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Yes. It's like saying humans can fly, if thrown out of an airplane. Asking developers to distribute all the object files of their proprietary software is not realistic. And even if one developer accepts that condition, most developers won't, sending any open source software that she releases and that depends on an LGPL library directly into oblivion (again, in a context where dynamic linking is not possible).
Netflix streaming is like the bittorrent protocol (lots of participant hosts and lots of chunked fetches). See this: http://labs.mudynamics.com/2011/04/07/mommy-netflix-is-eatin...
I'm playing Portal 2 right now and just heard the line "Oh no. He's playing classical music." Fur Elise is playing. And it means exactly this! I would have never got the joke otherwise. But I suspect that was the reason this was posted.
Correct me if I am wrong, but there is a huge amount of Obj-C in the guts of OSX.

Replacing it with another language would require a large RAM footprint as both older apps and new apps would require a large amount of shared libs to be loaded, for possibly not that much additional benefit.
Why it survives in a world of alternatives? There are no alternatives if you want to distribute on the most popular mobile platform. Personally, I really dislike Obj-C, but since I want to create apps on the iPhone I have no choice. Unfortunately, making a good business decision sometimes means going against your personal feelings. I think that's how a lot of other people approached it too. If the iOS platform changed overnight to Lisp, we would see articles titled "Why Lisp survives in a world of alternatives"
Your impression could be wrong so there's no point in arguing both cases. All the guy know is that both groups were contractors. Do you know of any law that distinguishes contractors based on hourly or salary rules? If not, I don't see your point.
I don't understand the Game part of the website. How does picking one item among a pair of two completely different items (e.g. a motorcycle helmet vs. Castor oil) influence score?

Considering it was a hackathon, maybe the algorithm you developed isn't complete to show two similar objects...unless you intentionally chose to do it in the manner you did. Just curious why.

Fun website by the way :)
pfft, it's funny, pokes fun at the "reddit is invading" meme, and answers his question by showing _why_ people don't put their email addresses in an easily scrapeable / semi-public forum. In 3 words! Screw you, downvoters!
Dude you are so right about playing music thats quite a theory you got there, all the people i know that play instruments are good listeners
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John Siracusa wrote about this very aptly 5 years ago:
Avoiding Copland 2010
http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits/2005/09/1372.ars

Then he revisited it 10 months in 2010:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/06/copland-2010-revis...

And then he talked about it 2 weeks ago in the Hypercritical Podcast:
http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/14

Abstract: new language and new API go hand in hand. A memory managed combo trades execution speed for faster program creation. Was already needed 5 years ago. The recent garbage collection additions don't cut it. Microsoft started working on their successor (.net) 10 years ago and now it's starting to look good. Apple gained some leeway when the iPhone happened. With ever improving CPUs on mobile devices, Apple still risks losing ground down the line.

Great podcast episode, I highly recommend it.
New Jersey. NYC is an option.

Or anywhere really, i can relocate.
i have made a few Flash games. Can do Flash (AS2/3/Flex). Have experience in PHP / MySQL , javascript / jQuery.

Currently building an online game editor / creator (my startup yCombinator plan)

i would be glad to contribute to an open source project, haven't found one that has really caught my eye, or that i feel i could add meaningful input to.

i should search Github / Google Code a little harder, fire up Mercurial, and give it a shot
If more and more people join, does that cut down on overall productivity?

It's probably parabolic with some max number of people for optimal productivity before the next guy just starts ruining it for everyone else
How do I get to the Craigslist ads? Clicking on the images appears to do nothing under Mac OS and Chrome.
I think the most interesting part of this post is the "Bloggin with friends" tagline. Isn't this the real social network? I would love to see a platform that facilitates this (a la posterous groups).
I guess the interesting aspect of it is that Google sells a image that the Googleplexes of the world are immense areas of joy and happiness where people have access to awesome benefits.. when in fact, what's the % of people that really that access to that?

Perhaps Google shouldn't make such a big deal out of its workplace benefits when there is evidence that it's just a minority that has access to them.

I understand even if Google wanted to keep its benefits private, it couldn't control how much the mainstream media gives attention to them.

Anyway, I hope to have answered your question. You raised valid points and, IMHO, it's just a matter of perception... people think Google is something when it's not (there area varying degrees of gray here).
Registers are the immediate computer analogy that came to mind for me as well.

