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I almost expected to get down-voted. What I was trying to convey is managing your time wisely.
Sure, but I would take getting them banned on any ground.

In a few years, we will call them cancer machines again and see if we can win then.

If you have a way to win on privacy issues the more power to you, but I doubt it can be done.
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Having read the comments there, I don't see why they had him banned. Perhaps a few were offensive, but nothing the community can't handle. I prefer reading someone like this to safe comments that just recycle bits of PG's essays. HN could use some irreverence.
From my point of view, Lua is very light and easily embeddable inside an application.

It has a nice, clean C implementation and can be easily cross-compiled.

I normally use ruby for a complete different set of problem (scripting on OSX).
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I hear this sentiment a lot from people. In fact, I use to have this line of thinking. I've found that the only cure is to convince yourself to take action now or realize that it's not a priority.

It's kind of like when people say that they don't have the time when what they really mean is that it's not a priority.
I've heard this idea discussed a number of times over the years. It usually comes up after about 4 or 5 pints :)

There are a number of reasons why it's impractical though. A given packet tends to only store about 1000bytes of actual data. It would take a lot of packets to store any useful amount of data.

Secondly, packets have TTL (time to live) encoded, where the TTL is decremented at each router hop. This is mostly to prevent routing loops (where two routers, or a group of routers, all don't know how to route a given packet so they get stuck in a sort of networking infinite loop).

So, for this to really work, you'd have to only need to store very small amounts of data (and I could think of certain applications where you might want something like an encryption key to live "in the ether"), and you'd have to modify your routers to either not decrement the TTL's for these packets, or you'd have to make the PC set obscenely huge TTL's.

Then on top of that, data stored "in the wire" would also decrease overall network performance by increasing congestion (if you're constantly routing 500MB of stored data around, those packets are taking up network resources).
That's a different discussion. I'm just talking about safety. The scientists in the letter are just talking about safety. The FDA is just talking about safety.

"Should we put these things in airports?" brings a lot more baggage with it than "Are these things safe?" I wish our opinions about backscatter devices could stay out of this discussion about their safety.

I'm going to mention my opinion anyway, because otherwise people will suspect me of being on The Other Side. I think these devices are a waste of money and I don't want to be subject to them. They raise a ton of privacy concerns and make me wonder, "What's next?" But they're almost certainly safe.
Could be; but in my startup it was still "when we have money, we'll do X." It ended up being one of the big disagreements between me and my co-founder-- a lot of the compromises (on quality and process) that I was willing to make when we were bootstrapping were, in my mind, no longer serviceable once we took VC money. He still wanted to do everything quick and dirty, and incur all kinds of technical debt.

From where I sit, the message of the OP is still to the point-- do what you want to do, now. Don't live for the future.
I became a full-time college student at 15 and had the state pay for it.

A limited number of "middle colleges" (such as Washtenaw Technical Middle College in MI) allow students to become full-time college students. The state paid for my college tuition and books and all of my classes counted for both high-school and college credit.

So, at 18, I graduated with a HS diploma and a community college Associate's Degree.
From the article regarding Walmart opening effects on a community:
"the unemployment rate goes up, the voter-participation rate and the PTA-participation rate go down, the infant-mortality rate goes up and the pollution rate goes up, because people are driving farther and spending more time on the road than if they were going to a local mom-and-pop store"

Does anyone have sources for the above claims? My cursory research on the interwebs cannot confirm them. To my skeptical ear they sound like agenda driven hand-wavery, but I have an open mind.
And a few tweets later: I am going to take a stab at bringing Rage up on Android soon, but we have NOT committed to a product. 9 days ago
I think many (bad) startups suffer from this exact same mindset of "when we have [some external resource] we'll be able to do X."

To quote Tony Robbins' TED Talk: "it's about resourcefulness, not resources." (1)

Successful startups just make it happen with what they have. Unsuccessful ones tend to always look externally for solutions. "If we only had more engineers"... "If we only had VC"... "If we only had more users"... etc.

There is a long list of reasons why this mindset will doom any startup. Two, important ones are:

1) It makes you less creative (to look externally for solutions)

2) It slows you down (to wait on external resources)

And what do startups have going for them, but for creativity and agility?

(1) http://www.ted.com/talks/tony_robbins_asks_why_we_do_what_we...
Indeed. (I use Emacs for Lua, which seems to work fine. vi would be sufficient.)

