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I don't think this will have much impact on sales. You can just search for M.I.A.

It's because mysql_real_escape_string, which many sites use, escapes all \ with /\. So on many sites (not nessessarily Google, you will actually be searching for //\//\//\Y//\?
How is the comparison to HFT valid?
I think it's more generational than anything, as far as informal discussion goes. I don't use it, but I sometimes get called out by people older than me for using other abbreviations, like the typical internet stuff (fwiw, imo, etc.). I've even been criticized for using contractions in some settings, even though nobody under 40 cares about that (fortunately, consensus even in academic writing is moving towards "contractions are ok"). Not sure "n e 1" will go that way, but I can't say I care that much either way.

It's basically the bit.ly links of English: annoying in some ways that they didn't just write the normal thing out, and also annoying that stupid length restrictions like those of SMS and Twitter are encouraging both of them, but I'll live.
You forgot the word "new" in your second search, which is why you get different results. Those characters are being entirely ignored. You get the exact same results by searching for "Y new album"
Saw this one before and if that was the source of this, then the answer will be E) 0%
What a nice one!
The "solution" is quite more interesting and amusing that the problem itself.
Decreasing pricing is not a competitive strategy. They can compete through the quality of their service, the quality of their customer support, their interface simplicity, additional services bundled with the storage such as the prediction api etc. But never compete on price.
Both Adobe and Microsoft seem to be talking about VP8 only, not the full WebM stack including Vorbis audio and Matroska containers.

It smells like they are leaving room for their own media streaming formats and servers, and only nominally claiming some kind of support for VP8 without audio or file/streaming support. WebM needs all three to be an open platform for creating, streaming and consuming video content.
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"Pick a band name that no one else has so that it will show up first in google ... Pick an album name that is a made up word that no1 has ever even typed ... Name a song after some phrase that will get you accidental google hits."

These 3 things together make no sense to me. On the one hand it's suggesting to pick unique band names and albums, and then suggesting to pick regular phrases for songs that might get "accidental" hits.

If there's a benefit to getting said accidental hits, wouldn't this work for a band name? Surely Grizzly Bear would benefit from this? And I don't htink it's a real issue if your band name isn't top of the list because you are competing with 'real bears'; people aren't going to give up finding you if you are 4th on the list, or they have to type "grizzly bear band" in the search instead.
BTW: Here's more on lean evangelizing (for want of a better term): http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch13_Promote_Through_Educat...
* (latest-album 'sigur-ros)

NIL
You see, MS is chock full of shitty architecture. And MS devs learn from MS.

Do you have an idea why this is the case? Or the other way around why the architecture of OSS projects seems to be saner?

disclaimer: I have no exposure to the MS stack, with the exception of playing around with F# which in my opinion is a very well designed language.
I'm guessing they build a bunch of other stuff in addition to the iPhones and iPods.
You know what's worse than that? People using 'nyt' for the word 'night' (ie. 'last nyt'). At least n-e-1 actually phonetically resolves to something sounding like 'anyone'. In my mind, 'nyt' would be 'nit' (or maybe nyit?).

On the other hand, if you have to include the spaces, 'n e 1' only saves you one keypress, so its also pretty damn stupid.
I go to the site and see a doc. Clicking on download, I'm taken to a scribd sign-up page.

Is there a reason I should sign up for Scribd because somebody wants to share material with me on the internet?

Sorry. I lost interest at that point.
Ok.

So here is how you could solve that, at least in principle:

Break up your projects in to smaller components and set deadlines for each of those, then track where you go wrong on those much smaller components. Like that you get a feeling for which part of the estimation process fails you.

Some things, such as testing (which you really can't get around) and rework are extremely expensive in terms of time and are easily overlooked. If a customer changes a specification after a contract job has been accepted and the specification isn't sufficiently nailed down then that may be another source of 'creep'.

Good luck with this, it is a difficult thing to tackle. It probably took me a few years before I got good at estimating programming jobs and I still find myself hopelessly wrong from time to time.

The important thing in estimating is to not make the same estimation error twice, eventually you'll get better at it. It really takes practice.
You should have tried googling for 'sigur ros parentheses'.
Please note that it is useful to fill this out if you've used Perl in the past, whether or not you do now. People are sure to analyze the data in a number of ways, and will be interesting to contrast views from people who use the language actively with those who don't any more.
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So, one font doesn't render quite right at a certain size in a certain browser? Not sure I'd call that a disaster.

