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Traceur dev here. It's on the to-do list. We've been mostly focused on stuff that's either approved for Harmony (modules, spread, etc.) or that we think will need a lot of iteration (classes, traits). I'm personally really keen on a better function syntax (especially a single-expression-body one).
awesome, good for you. Where were you working before, and why'd you decide to leave?
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Please don't make us start saying "object used as a class".
Wow, the timing could not be more perfect as Im trying to deal with a validate_uniqueness race condition :)
If you want to see your SPDY sessions and an abundance of other related information, browse to about:net-internals from a new Chrome tab.
P.S. Just for that, im buying the book...
Another instance of "Anyone can create a security system that they themselves cannot defeat."
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To-do app online demo http://jsfiddle.net/RWhitbeck/ZyYFG/

They'll be added to the article tomorrow I am told.
Sounds like a small town. Probably the Chief is right - nobody there is going to go buy an obsolete power supply for an obsolete stolen laptop.
> Managed to waste a whole day on that one

I love the irony.
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you can buy laptop charges that fit almost any laptop for $60 at walmart (i have one). If the thief realizes that the police records may be worth money i'm sure it would be no trouble at all to pick up a charger.

Hopefully the laptop has a few more layers of security built in.
Indeed. Hard not to emphasize this point enough. Even calling the loathed method "Digital Rights Management" is disingenuous, because it's not your rights, it's someone else's rights over what you can do.
> With no disrespect intended to the doctors and researchers who comprise the medical field, I find it interesting that those closest to the field show the most concern over interpretation of sequencing results.

That's not disrespectful at all. In fact, it's to be expected that those who are closest to a technique are the most familiar with its pitfalls.

> it is a statistical fact that certain studies have associated certain SNPs with certain conditions

Sort of, but that's not as relevant as you seem to think. The SNP reported in each study is not generally presumed to be the causal SNP; it's just tagging the causal SNP. For any particular person, it is possible that recombination occurred between the tagged and causal SNPs, interrupting the haplotype.

Even if we assume that sort of thing doesn't happen (which, most of the time, it won't), we're still talking about odds ratios of at most (for lipids) 1.3. That type of minimal increase in risk extremely difficult to convey. In fact, in medical practice, it often wouldn't even be worth reporting (depending on, e.g., background prevalence of disease).

So really, I think that issues are more complex and subtle than one might gather from reading your post. Should you have the right to get your genome sequence? Yes. Should you have the right to read the published literature? Yes. Does a company have the right to interpret that literature as a quasi-medical service? Again, this is the place where regulation makes sense.
Disgusting. That thing looks slower/jerkier than vnc.

This has nothing on onlive's ipad streaming:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/4796299/onlive_gaming_service_...
Next thing you know they'll be able to change what my fonts and links look like! ;)
While this article covers a few things that tend to be missing on most jQueryUI howtos, particularly the amount of hand-coding of classes is necessary, it's an intro to the package basics with a more or less default theme.
You make an excellent point.

The question then will be, how much is it worth to play silly Flash games? Will there be a monthly access charge, or will it be advertisement funded?

While I'm sure some subset of iPad users would like to such up more of their freetime with silly content, I'm still doubtful that this is a "business".
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Well, you've plenty of documentation at http://www.chromium.org/spdy just need to push to the IETF.
I suppose I should do what homework I can, and summarize the results, before asking -- so that I'm hopefully contributing to the conversation and not merely taking.

I'll put it on my projects list.
If they broke into a police cruiser to steal such an old laptop, there's a good chance they were after the data rather than the hardware.

I don't think the risk vs. reward would justify that crime for your average thief.
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If the goal of a CS course is to in any way make you reliant on hardware or even physics, I despair.

What use is physics when you have an infinite tape?
Ask HN: What to do about laptop batteries?
I use my laptops so much that I wear out the batteries about once every year. (I have a Dell and HP, but this was also a problem with a Macbook.) OEM replacements tend to cost in the $100 - $150 range -- which is ridiculous considering that decent laptops themselves are in the $500 - $1000 range these days.

