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I repeatedly don't post links to PDFs here on Hacker News because I know that despite clear copyright notices they will be uploaded to scribd, resulting in a lengthy and time-consuming clog-dance to get it taken down.

Some of them might be interesting, but I'm not going to get involved in that. It would be interesting to put several links here, get them sucked up to scribd, issue the takedown notices, and then see if scribd really does honor its "Three Strokes" policy and ban HN from uploading.

But life's too short.

I won't be posting PDF links here.
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I think the chaining issue is just that it takes more work for you to setup. But maybe someone who knows what they're talking about can give you more info.
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Is there a shift-key anywhere there? Seems it'd be hard to do any writing / case-sensitive filesystem work without one. And if it's the up-arrow, what's the down-arrow for? Subscripts?
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Yeah, that's pretty much how I was thinking of it. Enormous effort, even if you do get to use evolution. And consider the whole cycle of building a web page; organically retrieve a file, organically open a connection to a database (with an organic protocol, of course) to organically retrieve some organic data, organically convert it to some sort of organic representation (HTML is too rigid, we'd need some sort of probabilistic representation or something) and organically render it in a browser; the complication is simply enormous and the payoff? For enormously more computational power, you have a net decrease in the reliability of the whole process.

I could see how AI could use such a thing, especially since the best intelligence we know works that way. But in general? It seems less than awesome.
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My psychology lecturer at the university told exactly that: many of those choosing psychology to study do that in hope to solve their problems.
I'm sure that type of signal is valuable, but it takes a lot more than that to make money. It needs to be combined with a lot of other signal in order to come up with an estimate of alpha (idiosyncratic return). Then you need to understand how to remove market risk from your bets (what risk factors are you exposed to and what opposing positions do you need to take to minimize them). Some of the return will disappear in market impact (movement of the stock due to getting into and out of the position). The people who do this are expensive and apprenticeship is the only road to competence (the distance between theory and practice is vast). Finally, it's a distraction from Google's core business.
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I mentioned this myself -- I deleted the comment when I noticed your prior comment.

Tim was nice enough to reply to my email query some years ago and point me to this (already written). It's not comprehensive, but it was helpful. I guess I'm mostly adding this comment to attest to the generosity inherent in the sharing of such information. Aka, "thanks".
It wasn't really an experiment. It was just him bragging about how awesome and independent he is for stinking up his workplace.
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> systems of free enterprise allow people to build whatever charity they want, whatever church they want, whatever business they want, build a worker's cooperative if they want, or create an open source platform

Kind of off-topic, but it's something that bothers me ...

Some free software activists should also be reminded of this, since their agenda is getting rid of proprietary software which is considered to be immoral / unethical. Some open-source projects or companies having a business on top of open-source are perpetually harassed for their choices, some of which are viewed to be in the detriment of free software.

See here for a shining example: http://verofakto.blogspot.com/2009/07/timeline-of-david-schl...

Every ideology is right of course ( http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/003097.html ), it's only a matter of perspective.
Essentially linkbait title. They do searches on future events by capturing date keywords. (via the videos on: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1317709 )

Makes a lot of sense for Google to go for them, as they already have search-by-post-date. Search-by-content-date is a perfect addition to Google, and if they tried to make it themselves they'd probably get nailed with a patent case.
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And do these software mods also void the warranty? I know you're no longer allowed to use such things as XBox Live (which I think is a legitimate way to prevent cheating).
If you graphed those systems as they were graphed in the article, they would look like the linux kernel, not a shell. Those things don't work like cells, they add the duplication at the highest layer possible. It's not something pervasively shot through the entire architecture, all the way down to the simplest primitives, like it is in biology. Those systems run the same code on what may very well be the same basic hardware, code that still has the same basic structure of core primitives and higher layers and can still crash like a program can. They are slightly more robust against some types of errors, but are still not even remotely like a cell.
Masers (microwaves) were actually developed before lasers were, and do work pretty well for power transmission (as these things go - still quite a loss). You have the problem of directionality and tracking, though.
As much as I like that story, it doesn't seem to be quite as well received outside the HN/Reddit communities. Most people don't really enjoy/understand the concepts that much (or disagree with their use), and categorize it as crack (typically short fanfiction that contains amusing or interesting concept but lacks the depth or structure to qualify as being good fiction).
Yes, by saying that copy prone RAII is rarely an issue. Meaning, performance is rarely an issue. So, you rarely care about performance.

