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New Blizzard Game in the Works. SC Ghost?
New(fork of) Opensolaris source repository
That link has no bearing on NY state law.
Netflix - A great example of multi-device UX
Cloud computing can change 'some of this' or 'all of this' depending on the nature of the work. For many applications/requirements it could change every core design decision (when you can pay for computing by the literal hour). Well worth spending some time learning about (for the OP).
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Point taken. Manual entry is definitely a proper catch-all. The Yodlee service gets pretty close, although perhaps not as wide reach internationally (I believe they support some banks in India) or pensions.
One of the biggest problems I have now, though, is the lack of hard disk space. The other day I couldn't run 'gem install' because there wasn't enough disk space (I've been in the single-digit megabytes quite a lot). Schoolwork takes up a few gigabytes in itself.

Also, it's not so much the software (though it is when, for instance, I work with other people or for clients) but the size of the screen. Someone did recommend an outside monitor, but that would hog the integrated graphics card a bit (which takes a bit of ram itself).

It's also inconvenient because it's too small, it actually hinders my schoolwork. I can't use it for more than an hour or two before it takes a tool on my eyes and head.
That most people still have to worry about disk thrashing obviously.
LOL - Ruby is Smalltalk, not object oriented PERL.
PERL has had objects for quite a while.
HN is his personal blog? I've never been to this guys site ever before, and probably not again ..
It must have been very painful for her to continue on her path to being valedictorian after she came to this conclusion.
It depends on the use, but I can imagine an organization not wanting a person to be able to access their business e-mail account using simply the username/password of their personal account. So it will really depend on how 'portable' the linking is: if it's being done by cookies on a particular machine, that's less worrisome than if, once linked, the second account is accessible anywhere the first one is.
Exploring JDK 7, Part 4: New I/O: The Next Generation
Bing Maps Re-Routed to Look Smarter and Calculate Your Cab Fare
You can do that already: I've long fetched mail from two other accounts and any messages I send I can pick which of several e-mail addresses it comes from. "Settings" -> "Accounts and Import" -> "Send mail as:" and "Check mail using POP3:"
Oil from spill poses little additional risk
Okay, I'm sorry, yikes. I wish I could delete the comment but I caught it too late.
I would like to offer a bounty to the first capable script author who can take this 'proof of concept' and correlate names with email addresses and/or telephone numbers.
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You should read about fairtax.org . Its just a flat sales tax on everything, and removes all other taxes. People below a set poverty line get 100% of their taxes refunded.

No room for loopholes.
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Dan Bernstein argues that the most bug-prone part of a user-facing program is usually its parsing: see (5) of http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html. chromatic summarises this as “Don't parse that string!” (http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2010/07/dont-parse-that-st...).
I believe that, other than in the new-for-the-sake-of-new sysadminning camp, people almost never start by deploying Mongrel. They deploy Apache, because it's easy (every distro comes with an excellent default set of LAMP packages, for obvious reasons.) Thus, Mongrel (or any other non-mindshare-majority server) is only sought out by those who don't like the one they've got—that is, by people who are not getting the performance they desire.

Mongrel is probably not used by Joe the VPS user, serving 20 simultaneous connections per hour, because Joe is doing just fine with the Apache install that came with his slice. Mongrel is deployed for high-traffic file servers, as the current weapon of choice.

It's very likely that that will continue to be its niche (though it will expand out somewhat as larger shared-hosting providers start to default to it), so it's very likely to mostly see use in high-ATR deployment scenarios. Under that assumption, Zed's experiment is solid. I would still like to see a prologue tacked on about the composition of the Mongrel user base, though, if Zed has it :)

Edit: rephrased to... sound less like Zed?
If the test harness is wrong than every other test that everyone doing epoll comparisons with poll has done is wrong. This is the one they've all been using. So, either you write your own test to evaluate the same thing, without confounding it with other external factors (like this test does), or you use this test and prove me wrong by finding different data.

However, I'm glad you finally went and got some metrics to show one webserver instead of the useless rhetoric you were spewing before. Not that it proves a damn thing since it has no external validity, but at least it's a step in the right direction.

