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Indeed.

I'd support them if the proposal was to take people using their properties for commercial advertising to court to find out is they were allowed to remove it (I suspect they would be told they cant... but you never know).

But unilateral rights? jeez.
There were 708 submissions, and glancing over them, they seem to be implemented in C++, Lisp, Haskell, Python, Java, C#, Perl, JavaScript, Ruby and even one in Go. None, from what I can see, were implemented in Prolog.

When 708 people who spent a significant amount of time solving a problem didn't do what you think is obvious, then perhaps your understanding of the problem isn't as complete as you think it is. Prolog is indeed good for constraint programming, but these programs needed to run in competition with one another. My guess is that a straight-forward Prolog solution isn't fast enough. And once you put enough cuts into the straight-forward solution to help the runtime prune decisions, maybe you'd be better off using something that's faster to begin with.
Yes, definitely on the plans.
One of the (Rails) apps I'm developing needs subdomains, and I don't think it's uncommon. We probably could find some way to develop without subdomains, but Rails likes doing it this way.

While aliasing localhost takes about 30 seconds (on Linux, at least), this trick will make it a little easier for new contributers to get involved.
And the news website reports this abuse as if it was an acceptable and respectable decision! Is there any doubt that mass media's role is just social control?
I'm surprised that Klingon wasn't considered sufficient - it has been around since 1979.
Great looking.

One tip... Leave the review form visible. After someone reviews the movie, save the review in a session, and redirect them to the signup (or login) page. After signup or login, save the review and redirect them back to the movie page... or even better...
Redirect them back to a "thanks for reviewing page", where you can show them a list of movies that they could review.

This will exponentially increase the number of reviews that you will get, instead of forcing people to signup/login first.
You make an excellent point, but just curious if you are this concerned when "unnamed sources" are the basis for hysterical headlines that inevitably end in some far flung land getting bombed and invaded.
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The sound you hear is actually just in the video, the client itself is silent (you'll be glad to hear!)
Books vs "e-books"?
It seems like Apple is very careful to let their current inventories run nearly dry before introducing updates. I'm sure it saves them a lot of money but they should probably be a bit more concerned with keeping up with the market.
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You don't need to pay anything to use Xcode to build and publish OS X applications. Why would this stimulate development? Why would someone say "well I wasn't going to develop this application for free but, now that they let me pay $99, I'm on board!"

I doubt that official Apple support and forums are the main thing keeping people back from developing for OS X.
It seems that the regulations have not been properly set and will be set by the Secretary of State: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2006/ukpga_20060012_en_2#pb4...

I'm hoping that this is just there in case the powers are needed to shut down criminal activity related to the Olympics. Having a law is one thing, how it is enacted is another.
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Constraint programming is not about prolog. It's a way of declaratively 'programming' constraints on a search. The combination of prolog and chr, prolog and clp, or constraint libraries that are available for most languages fits the bill, not prolog on it's own.

Perhaps the 708 people aren't familiar enough with constraint programming, just like most java programmers aren't familiar enough with functional programming.
I like "freezes my back" better.
He really has gone down hill since that great movie he had "Triumph of the nerds", was really interesting seeing the history of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates starting their companies. Probably one of the better things I've seen on PBS
XCode has been free for a very long time. It is not crippled. There is no "XCode Professional". SDKs are freely available, and fully documented. No one needs to pay to develop on Mac, and a good many developers didn't bother with the previous incarnation of the Mac Developer program because it was prohibitively expensive. All it did was get you pre-releases of OS X, hardware discounts, and live technical support for the XCode toolchain.

As to supporting development on other platforms... That's just silly. Would you try to develop Win32 apps on a Linux box? Seriously?
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This is good to know. I originally signed up for the Home-Account after seeing his recommendation and was very disappointed with the service. It seemed to have changed its tune from when it first started up. And then they started billing me monthly without sending an email or any sort of notification. Their refund policy requires sending in a whole bunch of documentation that would be a big pain in the neck.

I cancelled right away and still occasionally get emails from them. Odd! Anyway, I really think they have become a Scam service now. Has anyone had any good experiences with them?
If you are buying some mac hardware, signing up to the developer program pays for itself with a hardware discount.
Very slick. I only ever read one sentence (from Rotten Tomatoes) anyway, so this fits my usage pattern for reviews.

Are you planning to harvest tweets and other social media to help beef up your review base?

