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How do you combat this sort of thing? My employer is set to impose a software registry upon its employees -- any open source tool, at all, has to be registered. Proprietary but free packages, like Adobe Reader or Opera, do not need to be reported.

I've yet to find a compelling argument against this. Or at least one that's persuasive to our legal department.
Thanks for the suggestion. I've added a blog post and will add an update to the forum as well.
Yes, I know it's a nitpick but if there is only 1 exception, it is not mostly. If he says mostly, there is a suggestion that there may be other even primes.
Respect my eyesight, please! We haven't had to put up with green text on a black background in terminals for YEARS now - please spruce up the colour scheme with something that's a little less eye-murderin'. And that dark-blue you use for the links on that black background is so hard to read I never even got to the point where I started watching a terminalcast - just trying to read what each already-existing terminalcast IS gave me enough of a headache that I bailed.
Please read RMS's original letter here: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/mac-osx-mistakes-and-malfeature... and here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=849789

I can't see a motivation for him to post a retraction for something he can't confirm in either regard, so I also assume that Apple has pursued some legal action.

Apple does have complete control over the software on your system. Every time you do an update you give control to them, but this is no different than any other OS that is upgradable. The difference is that OSX users have no transparency into what they are doing, and no way to audit it. So why would they need a backdoor if you will sudo and hand them the keyboard?
I would really like one as well. Thank you in advance!
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Their way of accounting for it was to label certain parts of the test "conceptual" and look at performance on those parts as evidence of real learning. However that's still part of the test. Given two students whose understanding is the same, the one who is better prepared for the other parts of the test will have more time for the "conceptual" section and therefore will likely perform better there as well.

That is assuming the unlikely proposition that preparing for the test doesn't directly prepare you for the conceptual portion of the test. I say unlikely because test makers have been trying to make such tests (eg the SAT) for decades, and test preparation companies (eg Kaplan) have been demonstrating that you can prepare for them after all.

You can't escape the circularity. If you're measuring performance with a test, then you can't really distinguish preparation for the test from actual performance. In this study they had much stronger results in their second year, than their first. Which strongly suggests that teachers did a better job of preparing for the test after teachers saw the tests that would be used.
Jquery, Mootools, Prototype or Plain Javascript?
I love to make fun UI's with Javascript. I primarily use jquery because it is well documented with examples and works across multiple browsers, it's easy and I havn't learned the other frameworks enough to give it a fair comparison. Comparied to native Javascript, I know what the benefits are and recently I've been exposed to Mootools which appears on the surface to have less functions.

So my question is, what's the difference? and when would I choose one over the other?
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Yup. I'm doing it right now.
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Thanks for the suggestion. One concern I had with the job board is that the web site isn't targeted at a specific job domain. I haven't done the research yet to see if there's a job board that would make sense for people looking for jobs in many different fields.
Here is a compilation of crash tests from sixties. The cars fail catastrophically.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siT-SIfOnQw
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the progress bar obscures the bottom line of text.

otherwise, nice project. maybe hook up with a ui/design person or invest in learning and implementing that side of things yourself.

it would also be wise to make it more obvious that using your app is secure. you're going after a more savy, security-minded community, so including a friendly diagram of how things work, even if a tad technical, would probably work in your favor.
Thanks. Green on black is actually my preferred color scheme. I should add some alternative ones. Yes the homepage links are hideous. I know I'll use orange for links.
Drop the wife and kids, have a better life, get more work done.

Breeding sucks!
your font color hurts my eyes.
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why? this feels like a red herring fallacy.

we're talking about the technology and quality of the cars across time as it relates to safety.

you pull in people as drivers and it fundamentally changes what we're talking about. more examples:

"I think it's unfair to compare cars from 50 years ago against cars today without comparing the state of modern traffic laws and speed limits"

"I think it's unfair to compare cars from 50 years ago against cars today without comparing the quality and ubiquity of roads, highways and interstates"

etc.
Get a better paid job. As a consultant, you could work a couple of months for clients and the rest of the year on your own stuff.

