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Just yesterday I was trying to get the macutils package built (http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/compress/macutils.tar...) and wishing they had used autoconf instead of ad hac #ifdef'ing for each arbitrary environment they had encountered - which never happened to be standard C. The package is apparently unmaintained, and if it weren't for tracking down the license provenances(!), I'd be tempted to apply some autoconf love.

Varnish guy also left HP-UX off his list of still-kicking Unix implementations.

The continuing exponential growth of computer use hides the fact for many that there are still an enormous number of "non-mainstream" systems still in essential use. Within the last couple weeks, someone on the autoconf list just asked for help supporting AS400.

Kids these days. Sheesh. ;-)
This seems biased against teetotal investors.
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Because they're lazy and they've been given everything on a silver platter. I'm 24.
The headline made me think that it was a more obscene, pervert-supporting version of it.
From what I have seen of history, the most intelligent people (from what we have been able to tell) are never a regular part of the mainstream. They only dabble occasionally.
Trusting the Web: Doing Business in the Cloud
A far as telepresence for Chinese / Indian factories goes, wouldn't it be cheaper / less awkward to hire a guy to walk around w/a laptop running iChat / google voice-vid? Labor in those countries is practically free.
Some 30 second feedback after interacting with your site...

- Why the "Leave" button?

- What is the "Next/Find" button and what does it do?

- What is auto-find?

- Why can't you pick "all" topics?

I probably have more questions. I never found anybody to chat with even though there were 3 other users online (assuming the one odd out was available). Steal some of the UX from chat roulette, make it less complicated and more familiar.

Great idea though. I actually have quite a lot of information/opinion/experience about a lot of the topics you have listed, and would love to contribute.
Tell me about it. I've been trying to get to sleep by 1am so I can get up and out in the morning to go running before the Scottsdale heat is overly oppressive. But even when I'm physically tired, I just want to stay up and hack on one ... more ... thing.

Would that I had that same drive at 9am. :(
Well, I initially just saw it as 'just more of the same' -- and questioned why is that good? Don't know. Trying to find out. Amongst all these other improvements over other C family languages that I read, why not syntax too? Perhaps as alnayyir said above, I'm bikeshedding and shouldn't care so much... Again, I'm not well versed in programming language design, etc so my original comment (and probably this one) certainly has an amount of naïveté.
Whenever I do that, I wake up feeling AWFUL and go through the rest of the day in a daze. I can feel the positive effects too, but it's never worth it.
Sorry I didn't see it.

Anyway, I think we have a "sarcasm bias". Meaning, when I mean a sarcasm, it's obvious and anyone who doesn't see it is an idiot; and when you mean a sarcasm, you'd better put the sarcasm tag, or we can't perceive your tone, you idiot.

(Just to be sure: The tone here is sarcastic, but I think the bias I speak of is real.)
Paul Erdös quote:

A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.
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It sounds like a natural Augmented Reality HUD. Interesting...
But some people don't like alcohol.
I upvoted you since I got a good laugh, but it's actually a much slower solution than most stands in terms of "construction" and usage -- you have to spend time finding that special sized plunger and it every time you use it, you have to turn you ipad face down, use force to stick the plunger to the ipad, and unsticking it seems to be an even harder operation.
You can downvote people here?
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Well, we could remove patents, but removing (or lightening) regulation may be a bit more tricky: you wouldn't want Big Pharma to release something that's more a poison than a medication.
Any idea how to prevent this from happening? Google seems to have figured it out in their google images iframes, but I can't for the life of me figure out how they did it.
In my experience the etiquette on OkCupid is completely different from elsewhere on the web - it's extremely common for someone to ignore your message entirely.

So "hanging out with girls online" can translate to "being ignored by girls online", which is hardly good for one's confidence.
I loved this story when I read it in "Surely you are Joking..." It is exactly how it still works at large Tech-Corps. Number of Patents filed is a metric the PHBs love to use in order to determine the innovativeness of departments and there is a nice bonus for submitting your ideas to the patent-process. Middle management is running around asking people whether they could think of anything they could submit because that will make the department look good - and there you go... loads of BS-patents and I bet you that Dollar that this is exactly how he Microsoft page-turn-gesture-thing became a patent.
What the hell man; a MySQL backed DNS server which has a PHP web interface? Just learn djbdns already!

http://www.lifewithdjbdns.com/
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> If you want to take the code and run off with it in the sunset, you're perfectly able to do so. Instead of at least re-using/borrowing code from LLVM, they decided to embark on a rather laborious and difficult aspect of language development themselves with zero input from other projects.

