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I'm interested. I already enjoy participating in stackexchange.com. Could you invite me? Sent me a message to (disposable) zqxeT9Cl5ilpoN7q@bloem.joliekemulder.nl and I'll reply with my real email address.

To stay on topic, I recommend non-tech sites: Language Log, The Satorialist and London Review of Books (all easily found using Google).
What are your ssh complaints? I've been able to ssh into another computer and use vim and other cli tools without a problem, but I'm not an ssh power user by any stretch.
Hmm.. haven't Microsoft been forced to introduce the browser ballot not so long ago?
Yeah, I pointed this out myself yesterday. What's up with that? They've been down for 16 hours:

http://downrightnow.com/blogger
The only disappointment there is the lack of reference links. However, it is an interesting site.
Will they get the battery life? The boot time? If they can, I'd be interested in going this route.
Arts & Letters Daily: http://www.aldaily.com/

Cool Tools: http://www.kk.org/cooltools/

Philip Greenspun's blog: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/
Here's direct links to the source (which is worth looking at).

The parser : https://github.com/DmitrySoshnikov/scheme-on-coffee/blob/mas...

The evaluator: https://github.com/DmitrySoshnikov/scheme-on-coffee/blob/mas...

The definitions of all the caddr, cdadr variants is kind of fun, and the definition of "lookupVariableValue" is enlightening, if you were curious about how that sort of thing worked in Scheme.
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For those that haven't tried before, running your own XMPP server is incredibly easy on even a small VPS. I'd recommend ejabberd, its pretty solid, light weight and fast.
The joke of it is, if you dig around in the Live Departure Boards website you'll see that they hook into an API here ..

http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/en/s/ldb/liveTrainsJson?depart...

.. which is, basically, open for everybody to use (in the sense that it requires no authentication). I use it myself to push live data to my mobile phone from my desktop PC.
Yep, I could do, but that's too much work.

I want backup to Google, for everything apart from that.
I wish there was an SQL option to cause a fatal error if it needs to do a table scan. This would be very useful on test systems, at least.

NoSQL forces discipline which is a good thing, preventing "late" performance optimization when in production.
Given that PostgreSQL has both fulltext search capability and a sane concurrency/durability model, this seems like a solved problem.
We only upgrade jQuery if the site is a massive web app, to get the performance gains from a new version.

For most of your run-of-the-mill sites with a little sprinkling of jquery, to animate a few things and do some basic ajax, there isn't much point in upgrading. The performance gains will probably be negligible.

I've found when upgrading jQuery problems rarely occur, and with automated js testing + "vocal users" any bugs are known quickly.

...and of course your coding your site so if js fails it degrades gracefully into a usable site.

It's not a massive issue, I think.
Linux memory overcommit (compared to airlines selling tickets)
So is mine. I develop HFT trading algorithms using statistical analysis. Placing limit orders on the other side is as dangerous as anything else. Are you on the strategy side or pure development side? If you are developing strategies, then you know what you said in no way mitigates most of the risk that we talked about.
Web 2.0 expiration date, re Flickr & Disqus
Trying to pick things not yet mentioned.

Cooking blogs (I read a bunch more, but these are the best):

http://thestonesoup.com/blog/

http://smittenkitchen.com/

http://globaltableadventure.com/

A blog ostensibly about learning Japanese but really about learning anything:

http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/

Humor:

http://www.qwantz.com/index.php

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/

Programming:

http://prog21.dadgum.com/

Inspiration / business:

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/

http://unicornfree.com/

A little of everything:

http://jsomers.net/blog/
> if you were curious about how that sort of thing worked in Scheme.

If that's the case you should really read SICP, since there's a lot more enlightenment where that came from, so to speak.
I've always felt this should be settable per heap.

I would happily set it in my programs explicitly.
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German suggestions:

Tech: http://heise.de/newsticker/ http://blog.fefe.de/ (security & conspiracies) http://blog.koehntopp.de/ (database stuff)

Design: http://designtagebuch.de/ http://ulani.de/

Media: http://bildblog.de/

Economics: http://blog.zeit.de/herdentrieb/ http://weissgarnix.de/ http://verlorenegeneration.de/

Politics: http://blog.till-westermayer.de/
Given the fact that the entire call/uncall mechanism is based on keeping the original parameters that are required to undo the calculation - it will work fine, but you won't be able to call the undo on the result you got from any other source (i.e. not through the call/uncall mechanism)

read the source for p-divmod (one of the most useful functions in cryptography). You need to pass the original y to get back the original x in the reverse
Except most train delays in the UK are conveniently below the 30 minute requirement for a refund. Often by just a few minutes...
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IBM has no idea what Node.js is
People, don’t read this article on IBM’s developer works Just what is Node.js?. And you have read it already, don’t believe it. IBM has no idea what Node is, really.

