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There is never going to be a return to normalcy for this area. It has already been under relentless pressure from human activities, to the point where we have a dead zone the size of Rhode Island floating around near this area already due to criminally irresponsible over-use of agricultural chemicals. Way too much pollution has already been coming out of Houston and New Orleans for a long time. BP wasn't satisfied dumping millions of gallons of oil into the water, they also felt it was necessary to dump hundreds of thousands of gallons of unnecessarily toxic dispersant chemicals into the water, mainly for cosmetic PR purposes. Louisiana's marshes are already in serious physical decline from the change in water flow and silt buildup caused by hydrologic engineering in the area.

As far as something being natural, that has little to do with it's ability to destroy ecosystems. Sure, many synthetic chemicals are worse, but don't we have plenty of examples of very harmful natural phenomena? Radiation is natural, for instance. Perhaps you'd like to absorb a couple thousand rems, and see if the naturalness makes a difference in your return to normalcy. Or drink a big glass of oil, why not! It's natural! Several thousand dolphins, sea turtles, jellyfish, fish, sting rays, eels and octopi surely gave that a try recently.
Hypothetical: What happens if the agent that distributed the code to the public wasn't authorized to do so?

My view is that GPL infringements are no different than regular copyright infringements—the owner of the copyright is entitled to damages awarded by a court or an out of court settlement of some kind. This may or may not include GPL'ing the derivative work.
How is my cell phone number more anonymous than my credit card number?
Ask HN: A better way to pay bills?
Hi all,

I pay my bills online, but it is still kinda obnoxious logging into a dozen accounts every month and making the payment. Is there a website that consolidates this? I did some googling, but I didn't find a great answer. This seems like such a good idea that I can't believe that nobody has made this yet.

Thanks
I've had similar stuff, including massive panic attacks / anxiety, especially in graduate school. I learned to deal with it through diet, exercise, but mostly by getting outside and getting more sunlight. If your climate / weather allows for it, go take a sick day, pack a lunch, and go spend at least half the day in some sunny park or beach.

I also find it helps to write out all the thoughts in your head. If I don't do this, I feel like my brain is stuck in a loop, always coming right back to whatever major issue I'm having. Getting that issue down on paper somehow lets my brain move on and really think about some other things for a while.
For a web designer that works with css, html, and php, the only thing keeping me away is deployability. It seems that without learning git and the ways of my terminal, I have no way to make a web app with RoR. Not that I don't want to learn. I do, badly. But I just wish the barrier to entry could be lower. Either that or I just need to find a better tutorial going from nothing to a very simple app on Heroku and showing me how to experiment with it.
At least then you knew which way was West.
He covered why they didn't want to use a tree like distribution method in his presentation.

It introduces a possible single point of failure for all nodes which are children of a failed node.
thats an interesting statistic. they value at one year's revenue?

i actually have a twitter account with 2700 followers, among which are snoop dogg, bill maher, sarah silverman, doug benson, and a few others.
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I think it would be completely reasonable to ask Google for detailed advance warning of algorithmic changes that may effect the Internet economy. Making them disclose the entire algorithm is too much and invites further gaming of the system.
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I wonder if new companies have to check their proposed logos against existing trademarked logos to make sure they don't infringe? If so my idea for you is to build a way for companies to upload their proposed logo and have a search done to find existing similar logos.
Wow, an MMA analogy on this site? Who are Seth Petruzelli, Roy Nelson, and Matt Mitrione then?
> It's been successful in every country that has tried it.

Doesn't that depend on the starting point? For example, NHS started during the post WWII depression in the UK. The US isn't starting from there.

I'm trying to track down the stats, but I've heard that the US lifespan is world-longest if you adjust for accidents and homicide, two things that aren't affected by healthcare.

> Granted, the US has a bad habit of poorly implemented government programs so who knows, we may be the first exception.

The US govt gets the same amount of tax revenue per person as the "rich" EU countries. If the benefits are less ....
Good advice generally, but what axes do Zed and Linus have to grind? Sounds like both just think C++ enables too much complexity to be worth the benefits.
Uh...I'm talking about the content of the post to which this thread is attached, so:

http://librelist.com/browser//mongrel2/2010/7/15/c-verses-c+...
It is not obvious to me that A/B testing is overpriced at $50 a month or that there is business value in attempting to compete on price when the product that practically defines the category is already free.

I really can't beat this drum enough guys: do A/B testing. If you do it right, it has the potential to really move the needle. It is an exceptionally bad place to go pinching pennies: if you have ~100 visitors a day already, the business value you will get just in a few goes at plucking the low-hanging fruit will dwarf any of the above numbers. (If you don't have 100 visitors a day already, I commend you for your dedication to A/B testing and respectfully recommend you focus more on SEO for the next month and come back later.)
It has grabbed and maintained complete domination of nearly all performance sensitive code in games and desktop software, for nearly a generation now which is an unprecedented reign in computing history. That's a pretty good start to me.
Thats not bad. Do you know of any real image search engines that search based on what the image looks like versus text about the image? I image that this wouldn't be too hard for simple logos.
Nope. You're assuming that just because the search results are biased in one (useful) way, that they cannot be biased in any other way.

There's a big difference between ranking all possible results with a PageRank-style algorithm, and dedicating space at the top for results that come exclusively from you.
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I actually feel confused here. While they obviously make comment from the point of view of heterosexual male, they do not degrade or defame women. Granted, they imply that heterosexual male can have feelings and be in relationship with female, but does it constitute "incredibly sexist comparison" to you?

Would it be not sexist for you if it's phrased like this: "The iPhone 4 antenna issue is a scar on a beautiful significant other. You don’t break up with the significant other because of it, you work around it because of her or his other attributes. She or he might even put on some coverup (the bumper) so you don’t even notice it"?
Web 2.0, techcrunch, ycombinator - these used to be the path of the outsiders. Little by little, the community has recreated exactly the kind of pedigree/ladder system that folks there were trying to avoid. If you're someone who followed techcrunch in the early days, it's crazy to think that having the right funding and pedigree is what gets you featured. We've come full circle.

Any scarce resource ultimately ends up in the possession of the most worthy, and over time possessing it can have more symbolic value than utilitarian.

Well, I have a feeling ycombinator does a pretty good job of combating this considering they regularly take very young founders.

EDIT: On the flip side, it's reassuring to know that if you believe in yourself and are persistent, you'll eventually get access to these scarce resources.
It could be called the end of PC era and personal computing in general. Look at this shift from general purpose desktop devices to specialized (TVs, consoles) and mobile ones.

Also the web is not something special nowadays. It is rather overloaded and boring. To many blogs, social networks which no one read anymore.

The web will remain, of course, the primary commercial media, that is why google buys that travel search service. Web is a perfect media for such services.

But it is not for a small, let alone individual players. So, we could speak rather about the end of PC-era, rather than lost decade of IT-investing.

It is a time to invest into a global services.
I am in the same boat. I look for ideas that aren't difficult to implement. That way I can easily build it in evening hours. I have found that marketing and sales takes the vast majority of the time anyway.
Yay! (disclaimer: I invested)
Well, looks a bit more slick than Gnome 2, but not revolutionary. Kind of a step towards KDE 4, which was really a step towards MacOS. If they can make it less buggy and more performant than KDE 4 (and... one would hope) then I'm sure I'll enjoy using it.

ps. Seriously, whomever put together this article for Linux.com is inepxerienced enough to embed 1920x1080 images directly into the page, rather than thumbnails?
They life in a day-dreams. ^_^ Browser is the desktop. Even mobile browser.
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"You'll find crap in C++ like const *const char &, and hell if anyone knows what that really means since even though the pointer to a const to a const reference is consted to hell and back, oh look you can still increment it."

I'm still looking for the part where he doesn't understand how const _works_.
And how do they actually measure those numbers without (i) guessing; (ii) having some JS on the page, or (iii) using Voodoo Black Magic.

I think it's ridiculous to believe ANY company that claims that they can measure traffic of a site accurately without the DIRECT INVOLVEMENT of the site's owners. How are they doing it? Through the ether? Come on! Data, people. Data. Google's figured that out, maybe other companies should too.
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The trouble is we don't really know the root cause of major depression. We know a little bit - e.g. it's partly genetic - but we usually can't 'resolve the root cause'. Treating the symptoms is not pointless.
I think that the only tech-savvy people that use Alexa toolbar are webmasters who are trying to get their Alexa numbers up, basically.
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Wouldn't having the government step in defeat half the point of a newspaper?
Agree 100%. Solid support or total neglect - opposite ends of the spectrum seem to produce the best results.

Does anyone have a name for such a response curve? The Innate Outlier Effect?
Here in South Australia, it's often said (Wikipedia's source page from news.com.au is a 404 now though) that a particular brand of iced coffee out-sells Coke.
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I really dislike C++ but more to the point I really dislike other people's C++.

That's right on the money. I can find a subset of C++ that I like and that I could program with, but that assumes that I'm not collaborating with someone and that I don't have to use C++ libraries (It's not just the code, it's the APIs, too). The latter is almost worse. I could imagine a company that has some rather strict standards, where the C++ development environment doesn't suck completely. Google's style guide seems to indicate that they might be one of those companies [1]. Much more likely you'd have to work with something like MFC, VLC or the complete boost hodgepodge.