Personally I think working on the job is a bad idea. usually it will give your employer the rights to your private project.
I'm curious as to what everyone in seeing when the navigate to wave.google.com and if that can be used to discover if you're going to get an invite or not?

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It's the browser vendors' fault that shit markup renders properly. Blame the first one that let it happen, not the person writing the HTML.
Keyloggers are unlikely to be particularly useful in this case, but if you imagine you are being keylogged, then you can take appropriate steps to mask your behaviour.

Other than that, I would advise sshing somewhere remote and keeping all of your private project stuff there (i.e. work on it remote - don't keep local copies).
Sorry to Say this, but bad. It looks so clutterd, it could drive people away froom the site.
Well, if there actually are "unneeded" invites floating around, I'd like one as well :)

Mail in my profile.
As far as I know people won't be able to invite others, so there is no invite to share. You'll only be able to recommend (8) friends, and they will have priority on the others.

BTW: I am in the developer preview but I haven't received the invite for the real thing. I asked to the others in the sandbox but it doesn't look like there's any invite being received so far.
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Yes, the css needs some work. This is the first project where I have done all the graphic/ui design on my own.

The idea is that the site is supposed to look like a vt100 terminal, with pdp 11 colored buttons. The design made sense to me because it was a bit retro, and something that I could easily aim for, but if it is seriously impacting usability, I'd be happy to change it.

http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/tty/h/vt100.jpg

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I really doubt this would work. The reason hardly .1% of academic work makes it into technology is because the vast majority of it has no practical application whatsoever.

And aside from that, there's a huge problem with the volume of material published. Even academics themselves have trouble keeping up with all the work that's published in their own narrow field. You can spend every day reading literature for years without once encountering a marketable idea.
How much 'proprietary but free' software is malware, spyware, etc? Using examples of well-known software like Opera or Adobe Reader is a straw-man in favor of the 'OpenSource is bad' argument.

What -- in particular -- does the legal department have against Open Source software? Is FireFox somehow a legal-risk as opposed to Opera? Even though it's been vetted by a larger installed user-base? Or is it just because there is no 'single entity' that they can sue/point fingers at when/if something goes wrong? There are plenty of anonymously authored non-opensource pieces of software out there.

I think that it would make more sense to have either: 1) have to register all software on the list or 2) have to register all 'non-popular' software (i.e. Firefox/Opera ok, random OSS/proprietary software needs to be registered though).
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Ask HN: How many of you are early risers?
I have been trying to get into the habit of rising early in the morning, without much success. How many of you have had success at it? What tips can you share about successfully forming this habit?
If all you care about is making websites that people using current browsers can see, there's already a rich, stable technology for that. It's called Flash. An extensible, semantic web markup standard is needed if you want to create content that can be consumed in all sorts of ways (e.g. text-only, search bots, future browser-like technologies, etc).
> Should I take the risk?

No.

> does anyone take this risk?

Quite probably yes, but that doesn't make it right, or smart.

Is there any way you can work 1 day per week part-time and devote that to your private stuff or do it after hours ?

If you get fired from your day job you'll have all the time in the world but that probably wasn't what you had in mind.

Also, technically your employer would own what you made, so it really isn't a good idea.

If it isn't possible, it isn't possible, but I'm pretty sure that that is just a matter of degree, I'm sure there is at least a 1/2 hour per day or maybe a Sunday morning early when you can work on your own stuff.

Or maybe at night?

But you'll have to learn how to do with less sleep, and that's not for everyone.
Great idea. thank-you! Will "share the love" after receiving.
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Thanks, falsestprophet, for explicitly saying what I was implicitly thinking.

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Or if your lazy and a web programmer you can do everything through a portable app on a USB key. www.portableapps.com including a web server. Thus giving you the power to work on stuff without the pain of moving it everytime you leave work.
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Thank you! Great idea!

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I think what codyhilton was trying to say (correct me here) is that the 'no scratch on the car + no remote possibility of injury' claim is about accident prevention, not dealing with the actual impact. As the five or so replies show, safety innovation is seen in terms of 'what to do when you hit something or something hits you.' But wouldn't true innovation also look at how avoid getting into that tight spot in the first place?

