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To who though? The crew who were pushing it previously? Remember Alston? Both parties have spoken out against it when in opposition but pushed it while in power? And no one would believe for a second that Abbott wouldn't want this or worse.

Family First love it. Xenophon has only gradually shrunk away. I think only the Greens have consistently opposed it. Very frustrating situation.
Wait, this title is misleading. There's a huge difference between the crystalline fructose you can buy at good grocery stores and the High Fructose Corn Syrup manufacturers shove into every food they can.

It's like saying water must be bad for you since we tried forcing someone to drink 5 gallons at once and they got water poisoning.
Andrew Warhola branded himself Andy Warhol.
Indeed. My commute is a critical part of transitioning between home and the office.
That might be because it belongs to the Finno-Ugric family which are completely separate from the Indo-European languages. :-)
"Even some fruit drinks that sound healthy contain fructose."

Uh... fruit has fructose. All of them do.
I would doubt that's a private API if the Kindle app is utilizing it(a little lock icon appears in the bottom right corner.)
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My point was entirely about the very intentional misreading of the word "trick".

If you feel you have a good argument with the tree ring stuff then concentrate on that then and don't ruin it by throwing in the irrelevant fact that they used the word "trick" in an entirely different sense from what you imply.

Just like the lawyer intentionally misrepresenting "hack", it might help make a case to people without strong English skills, but it also makes your case seem weaker for anyone who knows how to use the word properly.
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Probably Australian Sex Party first, Greens second.
So, they don't do proper competitive analysis. I doubt it.
Robinson = Robertson = Duncan. Two ready-made pseudonyms!
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Looks like a marketing stunt, but still, maybe, never know...
"For example, we've sped up many reflective operations by up to 10x resulting in improvements on the order of 10% for applications based on dynamic languages"

More than the Blobstore API - i am more excited about this. Clojure/Scala on GAE.
Warn HN: Google Calendar is not reliable
I've been using Google Calendar for a few years now.

I've been relying mainly on its "alerting" options -- For example if there's something important I'm supposed to do two months from now, I would set an event for that time with an e-mail alert, and then I'll get an e-mail from Calendar reminding me of that.

I was very happy that there is some service I can write things down in and then completely forget them, trusting it will alert me by e-mail.

Well... Lately I've been suspecting that Calendar is simply dropping e-mails occasionaly. Sometimes there will be an event and I won't get an e-mail. For a while I thought I was missing something, maybe I didn't set the e-mail alert right, or deleted the e-mail and forgot.

But it kept happenning, and today I confirmed it. I made a reminder and made sure everything was set up right, and then I didn't receive the e-mail, and I also checked the spam folder. I'm pretty sure it was just not mailed.

So be warned: You cannot trust Google Calendar to alert you to your important events.
I subscribe to the Spolsky school of hiring: you need someone who's smart and gets things done. After all, any idiot can put together a neat website given a copy of "Learn Django in 21 Days". But is that person going to be able to move that site very far? Will they be able to understand other people's code?

Now, I'm not sure I agree with the author's point of any business person being able to spot a good programmer. But I think that if such a thing were possible, this would probably be how such a list would look.

But then again, we probably don't even agree on what a good programmer is. If there were an objective, standard way to find good programmers, articles like this wouldn't be necessary.
This is where the author's string of side projects comes in to play. I mean face it, it's kind of difficult to make something really cool in your spare time without getting paid to do so.
If this trend continues...
There are the Dingoo A320 and the GP2X Wiz but they seem to suffer from the same problems as I expect this to have (compared with the Pandora) i.e. that they are made useful by western-based user communities formed around hardware that arrives fully formed and somewhat mysteriously from the far east.

The Pandora was born out of this scene with the idea of the user community providing up front input on what they want, some based on frustrations with other systems.
I'll be honest. It's probably all about back-patting. Personally, I like having my back patted though.
What really grates me about this is the supporters always seem to fall back on saying it protects children.

