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Our media has the tremendous courage to paraphrase Government and Corporate press releases in inverted-pyramid form instead of simply reprinting them. I'm sure you've noticed how unbelievably bad science reporting is, but I don't think you realize that most other subjects are even worse.

They're all stenographers, from the hungriest PR flack to Woodward and Bernstein (they were spoonfed everything by the fucking FBI!).
Why don't they let you fly free and charge 200 dollars a bag then?
This article equates censorship to surveillance. I don't want to say one is worse than the other, but it's kind of apples and oranges, and makes her argument about the US irrelevant - not to mention that she either wasn't aware or was ignoring the fact that GOOG is leaving because partly it is sick of being the target of gov't intel efforts.
Until they get more performance out of it, it's way too marginal for the memory used.
If they can get it 2x the speed of CPython I'm all for it.

Of course one day pypy will emerge too, so unladen swallow should hurry up!

(TBH I'd prefer pypy to become the canonical python in the end)
My iPhone did not save me, God and the prayers
of tens of thousands of His people did.

Was it the same God that caused/allowed the disaster in the first place? Yeah, I'm gonna have to go with iPhone.
and a company with a mandate to publicly index everything...
So even take 1% of the assets under management. Hedge funds take a percentage of assets each year. So 30 billion under management means 300 million revenue each year if they do nothing. They get a larger percentage of profits. So yes, it's not the same, but it's still a lot of money.
IPTV / Internet TV / basically Revision 3 style content with defined shows that come out on a somewhat regular schedule.
Caitlin Flanagan is one of my favorite essayists, and here is my favorite essay of hers, "The Wifely Duty": http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200301/flanagan

If you are young or single or childless, it's not for you. Yet.
Bayesian posterior probabilities: revisited
But remember, Bill Gates started out as a hacker. He spent his whole high school days learning on a computer his Mom's Club purchased for their kids. He says he was probably one of 50 kids in the country that had that much access to a computer in his High School days.
If you are in Melbourne you can take a look at Stephanie Alexander's [0] effort setting up Kitchen Garden Foundation. [1] There are gardens in Collingwood ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157607256687360... and St.Kilda and a few more places. Alternatively you can investigate how to get your school (Victoria only) ~ http://www.kitchengardenfoundation.org.au/grants-goforyourli... The "garden" to "plate", slow food idea is important for food literacy.

[0] http://www.stephaniealexander.com.au/garden.htm

[1] http://www.stephaniealexander.com.au/garden.htm
This article makes no sense. It's main arguments seem to be:

1. The US Federal Government (based in Washington) gave billions of dollars in bailouts/loans to US financial companies, most of which are headquartered in New York. Technology companies didn't get a bailout in 2001. Therefore, doing a technology startup in New York doesn't make sense.

2. Investors in New York won't want to invest in small startup companies in New York because they have better investment opportunities in the finance industry in New York.

#1 is completely illogical and #2 seems to forget that anyone can invest in anything from any city.
There's also the over-featured thread implementation (especially before 1.9)

Dispatch is worse than you realize due to the hackish optimizations made in MRI: if you monkeypatch a natively-method from Ruby, other native code will call the original by default.
If innovation leads to success, shouldn't the stock market reflect that?
I'm not sure why you linked to that, but if you're suggesting that the OP must become an accredited investor in order to angel invest, then you are incorrect.

I will fight your link with another link:

http://www.sec.gov/answers/rule504.htm
Just to emphasize: incredibly difficult is an understatement. We're talking hundreds of millions of actors, making an uncountably large number of independent decisions from moment to moment, in constantly shifting circumstances.

There is no control, there is only very broad "repeatability." We have only circumstances and the interpretation thereof.

In macroeconomics, at least.
I'm using livemesh from MS... I really dont like it too much, but it does what i need it to do....
Okay, here's another question. What happened to the Apple/Kleiner-Perkins iPhone fund?

There's a blog at http://ifundvc.com/ but it's been updated once in the last 12 months. They promised $100MM in funds, but it looks like only 5 companies and $30MM was set up.

Anyone else know anything? Did the App Store just take off faster than expected and this all became moot?
...a convex function can just be thought of as a function with a global maximum/minimum and no other local maximum/minimum.

This is false. The convex function exp(x) has no global max or min. The function f(x,y)=x^2 has infinitely many global minima.

The nice thing about convex functions is that the set of places where they achieve a minimum is a convex set: the empty set for exp(x) and the line x=0 for f(x,y)=x^2.
I'm as big of an advocate for justice and human rights as anyone, but this just isn't true. Hong Kong and Singapore are the obvious examples.

