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Andy Grove understood this idea very well, I think before Clayton even wrote this book, but they later became very good friends. Andy Grove once that that "if we lose the low-end today, we lose the high-end tomorrow."

That's actually how disruptive innovation works. The disruptor comes from the low-end and it slowly moves into higher levels, up market. That's why ARM is so dangerous to Intel for example, but Paul Otellini doesn't seem to understand this theory as well as Andy Grove.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaKgMcFP4Mo&feature=relat...
Out of personal curiosity, what was your reasoning when deciding to attend GWU?

Would you recommend it to others?
The style guide isn't secret.[1] Also, the research saying that most changes were done by a small group (~1500 way back in the day [2]) was challenged. While the core group of wikipedians are responsible for most of the copyediting, categorizing, etc, the bulk of material additions came from outsiders.[2]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style

[2]http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
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Doesn't he use that number to calculate Microsoft's revenue in the article?
I am not a user of MP, but I can tell you once you go Real Time with your Analytics there just isn't a way for you to go back to even 5-minute-delay.
Very neat. I implemented a similar structure for my blog (described here: http://boston.conman.org/about/technical.html) but never thought of connecting it to an infinite scroll.
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Thanks, though I wasn't specifically suggesting it was an issue. I was only answering the question asked of me factually and the fact is that, yes, it does change my behavior in some ways to not have comment scores visible. However, I do not feel I have sufficient information at this point in time to draw conclusions or make value judgments in terms of "this is a good thing" or "this is a bad thing" or even "this is what is good about it and this is what is bad about it". (I personally like engaging people in conversation. Although I am aware that concerns about signal-to-noise are very valid concerns, I have long been baffled by people who join discussion lists/forums and then loudly complain about people talking too much. So I am not yet ready to say, yea, verily, stating agreement in place of or in addition to upvoting is inherently a bad thing.)
Ballmer hardly the worst veteran CEO
I did read the thread but only after my comment was already written. I feel kinda bad about posting but I didn’t want to throw the comment away. (I searched the thread for “small talk” before I started writing and didn’t find anything because everybody who decided to write about German and small talk seems to have decided to write “smalltalk”.)
A small group of contributors make the most edits by count. A diverse group of contributors write the most prose content, usually on a topic that they're expert in. So the core wikipedians are organizing/wikifying/categorizing and that's the bulk of the edits, but the bulk of the content is a different story.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
If your site is designed correctly the non-content crud isn't a massive burden for the user to download it's just some small portion of a gzipped total, and assets are cached after the first view.
Aren't all scientists "data scientists"?
Maybe we do and they just are less visible in part because there are so many -- ie the big ideas are not towering head and shoulders over everything else in the landscape, so we kind of don't notice. "Can't see the trees for the forest" type thing.
Ask HN: AdWords Traffic Estimator Tool
Does anyone know why the AdWords traffic estimator tool shows a large number of monthly searches for some keywords but 0 estimated daily clicks (regardless of the value entered for Max CPC $)?

As an example, I entered the keyword "alerts" with a $100 Max CPC, and received the following estimates: 823,000 global monthly searches, 450,000 local monthly searches, and 0 estimated daily clicks.

I also tried the keyword "personal search," which shows 22,000 global monthly searches, 12,100 local monthly searches, and estimated daily clicks of 19.
pjscott..The idea behind dizigot is to let you create your virtual business card with a personal touch and links to all your other networks - Kind of like your splashpage which is accessible on google and is not closed ! Appreciate your feeback...
Thomas is, if anything, undershooting what this is worth if you're capable of pulling it off with a data set adjacent to a liquid affiliate market.

I think this specific article sort of underestimates the amount of effort involved ("Now that you have a site, just add marketing"), but if you're totally skeptical about it ever working, a) take a look at BCC's sales and b) think of what they would be in a niche with $50 CPA affiliate payouts which are 10x easier to achieve than purchases. BCC levels of traffic are not an unachievable goal for a programmer's first web project, for obvious reasons.
Sounds like a bad job. I've had bad jobs but I've never blamed the language.

CF is easy to get started in, so is PHP. I've seen some horrible spaghetti code in both languages. That doesn't make either of them bad.

I like CF because I like writing fewer lines of code to get things done. That doesn't stop me from looking at other languages seeing if something is better.