That always amuses me too; because it doesn't protect them at all (do Children really browse CP sites? no, they get caught in MSN or other chat rooms.... are they going to block all them ;))

It might limit the CP being viewed; but I highly doubt that will have an appreciable impact in the # of children abused.
Also, I would be very happy to hear a recommendation about an alerting service that you can trust.
That's nice. MSFT should take action against the vendor and come clean out of this.
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It's the game. It's tough to get used to. It's called Speed Forge 3D if you want to try it out - there's a lite version in the Android Market.
I think a case can be made that even if someone who meets the author's criteria isn't a good programmer, they can probably become one with some mentoring. Of course, that probably isn't good for a business person looking to hire their first programmer. But then again, that person's in a pretty tricky spot to begin with.
It's so ironic to move to Australia from Russia ... the former Soviet Union ... just to find myself eventually back to roughly about the same level of government regulation. Hopefully not worse than that.
Should I now set my goal to leave Australia for a better place ... but what could it be though? Any ideas?
Has anyone (without an agenda) actually run the numbers on whether having a smaller number of older cars is actually less environmentally friendly than having a larger number of more regularly renewed cars with more modern engines (and more scrapped cars)?

I can easily get behind encouraging people to replace 10 year-old central heating boilers with more efficient models, for cars it seemed more like a bizarre industry specific subsidy.
After living in Copenhagen for 1,5 years I think I can add some info to this.

First of all, biking is the only reasonable way to commute in Copenhagen. Car traffic is big, but the most discouraging factor for me is the parking fees. During business hours, paring in the red zone, which is the city centre, is $5.50 per hour. And you have to be lucky to find a spot, and you still have to walk a significant distance to your destination. Whereas when you take your bike, you can leave it just outside the place you're going to (bike parking spots are everywhere).

There is a lot of people who live in Greater Copenhagen (Cph and cities around it) and commute to the centre by S-trains. This creates the problem of having to either pay extra for taking your bike on the train, or having one bike for home - train station and one for train station - work. The attempted solution for that was the city bikes system, free bikes you could rent, in theory everywhere. In practice however, these bikes are nowhere to be found or somehow broken.

So, what Copenhagen really needs is a decent bike sharing system. A friend of mine conducted a survey for a university project, and there is a huge interest in this kind of system. People would gladly pay a monthly fee to be able to get off a train and pick up a bike that's waiting right next to the station.

I see this as a big idea for many cities. More people would use bikes if they didn't have to actually own and maintain them, and care about theft. Someone make this into a startup please? :)
As with all things, it's about weighing the pros and cons. What you cite certainly is a negative, but you have to evaluate the whole candidate. I don't think that it's fair to expect that all good programmers meet all of the criteria presented.
It's not really that flat. When the trip is >5km, all those little hills really add up.
Open source means cost savings
Showing subdomains on all google domains would be nice.

There are lots of submissions from sites.google.com that seem much more clickable because they end with (google.com). Similarly I'd be more likely to click a link from code.google.com.
The spam is getting weirder and weirder
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Not really true. People can take their bikes on S-trains, which come from >20km from the centre.
It's a bit weird how the short description of just about every photo ends with "... on a bicycle, in Amsterdam" or some close equivalent. Either the author is just completely freaked out that all these things happen OMG ON A BICYCLE IN FREAKING AMSTERDAM, or it's some sort of attempt at SEO, hoping that Google will place this page really highly for people searching for <<<bicycle amsterdam>>>.

If it's the latter then it seems to have worked; the page is the top organic Google result for those words, at least for me at the moment. I do hope that isn't because of the clunkily repetititititive writing style.
I'm curious why you prefer functional languages that excel at concurrency for the GAE. As far as I know you can only write sequential apps on the Google AppEngine.
this is a free download by the looks of things - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/fourthpara...

(can't see the link in the article, found it on bing)
It's a good library, I've used it extensively. I only wish it would generate less warnings at compile time. :)
It's a real pity I'm not an existing customer of yours, I'd have a great time telling you why I no longer required your services.
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Jacques, I really thought better of you. The last thing I imagined is that you'd get mixed up in the money laundering business.
Now if only they would lift the limit of 1MB for the Imaging API. What use is the uploaded profile picture if I can not resize it.
I think you've essentially reduced free will to the Halting Problem.
It seems it has been fixed, I watched it last week and recheck it today, far easier to understand.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=995184
Just in time for the Harper Conservatives, eh?
That's rather worrying; in that it shows a much higher level of care/research... the name & department are real for a start.

