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Although Google uses data-driven decisions to optimize existing products like the search UI, it's a misconception that strategic decisions of new products and services would be done in a same way.

Of course not. They are made in a similar way that every other human organization does it: based on the intuition and knowledge of the decision makers.
This is slightly misleading, Ajami hasn't been particularly ignored. There are a huge number of african manuscripts in a variety of languages including Arabic which haven't been studied, it's been estimated that in Mali alone there are something like 250,000 - 500,000 manuscripts from 1100-1800 AD in private hands. Just in Timbuktu it's estimated their are upwards of 100,000+ manuscripts (Wikipedia has more details if people are interested).

The official libraries struggle to even catalogue the material they have. The Ahmed Baba Institute is trying to digitize it's collection but has only manage a tiny fraction of the 18,000 manuscripts they hold.

Largely it's a problem of money and staff, obtaining, preserving and cataloguing these manuscripts isn't cheap, let alone studying them all. Even preliminary analysis of the manuscripts available in libraries is a task that will take millions of man-hours.
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"My guide told me that they have a 50% infant mortality."

This would explain "the secret of longevity and perpetual health" - quite literal survivorship bias.
In my experience (24 years in a large company doing a lot of large projects), the coupling of different pieces of the program is severely underestimated. The result is that The Plan lays out the schedule with Alice and Bob working in parallel, but in reality they end up requiring a lot of interaction before the project is done.

Typically in a large project, Alice and Bob work independently but make different assumptions and have to rework a significant amount of their code when they finally get together to integrate their two parts.

In my experience, large teams can shrink calendar schedule time by brute forcing the dependency failures. The trade-off to achieve schedule compression is substantial inefficiencies and often a loss of quality and maintainability. I am convinced that a lot of schedule slippage in large projects is due to incorrect assumptions with respect to the independence of the pieces. While it is possible to compress the schedule this way, all schedule compression that exceeds the true parallelism in the project requires exponentially increasing effort to overcome the inefficiencies due to the coupling.

This is behind Brook's Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookss_law "2. Communication overheads increase as the number of people increases." Communication overhead is the indication of coupling of the pieces. If Alice and Bob's pieces were truly independent, they would not need to communicate and Brook's Law would not apply.

The physical analogy to the effort required to shrink calendar time is the "hull speed" of boats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_speed and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_making_resistance.
While it is possible to "escape your bow and stern waves" (i.e plane), it takes an exponential amount of power to do so. (The first wikipedia page links to another nice explanation:
http://www.antrimdesign.com/articles/hullspeed.html.)
'Think different' isn't a motto, it's a slogan. One's for people inside the company, the other's for people outside.
Can someone translate this to something I can understand?
"I don't understand how that helps anything. I don't
understand how that helps us and I don't understand
how that helps China," Ballmer said.

With a quote like that, you have no idea what question Ballmer was asked, what exactly "that" refers to.
One slight (odd) detail: the human population isn't split 50-50. Normally, I believe that male births slightly outnumber female births (105 or 106 males for every 100 females according to a source I'll cite in a minute.)

However, there are complications. First, for a long time, the actual number of females in the world doesn't match the 105/6 to 100 number above. This has been described by Amartya Sen as the "missing women" problem. (That is, quite a lot more women should be on the planet than are.) Second, I've seen some more recent articles suggesting that the larger number of male births is shrinking. I don't know enough to say much about that.

I'm very much in agreement with your overall sentiment and arguments though. (There should be more women in positions of power. Who could argue with equality and why would they do so?)

Here's a link to a Sen article about missing women: http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/gender/Sen100M.html
This gives new meaning to the saying "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach."
i found the narrative essential to the information he was conveying. it was a story of evolution rather than a fact sheet.
Web development starts with a deep understanding of HTML, CSS, and Javascript. At work we use Prototype and Scriptaculous to achieve the richer interfaces our customers are beginning to demand, so that means you also have to understand the DOM model. This view layer of the site is actually in JSP, since we're a Java shop, running in a Tomcat servlet container on the J2EE stack: Struts, Spring, etc etc. The web services are REST (via RestEasy / the Apache HTTPClient -- you'd better be expert at the HTTP protocol, by the way, or you're not getting very far here) and our older ones involve XML-RPC / SOAP. Oh yeah, XML, that's handy to know, along with YAML and JSON. Anyhow, the data which is actually being served up is stored in the database and accessed via SQL. There are a few hundred kb of stored procedures running around -- you'll want to be able to write them in Oracle and Postgres, since customers use both. Authentication is usually via LDAP except when it is via OpenID except when it is via OpenID backed by LDAP.

