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I find reading on LCDs really quite unpleasant. I tolerate them because I have to for working, but I would never choose to read a book or other lengthy static content on them.
You're right that they could actually make an impact.

Now with F# and clojure available as dev languages on .net (soon, if not now), maybe even the "cool kids" will find it fun. Cheering google over msft has been fun, but what we're really cheering for is choice. You don't want only one player in the cloud space.

Further, if they can offer DirectCompute in azure, that'll be a huge differentiator that'll attract the processing intensive apps.
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No.

You wait this long, you don't have a valid contract.
An alternative is to add your site here:

http://www.gmbhnews.com/addsite
15' Macbook Pro with 27' Dell monitor for work. Would love to stick 4 additional gigs of RAM and SSD into macbook :)

Previous Mac Mini with Time Capsule, Creative EMU USB soundcard and 37' samsung full hd display for home and media content.

PS3 for gaming, Kindle for reading.
My grandfather was an engineer and his house was full of interesting electrical appliances. One day we found this really weird-looking device that had little spools of metal wire running through it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_recording). We decided to hook it up to see if we could get it to work ... a 110V machine that hadn't been used since the fifties ... to a 220V power outlet. I still feel bad about that to this day: the machine was a technical marvel & probably belonged in a museum.
The problem with that is that we'd ne using the word "God" to mean "I don't know".

Which doesn't tell us anything about God, what God wants, etc.

This is generally known as the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps
Exactly. They never tried to hide it, they've been doing it for ages and it helps solve the issue of huge peak bandwidths needed for patch downloads. WoW alone has 12 million subscribers, and a vast majority of them are going to be downloading that patch the day of release.

I'd much rather use some of my bandwidth for this than wait ages to get a decent connection with a reasonable download speed or try in vain to find someone with a private mirror.

If anything we should be praising them for using the potential of peer-to-peer as a distribution model rather than just railing against all torrents as piracy.
To 16,000 customers starting with a computer and a desk
I'd give them some time.

They are not too sure about monetisation strategy so for them the best thing to do right now is not promise anything.
Napster was there too. Pretty quick to get to SF or Palo Alto.
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Depending on the market you are betting on, how quickly you need updates and what you can afford, you have a choice of subscribing to a live data feed (e.g. from http://www.enetpulse.com/ or http://www.pressassociation.com/sport/data.html), scraping a live score website or updating manually from the venue or live TV (although this does have a delay!). You do not always need ultra fast updates since:

Some markets are suspended and all unmatched bets cancelled when a significant event happens (such as when a goal is scored in football).

Any in-play market places a 5 second delay between placing a bet and having it matched, giving the market makers a chance to get out.
Thanks for the link, Michael.

I wonder how far the link goes the other way?

One of these days, I want to try to sort out the major results and foundations in the major topics of physics in a big map, showing what has been shown to follow from what. Like the complexity zoology inclusion diagrams (http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~greg/zoology/diagram.xml), only more general. I have the suspicion that a lot of the proofs of physics are in fact in some important way circular, but based on my first attempts I think I need to a computer to help me track all the logical dependencies.
Using extra large high cpu instances is actually cheaper per compute unit. You just lose io and memory.
Children should never be allowed to play with electric connections. My thomb took an hour to stop twitching after I electrocuted it.
I'm not the parent, but let me shed some light on that.

I've been using Amazon's services ... EC2, S3 and RDS, and now trying out the Elastic MapReduce.

These services simply rock my world, and the prices are competitive enough that third-parties started building and selling their own infrastructure on top of Amazon's services ... like Heroku, MongoHQ, AppCloud or Stax. And all of them have brainless deployment and competitive prices.

Short story ... Amazon's services are awesome, and both Google and Microsoft are late in the game. The only way they could beat it is through better prices, but other than giving away monthly freebies I'm not sure how they could do that.
Did you try to write some bot yourself? If so, for which sport? You can also PM me if you want, I do have interest in this area.
To get into university in China is hard, but to finish it is easy, vice versa to Western countries. A Chinese boasting an engineering degree from a good university shows how well their parents got them to study for their Senior High School finishing certificate (Gaokao) when they were 18 yrs old.
millbrae without an car seems tough. I'm sure it is done, but ultimately it is auto based suburbia.

Downtown should be relatively cheap.I personally live in the cherry chase area.
I think that best leaders don't want to be leaders per se, they just have to act on the dynamics of leadership because they have most important things to do and they can't do it alone.
Ask HN: ticket tracking system vs. collaborative done/todo list?
I've used Bugzilla, Mantis & Trac in previous jobs, but have never seen the huge benefit compared to just keeping a shared online done/todo list (using something like etherpad [1]).

