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The author of this essay is also the co-author of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

http://www.cambridge.org/uk/linguistics/cgel/

Unfortunately, the author doesn't recommend a good alternative to Strunk & White's Elements of Style.
Anyone feel like digging into the code and doing a writeup about the "secret sauce" - how they managed to make the real time stuff so responsive?
as an aside, when i was a bit younger i bought "the art of seduction" with the naive aim of studiously applying its techniques towards my own romantic goal.
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I fail to see the connection you draw between Drucker's teaching (eg What gets measured gets managed) and the poor management you see in corporations today. Have you ever read any of his articles/books? Can you point to anything particularly offensive?

Anyway Drucker wasn't a "management as a science" guy. He was an economist, or a microeconomist if you're nitpicking.
Some advice in S&W really confused me; like, on the word prestigious: "just because it's in the dictionary doesn't mean you should use it."

Oh, okay. What? There are a lot of words in the dictionary. Is the advice that the word is used too much? If so, not very clear.
We've used it. For serious projects. That still exist, regularly demanding sacrifice of our sanity in the form of upkeep.

Seriously it's a braindead language that got to where it is by an accident of history. Which really sucks, because of how entrenched it is, we have to use it every now and then.
Couldn't the favicon be there just because it was previously cached in the browser?
Why? If dark matter is 90+% of the mass of 'everything', then surely many more anomalies would occur without us having to be hit by a chunk of dark matter.

Well, if the dark matter is ~90% of the mass of everything, that doesn't necessarily mean that 90% of the mass of every thing is dark matter. As far as I understand it, we see the effects of the large amount of extra matter but we don't really know where it is or how it's distributed. That could mean that there isn't any dark matter clustered in large enough quantities close by for us to detect.

Assuming it's not near us, why would that be? Our star isn't much affected by it. We can't see nearby stars being pulled willy-nilly.

Well, a really spread out distribution across the universe would explain that.

And if it's a weird non-localised 'blanket' that can't hit you in the foot, then it'd be great to have some guesses as to the structure so we can test for it.

Well we have a prediction for what the particle would look like (/act like). That's what the detector is there for. Well, not just dark matter. Think neutrinos and Cherenkov radiation.

As far as the other questions go, I'm not sure enough to answer and I'm pretty sure that some of those questions are open.
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Sigh

For the last time... I go to Carnegie Mellon.

(As for Extreme Blue, thats interesting because I did their internship last year and the people at my lab were from UCLA, Cal Poly, USC, (and obviously CMU) among others. No MIT though.)
"Making yourself a hermit to "be more productive" will backfire. I made that mistake too."

I made that mistake too, but don't really regret it. The way I see it, I needed to make that mistake - because it gives me a baseline of what I can really accomplish when I put my mind 100% towards a goal. I found that I'm maybe 10-20% more effective than if I put my mind 20% towards a goal, at the cost of completely not having a social life and generally being miserable.

Now I can look at that tradeoff and say "It's not worth it." But until I was 24, I never had the sense that I was applying myself fully; I didn't really know what my "top speed" was. I explicitly went into my mid-20s figuring that it was an experiment, and whether I made a million dollars or not, at least I'd have my answer. It was worth those few wasted years simply to find out that I didn't have this vast reserve of untapped mental energy that I could accomplish great things with. I know lots of folks (the Internet is riddled with them, really) who make it into their 50s with massive egos because they never challenge themselves and just assume "Well, I could be great, but I'm not really trying."

I'm really glad I cut short the experiment after 3 years and didn't continue it until I was 30 like I'd planned, though.
Reddit comment suggesting it was a DNS hack:

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/ag0gn/twitter_ha...
Well, in London you might say 'turn left down XYZ road', so we have a system of navigating that's less changeable than things like shop names.

Not that it isn't a neat system to have, but I'm guessing it's pretty labour-intensive to get off the ground, and needs a lot more maintenance to keep it reliable.
Remember that people in the magical world come of age one year earlier than muggles. I do think some wealth was inherited, but I also suspect James was something of an adventurer (remember his outings with Moony, Padfoot, and Wormtail), maybe Lily as well (they were both Phoenix Order members), which would have given opportunities to come across gold and rare items like the invisibility cloak.
But would you be honest and claim military grade unencryption?
Not sure about the playlist thing, but on linux there are keyboard shortcuts for jumps of varying lengths (some combo of left or right arrow and ctrl|alt|shift variations).
I too had a similar thought :) I'm booked until mid January, but would be interested in collaborating then.
Previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=557618
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The drone signals were not scrambled. So it seems to me that you're diluting the term too far.
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Back of the envelope:

~300 million Americans spread among ~100,000 zip codes yields an average of 3,000 people per zip code. So zip code alone narrows a person down to a set of around 3,000. Gender then to 1,500.

