skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That claim is thrown out in the article, but as far I can see there's nothing to back it up. If anything it's the opposite. ISPs want to control and meter based on whatever rules they come up with (i.e. whatever increases their profits) while the government argues for neutrality. If we use the telephone industry as blueprint of what may happen, what aspects of the current policies worry you?
See below at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1331995.

When I was doing this, groking pointers was required and functional programming unfortunately just wasn't an option. E.g. during this period LISP was anathema (even to the point where one project at the beginning of this decade died because it could only be done in something that productive but use of it was rejected for no good reason).

So my test was for understanding pointers as well as figuring out how smart they are at programming.

Plus as noted when things get ugly (e.g. in some debugging situations) groking pointers is required and as long as Johnny von Neumann's initial hack architecture rules that will remain true.

Today, I would most certainly take someone with "a good understanding of functional programming as a substitute for a good understanding of pointers", I'd just make sure a few also grok pointers and other low level stuff.

(I am so happy we have exited the Dark Age of Programming Languages.)
It is interesting that this article doesn't mention how the United States broadband companies, despite their trillions of investments still can't offer decent speeds at decent prices. When compared to other countries it is clear that the United States needs some sort of regulation on these internet providers for the good of everyone. Hopefully this doesn't come at the expense of openess.
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See also MIT's work on this: http://projects.csail.mit.edu/emergentDesign/genr8/

This uses grammatical evolution, which is basically evolutionary computation guided by a grammar. The Maya plugin GENR8 was originally implemented is available for download on their website under an unclear license (assume it's restrictive).
Interesting, can you point to any of these reddit stories?
If it's on C2C, I half expect the story to be more like:

"The ACTA section that NASA doesn't want you to see!!"

But the show does have legit guests, from time to time.
There is an existence proof "for some value of objective": Your and my own subjective tastes are also an objective determinant. With enough data from people, one might find some function over the domain of colour that yields pleasing combinations.

I'd suggest you put your candidates up on http://www.colourlovers.com/ and have them vote.
Dump all your static assets on a CDN if you can. Rackspace Cloud offers Limelight who are respectable.
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Somewhere between the first and second Star Wars trilogies, Lucas’ imagination seems to have deteriorated to the point where he started basing all of his alien races on stereotypes.
I never thought about that. Couldn't you say that is also Microsoft's (intended) software-innovation model?
Thanks for that link. I spent some time late last night comparing this new pure Emacs release with Aquamacs. I have been a happy Aquamacs user for a long time but I will probably switch because of the faster startup times and cleaner looking interface. When Aquamacs is released with an update, I would like easier options for simplifying the look and feel (e.g., having to hide the button bar, etc.)

BTW, really off topic, but does anyone know how to bind the speedbar to the main frame window instead of being in a separate frame window?
"A Python programmer discovering the magic of itertools is three months from looking for a new language that better supports the functional style."

-Andrew Brehaut
Android phones already have an “emergency call only” option on the unlock screen. Now, a phone that self-diagnoses an emergency is heading into interesting territory…
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http://colorschemedesigner.com lets you choose a main color and then generates a color scheme based on semi-objective criteria.
That writing style was so annoying I could not finish article.
> (a) at least a 7-figure initial capital

I don't think Michael Dell, Li Ka-Shing, Slim Helu, or Larry Ellison actually started out with anywhere near that sum of initial capital. From everything I've read, they started in ghettos and middle-to-working-class voids, or as immigrants.

I've read that it just takes extreme, almost Asperger's level of apathy toward risk (AKA chutzpah, balls, juevos, etc), and business acumen from a young age. Oh, and often a cold, utilitarian view of relationships, but not always.
In other words the ends justify the means, and you are 100% sure those you like will always be controlling the means.
Twitter is still fully usable via SMS and that's both useful and unique.
Does it allow the export of the data out ? Any service implemented with the intent "to be good", needs a built-in parachute for the users to use when it "becomes evil".
oh, this is brilliant:

Yet, the net amount of money that's been made by the shareholders of airlines since Kitty Hawk, is now a negative figure—a substantial negative figure. Competition was so intense that, once it was unleashed by deregulation, it ravaged shareholder wealth in the airline business.

And that was 1994.
I'm surprised you headlined it "even" Google. Google's policies are better aligned with hacker ethics than any other large tech company. (E.g., open source Android and Chrome, GSoC, efforts to free spectrum, Data Liberation Front)
Why, so we can have the only ISP that's allowed to serve an area filter out bittorrent and maybe charge a premium to access certain sites?
I may not have the latest version, but I find that sometimes this mode has issues with syntax highlighting, especially around comments.

