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If the ram could be refreshed in this manner with only a button battery wouldn't motherboard manufacturers put them on normal computers and save the state of memory in case of power loss? That is a feature that I would like to have. on my MacBook pro that I put to sleep it will drain the large battery fairly quick. I think that refreshing the memory is actually a fairly power intensive thing to do in practice.
which is odd considering every mac ships with Apache, Python, Ruby and who knows what else installed, ready to go. Windows ships with... (honestly, I have no idea)
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Rarely buggy, often perceptibly slow (in relative terms where fast HN is your benchmark - generally smokes anything else I use day to day).
Merely halving the time for mounting and assuming a 20km/h travel speed without any stops (bearing in mind this is a combat zone) seems a bit arbitrary. In any case, the radio calls seem to affirm that the ground element was in visual range of the people before the gunships even opened fire and Namir's photo, if it was indeed taken at the scene as we assume, shows the ground force as being pretty close, perhaps no more than 100-300 m away.
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Macs were never for hackers

ooo... them's fightin' words :)
Your reply was much more detailed than I had any right to expect, so thanks for taking the time to write it. You've eliminated any doubts I had about using Clojure with GAE.

I encourage you to write more about your Clojure/GAE work, and, if you do so, to reply here so that those of us who posted in this thread know when you've got something up. I guarantee you at least one reader. :)
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Oh... yeah, I guess that's right. I'm still thinking in terms of the old Palm devices that used RAM rather than flash. But that was a different time.
> I don't know anything about war, but even I know that it's utterly naive to expect that soldiers wouldn't get off on killing people. It is completely to be expected.

How far are you willing to take this argument? Statistically speaking, it's to be expected that invading armies will rape a substantial portion of the female population. Would it therefore be "prissy" to be outraged if this happens?

>This is part of the don't-ask-don't-tell contract (the real one) that society has with the military: here are the conditions under which you can be a serial killer; we will call you a hero for it; just don't tell us about it.

I think it's still ok to be disturbed by that. It may be true that this incident is just one example of the generally terrible nature of war. But that doesn't make it any less terrible, or make people's reactions to it illegitimate.

I hope that this sort of reaction becomes more and more common, so that we eventually figure out that war is, you know, a bad thing.
The filtered reviews are put behind captchas and thus are (relatively) hard for people to scrape and reverse engineer at a large scale.
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April 9-11 we're running Startup Weekends in Copenhagen, Lund, Oslo, Vilnius and Kaunas and April 16-18 in Stockholm. It's the first grand tour of Startup Weekend in Scandinavia.

I'm sure there are HN readers in Scandinavia that can join us! Go to http://www.startupweekend.org and find the city closest to you. Hope to see you there!
Really excited to launch this new tool on [Startup Digest]! I hope it becomes a great tool for founders in the Silicon Valley/SF area & founders just moving here to find out about all the great events going on a consistent basis.
When something is illiquid due to insufficient buyers and sellers, the bid and ask spread is large. A big discount is needed to motivate people to buy it. E.g. you ask for $100 to sell your lawn mower because that's what every seller asking for. People only bid $60 to buy a lawn mower because they know it's difficult to resell it. The spread is $40. Now from time to time, a few buyers would get desperate and buy at $100; likewise a few sellers would sell at $60.

Someone then comes in and says the spread is crazy. He offers to bid to buy at $70 and to ask to sell at $90. The few desperate sellers of course would sell to him at $70 instead of $60. And the few desperate buyers would buy from him at $90. He narrows the spread from $40 to $20, and makes $20 in between. He basically increases the buyer and seller pools by adding himself to them, thus increased the liquidity of the lawn mower secondary market.

The risk to the arbitrager is that he guesses the amount of potential buyers or sellers wrong and set the wrong narrower bid and ask prices. E.g. he could buy a lot of lawn mowers at $70, but there are much fewer buyers willing to buy at $90. He would have to reduce his offer price to $85, $80, $75, $65, or $60 to really get the buyers going. As you can see his profit margin erodes and eventually turns into a loss.
Because MS gave HP a fair amount of free PR by promoting the Slate on stage at CES? By doing this, MS has helped make the Slate one of the 2 or 3 tablets, out of 50 or so, that anyone mentions by name.
I played with an iPad today at an Apple store.

My take: It is both awesome and meh, at the same time.

The web browsing experience is really fun and satisfying in a way that's different than on a desktop, laptop or iPhone.

The Google Maps app is much nicer because the view window is so much bigger and it can show so much more detail.

The Book reading thing was also pretty meh for me.

