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Yep, HP customers is the main market for Itanium nowadays, running HP-UX or OpenVMS.
I think this is an underestimate. They also charge a per-booking transaction to the person booking. It is around $10. Assuming that the average booking is 3-nights that's another $3M.
awesome news! congratulations

Did you guys happen to have the girl who used a website design as a resume create this for you? :)
My List of Top 20 Java Related Books | Extreme Java
Wanderfly.com has some features to check out. Good use of flickr api.

I had similar idea and found wanderfly, among others.
The patent is pending so no "real" value there just yet. I'm not toooo attached to the idea but I'd hate to put in all this work with all this promise just to give up. But yeah, the hardware bit is pretty tough. You're right I have learned alot which is nice.

Thanks
Justin Bieber: Cabello que vale oro
Not enough. That's talking about support from developers, not whether hardware vendors need to pay for licensing to include this tech in their hardware.

That said, Mini DisplayPort is free of hardware licensing fees... so there's a good chance.
The idea of a train moving from London to Dover at a speed high enough to make a robbery difficult was ,until recently, almost unimaginable!
Therefore you need hardware hacks (MMU) to separate processes

I cannot apprehend the confusion of ideas that would lead you to believe this is caused by C. It's assembly, not C, that runs on your machine, and assembly is not memory safe. Microsoft's Singularity runs managed code, so there's a software layer providing memory protection.

An operating system is not defined by its preferred programming language.
First Screenshots and Details of Mac OS X Lion
Its a shareware platform, which has a few options, mainly to gain attention and following for a pay for app or service under the same umbrella.
When I was in my local Apple Store here in LA, I was confused that they didn't have any Apple Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapters on the shelves at all.

Then I saw they had these instead. The Apple Store had the Moshi adapters completely take the place of the old Apple MDP/HDMI adapters.

That must be the ultimate coup for an accessory manufacturer: having the manufacturer drop their accessory for yours in their own stores!
profs/TAs certainly can catch cheaters though, and they're pretty good at it without resorting to extreme measures.

Instantly failing anybody who isn't comfortable with version control is the type of scorched earth tactic that you'd expect the TSA to dream up if they were in charge of catching cheaters.
Is IT skills gap keeping companies from hiring?
On the House Vote to Defund the IPCC
Android Honeycomb Review
Thanks for the ``greedy algorithm'' hint ;-)
One time they bought a plane ticket online for $350.

I assume this one get caught?
I can't recall the tools in releases prior to 9 as I've been using the betas and RC for some time now, but they're actually not that bad.

Firebug and the Chrome developer tools beat them easily, but they have improved.
Yes, I've noticed that. It's the same in Firebug too. It definitely bugs you in debugging :)

I'm not exactly sure what defines it, I think it's devtools (or firebug) itself, but it's a function that returns a dom element with id of first argument.

Very annoying, although truth be told, $ and _ should have never been used in js libraries: those names were reserved for internal use in javascript.
According to a benchmark, OS X doesn't really require TRIM to keep the performance up.

Please see this link: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/apple/2010/07/01/mac-ssd-pe...

I have been using two Intel X25-M SSDs as RAID 0 in a Macbook Pro almost a year now and I've yet to see any loss in performance. Apple has been offering SSDs as BTO for quite some time now. If you can use a screwdriver I suggest you buy a Sandforce-based SSD and install it yourself as those are immensely faster than the Apple-provided ones.
I've tried this in the past with no luck getting through to them. I like the advice and may try this avenue again with my new found description of my product. What's the best way to pitch an ad agency? I've gotten the run around with them alot as well.
Thanks!
This goes beyond my knowledge of hardware design, but I suspect there's no fundamental reason preventing it. The signal processing at those sort of clock rates may however consume more power than is practical - I don't know.
Chris Anderson also talked about this in an interview with Charlie Rose last week: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11483
This is a very good question, and I don't have any answers.

But one anecdote that might be relevant...

My wife and I were on a date last month at Chima, a Brazilian Churrascaria. The waiter took our drink orders on an iPhone. Throughout the rest of the night, we could ask any of the wait staff for something, they would just punch it into their iPhone and someone else would bring it right out. The system worked flawlessly. (This was also our first date in 10+ months, so I was probably pre-wired to be happy/impressed with anything.)

At the end of the meal, I asked to play with the app. It was really well done, with large, intuitive buttons, and a simple interface: [1] enter the table number, [2] choose the item category, [3] choose the item.

Most surprising of all: it was actually his iPhone. The servers get the choice of using one of the house's iPod Touches, or their own iPhones.

