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I don't want to learn some stupid Ruby package directory
convention. I already know if I install a Debian package
that the configuration files go in /etc/packagename and
the docs are in /usr/share/doc/packagename. Every package
is like that and consistency is a good thing.

Here you ara basically saying that you want Debian to be easy for those who do packages, not for those who are going to actually use them. That explains a lot.
They might've been doing this already with their Google search enhancements, but why don't they make their free version of the extension hijack (in a very open way to the user) Google queries and insert their own affiliate id so that they get the credit? Seems like an unobtrusive enough way to finance a free product, though it might step on Mozilla's toes.
I believe one of the first actions of the new organisation was to apply all the changes from Go-oo, so it's not like they're completely splitting...
What changed, is beyond me.
http://www.kindlefeeder.com/ allows you to do most of what you are looking for.

Also for mobi files such as the instapaper one it would be nice to be able to make ajax calls to set articles to read when you clicked a link at the end of the article.
First, approximate Digg as a sphere...
Agreed 100%. He even says "the Debian business plan" - what plan is that!? Does Zed even know what Debian is? They aren't Red Hat!
That's a really nice introduction to Erlang and much better than the management cruft that usually fills CACM. Although, I haven't read it for about a year (due to the aforementioned cruft,) is this article indicative of an improvement of the computer science content?
I recently deleted my reddit account due to an addiction problem, but while I was on I would open lots of tabs to come back to later, and I don't do that on HN. I'm not sure how similar my experience is.
Was the fun part that they suggested contacting the Human Resources manager?
Yeah, we have to get there before we get there. Get it?
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Based on what James Gosling has said, perhaps Oracle's general HR policies just aren't compatible with retaining people at Jeff Bonwick's level.

There could also be bureaucratic turf wars going on, i.e. the total loss of autonomy/decision making power that Gosling reported suggests that those already in Oracle are happy with how they run things and have no intention of sharing those responsibilities. One can also imagine Oracle having a culture where those acquired from a money losing company don't get much respect for that alone.
In my case, it was Introduction to Computer Science - I slept through the entire class and still aced it, having been introduced to computer science in puberty - but it was right after lunch with the worst lecturer in the department.

They were sweet naps, though.
Other than text messages though, Google really isn't competing with carriers via GV. You still need to have a carrier plan and phone number to send or receive calls from GV on your mobile phone, and you still need to have a data plan from your carrier to send or receive text messages. I love GV, and I have used it exclusively for everything since they re-opened the service, but I still have to pay my carrier for a voice and data plan.

Even if Google decides to implement a VOIP service as part of GV, users will still need to have a carrier data plan to make use of it, and if a lot of people switch to data-only plans to use GV, carriers will simply respond by further increasing the cost of "unlimited" data plans...
yep (you can see link to pligg.com at bottom of phygg.com)...

two research groups are starting to use it, at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at UZH and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, so it's more for HNers who are interested in (astro)physics at the research level to check out/use. we're adding interesting papers (cutting edge, fresh off arXiv.org) daily.
Same here. That would have been the first officially supported way of reading kindle store books on linux, for example.
You're contradicting yourself.

Assuming you're defining "successful" as "making money", you're simultaneously claiming that the iOS App Store is too draconian for developers to succeed, and that it's more successful.

Furthermore, I haven't seen evidence that the two issues--stringency of policy towards developers and potential for financial success--are correlated.
Watch out for millions of IPv6 DNS AAAA requests
As long as each of your secure sites has encrypted the password in their database, which they damn well should be doing, an attacker wouldn't be able to benefit from any similarities because they wouldn't know what your password actually is. Right?
C style arrays are the lowest level model for flat arrays that I can imagine. Maybe it's more accurate to say that computers are confusing, and C is just being C.
ABU robocon 2011
IIS7 has a URL rewriting module ("URL Rewrite") that can import mod_rewrite rules. For the most part .htaccess and web.config can provide the same functionality these days.
wonder if tools like instapaper are brought into the mix. I used to worry when folks would only visit my blog for 10 seconds. Now I just hope they're saving it for an enjoyable read later
I'm going to be travelling for the next several months so this is actually essential for me but it's also a big plus for anybody that reads a few books in parallel.
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Congrats - inverted in PS and my HTC Hero got it! Nexus couldn't though
so "digg for physicists" is simplistic, in reality "Phygg is designed to help sort through physics papers and discussion topics related to arXiv.org"

I'm a theoretical physicist-

http://reddit.com/r/physics Hey physics people, check out this shirt I made! 140 votes

vs.

http://phygg.com Analytical expressions for the deprojected Sersic model 5 votes

the latter is more useful for people actually doing research.
Unless you intend to or need to program in languages with weak abstraction facilities (i.e. C++ and Java) there's little need to read the GoF book. If you know Lisp (i.e. have done SICP) then reading the GoF book will result in a "Where's the beef?" reaction, at least if you're anything like me.
> This has been done, by several people. The problem is that the resulting packages don't fit with Debian policy, and in a few cases result in file collision

Then, by definition, it has not been done - it has been attempted and the problems proved hard.

