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Prayer doesn't work. You'd get modded down just as much around here for suggesting homeopathy or something.

Plus, suggesting prayer (especially with something like "I'll get you started") is a popular opener to the always unpopular and antisocial practice of trying to convert other people to your religion, which is doubly a dick move when you target vulnerable people, like the chronically ill.
If you consider the multi-server case, this is a consensus problem. To solve it, you need to either use an algorithm like Paxos, or use some central synchronization point like a Redis or memcached server. Yes, node.js fails compared to Clojure when it comes to taking advantage of multiple cores on this example. Clojure's concurrency primitives are really slick. But that's not the whole story.
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My big problem with Wikipedia's notability guidelines is that they're too general. I don't accept that "notability" has to mean "known worldwide" or "known by a large number of people regardless of their domain." I believe that notability within a given domain (say, programming) should be enough. And I don't think there's much - if any - question that Steve is "notable" within programming circles.

Same with open-source projects... when the Wikipedia page for a F/OSS project is afd'd, the argument is always "it hasn't been covered in the NY Time" versus "but every geek knows about it, uses it, considers it notable, etc."

Ok, to be fair, there's some grey area here... make the domain small enough and everybodY is notable. (To themselves, for example). But I still think the WP policy needs adjusting... it's just not working for the way people expect and want to use Wikipedia.
It's great for doing things like k-means clustering or Delaunay triangulation. Those might not come up a lot for you, but some people need to do them, and would love to be able to speed that up by throwing several processor cores at the problem. Solving them on a cluster is a lot harder, and often unnecessary.

(On k-means clustering, in particular, Clojure-style transactional memory gives an almost linear speedup with the number of processor cores, without significantly changing the code. That's worth something.)
I don't see how the compact disk belongs on a list of lost formats . . . or the DVD for that matter.
>>>First of all, try to have the highest of ethics and to be open and truthful about things, not hiding. If you have to hide something for company reasons, at least explain what you're doing. Don't mislead people. Know in your heart that you are a good person with good goals because that will carry over to your own self-confidence and your belief in your engineering abilities. Always seek excellence: make your product better than the average person would. <<<

He's more than an amazing engineer. He's an amazing human being.
SLAs with exceptions based on "fault" are meaningless. Either you guarantee you will keep your shit working, or you don't.

(Either way is fine, really... but arguing over "fault" is not a productive activity.)
you know what I want? I want some sort of arm band to put my cellphone (or, better, a giant bluetooth vibrator) so that when I sleep, I can be woken by my pager without waking other people who may also be in the bed.
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I'm thinking of saving the graphics and putting it into my 403 page...
Might I suggest a free account that is limited to email alerts? It probably wouldn't cost you much, and it wouldn't cut into your 'business class' business... but it'd be a nice way for small timers to get a taste of your service monitoring their personal stuff (and then maybe recommend it to the boss)
Or 4chan.
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That's a good argument for a plain web app fronting a DB server. But what if you want to implement a server that keeps a lot of data in memory? What if you're not the user of Cassandra, Redis, Lucene or a specialized analytics engine but its creator?

For request/response type of scenarios (unlike batch processing) you basically have two options: (a) Use a multi-process shared memory design (or even just the file cache), which is very cumbersome to implement because you cannot use pointers and hence none of the data structures in your favorite language's library. (b) Use shared in-process state with powerful concurrency primitives. That's what clojure helps you do.

You cannot avoid to choose between these two architectures by using distribution across machines. Distribution is built on top of whatever you do on a single machine.
Good idea, but completely beside the point.
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We did this for one of our university design projects (back in 2007). With a rudimentary prototype we created in a couple months, we were able to charge an LED light for a second after 30 seconds of shaking the battery.

So what I'd like to know for this is the same thing, how long would I have to shake the remote to get a single button push?
What a great name with a nice inside-joke component! The first question that went through my mind was "did they used to work at Amazon?" Was PagerDuty.com available or did you guys have to buy it?

