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I've seen variations of this article so many times, where are the counter examples? What were people saying about the Apple TV, Macbook Air or any other failure you can think of when it was first announced? The moral here isn't "The iPad will end up being good, too" as so many people I have seen take from it, just that it's hard to predict what will be a commercial success based on stats, or more frankly, how good it is.
I don't know, it doesn't look flexible enough. The classes should be wired up at runtime using an XML config file.
I also think it could also split the problem using a pool of threads to achieve better performance. Even better, you could queue up all the factors in a master node and have N slaves pulling from it and multiplying. After the queue is empty, all the master has to do is query each slave and multiply the intermediate results together.
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For most people they are but you'd be surprised at how many basly-placed or -configured resolvers there are out there.

Consider a nationwide ISP with resolvers on East coast and West coast. For "failover" they assign them in random order to customers. That means 50% of the time a customer of the ISP in Tampa will appear to be coming from a resolver in San Jose.
I think your math is wrong...12 miles is 63,360 feet, or 2.88 horizontal feet for every vertical foot.

So yeah, it still seems impossible.
Ask HN: Review my app, Yar Matey
I came up with the idea for Yar Matey last fall when applying for housing at UIUC. Many incoming Freshmen peruse Facebook groups looking for roommates in order to avoid being randomly assigned one by the university. I found paging through Facebook discussion boards to be horribly inefficient and envisioned an app that combined Facebook’s omnipresence with focused functionality to aid in searching for roommates.

Yar Matey is a pirate-themed site where college students can find potential roommates. Built with Facebook Connect, the user experience is modeled around how students typically look for roommates on Facebook — select your school, fill out an easy survey, then look for roommates.

I built the site in about a week.
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This attitude is why so few companies even come close to replicating the Apple experience. It's not about "what the device can do", it's about elegance and design from end to end. No one will ever make a Win tablet that can compare to the iPad because the applications will not target that specific device, they will always have a watered down UX.
A fallacious argument. There might also be starvation, but in cases where sickness is the main risk to life then health and subsequent economic productivity outweighs the cost of delivering vaccine. Sure, poor populations are sometimes hit with multiple problems at once, but that doesn't mean all mitigation efforts are futile.
No Microsoft, this is what's humorous:

Developing applications for the iPhone and iPad is expensive, he said, because iPhone OS uses the Objective C language rather than Microsoft’s more pervasive .NET platform.
I just tried typing it into the interpreter in 2.6 and 3, it doesn't appear to exist.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22stop+worshiping+Steve+Jobs...

It appears that maxwin edited his post after being called out over it.
made up http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/04/final-words-on-tail-...
All they have to do is add symlinks to their non-broken ffmpeg libraries in /usr/lib/chromium

You don't have to compile chromium any differently, just tell it not to use its bundled ffmpeg (even chrome only includes a few codecs), and it'll figure out what's supported at runtime.
Common view for CDNs. Identifying client locations by DNS resolver is really inaccurate.
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tsally posted soon after maxwin did - their times both say "2 hours ago" for me. I suspect tsally is responding to things that maxwin later edited out.

The irony is that you're doing what you're talking about.
I thought the same thing. Why would a device created by apple run on a platform created by Microsoft.

It can also run Mono, so this makes very little sense.
The way to get to the proper technique is to continually reduce stress and energy waste.

For example, you start off landing heel first, and realize that when you do that, you can't effectively soften the landing and your heel hurts. So you land on the ball of your big toe. This allows the entire foot-ankle system to act as the initial shock absorber.

After that you realize the ball of your big toe might start hurting, so you adjust your foot so that you land with even pressure across the balls of all toes.

Then you learn to land with knees a little more bent.

Then you learn to reduce unnecessary vertical energy transfer.

Then you learn to balance your upper body in the proper position ...and so on until you can't figure out a way to reduce stress or energy waste any further.

If you've optimized for stress reduction and energy, you'll have nailed the perfect form for your given joint and muscle structure.

I broke my right ankle pretty badly (not from running) many years ago, and for that reason the positioning of my right foot when I land is slightly different than for my left foot. This is because the joint structure is different between both ankles.
IMHO a VA panel is a bare minimum for writing code.
Less mass means less force exhibited by the earth on the baby. This means less force the wind exhibits on the baby has to overcome to match the force of gravity on baby. It also means less impact force. Think dropping an ant from a plane. It's terminal velocity would prbably be very small, and the force it feels on landing likewise.
Have you ever tried to write code on a TN panel? I ordered a Dell 22" UltraSharp with a TN, and sent it back the next day for the 24" that has the VA panel (and is 2.5x the price).
Wow there where a lot of ninja's in that article about start-ups.
{'n':6, 'format':'json'}

Shouldn't that be:

{'n':n, 'format':'json'}
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Is there a reason no one has called "Gorilla Arm" on the iPad?

