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I appologize.

I didn't realize you didn't understand the article, and I thought you were just posting without reading it first.

There is an upper limit to how much detail you can see. It doesn't matter what you use to do the viewing, the eye, a ccd, anything. The information is simply not there, no matter how you magnify it.

That limit is called the diffraction limit, and it's related to the size of the lens used to collect the light. It sort of has to do with the fact that photons passing near the edge of the lens get distorted.

Dawes number is simply a calculation of the diffraction limit.

So that "small dot" that is really a flag, no matter how well you magnify it, will just look like a blur. The photons that used to show details about it have been scrambled enough that those details are lost.

Regarding the two collectors.

They are talking about two small telescopes placed far apart. They compare the image collected by both telescopes and using that they are able to synthesize information about the object that is not visible using just one telescope. But it's no longer a matter of just looking at it.

I'm sorry that I don't understand it well enough to give a simpler explanation of how that works.

I don't know if you read lord of the rings, but there is a scene where Legolas looks at riders at a great distance and can see details that the humans can't. Supposedly because of his keen eyesight. But actually it's impossible. Assuming that his eyes were about the same size as human eyes, he simply can not see those details, no matter how good of a retina he had. Here's the link: http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2009/06/the_limits_of_elv...
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It's an interesting proof of concept. I did a quick "benchmark" by calculating the 30th Fibonacci number with a dumb recursive implementation and there was a 60-70x difference in speed. I wonder how much of the speed difference is solvable and how easy it would be to have a DOM API.
there's a bunch of interesting and well-thought out articles on the main site: http://christianthinktank.com/

a topic index is here:
http://christianthinktank.com/hway.html

it could be interesting to dialogue on the subject too...
This is a Mitsubishi Eclipse Spider and it's Powered by a Subaru Turbo Boxer
Don't let the Nissan 350Z snout and the Infiniti G35 Coupe (JDM Nissan Skyline V35) rear end design fool you; the glitzy painted roadster model you're gawking at is in fact a JDM Mitsubishi Eclipse Spider - possibly a third generation model. But before...
Apple Plans Service That Lets Users Pay With Their IPhone & IPad
The four other major browsers (Firefox, IE, Safari, Opera) have had years to copy this very useful behavior, and I can't understand why none of them have.
Everyone who needs to pay rent has ads in some form, and ads always suck:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/627097/how-to-tell-if-a-b...

Unless of course you're a bubble company building to flip before you're profitable, in which case you get to point fingers and laugh at the rest of us while we spend hours wrenching the last dollar out of our cash flow plans.
Agreed, great start. I recommend adding a tab or tab-menu object. When I'm wireframing, out of all the basic items I have to deal with, vertical and horizontal menus (tabs, often) are the most time-consuming thing to deal with. It would be great to have this object automated in a wireframing tool.
While I agree with you that Haskell (or, really, any GC'd language) is unsuitable for real-time systems, I disagree that my statement about its excellent suitability for systems programming in general is misleading. There are many, many domains (read: most) that, in my experience, are called "systems programming" that have nothing to do with hard or soft real-time requirements.

Now, if I had stated that all conceivable systems programming domains are addressable with Haskell, that would have indeed been foolish.
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Well fine then. I presume it was you who added the Wikipedia link?
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It's very similar to craiglist actually, theres many sites that advertise privately rented houses and shared rooms, e.g http://gumtree.com.au
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You are right. When I first saw the page earlier, I closed it again without even looking at the content because I wasn't bothered scrolling and all I saw was a dirty, ugly page (google ads - a bunch of random links - are ugly as hell). Only after you posted your image did I actually look at the content.
The W-9 process is only a portion of what you have to make sure is right when hiring contractors. For example here's a short bit of what the IRS says about it: http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=173423,00.html They include links to the more formal rules for that aspect of things on the page. I've been burned by this personally and hence mentioned the rules for employees vs contractors. Though I certainly should have provided the link in my first comment.

As to other hiring practices your comment on pay specifically raised a red flag with me if for no other reason than if you paid someone for work as an employee you'd be back dating their date of hire (as far as the government is concerned). My day job is with a company specializing in a very tiny portion of the hiring process and we see large and small companies screw it up every day. The M-247 Handbook for Employers is nearly 70 pages about how to fill out nothing more than the Federal I-9 Form. Screwing up that process can generate civil and criminal liability at the federal level. Then if you are in a state that has additional restrictions (Colorado and more coming soon) you could be incurring even more liability. Have federal contracts and get this process wrong? Potentially kiss them goodbye thanks to the FAR clause.

M-274 Handbook for Employers: http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/m-274.pdf

There are a lot of potential pitfalls employers face and it's unfortunate that the government does a pretty poor job of making it clear what the employers responsibilities are as well as consistently enforcing the rules that are on the books.