Not a deal breaker for me, though.
Bragging is the wrong word, but it is the first that came to mind. And I was excited to brag about the size of my app when I first read his article.

I just think we spend too much time talking about scaling and not enough time discussing virality.
Forgive my ignorance for I am no board designer, but what is stopping me from dumping all disparate connectors and leaving only 6 USB3 connectors? Wouldn't that simplify board manufacturing?

Everytime I see a laptop or netbook with a modem port or an ethernet port I cry a little.

Another silly question (I am a SW developer not HW) but, can the display port be universally replaced by an USB3 port?

Why yes or why not. Feel free to call me names, I rather take it and learn than surf the waves of ignorance.
DOCSIS 3.0? Verizon FTTH?

Compare to the extreme of the Tele Phone Company and your only being able to hook up slow modems you've leased from them.

Yes, I agree with you the current situation in the US is bad in many way but I guarantee you the FCC can make it worse. Ignoring regulatory capture, how about the fact that none of their current top people are engineers?!??!!??!!!
It's a relative comparison. Compare the gains in internet to the gains in plain old telephone service.

Incidentally, much of the rest of the world has less regulation than us. In Korea, for example, you have competition between multiple internet providers (i.e., more than just Verizon and Cable). In the US, such competition is illegal.
This ended like an Onion article:

> That was the experience of Kanupriya Tewari, a 19-year-old pre-med student at Tufts University. Recently she sought to limit the information a friend could see on Facebook but found the process cumbersome. “I spent like an hour trying to figure out how to limit my profile, and I couldn’t,” she said. She gave up because she had chemistry homework to do, but vowed to figure it out after finals.
The fact that I read your comment and nodded to myself indicates what is so wrong with our society.
Now that the internet is under political control, the FCC might be the one banning bittorrent. Joe Biden is, after all, in the pockets of big content.
De facto illegal. In theory other companies can run wires or fiber, and most certainly they can and many do it with radio, it's just that the legal monopoly incumbents have too many advantages. Plus backhaul is very expensive in lots of places.
On a long enough timeline the survival rate for anything drops to zero - - and as _why put it "programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more."
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1319092.
Useless for real work? I never saw negative comments from js2 users...

I remember it was similar to nXML in having its own parser... do you think nXML is badly engineered or useless too ?

I wrote a mode inspired by your Stylish for Lua one day. I wish there were more editors that would let you do that kind of thing...
Particularly poignant with Python, since Python has refused real lambdas for years now.

Result of that decision: in the name of simplicity, increasingly complex iteration tool chains spring into existence.
It's very much along the lines of Gandhi's "You must be the change you want to see in this world."
> In theory other companies can run wires or fiber, and most certainly they can and many do it with radio

I thought there tended to be monopolies on wires/fiber granted by local governments (supposedly to limit the number of companies tearing up roads and the like to install new infrastructure, but more likely to create a scarce privilege they can sell)?

Radio tends to be much lower bandwidth, and can be susceptible to bad weather.
Am I the only one who's been seeing the new interface for several months now?

I only saw it in one of my browsers, so I figured they were doing a slow rollout, but it sounds like everyone else has been taken by surprise by the new interface, while I figured it was public knowledge long ago.
I've had so many spineless bosses it's not even funny.
> Forgive my ignorance for I am no board designer, but what is stopping me from dumping all disparate connectors and leaving only 6 USB3 connectors? Wouldn't that simplify board manufacturing?

Industrial, hobby and embedded control are usually a generation or two behind 'mainstream' when it comes to io, also there is usually a need to interface to older devices.

So, yes, board manufacturing would be easier but it would be harder to sell the boards, because those are exactly the markets that these boards are targeted at. They're not 'mainstream' devices, or at least, not until they've been packaged as some kind of appliance.

> Everytime I see a laptop or netbook with a modem port or an ethernet port I cry a little.

An ethernet port ? Those are pretty useful, not all connections to the internet for laptops are using wireless, for instance, many companies will not allow the use of WI-FI on their premises for security reasons, so wiring the laptops is the only option there.

> Another silly question (I am a SW developer not HW) but, can the display port be universally replaced by an USB3 port?

Not yet, but that may happen at some point in the future.

There are a number of competing solutions for the permanent replacement of the display connectors with something more bus like, USB is only one of those.
> Compare to the extreme of the Tele Phone Company and your only being able to hook up slow modems you've leased from them.

I was under the impression that those phone company rules were done away with by government interference that was rather similar to what they're trying to do to internet connectivity now.
Increased regulation means that would-be network providers need lawyers and lobbyists to compete.

I can't get FIOS on my block in Manhattan even though I can see Verizon HQ from my window. I'd like to give them my money and they'd like to take it, but they haven't gotten over the regulatory hurdles to run a fiber.