Some car manufacturers clearly have been working on this. Better lights (showing dangers ahead), improved handling and braking (to avoid hitting stuff), and more innovative things like radar-based warning sounds if the car things you're about to change lanes and hit someone (the one in the BMW 5 series still has some issues, but it's not bad), or automated braking systems like the ones Mercedes-Benz and Volvo are promoting.

Those systems are still in their infancy. But safety innovation is definitely going in the direction of accident prevention. We have done a lot to protect the fragile human body inside the metal cage by cleverly absorbing impacts through deformation zones, airbags, etc. The next big step will be figuring out how to avoid needing to rely on them. One suggestion has been that the regulatory battle will be the hardest challenge: once you take some level of control out of a driver's hands, litigation issues and complicated fault assignment rear their ugly head. And of course, many drivers will dislike the idea of being babied by a 'nanny car' and refuse to give up any level of control over their vehicles, not unlike (tortured analogy ahead) low-level programmers who insist in coding to the bare metal.
Get a better paid job? The year 2000 is calling and it want's it's reality bubble back.
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In what sense secure? This isn't used to ssh into servers. It is used to record a terminal session. The terminalcast recorder is open sourced.
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Just in case there are invites:

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Atwood's law at work?
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A request for an invite.
Thanks to whatever wonderful person decides to send me an invite!

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Rails' ActiveSupport has a similarly nifty feature, where 15.days.ago is a valid Time object, and it all just works out of the box.
In this case, two wrongs kinda make a right.
The name feels odd -- like an unedited Chinese translation. Monster only works because they could afford a Superbowl ad. Maybe something that highlights the organizational aspect? MyJobSearchManager.com is open.
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One (possibly unintentional) shortcut for me: your "content" button enables me to see what's blocked by the web filter at work. I'll bookmark this for the next time that happens. Thanks.
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Yep. Proving once again that javascript is turing complete.
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not to be a negative-nancy, but is this that much better than tracking things in something like a Google docs spreadsheet with a few tabs?

Seems like a solution to a non-existent problem.
The best library to use is the one you KNOW best. As you have already experience with jQuery, my suggestion is you stick with it. In any case IMHO it is the best JavaScript library in any case.

Things to experiment with besides jQuery:

(01) Base2

(02) YUI

These have helped me learn better JavaScript. YUI is an excellent library, but I can't stomach their namespacing, it is just too long for me, whereas Base2 have helped me learn a few things about better object orientated scripting.

The best advantage for jQuery for me is that I can remember almost all the methods. I rarely need to look up things and by now, I can also open up jQuery itself and I understand how it is working. The sizzle engine that it currently uses is one of the fastest selector engines.
The end of objectivity – web 2.0 version
For UI heavy stuff you might be interested in looking at extJS: http://www.extjs.com/ which seems to have some nice widgets built in.

I'm also a jquery advocate, but you can get a fairly useful indication of how different frameworks are set up here: http://mankz.com/code/GlobalCheck.htm
If there are extra invites, I would greatly appreciate one (I'm a college student working on a project potentially involving XMPP, and looking to learn from Wave).

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Ask HN: could you please post any Hacker News associated sites and tools here?
There are many sites that derive content from Hacker News, including the popular, http://searchyc.com

What other HN derived sites or tools do you know about or use?

It'd be great to see a reference post about such derivative sites, just like the feature requests item, and that's why I am posting.

This question may have been posted before as it's important for users, site developers and HN itself.

By not having such a reference freely available, people may be missing out on something that'd really help.
When the web was young, it was fine if people missed a tag somewhere, or mis-nested tags, or did other mistakes. The browsers were forgiving. Moreover, the standard was forgiving. This is useful when you want mass adoption. It makes early adopters' lives easy and increases spread.

