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You're right, I guess I was thinking both data centers needed to be in as tight of sync as possible, but looking back that does not seem to be the case.
If you can code like you say you can I will hire you and give you a raise of $500 usd per month...the internet is a wonderful thing...if interested reply and I will send contact details.
High school students like me, unfortunately do not have means to get the necessary good sleep that everyone needs.

The school system will continue to impose this miserable condition on us.
Is the industry here to stay or are they manufacturing fads? Virtual pet rocks?
I've personally experienced tremendous benefit in my sleep patterns from taking melatonin.

I did better with taking co-q-10 in the morning. For a long time, I couldn't tolerate melatonin. I would feel like I wasn't fully awake for up to three days after taking it. When my health improved enough that I could tolerate it, I still needed co-q-10 in the morning to feel fully awake.

Co-q-10 is the co-enzyme of melatonin and wakes your brain up in the morning. It is made in the body in a complex (17 step?) process. A bottleneck at any stage can leave you deficient, so many people are deficient. If you take co-q-10 in the morning, your body will produce a small melatonin spike about 12 or so hours later. If you take melatonin, it does not increase production of co-q-10. So taking co-q-10 can do a lot more in terms of healing both sides of waking/sleeping cycle of the brain chemistry. It is also gentler/subtler than melatonin.

Lots of people use melatonin to good effect, so I'm not trying to knock it. Just trying to expand on the topic of nutritional supplements and brain chemistry wrt the waking/sleeping cycle. Thanks for bringing this up. :-)
He's not talking about titles. Even in countries where programmers aren't called "engineers" there's a discipline called "Software Engineering".
"x86 Open64 Compiler Suite" optimizes for AMD *and* Intel Processors
Stuck web designer
Hi to all

Well, my problem is basicaly that I can't foccus on what I do.
Im a web designer who spents almost everytime in the computer; collecting screenshots, in facebook, twitter, etc. But I can't finish any design, never. And yes, I go out to chill and take some inspiration, but when Im in the computer automatically I stuck again.

I have Photoshop open 24/7 but almost don't use it, may what kills me is the blank canavas, I think. Also I have mad visual skills (no arrogance) but for me it's nothing cos I can't come with anything.

May some of you had this problem and can help me, for example with some tips to "break-out" the blank canavas, or some trick to improve my process.

Thanks to all, and yes, my english sucks balls, sorry.
Whatever. I made a point based on the quality of the newspaper itself; then I followed up by refuting the argument it made.
First: I wonder if all jpeg viewers accept the "new file", I guess some will choke on the altered files.

Second: If this works it might be possible to distribute hidden files through profile pictures (one facebook and friends) :) I'm glad I never store original jpegs in my web projects, but rather saved processed versions (resized etc).
Make your hard disk as a personal webdrive that you can access from anywhere
I think the source of the OP's pain can be traced to the fact that while Java is reasonably competent as a programming language, it's complete and utter crap as an operating system. It replaces the finely honed tools of a modern operating system with it's own inferior versions, the process model is replaced by threads, shared libraries are implemented as "Beans" and come with an impressive armature of support infrastructure that could be dispensed with in favor of a simple configuration file.

Sadly, it is the faults of java that pre-adapted it to success in a corporate environment; it creates an impression of vast complexity in even simple tasks and allows for large budgets and swollen headcounts that translate into more power for the leadership of projects in which it is used.
>My intent is to highlight a case where what was said, when interpreted logically, is not what was intended.

I disagree that "interpreted logically" the statement is not what was intended. It just depends how you interpret the word "everyone". Is it a single representative object which takes on the combined characteristics of all the people it represents? Or is it a stand-in for comparing each and every person that it represents?

You're saying it must be the latter. If you're talking about person A, person B, and person C, then "everyone" is short hand for comparing against each one. So, "Is everyone tall?" means "Is A tall?" AND "Is B tall?" AND "Is C tall?"

However, that isn't the only valid way it's used. "Everyone" could be its own object, so you don't need to check against each of the underlying ones. And it only has a certain characteristic when each of the underlying people has that characteristic. So, if Person A is short and has green eyes, person B is of average height and has green eyes, and person C is tall and has green eyes, then "Everyone" takes on the green eyes characteristic, but not the "short" one. Hence, "Everyone" has green eyes, but "everyone" isn't short.

It sounds convoluted when spelled out that way, but I think each usage of everyone is both valid and used by English speakers. When considering "everyone doesn't want to be entrepreneurs", I can mentally switch between the two cases. "Everyone doesn't want to be entrepreneurs" could incorrectly mean Person A doesn't want to be an entrepreneur AND person B doesn't want to AND person C, etc.... It could ALSO mean the word "everyone" did not take on the "wants to be an entrepreneur" characteristic BECAUSE there existed people in the group that did not have it. In that case, the statement "interpreted logically" is just what was intended.

