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At least they're not using Ikea as a substitute for welfare:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/1,1518,392850,00.html
Interesting that you went straight for the "peanut gallery" categorization because my opinion happens to differ from yours. I paid just over $38,000 in Federal, state and local taxes last year. I simply don't like people (like Ted Kennedy) who have never worked an honest job in their entire lives and have contributed to bankrupting this country. The real heroes are not politicians who run up a massive credit card bill in our collective names. The true heroes are entrepreneurs who innovate, produce and create value. Politicians produce nothing. They simply take from the productive sectors of society and create huge distortions in the marketplace. Obviously, there have been some necessary and admirable laws passed in the brief history of this country, but they are the exception and not the rule.
I'm sorry but it has to be asked; why "recipe puppy"? It's completely nonsensical. It eats anything you give it? It sniffs out things? I just can't see much of a connection..
He was a remarkably ineffective leading defender of the poor, then. Compare income inequality at the start of his political career with income inequality now.
Thanks for your clarification and insight:)

Being born in 1981, I'll write my previous comment off to generational ignorance.

I appreciate your thorough and thoughtful response.
Very impressive, this could be a great way to allow developers to begin using <canvas> now and have a fallback for unsupported browsers (yes you IE).
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Yes, let's think back to these ills you mentioned.... Who put them in place? Oh yes, it was politicians. I'm glad they eventually corrected their mistakes, but I won't deify them simply because they did so.
In a theoretical sense, I agree, but in a practical one, for whatever reason, mac users have not had to worry about running anti-virus software. This is great, as anti-virus for windows, in my limited experience, seems to suck down vast system resources and generally be a necessary pain.

The distinction OP is trying to make is an important one for the implications that the different terms carry. For worms, to protect yourself, you just have to avoid doing the computer equivalent of picking up a needle off the sidewalk and jabbing it into your arm. not hard. For viruses, I have to avoid breathing.

The original topic says that snow leopard has anti-virus software, which means apple is admitting that everyone without snow leopard is boned. But, if the fact is that it's just anti-worm software, well, thanks apple for the chain mail sleeves, but I probably would have been OK otherwise.
Tip: the actual announcement is at the end. The rest is a fluff piece on cloud computing.

Basically, this VPC business seems like a VPN on top of EC2 - which is nice, but surely can already be largely achieved by installing something like OpenVPN. The only extra I see is the ability to firewall off your own cloud servers effectively (assuming Amazon's firewall is reliable - which I guess it is).
I was in Mass General Hospital about a year ago on the exact day that Kennedy was. Strangely enough, I found out I had brain cancer too that night. Luckily, mine was not as serious as his. I feel fortunate.
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Income inequality is the wrong metric - the right metric is real income for the bottom 10% of America in 1950 vs. today. Of course there are many factors at work, but rising income inequality isn't bad if it's bringing everyone up.

Also keep in mind that today's healthcare debate is one that he has been fighting for 50 years (along with many others), and that whatever does happen, whenever it happens, will have more of his fingerprint on it than Obama's.
Useless companies which simply take from the productive sectors of the economy are also the rule, with the few amazing companies being the exception. You can't have a new Google or Voting Rights Act every week.
Also it's much zippier than it was. I wonder if it's the new hosting arrangement or just that they've been down and have less traffic at the moment...
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The Civil Rights act and Voting Rights act aren't something you can credit Kennedy with - he was a junior senator.

That leaves four pieces of major legislation (or six, if we throw in a couple of increases in minimum wage) in a fifty year career. This seems out of proportion to the hagiography; I would be curious to know how we would be covering this story if his name weren't Kennedy.
Jesus H. Christ. Thanks for the link. (feels vaguely guilty for having been lucky enough not to have been born a poor indian villager)
You presume far too much from such a short conversation. You don't know me, and you don't know that I haven't considered the other opinion in depth; however, there comes a point when you've heard all the arguments and you've made up your mind about something and it's pointless to listen to the same old tired arguments again and again. Should new information present itself, it'll be noticed, but that doesn't happen so often.

As for your employer argument, it's a straw-man and not at all comparable to the consumer relationship in boycotts. I reject the question because it's absurd.

People can disagree in good faith, and sometimes neither side is clearly right. Other times, this isn't the case and one side or the other is simply wrong.

My mindset is of the real world where zealots exist and they have to be dealt with. You apparently live in a fantasy land where everyone is civil and fair minded; you're wrong, so wrong. Logic doesn't work on everyone, sometimes you have to force people to change, civil rights, womens rights, and soon, gay rights. There are not two valid sides to these issues, one side is clearly wrong and will only change by force of law or force of money.

