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"Dividing revenue by employee gives us a better look at which companies are the most efficient. And that’s what you see in the chart at the top of this post."

craigslist's numbers are misleading here. Sure, they're extremely efficient by the above metric, because they were lucky enough to become a de-facto standard marketplace. I challenge anybody to find another example of a software company with 30 employees that is nearly as successful.

MSFT revenue per employee is $631k, between eBay and Facebook.

Source: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=microsoft+revenue+/+num...

(PS. Do I deserve extra karma for posting this cool WolframAlpha link ? :)
Sorry, but no way. Being underweight presents far less health consequences than being even just overweight.

Obesity health risks: Heart Disease, Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Stroke, sleep apnea, Gout.

Underweight health risks: Osteoporosis, weakness, anemia, weaker immune system.
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That sounds too silly to be true. Especially with OpenJDK and other implementation around. But one can never tell how businesses work :)
I'll believe it when I see it on java.sun.com.
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What you're describing is personal choice to not use social networks as a form of primary communication.

I know too many people in Portland to keep in touch with them all in person, via phone, or email, but Facebook is a great way to see the great stuff people are doing with their lives and share mine.

Your definition of friend may be weekly face time, but for many that live in an urban setting, it's simply impossible. Doesn't make them any less of a friend, though.
If true, it will be a huge boost to Apache Harmony: http://harmony.apache.org/
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I'll believe it when I see it.
A bit of context is probably due...

I wrote a user land USB driver and packaged it in a framework. The framework starts the driver in a new thread upon initialization. I needed the separate thread and needed a way to talk to it.

I explored Mach ports but these turned out to be too painful. Grand Central Dispatch, on the other hand, turned out to be the answer to my prayers. I can shuffle code and data back with no problems whatsoever.

As a bonus, my API calls are queued and serialized for me so I don't need to lock portions of the driver for concurrent access.
If this is true then Oracle is about to kill "Oracle Java". Let's see how the open source alternatives keep going after that. Will IBM take over, or Google?

I do not think Oracle will do this. No way!
Are power stations designed to produce lesser power during off-peak timings?

Depends on the type of power station. Hydro plants are in the best position -- under normal conditions, they are limited by the amount of water in the reservoir, so they can make power almost 100% fungible by cutting off the water flow to some turbines.
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I'm thinking something like Coda for the iPad. I know there's a lot of flexibility lost, and for us hackers that seems too high a price to pay, but what about all the basic web editing, PHP, and Rails operations? Slap a virtual terminal or SSH client in there for kicks and we're golden.

On a sidenote, having worked from a Linux dumb terminal for a year and a half, I understand the limitations this sort of thing can put on you. That said, my productivity was so high using those things because there were less distractions. There was no need to configure, reskin, play with the desktop -- it would just be reset. Got a lot more done in those days.
I agree with you that my analogy is poor, and that revenue per employee is an important metric.

My point was that showing craigslist there is misleading, for the reasons I listed in my other comment.

It still amazing how well Google scales, and comparing it to craigslist shadows this fact.
Markup is also an interesting FTP/editor for the iPad. Seems <strike>to have more features than</strike> comprable to Gusto.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/markup/id365590383
This article really isn't all that informative, and given your other submissions, one might assume that you're just trying to promote your social gaming endeavor.
Slow but still playable on my 3G. It's probably not too shabby on the 3GS.

I really hope Apple have put some work into Mobile Safari's JS engine in 4.0. HW accelerated canvas rendering would be nice too.
Only 2 percent of the US population are underweight (down from 4 percent in the 1960s). It hardy seems the pressing health concern.

http://www.healthnews.com/family-health/being-underweight-ov...
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Unfortunately it's quite old, and some of the answers are rather out of date.
I think a more relevant leading indicator of Clojure popularity for the Hacker News crowd is GitHub. Clojure is bumping heads with Lua and Erlang at the moment and that is pretty cool.
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Efficiency? More like profit margin. Labor intensive industries can be very profitable, provided the scaling is efficient.
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Yes, but the underweight people tend to be certain groups of children's role models. While we shouldn't be encouraging our children to be obese, we certainly also shouldn't be pointing them towards models who are clearly anorexic and consider them to be our standard of beauty.
Do you have medical evidence to back that up?

