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I think the reason is that you can launder money this way.

What is also interesting to me is why the internet betting is prohibited in USA, but buying stock or forex trading is not prohibited. So you can't bet on sport outcome, but you can bet on companies stock prices or currency fluctuations.
Yes, exactly. That's why it's worth talking about in the first place.

I wasn't downplaying the paper, just observing what I could about the current strength of its claims. It's more of a Gedankenexperiment with some guiding equations, which it seems the author stated as his intent in the nytimes article.
Surely even a civil servant can be fired for gross negligence. I think their union would have a hard sell getting the public behind them striking over someone getting the sack who wasted a billion squids of the NHS budget!
I've been chatting with a few people and they confirmed to me that outperform football market long-term (by statistical model or any other way) is indeed very difficult, and most professionals currently do tennis and horses. The reason is that predict a goal in football is difficult, while the tennis match can be partially predicted by watching the game.
See also:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1505799

This isn't a duplication, it's out own jgc attempting to do the same thing.
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So the first thing to understand is that value for money is only one of the check boxes in a procurement and the biggest one by far is accountability (which ironically just kills value for money even though I presume the accountability is to prevent money disappearing)

Secondly you can not do agile things or indeed anything other than mainstream IT projects under the current procurement rules. I've tried (from both sides)

So reform will have to come from the top down. The good news is that this government does seem interested in root and branch reform so keep pushing. However it is going to require dramatic new thinking in an organisation (the civil service) that is fundamentally built to resist such a thing as part of its very foundations.
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That's an interesting idea... Yahoo, AOL, and Demand Media would likely be interested in getting real-time data from Reddit, and being a data provider is a better business than providing commoditized advertising solutions.
How well does JRuby stack up against them?
It's not the question that's relevant, it's the answers.
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Ha ha ha ha.

I can see you've never worked in the civil service. Promotion, possibly "sideways", is by far the more likely outcome for gross negligence. Sacking people for gross negligence is hard enough even in the private sector under uk law.

HR in the civil service is sh*t scared of the unions and strikes are an option of last resort. Virtually nothing gets that far.

Again as I've commented above it would require such a sea change both in law and process - all of which the unions would fight every last step of the way - that there are undoubtedly other lines of attack.
Strongly second this: there is more value in learning to code and then apply those skills on a problem set outside of IT.
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if you're hosting a website, makes more sense to rent dedicated servers. ec2 is great for off-loading peak traffic though
What's the north side of Mission Bay like? I'm not in SF, but "strolling" down Berry on Google Maps, it seems like it's really nice. Anybody on HN live in that area?
Is there any reason for this: "If a function returns an array, you have to assign it to a variable before accessing an element, you can't just add an index after the function call." ? I cannot grasp why PHP's authors "designed" it this way.
Yup, I tend to agree. Via that post I ended up on a post by Terry Chay with some much more interesting quantitive analysis of PHP usage at Facebook:

http://terrychay.com/article/hiphop-for-faster-php.shtml/4

One of the things that really surprised me was the observation that PHP has a much higher CPU utilization for comparable operations than other higher level languages.
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crunching numbers (such as estimating where the oil spill is expanding, weather prediction, etc.)
Why would you want to depend on Adobe (or any other company) if you don't have to? You still have to implement your own technology if you want to be in mobile phones, set-top boxes etc. Spotifys cost of scaling is going to be relatively low with Debian, C++, Python, Vorbis, p2p etc.
They create things - pricing feeds, execution APIs - that in the non-sports betting world you'd normally expect the exchange to provide.

It's prop trading only AFAIK.
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I thought they were kind of fun and matching my temperament this morning.
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/realworld/

http://cufp.galois.com/2009/schedule.html

google "production app in clojure | ocaml | scala| f#| haskell| SBCL | schem"

http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/141985/why-should-a-net-d...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33744/is-scala-the-next-b...
What's the criteria for something being a "real" competitor?

This device provides functionality which is broadly comparable with the iPad, in the same way as many netbooks, the Kindle, the Nook other eBook readers and a whole bunch of other devices.

How comparable they are is debatable but are they competitors, in as much as is it possible that people will buy one of them instead of an iPad to fulfil one or more needs an iPad could have fulfilled.

But how come this is a "real" competitor when the others aren't? If anything I'd suggest that the "real" competitors are the ones I can go out and buy and use now and where people are doing just that, rather than an unlaunched device I'd need to mod.
Actually, in many use cases & for many organisations 10-20% of budget on IT is a very reasonable ratio. As hackers we may not like it, but that's how the real world functions.
An open fuel cycle (without reprocessing) makes nuclear power pretty worthless, as has been shown in the US over the past 30 years.