I think there are two separate concerns, both which I'm disagreeing with you on. First, my understanding is that when ken wrote the initial compilers he wanted to focus on the frontend and re-use a backend. So he picked the plan9 compilers which he knew well (they predate LLVM by 10 years and he mostly wrote them). There was very little original work going into the code generation.

Second, I think you are grossly underestimating the initial cost of integrating with an open source project unkown to someone. The first Go compiler frontend was written in a few weeks or months. I'm guessing that having to pick up a new unknown backend (LLVM) and language (C++) would have set the project back enough to make it miss it's window of opportunity.

It seems to me that your argument is that an incorrect choice was made in what to re-use. That seems like a very different thing than NIH.

> ARM compatibility

ARM compatibility had nothing to do with the decision to re-use the plan9 compilers. I'm a compiler neophyte and when I wanted to add ARM support to Go it was an easy choice to go with the existing framework (there was a solid plan9 C compiler for ARM). If I had tried to port the system to LLVM at the same time as adding ARM support my skills would probably have failed me.

> fast compilation

One of the distinctive features of the optimizers ken wrote for plan9 C, which are used in Go, is that they are much simpler and faster than normal optimizers but produce less optimal code. The GCC Go compilers are slower and slightly less comprehensive but produce code of higher quality. LLVM would undoubtedly produce better code as well. I'm happy to go into more technical detail if you want to, it would help if you'd let me know how much practical compiler writing experience you have?
Fwiw, Google loaded 20% faster for me.
Very cool idea. Could play with this for hours.
All countries in Europe except the UK have civil law systems.
Nike Dunk High Atmos NYC Dunks Project
Another collaboration with Nike and Atmos, their is always a nice sneaker involved. Here we have a small preview of the atmos project nikes which looks very nice but the pictures leaves you with wanting more.
I actually worked on a garbage truck for a couple a years in my early 20s. And not in a unionized situation where the weight was regulated. Lovely weather in upstate New York with bitterly cold winter more than offset by sweltering summers.
Google expects new China licence, says Schmidt
What is so horrible about using cp makefiles/`uname -o`/`uname -m`/Makefile . to copy the correct makefile for the platform?
I just use this: http://blog.shrt.nl/zero-cost-ipad-dock
Except that the compilers are typically mature enough where you CAN flip the switch and have SSE output instead of x87. On Mac OSX at least, gcc uses SSE by default for floating point operations.

It's like compiling for ARM and forcing codegen into Thumb mode so it looks worse performance-wise.
Nitpick - The alt text for the "Being Geek" book reads "The site for Michael's book, 'Being a Geek'."
I've been seeing quora show up on HN more and more lately. Seems to be gaining steam.
They made a little version for your iPhone: http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/iplunge-iphone-stand-28-06-2010...
I'm the CEO of a VC-backed financial technology company that's been in stealth mode for almost a year (coming out of the proverbial closet later on today), and we had a number of reasons for doing it.

First, we needed to give ourselves breathing room, where we weren't distracted. Requests for demos before you're ready, requests for interviews with the press, requests for information by potential investors all take time, which is time that you should better be spending building your product.

Second, we didn't want to alert our competitors to what we're doing. While we didn't believe that any of them could innovate faster than we were, we didn't want them to know what our marketing and technology direction was, and thus try to poison the market's mind to our message before we could give it in our own words. Otherwise, by the time we DID give it in our own words, people would have predisposed to think badly of it.

There's also the non-customer competition to think of: recruiters (we're in a hyper-competitive market for talent), who will know what you're doing and target your employees; VCs who will at least ponder the notion of grabbing a team and overcapitalizing them and say "do that idea and get it to market before the other guys." This might seem far-fetched, but if you don't have any real benefit in opening to the world, they're definite potential downsides.

Finally, we needed to make sure that we had something very tangible to show the world (i.e. customers) when we do come out. If we had made a big display of our story, and then gotten customers interested, and then said "thanks for your interest; come back in a year when we have a demo to show you" it would have been a complete turnoff. Most of the people who we think of as prospects will find out about the company now, and we're ready to come in and give a professional display of what we're doing.

What we DIDN'T do was go completely dark. People who we knew and trusted we've worked with the whole time. People who we felt could add value we sought out. We didn't just go into a bunker, but we didn't splash our wares out there for anyone in the world to see.

Stealth-mode is definitely an option for the right firm.
Ok one more - Johnson Murphy is actually Johnston Murphy.
Once your karma is >200, yes.
"Websites criticizing the United Arab Emirates"

I think this is about to become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Not very smart then, eh?
Then why are they pushing so hard on HTML5? If what you say were true they should be trying to stall it, no?
i believe he's working at palantir tech now (in the old facebook offices in palo alto)
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There are far-reaching effects to be considered.