I suppose it's mostly because it's UI which you aren't supposed to do any sustained or difficult work with.

But it seems unlikely that even Joe-The-Non-Geek will be happy with something they can barely use.
Nothing on the iPhone!
Comments here http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/british_nuclea... suggest the US just used 111111 as their code. (citation needed)
There's smart, shrewd, duplicitous, deceptive, and finally downright dishonest. I don't know the man personally, but it's my opinion that Mr. Calacanis's business practices moved into that final category some time ago.

It's actually really sad. I wonder what's driven him to this level. Greed? Ego? 3rd party investor pressure? Simply not wanting to ever have his name associated with a repeat failure?

Especially amongst the entrepreneur crowd which he espouses to represent, truthful "honest" failure itself is looked upon less harshly than shady "gamed success".

Though in retrospect totally full of late 90s Internet hype, I remember being inspired by his Charlie Rose interview back in the "Silcon Alley" days of NYC:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9192442030075924272#...

What happened to THAT Jason?
Agreed about the true scandal. NS only mentions 3 charges, an undisclosed conflict of interest, a slip-up (intentional or unintentional) in his methodology (and how he wrote it up), and drawing blood from children outside of a medical facility. Without knowing more about the charges (and being a layman) revoking his license seems extreme. I'll bet a lot of published papers have similar problems.

It's been determined the East Anglia University climate researchers broke the law by obfuscating data, but the statute of limitations has run out. Let's see if any of them lose their positions.
why write such a general case, YAGNI
I can best describe running barefoot as feeling very very fleet on your feet. running on the balls of your feet feels fast, very very fast.

edit: grammar.
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Yes, but you are developing those Cocoa Touch apps on a full-blown computer running OS X.
If you can compete with the million dollar budgets of video game companies I don't think anybody can stop you from developing for Xbox.
Looks like you're still stuck in the old, boring Web 1.0
I spent many hours yesterday troubleshooting a router. Turns out the router was configged perfect. My network_setup target for my fabric scripts however... lets just say I was setting up a route to a /24 network via the router in question instead of the /21 I needed (silly typo). Moral the story: networking is just shorthand for "bugs may not exist where it would be logical to expect them".
I'd be surprised if they weren't using them already in the UK under some classified program.
I'm actually on twitter every day monitoring people talk about needing sponsorship or receiving sponsorship from companies. I then suggest they check out this site in a non-spammy way. I pan on selling text ad space at some point.
This is actually pretty handy. On the one hand, javascript that messes with the user like this strikes me as unethical (it really angers me when basic functionality is usurped like this), this one would actually save me time in the long run. Usually when I copy/paste text from an article on one tab to a form on another, I also copy and paste the link as well. Usually that involves two trips to the article's tab. I wouldn't have to do that with this article.
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Well, not here, but he has commented on this: http://www.manyniches.com/fun-stuff/broken-tablets/
Apparently quite unique =(

Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 234,579 tested so far.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys

at least 17.84 bits of identifying information.
I think the right approach is a negative income tax, not a minimum wage. Let employers pay no more than they find appropriate, then have taxes (which include taxes on that employer) make up the rest, bringing a household's income up to appropriate levels. (This sort of subsidy would have to be on a basis more frequent than "once a year," of course.)
I thought that the theory for linking vaccines to autism had to do with the use of methylmercury as a preservative. Methylmercury is a known neurological toxin, here is a great resource...

http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/SafetyAvailability...

The fact that this article brings up the fact that Wakefield had a patent in the same area as his research seems fishy to me.

"The panel resurrected and upheld most, if not all, of the main charges against Wakefield, such as his undeclared conflict of interest in having filed a patent relating to treatments for bowel conditions a year before his Lancet study appeared. "The panel therefore rejects the proposition put forward by your [Wakefield's] counsel that third-party perceived conflicts of interest did not fall within the relevant definition at the time," it concludes."

I used to be a research scientist and it was common place for researchers (or their institutions) to file patents on research that led to publications. No one I know ever listed this sort of thing as a conflict of interest. It sounds like this counsel might be reaching to try and discredit Dr. Wakefield.