That's only 4.2 years worth of unique birthdays! Unless the zip code is dominated by a certain age group (as around a college campus), there should be a lot of unique birthdays, since those will be drawn from a range of many decades.

Do densely-packed cities change things much? A bit, but they probably also have helpful age-diversity. San Francisco has 800,000 people and 25 zip codes -- 32,000 per zip code; 16,000 per gender; 16,000 unique birthdays would cover 45.2 years.

So there are sure to be more collisions, but still many unique zip/sex/DOB combinations. And for all the zip codes with < 3,000 residents, the people uniquely addressable could be 97, 98, 99%.

If we take zip+4, it's all over. My 12-unit apartment building has 2 zip+4 codes all by itself, so zip+4 identifies a group of < 12 people.
If you're serious, which is likely since the internet is worldwide, I have some advice that can help you get started. Also, I'm going to believe that your lack of capitals is a conscious choice. A method of saving time... over time.

Besides apostrophes, commas, and question marks, I have always considered special punctuation as a kind of cheat. If you're using special punctuation, there is almost always a more eloquent way of articulating your sentence/thought.

One exercise I have employed, when organizing my writing, has been to write without punctuation and in lines, every thought on a new line. Like a poem. Punctuation is essentially there to separate these thoughts, so you can start by adding the periods, then arranging your thoughts into a paragraph.

Use of special punctuation, in my opinion, is mostly a means of controlling rhythm. And the ability to ease into the rhythm of writing is largely dependent on a reader's, or writer's, familiarity with the language.

So, I would focus on periods and commas first, until you have a good familiarity with the language. That is my advice to you.
Very possibly. But AFAIR IE is the only notoriously favicon caching browser, the rest of them do a good job of updating it often. And the favicon is showing up in multiple screenshots on both FF and Chrome.
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Can we hire the Iranian Cyber Army to hack Facebook and restore some of the privacy controls?
Official Twitter blog confirming it was a DNS hack: http://status.twitter.com/post/288586541/working-on-site-out...

Of course, if their DNS was compromised, status.twitter.com could be compromised too...
I'll break the trend of nonreplies, since this has fallen off the front page and it may be easier to see it here...

I was a lot like you in school. Figured in high school that I really wanted to be a software entrepreneur, went to college mostly to satisfy family obligations, majored in physics because I thought maybe I could be a famous physicist in my 4 years (hah), hated it. I flunked two courses in my major, nearly dropped out both times, and of course was on academic probation for a good portion of the time. The last time was with one semester left, and was rather tricky because I suddenly needed two physics courses to graduate and they were never offered in the same semester.

I did end up finishing, with a CS degree. It was much like the guy with the Ph.D said: I figured that if I had a business, there would definitely be times when I had to do things that were boring and not directly applicable to what I really wanted to be doing. If I looked at that last semester as practice for my business, it wasn't pointless anymore.

One other observation: if you want to succeed in business, you need a healthy respect for randomness. I remember, when I graduated, I had this big plan for my life. I was going to work for someone else's startup for a couple years to learn the ropes. Then I'd quit and start my own. We'd build something cool that lots of people wanted, then get bought out by Google where I'd have tons of fun playing with their massive data stores.

Life doesn't follow plans.

Or rather - you can follow plans, but there's no guarantee that life will follow along. I did end up working for someone else's startup for two years. Then I started my own company, right on schedule. But we got stuck on the "build something cool that lots of people want". And of course that blocked off the "Get bought by Google" part.

So when I had the chance to join Google as an employee, much less wealthy and less accomplished than I'd hoped, I took it. Because I realized that adding that extra "by Google" clause to "get bought" drastically reduced the chances of getting bought, and adding the "get bought" clause drastically reduced my chances of building something cool that lots of people want. In general, the fewer conditions you attach to your goals, the more likely they are to come true.

