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Well you can run a VM in much smaller footprints. I can run Java on at Atmega128 for example, with multiple threads, GC, etc. Sun had a reduced JVM running on 2K MSPs (no GC, single-thread). It just depends on how much of the functionality you want, how much of a class library, and where you put the trade-off between speed and memory consumption.

As for features, the chip in the panda costs $13.44 in single quantities, and $8.13 in volume. An Atmega1281 costs $13.12 in single quantities, and $7.32 in volume. I can see how having a .NET runtime built into your chip with a class library to drive all your peripherals is worth a few extra cents.

> Normally I wouldn't care in the slightest what language you use, but I guess you could say I am nervous that interpreted languages would be favoured due to popularity and familiarity rather than sound design decisions, and rapidly take over the embedded market.

I'd say C is currently favored due to popularity and familiarity rather than sound design decisions. Either way, why would you be nervous about global trends? The embedded systems world is easy to predict, it's always 10-20 years behind the rest. We'll be programming in JavaScript before long :D

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I discovered a little while ago that it's hazardous to post opinions, because of 'random drive-by downvoters'. In a sense, these are the real trolls: misusing the voting system... to what end? Or is it just sheer laziness?

Downvoting should be employed against spammers or trolls; for everything else, write a sensible reply!
They should probably concentrate more on moving away from mySQL; that albatross around their neck will be much worse in terms of Google+ than someone looking for Followers.
It's also fairly commonplace that the licenses between music services and music labels don't transfer if the music service is purchased by another company.

The question, then, is why would Google want to buy a company who's (arguably) most important assest was just made null and void?
'common' and 'special' aren't antonyms.
I also got 33K, ~80th percentile. But, I got 98, 99th percentile on the Verbal section of my GREs (which has a lot of vocabulary, though it isn't only vocabulary). I find it hard to believe there's that big of a gap, though I suppose a lot of foreign applicants could drag down the GRE average, pushing me up. But, it's also possible that people were liberal with their claims to understand words.
> gasoline is a very minor issue for people living in
> rural areas

I think that he was referring to the suburbs. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think that there are large quantities of people currently living in rural areas (compared to the amount of people that are living in urban areas).

> moving to a city doesn't make someone liberal,
> don't confuse cause and effect!

I think there are a couple of factors at play here:

* People are less likely to convert from conservative -> liberal if they live only around like-minded people.

* Cities 'in general' tend to be more liberal than rural/suburban areas.

You're right that it's not a 1:1 conversion, though. Only a percentage of people will change their views.
Is it still Digg they're on about? I thought the complaint now was that reddit was turning into 4chan? HN is turning into reddit, reddit is turning into 4chan... Shall we take bets on how long it will be until people start bitching about G+ turning into facebook?

I think this is just a necessary byproduct of our need to find patterns in events and relate current experiences to past ones. Rather than saying, "the dynamic on this site is changing from something familiar to something new", we always feel the need to compare it to some past experience. Thus, techies are always looking for "the next microsoft", calling g+ "the next facebook", looking for the next Netscape Moment, and so on. It seems to be a very deeply-ingrained need for us to cast entities and experiences as being reminiscent of those we've had before. I'm sure this is an instinct that is usually very beneficial, but boy howdy does it ever cause an inordinate amount of kvetching on the tubes.
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That was my second reaction. My first reaction was "Die in a fire."
> a completely voluntary subscription program that gives you essentially nothing

I wouldn't say that the goodwill Reddit and its community have engendered over the last few years are "nothing". This is just a reminder that intangible goods are just as marketable as tangible ones, and it's not just Apple that can pull it off.
Well, he was right. The Reddit frontpage and vast majority of the new users (new being under 2/1 years old accts) have turned it into a complete idiocracy. On the other hand, the niche and smaller subreddits about specific pursuits and topics are doing pretty decently. Hivemind think and other stupidity still leaks in, but it's not too bad. The problem is as subreddits grow, they turn to crap. Look at the problem with the starcraft subreddit or plethora of marijuana subreddits.

