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I agree snprbob86, and that's what I was getting at. PowerShell doesn't know if it's a shell or an object-based language.

It's far too verbose. It's a shell, and a huge pain to type interactively. Yes, it has tab completion, but so does bash - and that's far less verbose.

It's also opaque. Because it's object-based, but you work with it on the command line, it outputs in text but there is constantly "other" information that is not displayed on screen that you can get if you pipe through to another command. That's not intuitive. Text processing is intuitive.

It reeks of design by committee. It's own execution policy. Java-like getter/setters. Super verbose syntax. About the only good thing PowerShell has done is force Microsoft to provide a command-line, scriptable interface to all their server products to get away from GUI dependency. And that's a product of their PowerShell internal policy, not the language itself.

Yes, it's better than CMD.exe. But still a huge pain. Other platforms have Python, Ruby, Perl... and dare I say it, bash.
It never ceases to amaze me how even decades after MLK and the end of apartheid in America, that people still continually try to reframe these discussions into

"because they're browner than me they deserve to be poorer than me"

Now, I now that isn't what the OP probably intended, but (like sexism) the racism bias still runs deep in that land and is subtle and insidious.
Twitter - can't follow lists, etc. - try old interface, apigee, other client
Should I get a VPS?
Yes, it definitely is coming to Windows Phone 7.
Is this thread a parody of how no one should use PHP?
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I would imagine part of it is that SaaS and PaaS startups have an easier path to revenue. For most of them, a single user means revenue, which means you have more wiggle room for salary. It's also easier to do long term planning if you have recurring revenue streams and possibly multi-year contracts.
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A common "general" application of RSS is news, but this will hopefully be slowly phased out as well. The New York Times offers an awesome API (http://developer.nytimes.com/) which gives you a much better view of their data than their RSS feeds (which they still provide).
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Ah, how I despised the PS2 DEV TOOL. The only cool thing about it was the look on people's faces when they'd see it...right out of that scene in Aliens when Ripley walks in on the Queen.
The real reason there are so many engineers in India is because there are many many crappy engineering colleges in India right now. The last decade saw engineering become a business and every person with a little money looked to start an engineering college. Yes India has a lot of population but the proliferation of colleges is the main reason.
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So would it be safe to say that California is probably the best for employees and Texas the worst?
For me it's 12" that strikes the right balance, and even more important than screen size is the keyboard.
Either at some point in the future, an answer to that question develops, in which case they obtain some money, or an answer never develops, in which case they are out a very small amount of time.

There's not much loss for non-profits to accept BitCoin donations. Unfortunately, it doesn't really help bootstrap the BitCoin network very much, but it's still a bit more acceptance.
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I agree with you that real world networking is always much better. But I think that online networking is all about starting a discussion so you have an excuse to meet that person in the real world.
Me too.
I want to know how to promote.
Hope some guys will share your real experience.
Thanks!!
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Something like this? https://www.pwdhash.com/ You can use the same password but the local browser plugin will use the site's URL to hash the password you type into something unique to that URL. I haven't used it personally and haven't researched it in detail but I like the concept.
It seems MtGox is the biggest. Of course bitcoin's liquidity isn't comparable to a "real" currency, so the exchange rate is quite volatile. If you just want to speculate on currency then you'd probably do better buying Albanian currency.

Since there's virtually no cost in receiving and storing bitcoins, the FSF might just save them until the exchange rate goes up. It's donations so it's not like they risking anything (except for potential legal problems).
i.e., providing a way to buy things without giving Apple their 30%.
And yet all the really cool stuff is designed in California and Texas makes cotton and corn and most of the state is an inhospitable desert.
I wouldn't say that at all. Last January I moved from Dallas, Texas to take a job with Amazon in Seattle. Texas is a great place to work. Plus houses are affordable, and new, and large.
13-14" is fine for programming but uncomfortable for Photoshop.
Texas was followed, in order, by North Carolina, Florida, Tennessee and Georgia.
Ranking 46th through 49th in the rankings were Michigan, New Jersey, Illinois and New York, respectively.

I would attribute this to the amount of local taxes and labor laws that these states have. The "Worst" rankings are for states that have taxes and robust labor laws/strong unions.

Let's face it, they don't like Texas for their education systems. They like it because their overhead is much cheaper. Plus, East Texas is patent troll paradise.

