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Come now, mechanized farming isn't all bad. Small engines have brought /billions/ of people out of poverty. My late grandfather switched from a dozen horses to one quadbike, tripling output and halving the amount of work he had to do. This 'third world' you are thinking of has been buying small, efficient engines for tractors and pumps for most of the last century. The spike in oil use for that was in the early 60s. Yes, there are some countries where every single farmer doesn't have access or purchasing power to buy a small tractor but they are the exceptions, not the rule.

I don't know why you want to damn billions of people to a life of manual toil when you yourself have access to labour saving machines (you are on a computer). The problem isn't mechanization, the problem is scale.

As for sustainability, I've seen farmers in Papua New Guinea running tractors on coconut oil before biofuels were in vogue. Fuel prices are high, fuel is a significant cost to agriculture. No one in their right mind wants to use more fuel than they must.
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At this point software patents are broken beyond repair. The express purpose of patents is to encourage innovation. They're being used only to dampen innovation now. Why is that? The main reason is that patents, when created, are absurdly broad and often obvious and still accepted. Well over 90% of the existing software patents should have been denied as they're obvious ideas. There's a patent on backing up data online for heaven's sake. It's now to the point that anything you do on a computer will violate a patent somewhere.

What's even worse than stupid patents is the money being paid for them. A collection of patents, most of which are useless, being bought for billions of dollars is stupid. That money could have gone into R&D, employee salary, etc any of which would have been better. And the worst part? The reason you should be able to buy a patent is so that you can produce new technology and software with the unique idea contained in it. Unfortunately, the patents don't see the light of day as software because they're bought; nothing in those patents is new to google. They're simple a defense against other patents.

In the US the patent system is one of the most stupid and broken systems still functioning. Either patents need to be done in with altogether for software or the acceptance of them needs to only happen after significantly stricter review.
I like it too, especially the opening paragraphs. Headlines only wouldn't be enough text!
And bad for everyone without them. It would be good to see Google putting some serious coin towards software patent reform. I'm sure that it would cost them less over the long term to get software patents abolished than to build up an expensive / extensive patent portfolio.
Or perhaps Apple.
Guess some people preferred something other than 'localhost'!
Forgive my density, but I actually fail to see how.
Just because there is a negative connotation around a word doesn't make it less than true. Connotation has little if anything to do with technicality.
I might get some down votes for that, but I really wonder when people will realize that Google is just a company, not a religion of sorts. (same applies to everyone else btw)
And not only is it broken, but the US government insists on trying to spread the poison to other countries via the wonder of trade agreements.
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This quote stuck out at me too. Oddly enough, I went back today and it appears to have been removed from the story. Strange...
Why would Dogpile come up as #1?
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There are some good general ideas in this article, but they will not work...

The problem with ideas in big corporations are the following:
- Something vaguely similar is already planned to implemented by some other group in the company. So VP of that division will fight against it. (i.e., suggesting to implement something like Heroku in SalesForce - isn't Force.com doing that already?).

- The idea might cannibalize the existing market (cloud? are you crazy? we sell software licences.)

- The idea will not generate significant revenue in short term (hey, the idea is great, but feature X is needed by our customer which pays with gold bricks)

- The idea might expose some incompetence in the organization (i.e., that something was actually easy to do).

- The idea might require that you actually talk to customers and then legal will come in picture and that require additional approvals from legal

- The idea might cause more work for your manager and his manager. And with two kids and corporate job nobody wants more work.

And even the idea gets pass initial phase (you hired team, doing customer interviews, started coding), the (E)VP which sponsored the idea might leave the company and everything will be killed.
People will stop linkbaiting once people stop being more attracted to linkbait. You can either use unsensational titles in protest, or write a title that will make people read your story. I apologize ahead of time for being realistic.
"that has me wondering if Google has an interest in pursuing some new interests and innovations."

The author should have presented some more compelling examples, then. The patents listed are incredibly far from new innovations, but rather just the same overly-broad and generic defensive fare.
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This is very possible too. What's the criteria for judging "healthy"?

I mean, I have no ego, and I'm not doing this out of narcissism or some silliness like that. I genuinely care about "the truth". So if the truth is I don't look healthy, then I'd like to know why.