Also, Lua is byte-compiled, rather than a pure interpreter. (The compiler is automatic and quite fast, though, so it's easy to miss.)
What sort of stuff was in those recipes?
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I will just say it, I hate such people. These are mostly engineering students from second grade college (like me) either trying to do their homework or trying to do some odd jobs for some small company in their locality. They usually just ask for the solution point blank without even trying to understand the problem space (not like me). And then they call this "learning something which is not in the textbook". If you have asked for a solution directly from some random guy/chick from the internet, where does learning comes in all this?

They make us all look stupid. I started bidding on some freelancer projects a few days back and 1 out of 3 projects from US or UK have a strict No-Indian policy.
> Most of the situations described don't involve any direct negation of the protagonists intentions.

That was what I was pointing out.
This framework goes to 1280px, and does dynamic resizing as well:

http://lessframework.com/
In my case it was about trying to make Java threads work in a situation where pre-emptive scheduling was needed for very many threads. The problem with the JVMs I tried was that they all started too many OS threads, and I couldn't get them to limit this enough. I might have done something wrong though. My general feel is that the threading model is too underspecified in Java.

I haven't been doing Java for a while now, but I hope that the situation has become better. The Erlang model of starting threads for all the tasks to do is very alluring once one gets used to it :)
Most "CS" students in India don't go to engineering schools because they like it. They take up CS because that's the most lucrative career option right now.

The competition is cut throat to get into major IT companies (GPA of 3.75 or higher is required by most "Grade A" companies just to take the preliminary written tests.)

Unfortunately, most of the companies value grades and how "consistent" you have been through school, going all the way back to 10th grade. (I'm looking at you Infosys. I should write up my own interview experience with them :)

As long as they get their grades, the students are least bothered about how they got it.

Given this pressure, one can hardly expect 18-21 year olds to be cognizant of how rest of the world perceives them. What matters to them is their social circle and family priorities. If it means asking 100 people to bump up the grade, so be it.
I got these comments even without posting any code. When I posted this: http://igorpartola.com/web-development/a-clever-way-to-fight...

I got comments like this:

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No idea where it all came from. The links they leave are along the lines of http://Yourwebsite, so can't really be spam I guess. I don't get what the angle is.
I have aspergers, but I got 30. Strange. The ones I had difficultly with were the "flirty" female ones.

But then again, I've been working on "hacking" by aspergers for past few years, working from the ground up to figure out wtf facial expressions mean among other things.
> Java threads are system threads

AFAIK, Java threads are not required to map directly onto system threads.
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"It’s also terribly inefficient to repeatedly check HN, because you have to rescan stories you’ve already seen."

That, and the small font.
For people actually interested in parallel programming, particularly on Java, Herlihy's _The Art of Multiprocessor Programming_ is a fantastic introduction. On top of the grab-bag of techniques you'd expect, it boasts enough formal treatment to help folks learn to reason about correctness in their own programs.
I think that the best approach would be do have a warning as default, except from in "Incognito" mode - that way, people who feel a need to quickly close the browser can use Incognito mode or disable the warning and the rest of us avoid troublesome accidental closing of the browser.
Oh - I wasn't aware of that. Are there any of the main implementations where they aren't?
Fixing the install of Nagios on Ubuntu.
I agree with this comment and think this would be a great idea if applied to other schools. Along the lines of what iworkforthem said below - you could use a subdomain per school.

ie - ucla.courserails.com
Do you feel that being Indian is a disadvantage?

From personal experience there are some nationalities that I associate with stupid questions, but I think I treat the clued resp. the clueless from these nationalities equal to the clued resp. the clueless from other nationalities.

But I'd be interested in your perspective.
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See Kilim (http://www.malhar.net/sriram/kilim) for a lightweight thread solution for Java that easily outpaces Erlang for thread creation and message passing. It's the basis for the Erjang project which runs Erlang bytecode on the JVM. While it's faster at a low level, it obviously doesn't provide everything that Erlang does (supervisor hierarchies etc). It's still pretty impressive that this can be achieved on the JVM though.
Have no doubts & just do it. I left my homecountry on a whim to follow a girl & it has been the best decision I've ever made. Countries & people are different, even if it's only 'the country next door'. You can learn a lot by simply changing environment. Being forced to work professionally in a language you don't master 100% can be frustrating at first, but it changes your way of thinking: you learn to be concise & to the point because you have to.
Yea, utterly hand-wavy! It's funny how much they hate WalMart. I'm sure they have an organic plasma TV in their right-sized (500 sq ft) living room they used their hybrid SUV to bring home...
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> This is additionally confounded by the fact that British people really do mean "sarcasm" when they say "irony."