In fact some members of the community are blogging the seven languages in seven days book, not all of us have blinders on;<).

http://www.bennadel.com/blog/2106-Seven-Languages-In-Seven-W...
On 150,000 pageviews a month I make about $50.00 from adsense. "1.6% CTR with 0.85c CPC" seems pretty unrealistic to me.
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Following your logic, if you cache your ajax request's properly it's even smaller then doing a whole page load.
Brilliant. Fascinating how he slides from switch-dispatching to function pointers, deals with the problems there, then does that thing where the function pointer returns the next function pointer. But that's just skimming the surface of the brilliance there. The intricacies of his observations have a sparkling beauty.
The correct title for this article should be: "Screw IE: Building the Ultimate Infinite Scroll for Webkit/Moz".

I would love to drop hashbangs and use pushState. I really would. However, IE is 50% of my site's audience, and maintaining two fairly disparate codebases to support pushState doesn't make a whole lot of sense, priority-wise.
If you look at that H-1B table that was up here a while ago, there are at least 24 software engineer, analyst, programmer type entries that paid more than $500k and up to $1mil and 52 entries between $200k and 1mil. Those exclude managerial or executive job titles. Although given how many errors that table had, I don't know how accurate that information is. I'm sure there are plenty more non visa people that earn in that range or above.
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Counting Clicks and Looking at Links (article on Google, 1998)
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Well this sort of thing especially is where MATLAB shines (i.e. Matrix processing, Signal Analysis, hence MATrix LABaratory), especially with 3D FFTs like you'd do with fMRIs. So that's fine, but once you start getting into Monte Carlo simulations and massive batch processing, event filtering, instrument calibration, and all your database connections and all sorts of other stuff, it honestly just doesn't scale up or provide a complete solution. So you end up doing some in MATLAB, some in C, some bash scripts, some in whatever else. Python gives the flexibility at all stages to solve all that in one or two languages (C/C++ for optimization, python for everything else). I do know chemists that use MATLAB, but not the computational chemists on the big clusters. Most the solid state physicists I know use OriginLab, LabView and even Maple or Mathematica all on Windows and proprietary stuff like that, usually because they are hooking up to various instruments. Even R has been more popular with the physicists I know than MATLAB.

Maybe this is all just a big anecdote, but I also work in scientific computing as well, and this has been my experience.
The iPhone doesn't disrupt the iPod. It's a more expensive, more powerful item with broader reach. It would be like saying the PS3 disrupts the PS2.

One might argue that the iPad disrupts the Mac business, but to be disrupted you must command a market. The Mac doesn't. The iPad in its second quarter outsold the Mac (while the Mac sales grew). The iPad may disrupt the Windows or PC market, but not the Mac market.

In general what you're describing is not how disruptive products work. Disruptive products cannibalize profits in the medium-term with cheaper alternatives, but in the long-term win out. The iPhone and iPad don't qualify.
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I once read that the 20th century was the domain of physics, and (by all predictions) the 21st century will be the domain of biology and chemistry. Perhaps the breakthrough advances are in those fields?
I hate infinite scroll. It delutes the hints of m scrollbar height to know how much info is given.
I would be willing to bet that most of them have mitigation strategies in place that they can, at least in part, switch to. They don't use them because they are less cost effective than AWS (or other current providers) but they should be able to switch with relatively little notice.
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Pretty sure his regex is off, or at least sensitive to breaking from someone monkeying with the url. Something like /pages/01-/ will match and possibly end up triggering "fetch a page range" logic on null data.

Instead he probably wants:

/pages?/([0-9]+)(?:-([0-9]*))?/?/$

The ?: part is to ignore the capture on that -, which is only really being used to group the dash and the numbers together and make the whole group optional. The other nice part is now you have either one piece of match data (the first number) or two (first and second number) so it's both "more correct" and more programmer-friendly.

Would love to know if there's a better way to ignore capture on a group that's only there to make something conditional.
There aren't any decent audio captchas out there anyway.
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I meant more that the metric consumers (patients) use to differentiate between doctors could in the future shift to being customer-service-based. You're right that in a lot of ways diagnosis right now is semi-mechanical, but I think there is still the perception that you have to make sure you're going to the "best doctor" in terms of treatment (they are a good doctor means they diagnosis correctly and treat appropriately) not in terms of customer service (which would be they treat me the best).
This argument come up often, but makes no sense as it ignores the fact that software rots. I cannot keep running Python 2.x indefinitely without maintenance because knowledge of its flaws will slowly escalate until it is a security risk to keep operating it. If this doesn't happen to the tool itself, then it will happen to one of its critical dependencies, like an old version of SQLite it requires, or the previous generation of OpenSSL.

