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I just graduated from a high school in Singapore and I'm heading to Stanford this fall. And I think the Singapore education system is extremely overrated. I felt like I learned nothing in high school. Of course, the math problems might be tough and Singaporean kids might do well in international competitions. But really, do you know a single great company that was founded in Singapore? There's a complete lack of creativity and critical thought here.
nice, I noticed that on the train the other day, ive been meaning to go visit it for a while since its only ~40 minutes from me, will make the time to soon.
They had to connect two canals at very different heights, and they didn't want to waste water by using locks. This is an incredibly practical way to do it. It's energy efficient, water efficient, and a brilliant demonstration of Archimedes principle.

And it's in the Geek Atlas. It's wonderful. Art, engineering and education.

Search for Falkirk and you'll find it's been mentioned here before.
Evolutionary biology interests me and to have a clue, I had to understand the controversy. Time wasted, which I want back. :-(

As I wrote, the easiest way to understand is to note that the heavy people of both evolutionary biology and intelligence research agree on Gould's intellectual dishonesty.

(Almost all positive reviews on Gould's book on intelligence came from the extreme left or from non-psychologists.)

The top levels of the intelligence researchers and the evolutionary biologists were incompetent idiots and/or in a conspiracy? (More or less what the creationists argue about evolutionary biologists, by the way!)

It is just not believable.

> when there was real scientific disagreement at stake

It was mainly Gould's public writing that was criticized, not the research.

Note that my previous comments were downvoted by someone that obviously disagrees, but lacks arguments... True believers are sad.
So is Google...it's search results are getting worse and worse over time. Google is essentially pulling a Windows ME, integrated IE and all.

Bing is the competition Google needs to light a fire under its ass and start making its algorithm good again.
The owners of Hulu don't hate Hulu on TV. They simply don't want to sacrifice the revenue they get from live broadcasting. Not all shows on Hulu make as much as The Simpsons does.

The content is only free b/c advertising pays for it. Without the ads, that shit would be very expensive.
I agree. Where, for example, is the data on writers in general?

Writing, of any sort, is not a social activity. You sit alone and type. Or you sit alone and read things that you or others have typed. Or you sit and fret about the things that you're not typing.

It's hard for me to take this study seriously when I can close my eyes and imagine James Thurber's results. Or Harlan Ellison's. Or Hunter S. Thompson's.
He had me until

3) lower the corporate tax rate
Very nice slide set and easy to read. Good update for me on learning some more SQL and database tricks.

This is something where e.g. Erlang's Mnesia database excels at: storing tree data. Relational databases were not built for this.

Mnesia links:
http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/08/mnesia

http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/mnesia/part_frame.html
>>It is perfectly possible for a person who has wrong ideas to have other, correct ideas.

Agreed. But here we have an author that researchers in two fields argue are intellectually dishonest in his public writing.

Only experts in the field (or maybe amateurs which read the discussion carefully) can have an opinion.

So do you really want to use your time by reading books about subject X which you know might be have 5-50 percent slanted content to agree with e.g. the Mormon church?

It is not just that you get real information, it is that some of the information you get will be twisted...

Edit: And since it is relevant to your comment, note that someone voted me down but lacked counter arguments... :-)
If they want free work done, they should post to craigslist like all the other sleazy companies do. I'm glad there's a backlash against this.
Nice. Just signed up, but it was not straight forward what I have to fill on those tracker boxes (Maybe because I'm in a hurry). It's good if you can emailt2punchT support & maybe twitter support too. (ex: http://texthog.com)

Kudos.
The toggle settings are extremely annoying. The drop-down combo box is over 20 years old at this point. Still here because it still works.
Lenovo were the OEMs for IBM's Thinkpads. LG still makes monitors for Dell, hard drives that are rebadged and I'm not sure of what else (they are a huge conglomerate)
No, because an "anecdote", by definition, is not statistically relevant.

"Enterprise teams" are not, inherently, profoundly stupid in their practice of software engineering, and not all "hackers" inherently produce worthwhile, quality code.

This completely fabricated fable of software engineering is a simple straw man argument, and I've flagged it accordingly.
How can you prevent "Forum fatigue" from setting in?

The same way you prevent burnout in any other endeavor. You must learn to enjoy the process as much as the result.

You take up teaching because you enjoy explaining things to curious but ignorant people, not because you're hopeful that one day your job will be finished because everyone will know everything.

A lot of the enjoyment comes from theme-and-variations. How many ways can you find to explain the same thing? Which way will work best, given the nature of the questioner in front of you? It's like music: You will play "the same piece" thousands of times, and yet each playing will be subtly different, and those differences are what keep it interesting.
As a B2C Java developer, I have to say it: don't distribute jars to end users. The user experience is horrific. Knowing how to make executable jars is valuable, just make sure it is the step in your ant file right before you execute your native wrapping.

