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>What does its composition matter?

I said she was a planetologist. To planetologists, composition is everything. Composition is what the planet is, not where it is.

>Indeed, to first approximation there are only three types of stuff in the solar system:

Yeah, but planetologists don't stop at the first approximation.

>As for the "cleared the orbit" bit, check out wikipedia's article on "Dwarf planet";

Let's see...ah. OK, here's the clause that I didn't know about: "and there are no other bodies of comparable size other than its own satellites or those otherwise under its gravitational influence" (emphasis added). The Trojans are clearly under the gravitational influence of Jupiter.

Thanks.
We did this in high school back in '95. We got the regular chemistry teacher to sign it to the chagrin of our AP chemistry teacher.
This is the same feeling I often get watching history channel or the likes. Sometime I wish I was an historian, because some level of details and certain conclusions on facts happened thousands of years ago just sounds made up for entertainment purposes. I'm wrong, obviously, but I'd like to see somebody with the right knowledge trying to prove the contrary.
It looks pretty neat , however i can't really see any usage on it ,its way faster to use a program with a gui where you can draw those diagrams instead of witting ascii ...

Could anyone suggest a good usage of this program ?
Ahhh the elusive position of CSNO? Chief Spelling Nazi Officer.
It sounds like you're just not growing as quickly as you would like and are taking your frustrations out on him. The things you want him to do ("strategy discussions", "project management") don't sound like things I'd delegate to someone dull or passive.

When there is the potential for conflict with someone, try to handle communications face-to-face, or over the phone at least. That might also help energize both you and him. And consider thinking of "re-energizing the company" as part of your job description too.
Indeed; it's important that those steps be honest and in good faith, however. (Unless the court system happens to be what they're protesting against, of course.)
I'm not directly disagreeing, just, prodding in the direction of disagreeement... But..

In that example, where is the "encapsulation" you mentioned? The way I'm reading it, the only thing connecting the data with the behaviors is the fact that you just happen to call the functions and pass-in the data.

IOW, the is-somethings and does-somethings are separate.
Hey, I developed ditaa! Comments/suggestions welcome :-)
I wouldn't call those guys "provocateurs", it looked like they were just walking with the crowd. But they definitely didn't seem to fit in.
I remain unconvinced. Yes, the arguments presented here are persuasive, but we're talking social phenomena here - nothing is black and white, there are no unbreakable rules.

So use the analysis to design a system that works in spite of these pressures. Perhaps you can start by being less restrictive of the membership and the topics, and then become more restrictive once you've gained users. Perhaps those who are contributing directly to the core subject can be rewarded in some way, and see an impact in the "real world," such as more exposure in relevant communities, more followers for their blog or on twitter, or similar.

Break the rules. At least, break the rules that need to be broken.

This piece finds rules that need to be broken. Find a way.
Exceptions are control flow and nothing more. Any try/catch block could be rewritten with if/else checks on various error flags, assuming such flags are exposed. See C. Exceptions are just a clean way to write error handling and stack unwinding code without large amounts of if/else and return statements. Saying "finally" isn't necessary is like saying "foreach" isn't necessary when you have "while".
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Is anyone else getting this?

People on facebook who I've sent a Friend Request to (and have not accepted), are now appearing on my feed. Further inspection shows I can actually view their wall and photos.
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In this case, do_something_finally() will never be called.

try {
throw new IOException("bad");
} catch ( NotAnIOException e) {
System.out.println("This is something I expected to happen.");
}
do_something_finally();

With a finally block, it would be, and the IOException would then be bubbled up to the caller. Without finally, you need to do this:

try {
throw new IOException("bad");
} catch ( NotAnIOException e) {
System.out.println("This is something I expected to happen.");
} catch (Exception e) {
do_something_finally();
throw e;
}
do_something_finally();
So what are you waiting for?
Freemium: When it Works
Check out my latest post on the Freemium Business Model:

http://kanebennett.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/freemium-when-it-works/
Anonymous attacks websites of the Dutch police and the public prosecutors office
> very little Delphi activity elsewhere

So that might explain why the Delphi questions have aggregated on SO.
There was a parsing error with the "#" in the function for grabbing StackOverflow tag counts, so now F# is ranked much higher.
That's what I got as well.
I prefer this interface http://www.google.com/insights/search/#
How sad to become old :) It's there in Tacitus' Annals, book 6, chapters XVI and XVII; Suetonius, life of Tiberius, chapter XLVIII. No mention of the bankers' names though.
Also, the media coverage has largely treated Anon and it's missives as a serious resistance movement loosely linked to Wikileaks rather than a collective of bored trolls and pranksters, which means they'll gain a lot of support from people that are serious about uncovering government conspiracies.
2600 Magazine condemns DoS attacks
The rule is that next year, you'll be able to run twice as many processes as you do today for the same amount of server money.

