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i guess i used the wrong term, should have said, when will piracy hit the mac app store
Hey, Lisp isn't any more dead than usual. ;)
HN, How can I properly learn about embedded programming?
I am interested in embedded programming, enjoyed my OS classes in Uni, but really never did any embedded stuff. What is the best way to start? I was doing some reading and already have a linksys wrt54gs router, but not a gl.
Yeah, call_user_func('strlen', 'hello world') works but call_user_func('array', 'hello world') does not. But for ugly syntax, it's hard to beat the $ sigil being required everywhere for no reason at all (unlike Perl where it actually did something).
you could just A/B test the difference between using $9.00, $9 and 9, for example.

You could also play around with sales tax where one menu has values of say $7.99 (tax not included) and another has $9 (tax included)
Your "social proof" has a name, its called anecdotes. While occasionally reasonable in the small scale, it is absurd to believe local observations have any merit in the grand scale.

"Most scientific views boil down to 'belief'" this almost sounds like your saying that nothing can truly be knowable. This is the path of nilism, not reason.

Science has a rigorous process, peer review being part of it. One does not have to be an expert in the field to read numerous studies, evaluate their methodology, reason as to whether the conclusion actually matches the data+experiments, and see if the results across the studies were consistent. This isn't an act of faith.
the saying goes "in a negotiation, the first one to say a value, lose."

but having endured 2 LONG interview process just to learn that the openings were way bellow my interest, despite the absurd requirements, i must say that if one post mentions a value that is near what i'd like, I will probably apply just to that one. i would probably start to consider every single other post as a waste of time. ...now back to reality, too bad no one will ever do that and i will have to continue guessing.

IMHO that's messed up. A fun analogy would be people hiring being OK to receive a resume with only my desired pay. and AFTER days of phone negotiations and i've agreed to a figure, they would have some 2~15minutes to hear my qualifications and call me the next day if they are going to hire me or not.
It says a lot about the man's character and is truly an inspiring story.
It may sound expensive, but the Tupperware™ FridgeSmarts are fantastic and they do actually work. The combination of keeping the food up out of any condensate and regulating the correct amount of airflow around the food actually keeps fruit & vegetables fresher, longer. Weeks and weeks out of things like carrots & celery & broccoli, etc.

Tupperware™ may seem expensive in comparison to other plastic products (especially in Australia)… but it really is good value, especially considering you get replacements for free. To quote a friend (who is a Tupperware demonstrator), it's like getting a perpetual license to use the product.

Disclaimer: I DO NOT work for Tupperware™
IIRC optimized, compiled versions of .Net assemblies can be cached by the system, allowing higher performance than JIT compilation.
Chilli man. You can mess it up, it tastes great, and you can freeze it forever.
Ask HN Getting Started in the SF Bay Area
I just moved to the SF Bay Area yesterday with the goal of grabbing a job in the tech community. I have a degree in English (research emphasis) and a minor in business, which combined leads me to looking specifically for a marketing job with a cool start-up company.

That being said, I am pretty open to any kind of job opportunity that is challenging and requires smarts, resourcefulness, and a willingness to learn. I definitely would like to grab a position that could lead me to a real field education in the tech field (very sad to have never taken any courses in programming or design). The main problem is I really have no idea what I am looking for or how to get started.

So far in preparation I have started a blog under my own domain, linked it to my twitter account, and completely restarted my boring, ordinary looking resume. I could really use some HN tech geniuses to help me figure out how to get started.

Thanks in advance for you thoughts.
I don't think so. Actually if you go back and watch the video where he said that, he very deliberately defines the "PC" category as Windows machines and Macs. Kara Swisher is a little confused, because for her "PC" means a Windows box. She gets some kind of clarification, but it's clear that Jobs wants to use the word "PC" as an umbrella term for all high-powered keyboard+mouse+12-24in screen machines.

Apple does the whole "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" thing, but where have you ever seen Jobs personally try to assert that Macs are not PCs?
right. lets run a case study. go buy yourself a 50lb bag of sugar, a years supply of multivitamins, and report back in a year with how that worked out for you.
Would you immunize yourself or your children for things like MMR now?

My sons are both legal adults, so it is no longer my decision to make for them. I don't have plans/expectations to have more kids. I would be very reluctant to get anymore vaccinations. I have done better without them. So far, I haven't really had to make any decisions regarding some "position" along those lines. I don't recall the last time I had the flu or a cold. I think the things we are doing does provide protection from infection, but you have to stay on top of it. It isn't a nice simple "do it once" solution -- but those solutions weren't working for me anyway.