I particularly like the subreddits that aim for better signal/noise ratio from the get-go and the good folks that help police them. One particularly outstanding fellow is blackstar9000, mod, creator, and prolific poster/commenter of several nice niche subreddits who has helped keep things in line. If there's any one who deserves some kudos in that regard, I'd nominate him/her for the honor.
Give the author a break. He's a journalist, not a biologist. The last real science class he took was probably in high school.
It doesn't matter. The web is in Google's DNA, and facebook is a decent enough model to copy, from there they can just run on iterative improvements, which google excels at.

On a more philosophical note, Google is very much a social driven company. PageRank may seem like a wonky academic algorithm but it's a wonky academic algorithm designed to extract data from natural social human behavior (linking sites). That's a major factor of Google's success, they leverage the latent, user-generated, implicit data from hyperlinks as a source of explicit, tangible data. That very much conforms to social networking as well, taking data in human form (noisy, subtle, contradictory, and indirect) and making sense of it in machine form.
Facebook implies his account was shut down for reasons unrelated to the Google+ ad:

http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2330342&cid=367...
This is the true best of HN, imo: http://www.skrenta.com/hn/
I choose to employ downvoting against people making absurd meta threads about downvotes.
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I don't think he's conflating effort with achievement, rather actually doing the work, with earning the grade he got, or rather not getting the grade he should have.
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I am guessing people downvoted you because you just included excerpts from the article and said "superb" etc. Your comment did not add any value. Hence the downvotes.
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Would be interesting to know if you have, indeed, found an exploitable driver bugs.
No matter how many I did (I'm fine, thanks), I would love to see a similar system that estimates one's vocabulary using already existing articles.

To put aside the ego matters, I'm curious if there are any interesting correlations for writings published in magazines. For instance, between the estimated vocabulary size and the average price for ads (I bet that there is a huge correlation.)
FYI, I'm very engaged with Quora, and I live in Chile http://www.quora.com/Carlos-Leiva-Burotto
and through Quora I made networking with a guy who works on Mauritian Island.. that's in the front of Madagascar!!!! Not even through Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Flickr, etc I engaged with someone from that place!!

So Quora is definitely a worldwide tool and the active members are not only people from SV.

You should definitely open your mind to not see only the things that you want to see.
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In non-life-or-death situations, people endure quite a large amount of discomfort to achieve other goals. But a high-enough level of discomfort kills people. Does this mean the ones enduring small amounts are irrational?

Reducto-ad-absurdum is a proof only when it takes into account everything in the argument. In life-or-death examples, other normally-included portions are dropped, making the argument something else entirely. It's just a straw-man attempt, not a valid point.
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Business as usual, at Mountain View.

My guess, Firefox have gotten that big because of the developers that installed the browser everywhere. It's the same story as Twitter, which flourished the same way.

That's why the Chrome developments do not come as a surprise, as well as the Google+'s API, which is already in closed beta (how many years it took Facebook to create their own "platform" that, effectively, alienated many regular users, not interested in the farm news?)
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Right - all the more reason he shouldn't use photosynthesis in his analogies!
It makes sense as long as he not published it.

Why? The university should not pursue cheating. It hurts the credibility. All the teachers do so. On your own, it makes no sense to waste your time, others will take care of. Once announced, the news spreads and everyone losses.
You're right on the price comparison. I don't actually use the ATmegas, they are just popular, which is why I discussed them. I personally prefer MSP430's most of the time, which can be had as cheaply as $0.50
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Original story[1] by jsrfded (also creator of site) which didn't get enough traction.

I think it's particularly useful nowadays considering how slow and sluggish HN has been (at least for me). Plus there are some real gems that pop up every time you refresh.