You need to do some work on correcting your faulty interpreter. Saying that copying rarely causes performance problems is not at all saying that I don't care about performance.

You're right. This is: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/ The writing is quite fun, and the whole thing is actually informative.

Not really. Yosefk, like many C++ detractors, very clearly does not understand the rationale for a number of C++ features. But this isn't the place for me to spend hours refuting a link that too you mere seconds to dig up.

See, when you don't need to do low-level stuff, many programming languages are vastly simpler, safer, more terse, and more flexible than C++.

That's not actually the case, though. For a lot of simple (e.g., scripting) tasks, writing them in C++ results in a program a few small lines longer and orders of magnitude faster. In one case I had billions of integers on which I needed to calculate some simple satistics; while the Python program was running, I was able to write, compile, and run to completion a C++ version that was a mere four lines longer (mostly empty-brace lines).

Some more complex tasks are actually easier in C++ than in other languages. I had to write a parser and virtual machine for an assembly language in college. Doing the bit-level operations in Python would have been a pain, in large part due to the automatic promotion of integers to longs; doing them in C++ was simple and preserved the semantics that I required. I didn't need to manage any low-level allocation in that program; all my "new" calls went straight into smart pointers (auto_ptr actually worked fine in my situation and didn't require a non-standard library) and they handled all deallocation. Valgrind confirmed that there were no memory leaks, with no effort at all on my part.

The vast majority of people who consider C++ difficult to write are unaware (commonly through willful ignorance) of how to write C++ for this the frequently cited issues never arise in the first place.

And you can learn them in no time (you were able to learn C++, after all).

It's not a matter of learning other languages; I'm competent in Python, OCaml, Perl, and a number of other languages I've worked with over the years. C++ is actually a rather late addition to my bevy of languages.

So, in that case, C++ isn't the best option. Why bother with it?

Just because I can learn other languages doesn't mean C++ isn't the best option. Sure, I could similar speed in OCaml, but then I'd be the only one who could work on it, and my employer would be in a tight spot if I were hit by a bus. I could write it in Python or Perl a little bit faster, but it would be an order of magnitude slower, and I'd have to throw tons more hardware at the problem to process the same amount of data.

Object Orientation for instance, is a mistake.

Ah. I see now that I'm arguing with an ideologue. Good day.
100 years ago, the practice of bathing once or twice per day would seem luxurious if not wasteful.
The interesting thing for me was the effects, not the ethics of the research itself. It is interesting that the torturous aspects of this were primarily mental not physical and still disgust people. Contrast with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unnecessary_Fuss (linked from that article) and you'll get what I consider a true idea of torture. That is not to say there aren't ethical concerns etc., but most of the horrible actions were committed by the monkeys themselves and were presumably unexpected, in contrast with something like in Unnecessary Fuss where there was intentional infliction of harm.
It's also worthwhile because of its security model and process model.
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I never knew about params, I know a few people who didnt know things like fragments dont get sent to the server, everyone gets encoding wrong at some point, and I know a lot of people dont really know how the base tags work

Cheers for the article, handy quick reference.
I also did this for a year. Not really by choice, but simply because I lived in a developing country (Curacao) and my house didn't have hot water. It really was not that big of a deal after the first week.
Why not offer both? Casual users might prefer to use the web app, advanced users can mine their own data. However, if I were to use a plugin to export my search data, I would expect it to be good at capturing/extracting search queries on a variety of websites and maybe have some additional features. Otherwise, I could just mine my Firefox history directly.

By the way, you could build a web app that runs on the desktop with Appcelarator's Titanium, or port the existing one to Titanium.
If you want more context, it was usually the employees of the company I founded that told me I needed to shower. It's not like I had flies swarming around me. Rather, they'd walk into my office and sniff and let me know it was about that time.

This seemed very efficient to me. Why go around guessing when you need to shower when others can more tell you more accurately?

