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Off-topic: "master of none" type-a-guy from .nl here, also a webdev wannabe.

Sounds like an interesting idea - just in case you'll be open-sourcing, I'd love to see what the real-life dev process looks like.
Jambool, makers of Social Gold, officially announces Google acquisition
The idea is that a non-neutral net favors people with deep pockets. Google has deep pockets, therefore a non-neutral net benefits Google. Google can pay big money to prioritize their traffic to their devices over other traffic that cannot pay. That creates a barrier to entry and competition that does not exist today.
And I copied your text here: http://jottit.com/rje78/

Because I wanted wrapped lines.
>> "DDG is targeting itself to tech-savvy people that don't feel like leaking their entire life to the Internet."

The parallels with Reddit are certainly there I hope you can appreciate. I'm not saying it's completely the wrong strategy, but it's certainly not the one I'd choose.
Hmm that's interesting. I've never had an issue with a big project, but if I'm looking at a 250mb SQL dump it chokes up quite a bit. Fortunately I don't do that too often :) There will always be a need for vim!
Guessing l and/or n isn't too unlikely, and there aren't many words that look like l.n.; I think that explains why lynx doesn't do so well?
So your worry is that Google will start paying to prioritize traffic in the wireless space?
This is the post you're thinking about: http://lesswrong.com/lw/1gl/how_to_test_your_mental_performa...
Well the real world is a much more complex scenario than simple simulations. Two points though:

1. We have not had much time to evolve away from such a mentality, so it's still very much bred into us.

2. One could say that gaining wealth is actually playing a strategy designed to preserve more than just your immediate offspring. The wealthy have less risk of seeing their line disappear in future generations.
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It's not really about the overall performance or cost of coverage. The advantage, in this case, of national health care is that you can't be kicked out of the "group" (i.e. fired because you're raising the insurance premiums for the whole company), and there's no concept of "uninsurable".
If anonymity isn't an issue, lets just get rid of the nicknames altogether and turn into 4chan.

Once you allow anonymity, you also allow impersonation, endless trolling, abuse, etc etc.
I was in no way involved with Open Source during this time period, but I think jgc undersells the importance of a "town crier". Having someone that can write well and clearly explain concepts is necessary to having an idea spread. Whether or not ESR drove the coding side of OSS, he is one of its best known publicizers.
You're right. I only know what the other 99% use it for.
That could have multiple causes. Often, if your parents have achieved a lot academically, you will palce more weight on that aspect of your life. You'll get better grades and you'll be more likely to become an academic yourself.

Since we're swapping anecdotes, as an academic, I have never known anyone to get a position just because their parent works in the field. Ever. The competition is ridiculous, to the point where many Americans opt to go elsewhere and leave the academic jobs to the people willing to work 14 hours a day, 6 days a week.

I would not be surprised if many modern academics would prefer that their offspring go into industry. The rewards are greater and the competition is less, given the level or reward on offer.
If Oracle was worried about looking evil, they've had thirty years to come to their senses. If their employees are concerned about working for an evil company, they haven't been paying attention.
Or that a player will plow through all the vowels early, and -y-- doesn't match many words.
Google calls Oracle lawsuit 'baseless,' vows to fight it
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He was smart to think twice about wading into this viscous, smelly soup. Raymond's post speaks for itself. Mercy-flagged.
A bit of iOS's proportions, a bit of WebOS's textures, a bit of Android's color – yet they've managed to keep it looking clean and unified instead of middling or compromised. Outstanding indeed.
China to build state-owned search engine
Oracle uses NetBeans internally for the development of several applications (mostly from acquisitions), I don't believe you'll see that phased out anytime soon.
Wow, wish I had it that easy as a kid. Everybody I ever played with drew in the gallows to begin with, so you just had 6 misses (2x leg, 2x arm, body, head) before you lost.
At least as long as iPhone is AT&T only, doesn't Verizon need Android as much as it needs Verizon?
Then you basically mean what I would call conditioning, or maybe just endurance.
I agree that radicals are important and that RMS particularly is useful because he pushes the dialogue forward and keeps new ideas on the table. It's a good goalpost.

But nobody takes RMS's advice as practical. It's just too extreme. Most people don't believe as RMS stated in his recent Reddit interview that the only way to ethically use a pacemaker or other life-saving device that relies on proprietary software would be to start developing an open-source replacement.

RMS has been somewhat successful, but I think much less than he would have been if he hadn't poured so many resources into the silly points that should have easily been let go, like "GNU/Linux".
Yeah, I don't like that change either. But as for the page turn in general. It's not "a second or two" and I guarantee you I can turn a page on the Kindle faster than you can turn a page on a real book. And I can do it one handed while standing in a crowded train. :)
@nir: Verizon can always dump Android for WM7 even if it is not as good.