For example, immigration sponsorship. As a gay man with a non-American partner, this comes to mind first.

Currently, spouses do not have to testify against each other in court. This isn't codified in any law but British Common law (afaik). There are a few of these pleasantries that would have to be figured out.

Then, there are over 1,000 legal rights codified into contract law. Some of these can be emulated (power of attorney), some cannot.

It's a hard problem.
No one is talking about dating. We're talking about starting a family, which is an entirely different bag of cookies. Wake the f*ck up.

Assuming that women and men are the same, have the same goals, and obey the same rules is an immensely stupid mistake to make, one that could be avoided by observing the real world social dynamics, and one that only clueless feminists such as yourself make.
I wonder if people who have training with cold water resist significantly longer. I knew Finns who would go in mid January to swim for ten minutes in a hole cut in the ice of a frozen lake, then sit around for a while, dress up and go on with their day. And that was without sauna.
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> The procedure of actually having to do all that "work"

.... might be enough to raise the bar for trolls?
I took the GED to officially "graduate" after finishing 10th grade. I'd already aced the PSAT, ACT, and SATs, taken 2 APs, and a boatload of 11th and 12th grade math/science subjects. The GED let me start university 2 years early, and finish a 5 year engineering program a year before my classmates graduated from their 4 year educations.

Thank you, GED.
Not nearly as interesting as the fact that it only happens in the one eye, not the other!
Erdös attributed that to Renyi.
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This is related to the earlier submission

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1492124

to an article from Psychology Today

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200911/intelligence-...

which seems to assume this as fact, starting:

Night owls are smarter than other people,
and now we may know why.
Cloud AWS vs Physical Infrastructure
It looks like google parse the page serverside to detect break out of frames scripts. Here's a manually engineered example - I searched for a demo of a break out of frames script and forced the URL into a google images request:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.internet.c...

THe page just displays a "you are being redirected" message straight away, so it must be detected at the server level. Smart.
My goal at the moment is to put a product out on the market. I've made a lot of free/open source/one-off projects that had potential to go further with a little investment. I'm currently taking one design, and getting it on shelves, being sold in stores.
What technology are you folks using that forces you to look at (and actually edit) a configuration file just to build your project? Are there actually still well-used languages that don't have a development environment that takes care of this for you? (serious question).

Granted, we have an automated build system that requires hand tweaking from time to time, but that's something we introduced ourselves. If I wanted I could still hit shift-ctrl-b on any box and have a working version of the project. (And in all the flavor-of-the-month web techs it's usually just a matter of pointing a browser at the source.)
Bing is faster on mine (FF)

On others it's google that is faster (They use Chrome)

So browsers seems to affect it too.
It probably happens in both eyes but only the left hemisphere (handling input from the right eye) is wired to do the pattern recognition needed.
I kind of thought watches are dead. But granted, if you are an explorer, you might not have the opportunity to charge your iPhone, so a watch might be of use.
Not having to maintain multiple Makefiles.

Also multiple incompatible compilers, and cross-compiling… and Darwin doesn't have uname -o, and Linux's uname -o has a / in the output.

Hmm, what isn't wrong with it?
may be they are so bored with the world that they'd rather live apart from it ?
What is the most postmodern vegetable?
I know a couple of Finns that have swum everyday for decades, no matter what the water temperature (eg through ice). They claim it builds up brown fat. Maybe the ratio of brown fat has something to do with it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_adipose_tissue
I use boxes in the cloud for various things, but not yet for hosting. We have a couple big fast machines in a cage, of the sort that would cost a grand a month if they were on EC2, that we run all our sites from.

Once you have a single project that justifies the colo box, the marginal cost of starting a new project with a new website is zero. No need to configure a $20/month slicehost box and cross your fingers that it can handle a Redditting. You just put it on the monster box that can handle anything you throw at it until it demonstrates that it needs a big machine of its own.
You should have read on; it was just an attention grabber :)
This is a problem iPhone developers never have to worry about. Can't Android take care of app storage automatically?
how much do you pay for servers? 'cause I'd be out of business if the difference between amortised hardware cost and what i charged you was 30%
> e.g. "perl" always exists

It probably does, but most infrastructure software in both RHEL/Fedora and Ubuntu has been created in Python for nearly a decade now.
x86 Pros: (all to do with windows I think. Are these what you were thinking? Did I miss any?)

- windows software

- windows drivers (probably less important for a netbook, but I sure wish my scanner and laser printer and wifi hotspots all worked with my eee PC's xandros).

- windows itself is familiar, and people know their way around it.

- Microsoft sells windows for OEM notebooks really cheap (like $20 I think). An astute move.

