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I've actually had an ungodly metric ton of ruby segfaults in the past month or so, and almost never before that. At least one of them has definitely been GC-related - see "therubyracer is not thread safe" for one problem I've been running into. You also have to use PassengerSpawnMethod conservative to avoid GC-related failures in passenger with rails 3.1.

I'm not sure if those are both related to this or not, but I've had drastically more segfaults lately than in my past 6 years of ruby programming. It's getting pretty bad imo.
"It felt magical because Facebook caught on like wildfire like only a non-geek tool could."

internet. world wide web. I rest my case.
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This is America's new legal strategy: beating up the small guys with big sticks. Companies with patents go after small companies or individual developers with their patents -- IBM never gets sued for patent infringement. Companies with copyrights go after as many little guys as possible, and make their money "in volume" because file-sharing lawsuits are cheaper to settle than to contest.

This is not "promoting the progress of the arts"; it's bullies shaking us all down, with the government happily watching.
It was "Rite." Now Matz is calling the embedded ruby he's working on with some japanese electronics manufacturer by the name "Rite." RubyConf 2010 keynote covered it in detail.
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In the world of social networks, Sometimes you just want to get the most right information out @right place, to tell everyone that 'Hey, this is me!'. Digixcard is for those situations.

Any thoughts ?
I think you made a Google Profile and are sharing with Buzz. What happens when you visit plus.google.com?
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It comes up with plus just like it's supposed to.

edit for clarity: When I tried this I got the same google plus profile creation screen as when I signed up with my actual google account.
Because they're ... reading it?
Does that make 4chan a sovereign entity?
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I thought it was introduced with compartments... but perhaps not.
Seems like you should be the one reading the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
We're going to continue using Clojure just like before.
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Am I the only one who had flashes of being a little kid watching Indiana Jones pop into his head after reading this?

It would be nice if they could use the gold for something beneficial to the people of the area (improve roads or schools or something), but its naive of me to think they can easily sell this stuff. Maybe loan the treasures to museums for a fee?
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I gave Jython some love since I'm currently using it for work ;) It's actually pretty cool
> You're right in that things won't work if something else
> has a ptr to these pages.

That's the problem, exactly. In a browser context it's pretty easy for something else (another frame, a web page in another tab or window) to have pointers into the DOM of pages that have been navigated away from. So when a page is evicted from the in-memory cache some of the information can just be destroyed. The layout objects, say. These are already allocated out of an arena, so the mmap approach may work there; it's worth looking into. But the DOM can't just be unmapped (and in fact is not arena-allocated for the same reason right now) unless you're willing to pin the whole mmaped area if something holds on to those objects, which brings us back to fragmentation issues.
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Then the question at this point is are you willing to take the risk and walk away and at what level is your confidence at in your ability to market and finish the code you currently have. You own the copyright to anything you make unless you explicitly give that right to them. I don't know what terms you signed with them however, sounds like you still retain the copyright. So I would try to negotiate them to an agreement where they can "own" the code to make whatever changes they would like (at the "own" price that they gave you), but with the caveat that they can not resell said code or offer a competing product into the marketplace. If they aren't being duplicitous this should be acceptable. If they are, well then at least you have your answer and you can base where you want to go from there (as in asking for a higher price based on potential revenues, etc). Just to give you a baseline, I've been in cases where the situation was similar and the work for building something specialized for resale was valued at $150-200 an hour (consultant hours). Just keep in mind though I have no idea what you are building and who the company is.
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bup is a backup system by Avery Pennarun (apenwarr). It is "the awesome" - it is fast, de-duplicating, awesome, and yet a regular git repository.

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I can't answer that question. I wrote a Common Lisp book for Springer Verlag in the late 1980s and I don't consider myself to be an expert after years of using CL for work. I am not being modest, it is just that I have worked with Lisper's who were much better than I was.

I do enjoy learning and using new programming languages but I learn them a bit at a time by using them in projects.

So I would advise you to not force it, choose small projects and start coding. After a few small projects, if you are not having fun, then just choose another language.

If you love to program, then learning new languages helps you program in other languages that you already know. As long as you enjoy yourself it is time well spent.
Yeah, it seems to be a Linux thing; Andreas was explaining that the font-rendering is highly platform-dependent.
MS maintains that Linux kernel violates its patents, and sues anyone who makes enough money with a product using Linux (e.g., TomTom [1]).

MS likes to refer to "235 patents" that Linux allegedly violates, but they aren't forthcoming with what the specific violations are. That said, they do have some fairly ridiculous patents under their belts, (like the FAT filesystem [2]), so they could probably dredge something up.

With Android more specifically, there is also ActiveSync (Exchange's protocol).

[1] http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/02/QA_Microsofts_chief...

[2] http://news.cnet.com/Microsofts-file-system-patent-upheld/21...
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You are definitely not the only one (although I never watched Indiana Jones; pop culture osmosis is an amazing thing).

The article did mention that a lot of the historic pieces are probably going to end up in museums, depending on the outcome of the discussion about who should control the riches. It would not surprise me if a small amount of it is sold at auction, either to museums or private collectors. Renting them out or loaning them to museums would be a much better outcome, though - I hate to hear about works of art that are held in private collections, and not even sporadically publicly viewable.
Webapp? They acquired Picnik and is in Flash. So IMO, they might shutdown Picnik and do something in HTML5 and javascript.
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and yet no profit has been had...good job twitter, good job
Very nicely done! This is one of the most prescient reports of the future that I have read. Jules Verne, step aside.
Current reports (see BBC online) mention amounts in the 100s of millions, not billions. That said the latest today was that they had to stop when they forced a door only to find an all iron door just behind it. They are taking a break so that the local supreme court and other authorities can talk things over (most likely preliminary division of the spoils?)
>$22 billion [...] is likely a conservative estimate [...] the panel is simple counting and weighing the valuables. "Their value, including antique value, is not being assessed"

A quick back of the envelope calculation indicates $22 billion corresponding to 450 metric tons of gold. This is an immense quantity: India's current gold reserve is about 615 tons [1], and there were recent years when it dropped under 400. I will take this report with a grain of salt until it receives very strong confirmation.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_reserve#Officially_reporte...
They avoid litigation (apparently) by open-sourcing their stack and charging for hosting/integration.

That's a strategy to give buyers confidence in a new vendor, not an anti-litigation strategy. Open Source doesn't protect you against IP infringement claims.
There was a somewhat related discussion a while back; you might find it interesting if you missed it. Granted, it's for a different demographic (25+ US citizens), and doesn't cover the gender aspect, just education level.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2525621

There was also another discussion earlier today on youth unemployment in the US:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2730268

which argued that youth unemployment is related to the 55+ demographic retiring later (as opposed to minimum wage laws).
Everything you say makes a lot of sense up to here:

Ripe for cost cutting

That isn't true. Universities are demanding clients and always want to try new technologies. Any LMS vendor has to have a strategy for dealing with technology change. Blackboard has that, and throwing it away would weaken their selling position.
Seems unlikely. We've been eliminating jobs with labor-saving devices for centuries. In the past they've always created as many jobs as they destroyed. What are the odds that this moment is the point when that finally stops happening?

Perhaps we're butting up against limits on the amount of energy per unit time available to the economy in a way that we haven't in the past couple centuries?
>A poor tenant with a voucher is preferable, because the
>government always pays the rent.) So we incentivize single-
>parent households, which are more likely to remain in
>poverty.

Yes, there's an incentive here, but it seems unlikely to me that this is going to be enough to make people get divorced or probably even fail to get married if they meet the right person. More likely they would just fail to mention it to the government.

I definitely agree on the rest of what you're saying, though.
Seems like it's a valuable asset and they are wasting it. If twitter just cares about the team, why not sell the product to another team who can keep building and extending it.

Similar thing happened when facebook bought the mac developer Sofa. They sold off their products to another developer.
India had thousands of such temples for example, Somanatha etc. from which Arabs, Mughals and the crazy British took from it. When British came to India, india was the richest country and when they left India, India was the poorest country. Whites people have bad culture.
First of all, you are exaggerating wildly. It wouldn't be "lower than survival" rates. It would probably be a standard of living along the lines of India's top 5-10%.

Second of all, if you want high skilled workers to subsidize the unskilled, it's not necessary to disincentivize work. You could instead use guaranteed jobs - replace unemployment/welfare/etc with a job picking up trash by the roadside, cleaning the DMV, beautifying public spaces, etc. This is what FDR did.

Thus, low skill workers would no longer be faced with the choice of TV or flipping burgers. It would instead be DMV bathrooms vs flipping burgers.

