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I believe you, but I would be willing to bet those mitigation strategies are a few unmaintained word documents that would be grossly insufficient if it actually came that far.

I don't see why NetFlix would have to be more paranoid about AWS, then say Apple about Foxconn. Business is business, except at Google.
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But, it didn't used to come pre-installed. On many hosts in the 1996-1998 range, Perl was the default, and sometimes only, option for dynamic apps. But typically you had to only put files in /cgi-bin, futz with permissions, remember to include content-headers, etc. PHP 'won' because it was genuinely more straightforward than the competition in most use cases.
Is the Haskell Singularity approaching?

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/hezgk/haskell_singu...
Ahh, good ol' reddit =]
In restaurants, top sellers, specials, and comps usually go out the best, unless it's the last one in stock, or they're in the shit and they're rushing them out a la minute. The random dish that sells 3 times a week has more of a tendency to come out subpar. Places will probably weigh the marketing of these deals, and, if anything, they'll out better than an everyday item.
Checkout Microsoft's last quarterly report:

http://apps.shareholder.com/sec/viewerContent.aspx?companyid...

The "Microsoft Business Division" (which includes Office) had 5.266 Billion in Revenue, out of 16.428 Billion in total revenue. That's 32% of revenue.

Apple disrupting Mac sales is roughly equivalent to Microsoft disrupting Office sales.

It's a big deal.
are the food stamps really limited in number??
But would they pay $2,000 per month?
I believe that most people would be willing to set up an "unfulfilling" side project to generate an extra $2,000 USD/month.
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My guess is Google setup these APIs to help train their learning algorithms. Now that they are trained there's no reason to keep up the service anymore. Maybe the key is to stay away from APIs that do work and don't contribute to revenue?
Google aura is gone, without free let us see how it competes with apple, micrsoft
What's the best DNS server software?
Just wanted to know what people think the best DNS server software is? You can base 'best' on performance, stability, reliability, features... whatever you think makes a DNS server 'best'.
For e.g. the translate API, how could they train their algorithms? There is no feedback associated with it (that I know of).
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slashdot.org has been doing it for years as 'proof' though, so, congrats?

Regardless, Slashdot isn't doing it now:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
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Actions should (and do) speak loudest.

For example, many here believe the future of Microsoft's consumer business is in trouble.

I'm sure many have great ideas as to how to fix it.

I even bet there are several senior people inside Microsoft who have great ideas as to how to fix it.

But none of that really matters. Because the stuff that's getting shipped sucks.
The main problem is that you would need a totally different indexing system.

Roughly, search engines work in two phases: retrieval, and scoring. Retrieval is when you figure out of the billions of documents in the index, which are the top few thousand that could be worthy of being search results. Scoring is when you look at each of those documents in more detail to figure out the actual top ten.

Scoring based on regular expressions wouldn't be too tough. Retrieval is the killer. Typically retrieval works based on "posting lists", which are basically indices for each word of which documents contain that word. To retrieve based on regular expressions, you would need posting lists for individual characters or short sequences of characters. That would take a lot more space.

You might be able to hack together some hybrid that would use existing posting lists. For example, if you required that the regular expression contain a word within it. But pure regular expressions would require a different index. That sort of added complexity is not worth it for the feature.
Lafayette at 21st and I. I don't think I would have survived Thurston.
Want to know if these quantum computers have any Operating system and what Programing languages are used to build the programs
Scott Aaronson is basically THE go-to guy for anything involving complexity theory or quantum computing. His explanations are phenomenal and his blog is usually full of easily understood information. He posted something a few weeks ago about the D-wave situation and pointed to that article he did for Forbes.

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=639
Solution that they chose not to use: API keys. Really messed up of them to jump to completely shutting down without giving some sort of rate limit/access control.
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Static analysis of lots of human translators' output. Given the input and output of a strange human filter, they're trying to approximate the filter using machine learning. When their algorithm's output approximates the best translations, they're done.
A good one would be Learn Python the Hard Way. Python is a good language for beginners, and widely used.

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/index

There are probably similar books/resources for Ruby.
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Some people are able to perceive that they are working hard but on a treadmill. They then do something to change that. It may work, it may not. If not they try something else, until they find a way to get a little more success out of the hard work. They then repeat the process. It's exactly the same as an entrepreneur who fails at a start-up attempt but learns and adapts the next time, only on a smaller, personal-income scale.

