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I often go days or weeks between successive compilations of my programs. Not everyone programs in the "Ready, Fire, Aim" style, nor does everyone agree that it is the best.
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To be fair I didn't read this the first time it was on HN - I'm inclined to think that the title of the post is more descriptive than the original, and its deserving front page material, even if it is a duplicate.
That's the least interesting part of the story.
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I wanted this article to be interesting, but it's quite flawed actually. The comparisons are weak, at best. You can't ignore how much more ubiquity there is in the world today. The Middle Ages were a time of discovery, in many ways. There was no global culture like there is today. This is due, in part to the fact that the globe is much more accessible, in terms of physical travel and information distribution (thanks, internet). This article is a great attempt to make the facts fit the assertion, but that doesn't make the assertion true.
I know that Facebook created Cassandra, but do they use it for anything substantial? I read that Cassandra was created for the Facebook inbox, but I more recently read that Facebook is now using HBase for the messaging platform.
Governments embrace angel funding
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I would rather have an Emacs that offers fewer choices but looks good out of the box.

Example: the software supplied by Apple with a Mac does not have any themes except for the choice between Blue (colorful) and Graphite (subdued) in the Appearance system preference pane.

OTOH, I regularly have to wait for the software supplied by Apple and I almost never wait for Emacs.
yeah, sure, for example, they could sell data about their tweets to search engines other than Google and Bing. Oh, wait, too bad there are none - or not in the parts of the world where people use Twitter, anyway.

so, yes, 200 million on top of 160 million already invested for a company that is making 10 or 20 million at most and that has no other way of making money in sight is, well, yes, I would dare say quite out of the ordinary.
If America is in a period of Byzantinian decline then how do the great tech-hub city-states like San Francisco and New York play into this narrative? This doesn't seem consistent.
I am pretty sure this an angel investors/state fund setup in Utah for entrepreneurs in Utah
"napkinforkspoon" isn't a very efficient word for such an efficient tool. Clearly it should be "sporkin".
MacVim + PeepOpen (http://peepcode.com/products/peepopen) are a pretty decent alternative, particularly if you already have some experience in vim.

If you don't have a history of vim mastery, you should still think about it. Yehuda Katz wrote an interesting blog article[1] on his experience switching to MacVim as a vim beginner relying on OSX-isms.

1. http://yehudakatz.com/2010/07/29/everyone-who-tried-to-convi...
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I have no vetted interest in seeing Twitter fail, nor do I think it will. I think Google and Bing will keep it afloat for a long time until they figure out how - or if - they are really interested in the so-called "real-time web".
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I'm curious why you wouldn't include HBase as it's the dominant solution for NoSQL in systems requiring data consistency?
Doctors Getting Rich With Fusion Surgery Debunked by Studies
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, the chopsticks holder, a bowl, a plate, a plateau and a table rug. After you finish this tutorial your image should be similar with the one above. If you follow this tutorial well you should achieve an image like the one above. At bottom of tutorial you will find link to download sample of this tutorial in .max, .3ds, .obj formats.
No business grows forever - mature businesses should always pay dividends back to their shareholders, public or private.
http://textmate2.com ?
So is this:

The system encourages fragmented documentation, with different aspects of a patient’s condition secreted in unconnected fields

I'm pretty sure that problem was solved in the 60s, with the concept of hypertext. Decades of progress resulting in the Internet have somehow escaped these guys.
A) You responded to me, B) I'm not being downvoted.
Interesting and useful.

One major feature differentiator is something it doesn't really talk about, though - how conducive is each system to Massive Data?

For example, he kind of has a bone to pick with Cassandra, which is probably justified. But from what little I know, one of the features of Cassandra is that it's designed to scale pretty much to infinity. That may be true of a couple of the others, but for some (like CouchDB) it isn't a design goal at all.
These are very bad. They are exactly the kind of infographic that seemed to take off in 2010 -- mostly as an SEO scam. A lot of link farming in 2010 was done by sites that offered up a custom infographic to blogs, with a link at the bottom in return. This stacked, garbage infographic style ran amok in 2010, which might as well make all of them "the infographic of 2010," sadly.
I agree with you that he broke the spirit of Google AdSense CPC program.
But Amazon's affiliate program is different.
It's OK to incentivize affiliate purchases -- at the end your users are paying real $$$.
Firstly, by the time Groupon got the patent it would've been irrelevant. It takes years.

Secondly, being in Germany (ie the EU) software patents are
largely unenforceable [1] anyway.

Software patents are almost uniquely a US problem, despite lobbying efforts to introduce them in Europe, Australia and other places.

But my point is that whether or not Groupon applied for a patent in this case is basically irrelevant.

The story about software patents is they may end up driving Internet businesses, which are highly portable, to jurisdictions more friendly to their activities.

