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Services revenue is mostly consultants salaries too.
What I mean, that software and advertisement margins are generally higher, than for hardware and services.
Putting servers inside a refrigerator?
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There are lots of techniques. Really simple and effective methods are naive bayes and kNN. Other methods include decision trees and logistic regression which seems to be popular at Google from what I can indirectly infer from their papers. More complex methods include bayesian and non bayesian graphical models, kernel methods (SVM, RVM) and not too hard but powerful methods are boosted trees, random forests and ensemble methods in general.

Layers of unsupervised learners (clustering) feeding into a supervised learner form a very powerful technique known as deep learning. This technique hasn't found a niche though and can be outperformed by shallower methods for much of where they are used [1]. And due to all this big data mumbo jumbo on-line learning methods are getting to be more important.

[1] http://ai.stanford.edu/~ang/papers/nipsdlufl10-AnalysisSingl...
I would like to see more local (at the town level) shared networks. Something like cheap wi-fi base stations [...]

Here in Germany, we have an initiative that is devoted to exactly that problem. It is called "Freifunk" and has been deployed successfully to other countries.

http://wiki.freifunk.net/Kategorie:English

The Freifunk hackers did some amazing work to provide the needed firmware for many of the cheap standard wi-fi routers, as well as other hardware.

They are also doing good scientific work regarding mesh networks. Since they are working with real-world networks, their work usually surpasses the quality of university research. That's why nowadays many German universities are working together with Freifunk. For instance, they use Freifunk routers for their field tests.

If you want to build something like that in your town, you should definitely have a look at what those guys are doing, and I'm sure they'll be happy to assist you.
One factor not mentioned in the article is that a large portion of the Japanese internet population has been accessing the web through their cell phones for years. The web as viewed on those phones is unlike those seen on computers or on modern smartphones. For example, NTT DoCoMo, one of the major Japanese cell service providers, launched its i-mode web service in 1999. Competing providers KDDI & J-Phone soon launched EZweb & J-Sky, respectively. By 2006, these services had already amassed 80 million subscribers.[0]

I highly doubt Facebook supports any of these services, which can make it very difficult to break into the Japanese market even if they get all the cultural kinks ironed out and pay some celebrities to endorse them.

0: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/I-mode
Raising children that while presumably spend their young adult and possibly adult lives in America while restricting their ability to socialize with their peers stunts their emotional and social growth. No child should have to grow up despising the majority of his peers because they spend their time "goofing off" instead of being "serious" about their studies. In some societies and communities it might be acceptable, but out of the context of a society that supports and encourages that sort of development at large, it verges on downright dangerous.

I've seen numerous people mention suicide rates in discussions about this topic now, and that particular danger rings true with me...
Your comment makes me incredibly sad because not using HTML will have many hidden disadvantages to your end-users, and ruining many user agents' functionalities, not the least of which would be machine translation and accessibility/addictive devices.
I actually choose to give less structure to the idea submission thinking that there could be many kind of ideas so a less structured submission could be better. But actually I'm not that sure about it. Maybe there are some questions that should apply to all kind of ideas, so I could separate those and let a general field for the ideas that don't apply.
When you say that people may not take the time to review ideas you mean that I made it hard with all those fields to fill or that in general is a lot of work to read an idea think about it and suggest improvements.
The disclosure problem is probably my biggest question at the moment. So I need to test what would convince more people, but at the moment my biggest problem is how to get people to visit the page since with no user I can't really test my assumptions.

Thank you for your comment, it is really useful.
Cringely thinks 'bufferbloat' will become a major issue in 2011: http://www.cringely.com/2011/01/2011-prediction-4-bufferbloa...
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The original article said: Is there too much inequality in the world? Sure. And cperciva reiterated that opinion above.

That's what drunkpotato is disagreeing with. It is clearly an opinion that isn't purely a matter of facts and figures. (One with which, as I happen, I agree.)
What I am interested in is, are there any ZFS patents that Oracle could use to sue Apple once they eventually broadly ship ZFS?
> "Automated trading systems will follow their coded logic regardless of outcome,"

Of course, so will humans. They won't make the absurd trades referred to, but a system of trading humans can still, say, get stuck in a positive feedback loop. Of course, they aren't pure trading algorithm, so they may notice the problem, but actually putting a stop to it requires coordination and is hard. Mostly the loop just occurs more slowly.
That's patently untrue: APKs can be distributed manually.