Java build tools are wonderfully cross platform so you can use the following pair regardless of your development environment, as far as I know. I routinely build BCC for Macs on Windows Vista.

Launch4j: packs jars into self-contained .exes, with all the trimmings. Includes ant integration. http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/

JarBundler: an Ant task which packs jars into Mac applications http://jarbundler.sourceforge.net/

You need a file called JavaApplicationStub to get JarBundler to work. Macs can apparently produce it with software that comes onboard. I got mine by outsourcing wrapping of the very first Mac version of BCC to somebody on RentACoder, and since they I've just copy/pasted every time I've done a version upgrade. I really don't understand the internals of Java Mac applications, but I think you can also copy/paste any JavaApplicationStub you encounter on the Internet, if you're also developing on a non-Mac platform.

(Wrapping isn't quite the last thing you'll need to do to make a Java app cross-platform -- ask me some time about the joys of finding a good directory to store settings in -- but it is a low-effort absurdly-high-reward step to take.)

I don't have any experience with deploying B2C Java apps to Linux users so I don't know what I'd do for wrapping it there. (While I will probably never write B2C for Linux users, I would be interested if someone with experience with it shared what they did.)
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Microsoft is estopped by law from asserting patents on C#. That's one of the benefits of submitting specifications to a standards-granting organization.

The EFF should know this, but then again, having seen some of their legal work in the past, I'm surprised that they ever manage to win a case.

Edit Estoppel is a legal doctrine (which applies to most areas of law), which means that MS has performed certain actions (in this case, submitting the C# specification to the standards body) which would cause 3rd parties to reasonably assume that MS is waiving (patent) protections (or other legal rights in the matter at issue).
I am not one of the anti-linking people, although it sure may serve as a convenient "argument" to you here.

The issue in question is you don't seem to be concerned with the media as a 4th branch of the government, you don't see the independent press as crucial component of our political system. I'm quite active politically, and what I have learned is that we, as citizens, have the only tool at our disposal which we can use to fight back against corrupt politicians and various interest groups: i.e. call for a massive media attention.

At first glance, Internet should help here big time, right? Well, wrong: Independent web campaigns just don't work: it takes a lot of time and momentum to become visible, often you need the public to intervene ASAP: sometimes it's about saving city parks, sometimes its about public outrage against converting a public interstate highway (paid for with taxpayers dollars) into a toll road controlled by an out-of-state company, sometimes its about ah fuck it, HN is clearly the wrong venue for this.

Entrepreneurial programmers simply seek "data" they can crawl and re-post with their own ads, who gives a flying fuck about 4th branches and all that boring offline stuff, right?
Welcome to the free market. If there are people that want to do this for free for LinkedIn and LinkedIn is happy with the translation they do, then why should anyone else care?

If you want to revolt against people working for free when they should be paid, come see what some of the "interns" in NYC have to do in journalism and fashion (and even more industries now there are no jobs out there)
I think the purpose is as much to create a discussion of [Free]DOS and its uses as it is to let everyone know about FreeDOS's anniversary. Besides, there may be people who aren't aware of this particular OS.

Many things on HN aren't newsworthy or are used by hardly anyone. The number of people using DOS is surely comparable to the number of people using Arc or Clojure or Erlang. Low numbers do not mean unimportance.
The license clearly specifies that "reusing" is itself not allowed without permission, so that doesn't change anything...his program still uses pngout without permission, and it's his (the programmmer's) use that is at issue here, not the end user.
ISTR pg has an essay on this somewhere, but anything you do to make the top-end payout for a business starter worse has a disproportionate effect on their willingness to incur the risks of starting a business. If SarbOx makes it harder to take a company public, which is one way to get a payout, it can have that effect. Economics isn't just about first-order effects.

In fact, it is sufficient for it to be perceived that it limits your top-end gain, even if it doesn't, and I think that I confidently say that such a perception exists in many people's minds, even though I could not say a word about SarbOx's true effects.
I love clueless product managers who have no idea about communities that they reach out to. This shit is not hard, folks.

If you are going to try to crowdsource something, you don't wave it in the face of the paid professionals. It's like asking the AIGA board if they'd like to do spec work on a redesign of MySpace.

If I was the PM, and I wanted to to take advantage of the fact that LinkedIn knows it has thousands of translators, I would have queried the pool to recommend someone else to translate. That's a process story that Facebook (or Twitter or whoever) can't match.
For completeness, have you gone the other way?

