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A fast overview of the information laid out before you can mean indeed that you can grasp some high-level concepts before you loose your focus within the details. But it can mean no more than a summary, and maybe it can give you the intuition of where to focus more for the details (depending on the context and your personal approach); but this is usually limited to a very small segment of the presented info.

On the other hand, when I meant 'slow' I was not referring to the mechanics of the video, I was referring to the pace of acquiring the information, the meaning behind the spoken words/images succession. I think the fast-paced reception of the information can lead only to an illusion of understanding; pausing the video from time to time in order to look up for more information elsewhere, rewinding some sections, etc. were closer to what I had in mind, not the slowing down of the video, as you apparently understood. I'm sorry I was not clear enough the first time, I hope now I mended my argument a little...
Being sued != being illegal. Not having a licensing contract != not paying anything for streams.

Note: regular HN reader and Grooveshark employee who happened to stumble across this thread while reading HN; I'm not representing Grooveshark here, just mentioning in the interest of full disclosure. I'm a programmer, so don't know everything about the legal side of things, but I do know Grooveshark's intent isn't to rip anyone off; I also know that contract negotiation is a long, painful and expensive process, and apparently labels like to sue when negotiations are getting serious, for leverage. We are DMCA compliant and operate in a model similar to Youtube, which had to deal with the same kinds of problems early on...
No, I watched it all, just a long time ago and had forgotten most of it, to be honest. But I had not forgotten the overall thrust of the programme.

To try and clarify my view a bit, IMO the terrorist "groups" we hear about today are more like Anonymous than they are like the fictional villainous organisations one might see in a James Bond movie, i.e. they're not even really organisations at all, they're just individuals or tiny groups, barely associated with each other at best, who happen to have similar positions on certain issues. But I wanted to make this point without sounding like I thought Anonymous should be branded as terrorists, because I don't.

I get that after 9/11, the entire western world's governments went well overboard, amazingly allowing the military industrial complex to write their own cheques, using scare tactics to allow this to continue. I knew this full well long before I saw The Power of Nightmares. Before I say what else I have to say, I again don't wish my position to be misconstrued, I'm not advocating for the usual government policies, I'm aware of how insignificant the threat of terrorism is when compared to other threats of the day that face our society and I usually find myself pretty firmly on the social-libertarian side of just about any debate. As you say: "these organizations are largely fictional" (emphasis added) and I totally agree. I cannot reconcile any view that we do not need some degree of vigilance when it comes to (the no doubt few and far between) individuals and small groups that are out there and do wish to perpetrate terrorist acts.

So following on from this, yes, terrorism is an overinflated menace and it continues to be overinflated for numerous reasons, most of which revolve around certain areas of government and private industry partners who have vested interests in keeping the public scared in order to maintain power and profit. But some part of the overreaction to terrorism does come from a place of honestly thinking they're doing the right thing, misguided though they may be. Some very small part of the usual government reaction to terrorism is - in my mind - sanctioned and required because terrorism while a largely overinflated boogie man, does none the less still exist. I don't wish to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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Agreed, teen-orientated generally meant teen-avoided to me.
Or that he's in a volatile industry.
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so the australian communications Minister Stephen Conroy has just set the democracy and freedom of speech and internet to chinese standards? this is sad. could someone just tell these peoples to wake up!
I agree with that. However, if you been making intermediate checkins, it's more difficult to cherry-pick changes to push upstream. Especially if you've been doing lots of intermediate checkins - it's easy to forget which changes were intended to be real (as opposed to dummy code you've put in for testing, etc), and push selectively.

Maybe this is easier in Git, but it has the worst interface I've ever seen, and that's saying a lot.
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That was so far over my head I'm not even sure I have a head anymore.
Yeah, but it's more the pop monoculture that irks me. I wish people would explore the arts more, so that it's people sharing what they have discovered than having something common to talk about (assuming that's why we have pop culture). At least it's still social, that way.
Nostra, accidentally downmodded you when I meant to upmod. Damned interface on this phone sucks at this, sorry.
It is a Herculean task, but that's part of the miracle and promise of open-source: you don't have to do it alone. To address the lack of a good MATLAB-style science oriented IDE, I started a project (http://github.com/cgranade/scicore) today to try and attract more intelligent coders than myself to help. As others have pointed out, SAGE (http://www.sagemath.org/) is a good effort at an open-source Mathematica competitor, even if I feel it lacks something in the UI department. Point being, it's possible to get a project going that becomes larger than yourself using an open model.
No, but thanks for the chuckle on my first comment ever. :) I was genuinely interested because that 2nd meaning hadn't even occurred to me.
I think it depends on the accent. Many speakers of non-Beijing dialects carry a regional accent that are usually flatter on the consonants.