I've bookmarked your site for next time I look up film reviews.
One of the things we've tried to do (and this should cover chaosmachine's comment too I hope) is make a tool that is instantly available. There's really no wait time involved - if I'm already on the phone with someone, I'm probably not going to ask them to sign up to a full blown virtual meeting tool like Adobe Connect in the midst of a conversation for example - but I can copy & paste a Woobius Eye session to them however I like; email, IM, whatever means I already have.
I have a friend who works for Microsoft and we were discussing this a week or so ago. The difficulty is for new product ideas to be introduced into a successful, large company with a large installed base is that the product heads are understandably reluctant to let an internal new product come in and chew on their existing market base. New products have risk, old ones don't.

Evidence suggests that there is internal innovation in research (GHC anyone?) but new products cannot be allowed to erode current cash flows.
Upvoted for thoughtful discussion of Ruby.

Edit: sorry, clicked wrong story.
What do they mean by "posters?" The article doesn't really expound.
It is free to develop for OS X.

Why would Apple port Xcode to another OS? You don't hear anyone whine about MS not allowing you to run Visual Studio on Linux or OS X. What's the benefit to porting Xcode anyway? Having more shitty apps written by people who don't use, appreciate, or understand the Mac GUI? We neither want nor need such developers.
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You don't need to pay to make apps - you can download XCode free (in fact, it comes with every Mac, no download necessary). Paying gives you access to additional support, OSX betas, etc
Funny that you should mention a potato. I remember my late grandfather saying, that speaking english is like speaking german with hot potato in one's mouth. Btw. I'm neither english nor german, but slovene (living right next to Italian border).
it's a bit like http://blippr.com but no reason there can't be two (or three) similar.

I like the layout, and colours, looks easier to find media than Blippr. Good luck.
They've eliminated the hardware discounts from the new $99 program.
"The atmosphere at the Olympics is gonna be great, a big party, just like Vancouver. Oh, did we mention the police will be enforcing Corporate Fascism? And there will be a really neat stadium, too!"
"Remember that managers are essentially secretaries who can fire you."
...I am precisely living through this right now. Of course not every manager is like that, but some definitely are.
Absolutely. One area I feel similar sites are lacking is linking in to the the social space so that's definitely something I'll be doing. Thanks for the bookmark :)
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The most exciting aspect of this for me is that the cost is less than the traditional $129 cost of OS X upgrades. So now I can not only get my OS X upgrade for free, but I can repeated early betas legitimately.
"[I]t's simply a question of delivering a great user experience, no hassles, and low transaction costs."

Absolutely. Looking at the video in the above link, it appears they will nail "great user experience" (obviously I won't know for sure until the iPad is in my hands, but those Space, Human Body and Travel app/books look slick).

Apple seems to have the "no hassles"/"low transaction costs" angle covered for the consumer.
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My first thought was satire. Since there are a couple good rules, my second thought was troll. But this is also a new twist on an old bit of link-bait: it's the narcissistic sociopath fantasy applied to business instead of dating. Given the last sentence of the first paragraph, it might be meant satirically. (If so, it failed. Satire makes something impossible to take seriously, but this post evokes the opposite reaction: I can't believe we have to take this shit seriously.) So I think this is a trollish satirical representation of the arrogant sociopath model of dating.

Anyway, it does have some interest, since the limitations of the arrogant sociopath model are more obvious in the business context than in dating. People looking for dating advice are, for various reasons, willing to ascribe all kinds of weird thought processes to women. With business, we all know a little too much to swallow this. For example, it's obvious that rule 6 is a perfect recipe for impressing dumb people quickly while screwing up a situation. Better have a good exit strategy when your unwillingness to listen to nagging doubts, or your inability to have doubts, finally catches up to you. God, I hate working with people who follow rule 6, because the only way to pull it off is to be blindly, willfully stupid. (Good people who try to follow rule 6 are known as workaholics.)

Number 5 just makes you autistic or a belligerent dick unless you really have the "strength" you're advertising. Advertising dominance that you haven't earned has only four possible effects:

1. You look autistic.

2. You look like a belligerent dick.

3. You make yourself a target of other belligerent dicks.

4. You fool stupid people.

#4 is supposed to be the key to swimming in poontang, since women (of course) are not only ruthless and overly emotional but also complete idiots. Who cares if most people think you're an ass if you get to bang a few hot, damaged bottle blondes, right? Okay, even granting that this might actually work in real life dating, how the hell is this supposed to work in business? You only do business with easily bluffed idiots? Right, all those insanely rich and successful easily bluffed idiots who have all the money and connections you want.
I'd commend them for embracing technology, but I recognize that this is about corporate money, not technology. Keep in mind, Kansas is a state where they don't like to teach Evolution in their schools.
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Finally, we can get past the hype and let the device speak for itself.
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Bored of this story. While all this doesn't paint Zuckerberg in a great light, the idea that he stole the idea for a social network is stupid. Half the CS majors in the country were talking about something like this when they saw Friendster. Boring boring boring
In the US, isn't this exactly the sort of data that, when a bank or other entity exposes it in a "breach" (lost employee laptop), is required to be reported to the government? My understanding of this law is common knowledge, not lawyerly and knowledgeable.