It's a similar level of cleverness as Lobby7, if anyone remembers that one...
I'm going to continue ignoring DNSSEC until I see it affect clients in a meaningful way. Until then I think there is other things my users would prefer I spent my time on.
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See also:

http://data.iana.org/root-anchors/

http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/07/dns-root-zone-f...

http://www.root-dnssec.org/
Most amazing one:

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You can say that about just about any aspect of modern life.
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For now we are trying to build a platform that mobile developers will care about and want to integrate into their apps. We are focussing on the developer's ease of use and added value. We know what to do with the business model, but that isn't something I am willing to discuss here at this time. However, when we are ready for it I will definitely write a post about it and explain what our model will be about
I like this. A lot. If I could add a bit of advice from a domain of personal interest, I highly recommend pulling economics papers from repec.org as well as from individual journals. Right now the best way to stay on top of new papers in econ is the nep.repec.org mailing lists, and I'd much prefer to pull them down via RSS. Good niche, and I like the presentation.
The Top500 list is progressively less relevant, as none of the large warehouse-scale computers are on it, because their size is secret.
Thanks for the link. There's nothing quite as educational as watching experts discuss a topic.
I really like the way he talks. The phasing is so simple and forward.
Those of us that were on speech team lost that assumption years ago.
you could actually enter your street level address or zipcode in the city box, i figured most people don't want to do this though so left it labelled as city
thanks for linking this. spot on.
I don't think I'd say my premise was that this was "simply" a budget problem. I was just saying that calling it a teacher shortage is a poor choice of words to describe the current problem -- we don't have a shortage of qualified teacher candidates, we have a shortage of capital necessary to hire them.

The education system and the problems therein (i.e., issues affecting student success) are certainly far more complicated and nuanced.
The entire point of this story is that until this week your clients couldn't have used it even if they wanted to and that changed.

I'm not saying you have to go running off and caring about DNSSEC now, but the kneejerk "omg it's not deployed" argument really isn't helpful or insightful attached to a story about how it just finished getting deployed for real on the roots finally after years of waiting.
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If you can, rewrite the application using Python/Java that u are learning (Ruby, if you want to catch up).
May be you can refine the idea and do a better job now.
I admire your path. Goodluck and keep us posted on your progress.
Ask HN: What is the best Java IDE?
I've been using Java for several years, but have never really yet felt the need for an IDE. I've toyed with Eclipse a bit, but for the most part my projects have been small enough that I've just done them in vim.

At work I've begun using Java much more heavily, and have been introduced to IntelliJ IDEA. I really like it so far, and it's making me wonder how I ever made do without the awesome code completion and refactoring features of a great Java IDE.

I've had a hard time finding a really good comparison of recent versions of the major IDEs (Eclipse, NetBeans and IntelliJ), so for those of you who have used a few different Java IDEs (or even those who have only used one), what are your favourite features, or the things you most missed when you switched IDEs. Which one would you recommend to someone new to the world of Java IDEs who hasn't yet developed too strong an allegiance?
wow - it really sucks that we have to root for other countries to protect us from the Entertainment Industry.

Go USA! Go Freedom!

Give me a break - they don't hate us for our freedom, they hate us because we put the interests of business and capital ahead of the interests of people.
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Thanks! I would consider building a separate site for economics; it would get harder to find things if I go wider than science/engineering.
yes thats a bit annoying, changed it to show either the registration form or the hacker search depending on your logged in status
Thought maybe it was geared towards blogging =( Have an upvote though.
I am glad they found a way to make money from the pirated content, but patenting that method was dirty.
I learned a lot from IOCCC winning entries. (http://www0.us.ioccc.org/years.html)
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Amazingly enough, pagerduty.com was available. We were totally blown away by that -- thought for sure it would've been taken.
Am I the only one who came up with the solution "embed the ads in your game" while reading the description of the problem? Of course, my excitement of having guessed this plot twist faded when I read on about how this was patented. Oh well, I'm sure the real genius was in the Romulan-like cloaking technology they invented to hide the ads in the games.
You're completely on the money with that last comment. Hopefully, one day I'll have an opportunity to have an intelligent discourse with him. He's my idol.
Yea, but I thought I would be forgiving....
So wait, in his first post, "aleph (~8.5K req/s) edges out Node.js v.0.1.100 (~7.0K req/s)" which was with one node.js process on one core. Node.js scales fairly linearly (from what I've seen) as you add additional processors and processes, so I find it very hard to believe that running an additional node.js process would still be slower than aleph. I say testing fail.
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>ensuring for the user that the device only runs on updated and tested versions of software

That should throw a few red flags up.
I really like Eclipse, although lately I've read a lot of vitriol towards it. It works for me, but then again I only use Java for GWT and Google's plugin is only for Eclipse. But its refactoring capabilities are satisfactory for me.

