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I wanted to start off by saying that I do not support the actions of the Israeli Government, however this response is beyond unacceptable. I have only been on Reddit for a year, but I feel that World News and even Pics, is becoming a haven for hate speech, only worsened by obvious support from the Reddit community. Does this sicken anyone else?
How exactly? care to elaborate?
It's been on the front of the Fox News website for a few hours now:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/05/video-appears-for...

Edit: URL
The real question is whether you get better selection overall by taking more time. The HC may improve decision making on Google's side, but if the lag gets too long you'll start losing people to other offers. And the people most likely to get other offers are probably strongly correlated with those you would eventually choose to hire.
They'll just do something else. I think it's a mistake to assume that if kids aren't exposed to what we were exposed to as kids then they won't learn anything. I could see kids writing iPhone apps to impress their friends these days. I know I'd be impressed if my kid did something equivalent to that when she's that age.

I probably would have when I was 16 or 17 just for that reason-let alone the fact that it's cool.
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This is patently absurd.

"Burritos" beget nourishment.

"Clothes" beget modesty.

"Art" begets pretension.

The irony here is that the liquidity provided by our financial system permits the use of money to acquire all of these things. It is this very liquidity that also permits the allocation of work to those with the best skill sets and solutions for the problems at hand.

I would add that (IMO) anything which diminishes suffering (in all forms) and increases compassion has value.
yeah, war is a mess, context exists on a battlefield, let's destroy more medevacs, YEAH

fire in the hole.
Auctioned: I believe so.

I don't do HFT, but with what our company does, I've spoken to a few people who do. So take all of this with a pinch of salt, but as I understand it, your execution and autonomous trading systems live in the same rack as your exchange/dark-pool endpoints. Your slower strategies can be offsite, as is the Big Red Button to close down your positions. Still, faster's invariably going to be better, all else being equal...
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Guys in chopper: Wrapped in bulletproof glass and several inches of heavy armour, with enough firepower under their thumb to reduce a battalion of tanks to scrap metal (remember attack gunships like the Apache were designed to repel Soviet tank formations from coming over the Rhine during the cold war).

An RPG can take out an Apache. If you hit the main and tail rotors you have a good chance of causing the helo to crash.
Are you his equal or better? Assholes are kiss up, kick down people. I'm not suggesting he is because I don't know him, but giving people shit on the grounds that they're less capable isn't endearing.
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This is really encouraging. I caught this small bit when I was listening to the interview on the treadmill this morning. I was actually going to email Mike and ask if he could go into the topic more. I'm glad this post was created. The explosion of SaaS apps is absolutely mind blowing. We're cataloging 300+ apps already on Cloudomatic. Some things I've noticed, since I've spent time looking at each app we list:

- Most of these companies did not exist 18 months ago. The ones that did, were definitely much smaller. This is mind blowing.

- A LOT of the apps are of high quality. The design, value prop, pricing, etc. seems spot on. I haven't tested them all, but from first glance, I'm impressed by most apps.

- I spend a lot of time in the SaaS sector specifically, and even more so in the web app space as a whole. I've never heard of most of these apps, and it stuns me how many are out there. We're just hitting the tip of the iceberg. There are a ton of underserved niches waiting to take your credit cards.

- I used to run a SaaS startup back in 2008. There were no recurring billing solutions for small SaaS startups. Seriously, you had to build this shit yourself. Now there are FOUR players. http://cloudomatic.com/?s=recurring+billing . Something is clearly going on here, if four companies have sprung up in under 18 months to meet this exact need.

- There are big market numbers being thrown around. I think they're overestimating for the near term, but underestimating for the long term. Google Apps is only doing 50 million this year, but that's irrelevant. The fact that it's some number that's growing + goog apps is being used as a bargaining chip by companies is what matters. Who knows if GOOG will win with G Apps long term, but the SaaS market certainly is/will.

- I can't comment on Enterprise adoption ie- very very large companies with red tape laden IT departments. They will be the last to adopt and that's fine. Small and medium sized businesses are adopting this stuff right now. The Enterprise will follow down the road, probably with their own stipulations.

- Build HTML 5 offline access into your SaaS app. SaaS right now does a poor job of passing the "can I use it on a plane" test. This also helps the "what if my net goes down?" problem.

- The hardest part for SaaS startups is getting distribution and customer acquisition. You don't get the viral mechanics of a consumer web app and you don't get the distribution that packaged software got in the 80s+90s with catalogs, resellers, retail stores,etc. We're hoping to solve the latter with Cloudomatic.

