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Why don't they make a solar-powered airship? That's more practical. Airship requires less energy to stay up and navigate, and has greater surface area to receive sun light.
as far as I understand it, it's pretty much not going to happen without a solid reference from a professor willing to work with you.

it would be easier if you had research experience in other fields and slaughtered the GRE general & subject...

but yeah stanford is not exactly hurting for applicants
arguably the greatest flop in MS history

Right up there with Microsoft Bob (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob)!

They ended up doing the worst thing possible... a nice featurephone, with high-end smartphone pricing

I agree...maybe this strategy would have worked in 2008. In fact, that was the year Sprint released the Instinct, a nice featurephone with smartphone pricing. They even started requiring the everything plans with that phone. If we could rewrite history and swap out the Instinct for the KIN in 2008 (right after Microsoft acquired Danger), Microsoft would have looked a lot more forward-thinking, and they would be in great shape to launch Windows Phone 7 as a successor to KIN. Alas, that didn't happen...
Some really inspiring stuff in here.

My short-term track/running/fitness goals: Break 4 minutes for 1500m, 2:00 for 800m. Currently at 4:06 and 2:00.1 (the latter is so heartbreaking!). Squat 250lbs (currently at 185, weighing 138).

Educational goals: 4 publications in the next two years, complete PhD (CS). Get a solid grasp on differential calculus. Truly understand relativity and quantum mechanics.

Any advice from people who've tackled any of the above is welcome. Thanks.
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It did not increase the risk. At worst, if the article is entirely accurate, we will simply be returning to where we would otherwise be anyway.
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Speaking of which, I'm hoping to visit my friend in Singapore in Sept or October, mind if I swing by and crash in your hallway or something? (or meet in Tokyo and show me around? :)
Excellent read, I appreicate the link. Thankfully, I haven't waited so long to go the dentist that I need implants or dentures. They're saving everything via root canals, crowns and fillings. I do have two missing teeth which really aren't visible when smiling that I may eventually get implants for, but for now it's not severe or costly enough that I would really entertain going out of the country to have it done.
I had no idea this existed! Thanks for the link!
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Age Ranges: 21-29, 30-34, 35-44

US Percentages: 19%,15%,28%

Problem... look at the age ranges again (9 years, 5 years, 9 years).

"Lies, damned lies, and statistics"
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I keep meaning to blog about something like this.

After my old web host made me really mad the other month I decided to grab a load of virtual servers and be my own web host (hosting client sites, projects etc.)

So now I have DNS, database/web servers etc. all under my control on shares that I can chop/change at will.

It's turned out to be phenomenally cheaper! Than having 1 dedicated server and a shard hosting package.
"it's pretty much not going to happen without a solid reference from a professor willing to work with you."

Working on it (and on getting research exp) :-)

"slaughtered the GRE general & subject"

I have an almost perfect score on the GRE general (800/800 Verbal 790/800 Quant, 6/6 writing) . Taking the subject exams later this year. Not too worried about that either , but I heard these aren't of much value and research /recommendations are all that count. So I am working on those now.

Ah well you work with what you have :). Along with many brilliant dedicated people, I also see people with rather mediocre research and recommendations (but perfect academic scores etc) get in (and then not do anything particularly brilliant/drop out etc), so I suspect there might be a (small) chance. If every one who got in thoroughly outclassed me I would have no hope.

We'll see. :-)
It looks like the passwords were stored as straight MD5 hashes, which is just slightly better than storing plain text passwords.
The department usually matriculates a few students each year that aren't traditional applicants (great grades, research, recommendations, etc.). For example, there are a few students with little to no CS experience at all. The odds are definitely against you, but it's certainly possible. Good luck.
> But that wouldn't be "off", that would be "hibernate". Which is what you want most of the time.

I agree, and, indeed, I think the behaviour, once discovered, is perfectly sensible; I'm just talking about the initial discovery experience.

The manual (at http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/ipod_shuffle_features_guide...) does not use the terminology you mention; instead, it refers at the top of the chart on p. 4 to 'Turn[ing] iPod off', then at the bottom of the same chart to 'Reset[ting] iPod' (both by pushing the slider to 'Off'!); and it does not mention 'Hibernation' (or equivalent terminology), or the fact that it should replace complete power down, at all.
The actual number of units sold isn't nearly as important as how quickly Microsoft decided to cancel the product. Imagine that you are a really rich guy who bought up 100% of Microsoft shares six months ago with the goal of maximizing NPV over a long time horizon. You have a carrier agreement to launch a Microsoft branded phone, but you're pretty sure that the phone you've developed sucks. You have to worry about your relationship with your carrier and customer perception. Two choices are obvious. You can negotiate with the carrier to cancel the agreement. Some sort of exclusive on Windows 7 Phone Edition might sweeten the deal. Consumers will never really know that you'd promised a phone. Or, you can invest in remediation steps to make the phone not suck so badly to save your brand's reputation (or what's left of it).