For example, if he learned Mandarin in Taiwan he could've picked up a southern accent.
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You are making an assumption in your addendum that uggedal does not understand how tunneling works. All he did was ask how they handle security not "how does tunneling work?"
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I agree that the imperative nature of, e.g., "Don't use negative keywords" is confusing when the item is something you shouldn't do.

Maybe a title like "Are you wasting money with these common Adwords mistakes?" with items like "Neglecting to use negative keywords" would be clearer.
I've actually found it surprisingly easy to sell our product. When you make "Something that people want"(tm) it just sells itself.

You just stand to one side and point out that they want it.
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Part of it is software licensing that charges per-socket or per-core. For Sun they do have certain applications in mind that are very parallel, such as web serving and message routing, where memory latency can serve to slow things down; the idea of hardware threads is to keep the CPU busy in spite of waiting for a fetch from main RAM.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy referred to Google's censorship on behalf of the Chinese and Thai governments in making his case for the company to impose censorship locally.

When your communication minister is making reference to Chinese internet policy in a favorable context you know something's gone badly wrong somewhere.
once managing to corrupt a MySQL database pretty badly.

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Doubling the speed of a program by moving from one to four cores is a win if you're looking at the raw benchmark numbers, but an overall loss in terms of computation per watt.

The first time I read this I didn't understand it, but the author has laid a trap here for the unwary reader in the word "doubling". If you can get 4x the performance using 4 cores the energy efficiency is the same or better, but if your program scales poorly and only gets 2x performance from 4 cores the energy efficiency is worse.
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Well I'm pretty much compelled to try at it this point. The reviews around here are pretty stellar.

Do you think that MongoDB would perform well on a shared environment like a Linode VPS? Does MongoDB have any sort of resource gotchas like "oh, you need at least 512MB RAM for the thing to even start up" or the like?
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Agreed!

Some of the biggest douche I have met in my life are Management Consultants. Makes me wonder if being a douche is a prerequisite to Management Consultant position.
That's the same Robin Hanson I've been reading at overcomingbias and lesswrong. I wasn't aware of his work on prediction markets. Most interesting.
The batteries in your devices represent decades of R&D; scientists are spending entire careers looking for 5% improvements. Saying "just use better batteries" appears to trivialize that effort. Also, programmers (generally) aren't qualified to invent new battery chemistries, but they can make software use fewer cycles.
Oh, I thought you were insinuating that any truck roll cost $2000. In this case, I can say that your original statement is incorrect: it's not $2000 per customer, it's $2000 per residence at most. (Consider college towns, where lots of residents cycle through few apartments.)
What's going on down there? There's been a burst of these sorts of stories lately.

I mean this seriously, since I live about 10,000 miles away; what's the story behind this burst of censorship lately? (A link is fine, but I don't have a clue what to even look for to get an answer.)
It obviously isn't to Chinese standards. China censors dissent and political opposition. The Australian Constitution protects freedom of political communication. Therefore, any laws that restrict the ability of residents to discuss and criticise political decisions and issues would be unconstitutional.

In regards to euthanasia, it is perfectly fine to discuss the philosophical and political arguments on each side. However, it is currently illegal to provide explicit how-to instructions on performing euthanasia. This has led to the disappointing decision to ban The Peaceful Pill Book, written by Australian euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke.

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

The proposed Internet filter will limit access to extreme porn, excessively violent material and instructions on how to commit crimes. It's regrettable that the government is even proposing such legislation, but it doesn't help anyone to make inaccurate comparisons to countries like China and Iran. A more sensible comparison would be to Denmark, which already has an operational internet filter.
I have some concerns about MongoDB and since it gets such good reviews from a lot of people, I think I am either making a big deal out of nothing or everyone else is crazy.

I wrote up some comments elsewhere but this thread is more populated with people _using_ mongo in production.