(I just wrote these points off the cuff. I hope to gather some more concreate and in-depth points over the next couple of weeks.)
These things change dramatically over time, and as you can imagine, mitigating circumstances and experience can make one candidate's experience vastly different from another's.

One thing I'd like to remind everyone about is that I'm writing about a time long gone. Trying to guess what Google today does based on what Google did 5-6 years ago brings to mind the adage: "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."
Just curious, what kind of data set did you try it on and did you by any chance use Mahout?
What you call "flipper" is normally called a "speculator".

Also, speculators add value to the market because they push prices toward the true values. If an asset is expected to be more valuable in the future, speculators will buy it now, raise the prices, thereby encouraging consumers of that asset to use less of it. This ensures that more is available for future use.

Also, speculators also add liquidity for consumers. Unless demand for a long hedge exactly matches demand for a short hedge, you need speculators to pick up the slack.
It's the rare person who changes their mind when they've taken a very strong position. Kudos to Alex for being willing to take a real look at the iPad and figure out what his real concerns with the device were.
There was a little girl in the van. I guess shes an insurgent too
Agreed, we've done a pretty amazing job to become so productive. But we've done a terrible job of distributing this among the world's population. It's pretty appalling that with our current levels of productivity there are still so many people whose basic needs are not being met.

I guess it depends what you mean by efficiently allocating capital. What's the end goal? Just to produce as much as we can?
Why don't I just sue Google for crawling my website and get this court case done with. Once precedence is set it would be much harder for FaceBook to make these types of claims. "Your honor in the case of Google Canada vs Zach Aysan the courts clearly decided that..." DONE. Actually, I'm surprised this hasn't happened already.
FOIR works as well, referring specifically to the request (Freedom of Information Request).
I guess the best way to set a watch would be using some type of binary search then.

edit: quick mockup of what I mean: http://sberan.xen.prgmr.com/watch.html
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Financial difficulties (which to be honest, I have trouble understanding), does not justify over-hyping and over-editorializing content, it only hurts their image and reputation and means less people will appreciate their work.

Also, if they allow their funding issues to compromise their principles it would be a much bigger issue than if they allow their principles to affect too strongly the way they editorialize.

So if your theory is correct that would be more disturbing, not less.
yeah, it does. the auction wasn't a good idea either. they might be good at what they do, just not good at distribution/monetization/etc..
I thought the same
I think the single device which got most people into programming in my generation was the Nintendo Entertainment System, and I do not remember it as being a playground of hackability. It just showed six year olds that if you ate your carrots and studied math you would eventually be able to do magic.
It depends on whether Apple has a good implementation of multitasking or not. I guess we'll find out later this week during their iPhone OS 4.0 presentation.

I'm not a fanboy, just a fan of good software implementation, and Apple has had a pretty good track record so far.
I'm surprised there was no warning shot

A warning shot wouldn't be an option. If you look about 8~9 minutes into the video when they are attacking the van, the gunner is having trouble even hitting the van. A commenter higher up mentioned the helicopter was about a mile distant.
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Fair point, but you still have to spot the chopper first! Plus the chances of an RPG actually hitting a circling chopper at a good distance are pretty slim, as RPGs are notoriously inaccurate. The gunner would probably nail the RPG guy before he got his shot off.

EDIT: If you continue reading below, some guys worked out that the chopper was about a mile away from the targets, based on muzzle velocity of the Apache's chaingun and the delay of the bullets reaching the target. Some chance of an RPG hitting that.
I hope those guys never come to save my country
Or because Google would simply comply with their demands and remove all mention of facebook from their indexes... That would be pretty interesting.
There was a bunch of guys casually wandering around the middle of street. They weren't running, hiding or shooting and they were obviously not participating in this supposed firefight.
I think something is seriously wrong somewhere when a kid can have that kind of firepower under his thumb but not be able to legally buy a beer
> Fix your language implementation....

This is a perfectly valid response if this was LTU or comp.compilers, but here on hacker news only a small percentage of us are actually in a position to "fix our language implementation".

Know your audience! If you are talking to language users (not makers), this comment just... well,

>> made yourself look like an ass.
"Apple is watering down computing" has been the principle argument governing the PC v. Mac holy war since the Macintosh made its debut. Nothing has changed.
I suppose so if you never want to do any updates or get media onto or off of it. Apple lists iTunes as a requirement so I don't think I'm exaggerating.
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Seems like a few are trying to apply civilian rules and laws to military situations. As Joseph Campbell said these soldiers are just playing out a role - the role of a soldier in war.How can these boys be judged by peacetime rules and mores that weren't present in the situation?