And, besides that, Unladen Swallow would most probably take 18 or 27 MB per process on your scenario. 10x more memory seems weird.
Removing the GIL was one of the explicit goals as originally conceived, but was dropped when it was realized how difficult it would be (source: http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan#Gl...).
So answer it. What if people pretend you're OK and you're really retarded? What is it that bothers you about that?
"But I just want to serve 5 Terabytes!"

I like that they increased the limit, not 5x, not 100x, but 1000x. It clearly sends the message that they are the leaders in cloud storage.
If "all the planets rotate in the same direction" because they picked up that momentum from the original cloud, then what happened to Venus? Why does it spin the other way?

This theory picks out one radius, where the belt is, as special. I wonder if it can account for the stable orbits of the other planets too. They're oddly regular. I've always wondered if their arrangement is related in any way to the arrangement of electron shells around atoms, which are also very regular becauuse of the electron energy states.
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Anonymous not attacking media websites who disagree with wikileaks
IMO, a good way to make this less frequent would be to add a 'suggest' feature for similar URLs:

When someone submits a URL (or title?) what is very close, but not equal to another that has been submitted recently, warn the user. Allow him to continue anyway with an extra click when none matches.
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Could somebody from Russia explain this "как жрать суши" (Translation: "How to eat sushi?")? Why it is fastest rising?
Hmmm not wanting to be a grammer nazi, but there's a type in "makret" instead of market on the homepage of screamsorbet.com

Unless it's intentional :)
"My biggest gripe with C is string handling. Although the extremely insecure functions have been slowly phased out (such as gets), zero-terminated strings are an attack on sanity."

There are some nice safe string libraries out there, like this one:

http://bstring.sourceforge.net/
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So if I read that right, you don't need finally because you can unlock mysql tables when catching the exception? That's brilliant. Clearly as far as the PHP team is concerned, there is no other use for PHP than using it with MySQL.
What does it feel like to be different.

The world isn't full of 'stupid' people and 'clever' people. The human race doesn't function on a linear spectrum; the full variety of personality types and abilities is far more diverse.

Perhaps some people value their intelligence above all else, when other areas of their lives are lacking?
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Thanks. I usually rely on HN's algorithm to find if it was submited or not. Doesn't really work on youtube though. Was not my intention to repost things.
I don't know about you, but when I lay sole to mill, I turn into a hydrant of perspiration and saliva that graces a good 3 foot zone of terror around me.

Might want to get a small umbrella or something, just in case.
What irritates me about this thread is the sense of entitlement from people who file bugs.

If helly wants to say "there was a discussion about this on the internals list, and the decision was no" he doesn't have to justify anything more.

If they still care enough, they can dig up the internals thread and re-spark discussion.
There ya go, first step ahead to a new site look and feel. Look a little better?
'The assault on Wikileaks must not be overshadowed by the recent denial of service attacks and these certainly must not be allowed to be associated with the hacker community. This will play right into the hands of those who wish to paint us all as threats and clamp down on freedom of speech...'
A programming language is a tool and its syntax is its UI. PHP community doesn't get this. They never have. Just because you can empirically prove that a language doesn't need a feature, it doesn't mean you shouldn't add it if it's obvious that most developers would _enjoy_ using it.
considering that alcohol helps prevent blood vessels clogging, it seems like it is a very good positive long-term effect on the brain in particular
and that in essence is what makes python awesome.
Would it confuse you to find that a decent sized portion of anon are the type of people that tuck their kids in at night in the suburban ranch-style house before returning to their personal crusade to extract justice from a system that protects the morally bankrupt?

Or, are we just deciding to play on the usual stereotype.

Also, is hanging around in a spot in meatspace with other people a more effective means to a goal than a direct action that is performed online? When you sell software, are you walking door to door? Or selling online? Would it be fair to call you "a lazy basement-dweller" since you don't walk door to door selling software?