It's clear that manufacturers have figured out that they can pretty much get us to fork over an extra 10% of the laptop's cost for every year we use it.

So I've tried purchasing knockoff replacements from different places and have only been successful 25% of the time. Three out of four batteries died after a month. (And by died, I mean they suddenly went from powering my laptop for 4 hours to causing it to shutdown suddenly after 45 minutes.)

My question is this: What does everyone else do when their laptop battery dies? Do you buy a new OEM replacement, or do you have a goods source for cheaper reliable replacements? Does it make sense to pay for the extended battery warranty?

Also, I've seen this post on HN about repairing the batteries yourself, but the risk of explosion or fire isn't something I like to worry about:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1403726
Another alternative is to go to Poly for a year or two and take care of some general requirements. Then, transfer to MIT. Schools are generally very receptive to transfer students who they originally admitted in the first place, especially if you explain that the decision was financial.

Also, just a note - I'd advise you to be wary of the advice you get. Few people have attended both MIT and Poly are able to directly compare them. The opportunities you will find at both schools are simply different, not necessarily with one being better than the other.

MIT will certainly have more resources and opportunities than Poly. However, keep in mind that there will also be more smart, motivated people vying for those opportunities, and in reality there is a fixed number of opportunities you can realistically pursue anyway.

But Poly will allow you to stand out. In a place where few of your peers will even bother to speak to the professor after class, you can monopolize on the opportunities that are available. Plus you will always be seen as "that guy that got into MIT," and your peers will view you as a leader, allowing you to take leadership positions and convince other people to join your projects with ease.

Also, don't underestimate the magnitude of the money you will save. 100K could be the totality of savings you will amass 4-5 years out, graduating from MIT. That's a lot of time to grind away paying off debt.
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My internet connection is a little bit sketchy so I have had the problem of steam thinking it is connected to the internet but not connecting to my account. Then it asks for my password again and will not let me log in until I have internet access. But on the whole I don't have a major problem with steam's drm.
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I get a lot more when I Google for most of those. I'm using their names in quotes. For example:

158 million, Britney Spears
162 million, Michael Jackson
33 million, Elton John
30 million, John Lennon

2.7 million, Linus Torvalds
1.8 million, Richard Stallman
0.3 million, John Resig
No, now is the time to make it an option, not ram it down our throats.

As developers, we need to be able to see things exactly as the people we're developing for who do not always have the luxury of using the latest and greatest browsers.
Yes! I think there's a danger of becoming addicted to ways to be more productive. Arguably, someone who daily reads a productivity blog should be producing a lot, but you might wonder if that is the case...
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As much as I dislike the phrase... "Obligatory XKCD": http://xkcd.com/610/

I'm pretty sure most people think the same way. It's a rather solipsistic view, isn't it?
Will this allow them to increase clock speeds? They mention a 37% perf increase, but I don't know what exactly they mean by that.
Would like to learn more. Is this a daily deal site?
The distinction is that with functions, I can have my automated refactoring tools help me change them safely, I can have my compiler tell me if I get them wrong, I can have my automated tests tell me if I get them wrong.

By keeping the procedural stuff in the procedural layer and not in the persistence layer, it's easier (for me, anyway, your experience may be different) to keep things encapsulated and make contained changes in contained places.
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Mostly because we (humans) made up physical units (i.e. meters) while we were inventing physics. There's nothing keeping you from re-deriving physics equations without the messy constants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_units
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The link tag is part of HTML, not HTTP. Lots of things besides HTML are transmitted via HTTP.
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http://techcrunch.com/tag/jumpchat/
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I liked Engadget's coverage of the release http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/04/intel-will-mass-produce-2...