Campbell believed, as do I, that these soldiers cannot be held to un-applicable, un-available standards that didn't exist in the moment.

They needed to kill without feeling, without giving the benefit of the doubt, to fulfill their combat role. They did so; its nothing to be proud of, and it the light of civilian rules and mores, seems somewhat uncomfortable. If a day had passed and a van pulled up, it might very well be murder. But two minutes later... the lads are still in the wartime role; they can't be blamed.
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Best of luck in your attempts to radically alter basic human nature and the foundations underlying the theory of evolution.

Practical measures can be put in place to mitigate the negative affects of marketplace irrationality, but please do not behave as if people lack a profit motive. This extreme Ayn Rand style thinking is what drove our economy into a ditch in the first place.
The iPad isn't going to destroy tinkering. The whole "oh no one will tinker and no one will want to be a software engineer" complaint is getting old. If closed platforms abound, tinkerers will create an open and adaptable one. There is a wealth of tools and systems available to tinkerers today. Widespread adoption of the iPad is not going to change that. iPads aren't going to destroy the hobbyist electronics market. And as for the software development - what's stopping someone from providing a good programming experience that is web based? (surely someone has to be building a web based IDE, say, that compiles from whatever language to javascript?)
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A couple of points. First, Iraq is NOT a war zone. Just because you have lots of soldiers running around and a few random terrorist bombings it does not constitute a "war". The war ended in 2003. Secondly, even if it was a war soldiers are expected to follow basic rules like "don't kill people for no reason". Third, there's no indication that anyone's life was being threatened. The only people who's survival was being threatened were one the ground. Certainly there was no threat to the crew of the helicopters who were standing well away from the ground.
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As far as operating systems go, MS-DOS did more to encourage my technical knowledge than Windows ever did, and I stopped using DOS around the time Windows 98 came out.

But people who are drawn to tinkering probably wind up with better uses for their mental energy when they have easy-to-use operating systems. Pretty much everyone who has an iPad also has access to a machine they can do development on.
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It's naive to think these kids will commit themselves into any one device. Maybe they'll have a tablet but they'll also have access to a desktop or laptop, probably a gaming console and a SmartPhone too. Of course they'll also have nearly constant access to the Internet which is more than most of us had at that age and we turned out just fine.
I'd love to see a full layer-by-layer teardown of the actual die. Multi-die packages are nothing special. Getting past metal8, even it it means going straight to silicon, would let you pick out individual blocks.
Efficacy is the noun form of Effective. Efficacy = Effectiveness. Efficiency is the ratio of output to input.
Though it seems there is some slight variation in their use in different fields.
Just to be more precise - when I say "people leaving" I meant employees. I don't actually know about users.
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Along the same lines:

http://www.pyrosoft.co.uk/blog/2007/11/04/army-fly-uav-spy-p...

I bet the guys at Microsoft never thought their controllers would some day be used to scout/kill for real
Iraq is not a "war zone" (the war ended in 2003). As in the United States, many law-abiding citizens in Iraq carry weapons for self defense. Sometimes local militias have heavy weapons for self defense because their neighborhood is threatened by rival militias.
Soldiers joke about their job. It's a way of coping with the stress. Firefighters and police officers will make jokes about things most of us wouldn't dare.
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I've always believed the biggest single moment of destruction of future programmers is when Microsoft stopped shipping BASIC (plus the full source code of the games GORILLA.BAS and NIBBLES.BAS) with DOS/Windows.
It seems to me that the interest in much of my reading is to see a mind observing and reflecting on the world, and that is why I find memoirists such as Alvin Kernan, Iris Origo, John Lukacs, and Richard Gabriel so much worth reading. Certainly that is much of the appeal of the novels of Austen, Trollope, Wharton, Stendahl.

It is my impression that women tend to read more fiction, men more non, and that can tell which sex stocked a bookshelf.
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That is a straw man argument with a splash of FUD.

Point the first: You are making the implication (intentional or otherwise) that closures are backward and that objects are the correct way to structure a program.

In any language I have used that has supported closures, they are not backwards. Indeed, the languages that support both closures and objects, closures are a well supported and idiomatic tool that is often used (for reference: C# 3+, Python, JavaScript, F#)

Point the second: "...the fact that pretty much all debuggers don't make using closures easy...". Every language I have used that supports closures supports debugging closures with the exact same ease as any other function. If you can pause your program and introspect a function, you can also introspect a closure.