To create even further incentive for work, you could stigmatize those with the guaranteed jobs. Instead of paying money, you could pay with in-kind benefits: rooms in a dormitory instead of housing vouchers, standardized cheapo clothing instead of money to purchase Modern Couture, cafeteria meals instead of McD's. Thus, even if your material standard of living doesn't go up from getting a job, your status does.
The find includes gems too, diamonds, etc. So those push up the value immensely, and command a higher value per kg than gold (I'm assuming).
The problem now is this: If you are a low skilled worker at this point in the U.S., you're likely to be either not conscientious, or dumb.

For very low skilled jobs, automation can do the job better than a poor quality worker, because it is predictable and consistent. For jobs that still can't be automated, many of them can be done remotely, and are now done in lower labor cost countries by ambitious, conscientious workers. Jobs that can't be done remotely are being filled by illegal immigrants who are also ambitious, conscientious workers.

If you are at the bottom of the American labor heap, you have never faced competition from machines, globalization, and immigration like you have now. The problem is not just that the alternatives to low-end domestic labor are cheaper, but that they are higher quality, and therefore push the price of low quality domestic labor to near zero.

In the long-term, as machines become able to do more jobs better than humans, people will simply not be willing to pay any price for an error-prone human to do a worse job than a cheap machine. Then, low skilled humans will only be employed in jobs that can only be performed by humans, such as prostitution.
No, he's got a point. New members tend to just be going through stuff that older members figured out long ago. This causes reposts or beginner material to be posted and talked about more often, leaving the more experienced members unsatisfied. Eventually, the experienced members leave for greener pastures and bring a lot of knowledge with them. Worse, this accelerates the spiral and degrades the quality of the site further.

Hacker News helps mitigate this through the continual involvement of PG and YC. Because there are a group of experienced technical people who are grounded to the site, it helps keep quality up. While I have noticed a slight decline in the site, it's far less than I noticed with Digg, Slashdot, or Reddit.
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Anyone have any details on this AnyAsq.com site? How long has it been around? How's it doing traffic-wise?
I wonder if it will have Google+ integration from day one. Planning vacations together, or making sure you're never in the same town as someone? Maybe timing your visit to coincide with a candidate's campaign, or "facilitating serendipity" with people who will be at your destination at the same time. With circles and sparks, this could get real interesting....
It is cheating, but what works, works. :-)
You could try to map the IP address to a street location (using some ip-to-geo tool, e.g. http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_demo_ip). This isn't always reliable but it may be good to know if the laptop was accessed in a different state/etc or from somewhere near you.
The article mentions gold coins and gold statues encrusted with gems, and that they're estimating the value by weight only. Since the encrusted gems can't be weighed separately, and furthermore the value of a precious stone strongly depends on quality not just weight, the estimate can only be based on the weight of the precious metal, IMO.
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Oh no, this guy completely misses the point. I can't believe he threw everyone into one bucket of "gamers". Do I want my games to be profit-driven crap like Farmville? Heck no.

I mean, I guess if we want games to be soulless and casual, sure. Thankfully we have indie gaming and some other nice companies to prevent that...
> There is no shortage of work for people with low skill levels.

yummyfajitas, are you somehow unaware that there are millions of people who desperately want to work, but can't find jobs? And that they would happily say goodbye to unemployment benefits in order to get back into a job?

Or do you simply not believe them?
A small correction, you should be telling 'local court' not 'local supreme court'. Supreme court is the highest court of law in India and this opening of vaults of temple is being supervised by the Supreme court.
I feel really bad for the engineers at ANGEL Learning. They were acquired by Blackboard a little over a year ago and now that they are just getting settled in there is sure to be more sweeping changes.

As cut-throat as this seems and as piss-poor a product Blackboard is, there are bound to be some talented engineers with experience in the education vertical ready to take on BigCo available soon.
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I wonder if the accuracy of this report was just base on some lucky guesses.

Right now, there are probably hundreds of such predictions about the future. Look at them again in 20 years, most of them will probably be incorrect. Yet there is always this one report (like this one from 1982) that will be shockingly accurate. The problem is that by then, it won't provide any useful information. We need is to know this is correct in 1982, not 2011.
This was a mystery for me for the longest time, because it was so far out of my comfort zone I couldn't conceive of it working. Here's the whole secret, ready for it? Email people and ask them for what you want. There are a range of possible outcomes to this. Them giving it to you is quite likely, particularly when you describe it as in their interests. Them sending out a company wide letter saying that you are a bozo who had the unmitigated temerity to send an email to the CEO of a company you did not work at is also possible, but that is extraordinarily unlikely to happen.