I think a lot of people make the mistake of cutting off potentially promising avenues far too early. Real life success is never this linear path where everything works out. It's more like a pinball game where you bounce around from bumper to bumper, sometimes falling back but hopefully moving forwards (and you need a lot of balls to win!) Things like getting a degree or investigating big companies to work for may seem terribly boring, but they can open up doors that may be really interesting once you look through them. It's better to look first and then shut the door.
pretty amazing! need to take it further
Absolutely not my experience. Also do bear in mind that most people also have TVs. And weirdly, out of choice!!! So they're quite used to adverts.
It actually reads:

In the name of God.

I, as an Iranian, hack (deface) this website in response to the wrongdoings of this service provider which are commanded by U.S governors.
If it was indeed a DNS attack, Twitter is damn lucky it was just a defacement (assuming it was just a defacement). The attackers very easily could have phished anyone who logged in on twitter.com without https.

Even worse, any Twitter client which used Basic Auth without SSL would silently be compromising people's passwords when they auto-refreshed.
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They didn't give the details of the model. But I don't think you need the model to make some reasonable statements.. Let r = correlation between level N and and N + 1

r = -1 ==> promote worst performers
r = 0 ==> promote at random or based on completely independent criteria.
r = 1 ==> promote best performers

And you can fill in everything in between. Putting it this way almost makes it seem obvious. In fact though, the hardest part is judging r.

impact of being higher up the ladder changes?

They did do this:

measured as a weighted average of employee competence, with higher-level positions counting for more

Edit: Missed a word.
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Processors are all powerful.

Consumers are always right.

Businesses are expendable . . .

despite providing the fundamental opportunity for the processors to exist.
I asked mostly for the conversation value, I certainly am not sure of anything myself!

Well, a really spread out distribution across the universe would explain that.

It would, but then there's the 'why' it's spread out. Maybe that's answered in the particle predictions but something is keeping it apart, but doesn't affect visible matter in the same way. It's obviously spread out just enough to not be clumpy, but not so much that it can't pull a galaxy together. If it were everywhere it wouldn't have the effect we think we see.
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I think the last paragraph of the article demonstrates that he believes such a thing does not exist.
I think the responsibility does rest with Netflix, because it's almost outside the control of one person to keep identities separate these days. Every bit of information released vastly increases the chance of identification.

To given an example - let's say Google as part of a new anti-fraud service released an MD5 hash of every e-mail address with a Google account, plus a MD5 hash of every IP that account had been successfully logged in from.

Sounds fairly anonymous - except that every website owner would now be able to match up every duplicate-but-separate account in their database to find out who had two or more identities, even if the user had been careful to use two separate machines for that specific site.
I can't help but feel curious about the "shit" that was deleted.

It's not cool to just have a [dead] remark; could there be a better solution to remove the noise, yet allow curious people to find out what are the replies referring to?
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Yes, we use Unity3D, a web plugin to run hardware accelerated 3D in the browser. They don't support Linux yet, but now that they raised a huge amount of money from Sequoia they might work on it (if they want to support ChromeOS they'd better hury)
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This should have been tested by The Black Team :)
To max out profit Google may as well own the top 10 listings they display under major search terms (Knol) and long-tail local search (Yelp).

That should cover 50% of profitable searches yes?

Toddling monopoly?
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Does anyone have any information on what's changed in 1.1?
Any reason why you chose Unity3D over Google's O3D (http://code.google.com/apis/o3d/) ?
For those of us who have been working on side-project competitors for a few months this is a worrying prediction, and quite probably correct.

Can HN name any niches that they feel should be filled with a similar product?
On second thought, http://blog.twitter.com/2009/12/dns-disruption.html says twitter.com was redirected, yet the API still worked.

Since the API uses the twitter.com domain name, unless I'm missing something the only way that's possible is if the API was being man-in-the-middled.

Something doesn't add up.
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We have a vSphere installation, and have a hadoop VM on every physical machine, eating up spare cycles.

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The point is that many of them including Goldman Sachs would have collapsed outright without the bailout money. Now that the funds gave them enough liquidity to survive the crisis, they were given money to increase the cash flow in a depressed markets: the crucial role that banks play in society.

Instead of doing this, they decided to use the money to pay their employees gigantic bonuses, or by using it to acquire smaller banks that didn't get TARP money. The banks even pumped several hundred million dollars into lobbying.