I am sure a small guy would love to do the same but there's no way they can get over those hurdles, if even Verizon struggles to do so. So yes, competition is de facto illegal.

Regulation is good for incumbents. Or, more accurately, it prevents them from having to work harder.

http://clipperhouse.com/blog/post/Net-neutrality-and-preserv...
I love news outlets that don't include a single link to any of the company websites they mention. (Yes, guessing clustrix.com was pretty easy.)
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Would this timing attack affect Google's NativeClient as well? http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/
Not all members of the government argue for neutrality. Some are strongly in favor of censorship:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Joe_Bide...
Abstractions and code generation. Start by being completely intolerant of repetitive code. Boilerplate must die. Closures can help a lot with this.

To whatever extent you can't abstract away, use code generation. Make your generator insert code directly into your project files, maybe in between comment tags. You want to be able to configure things with minimal code and hit a button to get everything you need.

I'm experimenting with using emacs for this, but generally I've just built c# projects to generate my c# code. On one project this had an unexpected benefit: I realized I could change my generator from a compiler to an interpreter, doing everything at runtime, and I got a very concise and flexible data-driven project, with 1/3 the lines of code as a similar project built by a contractor that had everything hardcoded.

Of course, know your language and libraries well. You don't want to be googling for every little thing. To help learn the libraries, staged memory software like anki or mnemosyne can be a big help.

Finally, get really good at a topnotch text editor. I'm about 8 months into using Vim for everything (mainly via Viemu, a plugin for Visual Studio) and it makes a huge difference. It's not just that I can edit faster, but that it helps keep me in flow.
I would guess that a USB3 port used for networking would choke the poor 300mhz CPU, especially if it's transferring data off a USB3 hard drive too.

I hear USB is very CPU heavy, anyways.
I totally agree with you. It would be better to charge a flat rate, perhaps 0.5%

Cuban's basic idea is good though. That said, the chances of Congress passing legislation that would limit Wall Street profits is very low. And, neither a democrat or republican president would sign such a bill if by some small chance Congress passed it.
I can't be sure of what will happen, but I can tell you that ISPs want to control it now. There's something we can do about government, but very little about corporations (when they have a monopoly).
> The Motion Picture Association of America called ACTA an "important step forward" that deserves to be adopted.

If the Motion Picture Association says its an "important step" forward, you know it really has got to be 2 "important steps" back.
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#5 and #6 are very good ideas.

On #5: Don't just aim for students. Anyone renting an unfurnished apartment who doesn't want to fill it with stuff (e.g. because they're just there for the summer) should be able to use the service. The domain Unfurnished.com would be ideal (might be pricey, though).

Here's how I'd implement it: Sell the items, but offer a partial refund on return. (Less risky than rental, for both parties—obviously for the seller, but also for the buyer if they wind up needing the stuff for longer than expected.) Specialize in light-weight, durable items that can be shipped economically: air mattresses, plastic tableware, folding furniture. Include a pre-printed shipping label in the box. The pitch: "Zappos for apartment stuff." (Just checked, and ApartmentStuff.com is being parked on.) Ideally, the stuff should be custom-branded.
And if you report or have to answer to anyone, they're not likely to be impressed that you hired that many duds/people who just didn't work out.

I think it's important to note that the author is writing from the viewpoint of a serial entrepreneur, which means the context is small startup environments.

Presumably he still might answer to a board, but those may all be co-founders. Regardless, I don't think they would need to be impressed by his management style so much as his end results.
More to the point, Google doesn't actually create any content and does make a lot of money from reproducing (in occasionally iffy ways; see the millions of copyright-infringing clips on youtube) other people's content.

If Disney and Universal start objecting to it you can use the word "even".
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And there was me thinking I wonder if Google has done enough. The competition that search is facing now is fierce. Google was in danger of looking tired against other offerings and a user base can turn against a service quickly.
Well, what we really need is a competitive last mile. But the states and municipalities like selling local monopolies and Congress doesn't seem to want to smack them down (the internet is used in interstate/global commerce; it's much less of a stretch than say growing your own weed having an effect on the interstate black market), so limiting what can be done with those monopolies is a decent second choice.
When do people here go to the Google home page? I only use Chrome and Opera so I never need to visit a url to do a web search.
I think the intent of a board like this is to serve as a means of prototyping devices. The designer doesn't know what the Hawkboard customers will try to build in the long run, so he provides multiple different ports to maximize the utility of the board for prototyping.

