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If you haven't already, check and make sure it's not also full of hydrogenated oils as filler. I once saw such a fish oil supplement at Costco advertised as "full of heart healthy omega 3s."
This is awesome. Most metal foam currently available is way too weak for me.
I'd personally recommend pgbouncer as a connection pooler rather than pgpool.

https://developer.skype.com/SkypeGarage/DbProjects/PgBouncer
Yeah, this irks me slightly. No-one gave a crap about phc, but now Facebook is writing a PHP compiler its all over reddit and HN.
> Do I already need to remind you that a Republican president just enacted one of the largest expansions of Medicaid in the history of the program?

And the Dems who objected did so because they thought that the increase was too small.

The fact that the Repubs have been horrible does not imply that the Dems are no worse.
Hitchens' central claim thesis is that North Korea is really right-wing since it's racist and militaristic. In making that claim, his problem is that N.K. is a communist dictatorship, and he can't find any way to spin that as right-wing. The problem then reduces to showing that it's not really communist.

He does this by saying that, since one recent government document doesn't mention the word communism, the country's not really communist at all. No mention about whether actions count more than words, or how that worked in years past, when there was plenty of racism and plenty of mentions of communism.

A few notes: All dictatorships are militaristic in some important sense. That's because all dictatorships crush dissent, and sometimes you need a tank when all else fails.

As for racism: Stalin launched numerous pogroms against the Jews (and, in a nice Stalinist touch, put a jew in charge of the operations). The Soviet Union had only one non-Russian on the Central Committee, despite a large number of ethnic minorities in the USSR.

A guess on the Deeper Subtext behind this mess: "Yeah, I supported the war in Iraq, and I've lost readers like crazy. But I'm really a leftie. Here, watch me establish my bona fides."
The last place I worked used F5s for load balancing and Bucardo for replication. The F5s worked well enough, and I've become a huge fan of Bucardo. It has capabilities that I think blow Slony away. (Custom code, and pre-warmed slaves are two of the biggest differentiators.)

The new job is doing something that could best be described as very primitive sharding (completely unnecessary, given the demonstrated loads compared to the levels of concurrency PostgreSQL can support with minimal tuning), without replication. I'm eliminating the former, and will eventually be adding some HA capabilities, and probably also bringing Bucardo in.

I don't think SR is going to obsolete a connection pool any time soon -- you still need to direct traffic appropriately between master and slave(s). I've never used it, but I've consistently heard good things about pgBoucner as a connection pooler.
A PA VP told me Steve Jobs asked them to drop their nearly-finished Power design immediately to build AAPL a custom ARM SoC; they said no, so he bought them, to help them say yes. He probably could have poached their stars for a lot less than $278M, but I guess he was in a serious hurry, or just viewed $278M as not worth the hassle.
This article refers to the metal foam being able to compress "without deforming". Now, I'm no materials specialist, but as a mechanical engineering senior, that makes no sense to me. The whole point of the material seems to be to deform in a predictable and useful manner. Maybe I'm interpreting it all wrong.

It seems like the point of it is to absorb as much kinetic energy as possible by deforming, probably from an impact, while slowing the impact to reduce the force and avoiding structural failure.
> As far as whether it helps people, it unquestionably does. Maybe it hurts other people (those who pay taxes), but that income transfer would not likely happen under private plans.

SS is a big income transfer from blacks and hispanics because they don't live long enough to collect much. It's a modest income transfer to women and the poor.
Basically, a list of recruiters to avoid :)
nice, you sidestepped the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect
The video of Alan Kay at http://www.archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987 is one of my all-time favorites.
Christopher Hitchens: Even wierder and more despicable than you thought.

This self-promoting buffoon should be exposed for the what he is. He went to Lebanon last year to film his one-man crusade to impose Liberal Democracy on the "unwashed Arab masses", he made a fuss about being attacked by Nazis in Lebanon! In reality, him and his photographer went to certain Beirut neighborhoods and provoked the locals until he was slapped around by teenagers.

Let me say that again: Hitchens went to the Middle East to pick fist fights. Yeah, very intellectual.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Hitchens+Lebanon+brawl

:-|

I value his take on North Korea as much as I value Octomom's opinion on Cuba.
Google makes games... just not very well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Lively

Ok, that's a bit harsh perhaps. In its favor it was a decent idea to merge social gaming and the web, perhaps a bit ahead of its time. I could easily see 3D elements as commonplace on the web in 2012 or so.

And then there's:

http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/

Which is the same concept as Luis von Ahn's ESP Game, only Googlified and drained of any interface elements that would make the thing actually fun.
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Rock steady baby!

Props to Andrew, Ryan (et al?)
A good chunk of the time, the "no" is because of things the investor cannot articulate.