Ok so this one is obviously idiotic - but how long before someone figures out that it might only take a bit of nouse to make a realistic sounding mail....
We're all going a little otaku
But there is no way to access or manipulate the blogs from app engine code (unless you url.fetch them!). Rather underwhelming.
two months from here he will realise that the VPs expect him to know from startups why they aren't using IIS.
Food, Inc. is also available on netflix streaming. Quite a good documentary.
"maybe you should get social. Facebook, twitter, myspace... and there's this new thingy called HackerNews..."
is 1 valid in China already?
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For IP reasons, developers are prohibited from directly using competitive products.

All market comparisons and analysis are done by third parties (at least a separate marketing organization and often paid external consultants) to avoid any chance of taint.
> If you need to get somewhere fast, use rapid transit.

I have a hard time believing anyone in the US (except maybe New York) could say this with a straight face. Where do you live that rapid transit is so rapid?
There's already so much bicycle-hate in this city (mainly towards couriers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmHRnA780WM ), that I can imagine it getting out of hand.

Most of the people it would effect are cab drivers/drivers-for-hire and delivery trucks/vans. Everyone else who drives daily in the city is, imho, an asshole ;)
Email is not a guaranteed delivery protocol. Messages get dropped if any server in the path has a problem. With 80+% of email being spam, it's also possible that an aggressive filter on your ISP or an intermediate machine is selecting the messages incorrectly. Treating email as a reliable protocol does not make it so.
The claim for having the busiest bicycle street of the west is frankly ridiculous. The guy must never have been to the Netherlands.
I myself live in Utrecht, and we have streets that see more than 2000 bicycles at 8:30am, let alone at 11am (yes, even on weekends).
Charles Ives: the Sonic Youth of the early 20th century.
Use the SMS notification feature. It's free and in my experience 100% reliable.
I like the MQ stacks (particularly ActiveMQ). I've used a proprietary message bus in the past and it was really nice to just send and receive message at the application level. Of course migrating to an asynchronous model of development can be challenging for some.
There are too many points on the path where something could go wrong. Given that this is the first time that I am hearing about Google Calendar being a problem, I doubt it's the actual problem. What email service are you using?
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are you using gmail mailbox for that??? i also had issues with local mailbox but gmail+googcal pair works fine for me.
To see the number 37 and the word Copenhagen in one headline, makes me think I should get real.
It varies significantly by jurisdiction, but merely giving money to another company/organization/person may not count as an "expense" for deduction purposes. In most Western jurisdictions, you would need to be getting something in return - like consultancy, labor, product, a contractual obligation (as with a retainer), etc. I'd be quite unsure whether the "paying for hours spent working on Clojure" line would fly with all tax authorities - but, yeah, that's why people have accountants :-)
Donate another $100 and see what happens then! :-)
I dare say with the right words from the right people, getting him to Google (or similar) wouldn't be particularly difficult given Clojure's growing status.
There are probably things they could do that would have a bigger effect than the ad quality. But as long as those ads have some effect, and faces improve them, they'll keep doing it.

Doctors and lawyers often put their faces in ads, too. It looks like people want to see the person they're buying a service from.
This already exists in the Netherlands, called the "OV-fiets" (public transport bicycle). You take a subscription (€10 a year), and then using a card you can rent a bicycle at almost any railstation for a little less than €3 for 18 hours. You can rent them longer if you want, and even return them to a different place than you got them from (for a fee).

Most of these places have manned bicycle storage facilities where you can rent them, but they also have some in automated lockers in lesser frequented locations. They're now also starting to put these in commuter parking spots at edges of cities.
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maybe todays filters don't work, but you never know what tomorrows filters will look like. For instance it might be possible to build an intelligent filter that blocks based on content not address. Maybe it has image recognition etc.
It doesn't even let you specify an email address -- It just sends to your associated Gmail account.
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No ISP involved -- It's all in-Google.
Global upsurge in nearsightedness is perplexing
Yes, Gmail. What do you mean, "works fine" for you? In more than 95% of the time it works fine for me too, I'm just concerned about it not being close enough to 100%.
I don't know, but any half-decent front wheel (hub, spokes, inner and outer tire) will already set you back at least $50. And there are lots of different other parts on a bike.

