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I think it depends on the category, but yes, I can see that.

In the more technical areas there are the predictable "Here's a homework question that I'm sort of trying to disguise" and, what the article said, "How do I build a forum." What Yahoo Answers REALLY needs is an FAQ in each category. But, I suppose, then it would be IRC.
Interesting. I always thought IBM would invest more into the R project which would seem more synergistic with their Linux strategy.
I have those for long term notes (notes from a meeting for example), but if a customer calls and I need to jot down a phone number or something really quick, having a whiteboard desktop is great.
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I remember what my father told me when he was in england. He was a friend of a Girl from east europe. She never talked about her live there. One day she said: I can't talk to you about it, because if I talk, there are going to go against my family, who is still living there.

Ten years later when he was working with URSS scientists, they behave very strange, very serious, never smiled, never talked about life. One of them told him: If we talk bad about the country we can't work because the state is the only employer.

So I don't want communism(too much power in too few hands), and I don't want the macro-capitalism we are living today in witch a few companies control everything(and when they fail they are too big to fail).
It publishes the recipes under an open source (well, CC) license ... :-P
Once millions of people have bad credit scores and bankruptcies in their credit histories, the social stigma of a bad creditor gets diluted. That becomes a self-reinforcing process. The more individuals default, the less defaulting looks bad.

I believe that it was social and moral norms rather than clear cut financial analyses that stopped people from defaulting. It seems those moral norms have changed.

People have simply lost faith in the system. They don't care about being nice little creditors, wrought by guilt if they overspent or made bad financial decisions, when the government is handing out hundreds of billions to to-big-to-fail banks.

Then as if mocking everyone, banks go ahead and hand out tens of millions as bonuses to their CEOs.

I cannot see anyone watching this circus feeling too guilty about screwing up and then not paying back $10000. Everyone, wants a bailout.
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I run a modestly popular (around 10,000 page views a day) civic affairs website that used to be utterly deluged with spam. The site was becoming unusable and unmanageable, and I had to do something about it.

I wanted to avoid image captchas, which I consider to be a usability barrier. Instead, I implemented a really simple, three-pass filtering system for comments by anonymous visitors (registered visitors can log in and bypass the spam filtering system entirely). It included the following three steps:

1. Ask a very simple grade-school math question using plain text.

2. Check comment text against a list of 56 common spam words. (This is actually rather crude: anonymous comments including, say, "socialism" trip the filter for "cialis").

3. Include a hidden form field that is supposed to remain blank.

That was in June 2008. Since then, not one spam comment has gotten past the filters.

I should note that my site, like Tim Bray's, uses a CMS I developed from scratch (starting about five years ago), so it's likewise not subject to the exploits that target Wordpress or Drupal or the other popular CMSes.
I applaud it. It's time Israel got some tough love from the US.
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On the topic of flat out silly defenses I think this takes the cake. A few things...

First, supposedly Mr. Negroponte "ended the discussion of whether computers belong in children’s hands". Umm...Does anyone remember this discussion? Because I can’t recall a time where people were saying kids shouldn’t have computers. Who exactly was making that argument?

Second, he supposedly "answered the question of whether inexpensive computers can be useful." But the very argument that’s coming up more and more lately is one that points out these computers weren’t terribly useful because they had tons of flaws. Don’t get me wrong, I believe inexpensive computers can be useful but I don’t believe that was proven by Mr. Negroponte.

Finally, note that rather than give actual accomplishments she quotes a projected figure to justify the actions of OLPC. In my life I’ve learned that people who quote projections as accomplishments are usually the ones who have no actual accomplishments to point to.

In the end, this post is nothing more than misplaced hero worship.
What do you think about what I said though?
Maybe IBM will fix the ridiculous licensing situation with SPSS...
Ehh this is IBM I'm sure they'll make it worse
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This is Mary Lou Jepsen, the former CTO of OLPC, apparently weighing in on Ivan Krstic's criticism of Nicholas Negroponte's criticism of the OLPC's original choice of software stack.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=719048
They did the "lead don't follow" thing before Jobs came back too when it came to hardware (indeed all the way from the beginning of the company to the present, from mice and "plug-and-play" ADB connectors to 3.5" disks to the first real consumer laptops (remember the Duo Dock anyone?) to really embracing SCSI, laser printers, and then in the recent Jobs age, USB and firewire and ethernet and DVD writers etc. etc.), it’s just that their software stagnated for quite a few years and none of the next-gen software research projects they dumped loads of cash into in the early-to-mid 90s really panned out.
The technology here looks awesome, but they need a better algorithm for motion. When you look around here, the video skews in an odd way.
I've been reloading the page for nigh on 20 minutes now and it keeps timing out. Just me or everyone?
So is the credit scoring algorithm open source and GPL'd? Uhhh no it's just a Visa card. It's like slapping a Penguin on the windows boot up screen and saying "buy this to support linux". By working with card partner, the linux foundation is essentially a affiliate marketer, helping to make umb bank lots of money. Nah thanks.
Why is this news? Why would anybody be expected to care that a blogger deleted a comment?