But different strokes for different folks. I'd rather be known, not for my complete lack of odor, but for having an independent intellect.
Do you have proper approval from FDA?
I believe if you are hoping to mass market the product anytime. I feel you would require some kind of FDA approval/certification process.
Also does your bottle has proper food label which lists ingredients and nutrition info.
You might find this comment annoying but be prepared to gather and print such information on the bottle if you wish to stay clear of any headaches (or worse lawsuits) in future.
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I do. I find even the ambient temperature itself during summers unbearable.
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Believe it or not my friend owns http://www.urbanpup.com/

It's the biggest manufacturer and reatailer of pet clothes in the UK. Maybe you should get in touch and see if you stock some of their goods?
In a software ecosystem, you could say new software and firmware are "parts."
Sure, will be interesting to see how Reality-Distortion-Field [tm] works in court :P
now !== then
And the problem of not frying stuff in between.
Everybody was thinking about wireless telephony at the time:

http://books.google.com/books?as_q=wireless+telephony&nu...
And in many parts of the world, you can relive that experience.
They don't like the only sensible bit of the DMCA.
You mean to imply that one who does not shower more than twice a week will be less healthy?
No, the civilized world does...

"...The United States withdrew from compulsory jurisdiction in 1986, and so accepts the court's jurisdiction only on a case-to-case basis."

(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Court_of_Justice second paragraph).
> I suspect that doesn't describe what most of the participants in the game

This case involves folks who wanted to make billion dollar bets on the housing market. It involves folks who had personal attention from Goldman Sachs. (In other words, we're not talking a Schwab IRA with a $10k balance.)

If these folks can't be held responsible for their investment decisions, who can?

> Which means regulation, ratings and market forces that are intended to stop things getting out of hand might function somewhat better.

You're assuming that complexity was relevant even though there wasn't even a correlation.

Note that no one is forcing folks to do complicated deals. Moreover, simple deals are available.

I trash Warren Buffet fairly often, but he's correct when he says that you shouldn't invest in something that you don't understand. Folks who violate that rule should lose their money.
When I was teaching middle school in Namibia, a fellow teacher asked his kids to write something about the wintertime. A common theme was how cold it was, the time when no one wants to shower and they end up smelling bad!
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Nikola Tesla isn't only predicting wireless communication (which he calls a primitive usage of wireless technology), but wireless transfer of electricity - - one of his unfinished projects and something that we still don't have today. Read this passage once more:

"The attention of the world has been caught and held by the wireless telegraph, and yet this is a very primitive use of the the art. So far only electric waves have been used, which have been quickly damped out in their passage through the air. It is possible, however, to transmit electric currents of enormous power for thousands of miles without demising their energy."

Too bad he got screwed by Edison & company. I think the world would have looked a lot more different if Tesla had finished his work on wireless transfer of electricity.

Nikola Tesla is viewed as one of the co-inventors and pioneers of radio and this article clearly shows his vision and how far ahead he was of his time ( check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio ).
shift arrow is on bottom left. I got one when I found out it could easily run guile etc. so that I have a tiny scheme interpreter to play around with at coffee shops etc. Once you get used to typing with your thumbs it is really not that bad. the biggest down side is no built in wireless. there is micro sd though so in theory if someone starts making micro sd wireless cards again you could use that. As it stands you have to connect it to your computer via usb ethernet and forward internet that way.
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Work from home.

If you're going to follow this as a regular practice while working with a group of people in a professional environment -- well that's just obnoxious.
Tesla was a dreamer and an inventor. This is a rarely successful combination, most dreamers live too much in their dreams and fantasies to actually be a productive inventor, and inventors are too grounded by reality to really dream up something extremely special. But there are a few, like tesla or davinci that managed to take their dreams and put them on paper and try then try to make it reality
I hate to be the one to break it to you; but if your employees had to tell you when to shower they won't remember you for your "independent intellect", they'll remember you as "the guy who smelled so bad we had to tell him to take showers".
I agree except that this is infant tech at work. Do you happen to remember Flash 1 animations? Eeeew.
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That seems a little naive to me. Why should hardware be made to not fail when used improperly? Wouldn't that drive up the prices on everything? No thanks!
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this is why i honor tesla with a framed print of him, sitting in his lab, watching over my bed.
It's a dupe. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1314787
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Turns out mobile phones are really old (for some value of mobile):

"In 1910 Lars Magnus Ericsson installed a telephone in his car, although this was not a radio telephone. While travelling across the country, he would stop at a place where telephone lines were accessible and using a pair of long electric wires he could connect to the national telephone network."

