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Ahhh... Melinda Gates doesn't work for Microsoft nor does Bill anymore so they can't really make Zune better.Anyways, it seems the kids are mostly teasing them.. (from the follow up answer that their daughter teases Bill about being No. 2)

Btw.. the reporter gets to ask Melinda Gates a bunch of questions and he/she comes up with questions regarding bill gates wealth and Apple vs MSFT rivalry rather than asking more about the charitable foundation she's part of (about half of the total were off topic I would say).
Yeah, just was brainstorming and built the app, then looked for whatever name would kinda fit. I am going to use http://rmmbr.org/ though, as people will clearly get annoyed having to type appspot.com.
Anyone else think this is just them A/B testing the price?
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Western Digital just released a 3TB drive (~$239) - that would only require 24 drives to net 72TB.
We probably did, though I can't remember for sure.
Step 1: Learn to program.
Step 2: Program a game.

Games are computer programs just like all the other computer programs.
What exactly would you take VTA light rail to? It takes about an hour to get to the commercial district of San Jose from MV; probably faster to take Caltrain and walk on the other side, or even take an express bus. And the area in between MV and San Jose on the route has basically nothing; snakes through a bunch of middle-of-nowhere residential areas north of 101. Well, along Tasman there's the Rabbit's Foot meadery hiding in a nondescript office park, but that's about the only thing I can think of on the whole route along Tasman or 1st.
It depends on what you think "slow" means. It's the same speed when you're running one concurrent query as it is when you're running a hundred million concurrent queries.

That's what we call "scaling".
Thanks. I knew you could hold "alt" when left-clicking on the volume control to select inputs, but I didn't know about that one. Very useful, much better than going in the Finder's preferences...
I was never good enough to surpass the simple reactionary one-move-deep analysis of a beginner player (e.g. if I move here he'll capture my piece, or if I do this he'll have to respond like this or that), so the strategy in my games is very limited making it not-so-exciting.
+1 for fabric.

If you haven't used fabric, give it a try. It's an extremely simple API for performing remote management, deployment, etc.

I've tried numerous tools but nothing compares to fabric. It is just so easy and it always works. I can't imagine not seeing a fabfile.py in my project's deploy/ dir anymore, it just wouldn't be right.
This is what I've experienced. Bought Air Display and haven't used it more than once or twice because of the choppiness/delay.
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Why do this at all? Tab isn't any harder than teaching users that on your site and only your site, space works the same way on one field. Poor discovery and dubious benefit is not a great combo.

That said, you're right that it would be a better implementation, assuming backspace effectively shift-tabbed.
This is a weird example of something I will deem "content subject scaling". I've come to realize that we often judge content based on not the sole value of the content alone, but actually, the nature of the author who created said content. Here, we are amazed the author is 16 - if he was not an outlier in this sense, this piece would surely not be front-page worthy. Similarly, InDinero founder Jessica Mah is outstanding because of her age, but beyond that, would we really be focusing on her product so often? I have my doubts. On the opposite side of the spectrum, we sometimes view and promote content that is largely throwaway based on the author's known history.

Not to say this isn't okay and it's not worthwhile, but most of the time, these kinds of posts need to be acknowledged as what they are - not things that are really strong contributions to the HN knowledge base, but instead, curiosity impinging posts that ACTUALLY serve as mini-biographies of the people that post them and/or are featured within them - where our REAL interest lies.

So, my point - serve me up the 301 redirect to their about page, stat.
Those running the airports could see to it that there isn't a reason to fall asleep or need sleep in airports, rather than making it difficult to do so.
This has so many security and design concerns it's not even funny. Everyone has already said so in this thread already so I won't add to that, but I do want to add an even better solution. Add a remember me checkbox that when checked sets a cookie that you can use to identify the person with later. When the user gets to the login, he's presented only with the option to enter his password, and a link to login as a different user. Single input element without the security concerns.
I used to play competitive A LOT when I was younger, my best was 3rd place for an all Ontario (Canada) competition and I won some county competitions. But it got to the point of being too time consuming and too boring, all you're doing is memorizing openings and certain strategies for middle play and end game situations rather than playing.

Having said that I really enjoy going through the old Master's games. If you're into Chess then I suggest getting 'The Most Instructive Games of Ches Ever Played' by Chernev (http://www.amazon.com/Most-Instructive-Games-Chess-Played/dp...). He goes through each game explaining the strategy and contexts of the games and moves, really enjoyable if you're into Chess.

chessgames.com is a cool site for going through their archive of games. My favorite is 'The Game of the Century' with Fischer who was my favorite: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1008361
"cat /dev/urandom > file" may fail before the disk is full. I have seen a system do that because it wants to have room on the disk for e.g. log files or in-file-system swap.