As he says:

The other day I "ran out" of stuff to read on Hacker News. I had looked at everything that interested me, and had even checked out page 2 (I was getting desperate).
I realized that there were thousands of great HN threads that I hadn't seen because I hadn't been paying attention to the site when they were ranking.
So I pulled together a little db of the top 10,000 HN threads (loosely defined; a thread with >1 points, 1> comments, and some web link rank).
I put these into a random shuffle so that reload would give me 30 fresh threads that I (probably) hadn't seen before.
I'm pretty happy with this. Lets me scratch my HN itch when I've exhausted the main page, and it's often interesting to see the old material again.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2226914
Could you elaborate on why it's a rough place to do start-ups?
Allow me some meta, meta-surprise that your comment isn't downvoted.
Please read the whole article first and then post here. You will see that this teacher actually comes with a reasonable solution to the problem (described at the end of his article). Please don't post without RTFA.
Let me make it clear: I did not bother to read the article.

The headline says that Facebook bans advertisers pushing Google+ follows. Obviously, no one reads anything but the headline. News by a news, and the audience spreads the news as a fact, really.

It's _very_ harmful for Facebook.

Few days ago there was a meme that Mark Zuckeberg has stepped down. It was a rickroll. Interesingly, it surprised me. After a minute, I've realized that, actually, I _expect_ him to resign. Google+ is _that_ good.
Key word in your story: 'arguably', 'supposedly', 'I think'. You're telling a story, that may well be completely fictional. Not a shred of evidence for the key assertions is offered.

I have found this to be typical of stories touting the awesomeness of LSD. It's inferring causation from the most likely (in the absence of any evidence, coincidence is most likely) incidental fact that LSD also happened around then.
It's not that surprising. I love Reddit, but it's probably pretty hard to sell legimitate ads on a site that serves hardcore pornography and which is frequented by people who vocally denounce advertising and commercialism in all forms.
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I think what he means to say is that a lot of what is self evident to people within gears of society is not really that important or valuable. We were born into this wheel, we live within this wheel and the culture gives us no tools to look beyond it (The Proverbial Platon's Cave).

Psychedelic drugs give one a chance to experience perception and world from a completely, completely different perspective. A change of perspective may be terrifying for some, for others it may be a blessing. In either way they are a tool, that operates one's brain. If I take an atheist angle. Your belief in God also affects chemical composition of your brain and it also induces paranoias and hallucinations in some, it doesn't help anyone hear or see better. See where I am going? You are beating a straw man here my friend.

Also let me inform you that psychedelics should not and usually (except few, few extremes) are not used on daily basis. Hell they are not used on any kind of regular basis, because the experience is supposedly too powerful and one does not feel any kind of crave to do it again very soon after a trip.

And another revelation, Idle Rich are not interested into LSD - because it may shake their world a bit too much. They are interested in Cocaine, rough sex and other forms of extreme decadence. Now that shit is dangerous beyond words. Those are the junkies I am afraid of and the sad fact is that we let inmates run the asylum. They are everywhere. Every year I see more and more of proof how Cokeheads are running Western civilization into the ground.

p.s.: So you have seen 1000 people lose their minds on LSD?
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I hope, "SQL" is a typo here.
I do exactly the same thing.

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la doesn't have much startups

in silicon valley, if you wet your feets in startups and it fail, you go to another.

in la you go back to a huge corp. with a tainted resume for leaving previous huge corp in the past for a startup.
Brian, you are completely wrong. The x2 modules need to go away. They are confusing, the "standard lib" is mostly shit. And it is fixed in time. If it were writing I would describe it as a, "hack, rambling, incoherent, amateur" piece of work.

The usability of pip is abysmal. You don't even get usage by just typing "pip" with no arguments. Look at brew for direction.

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The last real science class I took was in high school, too. I don't actually have a problem with the metaphor, I was merely replying to the parent comment who said he was referring to the "speed of light".

The top level comment on this thread was saying he found the metaphor jarring - I don't personally find it jarring.
Computer science undergrad here, final year in a very nice public university. For a long time now I've observed how business majors (my roommates) go on unpunished for years of blatant cheating. It has made me completely lose faith in the system. In computer science, cheating is not such a simple proposition. Our university CS department has a no-bullshit cheating policy: first offense results in failing grade, suspension for one semester, and mark on your transcript. Second offense results in expulsion from the school of Computer Science. I've seen this punishment applied in person many times; I know the dean isn't bluffing when he says he'll do it. Also, the school CS department uses a modified version of MOSS:
http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/

to detect the cheating. Maybe you can circumvent it if you're smart enough. Personally I have better things to do with my time.

