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- It's not bias. It's life purpose.

- CS is an extension of physics. If Newton didn't write Principia, America would not have happened, nor would have Apple Computers. CS attracted me because of the possibility to improve civilization for the better by advancing science.

- Money is freedom to an extent, then it becomes a fetter.

- You don't even have to read his book. Just think for yourself.
The cost is all about scale. an email is going to cost whatever your metered rate is for the traffic (well, technically 2x the metered rate, once for incoming, once for outgoing traffic). For Google's infrastructure and typical bandwidth usage, the cost trends to zero. An SMS message is sent as a packet of data in the control channel to your phone. The cost of an individual SMS message is not as easy to determine as the cost of an email. Your phone exchanges packets of data on the control channel whether you're receiving (or sending) SMS message or not. The SMS message is an additional piece of data that is sent over a constrained channel. In most areas, the towers will be able to easily handle the peak usage of the area without any degradation of service, meaning the towers can easily handle the traffic. However, unlike email, the more SMS messages are sent, the more expensive each individual one is since the tower has to be able to handle that number of simultaneous control channels.

While the cost per SMS does go down as a mobile carrier expands their network, it uses a separate channel from the voice and data, but the same channel your phone uses to negotiate a connection with the tower and to migrate between towers. The premium paid for SMS messages on your phone bill is due to this.

I'm not saying that the cost charged for SMS messages reflects their actual delivery costs to the provider, just that there is a real, measurable cost associated with each SMS message. Essentially, the question you're asking is "What costs more, a gallon of milk or driving to work?"
Of course Apple does usability testing and has since the beginning. Here's a full guide on how they do it:

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/UserExp...

Obviously they use their own judgment and market feedback as well, but the notion that they launch products without testing them first is crazy.
Shocking to hear that someone has chosen a tool based on its merits rather than how fashionable it is...
I'm thankful that they shared their analysis. Does it really detract from their work that they used Excel to graph it?
Neat, but as a *nix user, I prefer this one: http://cb.vu/

Edit: I don't want to give too much away, but try this as a start:

ls /bin
Java implementation of algorithms in "Artificial Intelligence"
No - what I want is nothing for nothing. Right now we have nothing for something!
If you really think that Spanish and Italians are more like dialects than separate languages, then you probably don't know much about either...
It seems to be down now, for me.
His ideas have less to do with 'this or that new technological trend' and more to do with the overall trajectory of human progress. Just look at the bigger picture...
You could just remove all the CA's from your browser and it would be nearly the same as using SSH. The only thing the CA is doing is answering this question for you:

The authenticity of host 'x.x.x.x (x.x.x.x)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 2f:db:11:aa:b0:13:48:64:50:cc:94:73:7b:aa:57:78.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?

Removing CA's without an alternative in place such as Web of Trust means that users have no assurance that the other end of the connection is who it claims to be.
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If you'll give us another chance re usability, make an account & fill out this beta invite form: https://www.hushmail.com/contact/preview/

We have a new + faster + easier-to-use webmail coming in the next few months. It's a huge improvement over what we have now.

Search is still in the current folder only though, so that might not be quite what you're looking for.

(btw if anyone wants to help us build a better webmail, we're hiring PHP devs in Vancouver)
And not just any countries, but all the Nordic ones. In the winter. In search of entrepreneurs and startups, and writing every day. And yeah, the name is of course related to the TSP ;-)
yes, you are correct good sir. I posted this question too early.
In the infinitely big private sector where everyone can get a job except all those you are just forcing to work for the state?

If the state needs someone who is unemployed to work for it, it should give her a contract and pay her a wage. You can’t make someone who receives welfare benefits work more than those benefits are worth anyway. That would obviously be unjust.

It’s also obvious why it is a big advantage for the state to be able to pick and chose just like the private sector instead of getting random unemployed delivered to its doorstep. There are precious few jobs were no qualifications and no training is needed. It’s also pretty unlikely that there just happens to be the right person with just the right skills around (and if it is I’m not exactly sure why the state shouldn’t hire that person instead of forcing it to work for it).

The state would have to pay for training and enforcement, there would be additional unemployed (those the state just fired and replaced with unemployed) who would also receive welfare benefits, you can’t make them work more than they receive – besides being morally questionable there is no way for the state to save any money with this scheme.