The only beneficiaries of software patents are lawyers and patent trolls (who have nothing to lose by definition because they don't produce anything).

What would be ironic would be if a Troll patented the business model of filing and buying patents by the truckload and then suing possible infringers right before suing every other patent troll.

Oh and regarding Google's PageRank (mentioned elsewhere in this thread), the patent is basically defensive. It doesn't really disclose the details of it such that it could be easily reproduced. Plus, even if it did, there's an awful lot more you'd need to do to mimic Google.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_Euro...
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There's one article in particular that I'd like to link to, but I'm having difficulty digging it up.

If you'd like some data to play with, however:

https://www.cms.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/05_NationalHeal...
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2010/ranks/rank18.htm...

The former contains Medicare spending per enrollee on a per-state basis, and the latter has the number of doctors per capita.

Of the top ten states in Medicare spending per enrollee, six are in the top ten in doctors per capita.

This is all just a back of the envelope calculation, of course, but it does argue against the thesis that more doctors equals cheaper health care.
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Byzantium also had perhaps the greatest city of its time, Constantinople.
Only beacuse I don't know HBase very well. I'll read up on it, at least try it, and then add that too (and also maybe Tokyo Cabinet).

Thanks for the feedback!
Thanks to government regulation, it's become so onerous to do an IPO to the public that the little man is effectively left out of these opportunities.

My guess is it won't be long until secondmarket comes under SEC regulation and catering to accredited investors won't be a shield anymore.
Good luck but what's with the car request?
Worth adding HBase?

Much below Stolen from their overview page (All needs to be confirmed): http://hbase.apache.org/

WRITTEN IN: Java

MAIN POINT: Hadoop Database

LICENSE: Apache

PROTOCOL: A REST-ful Web service gateway

This project's goal is the hosting of very large tables -- billions of rows X millions of columns -- atop clusters of commodity hardware.

HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, column-oriented store modeled after Google' Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data by Chang et al. Just as Bigtable leverages the distributed data storage provided by the Google File System, HBase provides Bigtable-like capabilities on top of Hadoop. HBase includes:

Convenient base classes for backing Hadoop MapReduce jobs with HBase tables

Query predicate push down via server side scan and get filters

Optimizations for real time queries

A high performance Thrift gateway

A REST-ful Web service gateway that supports XML, Protobuf,
and binary data encoding options

Cascading, hive, and pig source and sink modules

Extensible jruby-based (JIRB) shell

Support for exporting metrics via the Hadoop metrics subsystem to files or Ganglia; or via JMX

HBase 0.20 has greatly improved on its predecessors:

No HBase single point of failure

Rolling restart for configuration changes and minor upgrades

Random access performance on par with open source relational databases such as MySQL

FOR EXAMPLE: Facebook Messaging Database

BEST USE: Use it when you need random, realtime read/write access to your Big Data.
Could it be that websites like del.icio.us and StumbleUpon generally have better sharing methods already than e-mail, which is not as quick of a method? Sites that are dedicated to sharing generally have bookmarklets, browser toolbars, and other programs to make it easier, whereas e-mail is something that it may be easier to do with AddThis.
I chose Eclipse over Textmate earlier this year. As a user of mostly Python, Javascript, HTML and CSS, Eclipse has provided my ideal programming setup. All of my code, for all of my projects, resides on a development server of mine (Ubuntu). With Eclipse, I'm able to install the Eclipse software on my PCs and Macbook and am able to use the Remote System Explorer to edit my code over SSH. I then have the Aptana suite to provide the syntax highlighting and stuff. I close most of the unnecessary Eclipse GUI elements so I'm left with a very bare-bones feeling editor. So, my same editing environment works across all of my computers.

When I used Textmate on my Macbook and Notepad++ on my Windows PCs, I always had issues with indentations, and stuff from one editor to the next. I also used to have to setup Samba on my Ubuntu server to map the network drives, and edit them over a mapped drive.

Once I found Eclipse to be as awesome as it is, I don't think I'll ever look back. lol.
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The polls I've seen are that most people think it's wasted effort, although even so a lot don't see it as a big deal.

Usually I start by discussing effectiveness, or lack thereof -- so I've practiced explaining why they don't work and the actual risks in ways that everybody can understand.

Sometimes it's better to start with the safety risks (which is something I'm pretty credible on because I was on a National Academy of Sciences panel on dependable software). If it's a small-government person or fiscal conservative, I'll emphasize the cost. Or I'll discuss the dignity aspects, phrasing it in terms of the government's policy to take a naked picture of every traveler and choosing 3% of them to have their breasts and genitals groped.

It often takes several iterations; don't be frustrated. And of course there are plenty of people who just won't be convinced, in which case my usual strategy it to stay in their face enough that they consider changing their position just so I'll shut up about it already :-)
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Me too! Punch cards and punch tape.. rolls and rolls of it. And for me, it was 88-89, because Russia was (and still is) a backwards country.
Air Nazism doesn't help security. It's a huge waste of money. And as you say it's a disincentive against air travel.