Now, Chima is an upscale, national chain, so it could be years (or never) before this trickles down to your local neighborhood bar, but I thought this was an inspiring indicator of how mobile technology might be integrated into the service sector.
Awesome, looking forward to trying again when there's a little more clarity in availability (or when I need a place on short notice, because it looks like that kind of situation is where Airbnb really hits it out of the park).
#2 is classic technology short-sightedness. How many times have people said that a 100 GB Hard Drive, 2 GB RAM, etc. is more than sufficient?
dude seriously, come on. imagine video chatting with your family and then you get sent a link. i want the video chat to the running in the background while i look at the link whether it be youtube, a map, or just a plain old text page.
You're right. I suppose the 3% is meant to just about cover the credit card fees then.

E.g. http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/73581 . Click the 'more info' link that's just below the 'Book it' button. It says in tiny print "Excludes Airbnb service fee ($9)".

Odd how they're hiding that fee; much worse than the typical hotel website that tries to hide taxes. Airbnb folks, I know you're reading: that instantly changed my impression of you guys from awesome to sleazy. Please make it more visible.
It's difficult to measure, but we kind of eyeball it by looking at the decrease in fake profiles with each thing we add.

CloudFlare was hands down the most effective thing we've done so far (by blocking users by country and/or by Project Honeypot info). It virtually eliminated all of the automated bot accounts and most of the human spammers.

A couple of days ago I changed the signup process to use the Facebook Registration tool (under the assumption that Facebook is way better at weeding out fake profiles than we are), and that seems to be working pretty well so far. It's too soon to tell how it will affect our signup rates, but we'd rather err on the side of quality profiles.

I'm also looking at running profiles through Mollom and some image-checking service I can't remember the name of if we still have fake profiles slipping through the cracks after all that, but we'll continue to go through the profiles every day and try to find the bad guys.

We also gave a nice lady a lifetime premium account for reporting a ton of suspicious profiles when we were first starting out. :)
The poster of the question is a developer. I answered to help get the information he asked for, not have my answer graded on completeness or lack thereof with a curt "Not enough".
I hire engineers all the time, and one of the most common failure cases in hiring is someone who's smart but doesn't get things done - i.e. they whiteboard/interview/code sample well, but when push comes to shove, don't actually end up delivering.

There are lots of reasons people don't deliver, but one is that they aren't actually writing code during the day. I'd love to have someone prescreened with a "he actually spent 40 hours this week working in Textmate & Terminal." That's like hearing you're somebody's first choice - a huge point in your favor.

So while I can't imagine this not feeling slightly creepy, I love the idea. Go RescueTime go!
Offer HN: A javascript library for both FBJS and JS, for your Facebook apps
Looking forward to trying it out!
I need this. Please release soon. (And let me beta too!)
No royalties on Unreal Development Kit until $50,000 in sales
its not the new i7 mobiles that are not supporting it... You can get a sager with 16GB http://www.sagernotebook.com/index.php?page=product_customed...
Boost 1.46.0 Released
Apple also pioneered USB with the iMac. Because USB was the only way to connect anything to the iMac, it served as a catalyst for device makers to come out with USB devices, since they knew they had a captive market.

Once the number of USB peripherals reached critical mass, the general PC market followed suit.

So, will Thunderbolt adoption more closely resemble that of Firewire, or USB?
Earthquake devastation photos from Christchurch, New Zealand
How about actually doing stuff - you know, building things? hacking?
Yeah.. for all those people saying it's not impressive, I'm forced to wonder why they didn't just build it, then.

EDIT: Wow this comment is way more controversial than I thought when writing it. Down to -1, up to 2, back to 0.

Anyone who finds it so objectionable as to downrate, please explain why that's so? Discussion > downvoting.
> Advertise in non-intrusive spaces.

I've tried this one, and it did ok - $500/month or so at its peak, when I happened to release updates to my most popular extensions all in the same month. Still felt a little spammy, but not too much. The user experience did suffer a little, so I moved to simple firstrun pages that focus more on "How do I use what I just installed?", like this: http://www.chrisfinke.com/firstrun/twitterbar.php

> TwitterBar "via" field.

In the "new Twitter," the "via" field is hidden until you click on a specific tweet - the visibility is far too low to be worth it I think.

> [Lastly] Gather email addresses.

I started doing this just last week - see http://www.chrisfinke.com/firstrun/twitterbar.php or http://www.chrisfinke.com/firstrun/rss-ticker.php. Opt-in rate so far has been low - about 1.5%, but I'm doing some A/B testing to work on that.

> Get a sponsorship
> Opt-in link juice/affiliate links.

I'll look into these two, thanks.
Just because students are out doesn't mean the school isn't occupied! I used to work as a network admin at a boarding school, and there would usually be at least one "off-site" staff member working past midnight each day (and of course, on-site staff 24/7, although thankfully most of them sleep at night), as well as staff coming in at the weekend.