Does anybody know of a good introductory text about these various theories of memory? I'd love to learn mire about them, but following references is a bit time consuming.
Great to see Kozmo mentioned a few times, I still to this day have quite a few Kozmo shirts they used to send out for free.

I'd like to add WinStar, they had people going pretty much door to door in Manhattan selling services, I got a pretty decent free lunch off them.

I'd also nominate GovWorks, not huge in terms of money burned or technical blunders, but I credit the movie startup.com for really exposing some sheer ineptitude.

Edit: How could I forget Globix, the colo that had a coffee shop and a gym.
And what is 'academic outcome' a predictor of?
you have Got to be more articulate, man. this isn't 4chan, you know.

especially if you are the business major you say you are. your communication skills are like that of a 15 year old. seriously. if you're offended, good. take it to heart, and polish up.
I am very far from an expert at Mac OS X system internals, but I don't think objective-c is all that ingrained in the kernel. You write device drivers in a restricted subset of C++, as one example. userspace Mac and iOS programs have to link to an obj-c runtime library, but it's not much more onerous than linking to, say, libc or libc++.

The big hit would be that, yes, there are gigabytes of objective-c frameworks installed, which would presumably have to be replicated in the new language. But I could see Apple finding a way to sidestep that issue. Maybe the new systems language and objc could both compile down to similar binaries.

Painful or not, it's going to have to happen sooner or later. Objective-c is, in my opinion, the most outdated thing in Apple's technology stack. There will come a time when it is as big an albatross around their neck as Mac OS 9 was, which they waited far too long to replace.
http://www.akshell.com is another one, although it doesn't fit under any of the headings since it's a JavaScript platform that doesn't use Node.
This reminds me of something I noticed about economics and the Nobel Prize. Every other year or so, when the Nobel for economics is awarded, very often I notice it's awarded for something that I already knew or considered obvious, or figured out independently. Yes, yes, I know the differentiator is that the person in question wrote academic papers about it, had influence within the field with formal citations, and often "proved" it (or explained it, formally, as much as one can in a soft science like economics), but it wasn't a fundamentally world-shaking or new breakthrough. Unlike say most of the physics prizes. When I first heard about the theory of relativity I wasn't like, "Duh, obvious!", or quantum mechanics, etc. But that has happened a lot with economics.

Anyway this article made me think of it, because it started from the position that someone had discovered something totally new and unknown to mankind, only later to reveal that actually lots of people knew about it, they just didn't have an official academic name & categorization for it, formally, within the academic field in question. But it wasn't truly new. And strains the common meaning of what should be a powerful term: breakthrough.
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There's money to be made in Flash games if you're unaware of it - http://flashgamelicense.com is a great place to sell the licensing rights etc. If you want more info on that drop me an email.
> All I'm getting at is that I'd like to see CS eventually become a language in its own right rather than an extra tool for JS developers.

Yeah, totes. Brendan Eich himself has assured me that the Mozilla folks are dedicated to adding debug support for CoffeeScript (and other compiled JS languages) to Firefox. So the underlying JS will be less and less of a concern as the tools get better.

At the same time, though, that'll probably lead to languages that go further than CoffeeScript taking hold, just as Clojure is rockin' it on the JVM despite being really far removed from Java. I like CoffeeScript a lot, but when JavaScript really does become bytecode, people will want to code in something less JavaScript-like. (Or CoffeeScript may become the new C... "assembly with syntax," in pg's words.)
Something tells me your point would have been a little more validated if the way you delivered it weren't somehow even more annoying, distracting and ugly from the design you're trying to critique.
I'm making strides but it's still a far cry from high school, where I was easily one of the smartest kids without ever trying. Coming to CMU definitely humbled me quite a bit!

But that aside, I'm still not content with being normal. When I sold out my intelligence, it meant years of hard work on socializing and stuff (seriously. It's hard work). Now that I'm stepping back into academics, I'm aiming for the top again. But it's so much harder the second time around :(
The author is not arguing about how come objc is not dead, but about why Apple hasn't replaced it with a more popular language.
IE 9 as a Windows Update: Is it fair?
IE 9 has been launched with generally positive reviews. But I find it a bit unsettling to find that Microsoft is pushing it out as a Windows Update. For one, isn't it a totally different program than IE8 or earlier versions? Second, the user may not be ready for it since his chosen Internet Security software (Mcafee, for instance) and favourite ecommerce sites may not yet be working with IE9. I would like to see some thoughtful answers from the experts at Hacker News.
Of course, the line between "illegal" and "can get you in legal trouble" is never a crisp one.
Very cheap eggs and humanely, sustainably raised chickens are possible. You can buy baby chicks for about $2 a piece and they'll produce eggs for years, but you need favorable local laws, time and expertise.