The other problem with saying "no" is that you get rapidly trained not to give advice or further details, as there is a class of entrepreneur who will make the suggested changes, come right back, and ask for the money.

I've thought a lot, lately, about becoming a professional investor. This is the part that stops me.
Well my response was partially tongue in cheek, but you do realize CA also holds about 1/5 of the US population? I said "density", which takes population into account.

I think you're attributing the statement "red states" to Republican party. I think that's an unfair statement, but "red states" is a measurable geographic location, not a political ideology. And I'm pretty sure the map still would show that the density (if you take the total racists and divide by the total population of the red states) of hate groups is greater in the red states.
"The revenue generated by the store is expected to be small, at least by the standards of Google’s $23 billion annual business."

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/google-planning-sto...
Why not - aren't you comfortable enough with your life to enjoy some beauty?

Seriously, am I the only male who has no problem with admitting he _likes_ sex?
With regards to the second question, it seems that sometimes a hack today to save time could cost a lot down the road, when the hack becomes some integral component somewhere. It's not always that easy to decide whether the short-term benefit of using a hack is greater than the long-term benefit of doing it right.
Indeed. I didn't notice much change myself, but I already get a healthful portion of omega3s and antioxidants from my food. My parents had reduced joint pain/inflammation.
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Lost Season 6 starts tomorrow and I have high high hopes. Perhaps too high.
So don't browse hacker news on company time.
Have you actually tried WebKit's developer tools lately?

It has a great DOM inspector (allows editing), network/script/rendering timeline, step-through debugger, profiler, cookie and local database inspector, and Chrome even has a heap analysis tool (see which objects are allocated).

It's far better than Firebug, at least for JavaScript developers, IMO.
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Here's a more direct talk by Drew at Startup Bootcamp last fall.

http://www.youtube.com/startupbootcamp#p/u/1/eaJKPCdimLA
I heard this too and I've seen it 'working' in a few children before. However, I know of those children, getting them to take a pill daily and following a routine without outside intervention from a parent was 90% of the battle anyway. So from observation, I can't really say what worked more, the pill or getting the child to take it.
I understand that your premise is as follows:

"In the 1800s, or early 1900s, there was massive capital required to print a book. As a result, the books that people bought, came from those who had capitalized the printing presses. Now a days, the publishers are historically tied to those large printing presses, which really are less relevant with inexpensive on-demand printing. "

But this overlooks that you don't need to _own_ a printing press to have your book printed/bound.

Every town I've ever been in has had several printing companies that would do all types of printing jobs for you. Including your book and binding, if you were so interested and actually had a need for 5,000 of them.

LuLu, btw, is the _counter example_ to this. They are hugely expensive, but convenient for very small print runs.

Yes, large book publishers can print a 300 page book for $1, whereas it will cost you $2.50 to do so at your local printshop, but the real risk is the fact that you probably spent 4 months of your life writing a book, and paying people several thousand dollars to edit/proof/provide art, all for a book that may sell 70 copies @ $15.

I think we do agree, that (one) real value of publishing companies has been their ability to control the channel (book stores). I think we differ on their importance in developing books (Copy Editors, Editors, Proof Readers, Designers, Artists). I don't think you've commented on the publishers ability to spread risk over thousands of authors (and also pick the good ones!)

Now, authors still need book shelf space _today_, as ebooks do not yet dominate. This is why a famous and well known author, with their own brand, would stick with a publisher when they already have a brand. They need the channel. I like your quotation "Lulu doesn't get our book into B&N." :-)

But, Peter Hamiliton or JK Rowling are in the drivers seat. Unless they've been tied down with contracts that prevent them from going elsewhere, I would think that, right about now, they would start to realize they can go their own. They don't _need_ a publisher. They can personally hire their own editor, copy editor, proof reader, design, and artist, and self publish. Why more famous authors don't pull a Stephen Covey is beyond me.
I agree (I made the video). There is actually bunch of thinking behind it, but we're leaving it rough because we don't want to pretend we're developing high-detail specs just yet, as doing so tends to lock you in to a certain approach - we really do prefer to experiment in code.

The point of the Chromium site is not to sell, but to be pretty open about what we're doing and what we're thinking early in the process so that our external contributors, who we value highly, can get access to the same information that our internal teams can and so that they don't get surprised by sudden public changes in direction.

It's a tough balance - not over-specifying yet being open, especially when people are used to everything a company puts out being a high-definition advertisement. This open development style is still new to me, and hope we'll get better at it with practice.