Some problems associated with being underweight (I was very underweight when younger) I am aware of are:

- susceptible to illness/disease

- poor metabolism

- bad blood flow

- tiredness

The problems are different, definitely, but no less problematic.

I would argue the higher number of people dying of obesity is purely down to the higher number of obese people (compared to dangerously underweight people)
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That's deeply strange. Presumably Austria, or the EU, have an agreement with the US that allows this to happen. On the face of it, you're saying to the Austrian government "I know I earn X of your Earth Euros, but I'm going to be sending a large chunk of that out of the country, tax-free, mkay?".
Yes, they're noise compared to Java, of course; but he didn't imply that Clojure was going to overtake Java anytime soon - both metrics were introspective. Looking at this chart, the growth does seem to be both exponential and rapid:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+clojure&l=
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Maybe we have different definitions of 'personal'. I was talking about posting things about your relationship status or medical conditions... the only people I would tell that stuff to anyway are the "lucky 35". I'm not saying avoid social networking all together. Facebook is, like you said, great for keeping up with acquaintances. But you don't share personal stuff with acquaintances anyway.
fyi, since the blog asked for some translation help, the man in the orange explaining with the model is Chen Jianjun (陈建军). The show is called "Win In China" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win_in_China
the current iSSH ipad app is supposed to be getting a split-screen mode that will let you run a web browser next to an ssh terminal. i think its main purpose is to support browsing through an ssh tunnel, but it could still be used for some decent remote web development with screen/tmux and vi.
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edited my post.
Err... no. If you're underweight, you are undernourished. If you're undernourished, you lack the correct amounts of at least some nutrients that are required for proper bodily function.

Being underweight can cause the following issues (and others): a severely weakened immune system, increased chance of early-onset osteoperosis (sort of similar to the increased chance of early-onset dementia), heart irregularities which can lead to serious heart damage, and anemia.

Edit: Now that you've edited your post to include the dangerous components of being underweight, I don't really see how you can support your conclusion.
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Specifically, the list including all your friends, and none of your other 'connections':

http://www.facebook.com/friends/#!/friends/?filter=afp

I thought I'd try this out to see how it felt. Using only the criteria "do I care about what this person is doing today?" I managed to axe 122 people, and don't feel bad about it at all.
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To each their own, I suppose, but I enjoyed this story quite a bit. A bit like the Fast inverse square root story, or the Control-Alt-Delete stories, it's fun to see the origin of interesting and neat things, even if they are somewhat predictable.

I've been using this server as a ping and DNS test for at least 5-6 years, so it's great to hear more about it.
I'm not sure if it's Ars's writeup or the flavor of the project, but it seemed to have a sort of distasteful / desperate air of, "ugh, noobs on the internet writing crap, make way for the REAL authorities pls". (I'm even in academia myself and sort of cringe at that, because it's pretty much the stereotype of the condescending academic.)

It seems more likely to be used as just a literature-search aid by students, though. At $300, no normal people are actually going to use it instead of Wikipedia or Google, and probably most non-student academics will continue to use Google Scholar or other deeper searches.

One thing that would be interesting is if it grows into a good enough set of annotated bibliographies that researchers would find it valuable too. There are a lot of areas without a good recent survey article in them, so something like this at least listing all the major work in the area would be useful to scan.

But: isn't it sort of ominous to say that the "politicized work of sorting and sifting the information has already been done for users"? It seems that the cases where something's politicized are exactly those where I'd rather have a Wikipedia-style smorgasbord summarizing all the opinions (along with an accurate summary of who holds them and how mainstream those people are), rather than a carefully sifted list of the Correct opinions. But I could see that it might be useful if you were an undergrad just looking for a reference, and wanting it not to be a fringe one.
looks nice! What would be the added-value comparing to a "normal" RSS reader? E.g. why should I spent $0.99 for it?
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More than anything, they just don't include that many companies. They need more in each size category, and some sort of standard deviation would be interesting... actually there are all kinds of interesting statistics you could run.
Or in case of hydro-power plants will it continue to generate 100MW

Usually hydroelectric plants are placed near a dam, so that during periods of low demand, the dam can be partially closed to slow energy production, and when demand increases, the dam can be opened again. A closed dam is essentially an energy storage device. So it does make sense to conserve electricity during off-peak hours, so that the power grid can store more energy for peak hours.

