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The goal of self-contained packages is a good one. I love that this isolation is getting enforced through sandboxing on new platforms like iOS.

Sort of off the main point, but I think Apple's thing just makes it easier for publishers to link into iTunes (those funny phobos.apple links), not rewrite song references it finds or anything like that. Custom protocol handlers like itms:// pop up some terrifying warnings by default and should probably be worked around.

I'd consider plugins that rewrite content as bad software.
> It seems as though they would publish a paper to be peer-reviewed or something first

They did. The link mentions that it is under embargo until the time of the conference. It says "Science Journal" so I'm guessing that is an odd way of referring to the journal Science.

The italics are a bit off to me. Maybe they meant "Science Journal Has Embargoed Details Until 11 a.m. PST On Dec. 2"
From what I've heard about what school was like prior to, say, 1960 ("sit up straight or you'll get the cane!") old-school schools would have embraced the idea that their job was to teach good behaviour as well as academic skills. It is, perhaps, a shame that some of this has been lost.
Saw a lecture by Tobi Delbruck at my uni last month and was really impressed by this application among others. Seems like some really interesting technology. Can post a link to the lecture recording (audio) if anyone wants it?
A professional programmer needs to understand how computers work, including computer architecture. It's especially helpful for performance tuning.

BTW, your post looks like spam; we don't use signatures here.
Indeed. I thought it was particularly clever how he apparently used the campaign data, but ran it through his product to get the "experiment results" screen shots.
There's probably some really good information from BP or various banking institutions that could really shed some much needed light on recent disasters.

Wikileaks is simply doing the job that journalists have lately forgotten or refused to do.
"Science Journal Has Embargoed Details Until 11 a.m. PST On Dec. 2"
Look at it this way: A and B can be freelancers and gain at most 100K yearly, or they can work for C, where they commonly create wealth for C in amount of 1000K; C pays them 150K each (and keeps the rest, 1000K-150K-150K=700K).

Economically, it would make sense for A and B to work for C, since they gain 50K more. Economically it makes sense for C to hire them since together they create wealth, and the 700K that C gets to keep is a reward for his willingness to risk hiring them and managing them into a productive team etc.

If A and B would like the risk, they could start pairing themselves together and attempt to create wealth independently. But they could fail. 10% chance of a 1000K is still just 100K on average (it just has an interesting distribution of the payout). The difference up to 1000K is a payout to C for the risk they took in growing their business up to the current level of scalability. (otherwise other companies would pay more for the value that A and B provide)

If A and B care only about technology and are risk adverse, the economy doesn't award them more than the 150K which they are already getting. For such people, creating wealth of 1000K for the companies where they work is not a result of their behaviour, but a reward for the founders that took the risks and had the vision to create organizations allowing that.
The updated headline makes that clearer - thanks for listening to the criticism.
I went to the ER at IHC recently. I received two hydrocodone during my stay. I was billed $5 for them. Not directly related, but I found this pretty lame and wanted to comment.
Google, like almost any other company of sufficient size, has a problem retaining great engineers who prefer smaller companies. Those preferences are not about the false dichotomy between "engineers" and "entrepreneurs". Mr. Ts'o enjoys a job in an established company where he can be paid well, work only on specific technical problems, work reasonable hours, etc. That's a fine choice, and the right one for many. It is, however, still exactly that: a job. People who start companies are not often looking for another job. Mr. Ts'o should be thankful that is so. Had Larry and Sergey taken his advice the company for which he works would not exist.
It's an interesting concept, but as an investor I would not want to allocate money without it officially being invested. In other words I'm on the line for a theoretical 200K, but I'm only putting 20K of it to work. The reason I wanted to invest, say 200K, is because I believe in your idea and I want in while it's cheap. I want to buy low.

Nothing wrong with keeping this alternative in your back pocket in case any investors want to try it, but I would lead with a traditional approach.
But California's economy is 50% larger than Texas', according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP. Since economists mostly talk about debt to GDP ratio, doesn't that make Texas considerably worse off?
Y'know, it's poor argumentative technique to respond to "What if [fairly likely scenario]?" with a sarcastic "Oh yeah, what if [very unlikely scenario]? Clearly [outlandish idea]!"
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But Quest is an option, as is Verizon and Earthlink.

The fact that Comcast may be the best option and the market state aren't the points I'm arguing.

Would you stay Comcast if it meant losing Netflix? I bet many times the answer is no.

I'm not arguing that it's a wonderful thing to you, I'm arguing that by pissing you off, you'll be much more likely to act.
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Wikileaks (2010) is not Wikileaks (2006).

I think we do need Wikileaks, but the objective and impartial 2006 version.