Projects like Python, that simply don't care about maintenance costs of things that rely on it are simply being naive: they are pretty much saying "yes, you invested a ton of time into building code for Python 2; but those days are over: we, at some random shifting date in the future, are going to drop support for this, so if you want to get security updates to it, or hell: even upgrade to a newer version of Ubuntu with minimal pain, you now need to drop everything you are doing and reread all of that code to update it for our seemingly arbitrary changes, retesting the whole thing in the hope of finding any regressions you introduce; that, or go off-grid, maintaining this code and related infrastructure yourself". Seriously?

Imagine if Linux 2.6.100 decided to drop support for socket(), because it is (truly) a painful API to support multiple transport layers with; /even if/ they said "dude, you can still just type socket_old, and we have a crazy preprocessor that hopefuly, if your code is obvious enough, does this search and replace for you", would you still be able to take their dedication to being a platform seriously?
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No offense, but you sound like a nouveau riche, on top of bad generalizations
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Best part of the article is at the end:

Will Google be going commercial? Page has no opposition to it, but said there's no particular hurry.

"We're Ph.D. students, we can do whatever we want," he said. And what they want is to find the right partners to let them focus on improving relevancy. "I'd like to build a service where the priority is on giving users great results," Page said.

If you pay a visit, don't be frightened by the interface. One thing Google needs is a good facelift. Relevancy scores and other extraneous information can obscure the actual listings -- but I did say this was an experimental service, right?
Foob...the photos on the page are indeed linked to profiles ! Not sure why it didnt work for you...will look into that ! Google profiles would probably be the closest to what we're trying to do...Kind of like your virtual business card with social elements built into it - like people you know could add content into your wiki profile -subject to your approval of course and give you recommendations (salvos) !!!
What would be the safest non .com/.net/.edu domain to buy in the future? I have a feeling the .com is going to become devalued in the coming year. I no longer will build a site that I believe could ever be popular under a .com.

I would rather give my money to .ly, which while they have some rather draconian rules because of their religion, I have a strong feeling they would tell the US to eff off if they were asked to take a site down at the DNS level.

I hope more and more businesses move their domains, and perhaps even their operations to other countries to avoid all this nonsense. This is less money in the US, less taxes to the US, and we will learn our lesson. Money talks, and usually pretty quick.

Imagine if facebook.com became facebook.ly all of a sudden. Granted, they would never do this to facebook even if child porn were on the front page for months. Not all of us are facebook though.
You have to wonder how saturated this market can get before it's just not viable anymore.
What's the link between the motor theory of speech perception and your criticism of losvedir's post?

Aren't these issues completely orthogonal?
For the lazy, here's an example of this in action: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/philosophy.png
>> Tweetdeck anyone? And Zynga (FB is its lifeblood)

Exceptions are not the rule.
I'd say you're doing exactly what Google wants and needs by putting the world's information online and making it indexable by them. It's a symbiotic relationship and searchers are grateful to both you and Google for helping them find what they need (that vet database you bought for example) online.

Not only that but Google profits directly through ads that appear in search results showing your data. And indirectly keeping 32% of revenue if you're running adsense.

Now if it's covered in ads that destroy the content or if the site uses cloaking or tries to trick you into signing up or thinking you have to sign up the way stackoverflow's competitor did, then that's worth a penalty.

Information that is unique and useful, presented in an honest and timely fashion is exactly what Google wants and desperately needs more of.

Don't confuse what I'm describing here or in the blog entry with duplicate content or content that has been scraped and remixed to look unique.
Using a cname for a root domain is just a bad idea.

A base domain cname record will (I believe) alias any query type to an alternate domain (like a dname) in at least the dig resolver.

dig pzxc.com soa +short
lwebs.com.
ns1.widge.net. postmaster.lwebs.com. 1304101336 16384 2048 1048576 2560

That isn't exactly what I would expect for an soa record (cname reference to another soa). Could cause problems with secondary servers and serial numbers...

Note: Edited post, as I was (for a while) unable to view the site in chrome, but it worked in safari. Could have just been a timing/propagation issue though as it is working now.
But can you name ANY amazing breakthrough in physics in the 20th century past about 1960? Or in biology and chemistry for that matter? The original question still stands.
Your ass, first.
Honestly, it is just so much more complicated than a two paragraph post on hacker news. This is ridiculous. The title is awesome, like scientists just made some startling new discovery. Ridiculous!
I might be more excited about IPv6 Day if the router my ISP has saddled me with supported IPv6, or if they'd give some indication they intend to upgrade it (or replace it). Assuming anything above their router even supports it....

Everything on my side is ready, has been for years, and my local IPv6 tests have gone swimmingly. But their box routinely drops the ball (or the packet). Irritating.
Ask HN: can you do hexadecimal arithmetic without a calculator?
If yes, what types of operations are you capable of, and for numbers of what size?