I was just about run up to the local gas station and buy a $0.72 44oz Cherry Coke, then run up to McDonalds and grab a McChicken for $1.09, then head back and keep programming. Total time: 15min, total cost: $1.81. If you give me convenient alternatives, I guarantee I'll switch. And maybe this thread will help educate other people who are doing similar things as me.
Gah, I didn't remember that Java programmers have no sense of humor.
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What happens if two clients are right next to each other? I wonder if you can still count on enough interference to give each one a totally different data stream.
Redis is in general, just an excellent pillow to put between your API, app servers, and frontend servers and your main backing stores for various purposes.

Just don't plan to keep anything important in it for very long. It's not even a great idea for queuing anything important as you're better of logging or using transactions for things that might cost you money if they fail.

Personally, I think it's the memcached I always wanted. :)
Has Google filed any offensive patent lawsuits yet? If so, I missed it.
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To my knowledge Google has never used a patent offensively.

I assume that your comment is referencing things like the recent nortel patents with Apple and Microsoft.

Well, you can't even remotely say that those companies haven't used patents offensively.

I really don't think it's hypocrisy until Google starts behaving like Apple and Microsoft when it comes to patents.

Do you really not believe there to be a difference?
It was never about buying patents but about how a company uses those patents.

To my knowledge, Google was never in the offensive with their patents. They are stocking up to defend themselves.
Not sure why you are downmodded. I took your comment to imply that there might be additional information that is not in the standard way we understand DNA, which is a very legitimate question. But if you meant something else and I am wrong, maybe the downmod was justified ;)

Getting back to DNA, we measure information there based on the base pairs. But for all we know, there could be additional sources of information, like some subtle aspect of physical shape that DNA has, that is also inherited (as part of the replication process). Perhaps the amount of information encoded is substantially higher due to that.

(That's wild speculation, of course.)
Also, human DNA is unique from that of close mammals on a set of base pairs of size the order of 1-5 percent of our genome. So that means 10-50 MB. That's actually a pretty substantial size: it can even store a small operating system kernel (Linux can be compiled to under 10 MB).

I "passionately love" metaphors and comparisons of this kind, they are so much meaningful. I mean, 50MB of "code" is "a bit" different when your computer is build from logic gates and a bit different when your computer is the universe, or, to be more precise, the laws of physics that determine the final form and function of the proteins that are build from the DNA. In other words, I don't think it is right to use a measure of information like it would be a measure of complexity (which such analogies imply). Also it completely ignores the very complicated process of development of the brain, where information is supplied from the outside all the time and without which the brain isn't too useful.

It's the same with the page linked:

We don’t have any idea how to make a description of such a complex machine that is both dense and flexible.

Just like the fact that we have computers build from gates and not laws of the universe to depend on didn't make the task of writing "dense and flexible descriptions" quite a bit harder. Especially we do it with our brains and we don't have millions of years of trial and error at our disposal like evolution has.
"Since many common tasks are carried out in the senders’ homes, runners are vetted through a three-step process, which starts with an application form and progresses to an automated phone or video interview that poses a series of questions designed to weed out deadbeats. Finally, TaskRabbit pays the database giant Acxiom to perform a federal criminal background check on each prospective worker."

Sounds like what AirBnB should be doing for both renters and hosts...
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I actually found the article interesting. I've always wondered why fresh squeezed juice tastes so much better, but always assumed it was because it was so fresh. I didn't realize the manufacturers mess around with the flavor. Now I'm curious what packaged OJ in Brazil tastes like.
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I used to be just like you. I didn't care, and my weight was fine. Until it wasn't, it was very very slow. So slow I barely noticed, but eventually I was overweight.

Now I have to work doubly hard to get it back down.
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Working on a startup is nothing like working client side at a place like the NYT. With the former, one can be agile and code up some easy edits in a few days, and push it out without weeks of deliberation. It's easy to pick out the navigation and say, "look, let's cut some of this out or hide it in secondary navigation." Good luck with that with corporations as big as the NYT. Chances are, each link is represented by a group that will be LIVID if you dare remove them from the exposed navigation.

