron.
Oh, I wasn't criticizing your choice. But surely your experience led you to question certain things.
no, then the open source community would fix it, and all the IT support adobe provides to enterprise would be gone.
Yep, Speex at high quality, and you're right about RTMFP prioritizing audio. I'm guessing there was some temporary Internet connectivity issue. Which other services out there are using RTMFP btw? It seems to be under-utilized so far, probably because there isn't a commercial server for it out yet. Definitely sounds like you plan to use it :).
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No, but they will continue their openwashing campaign to convince journalists that Flash is open even though it isn't.
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Did he just use a french word to close one section, and a latin phrase to open the next ("fin" and "post scriptum")?

That bothers me.
so let me get this right...

currently you pay capital gains (28%) on 50% of the worth of sold stock. this proposal would eliminate that if the stock is held for 5 years?

correct?
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Thanks.

I'll make a small correction. HN is in the lead for small things. I learn so many of these on HN.

Where would I be without CMD-shift-t in FF?
The state of the economy isn't the only sadenning factor, but also as a CS/IT graduate you are competing on a worldwide scale against people who are willing to receive much less monetary compensation for their work.

Reminds me of that news article I read a few months ago about IBM asking their current U.S. employees to move to India/Nigeria/Russia in order to keep their jobs...

Here's the article, since I mentioned it... http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/05/news/companies/ibm_jobs/
I had a job once where I had to use not only IE but also a "thick client" that was .NET based and had similar audio feedback. I kept my computer on mute the whole time because it sounded like a goddamn slot machine.
Perhaps they're using something like this method of guessing gender based on browsing history:

http://www.mikeonads.com/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-h...
How could you possibly prevent this? If the user can access the emails at provider X, so can a webapp that has the username and the password.
um...I think you missed the point of the original. The point is that people presume that government is benevolent. Doing things for the public good is their job description after all. This presumption is false, as when you examine the incentives for government you find tendencies directly inimical to the public good.
Building faster than anyone else is value.
it depends on how you define success. you can achieve great results with a strict system if that system is oriented towards selecting the high performing students. This is what the tiered college system in the european socialist countries is according to what I've read.

I think In america we're trying to have our cake and eat it too. We spend our time trying to make every student above average rather than orienting ourselves to the reality of education.
Here is a short piece I posted last month:

"Philosophy that is not accessible to the field that is supposedly being analyzed, for example, philosophy of science that cannot be grasped by scientists because of idiosyncratic terms and proofs, is just intellectual masturbation."
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Or more precisely, speed is a multiplier.
Hey, I just sent you an email re: JobSyndicate. Happy to chat anytime.
Love the idea... hate the name; hope they can transition to another. The name is crucial because this needs to become a movement: responsible readers and publishers who agree that ads alone are not enough, or not appropriate for all kinds of content.

There are lots of ways paid users could get enhanced service: no interstitials, no ads, enhanced comment privileges, access to new content before an embargo expires, automatic single-page-views, badges to show on their other sites, etc.
I think it would be wise to proudly feature a nice privacy policy.
FYI, this feature is only visible in the "Standard" AJAX version of Gmail... The HTML version has no option for importing...

It's too bad this feature does not work on importing from one Gmail account to another Gmail account. A few years ago I [accidently] got onto some e-mail spammers list and have been getting spam mails ever since!

I'd love to be able to migrate all my old Gmail e-mails to a new account (including my RSS feeds and stars from Google Reader). Maybe someday?
Well, technically "no", since Google pays my salary. But assuming I found another source of revenue, sure. It's as easy as turning off the computer, which is nowhere near as tragic as many people make it out to be.
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The RSS feed from HN has too many new articles. So i created a small filter over hacker news. It pushes a story to rss only if reaches the front-page and has more than 20 votes. On an average it has 1/3 articles as compared to normal rss.

http://hackernewsrss.appspot.com/downloadrss
I was just looking at this and one of my Japanese-speaking colleagues walked up and said "Whoa, nice site design. Lots of impact. What the hell is it for?"

I don't think I can improve on that comment.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax_in_the_United_States

and, more generally en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax

Briefly, in the US cap gains are taxed at a special rate separate from regular income; if you hold the associated asset for at least 6 months, this rate only applies to half the capital gains, and if you fall into a low enough income bracket, your rate is significantly reduced.
HOLY COW! WOW!!!!

I WOULD PAY $100 A MONTH FOR THAT.

I can think of at least 10 different scenarios where I would have (tried to)used that and saved at least 2 hours per scenario.

My head just exploded - seriously.
The problem with software patents is that a patent doesn't need to copied to infringe. Almost all patent infringement in software involve simultaneous invention, which means they are doing more restricting than protecting. Copyright should be enough for the software industry.
every single query.
"..the corporation must be engaged in a trade or business other than: one involving the performance of services in the fields of health, law, engineering, architecture, accounting, actuarial science, performing arts, consulting, athletics, financial services, brokerage services or any other trade or business where the principal asset of the trade or business is the reputation or skill of one or more employees; a banking, insurance, financing, leasing, investing or similar business, ..."

Looks like we're out, guys..
Desktop sharing doesn't seem to work on my system (Thinkpad T60 w/ Ubuntu 8.10), and it makes my browser nearly unresponsive, even when it's the only Firefox tab. (It's a 1.83 GHz/core Centrino Duo w/ 3 GB RAM- what's your minimum system requirements?)

Also, I wasn't able to get other people to join me using the "invite" link- is there some sort of port forwarding I need to set up for this to work?