You suggest I'm a pig-headed zealot, I suggest you're a naive dreamer who hasn't experienced enough of reality to realize how idealistic and impractical your approach is.

You are wrong about boycotts, it is a perfectly fair and moral practice and is quite civil; it is the only power consumers have against companies and voting with the wallet is a core feature of a free market.
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The difference here is that any exchange with a useless company is on a voluntary basis, whereas any exchange with the government is completely compulsory. If I don't give Useless Company X my money, they go out of business for not adding enough value. If I don't give my money to the government, they garnish my wages, put liens on my house and put me in prison, and continue to run inefficiently whilst piling up massive debt in my name. See the difference?
The decades after 1950 were times of huge growth in real income across the developed world for reasons that didn't have much to do with Senator Kennedy.

I'm evaluating his accomplishments with a bias to what he did in his later career, when he was presumably at the peak of his influence. And there the answer seems to be 'was skillfully co-opted by the Bush administration'.

I do agree that he was tireless in pushing health policy. I just don't think he was effective - but maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised by what comes out of the health reform meat grinder in a few months.
Except that he won't.
SQLite is always the first project that springs to mind when people ask those, "What's the most beautiful/robust/clean/well-designed/effective piece of code you've worked with?" kinds of questions. I used it way back in its very earliest incarnation to deal with a BerkeleyDB based project that had gotten too relational for its own good, and it was an absolute joy. One of those shining moments of, "This is what software development is supposed to be like." The level of friction in development (and the lines of code) just fell away at a ridiculous rate, and I finished the long overdue project within a few hours of the switch to SQLite. (This was an extreme case, and borne of my own ignorance of the problem domain and having never used relational databases and not recognizing when my problem was a relational one, but it sticks in my memory, nonetheless, and SQLite gets most of the credit.)
I may seem thick-headed for saying this, but if I were building a system to solve a problem related to the management of customers, having something representing the customers themselves would seem integral to the solution. How would I represent the customer data? Is it just stashed in some generic key-value mapped data structure? I would assume it would have to be in the system somewhere.

Maybe I'm just misinterpreting what distinction is drawn between a solution and problem domain. So far, my interpretation is as follows:

* You build objects to represent the machinery involved in the computation (databases, processors, interpreters, etc). These represent your solution domain.

* Anything that explicitly represents the data being computed, rather than just being a container for data collections, is kicked to the weeds as unnecessary and wrong-headed. These would represent your problem domain.

Do I have this interpretation correct? If so, I worry.

I have seen data processors objects become near unmanageable hedges of thorns because the entire conversion from input data to output data is rolled into a GiganticBlobProcessor object. That object containing hundreds, or even thousands of lines of code that means absolutely nothing on their own. This seems prone to its own pitfalls and need for revolutionary changes.

How is this extra scaffolding a net-win? Why can't I take all this processing code, and move it into the definition of the data being translated, which is probably split amongst multiple classes to model relationships?

For instance, I have something representing a sphere within a graphical rendering system, which is capable of responding to requests for its radius, area, volume, intersection with other shapes, etc. Have I already done it wrong? Should I have just a radius primative and then have a SphereDimensionalEvaluator which does the task, being passed the radius?.

I understand the point made by the LtU commenter that TaxReport itself is probably little more than a container, since reports don't really do much in a metaphorical sense. But a customer does: it can request actions and computations from other things, and other things can ask the customer things and tell the customer to do some action. Is my thinking about things this way leading me down a very dark alley?

I am now really confused.
Just to show that law is open to interpretation from many countries.
Wonder how this compares to skytap (www.skytap.com)?
Perhaps those of us that like Ted Kennedy weren't the ones bashing Michael Jackson?

I'm inclined to forgive people their many, many errors. I see no harm in looking at a man's accomplishments and ignoring his failures.

Michael Jackson was a man who changed the entertainment world. Ted Kennedy spent decades fighting for his causes without rest. Each did unpleasant things, but those things don't eliminate the good each did.
I wasn't a huge fan of Ted Kennedy but after reading the list of major legislation he was involved with I have to admire the work he did.
What I can gather from his Wikipedia page is that Kennedy, like Clinton was a good politician but a consummate womaniser.

I have always wondered why citizens expect politicians to be 'moral' and whether 'immoral' politicians are necessarily bad leaders?
Yes, you cannot attribute economic growth to Sen. Kennedy. That's why you have to look beyond the numbers to see his impact.

You're incorrect if you think that the peak of his influence was in his later career, when the glamour of the Kennedys had largely passed, and the House, Senate, and White House were controlled by Republicans. The peak of his influence was in the 60s-80s, but from that day onward he has been pushing health policy, and although he didn't get the ball to the top of the hill he's pushed it farther than anyone else.

