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I agree with you, but the courts of the State of Delaware do not.
AFAIK Opera supports WebM, I assume they wouldn't have problem doing the same with WebP. IE and Safari might be a different story though, they wouldn't be so keen to support a format from their big competitor. If I would be in MS' shoes I would use that as an occasion to put a support for JPEG XR into Chrome/WebKit.
Personally I have more faith in JITs for dynamic languages such as Python. It just seems a more natural match. That said, I'm sure there are many Python programs out there that are essencially static.

Did anybody else notice the large number of compilers/interpreters/tools built for python in comparison to many other languages out there? I think it might partly be the advantage of having an easy to parse language with well defined semantics.
Seems a bit lackadaisical.
For those interested in a more in-depth treatment of Lisp interpreters: "Lisp in Small Pieces", by Christian Queinnec is one of the canonical references in that area. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521562473)

At university we had a copy on implementation of functional programming languages following "The Architecture of Symbolic Computers" by Peter Kogge, which is very good, too. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0070355967)
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This reads like a section from a sci-fi novel. Once more reality is catching up with cyberpunk.

I'd love to know what it's supposed to do when it reaches its target. Surely the creator would have had to have some sort of blueprints for the target system to successfully set it up to create more than collateral damage.
Yes, exactly. As you context switch between the high-level and low-level language, you sacrifice performance. If you want to write a fast extension, you don't do this; you let the high-level language call your pointer an object, and when you invoke a function, you invoke it on that pointer. This way, you don't marshal back and forth (except perhaps incidental parameters and results or exceptions).
This would seem to violate due process. The US already has a legal system and the capability to issue injunctions against ISPs and hosting companies to take down sites that have been found, in court, to violate the law.
Ease of use is subjective. I dont think writing a mapreduce job needs to be more complex than writing an equivalent SQL query. What really matters is elegance, flexibility and power.

Unfortunately it seems you have completely misunderstood the nature of both SQL and MapReduce. MapReduce is a distributed computation engine. While it can be used in that way it was never meant to be a database system. BigTable is proof enough of that.

In general, SQL is the syntactical representation of relational algebra with some hacky additions for programmer convenience. Comparing just "SQL" to the MongoDB language model is misguided since you then break down to a question of algebraic expressivity and relational power.

I'm not going to try and build a proof here but we do know that a formal relational algebra system is equivalent to first-order logic. As far as MongoDB's relational language goes, one would probably have to make an argument that it is equivalent to either tuple or domain relational calculus, but I know of no theoretical work that has attempted this. If anyone has any more information to the theoretical expressiveness of the MongoDB relational system I would love to read it.
What if this idea is changed to some sort of competition? Something like the top 10 people who refer the most friends will get a free subscription as a prize.
Interesting, we are working on a similar product. What kind of behavioral data are you using to match interests of users with available products on Amazon?
On a side note: will the subscription fee you charge be revshare based or a fixed fee per month? Why did you choose not to use your own Amazon affiliate id and thus get to a higher referral rate tier (volume advantage)? We're planning on using the increase in referral rate as a way to monetize the product.
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Perhaps you have not noticed the shape of the national debt, but yes, there is quite a bit of scrambling to pay the IOUs for past workers, both by taxing current workers, and by taking out loans (thereby taxing future workers).
>the services that only such big companies can provide

What services would these be? :)

Honestly, I think for a capitalist model what Adam Smith envisioned would be better: a bunch of small companies competing with each other. What small benefits the bigger companies do bring are offset by the problems they bring [1].

[1] http://www.truth-out.org/topstories/10210vh5
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That was my immediate assumption too, but part of the compiler's output is going to be some kind of a runtime library. If that itself is GPL 3 and the code generated by the compiler statically links to it, then I'm pretty sure a case could be made that the compiler's output is a derivitive work. Kind of sneaky and non intuitive, though.