I need a button for this when I go to conferences, since some people (not too dissimilar to a younger me) think that it is an imposition to come up and introduce themselves at an event I am explicitly attending to meet people. I have had folks apologize for introducing themselves. That's crazy. I run a wee little spec of a company and transparently love talking to people. In the event that I'm not interested, I'll just mail back a sentence to that effect or (more likely) just put it on my todo list and forget about it.

There are many, many, many tech CEOs who are that open or more. Heck, Steve freaking Jobs famously answers mails sent by individual Apple customers. Getting an interview with a startup founder is not difficult. Just ask.
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Yeah Slashdot started it for me too (well IRC, but website-wise the first was Slashdot). I'm a high school drop-out (now 31) who somehow managed to make a comfortable career off web development and IT project management thanks almost entirely to "sponge learning" off IRC, Slashdot, HN (more recently) and the Internet in general.

I've never done any formal training, I just wholeheartedly believe in immersing yourself in what you want to learn, and specifically immerse yourself at a deeper level than you're comfortable with to force yourself to work harder.

I can quite literally say my entire adult education from Year 10 onwards came from the Internet, and I owe my career, house, vehicles, all of it to sites like HN :)
There is definitely a market for this. International payment gateways like CyberSource (www.cybersource.com) are extending their services to include address validation (and correction), fraud detection, etc.

It would be very hard for a startup to compete in this space though - perhaps a better opportunity for a partnership between a payment gateway and a major distributer.
What happens when machines and outsourcing eliminate the need for most American doctors, lawyers, drivers, teachers, and other skilled professions. We can't have a prostitution-based economy.
i hate these lawnchrock pages. Very little to no insight into product or even barely scratches the surface on what you are actually trying to accomplish. Scrap the canned lawnchrock service, put up a useful page with a few screenshots, and better information.
The last time I checked India's debt is $310+ billion. A lot of this treasure would be ornaments, which would seem repeated if kept in museums. They might as well auction this off to pay debt. Handing such massive wealth to people will only result in it's disappearance :P
not much unfortunately. Its in the hands of the police and probably unlikely anything will happen.

For everyone else the bare minimal thing you can do is install something like Prey Project http://preyproject.com/ . Good luck
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Best thing about HN that it filters out crap and produces quality stuff. Just because of HN I came across two entrepreneurs who are more than helpful to guide me offline whenever I need.

Thanks PG and Team to give such a quality site. Now I don't visit TechCrunch etc to find out Information. HN does it for me and saves my time

P.S: I am already a techie but a Biz noob and HN is helping me to become an entrepreneur.
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Also, the valuation might be higher due to its historical value.
Thanks for the recommendation! I'm glad you like it.

As far as wrappers for backbone and tastypie, I think https://github.com/PaulUithol/backbone-tastypie is a pretty good starting point, and a little more complete than what I wrote there.
from the beginning of the bbs, to forums, nested forums, to twitter.. they have all been trying to manage conversations better. I though Google Wave had it right when you could press a Play like button of history and could see how the conversation played out as to when each new conversation piece was added, but this would only work in smaller groups.
Perhaps we're moving too fast now.
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He died in 1996, so he got to see the transformation happening:

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/30/us/robert-reinhold-ex-repo...
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I just finished up at UNL (the school mentioned in article) and was really disappointed in the choice to use Office 365 over Google Apps. It was supposed to be a transparent process, but they made the decision behind closed doors and now I see why. Money talks.
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Why do you think Hipmunk uses GWT (by which I assume you mean Google Web Toolkit)? The source for www.hipmunk.com pulls in jquery, but doesn't have the history iframe or <module>.nocache.js reference that one would expect to see for a GWT application.
Clearly you didn't read my blog post. I was analyzing the incentives of the poor, a group of people who are predominantly not looking for work.

Also, are you somehow unaware that there are millions of people who illegally enter the US in order to do jobs that Americans are unwilling to do? One would think that if millions of people desperately wanted to work, that demand for illegal immigrant labor should be drying up.