President Carter banned reprocessing in the US over bogus weapons proliferation concerns; IMO, one of the worst things a President has done in the past 60 years.

I am a bit torn between "just build a lot of 3rd generation reactors" vs. going for the fourth gen designs.
Wow, I did a double-take while reading this; I just moved back to Chambersburg, PA, the town they launched this from. Awesome stuff!
Why not columns that contain tables? It would certainly make things easier. e.g. Get a list of customers with their orders:

SELECT ... FROM customers LEFT JOIN orders ...;

To get this into a presentable table, I would have to keep track of the previous customer's ID and only start a new row if the current customer ID is not equal to the previous customer ID. If table-valued columns were available, each customer row would have a column containing a table of their orders.
I've sometimes thought someone should pitch this as a reality TV show, moreorless on the lines of Scrapheap Challenge (http://www.channel4.com/programmes/scrapheap-challenge).

Take 2 or 3 teams of (really good) agile programmers, assign each to a local health authority and give them each a tiny budget (£10,000?) and see who can come up with the best/first working system.

If only the process of coding were more watchable...
Absolutely. Plex may be pretty but it has the most confusing UI I've ever used. I've given it up in frustration twice now, just because it's so hard to add media to it (which should be a basic function in a media player, you'd think).
Beautiful graphic design is something I'd like to learn, and it is something I have not invested much effort in yet. Tutorials like those on SmashingMagazine can tell you the how but can't teach you the why. Any graphic designer/art student will tell you that learning how to draw is all about learning how to look. I'd like to be able to do design myself but realistically it is easier to become friends with good designers (yes, you pay them but it is more like working with a partner than a hired gun). In lieu of taking classes, go to art openings. I've met very few designer developer individuals.

That being said here is a list of some resources for (previous AskYCs, rest of them learning how to make icons) (which is a stepping stone to Tap Tap Tap UI).

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1487274

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1290147

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=66863

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=227406

http://web.archive.org/web/20050101092500/http://mpt.phrasew...

http://hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/principles-of-icon-design

http://flyosity.com/tutorial/crafting-subtle-realistic-user-...

http://steveweller.com/articles/tabbar-icons/

http://speckyboy.com/2009/04/28/35-tutorials-to-create-amazi...

http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2010/05/some-good-advi...
There will be no push back on requirements - nobody is going to say "do you really need that" as they will be reducing the scope of the project and therefore the amount of money made.

Implementations of complex systems in the commercial world (e.g. global ERP systems) often work best when the chance is taken to align the processes of the organization at the same time. I can't see that happening in the context of outsourced government projects - nobody has any incentive to reduce the amount of money spent.
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Every request does not require a thread to be spawned (depends on configuration/load), but every connection would require its own thread.

"The worker MPM uses multiple child processes with many threads each. Each thread handles one connection at a time. Worker generally is a good choice for high-traffic servers because it has a smaller memory footprint than the prefork MPM.

The prefork MPM uses multiple child processes with one thread each. Each process handles one connection at a time. On many systems, prefork is comparable in speed to worker, but it uses more memory. Prefork's threadless design has advantages over worker in some situations: it can be used with non-thread-safe third-party modules, and it is easier to debug on platforms with poor thread debugging support."

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/perf-tuning.html
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PHP's parser/syntax is a bit of a mess. I'm guessing it could incur some sort of inconsistency.
# Arrays and hashes treated as the same type

For me this is an advantage over other languages. I'm looking at you, Perl.
Aside from the anecdotes of plenty of people with YouTube and Twitter accounts, the antenna problem has been thoroughly tested by Consumer Reports, according to a blog post that made the rounds yesterday: http://blogs.consumerreports.org/electronics/2010/07/apple-i...

Engadget is reporting that Apple has been deleting references to the Consumer Reports blog on their support forums.

The antenna problem affects actual people, who really do experience dropped calls when they're in an area with weaker coverage and they bridge the two antennae. I'm continually surprised at this notion amongst many iPhone4 users that if it doesn't happen to them, then it must not exist, despite plenty of evidence that it does exist.
It is more work than ORM, but if efficient access to data is an important part of your application, it seems to be extra work that brings benefits. At least that has been my experience.

I'm not clear on why this layer has to be repetitive and full of duplication.
And the experience of launching and tracking the device was like a scene right out of Hollywood, Wiley said, as the kids tracked the device in real-time using a student's iPad.

Because, you know, it wouldn't be real or exciting if it wasn't like a scene out of Hollywood.

