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From trying to use it recently, it's worth pointing out that the 3D support in VirtualBox is not up to the standard of VMWare's, if you want DirectX. Obviously that's not important to everybody, but hopefully it will save some people a few hours of experimentation.

I'm sure they'll improve it in time though, and VirtualBox is otherwise a fine piece of software.
A very good question. Will they be really able to resist "Poxxer, who we broke the news on in 2011 here and here" ...pfft always hate that <a><a><a> start to a blog post.

If they really would drop startups that made it big they could make it a feature. Instead of a deadpool, they can add startups to a bigpool, and tease the major sites with it: "we followed them then, you follow them now"
Your lack of imagination astounds me. I suspect that you realise that your original comment was hopelessly flawed, but you now refuse to admit it.

Many people don't use the Facebook. Lots of people use eMail, but there's been an earthquake. Their workplaces are buried. Their computers are under rubble. The majority of eMail users do not know how to configure a new PC to access their eMail. They've relied on it just working on their existing systems. That's gone. There are so many other things that could stop people using their eMail or their Facebook page.

What's needed is a single, central information collator and provider. That's what has been created.
What Do Database Connectivity Standards and the Pirate's Code Have in Common?
Given that you're the guy behind web.go, is Slowcop is written using Go and web.go? If so, how are you finding writing production web code in Go? Can you share any info/tips on the hosting setup behind Slowcopy?

(FWIW I'm an avid Go programmer and filed an issue on httplib.go when it was broken by release.2011-02-15. Thanks for the quick fix!)
What does it matter? These complaints of decline in community quality is all superficial. In the end, all that matters is how you use a site.

What is it that you want out of these sites? Expert Opinion? Helpful articles? The Zeitgeist among your peers? The analysis of the community might help you decide how to use a site to your liking, but because it is superficial, it will be of little help. Seek out the experts yourself or trim through the article listings yourself instead of basing it completely on a democratic vote system. The quality of the community will only make this process more convenient, but it is the quality of individual posters that define what is most helpful to you.

Now, I would like to compile a list of posters whom I can trust for insightful comments on a particular matter instead of posting assumptions.

So far, I know of pg, joshu...crap, I wish there were avatars here. Why was I stuck with just visual memory like a common human? Unicode avatars would have been helpful: ❤
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Filtering out stopwords would be useful to prevent trolling.

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Baffled, why so? Apple has never let perfection come before goodness. Or, more accurately, profit. Apple has likely made somewhere around a billion dollars profit off of the initial iPad release.
A bit over 25 years ago, I saw _Top Gun_ and told my girlfriend that people had forgotten how to make movies, though they did know how to make commercials and music videos. I don't think that I was wrong, but I may have implicitly given too much credit to the movie makers of years past.There were a lot of awful movies made during times that at least the film critics look back on with nostalgia.
I wonder how the choice of Gin affects the laser. There's many different Gins with different recipes, in theory the change in impurities should affect the colour, but I'm not sure how.
You didn't address the question, you dropped a pithy one liner about HR departments. And you're still avoiding the issue by playing silly philosophical games. Of course words have meaning and power, particularly ones which are derogatory towards sections of society.

And that's all I'm going to say - this thread has gone on long enough.
My card has unlimited 2% cash back. If it was possible to get card processing for less than 2% I could make money paying myself.
Not necessarily disputing your point but those figures are for 2008.

Current sales figures are roughly 50m worldwide sales for the 360, 48m worldwide for the PS3 (having been available for a year less), 85m sales for the Wii. For reference worldwide sales for the PS2 are currently 150m (and still selling).

All figures for Dec 2010 / Jan 2011. Worth noting that if those figures don't tally with what you see around you, the Xbox360 is way bigger than the PS3 in the USA (18m to 10m I think), the PS3 either equals or beats it in all other markets (notably Japan and Europe).

So yes it's "one of the top selling consoles" and 50m units isn't exactly chopped liver, but it's pretty much third equal in the market. Also worth noting that the whole Xbox division has lost massive amounts over all time (though it's now profitable, it's never recouped the original investment).