Elsewhere = http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1110366
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He's just trying to drum up sales for his book. Most people are smart enough to know better than to take his advice to heart.
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The best programmers I've run into always have interesting side projects. Without fail.
When you start seriously optimizing, you're always making a tradeoff. At first, you start moving from sloppy naive algorithms to more specific ones. No big problem there. Then you go from the general-case algorithm to a "tuned" one that biases to your specific situation. Maybe you change to data types that your language can optimize better. Then you start playing directly with memory and you have to think about little things like byte alignments, pipelining and cache size, getting more and more specific to the architecture you are running on.

At each step, the nature of the solution gets a little bit more intertwined with the details.

Parallelization becomes a tradeoff you "feel" much earlier, because you're changing things all the way up at the algorithm level.
"Just use better batteries" does make it sound trivial, but those were not my words at all. Saying that we need to "vastly improve energy density" felt, to me, to be conceding that it would require vast effort. That is why I also offered an alternative - carbon-based fuels. They pack an extremely high energy density, but are volatile and would require very special approaches to make them safe and easy to refill. In other words, no matter which option one looks into, it will take a lot of work to improve on the state of the art. By no means did I intend to convey the message that I think otherwise.
Worryingly, it seems to be coming out of nowhere and most people I talk to have no idea that it's going on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_computing#Amdahl.27s_l...

Basically, you will never get a linear increase with parallel computing, especially on consumer type apps that are much more synchronous. So running multiple cores, with requisite context switches will get less computing per watt, even if it isn't as bad as the 2x number.
Sounds like you might want to learn about !$ (last token of previous command).
Supposedly Google designs their own servers and switches already; routers wouldn't be much of a stretch. Or they could call an existing vendor and get customized equipment. At the 50,000-customer level the economy of scale might work.
As of today they still own more than 50% of the company together, although they have announced that they'll sell stock that will reduce this to a bit less than 50% over the next few years. (Not that it will really matter in terms of their control over the company)
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My personal view is that it doesn't really matter what the intentions are now. It's a framework.

Before, no one could enforce restrictions on speech in Australia. It's not a question of laws or policies, it was physically impossible. You could send police to shut down a TV station, but not a website.

Now it is a matter of laws or policies.
Brings back some memories. I was working in midtown, but my apartment was 3 blocks South of the trade center. I got back home about an hour after the collapse, and the way I've always described the scene was that it looked like a volcano had erupted because of all of the ash everywhere. The 7th picture in the series is really incredible in showing how big that cloud of ash was when the second tower went down.
My favorite: "The new facebook is ok" ... like Facebook turning into RWW isn't all bad.

(lifted from one of the sane comments)
Dustin Curtis is the guy who complained about aa.com's site design and then published a response of one of the aa.com designers which ultimately lead to said designer being fired. But aside from that, this seems to be just a regular job posting so I don't know why it's here, either, really.
I actually got a chill up my back reading through that page. Easily the cleanest, most effective communication I've seen since the Google Super Bowl Ad, and I don't how much longer before that. [edit: As a test, think of the last five Help Ads on the web that caught your attention. This is the only one that comes to my mind. ]
Backfired... are you kidding? This is comedy gold! ;)
"...I mean this seriously, since I live about 10,000 miles away; what's the story behind this burst of censorship lately? ..."

The censorship is not a new thing. I was watching of all things an old interview with Frank Zappa circa 1983 (Rage, ABCTV) ~ http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/netw/200705/programs/LE0630V0... and he was talking about his albums. Album after album was censored. Australia has always had this background level of censorship only now it's more visible.

The current censorship trouble is being driven by the Minister for Communications ~ http://www.google.com/search?q=senator+stephen+conroy you can read more here ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Conroy Another in a long line of political religious zealots keen on pushing through legislation of dubious merit. [0]

[0] I say dubious merit in this case because tracking the kinds of offenders should attacked as a Network science problem not a censorship one.
To finish the thought, you only have to commit to your local repo. No one has to see the unfinished code. The only place where this would cause a problem is where you want to roll back only to 'good' commits. Git, at least, lets you merge commits and erase 'unfinished' commits.
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"What's going on down there? There's been a burst of these sorts of stories lately."

Nothing. There hasn't been a burst of censorship recently. As far as I'm aware, censorship laws have remain unchanged for quite some time. What's happened within the last year or two though is that through social media, Americans have become aware of the strict censorship laws that exist within Australia. Many of these people have mistakenly come to the conclusion that such censorship in Australia must be a recent development.

The truth is that if anything, censorship has become less severe. The video games that pass through the Classification Board today without a problem are far, far more violent than what used to require modification a decade ago.