I took quite a lot of supplements for a long time. I take very few these days. I think it is better to get it from food, if possible. If you do the research, you find, for example, that magnesium is best absorbed when taken with calcium and calcium is best absorbed when taken with a few other things. I think there are also micronutrients in food that have yet to be adequately cataloged and studied. So I think food is, generally speaking, a superior means to get what we need because we can't replicate the complexity of food with our supplements, though supplements definitely had their place for a long time for me while I was trying to undo decades of damage and it simply wasn't possible to get the high doses of nutrients I needed from food alone.
I agree. Frozen veggies are great. The only thing I have read is to not heat them up in the microwave (supposedly it saps out some of the nutrients). Just get a cheap steamer and toss them in there.

The best thing about frozen veggies is the various mixes you can get. I usually buy a giant bag of brocoli and then a giant bag of whatever mix I'm feeling.
Relatedly: I hate, hate, hate going to the gym. However, it is the most productive use of one hour a day I can think of. I have more energy and get more done when I go, and the benefits appear to compound in those months when I'm very consistent about going. (Can one of you guys invent a way for this to suck less? I'll pay you money. At the moment I just give myself EpicWin points for going, trying to trigger the WoW neurotransmitters...)
Meat contains a complete set of proteins required for our bodies.

Vegetables and gains do not (with the exception of quinoa)
Most plant-derrived protein sources have an incomplete profile of amino acids. Humans have eight essential amino acids (amino acids that we must get from the diet as we cannot synthesize them) that are plentiful in animal sources and lacking to various degrees in plant sources. Plant sources of protein, even when combined to provide all the essential amino acids, are too heavy in carbohydrate, irritate the gut, and steal vitamins and minerals from the body via anti-nutrients.
ARM did originally stand for Acorn RISC Machine, so it makes perfect sense that your Acorn machines had ARM processors :).
This is a tough one but I have several thoughts:

1. Fact is, in your teens and early 20s your body can digest pretty much anything. Eat a bowl of cereal in the morning (and I mean something like oatmeal or raisin bran rather than some sugary crap) and it barely matters what else you eat (other than calorific content);

2. Eating the same thing every day gets real old real fast;

3. There is an investment required in cooking in terms of equipment, etc;

4. Cooking takes time between shopping, cleaning and the actual cooking. That's time that could be better spent doing many other things.

5. Even getting something for lunch can be a huge time sink and minimally takes half an hour unless you're eating out of a hot dog stand right outside your office.

This is why I'm a huge fan of companies providing a cafeteria or some find of catered meals. Of course, this requires both being a certain size and obviously costs money but, I would argue, the cost is well worth it in terms of:

- variety of meals
- not needing to shop, cook or clean
- time saved in not going out for lunch and other transit
- time that can be spent talking over work-related stuff while eating with your colleagues
- other intangible benefits such as the team-building aspects of socializing with your colleagues

These benefits are so huge I think that it'd be worth having everyone chip in to pay for something like this and would probably be an economic form of eating.

Now I'm lucky enough to work somewhere that has almost legendary catered meals (Google), which must cost them a fortune (eg dinner was steamed mussels, beef stroganoff, garlic whipped potatoes, green beans, steamed broccoli and a pineapple and blueberry salad, and that's just what I had) but IMHO they make their money back in terms of employee satisfaction and saved time on all of the above things.

Fact is I have more variety of food than I'd ever cook myself (or probably even buy).

That of course is a cafeteria type situation. Like I said, on a smaller scale, catered meals are a cost-effective doing this on a smaller scale. Your best bet would probably be to hire a cook rather than outsourcing the entire process (eg someone in or just out of culinary school).
I understand why, but that's not my point. My point is that blogging and sysadminning are orthogonal, if not skew.
I have corrected the grammatical error. It now says, "MMR are temporary." I was fully aware of what MMR stands for, and thank you for pointing out my lack of clarity.

With a mortality rate of 3 in 1000 and an incidence of ~.2 cases per 1,000,000 per year in the US, one would predict a death from measles about every 5 years or so.

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5331a3.htm

Given claims in the media that 1 in every 150 people is effected by Autism, a reasonable person might calculate that their child is 33,333 times more likely to be autistic than to die from measles.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-02-08-autism_x.htm

Even if one believes there is only 0.1% chance that there is a causal link between MMR vaccines and autism, the probable risk of autism is still orders of magnitude higher than dying from measles.

It is only if one believes that the probability of a causal link between the MMR vaccine and autism is approximately zero that the risk of death from measles is greater than that of autism.

Once one believes that there is even a slight possibility of a link, then there can be a justified belief that the benefits of no vaccination outweigh the risks.

Even if I believe otherwise.
> MMR are [edit] usually temporary and can typically be effectively treated by the medical systems of industrialized nations, whereas autism is permanent and generally untreatable.