But I would agree with the point that while they take time to hit their stride, they do get there and I think Kinnect is a good example of the fact that they're now executing pretty well in this space and indeed innovating which isn't usually a word you'd associate with Microsoft.
There is a fragment identifier in the link, but it does not appear in the page. Which part of the page did you mean to link to?
Indeed. This is literally all that's there: http://imgur.com/HCPZC.jpg

The bulk of it is these three links, which just point back to the same pages:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=194725
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=194726
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=194727
It took me three clicks, and a billion intrusive ads, but here's the page where the information originated from.

http://www.andriasang.com/e/topics/2011/02/23/flying_get/
I present: the widgetblock chrome extension. For all your automatic-social-media-icon-nuking needs.

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Maybe upvotes/downvotes could be weighted by the karma of the person giving them, thus putting more emphasis on those with high karma (which might sound elitist, but the only reason those people have high karma is because people think they talk sense).

This would concentrate power slightly in the hands of those long time dedicated commentators ('the community'), and slightly lower the strength of newcomers who are still getting used to the ettiquette ('the mob').

Hopefully this would go someway to lowering the effect of newcomers, until they rack up enough karma themselves to 'graduate' into the higher karma ratings.
Still used heavily by the criminal world I hear.
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But read load generally follows square law, your most popular files are going to be used an order of magnitude more than your least popular files. If you have 1TB of files you can probably get away with 1GB of RAM for caching with a 90% hit rate. This means that your read speed is something on the order of 11GB/sec. (eg. more than your 1Gbps network) Because ZIP files are essentially append only you can read from a ZIP file while it's being written to as long as you cache the file table. This means that you can have hundreds of readers from the ZIP file and only one writer. UNIX/Windows file locking semantics support this beautifully, readers don't lock the file and writers obtain a write lock.

The basic design of the system is that the readers register an event handler with the writer and when the writer finishes writing a file it updates the readers with the location of the file in the ZIP file. Once you have that information it's a simple read call to the ZIP file.
Guys and shopping
What do you wish you have to make your life easier when it comes to shopping? or do you care? what do you think makes a good impression on a date? Tell me, I'm a girl. or follow me Twitter @lienista. I'm all ears.
Additionally, I think newer users are conditioned by other sites to use voting as a way to agree or disagree with what is said, rather than as a way to rate the quality of the point being made, regardless of what the point is. Which I find very frustrating, and I know people say 'whining about declining quality has always happened', but I really feel that this voting behavior used to be less pronounced.
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ahh, that's annoying. thanks for the heads up. maybe i should repost.

unrendered source here http://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/fold-stream.lhs
Sounds like something that would benefit highly from putting your builds on a RAM disk.

If you assume 100M SLOC @ 100 bytes per line you're looking at only ~10GB of RAM. That's only an extra $160 per build machine. (2x4GB DDR3 sticks @ $80 each)

I shaved ~10 minutes off a ~15 minute build and unit test time by putting the SQL DB on RAM and the source tree in RAM. SQL was by far the biggest win. The source tree only saved us about 30 seconds.

If you're on Windows just tick the Advanced Write Optimization box on your drive and all your writes will go to RAM. I think there is something similar on Linux. It sounds like you're the type of person who probably already knows this :)

L2/L3 cache is absolutely huge but the biggest wins by far IMHO are battery backed write cache. The really shitty thing is most BBWC controllers use 50% of the cache as read cache by default which is a total waste IMO. I find about 10% read cache is optimal on the controller.
If you can't afford SSDs and still need to guarantee consistency.
i had the same problem. i never thought about contacting Twitter...I was just going to email him and ask him nicely. long shot?
As a football (soccer) fan from the UK it surprises me that MLS hasn't jumped down Google's throats looking for a similar online solution for fans. It's a fantastic league that most Americans don't appreciate because it's perceived to be of poor-quality, but given a true online presence as good as their website is would boost its popularity ten-fold.
It's funny we're talking about Toilet Paper. You do realise that 2.6 Billion people don't have access to a western toilet? But there are massive marketing and social pushes ( http://www.worldtoilet.org ) to increase the size of this market dramatically.
"Simply revolutionary"