Maybe if you dribble it out, on purpose, it's not considered a breach.
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I've never actually seen Larry Ellison speak before. He's pretty hilarious.
Yeah, they were removing bloggers' referral codes from Amazon links and substituting their own.
Look at the other recent articles this guy has written.

http://www.businessinsider.com/nicholas-carlson

Are 3 articles about Facebook in one day really necessary? I guess if you throw enough stuff up there something will eventually stick.

Edit: Actually there's 4 articles this guy published in one day about Facebook/Mark Zuckerberg.
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Technology's all well and good, but couldn't trying both diets for a few weeks each lead to the same results for a lot less cost?

If this DNA test is going to be useful to you, you actually do have to go on the diet at some point anyway!
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There's also the other side where you may find that you owe a lot and have to cut back spending for a month or two. It might be a wash.
Ask HN: review our new thing!
Sorting of reviews maybe? and you should make more stuff clickable -- like your logo for starters.
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Because nobody makes any money with civil liberties...

"Police will have powers to enter private homes and seize posters, and will be able to stop people carrying non-sponsor items to sporting events." The second part is just as scary in my opinion
Great idea, this is typically how people review films and albums to their friends - a short sentence. It will be interesting to see how it develops with more content.

The short sentence format sounds compatible with some sort of Twitter interaction. Have you considered allowing users to tweet their review and use a hash tag to reference your site and the film in question? Or have it the other way round - they can sign in with their Twitter account (or use OAuth) and their review gets tweeted. Those are just quick ideas - there must be something that can be done in this space.
Flagging this for altered title, both in words and spirit. IT says police will have that power, not that they will do it, and that's not even remotely what the article is about.
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I'm certainly not assuming the reviewers are programmer. However, it'd be super simple to create an automated tool that would scan an app to see if it uses any private API's.

Am I suggesting Apple should do this? Not really. I don't actually see that much value in it. What I do think is interesting is that people often try to justify Apple's ridiculous, lengthy, and arbitrary review process by implying that the review process is someone keeping iPhone users safe from viruses or other malevolent programs. But clearly that's not the case. If the App Store approval process isn't sophisticated enough to identify apps that are using private API's before those apps are approved and released on the market, then clearly the approval process isn't going to identify malware of any reasonable level of sophistication.
No, probably not, but any app that hopes to compete had better be ready for the next version of the OS, and this program gives developers access to betas.
> 9800GTX+ (for some reason the drivers identify it as a 250GTS)

It's because it's the exact same card. On most rebrands, at least they bother to change the relevant identifiers, but 9800GTX+ differs from a GTS250 only by the number on the box. As such, the drivers have no way of knowing which of them you have -- they cannot even make a solid guess from batch numbers because unsold 9800GTX+ were repackaged as GTS250's. Faced with this, the driver programmers decided that less people would probably complain if they just called all the cards by the latter name.

Fun fact -- differently harvested versions of the G92 chip have been sold as:

- GeForce 8800 GT $2
- GeForce 8800 GS $1
- GeForce 8800 GTS
- GeForce 9600 GSO $1
- GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 $$
- GeForce 9800 GT $2
- GeForce 9800 GTX
- GeForce 9800 GTX+ $3
- GeForce 9800 GX2
- GeForce GTS 150
- GeForce GTS 240
- GeForce GTS 250 $3
- GeForce GT 330

Groups marked with $n are all exactly the same card, with no differences whatsoever. Many other sets have only very minor differences. $$ denotes the biggest ripoff award -- halved memory bus width and cheap memory make this card only half the speed of the normal 9600 GSO.

So, if you wonder why NVidia is swimming in cash, it's because G80, and it's slightly modified shrink G92, are insanely good designs. G80 debuted in late 2006 and G92 in late 2007, and it's still selling.
I agree with with you about the logo. I'll need to fix that.
Reviews should be sorted in descending order. Do you mean having an option to change the sort order?
Ask HN: Resource-based economy. When, how, why?
At the end of 99% of the problems in the world I see money. Money is the root catalyst. Money is the answer that ignites the cycle again.

I always wonder what a resource-based economy would solve or what other problems it could cause.