"I don’t have a clue how they expect to make money from this or why they wanted to create the directory in the first place"

I'll tell you why: To encourage the use of plain text instead of images. Every time a webmaster uses Google's font directory instead of resorting to an image file, Google's job gets easier.
I found the question about "school" ambiguous.

Depending on your location, this may or may not include university.
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FYI: The cost of building the fab is already a significant percentage of the cost of building chips.

"The increase in cost and complexity is encapsulated in Rock's Law, which dictates that fab construction costs double every four years. That law is itself tightly connected to the better-known Moore's Law, which dictates that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years." (http://news.cnet.com/A-fab-construction-job/2100-1001_3-9810...)

"By 2007, the price of building a fab is expected to reach $6 billion."

$6 billion * 2 ^ 10 = 6 trillion in 20 years.
Google will tell you that they do things like this to make the web more usable, or on a larger scale, to make information more accessible. I think it’s mostly a sincere sentiment; what’s good for the web is good for google.
Care to elaborate a bit?
FWIW, this is the best assessment I've found of singularity/AI risk: http://www.aaai.org/Organization/presidential-panel.php
why is he having a different result than the one at:
http://code.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Vollkorn

there must be something wrong in the usage, sine at google code site the font is rendered smoothly.
B) for me
0% chance.

Answering randomly may give you a result that coincidentally matches the truth, but you have provided no logical or epistemological support for your choice, nor any chain of reasoning that leads you from the available evidence to a conclusion that there even is a correct answer.

You have a 25% chance of randomly choosing the "right" answer, (C) 0%, but no paradox is created because you answered without establishing knowledge of the answer, and therefore your answer cannot rightly be called correct.
I thought ~ was the universal mark of sarcasm :-/
For people interested in football there was the fake Lucas Leiva of Liverpool FC which was hilarious, but now banned.
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We have bug databases for a reason, we should also have progress databases. Why rely on your gut instinct built from experience, when you can objectively say "it normally takes me one week to implement foo in terms of size and complexity"?

It should be possible to look at your project and see at a glance how many components there are, how long each has taken, and how long it has taken to complete components of similar metrics. I'm surprised that I haven't seen much emphasis on this in Agile, considering the very emphasis on decomposing projects into more-easily estimated components (git plugins to offer nifty visualizations categorized by class, design, cyclical complexity, etc).

There is probably a huge market if you can figure out a reliable, easy way of updating your estimates in a more communicable way than relying on remembered experience
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There are quite a few security types on here too :) (besides myself I know of at least 5).
I think he might be referring to the "write once, run anywhere" slogan, about how Java via the JVM would free users and developers from the tyranny of any particular OS.
I dont think they will converge that fast. I definitely don't see myself writing html and javascript code for a computer program. The web languages unfortunately are ad-hoc pieces of different technologies shuffled together. Ad-hoc is generally good, but its done in a disorganized way which is what I don't like about it. Why bring the same chaos to native?
A) could discover new laws of physics Not really it can only discover the laws that actually exist or a close acclimation of such. Humans can already kill most people on the planet with bombs or disease to be "god like" you need to step above that and the laws of physics would need to support that jump. So it might not think of the universe using the same laws we do but it does not get to make them up as it goes along.

B) Not really it's a well known problem with AI. Over train a learning system and you get worse behavior.

C) Nope. Information theory puts strict limits on how much you can zoom in with a web cam. If an AI want's to earn about sub atomic physics it needs to look at the output of a particle accelerator. Can it make a better theory with existing data? Well see B.

D) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%27s_law The semiconductor industry has always been extremely capital-intensive, with very low unit manufacturing costs. Thus, the ultimate limits to growth of the industry will constrain the maximum amount of capital that can be invested in new products; at some point, Rock's Law will collide with Moore's Law.
I agree open has become newspeak and we have to be more precise:

- published: you can use it to get some data and it is documented

- transparent or reversible: you can get your data back

- interoperable: you can implement the API on your own and interoperate with other users/servers
I'm pretty amazed that he gets his own TV show thanks to Twitter.
He found one of the few useful use cases of Twitter.

He also did a "Ask me anything" on reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9pqjl/i_am_justin_from...

I'm still wondering if his dad is actually saying those tweets or if he's just a good writer.
Normally it would be 1 out 4 = 25% but if all answer given in the list is wrong then 0%

The answer is not in the list thus unanswerable?
Uh ... I just tried it, but without the (hopefully typo:ed) misspelling you cited.

I get two hits, and the second goes to http://i3.zekjur.net/ which seems to be the home of i3.

This is the search I used: http://www.google.se/search?q=%22i3+windowmanager%22.