And Zed is right when he's talking about the template meta-programming fad. I haven't seen any project where the pros outweighed the cons. And yes, I've read Alexandrescu.

People often say that you need all those features to build large applications. Which reminds me a lot of the "Doctor, it hurts when I do like this!" joke…

[1]: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.x...
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Repeating 'XP with Vista' story? ^_^
The text is hysterical bullshit, and a lot of the examples are cherry-picked, or don't show what they purport to (eg the first graph about the concentration of wealth suggests stock holdings have diluted rather than concentrated over time.

But yes, our economy has some serious problems, and inequality is one of them. Not because I believe in socialism, but because above a certain level we waste a lot of money on guarding the current distribution of wealth, and that has a considerable opportunity cost. See this small but rather influential economics article: http://www.econ.brown.edu/fac/Glenn_Loury/louryhomepage/teac...

My personal hunch is that free economies are never destined for pure equality, but if they drift too far from a Pareto distribution the fiscal disparities will result in sharply increased political polarization. statisticians of the future are going to have a whale of a time with the combination of the census, an unusually severe recession, election data and a massive lexical analysis dataset.
Even if most Reddit users did block ads, and as noted in another comment it's actually about 30%, reddit has other ways of displaying ads. Their "upcoming stories" box occasionally displays "sponsored links". There are other things that reddit could do to get a sponsor's message to adblock users that would be similarly non-invasive (contests, etc.), too.
To clarify, Google does not de facto nor de jure have a monopoly even if they are wildly popular.

I'll call Google a monopoly when they buy off Microsoft to shut down Bing and buy out DuckDuckGo. Their practices are occasionally questionable, but that doesn't constitute a monopoly in and of itself.
"They'd have been better off to just invent a new keyword:
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And now I have tea to clean off of my monitor and keyboard.
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For some concrete examples of the above: WebKit, Chromium, Gecko, and V8 are all C++.

My impression is that there is a very high startup cost with C++ to getting it working on the platforms you want to support and picking the subset that isn't going to screw you. Once you get over the hurdle, the improved memory management (I agree with the post Zed is ranting in response to) starts to pay dividends.
I saw that "0 reboots" and had to go check them out. Wouldn't you know, it's free for Ubuntu Destop!

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If you let them, they can directly measure the traffic of your website. If you sign up for their service, Quantcast's numbers will be very close to your own Google Analytics.

But, if you don't sign up, they'll still "measure" your traffic and come up with results that are no better than the other web traffic rankers. I don't know why anybody takes sites like these seriously anymore. Everybody I've met who had a website with decent traffic has said that these sites are always way off. I'd imagine that Alexa's main reason for reporting a ridiculous statistic like % of global/country traffic is that it makes it harder for website owners to realize how wrong they are.
There's one thing your analysis is missing: A has a diffuse effect across the entire Internet community; whereas, z directly and personally affects the writer. Even if A >>> z, the impact of z on a writer can still be unpleasant enough that it isn't worth it to them to continue in their work.
This article seems to be leading to the conclusion that basic healthcare helps eliminate the sort of diseases that contribute to a lower IQ population. These are probably people who lack very basic healthcare and sanitation... I think that it's hard to argue that the basic health needs of the population wouldn't be better served if it was health care was free (such as dealing with treatable communicable disease). I think you might run into problems if you're talking about specialist care, but otherwise.....
My rule is really simple: As long as there are people who are alive who care about me, then I may not kill myself. People are anchors for each other, whether they are vocal about this or not. The profound, irreversible, emotional collateral damage is not justifiable, and that's all there is to it.

Since I have family and friends who are younger than me, it's likely my rule will be in effect until die from natural causes. QED.
I'd tell you, but after I instructed Avast to ignore the request, it didn't pop up any warning or anything when I went back to the site again. And by then, I'd already dismissed the dialog. All I know is that there was something about a PDF.
How is KDE 4 a step toward Mac OS? I don't see that at all. KDE 4 also wanted to revolutionize the desktop, but I think we have accepted at this point that it isn't going to happen. KDE 4 is much more like Windows and KDE 3 than OS X.
The founder and lead-dev of VisualWebsiteOptimize is Paras Chopra, a man whose hard work and drive I will emphatically vouch for.

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=paraschopra

That guy has the focus of a laser and the patience of Atlas. A young man who has a very bright future ahead of him.
"pls cut the crap. Do not post opinions as facts."