Also, this will not work with disk quota, and you will have to make sure that you write to the same disk as where the original files lived (think mount points)

Full-disk encryption will not work in all countries, as law enforcement could imprison you if you do not give them the keys (recently happened in the UK). It also would not enable you to point at your drive and say "take a look. That file isn't there"

I think the only way to do this would be with support from the file system. It would have to support two things: overwriting file data (including that in on-disk snapshots), and removing evidence that a file or directory existed with a given name.

Edit: I just realize that the disk must support this, too. It could have written your data, verified the write, seen it to be unreliable, and rewritten it somewhere else on the disk. I doubt disks would keep track of links to these unreliable copies. So, in short, I doubt there is any 100% reliable way to erase data from a disk. Copying what you want to a different drive and destroying the drive probably is your best option, but that may be a bit time-consuming and expensive if you want to safely erase a single file frequently.
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Amusing at first glance, yes.

Of course he's talking about studies that use significance tests, which his own paper isn't directly using to prove his point.
If you're really interested in getting into chess, check out ICC and FICS.
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I play regularly on http://www.freechess.org/
> kulpreet, not all the chinese people in the bay area are Chinese.

I understand what you are saying, but capitalizing a single letter is not really enough of a distinction to rely upon in casual conversation. For example, I will often intentionally describe an american-chinese friend as "Chinese" rather than "chinese", capitalizing the C as a way of signifying importance and respect in the same way you might say The White House or Stanford, rather than stanford. To many, "chinese" simply implies you are too lazy to capitalize the "C". (which is, conversely, why there is an implied value and respect associated with capitalizing)

I hope that makes sense, it is a somewhat amorphous subject and as such difficult to articulate.
> Mobile phones are distinctly lacking "tab" and changing input forms is usually a pain.

iPhone ALWAYS provides "next" and "previous" (input) buttons when filling web forms. On my old phone, the arrow keys did this. What phones are you imagining?

Also keep in mind the hacks needed for this as mocked up are going to be even less reliable and less testable on mobile
I play casually and wrote a simple HTML jquery chess board:
http://joelparkerhenderson.com/chess/

The board is just pieces you can drag and drop anywhere. For me, this is more flexible than Chess.com, Yahoo Games, and other sites with sign in, membership, Java, Flash, and the like. Feel free to use it. Feedback appreciated.
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Don't know how current this is, nor how accurate but I've seen it posted around here a few times.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l...
I wouldn't. My response was totally about a better way of doing it, otherwise I would have mocked this up and published it.

My own opinion is that the lack of consistency in registration and signup forms across the web is a real problem for regular users, and we do not need another yet more confusing option. I picked this up from watching regular people attempt to signup/signin to web services.

The web could use a standard style guide published by some sort of group. ie. this is what a reg form should look like, this is where a login box should be etc. It is a stretch to think it would work, but it would help regular users a lot (I am not talking about all forms having the same design, talking about standard field names and positions, standard features (eg. double prompt for password, show strength, password reset, no password in clear, email as username etc, always have a logout button in top-right, etc.).

There have been no real breakthroughs in design wrt the signup/signin/logout process online. HTTP auth didn't catch on, and that was the last chance we had at standardizing it.
Twinings Earl Grey and San Pellegrino do it for me.
For some of us non-native English speakers,"rmmbr" might be difficult to remember.
Water. I used to drink an unhealthy amount of Pepsi One, but recognized that it was never making me any less thirsty.

It may be boring, but it's cheap (free), plentiful, and effective. The only downside is that I have to rely on willpower for late-night hacking rather than caffeine.
Were some of those citations made to prove those findings wrong? Dumb question, but would be a shame to not be thourough when attacking bad literature.
An alternative is to use OpenID which requires a single input login form by design.
tumblr and posterous brought nothing new to blogging content-wise, but tailored the authoring process for minimalist posts. Python wasn't novel for its featureset but for its lack thereof (DRY). Ubuntu Linux included substantially less than other newbie-oriented distros (hello 7-CD Mandrake), but was considerably more integrated and usable than all of them.
It seems there's some tension playing out between whether these are the government's scientists who do research and report back to the government; or the public's scientists, paid by the government, but doing research and reporting it directly to the public.

In the first model, the government asks its scientists to research something, they come back with an internal whitepaper, and it decides when, how, and if to report that publicly, controlling the external message. Similar to how staff scientists at a company operate. In the second model, publishing and media-interview decisions are made at a fairly low level, sometimes with individual scientists directly publishing results without managerial review. Management may still run strategic PR campaigns highlighting certain things, but they're usually in addition to, rather than instead of, the original release of findings.