The system is built with Ant, Groovy, and Ruby, and deployed on RedHat Linux. You'll be expected to know SH and BASH shell scripts and perform various sysadmin tasks as required, for example, configuring firewalls, Apache, and nightly batches via cron'ed up shell scripts.

In addition to doing Java, we also do migrations from Perl systems and much of our internal utilities are written in either PHP (yay, outsourcing) or Ruby.

One of the core tasks of our customers is creating "reports". We have a software package (which you haven't heard about) which does this for us. You need it to know it backwards and forwards. Also, if it ever fails, knowing how to debug PDFs would be a real help.

I haven't gotten past "generic web developer" into the world of fun that is "IT needs specific to Japanese universities", such as dealing with the common Japanese bank interchange format to process tuition payments. That is one requirement from one of the 37 subsystems on the project I'm on.

You tell me -- what have I said so far that sounds unrealistic or exaggerated?
Cohen's comment about lawyers not grasping The Business side, and generally being overcautious rings true even for those of us who work for Giant Immoral MegaCorps.

A lot of what Giant Immoral MegaCorps don't do is because of over cautious lawyerly advice, as near as I can tell. Or at least its due to what mid-level managers and directors think the lawyers will tell them.
This book is a little controversial among lispers. There was a discussion about it recently on c.l.l.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_frm/thr...

I'm thinking about reading it. Some people don't like the editing, since it's self-published and doesn't have a lot of polish. It's also pretty heavy on the author's opinions (which might not be a bad thing).
That brings back memories. I used THINK Pascal back in the late '80s in an undergrad computer graphics class, and it did take a little while to get used to proportional fonts. But once I got the hang of indenting with tabs instead of spaces, it was actually kind of nice. As the article says, the text was much easier to read, especially the comments.

EDIT: I checked my dev environments, and it turns out both Eclipse and Visual Studio support proportional fonts in the code editors. I had just never thought to look.
Chrome says this link is malware.
I'm sure there's no harm in trying: http://ycombinator.com/contact.html - whether or not they'll do anything about it is a different question since there are good reasons why they wouldn't want to let people 'revise history' or 'interrupt the conversation' which is more or less what the site seems to be about.
Tomato vs. Tomahto
Bug vs. Feature
Tabs vs. Spaces

Either approach introduces about as many problems as it solves. I personally like being able to line things up with a few extra spaces to give some hints to my future self regarding the structure of my code.
Or how about a font with proportions made for code?

I would imagine special proportions for markers like (){}[] and punctuation marks and fixed proportions for numbers. At one point the difference between that and syntax highlighting and automatic indentation blurs.
Really? Chrome didn't tell me it was malware.

But, as far as I can tell, it's not - it's just a wiki page.
I'm really glad I went to school in the 1970s

I was thinking the same thing (though more 80s than 70s for me). I was very interested in chemistry from 7th grade and up, and did a lot of home experiments including some more or less flammable stuff. This was at least in part encouraged by both my chemistry teacher and my parents and grandparents. Had this been today and in the US and the police had gone through my garage, it seems likely I would be in jail.

This stuff is extremely troubling to me. This hysterical overreaction will, as many have already pointed out, serve to completely discourage kids from nurturing their interest in science, and it makes me really, really hesitant about the prospect of raising kids in the US.
And here is the metasploit code:
http://www.metasploit.com/redmine/projects/framework/reposit...

I guess "sophisticated attack" is really a relative term. Possibly Google and Co could not really tell the press "we have been hacked through an IE bug, kinda of the same way any other guy and their mums are every day".
Yes, I believe that's what they are telling you.
> ugh, syntax highlighting

Care to explain? I didn't know there was debate on this point.
In my mind I want the child to go to counselling but it goes like this:

Kids gets dropped of at a massive imposing building, he walks endless corridors looking for room 101, with fear in his heart he opens the door and enters a dark room. When he shuts the door, the lights click on and Woz is there and tells the kid... "don't worry, the world is full of idiots, let's make something cool"

That's what the kid really needs and more importantly deserves!
Hmm, I was under the impression Africa had no native written languages (besides ancient Egyptian). Please tell me I'm wrong.
I wonder how performance compares to VMWare? The last time I tried OSX in a VMWare session it was so slow that it was useless.
Perhaps the parent poster is getting confused by your wiki which states:

80legs defaults to an average rate limit of 1 page per domain per second, but this rate limit may be increased over time for certain domains.