Today, there is not even a wiki at wikileaks.org. If an archive of the wiki exists, its not easy to find on their website. There used to be multiple ways of sending information, including online upload, email and multiple postal address around the world, now there is only one postal address in Australia. I get the impression that they are only interested in major scoops these days.
The PATRIOT act allows pretty much anything. In the case of a .com domain, there are only two parties that could possibly modify it (the registry or the registrar) so such a gag order is fairly pointless. People talking about ICANN modifying .com domains just don't understand how DNS works. (Although there's not much difference between ICANN and VeriSign — they're both The Man.)
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This looks like it's exactly what I was looking for. Many, many thanks to you.
I don't mind that to be honest, because it's a product that I may end up using. It provides a real value, just like the ad did. :-)
The gist seems to be that despite numerous stories predicting its demise, California:

- is wealthy and talented

- has more (people, VC, etc.) than it did in 1999

- has been funding the rest of the country in federal transfers (he calls them bailouts, therefore you can't complain if CA asks for one)

- has a small budget deficit relative to its budget

It leaves out $138B of unfunded liabilities for state employees until the end, and ignores companies like Facebook opening datacenters out of state, a growing number of people leaving the state (I'm one of them), and its awful credit rating.

Unfortunately if I owe the bank money, I can't tell them how good of an investment I was up until 2008 and expect them to give me a pass. I need to figure out a way to come up with the money. California doesn't appear to be serious about that.
That map only San Francisco? I'm going with the LIDAR theory.
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You asked a meaningless question.

So you never expected anything that high. So ... what?

Why are you startled? What are you asking? In what ways could being startled be "wrong" of you?
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Bollocks.

Right now I can get an SSL certificate and register a domain name for under $30 through Dreamhost.

I can think of a few projects that I've started that have helped a few people that never would have gotten off the ground if we had your preposterous $1k fee for registrations.

The current system's not great, sure, but it's a whale better than your "only the rich can register" plan.
The past track record though on these things seems to indicate though that these press conferences fall more into the very interesting discovery for scientists and those who follow it, rather than ground breaking discovery that hits the front pages in general publications.

Although saying that if something truly ground breaking were discovered it wouldn't surprise me if it were announced in the same way.
so that developer decides to try his hand doing his own startup and quickly realizes that the market generally rewards those that are best at marketing and not those that are best at writing code 10x faster than the average.
I'm in the same position you are in... except was hoping to get word out and invites out at an event on the 1st. Just going to have to bite the bullet and let it slip. The tech is good but still has bugs. Not every hole has been plugged. Forgetting that code hasn't been optimized and speed is suffering, I just don't feel comfortable releasing a private beta yet. Next BIG launch target is in January and I'll open up an extremely limited private alpha/guinea pig site in the meantime.

I'm of the opinion that it doesn't mater how many (or how few) features you have, or even if what you have works, but what is paramount is that the UX is perfect. Not a single thing can be wrong with what you release. Anything that is will just scare away potential customers and give yoyu a rep for building crap.
He should relax his criterion so that he allows non-male non-white nerds who dropped out of Stanford/Harvard, but I kind of doubt the candidate pool would change much...

Which is what makes what he said all the more perplexing. He could have probably also said "and are shorter than 7' tall and weighless than 500lbs and have not won a Grammy for best new R&B singer".

None of those change the candidate pool much either, yet wouldn't be worth saying. The only reason I can think that he would make the statement he did is because he believes that "white maleness" is an intergral part of the equation and contribute within an order of magnitude of the other things (Ivy league drop out with no life) -- otherwise you wouldn't mention it as it doesnt' change the "complexity".
I instantly recognized that as exploratorium in SF. So, fairly successful realism.
Would the discovery of microbial extraterrestrial life have any significant impact on your life?
I asked a question you aren't capable of grasping, for whatever reason. There's clearly no value for either of us in continuing this thread.
and ignores companies like Facebook opening datacenters out of state

Explain this to me. It seems obvious that companies would open datacenters outside of just California. What would be more obvious to me would be placing them close to 1) backbone hubs and 2) cheap electrical power.
"Same goes for every lasting business model: your cut <= your value generated."

Not if you sell weight loss pills, or run a demand media style content farm, or do cash for gold, or ...

Sadly the amount of money you make is rarely a function of the value you create. How much money has linus torvalds made vs the value he's created compared to someone like jason CalAcanis?
I can't be sure, but in the Clojure case it appears to be done for performance reasons. The final definition of invoke uses varargs for everything after 20, so it's not an issue of compatibility.
"Lisp compiler in (arbitrary language) in (arbitrary number lines."

