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I, Toaster
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Sounds kind of like My Girl, one of the few films that can make me cry.
From GM to Citibank to AIG to Fannie Mae, the failures and the fools are still in control, propped up by tax dollars from their clients in government, and they continue to consume and waste scarce capital and labor. Meanwhile, looming government intervention in health care, the corporate tax code, the energy sector, labor law, and financial regulation creates uncertainty and undermines investor and business confidence.

Bounce? We haven't even hit bottom yet.
It’s one thing when you read these books on your own but the thing is - being GRADED on books that scar you for life - at that age - is a lot like a Rorschach test being conducted using human blood to a classroom of fresh faced 12 year olds who so far have cakewalked through life and don’t have a care in the world.

The problem with English classes in a nutshell. You ruin a beautiful thing when you assign it a grade, no (or exceedingly few) exceptions.

That one comment aside: This is not only listspam, it is not at all Hacker News, it doesn't stimulate me in any way, and it's wrong. Bridge to Terabitha is about enjoying life in the face of that threat of its cessation; The Giver says that we should not accept our assigned place in society and that it's possible to be different; The Diary of Anne Frank illustrates the beauty in a single human life and reminds us that everybody is amazing (a lesson that many of us online tend to forget); and I wrote about Catcher in the Rye a few days ago, but it's not a bad thing to address alienation at a young age, because it's certainly there before most of us turn ten.
"Mayer consulted the W3C HTML specs and found a tag (the align=right table attribute) that would allow the right-hand table to load before the search results, adding a revenue stream that has been critical to Google’s financial success."

Is there any way to independently confirm that she was the one who consulted the spec and made this discovery? Because otherwise it sounds an awful lot like an executive taking credit for the work of someone underneath them.
If I'm writing a book on a subject, I'm going to write it because I understand it well and think I have something interesting to say. I won't just pick something that I think makes money and then bullshit something into profitability.

Come to think of it, that's also how I look for the good startup companies amidst all the bad: When you find the ones run by people who understand what they're doing, you find a satisfaction in their output that you don't find elsewhere. 280North comes to mind, as does Contrast.io.
Wow, you got downvoted hard.

I disagree with you because in this case, it's a matter of semantic structuring. The language should be free to change, but only when it doesn't conflict with how the language functions. In this case, "lot's" would kill how parts of the language is interpreted, and changing it would offer no clear structuring for the two various "lots" usages.

There are some exceptions - I, for instance, don't mind people who use abbreviations like "u" since they make sense contextually, and while something like "lol" is overused I think you could make an argument saying "lol" has become a usable verb or even a noun in the English language ("lolled" is also very fun to say out loud).

In your case, however, I've got to disagree, though I don't know why people saw fit to downvote you that hard. Perhaps it's because you opened with a definitive-sounding statement before raising arguments in support, though that seems a bit kneejerk.
Sarcasm doesn't always go over well here.
I'm curious what differences there are between the services that would make Facebook pick Ustream over Justin.tv. Was it something in function? Aesthetic? (Ustream's front page admittedly looks a lot sexier.)
Verifing that the problem is something that they can help you with is part of helping deal with the problem. It's not the same as telling you to "take a hike".
I think it might have been "In Watermelon Sugar". Yeah, that's the one.
I think you missed the point of my comment.

I know why this is a cool feature and I have a FF account. But if your average user looked at the blog post, about 95% of the people that use Facebook/MySpace have no idea how it's vastly different from email. The best editorial that showcases the new feature is on TechCrunch (not their own blog), but again, ~95+% of the people using social apps don't read TC. And per your comment, the screenshot demonstrates using FriendFeed as an internal office communication tool to me — which email / chat both handily dominate.

That's all I was saying really. FriendFeed has a lot of great things going for it, but I fear the general internet population will never hear about them anytime soon. Make no mistake about it, lots of amazing tech has died because it was poorly marketed.
Standard SQL cannot query transitive relationships, i.e. variable-length chains of joins which continue until some condition is reached

Actually it can: SQL:2003 includes recursive queries (WITH RECURSIVE), and several popular database systems implement it.
Fair enough - but I can't think of any other reason why Apple would reject Adobe's advances for getting Flash on the iPhone.
It doesn't prevent non-pilots from dressing as pilots. It just means (ostensibly) that even if you can pass as a pilot, you can't bring shampoo on the plane.
"It's a peculiar kind of "helplessness" that enables us to benefit from the shared labor of millions of workers and the collected knowledge of millions of people accumulated over hundreds of years by merely traveling to the nearest Wal-Mart or appliance store, or, better yet, by merely clicking the mouse on a computer a few times and having the toaster (or, for that matter, groceries, or clothing, or medicine) brought directly to our homes.