Business majors, on the other hand, already have a reputation as the "bullshit major". You curriculum is a joke. You study for exams the day before. You party on finals week while the rest of us study. It's the major you go to when you want the easy ticket through life. And the blatant cheating they get away with just serves to rub it in the face of all the majors who actually have to gasp work for their degree.

More reading here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/education/edlife/edl-17bus...

When my roommates are done with college, they'll be screwed. I'm not disputing that. They have a degree that won't be worth the paper it's printed on, in a heavily oversubscribed major (25% of all US undergrads are business majors), with no marketable skills, and a tendency towards laziness and dishonesty.

Why do Business schools let this kind of stuff go on? I've talked to people in other schools, hell even business majors themselves, and they all acknowledge it. Don't people realize that they're just screwing themselves over in the long-term while accumulating the animosity and disdain of their peers? It's crazy, self-destructive, sad, wasteful, and it's ruining lives.

The entire system is broken. Cheating is just a symptom.
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I actually talked to Lloyd Hilaiel from Mozilla who worked on BrowserID and it's currently in alpha and they hope to move it to beta in a couple months. At that point they'd be committing to keeping it around.

The web needs this to be widely adopted. They've got some unique challenges to make it easy to integrate and easy to understand but I think they're on the right track.
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This is a really cool performance hack. However, doesn't this restrict the effectiveness of the browser cache to just the exact set of images requested at one time? For example:

- On page load 1, I request images A.png, B.png, and C.png.
- The JSON for [A, B, C] is returned and cached.
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I can't use the original file, since it was cached for [A, B, C]. So I have to re-request just B.

Is there something I'm missing? Otherwise, it looks really cool.
so you call one command and want just to know if it failed... but that command triggered a series of pipes internally, now you have to trim the status mess?

thankfully truly posix stuff doesn't have it
You may want to clarify that the private data that's "blacked out" is still sent to both BugMuncher and the third party you're using for screenshots. The blackouts only hide things from the email recipient.

I'd be careful about this as you're potentially collecting (and rebroadcasting) an awful lot of personal information about users of the service. Security tokens in pages, links to images, usernames and emails.
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That's really a non-trivial insight. It makes perfect sense once you hear it, but I'm not sure any amount of thought would have lead me to it were I in the author's position.
It's not a straw-man. I have attempted to refute nothing. I was merely asking my parent to consider how he might behave in such a situation.

I used a different situation, it is true, but only because I have found being on the instructional end of cheating feels very different than you might imagine, so I guessed my parent was not familiar with it.
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If you look at any of us during snapshots of our worst moments, you'll find a lot to criticize. If you are caught on the spot, you seldom make the response you wish.

The fact that the professor remembered that specific incident strongly suggests that this was one of those moments that he'd like to have over. The fact that he has come up with a strategy to avoid the problem suggests that there will be future improvement. I see a lot to applaud here.
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Unless I am missing something the title is wrong. CSS Sprite means that there are several images in single image file.
This is just Data URI encoded images, not sprites.
IIRC google used similar technique for the previews of pages in SERPs.
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I could see it being interesting if you got achievements for scoring highly on comprehension tests on the news stories you read. But not if they're just awarding the badges for generating page hits.
Definitely from the outside looking in, you have to scratch your head at the decision for a big company to buy a site for millions have it meet (surely) any user traffic expectations you had and then resource it like a bootstrapped startup.

Anyway, not maligning the marketability of reddit. It's just that it makes clear that advertising revenue is a hard way to make money.
You cold call them. You find people in forums, communities, etc. who have complained about the problem your solving, or are active powerusers in the industry, and you message them. You tell them, "hey, I read in your blog that you were having trouble with X, I'm working on a solution. Can I email you to ask about your experience with [1][2][3]?"

Even better if you can skype interview with them. Best of luck.
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