Read my rebuttal http://wkp.me/wkk6g

For more gory details, read Marak Squires’ blog here. (http://blog.nodejitsu.com/ibm-doesnt-care-about-nodejs-people)

IBM must pull the article or ask the author to rewrite it. The article is providing a dis-service to any new developers who might stumble along it as their first introduction to node.js.
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I'm reminded of this illustration:
http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

As credentials for employment we have already bachelor and master degrees.

Entering a PhD program purely to improve job prospects is asking for trouble.

It seems that the goal of a PhD should be, as it has been, to become a academic subject expert--one who can either push the boundaries of a field, or comprehensively educate less knowledgable students. PhD students should be those with a general passion for a field, not those who hope to use the experience as a stepping stone to something completely different.

You could argue that certain industrial roles require a degree of specialization that only a PhD holder would possess. Fine. Working near the boundary of knowledge like that you're bound to bump into it now and then. Those are really academic jobs in disguise.

Something a PhD does indicate, I suppose, is that a degree holder possesses the tenacity and grit to persevere through years of arduous work.
Use a VPN. Make that the only point of entry, and whenever somebody departs, you only have to revoke access to the VPN. Here's a decent OpenVPN guide: http://code.mixpanel.com/openvpn-in-the-rackspace-cloud/
If you don't mind me asking, what are the disadvantages of having this as a feature in the language/runtime (as opposed to providing it as a library). Is it that it keeps the language simple? Also, can you give a bit some examples of the advantages Haskell has over Scala/Ocaml for the library based approach?
Scheme in JS is an attractive idea, but it looks like the reader isn't doing reader-macros correctly:

'(a b c)
(Error: Unbound variable: "a" Error: Unbound variable: "b" Error: Unbound variable: "c")

There are a couple others of these:

http://javascript.crockford.com/little.html

This one seems to support call/cc:

https://csel.cs.colorado.edu/~silkense/js-scheme/cps/
If you are interested in transit-related information access, consider signing up for the very low-traffic but occasionally interesting Transit Developers group.

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Is it a smear if the allegations are true?
So? "Every month, Yarra Trams publishes its performance results for both service delivery and punctuality on the internet, on posters in trams and through our designated customer feedback number 1800 800 166." "If our service delivery or punctuality falls below set levels, we will provide compensation to eligible customers. The performance figures are shown above.
Our performance in April 2011 exceeded the targets, so no compensation can be claimed."
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That's what I see on the latest build of Chrome, and in FF4, on my one year old laptop.

So now in addition to supporting a big pile of browsers, we're expected to support a big pile of video cards and hardware configurations too? Isn't this the reason we moved to web apps 15 years ago?
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You can, at least, limit memory by using setrlimit() (resource limits) or your shell's ulimit command.

I'm not sure that disabling overcommit on a per-process basis makes sense.
WebGL will change the web. Give it time. This is just the awesome beginning.
Sure there are many developers who won't need the service, but there also plenty of developers who wouldn't mind having a service to filter out the silly and bogus request. It's not about finding any kind of work, it's about finding the right work at the right pay. The goal is to match quality jobs with talented developers.
I've also got to quickly add that there's often scenarios where we have SSH access to client machines that are entirely out of our control. We might have limited access (i.e. no sudo/su). This scenario is the more difficult of the bunch for me to wrap my head around resolving.
A recent development in Swedish - at least in online communications - is the use of the French manner of putting a bloody space in front of exclamation marks ! Looks awful.
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One of the benefits of NoSQL is supposedly that you can change your schema on the dime and not suffer from it. I'm finding that you just have to plan for different things up front. For example, most NoSQL databases are awful at querying and to get things that are easy in SQL you have to plan ahead in NoSQL. To do a count in Redis, for example, you have to use INCR on a key to keep a count.

