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yes, and implementing things like tail call recursion requires major kludge.

But, albeit we could discuss about stack based vs register based VM instruction set design, some of the limitations of the JVM are not inherent to its design, but rather to the inability to evolve.

Who's going to introduce bytecode extensions to the JVM now? And correctly manage the upgrades, backward compatibility process etc.

Mature products sometimes have this kind of issues. But, who knows, perhaps there will be a time frame when such a change will be welcome (along with java7 closures?) by the community, even if causing some migration problems.
You may develop a HFT platform and sell it off to HNIs.
Rethinking the Whiteboard
It's not as if it's affecting anything important like Adsense/Adwords.
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EC2 has been growing rapidly and Amazon has been installing newer (and thus cheaper) generations of hardware, so on average their hardware should be fairly new. Even once they reach steady state, the average perf/$ of their hardware should increase as old stuff is replaced. Clearly Amazon's costs per ECU are declining even though they don't replace equipment every 18 months. I think you're right that the lack of competition is why they aren't lowering prices much.
That's exactly what I use it for as well.
Here's an idea. There is an instrument called a "straddle option" that is essentially a bet on volatility. I think it'd be interesting to try to formulate a strategy that made aggressive purchases of these around various product announcements.

edit: Perhaps this wasn't the wisest comment ever, but not sure why it was modded down.
That makes a lot of sense. But also just goes to show how effective preliminary design work can be for making a smoother overall production curve. Still, one can easily get lost in it if they don't step back every once in awhile and realize their beating their heads against a wall.
I'm thinking that trading may be my best bet.

I traded twice in ... ugh... 15 years or so.

I advanced a bit since then.

Yeah right. You might want to put your money in this:

https://online.citibank.com/US/JRS/pands/detail.do?ID=SvgCDs
Reactive programming with Events -- the GUI programming model of the future
The Latin Alphabet is riddled with nonfunctional historical flourishes, but that doesn't seem to hold back typography; sometimes constraints can be lenses for creativity, instead of shackles.
> As your friends (in theory) begin to "like" a bunch of stuff on the web, next time you do a search for hotels, the hotels your friends "liked" will show up.

The ranking algorithm used by Google most definitely factors in the clicks that webpage received ... and they can also calculate if a user is satisfied with a certain result (if not, that user will get back to the search results page).

Google has all the data it needs for me to view the hotels my friends liked.

Not only that, but it has better data ... when one of my friends says he likes something on Facebook, that's mostly a vanity / ego-inflating action (oh, look at me, I'm so great for liking this stuff). When one of my friends clicks on a hotel link in Google, though, the recommendation he gives is implicit, not explicit.

The problem with Google is that they have a lot of noise (they are the first target when webmasters want to become visible, so every piece of shit on the web is crawled by Google). And in the battle of spam versus Google, spam is winning.

If you don't believe me, try searching for interesting stuff to read in a certain area (like ruby on rails) on http://delicious.com. The same principle applies, with the difference being that delicious doesn't index the content on those pages and it also doesn't have a lot of spam ... so if you're searching for clear tags, like "data mining", you're going to get pretty good results, simply because bookmarking a link on delicious is not ego-inflating.

So, IMHO ... one day a better search engine will emerge from social networks, but it's not going to be based on any "like" button.
where's snookie LOL
This particular issue seems to pop up every year or so and there is vast online info available on the topic already. But Flash-bashing seems to be de rigueur these days...

Yes, Adobe is aware of some of the issues mentioned (we Flash pros cringe at the old Macromedia settings windows still in use) but some of his bugs are in fact features (such as being browser agnostic) that behave differently because it's simply different tech (like Mac vs Win).

In all fairness, Adobe has their hands very busy these days with AIR, the new Flash player, and porting Flash to multiple platforms. If the old stuff works, they're not messing with it.
I'm going to invite a flurry of disagreement here, but I'm just going to say it. Investing is not the answer, trading is.

II and SA are phenomenal books, but they are also more relevant to a different time in market history. The basic tenets certainly hold true. (Ben Graham famously loved buying companies under book value. Thats still a winning bet and will continue to be.)

Its important to realize the macro picture here as well though. The last 70 years have produced tons of literature saying that long term growth is the way to do it and that int he last 70 years long term investments have outperformed. This period of "proven returns" coincides with the US rising to the world superpower, becoming the richest nation on earth, and spending beyond our means.

I have a massive faith in America, but its irresponsible to not consider that times have changed. The next 70 years could be like the last 70, but we stand at a social/economic/global power precipice which could imply a dramatically different America in 10 years. If the American economy sucks hard for the enxt 10 years, returns are just going to suck. Long buy and hold portfolios have won in large part also because the American economy has expanded for the last 70 years.