Verdict: I'm much more likely to buy this for my mom than myself, for reasons similar to what others across the web have said already. I can see it filling a niche, but for me, those niches are all already filled well or well enough that I can't justify the price. But I see how it could be mind-blowingly awesome and a great fit for some folks. Just not me, not right now.
"If I had a clunkier technology in front of me, I might learn more about programming"

This article seems to pursue an odd dichotomy, that the platform can either be openable or slick - never both.

Surely those two aren't completely mutually exclusive.
Google's Marissa Mayer has presented their page loading results a few times publicly: in one unplanned experiment, about .5 seconds in marginal load time caused number of user searches (and, by extension, clicks on ads and Google revenue) to decline by 20%. That was the Web 2.0 Conference in 2006.

I'd buy a bigger database machine, spread my servers to more geographical regions, whatever it took to try to bring that latency down.

Why make life hard. Buying a bigger database server costs actual money and time. Getting out the YSlow checklist and knocking two to three things off of it costs nothing and no significant amount of engineer time.

Gzip CSS/JS files: four lines in your Apache config, warm restart, done. Collapsing CSS/JS together: 16 characters (:cache => true) in Rails, warm restart, done. Spriting CSS images: open a web page, type a bit, copy/paste what it tells you to to development, push to staging, verify it works, done.

Moreover, as compared to buying a DB or spreading your servers, these are virtually guaranteed to actually work. Many, many of the suggestions that come under the heading "performance improvements" do not actually work because they address things that are not problems. (For example, unless you have data which convincingly demonstrates differently, the vast majority of websites can assume that the web stack is not a problem. Optimizing your code within the web stack is generally a hideously expensive waste of time.)
> I think it's laughable to try to draw a comparison between soldiers fucking up and causing collateral damage and the Holocaust.

That's not what you said. You said...

> the blood is on the hands of the people who started and continued the war
> not the ones who have to actually fight it.

I disagree with that statement. With the same argument, one can justify all war killings. Even the act of Nazis. We don't bring in Godwins law when discussing and comparing war and killings.
How long before people are going to break into cars to rip off the IPad?
I hate to be cynical right out of the gate, but we'll see how it goes down. Admittedly, its a better move than doing nothing.

Could be interesting to see what kind of reviews are being flagged anyways. I've always thought that review stuffing is way more common than people would think...
Wow, I guess race is too complicated, even for Hackers. I read your post yesterday and I have since been thinking of how I could post a comment that would express what I think, being a member of a "minority" from Harlem, without sounding like I'm paranoid, or complaining. Something intelligent and not too emotional. I'm still thinking, but I figured I would post SOMETHING. I was kind of surprised/disappointed that there weren't more comments. Then again, maybe the lack of comments says enough.
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your friends do not have to go either

wow...if you delete your post, i promise i'll delete my quoting you to remove the evidence of your ignorance.
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>the device launched with a PHP IDE in the App Store on day one, amongst other code-related applications.

I can't seem to find any of these applications (I'm not sure how to browse for iPad specific apps in iTunes). Does anyone know which apps he's talking about?
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This might be a pretty good PR move..

Most of the filtered reviews I have seen so far are, in fact, pretty spammy or blatant advertising..

This will definitely make people appreciate the filter more

OTOH people, not machines (thanks to the captcha), could read tons of filtered reviews and come up with cleverer ways to beat it
Do you really go to enough weddings or funerals in the same location that you'd be able to use something that keyed off GPS to change the ringer settings? I seriously hope you'd explicitly turn off the ringer in those cases.
If they were 100m away, why did it take them several minutes to arrive while the helos circled? Even when crouching (from my exp in the the army), looking for ambushes during house fighting you're faster going down a street than this.
Please don't protect my country, we'll do what you say!
anyone know how much this process costs?
Accessing my threads page takes many many seconds.
That's a great idea! I've never really thought about that. Recently I've erased a whole chapter that I was feel was no longer relevant and, in hindsight, I think it's a bummer that now it's lost.
In integrated circuits, one usually implies the other.
Device arrives at Location X. This offers the largest number of possibilities, but there are still only so many pseudo-geocaching games, walking tours and social-network things you can do without flooding the app market with a bunch of essentially-duplicate applications.

These apps would at least have a modicum of usefulness, unlike the plethora of movie quote soundboard apps.
Huh, how supremely uninteresting your first reaction is. I wish you hadn't shared your useless ungeekly feelings. But now that you have, I will share my first reaction: Cool!

Robotics is hard. We are just beginning to understand the amount of processing that goes into the simplest movement of living beings. We are still in the infancy of reverse engineering millions of years of evolution, and it is a wondrous new frontier of research!
For obvious reasons this would never happen, but it would be pretty cool to see Google unindex Facebook entirely. They could state that Facebook has made it clear that as Google did not have prior written permission to index their content (Google had simply assumed the rules outlined in robots.txt were sufficient, as it is with every other website).

