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>"do you actually have any concrete complaints"

Yes, the central point of my comment that you didn't address.[1] That is, Novell looks like it's going to be acquired and there seems to be no reason for the purchaser to continue with Mono. It's a totally uncertain future for Mono. As I said elsewhere I am not slandering Mono, I wish it were otherwise but, given that there are just so many other cool technologies out there, what's the compelling case to bet your business on it with such a rain cloud over it? So it's not about using it for some little side project, its about founding your startup idea with Mono at the core of the technology stack, are you going to take the risk? Would you, personally, use it over the other options for your business when it doesn't have an independent community, only a soon-to-be-acquired Novell?

Listen to the squawking and preening going on in this blog to display value to Oracle.
http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=3070

Do you trust Oracle with your business future, given the multiple fiascos that have come out of the SUN takeover?

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Unscatter.com trying constantly updating social search results.
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He has been funding the company with his money from Super Soakers, but because of knock-offs is now only able to cover one third of expenses.

Looks like he's trying to give up as little ownership as possible: govt grants, reinvest revenue, slow to get vc funding.
When Linkedin released this modal feature - i.e. if you don't agree to release more information to everyone, then we will restrict your usage rights - I placed Linkedin alongside Facebook into the basket of sites where I will actively try to reduce my usage until I can phase them out completely.

I know Linkedin is free, but I have invested a lot of time plowing their fields and cultivating business contacts (from which you make revenue) and now this?
This is the first cut, and I'm not sure how well the little cloud server it runs on will handle a lot of load. The platform should be pretty fast under high load, it uses the python Tornado application server talking to a mongodb backend.
(Late to the game, but I assume zain has been working to fix the kinks.)

Right now, the #1 highest female ratio is showing up as... 1887%. Without making a dumb joke about how your math may be off (duh), I will say this: from a business perspective, if you're going to err on one side or the other, it may as well be this one. Haha.
ASME , British standards
I have visited the USA twice this year, and found the power outlets in expensive hotels, serviced apartments, and office buildings to be of a much lower build quality compared to those of my home country, Australia.

In my two months in the USA, I observed more arcs and electrical crackling noises than I have in the rest of my life in AU.

Just my anecdotal 2c.
Not much have changed since the time of OS hacking back in 95-2000. These days hacking is "mashing" up a few web-services.

The way news site portray these people haven't changed as well: smart, super smart, trance, laptop, all-nigthers, coke, soda pop, weird looking, rebel, social outcast.

Hire them and you'll have instant replay of dot-com bust back in the 2000: you're growing in 1-2 years top and it all goes down-hill when you hit the "maintenance" stage.
From what I know of other cultures, the more appropriate question might be, "why do Americans resent upward mobility less than other cultures do?"

See:

In the rest of the English-speaking world, 'Tall poppy syndrome':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome

In Japan, "the stake that sticks up gets hammered down" (though this may be more about nonconformity than success):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_proverbs#Sayings

In Scandinavia, 'Jante Law':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jante_Law

(American individualism, materialism, frontier-mythology, immigrant-mythology, and rootlessness are all potential explanations for a warmer appreciation of the idea of the 'self-made success'.)
Re: OKCupid, I left the feature on. I find that it provides some valuable intel. Sometimes, I'll find an unlikely candidate checking my profile out suspiciously often. It sometimes goes somewhere, sometimes not.

Well-worth the hassle of the occasional false positive, in my mind.

I imagine there will be similar utility, at least for certain users, with the LinkedIn feature.
I think he's specifically speaking about VCs and assumes you have some kind of smaller investment and/or people working on equity.
Most developers like to imagine they're going to have somewhere between 100 and 10,000 concurrent requests on their webserver shortly after launch, so they have to write really efficient algorithms. The reality is usually considerably less demanding. In most cases, its usually just cheaper to throw hardware at it. Of course, in some rare cases, algorithm efficiency is crucially important, but this is pretty rare.

As much as everyone would like to think they are working on something in the same class as google, facebook, etc, very few projects are comparable. You're better off shipping early, and dealing with scalability when it becomes a problem.
A very presumptuous statement, and not backed up by that study. While it is true that there is a large increase in life expectancy, there is a much larger increase in life expectancy beyond the point where the person can no longer work.

According to the paper, the ADDR (Adult Disability Dependency Ratio) will remain at about 0.1 in most countries listed for the forseeable future. In the US, the old age dependency ratio will increase from 0.21 to 0.38, but ADDR will increase only from 0.9 to 0.1. I.e., 2x as many old people, but the same number of people who can't support themselves (as a fraction of population).