Reading this guy's complaint, it sounds like he even got a nice email explanation of why the comment was deleted. What more could he possibly expect?

There is no absolute right to free speech on the internet. This author doesn't appear to realize that. The "mvp" in question gets to decide what shows up on his website. That's the end of the story.
Nevermind. downforjustmeoreveryone says its just me... Comcast strikes again.
Nice piece of work. A few observations:
(1) It would be good to be able to link from the site name itself in the results rather than having to hit the W3C/HTML/Trash icons. Also, I would show the icons by default rather than only on hover since otherwise the user might not discover them.
(2) The randomly changing background color on your page is 'cool' but it can be confusing for the user. A few times I thought I'd back-buttoned onto a different site.
(3) This is a very minor point but the vertical lines which contain the 'body' of the homepage look a little 'out' at some zoom levels on FF 3.0.12.

HTH.
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I think the OP's points were that they're hostile to developers, and the software that they'd like to deploy.
I think the control would be more intuitive if you can drag the screen like a pdf instead of controlling the camera.
Am I the only one who thinks that for some children, the last thing they need if for somebody to shove a computer on them?

I use computer every single day in my professional and personal life. I love them. But I am eternally grateful to my parents that they didn't give me unlimited access to one till High School.

I would have missed out on untold hours of playing outdoors, building things, taking things apart and generally just learning about the world if somebody had shoved a laptop at me when I was 8 or 9.
I think part of it has to be that they don't want to canibalize their own sales. There's a limit to how much discretionary spending cash people have available ... particularly now. Most people can't afford more than one or two Apple products, so there's little reason to push forward devices that may compete with each other for people's hard earned cash.
I agree, I used to bash evolutionary psychology myself, but then I realized: We know how "accurately" the media portray research in physics, mathematics, biology and chemistry; how do we figure that the way they represent evolutionary psychology is any better? Instead of arguing against strawmen like the article does, why not first listen to what evolutionary psychologists actually have to say?

I don't know how representative Steven Pinker is for the field of evo-psych in general, but I found that he explains his reasoning very clearly and understandably.

Steven Pinker debunks the idea of a blank slate: http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_chalks_it_up_to_the_b...

Richard Dawkins interviews Steven Pinker (really long, but I found it had some interesting insights about evolution and psychology): http://richarddawkins.net/article,3941,Steven-Pinker---The-G...
All's fair in love and war.

Better yet, ask yourself what made them so desperate as to disregard the principle you imply.
> Who exactly was making that argument?

There's a fairly active debate:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=computers+in+school

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4032737.stm

I personally believe that computer usage in schools should be limited.
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Yes, there is an accelerometer, and it's pretty easy to use.

The market share is VERY small at this point, but that also means less competition, likely. The bigger mobile app companies are starting to release Android apps, and it seems like a pretty good time as well, as more carriers are planning to release Android-powered phones.
Anytime someone tries to end a discussion by asserting "there is no more debate", you know they are on tenuous ground and frantically want to not be challenged.

I did the buy 2 get 1 OLPC deal and feel burned today by their changing positions.

I also don't buy that it is the best solution for kids, or even that PCs are necessary for education in all cases.
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The challenges in implementing your own VM and implementing a dynamic layer on top of the JVM are entirely different. It's not like moving from one distro to another, it's like moving from Linux to a custom RTOS and expecting your existing kernel people to do the job as well as existing RTOS developers.
Mary Lou Jepsen has a list of accomplishments pages long, and is one of the most brilliant people I’ve ever met. You should be careful about tossing around vague inanities like “… usually the ones who have no actual accomplishments …” which aside from sounding pretentious don’t add in the least to the discussion.

In any case, I think you misunderstood: this is the projected number of cheap netbook-like laptops which will be sold (that’s between several companies), not the number of XOs, and the numbers are reasonably reliable a year or two out, because they actually have to gear up to manufacturing these things at scale well in advance of making them.

I think it’s without question that OLPC and Nicholas’s pushing on the public consciousness, and as importantly on hardware vendors, has sped by at least a few years the pace of cheap laptop production. There really weren’t any sub-$400–500 laptops before Nicholas was talking about them 4–5 years ago, and now there’s an exploding market. Most hardware manufacturers (not to mention pundits and “technologists” and so forth) laughed in his face because they said the margins would be too low to make sense, and the components couldn’t be had for the price. Then at some point he convinced Quanta to jump on board, and everyone started looking really closely.

(disclaimer: I spent a year at OLPC as an intern)
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Once again, something from Star Trek is actually created. Hopefully transporters will be next.
Where did you get 3 hours? If you know someone who prepares 3 hours for a 1 hour lecture, and it's not their first day or something, they have some kind of anxiety disorder. The best lecturers I know just walk into class and start writing on the board and explaining things. Sometimes they have to ask the class what the material they are supposed to go over that class is. They can do this because they are competent. If you don't know what you are supposed to be teaching well enough to just teach it, you are wasting your student's time.

Professors, especially good researchers, don't grade homework themselves unless they feel like it.

Professors are compensated research. For them to make money on the side with the intellectual property they were compensated fully to create is just dishonest.

Use the logic that professors should get to keep intellectual property they were paid to develop to any other profession. Coal miners should keep the coal they mine? Magazine editors should get to take their work and put it in a separate newsletter?
Huh ... works fine here in North eastern MD and no techies Twittering about it either; they'd have more then one connection(iPHone).

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Just imagine if real estate videos were made with this (with smaller cameras) for looking around a property. The walkthrough video would be impressive.
There is also too much inertia, you feel as if you are driving on ice.
Totally boring / totally overhyped.

Short version: if you hit a very few atoms with an obscene amount of energy, you blow some electrons out of their proper orbitals...and everything returns to normal the instant you turn the laser off.

The aluminum is only transparent in the deep UV, and only transparent for as long as you keeping dumping insane amounts of energy into it.

Big woop.

This is a typical example of scientists becoming masters of the grandiose press release to hype something trivial into an attempt to get more grant money.
"We knew it would be very big, we did not think it was going to be this HUGE."

Best quote. It was hard for anyone to know for sure.
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All right, I see the downvotes, so let me ask a question: what other technical means do people have in mind? Today's existing technology allows any of us to show relatedness of any URL to any other URL by posting the link and accompanying that link with explanatory text. What other technology would require less human thought about how to show that two (or more) recent threads here on HN are related?

As an example, could I ask for a demonstration of relatedness between my post above and any part of the HN guidelines?
"But it’s worth learning a language when you pick up fundamental new ideas that might be helpful (or just interesting)."

I couldn't agree with this more. I've spent the last 6 months or so learning Clojure just for the sake of it. I definitely think I'm a better programmer because of it, regardless of whether the language itself is actually "real world" useful.
If you were looking for replies, you might want to consider re-phrasing the way that you comment. A good way to engeder goodwill from others is to start off by talking about them, and not about yourself. Compare "If you were looking for replies," (starting to talk about what you want) vs "Scala is a better language than Ruby anyways." (which is an automatic trollish statement that puts your intended audience on the defensive right from the beginning)

Now, first of all, it's entirely possible that the Ruby community as a whole doesn't care about getting into the enterprise. I don't pretend to speak for the whole community, and obviously (via the article), some do. Competing on the JVM may not be the best way to promote the language as a whole. As you've said, the space is getting crowded, and if Ruby bets its cards on being the dynamic language of choice for the JVM, and then misses its target, how would that look? I won't deny that JRuby is an awesome thing, as I personally would like to see Ruby used (almost) everywhere. However, it's not as if, say, PHP gets maligned because it's not 'enterprisy' enough. It does for totally different reasons, and well-deserved ones at that. But the language is doing quite well without being able to be run on the JVM.

As far as concurrency and garbage collection go, I think it's hardly fair to judge all of Ruby on 1.8.7. YARV holds quite a bit of promise, and just goes to show how with just a little bit of care, Ruby can be made to be on par with every other language out there. See the link below for the comparison between 1.9 and 1.8. Now, in a pragmatic sense, this doesn't affect things _right now_, but they do change the near future quite a bit. So yes, Ruby's concurrency and gc may not be the best, but it's not as if there's no improvement or work being done.

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=al...
Nothing about it here:

http://www.internetpulse.net/Main.aspx?xAxis=Destination&...
Most of these tips are to improve network performance which is useful for high traffic websites. However on typical normal servers the constraints often are cpu/ram/disk, not network bound. So i'd rather leave my server untouched.
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No idea. It's not down here in the upper Midwest.
I wonder if the NSA knew of this SELinux vulnerability, or am I just being paranoid?
Computers in schools is not the same as "should kids have computers" More over if that was what she was talking about it isn't a debate that was "ended" by the olpc
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If you know someone who's labor is worth less than minimum wage to employers, consistently over a period of years, then that satisfies what the author was saying, that they can't find work because there is a difference between their work value and the minimum they can be paid.