And then it goes on to mention people can contact you to increase the limit. This can be interpreted many ways, and the parent poster interpreted it in a different way to how you do.
I'm trying to do it right now, I'll let you know when I've succeeded. Unfortunately, the packaging is in rpm format and my distro doesn't support it (well, I can install rpm, but it appears to be broken, so I have to hack around).
Nice. I wish I could have done that sort of thing when I was 11. (Without going to jail, of course... :-P)
Looks very promising, but, according to their FAQ: "We currently require a US or Canadian billing address..."
Writing may not have been developed indigenously in non-Egyptian Africa, but that doesn't mean it couldn't have been imported—and early on, too. Like anywhere else, you have a spectrum running from languages written in an imported script (Arabic) to languages written in a script modified from an imported script (Ajami) to languages written in totally new scripts (nevertheless originally derived from imported scripts—Ge'ez)
TheFunded lists most of them already.
Get towards thirty and my, how the tables turn. Now, practically everyone I know (including me) is in a happy, stable, long-term relationship.

That's how it was when I was getting towards thirty, too. Ten years later, most of the people I knew then have divorced at least once and are far more cynical and bitter, with lower expectations relationship-wise.
Except for Tabs, obviously. All those problems are space-specific ;)
Consider yourself extremely lucky to have such understanding parents.
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Maybe because Luke was so powerful in the Force and Leia wasn't ?
I only skimmed the full report, but it looks like a way of root-kitting a new Intel processor. As noted, Intel has already patched this problem.
1. This requires prior knowledge of your existence, it wasn't until we did proper analysis that we were able to identify the culprit of the "attack". This did expose a weakness in our monitoring systems, so we've obviously learned from this experience, but I can tell you that there are MANY webmasters on the web that aren't as savvy who can get their servers taken down easily by your service.

2. You should try reading your own FAQ. http://80legs.pbworks.com/FAQ - see Rate limiting section.

3/4/5. The only bot I care about is Googlebot. And they do use nofollow that way, fortunately the other major bots do as well... so things have been working pretty darn great for everybody. Every other bot I don't care for, don't need, and don't want. If someone legit wants access to our data they can use our totally open and free API that actually gives a lot better information.

In principal I think 80legs can be used for good, however, it's like gunpowder where I question the legitimacy of real-world practical use, simply because it can be abused so so easily. I could very well be totally off base here, but that's what lack of information + bad experience gets you.

edit: And shouldn't the fact that you "...usually get comments like this on webmaster forums..." be a hint that maybe there's a real issue with your service?
Great, the school and police _traumatize_ a child for doing exactly what we should want them to do: be inquisitive, curious, and creative.

The _parents_ need counseling!?

These news stories are not shocking anymore (sadly) due to how frequently these absurd reactions are. What is very angering is how the reporter/news outlet never indicate how disproportional and inappropriate the 'official' response is. There's never a cautionary lesson on over-reaction; rather, they always praise "erring on the side of caution" (i.e. erring on the side of irrationality). Yes, fear will keep us safe, eh?
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It works best with the plumber, which is to pattern matching as file name extensions are many file browsers. Plumb a uri and it opens the browser, unless you added a more specific rule to follow a different action.

http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man4/plumber.html

For instance in Plan 9 I mount the file system of my webserver (across the internet), tail -f /n/remote/var/log/httpd/error_log.

An example error would be

[Thu Nov 26 15:28:15 2009] [error] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /staging/php/restricted.class on line 286

For which I have a plumbing rule

type is text
data matches '(/staging/[^ ]+) on line ([0-9]+)?'
data set	/n/remote/var/www/$1
attr add	addr=$2
plumb to edit
plumb client $editor

My apache is chrooted so I set the un-chrooted path with relation to my plan 9 (the remote server is mounted at /n/remote)

So in Acme I plumb the error message and Acme opens the file (if it isn't open) and scrolls to the appropriate line.

Ok this is nothing amazing in and of itself, other editors can do similar things - EditPlus on Windows can scan error messages) but combining simple things like this makes a bigger system.

Typing your own menus is also a great feature. You can whip up an awk script and apply it to selected text.

Here's a little one

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/maht/rc/exe

If I type 'exe doit' in the current window, select the text and middle click it creates the file (in the pwd of that window) , chmods it, adds the hash bang and opens it in new window.

Again, not amazing on it's own but one builds up such things over time and there is no restriction on what language to use, I even have a few that ssh into a remote server and run them there.

There is no best editor, but Acme is the best for me.

Oh and if you middle click Font it switches between the two specified fonts (sans and mono by default).
Is Yahoo still around?
Every time I hear that kind of a story, I wonder if I should come back from UK to my home country when I need to send my kids to school; just so they can go to a normal place. Sure - it may be a less known school. But at least you get treated in a normal way and the rules are not that different between the school and any public place (i.e. you'd have to have a knife in your hand to get stopped). I can't imagine any teacher there asking me about any electronic equipment to be honest... (apart from genuine interest, or in a "do you really want to bring that to school - for your own safety" way)
Idiot America in action. You get 'em boys...
I do. I owe my parents an enormous amount. Hence the special thanks to them in my book. They made a tremendous impact in my life by allowing me to be me.
There is no debate on my personal preferences. But do you actually think that everyone uses syntax highlighting?