This is all way out of my area of expertise, so take it with a grain of salt.
Your comment made me wonder if commen is a common misspelling of common. It appears that's all you.
While it is pretty difficult to answer what a piece of code written by a government would look like, a useful piece of information is also that the code targeted 4 different 0-day bugs [1].
If we consider previous reports on 0-day pricing [2], this alone could put the cost fo the worm at over $200000 making it more likely to be built by a well funded adversary.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_attack
[2] http://weis2007.econinfosec.org/papers/29.pdf
True, but there's an easy solution: take out a loan in your yet-to-be-born grandkids' name.
I'm very curious about what it's supposed to do as well. I work with SCADA systems, and I can confirm that it would be difficult/impossible to tell without knowing exactly what system it's targeting. SCADA systems are often controlled by writing to "points," which typically have numeric addresses. So point 35 might control the valve position in one installation, but it could control something totally different in another. You'd need to know the layout of the targeted system to know what parameters are controlled by what points.
You can play with your ad placement, do a bit of A/B testing, maybe even try different ad networks....aand make £70 instead. Is it really worth it?

A personal blog is not to be monetized via ads. Use it as your personal marketing channel and don't dilute its effectiveness with ads.
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Today I am launching my first website http://Printingfacebook.com in conjunction with "The Social Network" movie release. Though I am working on several printed products that use data from social networks and blogging platforms, I decided to make a unique url for this single product and test the water a bit. The product is a "friend poster" made up of all your friends' profile pictures.

I would love to get some feedback on the idea, and on the implementation.

Also if anyone has any insight on getting some press or getting covered on various blogs, please impart your wisdom. I'm pretty new to this. Which blogs should I reach out to and what angle of the site is most compelling. I made the site to try to offset the costs of my graduate program.

thanks! and enjoy the "trailer" video. It's a spoof off of the social network theatrical trailer.

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You think it was clearly tongue in cheek? Did the smiley face help you out? :-)
A talented individual or small team, government funded or not, is going to be able to research vulnerabilities on their own.
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1744273. The article (at least its title) isn't serious.
I think what katovatzschyn is saying is that, if you've already decided something is true, it's encoded as 'true' in your brain and hence more easily remembered as such, even if you later discover that it's false.
How do you find high traffic websites for my private advertising network?
I am looking for a few high traffic websites for my advertising network. Right now, I am using quantcast.com to help me guess the traffic of my publishers' websites. It is a largely manual process right now, I was wondering if any one has a better way to seek out those high traffic sites?

- to bounce ideas off anyone... one way I can think of is to filter those high traffic websites on flippa.com, seek out similar/top search results on google and then make contact with the websites owners. But the problem here is that, most of these websites are largely file sharing/porn in nature.
There is no rational reason but that's exactly the point. People are irrational when it comes to judging how much they think they or their colleagues should be paid. Most people think they deserve or at least try to get paid better than the average of their colleagues. Salaries should either be totally opaque or totally transparent. You don't want the situation where the politics of compensation damages a company as noted in this recent HN article: http://bhorowitz.com/2010/08/23/how-to-minimize-politics-in-...
...Or a different browser.

Seriously, though, Google is used to web development, where they control the software and the machines running it. A new version of GMail rolls out, and everyone gets it. Like in the case of Buzz, this isn't always good, but it makes developers' lives easier.

But desktop applications are a different game. Almost any time you take control away from the user, it's bad. New version of the browser introduces a security flaw? Sorry, you've been automatically upgraded. Hate a new feature? See previous answer. Security hole found in the Google Updater daemon? Oops, we gave it admin privileges and ran it without telling you.

Has Google created so much good will over the years that people don't scream about this the way they would about similar behavior from Microsoft/Apple/DemonizedCompanyOfYourChoice?
yep, there are! http://www.hackernewsers.com/meetups/2

There's a few of us that meet once a month to talk Ruby, Rails and other bits of HN/startup/tech stuff. It's all very informal and you're welcome to come along (even if you're not a Ruby dev). Details here: http://rubyireland.com/cork/
Looks like a neat idea, atually i'd buy one... but US only :(
Good luck with your project!
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From what little I've read about making money from Adsense, the single thing that stands out is that you have to put big square image ads in the right column. Only text links are not going to make you money, especially considering a lot of your readers (programmers presumably) are already averse to clicking on ads.

If you do want to put up ads, good sponsors might be the way forward. Flowingdata is a good example which puts up high quality relevant ads for its audience and is making a few thousand dollars a month. See http://flowingdata.com/advertise/ for details.
I can relate to this post. I live in the Philippines have a good steady job but still not enough money to live comfortably and save at the same time.