Besides that, Google went out of their way to not modify apps on the Market at all. That even includes not zip-aligning them automatically, and that includes not doing ANYTHING to "protect" free apps and it's why there's no encryption model for apps being downloaded through the Market.
Hopefully Goldman Sachs will be able to arrange for a treaty to be signed with Japan requiring their citizens to sign up for Facebook or be fined.
Not at all. That would be part of the other 50% ... going with that number.

In fact your remark is quite confused. 50% is the variation in a 'typical' population. If everyone had access to public schools genetics would be more important. Since that would eliminate one of the major factors which accounts for the other 50% (again, going with that number).
Anybody know how it saves games? It'd be really cool if it used HTML5 offline storage.
I would say the "intentionally lagging your client" thing is only the most minor of problems considering some people use aimbots and wallhacks.
The issue in the UK was never about having an id card or an identity system. They have systems like that in France and they're fine.

The major issues were:

* taking biometric information from the entire population including fingerprints.

* linking that information to an online identity

* joining up all government databases on said identities (health, law enforcement etc) enabling departments to cross reference information

* plans to use this identity as your only gateway to be able to receive a job, receive benefits etc

* plans to allow certain individuals at any moment to "quarantine" identities (preventing work, benefits etc)

The entire system looked so open to abuse it was scary. I'm v.glad we're rid of it.
I would love a book like that, if there was sufficient analysis of the failures, and the interview subjects were as interesting as the crowd in "Founders at Work".
When I access Facebook from Japan it's at least trying to promote such a service to me: http://i.imgur.com/zpaAz.png
I have no inside knowledge of Intel. But I've always thought it interesting that they use "tick" for their process upgrades and "tock" for new architectures. That appears to corroborate your point, that processes are perceived as more important.
Apple won't be broadly shipping ZFS, which they made pretty clear when they pulled it from Snow Leopard.

They haven't made an official statement, but the general consensus is that they couldn't agree on licensing terms with Sun (ZFS is licensed under the CDDL) and so they bailed on it. Oh how I wish they had worked things out.

That said, Oracle is also unlikely to do them any favors.
Look back over the last ninety years - "Buy and Hold" hasn't been that great a strategy either.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/02/business/20110...
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Sure, so there are a lot of projects like this that does the same for Redis:
ServiceStack has http://www.servicestack.net/RedisAdminUI/Public/Metadata
Redis adapters for Nginx: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRedis and https://github.com/agentzh/redis2-nginx-module
Finally there is webdis https://github.com/nicolasff/webdis which is standalone and includes its own web server
Recursion, compile-time code generation, templates, dispatching.

Pick whatever you like most.
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In 2010, every single book I read, I read on my Kindle. Buying a Kindle has been the best thing I have ever done for my reading addiction. I recently upgraded to a Kindle 3, and I wholeheartedly recommended you get one as well, even if you currently have a Kindle 2.

Here are the top books I enjoyed in 2010, and you will enjoy also.

- The His Dark Materials Trilogy. Start with The Golden Compass.

- The City & The City by China Miéville. Quite the post-modern detective story. (Read also his novel Perdido Street Station)

- Surface Detail, the new novel by Iain M. Banks, who has quickly catapulted to the very top of my “Favorite Sci-Fi Authors” list. Surface Detail may not be the best novel for a Banks-unfamiliar reader, however — you may wish to start with something like Consider Phlebas or Look To Windward.

- I re-read Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Read this book carefully and it will change your life. (N.B. It’s not really about Zen, although it kinda is.)

- The true story Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers, about Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a Syrian-born painting contractor in New Orleans. What Zeitoun does for the people of New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina is heartwarming and truly American, and what the US Government does to him and his family is terrifying and utterly infuriating.

- The Wind-up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi is a fun Thai cyber/gene-punk yarn. Bacigalupi is a new author, and I look forward to reading more of his stuff.

- Dan Simmons’ Song Of Kali has an invasive and palpable stench of suspense. This horror novel set in Calcutta is an excruciating, brutal, and brilliant read.

- Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami. I’ve always been a fan of Murakami’s works, but this novel from 2002 is, in my opinion, one of his greatest. It’s beautiful, haunting, and superbly thought-provoking.
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I am not sure I agree with your take on neural networks. Neural network is a vague terminology. But most people mean multilayer perceptrons which I agree are not very useful. But logistic regression is a very widely used 'single layer neural network'. Even the original single layer perceptron has its place in this big data world (with appropriate modifications: e.g. adapting ensemble and on-line techniques , using the kernel trick etc.).