"And where Read expressed awe at the way so many people worked together--motivated only by self-interest--to produce not only pencils, but millions of other products that make our lives better, Thwaites oddly sees waste:"

Good find. There is still a lot of misunderstanding of economics in a lot of posts here, so this article "delights the mind" for many HN readers.
When I remarked that another 9/11 was more than remote, due to the fact that passengers can no longer be subdued by hijackers (knowing that certain death awaits)

Good point. Now passengers will fight to the death rather than cooperate with hijackers. United 93 was a very inspiring movie about ordinary people in very unexpected circumstances.
You know, I'm not sure "I, Toaster" is a more accurate summary of this article, since the article is in fact a critique of "I, Toaster".
The definition of "everyone" is even more difficult than "opposite," I think. If the definition of "everyone" is "most people on the planet," then developing Web apps is as close to the opposite of subsisting in a developing country I can think of.

This post is a pretty useless generalization, notable only because the guy who wrote it is wildly successful. And somehow, we're supposed to learn something from it -- "Thanks."
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Merely making things look nice won't help, but sometimes things like dataflow diagrams can convey information more quickly and clearly than just words — maybe especially to people who are particularly visually oriented.
Para 2 seems to imply Naggum didn't have family or friends. I don't see any indication that that's true. (Perhaps just that his family and friends are taciturn online.)

Otherwise, +1.
I disagree; I thought the point about not copying variables in order to make the code look "cleaner" is a good point. I never considered that a malicious user might pass in 512kb worth of data into a textarea..
Homeless man attacks fellow transient over quantum physics discussion.
That's better than the Long Tail, which was just an unintentional work of fiction due to it being based on data from faulty third-party analysts. At least most of his Wikipedia info is probably accurate, and not essential to the rest of the book.
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I like to say "No thanks". If you think about it logically it doesn't parse, but I've found that the common phrase invokes the "I just was just treated politely" part of the brain in almost everyone, saving much hassle.
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Harmonie erst. (Our german mates will have to let me know if I am anywhere near grammatical correctness).
If it's called a "proof" shouldn't it prove something to someone? If it can't be checked, it seems like it should be called something else.
Fair enough -- if someone wants to start drawing diagrams, I'd be happy to talk cryptography / security to them. :-)
This question came up in some of my more abstract classes in college. A few professors in my department were working on slightly different problems in the same general domain of automated mathematical problem solving and proof construction. The general consensus as I remember it was that the simplest way to get around the problem of no human being able to survey these proofs was to do something like this:

1. Define a machine read- and writable logic that can express your theorem and the steps you think it'll take to get there.
2. Write an automated proof-checker that can verify that proofs in this language are correct.
3. Prove the correctness of the checker.
4. Write a program that starts with your axioms and writes out a proof that ends in your theorem.
5. Verify it with the checker.

Now the only proof that needs to be human-surveyable for us to be certain that everything is correct is the one in step 3. The proof created by step 4 can fill up a skyscraper full of hard disks, and as long as the proof checker verifies it we know that it must be correct. Given a simple enough proof language (FOPL, for example) and a suitable programming language (the choice at the time was lisp, I believe) step 3's proof is easily short enough for a human to verify.

The only hole left is the possibility of a subtle machine malfunction that causes the checker to falsely categorize a proof as correct. On modern hardware this possibility is remote enough that once a proof has been verified a number of times by independent researchers on their own hardware we can safely ignore it.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=527946

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Geez, they don't even tell us what kind of scale it's tuned to?
Ok, fine. Your interpretation. Do you mind explaining yourself? It's not so clear to me how it could be interpreted that way. That was by no means an invitation. It was a way of saying that I felt what I was saying was likely to be unpopular.
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Here is another tip. Put your URL on your account page in HN. Also I think posting anonymously is overrated. If you post with your real name people are more likely to remember you, your site, and your product.
Seriously, what is this stuff doing on HN? I don't need to see this crap during my breakfast! wargh! The whole world is going mad...
I wondered how long he was on the waiting list ever since the news broke. From my own naive lack of understanding, I wouldn't have guessed you could get a diagnosis, get on the waiting list, get a transplant, and be back to work in 6 months. It's hard to google up what the average wait time for a liver transplant, but it does sound that the worse you are, the higher you get moved on the list.