In your head or on paper?
Thank you very much. I'll try them.
Didn't Hiro Protagonist do something like this?

And didn't the gravy train stop because there were so many CIC stringers chasing so little good intel?
A staff engineer could just be someone who's one level above senior. Someone like that in Mountain View probably makes around $200K/year.
I have a form of cystic fibrosis and have figured out how to get myself well in spite of doctors and most of the world telling me it couldn't be done. My oldest son has the same diagnosis and is even healthier than I am. I was able to do this in part because of the avalanche of information available online even to ordinary schmucks who can't afford pricey subscriptions to some of the medical journals or what not that some folks I know subscribe to. So I think there is quite a lot of amazing information about biology and chemistry available. They are researching tissue regeneration and have done things like had someone regrow a fingertip that had been cut off. I think stuff like that is pretty amazing. Any reason you wouldn't?
Yes, and it is deprecated, not shutdown: "we have no current plans to remove existing functionality".
As a joke I put Hitler in. Didn't work. Nor did List of Device Bandwidths. Or Philosophy itself.
I set it up twice (once at the meetup), and it was not a big deal, but only because I had had prior experience in setting up clojure environments.

A single emacs function to update/start clojure seems a good way to go, however I had it in the past and as soon as the dependencies broke I had to go in and figure out what was going on under the hood and how to fix it. Which is educational but distracting. Will your setup still work in 12 months?

Thanks for all the effort in bringing Clojure to the masses! :-)

P.S. Got an error -- will submit a bug report. EDIT: wrote a blog comment instead.
"And it drives me nuts when people don't see that many important questions cannot even be expressed within the framework of science."

care to substantiate?
Fair point, but isn’t that basically what deprecation is? A communication that something will likely stop working at some point?
I'll concede the IPhone bit.

But the iPad is disruptive.
You don't have to dominate a market to be disrupted. You only need to be upset by a "not as good, but more convenient" low margin alternative. That is the iPad.
Nowadays, all label names mean to me are filters for companies whose CDs I shouldn't by because of moronic DRM that might prevent me from ripping them or play them in a player altogether(!).

EMI is infamous here for that, at least with some local artists.
We basically do outbound sales to independent labels right now and get quite a few submissions from unsigned bands every day. As good things happen the labels get more and more excited about what we're doing, and more comfortable that we'll be here this time next year. We just let our labels know about a new partnership that we haven't announced yet and we're dealing with all kinds of admin now due to them adding more music to the catalog.

Just like our existing labels see good things happening and pay more attention, prospects will continue to see us build momentum and closing labels just gets easier.

As for the majors, the way we see it, there is plenty of great music out there and they only have a small percentage of it. If they want to work with us, that's great. But we don't need to beat our head against a wall trying to convince them when there are millions of great songs out there owned by people who are more flexible to work with.
Well, you didn't say when you were born. But let me have a go:

Inflation theory (1980), Gluons (1979), Experimental verification of quarks (mid 1970's), Quantum Chromodynamics (1960, modern version 1975), Quantum Computing (1982), Spintronics (1980s), Josephson effect (1962), SQUIDS (1964/1965), Semiconductor Photolithography (1982), Nanotechnology (1980s), high temperature superconductivity (1986).

Nothing interesting happened after 1994 because of the invention of the Spice Girls and because the eighties were over and everyone became obsessed with having answers immediately and looking it up on the web instead of reading books and so on. (It's just possible that this is when I gave up reading books and so I don't know about anything that happened since then. But I'd rate that possibility at less than 10% based on a back of the envelope calculation.)
RFC 1912 (Common DNS Operational and Configuration Errors) section 2.4 is unambiguous: A CNAME record is not allowed to coexist with any other data.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1912
I'd agree, I recently tested out an AdWords campaign and the CTR has averaged about 0.05% (the maximum was 0.22%).
you are not understanding the issue here. we are talking about the windows API - they have supported every aspect of it in a backwards compatible way since its inception.

read the Raymond Chen blog about how they used SimCity as a benchmark to test if their backwards compat was working. Marc Andreessen is even on the record as being an admirer of the Windows backwards compat work. they put a lot of work into it and placed a high value on it because they did not want to break developer trust.
> expecting instability in the implementation, not in its pricing scheme. I mean, come on!

Really, really? Come on, these very same concerns (pricing, it's beta) were/are brought up regularly. If you choose to ignore warnings/recommendations and use GAE that's your fault.
Considering the fact that 95% of consumer-buying is still done in stores, then there is a lot of room.
Prospect Theory is a great one. http://prospect-theory.behaviouralfinance.net/