(Replying to parent since we cannot go beyond Level 4 nesting)
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Structures Versus Classes
I'd hate to be in a profession where one mistake means you can never work again (doctors, lawyers, etc).
From my understanding of the article, the research they're referring to has to do with biomarkers (which aren't always genetic) and brain scans. If you go to the ADNI site (link: http://www.adni-info.org/Scientists/LinksForDataCollection.a...) you'll see that it is indeed possible to download some anonymized data and scans with less stringent approval. So, maybe basement hacks are indeed possible.
revenue...breaks down to:

~700K pounds with the mac bundle...but 60% of that went to the developers whose stuff he bundled, and another 10% went to ads. + I'm sure there other costs like servers etc.

with the current one it's ~500K pounds in ad sales...so figure they make 50% as revenue, then you subtract the salary for 8 employees + all the servers to serve the ads and it goes down quite a bit.

but never the less, still impressive.
I like "queueing" for its long run of vowels. It's not terribly difficult to guess, but does tend to confuse people.
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This is really where things like Sass/Compass excel. This would make a fantastic plugin for it.
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Because with a low DNS TTL and you get a DDOS attack like what happened at DNSmadeeasy, your sites go down in 5 minutes. Also a high TTL puts lower load on the DNS servers and increases response times.

All that being said, I still use a low TTL so that I can quickly switch servers in the event one goes down.
ESR wrote the Art of Unix Programming and the Cathedral and the Bazaar. Both definitely influential, so props where it is due. Any org needs both dev and sales people to function, and ESR was a really good sales guy who was a pretty good dev too (not Linus or RMS, but still way better than most). Good sales guys are particularly rare in open source.
Because the direct route is not easy, or even possible for most people.

We are human being living in a commercial society. Money is essential for us to survive. And for most people, a modest level of success is essential for happiness.

I think the right approach is to strike for goals which have dual rewards: material and spiritual. Do things you love. If money doesn't come, also do things bringing in money.
Ask HN: Ideas for how to sell 10,000 pairs of Flip Flops in 2 weeks?
Hey guys

I just wrote a story about a social entrepreneur who is building an ethically-sourced flip flop company.

Everything was going great, and Whole Foods was set to stock 10,000 pairs, when their shipment got stuck and delayed for two months because of the Oil Spill. By the time the shipment arrived, it was past the season when WF would stock a summer item.

As if this wasn't bad enough, part of the money that Feelgoodz would have made would have gone to repay a $50,000 loan, which was pre-allocated to another social business- an education software startup called Drop the Chalk.

Its looking unlikely that they're going to be able to meet the Aug 18th loan repayment deadline.

This is the most creative community I'm a part of, and my heart goes out to this guy, so I figured I'd ask all of you if you had ideas for how to move $10,000 flip flops in two weeks.

You can see more about the story here: http://socialentrepreneurship.change.org/blog/view/bp_oil_spill_claims_another_victim_an_aspiring_entrepreneur

Thanks
Isn't it a bit of an overkill to basically add a dynamo layer to couchdb?
The only thing that made CouchDB separate from most other document stores are the incrementally generate views and maybe the MVCC append-only approach or the REST interface.
Existing Dynamo based solutions like e.g. Riak already have a REST interface, Riak's "Bitcask" is an append-only storage engine and as far as I know, it also features MVCC.
So the difference between this and RIAK are the incremental views? Something that could probably be easily added using its commit hooks

edit: don't get me wrong, I really like couchDB. It's pleasant to work with and the incremental views are a nice feature
I do the NYT crossword every day, so I have a good idea of how long it should take. For instance, Monday should not take me longer than about 6 minutes. Thursday takes 30 minutes, Sunday takes 55 minutes. If I'm much above that, it means I'm not all there -- time to go for a brisk walk to get the old brain going.
OpenSolaris had a GNU userland. The BSD ancestry of the Solaris userland isn't the problem. The problem was the senseless defaults and cryptic command structures ("shutdown -g0 -i5 -y" instead of "shutdown")
Journaling and keeping records of my work habits has been one of the best ways for me to judge my own performance. The amazing thing is, you scarcely have to go back and reread them, just the process of writing down your performance for a given day helps you to mentally assess yourself.
I wonder if it has more to do with culture. According to Forbes, about half of all female billionaires are from China.

http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/22/billionaire-women-entrepren...
Unless you actually don't have enough RAM and that data structure has to be paged in... that's a painfully long wait
The thing is, as someone stated below, Oracle is all about short-term wins. If Oracle wins this patent suit against Google and gets lots and lots of damages from it, that's nice, but it'll scare everyone away from Java. That's not good for Oracle or anyone else. If they'd just cool their jets and let things like this slide while focusing on creating great Java-based products and improving the Java ecosystem, they'd have much better long-term prospects. Even Ellison stated that Java is the most important product Oracle has ever acquired, and he's going to kill it in desperation to milk every last cent of licenses that he can get today.