In regard to USB3 specifically, it's plenty fast, but it has the major distinction versus Ethernet that it's not bus-addressable, i.e. it has no provisions for network routing. Also, I suspect (but I'm not certain) that its latency is relatively high compared to something like DisplayPort.
I respect other peoples right to have a different opinion. However, I'd feel a lot better if opposing views were expressed in comments, not by merely voting down a comment. It's kind of hard for me to even distinguish which part of the comment was considered unworthy of this message board :-)
Any such meetup in Bangalore? Could be made monthly or heck even twice a month to show off hacks or share ideas?

I'm in if you are in Bangalore!
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Maybe he didn't drill straight.
It's going to take a lot more than an expensive, closed source, hardware integrated, clustered database that talks the MySQL protocol to even make even a tiny dent in MySQL's popularity. Outrageous headline used to draw people in to an annoying article that reads like marketing copy.
Ask HN: Might as well start with SQL and migrate to NoSQL later
All of the articles I've read recently talk about the successful migration of very large websites to NoSQL solutions. The argument against are that they NoSQL is only needed for a very small percentage of websites. That coupled with the much larger SQL tools and knowledge base and uncertainty that any new website will need such scaling leads me to my question.

Why not just start with SQL and plan a migrate to a NoSQL solution later, when it's really needed?

It's certainly doable. I feel that the benefit of a NoSQL solution is, at this time, outweighed by the ease of an SQL solution for such a majority of sites that to plan from the beginning for a NoSQL solution is overkill.

Thoughts?
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I did this with my iPhone SIM to fit my iPad in the US. You also need to change the APN from 'broadband' to 'phone' for it to actually work.
A little off topic, but I am very sorry I entered my birthday when signing up for FB a few years ago. It does not show on my profile but the possibility of FB passing it on with other data for marketing to 3rd parties might happen (or happens right now?)

Last night a friend mentioned that she was able to remove her birth date last year but when I tried this morning there was no option on the web app. I emailed support@facebook.com, admin@facebook.com, etc. this morning asking for it to be removed and pointed out that this might be a huge legal exposure to them.

I'll add a comment to this comment if I ever hear back from them.
Does anyone actually direct their browser to "google.com"? I always type the search query in the address bar, then I only ever see search results.
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Yeah because every time I say the f-bomb on the phone there party on the other end hears a bleep.

Let's be serious about what the FCC could do when regulating the internet. Anything they try to do will have to pass 1st amendment muster.
Part of me thinks the the same math geniuses that invented the credit default swap financial derivatives figured out an even better way to beat the market. All they had to do was get someone to fat finger an order for P&G.

Regardless of the truth to that theory, the article makes a great point. Does anyone know if only the NASDAQ is cancelling orders? What about the NYSE?
And sometimes you have to jump through hoops to avoid iterating over the same iterator twice.
What do you mean by "the near total suppression of real nanotech research in the last quarter century"?
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Not just the nonliving, also the living with artificial hearts with no heartbeat:

http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/30/1348224/Artificia...
SoC processors have several built in controllers on the CPU. For instance, you'll typically see: a flash controller, an ethernet controller, one or more UARTs, i2c controller, DRAM controller, etc. Development boards break out all of these controllers to external interfaces.

The OMAP-L138 Processor only supports usb 1.1 and usb 2.0. In general, a fair number of low power processors in the PDA/netbook realm only support usb 1.1. It may be possible to use an external usb 3.0 controller but that would dramatically complicate your board design.
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See, that doesn't make any sense. "The Internet" is not being placed under any form of "political control". The ISPs, the people with the last-mile pipes are becoming regulated in the same manner as the phone companies already are. There's no more danger of the FCC banning bittorrent than there is of them banning phone sex operators; this reclassification DOES NOT give the FCC the power to ban sites/protocols/etc.
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In theory I think you can go to Federal court and get these overturned, but I could of course be wrong. We're not likely to find out since the other side (ILECs, cablecos and local and state government) has so much power it's just not worth it. Who has the budget and time to play this game?
In this case in theory Verizon has overcome the regulatory hurdles and will connect you up within a few years. But it did take them many years to get to this point.

Of course dealing with NYC is a special worst case....
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But these phone company rules existed in the first place because the government granted AT&T a legal monopoly to provide service (well, service to the most profitable places; lots of rural areas had to get service from someone else such as GTE or set up their own ILECs).
credit default swap is not that complex. it's just insurance against a bond default. anyone with basic arithmitic can price one.
Well, fair enough then; I'm presuming you're a RedGate employee. I'm then curious, how well are you doing persuading the "great software engineers" to interview away from their safe jobs with a £429 bit of kit?
When I order a computer with more memory and a bigger monitor, is that a new product too?
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Write a critique essay only when you are able to evaluate the entire piece of writing. There are many perspectives that you could focus on in your essay.