Not that there is anything wrong with those motives, but it is useful to keep in mind.
I got some peverse joy out of writing code that could chunk my 3d models, send them over the bus and coordinate the two co-processors. So many late nights....
The real question is not whether WebOS is good or bad but whether any single hardware and OS vendor (other than Apple, obviously) has a snowflake's chance in hell of getting the ecosystem and mindshare required to be competitive. Especially in the US where the carriers have a such strong hold on the only viable channels to consumers you basically can't get anywhere unless you can align your interests strongly with the established parties. Apple forced their way in through sheer mass consumer appeal, Google managed to do it through a brilliant strategy of giving carriers just enough control to make them see it as a savior from being dictated to by Apple. But what strategic value will carriers get from offering WebOS based phones? If HP screws them with bad hardware they are stuck. If HP screws them with bad software they are stuck. Pile on top of that the fact that the demands of modern smart phones these days go way beyond a nice OS - you just can't compete unless you come to the table with a huge range of services integrated - mapping, search, voice-to-text, etc. WebOS relies on competitors to get these services which can't possibly work long term.

I also disagree with the assessment of WP7 - I don't think the so-called "missteps" have even been noticed by the vast majority of consumers using WP7 phones. With Nokia maxing out their distribution channel to push WP7 phones I really can't see how WebOS is going to beat them. People are going to buy them just through sheer numbers of them on the shelves. It doesn't mean WP7 is going to succeed but certainly indicates WebOS is going to have a really hard time beating them.
AI is an epistemological problem. What stalled AI is the lack of a comprehensive theory of concepts and theory of induction. All the traits cited in the article that distinguish us from the animals are derivatives of reason. Whenever these supposed intellectuals get around to realizing this fact they can all eat crow and thank Ayn Rand for solving the problem of concepts and leaving significant clues to the solution to the problem of induction.
It's precisely because there's so much crud on Facebook that I consume it via an RSS feed rather than by visiting the site; that way, I can skim through a day's worth of friend updates in less than a minute. In any case, I have facebook.com ad-blocked in my primary browser, and use a secondary browser whenever I need to visit it. I don't visit Facebook much more often than once a week, and I only do if there's a particular update etc. worthy of attention.

I use jwz's RSS workarounds for my Facebook feeds: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2009/12/how-to-use-facebook-with-a-f...

Unfortunately, in the past week, Facebook's RSS feeds have been behaving very erratically. As seen in Google Reader, the update feeds show up as entirely refreshed - all new items - even though only a handful of items are actually new. The links on the RSS items have changed from the proper status update link to flat links to facebook.com. So rather than killing RSS, this move by Facebook is killing Facebook for me.
Apple usurps Google as world's most valuable brand
I would bet that many of us who manage servers have multiple anomalies in logs we can't explain, but we just don't scan our logs in enough detail to find the anomalies in the first place.

The fact that LastPass has methods to notice small anomalies like this is reassuring.
One never knows. It's like predicting the stock market for the next 10 years. If you really knew, you'd not be writing articles, but making yourself wicked rich.

Anytime is a good time to be a founder. There's always a need for something better. Technology and use of technology is always evolving.
good point. Sort of like a conversation starter
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You don't understand espionage. You don't incentivize a country to not spy; you make it hard as hell for them to steal your secrets. And, who cares about incentivizing China? We should continue to find ways to make it harder for China to rip off our technology. This is a brilliant move against an outwardly adversarial country and I hope it continues.
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How much more IP has Israel stolen than China?
If you're the type of employee who views his employer as an adversary, perhaps.
Quora: If you started on a new Browser today, what would you develop?
I hope we win this one, too.
Does this count? (Ruby FWIW)

class Fixnum; def ==(o); true end end; 4 == 5 # => true
Not sure which library they're using, but it could be
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/diagrams
Here is an attempt to answer your serious question.

When was the last time that you "could have sworn" that you left your keys on the desk, but they're on the counter instead. Suppose that happened; it almost certainly means you just misremembered where you left your keys, but there is a TINY chance that someone might have stolen the keys, copied them, and put them back in the wrong place.

Just to be 100% certain, you immediately call a locksmith, and get your locks changed. And all the neighbors start talking about how poor you are at security for having allowed a burglar into your house.

THAT would be a reasonable analogy for what LastPass did.
Is it really all that verbose? The full cmdlet names like Get-ChildItem etc. are long, but there are standard abbreviations for most of them - which follow a more consistent naming pattern than short names in most languages/shells.
The 'times are making it all sound more nefarious that it should be, and Skyhook's case is actually hanging by a thread. Apple, RIM, Nokia, everyone without an open source OS use their own location db why shouldn't Google? Using a compatibility sticker to actually insure compatibility is valid and since the option of introducing a non-compatible handset exists that only bodes well for Google in this suite.
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>I can tell good tea from bad tea, but I've never grown it.

