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It'd actually look half-way decent in a client that doesn't render it. Wish I had the time to write a Mozilla plugin:-p
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Gibson, who is after all the guy who said "the future is already here; it's just not evenly distributed yet", might well point you to patio11's comment, and to various Media Lab-type demos from twenty years ago, and then ask: Was it not obvious that this would happen?

You've also politely failed to notice that Gibson, along with many other people, believed the hype about AI twenty years ago. ;)

Gibson's great because he notices things. For example, I will be eternally grateful for all the Joseph Cornell stuff in Count Zero because it prompted me to go see a show full of actual Joseph Cornell boxes, which are wonderful and are exactly as Gibson described them.
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Very nice, I've been wanting to get into Clojure, but not having a functional background I've found it hard to jump into anything. This looks easy enough that I could transition in slowly, I think I'll give it a try.
Would be great if Google bought Oracle.
Something has to come in contact with the water and will inevitable be exposed to the oxygen.
The choice of materials appears to be one for performance reasons:

The authors pointed out that their approach is general enough to work on other semiconductor substrates and to integrate other catalysts, allowing for fine-tuning of electrodes to maximize performance.
Very good points. I especially second that it's about damn time for new business models..

Coming back to the question how they fight piracy, I know they do remove lots of links, my question is more directed to how and why they do it or don't.

Some artists/labels/studios still do the lawyer scheme in which they sue thousands of people and hope that a small percentage settles, which brings in a lot of additional revenue.
And this is also where individuals get hit with out-of-space lawsuits..

But they did seem to learn from it and try hard not to make press by suing 11 year olds who just downloaded 3 songs over $27Mio anymore.., so they don't focus on the casual downloader or the streamer who doesn't even know if the site is legitimate because it looks professional, but rather on the uploaders..,

but still, I'm really interested if there's an industry out there for this, because in my mind, every 20-something could tell them how to deal with piracy better than probably most of their lawyers or advisors.

I'd love to get in a conversation with one of those guys though and hear their points of view, also the artist's point of views..
Yep. Have an upvote from a fellow proper versioning devotee who's ranted about this recently: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2598360
Dark matter is not needed to explain the rotation of galixies.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3778
Assuming that paper is true, dark matter is not the simplest idea and by Ockham's razor, we should drop dark matter as known today.
Also reported yesterday:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2677903
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The main advantage of writing HTML using a tool like Hiccup is that you can factor out repeated sections of markup into functions.

For example, one might write a page like:

(defn user-settings [user]
(settings-for [user]
(breadcrumbs (link home) (link settings))
(text-field :login)
(text-field :email)))

And the functions used would take care of generating the page, layout, form, fields, error notices, flash messages, CSRF protection and so forth. By the time you've finished with all that, those 4 lines of Clojure will be 50 lines of HTML.

Hiccup tends to lend itself toward user interfaces that are uniform and predictable, with repeatable elements. Think Facebook or Github, for instance.
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The worst part is, if you are a mathematician and you expect the modulus operator to behave exactly as it does in mathematics then it can be maddeningly difficult to track down why your program isn't working correctly. You just don't expect simple mathematical operators to start malfunctioning.
Rewind cd-roms?? Is this a joke!?
I get your point, but I think that's really not what Michael Abrash was meaning here when referring to "heroes". His point is simply to show how hard it can be to finish a product, no matter how well or ill managed the team is.
without asking whether it was allowed to

I'd hope the mic icon and popup are part of chrome, rather than being something implemented by the web page. If that's the case then consent is implied by clicking on the mic icon.
Not a panic in itself is the problem. But as the grantparent mentions, there might be a technical issue (such as a hack, in this case) if such an irrational thing happens.