But the school has a nice page on this here with video: http://www.potomacschool.org/campus-life/campus-life/interme...
What a great school project!
Indeed. It was a very pleasant surprise to get on the HN front page on a first blog post. I must be a lucky guy ;)
Years ago, I used to prefer them because I thought they were more readable. Then I realised how much of a pain it is to give your email address out over the phone if you have punctuation in it.
I have a problem with designing a data model with the "ease of displaying it in a pretty way" as the main consideration.

Nested tables may well be the bee's knees, but probably not for this reason alone...
The current cuts are providing some incentive but I think you are right but there is another part of the picture:

the lack of incentive to cut is one thing.

The ability to see things that can be cut is the other piece of the jigsaw - and I guess this stems from exactly what you are talking about - its not been a necessary skill or a part of the process before.

In order to constrain costs both motive and ability to do so are essential.
And as usual it'll end up with the same old list of reasonable problems, 'unforgivable' omissions and miles upon miles of ridiculous hyperbole. It's started already. Is abuse of includes or goto an inherent problem of PHP? I was abusing includes 15 years ago when I messed with C and my earliest BASIC was the code equivalent of snakes & ladders.

All this kind of thing tends to do is embolden the snobs, put the backs up of the faithful and be of no practical use to any reasonable person looking for honest answers. It doesn't even have the virtue of being a humourous discussion since it's been flogged to death over the whole internet for a decade.
France is probably the ultimate model for how to work rationally in the nuclear energy space. Some interesting facts and history: http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf40.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France
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Some of these complaints don't even make sense:

He doesn't like the lack of strict mode, but complains that E_ALL tells him too much; maybe it's telling him too much because he's not writing things correctly, just like 'use strict' would.

He complains that you need to remember the parenthesis for a function call, but short of Ruby, I can't think of any other "normal" language that doesn't. C/C++/C#, Java, Python...

He complains that a whole bunch of things are considered false, but when using the === operator, they aren't.

Always use <?php ?>, and your code will always work, everywhere.

Just because people abuse include() doesn't make it a flaw of the language. Strawman ftw.

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I found a tiny amount of USD in my paypal account left over from something (I'm not from the US) so I donated $5.
The flaws you site in the Macbook Air are not flaws. They are design compromises intentionally made by Apple. I have a Macbook Pro and a Macbook Air sitting right in front of me and I would say that even though I use the pro more often, the Air is the better laptop.

The Air is obviously not for you. Don't mistake it for an engineering flaw.
There is a 'lounge' subreddit that only donators can get into. I don't think they should treat people differently on the main part of reddit, it'll cause too many issues/arguments.
What makes him think the proximity sensor issue can't be fixed with a software update? Seems like making it less sensitive or mapping it to a different sensitivity curve would do it.
There are no value to the discussion unless they come with the reason WHY x is a bad thing, and WHAT you can do to with the language to get rid of/fix x. They don't seem to do so here. (And some features they consider as "bad" things, I consider as good things. Lack of WHY makes me wonder why x is such a bad thing.)

As a note, they complaints seems to mostly be about the lack of standards and conventions. I can agree with that issue, if they find a way to make the standards and convention better.
I don't agree. I've ditched almost all my dedicated servers across all kinds of apps that I run. I now use Rackspace cloud servers as my universal tool for everything I can.

I used to use EC2, but I've found I get significantly better performance (and of course support) at Rackspace for the same price. Also avoid Rackspace cloud sites, performance is pretty awful.

Anyway back to the dedicated server point. If you use virtual servers you can very easily replicate images, spin up copies and scale your computer power on the fly. Case in point, I was running one of my apps on a $10 pm instance on Rackspace. We got a Techcrunch article out of nowhere and the site instantly died under the traffic. I resized the server on the fly and boom, * straight back up. Once the peak died down I scaled the server back down. A couple of months down the track we get near Techcrunch traffic every day and I haven't had to scale the code base at all - I just keep it running on a larger instance. Much, much more cost effective.

* ok not straight. Unfortunately when resizing a Rackspace cloud instance under heavy load it takes ages to run (30+ min isn't unusual compared with 5 min under light load). I've found that the best solution is to spin up a copy on another instance and change the dns to point to the new one. I wish Rackspace would add some way to temporarily block traffic to a server to it can scale. Some kind of "panic", scale me up, button would be great.
Python has properties to abstract away function calls.
It is interesting that the new Cluster Compute Instances use HVM instead of paravirtualization, does it mean AWS is moving away from Xen?
Most of these gripes are fixed in PHP 5.3, although the lack of ability to access $this in closures drives me nuts. Aside from that, all languages have minor syntactic issues. Take your pick.