NASA responded to a similar controversy in 2006 by explicitly saying that NASA scientists can talk to the media about scientific research or their personal opinions without prior approval, as long as they're disseminating unclassified information and are clear that they're speaking in a personal capacity (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03...).
Why old people( 40 to 50 yrs) always ask about sql in the interview?
Why old people( 40 to 50 yrs) always ask about sql in the interview?
Embrace (http://www.embraceglobal.org), d.light (http://www.dlightdesign.com), and nuru (http://www.nuruinternational.org) are the first that come to my mind.
Absolutely. Years ago I worked at a small software company which made fairly innovative end-user client software for a subscription-based online service. Good organic growth, and it was the unquestioned choice of power users. We were launching a new version and though the functionality and performance were close to target I was worried that almost all the work was under the hood; visually and interactively it was almost the same as the existing version and felt a bit dated. This was around the time Windows 95 replaced Windows 3.1 and Microsoft was pushing a neater, more refined look on Office, which I wanted to emulate. It didn't happen, because look and configurability were always in the bottom half of user wishlists and I think other members thought my UI obsession was a bit superficial. Version 4 (I think) rolled out and was greeted as a solid if unexciting upgrade.

About a week later the service released their own client. It didn't have as many features or run as fast as ours on a large database - but it was slick, easy to use, and flexible, and about half the price of our software. Everyone loved it, other than my employers. I loved it, and started using it at home with a slightly guilty conscience. Their software was not as good, but it looked like the new hotness, while ours looked like bad shareware.

Our sales halved within a month or six weeks, and never recovered. B2B may be even easier than B2C; if it demos well you just repeat the word productivity at regular intervals and it'll sell itself.
We had a filtered internet access at the consulting company I used to work for, which blocked personal mails, social networks and blogging platforms and software downloads (apparently, you need approval of the IT department to install any software on your machine). I subscribed to RSS feeds from tech blogs via Google Reader and deployed a download proxy on my website server to bypass these restrictions.

The same company wouldn't allow flash drives in any of the machines for security reasons. We had a couple of testing Mac Pros on another network where we needed to deploy our application frequently. I installed the USB mass storage drivers back into these machines to enable Flash drive access. Everything was smooth after that.

We weren't using an issue tracker for our application because the in-house tracker was total crap and less usable compared to pen and paper. We weren't permitted to install any other tracker (not even an open source one). Eventually, I took the plunge and (secretly) installed Redmine on my machine. It saved us a lot of time (and a lot of paper, too).
Maybe people haven't bothered to read it all the way through...
Orangina.
I've generally seen full disk encryption on a OS volume as a moot point. Why is there a need to have full disk encryption on a bootable volume, when the only thing you should be protecting from prying eyes is your content? Full disk encryption makes sense in a data volume, not in a bootable volume where just having a ~ directory and it's children encrypted covers mostly everyone's need for security.
Water here.

And a Diet soda or two a day. Whatever is deeply discounted at Safeway I get. My favorite drink of all time is Diet Cream Soda, but that doesn't seem to be sold in the Bay Area.
Cappuccino and Red Bull. We don't get good coffee in my current city :(
I love Orangina. I had it in France when I was a young boy, was stoked to find it here in the states at Whole Foods.
Water and Coffee. Occasionally a diet coke. I used to be quite anti-coffee, but it really does make me sharper and more productive. That, and it tastes delicious.
Easier said than done. Rampant delays surely don't help airports or airlines either -- I'm sure they're doing what they can on that front as well.
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I have a french press on my desk at work. Without coffee, how can you save the world?

Other times: OJ and water. I average less than 1 alcoholic drink per month: I don't like the taste of most alcohol and I intensely dislike being drunk. I do like a glass of cabernet now and then.
I'm borderline addicted to Crystal Light.
I don't know about differentiator but I am quickly learning that it's a must for any product.
Thanks a bunch, I was left wanting to read more about this. If there only was a video online of his presentation.
3,5% milk
I'm a pathetic caffeine addict so the mornings start with a large cup of strong coffee.

Whenever I feel thirsty I make myself a nice pitcher of ice water with a little lemon juice added to it.

At night, for beer I like hoppy West Coast style IPAs. If for some reason I'm trying to get drunk as fast as possible, fill a glass partway with cheap vodka and the rest with cheap beer (a strong beer cocktail, basically).
Morning: Normal Coffee with cream - The bolder the better.