Other people never seem to realize they are running in place, or if they do, they don't have the drive to make any changes and just accept it.
You are correct in that #15 is the hardest part. The rest is trivial.

Here's a starting point: http://www.google.com/search?q=build+initial+backlinks

I like paid directory submissions, doing guest posts on blogs, building high quality Squidoo lenses (which include a link to your site), and paid reviews.

If you want the passive income badly enough, you will figure it out. If you don't want it badly enough, you don't deserve it.
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They've recently published a paper in Nature that shows an 8 qubit version of their adiabatic device really is a quantum computer so this is not complete bullshit anymore. We'll see what Lockheed says about the device. Maybe in the next few years a DWave will make a bigger quantum computer and we'll see if Lockheed keeps buying.

This looks like the 'real thing' although they've not yet figured out how to run, for example, Shor's algorithm on an adabiatic QC yet. Also 128 qubits is not enough to tackle problems intractable to current classical computers. And finally this device by DWave is hardwired to perform only one type of optimization search, it's not a 'general purpose' computer yet.
Disrupt Office with what? A cheaper, but significantly higher margin version of Office that has broader appeal? That's not disruptive. That's a smart business move.

Or is it a free web version of Office that has no current revenue model? Also, what is the trajectory of Office revenue? Is it a growth area or stable? In the case of OSX it is a MUCH lower percentage of revenue as compared to 3 years earlier.

Disruption requires the cannibalizing product to impact the bottom line negatively. The iPad has had the complete opposite effect from the first day.

If MS shipped a product that on day 1 resulted in higher earnings than Office, that's not disruptive.

But I think we can agree to disagree about if the iPad was a bold gutsy move. I think it was a natural progression from the iPhone and cannibalizing a product that couldn't really grow even during the Vista years wasn't really a concern. You think otherwise.
This is structurally quite different from Groupon. Which means Groupon would have to change their model significantly to do it. Which means it's probably not among the most likely things they'd do.
that's really neat. as far as i can tell, though, it doesn't describe where people live. that seems like it might be an interesting function of the details already present (access, water, vegetation, climate...)
Relevant text:

"At this time the Company has determined not to proceed with the initial public offering contemplated by the Registration Statement. The Registration Statement has not been declared effective by the Commission and the Company hereby confirms that no securities were sold in connection with the offering described in the Registration Statement. Therefore, withdrawal of the Registration Statement is consistent with the public interest and the protection of investors, as contemplated by paragraph (a) of Rule 477."
The article contradicts its own title.

The author claims, in the title, that functional languages will rule, some day.

Then he does a tour describing each would-be-ruler functional language (erlang, haskell, ocaml, F#, scala) and explicitly says that all of them will remain niche languages i.e. will not rule.
Pretty much. According to Hacker News News [1] unique visitors tripled between April 2009 and February 2011.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html
There are lots of people questioning whether their device is really a quantum computer but D-Wave has published many papers in peer-reviewed literature and so just calling them a 'scam company' is a bit strong. We'll see soon enough once more people get their hands on these devices. If they really are a 'scam company' they won't last long now that they're shipping actual hardware.
It's not a greed problem. Some people are driven to achieve. If that's greed, fine, call it greed. But others are satisfied to just get by, or subsist. They don't actively try to change anything about their situation. That's not caused by the "greed" of others. It's just their nature. So I agree, there will always be poverty because there will always be people who are satisfied to live in it. And by "satisfied" I don't mean happy, I mean not sufficiently motivated to change.
Pretty sure BIND is the standard.
His thesis is that none of the current crop of functional languages will rule, but that some new functional language not yet invented (or widely known) will.
Do you think the Segway creators were merely a good team then?
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This particular device is only wired to do one kind of optimization search - basically it does a variant of the 'traveling salesman' shortest route search. There's no OS or programming language, it's just an 'oracle' device. You set the states of the qubits via the inputs, let it 'run' for a bit and then you read the results.
Sounds like a promising idea for a YC application.
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This is rather an attack on a strawman. No one thinks that ideas don't matter at all. Obviously you have to have a good one at some point.