If you want truly just welfare you should advocate some sort of basic income – a fixed amount of money everyone (no matter how rich or poor) unconditionally receives from the cradle to the grave.
Ironic that this returned the following error when I tried to read it: "Error 500 - Internal Error. This might be because: We are experiencing abnormal traffic to our network." :-)
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So are we getting hello world in all the flavours of assembly now? That or someone submit (or most likely _re_submit) http://www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/hello.htm and get it over and done with.
Two people with same years of experience may not be the same.
I guess what is stated up in the title is as obvious as the fact that there is a night and day.

But it is the explanation (the why) or the method of explanation that I would like to be critiqued:

The Why: (for what is stated in the title)

Because one person might have collected (by pushing to collect or incidentally or both) more points of information in that same period than the other, thus having more 'effective' experience than the other, at the end of the same 'period of experience'

Why I think this method of explanation is important? (the why for the why)

Because understanding it can potentially make a person push to collect more points of information in whatever potential experience he/she would get in the future. The more points of information he/she collects, the more productive he/she can be to a company employing him/her, making that person that much more valuable to the company. A win - win situation for both.

Even if one is not bothered about the productivity gains for the company, the more points of information one collects over a 'period of experience', the more they are going to make themselves valuable by the end of that experience. And of course, more the value, more is the marketability.

Just wanted to share and refine it further, if I can get any critiquing.

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A note:

This is a small illustration/part of a meta-belief system that I am discovering/developing/constructing for my own purposes, which I found supports a whole lot of beliefs I have developed for myself over time. It is also helping me analyze and understand new scenarios/problems I am examining, and find possible solutions for them, as well as develop more sustainable new beliefs for myself.
That's only using the older variant of hangman where you start with the first and last letters. I think the article is pretty clearly discussing the more modern, "wheel of fortune" variety.
If you want to accept PayPal, but don't want to deal with PayPal directly, take a look at Fastspring.
ITAR (munitions) compliance is not a particularly new aspect of software export; if you were exporting encryption, you need(ed) to work within the rules.

In my experience, ITAR compliance has gotten easier, too.

Using existing and available encryption libraries (and at settings below military-grade) is usually the easier approach. This rather than rolling and then reviewing your own encryption. Certainly for ease of export compliance, but also because rolling your own encryption code is one of those design and programming tasks that is far harder than it looks, if you really want to get that code "right".

There are certainly other considerations around exportation and with working internationally.

If you're not sure, check with a legal services firm; with the folks that know the details of complying with export and import requirements, and with individuals and businesses and countries you can (and cannot) work with internationally.

http://www.pmddtc.state.gov/regulations_laws/itar.html
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Nature need not be looked for. It is all around. This type of essay will make you appreciate nature and the world around you. When writing an essay on nature, there are many avenues open for discussion. If the right topic is selected, writing a nature essay will be as easy as a walk in the park.
PayPal is absolutely horrible. Here's why:

Two years ago, a friend owed me about $200. To pay me back, he sold a camera he owned on eBay and then promptly sent me the $200.

Another friend was in some trouble trying to pay for textbooks, so I offered to loan him the money. I sent him that $200 via PayPal and he went to the school bookstore to purchase books.

A week later, the buyer of the camera made a claim against my friend stating that he misrepresented the camera. Despite the fact that I had nothing to do with the transaction, they un-moved the money my friend had sent me, sending my account negative $200. I've sworn ever since that I will never do business with PayPal again.
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this was epic http://thenine.ca/essential/1994/1994.05.28%20-%20Essential%... as well as the daft punk one posted earlier here.
seconded, that's a fantastic mix.
Here's the discussion from the last time this was posted:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1601978
Sounds like they're essentially advocating an Erlang-style model of concurrency, which generally seems to be recognized as a good way of doing things.

That said, they're not really eliminating all the pitfalls of threaded programming. It's still possible to have deadlocks and timing-dependent bugs when using a message-passing model of concurrency.

To take it one step further, they could implement something like the Erlang OTP behaviors to abstract out the concurrency primitives. (Not that this would totally eliminate the drawbacks I mentioned, but it's another incremental step above the approach they've presented, IMHO.)
Quite a nice question (goes against the popular expectations, which I like).

My answer would be this:

From the perspective of those already who have already done college: YES and NO

More people going to college increases supply, decreases pay - of course this itself is just one facet of the real situation. Another facet is, if there aren't enough people to support an organization, that organization will have to move to a place where there is enough supply to sustain itself. The incumbents might even lose their existing jobs because of that move.

From the perspective of a company or nation: NO

It is critical for the sustenance of a company or a nation, that there be enough 'qualified' people. 50 years ago, high school was quite often qualification enough for the majority of jobs. Because of the advancement of technology, that is not the case anymore. Companies and nations do need more people to go to college to be able to sustain themselves.
When my dad smelled the lapsang in my house he told me it smelled exactly like the boot polish they'd use in the army, back in Ukraine.

