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Just saw the surging traffic on our download site and noticed the link from HN.

Re: Aggressive sharing. Yes and no. If the torrent is encoded as a Merkle tree, you can verify subsets of a piece. For torrents that only include piece-level hashes, a BitMate client can upload an unverified piece. However, in our experience, its rare for pieces to be corrupted (unless the uploader is maliciously uploading corrupt pieces).

Please let us have your feedback regarding the performance and stability of the client since this our first (read: pre-alpha) release.
Thanks, that is exactly what I meant :)

I also found this one quite interesting: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~arjun/public/poly-contracts.pdf
If you want introductory, see Bertrand Myer and the Eiffel programming language.

http://www.eiffel.com/developers/design_by_contract.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_contract

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_(programming_language)
I've tried. I just never finished. This is informed.
I may have to reverse the changes here and figure out how to apply it to the transmission torrent client.

I'm on horrible hotel wifi or find myself a late seeder next to massive seed boxes on whatever tracker I'm on. This would give a good bump in the ratio the new guys and even things out if it works in theory.
Are you sure that's "most parents"? The ones that have a good yell at their kids in the bedroom for their behaviour are the ones you won't hear about, and I suspect they're the majority. I know I don't expect schools to rear my children.
The distribution includes the full source code for all of the examples in the manual.

Also, David Lutterkort at RedHat has developed an extension of Boomerang [http://augeas.net] that folks may find interesting...
Good thoughtful response. And, we actually use the same process. I do use Photoshop for elements, buttons, logos etc as you do. To be clear, what I stated in the post is I don't do ui or ux or layout in PS.
The problem with standardized testing is not that they don't measure the progress well but that they measure all other sorts of confounding variables. Each standardized test has a small number question templates, and if the students familiarize themselves with the question templates they will do better on the tests, for example. Another important factor is timing: some standardized tests have a fixed amount of time allocated to a student, and hence there are many different ways of pacing yourself that lead to better or worse scores. Yet another important factor is the choice between open-ended and multiple-choice questions, and even the balance between these can be learned.

So every standardized test has some confounding variables, and effort spent teaching the students to do better on the tests by dealing well with these variables is effort that does not go towards helping the students learn the material. If the standardized tests are known and used to evaluate the teachers the incentives suddenly get really strong to teach to the test by focusing on the idiossincrasies of specific testing schemes over teaching the actual subject.

Standardized tests are a great way to measure performance and improvement but only if the results won't be used for decision-making, otherwise it creates an instant incentive to game the system.
Sorry, I thought you were agreeing with the person you were replying to. Like adestefan says, I consider 'breathing' (like 'organic ventilation') a euphemism for 'crappy air control'. But if we use 'breathing' as 'well-ventilated, in a controlled way', then I guess we agree.
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If the core of the OS gets updated, it's not unrealistic to require restart of it in order to start using the updated version.

In Linux, that means the kernel and possibly few other core packages, and if that's unacceptable for any reason, there's the magic of http://www.ksplice.com/ to help you out.

As an example, I have just updated the (intel) video driver in my desktop Ubuntu 10.10, and got no prompt to reinstall (arguably, it might be good for the system to ask me to relogin in order to start using the updated drivers - but it didn't). So in this regard, I haven't seen Ubuntu behaving worse than any other Linux distributions (and, I suppose, other normal operating systems), and behaves quite reasonably.
Well still kudos to them for actually responding in a humble fashion.

Don't get me wrong - I see RIM as going the same way as NOKIA (read: nowhere fast). But to their credit - they were able to get an actual product to the market and get to where they can fall deep :).
I am not sure what you mean by "reverse the changes", but if you want to improve upload contribution for a low-bandwidth node, it is built into BitMate (it improves both download performance and upload contribution of bittorrent). Actually, for low-bandwidth nodes, it could improve upload contribution by as much as 1000%! Please try out the client and let us know what you experience.
Marketing is not Advertising. Google has a hell of a marketing team. The whole Customer Development movement is in essence only about marketing. Knowing your customer, developing the right product, choosing the right price and communicating this to the customer.
A few 80s home video games used this principal. I had a table top version of Donkey Kong (about the size of a coconut) that worked like this. I think they preceded the single-, double- and triple-screened handhelds (e.g., Diamond Hunt). I don't think it was possible to play that Donkey Kong in the dark and I have a faint recollection of chasing sunspots around the house for the best playing conditions.
>Just to clarify it's not $20/app - it's $20/app AND every update to that app

They are essentially applying a financial penalty to iterative development. Unbelievable.