Why not just metaprogram this?
Since Java 1.5, yes. Perhaps it's an issue of backwards compatibility.
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Well, wait --

ignores companies like Facebook opening datacenters out of state

The bulk of Facebook's employees don't work in datacenters, and (as another poster noted), big companies do this for redundancy and to reduce latency -- not because of some ill will against the state.

a growing number of people leaving the state (I'm one of them)

Sounds anecdotal to me, and I've noticed nothing but a surge of out-of-state license plates in the past few months -- but given a population of some 40 million, I don't think a "growing number" of people leaving is a huge problem. It's the economy, not strictly the population number.

California doesn't appear to be serious about [owing money].

No more or less than any other state.
So, you're saying that the fact they rephrased the headline means that they aren't fit?

Or is it that they might be more reasonable than defenders of the headline engaging in silly chest-pounding about "sensitive" people?
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Only AT&T provided non-dialup access where I live, until (apparently) very recently when RoadRunner finally ran wires.

Swapping's not easy. I do work and research online - dialup isn't an option. I'm a student - pricier cell-based solutions aren't an option. I do a bit of gaming - ping time matters.
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It's clojure.

As for preference, given that map, filter, etc., are lazy, I like the clear visibility of each step working on each element of the sequence.

Clojure has a list comprehension, for, though using it here is more trouble than it's worth since you have to group and sort, both of which require you to step outside the comprehension and work on the whole list; that's why your code has multiple sections.

Instead, I see the example as just a selection/transformation process on sequences of data. Each step in the clojure code takes and returns a sequence of values (the ->> macro weaves them together):

0. a sequence of lines from a file
1. a sequence of age strings
2. a sequence of [age, [ages...]] tuples
3. a sequence of [age, count] tuples
4. a sequence of [age, count] tuples sorted by count desc
5. a sequence of age strings
6. a sequence of up to 3 age strings

Fun detail: The with-open macro is akin to python's with statement, supports arbitrary number of items, is closed in reverse order of their appearance, and didn't require a change to the language to implement ;)
Perhaps they've sussed out something about what we should expect to see in extraterrestrial life at the molecular (e.g. DNA) level. The biggest clue is the list of participants. One of them specializes in research on non-standard biology. I'm guessing the announcement will be something along the lines of, "It's life, Jim, but not as we know it", and it's right here on Earth!
Terriffic. This client looks like it is going to be great. Right now it seems just a bit sluggish or rough in a few spots--I wonder if the recent announcement of GitBox made them rush their beta out the door? It seems plenty ready for beta, though--very attractive but highly functional UI, and after putting it through my workflow this morning, I can already say that for me, GitX is a thing of the past.

Let the battle of the real Mac git clients begin! GitBox, Tower... does anybody else want to announce one?
Personally, I don't care as long as you don't expect me to be there with you on Saturday. In that case, we have a problem.
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Ideal solution would be for Netflix to offer a discount to users on ISPs that don't do this. Importantly, send an email with "this is what you would pay on the different ISPs serving your area".
"Wikileaks Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets"

"Like informational IEDs, these damaging revelations can be detonated at will."

"What do large companies think of the threat? If they’re terrified, they’re not saying. None would talk to us. Nor would the U.S. Chamber of Commerce."

Pure junk journalism. Strange, I'm used to see very good pieces on Forbes. Perhaps its blogs are a bit more permissive.
Good points, though the best-testing design was the one that didn't phrase signing up as a commitment, but as an opportunity to "Learn More", hence my surprise.
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Pretty damn good framing if that's what it is. However, if they really are charging L3 just to deliver competitor's video content online that's pretty much pisses everyone off. I write this using Google's DNS because last night comcast's default DNS was broken. What a terrible company that only stays in business because of near monopoly powers :/
That surprised me too. Bush (who I'm typically not a huge fan of) was articulate, funny, and honest. I quite liked the interview.
And a smart PHD student, which are pretty cheap I hear ;)
"It leaves out $138B of unfunded liabilities for state employees until the end, and ignores companies like Facebook opening datacenters out of state, a growing number of people leaving the state (I'm one of them), and its awful credit rating."

From the article:

"But how big are these costs in California? The non-partisan Legislative Analysts’ Office in Sacramento estimates there’s a $136 billion gap in the state pension and benefits system. It may work out to more or less. But that’s the actuarial figure at the moment."
I don't work for an oil company or an investment bank, two of which are targets of his next round. Change the title!