I also say that your findings of 40% are much higher than what you implied in your previous comments. You made it seem like it's close to the 10% range, but 40% is damn near ready to leap over into the equal performance levels. It's interesting that even after that you still can't see the value of either making epoll faster or using both, but whatever, you can't convince every idiot on the internet, even with Science.
Interesting, you're like the 3rd or 4th person who's mentioned hysteresis.
I would have loved to have the experience to not just hear her speech in person, but to see the reactions from everyone. The faces of her fellow students as well as teachers/parents.
Choose Magnificence - My recent speech to high school seniors
They were already rejected for playing a silent audio file. But this post mentions they have re-submitted the app, allowing users to play their own audio files. So this is 100% legitimate.
As I noted at the beginning of the post, I am looking for feedback on how this can be improved, and I trust the input of the HN community.
I think this is something many high school seniors realize at some point or another: had we known how easy it really was to game the system, we might have started playing the game earlier and earned more points. We aren't rewarded for interests, or how we approach things, or even for helping our fellow students; we're rewarded for scoring as many points as we can to the detriment of all other things.
There's nothing in anything I've said that disagrees with your assertion that regular web server (not internet servers) have lots of idle connections. What I've been saying all along is something very simple.

If the ATR > 0.6, poll wins. If ATR < 0.6, epoll wins.

That means, there's potential gains to be had by using both, and at a minimum you can use both and it won't hurt you very much.

Additionally, Mongrel2 isn't a regular server. Remember all those pesky 0MQ backends? Those basically crank data fast as shit, so this research could potentially benefit them. It also points out potential flaws in previous analyses, so people can now potentially use ATR to tune their server's work loads appropriately.

But notice I keep saying potentially? So far I'm the only one offering everything up, all data, everything for anyone to prove me wrong, and I actually don't think I'm totally right.

I don't see very many other people who criticize the idea doing the same. Just more comments on HN.
Ask HN: How do you keep yourself motivated?
Just curious what everyone does to stay motivated. I've noticed on some projects/start up ideas I get discouraged or lose focus/motivation.

So how do you get yourself back on track?
Exactly, this is why I was curious about the platitude that epoll wins all the time.
I just use LaTeX-Mk or a similar package, which takes care of multiple runs of LaTeX fairly well.

http://latex-mk.sourceforge.net/
A. definitely. i don't know if i'm a realist or a pessimist, but aren't they really the same?
haha, very true and ironic.
The problem with unlimited
The bounty for employee referrals at the (mid-size but prominent) software company I work for is $4000 US.

If they can place these ads for 30 days on 10 of these little, influential sites, they're already ahead.
Why not implement a workaround (plan b), while you work on getting de-listed ?
original link: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/212383-V...aduation-Speech
Good point. I wouldn't want to see Githubacoder :) There are many problems with Rentacoder, but I think there is a way to blend a short term job board with social coding. Possibly just building on to the "For Hire" feature they already have.
NYC Subway Cell & wifi Service: a panacea or a prison?
There was a post I saved recently that had some great responses: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1551121
GM Invests In Plug-In Hybrid Truckmaker Bright Automotive
Relly? When have they ever stood in someone's way if they wanted to do that? And was that GNU policy or just some lone grumpy maintainer?
I think the question you want to ask is "What proportion of film school graduates become great filmmakers?"
This article had remarkably little content or analysis. Essentially the only point made was that LaTeX markup can separate content from presentation.
I started my design workshops because they were the kind of thing I wanted to attend: a sort of Toastmasters for UX where I could do exercises in different parts of UX and eventually become an expert across the board.

Instead, I learned a lot about effective teaching, a lot about effective exercise design, a lot about facilitation and a lot about how much effort went into such things.

The things I learned about UX were more about really digging into things I thought I knew, since invariably I would spend 8-16 hours before the workshop researching, preparing and running through the exercises myself to make sure they'd fit in the time allotted and provide the information I wanted to convey.

I believe there's a big demand for this sort of thing out there. I'm absolutely not an expert in any of the things I taught, but neither will be most of your attendees. Doing it, trying it, learning from it and building the community is just as valuable and will teach you a lot.

http://vi.to/workshop/ is my effort, including a couple of write-ups, and the Facebook group has links to some of the notes and such as well.
It is extremely validating to hear this coming from the lips of a valedictorian. I've always defended my disinterest in school by asserting that I'm way too smart for school. I struggled for my entire academic career because I naively believed that the point of school was to learn, when really, the point of school is to follow directions.

Now, when I tell people that I have no interest in college, they could dismiss my disinterest as a defense mechanism. I know that most people will never understand what I'm talking about when I claim that mass education is a tool for creating workers, but at least some intelligent people will read this brilliant speech and know what I am talking about.