Obviously Dennis Ritchie and Rob Pike didn't need it and though I don't in any way pretend I'm in that league of programmers, I am in that league of editor users.
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When I have kids I plan to teach them at a very early age to stand their ground when dealing with situations like this. The first step to protecting yourself from this kind of aggression is knowing it for what it is and not fearing it.
Are you kidding me? Ethiopia alone has multiple scripts. Amazighi family of languages has a written form that's older than anything in use today.
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The name alone seems to be inviting a lawsuit that presumably Yelp thinks they will win.
Yes - he violated the schools strict anti-thinking policy.
Might have something to do with how "heavy" OSX's graphics are, to the extent it really requires graphics acceleration to just draw normal windows. VMWare can't pass that through to the graphics card in the correct way, so it's really, really slow.

I'm pretty interested in running OSX in a VMWare container for some command line operations, though. I would like to use OSX to do some media manipulation and webkit work that would be an ultra-pain on Linux but is fairly simple on OSX, but I want it on "normal" hardware, so I'll be looking into stuff like this (when it's shaken down a bit more ..)
This is the culture of the iPhone, 99 cents rules the day. The fact that the iPhone arrived at this is far more Apple's fault than the customer's.

In the current iPhone world, 2.99 + a lot of 99 cent charges to essentially just use the app is outrageously expensive. Especially when you consider the app is a rather simple "toy." Just off the top of my head, Train Conductor is a full fledged (and beautiful) game, and it's entirely playable with no additional fees at 1.99. In comparison, Flower Garden really does come out looking ridiculously overpriced. My question is if he had priced his app more in line with what iPhone customers expect, would he have made more money? Or maybe he really did make more money by more "realistically" pricing his app to what he feels it is worth.

The bargain basement iPhone app pricing is a huge problem, for sure, but it's not going away anytime soon. Is it better to just go along with it, or can you make more money by standing firm?
This article IS that book -- I just finished reading it. This article is ripped word-for-word from several sections of that book, with a little stitching together. It's an entertaining book, if a bit rambling.
As crazy as it sounds, for the longest time I used notepad as my primary editor. Then I switched to Notepad+ (still no highlighting). I'm now on TextMate (mostly due to my switch to OSX), but I find the syntax highlighting to help in quickly scrolling through and finding segments of code. If I'm looking for a variable, I just look for that color, etc.
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Instead of just downvoting this, click on "link" and flag it - then it can get deleted, and the spamming scum won't get the benefit of having it on HN:

Or click here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1057062
A survivorship bias would not explain the effects of the diet and exercise regimen on the author, a seemingly average American male of Irish-Italian descent.
Network flaw causes scary Web error
a fact sheet would have been more interesting to read
Haiti: "Money is worth nothing right now; water is the currency"
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Tifinagh and Ge'ez are two prime examples, Sabaean might count as well depending on how you define native.
Indeed, they confounded variables instead of changing exactly one in the A/B test. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confound
I work with three different law firms in the Netherlands and one in Michigan (each with their own specialisms) and my experiences are completely the opposite of the 10 points you describe in your post. Our company is a bootstrapped software startup, so a lot of what's being said here applies to us as well.

I get clear answers, all of our lawyers are up-front about their billable hours, and most importantly, understand that we ultimately decide, they're hired to provide expertise and to help us understand what kind of risks we're taking and what our options are.

Maybe I'm just lucky, but I think the real problem is that many startup founders consider dealing with lawyers and legal stuff in general a chore and a hassle. Something to get out of the way as quickly as possible.

If however, you find the right person for the job – ask around for references – and take an interest in the work you do with them, it doesn't have to be that way. A new kind of law firm, as you call it, or simply a good law firm, as I call it, already exists. In my experience there are actually quite a few out there, you just have to take an effort to find and evaluate them.
Is that surprising given Yahoo's history with China? If your not familiar, the reporter waited until the closing paragraphs to put this in proper context:

In 2007, Yahoo outraged human rights activists after accusations that the Internet giant had handed over the mail, data on online activity and Internet addresses of suspected dissidents to Chinese officials. Though Yahoo eventually settled the lawsuits brought by lawyers acting on behalf of jailed dissidents.

The suit, advanced by the Washington D.C.-based World Organization for Human Rights USA, maintained that Yahoo had benefited financially by working with Chinese authorities.

Yahoo also no longer maintains its own Internet site in China. In 2005, Yahoo handed over exclusive rights to the "Yahoo China" brand name and folded its Chinese mail, messaging and other operations into the Alibaba Group, in a $1 billion deal that gave Yahoo a 40 percent stake in Alibaba.