If Oracle continues with this kind of ruthlessness, they may squeeze several million out of Google et al, but Java is done for. Nobody will want to use that platform anymore because it will be too risky legally. It'd be a huge opening for .NET and other competitors. Java would go the way of COBOL, only running in the darkest abysses of megacorporations that never modernize.

You can be happy that Ellison doesn't play this "good for developers" thing, but what's good for the goose is good for the gander. By promoting software development and Java development specifically, Oracle would be ensuring generations of Java programmers, and lots of Java-related services and licenses from enterprises. If someone without any programming experience learns Java to write code for Dalvik/Android, as they may because Android is a "cool" platform that would attract young programmers, they can and likely will go on to big corporate environments and continue to work in Java.
Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1602169
Thanks. I'll watch out for that. It sounds a lot like what I've experienced to date and the drop off you describe is post of what I'm worried about.

The first bit is weird though huh? I wonder if it has been properly studied? I know there are studies on the hormones in the mother and her ability to cope on small amounts of sleep. Is there anything similar for guys?
As far as Google, they deliberately wrote a new virtual machine to be certain they were not infringing. With the patent system we have today, the only way to avoid opening themselves up to this kind of suit is to stop writing software entirely.

Google isn't infringing on the patents and sure isn't violating the copyright. Oracle knows that a Texas jury won't understand the technical issues and hopes Google will settle to avoid the chance of losing billions over a bogus and ignorant verdict.

The outcome of a jury trial in a case like this is like flipping a coin. There won't be any hackers on the jury or else it'd be a five minute decision out of the jury room for Google.
I haven't seen 3.15 before. That seems pretty high to me. 2x is closer to what I have experienced before, some times less if the overhead is low. If a company needs 3.15x, then they have some pretty serious overhead issues. Perhaps this is true for large consulting shops, I've only dealt with smaller ones.
Script to "connect" bubbles or globes in Google Earth
What would it take to link up those Google Earth bubbles (street view in Google Maps) into a cohesive "story?" For example, I'd like to map a route through NYC and then show that route as a street level story/video... basically just connecting all the camera icons and then presenting them as a paced walk through town.
Threading in C#
That's an interesting one. Do you think it helps spot not only declines in processing speed or memory but also any potential loss in the "magic spark" part of intelligence where you make breakthroughs/have great ideas? I'm most worried that if I lost that I wouldn't notice...
Depending on the outcome of the negotiations, Google (and somewhat less directly, the telcos and end-users) will have clearly taken hit points against a critical part of the Android stack.

A discussion of vertical integration and competition and of maintaining control over the key parts of the product stacks, of managing outside dependencies, of Adobe, and of Google and J2ME, from a few months back:

http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-is-a-genius-contro...

And what Oracle might seek in return here will be interesting. Buckets of money would be the most obvious, but Oracle can also play a much longer game.
I'm not that conflicted...Sorry
It's a long-term strategy and Sun ran out of juice. The strategy doesn't work by itself; you do the kinds of things Sun was doing to keep the ecosystem active and healthy, and then you release and aggressively promote a commercial Java IDE and make a ton of cash, and build other products on top of the ecosystem that you sustain.

In my opinion Sun's downfall was a serious overestimation of SPARC's performance. They needed to move and get something else out there.
I'm thinking:

-Flash sale sites
-Big email lists

What else?
Ask HN: What do you listen to when coding? 
I'm also a proud N00b learning RoR (via awesome tutorial http://railstutorial.org/book#top)

Need some badass music to code to. Any suggestions, i.e. bands, pandora stations, etc?
Damn, this should give both SproutCore and Capuccino something to mull over, if not help build better builders.
How is call/cc not on there...don't tell me your mind wasn't blown when you learned about that one.
Unless I misremember, Sun never did give Apache a license to the Java Technology Compatibility Kit. I looked into their policy at around the time they got bought for issuing licenses and it was very restrictive.

One wonders what Oracle policy going forward will be WRT supplying any TCK licenses....
Don't forget the genetic aspect -- smart parents tend to have smart kids.
Show HN: SmartPeople, some stats, let's you follow any HN thread
Hi everyone,

A week has passed, and it's time for some relaxing time during this weekend (if you are not on vacations, like me!)

