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Google has to do this, it's an existential threat to their money maker PageRank. Imagine a few years out, after most of the web is no longer organized as static documents linked together(nice for crawling!), but transforms into a real-time evolving mish-mash of web API's, re-re-aggregators, and interconnected web services. i.e. the top 10 social networking sites will account for 90%+ of user activity, and it's their APIs & data we'll all be using.

You can't crawl that.

Anyone else worry that Google's inevitable grand "evil" act will ironically be them holding back the web from transforming into this? Microsoft could have totally killed Google by hitting the fast-forward button on Ajax in 2004, by leveraging IE to make the whole web into the "Deep Web." You can't sell ads on what you can't crawl—just see what Apple is doing with iAd to carve out mobile.
The author (and his commenters) have clearly never worked on any open source project. There is plenty of ego to be had for things like webcam drivers. Plus, if you have that webcam, it goes from non-working to working, and you can share that with everyone else in the world. Pretty fun.

Thinking about all the software I use regularly, I know pretty much all the authors. Some of them I have even met in person, and they have gotten free beer as a result.

I guess if you are outside the community, it doesn't seem very exciting, but if you are in the community, it is exciting. Kind of the opposite of high school cliques...
Nowhere in the thread has it been demonstrated that it would be impossible to design a word problem that does require the construction of a solution.

One of the problems I had with my dif. eq. class was that the grad student teaching the class just focused on "tank problems" and other "x problems" sets. So I see why story problems alone are not helpful. But, if they're judiciously used to encourage the understanding of abstract mathematical concepts, I think they are invaluable.
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Well the Death List 2010 (http://deathlist.net/) is only up to 2. They'll be hoping for some clumps (statistical or not) to beat their 2008 record of 12 (http://deathlist.net/?y=2008)
Your conception is largely false. I can't think of any project I work on regularly that won't give a commit bit to anyone who asks.

But keep in mind, for best success, the order of operations is "step 1. write code. Step 2. ask for commit bit". Sometimes it works the other way, but not as often.
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Four I read recently that I recommend:

Darwin and the demon: innovating within established businesses. 82(7/8). 86-92.

Blue Ocean Strategy. October. 76-84.

Take command of your growth.April. 127-133.

Growth outside the core. December. 66- 73.
I visited Portland for the first time last month, and was struck by how much it reminded me of San Francisco minus the worst things about San Francisco.

1. San Francisco is a right bastard to get around since the various districts are spread out and separated by huge hills. Portland is easily walkable.

2. San Francisco has slow, dirty, overpriced public transport. Portland has a convenient light rail system which is free in the downtown core area, and drops you right at the airport for a buck fifty.

3. San Francisco is filthy. Portland is clean. San Francisco has aggressive panhandlers and crazy people everywhere, Portland somehow keeps most of 'em out.

4. San Francisco is insanely expensive and only those earning multi-hundred-K a year can afford to actually buy there. Portland is nice and cheap.

5. San Francisco has great scenery which is spoiled by tourists. Portland has perfectly adequate scenery which isn't.

Another nice thing: no sales tax. That means that you wind up paying what it says on the label and don't have to do the "compute in head and fumble with loose change" thing. Plus they've got good food, funky bars, and a classic video game arcade.

What they unfortunately don't have is a first-rate university, or anywhere else that might be likely to employ me.
the Arch Linux developers page certainly makes me feel old already

I think this is more reflective of what the "free software" community really is.
Can't agree with you more (except I can't buy people beer in the US...). Open source is fun! I've made tons of friends through it, participate in a podcast, and every conference I have awesome people to hang out with.
Less lines of code than my Emacs configuration. Seriously.
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Meebo did get the xauth.org domain, if that counts for anything.
They both have magnetic strips. Ha...I don't get it.
The problem is that regular expressions (in addition not being powerful enough to properly handle HTML) are a bit of a maintenance headache. They look like line noise. Most regular expressions don't change properly with local (did you use \w, [a-zA-Z] or \p{Alpha} and which of these did you really mean). And you can't always be sure the regexp is implemented efficiently (by compiling a finite automata instead of search, see http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html ). Often a parser generator (of which a lexer is often the first step, which is as powerful as regular expressions) is a much better solution.
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Step 5: Write blog posts telling people how to live their lives.