What Microsoft did makes no sense. Now, I can't trust that Microsoft will support their products for longer than it takes them to get their first screen scratches. And, how could a carrier consider entering into future agreements with Microsoft when this one led to so much public embarrassment? That such a decision was made suggests significant internal managerial distress (to be euphemistic).
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Syntax aesthetics shouldn't be an important metric for technology choices.
I've been vaguely speculating to myself lately that two good niches might be:

* email
* good customer service for a price
I'll answer in reverse order.

Beaming power back is certainly one application, but not the one I had in mind. I was thinking these would be used to power things in space. The vast majority of electrical power used by stuff like satellites and space stations comes from solar power. Total mass, electrical power, and fuel are the major constraints in all of these systems. If there was a readily available source of solar arrays in space, then that could effectively remove that constraint, and relax the constraints on mass and fuel (since you don't have to bring the solar panels with you).

Now, why would I want to do that? I'm one of those people that not only dreamed about going into space, but also assumed that the future of humanity was not on Earth, but out there. For that to happen, we need to be able to expand into the solar system, which just isn't going to happen if we need to move all of the materials we need out of Earth's gravity well.

Finally, what have I done? To be honest, it probably isn't going to sound like much. I'm open to suggestions. Obviously, it's going to take a lot of money. Most of what I've done has been focused on being able to make a credible case to get funding. I'm working on my PhD, which builds my credentials. I network with other students in the field because it's going to take more than one person.

In terms of actual pen to paper, I decided to work on the supply chain problem first. I'm working on calculations for what it would take to send a mission to an asteroid and bring the whole thing back as a possible scenario.
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That's not really a valid test. NodeJS can easily make use of multiple cores with child processes, but by design, it's a very low-level API, so that stuff isn't used by the HTTP server by default. In other words, it doesn't assume you want to use multiple processes for your HTTP server. Maybe you want to use them for something else. (Like, if you have an HTTP server and an IRC server sharing the same box, and you want to make sure they are isolated from one another, or something.)

Check out http://github.com/kriszyp/multi-node or http://github.com/extjs/Connect for examples of web servers that will blow Clojure out of the water in this benchmark.

When leveraging multiple cores, NodeJS is closer to nginx in terms of performance than it is to Jetty or Django. (Of course, nginx uses almost no memory, and NodeJS has this big honkin VM juggling JavaScript contexts, so it's not as space-efficient.)
if you need to login/signup to post a comment, how does it remain anonymous?

Whats going to stop the flamers and trolls?
There are clearly a lot of DDG fans here on HackerNews, but it hasn't yet broken out into the mainstream. That said, providing a great search engine (I took the DDG Challenge -- tried it as my default search for a week -- and I'm still using it months later) is step one.

Beyond that, explaining things like this in plain English for people who don't normally think about things like search privacy are doing a great service for DDG.
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Your app is very similar to yahoo answers. I don't think this will make a lot of money , but at least you got some real practice programming something.

Could you tell me how it is different than yahoo answers?
The point is that it has a concept of a main thread. You need to get away from that, and rather have a pool of threads ready to dispatch events, not just a pool for blocking calls to avoid the main thread blocking.
I've been looking into this, too. There's projects like these:

http://icbl.macs.hw.ac.uk/sux0r206/ (free software)

http://www.feedzero.com/ (free service)

You shouldn't have to start from scratch.
Node's requests/second scale linearly with the amount of processes used. Here is an example for doing that:

http://gist.github.com/430932

So node would probably outperform the given clojure example by 13.5K req/s vs. 8.5k req/s (YMMV).

It is also worth noting that clojure library used (aleph), does not seem to support streaming the response.

The most interesting aspect is clojure's support for futures, and Javascripts lack of such. If you're willing to trade speed for cheap syntactical pleasure, clojure has an advantage here : ).

edit: Who down voted this / why?
Have you heard of TopCoder ( http://www.topcoder.com/tc ) ? They run several algorithm competitions like this every month.
Read the book, Easy Way to Quite Smoking by Allan Carr. http://www.amazon.ca/Easy-Way-Stop-Smoking-Kit/dp/1905555008 It worked for me, my partner, and several of our friends.
John I'm not going to down vote you, although I wanted to. Instead I'll just reply.