I don't care anymore about arguing with the world, I just want to care for myself and my family, but I am glad this woman got a chance expose some truth to her class. I feel for her confusion and fear about missing out on self-discovery for many years of her life, but it is pretty clear that she is on the right path now and I can't wait to see what she goes on to accomplish in the future.
Making it to difficult to join, will stop to success of this. There is a border interested customers won't cross and making them to beg hard probably is that border.
These clauses are only enforced when it's an easy win for the litigator - for example, key employees going to a direct rival or a startup with no legal budget.
One job I had back in the 70s, I occasionally would get thanked by the operations people for fixing a problem the night before, of which I had no recollection whatever. Actually doing your job in your sleep is a little bit scary.
Yeah, I think the fair tax is a great idea. Just thinking of the savings on tax compliance alone is almost mind boggling.
had we known how easy it really was to game the system, we might have started playing the game earlier and earned more points.

I think you completely missed the point the girl was trying to make.
>These aren't assumptions.

No, they are assumptions. You are making assumptions and imo questionable conclusions.

I specifically agreed that some companies would hesitate to create apps that weren't pre-approved. So we have no disagreement on that point.We disagree on your assumptions.

You are also factually wrong on the assertion that "no one will risk doing "big" things as they're afraid of rejection". Look up the definition of "no one" and you'll see that it is different from "the businesses that gte910h has spoken to".

You are also wrong on your assumptions about <200K apps.

>>On (2) you can create high-quality apps on a small budget

>You can?

Yes, several other people have also created high-quality iPhone apps.Many of them were done with budgets less than 200K.
Is that not how most great technologies are born? Ok some are for war, but most of the "cool" technologies I've seen (even some made by co-workers) are all about someone having a major itch and developing the best damn back scratcher they could to scratch that itch.
Its quite incredible what someone with a vision can do, even without technical prowess that some posess. Its all about just thinking that "I am only one man, I only have a few hrs a day... however I need to do the job of 10" and instead of giving up building something that lets you do just that.

I find the in corporations where you can throw more people/time at the problem is where it starts to fail. I can always "hack" something up fast, and add a few programmers to make it faster, but the trick is to not add anyone and still meet the deadline (or a bit over, but that gets covered by blowing all other deadlines away).

GitHub is no different. They had an itch, scratched it, turns out other people had the same itch.
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Thanks for listening, I hope my criticism is helpful. Best of luck in your endeavor.
In other news, the sky is blue.

Srsly... Valedictory speeches are suddenly no longer about embracing our individualistic spirit anymore? Thank you for the link bait.
> And it's a single community, without the balkanization of GNU/Linux.

FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Dragonfly BSD, BSDI, Darwin, PCBSD... ;-)

The Linux kernel isn't (at the moment) balkanized.
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In a previous workshop, we talked about what's necessary to call yourself a UX. Part of the problem is that UX is the evolution of the original "web designer" catch-all role, and many designers with a current title of Senior UX or IA or some such are really "grandfathered" into the role; they wouldn't be able to get hired for it today, because they didn't keep up.

http://vi.to/workshop/20100621/2dlevels.png is an illustration that came out of the workshop, indicating at what experience level you should have various types of knowledge to be able to call yourself a UX: theoretical marketing knowledge, commercial concepting knowledge, etc.

The 1-6 levels are the range of knowledge from beginner-to-expert, which come out of the "levels of knowledge" discussions from a few years ago:

http://particletree.com/notebook/levels-of-web-development-k...

The (sorely incomplete) skills matrix, that provides the 1-6 definitions for each component is here:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0Aqp_zIiwlin7dGN5QnBL...

The illustration pegs everything at level 2, but it should actually be around where the green items are.

I am totally open to additional input; we won't be revisiting this in the workshops for a while.
Embedly is an api that allows you to embed over 100 services in your site. Twitpic is just one such services, so it is probably not worth their while to make a workaround.
Except the iPad version is almost borderline unusable. It's just the regular website running in an WebView. The regular website relies too much on Javascript MouseOvers. (Jobs talks about Flash and mouseovers, but Javascript has the same problems)

I really wish they had made a true native app.
LOL! Genius! Actually its more like creating a pattern on betting at electronic poker machines. Red, red, black, black, black.

Same for paper, paper, scissors, scissors, scissors
>Congress shouldn't be allowed to redistribute wealth.

When wealth is redistributed in the right direction, then there are empirical, measurable, positive benefits across the whole of society -- including those who are already wealthy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_Level:_Why_More_Equa...

It's fallacious to assume that, because many laws passed within the last 30 years have inappropriately favored large corporations, effectively redistributing public money to them, the process of redistribution itself shouldn't occur anywhere at all -- and that the issue of inequality can't or shouldn't be addressed.