I've only used it to put infuse some smokey herbal flavor in cooking, its way too smokey for me.
- We used PayPal for two years running a hookah ecommerce site. We did about $3000-6000 in revenue per month. We chose paypal because no other payment processor we knew of would work with a "tobacco" related website. We had no problems with PayPal. It was easy to implement, 95% reliable, and no problems getting the money out.

- With that said here are some tips: Don't ramp up with paypal right away. Start running a small business out of it, somethings doing a few hundred dollars a month and ramp it up. If you are going to do an odd amount of business (like a product launch) than call them up and give them a heads up. They will make a note in the system.

- Alternatives: We found another payment processor through a drop shipping company we use. Because they have a much larger account, they we're able to get a cheaper payment processor to look the other way in regards to tobacco sales.
Exactly the way I felt!
I think some of the infrastructure maintenance (and maybe general development too) is outsourced. About a year ago I was on a service management training course in London along with some Siemens staff who were working on the iPlayer project.
I go one step further: I transfer most of the money in the PayPal bank account to another account that they don't have access to regularly.
I'm just curious: For the channel implementation itself, of course you need locking, don't you? Or how is it possible to implement such a message queue without synchronisation?
interaction is a double-edged sword though. Interactive media can result in being distracted or side-tracked a lot (which of course it what advertisers want). This can lead to issues with focus/concentration. TV on the other hand allows you to simply relax, switch off.
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If you were going to teach programming to your own child, how would you do it? 
More specifically, what language or tools would you use?
Not at all. If you see the direction that Apple has gone with the Apple TV, you will know that an App Store won't work there. It doesn't have any hard disk to work off of.
To the person who downvoted me because I dared criticized Windows' font rendering: That's not nice. :/
iPad should come out with Disney specific version (in pink for girls and in red/blue for boys). Consider the opportunities, an inbuilt iTunes store with all superhero / Cinderella type cartoons [they will learn to pay for the content from the childhood itself no need for RIAA / MPAA lawsuits], there is so much opportunity in this field, I can totally see kids harrowing their parents for one. Wonder how Steve jobs hasn't already began producing one.
HN works best for discovery of interesting fields/material. That's why short pieces like the OP get up-voted: if someone hasn't looked at assembly before, they might learn a thing or two. The problem with what you submitted is that there's no easy way to verify its quality, because 1. The author isn't well-known and 2. It's too long (and there's little incentive) for someone knowledgeable to go through it and post a thumbs up in the comments.

If I seriously want to learn about compilation, I'll just Google site:news.ycombinator.com compiler books, and grab the top recommendations.
Ask HN: An academic web app idea, anyone interested?
Problem:
As an academic I am overwhelmed by the number of articles that are published in the relevant journals every week and there is no "efficient" way to filter out the irrelevant ones and keep up with the on going progress in my field of research.

Solution:
All good journals have RSS feeds and in the context of academic interests you can "easily" detect relevant papers based on author, keywords and affiliation (one might eventually add some social feature as well, but it definitely would work based on individual ratings without any social features).
So a user would select some journals and starts by staring the relevant papers or authors or ...
After a while there would be enough evidence accumulated to support the classification of new papers into relevant or irrelevant groups.

Also there would be room for all sorts of alerts and sharing and commenting and ...

I (and I am sure many others) have had this idea for a long time but I am a currently not a position to do this myself and other people who attempted to do it had done it wrong, I was wondering if there is anyone who want to do this (I would be happy to help in design or even implementation or I'd be also happy if anyone gets the idea and build their own tool without getting me involved).

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zillions - does that mean like 10? jobserve shows 4 jobs for fortran. A rude awakening waits you my friend. God help anyone who trusts your business acumen. Carnap was a great success too?
Wow, I wasn't really even thinking about recent graduates not knowing how to use the software particular to their industry.

I'm worried the article may be right, that there needs to be a massive re-training effort or there is going to be a whole generation of people spending the second half of their lives jobless or underemployed. I imagine the only thing keeping it from being a more pronounced effect year round is big corporation's typically slow adoption of new technology.
I doubt they like it. 4 is considered unlucky in East Asia. Elevators always read 1->2->3->5->...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia
Because taxes take money from productive sectors and redistribute them to the less productive. Not sure where the ideas about taking money from some people and giving it to to others came from. No person is keeping their money in a chest.

Government spending is the least efficient form of spending, and governments in the past few years have spent too much. Look at how much debt local, state, and the federal governments have accumulated.

By lowering taxes business have more money, and thus are more secure - they can handle an uncertain future better. So if a business has 100k in savings it can then hire another worker, and be ok if the economy goes down a little bit. If they only have 10k then they won't hire a new worker because it could put them out of business if the forecasted sales are wrong.
Displaying a landing page with some photo-shopped images "demonstrating" things is a very prolific "idea testing" technique.

While this appears to be a false positive brought on by their lack of a download page, I do not think the person you're replying to was out of line for thinking that's what this is.
http://edu.kde.org/kturtle

i created kturtle for this purpose. on most linux distros it is available as kturtle, kdeedu-kturtle or kdeedu.

kde also runs on windows: http://windows.kde.org

i learnt programming by MSX-LOGO in dutch (my mother tongue). when i got into free software i decided to create an open source LOGO-like application to enable these days kids to have a smooth start as well.

personally i dont like point-and-click programming, as i belive programming is coding and therefor needs a keyboard.

good luck!
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Erlang came later
This is a completely ridiculous statement -- there will always be more work than can be completed. The problem is in identifying what it is. The more the government manipulates the market they more difficult this is.

The problems with healthcare a largely government created - why is health insurance tied to employment?

The large population that is unemployed needs to change jobs , or what their expectation of compensation should be. The wage is directly correlated to the value that they produce, the more value the higher the wage.
Yup he is young, he did a post doc for a year at Cornell [under Prof. Kleinberg] after his PhD, and directly became Asst. Prof at Stanford.

Well you can start with reading this book http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/ for overview, regarding application of these techniques are considered you can look for papers at recent WWW, NIPS,ICML conferences. The most popular and well studied areas are Link Prediction and Community Detection. The SNAP library comes with some good example code. You can also have a look at Divisi project at MIT Media Lab if you are interested in reasoning/ analogy over the networks.

For real datasets, there are a lot of encyclopedic datasets such as Wikipedia / DBPedia /Semantic Web/ Music Brainz, as well as social ones such as Twitter follower network dataset. If you are in a university, you can even get full Web Graph from Yahoo [for research use alone].
Google Checkout is a good alternative. We clear almost as much money through Google as we do through PayPal and they strictly concentrate on processing payments... unlike PayPal which tries to do more than that.

But, it is only available in a few countries so it may not be available to you.
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Not technically illegal either. Depending on the set-up.
Though the 'work for months at a time' thing is suspicious. But I believe it depends on how the contract is laid-out.
Jeremy actually did a tutorial on this at PyCon last year, video available here: http://pycon.blip.tv/file/3263942/
PayPal will back you up on virtual services provided that you log the customer's IP so that you can prove that the access was legitimate (e.g. from the customer's IP that he uses to log into PayPal regularly).

I have yet to lose on a chargeback or dispute.

That said, sweeping the PayPal balance to a real bank account is always the smart option.
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If you want traffic and downloads, work through the book a little at a time as blog posts, with "learn more" type links to your book. That will both satisfy "the masses" as others said, and solve the underlying problem you're trying to solve.

Goodluck!
I put together a website collecting links to various programming languages/environments specifically targeting children (if anybody wants to make a prettier stylesheet for it, let me know):

http://www.happynerds.net/

Generally I'd advise starting with something interactive and fun, like eToys or Mindstorms. After that a project like Hackety Hack, Löve or Processing might be a good bridge into more "serious" programming. Some people also seem to like the HTML and JavaScript approach, because the development environment (a browser) is available virtually everywhere and it has a very short feedback cycle. I'm not too convinced of that, but YMMV.

Once your kid has the basics down, possibilities are almost endless. There's a plethora of freely available books (legally), of which I compiled a small subset here:

http://citizen428.net/archives/434

I'm also involved in teaching Ruby courses on RubyLearning.org, and while definitely not targeted at 10 year olds, our core Ruby course should be doable for a motivated teenager willing to learn.

Whatever you do, I think the most important thing is to focus on the fun. If kids enjoy what they do, they can learn super fast and will happily come back for more :-)
Wow, if my blog had this kind of clout, I'd retire early!
Yes, the PayPal debit cards are US-only. They also had virtual cards, which was an intriguing product, but it got cancelled when they got rid of the browser plugin.
This all seems obvious to me. If one person goes home after work and watches TV while the other person takes out a book and reads, there you go. Similarly, if one person goes home and has to deal with wife & kids vs. a single person who has time to read/tinker, again there you go.

But the entire notion rests on a Utopian base: that the employer can recognize the difference. Most cannot and do not even care.