Am I missing something, or do the "featureful" bug tracking system not really help much with a small (<=5) dev team?

[1] http://code.google.com/p/etherpad/
They may have filled patent infringement suits only four times until now ... but they've threatened companies far more than that.

They aren't stupid ... patent infringement suits can get their patents overthrown. You can win much more by spreading FUD.
This is a ridiculous paper, it would have been dismissed as the work of a crackpot if the author wasn't a respected string theorist.
Original paper (degree in Physics needed):

http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0785

Discusion of the paper:

http://badphysics.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/%E2%80%9Con-the-o...

Reply(s) by the author, Verlinde:

http://staff.science.uva.nl/~erikv/page20/page18/page18.html
I laid down $40. There was a thread in /r/lounge where people posted donation amounts.

The average seemed to be around $10; however, there were donations as low as $0.01 and as high as $1000.
I'm still not seeing "10 years late".
But, as you say, it is part of your job. The difficulty, or ease, of the problem, has nothing to do with it; at some shops, it's nobody's job, and so it just doesn't get done. In 90% of shops, the last time anyone so much as glances at the database is to run the CREATE TABLE query. No one profiles, no one optimizes—you're lucky if anyone even declares any indexes (ahead of time, as a guess, of course.)

And, consider: if it's the easy part, why are [some] people switching to NoSQL just to avoid doing it? ;)
Watching 30fps stereo on a DLP projector running at 60hz is a pleasure. It's not so much the framerate as the fact that an LCD screen does not update the entire image at once, but scans through it one line at a time. This way you don't have a single time point where the entire image is just left or just right. Updating the entire screen at once, at 120fps, is what 3d televisions (and DLP projectors) do, in addition to providing an external sync trigger signal for shutter glasses to latch onto. That is what makes a display device 3d compatible, not the frame rate in itself.

That said, if you have a high enough framerate on an LCD you can simulate the global screen change effect by just showing each frame longer, for example running a 120hz screen at 30fps stereo (60 fps total), and showing each frame twice, giving the screen time to update.
Can someone with knowledge or experience of extremely large projects such as this please explain what exactly are the costs? I cannot even begin to understand how you could ever arrive at £13bn, even if you had an army of systems engineers and buildings full of new equipment. What exactly is being paid for, and what is it billing at?

(I'm not looking for an answer like "They're gouging them because they can" - although I'm sure there is some of that going on - I'm actually interested in what are the purported costs, i.e. how could it even be seen to be the correct order of magnitude of expenditure)
Hey, that's my joke:-) I've always imagined one of the old Star Trek episodes where Kirk says "Computer, select course where Klingons equal to zero" or something to that effect.
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Yeah man, Ive been telling people for a while that ec2's offerings are high priced and low powered. Never would have thought a single i7 would be more than 12x the power of a ec2 standard unit though. crazy
That is a very interesting and true take on the matter, i would say that most mac related creations are very stylish. Whats your thoughts on the sproutcore framework relative qooxdoo?
That is truly impressive, i never knew that this was made with qooxdoo!!
It's even simplier, the crook usually stands in line behind the victin watching when the PIN is inserted. It's called should-surfing.

More sophisticated techniques are a hidden spy camera mounted on the top of the ATM (as you say) or even a fake PIN pad wich logs every button pressed. However the majority of attacks are usually performed trough social engineering.

Anyway to stole credit card information for forgery you need to retrieve the data stored in the card and the PIN. Skimming/Shimming is about the first part only, and the data obtained is useless without a valid PIN.

For this reason next generation ATM will avoid PIN insertion by using biometric technologies. Actually Japan an Poland are the first country in the world with biometric ATMs, for what I know.
Do you mind if I side-track a little and ask people's opinion of 3D in general?

I've seen two movies in 3D in the past year - Avatar and Toy Story 3. While Avatar was fun, and Toy Story 3 exception, I didn't feel that the 3D really added much to the experience. In particular, the colour for Toy Story 3 seemed dimmer than normal. I also where glasses, so I sometimes had reflections obscuring the picture.

I understand that 3D is being hyped as the next big thing to get after a big flatscreen TV, so I'd be interested to hear what people here think of it.
Nice analogy
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Interesting. Other than auto thefts it looks like you can draw a radius around the prostitution hubs to identify the high density areas for the other crimes.
What are all the benefits?
I suppose children should not be allowed to swim either...
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I have written a few bots before but only in certain soccer markets such as over/under goals.
The NoSQL datastores are aimed at solving scaling issues. The current relational databases are a pain to scale. It's not about hating SQL.
Nice level of openness for an academic. Will be interesting to see how the take-up and collaboration goes...
1) Is it legal for me, as a US citizen, to use your product? If it's not, are there any alternatives available?