For natural gas and coal plants, for maximum efficiency, the plants should run at more or less a constant rate. This is similar to a car, which gets maximum MPG during constant-speed driving. Since technology for storing electrical energy isn't advanced enough at this point for mass scale storage (we're there for phones and laptops, almost there for cars, but not houses or cities), there is a lot more waste during off-peak times from these types of plants. There are wacky plans to use plug-in hybrids to store energy overnight when electricity demand is low, and feed it back into the grid during the day.

EDIT: here's a good Wikipedia article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_energy_storage
Who says that being underweight presents less consequences than being even just overweight? I had the idea that being slightly overweight actually increases the life expectancy. A quick search gave me this:

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/06/24/Study-Slightly-ov...
I don't watch video because reading is much better suited for a family setting since I don't have to make noise or totally tune out with headphones.
In the linked to article, he doesn't say what device he was using. I never used voice input on my G1 because it didn't work that great and wasn't available until the later builds (cupcake and donut). However, it works great on my Droid with the 2.1 update. I've dictated complete sentences into a notes application and it got them first try. It's not perfect but it's good.

As far as too many apps causing instability, dropped calls etc. I have never experienced that at all with either of my phones and I have installed tons of apps. The only real issue I've ever had with multitasking is that on 3-4 occasions a web page would hang when loading (possibly on some Javascript) and it would drain my battery down prematurely.
Sure. At that point, participation in Facebook would be nothing more than a game I play on occasion. If I get annoyed with it, I can put it away for a bit. This just makes the "post information" part more difficult. Except I don't much care about that part anyway. If I won't have my information protected, I won't post it, and I won't feel like I've lost much by not posting it anyway.

Really, this just solidifies Facebook's role in my life as nothing more than an occasional diversion. My reaction is mostly amusement at Facebook's self-destruction.
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Reminds me of a great talk i attended by Karl Kruszelnicki analyzing the increasing number of 'my grandmother died' excuses he sees each year at exam time. He ended up with an exponential-looking graph for the last few years which showed that in 10 or 20 years the average student will have 3 dead grandmothers each.
I don't need to cull anything because I never allowed Facebook or myself to build such a fake list of friends and relationship to begin with. However, even with only close family in your list, FB (or any other service besides the email service you trust) is not worth sharing anything that is of private nature. Ultimately, FB is as same as any other place on the internet.

I use FB's private nature of service for close family and friends only to email them as it is convenient.
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Sorry, but Flash is poorly written software on everything but Windows and Adobe Acrobat is just poorly written. It actually took less CPU time to virtualize Windows in VMWare and run an HD Flash video than it did to simply play that video in Linux or OS X. You have to try to write software that bad.
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When you say "The fact that he's also anti-government is new", I have to assume you mean the fact that he's opposed to the current administration, as Chomsky's opposition to the US government in general is long standing.

In my eyes, the article reads largely as a hagiography. The only "news" I see in it is that Chomsky compares the current situation in the US to the Weimar Republic. I am not an expert on either pre-WWII Germany, or modern US politics, but it seems contradictory to me to compare the US today with the effectively powerless Weimar government while simultaneously decrying the US as the most powerful government in the world. While there may be some parallels in terms of public attitudes, to me this seems like a more literate example of Godwin's Law (except not on Usenet).

You mention that Wikipedia states that "According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar during the 1980–92 period, and was the eighth most-cited source." This seems like an argument to authority. It occurs to me that the period chosen ('80 - '92) corresponds to the Reagan and Bush administrations, and that these citations may therefore reflect the amount of discourse among administration opponents as much as they reflect Chomsky's intellectual stature.