For this reason, when I read the original statement, I didn't notice anything odd about it at all.
I’ve experienced what the article describes first hand when my son was born two months ago. For whatever it’s worth, here are my 2c for other HN readers who are babying a startup while starting up a baby:

Even after my sleeping patterns returned to normal, it was harder to deal with some of the more annoying parts of startup-life. Here’s what it took to get my work stamina back on track:

I’m now doing one thing at a time, wholeheartedly. I don’t think of work when with baby. I don’t think of baby when at work. Sounds trivial, but easier said then done. I use whatever self-control I have left on this.

I separate work and home with an indulging buffer activity. Preferably something that also nourishes the body like mild exercise (but even if not that’s ok). What works now is biking a few miles between home and work, with a short pit stop at my favorite coffee shop.

Took me a couple months to get this to work, and it takes energy to keep it optimized. But when it clicks right, be prepared for a powerful feedback loop of goodness.
Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem for dummies
There are more sophisticated steganograpic tools out there for this purpose; Wikipedia has a good writeup on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

Several years ago Neils Provos wrote several papers and tools for detecting this content: http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/stego/
Startup Hacks: Build your idea notebook
1. Most of them work, yes (especially all browsers).

2. Bookchan uses that method to distribute ebooks. People simply post the book cover picture with the ebook attached in .rar on an imageboard. (eg. http://bookchan.wikidot.com/mario-puzo)
Just wait until you do regular 8 hours shifts at a warehouse. School will seem like a pleasant dream you were rudely awakened from.
Somewhat tangentially: I run a useful app, JBidWatch (a nice, free eBay "sniping"/monitoring tool) on my Windows XP desktop. I started it 1 week ago following a reboot. One week later I noticed the PC's mem usage was nearing the amount of physical memory and investigated; one contributor turned out to be the JVM session running this app: according to Task Manager, this app (actively monitoring no items during the week) was consuming over 100M of memory. Now, I won't stop using it, because I'm not aware of a better tool, and restarting it is not particularly painful, and yes, it's likely this app wouldn't exist w/o the ease of programming offered by Java (though I would prefer a GUI-less version written in a language I am fluent in), but still: 100M of memory for a web-polling app that was essentially idling (from an end-user perspective)? I've observed that various JVM apps gravitate to these (to me) giant memory footprints over time; I assume it's "the nature of the beast", but I'm speaking as a programmer who has never written a line of Java. A sysadmin sitting in the next cube, responsible for various Java-based server apps, has simply agreed with me that this is what's expected from Java apps.
I suspect a network effect is in place where the vast majority of people whose entire understating of databases came from "PHP + MySQL For Dummies"-caliber books, blog posts, etc. use MySQL by default. A critical mass of them end up perpetuating bad advice, griping about how since MySQL hasn't worked well for them, all RDBMSs are junk, etc. Then, people looking for advice starting with databases read their tutorials. To some degree, MySQL probably brought this upon themselves[1], but now there's a feedback loop in place[2][3][4].

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/764fp/mysql_vs_postgresql/c05sayb
[2]: http://sqlanywhere.blogspot.com/2008/03/unpublished-mysql-faq.html
[3]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=561277
[4]: http://ask.metafilter.com/117908/Theres-got-to-be-a-faster-way-to-update

There seems to be a similar effect between Linux and BSD. I'm not going to claim that BSD is objectively superior in every regard, but on average, the BSD community seems to be quite a bit better informed than the Linux community. It may just be because Linux is so much more visible. People using BSD, Postgres, etc. probably already knew enough to evaluate their options, while the path of least resistance stays overrun with clueless newbies.
Y SIN EMBARGO magazine #23, to have or not to be?
Why was Plenty of Fish used as the sole example in this article? It makes $10 million in profits a year and would take 100 years to make the $1 billion in profits that he require for a startup to be considered as a "scalable startup."
If it's an "age old question", then it must mean no one has come up with a satisfactory answer despite a lot of data? That would seem to indicate that if the answer is not a firm yes or no, then it is possible. The post, however, says "no".
It is correct that the economics prize was not endowed by Alfred Nobel's will, as were the prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine and physiology, literature, and world peace.