I sell my extra time at night to do websites and design as well. I have been doing it for a few years now (>4years). I sometimes take breaks from it though.

I never tried odesk or similar sites. I tried to look for a small job there but there are too many uncertainties. Over the years I have about 1 or 2 clients that come back regularly so I just stuck with them. Although more would be better because I still have more time left. lol
yeah, Shipping internationally seems like a whole new set of complications, maybe sometime in the future. Thanks for the encouragement. It feels great to get yours as the first comment. :-)
That sounds about right for AdSense. You make $1/day, regardless of traffic.

Honest! I tried it when my site was getting 1000 visitors per day: $1/day. When I had 4000 visitors per day, $1/day. 10000 visitors/day, $1/day.

Granted, it was the same site, with gaps of about a year in between attempts, so likely what I was actually seeing was the downtrend in people across the entire internet clicking google ads. Back when they were new, you might click them. Now that people have noticed that every single time they clicked a google ad they ended up on a made-for-adsense site with more google ads, they stopped clicking them.

If I were you I wouldn't bother. Sites without ads just look cleaner and more professional. For a dollar a day, it's not worth losing that.
what will the response to this be? Could the site host set a cookie that then (from the server) is read and the content reported directly to the advertiser?
"Although digital clocks routinely label noon “12:00 PM” you should avoid this expression not only because it is incorrect, but because many people will imagine you are talking about midnight instead. "

Uh?
Is it just me, or does the phrase, "Common Errors in English Usage" sound wrong? Shouldn't it be, "Common Errors in the Use of English"?
So I checked on their own site: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/usage.html.
I guess I'm right. :)
A very nice reply, thank you. I believe though that there is a real problem of code reuse vs. reinventing the wheel in the FOSS community. One of the main rationales of open source is collaboration, but very often, developers choose to begin new projects rather than attempting to collaborate on an existing codebase. Instead of harmonious group effort, we end up with a "tower of babel" of competing projects. Choice and variety are good, but they need to be balanced against the principle of trying to produce the maximum amount of value from an investment of time and energy. Sometimes duplication of effort means that no new value is added by re-implementing the same functionality present in other software.
From a physical design perspective...

- micro-USB doesn't provide anything to hold the connector in whilst the dock connector uses small clips.

- Also, anyone who has used the WD Passport drive with dock knows that the micro-USB port isn't very suitable for holding an iPhone-sized device vertically. There's too much play so the device can wobble or not be seated correctly, and this can damage the usb pins. There just isn't the same positive physical connection as with a dock connector.
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This one too is common:

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/couple.html

From the outside it seems to be a US, West coast affection.
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Howls of joy because we won't have any IE6 systems left? ;)
I've gone through a few different free wordpress themes with my blog. Its better to avoid three column layouts because posted code can get quite busy & squashed. Generally the simpler the layout the better.

I'm currently using Vigilance: http://thethemefoundry.com/vigilance/
Unethical? Depends on your friends preferences really.

Have you considered that maybe your friend is happy for people to know he is on facebook if they wanted to get back in touch?

If he adjusts his privacy settings it should put an end to this advertising but really, what harm could come of it? If I type a persons name into google, I'm not going to be shocked to find that they are a member of the worlds largest online social network.
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Aren't you making money off the royalties for your book, too? Hopefully your publisher pays a bit better than Amazon.

Also, having your name out there in people's minds is worth some amount of money.
> I use an extensive cookie domain blocklist and that's all there and functional.

Care to share a rough overview of sites you're blocking, and a little of your reasoning? I tried putting fairly restrictive settings on Firefox one time to see how browsing differed - I noted a lot of sites didn't work without explicit permissions, so that's sort of a hassle. Beyond that, is it privacy considerations? Do you work in a field that you wouldn't want your browsing habits logged and cross-referenced? Vagueness on answer is ok, I'm just kind of curious what your reasoning is, and if there's any utility to me building some kind of blocklist for myself.
We guarantee you that it will ranks high in the natural results of major search engines, like Google, Yahoo and MSN, for specific keyword/phrases which mostly an internet searchers use to find out the desired information for which they are searching.