I've never experienced this in actual conversation with British and/or other non-US English speakers. But the internet definitions I'm finding seem to all include 'sarcastic but somewhat subtle' in the definition of ironic. For me the definitions of sarcasm and irony do not intersect. Sarcasm is intentional whereas irony is at best random or more often a signifier of implied 'fate'.
In System 7, I think it was, it was possible to use ResEdit on the Finder to add a ⌘Q. Useful if you were low on memory. IIRC, if the last application exited, the Finder would restart.
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Yes it is technically sarcasm - at least in common English usage. Since irony doesn't seem to exist in America I'm not sure if American-English makes the same distinctions.
>> Is the InnoDB storage engine that much superior compared to other products?

Definitely yes, the author of the article already proved - web scale but reliable.
Programming concepts matter, but languages don't.

You can do closures in any language under the sun. They might not be called closures, and you might have to type more characters in some languages than others, but they're still closures.

My personal stance is that all languages are pretty much equal. The only real difference that matters is syntax and that's largely a matter of taste. Don't get me wrong, some languages are sane, some are insane, some are ugly, some are beautiful, but they all do the same thing - function as an intermediary language between us and a CPU.

There's so much snobbery around language choice, and so much fashion following which I think is a shame. Also identifying oneself as a "<language> programmer", rather than "a programmer" is sad.

Practically though, you get down to libraries, probability of creating bugs/typos, speed of runtime, 'community' etc if you care about those.
You need to realize early stage valuations are basically a guidepost for negotiations, not a real monetary amount people have committed to pay for a company. By comparing your valuation to other valuations of companies at similar stages, both parties can be sure they are getting a fair shake. This has little to do with the idea of the company being sold, in full, for that amount.

If you're a founder, and you are getting some traction, it might very well be that you can raise money at a $5mm valuation with little more than a prototype and a few initial adopters. However, if you all of a sudden have a chance to turn your fledgling startup into $2mm in the bank, after only a few months, many would take it and use that money for the next startup.
You are being sarcastic.
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Link is broken, here:

http://www.ideasonideas.com/2010/11/your-bank-balance-is-at-...
It's basically Chromium with a double sidebar extension system, I wouldn't call it a whole new browser. Most of the video shows how cool web apps are... The chat system is nice though, with dragging and dropping.
Most of the students in India lack basic problem solving skills. They tackle exams (even maths) by rote memorizing a set of questions and answers. In real life this has caused profusion of "guides" i.e. books that contain questions most likely to appear in exams.

When these students start engineering studies, they are flabbergasted by lack of "guides" for problems. These students will fail the FizzBuzz test, however will be able to answer questions about C++ quirks. They can not ask intelligent questions because they can neither understand problem nor investigate the root cause. They are studying just to get a degree (which would help them get a job) not to get educated.

Even if we assume that only 50% of the students fit this criteria, there are over five hundred thousand students who are looking for shortcuts! Which should account for these kind of posts.

The education system in India is geared towards producing clerks not free thinking individuals. Sadly, this the is the end result.
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A lot of teens/young adults self censor on Facebook, not because of privacy issues with relation to the rest of the world, but because of privacy issues concerning their parents/relatives. 'Oh shit my mom is on Facebook', was an SNL sketch a few months ago. It is definitely an issue that people think about.

The problem is that 'us nerds' try to explain it based on technical merits rather than giving practical examples in which privacy concerns are at issue. (I don't want everything that is said to my best friend Billy to go to my mom; I sometimes use language that my grandma would find inappropriate; I don't want my girlfriends to find out about each other, etc.)
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When I clicked to download the source, there was an error. Is funny that common-lisp.net use python, and use it with errors.

Just click on http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/cell-cultures/?cv...
It's easy to embed and has a very low footprint, plus it's quite fast. Those are all important for game developers, where usually awful C-like NIH languages abound. You can't carry a lot of standard library baggage with you, which is very hard on languages like Python or Ruby (Tcl fares a bit better, for historic reasons).

And – speaking of historic reasons – correct me if I'm wrong, what good embeddable JavaScript interpreter would you have used five years ago?

Also, compared to Ruby and JavaScript, it's a much simpler language. You have to learn a lot less and deal with fewer idiosyncrasies, which often hurts people who "just" write scripts for big systems.
There is a whole-earth poster like this and some borders are very obvious.