That's a straw man argument. If you used to grow tea, got famous for some awesome blend, started writing books about tea, stopped growing it, then joined a panel with a bunch of other former tea growers and said people need to start growing good tea again... then that'd be closer. Even better would be if in the time since you last grew tea, the plant had become endangered and complicated processes had to be undertaken by current manufacturers to extract sufficient quantities for production.

You want better tea? You're in luck! You happen to have been an expert tea-grower in the past-- welcome back! Get to work.

>Chomsky has hardly "not produced anything of value"

Quite the opposite. In fact, all of these guys are brilliant researchers who have made huge impacts on their fields. My point was that they are not actively contributing anything, and haven't been for the last 30+ years. When was the last time Chomsky did any serious investigation that wasn't about how evil governments are?

If Geoffrey Hinton, David Fogel, Jonathan Schaeffer, or any of the other "second-wave" pioneers[1] who have remained active in the last 20 years want to form a panel and complain about people not focusing on high-level research topics, then sure. Because I know when they do so, they'll point to their own research being published in the last few years as an example.

[1] The guys who got us out of the AI winter.
What vacuum do you recommend for longer carpet?
If the status quo is a problem at all, then it's a problem with all of modern academia.

The problem will only be solved by better ways of selecting and supporting academics. Fix how stuff is funded and you fix the issue.
Ask HN: How to setup a secure server on Amazon EC2
I have been looking at scalable web hosting solutions and I am interested in starting a web server on Amazon's EC2. It is simply because I can run many of my processes in the background and reduce the amount of online processing.

I have no experience in setting up and checking for security holes in my Apache server. I am wondering what is the best practice for setting up a secure webserver on Amazon machines?

Is there any AMI that is already configured to serve as a secure web host?

Thanks

Siah
I must spend too much time online. I meet more people "here" than IRL who actually connect in a meaningful way to me and help me further my goals in terms of developing my websites and what not. IRL, I have some entry level job I can't get promoted out of and I seem to fail to impress. I am aware of some of the reasons for that, but being aware of those reasons and being able to overcome them are not the same thing.

As for the closing question of the blog:

I am still learning new ways of networking online so I would be very interested in hearing how you use the Internet to network

Make yourself available in real time as much as possible. Be actively online for a block of time participating in discussions on boards or answering emails or using live Chat or Skype if that works for you or whatever medium makes a good connection with the person you are contacting. (EDIT: If you are in very different time zones, this may mean being online at odd hours. If you are prone to insomnia, make good use of that time.) Get back to people quickly, though sometimes if you don't know what to say, waiting a little while so you can gather your thoughts has its merits. It can sound flaky to send a prompt email reply with no real content and then follow-up later with a more substantive reply -- or worse send a brief email promising more substance and never deliver. "You only get one chance to make a first impression". So in some cases, it is wise to wait a bit and reply when you are able to give it the attention it deserves. Still, don't wait too long.

Also, have patience. Online acquaintances may suddenly wind up very busy and there may be no means in place for them to feel comfortable notifying you or for you to feel comfortable asking why they suddenly dropped out of sight. Be very slow to judge. Yes, in some cases it is exactly your worst fear: They really do dislike you; they really are rejecting you and trying to avoid an uncomfortable situation and thinking they can get away with it because it's not "real life", it's just the internet; etc. But in many other cases, they had some personal emergency or other (or are just busy or forgot) and acting like an insecure, attention-mongering jerk while they are overwhelmed with events is a great way to earn their personal rejection.

Peace and good luck.
I meant, if you're invited to a high school to talk about raising your employment prospects, it is good idea to tell students to work hard and do well.

There are definitely people who would be better off dropping out as early as possible and start working but that's a minority.

Even electricians and mechanics require tertiary education. (Otherwise, what does my brother training to be a mechanic mean when he says he's going to "class"?!)