Wow, I honestly hope for your sake this website is some form of troll.

Advice: Get a proofreader to review the content on your site (preferably one who's first language is English).
Also, '90's web design might be retro-cool but I promise you, you're doing it wrong.
Possibly you might do better with job adverts (I presume your audience is tech-heavy). I usually won't click on adsense ads, although if I saw a book on amazon I'd probably buy via a click thru.
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Yeah, it's not -terribly- productive, but it's better than doing absolutely nothing.
Good luck with your new post-terran life. If you could avoid voting until you get there, that would be most appreciated - eventually - by those who plan to stay here.
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Not difficult at all - I remember paying £25 for someone to clean the 4 windows of a flat I was living in, which was on the 1st floor of a house.

How long do you think it takes to do 4 windows, exterior only, with a mop on an extended handle? (the answer is: not very long at all)

He was cleaning next door's windows, so I spoke to him as I walked past, and he dropped an invoice through the letterbox. And then 4 weeks later, he cleaned the windows again, as if I'd signed up to a subscription... So I paid £25 again, for not much.

If you can schedule a route of cleaning, you can do 12 houses in just a couple of hours.

12 x £25 = £300 (which isn't far off $500; $475 at today's exchange rate).

You'd need to deduct your van costs and cleaning equipment out of that though.
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And that's why it was changed to this kind-of ugly function in lispy2:

def tokenize(s):
"""Separate string s into tokens. A token can be:
a comment (which is ignored); a paren or ,@ or , or quote or quasiquote; a non-string atom;
or a string consisting of quotes around (non-quotes or backslash plus anything)."""
tokens = re.findall(r"""\s*(;.*|,@|[('`,)]|[^\s('");]+|"(?:[\\].|[^\\"])*")\s*""", s)
return [t for t in tokens if not t.startswith(';')]
> Author is referring to the ability to enable the "ask me every time a site wants to set a cookie" prompt (a la Firefox)

Agreed. I just did "About Google Chrome" and saw that a new version was available - 7.0.517.24. Crap! Worried I would lose my cookie settings, I quit and restarted, and saw that they were there safe and sound. Only that option to prompt for each website was gone.

I had tried that option for a while but it didn't work quite right -- for certain websites it would continually prompt, "Accept Cookie?" No. "Accept Cookie?" No. etc.

When I clicked the "more info" part of the prompt, it looked like the website was trying to set a different cookie each time -- one that expires tomorrow, one next month, next year, etc.

So it may be a problem with the website, rather than Chrome. Regardless, the behavior was annoying so I selected "Block" all cookies and went with a whitelist, so this missing option doesn't bother me.
I agree. Yahoo is floundering because there is no focus. The company's tentacles are in every pot, the typical "Jack of all trades, master of none."

They desperately need a Mark Hurd. Someone ruthless, someone aggressive, someone with the balls to say, "no."
" this default lead ing size is not large enough to make the text legible."

Actually, yeah, it is. It could be -easier- but it's definitely legible.
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I need a copywriter to fluff up some text for SEO on a website.. but it's not in the list of things on offer, and I'd happily $12 an hour for that kind of work.
I often intentionally use these on people as sort of a test.
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There are now annotations. But they are not used for anything by default.
also then for than
"Choice and variety are good, but they need to be balanced against the principle of trying to produce the maximum amount of value from an investment of time and energy."

vs.

"I feel like writing a high performance, multi-node key value store, just to prove that I can" OR "I enjoy coding with X, and I think I could make a really cool browser with it" OR any other number of motivations.

Some of those motivations produce a Redis, a guiding principle, a community, co-developers and a market. Some of the produce a SourceForget project that is never heard from again, let alone improved beyond alpha quality.

But that's a lot of flowers blooming, and there's no shortage of developers realising that FLOSS is where the action -- and practical education! -- is.

DVCS and social coding venues like GitHub make it all the more easy to start, share, and improve.

You'll probably see all of that as messy and inefficient. Most experienced FLOSS developers see it as a necessary by-product of open learning, development and innovation -- our process.
Take care. While this does have a lot of clear information about Stuxnet it also has lots of idle speculation and "wink wink" stuff.