I use Netbeans for Rails, but I've never really gotten into using it for Java. Although, I hear their Swing WYSIWYG editor is nice.

I've never used IDEA, but I've never read one negative thing about it. In fact, I've also get the impression that a lot of developers swear by it. I just don't want to pay for it.
> However, when it's as vague as "improve education", I have serious doubts.

It's fun and provocative to say, but do you really feel (or, I should say, think) this way? I could maybe understand if you were talking about, for example, the CEO of CitiCorp, who really doesn't give a shit about anything (compare his background vs, that of Bill Gates).

But are you actually calling out Bill Gates, and saying he's not legitimately trying to accomplish something good for the lesser blessed people in the world? Do you think he's in it for the publicity?

> I'd trust a passionate fifth grade teacher to make good judgements of what's best for their students' education over a billionaire entrepreneur any day.

Well, I don't know what to say about this. Do you actually have children, so that you've actually had to sit down and think about these types of things?
I'd upvote you twice if I could for pointing out this amazing resource. I'm amazed I never knew about it.
What about the title "software engineer" offends you? Would you not be engineering software? Does your title matter to you?
Ask HN: Experience with Text-to-Speech providers?
I'm curious if anyone has experience they can share around working with any of the Text-to-Speech (TTS) providers or TTS software packages?

Specifically, I'm wanting to integrate multi-lingual TTS into a web app, but many of the providers seem to be very heavily focused on telephone, GPS, etc. rather than providing simple ways for web sites to integrate. Even their price sheets seem unclear.

I'd welcome any knowledge/experience in this space from the HN community.
Your reading of my post as "omg it's not deployed" is an unwarranted exaggeration. I merely stated that for me, someone who maintains a from the wire-up DNS implementation, this baby-step doesn't change anything practical — which is something you've agreed with.

EDIT:

It goes without saying but I'll state it anyway, this cascade of down-votes is not the reaction I'd expect for making what I consider to be a pretty innocuous comment about something that potentially affects the priorities of my startup.
> in the absence of pair bonding [men] should be willing to mate with any female unless they expect to find a better female in the next few hours

Are you sure they aren't? Craigslist "casual encounters" for the bay area had eight hundred m4w ads today, very few of which seem to have any criteria beyond "female" (in comparison, there are only a hundred w4m ads, and those are fairly selective). And I've seen some scary looking hookers out there who haven't quit for lack of customers. I think many men try to seem more successful or safer by acting more picky than they actually are.
They're missing the not-so-famous Avatar Shark Drive, which had 250MB disks (built with metal plates, like mini hard drives). I used to own two of them. Ran fine under Windows 2000, and they were quite fast too. Great for backups.
So the basic formula appears to be this – the US Government felt the sites in question were illegal and since they were accessible from the US, they should do something about them. On its part, ICANN has no problem cooperating with the Government and is happy to act on terms of use violations either by domain owners or domain registrars.

That's quite disturbing.

(source: http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-and-megaupload-escape-dom...)
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That's actually not bad. Keep searching for stories like this, compile a few, then go to press. Features are boring. Stories are good.
i was on their side until the bit about patenting this.

but what does their patent mean? if i deploy this solution for my own games, or make a business deploying it for others, will they come after me?
Different architectures, different OSes, different results. On a Macbook 13 inch Core 2 Duo, Node outpaced Aleph. I posted the code, anyone with the time can confirm.
Does this mean that you can no longer buy an unlocked (or locked) Nexus One in the US?
The solution seems obvious now, but the problem had to be framed that way to get it. I can only speak for myself, but this had not occurred to me before reading the article. I suspect that it would be the same for most -- considering that people argue the positive impact of piracy on business in terms of marketing, not revenue.
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ok, put this story in your PR as well. Stories good, features boring.