Even in the Netherlands where we have a mass market for cheap bicycles they still cost at least €200 (new).
Basically they just subcontracted the whole MSN Juku thing and nobody at MS ever had a real look into it or didn't know about Plurk?
Usually - English is fine, at least in bigger cities.
If anyone can help me understand: what is the difference between eating a food with a certain fructose percentage on HFCS, and a fruit which has the same amount of fructose?

And what is the difference on drinking some artificial drink with a fructose percentage, and pure fruit juice, containing the same amount of fructose?

I saw a presentation once arguing that fruits come with "the poison and the cure", in that the fibers counter the fructose. But that doesn't sound very healthy under the perspective of the study, does it?

Also, does that mean that, again assuming what the study says, its better to eat glucose based sugar foods than eating fruits, on the "sugar" perspective?
Also, in the case of the juice, if it doesn't have the fibers that the fruit has, is it just as bad as soda then (assuming same fructose proportions, of course)?
Wow, the comments here really suck. Filtered != Illegal, so work around it if you need to and tell your family and friends how.
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ssl/ssh vs. /dev/random :)

Or your favourite application for the job.
it would make sense to start "The Clojure Company" and sell support contracts, training, etc

I would certainly be willing to buy 1 share of CLOJ. Isn't that how companies are supposed to raise capital?
You need a pretty big family before doing shopping by bus is not feasible.

I'm 34, Norwegian, have lived most of my life in Norway and England, and have no drivers license. Never learned to drive, because I've never felt the need to.

I do the family shopping for my small family of 3 on my commute home. I rarely need to pick anything up more than 2-3 times a week, and usually I only need one "big" round of shopping per week. It's never so much that I can't take it with me on the train, then walk to the bus stop and take it with me on the bus, in addition to my fairly heavy bag of gym shoes + clothes. If we had another child or two I might end up going to the shops once more a week, or my wife might end up having to help out with the shopping more often.

While I might've saved a little bit here and there on buying larger quantities, not having the cost of car makes up for it many times over.

For that matter, not having a car saves us so much that we can easily afford delivery charger and/or taking a cab back if we ever want to do really large amounts of shopping, and still save money.

In other words: Apart from a really small number of people that live in so rural areas that they are not properly served by public transport (I'm talking about Europe here) and are too far away to walk, it's not about needs but about perceived convenience.

But I don't even want a car. Apart from the cost, there's all the hassle of keeping it in a decent condition. I'd rather just pay for the service on the rare occasions I need it. Though I may consider getting a drivers license to at least have the option of renting a driverless car now and again.
it all seems to be based on the ridiculous agrument that we have to try something...anything...for the children's sake.

This seems to be an instance of a type of reasoning known as the Politician's Syllogism:

Premise: Something must be done.
Premise: This is something.
Conclusion: We must do this.
I would say I fit all of his criteria, but I would define myself as a mediocre programmer at best.
That might work for many business, but I'm more inclined to side with those who said:

"Did anyone seriously ever think facebook was not evil? Facebook will stab your grandma in the eye for a quarter"
I can identify with this totally. This was my life like 4 months ago before I started at the startup I am working at now.

Trying to write these schemas by hand IS hell, but putting blind trust in your toolbox is possibly even worse.
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I agree with the others. There are too many variable to the situation to simply assume that you can't trust Google. Now, I don't doubt that have dropped emails as you suggest, but at a rate that is worse than Exchange or any other calendaring applications?

Perhaps your title should be "Google Calendar is not perfect" and we could all respond with "What is?"
"Why did you wait until Uni to learn to program?"

Because at that time computers took entire floor of building and costs millions of dollars. By the time I got my hands on Apple II I was in graduate school...
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Historically pale skin was prized because rich women didn't work in the fields, they stayed in doors out of the sun. Tans came into fashion with air travel. Only the wealthy could fly to say the Med for their holidays Also I suppose poor slum dwellers didn't get much sun. They only got rickets due to a subsequent lack of vitimum D.