I'd love to talk about the science behind climate change. All kinds of technical goodness in there: modeling, thousands of interlocked complex systems, biomass, cloud cover -- the geek factor just goes on and on.

But that's not what this story (or the larger story) is about. It's about scientists who become activists and the politicization of science. This has consequences in all sorts of areas besides Global Warming.

So nope, doesn't impact the science at all. And while people may use this as a club to stereotype all scientists, if you do that you're taking a cheap shot. Lots of folks using all sorts of rhetorical tricks -- that's what political discussions look like.

I'd like to see this entire issue move towards more open accessible, and accountable scientific practices. I'd like to see a code of conduct enacted, putting up some kind of Chinese wall between people lobbying for money and people reporting science. I'd like to see more public involvement, a greater understanding of how real science works, etc.

But this particular article isn't about any of that. If anything, it's just a warning that nothing much has changed, and we're still going to have highly dysfunctional discussions around GW for some time to come. And that sucks.
Your version sounds like a great project! Post a link when it's ready!
Hey, cool, you're coming to Stanford? I'm class of 13. We should meet up sometime.
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Now if this can just be replicated in more places, we may get a better school system. I'd bet though, that the teacher's union is the greatest opponent to this type of thing.
"The odds are definitely against you, but it's certainly possible. "

I've worked against the odds all my life (people were always telling me I couldn't do this or that) so this is very encouraging!

Thank You :-).
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Multiple processes are an inefficient way of making use of multiple cores. Either you pay memory overhead to duplicate state, or you pay IPC overhead to get access to shared state of some kind.
Yeah. I've been practicing on topcoder and another, lesser known site, called codeforces.
Node is only using the threadpool for system calls that have no non-blocking counterparts. Networking is done without any thread pool involved AFAIK.
nice scores, I think they do matter a bit more for you if you don't have a cs undergrad... if you get the professor to recommend you, you should have a chance so gluck!

I'd like to follow that path, but for now I'll be chasing $$$
Just to answer on point 1), some of the Greek Islands, it's really pretty easy to get away from the touristy spots. My dad does this, and always seems to luck into finding quiet and peaceful places.
Just have the will to get away from the commercialized areas that are easy to get locked into if you value shops and eateries that speak English.
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JGC, since you have followed the debate so closely, I am sure that you know that Steve McIntyre does not challenge the assertion that global warming is man made. Rather, the primary focus of his work at Climate Audit and in publication is to challenge the extreme view of some paleoclimatologists that the modern era is warmer than any other time period in recent history. This plank of the alarmist platform is important in making the case that we must take expensive and immediate actions to mitigate carbon emissions.

The climategate emails prove what Steve has long alleged, that his work and the work of others has been hindered at every turn by climate scientists denying them access to data and access to publication venues. This weakens the case that current years are the hottest in recent history, since alternative views were systematically and unfairly discredited through scientific politics, and not science.

So, yes, I think it matters.

In the long run, Climategate may be very beneficial to environmental science. It will shame those who seek to inject political bias into scientific discussions and encourage more open work practices. This is a good thing! Skeptical observers will be more likely to be convinced by a process that appears dispassionate.

I am not sure what the point is of all these investigation panels, but they seem flawed.
You'll figure it out, don't worry about it too much. Sacrifices will happen, but you will adjust. There is no right or wrong way to do - regardless of the countless words of advice that you will hear from everyone. Congratulations, it's not easy, but is very rewarding.
AFAIK, this is getting quite huge in Europe. I sure hope that the company itself isn't legally attached to The Pirate Bay, because if that ever goes down (and stays down)…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8512263.stm
assuming you proxy requests to the different processes. that's not what those examples are doing - they simply share a server socket and let the kernel load balance incoming connections over them.
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Security, A Rant Sort Of… and a shocker.
Here’s a shocking statement for a lot of people in technology and especially outside of technology. “Your money is at greater risk because it isn’t in a cloud.” Here’s another shocker “Your medical information is at greater risk at your on-premises Doctor than if it were stored and protected by access control in the cloud.”

Is that shocking to you? If you aren’t shocked you probably know a lot about cloud technology. The cloud is more secure than most of the IT Departments, physical server locations, secure Government installation, and other environments than one might imagine.

Why Am I Writing This Blog Entry?

While I was listening to Steve Riley’s talk on AWS Security...
"but for now I'll be chasing $$$"

Good Luck!

