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(DISCLAIMER: not terribly relevant, may contain nostalgia.)

It's not that big a deal that a big company is rebranding its products. I certainly won't rant or protest that. But since I no longer have a blog, I thought I should leave an in memoriam here.

Their retiring the "Blogger" brand makes me a little sad. I made my first blog there at age 13, and I learnt a lot about HTML and CSS over the following years thanks to Blogger. In a way, Blogger was my BASIC. I eventually outgrew its simplicity and scope, got a domain and some space (at a friend's mom's server) and started mixing Blogger's templating code with PHP and Perl. That site was my platform to learn code and its political implications.

Forward to high school, a few friends and I had a group blog which got sort of popular among the student body. We had buttons pressed with the Blogger logo. We wore it with pride. The implications of the web were gaining momentum among our generation right about then.

I will miss seeing that big orange B around.
Let's them buy it all, could be a win-win, as since 4-5 years ago, Chinese economy has an important bubble component, so they are theoretically "experts" handling those cases (/irony).
The point was clearly not that it has no bugs, but that if something is working to spec, it's working.
If Perl had a single-minded organization behind it, changing that page would be simpler. Alas, volunteers do (and don't do) what volunteers want to do (or don't want to do).
Definitely hear you on that one! It only really works if you can put up with a service going down for a while (e.g. not customer facing, or one back-end in a web cluster with a load balancer in front). I can see how that wouldn't work for Greplin. Looks very useful now that I better understand the context.
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Its the responsibility of the employer to follow employment law, and you can easily end up with the guy you hired to mow your lawn as your employee whether you like it or not.

At the federal level, there's enough special treatment for household employers that its not terribly burdensome, but many states make you jump through the same hoops as a small business (hoops that might be reasonable for a small business but can be quite burdensome for a household employer)

Also, incorporate? One need not incorporate to do business.
> Just as you used the new

> operator to create an object, you should delete objects when you are finished withthem, like this:

> delete myObjectVariable;

What a bunch of crap? Have these guys even looked at the specs?

And chapter on inheritance really makes me cry...
"Where are the statistics to suggest that people 55+ are taking all the minimum wage jobs?"

The evidence is only anecdotal and theoretical. In theory, the elderly cannot work as hard as young professionals but have a stronger work ethic than the very young, so they will compete with the young for low-wage, low-difficulty labour. For an anecdote, you can go to Wal-Mart and see all of the old people in the entry-level low-paying jobs there that high school students could also do.

"Why does this author mention Bush four times?"

Because it's a politically-motivated response to a politically-motivated piece that blamed a core Democratic Party principle for events that also took place when Bush was in power.

"The blogger is editorializing worse than the WSJ here"

It's some guy's blog. He's not pretending to be a professional journalist.

"Essentially all of the counter points were mentioned in the WSJ article up front"

The blogger's counterpoints are that 1) the current depression hurt teen employment and began before the minimum wage was raised, 2) the drop in teen employment began a long time before the minimum wage was raised, 3) certain numbers in the WSJ article are exaggerated or false, 4) youth in summer jobs have a lower minimum wage than the WSJ article says they do, and 5) the young have an increase in competition from the 55+. Only the first counterpoint is addressed.
they have created circles or profile types, now they provide a option to switch to that circle. from office to friend mode to golf mode, context and priorities should change based on what circle you are in.

group behavior seems to be OK, but need to improve one to one context driven communication and collaboration tools
I went to high school in Utah and one of our teachers (Rob Bishop) actually became a congressman. Using his new role, he invited our class's honour students to a convention where the youth meet Utah politicians.

That was the first time I crossed paths with Orrin Hatch. He was a man always short on time, and when it came time for the photoshoot, he maintained a scowl until seconds before the shot was taken.

Later, one of my classmates ended up working as his aide. From what I was told, Hatch refuses to use his office computer and still hand-writes all of his manuscripts. What's more, he responds to all of his emails by printing them out and writing a response — a lackey will then type in the response.

I don't understand how he's still on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Although this is purported to be Leahy's brain-child, Hatch almost definitely had a hand in the scarier revisions.
How does copyright fall under either immigration or customs?

The US off-shored the facilities for production of physical media, that's how. Not that CDs and DVDs were ever much of a US thing to begin with.
Local client? Show up at his office. It's much harder to blow off people in person. Remain civil and cool, but be clear that you're not going to write this off.
Related:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentzen%27s_consistency_proof

basically a proof of sorts that Peano arithmetic is consistent based on primitive recursive arithmetic and the "intuitively obvious" idea that there should exist no infinite decreasing sequence of numbers in any set with a minimum element.