I think the best way to go about it is leave the Debian Ruby subsystem alone and either go the virtualenv route or install it from the source tarball and place it in /usr/local or /opt
The political issues are serious and your sense of how to solve the problem is distasteful.
I worked at a company developing proprietary image processing SDKs (more like libraries) for .NET/ActiveX. We actually had very extensive QA, probably >100% code coverage (at least 1 test for most code paths) in unit and functional tests, but it's really difficult to predict how customers are going to use your product.

For this reason, newer employees had to do a cycle of QA/support/dev, where you found out that there would always be one customer whose entire use case was the one case you didn't test for, and that makes your toolkit fail horribly. I'm not excusing these bugs, and Facebook is certainly a more complex platform to build on top of, but I can certainly see how a QA team could be working nonstop and appearing to accomplish nothing.

(Also note that since leaving this job better testing tools have come out/become more popular. The Ruby community especially is very oriented toward automating "mutate this test until it fails".)
That was only for a converted PDF I loaded on there and the Kindle PDF conversion process tries to make documents "flowable" so code did wrap. If I load the PDF on there without conversion it loads exactly the same though the Kindle is too small to display it natively so you'll have to zoom in on it.
One might point out the irony of this being posted on a site called "Hacker News" where many of the most popular posts are about venture capitalists, investment, business models blah-di-blah-di-blah.
They know how to run one kind of business, that much is clear.
What HFT fund doesn't push orders they have no intent to trade on? AFAIK decent crossing networks such as EBS/ICAP rate-limit orders anyway, because they can't have half their customers arrested.
New to Java programming
Not really. If it's GPL, it's freedom for her from the developer.
I've found that Anti-Patterns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern) are the best approach for refactoring. They explicitly start with recognizing a bad pattern (frequently one which once made sense but no longer does) and then explicitly prescribe methods to refactor them into something better.
It does for the expression given, silly. And again, in mathematical notation, unary - would take precedence over exponentiation so it's completely unclear what that person's example is supposed to mean and why it has upvotes.
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So how much interest is "too much"?

Also I think you may misunderstand who these people are. Take wonga.com for example, they're on ads on TV with their iPhone app. How many truly poor people have iPhones?? Their customers are people who need (want) cash for the weekend before payday to go drinking/clubbing/partying. It's a luxury (of sorts) and people always pay a premium for luxury.
Get a roll of toilet paper and put it under your wrist while you use you mouse. It allows for spring due to the cardboard roll while still supporting you wrist.
Compared to bank charges, payday loans are cheap... Bounced checks involve no loan and you still get the high fee. And of course, these fees add up very fast. It really sucks to pay $35 on a $2 check that bounces.

Many poor people don't have bank accounts at all. So credit cards aren't really an option.

Further, the federal government has paased so called consumer protection laws that limit peoples power tobdispute credit report errors... Which means more people have bad credit, especially poorer people who are probably less likely to challenge their reports. Many organizations that do not extend credit get to report on credit reports, and a disputed debt that goes tobcollections can show up on a report a half dozen times from different agencies as if they were separate debts!

If government wanted to fight payday loans, a more effective solution would be to make credit reporting companies liable as they used to be, if they report information that they know is wrong.
Well, this is something which is very obvious to me. If you have a pointer to an int and increment it by one, it makes much sense to me that it advances the pointer to the next int and not just by one byte. Otherwise the usage of pointers as iterators would also not work.
Don't they simultaneously also have to ban all forms of encryption without backdoors?
I don't think the average is an appropriate metric. The author assumes that everyone found the article interesting, but some people were more lazy than others. In reality many people could have just followed a link (perhaps because of a catchy title), found the article uninteresting and never even started reading it (myself included).
The entire complaint seems to have come from Shamus' frustration with finding a great OpenGL library for displaying 3D interactive dialog boxes in an existing scene.

I don't program in C++ but that sounds like an unrealistic goal for a complex and specific problem, and a great candidate for DIY rather than attempting to find a previously built library.