Do you mean that economic freedom is meaningless without broader human rights?
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Besides, 30 billion is what the biggest hedge funds manage:

http://hedgefundblogman.blogspot.com/2009/08/var-gajshost-ht...
"...and tell you...in 5 they’ll be worth a few hundred BILLION."

To be fair, i think he qualified this very well. He's talking about suited down 6'4" finance pros wining and dining clients.
Censorship isn't possible without surveillance, at the very least someone caring enough to act to censor when they observe something, and the only reason for surveillance is to control actions, which is censorship. Of course, these can be used for "good", surveillance like security cameras that document who approaches your house, and censorship like parents controlling what their kids watch on television, but I'm not so sure that you can have one without the other. If there is no censorship, there is no reason to survey, if there is no surveillance, attempts at censorship will be ineffective.
If the function is convex then it will have only 1 minimum...

f(x,y)=x^2 has an infinite set of minima: {(x,y) : x=0}, but is still convex.
Noticed that Mint hired a PR person very, very early and it worked out pretty well for them.

It also depends on the type of business that you're building.
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Man recreates Stonehenge in his backyard using gravity, balance and pivots
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The problem is defining what we mean by innovation. In the strictest sense innovation is "the bringing of the new" An established company however is based on making money from what they do already. Then they talk about innovation because it sounds good. When we try and define an innovative established company we are not really making sense. What we really mean is "being clever at what they do already". The other issue is that share price is more determined by institutional investors rather than market performance. The whole concept is like judging the performance of a car based on the colour of its' engine.
Here is a step by step comparison on how cutting off ruby's features can make the JRuby implementation faster, from the guy who worked on JRuby.

http://blog.headius.com/2009/04/how-jruby-makes-ruby-fast.ht...

Read it, you will find it interesting. The guy also wrote a small language called Duby which used Ruby like syntax but is much more faster, because he didn't include any of those slowing down features.
Right.

Going from 0% market share to >30% in a couple of years is losing. Google was gaining. They had their most profitable quarter in China this last quarter.

If by outclassed you mean being the best search engine for finding pirated software and music, I guess you have a point.

But yeah, keep spinning it :)
Excellent question! After the keynote presentation where this was introduced, I was really looking forward to see what would be invented. I thought it could open the door to a lot of cool things. An iPhone could basically become the interface to anything.

I looked at the program to see if I could just kind of play with it and see what could be done, (maybe not do anything but at least start imagining projects) but as seiji is saying, it's not as easy as the iPhone SDK where a free account and a download allow you to give it a try: you need a real company behind it and hobbyists have no chance.

Does anybody know if anything is possible through the jailbroken community? Can one do something on their own with the iPod/iPhone adapter?
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.Net started really changing for me with the introduction of the DLR. I maintain an application with a pretty large codebase (around 1.1 or 1.2 million LOC, it's been a year or so since I've really looked) and I wanted to change out the scripting engine we used. It used to be this VBA monstrosity, but it was ridiculously easy to change over to using Python via IronPython. It took 2 lines of code, plus another 15 or 20 lines to specify what I wanted to expose to the scripting engine. It was incredible!

I don't mind aspx all that much, but I see what you're saying about keeping things separated. I've never been fond of IIS and I don't see that opinion changing in the immediate future. mod_mono seems interesting, but I haven't really looked at it at all.

To me, the biggest win about the .net stack is the tooling; I know people like to bag on it, but the .net debugger in Visual Studio is seriously great. We maintain that huge application I was talking about with 2 developers and it's really no problem because it's very easy for us to track down bugs when they crop up - we spend 80% or more of our time on new development.

I'm still on a Clojure kick, so I'm avoiding F# for the time being just so I can maintain some sanity, but it's next on my language list for sure.

As an aside, weren't you going to be doing semi-regular posts to HN about your startup? I think you're overdue ;)
Typical Chinese train of thought - from one Chinese guy to another, drop the macho hyper-aggressive posturing, it's not sexy, and the chicks don't dig it.

I did find one point interesting though, and I'm assuming you're a young, internet-savvy Chinese guy:

> "Every other US company has been able to survive except whiny little Google"

Does this include the myriad of US websites that have been blatantly ripped off by Chinese domestic companies? I'm assuming you're a user of Xiaonei (an almost verbatim clone of Facebook, including UI and page design, even color scheme) - can you defend the blatantly unoriginal, downright thieving tactics of Chinese tech companies when it comes to "competing" with their American counterparts? Perhaps this Chinese "outclassing" of yours is simply because many Chinese companies never put in the resources to develop anything of their own, preferring to steal and pilfer instead.