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/

There is a subtle difference in the formal title of the economics prize, but the Nobel Foundation reports information about the economics prize on its website.
The rise of the app entrepreneur
I have Asperger's and DSPS, and have noticed that taking Piracetam helps me regulate my sleep cycle. On days when I take it, I begin to feel sleepy right around my 16th hour of being awake. I have also noticed that when I have not had decent sleep for a few days, taking Piracetam puts me to sleep within a couple of hours of taking it.
I've added this now :)
Yikes, no clue. That would be upwards of 10 freelancers and $6,000 worth of projects.

(I have always paid by task, not by hour -- as you might have noticed I tend to center on small, well-defined projects with easily verified deliverables. I cultivate trust with my freelancers such that they know I'm not going to screw them on a neverending scope-creep deathmarch for the $400 project. Thus, I've really got no clue whether they're taking their sweet time doing projects or figuring out ludicrously efficient ways to do them and earning more per hour than I do -- and if they have done that, bully for them.)
This works most of the time because jpg files are decoded from the first byte until the last byte of the image. Any bytes after need not be inspected. Zip/rar are decompressed from the last byte going backwards. Again stopping as the final byte of the archive is seen.
I've added an "undo" button - it was much easier than I thought :)
It seems as if there is always a debate as to whether this is a yes or no question. In the post, I say "no" to startups and yes to scalable startups. I think that this topic is subjective and hard to define as yes or no.
The inverse operation being base64 encoding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64 (meaning you can use it to store a JPEG in text rather than text in a JPEG, among other uses)

Base64 has proven to be a great source of amusement for me. Free picture-mail on my cellphone without paying for it. Harassing my still-learning brother. ("hey, run this python script.", has a GIF file stored in the source in base64, pops it up in a tkinter window.)

There's a nifty app somewhere that allows you to print files to paper, not base64, but something else, I forget the name though...
I hope someone will post a summary of this here.
It is not in the US best interest for China to release the yuan. If that were to happen, the buying power of chinese holders of the yuan will increase to the point that their demand for goods will compete with the U.S. demand for goods. As the dollar declines, American buying power will also decline, as will american "quality" of life.

More expensive chinese goods will not lead to more american manufacturing. Instead, it will lead to more Indian. Pakistani, Bangladeshi manufacturing. A more valuable yuan will be a short term fix -- if it is a fix -- which I don't believe it is.

If the yuan is released, the dollar will cease to be the world reserve currency in an economic blink of an eye. While it is fixed, there's no reason to switch from dollars to yuan, but as the yuan begins to climb, fewer and fewer banks or even individuals will want to hold the dollar and our savings will dwindle due to the massive inflationary effects.

The U.S. consumer of goods -- all goods -- not just "cheap chinese crap," buys most of their stuff from overseas. Many asian countries and south america are huge suppliers of electronics, textiles and food. 1.5 Billion people in china also need to eat and when they can pay 150% in the exporters' local currency relative to what american retailers can pay, why would they bother shipping those goods across an ocean? Why wouldn't south america send their ships to asia instead of Los Angeles?

The only solution to this problem is for America to stop needing the plastic fix. They need to start saving their money, investing their money, and producing goods the rest of the world wants to buy. There is no other solution in a global economy.

Protectionism won't work. Complaining won't work. Badgering China to deflate the yuan won't work.
That was the polite one.

Imagine that you meet a person who is terribly confused about logic and evidence to a point where he takes any random anecdote or even a lack of one and reinterpets it as data backing his preconceived notions. Now imagine trying to set this person straight and help them out of this trap. Do you think he would resist the change and take it as a personal affront? Well, there is always a slight chance that it will help.
Something similar was the goal ofthe Underhanded C contest a while back. The goal was to be able black out a portion of an image while maintaining the data or "leaky redaction". http://underhanded.xcott.com/?p=8
Indeed. I do have an engineering degree and the certifications that follow, and I don't describe my day to day work as Engineering.

I'm a guy who programs computers and runs a little software business. No need to go adding silly titles to that (and if I did, I'd probably go with CEO anyway, since it's quicker to write.)
Since markets hate uncertainty, then why not say, "in one year if the valuation of the Chinese currency isn't fixed, we will impose a surcharge.". There is no reason why this would have to be a sudden move. This would let manufacturers figure out a backup plan, and still put plenty of pressure on Beijing.
hi!
the question is, why you can´t finish your designs?
a very common problem is perfectionism. if you´re trying things out, change stuff all times and never are really content with the results, then you´re propably a perfectionist (which is totally ok).
if so, it means you really care about the stuff you´re doing, wich is very good. actually it means that perhaps you are caring a bit too much.
sometimes you won´t find the perfect solution. the hard part is to learn/accept that you won´t find it.
so take the best possible way...

have fun, martin
While some studies have indicated that adolecents would benefit from starting classes later in the day, I don't believe it's the silver bullet that you believe it is.