Why is it necessary?
Apple investigating Ping-like social networking for retail shops
omnomn.om would have been the one!
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You say that you are "less a fan of lies ... or false conclusions... ". Thus, I will be charitable and conclude that, rather than willfully mischaracterizing what I wrote and ignoring the evidence for it, you simply didn't read it very carefully.

1) "chomsky doesn't "cheerlead for hezbollah"

"Chomsky hails Hezbollah on TV" (http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=36210): 'Hosted by Hezbollah, leftist professor Noam Chomsky ended his visit to Lebanon with a tour of Al-Khiam Prison where he declared the terrorist group's success in removing Israel from the south was "a victory for all the peoples that fight injustice and oppression."

In a broadcast by Hezbollah's Al Manar television Sunday, translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute, Chomsky was shown embracing Hezbollah leader Nabil Qauq at Al-Khiam, where Israel kept prisoners during its occupation of southern Lebanon. Hezbollah was credited with liberating the area after Israel withdrew in 2000.'

2) "chomsky doesn't deny the holocaust"

I didn't say that Chomsky denied the Holocaust. But he engages in apologetics for those who do, specifically Robert Faurisson, who he knew denied the Holocaust yet termed him a "a relatively apolitical liberal of some sort" and referred respectfully to his work as "extensive historical research."

3) "chomsky isn't an anti-semite"

I didn't say that Chomsky is an antisemite, but again, he throws in his lot with blatant antisemites. For example, Chomsky praised the Israel Shahak, a bizarre Israeli antisemite (really) who propagated slanders such as ""both before and after a meal, a pious Jew ritually washes his hands....On one of these two occasions he is worshipping God... but on the other he is worshipping Satan." Chomsky praised Shahak on the cover of the book in which this quote appeared as "an outstanding scholar, with remarkable insight and depth of knowledge" and went on to say "[h]is work is informed and penetrating, a contribution of great value."
The problem Feathers describes has a simple cause: the classes in java, C# etc are a premature optimization. The rewrite described, in my experience, is caused because having to reclassify everything is annoying and error prone when:

a) classes are part of the language and,

b) classes are defined by a stream of characters in a flat file on a disc

C++ makes it even more difficult to automate the redoing of classification by requiring that the definition of a class is stored in multiple such files.
Good point, and it's not there since I only wanted to speak from experience; especially with rumors of Cassandra scaling problems at Reddit and Digg.

But sure thing, "infinite" scaling is probably best done with the Dynamo-like stuff like Cassandra and/or RIAK.
Trying to use CouchDB's versioning system seems like depending on a very leaky abstraction. That you can see it's versioning is a side-effect of how it behaves; not a feature it is providing.

If you need versioned records, you are likely better off identifying your versioning requirements and building to those than trying to piggyback off of something else poorly suited.
Why do good programmers have ugly websites?
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it could be worse, you could be using chopsticks to fit in...
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Are there any speech to text systems for medical records ?

It seems like speech recognition technology has reached a pretty high quality level. Of course there would be some transcription errors. What if the system had an editor window that required the physician to verify and sign off on the transcription ?

Wouldn't speech be a better primary interface for this application ?
And then people ask why Apple tries so hard to have total control over their App Store. The last thing I want is to have to buy an antivirus for my phone.
The article wasn't very alarmist, even if it helps sales of their own product.

Although the delivery of the trojan is not a passive exploit and requires a user to download from unofficial markets, a lot of hackers have "rooted" their phone - so we can use beta versions of code, etc. So I think it's topical to HN.
Is there any cc-mode generator like this? I spent a couple days trying to tweak mine a while back, but try as I might, my comments still want to align all the way left.
Sweyla's also generates Vim and TextMate themes.
A good time to plug "The Rise and Fall of Great Powers" by Paul Kennedy. I'm some of the way through this and it's a superb book.
My guess is that Google calculated how efficient was Dylan's traffic was for AdWords customers.
AdWords customers can setup goals for their ads (reach certain page e.g. "ThankYouForYourPurchase.html".
So if almost all traffic Dylan sent did not reach any goals, then it's disappointing for AdWords users and for Google.
So when Google determined that -- they were only looking for an excuse to drop him, and Dylan gave such excuse by indirectly incentivizing users to click on AdSense ads.
---
I told my subscribers that I got some money if they visited the websites of those advertisers
---

Still Google should be more transparent about reasons why they are dropping AdSense partners.
Show HN: My first weekend project, Wikihowtodo, a to-do list maker.
Here is the link: http://www.wikihowtodo.com

I know a lot of geeks share the same dream -- build the next kick-ass todo-list/project management system.