So that seems to be working fine, at least now.
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It also puts a Google resource hit on lots of pages -- Google gives you fonts, you give it usage data.

Edit: This is probably not useful to them, actually, due to caching. However, it is their prerogative at any time to change their resource behavior and start receiving every request.
Ask HN: How to convert 5 star ratings to up/down voting?
I've got a site with close to a million ratings on thousands pieces of content. I'm redoing the site and I want to scrap the 5-star rating system and go for a like/dislike thing--sort of like what YouTube did.

The system will display how many votes there have been and the score (up votes minus down votes).

I want to keep all those ratings from the current setup, and still be at least a bit accurate with the scores (aka content that had higher star rating to have an appropriately higher score--of course this also depends on the number of votes which is why I don't exactly know how to go about it)

Suggestions?
This article is a waste of time, imho. All it says is "this one font looks bad on my (not specified) system, in my (not specified) browser." It compares three completely different fonts - one of which is professionally crafted, whereas the other two are "hobbyist" works.

The rendering quality of his test cases has nothing to do with the method these fonts were embedded.

Anyway, Windows XP is the biggest source for this kind of problems, as you can see in this chart:

http://typophile.com/node/70216
The common useage in mathematics is in analysis and topology, to specify subsets of the real numbers. Remembering that open and closed are jargon terms in topology:

(a,b) is an open set and contains exactly those x such that a is less than x and x is less than b.

[a,b] is a closed set and contains exactly those x such that a is less than or equal to x and x is less than or equal to b

For example, one might be thinking about the interval [0,pi] but the function 1/sin x has singularities at both ends of the interval. It is only defined on (0,pi). Notice that 1/x is defined on (0,pi]. It is sometimes convenient to mix up open=exclusive=() and closed=inclusive=[].

These conventions can be carried over into computer science in the obvious way [0,3) = {0,1,2} while (0,3] = {1,2,3} but the motivation is different. In computer science we are more concerned how smoothly our subranges chain together. For example

[0,r)+[r,s)+[s,t) = [0,t)

while

[0,r]+[r+1,s]+[s+1,t] = [0,t]
English is not a regulated language.
It is very fluid; words change meaning over time via cultural shifts, or more deceptively for political reasons. We can also ascribe a particular defined meaning to a word within the context of a specific discussion to get everyone on the same page.
It took me quite a long time to remember that I spent that conference doing booth duty. I seem to remember some rather large gentlemen getting rather upset with us when we tried to carry our own boxes from our rental car to our stand....
Actually, that wasn't a carefully selected size. I tried a few fonts in a few sizes, but all of the ones I tried looked like that in smaller sizes.

They look fine for headings and such, but not when used for readable text.
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This story sort of reminds me of another that was reported here. See the link referred to in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=756873
Actually, it's not rendered smoothly at all - when you take a look at the smallest size on google's site, this is what you see:
http://twitpic.com/1pd6id

edit: This seems to only be an issue with the way Windows renders fonts. The fonts look awesome in Ubuntu or Mac systems
http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/09/paper/download/22... may help. The polarization into "strongly like" and "strongly dislike" ought to help.
Do you store each individual rating by each user or only the aggregate? If you store each individual rating you could go two ways:
A)
- If a rating is 3 stars or more, count as an up vote.
- If a rating is 2 stars or less, count as a down vote.

B) Multiply the number of ratings for a given content by the .2xnumber of stars aggregated for that content.
I love the way he controls the typewriter.
Learning Prolog was one of the most exciting things about getting a C.S. degree. It's vastly underrated, though admittedly not very useful in real-life.
Unfortunately I only store the total score and the number of votes
I should point out that climbing Everest at this point is pretty trivial compared to what it was when the old masters set out to do it. A friend of mine did it and said it wasn't as difficult as he'd expected. The path is well trodden and known. Forecasts are much better than they used to be. Gear is very light and durable. You often have a team of helpers to carry your gear, guide you, make your food etc. Whereas back then, which is the way we know / think it to be, it was a gamble on your life at best.
I get a square with a question mark :(
It does render smoothly: http://grab.by/4tF8

This must be a browser issue. I am running Safari 4.0.5(6531.22.7)
this is my screenshot Ubuntu+Chrome - http://yfrog.com/3uscreenshotvollkornfontfp

smooth and sweet. all seems fine.

it seems like windows issue more than google issue.
Since A and D give you the same result, the question is a "check all that apply question". Excluding contradictory combinations, there are four answers:

* nothing checked (i.e., none of A,B,C,D)

* A+D

* B

* C

Assume the correct choice is among these four answers (it is, since we also include a "none of these" option); then you have a one-in-four chance to get it right. Hence, A+D is right.

