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> I don't believe that there's much difference between ordinary thought and highly creative thought.

And I do. This quote says it perfectly:

In science, as well as in other fields of human endeavor, there are two kinds of geniuses: the “ordinary” and the “magicians.” An ordinary genius is a fellow that you and I would be just as good as, if we were only many times better. There is no mystery as to how his mind works. Once we understand what he has done, we feel certain that we, too, could have done it. It is different with the magicians. They are, to use mathematical jargon, in the orthogonal complement of where we are and the working of their minds is for all intents and purposes incomprehensible. Even after we understand what they have done, the process by which they have done it is completely dark. They seldom, if ever, have students because they cannot be emulated and it must be terribly frustrating for a brilliant young mind to cope with the mysterious ways in which the magician’s mind works. Richard Feynman is a magician of the highest caliber. Hans Bethe, whom [Freeman] Dyson considers to be his teacher, is an “ordinary genius,”

(Quoted from Enigmas of Chance: An Autobiography, by Mark Kac. Harper and Row. 1985. p. xxv.)
IMO, the problem with Nokia or for that matter MS/Palm/etc is not a lack of innovation but rather a lack of confidence in their innovations.
> For example if a student is not in a class, put NULL in the class id.

I think you mean "don't insert a row in the student_class table, which is a many-to-many join between student and class".

As a general rule of thumb, if your data schema requires NULLs for things like that, then your schema is wrong, for most of the reasons that people are trying to point out. NULLs are the absence of data, and should really only be used for exceptional circumstances - hence the reason that silently inserting NULLs into NOT NULL fields is a Bad Thing(tm).
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If you think about it:

A journalist works for a news organization.
A blogger writes via a blog.

Some are both. Most are not. Any good or bad connotations, evolving as they might (not the least because the spheres of connotations do come into contact with each other), can be understood as experiences relating to these two simple facts.
Those are not the only options.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Mind
I assume you have successfully litigated this position in a US court on multiple occasions?
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Please downvote till you actually hear about these being used by real people, not just a fat Indian minister who probably thinks 8 asterisks is his password because that's what he sees on the screen when his secretary open his email for him.
You just answered yourself.
Part of this is probably that philosophically the *BSDs don't really want to be reliant on GNU tools.
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Yes (second to last comment):

http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=11988

How have you been managing the php-cgi children?
This seems to conflate consciousness with creativity, which are not the same thing. Computers can be creative combinatorically with evolutionary algorithms provided you can provide a fitness test.
This is Jessica from inDinero. We use the same technology that Mint uses -- namely, integrating with a third party service called Yodlee. They take care of aggregating financial data through various means. Screen scraping, direct OFX feeds, etc...

The typical question is, why do Mint and inDinero use Yodlee instead of building the solution out themselves?

1) Security Liability. No startup should ever have to deal with the problems that go with storing passwords to financial accounts. Yodlee is in the business of security, they have direct feeds with major banks, making it much easier (and safer) to just integrate with them.

2) Mass quantity of banks. Screen scraping from so many banks is a pain in the *. It isn't standard either -- compare the bank website of Wells Fargo to that of a local credit union that asks 5 security questions upon login. In short, it's a brutal nightmare.

3) None of our businesses are in the business of screen-scraping. If Mint had to spend the first year of business integrating with banks, they wouldn't be successful. And even once the integrations are done, you have to maintain them in the event that the bank changes their login page or interface. In short, it's not worth any startup's time to do manual screen scraping themselves.

Would be happy to discuss further if you DM me.
Michael S. Dell, chief of Dell, agreed to pay a $4 million penalty but did not admit responsibility.

That's a big reason why this stuff just keeps happening.
Just wanted to let you know that me and my friends use treehouse quite a bit. We've found it to be a really easy way to share photos with close friends, precisely because of the reasons you wrote about in the article.

Because there isn't any way to restrict the photo viewing to a specific group of friends, I've found that I only add/tell really close friends about it. As a result the quality and quantity of photo sharing goes way up in my network on Treehouse. Compare and contrast this to Facebook where I don't put up pictures at all, and any photo that tags me is zealously filtered to present the best image.

On a side note, some of my friends have complained that the app keeps crashing on iOS4. Anyway good job with Treehouse!
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No, but you can define your own:

http://bytes.com/topic/postgresql/answers/423780-numeric-typ...

Also note the issues with MySQL and it's large integers :) Although they might have fixed things since that post.
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I have tested it and it's not bad but the IPython (with "save history" & "virtualenv" plugin) + Dreampie combination is still a lot better and way more powerful.