I'm a sucker for videos. This Tri-Gate tech was first announced in 2002, I love seeing pie in the sky technology come into reality and widespread usage.
Well, at least the data is safe... I know I always keep my power cord and laptop separate for this very reason...*

*Sarcasm
Unladen Swallow isn't dead, actually -- it just merged into the main CPython code base. The first few quarters of optimizations are in Python 2.7 (it's noticeably faster than Python2.6) and the more adventurous bits are on separate branches in SVN.
I hear this a lot and in my opinion, a sizable minority of people can't mix their social and professional networks together. I can't have my business clients see who I'm currently dating or pictures from my nephew's bar mitzvah. Not only is it unprofessional, but it can harm my future dealings with them.

I know a lot of people have on Facebook have accepted invites from their boss or professional contacts and they stop participating in it as a social network and start using it as a glorified email/im system. If everyone did this, it would harm Facebook's ecosystem in the long run.

Even with privacy controls and grouping people together, keeping mental context about who can see what at any given time is just too hard for most people. Seeing facebook.com and thinking social and linkedin.com and thinking professional is far easier.

* Disclaimer - I used to work for LinkedIn in analytics as a product manager and did a lot of user interviews, but I may have drank the kool-aid.
He does describe the difference: the loser guy had "a loser attitude."

It reminds me of a video linked in the Soundcloud Labs post earlier today, which is ostensibly about bootstrapping and customer acquisition, but the guy completely glossed over one of the importantest parts of "bootstrapping," when he relayed half a sentence about how "someone knew one of the top VCs in Finland." (ISTR Finland). Well sure, that probably helped just as much as the OP's friend having "a loser attitude" didn't.
Neat. I learned he was also a member of CSH. I never knew that.
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Sure, ORM tools can be a tradeoff between what's fast at dev time and what's fast at runtime. What has been working for me is relying on the ORM and then hand-tuning the small subset of things that need to be hand-tuned.

And, of course, I don't know anything about what you're doing at present, so I won't even try to speak to that. But I can't imagine a weaker argument against ORM than the first one you made, though. When you're doing data-intensive work, are you really worried about the CPU overhead of string concatenation on your application layer?

:)
How about passing some invites out to HN users?
If I was really desperate for "support" of a dead open-source project, I would have chosen Atlassian's Bamboo.
Clock speed is just another metric, not the most important one. You also have chips that do several operations per clock cycle, low power consumption chips, chips that do parallel processing. All these factors affect performance as well.
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You seem to forget this is the ingratitude generation, where no matter how good 99.9% of your free product is, you will get publicly flamed and belittled for the 0.1% that isn't quite what people expected.
HTTP is not a very expensive protocol. I still haven't seen a convincing rationale for imposing a process boundary between the application server and the HTTP stack.
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I don't think it would have increased how many women you get by all that much either ;-)
I have tried using both Hadoop (55 node cluster at Cornell) and a single AWS High Memory double extra large instance with 32GB memory.

I have found that since the Twitters social graph is small enough to fit in the memory, a single instance with huge amount of RAM is much more efficient, especially when your algorithm iterates over nodes in the network.

You can read about it here:

Hadoop based results:
www.akshaybhat.com/LPMR/

Results using a single High Memory instance AWS instance
www.akshaybhat.com/LPMR/GRAPHLAB

Even the startup hunch has taken a similar approach and use a single machine with large amount of memory rather than a hadoop cluster.
Good idea! I don't have anything set up right now but if you email me, I'll give you an account.
It takes time for these sort of things to fill up. Looking now, 51 minutes after your comment shows that he has replied to just about every main question, with a lot of interesting (and technical) details.
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The New York Times has an article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/science/05chip.html

The article links to some graphics:
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/05/05/science/05chip_...
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it's a pity that they need to implement this in RPython. if it really is for only a tiny set of functionality (like SSE functions) couldn't they just implement that part? perhaps in a general sse library that other people could use? or as PyPy extensions?
just admit you're a fucking moron and move on...
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Not to mention branch prediction, out-of-order execution, etc...
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Thanks for the comments, Jorge. What you describe as a fundamental flaw is perhaps better described as a careful engineering trade-off. AtomicMap is intended for specific use cases. If you are not dealing with an extremely high throughput, high concurrency write system, then AtomicMap may not be the right choice for you. If you are dealing with complicated write semantics that are likely to raise exceptions, AtomicMap may not be the right choice for you. In our application, we have a lot of threads writing at once. Exceptions in that path would indicate a pretty significant problem, far worse than how to handle them gracefully.