The other huge difference is that HN is comprised primarily of extremely computer savvy people. The tools wielded by the readers here are uniquely suited to tackle financial problems that can produce excess returns that far exceed

The risks aren't significantly higher, yet the upside is disproportionately greater when utilizing the techniques (computing) and infrastructure (electronic markets and cheap execution) that have become available in the last 10 years that did not exist in almost the entire duration of the period that produced all of the "buy and hold is the only way to go" literature.

HN people are smart. REAL smart. That's why a lot of people have read mountains of literature to educate themselves. Unfortunately, the success of buy and hold strategies in the last X years produced a bias towards that sort of literature and everyone's drank the kool-aid.

The last 5 years, and even more the last 2 years have democratized the quantitative trading process, exposed the tools to those not in the industry, and changed the face of finance.

There's still a place for the Intelligent Investor. But if you're the average HN reader, Ben Graham style investing isn't your best shot in finance. Quantitative trading is. Both will take a lot of work. It won't be easy. But if you're going to invest serious time, think about how much the tools and the game have changed in the last 2 years and ask yourself if you really think that all the literature that predates this change is indicative of the new world.

I too believe you can turn 100k to $1mm. and I think you can do it a lot faster.
You are confusing your personal experience with statistics.

We are not a bunch of 5-year olds around here, and I in particular am not so primitive as to think that the world revolves around me. There is nothing wrong with questioning mainstream journalism, especially when it's without citation and contradicts personal experience.

You can trivially find sources.

If so, wouldn't it be easy to paste a link, which is what I've requested in the first place? I hate the knee-jerk "google it" response - the person who gives it usually thinks that they are smarter than the person who asked for help in finding something, but all it shows is that you are (a) lazy and (b) disrespectful.

Now, if you can provide sources, please do, and if you cannot, I respectfully ask that you please leave this thread to people who care to contribute something other than "google it, stupid".
Some years ago a major Canadian Union Head was denied entry to the US. The reason? He had a criminal record. The crime in question stemmed from a protest a number of years previous, and he needed to get all sorts of legal wheels turning to get written permission to enter the USA.

In theory, this is understandable, a crime committed at a protest could well include something like assaulting police or destroying property. But I'm disturbed by the direction these laws are going and I really don't like the idea of taking photographs or other such actions branding someone as a "criminal."
"Coke also saw an "engagement rate" of 6 percent, compared with the approximately 0.02 per cent of people who click on a regular online advertisement."

That's an amazing click through rate if it was over 86M impressions. Though, click through rates usually range from 0.20% to 2% [for display ads], 0.02% and that campaign is going to get shut off.
8 hours for a Leeds Festival ticket is borderline understandable. It's a possibly one-time event (for that particular lineup), and you can only get the ticket if you wait in line.

But standing in line 8 hours so that you can have twice the pixels on your phone a week before all your friends?
Does this actually net Coke any more sales?
Startup Entrepreneur vs. Small Business Owner is the "Hacker vs. Cracker" debate of Hacker News.

(Not to take anything away from an interesting little article, though).
Keep in mind, ties are sometimes strategic. Many games this world cup have seen teams playing very conservative/defensive because they were intentionally hoping for a tie.

Side-note, the Champions League and Europa League (where the top teams from each European Country's pro league compete against each other) uses a two-game system, one home and one away. The winner is decided by the cumulative score of the two games.
In any market with a glut of applicants, I would expect the unemployment gap to increase between more and less qualified employees, even if the extra qualifications are not necessary for adequate or even excellent job performance.

Any easily distinguishing characteristic that even vaguely correlates to the quality of a potential employee is going to be used to help narrow down the applicant pool to a more manageable number.
The first time I saw the vuvuzela mentioned in a humorous context it was funny. However, it was used in every joke for the past two weeks. It's starting to be as annoying as the vuvuzela sound.
Special symbols, like []() etc. are located on different buttons on an american keyboard compared to e.g. a swedish one. So when I push shift+8 I usually get "(", but here I get "*".
Having worked for a coworking company for a long time, I can't emphasize how beneficial craigslist is. Obvious I know, but a HUGE percentage of clients came from there and you can't beat the price. Post often (3-4 times a day), as real estate ads get buried quickly.
I don't know if it qualifies, but it should! PageCurl in Apple's iBooks. And those "wooden" shelves.
And via the API: http://www.blackberry.com/developers/docs/5.0.0api/net/rim/d...