Here's a test you can do: tell your stories to 5 people who agree to listen for 20 minutes, and have a friend make notes on which stories/angles these people seem to find interesting. Then focus your story on these interesting stories.

Also: rewrite them a few times. You can usertest your stories.

Also: if you can place yourself within a bigger story, that's perfect for the press. Keep an eye out for bigger stories you might fit in.
Ask HN: Open source projects with good design/architecture ?
Can you suggest some of the open source projects which has good back-end design/architecture ?
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Amazon Compute Clusters have 23gb of RAM. If top is to be believed Node.js by the time it's done is around 1.6% memory and well above 420% CPU. Aleph is at 9% memory and steady around 380% CPU the whole time. No surprises really.
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I have an alternative theory that people want to vent their anxiety over the crappy economy, Obama not living up to their expectations, etc. but can't. The media only gives them the iphone antenna thing or ,a few months back, the Toyota acceleration non-issue as places to focus their anger on.
Ask HN: Why Techcrunch seems obsessed by Apple
Every second post on techcrunch is about Apple. Does Apple matter so much? Why everyone needs to talk about every damn thing they do? I don't own any Apple product and I don't care. Am I alone?
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You know, it'd be handy if such high-level languages implemented a separate =$= operator that worked just like ==, but was timing-independent.
Bill Hicks' later stage shows make it pretty clear that he hated the job, and Carlin was about as cynical, so I could believe it.
At the risk of looking stupid, wouldn't it be more accurate to say that [academia : industry :: toy boats in bathtubs : aircraft carriers] ?

I would read this aloud as: "academia is to industry as toy boats in bathtubs is to aircraft carriers", which seems to make more sense to me as an analogy. So do I have it right, do I not understand analogies, or do I not understand the notation you're using?
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I don't regard that as a waste - it may have been an expensive lesson, but I presume the money was spent on subsidizing smaller class sizes in schools.

I can assure you that when a smart teacher who spends every day with kids says one thing about what's better for their education, and the Gates' Foundation's research says another, I have trouble seeing the validity of the latter.

What I'm saying is that yes, smaller class sizes are a requisite for a better education. Have you ever been in a classroom?
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What a great resource. I like the fact that the searches work for the abstracts and not just the titles.

Would it be possible to display the journal titles alphabetically - scanning through "Journal of ...." is hard work.

Edit: Some of the rss feeds from journals are way out of date. e.g. Journal of Avian Biology lists only 2 papers from 2009. Displaying date ranges for the feeds might be useful.
The embed-ads-that-travel-with-the-game solution is fairly well known among casual-games developers I think. That doesn't make it a bad idea, but I'd be surprised if it's really patentable, unless the "invisibility" they discuss is particularly novel. I'm not exactly sure what they mean by that part, so hard to say.

Here's a CNET article from 2007 touting the benefits of ads embedded in flash games, one of which is "Even if the game is stolen, even if it runs on a site surrounded by other HTML ads, the ad can still play in-game": http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9797689-2.html
And he's back. Right after I re-created the page, somebody tagged it - again - for "speedy delete" but the admin rejected the speedy delete request. Thankfully. With the citations and references I included, I hope that particular article will be safe from deletion now. But if anybody else feels like working on it a bit, have at it.
I think it's more of a lack of perspective. Whenever, I read posts on the internet I automatically assume that they are from a teenager. In my head, at least, no responsible adult would do such stuff. More often than not I am wrong.
That wouldn't work at any company I've worked for, at all. It can often take a couple of days to get completely physically set up (desk, workstation, chair, laptop, etc), and up to 2 to 4 weeks to really get your environment completely set up so you're ready for real work (including figuring out how stuff works, and reading code and stuff).

I don't think 1 week is really enough to do anything important. For a good candidate, anyway. I'm sure a bad candidate can find lots of stuff to screw up in 1 week, especially if they're trying to "impress".
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Thank you very much for that link. I've been looking for more information than what the lame article gives and the link is just awesome.

Thanks.
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