2) When will the RESTful API be available? Can you email me when it's ready?
Maybe being able to buy virtual swag might be a better way to go for Reddit, in a similar fashion to Dungeons & Dragons Online.

Tiny [icons] of narwhal tusks, lolcats or rashers of bacon that could appear next to your name could prove quite popular with the community. Similarly, being able to not only upvote, downvote, but also put a 'hex' on a comment I could see as being an amusing pastime. Not to mention, they already have the beginnings of an achievement system in place with the awards panel. I could see them greatly expanding that with quest style achievements; "posted 5 links", say, to earn /reddit/credits.

I'm not sure how it would affect the community, but the revenue possibilities are endless.
Goes to show that unlike political moods, the laws of physics don't change all that frequently. I wish more policy makers would make decisions based on facts rather than popular opinion. Maybe govt. needs some Google engineers?
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That's cool, was it long-term profitable? I traded under 3.5 and 4.5 (manually) in a few matches with quite a good results.
Sort of, but worse. If your database has no schema, any mistakes you make can accumulate subtle damage to the integrity of your data that you don't have any way of going back and fixing. I saw this happen in a Notes shop. Over time, some of the documents had been updated by many different versions of the code, until they were in such bizarre and unintended states that not even the developers could say what the correct app behavior should be anymore.

If you are not migrating your data to your current schema, it will decay to garbage. If you are, you already have the old and new schema in your mind, so why not write them down and get some help from the tools?

The other way out is to keep the authoritative version of your data in a store with a schema, and maintain a summary of it in your low-latency store that you can regenerate at need.
Container shipping
A leading company which offers services like full shipping containers, part shipping containers, and shipping crates to all the major countries.
> Give it time. The tech is still pretty new.

Yeah, it's only about 100 years old (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_film#History).
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I'm not so sure it's a myth.

see http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/writjap.htm

To quote from that page: "Kana are read phonetically and kanji are read visually, with a dissociation between the processes involved, according to Morton & Sasanuma and popular Japanese belief. (This must be a little awkward in reading pages of mixed text, surely?) Nomura found that meaning was extracted faster from kanji than kana words, and thought that kana pronunciation was data-driven and that kanji pronunciation was conceptually-driven. Morton & Sasanuma (1982) also claimed that evidence supports the intuitive belief that kanji can give direct access to the meaning of words, but that kana always require translation into a phonological code when they are being read, and there is no development of automatic visual recognition of the kana symbols."

I believe Japanese uses the ideographic kanji for nouns, plus some adjectival and verbal roots, and the phonological kana for the rest, e.g. grammar words. In English, these same words classes (nouns, adjectives, inluding adverbs ending in -ly, and mosts verbs, except the most common ones) are the words we stress when speaking. Is this the same principle at work in both Japanese and English, where the content words of a language are stressed and easier to remember semantically, and the grammar words and morphological inflections are unstressed and easier to remember phonologically?

Is this also why in written German, the nouns are capitalized (as was Dutch until 50yrs ago and English until a few hundred years ago), because it helps if they stand out?
Talking about old mag stripe card, the system used to authenticate the transaction is this:

1. The account number is crypted in DES (ora a variant) with a PIN key, the cryptogram is then decimalized and the first 4-5 digit extracted to obtain the so-called natural PIN.

2. The user then can change is PIN by using an offset: user PIN + offset = natural PIN.

3. Account number and offset are stored in the card.

4. The ATM knows the PIN key (wich is a shared key common to all the ATMs system of a certain bank) and when a card is inserted the ATM calculates the natural PIN from the account number.
Then it verifies the PIN number:
if user PIN = natural PIN + offset then SUCCESS
There is absolutely no way I could, in good conscience, recommend to a kid heading into college right now that they should plan on cultivating my exact skillset and expect employment in four years

Could you explain why? I thought web development would become even more important in the future. Or were you talking about the Rails framework?
For the human species to survive on Earth over the long haul, we need a way to sustain our lifestyle with the energy coming from the Sun. In Oil / Gas / Coal, we're just living off previously stored solar energy.

There is only a limited amount of nuclear fuel on Earth (not counting something like deuterium deuterium fusion reactions which likely will never be feasible in full scale) - granted, the amount of fuel we have with right technology (fast breeder reactors, thorium reactors, etc) will last a period measured in centuries, not decades.

Even as someone who's working in the wind energy industry, I believe that nuclear power is clean and safe energy source that we should be actively developing and perfecting, and I'm in agreement with you that nuclear option has gotten the short end of the shaft.

However, the pure renewables like Wind and Solar do have a place in the conversation, and many of issues you cite are overblown (wildlife impact/noise) or technically solvable (wind stopping - there are papers showing that by tying the entire eastern seaboard into a single grid, you can ensure certain amount of base load capacity). There are still unexplored places for wind energy (deep offshore, high altitude) that hold a lot of promise, with technology that already have been developed.