I use IPython as my main Python shell replacement (this also includes Django development, debugging - (i)pdb, etc.) and Dreampie when writing a prototype or "playing around".
Actually in theory AeroFS can run multiple instances on one device, and we are actually thinking it as the workaround :)
It won't be quite another $30, maybe just another $10.

Remember: this is India, you can feed a family for less than two dollars.
In this case, it does seem like Pearson violated the GPL license.

It is probably worth noting that Google didn't use the GPL license for Android. I'm assuming that Google chose to go with the Apache License for Android because they thought that the GPL license would inhibit some commercial development (e.g. a handset-maker who doesn't like GPL) from building on top of the platform.
This would be an interesting thing to give to students here in the US, where $30 dollars is, at most, a day's salary. In India, it could take a month for a family to earn enough to buy one.
you should send a user agent that makes it look like a real browser. for eg. Microsoft.com responses are different based on user agent, which is why they do the redirect. Here is Microsoft.com from Chrome (it is diff again for IE 6/7/8 etc.), you get a lot more information:

Cache-Control:public
Content-Encoding:gzip
Content-Length:23262
Content-Type:text/html; charset=utf-8
Date:Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:27:32 GMT
ETag:634154400660000000
Expires:Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:37:32 GMT
Last-Modified:Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:01:06 GMT
P3P:CP="ALL IND DSP COR ADM CONo CUR CUSo IVAo IVDo PSA PSD TAI TELo OUR SAMo CNT COM INT NAV ONL PHY PRE PUR UNI"
Server:Microsoft-IIS/7.5
VTag:438638311400000000
Vary:Accept-Encoding
X-AspNet-Version:4.0.30319
X-Powered-By:ASP.NET
What a load of horseradish. Feynman was adored by his students, and was often quite introspective about how he goes about solving problems.
How did you search his library on Google Books? Is it possible? How did you find his user id?
If you could break backwards compatibility, what would you change?
Slightly off-topic, kinda' related.

Do you know any resources for "current" recommended encoding settings (with regard to US-based ISP speeds & typical consumer home networks - dsl, cable, fios, cellular, 802.11g/n etc.)?

I know Flash Media Server will stream .mp4 h.264 video to Flash 9 and greater. iPhone/Ipod Touch requires a maximum encoding setting of Baseline, Level 3.0, iPad Level 3.1.

I really want to know what bitrates at which speeds and resolutions.

Depending on the user's connection, how many different bitrates would the video be encoded for (iPad over 3G, ipad over 802.11g, ipad over 802.11n, with cable, dsl, or fios)?
The text of the GPL is very clear about what it's trying to accomplish on behalf of end users. The industry has been publicly debating the ethics and consequences of copyleft for literally decades. If anyone still hasn't figured out whether it's appropriate for their business (which is far from the hardest decision they'll ever face!) there's just no reaching them.
What's "problematic" about mod_php? It's got to be one of the more widely used bits of software out there. Like anything, I'm sure there are tradeoffs involved, but perhaps it's better to be a bit more explicit about what they are rather than stopping at "problematic"?
Yep, Wuala is not completely open source and it is a business. Your worry that they might go out of business soon is mitigated quite a bit by the fact that they have been acquired by LaCie [1] over a year ago.

I suppose Linux definitely isn't their main market and while the Web Interface is lacking at the moment they are working on an overhaul.

[1] http://eu.techcrunch.com//2009/03/19/wuala-merges-with-lacie...
I liked because i got more infomation from there and but i submitted post i got error Stop spamming us. You're wasting your time
Perhaps I'm not part of the target demographic for this, but I don't really grok it.

It seems like (a very well executed) yet-another-photo-sharing app, with an extra layer of marketing fluff.

I see the founders are in the thread so maybe they can clarify - what's the main difference between this and say, just using Tweetie to share pics? Do you really think there's a need to make a distinction between say "all twitter followers" and "my real friends"? If I take a picture of something funny/cute/awesome, don't I just want to share it with as many people as possible?
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Ask HN: Your "Keeper" articles.
This being Hacker News there are many articles here that are "of the moment," items absolutely worth reading, and interesting to see, but not ones that you would refer back to.

There are articles, however, that are worth filing away and coming back to read later, and I'd be interested in seeing the ones that others have kept hold of in this manner.

Recently we've had "Who Can Name the Bigger Number?"
( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1539538 )
as an example, an article that repays rereading, and I personally enjoyed Zed Shaw's "Ragel state charts" and PG's "The Top Idea in Your Mind"
( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1536356 )

I've filed those away with some tags to help me find them again. What articles are your keepers*?
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While this might not be clear in the post, we completely agree: "Needless to say, they do have a full video encoding service with a wide range of options and customer support, whereas we’re showing you a building block that could be used to replicate their service. But, this does give you an idea of the premium they are charging for their service." We strive to be a general service for computation that can be applied to many verticals.
Fortunately, it was never hard.

