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Try this, the in-progress release notes: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.3/

No, it's suggesting that, for example, when interviewing a black and a white candidate, each of whom has a reference letter and a set of test scores, the interviewer would favour test scores if the white candidate had higher test scores, but would favour reference letters when the black candidate had higher test scores. If only test scores or only reference letters were available, they'd hire based on merit.

In other words, people engaged in discriminatory behaviour when there was a way to rationalize/cover it up, and pretend they weren't doing it -- possibly telling themselves that, too.

A similar tool is my own PDFMunge, previously discussed on HN here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1089068 and in more depth on my site here: http://www.felixcrux.com/posts/pdfmunge-improve-pdfs-ebook-r...

But this looks quite a bit more polished and user-friendly.

That's probably because this is a press release/internal news item, not the research paper itself.

That said, I have no idea if they discuss that in the paper either.

Well, the underlying question is whether simple scripting is (in your analogy) closer to "mechanics" or to "driver's license education".

I think you're right that at the moment it's more than what almost all everyday users need, but the trend is definitely towards it being something that most people could learn/would benefit greatly from learning. So then the problem is identifying when that transition happens; perhaps it's already happening in some fields such as the one described in the article.

Interesting... when I did high-school debating (in Canada), we never argued both sides of the same resolution. I did Parliamentary style almost exclusively though, but did make it to various Canada-wide and North-America-wide tournaments.

Were you perhaps out on the West Coast? I heard there was something of a schism in style there, and as an East-Coaster myself I never really met a lot of people from out West at the tournaments.

No, because they are being used in a journalism context. A signed model release form would be necessary if you wanted to use the photo for, say, advertising.

EDIT: That "no" refers to whether her signed consent is necessary, not to whether or not she deserves compensation. That is between the photographer, his conscience, and any damages he receives from this suit.

You think Google doesn't already have people who know Lisp and would love to use it if they were allowed to? :)

It's not a Google "product", just a site. It's "Google Investor Relations".

From what I can tell, the "change" to satisfy them would be removing it entirely. It's not an interface problem, it's the entire concept: it's critical for what Google is doing, but perhaps not at all desired for desktops or servers.

To be quite brazen about it, the only point I see in LinkedIn groups is to slap the logo of a former employer/assocation/whatever on my page so that people see it when they look at my profile.

You fill out an application and send in a resume. Works surprisingly well.

"Who are you? Do you have food?" -- Sounds like a pretty accurate translation to me.

I'm wondering if there are any recovery firmwares that just let you install unsigned builds and do nothing else. Even this Amon_RA one adds things like extra menus, a partitioning tool, and an "awesome care-bear version".

I don't want any of that, I just want to be able to use applications as root. That's it. No care-bears. Any suggestions?

Agreed. Much like the "series of tubes" comment from Stevens -- that's a perfectly good analogy, and one that technically-inclined people use all the time in some variant like "fat pipes". He said so much other ridiculous stuff that I can't understand why people picked on the one thing that almost made sense.

Ourselves?

As the article points out, it's not even disguised -- a space-capable rocket is an ICBM, if you swap out the payload.

The difference is that Amazon is trying to price-fix a ceiling, whereas Macmillan is trying to price-fix a floor.

What for? If your idea is to have an app that they can't "pin" on anyone in particular, you're missing the fact that you need an API key for access, and that can certainly be disabled.

You'll note that he provided no support for that claim; he just said it in an authoritative tone.

As another commenter pointed out, it looks like what you've got there is a website, instead of the actual script.

A direct link to the file you need is here: http://cloud.github.com/downloads/felixc/pdfmunge/pdfmunge.p...

Special bonus tip for HN readers! To get a set of good starting values for cropping the margins, use the existing pdfcrop utility with the --verbose flag.

It will display the existing BoundingBox property as it processes each page. Let it run for a few pages, kill it, and use those numbers as a starting point. They will probably not be as tight as you'd like, since they won't cut out page numbers or headers.

That was exactly my use case for creating it in the first place :)

Thanks for that titbit -- I have to disagree that "everyone installs it this way", because I certainly hadn't! (I installed on Ubuntu from the chromium-daily launchpad ppa). That fix makes me feel a bit better, but it's still a nasty blow against the idea of open and free formats.

Edit: I must be doing something wrong, because I can't get it to work. This might be a distro/version/phase of moon-specific fix?

You're absolutely right. Your two word snark has really added value to this discussion by clarifying that there is really no reason we should believe that these two things might have anything to do with each other whatsoever. I mean, variables routinely fly up and down by over 100% for no reason.

As xkcd had it: "Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'."

Firefox cannot ship with H.264 licenses, regardless of whether they can afford the cost or not. The GPL is incompatible with that idea.

As a side note, I'm not sure why you want H.264 to become the de-facto standard, given that it would require you to pay licensing fees just to host your own videos.

Right now, nothing. That's not why this is important.

Think about the consequences of this for just one moment. How much support and developer time is Firefox going to lose if it can't play videos if/when YouTube switches over fully and doesn't use Flash? How much support and developer time is Linux going to lose if there are no browsers for it that can play internet videos, if H.264 becomes the de-facto standard (note that only Chrome works, not Chromium)? If you don't care about that at all, and are happy using IE (or Chrome, these days) on Windows for ever, then by all means move along, there is nothing for you to see here. The rest of us care.

That plan (opening up society by economic isolation) didn't work particularly well for Cuba, Iran, North Korea, or any other embargoed country that I know of.

While I agree with you that the real solution is better privacy protections enshrined in law, I have to point out that you can't really derive an "ought" from an "is". In other words, the fact that corporations are amoral doesn't mean that Google ought to be amoral too, especially given their claim that they "do no evil". I think that's the author's point: he's not saying that they're doing anything illegal, just that they're failing to live up to the standards they've set for themselves.

I don't know if it's how the phrase was originally intended, but it makes a lot more sense to me if I read it as "until the value of his experience expired."

I don't think "experience" in general could possibly expire (it's just another word for "knowledge", after all!), but certainly individual experiences can become irrelevant.