Patching your app? $20 please.
Here's another discussion on a similar subject that might be relevant.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=874859
I drove a Renault with one of these. You get used to it. After a few days, it is no longer distracting. Actually, I found the usual analogue gauges distracting when switching back!

Mercedes now uses a high resolution screen that displays an analogue speedo gauge. That is an interesting combination!
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I'm researching on how AI can be/is smarter than humans. Both it is happening and it won't happen (or anytime soon).

Any help is greatly appreciated!
So, once again it's 'education'. And for more detail, there are two themes: (1) Send more money. (2) It is just crucial for us to have the money so that we can do lots of really, really important things that can't be measured.

So, is the article really just about (A) important issues in education or is it just (B) partisan politics fighting over money with some of the usual techniques of politics -- some truths, half-truths, deception, distortion, emotion, etc.?

So, to pick between (A) and (B), let's see:

(a) Source. The article is in 'The Daily Kos', and I believe I've heard that this site is essentially propaganda by the more liberal wing of the Democrats and paid for at least heavily by Soros who apparently believes that US politics should be something like some of the traditions of old Central and Eastern European socialism.

(b) Subject. The article is to grab people by the heart and the gut to have them open up below the belt, this time their wallet in their hip pocket. It's a big sales pitch leading to "Send more money".

(c) Timing. At present one of the hottest political stories in the news is the fighting in several states and especially in Wisconsin trying to reduce expenditures by state governments so that the states can have balanced budgets without raising taxes and to reduce these expenditures by fighting with unionized state employees, especially the teachers' unions.

(d) Unions. Now we come full circle: The unions are heavily in the Democrat party with propaganda site 'The Daily Kos'.

So, it seems to me that article really is about (B) partisan politics and not (A) education.
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I think Apple has to spend lots on marketing because its main competitors (Microsoft and every PC maker on PCs and every other phone maker - Nokia excepted because of its recent suicide - in the smartphone space), taken together, outspend them by a huge margin (quite possible by orders of magnitude)

So, marketing is also something you need when your competitors spend more on that than in product development. Because if they spent in developing better products, you'd have to relocate your marketing resources into building some real value.

Also, Apple is expanding its business with its two app stores and pay for content revenue streams, so, we should expect large marketing expenditures to increase market awareness.

Oh. And before I forget, deciding whether you'll make a great product or a crappy-but-adequate one (or even one so crappy people are embarrassed to admit they bought it) is also part - and an important one - of your marketing strategy.
I thought I'd seen this before - here are some related submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1675699

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1006464

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=971878

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=963653

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=943486

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=940636

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=939938 <- This has lots of discussion.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=939149

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=938841

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=938413
I got a CS degree from Stanford in 2008, and I had the same worrys that you do. I didn't think I would be "smart enough" to keep up with the courses and the competition.

It turns out that Stanford's CS courses aren't that hard -- I was able to grasp the concepts quickly, and keep up with everything discussed in lectures and in books.

So what makes Stanford's CS program stand out? It's a lot of work. A lot of work. The intensity is what made the program so successful for me. Once I finished a class, I knew the material for life, because I spent so much time studying it. This is a huge contrast to the whole "cram for a test and forget it the next day" experience from my undergrad.

(Footnote: I was in the master's program, but I took quite a few undergrad courses to make up for my non-CS undergrad. My undergrad was in Information Systems at George Washington University. IS was a bad choice because the courses weren't very deep, neither in technology nor in business. But once I figured that out, it was easier to just finish up and graduate than to switch majors.)
By "reversing the changes" I think the OP wants to add this in as a patch for the Transmission, which is a popular open source BitTorrent client.

In fact I'd love to do that as well, given the chance.

EDIT: Just found out that it's open source, details here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitmate/develop
Meh. I would disagree; It's very subjective.

Sure it might look very verbose on first sight, but most of the seemingly excessive text is just there since it's C.

You get used to it, and the GTK+-family API:s are generally very well-designed, very orthogonal and predictable. The verbiage "falls away" from your sight after a while, and you just do what you want done.
His problem is his employer, not the work. When your boss(es) get too stupid for too long, creating a failing business, LEAVE. There are other much better employers to join - or start your own.
I'd say most of the traffic came indirectly via press who covered the story, rather than the actual billboard itself. It's been done, and I don't think the press will cover the same story twice, so don't expect the same results DDG had.
Hi Nathan! You back in the US? I hope you had your phone off when you were abroad, because I set off the pager about 600 times last week...