I think the far bigger problem with PHP comes from the culture that surrounds re-use. Writing re-usable PHP is hard, we lack decent package management systems and systems for distributing light-weight packages of code with simple dependancies (I'm looking at you PEAR).

The end result is a culture where re-inventing the wheel is standard practice or at best copy and paste.
There's plenty to hate about PHP, but most of my gripes have been repeated ad nauseam all over the internet. Yet one issue that really drives me bonkers doesn't seem to have received the opprobrium it deserves: Functions can take default named arguments, but insist on referencing named arguments by order, not name. This is just utterly asinine.
12 years later, I still feel this was the defining class of the CMU CS undergrad experience. Worth reading.
So much good stuff in there. Brian O'Sullivan mentioned his paper on the GHC event manager on his blog:

http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2010/06/14/sightings-of-the-g...

He also linked a preprint:

http://www.serpentine.com/bos/files/ghc-event-manager.pdf

There are also plenty of discussions on the mailing list.

http://groups.google.com/group/ghc-io-manager

Brent Yorgey is of course the current editor of The Monad.Reader, and the author of the Typeclassopedia, so I'm looking forward to his paper too.

http://www.haskell.org/sitewiki/images/8/85/TMR-Issue13.pdf

http://themonadreader.wordpress.com/

http://byorgey.wordpress.com/
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URL: http://scribld.in/

First, thanks for taking the time to check it out.

I frequently find myself having ideas for projects, startups, etc. and find it difficult to keep them all organized. I wanted to build a site where I could keep all of those ideas together and bring people in for feedback as I needed; after two days and 30 hours of coding, this is the result.

If you have any questions, comments, feedback, etc. please feel free to ask them here or via e-mail (address in profile).
Clickable: http://scribld.in/
http://www.levenez.com/unix/

This is much better, I think. (It had just 17 pages when I printed it for the last time, sigh.)
There is physical/virtual room, however, the professors may not have the ability to handle all the students.

A single, quality professor is needed to generate content. Content scales.

An army of cheap drones are needed to grade, assuming all grading is done manually. You could probably get a grader for 50 students for $3000-5000 [1]. That's less than $100/student. As long as students pay more than $100/course, online classes will scale.

[1] This is the pay a PTL will receive for teaching a single in-person math course.
YouTube for me is only social in the sense that the videos I like get fed to my Facebook stream. I have no connection with my friends or family from within Youtube and the quality of comments is so dreadful it makes me feel like I don't want any presence there whatsoever.
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I'm extremely annoyed about how there is no native datatypes for HTML and SQL and they are just plain strings and are allowed freely to be created from strings glued together with any arbitrary data without any default escaping what leads to SQL injections and XSS attacks.

Oh wait. That's true for (almost?) all languages that are used to writing webapps.
Contributors can view the list of contributors who have specified their username on the paypal checkout form (it's probably not public) at http://www.reddit.com/r/lounge/about/contributors - it's currently at 5715 donators. No word on amounts yet though, a few people are doing surveys in the subreddit.
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There are a variety of ORMs available all of which suck in different ways, such as bloated syntax, forcing you to write SQL statements as a bunch of function calls (i.e. $something->select('column')->where('condition > 0')->...), or excessive configuration. The one decent ORM (DMZ Datamapper: http://www.overzealous.com/dmz/) is maintained by one person, and limited to the Code Igniter framework.

This is a complaint I'v made before... Currently I am using Jelly [1] for the Kohana framework and it is wonderful compared to most of the PHP ORM offerings.

1. http://jelly.jonathan-geiger.com/
No, we are not on the brink of sanitizing nuclear waste.

In addition to pjscott's comments, I'd add that I believe that the risk's associated with radiation and radioactive waste are relatively well understood compared to the risks associated with manufactured chemicals and pharmaceuticals (for example). In these area's, we have a tendency to perform a trivial study of the toxic effects of a compound, release it for general world wide consumption, then decades later figure out the biological and environmental consequences.

Another byproduct of western civilization are our various systems for governing nation states. Those systems, in the 20th century alone, caused somewhere between 100 million and 200 million deaths (largely from war, famine and 'democide' initiated by governments, politicians & dictators).

I fear chemical compounds whose names I can't pronounce and governments who murder their citizens far more than radiation.
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I guess it's wrong point of view for a hacker. X vs NOX is all about ego, this kind of silly games should be dismissed by a hacker, focusing on technical merits instead.
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This one is just curious.
If you know Rails, and you're a good programmer, you could easily pick between a few jobs here.

Just saying.
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