That means that while there is an increase in old people, there is not an increase in disabled old people. It's not just life expectancy that is going up, it is also "disability free life expectancy".
Because when you assign a visible colour to a particular invisible wavelength, you can choose whatever colour you like. If you went there and looked with the naked eye, you'd see just black.
Well, Cyc comes from a somewhat different philosophical viewpoint. It is "commonsense reasoning" broadly, but its goal is more to encode "correct" knowledge for a whole range of basic things, rather than necessarily just common knowledge in the sense of knowledge that everyone has. Less "imitate humans" and more "analyze these domains correctly and consistently and encode them in the computer once and for all as a basic substrate on which other things can be built/learned".

Part of the reason for that approach is that it uses a fairly standard logic, in which you really need some consistency, contradictions are a problem, etc.; whereas if you were to just collect the sum of what the average people on the street think, there are a ton of inconsistencies, outright contradictions, omissions, illogical beliefs, etc., which you'd need a completely different model from standard logic to deal with.

It harkens back somewhat to the 19th-century dream of a "philosophy machine", where we'd formalize various kinds of concepts (Newtonian physics, different theories of causation, theories of time, etc.), then the computer could tell us which propositions are valid under which theories. So Cyc actually hires philosophers to encode some of its ontology, runs some things by physicists, etc. It's very much a non-psychological approach, attempting to build an ontology that in some sense is a "correct" representation of the world by consulting experts on each area to be formalized and making sure all the areas are consistent with each other.
Good idea and could be really useful to the folks that Amazon is trying to recruit to write their new "Kindle Singles" product. Perhaps you should approach them and offer the tool to folks that sign up with them.
Ahah hilarious. I like this one: While I realize that Google can heal wounds with their urine, I really don't think they'd be successful in this market...
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Wouldn't the opposite of a meritocracy be an entitlement society? Somehow putting the whole emphasis on acceptance into "gatekeeper" schools strikes me more as the latter.
I'm not a dentist, but I've had more dental work than I'm happy about and I listened to the explanations. (Advice to kids, not brushing your teeth is a really stupid piece of teenage rebellion. You'll have a lifetime to regret it.)

When you have a cavity, cold things that get into your tooth can set off the nerve and your teeth become sensitive. (If it gets worse you respond to heat as well.) This can be corrected with a filling. There are other causes of sensitivity as well, ask your dentist if you're affected.

When the cavity becomes bad enough that it touches the nerve, the nerve gets infected and you get intense pain. Antibiotics can temporarily help, but now you need a root canal.

If the structure of the tooth is compromised, or if the cavity cannot be operated on (happened to me with a cavity behind my back molar, under the gum - caused by damage from my wisdom teeth), then you need to lose the tooth. If your mouth is in good enough shape then modern dentistry allows them to fill in the hole with powdered cow bone, that will become real bone, into which a post can be driven and a fake tooth created.

Before dentistry, people didn't have any of this. What would happen is that their teeth would get to the point of needing a root canal, and then the pain would quickly become so bad that they'd do anything to make it stop. Anything was typically something like, Tie this string around the tooth, let me tie the other end to a door and slam it. People would start losing teeth around 20, and have lost all of them by 40 or so. Then they'd get dentures.

We still need dentures. But it happens much later in life than it used to. Some people never get them. This is a good thing.

A note about dentists. Dentists go to seminars on how to drum up business. There are a lot of questionable things they do. But if you show up with a mouth full of real problems, the competent ones should be able to prioritize them, coming up with a plan, and progressively fixing just what insurance will cover in each time period. At least that was my experience when I began going to dentists again after I could afford it.
i think you over-engineered your comment and it broke.

your statement is a gross generalization about "designers", biased toward "engineers", and completely ignores two facts; 1) great products are a combination of both, and 2) most products don't achieve greatness for a variety of reasons that may be unrelated to either party.
Ask HN: What to do with an iOS app idea?
I'm a recent biz grad who's got a few ideas for an app. I don't know how to code (ObjC or any other language), so I'm not sure whether I should:
a) suck it up and learn (if so, what are the best ways to learn it well/quickly?)

b) where could i meet potential partners (students?) without having the financials to pay them? is HN the place to be?

thanks.
Just pretend your own eyes were more highly evolved, such that the spectacular synthetic colors of these photos are just a pale imitation of what your super-eyes could discern. After all, our eyes' visible range is merely what's proven useful for our native habitat.
That's very weird. I can launch VS 2010 in < 3 seconds cold on my system. Maybe its a VM thing? VS might always think its launching for the very first time ever on that machine, so it has a lot of heavy duty, one time only things, but on a VM, it does this every time you boot the VM?
I looked for this on LinkedIn briefly and couldn't find it. Apparently you have to opt in to letting users whose profile you've viewed learn about you.