Sure, but forgoing the MMR vaccine to prevent autism makes as much sense as forgoing baths to prevent brain tumours.
those posts are my honest replies. I don't invoke name calling and try to backup everything with sources. I do get downvoted a lot here, I do not have multiple accounts or use my account "as a troll account." My postings are sincere and I honestly have a dissenting viewpoint in general both online and offline. My friends often remark that I like debates. If you disagree with me, let me know. My philosophy in debating is that I either abandon my argument by learning new facts about what I was wrong about, or my argument stands. I live in the Portland Oregon area and if you would like to meet me for a beer I can attest to this. Thanks
Kevin Kelly: What Technology Wants
Anecdotal only, but a friend of mine put himself in the hospital once by eating crap for months. It was the first time he was the primary numbers guy on a multi million dollar deal and basically didn't leave the office for months. His meals consisted of soda and vending machine snacks.

He ended up with some organ issues that put him in the hospital for a little while and when he got out he had to take it easy for awhile.
That's exactly the point. If you're willing to pay a dev 100k without the perks, what makes you think that a company that really wants great talent won't pay the 100k plus the perks. You make it seem like employees have to earn respect, but that's just a recipe for disgruntled employees. Employees want respect, and they should have it from the start. That being said, respect is something that can (and should) be lost when mediocrity creeps in.
MBAs Flocking to Social Entrepreneurship Courses
Do startups require anything remotely near peak mental fitness? It's oft debated here, but i'm pretty sure the consensus is talent and intelligence isn't that big of a deal. it's commitment.

To put it another way, how many startups that depend on doing original research get funded? I (perhaps foolishly) believe startups bring technology to the masses, but only after research shows it can be done.

I guess another argument would be, if you were to invest in a company, would you tie your investment to the founders to sleeping a minimum number of hours? Lack of sleep is easily as detrimental to mental fitness as poor diet.
LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice What’s the difference?
I have removed more aggregate lines of code from projects that I am on than I have added.

Am I negatively productive under your measures?
Perhaps I'm misinformed, but my understanding is that CF is generally detectable early on - most CF kids born before the 20th century didn't last much longer than a year.

Is it possible yours is just an unusually mild case?
This went around the net like wildfire. The original video was posted on January 3rd: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTysXITBCmk
Thanks. I have been blocking all the sites at work in the hosts file. I like the idea of writing down the distractions. Last time I tried the drugs, the consistent insomnia just made me a zombie. It was great for the first two days, but after that I just crashed. Also, I am not sure what the long term effects are. Still, I am going to give it another shot.
Yes, but it is wrong to compare the current measles infection rate with MMR vaccines to the autism rate. If you remove Measles vaccination, the figures will return to much, much higher rates of infection in a short space of time. To use your prior analogy, it would be using crash statistics from an SUV-free highway to argue for or against the introduction of SUVs. You can't use the current measles infection rate to make valid arguments to removing vaccines. The correct comparison is the pre-vaccination measles infection and death rates, which are probably 20 times higher.

Besides, a 'claim in the media' of 1 in 150 isn't a strong enough number for this debate.
You are not understanding him. He is not saying "If you don't use Twitter, I cannot determine how we will interact." He is saying, "I would like to determine how we will interact. If you use Twitter, that could be one data point I could use to inform me."
Then use the range.

Though the microwave is a misunderstood device. It's fantastic at defrosting frozen items, but it should usually be an intermediate step used to ensure that thawed items are at room temperature when they go into the pan.

It's also fantastic at a variety of simple one-step things. Melting butter, baking potatoes, melting cheese, and other things like that. Used properly, it speeds up and even improves cooking. But if it's treated as a range/oven replacement, yes, it causes problems.
I don't know of many grandma's with savings accounts that are going to be able to put down the $2 mil for the GS FB Investment Vehicle. With a $2 million buy-in, it's hardly 'public' money, these guys are going to be solidly in the accredited investor space. Public disclosure laws are designed to protect unaccredited investors being fleeced by guys like GS.

Accredited investors are what GS is going after with this vehicle, not your grandma's savings account. (GS got that when they convinced the Fed to print money like it was going out of style)

Personally I find the current state of regulations for public companies to be overly onerous, and I think that the whole unaccredited investor 'protection' is a bit of a sham considering what the SEC allows to pass for a 'public' market where winners and losers are chosen by gov't officials with the interests of investment banks and campaign contributors at heart. (The unions made out pretty good when they convinced gov't of a bailout of GM & Chrysler)

You can say what you want about GS but seriously, the Fed did bail GS out with the whole AIG fiasco.

If you knew that the Fed would bail you out every time you made a bad investment why wouldn't you act like GS does?

If you were regulated by a gov't agency, wouldn't you want to put your guys in those board seats?