Also, totally agree on fresh eggs. They actually look and taste so much better.
Just ask the e-gold guys: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/06/e-gold/

That was one of the things Neal Stephenson got right- you almost certainly need to hide inside a non-US sovereignty.
Yes, it didn't sound perfect for me, but is a measure of how much juggling of information you can do before storing/retrieving it from another place.
Yeah I probably saw even less than you, I definitely wish it was on for tomorrow too. One of my friends had to work today and would have loved to see some of the architecture talks. It makes me think I should be a little more proactive about checking calendars since I'm sure there are other opportunities to see exhibits and lectures, even if they aren't as extensive as today.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=506986
You are just counting cables released on Wikileaks' site. All of the cables have been given to several newspapers directly by Wikileaks, and have passed on from there to other newspapers.
Ask HN: Good web service to detect proxied IP addresses?
Hi,

I'm getting a large number of scam/spam messages being sent to users on my site. I have the usual deterrents in place (captchas, etc) but was wondering if there is a good API out there I can query to see if a user's IP address is being proxied or if they are known scammers/spammers/bad people from their ip address.

Thanks!
> "You're a moron and your beliefs are idiotic" isn't a nice thing to say. Are there seriously people who think that this is appropriate

The only thing that I can say is: You're a moron and your question is idiotic.
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-When in a social situation, other than silence, ...

I need help with this too. My approach currently has been to spot moments when I can ask questions that wouldn't be dumb. This works but not for long. Also, since moments of such questions may be infrequent, I find myself in purely listening mode often.

One observation though. I find it a lot easier to handle this one in small groups (2-3 people including myself). Big groups like 5-20 people and I am usually just silent. Since I share many of these concerns, I wonder if it is this observation applies to other smart people too.

-When some one brings up something sad or bad

A "sorry to hear that" followed by a question of the sort "how did this happen?" helps. This shows your genuine concern, shifts the conversation to them, gives them a listener and thus comfort. Issue happens when you encounter someone who's always in such bad mood.

-...curious as to why they have a certain line of reasoning.

This is hard indeed. I start by saying, "Hmmm, never thought of it that way. My understanding on this so far was this and that ..." This takes the conversation along without offending them, though generally does not lead to consensus. Worst is when their line of reasoning is full of logical errors and inconsistencies, in which case you just don't bother.

I have also tried, "Another possible line of reasoning is ...". Doesn't generally work.

-hallway, how close should a person

When far, I just wave "showing no intent of a conversation or expectation of an answer". Then, if and when close enough to the person, utter a few words.

-Is there a method/statement for suggesting an attempt at becoming friends with some one?

More often than you may realize, the issue is that the other party is also in the same situation as you. By starting the conversation first, no matter what you say, you can get the conversation going.

Yet, I find this hard with some specific people who start the conversation (good), but by asking the question that you have no answer to. (E.g.: "Don't you take your wife around?". Neither of the answers "I do!" and "No I don't" works well.)
Ah, I'm familiar with S3 latencies. That'd work.

Also, if you're uploading other people's content to public S3 buckets, you're very likely to be in violation of mosts site's copyright and TOS. You might want to mention that in the README.

If we found some of our sites mirrored on the public internet we'd issue cease and desist notices.
Look at what happens if you miss a =

(“x” = x) //Throws a compile error

vs

(x = “x”) //x is set to "x"

Edit: sorry about the quadruple submit, don't know what happened there
Thats cool. i was waiting for the AIR complier to get a bit faster / hardware accelerated on Android.

I will check this out. Thank you
The reality is that in the IT world at least, lots of companies hire other companies in "body shop" fashion. People work for them as contractors for long periods of time (years) without the benefits of a full-time employee.

I understand your point but it would only apply if these people were at Google doing their job for days or few months. We just don't know.. but the reality of most of other companies indicates they could probably be there really as 2nd class employees that are cheaper.