Before (5.3.x):
tar xjvf php-5.3.2.tar.bz2
cd php-5.3.2
svn co http://svn.php.net/repository/php/php-src/trunk/sapi/fpm sapi/fpm
./buildconf --force
./configure --enable-fpm ...
make
sudo checkinstall -D make install

After (5.3.x):
tar xjvf php-5.3.3.tar.bz2
cd php-5.3.3
./configure --enable-fpm ...
make
sudo checkinstall -D make install

Before (< 5.3.x):
tar xjvf php-5.2.13.tar.bz2
wget php-fpm.org/downloads/php-5.2.13-fpm-0.5.14.diff.gz
gzip -cd php-5.2.13-fpm-0.5.14.diff.gz | patch -d php-5.2.13 -p1
cd php-5.2.13
./configure --enable-fastcgi --enable-fpm ...
make
sudo checkinstall -D make install

After (< 5.3.x):
PHP 5.2.x is no longer supported. Stop using it.

nginx's configuration is the same for all.
I think the video just makes a lot of cuts between similar looking tablets
Inspirational stuff.
aaaaaaand the app posted to my Facebook without telling me.

not cool.

The call to action was "Find Friends", not "Let everyone know that I installed this app". I thought we were past sneaky tricks like this :/
I don't really understand the problem to be honest. Maybe someone can explain it to me.

Sure it's mildly inconvenient if your CC number gets stolen. But the CC company is the one that foots the bill. In that sense, they are the ones with the best incentive to keep the number secure. If fraudulent transactions instigated by RFID-scanning thieves ever gets to the point where it is a serious concern, I am certain that the companies will act in their own best interest to curb the behavior. In the mean time, who cares if they lose some money?
I (and also a lot of people) think they ought to ship Android phones, How bad could be for them that option? my limited vision says it is an excellent choice.
Right, now all that's left to choose is which fork I'll be using for "visiting" files.
One page link:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/22/nokia_manifesto_risk...
ridiculousfish is the smartest programmer I've ever met. I hired him at Apple years ago, and while I could regale you with tales of how awesome he is, Apple would probably sue me.

That said, if you've ever played World of Warcraft on the Mac, you should worship him as a god.

:-)
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I made some comments about this on my blog:

http://yongfook.com/is-flipboard-legal

I think Flipboard will get a free ride for a while. It's definitely in grey territory, but I think the excitement around it means that it represents too much opportunity to try to stamp out (if you're an old-school publisher being scraped).

It will definitely begin to get a little sticky if Flipboard's eventual business model is advertising over this content which is owned by other people and has had its original ads stripped.
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What particular case are you referring to, basically?
Constant Alt+Tabbing forms more than a garden-variety habit
From http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html, there are about 58 VPs and SVPs at Google. I am not sure if it's too many for a company its size.

Someone with knowledge on corporate organization might want to chime in.
It sounds to me like you don't have a very good understanding of your software's design.

That's understandable. Most other IDEs handle GUI development by simply mashing the view and the controller together into a single unit. That is fine if you just have a simple window with some buttons and text fields, but this approach quickly falls apart when applied to larger, more sophisticated software.

The Cocoa approach is different in that it completely separates the view (the NIB or XIB) from the controller(s). You're free to design your views, controllers, models as you see fit, and Interface Builder is there to help you realize that design.

But you actually have to design your software; XCode is not going to hold your hand and shoehorn you into a specific design, like most other IDEs.

A NIB is still a NIB. That's not going to change just because XCode and IB are now a single application. You will still have to design your software, and you will have to understand that design.

But software design is hard, so don't be discouraged. It will come with experience.
Don't forget, he also signed an agreement not to break the law again. That'll keep him clean.
i read articles like this now and then, and i never get it.
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Oh cool, I have read that post before but must have skipped over it. I tried the hackish method in that last comment before but it gave me problems. At the moment given that it's fairly low load what I was doing I just left the default method in place which doesn't share APC.
Or just LLVM 1.5 or LLVM 2.0, as there are C flags you can pass in that will make it so you no longer have to add ivars to your header and make @synthesize the implicit default.
I'm the founder of a company that sells RFID blocking wallets and passport cases http://www.difrwear.com. I met with Adam briefly back in 2008 at HOPE when he gave this talk and gave him one of our wallets.