An app that instructs the user to pick up the phone and hold it to his head as he would while talking, records the RSSI over a course of a couple of minutes, then graphs or displays the results might be an interesting weekend project.
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My point was that, I don't know that they have any legitimate appeal now, but they seem to be smart, and they're building a IP portfolio in an important space, so they might be able to switch gears or sell their IP. Heck, they might see the writing on the wall and maybe that's why they're writing these technical blogs, to gain exposure for their IP and technology.
It is my impression that corporate drama around the smalltalk vendors helped to quicken its demise.

Absolutely true! The merger-politics, the marketing missteps, and the cool technology that got buried are all epic.

Image-based development also didn't sit well with a lot of people

Not so true, for those who really "got it" and hit their stride, and anyone who comments who didn't get to that point is commenting as a clueless newbie. In image-based development, all of your programming meta-data are there as live Objects, instantly scriptable, totally and instantly obedient to your every whim. Ditto for runtime state -- everything available as live Objects and instantly scriptable. Really, once you learn a suitable style, it's heavenly, intoxicating and addictive. The same thing is true for Python and Ruby, but only about half as much. For example, a lot of advanced IDE functions require one to detect changes to files and re-parse things to keep programming metadata current. That problem just vanishes with image-based development. Literally hundreds of problems just vanish because everything is an object and they're all instantly available.

On the other hand, image-based deployment SUCKS. Sucks sucks sucks. Just about every Smalltalker agrees. The big advantage of being file based is that your development test environment resembles your deployment, or is at least halfway to deployment by comparison. Image-based Smalltalk development is like the ultimate monkey-patching uber-debugger. Very cool to develop in, but you do not want to give it to your users!
Mailchimp is my favorite service for that.
I own a Mathematica license and played with R a bit. I just don't know how to develop an edge with statistics yet.
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It gets really interesting right around minute 20. Inventory waste for developers.. These are very interesting ideas.
This is a ridiculous response to a serious issue, but what confuses me is how some iPhones seem to be affected while others aren't. If it's just a matter of a short between the antennas due to a bad design decision, shouldn't it be universal? (I've tried and tried to replicate the issue with mine, but I haven't been able to.)

It will be interesting to see how this all plays out, but it seems obvious that "hold it differently" is not a viable option.
What led to my blockbuster year? Luck and my desire to work more. I used to work 1-2 weeks out of 4, that was enough for everything since my burn rate is low (3-3.5K EUR/mo). I sailed for about 8 weeks in the first half of 2008, for example. The relaxed work style didn't let me save much, though, not enough to get a shot at independence.
By http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aristus
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1457407
It's not mathematically equivalent because a share buyback comes from the open market. The # of shares don't decrease with a buyback
GNU Smalltalk has been around a very, very long time. It was also just about the gimpiest Smalltalk environment out there. Most of the people on the commercial environments just wished it would go away, because so many people downloaded it to try it and got the wrong impression of what Smalltalk is about.

In the mid to late 90's, Smalltalk was still going strong. (It still is by some accounts.) I used GNU Smalltalk back then and it was pitifully gimpy in comparison to the commercial environments.

If you want to check out Smalltalk, check out Squeak or Pharo. You can also download VisualWorks noncommercial.

Also, to be fair, GNU Smalltalk has come a long way since then.
When I did driver programming in Windows, it was well-known that Sleep had a resolution of 10 ms; it is based on the interrupt timer (not the high frequency timer). You could change the interrupt timer's duration, but its ticks are what guide Sleep. Not counting the effect of context switching, since you are waiting for the timer ticks, your actual times vary from 10 ms to 19.9999 ms. 15 ms is a nice way to say "on average", but I would not rely on that measure.

Timers are hard to get right. Tread warily, programmers! This is one of those areas where it is good to understand some things about the computer hardware behind the software.

EDIT: I should add that the high frequency timer is not a panacea either. It will work for you most of the time, but there are two circumstances that will occasionally trip you:

(1) At least in Windows XP and 2000, there is a KB (I do not remember it now) that explains that for a certain small set of manufacturers, if there is a sudden spike in high load on the PCI bus, the high frequencer timer will be jumped ahead to account for the lost time during that laggy spike. This correction is not accurate. This means that if your initial timestamp is X, and you are waiting for it to be X+Y, wall clock time may be between X and X+Y, but Windows itself altered the timestamp to be X+Y+Z, and your software thinks the time has elapsed. I personally experienced this bug.

(2) You actually have more than one high frequency timer -- one for each CPU on your system. Once you start playing on a system with multiple CPUs, how do you guarantee that the API is providing you a timestamp from the same timer? I remember there may have been way to choose if you dropped to assembly to make the query but that the API at the time did not support a choice. The timer starts upon power-up. If one CPU powers up after the other, you will have a timestamp skew. Some high frequency software algorithms attempt to correct for this skew. I do not know all the details to that now.
I looked at a iPhone 4G at the apple store yesterday and was curious to compare the display to the HTC Evo 4G's display.