Then there are auto-encoders, Restricted Boltzmann machines and Deep Belief Nets that are certainly getting a lot of attention and are a type of neural network.
I recently got Time Machine working on a network drive that was ZFS underneath (deduplication turned on) and it didn't make a very big difference.

Deduplication would be nice, but I think it won't show a lot of benefit under many common workloads. Also, it can use up a ton of memory for larger drives (it would be a huge boon for SSDs, though).
The best part of the book is that each chapter is o Ly like 4 pages. So it doesn't spend 40 pages on one simple concept if it can be explained in 2 pages.

The bad side is that it only has a minimum number of examples. More examples would have been nice.
..or spacecraft guidance and control software.
Yeah, that looks like it. Note the "There is a long way to go but most basic functionality is there." Sounds like they only recently started working on it, and given the difficulty of unseating entrenched social networking sites, I'd say Facebook's got their work cut out for them. They'd have to provide something that's clearly not available from the existing sites.

The best way to do this would probably be to convince the Japanese of the value in being a member of a social networking site connected to your real life, since competing with existing services on their own turf is going to be very difficult. However, I don't know if the Japanese would be interested in such a service.
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I'm guessing your comment was downvoted because people didn't appreciate the verbal irony (where both common meanings of appreciate apply). Or, if you were actually serious, then never mind.
Saying so doesn't make it true, as-is that's a pretty baseless statement - lets see a 'better' example couch app that does the same thing - as we can see it has only taken 1 page of code to do this in redis. Next?
AFAIk the main argument against use of ZFS is that it would be relatively resource hungry, making it a bad candidate for use in e.g. A MacBook Air. I have Googled, but couldn't find recent data about this. Does anybody know about any? If performance isn't good enough on some target hardware, could one do better, or would it require dropping features? Which ones?
from the Quora thread [1]

(Christine Lu says) "UPDATE: I emailed author Amy Chua this evening (1/9). Expressed my disappointment about the WSJ piece and pointed to this Quora thread. To my surprise I received a prompt reply from her that said:

Dear Christine: Thank you for taking the time to write me, and I'm so sorry about your sister. I did not choose the title of the WSJ excerpt, and I don't believe that there is only one good way of raising children. The actual book is more nuanced, and much of it is about my decision to retreat from the "strict Chinese immigrant" model.

Best of luck to you,
Amy Chua"

So it looks like someone at WSJ added a link bait title. And it worked.

That said, this "parenting style" does seem to border on cruelty. Yishsan Wong (Director of Engineering at FaceBook)'s post (on the same Quora thread) on his experience in being the subject of such a parental style is a must read. This bit seemed particularly relevant to HN

"What I see among other Chinese children who I was raised alongside or who I see now in workplaces today is that this method of Chinese parenting is great at producing skilled and compliant knowledge workers, but it utterly fails to produce children who can achieve greatness, remake industries, or come up with disruptive innovation.

All the Chinese-American people I know who now perform at the highest levels - both creatively and technically - either achieved this without being driven to it by their parents (ask Niniane Wang about her upbringing) or in rebellion against the paths their parents set out for them (see Tony Hsieh http://www.businessinsider.com/t...).

The others - the skilled and compliant mediocre - make superb employees for the truly great, and if that is what their parents consider "successful," then that's exactly what they'll get.What I see among other Chinese children who I was raised alongside or who I see now in workplaces today is that this method of Chinese parenting is great at producing skilled and compliant knowledge workers, but it utterly fails to produce children who can achieve greatness, remake industries, or come up with disruptive innovation. All the Chinese-American people I know who now perform at the highest levels - both creatively and technically - either achieved this without being driven to it by their parents (ask Niniane Wang about her upbringing) or in rebellion against the paths their parents set out for them (see Tony Hsieh http://www.businessinsider.com/t...). The others - the skilled and compliant mediocre - make superb employees for the truly great, and if that is what their parents consider "successful," then that's exactly what they'll get."

fwiw (I don't have any children and nor do I intend to have any so this is all empty theorizing) I believe that the best way for parents to teach a particular set of virtues or skills (discipline, piano playing, whatever) is to embody those virtues and skills in their lives and leave it to the kids as to whether they should be emulated.