So do I.

However, as I was quite positive that my web development skill is worse than 99% of developers' in this community, I decided to build something simple, useless but unique.

So I built this.

Basically it's a Wikihow scraper, nothing more.
It gives you a place to store interesting Wikihow articles and yes, they are converted into todo lists.

I know this site is not that good, but I still need your guys' feedback.

For example, as I am a non English native speaker, you can simply put "Your English Suck!"
in this post, it's already way better than silence.<p>Thanks.
As captain obvious as this sounds, but Star Wars is a very pro American film espousing a very American point of view.

I hope this is true, but there are plenty of examples in history where it isn't.

For instance, pre-WWII Japan also blended rapid development with nationalism very effectively, and was very unlikely to internally liberalize.

Also look at Iraq (under Hussein) and Saudi Arabia, countries with incredibly harsh and restrictive laws, and by our standards terrible and evil governments... Yet they have little internal opposition, and their people like their governments, for some reason.
That knowledge is spread out over a bunch of people who bill upwards of $500/hr. What's more likely to get built is a wiki that tells people just enough to feel comfortable while writing dangerously brittle crypto code --- to say nothing of the people who will get the recommendations on such a wiki wrong.

It's also all downside. No one person has all these details. The primary contributor to such a wiki is inevitably going to miss horrible faults. If you're that guy, why bother?
Anyone know why it takes so long? Shouldn't it be possible to crack the DRM on Kindle (or other) ebooks and pirate them? I thought the reason it was so hard to pirate books in the past was because they had to be scanned (and preferably OCRed).
Thanks, Gordon, I put it in (shortened some lines).

It would be great to have a "more general" for-example, since noone outside Facebook meets the problem of "let's build Facebook's messaging database" :) Any suggestions?
I am trying something similar; I have screenshots taken of my screen and stored at a regular interval to a folder. Lately I've just been looking back to see how much I stayed on productive activities and such, but they may be good for some sort of statistical analysis later. I just wrote a few line bash script to accomplish this.
Flume, Hive and realtime indexing via ElasticSearch
For the last time, fellow Americans, it is not proper etiquette just because English people do it that way. If it's called the Continental method, it's probably the result of the English blindly copying the French. Isn't it silly of us to insecurely copy the manners of a country that insecurely copies the manners of another country?
here we go! Just funded the last USD 25.00
As a Sony eReader owner I find all of this pathetic: all my ebooks are either (unlocked) epub or pdf. "Sharing" is an irrelevant concept for me.

But I must confess that, as a programmer, I feel envy for the Kindle owners that can program & hack their devices.
Piracy is good for the customer.

A pirated ebook has none of this restrictions. It's simply a better product.
frankc,
I agree with you too. My point with the post was to show what's possible, and more importantly, to not sweat the small stuff, like what's low glycemic, or whatever. The simplest rule, is eat less. move more.

As I said in the post, eventually, you'll want to talk to a nutrionist, eating less can easily be changed into "starvation".. which will get you to lose weight, but you're not going to be healthy.

I personally don't know what's high glycemic, or low glycemic, all I know is I feel better, I'm stronger than I used to be (thanks to training and exercise with Steve), and i'm only eating items that have ingredients I can pronounce :).
Most people forget or don't know that Skype was created by the founders of Kazaa and they are hackers (like us) at heart and they built strong encryption into it protecting (actually) the privacy of their users' audio conversations. Skype's encryption has been a heated issue to governments who cannot wiretap Skype for various reasons law enforcement or otherwise.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Skype_securit...
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Another side effect of ebooks is that public libraries now increasingly rely on the electronic versions of the books to save space,money and they started to unload physical books by thousands.
Although it applies mostly to fiction, but no need to pirate these books , you can get them for $1.
Yeah, I slipped up numbers since TC says they've raised $500m so far. I'm very interested in how they're going to spend the other $600m.
I would say a lot depends on your perspective. If you are aware of the situation and the specific environment you are trapped in, you can nonetheless extract a lot of transferable skill from that kind of work. You just need to look beyond the surface
Of course vim.
You can view Vim Casts (http://vimcasts.org/episodes/archive) for easy migration from TM.
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Similarly, I was informed a few years ago that I hold my fork like an utter heathen. I tried to solve this, but still have no idea what the proper technique is or how mine differs.
FWIW, I just switched from Textmate to MacVim 6 days ago, and am already nearly as productive in it as I was on Textmate (no prior vim experience)

I personally found it best to just embrace the vimness (with cheat-sheets beside my monitor). I barely accomplished any work on day 1, but by the end of day 2 I was moving along pretty comfortably.
Investors had plenty of confidence in mortgage-backed securities, too.
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By waiting, do you mean wait for the release, or wait because the software is busy doing something?
Python/Django for work. Ruby/Rails for my personal projects.
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