They would state that Google would be happy to reindex Facebook, but it would take several weeks for their lawyers to meet with Facebook's counsel, draft documents, reindex privately, audit their cache to ensure compliance, etc.

We could then sit back and watch how fast Facebook backpedals.
The difference is that we ask soldiers to kill people, we don't ask them to rape them. To ask, pay, and celebrate them for doing the former and then fastidiously insist that they only do it in a way that conforms to our hero fantasies is incongruent.

That being said, it is naive to unleash violence and not expect it to spill over. So I guess in the case of war rape I would say that while it's not prissy to be outraged by it, it is to be surprised.

As a side note, I've never been comfortable with these kinds of arguments that go too far beyond the immediate context. A context grounds a problem; it gives you a real situation to refer back to and prevent going off the rails. The more purely abstract these things become, the more arbitrary they get. I don't trust disembodied reason. But that is a complete tangent; sorry!
> And to add some rhetoric, what gives America the moral right to talk about human rights when the Iraqi death toll exceeds well over one hundred thousand?

Because you're making a generalization and treating "America" as a single entity. It's not. It's government allows its individual citizens to pick and choose what they support.

It's very likely the "human rights" people also oppose the war in Iraq.

As far as the government goes, it then amplifies the voices of its individual citizens so that it may seem like "America" is contradicting itself, but it's not.

It's ideas you should be targeting, not the concept of "America" or "westerners."

So what you should ask is "What gives human rights activist warhawks the moral right to talk about human rights when the Iraqi death toll exceeds well over one hundred thousand?" When you find such a person, you should ask him/her.
Still no way to request a manual review though. I already see several good detailed reviews by people that I know personally that have been flagged. As well as reviews filtered for businesses that I know personally and know for a fact that they don't pay anyone for reviews. From initial appearance, looks like a lot of innocent reviews get caught in the filter.
That's probably the same reason why the commanders want to keep it secret. Because most people will just have a jerk reaction and blame the soldiers, which in turn put pressure on the soldiers in the field.

While I think the higher ups are to be blamed for even going to war, it's the people who elected them. So I don't really know who to blame.
Legal precedent:
"Copiepresse (Belgian Newspaper Conglomerate) v. Google (Read more.. ). Filed in August, 2006.

Claims: to remove all the content indexed by Google's crawlers on the newspaper's websites."

http://www.infoniac.com/offbeat-news/google-list-of-class-ac...

Google's response:
"Of course, if publishers don’t want their websites to appear in search results (most do) the robots.txt standard (something that webmasters understand) enables them to prevent automatically the indexing of their content. It's nearly universally accepted and honoured by all reputable search engines."

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/about-google-news-cas...

May be you can get Google to file an amicus brief...

"Outcome: Google had to remove the plaintiff's newspaper content from its database within 10 days or face fines of 1,000,000 Euro per day. Google had to publish "in a visible and clear manner and without any commentary from her part the entire intervening judgment on the home pages of google.be and of news.google.be for a continuous period of 5 days within 10 days... under penalty of a daily fine of 500,000 Euro per day of delay". Google had was awarded the costs of the expenses of 941.63 Euro (summons) and 121.47 Euro (costs of thy proceedings)."
I don't consider myself a particularly frequent poster, but I see the same frequent timeouts when trying to load my threads page. It's the most important page for me personally, because I come here for the conversation with a highly intelligent group more than anything. Nothing else compares to HN's simplicity and community.
A mail order company??? What's a mail order company?
I occasionally see someone else logged in due to a downstream caching bug.
Yes, universities do science. And cool projects. If they had to immediately sell whatever they invented, most research would never happen.
Thank you, I think I found it: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/03/27/dive-into-histor...

So, HTML is really the best way to write a book? I mean, as a web developer I can write HTML, but I feel like thinking in markup will break my inspiration a bit.

Also, in the comments someone mentioned Pandoc, which looks sweet http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
We have non-lethal ways of taking down an opponent. We should be doing that instead, even if it's more costly.
They are using just a single GPU (from the paper). So the robot can actually be sped up even today. Still nowhere near human pattern recognition though.
> The iphone just got a bit more difficult.

And a bit more dangerous. Malware lies not far down this path.

I think Apple is even more concerned with malware than they are with the difficulty part.
You need to watch the video again. This time, turn off the sound and ignore the captions.

A man covered in blood is crawling along the side of the road as you drive by. You say, "My god! This man is injured! We need to help him!" You and your friend jump out to help an injured man, not really sure what's going on, and tell your children to wait in the car. Suddenly you're dead, because a helicopter flying high overhead killed you instantly because you were moving an injured man.