One problem people mention: laziness. As if that isn't a problem now.

I'm no economist, nor do I have any prevelance to be but I do enjoy the idea of no poverty (unless self-inflicted), no software patents that limit innovation, less war, less crime, less scarcity. Less suck.

Is anyone interested in discussing this?
HN is becoming too slow for view the user submissions
I get a blank page with most of the leaders, when I try to see their summission page.
I had a similarly scammy/scummy/shammy experience with http://Home-Account.com.

When I used their recommendations for lenders to apply for lower APR home refinancing (the core service they offer). I did it twice and neither bank ever even got back to me. It was like the form I filled out on the home-Account site just went to no where. Scary stuff when you're submitting a lot financial data. Anyway, I cancelled my account after that and changed some passwords elsewhere and moved on.

I then had to ask them three times over the next few months to stop billing me. Finally had to get someone on the phone which took several calls. I will say the CSR I spoke to was great, but the product is so hopelessly broken otherwise it doesn't factor.

So... Terrible experience with Home-Account. It's too bad, too. They're stated business model really solves a problem a lot of people had/have, their execution is just awful.
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I actually found this comment hilarious without the edit.
I like the concept, but the site design is really over the top for something that should ideally be very minimal. An entire screen of real estate barely holds 3 "one sentence reviews".
I really like this idea. You can allow A LOT more people to sign in and interact (without directly signing up with you) if you let them use the site with their Twitter.
Constraint programming involves providing constraints, and letting some sort of runtime search through the space to find a solution. This sacrifices runtime efficiency for programmer efficiency. Sometimes that's a good tradeoff. My guess is that when you need to produce an answer in less than one second - such as in this contest - it's not a good tradeoff.
Indeed - do you know if the Olympic grounds are public or private?
While I think this is correct, I'm not sure how practical it is.

For example, with my startup I'm trying to be as cost conscious as possible. Sure it would be nice to have one person in charge of UX and one person doing the graphics (people who are great at graphic design aren't always great with usability).

The problem is that adds money and time. Instead I hired someone who is good at UX, graphic design, AND can implement their design with CSS etc..
Wow. I really used to like Nvidia, but I'm leaning heavily towards an ATi on my next upgrade.
I am curious as well. We've decided that Capitalism is the answer. It is better than communism, sure.

...that about sums up how people feel about it.
Definitely. It's already possible to tweet a review by hovering over it. This should display a few different ways of sharing it. If you select twitter then it will shorten the permalink to the review, add a #onesentencereview hashtag and populate the status with as much of the review comment as can fit in the remaining space.

I have certainly thought of reversing this this by checking for the #onesentencereview hashtag and populating the review that way. Might be a cool weekend project for me to do while watching the Oscars.
My 1999 book on parallel architectures concluded 4 CPUs is the cut-off for diminishing return speedup on general purpose code.

The market has maybe shifted to virtualisation, not anticipated, where the workload is different.
Can not this be legally classified as carpooling?

(Car owner pays 25% of gas, guest pays 75%)
Good find on the link.

If it were criminal activity, though, whats to stop the police getting a warrant?
I gave up after like 30. Is there a point at the end? Did I miss out?
I hope their is a growing backlash to this type of behavior. I think more and more people are seeing the ridiculous positions of copyright holders and are losing respect for them. We see this in file sharing, and people upset that they cannot access content from another country -- eventually the IP laws will change.

I also think people are waking up to SCAM that is the olympics. The IOC is private organization that profits from the games, by stealing taxpayer money to fund their events. I don't know why anyone would want to host the olympics anymore.
"Police will have powers to enter private homes and seize posters, and will be able to stop people carrying non-sponsor items to sporting events."

Ok, so change the title to "may", not "will". And the article discusses a number of things, one of which happens to be what the rest of us are talking about here.
Ha! Well, that explains things rather neatly then. If he was really building only up to that final paragraph, it would have been shaped differently. Instead it seems that was just one conclusion he drew out of a project started for different reasons. Thanks for sharing this.
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If you change a parameter, then you are changing the interface, and it makes sense that that affects recompilation.

Changing the type is an interesting one. If you change the backing class from one type to another, but you were using an interface to access it, then the Java compiler doesn't need to recompile that code -- the compiled InvokeInterface bytecode for that method invocation doesn't change. However -- I feel like I may have read this somewhere -- there are optimizations which might cause it to replace InvokeInterface with static invocations when it can determine at compile time what class is used. If that's the case, then it would have to recompile the client class too.
really like it, but it's not compatible with another chrome extension I like, better gmail.