When people say that execution matters more than the idea in a startup, what they're really saying is something fairly complicated: that you need both a good idea and good execution, but that (1) since good execution is rarer, you should worry more about that, and (2) good execution will tend to fix bad ideas, because if you pay attention to users and iterate fast, you will in the worst case end up with a good idea by successive approximations.
You could think of it this way: Execution helps a bad idea exist and grow by hacking on it until all you're left with is a good idea... Ideas, whether good or bad, create the drive or motivation to start.
True. Do you know how that compares performance wise to other DNS servers?
> For the blue collar people ... the idea of getting a bunch of education and then becoming a manager was inconceivable and frankly immoral

Not for all of them, but for disturbingly many. The problem is exacerbated by peer pressure: as soon as one tries to change something, one is booed and labeled a social climber. Because many people base their morals on what their surrounding group believes to be right, becoming rich starts being perceived as immoral.

> However, the left says "there is no cultural problem" and the right says "screw em, its their own damn fault"

Far left says there is no cultural problem because it is infatuated with the culture of poverty itself. There is this belief among many leftists that being poor is "moral" while being rich is not. So the left considers the culture of the poor to be superior and more "authentic". Similarly, in a perverse twist, the far right believes that being rich is almost equal to being moral (because wealth is God's gift to men or some other such nonsense). Basically people like to imagine their corresponding social groups as being the most moral of all.
Might be nice to add a bit of sample text and a timer so you can figure out how many words you read per minute if you don't already know.
I'd agree that a hidden Markov model that does POS tagging with high accuracy doesn't provide an intellectually satisfying model for "how language works", but you don't need to have a model for "how language works" in order to use it.

I'd agree that an adhoc equation that fits observed core sample data doesn't provide an intellectually satisfying model for "how sedimentation works", but you don't need to have a model for "how sedimentation works" in order to use it.

That's actually from something I worked on a long time ago. People actually use adhoc models of sedimentation and the formation of sedimentary rock for practical purposes. I also think most people suspect that we'd learn something valuable by figuring out the underlying reason why the data fits the particular description.
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Judged by their results, yes. They were good at building things but didn't pay enough attention to people.
I mean, if you follow the money trail, it's just as important to Mozilla that Google does given that's where a large chunk of their funding comes from.
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The fascinating part of this article is the international policy comparisons: "Indeed, many other countries have figured out profitable ways to run a postal service. The U.S. could learn a lot from them."

And of course the economic problems of the organization are related to some familiar causes: "The USPS has historically placed the interests of its unions first. That hasn't changed."
Is there any sort of time frame attached to something like this? Perhaps something along the lines of a non-complete agreement? If you worked for someone like PayPal, could you never again work for a company that has a payment service or does this only come into play if you're hired to help -build- a payment service?
As a entrepreneur do you want your ideas, intellectual property and key employees stolen?

No.

If google sitting on a cash pile can't build or innovate, let them perish, what they have done is stealing
I don't think anyone said ideas don't matter, it's just an idea isn't something unique you can leverage. Two people can have the same idea and when all things are equal, it's the execution that really matters. Look at Myspace vs Facebook, Zune vs iPod, Yahoo vs Google.
It goes a bit deeper than that.

Most static typed languages - C, Java, Haskell, etc are memory representation centric in their primitive types. Ada is usage centric.

You see that two ways.

First, in most languages any item with underlying implementation X can represent any legal value of X, even if it makes no sense. If you want to represent a quantity whose maximum value is one million, putting it in anything shaped like a 32-bit int will let it contain the illegal value "one million and one". Contrast Ada which will let you cap its legal range.

Second, in most languages any item with underlying implementation X can contain anything else with the same implementation. Your typedef'd int can be put into anything else int-sized. Contrast Ada, which won't permit you to mix apples and oranges if they are defined as distinct types with int storage.
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User Voice has been great so far, I look forward to leaning on it some more.
You haven't lived until you've experienced 4 people living in a 400sqft room with one bathroom, all NAT'ing a single Ricochet wireless modem, simultaneously downloading MP3s from UPenn student's FTP sites.

It was before Thurston had an ethernet network. All of the other dorms seemed to have direct fiber and media converters.

1300 people in a 9 story building. Especially fun, when a block from the dorm, somebody ran over a fire hydrant, and the water supply had to be shut off for several blocks, including Thurston (there were no tank toilets). 8 hours of clogged toilets on every single floor, including the public bathrooms and study lounges.

