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It's a bit hasty to read that into his comment and break out the copypasta keyed under "credit unions"

There's plenty of small local banks that are non-evil, at least until they get swallowed up by progressively more dastardly banks in a long chain of semi-annual M&A transactions.
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Without system failures and alien possessions, life on the Enterprise would be pretty damn mundane.

I've always thought they should use more drones to do things. I mean, why do they have to drag that huge monstrosity of a ship all over the nebula to chart it?

And those shuttles. How dangerous are those? You just know when they hop on one of those things, a crash is imminent.

And for god's sake, if Scotty can keep himself alive in a transporter buffer for 80 years, why can't they keep backups of the aweigh team!

Sorry, just never got over the loss of Tasha Yar. :-(
Suspension of disbelief is an active choice- an agreement even, not a state of mind created and maintained by the movie producer. With the exception of glaring violations (like the time I watched some character penetrate a firewall (a wall of fire) by cutting through it with a sword), any geek who elects not to ignore the strange idiosyncrasies is simply missing out by his own volition.

There's plenty of movies full of huge technical flaws I could point out an enumerate in an instant during only the first run through. They jump out at me, I see they are there, but I ignore them. This is what Suspension of Disbelief is. The only time it breaks, at least for me, is when the flaw is so bad as to be comical, and so comical as to make me loose my composure.
I am curious who wants to attack Wikileaks and for what purpose. I think it's unlikely this is the USG because of the sheer pointlessness of it, plus the fallout that would occur if it were discovered. The likeliest major player I can think of is China, but I'm not sure I have a reason for that belief other than that they are the bogeyman du jour. An alternate possibility is that this is just some cracker flexing his muscle, or showing a potential client what he can do.
Read the sentence before that:

> This also makes it possible to store only a single copy of short strings, to improve memory efficiency, cache locality, and so on.

He's specifically talking about interning strings. He even links to the wikipedia article on string interning. I recall reading that Lua interns strings by default, and a quick google search seems to confirm my belief. However, with only one example, you're right: interning /all/ strings is unusual. Interning all "short" strings, his suggestion, is a more feasible heuristic, and then (if finding the length of a string is O(1)) comparing two short strings amounts to little more than a pointer comparison. I don't know whether there are any languages that do that.
Does "stick in there; it gets better" count as a spoiler? You're pretty much slogging through the low end of the show right now, when the network desperately wanted one-off episodes and the writers had run out of good one-off episode ideas.
Surviving DoS attacks is not a new problem; I'm sure that Amazon has quite a bit of experience in that area. But thanks for the trace, quite interesting!
people voting this up are very evil or very very very stupid, which these do you up-voters prefer to be?

I wouldn't want to be seen as stupid! I'd better agree with you!

Your comment reads like a rant: how about some links to educate us?
> the laws of the EU

We are, sadly, not quite that far along yet.
counterpoint: trademe.co.nz - started up in 1999 and pretty much owned the NZ auction space because eBay didn't have a presence there at the time. Sold for 3/4 billion NZ$ in 2006.

Being a big fish in a small pond can be profitable - these days, its Groupon clones setting up outside the US. I think this stands a higher than average chance of working - simply because the model does require direct interaction with businesses, and therefore local operators are going to have an advantage in terms of cultural/local knowledge.

If you're lucky to win your local market, you'll probably end up getting acquired by Groupon itself.
A competent hosting company - with a sufficiently fat upstream pipe - should be able to handle it. Amazon has the scale to absorb this attack.
Okay, two interned strings will be represented by the same pointer. That doesn't complicate the comparison logic that much; the common case of interned-interned comparisons can be checked for first, and the branch predictor will get rid of most of the overhead of having an extra check in there.

This is similar to a trick for representing bignums on a 32-bit system. You can use the lowest bit of a 32-bit value as a tag: if it's zero, then the number is a 31-bit integer; if it's 1, then the number (with the low bit cleared) is a pointer to a heap-allocated bignum. The common case is that you're doing operations with numbers that fit in 31 bits, so the code for handling bignums is avoided by the branch predictor. (This works even better on a 64-bit system, where the common case is even more common.)

As for cache effects, I think the main issues there, for ropes, are tree depth and chunk size. You want the tree to be shallow (so as to minimize the number of potential cache misses before you reach the chunk you're looking for) and you want the chunks to be large enough that they get good cache locality, but small enough that you get fast insertion/deletion/concatenation/etc.
Ok, so let's make it per capita :)
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I mean, one could claim that "ghoti" is pronounced the same as "fish."