It's been a long while since those times. We have validators, editors that match tags, tools that write markup for you and other fancy gadgets, and people whose professions contain a good amount of markup-writing. You know what? It's not acceptable to not conform anymore. Too much effort is spent on trying to make meaning out of peoples' broken markup, rendering pages that shouldn't normally be rendered. Even the major browser vendors can't decide how standards compliant markup should be rendered, only recently has there been visible improvement. It's not that the vendors are dumb or unable, it's that their job is difficult because of the giant kludge they have to work with.

XML is "elegant" compared to HTML in the sense that it's uniform, it's consistent, kinda like lisp syntax. Parsing it is easy. This is even more important with all the talk of the "semantic web". Notice how difficult it is to extract meaning out of natural language, and how natural language has non-uniform (or very complicated) grammar. Now notice how simple, in comparison, it is to extract meaning out of something with a small and simple grammar, such as a small programming language. This is what we want.

The point is, once we fix the infrastructure, we can add new functionality as needed. XHTML might not have a canvas tag and HTML may, but what's to happen if in the future we decide that we need some other extension? We revise the whole standard? Ridiculous.
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So we need to hear feedback.

So far so good.

But what to do to hear those who don't talk to us? Whose do not fill out feedback forms, don't reply to mails, don't talk on the phone?

They don't care enough to respond. They don't know how to respond.

But at least some of their insights are valuable. How to reach them?
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As an employer I would say bad idea. If your employer does not pay you your last salary you will claim that he stole money from you. By working on a private project at work you are actually stealing money from him.

Late nights were made for private jobs!
If you know it's a nitpick, stop picking at nits.
Another tip is to read your job ad and ask what a cynical person may read between the lines. Particularly if there is some standard boilerplate that the HR process tends to add.

During my last job search I was amazed how many companies had ads that told me that I didn't want to apply there.
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I watched part of the git tutorial, and it got jumpy at some point; i.e., losing characters, scrolling on to upper lines on the right side, etc.
Some people like working between 10pm-3am because there's less disturbance and distractions.
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Also, it's not invites like it was with gmail. All they can do is recommend for invitation.
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You could try some of the techniques in Tim Ferriss's 4 Hour Workweek. Basically it involves negotiating a deal to work from home 1 day a week to start, and eventually fulltime. Make sure you are more efficient on this day off than the other 4 days. He suggests hiring a virtual private assistant to handle the more trivial aspects of your job, for a few dollars an hour.

While you are "working from home" you can work on your side projects. Even if you don't hire a virtual assistant, you'll save plenty of time without the distractions of work (water cooler talk, commute time, etc), that you should have an extra 10-20 hours a week.
IIRC there's 3 categories they can tell on average; where you grew up, where you lived and where you've lived recently. Basically if you grew up in London, lived in Manchester and have lived in Scotland for a half-year or so, they'll know.

If linguistic specialists can work this well....

Law enforcement have a bad track record of having great faith in techniques that don't actually work. One recent example in the news was the bogus forensic arson investigation techniques that were used to convict and execute Cameron Todd Willingham. Confessions are another example -- how many cases have been closed prematurely because police believed it was implausible for a person with no obvious mental abnormalities to confess to a heinous crime they didn't commit? That's why it's important to scientifically validate the techniques that are used. The fact that police have used a method and found it completely satisfactory doesn't say much about its validity.
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I too would much appreciate an invite!

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I am late riser. I tend to notice that there's no difference when you go to sleep unless its before 1am.

Method 1. Annoying alarm clocks. Lots of them. I have 3 analog alarm clocks and 2 alarms on phone. iPhone on the contrast to other phones, has best alarms ever. It will annoy you and it's not easy to turn it off. After month you'll develop immunity to all your alarms, so it's important to change sounds.

Method 2. Rise 15 min earlier than you did today. Slow, but I find it provides better results.

Habit breaks easily when you want to sleep more on saturday, sunday. If you are late riser, better be prepared to wake up early on weekdays.
Worthless list. All over the place, from "non-IT people don't understand that the screen isn't the computer" (Really? How many people are still confused about that?) to "non-IT people don't understand how to set up a network" (yep, I have trouble with that one too).
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brings up at least two more:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/algorithms.html

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/theory/complexity/

Of course, both of them also get posted alot =).