I still wouldn't expect the Americans to come out on top but the distinction might be less than you think. I remember in school that word problems tended to be written very stereotypically for any given book or curriculum, and students who just barely managed to learn how to do that stereotypical set might have a lot of trouble doing problems from a different "word problem tradition" (if I may coin the phrase). You might find more Singapore students have trouble doing the American problems than you expect, even though as I said I'd still expect the Singapore students to come out on top in general.
Really? I wasn't that impressed with them: they were mostly arithmetic - not actual math.

Most of the questions I saw were just annoyances dealing with fractional/decimal arithmetic. There were some interesting word/figure problems, but the difficulty in those usually lay in doing the arithmetic by hand.
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Interns get the benefit of experience. They get to meet people. They get to try out an industry without actually committing to a full-time job.

The LinkedIn translators wouldn't have gotten any of that. It's one thing to sample a career without pay, and another to do a job for free.
Does anyone out there actually believe getting a high school diploma does anything to increase an individual's productivity? I thought it pretty clear by now that people advance through the educational system to their abilities. You can fiddle with methodologies and testing all you want, but the raw material is what it is.

Government funding of scientific research is the problem. About two thirds of scientists make their living off the government, directly or indirectly. We need less of that, not more. Scientists need to stop making ultimately useless death machines for the DOD and other government agencies and they need to start working on technologies for the free market. Eliminating DARPA and throwing all the scientists who depend on it out of work would be a good start. They'd be forced to come up with business ideas.

The problem with health care in America isn't that too many aren't "covered," it's that too many can't afford medicines and procedures because they're too expensive. Costs and prices need to be driven down. That would happen right away if you eliminated the tax deductibility of health care benefits. (Maybe give an offsetting tax credit to make it political palatable.) Millions of people would opt out of their employer provided plans and go comparison shopping for much cheaper high deductible plans so they could pocket the savings. This consumer driven pressure would force insurance prices down dramatically. The high deductibles of these cheap plans would have people comparison shopping for the cheapest medical services, which they basically don't do now. This would drive down prices dramatically.
The Kindle provides a convenient and (most think) superior platform for reading and navigating extended texts. The computer does not.

It lets those who enjoy reading have immediate and portable in-hand access to their favorite reading and reference materials. The computer does not.

When I read extended texts, I like to concentrate for long periods on that text. If I leave off somewhere, I like to be able to find my place quickly and easily. The Kindle is a dedicated device that builds in the functionality to do this. The computer does not.

Would I subscribe to the New York Times on the Kindle? Sure, if I have lots of money and value the convenience more than the expense. It is nice to be able to switch instantly to the news while reading your book on a commute train. But, not really if I don't want to spend where I don't have to spend. Not when I can get access to such news sources over the web.

Don't see that the issue of multi-tasking versus uni-tasking has anything really to do with this.

News publishers who want to sell paid content will benefit incidentally from any superior reading platform that will induce some minority of the reading audience to pay for their subscription just to have all their reading material in one convenient place.

But uni-tasking is not a deus ex machina for the news business.

If I put pure uni-tasking as my primary reading aim, I will sit back in the comfort of my home, pull one of the wall-full of antiquarian books I own off the shelf, and through myself into it without distraction.

If I am riding a commute train, or flying on a jet, I will take the convenience of a superior reader, uni-tasking or not, and I will probably like it all the more if it lets me do many things at once as I travel.
It's possible all the translation would bring would be more offers of free work for more sites that are big.
>Now I was under the impression that not a single shred of evidence existed to back up the premise that second hand smoke is dangerous to your health.

Just plain wrong. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Tobacco/ETS
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Ok, so don't contribute? No one is forcing you.

Are you just as upset about people fostering rescue animals for free? Why aren't people outraged that they aren't paid.

How can you decide the motivations for someone who wants to volunteer their time to do this?
Cool, good to hear this, and I was hoping to have discussion about the toggle controls.

There are only two toggleable options on the entire site that would be better served by a combobox. The rest are binary. The two in question both appear on the sign-up page and both are rarely used (based on the site statistics.) Therefore I opted for the less "correct" (and less usable) but more visually consistent option.

If all you're doing is spinning those two options around to test the site, then yes it certainly could be annoying. But my hunch is that for the average use case, it's just not a big deal...
Java is fine as free software. There is a reason. The JVM's specification was always open. So as long as you write a custom VM adhering to the JVM spec you are good. There are a few competitors to Sun claiming to have faster VMs.

While Sun's JVM only recently went open source, the spec was always open and sun does not have a history of suing open-source competitors to oblivion to prevent competition.

What this guy is saying is that C# is not like that. You take a risk when using C# that eventually you might wind up being forced to use proprietary windows-only software.