Does this statement seem deragatory to you? "This (selling online) doesn't require leaving the computer, a far easier proposition for most I would expect."
I think saying, "it's just not ethical!", is a judgement. I find nothing unethical about using content under the terms defined by the content owner.
The "having a blast" part is important. I've built similar trips myself, and playing with all these tools, finding interesting routes etc can be great fun (like discovering a way to get from Kyrgyzstan to Austria via Ethiopia and Jordan at no additional cost). It's a form of hacking that can be just as addictive as any other, and has the added benefit of helping you see lots of the world cheaply!
Great piece, but reading it absolutely hurt my eyes. Is there are reason why they enjoy instigating migraine on visitors or is this meant as some kind of obscure test if you really want to read the contents or not ?

If you highlight the text it gets marginally better.
I was surprised that after a private talk between the presidents of Mexico and Spain, the latter went back and immediately gave a summary to the US ambassador in Madrid.
Agreed, it is pretty easy to avoid the issue by using a library or framework, and bstring looks nice.

Still, I wish something like that was simply built-in, as external string libraries can cause interoperability issues: Each framework defines its own string handling functions and format, making it neccesary to convert between them in an application, if you use them together.

(the worst thing is that this problem still exists with C++ as of today, even though it has a built-in string people insist on rolling their own)
A friend of mine hacked up his Lisp, with lots of macros, of course, to check units at compile time. I haven't really used his system, but he was quite keen on it.
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The example is the wrong case. Unless you are using MyISAM tables (hint: 90%+ of the time you shouldn't), there's rarely a situation to LOCK TABLES as described.

Using transactions would make more sense:

try {
mysql_query("START TRANSACTION");
// ... do lots of queries here
mysql_query("COMMIT");
} catch(Exception $e) {
mysql_query("ROLLBACK");
}
Think maybe Apple will put some money towards fixing the patent system now? I keep waiting for the big names to really start pushing for reform, since they are only ever hurt by patents and never helped by them. At least, as far as I can tell.
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Using Mac OSX's built in text-to-speech function, although I would like it to read faster than its current maximum speed limit. But text-to-speech technology allows dyslexic people to have access to information that was almost previously inaccessible to them. I think every device from here on should be required to have text to speech options built in, just like a new building is required to have elevators/ramps.
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A minority of the increment in college graduates work at high skill jobs
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Seems like a meme: people encourage others to google for "как жрать суши" and look at the first link. The first link reads "Stop eating sushi, dumbass -- eat borsch and don't show off".
It's interesting.

Normally one would say that visualizing the data would increase it's legibility and ability to interpret it.

With this I actually feel that the most interesting and understandable thing is the listing
To quote Conan the Librarian, "You're Late!":

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1991557
You should read Flowers for Algernon[1]. It's a piece of fiction, but it's a great read and reference in discussions like these.

The sad thing about being "stupid" is being unable to put your predicament into compelling writing.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...
One issue that seems to pop out:

If early adopters are different in some way than the majority of the population, how does this difference bear on the outcome of their input in shaping the product? I guess that means answering "What is the difference?" and "Is it meaningful?". Certainly companies in the past have faltered because they paid too much attention to their early adopters without recognizing that the needs being brought up were different from that of the overall user base. Fail to take that into account, and when the early adopters move on, you'll be left in the dust.
Do you mean "typo"? :)
Yeah, I thought maybe he was confusing ST with Java. In Java are those things not objects.
First arrest made in WikiLeaks revenge attacks
The fact that the Saudi king wanted the US to go right into Iran, guns blazing.
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If "nicki minaj" is directly under "justin bieber" in fastest rising, why is there a bunch of other stuff between those terms in "fastest rising in entertainment"?
I don't understand how Katy Perry can be on the general fastest rising list, but not on the entertainment fastest rising list? Is this a judgement on Google's part that she isn't entertaining?
One of the notes on the report is someone who did try to dig up the discussion and couldn't find it, only a bunch of people saying without reasons "we do not need finally". It seems polite to me for someone who knows when/where said discussion was to link to it.
I know about readability. I just don't understand why people that take the time to write a piece like that don't take the time to make their site readable. It is really totally counterproductive. It should not normally require a browser add-on in order to unlock the content of a webpage for someone with normal (or better than normal) eyesight.
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I'm seriously curious why someone would choose a mail address >=30 characters.
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Ask HN: Employed by a startup's VC Firm rather than by startup
I apologize for the anonymous user account, but I just want to ensure no one tracks back that I am entertaining a new employer.

I am in negotiations with a startup which is currently VC funded. They do not currently have any benefits package though. I am a developer leaving a relatively secure job with decent pay and nice benefits and one of the things I need from the new job is health coverage.