We have chosen to trade some flexibility in how the data structure can be used in exchange for an enormous increase in throughput. Your needs may differ, resulting in different trade offs.
I was at good old MS (please don't hate me for it). I wanted to travel more and have my own business so, I made the jump.
Can anyone elucidate the trade offs in not having a limit at all and ultimately simply limiting the max number of contacts by the storage that they've already issued to users? Are contacts viewed as separate storage from email?

(25K contacts at 128 kb yields 3 gigs of storage)
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This is the sort of thing I read and think to myself "go check HN comments where someone smart will explain this in layman's terms"
Gardens have elements that are impossible to control so gardeners have to deal with randomness. With code, there is no randomness, the outcome of a piece of software will be exactly what people have written, down to the microcode, it is completely predictable.

In many ways software engineers are more engineers than civil, because we completely control our environment.

Maybe your organization is out of control, but your code is not.
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Isn't it obvious that FB wants to control the entire Internet? FB seems to steal ideas from small startups instead of buying them out. As they grow larger every day, they are killing innovation. Are there any others like me that realize what's happening and are willing to fight this cancer?
Has Linus ever claimed to not be a dickhead? Quite the opposite I believe....

Gotta say though, I do agree with his point. People who cram their ethical systems down other peoples throats are dickheads. Am I automatically a dickhead myself for calling people out on this? So be it, I can live with being a dickhead to that degree.
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I didn't know Derek, but reading this I'll miss him, but thank him for this.

Between this post, "Cranking" (http://www.43folders.com/2011/04/22/cranking) and the fact I have a second child probably coming Very Soon Now, I have to admit I'm sitting back and thinking hard about where I've spent, and am spending my time. I'm thinking about all the wasted time and opportunities I've accrued over the past 31 years.

I'm thinking about all the time spent arguing with people on the internet and giving up my free time to change some small part of the world, and not playing with my almost four year old daughter, or talking with my beautiful wife.

Take stock in your life and make sure you're following your passions. Make sure you try to remember and capture every moment before it's gone. Change the world while you're still here.

Appreciate the world while you're still here.
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> That way it can milk higher CTR from ads with CPC bids by putting them at the top of the same page, and still get just as much money from your CPM bid at the same time. That’s my theory, at least. Sneaky.

It's just the result of their auction, not intentionally sneaky. Ideally when you choose CPM, you'd be allowed to specify different bids for different positions, or at least be randomly inserted into the list since there's no way for CPM bidders to specify their value for each position.
Silly is very offensive and dismissive of how big flash gaming really is - 10s of millions of people spend millennia every day playing Flash games without even counting Facebook, and some of those games achieve or inspire great success! It's very unfair to label them as silly just because there is a high volume of bad games - iOS is definitely not immune to that.

Flash games are also a big business - SPIL Games, Armor Games, Addicting Games, Kongregate, MiniClip, MaxGames, ArcadeBomb, Slix Media, Bored, not to mention all the social games and giants of that industry are massively popular and collectively investing many millions into producing and licensing new content every month.

At the top end the content is so great assholes steal Flash games and port them to iOS themselves under new names.

For monetization there's some interesting strategies they could take there - their own marketplace/portal for Flash games, working directly with the giant arcade portals to create apps for them, in-game advertising/virtual goods, etc.
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I would think that they are talking about clock frequency. They do say that you can either have the 37% performance increase, or use less than half the power when at the same performance.
Yes, the point was to show you could make custom UI's utilizing the "out of the box" functionality of jQuery UI. I tried to incorporate as much of the library as I could. I used a ThemeRoller theme (ui-lightness) to show how easy it could be to maintain a consistent theme across all widgets on a page. Thanks for the comment.
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