Computers have become mission critical in schools now - lessons, paperwork, planning, organisation, telephones, intercoms, security cameras†, locks‡ were all computer-dependent. To date that school network is the most advanced, highest-uptime network I've ever worked on: two server rooms (network continues at almost full capacity with the loss of either) in separate locations and a backup server in a third location. Unplanned outages were basically non-existent, and the loss of any service was very rare and involved lots of people shouting at us :(

† Internal only, external were still on tape

‡ I don't mean all the doors open if the network goes down, but the electronic locks were controlled over the network
Worse, by definition they do not understand what they do not understand and so cannot avoid them

Kasparov didn't seem to see what I did. Watson seemed very consistent in knowing what it did not know. There was maybe two questions I recall where it actually got the question wrong with 50%+ certainty. I believe it answered, "leg" when it should have been "mising a leg". The other it answered the 20s when the answer was the 10s. And I think for neither of those the percentage was much beyond 50%.

Also Kasparov seems to miss that Watson in medicine would be used with humans. I doubt a doctor will say, "Watson says to cut off his left leg -- I would just given him aspirin for the headache, oh well. Hopefully cutting off this leg makes his head feel better."

What Watson hopefully will do is help diagnosis. Especially tricky ones.

There's a great story in a book I read, I wish I could recall the name, but it begins with a lady who has some stomach issue that she has for like 20 years. Everyone thinks its in her head. She finally happens upon a doctor who happens to have seen something like this before, she gets diagnosed and healed. But she had to live with it for like 20 years after seeing doctor after doctor. Watson would be able to greatly help situations like this, I hope.

UPDATE: The book is "How Doctor's Think". Here's an excerpt that talks about this case, http://harvardmedicine.hms.harvard.edu/bulletin/winter2007/7... -- just in case anyone cares. :-)
Hotels, unlike Airbnb, get to make money off of the actual room charge. They also get to charge high rates for late bookings and general "just because."

Airbnb is a different business model than hotels. The $9 service fee is something that I happily pay for their service.

Edit: it is also right there on the submit reservation page:

http://cl.ly/3r0G0w3p1G0S0c093j3d
Link to the last time this was posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2237158
ye, who has lowered me points shall be smitten by the hammer of the Thooorrrrrrr!!
First, we've been told repeatedly that the market is amoral. I am not willing to disadvantage myself when there are plenty of traders who would rob me blind if it meant a bigger bonus.

Second, most people trading in ETFs do not have the amount of money needed to get the necessary diversity from a basket of stocks.

Finally, you could do worse than http://bmwmethod.com/about.php if you want to get into picking on your own.
Ever notice that an Ethernet jack is just the right height for a USB plug to go into it snugly? I got confused by that one day when I plugged something in without paying attention.
JQuery 1.5.1 released, includes full IE 9 support
Those who have no stomach for violence can eke out a living snatching cell phones on the subway, which are much easier to convert to cash than stolen credit cards...

At first I thought this was a fake semantic distinction, but now I see: Snatching is not the same as pickpocketing, because the mark helpfully takes out the most valuable item they own and holds it in prime stealing position for you, instead of concealing it in a pocket.

So this seems like the obvious reason why pickpocketing is dying: We've made it too easy. The most easily-fenced, most valuable object I carry is also one which I am very likely to take out and juggle as I wander through crowded places.

Here's where a better article would have coupled the stats on pickpockets with actual stats on public theft and other petty crimes, including things like ATM skimming. (Of course, I believe that all of these things are declining in absolute terms.)
We're supposed to be sad about this?

I mean, sure, if it were being replaced with more violent thievery that would be bad, but crime has been dipping across the board.
What are you gaining? The ability to resume working where you left off (so you can reboot your computer after updates and not worry about having to shut down everything). The ability to use your computer full-screen and switch to other apps also in full screen. Better management of memory and processes so that you don't have to care about Ctrl+Qing applications.

These are pretty good lessons they've learned from the iPad user experience. There's no reason why a laptop shouldn't learn from the experiences of other platforms.
I think I have roughly 10 sites that I visit on a regular basis. The other sites that I hit are links from the top 10. I only go there long enough to read whatever article there is and close the page. I rarely use page 2 of google search unless I'm tracking down an answer to a problem I'm having.

I would say that yes, the magic is gone from the internet, but in it's place I am left with a fine tuned experience where I don't feel that I'm missing out on anything.

You might have something on the curiosity front. I don't find myself searching out random stuff that much anymore. Instead, I seem to rely on websites to tell me what is interesting. I think that realization is fairly disturbing but probably a trend overall for everyone.
I was scratching my head trying to work this out the other day - I ended up heading back to FF and Firebug. Thankyou!
Analysing the total points on the "newest" page over time
There's a few important differences between HBase versioning and ElephantDB versioning. The HBase versioning is more of a "buffer" that gives you a limited window to rollback when you make a mistake. As you said. if you overwrite too many times you can't recover.