Since the startup doesn't have a health care plan, the thought is that they will pay COBRA until they get their own plan. However, their latest idea is to have me be a full-time employee of one of the investing VC firms. I would get all of their benefits and essentially just be working at the startup.

On the surface I don't see anything wrong with this, but I don't want to agree to it and then find out it's not such a great deal for me. They say that my options won't be affected. The problem is, this is so foreign to me I don't know what questions to ask to keep me out of trouble.

Thoughts?
> Fastest falling: 8. myspace layouts

So long myspace, we hardly knew you...
I like to browse the web with a style sheets toggle, often it improves my experience :)
I've always considered it to be "blogspam", too, but I was just thinking -- isn't this how the internet is supposed to work? Incoming links and all that?
Superb idea.

Here's the credit crisis video for those who haven't seen it:

http://www.vimeo.com/3261363

A nice, clear summary of the Wikileaks cables with some quality graphics could gain serious attention.
It was designed to show that if official U.N. delegates could be duped by college students into banning water, that they could essentially fall for anything, including pseudo-scientific studies which claim to show that global warming is man-caused.

I can't decide whether this is naive or deliberately misleading. First of all, UN delegates were not duped by college students into banning water. They were duped into signing a petition to ban water. It might have been irresponsible of them to leave their signature on a piece of paper without thinking it through, but it's a far cry from being "duped into banning water".

That leads me to my second point: they are UN delegates. They're not geeks, they're more like managers. They'll have experts whom they'll consult. They won't stop to try and puzzle out "dihydrogen monoxide" when approached by obviously unofficial and (within the context) unimportant people. As a matter of fact, given their job, they're probably used to being approached by people ranging from genuine, serious activists to plain loonies.

Like I said, if you're an official decision maker, it's not very responsible to appear to endorse someone else's idea without researching it properly, but that's as far as this whole issue goes.
That's mostly a subjective determination though. I found the text to be very readable and easy on the eyes.
> No one is having problems in C/++ because of this.

No one is having problems with this in C because C doesn't have exceptions.

No one is having problems with this in C++ because C++ supports RAII via destructors which are guaranteed to run on stack unwind.
Having no problems here, but I guess the readablity of grey text on grey background depends greatly on the contrast of your monitor.
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You don't neee a phone service to hear idiotic things. Turn on any TV political pundit or any reality show.
This is great. Does this imply that Mono finally has constant stack space tail recursions ? Now I can look forward to (Iron)python without arbitrary restrictions on the depth of (tail)recursive calls. And no GIL too !
Interesting. I'd like to add some options like that for http://langpop.com . Some charts that let you look at jobs vs search engine hits or books vs projects, that kind of thing.

I wish I could find a way to make a bit more money from it than the ads provide, though.
I think you're mistaken. As an example, here's coverage of how "the Embassy of the United States in Madrid wielded powerful resources in an extraordinary effort to impede or terminate pending criminal investigations in Spain".

http://harpers.org/archive/2010/12/hbc-90007836
OO, actually, is a big part of a problem.

OO is inherently stateful, so reasoning about OO programs is just slightly easier than reasoning about assembler programs.

OO was introduced as a way to control program behaviour - encapsulate effects, hide information about effects, abstract effects away. All while controlling them.

Using single notion of object and inheritance, as a single method of type derivation (ie, derivation of information to reason about).

This is hardly done now, with all the power of Coq type system, why should be it possible within typical OO type system of mid-90 or even current .Net type system?
The world is not flat, but it is shallow.
Utter and complete crock. Armies had always requisitioned food. Hunting could never supply a substantial part of an army's needs. Napoleon drew in part from lessons learned by the French while assisting the Americans during the American Revolution. Etc. etc. etc.

But as business publications go, it's above average.
The usual model is to submit the link, then if you want to add commentary, to do so in a comment to your submission. That way the link is automatically clickable, which it isn't here.

So here is a clickable link:
http://kanebennett.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/freemium-when-it...

FWIW, in this case I would suggest that you have no additional commentary to add, and that you should delete this item and simply submit the link in the usual way.
'Of course there are alternative options, which would not require the departure of most Americans from America for new lives on distant shores. One would be a new social contract, in which the American people, through representatives whom they actually control, would ordain that American corporations are chartered to create jobs in the U.S. for American workers, and if that does not interest their shareholders and managers then they can do without legal privileges granted by the sovereign people, like limited liability.'