Rich countries have street lighting, poor countries didn't - even the west-east German border used to be very obvious.
20 years later cheap fluorescent tubes are everywhere which has blurred this a little
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That is not the story I got when I contacted support and asked if I could deploy a VM specifically to the Chicago cloud. Rackspace's support told me this was not possible an I'd have to setup an entirely new account in order to deploy to that data center.
Don't get me wrong: it's not a bad device. It's just that's not an awesome, must-have, world-changing one.

And, this morning, it came to me it has, indeed, a killer feature for corporations: lots of Visual Basic programmers will be able to write code for it. With so many of them already hired, it could be a no-brainer to target WinMO 7 for internal development.
Might be a v9.0.572.1 only option, and that version seems to have only made its way to Macs as yet. Windows and Linux seem to be at v9.0.570.1 still.
Agreed. It's hard to discern the real value of using synchronized methods vs synchronized blocks when you end up reading: "Creating the synchronized block yielded 16 lines of bytecode, whereas synchronizing the method returned just 5". As you point out, synchronization on a lock object is, as a rule of thumb, a much better option than synchronizing on the intrinsic lock, and thus losing control over it.

The explanation of volatile is woeful, to say the least. He doesn't even mention the main issue that volatile addresses (the only one?): visibility. Anyone really interested in this should read the following article by the author of JCIP: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp06197.ht...

I liked the section regarding ThreadLocal though (an example would've helped a bit).
These machines have been called, by a reputable scientist, as potentially very dangerous.

And 1 out of 5 dentists recommend sugar gum. There are enough scientists in the world that you can always find one who shares your belief. Scientific consensus is a much more reliable indicator of correct beliefs.

...nor do I particular care to present both sides of the argument.

I can think of half a dozen pieces of evidence that would change my belief about whether or not backscatter devices are safe. What evidence would you need to convince you that they are safe?
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I don't think there's a standard "goto" place for that sort of thing, generally I only see those type of roles advertised directly on the startup's website or via their twitter feed.

You could probably do something clever by taking some twitter lists of startups and searching them for keywords like "admin".
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I was also at Leeds Hack Day. I didn't know you were working on this until the presentations but I wrote a language detection library for Ruby some time back: https://github.com/peterc/whatlanguage

It uses a slightly weird technique, though. Dictionary based and using a bloom filter for memory efficiency. Going forward, though, I plan to rewrite it to use a combination of n-grams and language "fingerprints."
Also, going to the country's largest landfill showed me a lot about how much waste we create in our search for the next thing. We throw away a lot of stuff that works perfectly fine simply to get the bigger and better model.

The landfill problem is interesting in context (as the interviewee mentions Wal-Mart). First of all is the combination of Wal-Mart + rural America + lack of recycling education (in rural America). Wal-Mart got big by basically exploiting small town USA's country bumpkin mentality.

Second of all: Rural America does not recycle. . . it's actually kind of infuriating. Case in point: after I moved to Utah from Florida, I spearheaded a paper recycling program at my high school. Most of my elementary and middle-school years I'd been drilled with the very liberal environmental studies education, so I was pretty astonished that people in the country didn't recycle anything. . . one garbage bin by the curbs, and all of the trash into a landfill. Shortly thereafter the local Wal-Mart moved to the end of town and opened up as a brand new "Super Wal-Mart". The trash cans stopped being big enough, so the city bought people newer and bigger ones.

What it ultimately boils down to is Corporate Social Responsibility. Wal-Marts could do more to address the issue by offering recycling facilites and education. But for the most part things that get purchased in bulk / supersized containers from the Wal-Marts and Sams Clubs across middle America will never get recycled.
33 here. The only anxiety or frustration I got was getting one wrong because I didn't read all the choices. Other than that it was kind of fun.
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I am a French silly boy with a skyrocketing site to handle with.

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Revenues : $10,000 per month, 100% advertising

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Can't I have my revenues growing faster than my trafic ?
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Joining and locking down the account by disabling all the notifications would make them stop spamming you. Dunno what's more important to you, getting rid of the spam, or the principle of not having an account there?
I think that's a really good point--and it makes a startup seem like they're the victim. That being said, it's always a telling question to ask a founder what the first 3 priorities would be if he/she closed X amount of dollars today. It can really give insight into long term vision, as well as self-awareness (i.e. knowing what you don't know).