Perhaps Google is leaving because, as every other nation (not only the West) knows, the Chinese as a whole have fundamentally no respect for hard work. As a Chinese I am ashamed to admit this, but the truth deserves to be told regardless of how it reflects on my people: Chinese culture has no respect for the work of others, and ripping off is so normal that one hardly bats an eyelash. Whatever Google does in China will merely be copied verbatim, there's almost no point in staying in a market where all of your hard work counts for just about nothing, and there's no rule of law to protect this work from unscrupulous thieves.

[edit] Also, the only reason GE is "doing fine" is because nobody's yet figured out how to clone entire power plants. Look at companies like Apple, who originally had to import iPhone screens from Germany to avoid having the designs stolen and sold to the highest bidder by merely manufacturing it in China. This is embarrassing and shameful to me as a Chinese - we are rightfully known as a nation that cannot be trusted, cannot be respectful of what is rightfully someone else's. We are known globally as a nation of unscrupulous people who will throw away all semblance of civility and justice to succeed - I am ashamed to be associated with this, but yet it does reflect our business culture very accurately.

Instead of constantly looking at every move like a threat against China, and instead of looking at everyone like an enemy, perhaps China's greatest enemy is itself: we are overly aggressive, we always seek to win by someone else's destruction, and we seem incapable of forming transactions where one side doesn't get screwed. We are not team players, and this is going to be a very severe limitation on the advancement of China as a whole until we culturally un-fuck ourselves. Drop the constant victim complex - not everyone is out to get you.
Wouldn't this place them in competition with S3? I think that would be a pretty stupid move, actually. That's a razor-thin margin business, and will only be more so when Google and Microsoft inevitably jump into the fray.
This scratches an itch for me. You had me at "accounting for Google Apps".

However, I tried to sign up with my Google Apps domain. After authenticating with Google, and redirecting, I received this error:

https://app.rhinoaccounting.com/gaccount/callback/?

Internal Server Error
A server error prevented this page from being displayed. The administrator has been notified and will investigate the problem as soon as possible.

There were a ton of query string parameters that may or may not be helpful in diagnosing the problem.
She does mention that other charter schools that skip the gardens get better results.

And what she's proposing is clear, too: replace gardening time with more instruction in traditional subjects.

If there were some evidence gardens help achievement, or if it was just replacing other necessary 'rec' time, they'd be fine. But she reports there's never been any evidence -- beyond the supporters' anecdotal warm fuzzies -- that gardens fix educational gaps, and strongly implies garden time is trading off against more beneficial instruction.

So I appreciated the strong point of view and ironic opening scenario -- given her beliefs it's appropriate to be a bit caustic.
The saddest part is I know many Chinese in my age group who would cheer this article on, and commend the author for having the courage to stand up to American imperialism.

I think many of us expected popular support for the Communist regime to drop over time - but we're seeing the opposite, and that's gravely concerning.
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Out of curiousity, what client side JS library to people typically use for comet? I've used Orbited and found it pretty good albeit light on documentation.
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I won't repeat what others said above, but I will add that I feel the home page is too gray / dark. The "search" page has a better color balance than the homepage. The way it is now it's rather depressing, and less inviting. Pretty nice otherwise.
Well, that's what we have statistics and the scientific method for.

Of course, that means lots of math, and lots of research, and lots of hard work, and having to actually to change your mind if your predictions are wrong, and--worst of all--it means not making simple, sound-bite pronouncements that fit someone's political agenda. You can't make a career writing editorials about how there's a 73% chance that raising taxes on widgets will reduce the annual productivity of the foobar industry by 1.3%.
the CNN reporters driving around in an empty pickup truck talking about no medical suppies .why don,t they go and get some this is making me sick...
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Obama should get off his ass and get things moving
Wow: TV shows like Greys Anatomy and Ugly Betty are heavily green-screened (Vid)
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Ruby was just designed and implemented with all the attention paid to sugary syntax/semantics and very little thought given to how well it could be implemented. MRI is a really poor implementation of a (formerly) poorly-specified, highly irregular, unorthogonal language.

MRI's garbage collector is abysmal, use Phusion's REE fork to get one that at least doesn't mark every single object on every collection and actually bothers to perform them in normal situations. It didn't do any desugaring at all until 1.9, and YARV only has bytecodes for the most primitive accessors, assignments, stackops, jump/condjump, and returns; with optimizations for -, +, <. <<, and some regexes. Your normal code just gets passed through verbatim.

Every once in a while I'll be reading docs or sitting in irb and suddenly scream at the ceiling, spin in my chair, and get the urge to throttle a Japanese person.
Beyond that, I can pretty much copy and paste my last response to be used here. What you or anyone "feels" is correct or logical is completely irrelevant. The only thing that is relevant is the law and how we as a society choose to create them and enforce them.