First of all, thanks for the good reviews (from you) of SmartPeople. This is neat, I didn't expect this enthusiasm from you all.

Some stats before the news : 53 people are registered, following 32 people. 314 emails have been sent this week. That's a good start.

But Today, I'm announcing you that you can now follow a thread, with the help of a small bookmarklet. You can add it to your favorite bar, then everytime you are reading something neat on HN, just click on it and the thread will be added to your follow list. (get it on http://nasr.ath.cx/?q=node/79)

Also, for the iphone/ipod/android lovers, whenever you click on a link in the notification emails (for the users or thread you follow), you are redirected to the beautiful ihackernews (formerly toadjaw.com/hn).

Thanks again for your enthusiasm, and for reporting any problem you may have!

Next stuff, as requested, is : RSS feeds to follow your HN idols without emails !
Happy week end to all

edit: numbers & typo
Vesting is usually pro-rated in some way, not all or nothing.
Somebody had some creative 20% time ;-)
50% is large for a web-based ad network. Unless they're highly verticalized or doing direct sales (and therefore have less competition), 20-30% is more reasonable.

AdMob (Branchr also does iPhone ads), for example, has a default 60/40 split in favor of publishers. That's the ceiling -- it will be lower for people they want to keep as clients (i.e., clients with leverage). They're also the #1 mobile ad network, so smaller networks will have to be more publisher friendly than they are.

For my FB properties, I have most of the ad networks I work with negotiated down to the 10-15% range.
"jQTouch and Sencha Touch are doing mobile web development a great disservice by only supporting the latest-and-greatest WebKit platforms."

How is focusing on the future doing a disservice to anyone? We're at the very beginning of the mobile-optimized web, and the future is still unclear. There's still room to define it. Supporting the equivalent of IE6 on mobile devices seems like a waste of time to me, especially after we've just spent a decade watching the evolution of the desktop web be stunted by obsessive focus on backwards/cross compatibility.

Also, nearly all major device manufacturers have committed to using WebKit. In five years, how many mobile devices will not run WebKit? If Windows Phone 7 isn't dead by then, it might be the only one.
Put them on sale on Shopify (http://www.shopify.com/) and give a small percentage plus a final amount donation to http://www.malarianomore.org/

Get Ashton Kutcher or any other big Twitter celebrity (http://twitter.com/aplusk) to promote it via Twitter (maybe his celebrity friends can RT). He's been supportive of Malaria no more for a few years. Long shot, but who knows.

I hope this helps.
fig leaf

Olive branch?
Hmm. So what's the difference between using this and using Paypal for donations?

Also, it's hoping that people will donate - if nobody cares to donate any money, would this mean the content creator gets zilch?
Does this mean that if no one cares enough to donate then you wouldn't be making money at all?
What Matters in Net Neutrality
Maybe. I'd tend to think of conditioning and endurance to both refer to cardiovascular fitness. And while doing 4-6 sets of 100 squats will give you some cardio, it certainly isn't the most efficient way to gain cardio. So if there is any real reason for doing the activity, it certainly must have something to do with the actual leg muscles rather than overall cardio wellness.
The key thing for me is something that I know well, so I can tune it out. I still enjoy the music, but once I'm working hard it just becomes white noise.
Awesome domain name.
Nice to see y'alls!
Solving The Android Permissions And Malware Puzzle
Thanks for the positive feedback. You nailed what we were going for. Glad people seem to like the direction of the project!
They could, but they haven't, and probably won't. Oracle had a big database-related portfolio long before they acquired Sun/MySQL, which had relatively few. They even bought Innobase, makers of the InnoDB engine a few years ago.

Other database vendors (Percona et al., not IBM) don't have assets for Oracle to take, don't directly threaten their core business, and going after them would get Oracle in trouble with regulators.

Better to land a tuna than chase sardines around.
I don't really know what to say about this. It makes me totally face_plain. In my opinion, a goal of maximizing your personal free time at the expense of family is completely crazy. You should raise a family because its joys are immense and awesome, more immense and awesome than anything involving a huge chunk of money and/or free time (i.e. boredom, which more often than not does not end well), and I would instantly sacrifice my entrepreneurial desires if I had to choose between my wife and son and my hope of getting a lot of money independently. It's much better to have a family waiting for you after an eight-hour work day than to set your own hours and come home to an empty house.
I don't understand CSS frameworks. An experienced front-end developer can create the basic layout for any site in a matter of minutes.
Good job with the site. The question I'm trying to answer is why would I use this site? Like what's the purpose of the site?

I rate stuff so the app knows what I like and makes recommendations based on it. That's just about what I got. Correct me if I'm wrong?
Afraid to Create Jobs: Brian Calle on Why We Aren't Hiring