To say that he was ineffective because the goal wasn't accomplished on his watch is like saying that Elizabeth Cady Stanton was not an effective suffragette because she died 20 years before women got the vote.
I've been doing this type of driving for years in L.A. I noticed when I was a teenager that, no matter what the cause for stoppage, people always hit the brakes when they see brake lights ahead of them. So whenever drivers ahead of me hit the brakes, I decide instantly whether I also need to brake or whether I can just let off the gas. This way I don't cause drivers behind me to brake and cause that long ripple effect.
I think this idea that we can punish ineffectiveness in the private sector is pleasant to think about, but doesn't reflect our actual experience.

Think of all the ineffective or downright hateful businesses you give your money to because there is no practical alternative: cable and internet providers, health insurers, banks, credit cards, ticketmaster, airlines, big box stores, domain registrars...
Both of you, stop it. There is a place for both government and the free market in society. An unchecked free market is insanely unstable; an unchecked government is controlling and corrupt. To suggest that entrepreneurs are largely wasting money is as wrong as suggesting that politicians are leeches.

spking: Implying that Ted Kennedy didn't fight hard every day of his life in politics is as cruel and stupid as suggesting that a man can't grow up after a reckless youth is as cruel and stupid as a reaction to a man's death being "Good riddance." While I find the bickering on both sides to be tasteless, akd isn't being a douche the same way you are.
At least one school figured it out 88 years ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerhill_School

"Summerhill is noted for its philosophy that children learn best with freedom from coercion. All lessons are optional, and pupils are free to choose what to do with their time."

The idea that coercion stifles creativity is an old one and there have always been people on the fringes of society who know it. Until recently, the western world has been able to make progress with the factory model, leaving the creative work to those few fringe people, but it looks like that has run its course.

It may be that the next model is everybody doing creative work, but I have no idea what that would actually look like.
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What? I was showing him how to do it!

Man people sure are happy on the down-arrow today.
I heard that some guy joined Facebook and left TipJoy for dead. (too soon?) ;)
America's got a fucked-up sense of morality. Everybody's messed up in one way or another romantically. We have a distorted sense of expectation, mixed with a bunch of weird ideas about what's appropriate and what isn't.

There've been many perfect gentlemen politicians that were terrible. I hope one day we start judging politicians the way we would businessmen, wherein personal life matters less than performance.
I think this is the logical flaw in your argument:

> But if they got paid less, they would do less. So whoever pays them is the one responsible for their energy usage.

Production (and thus energy usage) is not independent of cost (in this you are right), but not identical / interchangable in the sense that if cost goes to zero, nothing is produced and no energy is used. People produced things before there was money - as do animals.
You can't seriously say that a pre-money society didn't use energy (or a bird that builds a nest doesn't use energy because no one pays for the bird).

> On a previous post you excluded materials and wages. I can sort of understand wages, but why exclude energy cost of materials?

ok, that was inprecise. Energy cost of materials should be included, but the rest of the material cost excluded (I know, you say, all cost of materials is energy...).

> Let me shift a question to you: Which energy costs of manufacturing will you include, and which will you exclude?

All measurable energy to produce something is included - except that I measure the energy in Joule which is more practical to analyze a wind turbine in terms of energy yield.

Why do I think it is more practical?
Let me also rephrase my questions to you.

1. Let's look at two identical wind turbines T1 and T2, identical environment conditions over 20 years (wind, ...). Over the 20 year span, they produce the same amount of energy.
Do you agree?

2. Let's say wind turbine T1 is built in a world where average energy prices remain more or less equal over the 20 years. Wind turbine T2 is built in a world where the energy price is the same at first, but doubles one month after installation for some reason (invent your own) and stays the same afterwards. Now return on investment of T2 is nearly twice as high as the ROI of T1. Do you agree?

But in your model (ROI = energy yield) you would say that T2 produces twice as much energy. Do you understand why I think this doesn't make much sense?

I mean, I understand you, yes, but in your model you cannot predict the energy yield of a wind turbine without assuming a certain future price for energy - which makes this model impractical. It's good to be able to say "this wind turbine will have an expected energy output of x joules - independent of future energy cost fluctuations".
I'm not quite sure as to what your preferred alternative is. You excoriate Kennedy for not having had a "real job," so the mere fact that he is a Senator, rather than the way he conducts himself as a Senator, is what gets your goat. So you would prefer not to have a Senate?
The period is common practice on some sites. I think it originated with Metafilter?