In regards to Internet censorship, it seems consistent with the current legislation. If a government believes that it is the will of the people that extreme porn and violent video games be banned, then the legislation is ineffective if such material is easily accessible via the Internet.
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There are some faster connections available in the US too. In and around the north east iirc.

Here on the west side of Canada, Shaw offers 100mbps connections for $150/mo. That's obviously a complete rip-off but it's nice to have the option to get gouged. They price the 25mbps connections at $100/mo presumably to make it seem economical to get 100mbps.

http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/ProductsServices/Internet/Nitro/

Telus has 25mbps as well now. Fttn and capable of serving 100mbps according to a Telus technician I spoke with, so I'm sure they'll up the speeds at some point.

Nice to see competition that isn't just offering us "gifts" ... for signing 3 year contracts.
Based on what I've seen in my experiences with building my own computers, the cause of fan noise in computers is not so much a necessary evil in our age of faster processing (old CPUs like the Pentium 4 ran hot as well), but rather a simple hardware problem due to the fact that many computer manufactures use cheap/noisy small stock fans. Replace a computer cooling systems with a slower-rotating larger diameter fan, and you will most likely have more airflow with less noise. Obviously that solution would be harder in space-constrained laptops, but I imagine with some clever engineering (ex. having large fans blow out the bottom of the computer) the designers could work out those issues if they really had the money and inclination to do so.
The C language does not exist; neither does Java, C++, and C#. While a language may exist as an abstract idea, and even have a pile of paper (a standard) purporting to define it, a standard is not a compiler.

That is some Zen shit.
Not butchering it at all, really: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html

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For a counterpoint see this Atlantic article: "How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America".
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/201003/jobless-america-future

Phelps and Tilman finger several culprits: a patent system that’s become stifling; an increasingly myopic focus among public companies on quarterly results, rather than long-term value creation; and, not least, a financial industry that for a generation has focused its talent and resources not on funding business innovation, but on proprietary trading, regulatory arbitrage, and arcane financial engineering. None of these problems is likely to disappear quickly.
Previously submitted with actual article title:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1040282
I totally agree.

Poker players have to be able to do math in their heads while under stress. Or consider psychology with a bunch of money on the line.

Grace under pressure seems like a pretty decent quality for a founder to have.
Why would an amazing designer want to reply to this ad? I don't even know who Dustin Curtis is.

This ad will attract people who think that they are awesome and want to tell everyone.
"with requisite context switches"

Can you explain this part?
Sort of. Herb Sutter shows some examples where executing programs in parallel gives superlinear speed-ups: http://herbsutter.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/effective-concurr...
The British Empire lasted over 300 years. America as an Empire has been around for only around 100. The American Empire is like the British Empire squared because of its endless capacity for self-renewal. It's like a starfish that regenerates limbs. One of the things that makes it so dynamic is the great universities and their relationship with business. No Chinese university is even in the top 200 in the world. Of the world's top 20 universities, all but three are American. Of the top 50, all but 11 are in the U.S. And then you think about a concept like the "new economy". It's an American invention. Most of the best startups and the best software are made in America. In just about every measure of soft power, nobody compares.
If you're considering cherry-picking, you're still thinking in an SVN mindset. We did the exact same thing for a while before figuring it out, with some help from a few people who had used DVCS longer. You just have to use it for a while and you'll start to see the workflow where this isn't a problem.
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Blogger had ftp support? I think I'm one of those 99,5% peoples not using it, never heard about it, I guess I was (am) fine with what they offer. Are you offering files to download or anything peoples will be downloading from your blog? otherwise I will just advice you to stay with blogger and migrate the downloading to another plattform, you could use dropbox or even skydrive (25 Gigs, all free) for that, it's not just worth moving to wordpress, as blogger is improving. csomar said Wordpress if you use your own host, I may also add GAE (google app engine) if you still want to use free hosting wth high performance, but it's not an easy going.
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I'll be honest with you, I stopped reading when I got to the second paragraph. Mentally I read the first bit and went "I get it". I scrolled down and the word vomit caught my eye. Then I looked at the requirements. Went back and searched for any details about the job.

I am all for clear communication but the "shock and awe" portion should be short. I would prefer more details about the job. To me a job posting is a two way street; you want a top notch designer then entice me with something that would want me to drop my current projects and run to you.