To be clear, I would be just as unhappy about someone posting an article on HN reporting that Pat Robertson thinks that the Obama administration is massing troops in Cuba for a "socialist" overthrow of the US government. That would be "thought provoking" too. Of course, the bias among HN reviewers (and comments) makes this pretty unlikely. My own preference would be that political stories on HN have at least some technology angle, and a modicum of reporting, rather than just editorializing (for example, the recent stories about Wikileaks have both).
Yes, really encouraging:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+clojure%2C+fortra...

Someday, they might even catch up to Fortran.
I've found the Readability Redux Chrome extension to be just as good and significantly faster! https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jggheggpdocamnea...

In re: the article - Do you think arc90 is logging every document that is passed through Readability? Is this body of information worthwhile? I suppose it is good ammo for them to use to approach large media properties about the possibility of a paid site redesign project.
Replying to self, sorry.

Maybe the issue is with the 'overlay' apps for android. (Sense, MotoBlur, etc). Both phones I have run the generic Android interface and I prefer it. My wife's phone has the Sense UI and she likes it. But she also doesn't have any of the troubles listed in the article. Just my $.02
I know that Adobe has been getting a lot of crap recently for it's run ins with Apple and the problems that Flash has running on Apple hardware. But I suspect that might have a bit more to do with Apple than with Adobe.

You would be wrong. There is no convincing reason why Flash should perform so poorly on POSIX operating systems.
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The Ivy League/State distinction is a little more subtle than professors' regard for students' futures.

At private schools, tuition is much higher, parents are wealthier, and alumni contributions are important. So the utility function of the professor is actually linked to the grade of the student (also why you see more grade inflation at the more expensive schools, se, e.g., - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_inflation#Princeton_Unive...).

In state schools, class sizes run much larger; granting an exception with a 200 person class is not likely to remain a secret for long. This means the penalty to professors for not following tit-for-tat is much greater.

Also, professors at state schools just don't have the time available to even consider the excuses - it's easier to consider 4 unique cases (out of 20 students) at a private school vs. 40 unique cases (out of 200) at a public school.
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And online banking for that matter...
No.. efficiency. Your margin is relative to your total costs, of which employees are generally not even a large fraction. For instance take a site like Photobucket, they have a relatively small headcount (~150'ish I believe, most of which are not developers). Their cost drivers are infrastructure and bandwidth which I imagine is in the millions/month.

This is a (very) rough measure of how efficient you are in terms of generating revenue. Craigslist is a big site, if they only have 30 employees (as cited above) than I have to imagine they have huge parts of their day-to-day operations automated. That's efficiency.
Do you have links to any of those other stories? (I'm thinking specifically of the cntrl-alt-del story but anything else interesting would be neat)
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Hacker News and Reddit are gamed by advocates and bloggers.

I recall "dons" (Haskell promoter) commenting on Reddit that it's awesome that 30% of Haskell's repositories can compile.

The amount of FOSS code in some collection means nothing.
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Please keep me out of the clean feed. I'd rather miss out on a few can't-listen-to-the-word-fuck-in-my-headphones-without-trouble-at-work folks and have the original content presented as is. (See potty mouths for more on this: http://www.loudthinking.com/posts/15-potty-mouths)
A good point, yet that again causes an escalation of an "arms race" of this kind of weaponry.

It's also a matter of logistics, where do you deploy the anti-sniper drone equipment? Around everywhere a sensitive target may go?

I suppose I'm not arguing that these things won't continue to be built and countermeasures won't be adapted to that kind of warfare. It was merely meant as an expression of the general concern that our modern societies keep working toward very efficient and accurate ways to kill one another.

It was stated more out of the depression that I know that just posting my thoughts to the internet won't do much good. Yet it's something that's worth mentioning in between the cacophony of other shouting voices wishing that things were this way or that. At least a subset of individuals I consider my peers have seen it, and thought about it at least once today.
You can hide people from your news feed. You can also make a list of friends and the default publishing privacy setting so only that list can see things. There is no need to break the connection.

With the type-ahead in composing messages and the search, you don't need to look through a list of friends.

Also, if you never pay attention to people, the algorithms on various parts of the site will make it so their content doesn't bubble up as much, even indirectly. An example might be the games presented in the gaming dashboard http://www.facebook.com/?sk=games
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