One gripe I have is that NoSQL is becoming the default by most PaaS providers. I have a Duostack account and they offer 3 database choices: Redis, Mongo, and MySQL. In their documentation they recommend using persistencejs which doesn't work with the new versions of node.
http://www.Newz.io - Searchable magazine organized by topic that pulls from thousands of top publishers. For instance if I wanted to see all the bin laden news i go to http://www.newz.io/bin-laden and it'll create a magazine on those keywords
The point was it's not a Sprint exclusive.
I think something implying: "Online Code Repository" would be better. Portfolio may mean, you want to look at the outputs while you want to check out the "code" or attitude here...
It should be comparable. It's hard to say, without putting two machines side by side and seeing which one boots fastest/lasts the longest :)

If the hardware is the same, though, performance should be the same.
I think you should go with Linode first and when you hit the upper limit, you can move to EC2 or dedicated servers.

AWS is somewhat expensive and doesn't deliver the same performance as Linode type hosts.

The only advantage to EC2 is the insane flexibility it allows (i.e. dynamically spawn new nodes based on traffic)

To start off, I'd go with Linode or Rackspace. Keep it simple. Worry about scaling later.
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If only HN had a jobs board for non-YC companies. As a hiring manager I'd pay $$$ to be able to advertise on that page. Currently, I can pay referral fees to employees, ridiculous % to recruiters, or a fortune to the likes of LinkedIn.

The HN community is of high quality and could easily be monetized. I realize that PG doesn't need to do this (or perhaps) want, but I bet there are many others here (job seekers and hiring managers) who would benefit from such a service.

Perhaps I should just hack the arc code and send it to PG :-)
TL;DR - Ubuntu doesn't work exactly right on his particular laptop, but Windows does. Also, Macs work correctly on their hardware, but he doesn't actually use Macs.

This guy is completely wrong, and not just because he keeps using "desktop" where he really means "laptop."

The fact that Mac OS X runs well on hardware built by Apple, and the fact that Windows runs "well" on machines built specifically for Windows (which his laptop certainly is), doesn't make Linux a hopeless cause. Ubuntu on homebrew desktops is amazing, and I'm never going back.
That's interesting, there are number of website that have success doing this, Elance, Sortfolio, to name a few. It may be just the way the service is structured, i.e. it's just a listing where employers can find you.
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I am doing some work with C# right now, and I would agree with "are often ..." in my workplace.
It's very simple, when you privatize something, it magically becomes cheaper. Because of "efficiencies". The way this works is you can always get a private company to pitch a service for a lower price than you're currently paying. Then it's up to them to squeeze a profit from that service by providing a lousy service. This is called "the power of the market". But because the service is lousy, and the public doesn't like that, the government has to step in and bribe the private company to make their service better. This is known as "a public-private partnership", or PPP.
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Wasn't it a consequence of Maxwell's Demon like that as soon a you revert any operation theoretically there will be no energy consumed? Because cleaning up memory is the only costly operation.
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Does anyone know specific dates yet for this event in September?
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Very cool, although it could probable use a name. Maybe "DuckDuckChat"? "DuckDuckGo XMPP Service" is not going to be used by all but the most technical of users I think...

Even "DuckDuckGo Jabber Service" is better, XMPP just sounds so unfriendly.
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The comments on this page (parent included, but not the only example) are amazingly snarky and I can't imagine the obscenity is necessary.

Negative feedback is perfectly valid and valuable. Sarcasm doesn't serve any purpose beyond making the poster feel superior (and the recipient feel stupid, or at the very least irritated).
I disagree. If I make an appointment for a meeting I'm flying to, 5 timezones away, it's better to be able to say 'let's meet at 9am' rather than having to look up what time '2 hours after getting out of bed' is in that particular location. Similarly, if I read news about Japan that says 'an explosion occurred at 10pm' I prefer to know that that means 'after the regular working day' instead of having to look up when the working day ends there.
i think stackoverflow job board is quite good and has a lot of similar competency folks as here(maybe more in tech sense), if you dont know it already you could try looking there
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apparently Google pointed duck.com at the Google search main page after Duck Duck Go inquired about it. I guess this is why its duck.co

EDIT

See this post by yegg, the duck duck go founder

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/epd59/google_poi...
You should try the hilarious spoof app on Android called "TheTrainline", which introduces such innovations as:

- its own, dysfunctional keyboard - because Android's keyboard was just too, er, fast. And didn't have a bright green tick button.