I do, but honestly, we aren't doing anything particularly evil. The subprime meltdown was not caused by one person's evil dealings, it was caused by many parties each doing something not-particularly-evil individually. It's like littering -- if you do it, it doesn't matter, but if everyone does it, then there's a major problem. Liar loans and CDOs were like littering, not really a problem when one person or bank "does" them. But when the whole industry does little things like this and people bet a lot of money under the assumption that this isn't happening (because the credit rating agencies mislead them), then things unravel. But it's just a colossal fuckup, not some super secret backroom deal designed to fuck over retirement funds. (The big issue was that the credit rating agencies were lazy, and told institutional investors that CDOs were a good credit risk. They obviously were not, and people lost a lot of money either buying the CDOs, or selling insurance on the CDOs.)

The bailout was similarly non-evil. The banks said, "we're fucked unless you give us a lot of money, and if we are fucked, so is everyone else", and the government said, "you're right, take the taxpayers' money". The banks did, they continued to operate, and eventually paid it back.

Hardly the crime of the century.
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I put up a landing page, which probably hasn't generated any buzz, but has allowed me to capture a very healthy amount of emails.

I don't necessarily share your 'perfect or nothing' mindset for launch, but there are a lot of features that we're looking to throw out for launch, and can safely push back to a later date.

Most of what I'm calling 'crap' is just incomplete though, and some of these things can be pulled together quickly... others, not so much.

Good luck on yours as well. I look forward to seeing it.
Yeah, they have some aerial data. For example: zoom in on downtown San Jose in satellite view. The perspective view is aerial photography, and is copyrighted by Google.

Although, now that I've done more digging, it looks like they're using satellite imagery for at least some of this, along with LIDAR and infrared techniques: http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...
Ha, I'm a bit less surprised than you :)

Microsoft's crappy products are widely used in the corporate world, and are a massive PITA to migrate away from. For such a huge system like the military's, I'm sure a microsoft salesperson convinced some less-than-well-informed military purchaser to store their data in an arbitrary secret microsoft format many years ago, and things were just never changed.
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I completely agree. I just started using Optimizely today, and the ability to make a small change instantly across all pages on your site is extremely valuable.
Fiscal facts aren't all that matters. Investors' perceptions can also have an impact--if California is perceived to be in trouble, investors demand higher premiums on bonds, and the costs for California to borrow money increase. This can lead to a detrimental cycle of destruction, akin to what happened to Lehman Brothers.
I launched my personal/blog site. I also have a small app I'm hoping to get released by (tomorrow), but is not quite done yet.

http://www.wulfpak.net
Whistleblowers can publish this material themselves. However, once you publish the material, you also need to make sure that mainstream news sources pick up on it and report it, otherwise you are just some guy with a blogpost somewhere.

Wikileaks is now a "brand name", if you will, and leaking through them makes sure that, unless you yourself decide to confess like Manning supposedly did, you both remain secure and yet are noticed.
It's a present-tense announcement about 2014. Not, "In 2014, Facebook will..." or "In 2014, Facebook plans to..."

For another, four years! What's the last time Facebook or anyone in that space has made any kind of announcement that far in advance? How often does anything that far out show up in HN except for hand-waved claims that some experiment could result in a product in 5 or 10 or however many years the writer is pulling out of his ass? :)
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> In wartime, the number of young, fresh-out-of-school analysts granted security clearances skyrockets as demand for intelligence increases exponentially.

The rest of the article is trivial details, but this is a huge, gapping, recurring problem. As a former SIPRNet user, this always struck me as the most bizarre situation: why are we giving higher-level access to 18 year-olds than, often, mid-grade officers? Sure, we got whatever tactical intel we needed, but where's the sanity check on the other side of the transaction?

My personal thought is that the crypto ratings should start at E-5 (mid-grade enlisted), and only be open to folks cross-rating from another specialty (welder, mess cook, infantry, whatever) who have proven a certain degree of loyalty over time. Any psychiatric types care to weigh in?
I enjoyed playing anagramscramble for a bit, and I think it's great timing as I'm prepping for the GRE in a couple weeks - playing your game might help my verbal score. A couple comments:

1. You mentioned this, but it would be great if focus stayed on the input box. That would make it easy to play with just the keyboard, without having to tab.

2. Sometimes there are more than one legitimate solution (for example: scalp, clasp) - you could try checking if the submitted word is real or not instead of matching it to the word you originally scrambled.

Thanks for an amusing 10 minutes or so.
There's probably still time :-)

SeamlessWeb are doing a pretty poor job in the US, someone could probably build a decent competitor for the US market and then sell out to Just-Eat fairly easily.
Can anybody explain why this works in German?

It seems like in other languages it just reads out the letters.
seems like a custom-themed Ning network..
absolutely brilliant!!