That isn't a hypothetical, that's what happend. And if you ignore the chatter of a few pilots eager to score more kills, it's very clear that these people had no connection to any activity on the scene. The Van is nowhere in sight until the very end of the engagement.

What's more, it's clear the pilot is eager to kill. He reports it in the most biased of terms: mentioning they were "possibly recovering weapons" despite seeing NO such action. How do we know he knew such a thing, you might ask? Because just moments before he was literally begging them to pick up a gun so he could kill them, and in the end he got a fire order anyways because of a biased report.

The actions of the pilots in that video were reprehensible and it is unfortunate that they will most likely be shielded from prosecution. On that day they ceased to be revered servicemen for the united states and became a representation of every flaw in our military system that Americans revile. They teetered on the edge of becoming war criminals. At the very least they should be dishonorably discharged.
Someone with only an online/catalog presence. As opposed to a company like Apple, who has a hefty retail presence that lets their customers, who may be still undecided, try before they buy.
does it make sense to inline css if it's the same across multiple pages?
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Oh, so you mean like every ycombinator company and pretty much every startup out there. Funny I never saw anyone call them a "mail order company."
Mine often times out. When I hit refresh after a timeout it loads though, I guess I'm hitting the cache the second time.
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In general a well-reasoned article, but I don't really agree with the contention that private APIs should be removed: when you're shipping releases of something infrequently and you want to avoid breaking client code, APIs have to be something you can commit to supporting long-term without significant changes. Keeping APIs private allows you to provide functionality that you want to have without risking a bunch of stuff breaking client-side on upgrade, since you can update your applications to work with your API as needed. Getting APIs right enough that they can be supported indefinitely is really, really hard, and it's not reasonable to expect that every bit of required functionality will be implemented and designed to such a high level of completeness the first time around.
Should do, since it's one less connection/round trip back to the server to get more data.
Maybe they had soldiers spread out and it took a while to call them back and mount up? Maybe one of the vehicles had mechanical problems? Maybe they even decided to hold for a few minutes to wait and see if any more surprises would show up? We can't know.

Regardless, this discussion is now irrelevant, as it has been confirmed elsewhere that the photo I posted above was taken at this scene, presumably while Namir was peeking around the corner. That photo shows US troops no further than 200 m away, if I recall that lens's capabilities correctly.
actually you've mentioned the state of HN more than most:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1223767
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1171670
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1148739
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1086310

First of all, the flagging handles things, so why complain?

And for what it's worth, the discussions on here involve many intelligent, well-informed people whose opinions are worth high value. Certainly there are technical things discussed, but I think most people here are interested in all sorts of other "hacks," including sociology hacks, a category, I would argue, to which this article relates.
The issue being that some "Apple unapproved" apps are useful to people outside of the 'top 5%' but not useful to Apple's bottom line.
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Shouldn't it be cached, though? You can't cache if it's in-line. (I'm not a web expert)
1024x600? Ewwww. I am not a fan of this recent trend of stretching displays as wide and short as possible. Especially for tablets which will often be rotated, the iPad's 4:3 ratio is much better.
I looked around at some of the filtered reviews for restaurants I frequent. For the vast majority I couldn't find anything wrong with them other than that they were penned by users with less than 5-10 reviews.

I can understand why they don't offer any sort of manual review -- how is a staffer who has never patronized that business capable of determining if a review is spam or legit? I wonder if it would be any better if questionable reviews for a given business would be put up to a vote by "more established" users (by whatever metric they use to determine that) who have also reviewed the same business. Let people who have actually been there determine whether it's spam from someone who never walked in the door.
Good points, and it goes beyond that - (disclaimer: I'm an Indian, so I might be biased) India is not just economically and strategically, but also ideologically a threat to China. We have a working democracy (though by no means perfect), and the growth rate (around ~7.5%, opposed to China's 10%) is real, as opposed to China's famous dodgy math when it comes to economic issues. China is more likely to implode economically if political unrest (when it begins) gets out of hand - India has been dealing with that since ages, so there won't be any surprises. So in a way, though China is growing much faster and a more lucrative investment destination, India is much, much safer (our central bank, aka RBI, is extremely conservative and hawkish on economic issues - which is why we survived the global financial meltdown of last year).
Not enough info about your idea here to give you any useful information. You should share more about your idea, we won't bite!
The AppStore approval process does not guarantee that something is not malware. At best it's just a superficial filter. It's like creating a mail filter that puts any email that contains the word 'viagra' into your spam folder and calling it a 'spam filter.'