You may not get moved up the list by being rich, but it does help your increase your odds. With access to the best doctors to help make a good diagnosis quickly, knowledge of the transplant list criteria and the latest medical advances, and the ability to refer you to the best of the best surgeons and specialists, I'm sure he has a leg up over people like me with a crappy PPO insurance policy, let alone someone on Medicare.
Korean women are naturally very beautiful and don't need to "Europeanize" their features. I find that really unfortunate. They also have an uncanny ability to remain very kind, good people even when very attractive.

However, I foresee a trend toward a strong desire for "race" mixing on all sides, as the world beauty standard converges to a mix. (I'm white and prefer to date non-white women, at least in the US.) Perhaps, in another part of the world, I could use the prospect of having attractive, mixed-race kids as a selling point. :)
I don't get it... We could very easily take a bunch of 70's photos from the US and juxtapose them against current photos and make it just as shocking. We could take current photos and juxtapose them against each other to much the same effect. We could probably also take photos of normal people today and juxtapose them against weirdos from the 70s to draw the opposite conclusion.

Is this hacker news because it has photos of Asian girls?

What makes the author think that the photos of stewardesses in the 70s is representative of appearances? Are idol girls representative of current appearances? Tastes in physical appearance change over time and we are seeing selection bias.

Seems like a "Get off my lawn!" article.
Ustream has a much stronger brand name than Justin.TV. One sounds like a youtube streaming site, the other sounds like one guy's TV show.
I think it is. "I, Toaster" is a play off of "I, Pencil" attempting to show how the truth is, our positions in society are tenuous and because we have become unlikely to be capable of fending for ourselves, we are helpless.

This article, "I, Toaster", turns it back around and places the art piece parallel in meaning to "I, Pencil".

[There, fewer words.]
Yes, I thought about that before posting. They're hacking their faces and changing their societal norms in the process.

The title was completely honest. So, why then did you follow a link accurately titled "The Changing Asian Beauty Aesthetic" if you did not want to read it?
"They're doing things, but they take a while to have an effect," Buffett said. "You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant."

Blunter than usual.
Berkeley Phd grads, at it again.

[EDIT: Misspell of Berkeley.]
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I remember when I first read "I, Pencil" after hearing a lecture on it. It really presents an incredible way to look at the world which has stuck with me ever since.
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I am ambivalent about this. A friend of mine was found dead in his house last year, a week or three after he died. Many of his closest friends had moved away to other continents; others were trying to respect his desire for privacy by not dropping in unannounced. He had his problems, but he was very well loved. But it wasn't enough.

I agree with you that it's important that we live our lives in such a way as to create happiness; I think it's okay whether the happiness is for ourselves or for others.

But I think that the most effective way to do that is to carry forward the advancement of human knowledge, because ignorance is the source of unhappiness. It's worth depriving oneself of a bit of day-to-day pleasure if that's what it takes to develop your capacities to the point where you can make a real contribution. As usual, I want to point to Richard Hamming's "You and Your Research": http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
I agree that people are contradictory and that Naggum was a master of CL and English.
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Here is Read's "I, Pencil": http://www.scribd.com/doc/11603927/IPencil
Makes me wonder how it was invented. Directly, or maybe there were some incremental steps? Would I have invented a flute?
A well known paper comparing encrypt-authenticate to authenticate-encrypt approaches (in the context of SSL) is http://www.iacr.org/archive/crypto2001/21390309.pdf
Well, the DNS as it exists today is especially not designed for eternity, and HTTP storing your stuff on your own server also causes problems.

You may have heard of "The Eternity Service"? Also see: Freenet, Usenet, Tahoe, and medieval scriptoria.
But Facebook doesn't care, because their brand overrides everything else. Name doesn't matter during a collaboration of this size.
I disagree. If it takes me 10 years to make something that is truly unique and useful, then so be it. I would rather make something that is wonderful and amazing than a thousand half-baked attempts. There is something to be said about the dedication behind a decade-long masterpiece, regardless of its public reception. The launch-early, launch-often mentality works great in some fields, not all. Dali took years to paint each of his large paintings, like The Hallucinogenic Toreador ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hallucinogenic_Toreador ).