I want to be clear, I'm not trying to be argumentative or anything like that. Based solely on your initial comment I would be concerned about your hiring practice and make sure your counsel doesn't see anything wrong with it. If you are bringing in 100% of the people for a trial basis as contractors and meet the IRS rules you may have nothing to worry about. If you bring one person on under that methodology described (as a backdated employee) you could have some liability sitting in your employee records that you can't fix.
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Those ad placements above the content get very high click-throughs when someone arrives at the page via search. One technique that I've used is to only show the adsense to search visitors. Regular visitors tend not to click ads so chances are you won't lose much by doing so.
Somehow I knew this was coming and had a similar idea for a startup, except I'd make these ads more transactional oriented and give users who triggered the ad a cut, since after all they are promoting a product/service. And I'd limit it to n ads per user per week, otherwise you can get spammy behavior out of "friends" trying to maximize their credits--sound familiar?

Anyway, we'll see how that works out. I would honestly demand money if a brand tried to associate myself with them even if it makes sense. It's time to track and rewad word-of-mouth ads--consider them this now. It's clear Facebook and others are in a position to do this. You know that $50 billion+ valuation? Doesn't sound as crazy now, does it?

update: Reading some comments on mashable, I see a good counter to my point: why should FB pay you if they don't charge you to use their site? Fair enough, but at some point users deserve to be rewarded by brands/companies (not facebook) for their loyalty and for attracting them new customers.
Catch phrase thief!
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OO like any programming paradigm is a property of the language, the language facilitates it's paradigm that's why they are classified as such. A language is a part of a paradigm if it has native constructs for said paradigm.
In some ways, reddit gets it right - they put games in the ad space, which trains the users to look at that area a bit more often.
I suspect there's a market for it. Pay $50/month to simply listen to the big boys talk, pay $100/month to have posting privileges.

I'll talk to some ballers, see what I can do about this.
Previously on HN: http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=1941405
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I would like more details on how subtype polymorphism is equivalent to closures.
Well, you can say "eggs are bad" or "I think eggs are bad."

When you say "eggs are bad" or "X is Y" it is not always assumed that "I think" is inherently built in, but sometimes it is.

Furthermore, if you say "eggs are bad" to a 4 year old kid, one implants an opinion about eggs into that kid, because they are impressionable. But if you say it to a 75 year old, they might want to know how you've formed that view, or more likely what you want from them or yourself by saying it.

So if you're going to say "X is Y" without 'I think,' at least say it to evoke an agreeable reaction - like at a Vegan conference if talking about eggs. Or else where opinions are fluid.

I think I am right.
The Features of Blackberry Spy Software
A Blackberry spy can be of much use to employers, parents or spouses of cheating partners. One of the disadvantages of the latest technologies is that it is also equally fuelling fraud, lies and concealing of facts, for personal motives.
Google Cr-48 Chrome laptop now shipping with stickers, the good kind -- Engadget
I don't have an OS X machine available, so I can't try it out, but I was interested in the "classic bitmap fonts" so I downloaded it to poke around. Unfortunately, all the "classic bitmap fonts" have been given carefully non-trademark-infringing names, so it's hard for me to identify them. Here's what I've managed so far:

286: From the original IBM PC

Admiral: From the Commodore 64

CO2: ???

Lucky Heaven: Based on various fonts used in 80s arcade games, but named for Nintendo

Metaphorics: ???

Pomme: From the Apple II (if you were lucky enough to have one that supported 80-column output)

Viti: From the DEC VT100 video terminal

I'm somewhat interested in CRT emulation (other examples I know include [1] and [2]) so I also tried to examine the fragment shaders used, but it seems they're encrypted or bytecoded or something. Oh well.

ALSO: the included fonts only have the basic ASCII character set; I'd be interested to hear if things like the VT100 alternate character set are also supported.

[1]: http://www.slack.net/~ant/libs/ntsc.html
[2]: http://board.byuu.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=147
Before I was hired for my current company, I given a quick tutorial on the programming language (used in company) and had a quiz afterward. It's a great way to see how fast someone can learn and see them apply that knowledge. It was a great opportunity for me was well since it allowed me to show I had potential.
I think the 'scam' implication comes up because the RIAA's lawyers try as hard as they can to just get people to settle out of court, and once they are brought into court, usually try to back-peddle as fast as they can to get out of there while still leaving open the possibility of bringing suit again in the future. The impression this leaves with people is that it's meant to be a 'shake-down' since the RIAA is less interested in court cases and more interested in settlements.
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"sponsored stories" will appear in the right hand column along with ads and other things like "people you may know". your newsfeed will be the same as always and the ranking there is unaffected by which stories can be sponsored.
Yeah, the whole pipeline is actually quite more faceted than can be deduced from this summary. This stage actually just persists the events into a consolidated transaction log. Then, there are secondary processes that scan these transaction logs (in batch) and distribute data into various databases for system, business, and user analytics. I can't go into too much detail there, but the actual digesting and reporting side is more involved.
If you have any money in the bank, it's doubtful--- you generally don't qualify for food stamps if you have more than $2000 (perhaps up to $5000, depending on the state and your family size), since they're only intended for people who actually have no money.
It'd have to be a dream job for me to take a week of vacation time to do a trial run with another company but then I'm married and have a kid so time off is very important to me.