...or the false fire alarms, where all 1300 students evacuate from only two sets of stairwells.

...or when facilities management decides it is warm enough to enable air conditioning.

Good memories. I have more, but this is enough for now.
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I wouldn't say Aaronson is the premier expert on computational complexity. That would probably be Lance Fortnow who literally writes the blog on computational complexity (http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/). RJ Lipton is pretty notable, as well http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/.
I got rid of points to decrease contentious back and forths. I feel like that may have happened. At least, I feel like I've gotten dragged into fewer such threads.

Has anyone else noticed a trend either way?
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A copy is just that, a copy in the eyes of Google. The copy will be penalized in rankings. Your community won't suddenly leave your website to go to the copycat. There are a million sites that copied Facebook but in the end everybody is on Facebook.
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Building web applications is just a small part of programming in general; I too would agree on learning HTML and CSS first. Once you can master static pages, you can start learning how to introduce dynamic components to build rich web apps.
Why don't they publish the data in a quick and dirty no frills way, and let hackers like myself pretty it up? Data.gov has a lot of value, and I'd love to contribute some of my free time working with it.
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The first comment in the article brings up a vaild question. Is this nr of shipped phones based on the US sales or global sales? Because I don't think they have to pay fees of the global sales, or do they?
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Actually, if you read the story, it says that they delivered one to Lockheed, and that the cost of a D-Wave one is 10m, not that Lockheed paid D-Wave 10m.

They might have, but this story isn't that conclusive.
Actually, the amount of paperwork and hassle to apply for foodstamps is crazy. It can be embarrassing because you have to provide so many details about your life and give them legal permission to dig into all kinds of records.

I realize the need to prevent fraud but there has to be some kind of balance to allowing someone in a bad situation to keep a little dignity.

Then there is the craziness that you can buy things like candy with foodstamps but not vitamins.
FYI: This will only work for users who actually buy a subscription to Instapaper, which isn't much - $1/month.
I do not believe the stamps themselves are, but government resources are certainly finite.
Yup, there is a limited budget and if things get bad enough in a state they will even limit them to only people who have disabilities. It's rare but has happened.

Then there is the craziness that you are immediately ineligible for foodstamps the very day you get a job, regardless if you do not get a paycheck for a couple more weeks.
I thought Grub With Us was a bad name, but this takes the cake.
I would make this distinction:

Ideas, as in the process of thinking of new things, also known as design and creativity and other words people like, vs

The Idea, which is an untouchable monolithic safety blanket common in startups, where the founder(s) are unwilling to challenge their core assumptions. This is usually because they think of creativity as a one-off moment of inspiration type affair and, through fear that it won't strike twice, stop trying.

Truthfully, you have to execute a process to have good ideas, and processes for execution are ideas themselves. There's no dichotomy except what we make when we put The Idea (or perhaps even The Execution) up on a pedestal.
Was it much of a story outside of tech circles? i.e. do you think the average investor would have heard about it?

It's an interesting theory anyway. I suspect as someone else has posted that it's related to the way the LinkedIn IPO went.
With a telic object [1] or through context (i.e. "tomorrow").

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telicity#Telicity_as_an_aspect
This kind of sounds like bs. For several years now quantum computers have had a very low number of qubits, only incrementally increasing every once and a while. Now this thing nearly 10x the qubits? I don't think so, such a breakthrough would make much more news than this.
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I feel that things have improved for the better since the points disappeared - more to-the-point, less "I can't believe I've been downvoted for saying this" threads (even though everyone DOES know they were downvoted ....)
Yeah, I think it is official leftist dogma, which isn't really a bad thing (I prefer it to rightist dogma at least). But, as Nietzsche reminds us, every dogma exists to help effect a subconscious will to power, whether you're a social worker or a capitalist.

From your second paragraph (with "that is probably related to not being around that particular mindset"), I think we all agree on the value of enculturation in a person's success, though we are all different in our connotations. I think he is playing "let's call a spade a spade" in his post.

I also don't think you are advocating fight the rich, but I do think you are channeling arguments that others have made uncritically. It's ok, we all do it, all the time.
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I actually thought this article was significantly better than the parent article, and is definitely worth a read.
I bought the extended battery _from_ the manufacturer when I first got mine. Works very well. There's an even larger third party battery you can get.

I got mine from Verizon but there are others available on Amazon, etc.