I don't understand why a 0.15 drop is such a big deal, considering the service requires an expensive iPhone (or Android) and a major mobile plan.
tl;dr version: having the 'low space' warning on your Android phone results in the rejection of SMS messages. Even when there's actually e.g. >10mb of storage available. The bug has been present since 2009 and appears not to have been fixed yet by Google.
Microsoft Open XML embarrassment: spaces go missing between words
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YouTube and Android as well, both purchased by Google.
Mobile phones: How to 'keep your brain away from the antenna'
A government-funded study published Tuesday says radiation from mobile phones can change the way brains process sugar.Is that a big deal? The scientists aren't sure, according to CNN Health's report. But our story has scary tidbits.Like this quote, from Dr. Nora Volkow, the Journal of the American Medical Association study's lead author and a neuroscientist at the National Institutes of Health:
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I think that refers to the Java SDK Canvas (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Canv...), not the HTML5 Canvas.

The Android browser uses Skia (http://code.google.com/p/skia/) for graphics support, and it is possible that is accelerated in Android 3 - which would presumably mean HTML5 Canvas is too.
dang...I didn't think i'd run into this again. I used to volunteer at middle schools years ago and used NetLogo to teach girls how to program...what are you using this for
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I think the issue is just too complicated to draw conclusions from broad inter-countries comparisons. I find the Japanese system terrible - I have been living there for 7 years and I have yet encountered a foreigner coming from a rich country who thinks the system is good.

The problem with comparing global stats like cancer survival rates is their weak correlation with the health care system. For example, the reason why colon/rectal cancer survival rate is high is because Japan is basically the only rich country where those cancers are the most common one (in other rich countries, prostate, breast, lungs usuallly come first for the concerned sex). There is also the issue of "free-ride", where most western countries benefit from research being done in the US and a couple other countries - which is not so easy to quantify either.

Designing good indicators is incredibly hard, and for that reason alone I think it will always be a political question first, and an economical one second (i.e. economics can help making a decision, but it won't give you the decision).
I now check 'new' articles more often. There are a lot of gems in there that are not voted up.
In simplest terms the HN community & culture fosters open minded discussion while reddit fosters group think.

Even if HN has lost its edge over time that fundamental difference is worth fighting for and worth coming back to HN.
The best thing to do in this instance is to find out their overall budget for this thing, break it down into an hourly wage and set an overall price based on what you feel your time is worth.

A Mechanic does not fix you car based on a total cost, they charge a hourly labor rate + parts. A lawyer bills for his services by the hour. Both will provide a best guess at what they think it will take, but if you add some work or they find some problems you eat that cost not them.

Why people think software development should be any different is beyond me. If you are not getting equity in the project then you should not be working on a fixed price contract. It places all the risk on you while limiting your upside (you can only make the sticker price on the contract). Meanwhile the client has unlimited upside in this arrangement and shoulders none of the risk beyond the sticker price.

the employer will feel cheated if paying for longer than they expect (and let's be honest, all employers think that websites take half the time to build).

Ignorance of the discipline of software development is the employer problem, a good software developer can show them how scope creep, change in priorities and adjustments to specification has a negative impact on their expectations. If they feel cheated that is their problem to deal with, software development is not charity and if it takes twice as long to build and a developer puts in twice as many hours then they should be paid twice the hours just as any other service professional is.

The client/employer is not going to say "oh wow we made twice as much as we expected off the software you developed, here you go, here is some free money". So why would the developer say "oh wow the project will take twice a long as, the employers uneducated analysis says it will, let me eat half the labor costs"

That being said, only extremely experienced freelancers should consider taking a fixed price contract. It can lead to financial ruin, in almost all situations a freelancer should be insisting on time and materials, like 90% of other service professionals. The exceptions would be reproducible services where times can be estimated with certainty (e.g installing wordpress or Postgres).

To answer the parent posters question, I see a lot of Senior level JavaScript freelancers charging in the area of $100-$200 hr for their services. That is what I charge and stay busy.
You don't really want to know the full complexity zoo (look it up) really you don't. You want to know the difference in the practical sense between

* logarithmic

* sub-linear

* linear

* quadratic (and other low powers)

* polynomial

* sub-exponential

* exponential

* super-exponential

* NP

* NP-Hard

* The intersection of those last two (NP-complete)

And for each - give examples.