Relevant to who, by what standard, and who this "society" you speak of?

EDIT:

Are we're really even debating the same thing?

EDIT2:
I feel that there has been some breakdown in communication.
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Ask HN: What day to launch, how to get press coverage?
From what I've gathered the best time to launch is Tuesday at 10AM (pacific). Do you guys think that the day and time we launch really matters?

I'm also curious about the best way to get PR and coverage on the major blogs, even newspapers? Should we seek an embargo even if we're pitching multiple blogs? Or, should we offer an exclusive to a single blog?

Everyone says it's about developing relationships with the bloggers/journalists - but the main way people do that seems to be with tips and leaking stories. What about those of us who don't have juicy details about the next google purchase? Is simply commenting on their posts enough? And what about getting in touch with newspaper journalists? I've signed up for HARO, but what else can I do?

Any tips, advice, stories from your experience would be great. Thanks.
It's true that the Made for iPhone program has more hoops to jump through than the software SDK, but it's not really that bad. You apply, they call you and ask a few questions, and then you're setup to order development parts.
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it's possible that the market has already priced in their innovativeness. if this is the case, then the subsequent stock dips indicate that their innovations did not pan out.
More probably things like the Newton-Raphson method to solve simultaneous non-linear equations.
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#2 seems well thought out and completely relevant. #1 seems like Zed's funny but inflammatory writing style.
It's really all in the User-Agent string, and maybe a few other headers. All browsers have certain quirks that you could look for - but that wouldn't necessarily give away anything secret. The User-Agent string can very easily be cloaked however. Konqueror, for instance, let's you customize it by domain.

Furthermore, I doubt Apple would test it's product on the wide-open web very much. I'm sure it has it's own internal network to test things on, and it's own set of browser rendering tests.
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Try following people you find interesting, and then reading the interesting things they say and link to.
I see at more as akin to

> Asking for permission

versus

> Asking for forgiveness rather than permission

With censorship you are prevented from obtaining information, with surveillance you (might) be punished for obtaining information afterwards. If the only reason for surveillance is to control actions (which is censorship), then do you define all law enforcement as censorship? We're kind of digressing, but my point was that it's ridiculous to assert that surveillance of US international calls is worse than not allowing your entire country to surf wikipedia...
Have a look here - "The Myth of GDP and Stock Market Returns": http://www.virtus.com/vsitemanager/Upload/Docs/6141_GDPwhite... (PDF).

A few highlights:
- "GDP is analogous to sales; stock returns to corporate
profits."
- "The stock market does not reflect the full economy."
- "A company’s profits may be earned outside the
country in which it is listed."
Where can I find iPhone app sales information?
I'm trying to get an idea of what's out there before starting a new iPhone project.
"... The cruel trick has been pulled on this benighted child by an agglomeration of foodies and educational reformers who are propelled by a vacuous if well-meaning ideology that is responsible for robbing an increasing number of American schoolchildren of hours they might other wise have spent reading important books or learning higher math (attaining the cultural achievements, in other words, that have lifted uncounted generations of human beings out of the desperate daily scrabble to wrest sustenance from dirt) ..."

There is great irony of this statement. In Australia we have high rates of obesity ~ http://www.google.com/search?q=australia+obesity a combination of low levels of physical activity and poor diet.

Mens sana in corpore sano

What you eat is important. It is far better to regulate fitness through a combination of good nutrition than exercise. So understanding what to eat, how to grow it and cook is just as important as traditional education.
1. Finance companies get government bailouts and are more likely to succeed. Tech startups don't get govt bailouts and have a high likelihood of failure. Therefore, investing in a finance co is a safer bet. That's the point he makes, and it's logical enough to me.

2. Yes, investors from anywhere can invest in companies from anywhere, but it (obviously) doesn't always work out that way. Finance companies didn't gravitate to NYC by accident. Why would a finance investor fund a co across the country when he can choose from a dozen in his back yard? The world is "small" and "flat" but proximity still matters.
Ah ha, goes to show I never looked at Lulu closely enough! Will have to look at that a bit, since it likely would have had a similar effect. The only differentiating point then is if people will be willing to invest more into work they put up on amazon or not, which is likely no but hard to prove. Hrm.
Key quote is by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Sizer from Horace's Compromise

If students have yet to meet the fundamental standards of literacy,
numeracy and civic understanding, programs should focus exclusively
on these. Some critics will argue that the school must go beyond
these subjects to hold the interest of the pupils...but a fourteen
year old who is semi-literate is an adolescent in need of intensive,
focused attention.
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