Removing big ads from the homepage is nice for a pitch (actually to be honest, it is a very common strategy to emotionally lure people into a pretty but imperfect design to rework later) but would never get approved internally. You'd have to have a pretty convincing argument that losing a huge source of revenue would be counterbalanced by a large increase in viewership, and I don't think that's an argument he could win (in this specific instance).
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My hunch is that environmental harshness plays a crucial role in the development of 'trust to strangers', both being widely variable. Sharing resources shows there could be more from that source and the receiver could go to great lengths to strip the giver of his possessions if it is less investment than to try to aquire them by other means, thus working against trustfulness and making ultra-selfishness a better stable strategy in certain conditions. It is undeniable that cunning and deceit evolved alongside cooperation, if not preceding it. Even a little difference in initial conditions could be significant. It's not apparent that the simulation accounts for that.
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I add it here, because at your more inner post there's no reply link.

If you think Chicken McNuggets have a lot to do with chicken, think again.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_McNuggets

"As of October 9, 2010, the ingredients are as follows: Chicken, water, salt, sodium phosphates. Battered and breaded with: bleached wheat flour, water, wheat flour, food starch-modified, salt, spices, wheat gluten, paprika, dextrose, yeast, garlic powder, rosemary, partially hydrogenated soybean oil and cottonseed oil with mono -and diglycerides, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, ammonium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate), natural flavor (plant source) with extractives of paprika. Prepared in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness). Dimethylpolysiloxane made of silicone[4] is added as an antifoaming agent.[5] The list may be slightly different outside of the United States."

Chicken McNuggets are pure crap with much too much fat and very low nutritional value.

It's your problem in the end, but as some fellow HNers already pointed out you're in for a very bad surprise not too far from now.

Another tip would be to replace the soda with water. So much better for you and you get the hang of it pretty quickly.
Perhaps the rule that catches RSA, but not One-Click, is something like:

"An invention that applies old theory to solve an old problem in a new way."

The idea being that if the problem is long-known, and the theoretical underpinnings of the invention are long-known, yet the invention itself had not been previously described, then it must be novel and non-obvious.

In the One-Click case, the problem itself was new, so only the efflux of time could show if any solutions based on known theory were obvious or not.
? I think this is a good idea, and I think unions and minimum wage laws are a good idea.

you appear to think there is some kind of contradiction there?
Well, Google is a business and I'm sure that their decision to stockpile patents is a business one. I doubt that Google can reform the law by itself - it will be against every major software-producing entity.
exactly. from the little i know about chemistry tests, most of them are done blending stuff and adding some reagent and see if that changes color or something else that is measurable.

I have no idea how they 'check' dna pairs, but i doubt they compare every subtlety of the molecules every time. If they do, wow! but still, we may not be able to accurately detect something else that is even smaller. since we only saw dna recently. the wikipedia article has dozens of diagrams, but only one blurry 100nm image, from 2004.
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> We don’t have any idea how to make a description of such a complex machine that is both dense and flexible.

I've been thinking about this topic for a while and trying to find the right "words" to describe what I've been thinking about. I think I just found them.
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Chemical engineer's perspective: This is interesting. I'd learned about the chemical additives required for flavor in from-concentrate orange juice, since the dehydration ("concentration") by nature removes a lot of the more volatile chemicals that give OJ it's flavor. Without looking into it, I'd guess the deoxygenation process works by heating and pulling vacuum to lower oxygen solubility, which would also have the same consequence of removing the flavor compounds.

That said, the addition of chemical flavoring agents is completely irrelevant to health. Again I know more about process design than health science, but I do know that the flavoring chemicals that get removed and added are in such trace amounts that they likely have no health consequence, whether present or absent. In fact, many of the compounds are actually toxic at high concentrations.

And towards the "don't drink juice at all" argument, I feel like the world would be in a far better place health-wise if everyone drank juice instead of soda. At least juice is a fair representation of fruit, while soda is basically fructose dissolved in phosphoric acid. (The article mentions pectin and fiber as missing fruit components in juice - this is true as both are solids likely removed by juicing, but pectin is just a sugar polymer like starch, and fiber is just indigestible solids...nothing special health-wise). The argument reminds me of the people telling everyone not to go to college, just because in their specific case they didn't need it. Potentially decent advice for a small, already advantaged subset of the population, but horrible advice for everyone else.
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I spent 4 months in NYC unemployed and twiddling my thumbs. I would have been so much happier to run around, putting together desks, dropping off groceries and waiting in line for people. Ad hoc productivity and pay sounds delightful.
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This concept is beyond brilliant. What an unbelievable stress reliever, to be able to have all sorts of tasks done for you, at a time that's convenient. If it turns out to be scalable / reproducable, it could be a real disruptor to parts of the labor market too. This is true innovation. All fingers crossed for the success of these guys.
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"The ivory tower of photoshop". Great quote!
Yeah, probably alot of people of all kinds of backgrounds would find this kind of "temp" work, to be very appealing. It's a total win-win both for the runners who do tasks, and the end-customers, who get tasks done.
Well deserved. That site is a joy to use and customer service is topnotch. Remains to be seen if things will scale.
I don't think people are taking them as a religion (at least I hope not). It is more along the lines that it seems the people at Google are still mostly trying to make the Internet and technology a better place rather than only worrying about profits.