(extra points for preaching to the choir)
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The funny part for me is the fact that the original keycard was lo-co and lost its magnetism in a day of moving around and having it next to another magnetic strip, where as the cloned MetroCard remained perfectly functional. Not to mention that (with the vendor the hotel is using), an encoder capable of handling hi-co is twice the price of the standard encoder, or about 16x the price of the MSR805 used for the cloning (which does low- and hi-co).
Has anyone seen Quirky? http://www.quirky.com/. Seems interesting. Pepsi Refresh is also interesting (if your idea has a benevolent aspect to it): http://www.refresheverything.com/
I think it is because the learning curve for a kernel is so steep that you will have to spend a lot of time and energy learning the kernel before you can do any significant development. It would have been more meaningful if the author had compared linux attraction to that of any bsd clones. Comparing to iphone is kind of misleading.
I'm not sure about that. I think it's more that people tend to derive pleasure from one or two "must haves" about the place they live, but don't care much about the rest. If those "must haves" don't align with what you value, it looks irrational, but it's perfectly rational to them.

Personally, I can't stand living in a place that doesn't look out over greenery. I find I'm so much calmer and get more done when I can come home to a place with grass and trees and bushes, so I'm willing to pay a few hundred dollars a month extra for that.

I find it similarly irrational to think of all the people that can't live anywhere but the city. I mean, they pay more than I do, and they have to live with roommates, and their places are usually smaller, and they have to specifically go somewhere else for greenery, and they're looking at an hour commute. (I'm particularly perplexed by people who spend $5k/month to live in Manhattan, which is like SF * 10 in terms of all that overstimulation and has less charm to boot.) But over time, I've realized that these people aren't stupid, they just have different priorities from me. Some absolutely love having lots of small ethnic restaurants on their block. Some enjoy having most of their friends within walking distance (which admittedly would be pretty nice). Some like to go out clubbing every night, and there're lots more opportunities for that in the city. They aren't opportunities that particularly matter to me, which is why I wouldn't make those trade-offs. But they matter to the people in question.
Some of that can go into a FAQ, or even be a link (such as cant login or forgot password). Much easier to put a link that reply to each person.

However, surely when you've put up an API for others to use, you should have tested it out. It's not a large API. My email was quite clear too in its title, that its a bug.

I really know what you mean in that last line of yours!
Replace "too crowded" with "too popular". Real estate prices will rise and fall to reflect demand. If prices are ridiculously high, that's because lots of people really want to live there.

(By the way, I'm not disputing anything you said. pg's point about real estate prices is what reminded me of the Yogi Berra quote.)
Name names? There are an awful lot of prospective entrepreneurs on this site who are just looking for a bunch of big, dumb, complacent tech companies to uproot.
I still really haven't understood in what way is tumblr different from blogspot etc. Is it just a reduced version of blogging.

There's no size limit. It takes photos, videos, text etc. The only thing is does easier is login (from your own client or command-line), since (IIRC) that's unencrypted (which is obviously not good, but acceptable if what you put up is just some junk notes).
> The bill does not set new requirements at all. It just explicitly authorizes the SEC to adjust the income & net-worth requirements for inflation.

Oh really? Let's look at what the relevant section, 412, actually says.

19 SEC. 412. ADJUSTING THE ACCREDITED INVESTOR STAND20
ARD FOR INFLATION.

21 The Commission shall, by rule—

22 (1) increase the financial threshold for an ac23
credited investor, as set forth in the rules of the

24 Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, by

25 calculating an amount that is greater than the

[page break omitted]

1 amount in effect on the date of enactment of this

2 Act of $200,000 income for a natural person (or

3 $300,000 for a couple) and $1,000,000 in assets, as

4 the Commission determines is appropriate and in the

5 public interest, in light of price inflation since those

6 figures were determined; and

7 (2) adjust that threshold not less frequently

8 than once every 5 years, to reflect the percentage in

9 crease in the cost of living.

http://banking.senate.gov/public/_files/AYO09D44_xml.pdf

If you're going to argue that "shall" doesn't mean that the SEC is being told to compute a number and apply it, please provide supporting evidence.
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What is the rationale for the basic rule that "each level of the organization should get about half the number of options as the level above"? Rather than distribute options by organization chart and title, wouldn't it be better to treat everyone as an individual contributor and allocate options according to the value they bring to the company? The guidelines seem to presume that management is what counts and that the individual contributors, the folks who make things work, are not all that important. Or am I missing something.
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They're missing out on Flash. Regardless of whether you see it as good or bad or neutral it's all over the internet and you're not being given even the choice to see it on Apple's platforms.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6921893.stm

"We designed and printed off a few hundred t-shirts in San Francisco and had them shipped to our investor Paul Graham's house in Boston at the last minute."
The Boston area has been hurt pretty badly by high real estate prices. Young, talented professionals feel that if they're going to be unable to afford a home, they might as well move to SF/BayArea, where they're still unable to afford a home but at least have the chance to work on interesting projects that may one day let them afford a home.
There was also the problem of Microsoft changing important Windows APIs just before release. They obviously knew about their own changes, so they updated Word accordingly, while WordPerfect had to rewrite parts of their software after whatever version of Windows was released because the APIs didn't match the developer versions they were given by Microsoft.