[1] http://www.quora.com/Parenting/Is-Amy-Chua-right-when-she-ex...
I think that the point behind this article is to start really, really small. If you decide to go big later, you have a profitable operation from which to scale. But trying to start big from the outset might be too overwhelming for most people in terms of domain knowledge, financial resources, etc. Small businesses (that have an inherently scalable business model) are a logical stepping stone towards becoming a big company.
What system in existence is completely resilient to fraud and false positives, and what evidence shows that the US government can produce such a system?
Real life core wars. Quite cool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War
Why is Dropbox more popular than other tools with similar functionality?
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I'm not convinced. I'd like to see some concrete evidence that intelligence is genetic.
Enlive already performs some caching on static parts of the template (and will do more as soon as I get enough time in a row to work on it). Lau's way of handling login/logout is rather unusual and goes against the grain of Enlive: he puts html in program code! A way to do that in enlive is to put both login form and logout text in the html template and then to make Enlive remove the one which doesn't apply.
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Look for a Home Business book it would be more informative on how to use Social Media for Networking and Marketing.
Why? Do you think that success should also be uniformly distributed amongst the entire population?

I'd say reward people who are successful. The fact is the majority of people aren't successful or really very useful to society.

The top 1% of society do most of the work, so they get most of the reward. That's pretty fair IMHO.

Human motivation requires that success be rewarded. If there is no success, or "success equality" amongst everyone, then there's no motivation to do anything.
Honestly almost any disparity would be acceptable if all citizens had basic needs met, like healthcare and housing.
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From the about dialog: "Save states are implemented through the window.localStorage object". So yes, it uses 'HTML5 offline storage'.
I wonder if AMD could become the ARM of x86. They've already spun out their foundries anyway.
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None of these things are similar to couchapp:

* They all require two servers running (redis + a web server)
* None provides a framework for building an application.
* None provides n-way replication.
* None provides offline support.

I get that they do mean you can build a web app. The question above was why it would make sense to use couch instead of redis. The primary answer is because the database already does most of what you want (including serving the HTML to the web browser) since it speaks the same language as the eventual client.
So you think a high-school dropout who spends his days playing Black Ops should have the same wealth as a trained surgeon who saves lives in the ER?

No thanks. That idea is brain dead.
Without encryption, compression, or deduplication on I don't think there would be very much overheard - more than traditional file systems, definitely, but still relatively very little.

Encryption would require significantly more CPU (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=9886)

Compression would require moderately more CPU (depends heavily on the compression algorithm) though you can actually speed up disk access with this - which is the real bottleneck (http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/zfs_compression_a_win...)

Deduplication requires lots of memory (I think I saw 1-2GB per TB of data quoted someplace) and will increase CPU load a bit, but for certain workloads can save a lot of writing and diskspace (think Virtual Images or a dataset like Dropbox's).

I'm not involved in ZFS development (just an avid user) so take this with a grain of salt.
Better software if we treated our creations as our children?
What does fruit mean in that context?
There's some good code in here. If you're of a slightly more of a machine learning bent, consider looking into Collective Intelligence (has great source code as well - http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596529321/). It will be a great addition on top of this book.

Of course, when you're ready to graduate, look into Lucene & Mahout for some heavy duty stuff. If you want to make any of these map-reduce'able, Yelp's Mr. Job (also Python) is a handy tool.

On top of that, the BackType blog is always full of gems. Their recent dissection of the #lessambitiousmovies trend on twitter was quite interesting (http://blog.backtype.com/2011/01/analysis-of-the-lessambitio...)
The Quora responses reveal an important point regarding Dr. Chua's book: the book was written in response to the failings of the super-strict parenting style.

The WSJ excerpt makes no mention of this, which is a bit misleading.

On another note, my mother attempted to raise me in such a manner, but she was always too busy working to do a complete job of it (she didn't bother with my older brother as much, as he was way more self-motivated than me). I'm actually a bit curious as to how Dr. Chua managed to find time to hound her daughters like this while being a professor.
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Population growth would actually do that to a lesser extent (because there are more 25-30-year-olds than 55-60-year-olds) were it not for the fact that young people are less likely to vote.
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Really the biggest culprit is Mail.app - so this would depend on how big your Mail archive is.
Comforting to know that the economy is being gambled on a roshambo programming competition.

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But an end to the housing bubble was hardly a wild prediction, just common sense.

Either some new law that would let bubbles go on forever had just appeared or the bubble would end in a bit. You just didn't know exactly which bit.

Indeed, in any bubble, some percentage are fooled by the argument du jour that "this time it's different" and another percentage are simply trying to find the bigger fool. Sure, a lot of people know the bubble will pop but without knowing exactly when, they don't really an incentive to do anything.