Dropping education as early as possible might be a good idea if your aim is to work in a field where knowledge can be easily self taught. (Like IT or painting). Even then, a one year crash course I think would be quite helpful. I self-taught myself programming too, but I only learned about "unit-testing" in university. I guess you can argue I could learn that in my first job, but what if I want to, say, do a startup? ;)

>> I really believe there is a correlation/causation problem with the "Higher educations leads to Higher Income"

We're talking about higher education leads to higher chance of being employed.
Original story, with full rankings and more detail: http://chiefexecutive.net/best-worst-states-for-business
Good physical and mental health is the most important thing. Eat properly, exercise and sleep well.
I think this 'study' presents more useful information about the CEOs polled than anything else. Namely, that their insight into the health of an economy doesn't go much further than 'low taxes and corrupt government good, labor protection and regulation, bad'. Honestly, Tennessee is a better place to do business than New York? Moreover, it's one of the best while New York is one of the worst? So why does New York have a substantially larger economy? That is just a ludicrous statement, and it is empirically false.

This is little more than another exhibit to show how little American CEOs do to earn their ridiculous salaries.
For being the worst place to do business, this state sure has a lot of businesses.
You're proposing kludges for a problem that doesn't exist in declarative ORMs and that is far from the most serious issue of AR.

My general point is that AR makes no sense for web applications.
But it doesn't really describe the LSM data structure!
$5 bln flows into Web startups so far in 2010, 75% of deals outside US
You don't have to view your employer as an adversary to support labor protection, the same way you don't have to think your neighbor is a criminal to support your local police department. Stop it with the false dilemmas.
I read a ton since getting a Kindle (and dumping my TV). Almost purely sci-fi.

Finished the Culture series, Hyperios Cantos, Ilium/Olympos, Book of the New sun. Gonna re-read the original 6 dune books at some point. Anything by Paolo Bacigalupi (up and coming) or Larry Niven.
It's worth noting that Toyota has its plants primarily in the states that have scored the highest in this survey. San Antonio is one of their biggest plants, IIRC?

If you want to be in tech, OTOH, the two worst states are the only ones with VCs you actually hear about on HN.

It does make you think about American management culture.

[edit: I just noticed Illinois is third worst, hehhehheh. I wonder what DHH is thinking.]
i have a feeling, that these same CEOs would pick Nigeria as a better place to do business than United States...just because they get to pay a few bucks less in taxes
It's not a matter of viewing them as an adversary, it's a matter of balancing your interests with the interests of the company.

A company attempts to maximize profits while reducing labor costs. An employee attempts to maxamize profit from their labor, which is a fairly static quantity.

New tools can come out that enhance productivity, but that only sets the baseline productivity that much higher. Wages rarely increase to match a jump in productivity.
Ask HN: What are some of the best designed news websites?
In terms of visual design and graphics what are some of the best looking / modern news websites on the web today?

Also are there any news websites that get the balance between ads and content right in terms of layout and graphic design?
If that's the case, then why are so many founders flocking to the Valley? Why does the state of California have the 8th largest GDP in the world? Why does the Market Cap of all the companies within a 1 mile radius of highway 101 between SF and SJ top $500B?

Methinks that study is missing something. I suspect the regulations make starting a certain type of businesses (manufacturing, mining, logging) pretty miserable here. But those regulations also force executives to focus on starting a certain type of high risk/high reward type of business like software, bio tech, entertainment business's essential in the state.
Cache-oblivious streaming B-trees:

http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/sbtree.pdf

I don't know for certain any open-source implementation, but I have heard COLAs are used in HBase.
3 reasons why learning a language is like teaching 2000 toddlers to ride a bike
Looking at that article, the slowness doesn't come from having to download the entire RSS feed. As commenters there note, If-Modified-Since means you only need to download the feed when there are changes. So in your second paragraph, you have to ping the RSS feed 10 times, but you'd only need to download it once.

Rather, the slowness seems to come from the lack of an aggregation mechanism. If I want to follow 100 feeds (e.g. 100 Twitter users), I have to query each of those 100 feeds. Even though I can query them efficiently using If-Modified-Since, that's still slower than firing off one query to find out which of those 100 feeds have updates, and then querying only those which do.
"Winston said he believes researchers should instead focus on those things that make humans distinct from other primates, or even what made them distinct from Neanderthals."

Seems like an arbitrary focus. There are still a lot of things that non human primates and other animals can do that computers cannot. Why not focus on those things? Many aspects of human intelligence are obviously shared with other animals. Heck, there are probably aspects of the intelligence of some animals that exceed human intelligence.

Also, why does he think computers can understand stories if they are incapable of, say, spatial reasoning, computer vision, moving around, manipulating their environment, non-verbal communication, using tools, planning, etc. etc. etc. etc.

Even if understanding and telling stories is the ultimate goal, it doesn't necessarily mean that's the best immediate goal, given where we are now.
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