Sadly their is more politics in science than most people want to believe.
Is there really any privacy preserved by concealing the IP of a DNS query? The next thing you are going to do is contact the resulting host (probably controlled by the same people as the DNS server) with your IP in the sender IP field.

I suppose one could imagine a situation where a user is using some sort of anonymizer for their HTTP traffic, but not their DNS. DNS anonymizers are trival. Just don't implement this feature, or I suspect your client resolver code could prefill the RR with a bogus entry.

I've run my own DNS servers for years with the side effect that the authoritative DNS servers and their slaves get to see my IP when I query. They sky has not fallen.
Not sure why the Macbook Air is considered such a big failure. Do you have any data that supports this? I don't, but anecdotally they don't seem to be a major flop. We have a number of MBAs in our team, and everyone using them are very happy with them. They still seem to sell when I go into a Mac store.
More of a scotty principle type thing: when management comes by and wants to us to figure out combinations of 7 things, we can claim it will take 5 days, get it done in a 1 char fix, play games all week. Come monday morning's meeting, don't drink coffee before hand (to look tired), and claim that for a little extra work (and a looong weekend) you got it to work for combinations of ANY NUMBER of things! Worse that happens: you get credit for taking one for the team, best case: "take the week off, thanks for your heroics!"
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And on this blog is the thoughtful reply

"It shouldn't be hard to arm a nuke. It should be hard to get access to it.

If you stole one any competant EE could rewire the whole thing to do what he needs anyway. Those inclined to steal a nuke would have this know-how; they wouldn't be your average bank robber or shoe-bomber terrorist.

Posted by: Savik at November 21, 2007 2:34 PM"

Maybe back in the day a competent EE could rewire, but the modern arming mechanisms are ultra-sophisticated.
You don't know what I'm imagining. I think that a load of approx. 3 different antigens per inoculation with a buffer of at least 6-12 weeks in between them is adequate for coverage of most vaccines. All I was saying is that the current regiment of spread out vaccines is done for a reason. The original (parent/parent/...) poster said that it was done "to be safe". My point is that it is done that way for more than one reason... chief among them efficacy. You want the antibodies that you create to last.

I know the way vaccines work.

The part that you don't get with a stock vaccine is immunity when dealing with new strains or mutations that aren't accounted for by the stock vaccine. The antigenic make up of the new strain may be different. This is why we get different flu shots every year. With something as simple as chicken pox, I don't think that there are many strains (I could only find 2 while quickly Googling), so one shot and you're covered.

But in the case of something like H1N1, someone may get the vaccine and assume they are covered. They then may get lax about standard precautions, thinking that they are covered. And then when a new strain rolls around, you're susceptible.
Absolute cobblers.

There's no such thing as a "statute of limitations" in England and Wales, and if you're going to accuse people of criminal behaviour you'd better back it up with a reference, sonny.
Java programmer:

class FactorialCommand(object):
def set_num(self, num):
self.__num = num

def get_num(self):
return self.__num

def execute(self):
result = 1
i = 2
while i <= self.get_num():
result = result * i
i = i + 1
return result

cmd = FactorialCommand()
cmd.set_num(6)
print cmd.execute()
"Running the evolutionary process" has a small chance of being one of the ways I referred to that might involve us moving up the abstraction chain.

However, someone will have to know how to tweak the genetic algorithms and feed them the right data. If you think it will ever be "just specify the problem and run the GA/GP", you are gravely mistaken. It is not that simple, and there will be ways of phrasing the problem that will make it easy for the GA and ways that are hard, and problems that GA will not be able to deal with at all. There will still be programmers.

As I recently said in another post, the gulf between GP hype and GP reality is pretty much the largest I know of in the realm of computer science. There's a lot of very tricky theory, and my expectation is that this will never be a practical way to program (as opposed to fixing bugs), and even if it is, it will take a lot more knowledge and skill than a current programming job, which also means that fewer people will be able to do it. In my estimation, it will just plain be harder than writing it conventionally and thus never be practical.
It's not really that big of a deal. Their site still thinks my browser is totally unique, despite having visited them the last time this was posted.

The reason? I installed a couple of new fonts.
Yeah.... I submitted this on my iPhone. I'd edit it if I could.
When did fanboys become apologist?
Freedom of speech doesn't mean people can't say you're an idiot for what you say.
RTS,S/AS01 went into Phase III trials in mid 2009. It's being tested solely as vaccination meant for young children and is being tested in East Africa. You can find more information here: http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00380393

Until it's tested more extensively for travelers, don't hold your breath for a readily available vaccine. As always, evaluate the malaria risk of your destination and take the appropriate antimalarial for that area.
I'm aware of the irony of my post, but I felt compelled to rant about it and I stand behind my words.
Let me be the first to say I'm proud of my country, the Netherlands, in which such a travesty would never occur.