However, temporary economic hard times are more like a mismatch in the number of people available to do work and the positions available. For example, if the coal plant in your county runs out of coal, there are no coal mining jobs, no matter how cheaply you will work. This doesn't prove anything about the minimum wage.

Since you can't find anyone who is unable to find work due to their labor being worth less than the minimum wage (even digging holes or lugging sacks of concrete pays way more than minimum wage) either the minimum wage is so low that it is moot, or other effects dominate any theoretical 'person worth less than minimum wage' effect in practice.
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What I don't see here is any corroborating evidence that this is anything other than a bug or a faulty cable. Did the author call AppleCare? Did they tell him this was a DRM issue? Has he tried it with protected and unprotected content? Has he tried a new cable of same make and manufacture? Has he found any other users with this same problem (seems like there would be many)?

This is all basic troubleshooting that we would normally perform (or insist on being performed) before passing judgement. And yet for some reason, if it's an Apple product and you're new to the brand, you're somehow expecting to be screwed. So you blame any and every error on Apple and their evilness.
There doesn't seem to be anything on their network status page about this: http://online.comcast.net/networkhealth/outagecheck.aspx

A basic twitter search doesn't show anyone else complaining about it either: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=comcast+outage
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She's talking not of the OLPC's success but that of netbooks as a whole (which is her current bread-and-butter). 50 million sold in 2009 is conceivable, 25 million is more realistic, given that about five million sold in the first quarter of the year.

She is right that without Negroponte there would be no OLPC, and she is also probably correct that without the OLPC's tremendous "$100 laptop" buzz in 2006, there would be no Asus Eee in 2007, which really kicked off the netbook craze.

Regarding the discussion of whether computers belong in children's hands, I had the opposite reaction: The idea that each child should have their own laptop computer that they carry with them is still a fairly controversial one, IMHO. Negroponte hardly ended the discussion, but he did serve to legitimize/popularize Seymour Papert's earlier Dynabook proposal.
Where are they reporting this? I'm not seeing much chatter from the Comcast guys on Twitter.
They're certainly smart enough to, so why not?

Like I say this is a problem across the IT industry, hiring managers want buzzword-compliance with the very latest thing, and never mind that the actual value in any IT organization is in the people that know the business and have a track record of identifying and solving problems in it.

The job market's not great right now but individuals have longer memories than organizations, and companies that show no loyalty to their people now are going to pay over the odds for talent when the market picks up.
Go 1:03 into the vid and look at the upper right -- on top of the pole.
I used to read Lee Lin's blog through Facebook -- very smart guy. I think at one point he designed a custom search on Zillow for condos that were commutable from Microsoft, and in the price range that their newly-hired engineers could afford.
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I note you don't list said accomplishments. Good intentions are not in themselves accomplishments. Sure the media will love you for "creating a $100" computer but if that computer doesn't actually help who you said it would that isn't an accomplishment..

Bottom Line: Defending one's accomplshments by saying they have accomplishments is circular logic

If anything I'm more weary of her for using a non-profit to develop technology she's now trying to sell while all the while selling flawed, next to useless computers to poor kids. (I suspect her intentions were good for the record all I'm saying is the facts paint a picture that is suspect)
Their "Linux strategy" is to sell hardware and consulting. In fact at IBM that is just called "strategy".
If ever I heard a pitch for a sitcom, this was it.
Unrelated to the question, I apologize but am I the only one who is annoyed by the usage of the word "muse" in this context?

For me a muse has such a noble connotation about deep tought, meaning and inspiration that I feel it is cheapened by being associated with selling pills online and other near-scams. Not to say that a small, low maintenance business can't have value to the world.
Curious if you have used lisp before, or if you have used java, or both. I hear some pretty good real-world stories about Clojure.
I'm sorry but this is just BS. Other than "they're both small" name me all the similarities between the Eee PC and the OLPC. How did a computer sold to kids in third world countries inspire a bunch of middle class Americans to buy netbooks. More over for your theory to be true you have to ignore the constant attempts companies have been making at what is now the netbook market. Everything from the Newton to Microsoft's Handheld PC.

Netbooks are flourshing now because technology has gotten to the point where you can fit a full OS on them. It has nothing to do with the OLPC