It loses something when comments are voted up and down and not shown in descending order, but the sentiment is still nice.
I prefer what's on their front page right now:

"I spent months of time and millions of dollars to close down The Pirate Bay and all I'll get is this beautiful t-shirt!"
Actually, unalone, I think your quip is correct... I think entrepreneurs are largely wasting money, and politicians are mostly leeches. But it's the exceptions that make the whole enterprise worthwhile -- one Google makes up for the money wasted by literally 10,000 startups. And one Ted Kennedy makes up for several hundred leech politicians. It's why both professions, if you intend to do them well, are among the most important in our society.
Right on. Those of us outside the states just don't care that one of your politicians died - unless he was a competent computer expert. I come here for "Hacker News", not political death notices.

Shall I post here when a long-serving New Zealand politician dies?
Very nice, but half-hearted in comparison to this: http://www.coboloncogs.org/
Oh, I see, thanks for the explanation.

My character was U+3000, "ideographic space", in case anyone's interested.
Please don't post "not Hacker News" comments. It makes for extremely uninteresting reading. Now the first thing anyone sees when they click on the comments for this story is this boring thread.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
unalone: Having a strong opinion about something (or someone, in this case) doesn't make me tasteless or a douche. And frankly, the issue isn't whether or not Ted Kennedy fought "hard every day of his life in politics". Pirates fight very hard every day in their lives of theft. I'd say get off your high horse, but I think instead that you should enjoy your false sense of superiority. Clearly, it gives you great pleasure.
Yes, you should. The voting buttons will determine the fate of the story.
That link was my first submission to HN :)
"You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye." - Early Hacker
Good stuff. After the bullet points, this seems to basically be saying, "unit tests with 100% coverage" and "bounds checking" make for good software.

I think these are only two of many techniques for improving code quality. Code reviews, in my experience, are also a huge plus.
"Shall I post here when a long-serving New Zealand politician dies?"

Ahh but you aren't going to get the upvotes to get it onto the HN front page. HN membership is dominated by Americans. No harm in that really except for stuff like this.

As an Indian, I don't particularly care to have US politics / news of the demise of sundry USA politicians on the HN front page either, but the "intellectually interesting" filter is wide enough to allow this kind of thing to happen occasionally. I think of it as static on an otherwise clear channel, and wait for it to pass.

As long as there are enough people to upvote these stories, I don't think there is anything anyone can do about it. Just wait for it to drop off the front page.

But otoh, perhaps the non USA contingent on HN should vote up the news of the death of some non US politician and keep it on the front page? Maybe one of the communist bosses of China when he goes to the big Party Office in The Sky.
Who the hell is "edw415"?
Yeah, superiority on a web site. Not everybody online with a sense of propriety has it to look good. Some of us might hope that people learn from what they read online.

The issue I'm talking about isn't whether Ted Kennedy is good or bad. The issue is that he was a man who spent a lifetime doing what he thought was right, and that it takes a fool or a sociopath to look at a lifetime and spit at it. There's a difference between being critical and being destructive. Your attitude is the latter.

If you're going to attempt to put me down, can you at least attempt to be clever with it? The only thing worse than negativity is bluster.
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I'd be curious to hear opinions of people here, too.
For those of you who are questioning why this deserves to be here: obviously HN is predominantly tech/entrepreneur related, but don't be so fundamentalist about it. Ted Kennedy was a prolific senator who was one of the most influential members of the most powerful government in the world -- his death deserves discussion not just among those interested in politics but in other circles as well. HN has a great community where people value good analysis and feedback, why not occasionally apply those positive aspects to other topics as well?
iTunes can easily handle tens of gigs of music, but putting them all in one big list is not my idea of music management.

If I wanted a big list of songs, I could put all my MP3s in a single folder and use VLC to play them. Search is easy with Spotlight. This is hardly "organization". For someone who can't purchase music from iTMS, what's the point of iTunes, then?

WMP, AmaroK and even WinAmp allow me to do much more with my music, and they aren't 80megs in size.
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I've been wondering about distributed solutions to torrent indexing for a while - maybe some of you know some good discussions on this topic?

What I noticed is that .torrent files are essentially weird, JSON-like dictionaries. It would be trivial to place some metadata in there (ID3 tag info, DublinCore or even just a link to imdb) and this could be indexed very easily. Even easier: turn the parts protocol into a microformat and place some invisible part listings in your HTML files. I feel like such approaches would reduce the need for centralised torrent search sites like tpb/mininova/etc.
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There's also a "no politics" bit, and I don't know if there's much to discuss about Ted Kennedy if you're not talking politics. See comments below.
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