If we have the will to go ahead with a full blown nuclear option, then by that time, we'd have the will to go ahead with updating our transmission infrastructure. And if we ever end up in a pure electric transportation sector, we'll have 250 million batteries-on-a-wheel that can soak up the extra generating capacity on windy/sunny days and dump it out on cloudy/still days, with nuclear likely providing the baseload capacity.

I see transitions from coal to natural gas, then to nuclear, but as a stepping stone while we perfect the pure renewable solution which is the only thing that will ensure the survival of human species unless we decide to go gallivanting across the universe collecting resources from other planets. Even then, energy dense nuclear fuel will be too valuable to waste in heating up homes and food - they'll be closely guarded as a means to get to those said energy dense planets.
Interesting to see that many iPad owners use this device as a "kitchen aid" (see this thread here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1503254 ). Maybe that would be a "killer app that will make it popular?
Almost every database I've ever seen was used by more than one application, and from different languages. If you succeed, you're going to have ops and sales and support and finance and bizdev needing access, and they're going to want to use their favorite tools rather than wait for you to build poor imitations from scratch.
I don't have any particular knowledge, but this sentence from the article:

Over a billion pounds was spent on the programme last year alone

seems to indicate that it's an accumulated number.

Also, I think it's a safe guess that a significant slice of that money is recurring license fees for many, many instances of very enterprisey software.
So for a government project in the UK:

You first of all need to go into the procurement process. This pretty much starts with the principle that you need to know whose fault it is when it all goes wrong which kind of sets the tone for everything.

To be able to cope with the procurement you need quite a large and bureaucracy heavy setup to start with - the emphasis is on accountability not performance. Also the government moves very slowly - it is a very large organisation with few of the commercial pressures we in the private sector are used to - this leads to delays - which in turn lead to costs. The type of company that can cope with doing business with the government has a lot of overheads.

Secondly the government side is quite hampered with rules and regulations to prevent what you might characterise as corruption. This means a lot of stuff has to be done formally and that often brings delays (and expense). (I don't want to portray this as a bad thing - corruption is bad - but it does prevent a lot of agility IMO)

Thirdly the people on the government side often don't know what a successful IT project looks like and the people doing the procuring frequently won't be people who know anything about what they are buying (and the actual end users of the system will likely not be consulted until long after the procurement). To be fair to the procurers they really do try and get value for money - but way things are setup normally means that this can't be done in sensible ways.

It's one of those "well you wouldn't start from here" type things - and whats worse they do keep starting from here and it keeps going wrong.
yeah, the benefits afforded by IT aren't worth 10%.
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Ask HN: Multilingual E-commerce Shopping Cart Recommendation
I have some clients who need to have a multilingual site, multiple currencies and gateways.

Business catalyst and shopify do not seem to provide i18n.

I have been looking into ubercart with drupal, magento, spree and OFBiz.

It seems that ubercart does not support multiple currencies. And Magento community version has a limited functionality.

Should I build multiple "one language, one currency" sites instead?
Any other suggestions? Thanks!
Maybe they worry about causing a privacy disaster?
> (1 759.00 / 41.82) * 880 * 1.60 = 59222.1903

And for almost 60k per hour, you will be number 1!
How long till AWS as the capacity to top the chart?
Compete is whack. And this is not only true for reddit, why would anyone trust an analytic that doesn't have _direct_ access to your traffic numbers?

http://www.reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu/comments/co29o/c...
84% ownership... of a limited-liability corporation? Yes. What an albatross.
No; the script is already set in stone (it's floating around the Internets if you want to read it - it's actually not as terrible as it could be), and October is not very far away; I'd guess filming is already done.
the proximity sensor bug is x10 more annoying than the antennae issue. i hope it can be fixed with software.
The legality of betting is interesting. Why is it illegal to financially speculate on the outcome of sports games? Why is it illegal to pay someone to play badly? I can see how sports leagues would prohibit the latter, but I don't see how the Federal government has the authority to control that. As long as you pay taxes, I don't see a problem for society. (Except that professional sports would suck, but that's not the government's problem.)
They didn't explicitly say anything on the blog post because they don't have power to higher anyone without getting permission from above, they can't even get new servers without getting permission first. The best way to know what going on is to follow the developers/admins comments who are very much involved within the discussion:

http://www.reddit.com/user/raldi/ is more open than others.

http://www.reddit.com/user/jedberg &

http://www.reddit.com/user/KeyserSosa are the other two admins

Edit: Raldi mentioned that they are getting offers from other CN properties (ie, Wired) to help them with sales/marketing.