The default setting is for the text to read "someone at SOME TYPE OF COMPANY has viewed your profile".
Hiring 4 people at the same time to work on the same project is a questionable idea- 40 is just absurd.
I hope we eventually hear about the aftermath of this.
Do you have an SSD? (I'm not joking by the way...) :)
This is standard feature, called footprints, on Japanese Social Networks.
It's more complicated than that. F'rinstance on Debian you can

# apt-get install oracle-xe

and you can run full-blown Oracle on it with no trouble at all...
> Orkut, Google's old attempt at Social Networking

Orkut's still leading in Brazil - http://finchannel.com/Main_News/Tech/72662_Orkut_Continues_t...

Something about Orkut sounding like yogurt in Brazilian Portuguese - http://www.searchenginejournal.com/why-brazil-loves-orkut/30...
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I'll add my anecdotal 2c :it's the same as you. The UK plug is overkill, IMO, but the US plug is downright nasty. The lack of 'off' switches in the majority of them is a problem. I always figured the problem stems from the original design, which was probably a version 1.0, as the USA was the first to get electricity into homes. That's why other countries have superior systems - they had time to learn from the problems and design better systems, with built-in grounds, isolating switches at the point, and higher voltages (220/240 vs 110).

But I could be all wrong, as I'm no expert beyond having a drawer full of adapter plugs.
Brad Feld: Do More Faster
Sharding a search system by documents gives you several advantages. You can scale horizontally by adding additional indexes for new documents. You can tweak a group of documents more easily. E.g. rank wikipedia higher. Assign better hardware (if necessary), higher priority, etc. Performance is also more uniform. Easier to index content at different frequencies. It's also easier for re-indexing content after tweaking algorithms.

If you shard a search index by term instead, you will end up with duplicate documents stored in each index that contain the same term. And for a large index, you need to scale up your hardware to handle the term or shard by document within that term anyway.
That's a good point. Maybe in another million years or so, my descendants will be space-faring badasses who have evolved hydrogen-sulphur-oxygen-vision because you don't want to run into a nascent galaxy while you're making an interstellar Taco Bell run at faster than the speed of light, and they will see space the way it looks in the Hubble photos, like God intended.

That makes me feel a little better.
I don't see why you mention your college is good seemingly surprised it took longer than 30 minutes to cover this: wouldn't you expect a good college to have good teachers and wouldn't you expect a good teacher to go slowly enough that all or most students understand?
Hey thanks, I appreciate it.
Exactly. Since when is space less awesome than we think it is?
I think it is the smartest move, as long as you act on the information properly.
Is your argument that following the law = ethical conduct?

If so, how to do you reconcile differences between laws and cultures? Shouldn't ethical conduct be universal?

Certainly you must concede that there are unethical behaviors that are lawful?
Who said anything about a "secret"?

You can certainly google the dentist's name and read his account of his treatment by the dental association (this was back in the 70s if I remember right). I doubt he was making things up. I believe that when one of his patients came and tested with low oral bacterial count, the visit was free.
Downvotes? Interestingly, when scanning this list, I only noticed "grammer" was spelled wrong, when almost the entire sentence was spelled wrong. It's very easy for most people to miss spelling mistakes in your own writing.
"All in the Mind" is a fantastic show, main site has transcripts and audio from the recent shows as well as podcasts. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/
You don't have to pay programmers, but you need executive vision, street sense and goddamn heart to work with "us".

So you have an idea; study it, research it, see if it's worth it, and come back to "me" with fire in your eyes. Tell me this shit is gonna kill, offer me decent %, call people and think out our marketing plan, press releases, interview people. Line shit out for me so by the time I fire up an IDE I know who I am coding for.

Look at my work and tell me you want better. Challenge me. Take my work and sell it. Show me receipts. Put people on hold and tell me about figures. Be my go-getter.

You gotta want it, as much as I do, and it's up to you to tell me what "it" is.

I don't want your business idea, I don't care if it's "good", I wont to hear about it, I will not listen. But should you storm the gate, as loud as you are convinced, and tell me to quit my job to work for nothing with you .. Sir, you might have just gotten yourself a deal.

In business school they taught you business. You can just about shove it. Programmers want a religion; come to me when you want converts, not employees. Believe in motherfucking SOMETHING. I want to bleed with winners, not speculators.
Suck it up and learn. It's not hard. There are plenty of books to get you started so just pick one and start.
Motherboard Driver Updates - A simple maneuver plan to go through
The computer motherboard or it can rightly be regarded as the heart of computer is one of the key hardware parts of computer system.
Speeders: Don't slow down, set your cruise.
With texting laws, its nice to know that cars today automatically slow down in speed zones. "Theres an app for that". This isn't big brother, just a smarter cruise control that you turn on or off.
I don't have the current numbers, but:

- On Twitter's profitability (this is before Sponsored Tweets launched): http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2009/tc200...