I cited a book that references hundreds of academic studies. You cited six paragraphs of a wikipedia article, which doesn't even cover any of the real issues/questions. Are you fucking kidding me?
Are you saying that the complete domination claim is also true in comparison to C?
My bad; I had misread the other story. Thanks for the correction..
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I don't know if V8 follows the Google C++ Style Guide[1] (I doubt it, but it is possible), but that could explain a lot. I feel that it provides a good balance between power and readability. You don't have the language-within-a-language pattern that arises in some of the boost libraries, but you do get RAII and a few template tricks. The language feels much like a cleaner Java, with very few opportunities to do something incredibly stupid.

However, if I had not been given the style guide and a more experienced reviewer to tell me right from wrong, I would be incredibly frustrated with the language. C++ is complex enough that a book probably isn't enough - you either need a mentor-type person or a very clean open source project to study.

[1]: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.x...
I agree totally with Zed Shaw on this, but some quick observations:

* C++ circa 2000 (before mainline g++ could handle Alexandrescuisms) is significantly different from C++ circa 2010, albeit in ways that probably upset Shaw even more (the more central role boost has taken, the more "expressive" templates have gotten, don't call me on any of this stuff).

* C++ std::string is an abomination, but you can always just do what I've done and what lots of other C++ programmers whose code I've read have done: just use char* and a simple string library (or a custom string class).

* Ditto for stream IO, which is a huge C++ misfeature but which is also pretty much irrelevant (I know of no part of the standard C++ library outside of things that explicitly support stream I/O that rely on you using it).

* I don't get the POSIX argument at all; just call the POSIX functions, they work fine. Nobody mandates that you use (say) ACE_wrappers to do systems programming.

* const-correctness may be another misfeature (I know I make fun of it), but the point isn't hard to see: if you take the time to const-correct your code, the compiler will spit out errors that would have otherwise been runtime faults.
I'd guess he's referring to template metaprogramming.
How's that diff from th government deciding how we find stuff online?
thats an interesting statistic. they value at one year's revenue?

For traditional small businesses, you'd get 3-5 times earnings, but a basic website goes for less. The thinking is that a restaurant or hair salon would have equipment that could be liquidated, or regular customers you could count on to bring in revenue. A website could easily lose all its traffic, be blacklisted by Google, or have a competing site knock it of its pedestal.
I do it via my bank account. For anything that has almost any 'size', it is available via that account. You should be able to consolidate most via the bill pay option your bank provides.
It's certainly possible; I've done better than that in less time. It took me about 4 months to get to beta. Six months before I launched and had recurring revenue. I worked nights and weekends to get it done but I also outsourced some of the less important work.

I'm about 8 months past that point now and I'm extremely glad I took the route that I did. It wasn't easy getting here but totally worth the effort.
Deploying Rails has gotten significantly easier since the release of Passenger. It may not be quite as easy deploying PHP, but it's not far off.
Probably another run-of-the-mill confusion of macros for templates.

"LISP" is a convenient red-herring to throw into PL diatribes; it shows the speaker has some authority since he is "aware" of Lisp, and the glowing and mystical connotations that this, vague, awareness carries.
Well, rails is opinionated software, and one of those opinions is that you should probably be familiar with a terminal.
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I'll second that. I find Objective-C nice to work with. The real issue is the lack of cross-platform compatibility (think Cocoa). The rest I write in C. That or a dynamic language. Ruby, Javascript, Python--they're all pretty much equivalent for me by now. I can transliterate code between modern implementations of all 3 without a hitch. Practically find & replace fast. Most of the semantics are roughly the same. All support JSON happily.

Lately, I've been using [Jansson](http://www.digip.org/jansson/) for JSON support in C. Wonderfully simple and fast. Also, [zeromq](http://www.zeromq.org/) for everything: logging, sockets, messages. Hoorah. F@&# yeah.
Wild guess: maybe they look at the increase in IP ids? On a lot of TCP/IP stacks they are not randomized, and can be measured from the outside by simply looking at 2 successive datagrams from the server. So, make up a reasonable estimation of how many IP datagrams are sent in an average visit. Make sure to do the same thing on all frontend servers. Congratulations, you now have a reasonably credible bullshit number to chart.
http://railstutorial.org is what I used to learn rails. It have information on how to use git and heroku too.
What would be better is if C and C++ divorced each other and people realized that they are two separate languages. All of Google's results for C questions end up linking to some "C/C++" forum, which is almost certainly not what I'm looking for. I'm sure the other way 'round is true too.
"he results were like night and day. All I had to do was not drink during the week and go out less."

Smoking marijuana arguably leads to a 10% increased risk of developing psychosis. Whereas drinking alcohol raises your risk of developing psychosis by 800%. The public school drug propaganda programs always talk about the risks of drunk driving and liver damage, all while being completely silent about the biggest risk of all.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_effects_of_alcohol
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