GS is not evil, they're just highly adapted to the current regulatory environment. What GS does is what any rational economic agent would do in the current regulatory environment. It's the politicians and voters who need to be called out for setting up such an easily gamed system.
> They have spent a lot more time thinking about the risks and consequences than most of the other people, for whom there is no direct and immediate concern.

This can be detrimental to rational examination of the facts.
@sp4rki

I'm simply saying that if you agree to the job and the salary, then you chose it for a reason, and at that point I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a developer to work hard. Notice, I'm not saying 80 hour weeks, but come on...I have to make an offer, which you accept, and then go out of my way to suck up and wine/dine you further in order to get good work in return?
Galileo was put under house arrest for the rest of his life for introducing a new concept. It took many years for Einstein's theory to get sufficient proof as to be accepted. Einstein himself said something like "You cannot solve a problem from the same level of consciousness that created it". I think it is reasonable to assume that our current medical assumptions are part of the problem when it comes to autism, which has reached "epidemic proportions" according to some articles.

I am not suggesting a path of nihilism. I am only suggesting that I recognize that the reasons I do things and the thinking I use to make such decisions doesn't look very "logical" to quite a lot of people. This is highly likely to be true for people arguing from the "scientific" position. Yet, we are all human, even scientists, and thus even they have their biases, shortcomings, etc. I made the choice I made not due to anecdotal evidence but due to a track record of success: These people were helping me get concrete results in terms of a health problem for which "science" would like to write me off and consign me to a slow, torturous death as my only due in life. These same people had strong negative views of vaccines. I went with the folks who were getting me positive results. My other choice is to go along with conventional treatments for my condition. Everyone who does that gets gradually sicker and sicker until they die, usually at a young age. Science claims it is not killing them, it is their genes that is killing them.

To me, that position lacks logic -- but the overwhelming belief is that it is true, so that makes me a lone nutcase. And it is usually a hopelessly lost cause to attempt to point this out when everyone "just knows" they are right, science and doctors are on their side, and I am "objectively" wrong, nevermind the results I am getting. Those results can be easily dismissed as "anecdotal". I didn't get well to impress anyone or make any kind of point. I only did this to get my life back (and give my kids a life of their own). So it is mostly not worth arguing about. Those folks who do not believe me cannot be convinced. The fact that it is a done deal weighs nothing in their minds.

Peace.
I think what most of the pro-erlang articles are actually extolling is the VM and not the language itself. The last 3 sections of the article are purely about VM features.

BEAM is an incredible piece of work, you can keep the syntax/string handling.
Compuserve? I like to think of them as AOL.
Well as a college student who went on a 2 month coco pebble binge (and only ate that because of sheer laziness), I didn't feel significant effects on brain power. But it does trash your body and leaves you feeling lethargic and lose motivation to actually do anything productive. I think the latter effects are just as dangerous as reduced "brain effectiveness". (this is just my experience, certainly not any scientifically proven study)
Facebook Wants to Supply Your Internet Driver's License
So what's value?

Respect in communication and expectations or letting you run the show?
I boil them hard for a few minutes, skim the top foamy shit off, then simmer them really soft after that, and I don't get gassy.
The Salad Oil Scandal
and every consumer should multiply those speeds by 0.707
Works fine. Landscape cuts the picture, but, menu brings up the links, all of the bookmarks work and open the browser.

(g1 and g2)

In landscape on the G1, it appears that your face is clipped at the top of your mustache to the desk. The text is centered in landscape or portrait just fine. On the G2, it is clipped just above your upper lip to just above the desk.

So, if you wanted your face to be more prominent in landscape, you might want to pin it to the top of the viewport rather than centering the image under the current viewport.
your server going down is hurting your startup
I tend to doubt you'd be able to negotiate very far with the gate agent. Negotiation is rare in consumer-business transactions in the US, and in the few cases where it is normal practice, consumers absolutely loathe it (generally because there's no real "negotiation" going on anyway, I guess). Americans don't like to barter, they just like things automatically as favorable as possible, and I'd be surprised if your gate agents have any authority to do anything other than follow a three-step simple elevation process like: "Will you take $50? $100? $200?" If high number is rejected, the agent is probably obliged to move on.

This is not really negotiation, but a scripted process of elevation that some know how to exploit for maximum benefit and some don't.
Thnx for the original link, people are saying he is like the susan boyle of radio but i think there what Ted has achieved is much greater than anything Susan did.
Seriously, I recommend Riak to anyone who wants to experiment with NoSQL. I am using Riak w/ some MySQL and Riak is just SUCH a pleasure to use.
From the CES demo it appears that they've already done the port. I was really impressed they had IE9 with GPU acceleration on ARM working already too.
My advice: don't say what you can do, show what you can do. Start a project you can get excited about and demonstrates your ability to market a product or service. Document the entire process on your blog, and create awareness to your blog with Twitter.

Good luck!