The other issue for the employed in that scenario is that their employment contracts may prohibit moonlighting/contracting or have a non compete that would interfere with the trail/interview process.
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Valentines Day (February 14th) can be a day of tender and serious expressions of devotion, or it can be the time when you spice up your life in whimsical style.
You're just jealous I worked it in so naturally.
1 damn easy way to improve user experience and also starve.
Even the hotlink is down now.
I'm serious. Between government data retention regulations and hyper-paranoid client pharmaco company execs the odds of a CRO putting their data out on the cloud are functionally nil. This may change one day but that's the reality today. We're talking the kinds of shops that are still signing million dollar deals with IBM reps to provide in-house server infrastructure.

There's a world of difference between hiring contractors to come in and develop in-house systems and betting the farm on a 3rd party vendor.
Excellent redesign! You really incorporated the feedback well and I definitely found this much more intuitive. Pretty great UI.

Personally, I'd consider moving the text about the free option (that comes up when you click see plans/pricing) to be a little more prominent, but this kind of thing really comes down to how you want to approach monetizing. If it were me I'd be doing everything I could to encourage people to be aware of and use the free service - I think as it sits you're going to get a lot of "ok neat" reactions, but perhaps not a lot of people actually using the service (even the free version). I'd hate to see your work languish... why not do everything you can to just get people using it?

I think the idea of paying for the email form etc is sound, but as other have noted, the price may or may not be right. That's something you'll have to determine.
When I used to work at Microsoft, I explicitly requested this behavior on the internal IE8 forums (in beta at the time).

I took several tries to explain why this was important and at the end I got a very typical "Thanks for the feedback" and then the thread went cold. I don't think that PM ever understood what I was talking about, but several other commenters did.
Hi thamer, your question made me curious so I decided to see what I could come up with. I've never used redis so this might be all whack, but here's what I did with the list type after looking at the redis docs:

Type operations:

POST /list?key=<key>&value=<value> -> LPUSH

DELETE /list?timeout=<timeout>&key[0]=<key>&key[1]=<key> -> BLPOP

List operations:

POST /list/<key>?value=<value> -> LPUSHX

DELETE /list/<key> -> LPOP

Search based operations:

POST /list/<key>?find=<value>&value=<value> -> LINSERT BEFORE

DELETE /list/<key>?find=<value>&count=<count> -> LREM

Index based operations:

GET /list/<key>/<index> -> LINDEX

GET /list/<key>/<index>?count=<count> -> LRANGE

PUT /list/<key>/<index>?value=<value> -> LSET

Transactional operations:

POST /list-tx/rpop/push?source=<key>&target=<key> -> RPOPLPUSH

POST /list-tx/rpop/push?timeout=<timeout>&source=<key>&target=<key> -> BRPOPLPUSH

Length

GET /list-length/<key> -> LLEN

Reverse operations:

POST /rlist?key=<key>&value=<value> -> RPUSH

POST /rlist/<key>?value=<value> -> RPUSHX

DELETE /rlist/<key> -> RPOP

POST /rlist/<key>?find=<value>&value=<value> -> LINSERT AFTER

DELETE /rlist?timeout=<timeout>&key[0]=<key>&key[1]=<key> -> BRPOP
Disheartening, but not surprising. Obama has made it clear where his priorities lie, and that's with Big Content. Look to see more ICE takedowns of "infringing" sites and more COICA-like legislation.
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I don't know. Google puts some of the most brilliant programming minds to work selling ads and I haven't heard much in the way of complaints.
Money is easy to dispose of, or at least hide under the mattress. I'm sure I could also go the the ER enough times to be diagnosed with some chronic condition that will qualify me for SSI.
Other interesting features that amazed me are, i) 'Close tabs to the right' option in right click menu. ii) New tab open behaviour. (New tab goes next to the current tab and not to the end. Extremely useful when you have lots of tabs opened.)
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rupaul s drag race season 3 -Rethink the challenges/performance format. I am still flummoxed that the winner got all the way to the final 10 minutes of the show before having to actually show us how well she can perform. galih18.blogspot.com/2011/01/rupaul-s-drag-race-season-3.html
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>Man I love working out. Actually, I don’t. Anyone who tells you that working out is awesome is probably trying to sell you something.