Yeah, if you ignore all the heuristics about where letters are placed in a word. "gh" is only an "f" sound at the end of a word and "ti" is only a "sh" sound in the middle of a word.
Is there a way to "game the system" for getting a liver transplant?
do your own homework. i'm not the one voting up the world bank. the voter uppers have the burden of responsibility for advocation. not all ideas are equal.

this site does not allow me to vote down, this means an unequal burden in defense of a down vote versus an up vote, despite an up-vote being an positive advocation. (this is not a brainstorming session, this is life)

and please note that i'm being called upon to carefully document a response to propaganda on top of defending an idea against anonymous up-votes. hmmm. can you smell the bullshit? can you taste it? all i smell and taste are kangaroo court judges in a carefully constructed technolalaland.

and since the dumbsters really won't get it: if your head is appointed by the president of the united states, not to mention if only americans can be head, then this marketing effort is dictionary definition of propaganda, that's not an opinion statement. (it's amazing how often one needs to pull out the dictionary in this joint)
Wikileaks is the part of journalism that corporate-run news rarely ventures into.
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Excuse me, but WTH? I had to go to my browser to make sure the HN app wasn't lying... but all of your complaint boils down to an unproven, nontechnical anecdotal indictment that even at best, still crumples with the clencher...

The vulnerability was in Java, making Firefox just as vulnerable, and Chrome's flash integration* is brilliant unless you think all, most or really even more than a few Flash users are actually up to date. I can't count how many Windows computers I've been on recently where both the Flash and Java were significantly out of date and were un-updatable due to a lack of admin permissions.

Is this post a joke and something is flying over my head? Since when did such unsubstantiated junk as "fewer layers of virtual machines" and the notion that Chrome wasn't fesigned with security in mind become acceptable here?

* for those that don't know, chrome bundles flash and keeps it always up to date.
There are a couple of CMS modules for Django. For Rails there are a couple of good open-source shopping carts that you can customize (quite nicely actually, if you know Rails, since all Rails projects have a standard layout). And I think such projects will migrate to being plugins (which are fairly new in Rails).

Sure, HTML editing is still required and can be painful, but it is an effective way of branding the final result. I think clickety-click interfaces where you modify the interface through various selections / drag-n-dropping are seriously flawed.

Yes, MS Office is a nice example of what a WYSIWYG interface can do, but that's just for standard documents. As soon as you want to get creative in Word, you'll feel the pain and start wishing for HTML.

Besides ... design, other than replacing a logo / playing with colors / choosing a layout from a predefined set, should be left to people that know what they are doing and there is no way around that, because IMHO the hard part is not the HTML language itself, which is included nowadays in high-school curriculum.
I've seen this in countless webservers. I'm guessing it must be part of a server package or something because the wording is always the same.
His post explicitly mentions Java. Seeing as how some 99% of users run Flash, and 100% of Chrome users are guaranteed on the latest version... I find it hard to fault chrome/flash integration.

Its all good for the user, it can be disabled, and they've just added clikc-to-enable for plugins!! (Which also greatly increases its flash stability in linux, yay!)
Short messages are usually of the form "404 - File not Found". These are non-informative for many users ("what does it mean?"), don't give any recovery options ("what can I do now?"), and aren't localised.
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How is it's handling of tabs or sessions radically different? And come on, its impossible to look at Firefox 4 (or IE9 for that matter) and not know where ALL of the major design shifts came from...
That would be my own contribution to the ridiculousness. See, I'm working on operational transformation based on this paper:

http://bouillon.math.usu.ru/articles/ctre.pdf

...and the author names every data type after something stringy. I wanted to continue the theme, but it took some serious Wikipedia digging before I could find something that was textile-related and not already taken. In retrospect, this was a bad choice, since I kept forgetting how to spell it. :-(
Good thing the article explicitly included text that disclaimed that. Repeatedly. And in the title. Good thing you're ensuring we don't get out of hand. (Especially considering this is the first and only post I've even seen that mentions the numbers or percentages.)
Never say never. Ramit Sethi, a smart writer and generally perceptive entrepreneur, highlighted textbook exchanges in May 2006 as his top "stupid frat-boy business idea". He wrote: "NO BOOK EXCHANGE HAS EVER REALLY SUCCEEDED. I HATE TO CRUSH DREAMS BUT PLEASE FORGET ABOUT THIS."

http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/8-stupid-frat-boy-...

But now there is Chegg.

And Chegg is not just Sethi's despised textbook exchange idea -- it started as a Craigslist competitor for campuses! And when it pivoted to its current model in 2007, it first used the name textbookflix.com! And it competes against others on price! So it fits multiple categories from these Ramit Sethi and Elad Gil 'never work' lists.