The verdict: slightly better crispness, comparable brightness, comparable color.

The industrial design of the iPhone 4G is superb compared to any other phone (or electronic device) I've seen. It's more comparable to what you'd expect to find in a watch.
Their "forward deployed engineers" need clearances to work on site. Palantir installations are an extremely lengthy process required a couple full-time people on-site. The places I've seen it, it's typically taken 6-12 months to get it "turned on".
How sticky are wages today anyway?
The effort to implement a like button on a site is an order of magnitude more difficult than implementing a link.
$50k plus an additional 50k per year at 10% = $1,006,245.8 (compounded annually). What fees are you referring to? Different investments carry different loads, including nearly no load (or one included in calculations), for say real estate or direct stock purchases.
Honestly, I see this as a good thing.

"consumers" will see it as a shortcut to what they're looking for. Thus "hosts" will benefit by owning .xxx domains. Sites without .xxx won't succeed as well as those with. Scale up, and you've got a basic means of organizing sites that didn't exist before.

It of course won't mean that black-listing .xxx domains will mean a porn-free surfing environment. Expecting that is like expecting Wikipedia to always be correct, and I highly doubt it'll even approach Wikipedia-consistency. But admitting porn is out there and providing a way to organize it and keep it a little more separate from non-porn simply cannot be a bad thing.

edit: why does everyone seem to think sites won't own both a .com and a .xxx domain, for at least a respectable period of time? If intarwebIs4porn.com doesn't buy intarwebIs4porn.xxx they'll be slaughtered if a mass migration occurs, because the owner of the domain can camp it for as much as they want. They will buy them. They only stand to lose if they don't.
I don't pay taxes. Mine is an offshore company and I'm not yet a resident of Spain. I hope to start paying about 20% in taxes by the end of this year, I'm sick and tired of being an illegal alien.
It doesn't really seem to harm anything either though. Pornographers can argue against regulations due to the increased ease in filtering, even though in practice I'm sure there will still be plenty of porn on the .com's for the forseeable future.

You could have 'private mode' automatically engage when on .xxx sites.
Charting pollution from the BP oil spill
95,000 is not correct those 5000 shares don't disappear. They are still outstanding. The only way I know to decrease shares is a reverse split or increase them via an offering
I'm calling it now: Palantir is the 37Signals of govt/finance. :)
I'm just saying what I would do if I was worth 15 billion and knew that I had a high chance of having a serious disease like that.

Throwing money blindly at a problem doesn't always help, that's very true. But I'm sure there are many intelligent ways to use more than 50m effectively.

You mention stem cell therapies; helping get them to the point where they don't cause cancer anymore might be an area of research worth pushing, especially if some of it is under-funded. Giving out scholarships to people studying in areas related to the disease might be a way to help improve the supply of researchers. And when you can't hire more people, you can usually upgrade the equipment with faster/better stuff (shortening the upgrade cycle might help accelerate progress). You could help pay for conferences where the leading minds working on the problem can meet and exchange information (and if there's already enough of those, you can help make them better). You can probably find high-risk/high-reward research projects that aren't getting funded through the regular channels because those usually favor low-risk/low-reward projects. Etc.

But I repeat: What Brin did is awesome. Kudos to him. All I'm saying is maybe I'd do it differently if I was in his shoes.
Look up the story of Henriette Lacks and her family's reactions to finding out scientists were using her cells in all kinds of experiments.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks

There was a good episode of Radiolab about her, as well as a good interview on Dr Kiki's Science Hour with the author of the book written about her life and legacy.

Her family was deeply disturbed by what was happening at first. Progress is necessary, but so is people's dignity.
I agree. I should be able to keep some stuff there, even if it's not at my desk (that I chose that day).

From pricing I've seen in larger cities, $325/mo should also get me 24/7 access.
A "solution" isn't an idea. Ideas are 10 a penny. How many of those solutions were actual plans that could be put into effect, bills of materials, Gantt charts, cost breakdowns?

Personally I would rather BP be getting on with the job than reading unsolicited email from the peanut gallery.

Oh, and to put that $2.35Bn into perspective, Union Carbide paid out $450M for, umm, killing 20,000 people at Bhopal. BP has made a huge mess sure, but after the initial explosion, no-one has died. I think Americans need to take a good long hard look at themselves in a mirror before getting on their high horses.
I think recent prior executives feel the same way. They seem to be leaving in droves.