The author lost me at the second sentence. I love working out and I'm not trying to sell anybody anything. Pushing myself is exhilarating! The human body is built for activity, not sitting on its ass 12 hours a day.
FWIW this problem exists in many other branches of science too. I'm glad that APS now has an option that the author of a paper can pay a fee for the peer review, and in turn obtains the right to make a copy of the paper publicly available ("open access").

It sounds a bit backwards, but in practice it works out (at least if your employer pays the open access fees, as mine does).

There are also peer reviewed Open Access journals, but mostly they don't have the same reputation and impact factors as the established ACM/APS/IEEE/whatever journals. Still http://www.doaj.org/ is quite interesting.
The project is for one of my courses, and I am going to to what I outlined above I was just trying to get some more ideas from other people. We are...Penn State.
These huge google ads blocks that are in-line and/or floated left such that the content starts in the upper right, flows down a narrow column and then continues on the left underneath the ad are getting particularly annoying, especially on sites that show archived mailing list content formatted with a fixed width font. The entire flow of the page is broken because of it.

At least the spyrestudios page begins the content below the ad. Sure, it's putting the content below the fold, and it stands out like a sore thumb. If the ad spanned the entire column, it might not look so bad. But what's even worse is that there is most likely a standard sized ad that appropriately fits that container, bother horizontally and vertically, that if used wouldn't make it look like you're driving into a billboard built across the interstate.
Your post reminds me of a discovery I made a few weeks ago that BLEW MY MIND:

You can not sort messages in Gmail.

I'm betting that reading that statement just caused a bunch of people to say "Really?" and go check, but it's for real. In several years of using Gmail, I never felt the need. Search always found what I wanted. I mentioned this to some people in my office and they were similarly stunned that they never noticed.

One curmudgeonly former Outlook jockey said that he's missed that feature forever. shrug. When I used to use Outlook on an Exchange server, search frequently didn't find messages that I already had open! They were just missing from the index, word stemming didn't work, or one of many other problems. Also, I used to hit my storage quota and have to sort by size to delete offending large attachments. Never have any of those problems with Gmail, so why would I need sort?
Did anybody else get oddly broken graphics when they tried this out? I see a some large red triangles on the borders that fade out and I never see any characters.
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I've received a whole lot of "receipt" emails, but this one changed my day.
"Apple also could use NFC to improve how it delivers mobile ads to customers’ handsets and charge higher fees for those ads, Crone said. NFC would let Apple’s iAd advertising network personalize ads to the places where a customer is spending money."

Minority-report-like world, here we come...
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I began programming in 1992 when I was around 12 years old. The reason was that my desire to play video games some how managed to clash with the fact that, as a kid, I had no money.

I grabbed a copy of turbo pascal 3.0 and began figuring out how to program.

I ended up creating a silly little DOS text game that involved trying to make a smiley ascii character collect diamond ascii characters. If I recall, you had to avoid the ever-so-dangerous asterisk bad guys.
I don't have a link on me, but I remember reading about big differences between the spec and implementation.
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Minor correction: Canberra and the CDSCC are in the ACT (Australian Capital Territory), not New South Wales. It's OK though, everyone forgets about the ACT.
A downvote, hilarious.

Might I interject a bit of rational skepticism here? What's the evidence behind this news, is there any? Or is it just an unfounded rumor promulgated by one website and picked up by others?

I'll just sit over here in the corner and watch this whole mess while I snack on a delicious bucket of popcorn.
Conversely only sysadmins think sysadmins can code. A classic example is a close personal friend of mine who works as an sysadmin for an insurance company.

On two occasions I've had the unfortunate displeasure of working with him on web-related projects (we share similar hobbies and our local communities need web services of various kinds) his approach has been vile, Rube Goldbergesque concretions of Perl & shell scripts.

This is absolutely THE GUY I'd call if I needed some advanced logfile parsing in a hurry, but when it comes to actually developing web stuff the guy's totally in the dark. What's worse is his only metric is "It works and it makes sense to me" so he's content to make a complete hash of a development project.

During a recent conversation he admitted to having no real grasp on basic HTML and hadn't heard of CSS. The thing that kills me is he's convinced he's qualified to run websites for our local groups and absolutely refuses to accept input on the subject.

Oh well, the guy's also an ace whitewater kayaker and one of my favorite paddling buddies. Considering this guy will probably save me from drowning one day I can look past his failings as a "developer".
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The whole post moved in a different direction, with "working out" being a metaphor for accomplishing other things. Take a chill pill...