If your are claiming that you can't introspect it from a repl, well you can't introspect any other function from the repl without additional debugging tools or instrumenting the code either.
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Yay, I just read that comment about the distance. I didn't think about that.
Ha! Yeah, I hadn't thought of that aspect. Half of their userbase wouldn't even be able to sign on any more!
Good point - ockham's razor eh?
Yes, you're fooling yourself, trying to compare a set of protocols universally accessible by billions of machines to a binary, locked-in application format that serves a minority of a minority of the mobile market, as if still not understanding that adding an app for every mobile platforms incurs a duplication of effort and limitation of feature sets that almost all but the largest of players in the Web can afford to take on, and that it only serves a market share that is significant only in the context of the smartphone market (not to mention ignoring that even then more users access regular and WAP versions of web sites).
Please correct me if this article is wrong or I'm misreading it:

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At a family event recently, my 13 y.o. cousin was playing with his new iPod Touch. So I started asking him questions about it, and he tells me about how he's going to root it, going into some decent detail. I was pretty impressed! It just goes to show, Apple engineers can't keep kids from learning about their iPod Touch/iPhone/iPad, no matter how hard they try.
You'd have to show damages. Otherwise (and correct me if I'm wrong on this point) you have no standing to file suit.
The AppStore is a huge deal and was barely even mentioned. Censoring what they sell in the AppStore is fine with me. Maintaining a monopoly on the sales of software for use with their devices by exploiting contract law and the DCMA is not. Yet we are supposed to forgive them because they are doing cool things with hardware/software? Enjoy.
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I'd guess you'd need to burn $100k before you even saw a judge. Are you up for that?
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I'm not sure I agree. Jay had a pretty strong dislike of VCs and put a lot of effort into protecting Kevin and his company from that stuff.

I actually met Jay last month and he mentioned a few times that he was perpetually tired (he lives in NY, but works at Digg's offices in CA), although he also seemed very excited about the future of Digg, so it's a bit surprising to see him go.
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This could have been an interesting case.

And regarding robots.txt - it's by no means anything more than a suggestion and common courtesy.. it's a way to suggest to crawlers what to ignore and how to behave with your site, to their benefit and yours - it's not by itself a legally binding, well, anything..... it was just a convention for all parties to unofficially cooperate.
My point is not that the killing was just. I was just objecting to where the parent suggests the pilot opened fire on civilians knowingly.
Very well said. Sometime you just have to trust your gut feeling on what's best for the users, despite the lack of feedback.
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7 that I'm using 5-10 that I'm looking to get rid of, and around 10-15 that I'm hanging onto for other people.

The ones that don't want: http://misticflame.com/blog/2010/03/11/domain-names-for-sale...
I'm not convinced that I'm more secure because of them.

You are less secure simply because of the pointless decision to go to war in the first place. It was based on utter lies (WMDs, the "link" between 9/11 and Saddam, and "freeing" the Iraqi people nonsense). Anyone can see that. GWB referring to the invasion of Iraq as a "crusade" doesn't help matters either.
See the Pentagon Papers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers

Even stolen information cannot be enjoined from publication by the government.
I was thinking mostly of good in the sense of, it'd be great if nobody had to die- that would be the best outcome, the good outcome- but often that can't happen, so you're left with the not bad, just less good outcome.

You're right though, my views are often very utilitarian. Although, while 'fair' on the large scale applies to 'greatest good for greatest number', I would very rarely condemn someone for acting out of self-preservation, even if it was not 'fair' on the large scale. Generally speaking I hold our own right to defend ourselves, and those we love, above 'fair'. Generally speaking.
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How about an article about measuring memory usage?

From what I've read, measuring the actual total memory consumption of an individual process is nontrivial on both Mac OSX and Linux, because of the way the stats are generated for things like ps, top, etc. and the way both kernels share memory between processes whenever possible.
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I don't think it's all that trivial; whatever a program does when run without options should be a big clue towards the primary use case that it is designed to handle or fulfill.

In the case of curl, it writes to stdout; wget writes to a file. While the mechanics of each are the same, curl lends itself towards use in scripts while wget (at least in my experience) is better if you're kicking it off interactively.

Also, wget has a very handy batch mode, where you can feed it a file containing nothing but a list of URLs and it will fetch each one. I am not familiar with a similar one for curl -- although admittedly you could do the same thing with a minimal wrapper script, that's a lot more keystrokes than "wget -i <file>".