This is a clear abuse of the system and the only reason more people aren't angry about what's happening is because they don't know something like this is happening.
Download the 1.1-rc1 zip file. There is a changes.txt file.
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Unity3D is much more mature and full featured right now (and even more when we started working on this). We are looking into WebGL too, to soon for prime time but promising.
Yeah, and I really hope the paypal password in billing.js is not the real one: http://code.google.com/p/etherpad/source/browse/trunk/etherp...
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Probably cached DNS. A lot of providers extend the TTL, despite what you have it set at.
I would personally be inclined to join the open source development.

But to 'compete', tailored support for any non-technical niche. The equivalent of the "Basecamp for X" phenomenon, where X equals churches, fashion, teachers, politicians, etc.

Something for co-authoring & proofing academic papers would be nice, but I suspect neither a professor or a student would pay for it.
You do say "Turn left down XYZ Road" but if you don't know or can't see which road you are on(happens quite often in the small bylanes in Central London), there is always the very reliable, do you see "name of pub" in front of you - walk towards it.

I was indicating the latter.
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Thanks! Added to my collection of node.js things.
Make it more technical. Monospace, syntax highlighting, version control, TeX, markdown. Would also make an interesting mash-up with Bespin.
I haven't read S&W, but I have three main reasons for avoiding that word:

1) If it's really prestigious, I shouldn't have to mention that fact.

2) If I want you to think it's prestigious, I should show, not tell. It was given 3 michelin stars and won best film at cannes, or whatever the case may be.

3) It's possible that many from the target markets in Asia/Europe/etc won't know what it means anyway. As such, I try not to use complex language unless it's crucial to the message.

edit: not to mention, prestige is subjective. Some people think a glowing writeup in a particular publication is prestigious. Others think it's noise. It's hard to claim either group is wrong.
Sorry for the bias, the original page is in Russian, so I've used Google translate link to make it possible for others to read.
Nope; it's for the PayPal sandbox.
There's a bit of a summary here:

http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/12/clojure-11-rc1-transients
"If you're using special punctuation, there is almost always a more eloquent way of articulating your sentence/thought."

Thank you. You've just fixed my writing style. I owe you a large drink.

(No, seriously. I use semi-colons, colons and em-dashes -- pretentious and pedantic though they be; fun though it be to be better educated than my audience -- entirely too often: see? With the above quotation in my arsenal, I shall cease forthwith. Consider me indebted to you for any clarity I may thus gain.)
The issue with intelligent pooling is that you (a) might end up with a lot of bookkeeping, or (b) people will forget to return things to the pool. It's way easier to do that kind of design in C++ where you can use scope and copy constructors to automatically refcount and then return back.

NullWritable is pretty useful sometimes, but what's wrong with Counter objects for counters?
or read it here: http://github.com/richhickey/clojure/blob/68aa96d832703f98f8...
The main purpose of the buyout is to kill competition, IMO.
Can we all comfortably step off of the Twitter bandwagon now that it has lost momentum? I promise, nobody will get hurt.
It absolutely is. Not only can you lose your access to a payment method at any time (even a merchant account), but the service/API might be offline. Authorizenet suffered a big outage not too many months ago. The smart companies had other payment options available and simply took away the Authnet powered method until the service was restored, the companies that didn't plan so well were essentially not doing business.
9 years, a quarter million in revenue per year through PayPal alone, account never limited or frozen, and always get a helpful business representative on the phone.
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You know, this is just a thought, but this may have nothing to do with Iran at its root. Intellectual honesty requires me to admit that, I have absolutely no hard data to back this up, but please hear me out.

Many people have been wondering, 'Hey, who are these DST guys that are continuously going long on Facebook at ridiculous valuations?'

'They even let employees at places like Facebook and Zynga cash out early!'

'Gosh, Russian businessmen must be nice.'

Now if I had large sums of money that I wanted laundered, the method right up there at the top of my list is venture capital firm investing exclusively in overseas assets. Money is laundered via profitable exits on investments in foreign countries. In fact, strictly speaking, the exit does not even have to be profitable.

Unless you are greedy.

Which brings me back to Russian businessmen. Accusing anyone of anything is not the intention here, but a word of caution to Silicon Valley is in order. In Russia, business is a game played in somewhat less cordial a fashion. Also keep in mind that in Russia . . . you stab with a borrowed knife.

I think we can expect many more attacks on Twitter. From hackers claiming to be 'Chinese', 'Iranian' or 'North Korean'.