However, given the fact that C++ has been around for decades, it must be frustrating when you have so much trouble finding usable libraries. I guess that's one of the reasons PHP and Ruby folks love their scene. Then again, they're not likely trying to build a cross platform, OpenGL 3D dialog box that overlays onto an existing arbitrary scene.
Well, the GoF book was published in the same year as Java's unveiling to the world (1995) so X was C++, but of course today it's indeed mostly Java.
You are under the impression that Debian doesn't know about this problem or that they consider the current behavior to be a bug. Both are untrue. The current behavior is very much an explicit choice by Debian and no amount of bug reporting or patch submitting will change the situation.
I read the book just about as soon as it came out. It's really a great read, even if you aren't interested in creating a language. The author's understanding of linguistics is just amazing. I don't think you could possibly read the book and not learn something.
The language syntax is pretty much stable at this point -- getting to 1.0 is now mainly a matter of shaking out the edge cases in parsing, and solidifying the compiler as much as possible.

Fortunately, you don't have to take my word for it. Even if the CoffeeScript compiler were to disappear in a puff of smoke this afternoon -- you'd still be left with pretty-printed, quite-readable JavaScript. It's not like depending on a beta of a VM or interpreter.
Articles on "Java theory and practice"
I don't think the government minds alternative currencies. The possibility of easily shifting large amounts of currency anonymously, I think, is what the government has a problem with. Because green dot checks id, etc... it's not a problem. If E-gold asked for your ID, your SSN and reported things as a bank would from the beginning, I don't think e-gold would have had an insurmountable problem, either.

By "private" I meant "allows anonymous users" not "owned by someone other than the government." which is very unclear. I've been up all night working and my grammar is degraded.
From what I've been told, you might want a PM once you start using systems engineering processes.
Another adult dating site spam run on Facebook using hundreds of fake profiles
That would be worlds better than what we now have. But I'd like the option to turn it on. (And I'm sure others want the option to turn it off.)
For most of the world almost every piece of software has name in foreign language. It's all just sounds, with no meaning other than "the program with icon looking like ...". For people in Poland Windows and Word means computer programs, their real meanings are second thoughts, even if they even know what that words means.

I'll agree - Libre Office sounds strange, but it is adventage - it makes brand stronger. And people will get used to it, if it will be good.
Why? Because different folks tend to want different subsets with their tools.

This then leads to the existence of different tools for different folks, of different UIs, and (particularly for gonzo-class tools such as Microsoft Office) various attempts at progressive disclosure and adaptive UIs.

Watch how somebody else uses Office or any other complex software; the options and knobs and paths and such can be wildly different.

If you can generalize and also isolate something specific from all the different use models (and figure out how to make money between Google Tools and open source tools and Office and such), then yes, you've potentially got something. It'll probably be domain specific, though...
Oracle has been invited to participate in the project.
If we broadcast or even recorded the talks, the speakers would clam up.

How about anonymizing it by removing the names of the startups/founders before publishing ?
When I tried to confirm my email, I get redirected to:
http://zukmo.com/register.html?err=rk_invalid

Also, If I try using the twitter button on that page to login, It throws the following error when it redirects to http://www.zukmo.com/twitter?oauth_token=_____________

"java.lang.NullPointerException"
Reminds me a lot on NeXT and MacOSX. And I like it.
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Good news, big deal.
This LWN article cites several big names announcing their support: http://lwn.net/Articles/407383/

RMS, DiBona from Google, Lunardi from Novell and even Mark Shuttleworth.
No. All the pages added to Zukmo are private to you. Unless you take some action to share them, they remain private to you.

If you want to share them, you can explicitly share them via Zukmo. We also provide options to share the bookmarks on Facebook and Twitter.
Your comment used to say "alternative" where it now says "private electronic". This drastically changes the meaning, and makes my comment irrelevant.
Oracle is technically irrelevant because they aren't technically focused. They aren't even close. Their core product hasn't been gaining any steam for years and they're riding out that gravy train. They have to keep purchasing other companies to remain relevant.
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Does anyone have a link to the article that people were visiting?
Here's the key word from that article: "feminism"

Leslie Sobon only wrote that geeks are really great people when you get to know them, and how to land one if you want. Somehow that turns into stereotyping everyone and everything.

Whether "Guest Blogger" (how brave!) likes it or not, some people DO want the advice in that post. And as a geek, I thought it was nice that Leslie Sobon took the time to say nice things about the geeks she works with. I'm sure they thought so, too. It put a more human face on AMD than 'the company who makes cheap chips'.
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> Thus, Zed offering a polite "bug report" rather than bitch and moan about it probably wouldn't have been all that much more effective -- seeing as how it has remained in the current non-functioning state for many years.