(Nathan and I work together at PBworks. If Stanford is what made him so smart, then DROP EVERYTHING AND GO THERE RIGHT NOW. :)
Assuming this article is correct, I don't understand why any political leader would not 'fix' the growth calculations to be rosier. Surely there are great political incentives to do so, the Japanese parliament has really unpopular leaders basically all the time. Do the bureaucrats really have THIS much power that PMs are basically forced to sacrifice themselves for trade policy?
I used to think there was a lot of truth in "a good product will sell itself". However, I've come to realize this very much depends on the specific industry you're in.

Take online dating for example. Why do (most of) these guys spend insane amounts of money on marketing? I think it is because word-of-mouth for a good datingsite is held back by the social stigma that still surrounds online dating.

So you have a product, and people would rather not tell others they're using it. How would you raise awareness about it without resorting to traditional marketing?
War is extremely profitable for those who on one the receiving end of the costs.

I highly recommend reading http://jontaplin.com/the-cost-of-empire/ , get the PDF if the images are not loading.
I'm an Amazon.co.uk Prime subscriber. I love it and things that I would normally shop around for I now just get from Amazon (as more often than not it's either cheaper with free delivery or the same price - the hassle of shopping around combined with the uncertainty stop me from going elsewhere. With Amazon I know it'll arrive in X number of days and I'm not going to save more than a few pounds).

Unfortunately in the UK we don't get the same deal as others, we have no movies on demand (which is a shame), but free kindles would seriously disrupt the ebook market here.
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As an business major myself and having lived in Japan for 5 years, I was a little surprised to see no sign of a lost decade anywhere. I come from one of the riches regions in Europe (Salzburg) and I found the living standards in Japan to be at least on par. I lived in Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagano so far.

In my opinion the Author's explanation is a little misleading. He overlooked the most important factor: "Demographics".
I am referring to the article at http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/2011/january/the-japan-...

Looking at the working age population, Japan is doing surprisingly well, better than the US, or Europe.

Despite the rapid decline of the working age population and the infamous long life expectancy Japan achieved economical growth. In other words there are considerably fewer Japanese working than a decade ago, but those few manage to make everyone in the country richer.

I agree with the author, Japan's 'Lost Decades' seems to be a myth.
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unfortunately humans don't think like this. when asked if they would rather make $50k while everyone else makes $25k or 100K while everyone else makes $200k (the costs of goods and services being the same) people overwhelmingly choose the former. why? status is zero-sum. mate-pairing relies on looking good compared to the next person, not on absolute scales of standard of living.
There's a book currently on my wish-list called "Why Children Hate School", about a cognitive psychologist's take on education. He strongly stresses how important it is to drill fundamentals. The human brain is terrible at doing things it hasn't practised, and tends to avoid doing things that it doesn't know how to do. That's why people switch off when you talk about statistical significance - their brains don't remember statistics so they go to sleep instead of thinking. The path of least resistance is always ignoring things, unless you already know 80% (made up number) of what's being said.

DI is better than more appetising methods (i.e. ones that teachers think they would enjoy learning in), because it drills fundamentals, but I think that better methods could be built using cognitive principles.

Musicians stress practising scales, martial artists practice basic techniques, programmers practice Fizzbuzz every damn time someone links to that article, and everyone practices speaking in front of the mirror. But school-kids don't practice learning.
Have I missed something, surely this is entirely pointless? You need to have a blank single colour surface behind it, or the images on the transparent screen get obscured by the colours of whatever is behind it. This is even demonstrable in their demo video!
I like Balsamiq to mockup site UIs.
Not really. If you're doing something nobody else does, maybe the best tool for it is something nobody else uses.
This is so true.

Most of the best practices I've picked up were working on existing established code bases at Match.com and TI. I work mostly with startups where you have a lot of freedom but the experience I picked up at those big companies has really stuck with me and my code is probably 10x more maintainable because of it.
>Canada has demographics comparable to the US's

I suppose so, if you aren't including race in your demographic profile. That happens to be an area where the US and Canada diverge significantly.
That's an interesting article, thanks for sharing.

I'm sure many budding entrepreneurs and fund seekers will find your perspective helpful/useful.
Thats my major concern here, i recently bought the Cracked.com Kindle Book and was astonished how amazingly bad the Kindle Version is in comparison to the real one. The included images were pixelated to the point of beeing unrecognizable and the text seemed to be not really formatted for my device.