(FWIW, this is all personal opinion, not Google's).
I'd be interested in hearing what the free market alternatives would be for some of these programs (such as universal vaccination). I'm not saying they aren't possible, but I have a hard time coming up with a business plan that doesn't rely on charity (which is also inefficient, although I'm not sure how it fares relative to government).
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Yeah, within a week of starting to use Chrome I started trying to type search terms in Safari's URL field.

That feature could seriously be a deterrent for switching away from Chrome or Firefox.
I have very high hopes for the upcoming Chrome OS netbooks. I'm probably the only one here planning on using one as my primary computer. After the disappointment that was the iPad, I suspect the media is going to be very kind to the launch of the Chrome netbooks. I just hope someone makes one with a 12 or 13'' screen.
Are you sure? I think you can edit the text of stylesheets, and add new style properties on individual elements too.
A 1.6GHz Intel Atom spanks a 1 GHz ARM

Not necessarily; ARM claims that the Cortex A9 is the one doing the superscalar out-of-order spanking and I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Agreed. I couldn't even keep watching it, though I might try to listen.
I'd guess that the biggest strength of the iPad against this Google Tablet Concept is that it actually exists.
Looks pretty dang annoying to use. Bringing the windows metaphor into small form factor touchscreen devices is not exactly something I'm looking forward to.

Maybe on a wall where space is cheap.
There was nothing stopping them before: both generations of iPhone / iPod touch chips were bespoke SoC hardware too, just via Samsung.
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To listen to Googlers, Google is the frakking Chuck Norris of tech companies.
unless you're seeing something I'm not seeing, you can only modify existing attributes. If you could show me though, an upvote will be in your future :-)
>Once police officers are handling what ought to be simple disciplinary action, it's easy for a student to get charged with something like assaulting a teacher

Certainly in the UK more kids assault teachers than get arrested for it; far more than get charged.

If the kid does something that looks to the law like assault to their teacher then what do you think is proper punishment? "Don't do that again!"?

When a kid does violently assault a teacher then this strikes me as more than sufficient cause to investigate the child's home-life and upbringing to ensure they're not themselves subject to similar abuse.
This mention of efficiency reminds me of the time when the energy market in California was de-regulated and the result was sky-rocketing costs and rolling black-outs.

America's free-market healthcare system is extremely inefficient. We pay roughly twice that of the UK (as percentage of GDP) and all the indicators (life expectancy, infant mortality, etc), are roughly the same.

In the last two years, in the face of the stock market crash, Social Security has remained solvent and stable. If it had been privatized, as Bush wanted, it not only would have made wealthy bankers more wealthy (redistribution of wealth upwards, which tends to happen in free markets) by infusing the stock markets with billions, but it would have sent Social Security into the gutter with the rest of the pensions and 401Ks.

In fact, lack of regulation in the markets, aka more free, lead to the great recession and the 10% unemployment that we find ourselves in.

I could go on about the inefficiencies of the free market, and there are equally many cases where purely social programs also fail. In the end, the middle path -- a mix of free makets and socialism, a mix of laissez faire and regulation -- works best.
Is this work worth my hourly rate? The question isn't stated accurately - it needs to take into account the overhead of organizing someone else to do it, the risks and hassles of miscommunication and so on.

However, he's likely thinking of tasks where the answer is clear enough - things like laundry and cleaning. The margin for error is so great, it overcomes any reasonable overhead. As Buffett/Munger say, you don't need to know a man's exact weight to know if he is fat.
I have a big problem with point three. I think that the author is missing the big advantage of not being creative with how you write common idioms: They are fast and easy to understand. Creativity belongs in the architecture level, much less often at the code level. I mean, christ, you have to read that shit later.
"What's your personal relationship with Bill Gates like?
I think Bill Gates is a good guy. We're not best friends, but we talk maybe once a month"

Wow, thats interesting, I had no idea.
Putting The Pieces Together: Happy National Puzzle Day
It’s no surprise that I like puzzle games. So when I realized such a day as National Puzzle day existed (yes, folks there is a day for everything and we are blogging about them all!) I was ready to celebrate the proper way. How? By playing as many free online games as possible, obviously. Lucky for me I work for Addictinggames.com, the source for free online games, and a great place to find free online puzzle games!
I think the idea is that the deformation isn't permanent--after compressing, it will spring back.
Can Apple kill flash by providing a Canvas/JS IDE and compiler?
Imagine Apple made an IDE silimar to Flash (familiar options, designed for artists/desiners/animators) but compiled (via an open-sourced compiler) to Canvas, javascript, css, etc? What if that IDE could import raw Flash files? Flash designers could port their apps/games quickly and release them for the iPhone and iPad and get similar results on modern browsers.
The keyboard and popover menus in those pictures look like direct rips of Apple's tablet