- an occasional feature, where after entering a timetable query a progress bar appears, and the app commands you to "Tap the screen" to make the bar advance. Once you have danced like a monkey for them, the app finally allows you to see the result of your query.

- no information about trains that depart in less than five minutes, or have already departed. Because why would you ever want to know about the train you're already on?

It really is a masterful satire of everything a corporate, money-grubbing app commissioned by sociopaths and authored by embittered misanthropes would be - an app that simply hates its users.
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Like for like, people in the public sector in the UK often get paid quite a bit more than people in the private sector:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13329634
It's weird that this just got to the home page of hacker news too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2544198. I've never heard about 'logical' puctuation before and today I've seen it twice in HN alone....
To me, that plain "/flame" at the beginning of a line looks more like a pseudo-IRC. Note that IRC is still common among lots of hackers. Other IRC-related statements might be:

/me is angry|happy|whatever

/join ...

any maybe others. Those aren't used very often, though.
Is there a web 2.0ish company that makes buying/selling stocks/currencies easy?
I just wanted to put $500 buying some forex/currencies as a test investment, and every online brokerage account I found had requirements like "$5,000 minimums" plus web interfaces that looked like it's 1999. Does anyone know a modern solution? Thank you!!!
I have always wondered why 3-d tech is so gimmicky and silly looking. Life is 3-d, and it looks good.
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600k devs, 900k apps & 13 billion API req/day - the Twitter ecosystem is huge
Pure development. So yeah, there's some handwaving there.

Let's say Galileo had had to climb a rickety ladder to the top of a tower at significant risk of falling and breaking his legs. Would that in any way have altered the social utility of his end product?

re: "every serious player in the stock market also has a telescope," see my comments on the Chicago fiber installation elsewhere in this thread.
Somebody should totally engineer a font that does that; if Zapfino can have a special ligature for "Zapfino," you could certainly make ones for '".', '",', and '";'.

And yes, I just mixed punctuation styles. Period-in-quotes simply looks better.
There's no such word as "should".
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Kind of sad that we're developing crutches to cope with, instead of addressing, social anxiety. Ofcourse, there's a counter-point that we use mechanical engineering to cope with our physical weakness instead of developing our muscles. A further point, however, is that while it is impossible to develop enough muscle to build a pyramid without pulleys, it is quite possible to develop enough confidence to speak up without fear.
You should never end a sentence with a preposition.

The mathematician Paul Halmos loved issues like these and once constructed a sentence that ends in five prepositions:
"What did you want to bring that book that I didn't want to be read to out of up for?"
Except it's exponentially easier to build a solid team in some places than others.

You can slice it any way you like, but location matters.
Further, at least at my school, the majority of the incoming CS PhD students have no interest in a tenure-track teaching position and are targeting those other jobs from the start.
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Times should really be given as Miami Internet Beats[1], since it's compatible with everyone in US Eastern and doesn't have antiquated concepts like "hours," or "minutes."

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This concerns me, but not for the reasons addressed in the article. I don't think distraction is the issue at all. I think the issue is whether this leads to students being more or less likely to speak up in, for lack of a better term, real life. I can see it going either way.

It seems the more reliant we become on screen-to-screen text rather than face-to-face conversation, the less proficient we will be at face-to-face conversation. But at the same time, this could be a way to bring people out in the open and encourage them to get involved in all kinds of discussion, whether screen-to-screen or face-to-face.

I would be inclined to measure the results. Use the technology in one class but not in another. On the last day of class, don't use it in either class, and see which class has more face-to-face participation, the one that had to do it from the beginning or the one that got eased into it.

It's much harder though to measure the long-term consequences. If technology like this continues to become more and more pervasive, there may be no "last day of class" in which people are forced to speak up. The analogy to physical exertion is well warranted. It is now possible, because of technology, to live your entire life without engaging in strenuous physical activity. This was simply not the case even 50 years ago. In another 50 years, will it be possible to live your entire life without engaging in face-to-face conversation? If so, do we want that?
My day starts with http://slashdot.org

Then HN, then general news. I guess I'm a sucker for Technology news.
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