Reference: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080317124445613 (search for "API documentation").
NoScript doesn't just block JavaScript. See http://hackademix.net/2010/03/24/why-noscript-blocks-web-fon...
> is that for IPOs, only?

IPOs were "hurt" by Sarbanes Oxley, the reaction to Enron. (No, there's nothing in it that would have affected Enron.)

> If it's for raising seed money or anything up through a series C, I'd disagree, very strongly in the case of earlier rounds. The article doesn't tell us which it is, though.

While that article may not have provided every piece of information that you'd like, Google is your friend. Above I quoted the relevant section AND provided a link.
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The DOJ (Department of Justice) is part of the executive branch of the US government, while the courts are the judicial branch. The courts found Microsoft guilty of illegal behavior, but the DOJ did not fully pursue the penalties originally accepted by the court.
Did the hotel keycard have anything interesting encoded in the magnetic data? I've heard stories about credit card numbers and the likes being stored in the clear on them.
Vancouver BC is having serious trouble with out-of-control real estate prices, where a huge volume of purely speculative transactions overwhelmed anyone actually trying to live there.

Crime didn't kill cities, crime is the result of their death. White Flight to the suburbs wasn't fleeing crime, it was concentrating it.
> The guidelines seem to presume that management is what counts and that the individual contributors, the folks who make things work, are not all that important. Or am I missing something.

The most important factor is "what does it take to get the folks you want?"

Strike "most" - it's the only factor.
Keep in mind that if you're posting on Hacker News then you're probably better at math than, say, 90% of the population. It's hard to come up with ideas for teaching math to people who are profoundly different from you.
An even later response :)

That section comes right on the tail of discussing how pscyhopathy seems to be an inherited trait, and that there seems to be a lot of evidence, at least anecdotally, for children who have much of the same behaviours as psychopaths. So it doesn't seem that out of place to me.

The anti-institutional 'slam' was just them pointing out that a lot of the religious doctrines seem to follow a psychopathic 'rationale', ie. here is the truth, now don't question it. My reading was that it was almost an epidemiological study on psychopaths subverting social organisations (since that's how they seem to work individually).

Of course, the article is mostly anecdotal evidence, so it's hard to tell how seriously to take this, but it's certainly food for thought.
I can tell you there was nothing on tracks 1 or 2, and track 3 is purely the data for the lock itself (which I can tell you is an encrypted blob containing nothing but the data required to open the lock, although I can't talk about what exactly that is). Some properties will put data on tracks 1 or 2 if they have systems that allow you to make purchases with your keycard, but I don't know what that data entails exactly.
'A calorie' is a 'A calorie'. Don't confuse macronutrients and their functions on the human body with how much heat they give off when burned. Yes, a calorie is a calorie - a joule is a joule and a newton is a newton.

A carbohydrate is NOT a protein and neither of the two are fats. Carbohydrates, proteins and fats are different. They even have, conveniently for discussion, different names! Guess what - they also have different uses and impacts on your body.

Semantics is important when you're discussing chemistry. I wish people would stop making this stupid argument.
This kind of rubs me wrong, in that it is nakedly making Google's engineering problems into the Internets' engineering problems, there isn't even a scintilla of the usual "You're just making it better for your end users and our crawler just happens to benefit" fig leaf, and compliance will be about as optional as complying with HTTP because Google is navigation on the Internet.
Goto university, get an MBA or business degree. She needs some foundations and skills and techniques to progress ideas through innovation, market development, etc. Refer her to Steve Blank's web site and/or book.
Portland is also the whitest major city in the US. It was officially a "Sundown town" until the late sixties!
I always wondered how journalists and publishers could complain about the short extracts that Google News shows us (linking to the original article anyway). How can that be stealing I asked myself. I'm beginning to understand. It's that 99% of the "content" journalists produce is just like this article. It can easily be replaced by a one liner without any loss of information.
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I use rubber, which bootstraps that kind of setup from a stock Ubuntu AMI: http://github.com/wr0ngway/rubber/
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Bingo — to me the stereotypical KDE app developer is a 15-year-old boy from somewhere in Europe.
These days having a commit access for occasional contributors is largely unnecessary. Most modern VCSs (i.e. not SVN) can distinguish between the committer and the actual author. This means that regardless of who commits your patch, you still get the full Ohloh-happy credit for your contributions.