- x86 also runs lots of linux binaries (and other OSes), but I don't think this is a big factor since you can recompile (and eg ubuntu has done this for ARM already), and it's not a selling point for the 95% of people who don't use linux.

ARM Pros:

- lower power consumption (but I believe the display is the main power drain at this point)

- cheaper (but Intel mobile CPUs are priced competitively)

- to combat "windows software": webapps seem to be used more than native apps these days (what % of your PC time is outside a browser? I myself am only outside a browser for compilation and vim).

- to combat "windows drivers": a netbook is primarily mobile; and if it has 3G, it doesn't even need wifi compatibility.

- to combat "windows familiarity": the browser is already familiar. If that works, the rest is of secondary importance

- linux is cheaper than windows (though I'm not sure if that is true for special distributions with higher usability, eg. I'm sure xandros for the eee PC is sold for-profit).

Overall, it seems to be in flux: platform is shifting; price and power consumption must be considered over all components not just CPU.

However, there's a larger trend at work here: netbooks are waning in popularity. The eee PC is no longer available in the tiny 7 inch size, and the most popular one is 10 inch - merging closely with 12 inch laptops. The "tiny form-factor" space seems to be taken over by touchscreen smart phones (not just the iPhone, but also android and so on. Incredibly, the whole market is selling over 1,000,000 per. day. http://trentwalton.com/2010/07/05/non-hover/ I actually can't quite believe this). The phone invades from below; the netbook retreats upmarket.

So... what I really want is not a netbook, but a phone with keyboard and a larger screen. Some of them already do have (tiny) keyboards, and you can buy them as addons.
I worked in a hospital's lab one summer. The three things I remember the most are counting sperm under the microscope (which smells really really bad), helping out with Pap smear analysis (which looks really really bad), and being the pee-on intern who, yep, gets first dibs in processing the urine samples as they come in (which smell really really bad).

Worst job? Yes and no. I went on to do a PhD in bacterial genetics.
Some practitioners of meditation, in particular Tummo, claim that they can change their body temperature which allows them to withstand extreme cold:

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/04.18/09-tummo.html

The world record holder for ice immersion (1 hour, 44 minutes) is Wim Hof who describes himself as a Tummo master.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Hof
Amazon, Rackspace cloud, encoding.com, google apps..
Yeah we don't even know if it makes sense to combine the two.

Human need for completeness is driving that, but we might find ourselves with two models that don't need to be combined.
The brute-force way to do it is to run a proxy on your own server that loads the page in question, strips out either some or all of the javascript, then serves it onward.

Replacing 'top.location' with 'self.location' probably does the trick for 95% of sites.
Not that I'm defending autoconf (I dislike it a lot), but
POSIX is also ignorant sometimes, so it shouldn't be treated dogmatically - e.g., google for the socklen_t confusion.

Other than that, the real world isn't black and white either. Although many unixen claim to be POSIX compliant, based on my experience they are mostly POSIX-ish.

And there's also no guarantee for sizeof(size_t) being a platform's word size.
If there is enough demand for something like this, we would definitely implement it.

In general, every tool that provides an API can be integrated.
Is this Dan Ariely's New Dating Site?
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I worked in a canteen kitchen at the dish-wash end. The diners would put their trays on a conveyer belt and we would scrape the leftovers into the waste disposal, sort the dishes, cutlery and glassware into their allotted crates which we then fed into the giant dishwasher. It was fast, frantic, filthy and hot work. Among the diners were bastards who made things difficult in interesting ways; I remember digging teaspoons out of elaborate mashed potato sculptures, and there was the time when some joker trapped a wasp in an upturned glass on their tray before handing it in to us.

I got on very well with my fellow workers there, though, many of whom did that for living, whereas I was just passing through, earning some cash as an undergraduate.
He's listed on the management page as an advisor, so this might be it.

http://www.omnidate.com/managementteam.aspx
"I'll randomly quote something that has been on HN/Slashdot recently, that's sure to get me some points!"
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"Prodigy, AOL, and CompuServe are all suddenly obsolete." (skip to Tom Wang)
If you stayed up as late as I do, you would already know the answer to that question.
>This whole thing is a bit surprisingly to me since it seems like Elon covered his bases with the separate property agreement.

This agreement was put in place after they were already married, right? That's what this case is basically about: determining if an agreement made in such a manner is valid.
Anyone knows about Everbuying.com? Is it reliable? 
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>after explicitly agreeing not to do so!

This wasn't done in a prenup, it was done at a later stage in a legally (at this point anyway) ambiguous manner.
I'm thinking of switching to waf (http://code.google.com/p/waf/) for future projects. Node.js and a few other projects use it currently. Does anyone have any good/bad reviews? It seems to be a fork of SCons but stripped to the bare minimum.