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

Estimates are that it'll have more than $100 million in revenue this year and is growing to a dominant position in a large market.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/05/teardown-chegg/

Chegg's final success isn't assured -- especially given the rise of e-textbooks -- but it's passed the point of "tempting but foolish nerd/frat-boy startup idea".
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The C# compiler in .NET also has incompatibilities with the ECMA standard. Need I mention C++, the most widely used and at the same time poorly implemented language ISO standard ever?

In fact, can you mention a single language with a standard that doesn't brake compatibility with its standard?

And yet the point is moot, because compatibility between implementations is manageable for popular languages like Javascript, C++ and yes, Ruby (JRuby, Rubinius). That's not the case for Smaltalk.
I wish I were on my desktop, but maybe someone else can give you a link to it.... but the Mozilla team put together a presentation why it makes sense in every aspect of the experience for the tabs to be on top, least of which is because it preserves context. You change the tab on the top, it changes the url bar below it, and the content below it.

Edit, went and found it on my mobile (http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2010/06/24/why-tabs-are-on-t...)

Or are you one of those people that like the way Americans record their dates? (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0B3Gz7CcrZc/TG3Fex66wvI/AAAAAAAAMS...)
You could fold quite a large collapsing antenna into that sort of space, and reconfigurable orbits would make very high resolution SAR scans available virtually on demand. I can see that being extremely useful.
Chrome is fast, that's what appeals to me. Opening the browser is a dream.

Firefox is comparatively slow to load and feels sluggish on most machines I've used (Linux/MacOSX)
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What? Chrome uses the built in OS level proxies... so blame your OS. Additionally, Firefox out of box leaks DNS queries. Ever tired to use tor/.onion in a default firefox setup? Doesn't work because by default, firefox doesn't subject its DNS queries to the proxy...
I am in favor of you starting your own company. But prior, there are certain points you need to consider, try get a co-founder who is at least as motivated as you or more is better. Get ready for long hours with very less or no money for initial days , month , years, Be receptive to failures and flexible to learn new things everyday. Most importantly have endless passion and belief towards you goal. At the max you will fail but at the end of day you will learn a lot , will make good contacts, will develop never give up attitude and satisfaction that you at least tried. If nothing works, you will definitely in a good position to get into these technology houses again.
But Remember once entrepreneur is always an entrepreneur. :)

It's Ok even if you start at these places but you need to be focused towards your passion and keep working continuously side by side on it and manage your time well.
Most importantly, don't show your entrepreneurial personality/liking in interviews else although you are technically skilled and crack certain rounds , its highly likely they will not hire you considering your commitment and dedication towards your work.
Resin (and possibly others):

http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#LjVQoypFBrg/modules...

And this has been around since forever. I feel old.
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I was surprised to see that "acre-feet" were, apparently, not intended as a parody of the Imperial system.
His post explicitly mentions Java.

Not at the time of my comment it didn't ;)

Seeing as how some 99% of users run Flash, and 100% of Chrome users are guaranteed on the latest version... I find it hard to fault chrome/flash integration

Go back over the last 12 months - are you honestly trying to tell me that there were no ad networks serving ads containing Flash exploits? And that's only one area they appear.

Edit: I'm not ignoring Chrome's Flash integration, but you have to remember that was only released at the end of June: http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/25/google-chrome-flash/
What about speed? On my machines, startup time and rendering time are both noticeably shorter in Chrome. That was my primary reason I switched.
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Fork it and rename it.

Hudson is too important to me, and lots of other developers, to be subject to the whims of Oracle executives. If ever there was a case where forking is the most obvious answer, this is it.

As for people who have built a business out of Hudson: "Hudson" is only a name and if Oracle wants the name, let them have it.

If you rename it I'll do my part in helping with the marketing of the new name by spreading the word among my peers and I suspect most other Hudson users would do the same.
Why did you change the title? Look ...

+ The URL ends in arithmetic

+ The title of the article is

> GETTING THE NUMBERS AND DOING THE ARITHMETIC

+ The last paragraph says:

> "Many questions can be settled by recourse to
> available statistics and arithmetic - arithmetic
> not higher mathematics ... "

Why did you claim it's about math? It's not, it's about arithmetic.

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>I hate watching a 5-minute video when I could skim-read a 30-second block of text instead.

But it may be that even if the majority of people feel like that the people that will watch the video will convert better than the people that will read or skim-read a block of text.
No, "acre-feet" is an actual measure of large volumes of water.