Also, the consistency of ZFC can be "proven" by proving the existence of a weakly inaccessible cardinal, which is a sort of thing whose existence obviously cannot be proven from within ZFC...
Netflix Expanding To 43 More Countries Later This Year
Google+: The new thing I’m totally afraid to use
Fewer sigils

As with PHP, reusing the same sigil for everything misses the point of sigils rather badly. I count five instances of two sigils in your example and each sigil character has another syntactic meaning within the same line.
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I guess it would be more like 10000x or more.

Standard search works because any search will contain words that decrease the target space by several orders of magnitude (and of it does not, nobody Will notice if the search engine returns almost-random documents)

For the regexes that people would want to search with, decreasing the search space is infeasible. So, you would, effectively, have to grep large parts of the Internet. Even at Google, that would take serious time. It also would be expensive.

It is possible to limit the regex space and get reasonable run times, for example by requiring the regex to contain sufficiently infrequent character sequences with \w boundary delimiters. However, I expect any such limited set would be equally well served by a Google search followed by a client-side grep.

If you disagree, I would be interested in what regexes you would allow and how you would implement searching fotpr them.
Yes, it is actually this simple: Find someone willing to hire you for 66000 Euro or more yearly salary (65 above was wrong) and you will get a working permit without much problems. The "only" problem is to find a job paying this salary.
Justin Timberlake Considers Turning MySpace into a Talent Show
Sheesh... Research much?

This 'some guy with a blog' happens to be very highly thought of in many financial circles.

See http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/media-review/
I enjoyed reading about Nathan's work as well. He was the only team member I knew of.
Or just read this?
http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html

I guess Crockford is like K&R for JS's conventions.
Ask HN: What programming languages aren't plain-text-based?
I'm looking for examples of programming languages, particularly for web stuff, that are not fundamentally plain-text-based -- i.e., the source code cannot be expressed as plain text.

I'm thinking about languages that use things like background colors or graphical elements to actually signify instructions (rather than just pretty things up).
I am apparently in that foolish minority that believes language runtimes should not segfault/corrupt themselves while running correct code. That this problem requires significant effort just to hack around, while actually fixing it would take a major architectural change, is what elevates this from mere "lolwut?" to fatally flawed. There are good alternative runtimes for Ruby, such as the JVM and the CLR, that do not suffer from this problem. Y'all should use them.

Funktacularly yours,

Lil' B
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Then you should ask your friends not to enter your info into their Gmail address books, and only give your info to you people you trust to honor that request. That's where the trust comes in. If you give your info to people, you must trust that they will not misuse it, whatever "misuse" means to you. Google's import tool would not sneak onto your friends' computers at night and surreptitiously import your data against their wishes, and lacking that tool will not stop your friends from "giving" your info to Google.

Facebook blocking one method for one company to import your data is not security; it's just corporate warfare.
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Email in about.
Try: http://www.thewashingtonfancy.com
would be nice not to have the map boxed on the US... there are also dots outside.
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Why? A TLD doesn't have to explicitly reference the country in which it's based. The big TLDs started in the US, so it shouldn't be a surprise that they're still under the US jurisdiction.

That said, fragmenting the internet into nationalistic TLD silos will probably have some negative consequences for the cross cultural nature of the internet, and it might help to give the non-obviously nation-based TLDs over to an international ruling body.

It's something to be weighed by the US govt. I hope they consider both sides carefully.
Man, what a piece of shit. Apple should pull this immediately.
Trada$ ./code_space
In my opinion, working with the IntelliJ has been very easy in Scala. There's an excellent plugin that you may want to check out if you haven't already that lets you generate IntelliJ project files from sbt. https://github.com/mpeltonen/sbt-idea
I like it and prefer it to Facebook, but as long as I have years of history in albums, photos, videos, tags and notes...it'll be hard to warrant a complete switch without a mass migration of my friends over to Facebook.

That being said, Google+ has some neat features, so I may use it occasionally-- but just taking a look at Facebook's history: they're probably going to copy many of Google+'s features.

Remember when Facebook didn't have deals and didn't even have status updates?
This particular site could alternatively offer a link to the freely available books (CC etc.) or at least notify about it. I don't know how the site works so I've no idea if it's possible without checking every license by hand, but it would be very, very awesome.
Founders role in setting up a great team
Great idea -- some thoughts/feedback:

1) Your suggestion for the best intro book on "ruby" assumes that Ruby = Ruby on Rails. I think many might disagree -- I'd differentiate and throw in a book on Ruby the language.

2) To the point of how the choices are made -- maybe institute some sort of voting system (Winner with X votes, runner-up #1, runner-up #2). I think it gives more credibility to the site if it's a community resource and the selections are based on something other than the site-owner's opinion.

Good idea and good weekend project! Also, excellent that you and your wife can work together on stuff like this - that's a great thing.
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Is that still true for you if you use APC? What if you use nginx instead of Apache? In our experience, APC makes an order of magnitude difference, and nginx makes several.
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I spent a lot of time writing as little code as possible.

This isn't (only) because I dislike typing a lot but because I try really hard to a) par down the problem until I understand it in its most basic form, and b) try to express any solution as simply as possible and as readably as possible.

if mere code terseness is important to you there are other languages that will provide that. however, there is no language that will compensate for the inability to avoid implementing lots of unneeded stuff that comes from not understanding the problem. and for the most part: that's what separates the really good programmers from the bad ones and this is where the majority of the line-count gets spent.

that being said, I fully agree that Java is too verbose. there are a lot of things that it'd be nice if Java took care of for you. this is what I like about, for instance, Groovy. (I've only dabbled in Scala so it would be premature to sing its praise, but I am sufficiently impressed to have planned to do a project in Scala this fall).
See also "Probabilistic Functional Programming" at http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Probabilistic_Functional_...

A Haskell embedding seems easier than adding new syntax to R, though you don't get all the nice algorithms that are already implemented in R.
Skype and Silver Lake: VC vs PE culture
A perspective I found useful for understanding the Skype debacle.
scratches head

Comparing the city of New York with two small towns doesn't make a lot of sense. Just from a geographical point of view, comparing it against the entire San Francisco Bay Area would be far more apt comparison.

I suppose comparing just Manhattan to San Francisco proper would also work.
Initial thoughts, it looks good. It definitely has the feel of a real newspaper site. The writing isn't quite as polished. The ideas are good, but every so often you hit a sentence that makes you go "What?" An example is in the story on Rand Paul and GPS. You quote him as saying "The American people should be free to literally chart their own course without the inferring hand of the government getting in their way." But I believe you meant "interfering" rather than "inferring". It's not a huge error, but it's enough to make you stop for a second, breaking the flow. All in all, I'd give it a 7 out of 10.
Generally I don't support snark on HN (even when I myself am the one being snarky), but I clicked the upvote reflexively after reading your comment.

Edit: to clarify, consider this a use case for voting undo option.
Good that I saw this before reading the pdf. Can you point me to a better resource?
Also known as fiduciary duty.
Or any other language that denotes comments with an octothorpe, but I opted for brevity.
Ask HN:  What is your primary development machine?
At a recent conference I attended, I noticed that 80+% of the attendees all had Macs of one flavor or another. Since this was a developer-centric conference, I wondered if this is a general trend for the community as a whole to migrate to Cupertino or is there a more even distribution in a wider group...

For any pedants in the group: "Primary" here means the machine you spend 80% or more of your time on doing development work. Not surfing, watching Netflix, or anything else. Development only.
Mac Desktop
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Nice new space for Boulder!
> getting involved in nuclear weapons

Pretty much every western country has nuclear weapons. If you're referencing the fact that the US is the only country to have dropped nuclear weapons on another country, keep in mind that it wasn't until 30 or so years later that we realized how bad nuclear weapons are.

Hell, in the 80s, at my uni, there was an experiment to see if you could use nuclear radiation to clean toilet water.

Don't get me wrong though, I agree with your other points.
My English is perhaps not 100% when it comes to describing legal matters like this, so I'll just quote Wikipedia to clarify what I was trying to say.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange :
On 20 August 2010, Swedish police began an investigation into two sexual encounters involving Assange. Assange has said allegations of wrongdoing are "without basis", describing all the sexual encounters as consensual. In December 2010, Assange, then in Britain, learned that the Swedish authorities had issued a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) to extradite him to Sweden for questioning. Assange appealed the EAW, and a District Judge (Magistrate's Court) in England ruled that Assange should be extradited. Assange has appealed the extradition decision.

There is even more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Judicial_Authority_v_Ju...

Conspiracy theories are fun and all that, but...
Look for some of them here: http://strlen.com/programming-languages (although they're not directly web-related)
Weaponizing PDFs: Exploits That Can Kill
Pretty standard set of complaints about the service. The thing is, most people that can only get on XBLIG are just not making very good games (either in terms of gameplay, production values or general appeal), so sales wouldn't be much higher if they were on XBLA. They might actually be lower because the developers wouldn't be able to benefit from press about struggling on XBLIG :). Make a game that is good enough to get approved for XBLA, PSN or can get nominated in IGF and instead choose to release on XBLIG and the go and complain about the quality of the service hurting your sales.

Achievements would probably lead to higher sales, but I can't think of a system that wouldn't be abused. The worst case, which can be culled by the XBLIG peer review system, is a bunch of "press A to get 50 points!" games for $0.99. Those games are pretty easily blocked, but XBLIG does have a lot of weird joke games and weird non-game apps. It's hard to draw the line between supporting these types of games and deciding what a fair amount of challenge for an achievement is.
At work, I use a SPARC Ultra 45 with Solaris 10. It's a POS.
The point is that the GC cannot see that and so assumes that the object is no longer referenced and can be freed. A conservative collector works by scanning the live memory of the process for things that look like pointers into the same live memory and then assumes that all objects that are not the target of any of these pointers are garbage. Tough luck if the only reference to a live object lives in a register.
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Happy birthday Tumblr (David Karp)
Presumably this is a reasonable growth strategy for them.

As an extant customer, however, I would prefer if they shored up some of their US infrastructure problems.

For instance, I have a 50/5 mpbs connection and no matter what time of day or titles I select my netflix streaming experience consists of an extensive palette of compression artifacts and a tiny bit of film.

I do appreciate that they have made available a few classic films to offset their modern B-class crappy catalog.

I am not going to get started on their recent UI overhaul.
I have a strong reason to suspect that this was written by an intern who was relatively new to the language. It seems to be written by someone in the C/C++/Java mindset (ie how they didn't list "function" as a primitive data type)
Google retiring Blogger and Picasa brands for public launch of Google+
Would rebranding YouTube in the near-future make sense as well?
> It's amazing how much faster dynamic languages can run with some engineering effort

It's a bit more than just "some", and it's an evolution 20 years[0] in the making[1].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_(programming_language)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongTalk
> Statistics and correlation are not meaningless.

Granted. However, in a post about how correlation between unemployment and minimum wage is overstated, I feel his defense should be more rigorous than: A) Irrelevantly point out Bush was in office, and B) Simply post another correlating statistics.
These are moves in the wrong direction: Google needs more distinctive brands, not fewer.

While the multi-brand strategy didn't work for Yahoo, Yahoo had many other integration/prioritization problems.

The fact that YouTube had a different, more-market-appropriate name than 'Google Video' was important for its identity and success. (Or is Google going to rename YouTube to "Google+ Video", now?)

'Blogger' is a uniquely-interesting brand for them to throw away. If launched today, the word would almost be too generic for trademark protection. But its history practically grandfathers it in: its popularity was part of the mechanism by which 'blog' became a generic term.

'Google Blogs'? Blah.
This is why I store all my vacation homes and yachts on a hidden TrueCrypt partition.
It was entirely warranted, because they're a newspaper and they were reporting in direct contradiction of the actual facts on this subject, in order to fit a pre-conceived narrative.
Show HN: Qraving.com
Hi,
We are officially launched in pilot mode, with a couple local venues, but someone in the St. Louis area might get some use out of our app, and hopefully the rest of the world in a few short weeks. It is iphone only right now, but we will have the droid up and running in a week or so.

This all started for us over a few drinks at a local bar's happy hour, our group was trying to decide where to go next, not having any ideas, and hearing someone blurt out "everyone knows that we are either going to X Y or Z, so lets just pick one and be on our way" just wasn't good enough.

This got the gears turning, we really wanted a better way to choose between X, Y or Z, without having to navigate to 3 or 4 different facebook pages/twitter accounts/websites to get the information that would decide the best option and Qraving was born. We decided to come up with an app that would get us exactly the info we wanted, with direct content from the owners or waitstaff of the establishments. But....everyone also loves free stuff. So we built in a QR code based loyalty program. Owners are given a login to a backend, and 2 QR codes upon signup; one QR is put on any traditional or digital advertising allowing someone with our app to scan it, and add the venue to their favorites; the other allows the waitstaff to allow the patron to receive a point towards whatever loyalty program the owner would like to offer (come in X times and receive Y, or buy W item off the menu and get Z). If anyone has any questions, comments, or suggestions, feel free to contact us: Crew@qraving.com

Thanks!
I don't think the WSJ is lying to make it's point.The graph can be interpreted differently. Up until 2007 employment seems to be following a fairly regular cycle. In fact right before it seems to be going back up, then there is a sudden drop. That could be what the WSJ is talking about/
clickable link:

http://qraving.com
So google is going to sell me out? But facebook isn't? What about Verizon? How do you know what companies to trust with private information?