Safest action in that case is to halt the market temporarily (as well as delay withdraws) and investigate.
"F# async on the server side" - node.fs in waiting?
If all our celebrities were CG-generated illusions... what would all the tabloids print to sell magazines? Actual news? I think I'm looking forward to the future!
NB I found this after listening to a podcast about IronJS, during which Fredrik Holmström mentioned that F# would be a much better starting point for an async http server.
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I don't think I'm on board with all of his suggestions (who would want to make their home uninviting?), but he makes a couple good points in a pleasantly amusing way.
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>3ROT13

yes.
Sounds like a Market for making bug fixing compelling and fun.
It's funny you put it like that. Opera is my main browser, Chrome is my heavy/with addons browser.
As a side note, I've found that a very good way to familiarize yourself with a new programming language and its underlying concepts is by solving first 40-50 problems in Project Euler with the language: http://projecteuler.net/
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It's called benevolent dictator for life for a reason ;).
Like a computer-generated thing isn't part of reality.
I think you're thinking in the wrong context. You should be applying this to your own startup or weekend project.
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I'm with you. FWIW, I had the option of jumping ship from the web development industry, and took it because of stuff like this. The build-test-rebuild-testagain-fix-tweak-test cycle for web development is horrible, and aggravating, and life's too short to deal with that kind of nonsense.

Now there are multiple browsers that are going to modify their rendering engines every few months. Yeah, fuck everything about that. I no longer give even two turds' worth of a care what browsers a particular project works in, as long as it works for me. This is just stupid.
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It has been said that they pretend to be a leecher, wanting parts from everyone in the group, then they give all these IPs to lawyers. The lawyers are meant to (ab)use the courts to translate an IP into an american citizen to be sued, but the courts are throwing these cases out generally.

It's successful, and it's not. Takedown requests aren't fought, so it goes down, but two more come back up in its place. You'd think the RIAA et al would be the Lernaean Hydra but technically the people responding to the DMCAs are (not that I disagree with them).
The Nexus S is out already

The parent said the Nexus S 4G, but I think they meant the rumored Nexus 4G (which isn't out yet). Here's some leaked specs: http://www.bgr.com/2011/06/15/exclusive-google-nexus-4g-deta...
So Google's biggest mistake was not taking on a giant merger, though mergers sometimes go horribly wrong, but sometimes they work out? Seems like the message in this article is a little mixed. Maybe someone other than the article writer wrote the headline.
Well, if you look at the source, it does exactly what it says. Seek to the beginning.
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If you need functional background, you could try SICP - there is also a clojure version being developed. I took an Ocaml course on my uni 'strongly inspired' by SICP and I must say that it pretty much rewired my brain for functional.
While yes, Abrash's point was that you are a hero because you finished your project on-time, patio11 has a great point.

There have been many a horror story of long long LONG hours posted on here ranging from RockStar (lost the link) and many others because of a looming deadline with no working benefits for those extra hours.
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A little bit of devil advocate here. If the server rack was full of virtual hosting that would mean one server could ideally host multiple websites and if all the servers shared 1 or 2 SAN's it would be difficult from an outsider looking in to know which server hosted what website especially with Graveyard shift. Even if you knew node 1 server hosted the site it would still be shared on the SAN and could easily be started on another server.
Isn't that this?

http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=<your-username>
Maybe the 33% of Chrome users with extensions are the ones that switched from Firefox.
Exciting as it was, we hit the same rough patches toward the end as any other software project. I am quite serious when I say that a month before shipping, we were sick to death of working on Quake.

Finishing projects should not require this and anyone who tells you different is your enemy. I mean that.
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I like fixing bugs. I hate that you have to replicate them beforehand. That's usually digging out certain versions of the environment setup. The actually theory-validation-cycle of bug fixing is fun, because it is just like science.
I'm always jealous of people who were introduced to computing early. I'm 19 now and have done well, but I didn't get access to the internet until 14 and never had anyone to show me about things. I feel as if I had been introduced much earlier there were much greater opportunities, 5 years ago this sort of thing would have been unheard of but now it's become more and more common; anyone of any age can start something and be successful. Imagining knowing what I know now when I was 15...