I'm 27, and I quoted that when I was in High School. But the truth is, I seldom was wound-down and in bed by 9 or 10 PM. I was irresponsible with my bed time. All my friends were the same.

I think you would be surprised at how much of the "misery" you and your peers are self-imposing. Do your homework when you get home, skip the Daily Show, shut off the computer by 9PM, and in bed by 10. I understand you'll think "easier said than done" but if you're truly miserable, take some responsibility for it!
Manipulating a currency takes a lot of money. They will not be able to keep it up indefinitely unless they start inflating the money supply. That will not be passable for the general populace, and thus they will have to go off the peg when that happens.

The best scenario is a slow unwinding which happens gradually and lets both the chinese and the american economies to adjust slowly.

Creating a trade war on the other hand would make it all happen at once, meaning that the chinese exporters and the american consumers both must adjust ALL AT ONCE. This during a big fall in global trade. This will work .. less than stellar.

[recommended reading: http://mpettis.com/2010/03/how-will-an-rmb-revaluation-affec...]
2 Apps Are Better Than 1
> Unlike Britain, America doesn't really do free-traders

Seriously? America effectively invented modern neo-liberalism, and exported it abroad via international agreements (WTO, NAFTA, IMF loan agreements...)

> China makes an easy scapegoat for America's ills, but it is not the cause

The author makes this point but provides nothing to back it up. I could totally understand the argument that China helped induce the recession through cheap loans. I could also buy the argument that it didn't given a well-reasoned argument. Give me something to chew.

I'm not the biggest Krugman fan, but this article is all bark and no bite.
What?

That is not the incompleteness theorem, that's a form of the
Liar paradox.

He also has not established his ability to create such a sentence in the first place. If the UTM is really universal he won't be able to find such a sentence.
If I drink salt solution this might have very little effect on my blood pressure.

However, if I add salt to my pasta bake it might make it tastier.

I might therefore eat more of it and raise my blood pressure this way.
The unwitting arrogance displayed by this guy and many others charged with interviewing in today's climate is often astounding. Here, jump through this random hoop -- and you'd better be ready for this hoop, too! I'm sure it makes them feel quite good about themselves for being fortunate enough to be on the right side of the interview table.

I look forward to the next boom, when they will be begging smart people to take jobs. They probably won't get them.
Ask HN: Do you know anyone who got a Google university award?
Do you know anyone who got a google university award ( http://research.google.com/university/relations/research_awards.html)? I'm thinking of applying and would love to see past successful applications
That's not specific to Computer Science.

My Mechanical Engineering degree spit me out with just enough knowledge that I could go learn how to be a Mechanical Engineer. None of the things I did on a daily basis over the next year were things I learned in school, but I was able to figure them out because of the things I learned.

That's the unspoken purpose of school (at least in the Engineering areas). Your degree doesn't teach you to do any specific job. It's a 4-5 year conditioning course for your brain. It weeds out people who won't be successful in a certain area, and rewires everybody else so that they can "think like and Engineer".

So if you're complaining that School didn't teach you to write CRUD apps in Java, you're complaining about the wrong thing.
Have you ever really thought about what it takes to run a country with 1.5 billion people in it? People are not rational.

Just click on this link and see what you get:
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+world%27s+oldest+civilization

Google has been around for 15 years. They come from a country that is 230 years old -- and is dying.

People aren't rational. People do stupid stuff all the time and while I agree that putting people in prison for talking about stuff is harsh (the U.S. does it too), china must keep much worse things from happening to protect the lives of over a billion people.

They've been doing it successfully for thousands of years and it seems quite arrogant and ignorant to suggest that it is a good idea for some punk from across the pond to set the level of discourse necessary for China to continue operating effectively.

If you want to see what "open communication" provides, just look at the U.S. Did open communication stop an illegal war in Iraq? Did it prevent the destruction of our 200 year old constitutional rights? Did it stop a dotcom bubble or a housing bubble or a gold bubble? Has it promoted a study of history or learning or rational thought? No.

It is really beyond me why people from America, one of the biggest pilferers in the world, murderers in the world, and secretive organizations in the world would expect that increasing anything in china the way google is trying to do will lead to something good. It hasn't led to something good in the U.S. It's led to misery, suffering, and global catastrophe.

China is going to squash google like the little bug they are.
Steve Jobs and Flash Get Personal
No it's not. There are plenty of tables that use composite keys that also contain foreign keys.

The use of ORMs like active record, many of which choke on natural keys, has turned a lot of devs into automatons for artificial key creation. Natural keys are often superior.