- Ev's other startup, Pyra Labs (Blogger), had a successful exit in 2003. There are some better details in "Founders at Work".
i don't think there is a single instrument on Hubble which is confined to the human visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, or any subset thereof. and i'd be amazed if duplicating the color response curves of the human eye was a design consideration.

unlike your DSLR (unless you popped the IR filter off of it).
Great list of tips.

> 11. Have friends read it. Get feedback.

But make sure their advice doesn't conflict with the other 13 points!

The sad thing about typical hiring processes in most large companies is, the cover letter that is appropriate for the first level of the hiring process (HR) is entirely inappropriate for the 2nd level, the people that actually want you to do some work.

You'd think we would have reformed HR by now, what with all the workshops they go to on process improvement, but from what I've seen the problem is just as bad as ever.
Time to rewatch the matrix.
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Your intuition seems wrong to me. The two major problems are that thermodynamics refers to energy, not temperature. Thus, as long as total energy is conserved, there's no problem. The second issue is that solar heating is due to radiation, not conduction/convection, so there's no heat exchange as such.

Think of it in terms of photons - if you're collecting and concentrating photons, the upper limit is the total number of photons which the sun produces. I'm pretty sure that if you focused all of those into a square meter of the earth's surface, then it'd reach more than 5760K.
...which usually leads to a change in understanding or explanation to rectify the conflict. In this case, the cognitive dissonance, paying a large amount of money (by necessity) for a service of unknown quality, is resolved by commitment to the resolutive idea that the service is of very high quality and is deserving of the high price.

Yes, the wording is technically incorrect, but the common usage of "cognitive dissonance" is generally about practical implications, like this.
There was one argument that I found amusing, because there is a much more reasonable alternate explanation for it.

Roger Short: ... if you look anatomically, it’s very interesting that the human clitoris is really much, much bigger than the clitoris in any other primate, relative to body size. So I think we’ve got to say that female orgasm is alive and well for very good reasons, and it’s not just an evolutionary accident of something that happened in men.

Color me unconvinced. The clitoris is the female analog of the male penis. Anatomically humans have penises that are several times larger than one would predict based on comparisons with our near relatives. When you add in all of the dirty jokes, etc, there is fairly clear evidence of sexual selection for large male penises in humans. However the genes that cause that are likely to also cause large female clitorises.

Causation could theoretically go the other way - selecting for large clitorises would select for large penises. But evidence from human behavior suggests far more female interest in men with large penises than male interest in women with large clitorises.
> but why SSH and not other 0day for say a VPN or the HTTP server

More hosts have SSH than VPN available. SSH is pretty much standardised in comparison to VPN. VPN touches mostly certificates and network interfaces, while SSH touches the whole authentication stack, so there's a possibility of exploiting whatever pam environment you're using. Also, you can drop root in most VPN solutions, but not in SSH (by design).

Sure - hardening SSH is enough and most likely thing to do in case of standard servers. But if you're providing some special services... why not add the special protection?
Using HTML5 Today
Let's remember that Node.js is more about predictability, scalability, and (most of all) simplicity of development, than performance. Lua(JIT) is indeed impressive, but having to learn another programming language is a huge downside.
I liked this. Simple, concise, and good info.

But... do you really have to use a 453KB .png for the header background ( http://uxmovement.com/wp-content/themes/gothamnews/images/bl... )? Surely you could create a similar effect using a few percent of that.
I'm having a hard time telling if you're being sarcastic or not.
> ... the elite's attraction to him. That behavior on the part of the (noun) elite, is distinctly not compatible with the maintenance of an (adjective) elite class.

Please define what "elite" is in this case. I understand it's not the elite (ruling) class. Is that the new dog-whistle term for white-collar, urban, college-educated whites? Or the old dog-whistle term for well-off Jews? Neither? Both?
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I'm always amazed at the way people will always find a way to be outraged at change.

LinkedIn makes it so if you want to see who's viewing you, you have to agree to be viewable, removing a potential information asymmetry and this is somehow a horrible offense?

I like the change, and I'm glad of it. I like that you can't elect to be hypocritical about profile viewing information. I'll continue ramping up my LinkedIn usage, especially as it seems to only get more valuable for me over time (unlike FB, which has never provided me with any measurable utility.)
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In practice this would just force stalkers to create fake accounts.
This is one of my most favorite movie scenes of all time.

It's about seeing society and the world for what it really is, hence "there is no spoon". It's about letting go because doing so lets you have no fear.

Similar message in the movie "Fight Club" and in Zen/Buddhist philosophy.

"Then you'll see that it's not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself."