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It looks like the eclipse foundation will be happy to adopt hudson. From their executive director:

"In our view, Hudson is coming to Eclipse for all the right reasons. The Eclipse community is itself a big user of Hudson, and we all look forward to the growth in momentum, innovation and predictability that will result from this move. With the addition of the Eclipse community processes for development, release and intellectual property management, we’re confident that the Hudson community and ecosystem will be thrilled with Hudson as an Eclipse project."

http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/hudson-now-at-ecli...
That would be way odder. In Python, colons are used for statements, not expressions. Nothing wrong with the conditional expression as it is.
Too much knowledge doesn't imply too much work, You are right. In fact what matters like always is the execution. If you have a process to remain productive, what matters is to execute that process well and with discipline.

That process might not be very great or best in class, but well executed bad ideas always lead to better result than badly executed good areas. Here is my hack for remaining productive. Which I have tinkered after reading David Allen's 'Getting things done'.

I have a table which has the following common fields. Task, Deadline, Started, Finished, Log, Priority and Next Step. A little modified from David's actual GTD. This table helps me do many things, first plan my tasks, next set a deadline to achieve it. Started and finished fields help me measure how much time I have taken to get it done. Log gives me an idea of complexity. Priority decides what needs to come next after what. Next step keeps me on tip of heels always generating new work for me.

I review this every night before going to sleep. And at least once a day if I'm hitting the daily deadlines. Now comes the most important of all, its called 'DISCIPLINE'. If one is not disciplined none of this ceremony works. Infact I would say better get disciplined before you get into all these techniques. Discipline is a personality trait, It has to be developed with patience, perseverance and practice. You don't get disciplined by tinkering /etc/hosts you get disciplined by making it happen even without tinkering /etc/hosts.

Another important part is review. You must review your progress every now and then. My review happens every Sunday afternoon, the review happens by measuring what I have done. What will I do and is all that really sufficient to meet my daily, weekly, monthly, six monthly, yearly and then life goals.

I make it a point to apply this not just to work, but even to my hobbies. My music practice and other stuff. Most of the users here have suggested very fine ways of measuring productivity I guess I will employ some of those techniques during my review process.
Did they really come out of nowhere, though? I thought Edison worked for years on the lightbulb.

The automobile evolved slowly from steam-powered vehicles - and trains could be seen as precursors as well.

Television could have been foreseen once radio was invented.

And I think steel has been known in various forms for a long time - but it was kept a state secret for most of its history.
I had a similar issue with a bug in Jungledisk 6 months ago. Jungledisk would download folders with UTF8 characters in the path repeatedly.
it depends on how you think of functions... If you think of everything as an expression, of course it has some kind of value.

That being said I prefer not to have to write "return" but work plenty with languages outside of ruby and have no issues writing return when necessary.
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> An ARM Cortex (or GPU, or whatever) on this process would see similar gains.

...provided Intel grants the IP, know-how and equipment to its rival.

> dominance of high end digital logic fabrication

Disruptions typically begin at the low-end, with the disrupted incumbent earning great margins at the high-end - just before they get killed. Smartphones are the low-end. ARM is probably already too well established there for Intel to win it (with popular machines, OSs and applications dependent on ARM).

The danger to Intel is that as ARM improves in performance, it brings other benefits with it (eg. low power consumption; configurability), that are also valuable in high-end logic. Once ARM is performant enough, those server-farms could switch, to solve their heating/power problems.

But it's interesting that Intel hasn't made the low-end a priority, not applying their best process to it; maybe they have a reason to think they're safe.
Is Mono dead? Is Novell dying?
Another option is "Programming Collective Intelligence," by Toby Segaran. I read through it recently on a long flight to Australia. It's one of the most straight-forward AI books out there, presenting most of these algorithms in just a few pages with nice sample Python code and diagrams. A perfect intro/refresher, and it takes a web developer perspective on these techniques.

Since reading it I've noticed how many friends have it on their bookshelves.

Here's a link: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321
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It has to be at least... three times that size!
One original way to use old tech books
Come on, give me a little more credit than that. Of course it's on purpose.
Ha, yeah, but I did want to mention the Rails 3.1 support somewhere (a vote of confidence in CoffeeScript from the highly respected Rails team); given that, a link to http://doihavetousecoffeescriptinrails.com/ seemed the best way. Rails people have a good sense of humor. I hope...
> the language's finer points

I wouldn't call those "finer" points.
Is this really new(s)? Old News did the exact same thing in the past when big things happened. It just takes a bit of a different face with blogs.
Stealth is all relative. There's no stealth technology that renders you completely undetectable, just technologies that decrease the effective range of particular forms of detection.

For example, if a normal Blackhawk can be heard approaching from a distance of x miles, while one of these modified helicopters can only be heard from a distance of x-c miles, then the enemy has that much less warning to respond to your approach.
Paypal is such an antagonistic entity that I cannot imagine electing to use it if given any other option. Even if there was no other option, I cannot imagine agreeing to use it for more than more than the price of a few t-shirts. They have demonstrated repeatedly, over the course of _years_, that they have zero interest in rectifying problematic transactions, will freeze and possibly take possession of funds in your account without warning, and are famously resistant to having a meaningful, person-to-person, non-form letter dialogue.

I really am baffled paypal still gets as much use as it does.
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Hope not. Another Canadian company sold off would suck. Losing a phone that I could do Java Mobile on would be the cherry on that sundae.
Damn, I can't believe I turned down there job offer.
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Just for the record, as someone who worked on web apps in 1999, we used Perl + MySql. No, they were nowhere near as effective as those tools and others are today, but I didn't know anyone using a mainframe. We did use expensive Sun gear instead of cheap linux boxes, though.
Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik said yesterday that Osama Bin Laden died in 2001 and that he was prepared to testify in front of a grand jury (see interview for details http://goo.gl/PaMRa).

Pieczenik is on the Council on Foreign Relations and served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under three different administrations, Nixon, Ford and Carter, while also working under Reagan and Bush senior, and still works as a consultant for the Department of Defense. He is a former US Navy Captain, and he went through Harvard Medical School while he simultaneously completed a PhD at MIT.
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Good enough to avoid taking on vindictive people as patients? Unlikely.
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I think it depends on your definition of "out nowhere". In most business circles Amazon is seen as a radical strategic innovation that obliterated the traditional book business (almost). But if you lump it in the same category as "selling things on the net", then it is pretty obvious.

No body saw Page rank's impact, but if you think it is obvious that reputation plays a part in relevance, then again page rank is just an obvious thing that built up over time.

The iPhone/Pod/Pad/XXX - if you say "simplicity" is the obvious killer in any product then they well it should have been obvious...

and the list goes on...

I think in hindsight a lot of what made the strategic innovations seem so obvious was well hindsight. It reminds me how MBAs are so great at explaining what has happened but are terrible at providing a plan with 0 uncertainty!
Testifying in front of a grand jury is boring. Providing evidence is interesting.
On the other hand, what constitutes "working to prevent the publishing or airing of commentary" may well be fairly minimal. I can imagine a response of "we wrote to the publisher and asked them to not publish anything about you again." I certainly would be wary of any contract with a PR agent which imposed so little in the way of concrete obligations. Even if you are able to enforce this condition so as to require serious effort by the physician, they will be able to enforce a similarly burdensome condition on you in retaliation.
Haha maybe but I saw it on some FBI cases Discovery show a REALLLLY long time ago first.
Listen to the hour-long interview where he provides details.
Hm...so I'm assuming there is a server version of ical? Or do you mean write your script to interact with ical which actually loads stuff on to google calendar?

Either way, Good luck! Let us know how it turns out
When 60% of projects are GPL, then it's pretty much the default licensing scheme and chromium, jquery, etc are the exceptions.
Did not expect that :). Thanks, will pull and merge.
As soon as tax departments feel they are missing out, and people are evading paying tax, that's really when the excrement will make physical contact with the electric powered oscillating air current distribution device.
pedalpete,

great point. i think we failed to keep it simple. we focused too much on level 2 and 3 stuff as opposed to the basics - blocking and tackling. and pg went right to the crux of our business model and we had assumed we had that figured out long ago. thanks for the input.
> or forget to use dictionary syntax to access properties that CC doesn't know about

That sounds like a reason to be bullish about it to me. The more popular it is, the more people have to worry about making their code analyzable, the better it works.
he doesn't think our pricing model will work. we're a ticketing business and we think fans will pay to upgrade their seats in game, if the price is right. i think it was just a disagreement and we didn't have any hard data to back up our assumptions.
Well, that would certainly suck, and I'd trust a quality lawyer and law professor more than other folks. What would you recommend as an alternative? Just investing in the services of a real lawyer? Trying to write up the darn thing ourselves in a simplified manner with bullet points? Fact is, we still don't even know what we'd do with this service long-term, so hard to envision what the Terms of Service should be, huh? :) We only know our short-term goals right now.
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Only if this idea gets a little popular and starts generating some income for me.
It really does do a great job of explaining all the events leading up to the financial crisis. It really made me wonder how some people (both wall street and main street) could make such stupid decisions.
"It's the end of the world as we know it." However, I don't feel fine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY
That's actually amazing, surprising and awesome. Love hearing that backstory. It really changes my impression of the video.
Wow, just wow. This is why I read Hacker News. Three guys living in a single bedroom apartment, sleeping on floors, being forced to move around the world, failing 10 times, and still pushing forward. That's dedication if I've ever heard it, and these guys have just earned my respect a hundred times over. Often times, especially when TC is involved, the startup life seems like fun and games, with a hackathon thrown into the mix here and there. It's obviously not the case, but the media likes to portray it that way.

I wish there were more firsthand accounts like this. Keep up the great work, LAL team!
That sounds super cool. I'm gonna check it out.
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But what is 'personally identifiable'? Say a patient had a complaint about the cost of a visit, and stormed out of the office saying 'screw you' in the waiting room, and the review noted this. Other patients who were in the waiting room would likely be able to identify the patient. Would a doctor responding to the (anonymous) complaint, noting details about a patient's illness constitute personally identifiable information?

It's not easy from a doctor's perspective to identify such situations, and it's a very sticky area. Given that it's a sticky area, do you think any doctor would risk crossing the line? There are large legal risks involved here.
All the algorithms requiring training can be optimized using stochastic gradient descent-- which is very effective for large data sets (see http://leon.bottou.org/research/stochastic)

Also, here are some additions for the online learning column:

* Online SVM: http://www.springerlink.com/index/Y8666K76P6R5L467.pdf

* Online gaussian mixture estimation:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.87....

One more thing: why no random forests? Or decision tree ensembles of any sort?
I like the bit about the free projector..."yeah so old startups just give us stuff"
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That's all you'll find in my book, I just made the font really big and quintuple-spaced it.

;-)
They were within 130 miles, which is fairly narrow if you consider all of Pakistan. But how much of that was actually due to the validity of their research methods and how much of that was simply right-place right-time? How much of this article was politicized? All we know is that they used some analysis of some publicly available data and were within 130 miles. I'd like a little more detail before I actually make any judgments.

Just because the general public thinks Osama Bin Laden lived in a cave doesn't mean the CIA was thinking the same thing. The article has some slant to make it seem as though our government was ineffective and slow at capturing Bin Laden and predicting where he would be, but let's ask a few more questions: if we sent troops to search every building in a 130-mile radius, Bin Laden would escape easily, wouldn't he? Even if we know within 5 square miles, he could escape. We need to know the exact building, otherwise it would be worthless. We sent a team of Navy Seals with helicopters. We invaded a sovereign country without a declaration of war. We violated international law. If we do that, we better be damn sure beyond just a 130-mile radius.

EDIT: They predicted with an "88.9% probability" that he would be within 130 miles of where he was found. That in an of itself is absolutely useless.

Here's what our government actually did: they found the pseudonym of a guy who worked as a courier who had ties to Al Quada, found his real name, found out where he was going, found ties to Bin Laden, and found an exact address. Over years. We can't ask the Pakistani government for help, because Bin Laden will escape again. We can't search based on a 88.9% chance within a 130-mile radius.

This wasn't a very good article, but I definitely would like to learn more about the actual research.
Far too often people ask whether a submission is suitible for HN just because it isn't directly tech-related, which (usually) annoys me as much as anyone.

But in this case, I don't see that this should fit under HN guidelines.

"On-Topic: [...] If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

I don't see that this does, and I can't imagine any comments that will be written here that would be interesting enough to do so.

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

Fits pretty flatly in off-topic, and is, for me, a perfect example of a story that, while I might want to read it on the BBC site, I don't need to show up on HN's front page, and about which I don't need to read the opinions/discussion of the HN community.
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Indeed it's more like this:

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/attachment.php?attachme...

via:

http://www.pprune.org/military-aircrew/450526-stealth-uh60-u...

Potential forward sweep of stabilizer, "coolie hat" on the rotor.
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The author's apparent belief that 24fps is the only good way to make movies might be wrong, but his (central) thesis that interpolating / smoothing 24fps video up to higher frame rates is spot on. Regardless of the future popular frame rates, right now the vast majority of film has been shot at 24fps and it is wrong to change that to something else while watching it. That is not how the movie was intended to be viewed. The people who made the movie did so with 24fps in mind. When you view it smoothed at 120fps, you are warping it, you are watching a different movie.

So, I think it is wrong to dismiss this piece, following its advice will upgrade your movie viewing experience.
Their approach and results are equally interesting.

Too bad their is a lot more to 'actionable intelligence' than actual intelligence. I'm fairly certain there were rooms full of people at the CIA, NSA and JOC screaming "he's chilling in Pakistan with AC and and a chef!" for years now. Problem being, there was one room at the White House where a much smaller group of people were discussing the diplomatic ramifications of the levels of 'actionable' substances to each bloodcurdling scream...
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And, just for fun, here's my answer for problem 1 there: http://www.effectedcause.com/blog/?p=228

Of course, you could recognize that it's a geometric series... and (3^15 - 1) / 2 would give you the answer, but what fun is it if you don't even get to use a simple for loop when you have a perfectly good opportunity to do so. :)
Yeah, helicopter crashes are generally not fatal. Shock absorbing seats, an airframe that's designed to absorb impact energy, plus the autorotating main rotor that slows down the descent like a whirlybird toy. Some of Kamov helicopters, as mentioned, feature ejection seats. What's interesting is that explosively-ejected rotor blades. The blades have enough rotational inertia to intercept the crew's ejection path if they were just released at the hub.
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Same issue it's always had, that most websites are configured to accept more than one unique URL, with minor alterations. Often it's something like "?source=twitter" on the end, or "#top". In the case you linked to, one has a trailing slash and the other doesn't.
Programming isn't strictly computer science. Programming is programming. Computer science is a theoretical discipline.
There has always been a sizable minority of non-GPL open-source software, such as the BSD community. Not to mention groups like X11, zlib, Perl, and Python who invent their own license for some damned reason.

I haven't noticed any particular recent changes away from the GPL; for example, all of the major DVCS tools (Bazaar, Darcs, Git, Mercurial) use the GPL.

For what it's worth, I prefer to avoid non-GPL software. jQuery and Firefox are at least dual-licensed, so I don't mind using them, but I prefer to avoid Chromium (and especially Chrome) unless necessary.
No.

The right way to do things is not a popularity contest. Nor should it ever be. Nor should you put pressure on someone trying to do right via an appeal to popularity.
I submitted this yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2511034

Glad to see it's getting attention though, regardless.

To me the interesting thing was that they did this two years ago...
Doesn't look like they've put together an official changelog yet, but the major changes off the top of my head would be jQuery, Coffeescript, sass, sprockets, css sprites, flushing & deprecation of rails 2 finders.
Seeing as the word "latency" doesn't make an appearance anywhere on the page, I'm assuming anyone doing audio work will still benefit from a decent card. (Why? Because when you hit a key on your midi keyboard/drums, and want it to be like playing a piano/drumkit, you want the minimum latency before you hear the note so it feels more like the real thing)
At first I wasn't sure how Skype played into FB's strategy but I guess it makes sense. Skype would come with a plethora of talent, which facebook is known to spend money for. Also, the Skype technology would allow FB to fill out the video communication side of things that they have yet to tap.
I just found out about bitcoins last weekend, and ran the bitcoin miner, and then found out that it will take my 2.4GHz dual-core laptop 10 years to generate a bitcoin at the currently-established difficulty (without using my GPU, presumably).
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Gah, motion smoothing. More than once, I've been asked by friends why their brand new huge LCD TV "makes movies look like they're filmed with a handicam." Always the same answer: turn off motion smoothing. It's a silly feature to ship with enabled by default.
I moved from Portland to the Bay Area to take a job at Yahoo! four years ago. After a year and a half, I moved back, and have been telecommuting ever since. A coworker recently moved back to Portland and began telecommuting as well.

Remote collaboration isn't yet as painless and awesome as it has the potential to be, but Skype group video chat (when it works) is almost good enough to make us feel like we're in Sunnyvale when we can't actually be there in person, and IRC and IM are great for low-overhead collaboration.

I've been so much more productive and so much happier since I began working remotely that I can't imagine ever going back to spending five days a week commuting to an office, especially if that office is somewhere other than Portland.