It's awesome and a great change, now age is as insignificant as it should be. Well done Daniil!
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You'll probably like another interesting article about a similar problem, the network code of X-Wing vs. TIE-Fighter and how they handled extremely high latency and packet drop rates: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3374/the_internet_suck...
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This comes at a great moment for me. I have just gotten into the second, not fun 90% part of the project and it's really frustrating. Mr. Abrash has articulated why.

I'm going to put my head down and work.

And ship it.
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>If Disney could produce popstars in a laboratory they would.

They basically did.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mickey_Mouse_Club
I wrote a CPAN module to do something similar: Acme::MorningMusume::ShinMember:

http://search.cpan.org/~jrockway/Acme-MorningMusume-ShinMemb...
While PE is great keyboard exercise and includes many cool puzzles, I think it is bad way of rewiring your brain for functional thinking. Unless you'll do some exercises that explicitly require new ways of thinking (and read something), you'll probably end up struggling with writing java code in clojure. I advice to do some FP course and then solving some problems in functional way - when you already know the way.
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That's why they are journalists instead of good financial analysts.
> All new releases will be installed automatically...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH.

...

Mind if I ask how you guys arrive at decisions like this one? We provide IT support services to individuals & businesses in three counties; automatic updates are, by far, not their favorite thing.

...actually, scratch that, nevermind. We have a new product coming out in six months and I think you just helped us sell it. Big time.
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I would wager that this is true for some other addons/features, too.
Additional evidence is provided by gravitational lensing observations, the most spectacular of which is the Bullet Cluster: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060824.html
> what happens if electric vehicles do become popular?

That is a really strange question to ask. I think more appropriate question would be "what does it take for electric vehicles to become popular".
His premise is that Sun controlled Java, which show how much he researched the matter.
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The following is the place to put feature requests:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363

And yes, I've made this exact mistake, and so have many others, so don't feel too bad about it. ;)
Not to be snarky, but that's like saying "sounds like a market for making teeth-pulling compelling and fun". Some things are just hard and sometimes boring too. There's certainly a market for easing the pain, but I'm not sure you can make it fun.
Not sure what you mean. Visual debugger (with breakpoints and all) in FireBug is almost on par with IDEs.
What exactly is the reason for using Tornado over something like Flask+Gunicorn+meinheld? Preference?
Interesting, do you have some reputable links to something dissecting the claims in the paper?

I would have thought mathematical mistakes would have been classed out long ago. Certainly it would have been the first place people looked at the difference in predictions vs observations.
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I realize that this type of discourse is the raison d'être of this site, but I think it's pretty funny that I came to this discussion immediately after reading today's xkcd (http://xkcd.com/915/)
Bitcoin will recover, but right now it is going through a liquidity crisis:

Only a small percentage of BTC users were using Tradehill, a competitive BTC exchange. People have rushed to create accounts there, however it takes a few days to transfer money in, so right now there are more sellers than buyers, causing prices to go lower. In addition, apparently some people have their money tied up in unreachable MtGox accounts so are unable to trade.

MtGox has some serious issues to deal with. Finally yesterday, on the 3rd day after the exchange was brought down, they instituted an account recovery page, where you can provide information about your account and try to prove it is yours. Their support people are manually reviewing account information and will give you access when they feel you have sufficiently verified the info.

It looks very fishy, like MtGox is intentionally delaying access to people's accounts in order to prevent a run on the exchange. We don't know exactly how much money or coins were actually stolen from MtGox, but it is entirely possible that someone figured out a way to transfer a large amount of coins or real currency out of there. It might be possible that MtGox cannot make all investors whole again, so they are reenabling accounts just a few at a time and hoping that not everyone withdraws their funds at once.