If I ever make millions I am going to establish a scholarship for "wildcard" admissions at the best schools. You can only use the scholarship to fund "imperfect" candidates!
I'm not sure if it's just me, but I get annoyed and look more skeptically at a person's point of view when they call it *gate. They're admitting their bias right in the title.
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When I was a kid I thought of owning all toy robots out there in the market and then observing how they react with each other. I still think it will be a cool goal.
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They "shouldn't" be, but more often than not they are. At least in my experience of try to introduce people to new languages/technologies.
Kin sales amount to a rounding error, any way you want to look at it.
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Clojure should also scale very well on a real 4 core machine (it's the JVM after all). And I wouldn't be surprised if was neck-to-neck with Node.js. Without numbers it's just talk (I don't have access to a real four core machine so I can't say myself).

Also I note that your code is very verbose for managing multiple cores while the Clojure version is pretty much identical to the original Node version.

So much for cheap syntactical pleasures, eh?
Get a programming gig in the UK. Roadblocks: (1) Language barrier, my spoken English is not as good as it should. (2) Non working experience in the country.
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I think that Ubuntu enables hinting on default. According to FreeType's docs/TRUETYPE the TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER macro should be defined, should you want to enable patent encumbered parts.

On a karmic box:

$ apt-get source libfreetype6
$ grep -h TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE freetype-2.3.9/debian/patches-freetype/*
-/* #define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER */
+#define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER
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I'm running MacFuse. The fusermount command is specific to Linux.
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Yeah, I hope this thing takes off and can stand on its own.
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Anthony Watts' comment :

"The investigations thus far are much like having a trial with judge, jury, reporters, spectators, and defendant, but no plaintiff. The plaintiff is locked outside the courtroom sitting in the hall hollering and hoping the jury hears some of what he has to say. Is it any wonder the verdicts keep coming up “not guilty”?"
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It is similar, but the goal with this is to have a more social, personal outlet for questions to friends. I think it's more similar to (and was inspired by) sites like failin.gs and formspring in that you can participate anonymously.
The main problem both systems have is that they're relatively immature. node.js is still undergoing heavy development, with a few breaking changes every couple of releases (although it's slowing down in that regard). And aleph basically just came out, right?

So I'd regard both as "things to watch" or bootstrapping solutions, not something I'd use for my Global Thermonuclear War management system.
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Figured it out. umount wanted an absolute path.
I initially had Javascript off, so I figured it was part of the joke when the space for the shortest Node.js web server was empty. When the shortest Clojure web server was also zero characters, I got suspicious.

Don't forget to add a non-Javascript version for people without Javascript (rare) and bots (common).
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A Brief Overview of Concurrency.
Spend more time lurking on hacker news.

...oops, I posted, guess every goal has some setbacks.
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It should be pointed out that this is actually 2 charts. The final chart is, in essence, just the first half of the sigmoid.
> I thought about trying to import them and have them breed, but apparently most species like humidity and standing water...

Thank you for not doing that. The last person to have an idea like this introduced those god damn Starlings to North America. Mice came here in the same fashion (i.e. human intervention).
The main page doesn't state why you should use the search engine over Google. If there are two or three compelling reasons, then they should be mentioned there.
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But they're already using node to manage Global Thermonuclear War: http://wargamez.mape.me/
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The clojure example is using a library. There are libraries for node that make the process handling just as easy.

Anyway, I think you are mistaken if you believe a clojure http server could outperform it's node counterpart. I mean node is really just a set of air-thin Javascript bindings to some pretty good C code / native system calls. Node's http parser is also written in C.
Well, that's weird. I was emailing someone a couple months ago about the New York startup scene, and specifically mentioned that NYC has more "hustlers" per capita than SF.

You probably don't need hustlers, at least at first. They're leverage, and they seem to care more about immediate cash flow. (The ones I know of who got involved in startups either got involved late, were working with half a dozen startups at once, or worked with service-y or consulting companies that would pay a salary right away.)
Funny how a number can be 20x higher but still very low ...
The point is that a FUSE filesystem is available from the command line and anywhere else, because it is an actual filesystem. RouteFS is a way of taking any virtual filesystem-like tree that you might find useful and making it available to the entire system as a normal filesystem, just as easily as you could describe the tree in any other form.
I agree. I had a similar problem with CouchDB a while ago when I tried to write the application in CouchDB. The interface was there, but it was obvious that some of the key features hadn't been implemented yet, requiring painful and complex workarounds. I went back to technologies I knew were tried and true.

If you're interested in playing around with tech and having fun, then these technologies are great. But for business I would avoid them for now.

I'm hoping they gain some traction though.
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