And trying to round up a lynch mob is more effective how?
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Ask HN: Conference networking best practices
I've got a question perfect for the wise community of HN.

For the next two days I'm going to be attending huge mobile web conference and I'd like to get to grips on best practices on networking at these events. I'd really appreciate your guys' opinions on previous experiences.

Thanks
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Is it just me or are the alternatives on the web, i.e. Google Docs good enough? I mean, if you're going to write some long papers, you'll probably just use MS Office anyways, right? At least personally, I don't use anything now other than Google Docs.
Changing precedence for parameter parsing (functions with prototypes) -- won't that kneecap a lot of old code?!

Hopefully not. Its a bug fix so anyone using unary functions with protoypes may have noticed that it didn't always work correctly before (touch wood!).

* http://search.cpan.org/~shay/perl-5.13.5/pod/perl5134delta.p...

* http://groups.google.com.cy/group/perl.perl5.porters/browse_...
It's the author's first link, here is the HN page for it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1714989
Personally I don't like any of these global logon initiatives. I don't use Stackoverflow because I never found a way to login without using OpenID. Since I don't like a bunch of random web sites being able to connect me so easily, to use Stackoverflow I would have to go to one of those openID sites and make a fake account or set up my own OpenID provider. Both of these options are extremely inconvenient. I'm used to having a different user id/password for every site I have an account on so that's very easy for me.

I haven't looked into the technical details deeply but people keep talking like OpenID is safe. I assume sites that use OpenID never see my user name and password but what if the site says that it uses OpenID but actually just stores my user name and password? Would I have any way of recognizing that the site was using fake OpenID?
That wasn't my point. I meant if they allowed cell phones on planes, but you didn't want to be a disruptive jerk who talks on the phone on mass transit.
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kudos to tbatchelli
With Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, GPS transmitters, satellites, Google, upcoming facial recognition queries, DNA, fingerprint databases, and more law enforcement has more tools at their disposal than any other time in history.

It seems rather lazy and short-sighted of them to be pushing to compromise the security of all forms of encrypted communication just to make one aspect of their job a little easier. Besides, the Internet is global, so even if they succeeded, they'd simply push the innovative technology to other countries where it's still easily accessible to everybody except U.S. based businesses. How does that make our country more secure?
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From the article in question:

> You don’t really have to understand what these questions mean, but throw them into the conversation and then act interested when he answers. (Actually, this works for pretty much any topic.)

Do you really think this is what most geeks would want in someone they're married to? Do you think this would be the basis for a healthy relationship?

I don't care if anyone wants this. It's bloody awful advice.
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NixOS ( http://nixos.org/nixos/ ) is quite similar on the face of it, except that it does not make all the symlinks. Its package definition language is purely functional, too!

Gobo looks a bit unmaintained, too :(
How is this different from historious? I use historious and instapaper to save bookmarks and read later, and I am extremely happy with the service. I might jump in if your service provided features of both, ie: indexing my bookmarks and making it available on my kindle.

Also do you provide bookmarklets instead of the firefox plugin? It would be easier for those of us who use multiple machines and may not be able to install plugins on all.

I do like the idea of indexing content other than just webpages, like youtube videos, rss , twitter etc. Does your system handle Twitter and RSS updates also?

I will be back with more feedback after I start using the service.
Hmm I was hoping he would go work for Apple on a new filesystem to replace HFS+... oh well.

Will be interesting to see what his startup is working on when they come out of stealth mode.
I think he meant "Central Michigan" rather than "Carnegie Mellon."
this isn't behavior restricted to HN, though
I hope the internet wins this "government vs. internet" fight. This kind of thing is so ignorant as to be insulting. The best DRM the industry has been able to come up with so far was broken before it was even released. Does the FBI seriously think that if they put in back doors that people wont get them? At that point all internet communications may as well be plain text.
In the New York Times story that unveiled the drive, the FBI cited a case where a mobster was using encrypted communication, and the FBI had to sneak into his office to plant a bug.

Why is this referred to in a way that suggests it is somehow not a routine part of serious police detective work?
So, with that graph floating in the middle of the columns, I'd expect to read the 4 chunks of text top-left, bottom-left, top-right, bottom-right. Did anyone else find it surprising that it actually reads top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right?

Also, if I offered you a javascript library that could lay out columns properly, on existing browsers, with two-column width floats, would you use it?