Meals: Sparkling water- I am completely off of soda now. Usually flavored but sometimes not.
I don't like the taste of drinking flat water so this was a middle ground that let me have a drink with lunch that didn't feel/taste odd. I usually drink this : http://s7d5.scene7.com/is/image/Staples/s0217240_sc7

Alcohol: Smokey single malt scotch on the rocks
I have a small stockpile of non HFCS dr. pepper....

At work, it's Pu-erh, Jasmine, or Oolong in the morning and water + a diet soda or two during the day.
When I made my own coffee I used an AeroPress: http://aerobie.com/products/aeropress.htm. Incredibly smooth coffee, no bite at all to it. Buying fresh beans and grinding them became too much of a hassle and expense eventually though.
OK, thanks. Will try to remember that. :)
Yes, that's the list for the Y Combinator startups. Does anyone have a similar thing for those coming from or first posted on hackernews? I guess this would be all those weekend projects and "Please Rate My App" posts.
Yeah, I was debating going with something else, but I thought remember without the e's wouldn't be too tough. Any suggestions (that I could just mask on top of rmmbr for others who prefer it)?
Sparkling flavored water. Reminds me of a marketing idea I had - sell Crystal Pepsi as "cola-flavored spring water, lightly sweetened" in an eco-themed bottle.
Laphroaig. But not everyday!
Seconded twinings Earl grey... Tried a few other Earl greys, and they usually don't taste right
Paul Stamatiou made a great post a while back on moving to SF: http://paulstamatiou.com/atlanta-to-san-francisco-moving-cro...
Uh, what? Why is pressing space and violating 50 years of UI convention easier than pressing tab and keeping yourself consistent?

If you want to save me some typing, allow me to login with my SSL certificate.
Zendesk entered a crowded space of help desk software. Their USP is usability. Zendesk dominated the space with in couple years.
I like the Earl Grey Bravo from Adagio Teas: http://www.adagio.com/black/earl_grey_bravo.html. It's definitely the most perfumey and citrusey Earl Grey I've had, which may not be to every person's liking.
True, but only the Pages and files feature discussions are not going anywhere, and its the low effort way to get a discussion forum and mailing list setup.
So you know for a fact that every application you ever use doesn't write data outside of ~?

You may feel comfortable about that, but I don't. /tmp, for example, can contain plenty of sensitive data.
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Like everything, it depends on the problem. There are problems which needs parallelism but cannot use many of the languages mentioned by the OP. Eg: Realtime Multi-channel video encoding. Most of such systems use custom processors. Unless massively multicore mesh architecture (like Tilera TILE64) become common place, we are stuck with using such custom processors and that would mean using plain old C. Once mesh based multicore becomes cheaper and commodity, we will see use of other languages in such problem spaces.
Its not surprising that misrepresentation has become so common in what is now a largely political industry.
A lot of water. As little soda as I can manage.

Indulgent: a cold glass of organic chocolate milk

When I'm expected to drink an adult beverage: gimlet (gin) or the palest beer I can find.

Nothing on earth beats a glass of Trader Joe's Strawberry Lemonade on a hot day.
And those who never win and never quit are idiots. (from one of those de-motivational posters).
I did a touch of research on my own.

The Clojure slide deck that's currently featured on the front page has some useful definitions:

"Concurrency is commonly mistaken for parallelism, but the two are distinct concepts. Concurrency is concerned with managing access to shared state from different threads, whereas parallelism is concerned with utilizing multiple processors/cores to improve the performance of a computation."

Haskell has parallelism nailed. You can basically tell the compiler, "I want these two functions to run in parallel on two different cores." The compiler will then transparently do some fork/join type magic, and automatically enforce that the functions can't step on each other's toes. (It probably uses threads instead of processes, but since the functions are not allowed to share data, it feels like Unix-style fork/join.)

(Side note: Unless it's explicitly stated in the function's signature, Haskell functions are forbidden by the compiler to have any side effects. This will drive programmers coming from a procedural background absolutely insane, but it makes the above magic possible.)

I haven't coded in Erlang, but it seems to rely heavily on message passing. The compiler stops you from doing stupid things, but the concurrency is still exposed to the application.

So, if your only goal is to distribute your workload to as many cores as possible (say you're building a video encoder, or in my case a ray tracer) with as little hacking as possible, Haskell will make your day.

If the existence of different threads is part of your actual application architecture, Erlang is your friend. It lets you explicitly create producers and consumers, and play around with different event architectures.

As mentioned before, I'm a Haskell n00b and completely unfamiliar with Erlang, so if anyone wants to chime in and correct me, please do.