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XHTML1 depends on DTD for entities, which means that parser must fetch DTD from w3.org (from heavily-hammered server) or support DTD catalog and have one set up in the system (rarely available out of the box, not always possible to do). IMHO that breaks "works everywhere out-of-the-box" promise, and sometimes it makes it easier to just use HTML parser.

It's been 11 years since XHTML recommendation was published, and you still can't rely on XML parser for reading content on the web. Even documents labelled as "XHTML" are often ill-formed (and almost all of them are sent as text/html). Even if we were moving in the right direction, we were moving too slowly. Now that HTML5 parser is specced, it may be quicker to add it to popular languages than turning whole web around.
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Interesting article. Take a look.
a> no, no adverse effects other than being downvoted (which is a form of suppression of speech through discouragement).

This bears repeating. People here keep saying you shouldn't care about downvotes, but you nailed it. In effect, it amounts to "silencing dissent" (when applicable).
My list of n things:

http://quandyfactory.com/blog/41/top_10_programming_lessons_...
I think it's more the case that a lot of the interviewees don't explain how they arrived at the setup in question - they just list what they have, and that takes out the interesting bit.

If you add in some history, you can make your first vacuum cleaner worth reading about (Keita Takahashi's interview)
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I mean this as a genuine question since I don't use it, but: MySQL's engine locks the whole table when a transaction touches it?
Ask HN: Succeeding in a boring subject, or Making learning fun
Economics is dead to me, turned into a meaningless exercise of assigned textbook summarization by my teacher (the subject itself is awesome, but as often happens, the way it is being taught is... horrible).<p>That doesn't change the fact that I want to do well in the class, so what techniques can I apply to get motivated on this? I just don't bother with it, and the stress over work that should have been done is building up..
UK government kills heart of NPfIT; Future is locally-led
"Don't care, would still read it" should be an option. And in my case, the only reason I don't care is because I don't understand.
How to replace bathroom sink faucet
The bathroom sink is easy to put a tap. Requires some time and some basic tools. This could be Absolute Beginner DIY project. If you are on a budget, the plumber can be expensive, because it alone can almost should start.
I hope EngineYard drop their prices a lot. I really want to use it but it's too expensive.
I don't work for them. Just intrigued by the job title and ad.
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Arjun Arora, Founder of ReTargeter, Shares his Lean, Scrappy Startup Story
Survey of what it all means (added in edit)
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OK, I've added two more options. Thanks for the comment.
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>which does wear thin after a while.

Why would successful people tending to choose a certain brand "wear thin"? What should they be using?
While I agree we would not be able to do anything in a 6 month timeframe, any 100+m rock with large enough impact probability would command much more attention (and better instruments - all of them, most probably) and have much better data than current tracked objects. If we ignore the threats we can do nothing about (the island-sized ones) and focus on the ones we can (mountain and smaller) the picture is much better. While we can do nothing about freight trains, we can deflect (or fragment) golf balls.

Certain extinction is a powerful incentive. Humans put a man on the Moon because a dead president promised that. I certainly imagine a global disaster can focus out attentions.
Civic Commons hopes to reduce government IT costs through code sharing
Is Google Instant a Spivey experiment?
Not only that - if you blast the thing into small pieces, most of them may miss the Earth completely. You will still have to track a lot more objects, but between being dead and having to fund such a project, I am certainly in favor of #2
- Ask your teacher if he use some book and get this book. It's better to get the original than the copy

- If you don't like that book, get another one

Quantic mechanic was a really boring subject to me, until I got a book that was more interesting than my teacher. It really worked for me, but I'm a book person.
How does that help? To me they seem like interesting puzzles, but with little relevance to problems in practical projects.
I should hope not! Windows 7 is the only OS that can readily handle recent (within the last year) graphics cards, both for gaming and programming (when you can offset some calculations to the GPU, things become fast). Whenever I try Linux, getting all the hardware working is fiddly, and the hardware in Apple computers is about a year behind everywhere else.

I still run a virtualised Linux environment, though, because there are some things (such as Git integration in Emacs) that I couldn't get working quite right. It works oddly well overall. I also have four monitors, 'cause I'm weird.

[Edit: I originally wrote "modern" graphics cards, which is a term so variable it doesn't have a meaning.]
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Take any sport you can think of where equipment is involved. Without their equipment the top athletes of that sport will be vastly better than most people. But they use the very best equipment they can to squeeze out every last drop of performance.
I think those women in tech that are successful are not going to be too busy with what sex they are (or where they were born for that matter, whether you're an 'asian' minority or an 'east european' doesn't intereest anybody when you're a male, I don't see why it would make a difference when you're female, both the writer and commenters in the article make that extra minority claim, which is utterly irrelevant).

The successful women in tech are doing just what their male counterparts are doing, they are focusing on the job at hand and doing it the best they can.

Once you choose the entrepreneurial path 'details' like whether you'll be funded or not are mere speedbumps, you forge ahead regardless and you make those that had the opportunity to invest in you at an earlier stage eat their hats in frustration at having passed up on the chance.

Because of your success, your drive, your determination and your ability to take a licking and keep on ticking.
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I think you'll find a LOT of entrepreneurs that rely on others to do the coding...
What defines a 'big' entrepreneur is not the ability to code...
yummyfajitas,

Are you guys lagging behind in email? I emailed you guys, but never received a response back.

Also, when you get a chance please do post some solutions.
Really? Shut down public transportation, public health care, public telecommunications and public power? Do you have an equally brief transition plan?
Why don't we revoke all other laws which do not affect you while we're at it?
I think Django was started with that kind of "project framework" in mind. It's evolving and, like any project that breaks new ground (it's a metaproject in that sense) it's bound to hit a couple snags.
>any model android that is not carrier locked on pay as you go

That's wrong. All PAYG phones are carrier locked - they have to be for the sake of the business. You can buy SIM-free phones easily (say from expansys).

The only way to get an unlocked phone from a carrier is to get a pay monthly plan, and that's only on some carriers (IIRC, only O2 gives you an unlocked phone, and on T-Mobile you have to request an unlock code and they give it to you 28 days later). The reseller Carphone Warehouse told me that all their pay-monthly deals, regardless of carrier, come with unlocked phones.
I thought so too... but now I am not too convinced. Two reasons mostly:

1- Google abandoning the Nexus One
2- Google getting too friendly with Verizon

I fear they've moved to plan B. :(
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You shouldn't let ignorance get you so angry. Especially when it's so easy to fix (first hit on google): http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343

I didn't see page up/down in there, so: fn+up/down
The Android 2.2 Froyo marketshare number he quotes/links (5%) is five weeks out of date. That may not sound like much but the previous version 2.1 took 25% in just two weeks and climbed by nearly 8% every two weeks since.

http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve...

I've been checking that page recently because of the absolute storm of Android updates, new devices and sales increases announced recently and I expect a big shift in the stats.
You misunderstand - I don't mind what combination of tools people use to get work done, as long as they're happy with it. But on a site that tries to describe interesting setups, it eventually stops being so interesting.
Try Rackspace Cloud Servers (Rackspace owns Slicehost too). Pretty much the same configs as slicehost except no bundled bandwidth so you only pay $11 a month.

No affiliation to them but I do have VPSs at both (slicehost for things that require lots of bandwidth).
Turn things around. Instead of promoting your main product, create and promote related-to-that-area product that refers to your main product.

As an example, you have a hosting service. Open a site with a lot of web based tools like whoise, traceroute, so you will target right segment and use this tools site to promote your hosting.
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> You make it sound so easy :)

It's hard and expensive. OTOH, given enough funding (and I am quite sure that would be a small problem) it can be solved.

It's likely we would have Apollo-sized timeframes to deal with the problem. It seems well within our capabilities.
Likewise, there are moviegoers for which every good movie is a metaphor for the entrepreneur's saga! :)
Also "Apophis, a 25 million ton celestial body will narrowly miss our planet three times in succession.
The first near-miss is expected on the superstitious date of Friday 13th 2029" That's not the best day for it to happen is it.
Note, several things wrong..

Google/OHA is making progress on opening different parts of the development process/tree..the android sdk tools including the Adt plugin are now developed out in the open..ie no closed master tree of code..

Author IS CONFUSING US Telecom Mobile Operator situation with openness of he Android platform
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Too much caffeine is a real problem, though. Programming benefits from a calm and lucid mindset, not being manic and jittery.
Consumers spend fast whereas businessmen purchase slowly
'Adaptive optics' generally means lenses and the like whose shape (and possibly other properties) varies during operation to meet current operational requirements.
Aside: I looked into AWS a couple weeks ago, to play with a simple webapp idea, but the myriad choices, acronyms and signups confused me, and there was [seemed to be] no free options for getting started, and initial traction. It seems focussed on sophisticated enterprise users (nothing wrong with that). So, I went with google's App Engine, which was much simpler, and has been great. These micro-instances seem the same.

Did I give up too soon?
Ask HN: Is there private iPaper-like tool?
Can anyone help me find a tool that allows me to embed a document viewer, iPaper-like, in our web site? Scribd's iPaper is awesome, but is designed for data sharing. I want to display private documents in the web browser and only for user who are logged into my web site. And for legal reasons, the documents must always be stored on our servers, not on a third-party service.
Thinking about problems away from the computer always seems to bring about the answer. It seems like I do my best thinking in the shower, only problem is the usual 10 min shower sometimes turn into 30-40 mins.
Ok, yeah, I've run into that before, and it is a pain. But I've heard that if you call Microsoft they'll always reactivate a license in that situation.
I agree that the DTD issue is a nuisance but it's a nuisance that can be solved in a few hours. XHTML has not solved all parsing problems but the quality of parsing results is infinitely better than it used to be a few years back because most websites do actually use well-formed XML (at least most of the ones I'm parsing).

I don't understand why we need yet another slightly incompatible pointy bracket syntax. Adding that syntax to all languages and ironing out all the quirks will take years and it won't replace the existing mess. It will just add to it. I see no progress at all. It's a pointless waste of resources.
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Can you keep your spot instance up 24/7?
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Laws of Physics Vary Throughout the Universe, New Study Suggests
Are you bribed to work or is your work a bribe?
>Meanwhile, the high priests wear 30k euro hats and ride around in limousines.

Remember this next time you see some big executive talking about how he needs tax cuts because he can't afford to hire employees. In other words, no matter how much someone makes, it never occurs to them that if they would make their insane excess a little less they could afford it.
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Aha. Perhaps someone should make a site documenting exotic setups of famous tech people. I know of one Emacs user who has a foot peddle for the control key or something.
Bank in the 90s I worked for a small derivative shop in NYC. The lowest bonus we ever got was 100% of annual salary. This was not a boring project either - we had a network of Suns and all code was written in Eiffel and C.
Definitely, I've been through a few different ones from $50-$400 and finally settled on the Klipsch X10s. You can barely tell you're wearing them.
This is pretty much business as usual in the computer industry.

If you want a low price you have to put up with retarded bullshit.

If you want a good experience you have to pay the Apple premium.
No suppport for inline PDF in chromium
If you can make your app fit within the significant limitations of App Engine, then it is a great service. I've used it for several projects from basic CMS to AJAX chat.

That said, sooner or later you'll want to do something that should seem possible on App Engine (e.g., image transformations with BufferedImage) and you'll hit a brick wall.

That's when I turn to a generic Ubuntu image running on EC2. It's not free, but with spot pricing it's awfully cheap. I expect spot pricing for this newest micro size to stabilize at around $10 a month.
Yeah, I thought about that too, but apparently there is no way to migrate data (a slice) from Slicehost to Rackspace automatically.

And if I have to do it myself I might as well use Amazon, I use it for everything else anyhow.
One of the smart things in Instant for google with instant is positively impacting the Ad Impressions. (page load still not necessary - but ads refresh with the search results)

I won't be surprised if the idea sparked more as an effort for 'How do we increase ad impressions? ' than search assistance for user.
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The image service is nice, but really only needed if you want to do transforms. You can serve raw image data out of the blobstore.
That was brilliant. Props to the author.
Take a look at OpenDNS' terms of use. It's also under a Creative Commons license.
Anything by Josh Bloch
The Nexus One gets updates from Google servers, and the HTC Desire gets them direct from HTC, at least on Vodafone UK.
The basic technology product is software that, given information about your body shape, can produce a listing of clothing that will fit you. As far as we can tell this does not yet exist. When the customer can trust that the clothes will fit, then they can shop based on style, fashion, price, or any other number of more interesting criteria rather than worrying about getting the right size or cut.

I am too tall for an average clothes shop, so is my dad, and we were discussing something similar recently: our experience of clothes shopping is very similar to what you describe - walk into a shop, ask or search primarily "what do they have which might fit".

If you could do "only show me things which fit" from multiple shops in one place, that would be great, but fit is more than just leg length, waist size and brand, and a) I don't know what else matters so I couldn't give you said information about me, and b) even recently when I went to a shop and found trousers to fit, they did technically fit but they weren't comfortable and I wouldn't wear them.

Are you going to be able to do "things which will fit" instead of "things which might fit"? I find the latter is often barely different from "things which wont fit".

Incidentally, http://www.leftfootcompany.com/ has shops around where you get your feet scanned, then you leave and order on the internet, and they mechanically manufacture shoes to fit. Although they couldn't make shoes to fit me at the time I tried, which was unhelpful.
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A few thoughts--

First, the best piece of advice regard college I have to give: next time around, choose your courses based on the professor, not the subject. An engaging professor can make a dull subject come alive; a dull professor can suck the life out of even the most interesting subject. Find out who the best professors are, and take whatever they're teaching.

That doesn't help you this time round, of course.

Let's look more closely at your predicament.
You say: I want to do well in the class, so what techniques can I apply to get motivated on this?

In other words, the techniques we are looking for are not about Economics, or your relationship to the subject matter, but more practical-- how can you get motivated to do well in class?

You give the answer your self, a few sentences earlier, when you say that the subject has been turned into a meaningless exercise of assigned textbook summarization by my teacher.

In other words, if you want to do well in the class, you need to summarize the textbook. Note that by your own testimony, this is far from "meaningless"; you want to do well in the class, and this is what you need to do to do well. That's pretty damn meaningful.

My advice then, is: forget about "Making learning fun" in this instance. You're not here to have fun. Treat this course as a job. Show up and do the work. If it were fun, they wouldn't be paying you (in the form of credits toward a degree.)

I took about five years off in the middle of my undergraduate education, and worked in a series of factory jobs. The shift in perspective upon returning to college was amazing. I vividly remember the first day of class, when a professor held up a book and said that our homework for the next week was to read it. The other students were horrified: "You mean we have to read a whole book?" I, on the other hand, was a bit puzzled. "You mean, all I have to do is read a book? I don't have to put 144 copies of the book into a box, and load the boxes onto a pallet, and then move the pallets onto the back of a truck? I just have to sit down and read it? And I have a whole week to do it?"

Seriously: just read the damn textbook, and understand it well enough to be able to summarize it back. Have a roommate quiz you, if you don't trust yourself. An hour a day of focused attention, and you're home free.

And next time, choose your courses based on the professor.

Thus endeth the sermon.
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Ask HN: How is your typical day?
Just curious, how a hacker/entrepreneur/programmer spends his/her typical day.
Ask HN: Decent Windows imaging software?
Does anyone know of any programs that enable you to take an image of a 32 bit Windows 2003 Server machine (including the OS) and then restore that image back onto a remote server (for example a vanilla Amazon ec2 Windows instance).

My key requirements are:

1. Ability to restore remotely (via an RDP session) - not from boot or boot disk

2. Cost - would like to keep this to a minimum - ideally open source if available

I've tried the following software already:

These all look to require access to the boot of the machine -

http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/ghost-windows-2003-server

http://www.acronis.com/backup-recovery/server-windows/

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-windows.htm

http://www.clonezilla.org/
If I can put debian on my phone then I guess I could also put crapware free android if I wished. Also probably there is some method of uninstalling crapware without reinstalling whole system and eventually people will find out what it is.
Tangentially related (I'll use the way Jason dropped back from a dual setup to a single screen as an excuse for this):

What's the best way to get a triple monitor setup working under Ubuntu? I'd like a single desktop, and the OS to understand the monitors (ie, not treat two monitors as a single monitor like some old USB adapters did).

Recommended hardware? RTFM is fine if you give me a pointer..