I would definitely want Apple to release updates to iPhone often and web apps to crank out new features frequently. But I wouldn't be so demanding when it comes to other fields, especially art.
I see that "baby in one month" bit so often now. Has it become a cliche now?
This means that all the copies of the book that have been printed so far are infringing the Wikipedia copyright. Fortunately, there's no physical-world equivalent of DMCA that allows Wikipedians to send an infringement notification to bookstores that carry it, requiring them to immediately disable access to the infringing material. But does it entitle Wikipedians (perhaps represented by the Wikimedia Foundation) to a share of Anderson's royalties as damages?
Reminds me of the movie "Life Stinks" with Mel Brooks. Long story short: Mel Brooks plays a billionaire who becomes homeless for 30 days for the purposes of winning a bet. Anyway, he gets into a couple fist fights with an actual homeless man who has delusions that he is J Paul Getty. They fight over who has more money. Funny stuff. Although that scene is pretty ancillary to the plot.

Great movie, too bad few people have ever heard of it.
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On the other hand, it's relatively easy.
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the free, standard gui for mysql is much easier to use than the free gui for postgresql. (mysql query browser vs. pgadmin III).
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You have some magnificent points.

At least to me, this is a nonissue. If the program can be proven to be correct (in the sense that the logic can be confirmed so that it will result in a correct answer), and the hardware can be shown to be able to properly execute the program, and the programs answer is proven.

Even the already tiny chance of a hardware error can be eliminated in all practicality by the combination of error checking within the program itself and repetition on independent hardware.
They changed it - I think it's better now.
Somewhat related: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=277
There's a big difference between terrorism security and both financial regulation and (especially) healthcare. In the former, CYA is actually the only thing that can be done. Of course no politician can ever say the truth, that when dealing with suicidal attackers there's really no way to even approach anything resembling comprehensive security--all our civil liberties and money would be spent well before we got there. Sane measures like regular police, intelligence actions, and refraining from jabbing political hornets' nests are just not going to be seen as enough by coddled middle America who remain blissfully ignorant of conditions in the rest of the world.

With healthcare, on the other hand, the problems of uncovered individuals and waste in the system are measurable and ongoing. Obviously there's no magical solution, but the problem can be attacked and the situation can be improved by a variety of metrics.

Financial regulation falls somewhere in between... even though those rich wall street cocksuckers totally screwed the rest of us and stole our money, it's not like they wanted this to happen. The problem of systemic risk in the financial system is something that you can bet thousands of the best minds in the private sector will be working on, and it's considerably more tractable than the issue of how you prevent all terrorist attacks.
When some server on the Internet gives your browser a file, it includes a metadata called an expiry header (actually, Expires:), which the browser is supposed to interpret as providing guidelines for caching. For example, if I tell you that this web page is good for until midnight tomorrow, and the user requests the same page later today, the browser can (but doesn't have to) serve the user the page out of the local cache, secure in the knowledge that I have told it I would not update the page until at least midnight tomorrow. Since this totally skips the HTTP request for the page the second time, it results in blazing bugs-in-your-teeth speed.

Saying JQuery's expiry time is 1 year in the future means that Google is telling browsers who get the JQuery script "Hey guys, you can rely on this being constant for a year, after that you'll probably want to ask for a new version." The poster above you apparently thinks this is suboptimal, because a user should be able to cache a particular version of JQuery for longer than one year. I think that it is irrelevant, since in actual practice almost no user agent will reliably persist a cache for a year, and 1 extra HTTP request a year isn't enough to worry about, anyway.
Facebook definitely has more stature, but I'd say the opposite of your comment holds true. The larger companies are scrutinized more and have a higher standard of quality to uphold. Larger companies choose the best possible and the most professional partners. If things go wrong, the bigger company suffers more when it comes to "brand".
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The juxtaposition makes it like a dare. It's a passive-aggressive way of saying "go ahead and downmod me - I dare you."

I think even mentioning your perception of the popularity of what you're going to say is bad form. Say what you want to say; your perception of its popularity is irrelevant.
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"It doesn't pass untrusted data to AES" had never occurred to me as an advantage of CTR over CBC. The XORability of CTR always gives me the willies.
If there's one thing I can say for certain, it's that you're not going to beat Twitter (or any other dead-simple niche service) by trying to be everything to everyone. I am certainly painting in broad strokes here, but this feels a little Microsoft-y to me.
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He doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. "Reset"? It's called a correction and it's a widely accepted economic phenomenon. But to say that things will never reach the same level again or, "I don't think we are in a recession, I think we have reset," he said. "A recession implies recovery [to pre-recession levels] and for planning purposes I don't think we will. We have reset and won't rebound and re-grow"

It's folly. Of course we'll regrow. He's right about the no bounce part, but the growth will come slowly and surely. The correction gets rid of the fat companies that can't add much more value to the market. The real growers are all that's left afterward.