And thats considering i paid 4$ more than the real one would have cost... so until they produce more quality in these things i stick to Project Gutenberg and read the classics.
Yeah. Six weeks is barely enough time to pick up on on all the architectural and subtle design decisions in the code base. You still probably won't be really comfortable making big changes for at least another 6 weeks after that with any significant code base. Maintenance programming implies deep understanding of the existing code really.
This research seems quite interesting, however I see one problem here. The BitMate client is fairly heavy, the download ranks in at 18MB. Getting this out to users in low bandwidth areas becomes difficult due to this. Compare this to uTorrent, which is just a 387kB download.
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Amazon actually advertised fairly aggressively in the New York Times (among other places, I imagine) in the mid-90s, which was critical to their becoming the dominant online bookseller.
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Standardised tests should be used to collect data, but failure to score well on standardised tests shouldn't be punished. Otherwise you just give everyone an incentive to game the metric, and quality disappears.
I don't understand, if all of the fees are waived indefinitely, why even mention them? Why even have them? If the plan is to waive fees until RIM gets market share, will the fees really matter at that point?

All it does is make developers nervous that they might be locked into paying money in the future. Just do like Google and charge developers a token fee (to verify identity and intent, I'm guessing) right from the beginning.

If the goal is to lower the barriers to developer adoption, a $25 fee isn't going to stop anyone like the threat of a $200 fee in the future will.
Nothing besides HUDs and ar glasses, that's waay enough.
But oled displays would be even better, because this lcd is transperent even where are images.
Thank you for this input. We didn't want to change much in the most popular Bittorrent client (Vuze) that we used for building this. You are right, we will work on releasing a light (perhaps sans-UI) version of this soon ..
TI ViewScreen. :-)

I used to work at TI in the education/productivity group. Know way to much about it that monster. Worked on the model for the TI-Nspire for a bit. Software guy and not a hardware guy so I know very little how it worked.
Exactly. Canada spends, on average, over $3000 less per student and yet consistently scores significantly higher on the UN's Education Index than the US. No need to look to Europe or the East to find out what can be done better.
I'm sorry you had to take that literal, I was just figuratively speaking.

My point is that it is the human part of surveillance that is costly. For everything that can be collected automatically with systems already in place (even though placing those systems could have been very expensive), the threshold to use it is very low. When the information is collected and processed, what rests is only database queries. "automatic surveillance" is (comparatively) cheap.

In contrast, "expensive surveillance" is placing monitoring equipment in a house, parking some fan sneakily around the block to listen in, and such. It's labour and resource intensive.
It might not be so helpful to compare salaries alone (although I've heard they're actually higher in Canada, but don't have hard statistics). Remember , Canadians do have to pay for health insurance, so even if they have smaller salaries, they could still end up with more disposable income.
I agree that it is hard to get GHC produce the assembly you want, but I think this is unfair to "blame" GHC for this. In my eyes Haskell is mostly a high-level language and if you worry about the assembler produced I think we have left high-level language territory and it might easier to just write C and use the FFI.
I'm not sure the "getting pregnant" advice was such a good example. Of course people will laugh when advice involves sex. If the 4 paragraphs had their order changed, so if the first two were switched with the last 2, and perhaps the two paragraphs involving sex were edited down to one, the complaint wouldn't hold water. I posit that such content is just a lightweight overview, which is badly edited and doesn't have too many specific points of action. Compared to other useless scraper content I've seen, it's not that bad.
I'm using Chrome 8 on linux, and Ctrl-S in the pdf viewer most definitely does not re-download the file. I know this because when I do that, Evince cannot open the saved file (the Chrome version has stuff at the end that the original does not). I always have to go back to the linking site and select "save target as".
Japan spent a decade or more working off the debt that it's citizens had, just as the US is taking a long time to get its citizens out of financial trouble.

The government eventually rescued the private sector by building railways to no-where. That's still causing problems, as they have to spend tax revenue paying interest, not paying for healthcare or research (or tax cuts).

The excessive debt shouldn't have been there in the first place.

Of course, it's not all bad news, and Japan has grown in some ways (despite competing with Korea and China), but its high trade balance is the result of abused consumers (who were first conned into taking in giant loans for their houses, then taxed so the government could rescue lenders), not of great economic strengths.
I don't think the tech companies get off free here though, Apple have reportedly turned a blind eye in the past to conditions in factories producing their products.

Coca-Cola does sell a lot more than their flagship drink though, when it comes to ethics of what you can legally invest in they could do a lot worse.
Except that what seems to be the most biting issue for her is being forced to teach for test scores. Throwing money at that won't make the classes any more engaging. Try actually RingTFA next time.
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What if it isn't? :)
The UK company Codemasters takes a heavy handed approach to piracy, of 1986-era ZX Spectrum games!
Gee and we wonder why RIM might be attempting to get android apps to run on playbook? Considering that most android markets require you to use their market app..good luck with that RIM