Believe me, when you become a regular and valued contributor, the maintainers will gladly grant you the access. It's in their interest: less time to spend on patch reviews and commits, and an additional incentive for you to keep contributing. All sane maintainers care about the growth of their projects.
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They do have the best bookstore in the country, as well. Powell's deserves its reputation for depth.
Writing drivers is a less appealing than writing small apps regardless of platform.
>Also, if you want a counterpoint, the Arch Linux developers page certainly makes me feel old already: http://www.archlinux.org/developers/

Thanks for making me feel young at 30.
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Supercomputing is a moving target. Irving Wladawsky-Berger has given a nice summary of how supercomputers are scaling (we are beginning to see petaflop machines) and what the challenges for the scale up to exascale computing will be and the significant changes to predictive modeling that they will enable.

In case you have not noticed, supercomputing (at least at the teraflop level) has become mainstream. We are beginning to see monolithic supercomputers, that is, machines primarily dedicated to a particular application or sub-application, in a variety of production situations. Often these monolithic supercomputers are constructed of standard commodity servers; some use hardware accelerators to substantially improve throughput or real time performance by exploiting unrealized parallelism. Specialization by an accelerator can improve throughput by significant factors, often an order of magnitude or two.
In light of the recent article about life at BCG [1], I don't think you should have a hard time identifying big, dumb, complacent tech (ok, maybe not strictly tech) companies that happen to pay their staff well. But I don't see them being taken down by startups anytime soon, considering the sort of need they are serving (however irrational it may be).

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1257644
The beginning of the essay makes it clear that "This essay was given as a talk at SUNY Buffalo, 28 January 2010, the day after Howard Zinn’s death. I have left the text unaltered, to better reflect the spirit of the talk."

So to the audience at the time, the paragraphs were a timely hook that contextualized the idea within a relevant current event. Also, though they're not as well integrated as they could be (perhaps we can forgive the author that one, given that the talk was the day after Zinn's death, so it was a pretty quick addition I'm guessing), they tie back into the overall idea that a democratic society suffers from this kind of gameplay.
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i'm not confusing. I'm using it in the same meaning it was thrown into the previous discussion.

I would pass as a "local" by ethnics preconcept standards btw. Even though i'm around for much less time then the others that get the full "immigrant treatment".
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i may not be distributed accros the state like the statistic :)
I propose to disprove your disproval, as the motion blur is actually at a slightly different angle than the angle of the slab/bevel. Also, the motion blur shows some unevenness - it slopes downward at the end of the blur - while the iphone slab is straight.

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/7155/iphone4g.jpg
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good points. I was pointing out mostly a subjective 'beauty'.

just of note, the architect in me would go for 'why not have both?'
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My point: Writing 5000 lines of code in higher level languages takes more than 15 seconds.
You're fine. I was in a momentary snit because the Chronicle piece was so vile. I was going for violent agreement.

Sorry if it didn't come across that way, and welcome to HN.
Ask HN: How important is it to have a mentor to become a strong developer?
Hi guys.

I've just graduated with an IT degree, though with mediocre grades and lousy career prospects. I'm beginning to engage in my own study, though it's slow going and somewhat aimless - I haven't reached a point where I become utterly obsessive about writing real code. I've abandoned following tutorials I see in feeds and started looking for good textbooks.

Do you guys think it would be good for me to find a suitable mentor? If so, where should I look?
This came out a month back, iirc.

I read a chapter on writing API's. Nice chapter. Not to be sarcastic, but he does help us understand how to get around the limitation of not being able to create multiple constructors for a class. Coming from a Java background, that was one really confusing thing in ruby.
C++ may be overly complex but it is in an entirely different league than Java in terms of syntactical abstractions that you can implement on top of it.
I also know Lucas, and at a recent event watched him restore a cube blindfolded - most impressive.
What's even more interesting than the article is one's reaction to it. So telling which aspects one immediately focuses on. It's always about oneself.
Thanks for all the awesome replies here

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interesting, do they change text in a copyrighted book and give for free?
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