Then you want to say, for a given algorithm, what it's complexity looks like. What's bubble-sort? Why? What's QuickSort? Best case? Worse case?

What's packing? A*? Travelling Salesman? Factoring?

What about the various database operations?

Skim the wikipedia pages on each of those, concentrating on the feel of the algorithm and the statement of the complexity. Then ask about other algorithms, and try to get a sense of how they feel. And why.

Finally - Why can string search be sub-linear?
Another huge one on Windows and especially .NET is if you see a MemoryStream replace it with a FileStream that uses DELETE_ON_CLOSE semantics. It bypasses the .NET GC and lets the kernel decide whether it actually wants to write the file out. So if you've got a 1GB file that you need temporarily it will write part of it to disk depending on how much RAM is available.
The real test will be whether they've got the sense to spend 20 minutes signing in here and engaging us in dialogue.
An operating system is simply software. It doesn't
interact with hardware and, if it did, the hardware
is all completely identical, right?

No offence, but that's the stupidest remark I've ever read.

And btw, hardware is almost never completely identical. Take 2 pieces of hardware built after the same spec by the same factory, and under certain conditions you may find them exhibiting different behavior. Hardware is not as predictable as software. It's the job of the operating system / drivers to make hardware predictable.
By that argument, food, water cannot be a free market either. I am not saying that health care works best in a free market or not, but whether it is elastic/inelastic is not the only factor. Also, depending on which health care we are talking about, it is certainly elastic: sure, if you just got shot and are mortally wounded, you are pretty much ready to pay anything you can to get treated, but maybe that private room or new cancer treatment twice as expensive without proved benefits is not that necessary.
Umm, what? In the limit of everyone going online the average age of internet users becomes the average age of the population at large. Perhaps younger internet users would be more active, especially on social media sites, but that's a different matter.

Current estimates put the average age on the internet at about 37.
It doesn't parse URLs correctly, e.g. this works:
www.google.com

but this doesn't:
www.google.com:80

See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt, section 3.2.2 for the spec.

Otherwise, looks very useful.
ok..let me ask you this? why can't i use google search vs. yours. I mean no one will think about suzbin when it comes to "search". the average user would probably go to google...
It also shows why Apple gets things right by concentrating on customer experience. Buying VMware from the Apple App Store would have been an entirely different experience.
What sort of stats would you like to see?
2. A very high bar for moderation, with active participation.

The reason this is doomed is: there is currently much more stuff needing moderation than the selected few can handle. They would soon wear out and you'll end up with a site with almost no moderation at all.

The trash needs to be stopped at the front door. When it gets into the house, it takes too much effort to clean up.
that is not to say that you can't make it work, but it's hard...just put your shoes in the consumer...they probably go to google if they need to search for quotes...same way if you were looking for lyrics you'd go to google..and most of the time it works pretty well.
I've just joined Flickr but I'm finding it awkward in some places, and the 'community' (at least that of extension/tool developers) seems to have died in 2008 or so. The upload tools are atrocious, no reliable way to download stuff for backups, the UI is unpolished and doesn't seem to get updated much.

So, where do I go for online photo hosting / backup? Picasa / Web Albums isn't better, plus it's very desktop focused. Are there any modern offerings that can step into Flickr's shoes?
- Virtual invulnerability to malware - no need to buy and use crippling and intrusive anti-malware systems.

- Partly as a result of the above, it's noticeably faster.

- Time Machine (albeit it would be much nicer if it were based on ZFS).

- It comes bundled with pretty computers that have no blue LEDs (and most users, Windows and Mac alike, just stick to whatever came pre-installed). My last HP had 18 blue light sources piercing my retinas all the time.

- The company comes with a very charismatic CEO.

- It's prettier than Windows.

- It just works. And keeps working.

- If you are a developer, it offers a rich Unix environment matched only by Linux machines - that, I have to admit, don't work as consistently. It also comes with a kick-ass IDE for free.

- It already ships with a decent web browser. No need to download and install one.

- The App Store promises near-Linux ease for finding, selecting, downloading and keeping software up-to-date. It certainly beats the Windows way of googling for the software, hitting a malware site, going back, searching more, finding the correct site, downloading an executable and giving it the keys to the kingdom so it can do whatever it wants with your computer, something it may never recover from.