Last IT companies provide this kind of labor to Fortune100 companies all the time. It's really not hard to find someone employed by $Big_IT_company that has worked at $Big_Financial_company for years and years.
The two aren't mutually exclusive. My contract as a software engineer (for a major competitor of Google's, no less!) specified similar--I am not to talk to anyone about the work I am doing (which was legitimately confidential) nor, as I recall, my salary and benefits. Everyone knows the latter is intended purely for the employer's benefit, to keep a lid on compensation details. So what? It's not in any way an indicator of exploitation--compensation may be secret and very generous.

I doubt the compensation for those scanning books is generous, but again, should it be? Do people think that the mail sorters at the USPS are underpaid because they don't make six figures? The implication of this entire piece appears to be that paying less to those who do less valuable work is an affront. I'm a leftist, but I'm not _that_ far left that I think it's appalling that those who do manual labor or data entry get paid less than engineers (or doctors or lawyers or whatnot).

I guess I'm not seeing what the issue was. This Normon guy is clearly a cock. I don't personally think his dickishness is worthy of firing, but it sounds like he had a lot more interest in his idiotic "personal project" (which really is the height of middle class white privilege, yet he lacks the sense of irony to notice!) than in his work. I can see why some small video editing company concerned about a major contract would want him out the fucking door.
> a triumph of creativity over greed.

While I do support open source and think it's an excellent medium for exchanging new ideas/software, I am unable to see LibreOffice as anything beyond a facsimile of Microsoft's commercial offering.
Sybase has to be the worst of the "real databases", although SQL Server, DB2 and Oracle are bad too. The first time I tried to use Sybase, I wrote something like "CREATE TABLE foo (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, bar INTEGER NOT NULL)". Turns out Sybase doesn't have a type called "INTEGER". What the fuck.

Admittedly, all databases have their quirks. I use SQLite for a multi-process app suite, and get "database is locked" rather frequently. At least my app now knows how to retry transactions. Most of the apps using "real databases" fall over as soon as a transaction fails. "Internal server error, please retry later." Uh, no... transactions are supposed to fail. Even reads.

But I digress.
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I think the discussion proposed in the article is around workplace perks, not compensation.
http://nostarch.com/xen/

This was probably the most difficult project I've ever completed.

It was funny; no-starch actually approached me about writing a book, I believe because some of my diaries at Kuro5hin were the first hits for 'pygrub' and 'pvgrub' and a few other xen keywords for a while. But my diaries, I thought, were rather poorly written. The man didn't mention my diaries, so it could have been something else, but that's the only thing I could figure.

I said "I'm semi-literate, but I know a guy"[1] and I called up my employee's roommate, a long-term student who switched from computer science to English. If it's readable, he deserves the credit, really.

Do I regret it? no. I didn't go to school, and this seems to help make up for that lack of credibility, and yeah, it was difficult, but it was also a lot of fun.

The book beginning to hit the bargain shelves, so I've been considering a second edition, but I've been busy with other things.

Really, I think no-starch press deserves a lot of credit; there is zero chance that Chris and I would have finished such a large undertaking without their prodding, and they gave us a really excellent technical editor.

[1] Actually, I think I said "My English skills are presidential." At the time, George W Bush was our leader.
Gotta build expansions before you can win ;)
Wow, I think I'm going to try it. Thanks! It's now at a price point where it's worth giving a whirl.
I don't know any services, but this might be a good place to start looking: http://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check.

There are a number of links to various IP blacklist providers.
How about the ambassador to Mexico's report that the Mexican officials were incompetent in their attempts to deal with organized crime? By not filtering that, the end result was that high Mexican officials were annoyed and the ambassador had to resign.

I don't see how any good whatsoever comes of trying to create an environment where diplomats and other government employees have to worry that by given an honest opinion in a report they put their jobs at risk, and hence see no reason whatsoever for Wikileaks to have published that cable.
success != academics.
This is just wrong. Sometimes you run into a knotty problem that requires you to hold a lot of things in your head while you try to fit them together. A conversation in the next cubicle can prevent that from happening.
I find that compensation means how much your work is valued. Workplace perks usually mean how much that company wants that the people working there enjoy the place.

For me they are two different things. Although having different salaries/compensation for different kinds of jobs is perfectly normal and is hidden from people's view by the privacy that is applied to how much people make..... the workplace perks like free lunch and bus are totally visible (how could they not be?) and create a social divide between people that once accentuates their grief/delusions/issues and contributes to make people feel "different" in the human level.