I ended up quite dissaponited they couldn't air the show. Would have brought a lot of awareness to the issue. It is really easy to copy RFID credit cards... all you need to do is go buy a point of sale terminal from eBay, poke the little speaker that beeps when it reads a card with a needle and then plug it into a laptop and you've got a skimmer.....
Just make a symlink from the iOS Beta SDK location to the framework dir for Xcode 4 and you can use iOS 4.1's SDK.
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There is a "time wasted dealing with my credit card beign stolen" bit that most folks don't attach too much value to until it happens.
Shipping Android phones would be probably a smart move for Nokia but I don't think the company wants to be bound to Google that much.
Instead of insisting on Symbian, they should have worked on developing a proper Linux-based OS. Maybe is not relevant, but Linus Torvalds is Finnish and the country, even if rather small, has the brain power to do that. Maybe now is too late and probably the Android move would be the smartest but I don't think it'll happen.
great post with a nice quiz format!
So if I read this right it makes a WPA2 wireless network like a hub based rather than switch based wired Ethernet network.

Which is what I always treat them as anyway.
from my perspective, a single user interface paradigm is unlikely to cover the variety of use cases that the full suite of hadoop platform services (flume, sqoop, hdfs, mapreduce, hive, pig, oozie, hbase) provides.

at cloudera, we've built and released into open source a user interface construction kit and an environment to house these various "applications". that way we can incorporate any metaphor you'd like: file browser, spreadsheet, yahoo pipes, etc.

see http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2010/07/whats-new-in-cdh3b2-hue and http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2010/07/developing-applications... for details.
A fair question.

There are duplicates (Witten and Frank's "Data Mining", which is excellent), and some of the books he lists as favorites I would say are utter garbage. Some of them are so bad, I don't see how anybody smart could have read them and concluded they were worth reading.

That said, as far as the idea of reading that many books, I don't see how it's out of line. I read a lot, but not nearly as much as a professional researcher such as Norvig would. I have several hundred CS textbooks I've either read or skimmed pretty thoroughly, and most of my favorite professors had many more which they'd read cover to cover.
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Indeed we can focus more on the code again now :-)
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What you're talking about is a subset of technology itself.

With any (good) technology it becomes easier to do things and we gradually forget how to do the old, more complex way. I remember power going out at a big box (forgot which one) store once. None of the checkers had any idea how to figure out how much the items would cost by hand so the store was forced to simply not do business until power was restored. Was that embarrassing? Perhaps, but who cares? They can serve vastly more customers with the systems they have now than they ever could have with the old manual way.

With a big IDE you can manage vastly bigger projects quickly than you could with a text editor and a make file. You might point to the Linux kernel but most people who work on that just touch one area at a time [1]. With my big fancy IDE I can work on projects of at least that size and make big sweeping refactorings in seconds with complete confidence that nothing got missed.

[1] With the possible exception of Linus but if you're going to require that each of your devs be a Linus (or even that you have one for that matter) then you're probably not going to go far.
Gcc surprised me once. I had put some effort into replacing something like (x << 12) | (x>>20) with the appropriate roll instruction at the assembly level. Only after seeing that the "optimized" code ran no faster than plain GCC, I looked at the GCC output and of course the roll was there.

I believe it was GCC 3.*, so even older than the one mentioned in the article.
I can imagine it's because Nokia is (or used to be) a huge company. Also Scandinavian businesses are generally not very hierarchical.
I agree with your modification.

I haven't had the pleasure of experiencing an environment where a large, hard-coded IF block (or whatever) was preferred to a more stable, maintainable solution, so I can't comment on that.

But one of my clients has a brand new codebase written by an "expert" contractor that has all but killed the business. I call it "startup fail" and it's sad to see that stuff happen.

Especially when I saw it coming and warned the owner not to hire this particular guy. I suppose it's made me a little knee-jerky when I see code that he would almost certainly have written and been proud of.
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If they can convince the judges that the cards cannot be skimmed, than the very existence of a record of a transaction with a skimmed RFID is legal proof that you did in fact authorize that transaction with your authentic card. There is absolutely no risk for the card issuer involved.

It is like it was with debit card PINs here in germany, the banks convinced the judges that the cards are absolutely secure so that any fraud was in fact to blame on the card holder who either didn't protect his PIN or was actively trying to defraud the bank.
One thing that I don't think many people appreciate is that it may be possible to make computed sentient systems without actually fully understanding their mechanism of operations.
His website provides more info:
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Am I the only one who read this and thought there is only one way to prove this?

Find several thousand wealthy couples.

Take away their wealth, reducing them to poverty.

Watch them make babies.

Evaluate empirical data.

Maybe we should look at former and current US mortgage brokers over the past decade?