Personally, I never kept a balance of either USD or BTC in MtGox. Their site looked too amateur to trust with money. I would sell my coins and transfer them to Dwolla immediately. Right now, all of the exchanges look sketchy. I would not trust a single VPS running MySQL at all with what could be millions of dollars.
I'd like to see LE's face if that happened :)
Completely agree - I'm on the same exact boat. I started html when I was around 14, I learned how to outsource quickly and I sort of regret that now because I stopped coding. The greatest thing about the web business for me is that age doesn't matter, there is still some age discrimination but its less prevalent than offline per say.
That post now has 1105 comments. Is that really a workable system for feature requests?
There's always someone who started earlier and always someone later. What matters more is what you do with your time.
It only exists on Solaris AFAIK, as part of the CDE window manager environment.
> 28 for for me. I assume it is dependant on the width of tabs, not the number.
Same here. I was born 10 years too early. When I look back at all the stuff I produced as a kid (I still have them in boxes), I have no doubt I would've been able to make the next Facebook if only I was introduced to computers earlier and the internet was more mainstream than it was. Kids have so much free time...
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I actively hire people that don't have a CS degree. If you can build cool things, that's all I care about.
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Google has a software development platform. It's called HTML5+Javascript.

Sun was a hardware company with a line of unprofitable server software, as well as a popular software platform. Speaking as a Java developer, yeah, it would have been nice if Google controlled Java, but I don't think it really made sense from Google point of view.

As for Open Office - I think the author misunderstands Google's platform strategy. Google wants cloud-based software, not old thick client software. No amount of reto-fitting of server connection can fix that.
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makezombie.c is a fake. No processes called "zombie" are running on the system after I invoke this. Also, a real zombie program should randomly chew on other processes until the other process itself is a zombie. This needs more work.
Can't google replace java with scala in android and get over this issues ?
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Please don't use HN for job search ads. There are thousands of people in the world looking for a dev job, and if everyone posts an Ask HN, HN becomes unusable. There are monthly "Who is hiring" postings; perhaps you find something there. Or post an interesting pet project of yours.
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One could argue that Google's biggest mistake was not buying Facebook in the same way that Yahoo could have bought Google way back when.

Instead, Google now has to come up with a bunch of half baked social projects that are seen through the lens of search, which makes no sense to anyone outside of Google. Search is not a social endeavor unless you are a librarian and social has very little to do with search.

Google could have bought Sun, but most of what Sun did made no sense for Google while at the same time Google is doing a lot of the things Sun wanted to do, but could never execute. Sun made money on hardware, but that was a dead business. $7 billion just to own Java patents would have been great for Android, but as it stands Google will likely license them for a fraction of that.

In the end, Sun's big prize was Java and all the money in Java right now is in the enterprise software game. Google doesn't care about enabling enterprise software. Google doesn't care about enabling IBM and Oracle to write big software for big companies.

I think Google did the right thing by not buying Sun.
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would ... have provided a strong office productivity suite that could be augmented to complement their online word processing tools in unique ways.

Some authors don't seem to read their own articles.
Its odd how the swipe feature is always done so deliberately slowly. It's been irritating me a lot in these videos.
The patent lawsuit isn't about the language but about the runtime.
Unrelated sidebar question

"avg karma about 1.5 which means that 2 out of 3 voters value my contributions enough to give an up-tick."

Does this calculation not make sense to other people? I don't understand how the OP arrived at this conclusion.
The article compared "async" C# to async F# and makes the claim that F# is better because of the lighter syntax. The only problem is that they're using the wrong version of C#. C# is expected to get the same async feature in the next version. Version 4 brought dynamic features to C# and completely changed the language. Version 5 is expected to bring async and change how people use C# again.

It's really slick and MS should really be commended for their work on it. It makes writing asynchronous code as straightforward as writing regular code. No crazy callbacks. That's what is so great about the CLI. All the .NET languages get an upgrade when the CLI gets an upgrade. All the work done to support Python and Ruby on .NET led to the dynamic and functional features of C# 4.
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Firebug is an extension, but the webkit DOM inspector tools are built in. Some FF extensions have been "quietly installed", like one by Microsoft during a security update. Did the methodology account for such differences?
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What is the Joseph Cornell stuff? All I could find was a Wikipedia mention of some boxes, but no actual description.