It is a pretty obvious choice to do it that way. Saying it's a rip off of Apple's tablet is like saying every car 'rips off' a carriage. The same thing will usually be invented multiple times you know.
The camera man is definitely a bit shaky in the beginning, but he stabilizes eventually and the content is valuable.
If these guys made a desktop/offline version that worked with a mini Guitar and plugged into USB that I could play with on the plane, I would be totally hooked. Rockin out on a plane! (or a boat, whatever).
You're blowing this out of proportion. All I said at the event was that while I was slightly annoyed at being copied, the other YC-like organizations helped us by showing us when we mistakenly rejected people.
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Once nice thing about Google is the famed 20% time. If you have an idea, you're allowed to work on it roughly one day a week (or almost one week per month). You might hear some people say that it's a myth, or that it's too hard to actually use it. But if you can't manage to exercise a perk that everyone knows about, and that is sanctioned at the highest level, then it probably means you wouldn't have too much luck with your idea outside of Google either, IMO.
An apology has since been made in the comments and the post updated to reflect it.
One thing I learned from playing Diablo 2:

It is a real waste of time.

Having learned this important lesson I never played WoW, thank god.
A lot, but not enough. In place editing of HTML, CSS and cookie manipulation are almost non-existent, especially compared to the way firebug allows it.
Thanks for the work on this and for writing it up. Did you try engaging Amazon to get some more direct answers? Are they not forthcoming about the infrastructure?

It would be really cool to be able to get in-depth about the hardware setup, how the disks are clustered and interfaced with the CPU-heavy clusters, etc.
[Tell HN]: I built a web app for image forensic analysis. Thoughts?
I made something cool, and I just wanted to share it.

There was an article submitted here last month, about forensic analysis of a recent Victoria's Secret photo (Discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1017726)

It raised my interest, and I thought it was a great article. HN User slig made a quite comment about how some parts of it would be pretty easy to implement as a 'web app'. Turns out he was right. I read up on the theory in the linked research paper, and here is the result of a few days work:

http://www.errorlevelanalysis.com

Any thoughts or suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
> It can kill you. Maybe it will kill you with stress. Or maybe it will kill you by withdrawal[.]

Or maybe it'll be a psycho stalker fan who shoots you in the back four times after following you around for months.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon#Murder
And as a clickable links: http://www.errorlevelanalysis.com + http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1017726
Why did you say "Christian or white" and not "[on someone's] religion or skin colour"?
The reason for the "stop whining" thing is possibly that many proponents of Android are saying, more or less, that "normal people" should choose a device based on what they think are the important criteria instead of what the "normal people" themselves think is important. It's pretty elitist, and also missing the rather important point that a device's popularity is only partly based on its technical and ideological properties.

Either way it'll be interesting to see what we end up with in a few years. Hopefully Android and whatever Microsoft comes up with will prove to be serious contenders so that we don't stagnate a la IE.
While I don't doubt your smart, I distrust the use of GRE scores for that. I got a 2280 on mine, which isn't too bad, but I had a lot of friends who were significantly smarter than me but didn't do quite as well on the test. At that point, I realized, it was dangerous to correlate GRE (or SAT for that matter) scores with IQ.
Also, it's just the front end, which is PHP's strength.
I saw a review time that quick for an app I submitted as well. I think they've done a pretty thorough job of improving the developer experience in iTunes Connect.
You'd think if they were continuing to search for him that they would tell the interwebz what the mystery information is as an aide to locating him, no?
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Et tu, Google?

I had grown used to Microsoft reflexively competing with whatever led the tech headlines that month, whether it was Zune coming out to combat iPod, Surface and Zune Phone to combat iPhone, multiple attempts to combat Google, and so forth.

Part of this is simply having a shotgun approach, which is a cheap way to diversify your business. After reading The Road Ahead, I got the distinct impression, based on Gates' appraisal of Wang, that his greatest fear for Microsoft was to stay stuck in one product line and be made obsolete by the next big thing, which partially explains the shotgun strategy and even the trend-jumping strategy. Still, it comes off as desperate for Microsoft to respond in kind to each new product category that makes news, like they are trying to prove their relevance. Secure companies which really do innovate don't need to imitate and they don't need to try so hard to prove their relevance.

Google, too, always had a shotgun approach by design, but seeing this makes me worry that Google is following Microsoft into the hole of mimicking whatever the big news is at the time. I don't think that road pays off. It's the exact opposite of what Google started off doing--improving a boring and forgotten part of the internet ecosystem--and it's the exact opposite of Apple's strategy. (If Microsoft and Google are shotguns, Apple is a sniper rifle carefully picking off market opportunities no one else really sees that well.)
I'd love to see citations on both rphlx's and wmf's claims. Not trying to sound mean - I'm honestly interested in the future of low-power computing and I kind of hope ARM wins.