If this is not a "check all that apply" question, then having both A and D is contradictory and the person posing this question deserves a whack on the head.
Smooth here on OS X + Chrome 5
If enough people search for it, Google picks up on it and adds in some sort of override to the no-punctuation rule. This is why "C#" and "F#" return different results from "C" and "F", but "Z#" gets no such benefit. Other times the exceptions apply to broad patterns of letters, since any single letter with "++" appended will give specific results even if it's not the name of anything (try "y++"), but + signs are in general ignored ("+++what--is+happening--" gives the same results as "what is happening").
Yes, that's the primary group that uses this software.
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This was posted just a week ago here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1343546 with a pretty good discussion.
Yea it does help.

I can say the star rating is just an average of up and down. So if there were 10 votes and the rating was 3 out of 5, I can assume that means there were 6 up votes and 4 down votes for a score of 2.

This sounds promising.
You don't need a word, you need a phrase with a complex published definition like Open Source or Free Range Egg, and you need a social movement to back it up, or else people will muddy the waters with phrases like Shared Source or Barn Fresh Egg.

You can see this failure clearly with the attempt in 2003 to define "Open Standard" as a standard with no royalty payments. Many governments adopted this definition but they all wrote their own definition and there was no single definition for people to point to and now Apple fans and others with a vested interest have corrupted it to the point that it is meaningless.

Note this applies to made up words like REST web services too.
I can vouch for the Postgres part of that. We use .NET against PostgreSQL at work (a not especially database-intensive app, fortunately) and wound up using the ODBC drivers. We experimented with Npgsql, but ran into some flakiness that scared us away. There's really not a tremendous amount of documentation around using .NET with Postgres, either, which is unfortunate.
That's a good point. I'm using Win XP and the font gets rendered the same way on both Chrome 5 and FF 3.6.3

I can't see how you're going to blame this whole issue on Windows, when other fonts in the same operating system get rendered much better in smaller sizes.
it's not one font. It's all of them under windows. Google does something to the fonts so that the Windows font rendering system isn't able to properly anti-alias them any more.

On the mac it works fine.
This is interesting:

"Automatically selects from several available machine learning techniques"

So not only does it learn, it's learning which learning techniques work best for different problems.
Is there some reason that using Google isn't good enough? Most of my trouble searching reddit is because it's hard to translate "that picture of a guy with a bacon helmet" into something Google understands.
Wow, that looks really nice. Are you running Safari in a Mac?
+1. Case in point: Today I was thinking about a problem: "Maybe I need a something like a "reduce-map" function here; maybe that would be the right metaphore for what I want the program to do here." I wanted to know whether this thought had any currency, so I googled program "reduce-map":

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=program+%22reduce-m...

And got back a slew of map-reduce tutorials.

Still don't know whether that "reduce-map" idea is a dead end.
I like this sentence: We cut the cost/time of this implementation by 90% or more, not by coding more quickly, but by thinking more clearly.

I think that this is valid for most projects in any language.
yes that's a point, but if the font is well made (like the example font from font squirrel) the font looks much better.

Even though it's fine on your computer, it's not fine at all on windows machines
If I have a graph of customers and what products they've bought, Directed Edge makes it easy to figure out what products to recommend to each customer. Generating the same recommendations with Google's prediction API is not as obvious to me. What data do you train it with? The nth product the customer bought as the output, and the 1..n-1th products as the input?

Maybe I'm slow, but I don't see how google's prediction API is a good replacement for collaborative filtering type recommendation engines.
Some of these larger commercial entities could probably take a few lessons from you!
You are entirely leaving out one very important factor when it comes to video, and that is the video quality itself. Do you really think any user out there except Richard Stallman will give a damned about the fact that the codec is royalty free when the end-result might look worse than what they are enjoying on the web now due to bandwidth constrains putting harsh limits on bitrates? The answer is of course that it won't matter at all to them - they'll just be annoyed.
Perhaps easier than it once was, but I'd wager a guess it's still damned difficult in the absolute. Congratulations to your friend all the same.
While the licensing costs did play a part in the win of VHS I think the bigger problem was the price of the decks (1.5-2x price of a VHS VCR) and beta camcorders were incompatible. To watch a home video you had to play it back through the camera onto another beta deck.

The only technical advantage it had was color reproduction and clarity. Every other metric (cost and convenience) it did poorly. It did go on to live a second life, as Betacam, in professional studios, where reproduction and clarity are important. And their ENG cameras are some of the sturdiest I have ever encountered.