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Technically you are goverened by the law of Ireland, not the EU (per se).

However someone else pointed out they are hosted in us-west
He isn't suggesting a way to browse the web without Opera.

He's suggesting a way to overcome design problems on a site.
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it's amazing how often one needs to pull out the dictionary in this joint

Leave the dictionary: just give us some links to backup what you claim.

Look at it this way: you're complaining that people don't do X. You want them to do Y, and are annoyed that they don't. It would therefore benefit you to educate people about why X is bad and Y is good. If you don't at least try, I'm not sure you get to complain any more.

Let's avoid the name calling and rhetoric, recommend us some good reading.
Yet Firefox 4 is faster in both Sunspider and Kraken. (And V8 if you discount silly things like raytracing and process scheduling- why would anyone do those in javascript?)
He's arguing that you don't need to skip ahead on a miss. If you're test some UTF-8 string for membership in some other UTF-8 text, then go ahead and compare the individual bytes even if they don't line up as characters.

If you use a fast text search algorithm like Aho-Corasick, you'll still get reliable and accurate fast text search, and while you will perform unnecessary checks against invalid UTF-8 sequences, you won't have to create extra data structures or use any other operations and the algorithm can be implemented in a way that's pretty straightforward. The convenience of that outweighs the benefits you'd get of using a larger, elaborate data structure.
On the other hand it hurts memory consumption b/c there's a lot of repeated memory in each process (at least that's the explanation I can come up with for why chrome eats up way more memory than any other browser besides opera)
I always add autocomplete="off" to my inputs, cuts down on this type of thing.
A point that might be interesting for HN people: the source code is freely available on GitHub at https://github.com/Spacelog/Spacelog

We also made sure the missions were in a VCS-friendly text format, so people can fork and merge in changes (everything, down to all the images, ships in a single mission folder, so it's pretty reuseable for different missions)
the construction of voting on this site is intrinsically skewed toward bad ideas. sure it may seem awesome for awhile, i mean, yeah, we do have to put up with penis enlargement pills from the 4-hour work-week guy every now and then...

but seriously, does anyone expect that to last when it's so much easier to advocate using anonymous votes than it is to detract where you're called upon to carefully annotate any dissent.

is it really that great a system?

sure it works to keep out the trolls -- oh those horrible trolls, god protect our thin hides and sensitive complexions from those horrible trolls -- but at the expense of accepting a wealth of propaganda and spam in fancy dress?
no, i'm complaining that people DO X, please get it straight. They DO advocate X. They DO advocate the world bank marketing effort, which is governmental making it intrinsic propaganda.

Back up YOUR up-votes. why is the world bank a good thing to support? i mean, it's been around 50 years or so, you know, european post-war reconstruction all that. so...tell me, all the poverty...getting worse, yeah, so, how's that whole world bank working out for you, tell me?

i mean, i don't have to get into the neo-colonialism angle. as an atheist i can say to the christians in the bunch by their fruits ye shall know them.

so, you're backing up something, you think it's a good idea to read about, support, take action for. or no, it's just interesting in some faux-amoral sense. but you still think that it's valid to accept that on face value, and you're doubtful about the concept of deceptive & self-serving propaganda as something to guard carefully against.

well, tell me, what do you know about this program? what independent analysis have you seen? why are you advocating? why are you so sure the dissent has the burden of proof when the dissent is not actually taking any actions except to dissent in response?

there is a rhetorical paradox presented here. also known as hypocrisy (since we're speaking of dictionaries)

p.s. as you can see, i think the weaknesses in our frameworks for debate are a far bigger problem than advocating the world bank. we propagate bullshit for generations. our frameworks are broken. our well annotated frameworks are broken. we're deceiving ourselves with some pseudo-victorian genteel ideal.

speak your fucking mind. why are we letting taboos rule our time? micro-managers rule our time.

we are screwed if we don't break free from this hypersensitivity and inability to consider and face our problems with our attempts to improve quality of life for more than just a few technostartopoliptocrats.

what good is free speech if we fear the inconvenient as much as this?
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Interesting, I'll give you sessions hands down, but tabs? I'm really interested to know what I'm missing in FF.

I think FF4 may get me to switch back as there are a few extensions I miss, oh, and the in page search sucks compared to firefox. Nothing like pressing / to search, maybe I should install Vimium.
There is actually a bit of judicial review in the case of designating terrorist organizations, though I don't know how thorough. Here's Wikipedia on how terrorist organizations get designated, and how they can challenge it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._State_Department_list_of_F...