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones
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I tend towards the "that which does not kill me, makes me stronger" approach to sanitization. A good immune system is valuable, and oversanitizing definitely weakens it, because you've had less exposure. Health-care people really are immune(ish) to a vast amount of diseases because they're exposed to them while they're healthy, and they develop defenses against them.

Clean things, sure, but sanitization is overkill because the world is not a sanitary place to begin with. If you're not living in the world when it intrudes, it seems unlikely you'll be prepared. And antibacterial soap is ridiculously excessive for anyone not in healthcare; it all washes down the drain in the end, boosting diseases' resistance to it.

As to meat, I generally have found that less is better, and American diets tend to have a ton. I have doubts that zero is more healthy (and don't bother quoting / linking, I've read tons) than small amounts, much less veganism, but I definitely do better when I keep it pretty low.
Try 19 years on (2months/year) and off (10months/year). That's growing up in a developing country. But at least that is normal there.
I see some great predictions, but I bet he didn't predict goatse.
> Unhygienic!

What definition of "hygiene" are we using?

As unpleasant as his smell may have been, when does a shower reduce the incidence of disease? (That's the medical definition of hygiene - Wikipedia - "In medicine, hygiene practices are employed as preventative measures to reduce the incidence and spreading of disease.")
An interesting point is the counter on CaptchaAd's homepage saying they have served over 23 million ads. They must have some data on how effective this is.
Scribd does honour takedown notices (I recall cperciva's comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=960179, even if it did apparently take some time to get it done).

A bigger problem is that they will take resubmissions of content that they've already taken down in the past.

That's pretty cheap of them, they could easily avoid that extra work for the authors.
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I was wondering about browser support myself, and found this to be informative: http://www.deepbluesky.com/blog/-/browser-support-for-css3-a...
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We use http://www.digicert.com/ since we need a SAN (SubjAltName). SAN lets you do *.domain.com and domain.com

Weird surprise, Android does NOT support SAN. DigiCert gave us a root cert for free with our wildcard.
Ocaml has ocamljs and orpc:

http://code.google.com/p/ocamljs/

Haskell has a couple of haskell->js compilers but I'm not aware of any rpc mechanisms.

Clojure has clojurescipt:

http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib/tree/master/clo...

Presumably rpc would be easy given the mostly uniform data representation.
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It means that the DA and Jobs are buddies. Simple as that.
> Sounds insane, but I actually think pet services and businesses are totally under appreciated. People are crazy about and spend shitloads of money on their pets, even in hard financial times, and there are very few real entrepreneurs taking advantage of it.

I've been told by folks who make a living writing that pet stuff is among the most profitable for authors, far more so than porn.
Because someone writing malware could destroy your hardware.

At least like this you have the option to go back to 'factory settings' (ie, a blank start) and you can expect to get your device back to the way it was when you bought it.
FYI, here is On The Media's report on the situation: http://onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/04/30/01

"I think what makes it fundamentally less compelling is the fact that they paid for this phone. If they had simply discovered this phone and took pictures of it, no one would question that that’s a valid journalistic enterprise. But what they were doing here puts them a hair’s breadth away from what a fence does."

"I think that the prosecutor should have shown more restraint, ironically, in the same fashion that Gizmodo should have shown more restraint. I mean, this is not a mob case. You don't have Chen saying, leave the iPhone, take the cannoli."
subject line: Why I went without hot water for a year

second paragraph: I didn’t really have a clear reason for doing this

I'd argue that the blog post pretty well fails to deliver on the promise of the subject line.
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Look at this from this angle: I have an iPhone 3 or 4/iPad. I can't use any of the existing apps in the appstore to take my notes (my notes have a very specific and complex structure). I want to build an app that (tweaks) the OS so that I have the possibility of starting taking notes right from the home screen (with all the structure I require for them), or by vocal commands. I don't want to go from the appstore (I don't want to sell/distribute it) or buy a developer subscription, and I don't have a Mac platform to develop from. I want to use an industry standard (wide use on multiple-markets) and open language (not a commercial one). Can I built my app, on the device I just purchased?

Under this definition, Apple is actually a monopoly (and they're not in the phone market, they're in the smartphone one). They lock me out of every process they take, and I'm their customer (and if a developer, a business customer).

EDIT: As a response to those who claim that the antitrust case should apply to Wii/Xbox/PS/etc (and I'm okay with that, but): iPhone/iPad are computers/devices that enable personal productivity, and it's a different story since different uses are involved.
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