The ElephantDB versions are totally independent from one another, whereas with HBase they're stored in the same index. The only tradeoff to storing more ElephantDB versions is using more space on the distributed filesystem. ElephantDB versions don't go away until you delete them, which lets you use whatever strategy you want to manage versions. For example, you may decide to keep one version each month, and every version for the past week. This lets you do analytics that looks at your data from long ago.
Apple has always supported booting OS X from external drives, be it USB or Firewire. So I'm sure the answer is 'Yes.'
Ahh, I was wondering what was powering that. Thought it might have been an evolution of the etherpad stack.

Oh how I miss etherpad.
Everyone seems to forget that Watson would never have answered Toronto if it didn’t have to. It wasn’t at all confident, you can’t even really say that it made a mistake. It just didn’t know the answer and was – correctly so – very sure that it didn’t know the answer.
This is a follow-up to the item about how long submissions stay on the "Newest" page as a function of time of submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2022547
Refresh the page and you'll get a new lady.
I was also thinking about what to do as a vegetarian.

The documentation[1] has an Ingredient property, so I would imagine that I'd be able to target this with a query somehow. I'm sure Google are aware of the most basic ways people would want to use Microformats.

The Google Recipe page can also be found [here](http://www.google.com/landing/recipes/).

[1]: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...
I would have agreed a few years back, but these days the amount of PHP code I write relative to the project size is small enough that there's no ROI to switch platforms, even for new projects. Most of the code I write is static javascript, and PHP exists only to load and save the business data.

That's also why all of those frameworks aren't very relevant to me. I have no use for server-side MVC because the server isn't involved in the application UI. I have no use for ORM, because building up an object structure in memory only to deflate it again into a web service response is often overkill. I do use Zend Framework, but I use it to simplify my transactional DB logic and to assist in bootstrapping the web services.
I haven't tried the IE9 tools extensively but I did notice that evaluating a JS object in the JS REPL will now let you see the structure of that object as in Chrome, not just display "{Object}" as it did in IE8. That was probably my biggest gripe with the IE8 tools.
I'm scared of what they'll do to Exposé in Lion... they already butchered it with the grid style in 10.6, but at least that could be undone with an easy little hack:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=869611
"There's nothing to see - move along ... "

Good conclusion. Much better than the more common, "You stare at my page for 15 minutes and see if I said anything." :-)
maybe what's he's trying to say it's it should be included with the default installation, but not activated.
Because they make more money by forcing you to go to the cinema and pay $12/ticket each time you want to see the movie for several months, before finally releasing on DVD several months later, and making money from that when everyone buys it again. The movie industry would also be opposed to this idea as one of the only ways they keep films from high-quality piracy for any reasonable time is by restricting the distribution and format of the film to something that's not easily ripped and uploaded. Even an encrypted stream would be much easier to break and redistribute in most cases than hooking up a projector and ripping from that.
I tried to use this approach last semester in a course I taught and found out that it isn't easy to get used to an SCM the first time, so regular and good students end up doing huge and late commits, moreover, one of the worse performing students learnt -ironically- to alter the git log to seem more diligent than he actually was (lots of commits and files changed), and with stuff like git rebase, a more clever cheater could never actually get caught. So an approach strongly reliant on the SCM kinda weakens in practice(though, as you point out, it could be used as a _secondary indicator_ or guarantee of work). And in theory, as other commenters say, taken to extremes, one ends up evaluating secondary things and overseeing essential things like the ability to rationally defend the code and explain one's approach.

Nevertheless, it is feasible to set up stuff like post-commit hooks (I actually used 'em to monitor the turn ins to an exam) to maybe submit the code to an automated plagiarism detector like [moss](http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/), that would be cool, maybe I'll try that out next semester.
You might as well have linked to NCAA Basketball scores!

Let's be honest. When people "use Ruby" (or Python) you really don't know what proportion of them are using which version. And the data you have a lot of does not help with that.

Nor does the data you have a lot of tell us what proportion of Perl users use which version of Perl.
It might help to list where you are located.
How much do phone makers pay for Windows Phone 7?
A long-time Windows advantage is finally being added: windows can be resized from all edges and corners.
Reminds me of this Moth Radio Hour episode
http://www.themoth.org/radio_205
You can listen to the piece on the prx site after signing up for an account
http://www.prx.org/pieces/47406-moth-radio-hour-205
Interesting. The only Microsoft USB plug I have these days is one of the wireless stubs, where the logo is the only clue. I have noticed that some Logitech products have a concave top, presumably for the same tactile feedback approach.

Of course, you can always just look at the end of the plug and orient it so the white plastic key is on the bottom, but where's the fun in that?
Wind tunnel ride...that sounds awesome!
FreeBSD 8.2 released