Of course, they do care about profits, but it isn't their only agenda. This is why Google owning the patents isn't a major deal. There is no history of using the patents to get rid of competitors or to make a quick buck. They pull them out of the closet to defend themselves from other patent lawsuits. I am certain that if Google started going after various companies over mundane patents, the view of them will change very quickly and you wouldn't see very many people defending them.
Even if it is advertising (or motivated by it), it doesn't imply the information is false.
I wouldn't bother with a StackOverflow account, at least not in the sense of 'the more I actively participate, the more Karma I build up there". Ditto with HN and GitHub. Posting code there to show off/try to impress just doesn't work and is a waste of time.

Do it only because you WANT to/have fun doing it, otherwise you won't be able to sustain it in the long run anyway.
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Granted. But surely the prior art on bits being transmitted through a general purpose computing machine, whether mechanical, magnetic, mental, musical, or magical, is now unassailable. What is novel is not physical, what is physical is not novel.
Text of Uwe's message for anyone who was as annoyed by that text box as I was:

From: Uwe Schindler
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:13:36 +0200
Subject: [WARNING] Index corruption and crashes in Apache Lucene Core / Apache Solr with Java 7

Hello Apache Lucene & Apache Solr users,
Hello users of other Java-based Apache projects,

Oracle released Java 7 today. Unfortunately it contains hotspot compiler
optimizations, which miscompile some loops. This can affect code of several
Apache projects. Sometimes JVMs only crash, but in several cases, results
calculated can be incorrect, leading to bugs in applications (see Hotspot
bugs 7070134 [1], 7044738 [2], 7068051 [3]).

Apache Lucene Core and Apache Solr are two Apache projects, which are
affected by these bugs, namely all versions released until today. Solr users
with the default configuration will have Java crashing with SIGSEGV as soon
as they start to index documents, as one affected part is the well-known
Porter stemmer (see LUCENE-3335 [4]). Other loops in Lucene may be
miscompiled, too, leading to index corruption (especially on Lucene trunk
with pulsing codec; other loops may be affected, too - LUCENE-3346 [5]).

These problems were detected only 5 days before the official Java 7 release,
so Oracle had no time to fix those bugs, affecting also many more
applications. In response to our questions, they proposed to include the
fixes into service release u2 (eventually into service release u1, see [6]).
This means you cannot use Apache Lucene/Solr with Java 7 releases before
Update 2! If you do, please don't open bug reports, it is not the
committers' fault! At least disable loop optimizations using the
-XX:-UseLoopPredicate JVM option to not risk index corruptions.

Please note: Also Java 6 users are affected, if they use one of those JVM
options, which are not enabled by default: -XX:+OptimizeStringConcat or
-XX:+AggressiveOpts

It is strongly recommended not to use any hotspot optimization switches in
any Java version without extensive testing!

In case you upgrade to Java 7, remember that you may have to reindex, as the
unicode version shipped with Java 7 changed and tokenization behaves
differently (e.g. lowercasing). For more information, read
JRE_VERSION_MIGRATION.txt in your distribution package!

On behalf of the Lucene project,
Uwe

[1] http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7070134
[2] http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7044738
[3] http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7068051
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3335
[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3346
[6] http://s.apache.org/StQ
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low priority actually:

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7070134
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I remember Sunny Delight as a kid (shows how young I am, I guess), but that didn't taste anything like orange juice, or the flavourings they put in to orange juice. More like squash? It's so sweet that you would be unlikely to confuse with actual orange juice, surely?
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Having read the comments, I havn't seen what I find to be the gravest problem with this article - the poor OO practices of the author.

Seriously. If you have a family of methods on a user that only work in the presence of an instance of a project, then the first thing you ask yourself should be 'hey, maybe these methods belong on the project instead' and not 'hey, lets reinvent nil'.
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