Its citizens still hold the values of freedom of speech and thought close to heart and would never give them up for the illusion of safety. Politicians using rhetoric like "if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear" are laughed out of the country.
Why on earth would we want to "waste" the time of teachers and students on such un-"realisitic" problems? Its not like they would have to solve the usary equations in the fine print in a bank contract in the future ... and if we ever need people who have encountered systems of two (yikes!) equations, I'm sure we can outsource it to India and China and elsewhere.
Yeah it does. But I read it on the internet so it must be true.
That's fine, as long as the warheads could not be detonated it does not matter where they go.

The point is that you can arm a British nuke in 98 with a bicycle lock key and no tamper-proof mechanism was there. So if you got a warhead detonation was easy. In the US having a warhead is pointless, you need the codes or the bomb is worthless.
There are a few /very/ hacky @tailcall decorators floating around the web. In some cases they actually speed things up some small amount. A year or two ago there was a bug furor over bytecode hacking -- such things were the result :)
I'm curious as to how many of those were elementary school-aged children (lets say under 10). From the same article it looks like about 50 children and 50 adults (all w/o other complications).

I wonder what the results would be if the standard was to give a vaccination at age 10 if the hadn't already contracted the virus normally. Then again, this would probably have a detrimental effect on 'herd' immunity, so it's probably worth it for just that reason.
You're right . Got a bit emotional.That's why i edited it a few seconds after.
It's been known widely for some time that on every British nuclear-armed sub, there's a safe, and in that safe another safe, and in that second safe a note from the Prime Minister commanding the sub on what to do in the event that the motherland should be wiped out in an attack while they were away.

That would mean it is impossible that they need some sort of special code, as if they did, that code would have to be accessible to them already, and then what is the point?
> Yes it is. It is owned by a consortium, and that consortium wants money off me if I write and distribute software (my own software, that I have written, for fucks sake, not their software that they have written) that implements it.

Proprietary means "manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights (IPR), as with a patent or trade secret." So, no, it's not proprietary. The fact you can write your own version of the standard without reverse engineering proves that.

H.264 wasn't trivial to create. It involved a lot of work to both meet the quality requirements and the technical requirements for supporting all the various ways in which it can be used. MPEG-LA isn't imposing a fee for your work, they're only imposing it for the costs associated with defining the standard. You're not charged more if you write a more complex implementation of the standard.

That being said, I still think it's dumb to charge for the standard. But it's perfectly within their reason and we have OSS alternatives to fall back on.
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Thank you for that information. Since I use google apps for my email, the emails originate from Google's servers and I cant make their IP's resolve to my domain, any ideas? The domain: aonic.net

I'll definitely check out sender ID.

Edit: it's usually AOL, and company/custom domain email addresses that seem to be blocking me
Might this be titled as: "Why Students Hate Word Problems?"

The OP's argument is that common word problems in high-school textbooks are very contrived and that it problems made to be less contrived and more like what a student might expect to experience they might have more success in keeping their interest.

I'm not so sure of this conclusion. Making examples that aren't contrived but still illustrative and simple enough to retain their didactic value is very difficult, especially if you are attempting to make it relatable to teenagers.
The problem I am referring to in my post is the overall population problem of the world. There are a finite number of resources to sustain the population on this planet and we currently have a very high population growth rate in the world. At some point, the resources we have won't be enough. That is the overall problem.

I am fully aware that if someone close to me was sick that I would do what I could to help them. It doesn't change the problem. I was replying to a question about unintended consequences. One of the potentially unintentional consequences of this is that it might make a lot more people suffer in the future overall.

It is a tough problem.
Google still thinks it can change China
I don't think you even need that with the XBox Live Indie Games project.
My good friend Vijay just committed suicide in late December. It's still so fresh. He was a student here, one of the smartest at our ACM student chapter at UIUC.

It seems impossible to do anything sufficient to honor or remember him. I feel for you.
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I'm constantly fighting an internal battle between functional programming and being more pythonic.

For example: I once rolled my own lisp style immutable list type using nested tuples, i.e. (1,(2,(3,None))) for a problem that they were particularly well suited. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem#0-1_knapsack_p...) and got about a 10% speedup. In the end though I threw it out because it was far too ugly.

But I always prefer a def and a map to a for loop.