If everything worked, I'd definitely pay a reasonable monthly fee for it. So far, though, all I can do is scribble on the whiteboard.

(My contact info is linked in my profile.)
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that was a though lesson! he won't forget it i think and I already remember some lessons from the HN community :D
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no, people pay capital gains (15%) on 100% worth of sold stock.

if you qualify for small business stock + 5 years discount currently, you could pay capital gains (15%) on 50% of the stock, and AMT (28%) on the remaining 50%, giving an average tax rate of 21.5%, worse than existing capital gains, which clearly doesn't make sense, so no one does it.

under the new proposed system, if qualified, there would be NO capital gains on 100% of the stock, AND it would not be subject to AMT, meaning that the gain is completely tax free (minus state tax, of course).

the only restriction would be that you have to acquire stock in the company when it is worth less than $40M (easy) and hold it for 5 years (harder).
This is a automatic translation of a note from german parents to their government. In short it says: Please stop politics of symbolism, start thinking.

May be this thing has to come from international press back to germany.
I think pretty much everyone who has thought seriously about things agrees with you, but how can they get political support for raising other taxes to at least offset the loss in revenue, and preferably help with the ridiculous deficits we'll be running for a while?
I don't see that as exclusionary; I read it as intending to exclude professional corporations, i.e. where you bill for time (performance of services) as opposed to charging for a product.

I imagine if they didn't exclude such, you'd have a rash of LLPs turning into C-Corps; not sure what other negative consequences they're hoping to prevent.
Perhaps human communication is evolving toward the use of highly compressed protocols. I won't pass judgement on that at this point.

Your compression of my message is probably as good as it's going to get, but it's lossy and takes longer for me to parse than the original.
how so? i read it as meaning we're in. i doubt they mean engineering in the computer engineering sense, and even if they did, most of our business are consumer services, not engineering services. further, i wouldn't say the principal asset of the business is the reputation or skill of one or more employees -- presumably the asset is the software developed and the user base around it.
By not raising other taxes and cutting the massive government spending.
Only consultants are out. If you're selling a product, you're fine. If you're offering some sort of cloud computing service, it sounds like you're fine. All the businesses listed sell people.
Your HW should be more than enough. It could be an issue with the version of your Java plugin. Do you know if you have at least 1.5?

The invite link should just work; no other setup is needed. Can you email me the link?
I've read the post, and I've skimmed the paper on which it is based. It's an interesting premise: if you know which census tract a person lives in, you can identify them down to about 1:1500; if you also know which census tract they work in, you can up your percentages to about 1:20.

But I'm missing the threat. What's an example of where this particular knowledge (feel free to assume for sake of argument that the pair is actually unique) leads to either personal disaster or a chilling effect? I presume it exists, but I'm not seeing how it compares to something like showing your ID (with address) to use a credit card.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I haven't felt the need to use a CSS framework. Then again, I self-taught myself CSS layout-based design in 2003 in the dark days, and was tasked with teaching a lot of co-workers how to do it when mainstream sites started transitioning to CSS layout based designs around 2004/2005. Perhaps I'm a grey beard in this domain.

But to me, CSS frameworks introduce a lot of cruft to a task that, once learned, is not very difficult. If people are writing stylesheets that are unmaintainable, it means they aren't sufficiently proficient at CSS. I've been there, even after I'd declared I was proficient at CSS. A few years on, my stylesheets are fractions of the size of the ones I used to write and do more than those ones too.
The new Windows calculator calculates 999 999 999 999 999 - 999 999 999 999 998 correctly.

It's not computer problem, it's programming problem, I remember I read an article where SteveBallmer said they have invested a lot in the XP calculator (the last one calculate incorrectly) at that point I didn't understand why they "invested a lot" and remade in from "Scratch".

but now it seems to be fair, calculation needs a lot of programming to get accurate results..
In the interest of not straying too far off topic, I'm going to leave this one alone.
Your main issues seem to be privacy and that advertisers "won't stand for it". The privacy angle makes no sense given the context, as ad networks are already tracking your site visits. Plus, the average user doesn't care. As far as advertisers, what are they going to do? There's already tons of websites that offer the ability to remove ads for users who purchase a premium subscription...this is basically the same thing, just that your subscription amount is effectively based on pageviews, rather than a fixed price.

All that said, my biggest concerns would be that it's a huge chicken-and-egg problem, plus the difficulty of getting users to pay for content they're used to getting for free.

Oh, and you come across sounding like a real asshole.
I tried restarting Firefox, and desktop sharing works! I'm using the standard Java 1.6 plugin that comes with Ubuntu 8.10- anyway, glad it works now. We can continue this conversation via email.

Edit: Eh, it ended up making Firefox pretty unresponsive in the end, but I did see a screenshot of my desktop for a while, at least. :-)
This is interesting, but I cannot bring myself to believe that this is actually going to come to market.
to be fair. this has no precedent in the 20th century.
We were talking about patents not copyright. You can't take all their submissions, comments and votes and make your own site with it.

I think software patents harm innovation. I think file sharing is a very minor offense that shouldn't entertain anywhere near the penalties it does. I think industries like drug companies ought to be able to get some protection on their very expensive research and trials - but the time frame should be based on the necessity of protecting that research pathway. I think artists should be able to set licenses they want their work to carry, we should go to other artists work if we disagree with the license rather than getting rid of copyright.

Its hard to ever get into the subtleties of the subject, because people get so angry about bad patents or copyright penalties that they are drawn to pleasingly utopian fantasies where we get rid of all IP laws.