I still think the rant is rediculous. MS will never kill mono. MS wants to give everyone a first hit. Then they come in in shining armor with bags of coke claiming that now that you know mono, check out these libraries; now that you know these libraries writing windows-only programs is super easy.

Essentially C# + .Net is MS' Objective-C + Coca. They don't want it to die. The fact that people REALLY like .net and ported it to linux is an indication that .Net might be a good piece of work if anything. come to think of it... if Objective-C is so wonderful why is it not widely used in linux??? In fact I never heard of objective-c in linux (does it even exist?)
It's not so out of hand as all that. Chromium/chrome 3 dev and Firefox 3.5 are all already there or so close as to basically be there. Safari is very close, but the codec story isn't super clear. Microsoft could be closer, but ...they're also working with the html5 team. so it's not totally hopeless.
If you have no income and only 2 months of savings, you don't think about the first 10 resumes you send out -- you bloody send them everywhere, to everyone.
I'd recommend giving a quick overview of the Kyu/Dan ranking system and then asking people in line to estimate their rank if they don't know it.
Article: "Rodger, who is trying to turn that around by making programming fun to learn."
[...]
Prof Rodger: "It's a nationwide problem that there aren't many women in computer science in general. For example, we only have three women faculty in our department, out of 24 positions. And it's been the same for the 15 years I've been here."

And? 3 women in the faculty, what's the relevance? I don't understand what the sex of the programmer has to do with anything. What is the nationwide problem that having more female programmers will correct?
reminds me of that Pixar robots movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNUstep
It's the first processor that works and also doesn't. ;-)
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There is a way to get free labor, make people passionate about your service and your product and make it super easy. Google translator already does this, if I translate something from Hebrew to English and it doesn't come out right, I correct it.
"I will not buy this record; it is scratched."
Welcome to the free market. If there are people who want to sell drugs, and people who want buy drugs are happy with it, Why should anyone care?

1. Because its unethical.
2. Because its bad for society. There is a reason minimum wages and employement laws exist.
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Sorry to be off-topic, but can any language-nerd explain why the apostrophe is appropriate here? Is it short for "Acer is everywhere"?
Yeah. I'm starting to think that my site best serves people who are new to Go, or who are casual about it, and want to play some fun games without worrying too much about all the complexities. So having tutorials about the game, including this kind of information about Kyu/Dan (especially in the match-making section of the site) I think makes a lot of sense.

Thanks.
Too bad Safari doesn't ever kern: those Yo pairs end up garish, whatever the font.
Quality translation is not cheap. This is partially because there are numerous places where the market for it is not as efficient as it could be. However, it is mostly because it is freaking hard. (I do J->E technical translation for the day job on occasion. You need to have a superset of the knowledge base of an intermediate Java engineer to do it well. I got to rewrite a description of what a SQL injection attack was written by someone who had never used SQL, who faithfully translated a description they found in a well-known Japanese desk reference for engineers. They produced comprehensible English which was, well, wrong.)

Come to think of it, translation is a classic market for lemons, isn't it. The people who need it the most are the least capable of assessing the quality of the deliverables, which is why everyone here has heard of All Your Base Are Belong To Us. This results in both people paying absurd amounts of money for mediocre translation and, hmm, large companies thinking that their crowdsourced translation presents their company in the best possible light.

There's so many ways a crowdsourcing solution like this can go wrong. I wish I could show you a concrete example but I don't have any good examples of Japanese businesses that used the technique off the top of my head. If you guys want I can dredge up an example or two from Facebook or whatever, but I'm not quite as plugged into the Japanese Internet so I miss most of the inevitable snickering.
Um, there is nothing wrong with selling and buying drugs. Nobody should care.

Minimum wage and unionization laws exist to protect certain laborers at the expense of lower skilled labor.
If they actually have 312k orders (his 10 staff will be busy! http://www.toledoonthemove.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=31787... ) then I'd expect someone tested the engine first? Either way they've gone into production - if it's all marketing then we'll know in a couple of months.
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It sounds like this is really exaggerating. LinkedIn accounts ain't cheap, and they do give you ways to contact other professionals. If you could ping someone and say "I'm interested in doing some translation; for an example of my work, check out the official Romanian version of LinkedIn," that would be great. Simply being able to say that you contributed to a site used by the person you're talking to is a great way to start a conversation that ends with them writing a check.
As I said in the last article like this (Gen-Y doesn't Twitter), most teens won't twitter, that's fine. Texting or facebook statuses are enough for most. But for those of us looking for a more technological crowd, Twitter is fantastic.

I text between my closer friends, look at Facebook statuses of many of the friends I have, even if they're a bit distant (like my old high school friends), and Twitter to connect with the technological community around me.