If you really want to "strike at the root" of the problem, then you need to look toward the influence of money in our political system. The more unequal the distribution of wealth in our society, the easier it is for a small financial elite to bend the law in their favor.
Is the impostor syndrome keeping us from innovating?
All my math classes felt like that. I was simply being told to memorize formulas so that later the teacher could give me numbers and I would plug them in. Rarely was I ever told why I would want to use those formulas.

My best class was a chemistry course taught by a 60 year old man that used to test missiles at one point. The grades never really mattered and as long as you knew the vocabulary he would pass you. But where he made a difference was giving us examples of why stuff worked along with how. For the final we had to determine what an unknown substance was. There was no right method to do this, just simply a number of different tests that we had to do and be able to understand what the results were. We then had to 'think' as to what it might mean about the substance we were testing. He set us free and we passed and failed on our own accord because it was up to the students to read the book to try and find just one more test that might give a better result.

The one lasting comment that my chemistry teacher told me was that he was not concerned with how well we memorized things because he knew we would forget. There would always be time to read up on whatever we were doing on the job. He wanted us to have the core understanding so that when we did look up the boiling point or specific gravity of a compound we would know what those facts would signify as opposed to learning stats on the more common elements. Best teacher I ever had because he didn't so much as teach me as he made me think for myself.
policy makers often look at side effects of success and, not understanding how success is achieved, seek to make the side effects more likely.

They see successful economies spend lavish sums on housing, so to have a successful economy, subsidize housing.

Intelligent people do well on tests, so raising test scores will produce intelligent people. Never mind that the obsession with test taking make it even a more mind numbing experience.

Are people truly better innovators after going through such a process? We need to study exactly this question. Actually, I would not be surprised if alternatives like the Montessori method have already been proven superior.
I really hate downvoting, but if you consider this link bait I do not know what you consider good content. The author/graduate is very articulate about not supporting the current systems set in place for schools. I wholeheartedly agree with most of the speech and I think it is something that more students across the US should hear in some form. We are led to believe school is the chosen path to achieving everything in life when 90% of what school represents is memorization and homework.
In short, they managed to strike a nice balance between being user friendly vs overwhelming the users with financial theory.

it's not coincidence or luck they've struck that balance. for the past two months they've paid a painstaking amount of attention to how to present that technical info without overwhelming the user. i saw it evolve week by week and it's cool to see users appreciate it.
I had exactly the opposite experience. Graduated from Mathematics/Informatics specialized High School, second worst in class - way off below the average grade. Yet I got for free in the University, because was 9th at the national computer science (informatics) olympiad, and this gave me an automatic "A" (still the high-school diploma was taken, so it was a bit of a risk).

Anyhow - I hated school :) and too bad never finished university (too much parties).
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I've been wondering why my cheap USB car charger wouldn't charge my iPhone. Time to add a few resistors!
Any recommended reading on Human Factors?
From the few examples I've had the numbers on in this field, their CPMs are sky high compared to Web advertising, so having people "sponsor" certain mailings can pay off in a way it doesn't on the Web.
I am sincerely sorry to say that she ain't seen nothing yet.

Take a look at countries like India or China where the test is a way of life. Not only do all educational institutions - schools, universities or otherwise - produce robots off an assembly line, such robotic behavior is praised and rewarded by the society.
Erica,

I want to thank you for your beautiful articulation of the sad truth that makes mass education painful for so many people.

Unfortunately, school very effectively destroys people's ability to act on the reality you tried show to your classmates and community, but I am appreciative nonetheless because it is better to give the truth a voice, even if it falls on deaf ears. You exposed yourself and embraced vulnerability, and that is the most powerful thing a human being can do.

If you have any pedagogical theories, please share them with the world. I am all ears.

Thank you.
As someone who is currently doing a startup in the Bay Area, lived in NYC for 6 years (and loved it) and went to Columbia, I don't even know where to start ripping apart this article. I'm hoping someone else already did it.

And for the record, Columbia is in Morningside Heights, not Harlem.
> Also, usually at brick-and-mortar stores, if they don't have something they'll say "but we can order it for you", which has never made sense to me. If I wanted to order it, I'd do so more cheaply online.

I did this when I was younger. The point was, I did not have a credit card. By ordering in the store, I could pay cash or use gift certificates.

(Ask a parent? Buy a prepaid debit card? Oh, you funny funny people.)
Or you recognize that the game is contrary to your learning-related goals, figure out how many points you need to get what you're after, and then return your focus to learning. What would I have gained with another half point on my GPA or by moving my class rank into the top tenth? Probably not much, but it would have meant a lot more time and attention spent on work I didn't find interesting.
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