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Actually I believe that's incorrect: stock Mach 2.x was considered a microkernel (though, like Mach 3.x, not always used as one in practice), and, versions of XNU since the first client release of Mac OS X are built on a modified Mach 3.0 kernel. But you're right that it's not used in a microkernel-like way.
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MongoMachine was based out of the same city I'm in, and as such I've seen the founder talk about a few times at local tech events. The selling point, was not that they would host your data, but they would help automate the provisions, configuring, troubleshooting, etc of your private mongo instances in your own private setup (like EC2). If someone knows better or as a more official message, please correct me :-)
This has nothing to do with net neutrality. Net Neutrality is about ensuring consumers have equal access to providers of content and providers of content have equal access to consumers.

It's not about allowing piracy - quoting wikipedia:

"Chris Elsworth, the main operator of Newzbin, had said repeatedly at trial that he had no knowledge of infringement occurring on the service, and that Newzbin's categories for "CAM," "screener," "telesync," "DVD,"R5 retail","Blu-ray," and "HD DVD" didn't suggest any evidence of infringement."

These guys were ripping people off and got shut down.

Net Neutrality is about making sure YouTube doesn't pay your ISP more to favor them over Vimeo. It's not about some guy stealing movies, and by associating net neutrality with piracy you hurt both net neutrality and people who make stuff (people like us).
The attributes of good entrepreneurs and good research students are highly correlated. It's quite common in engineering, but less so in other fields where research isn't as likely to have direct commercial applications.
It is not easy to grow up being labeled as a genius. One day you realize that most of the people of your age are so far, far below your ability it's just sad. You try to help them, but everyone know it's not easy at all. All the work you've done to get to this level seems to be very natural for you after all these years, and you have no idea that most of the kids were not doing _anything_ in their childhoods. Then you got this feeling that all your "genius" skills came undeservedly and it's really depressing, because they constitute your person, and you really would like to believe that you got there by your own work, cause it does not feel fair otherwise.

To work out this cognitive dissonance, you start to look what you did differently than your peers and you notice that you were doing math (or cs, or electronics, or biology or whatever) as early as you remember, while your averagely performing mates from university only started doing something serious in university classes or maybe in high school. This feels like a pretty good explanation, especially when one takes into account a 10 000 hours rule, but being a rationalist (who you surely are), you cannot discard the impact of your genes, but as long as it is not measurable, you can believe it's small.

That's how you come to the state of mind when saying things similar to the quoted ones seems pretty natural and not at all out of touch with reality.

(I say this from my own experience, so it's easy for me to sympathize -- I'm not as brilliant as the guy from the article, but I'm getting two bachelors (math and cs) next year, by then being 20.)
Popular browsers are "dragged down to 100" by the mass of people who install the browser because of techie friends, or fashion.

In the second graph you can notice there are many more high IQs individuals using firefox and chrome rather than opera.
I'm glad GMail has security in mind. This is very important to finding out if your account has been compromised or not.
Reminds me of this Google Easter Egg:

http://www.google.com/search?q=recursion
In my experience, OpenJDK has fewer bugs - at least the ones I care about. Like Swing making bad assumptions about the WM, including that only a small fixed number of window managers are tiling (OpenJDK works on XMonad, Java 6u21 does not).
Maybe this is some sort of inside joke?
Perhaps what they mean by "data center" is simply a server running at each wireless access point?
Wasn't it just a few weeks ago, there were complaints that Google favored its own properties in its search results? What happens to that claim now?
A program is a tangible, physical arrangement of electrons

One could likewise argue that math is a tangible physical arrangement of pencil marks on a page or of neurons in the brain. But the point remains that math is not patentable.

Should someone be able to patent a prime number? Discovering a new large prime number requires effort, skill, lots of compute cycles, etc., but it's not patentable. Discovering an algorithm that has novel properties also requires effort and skill, but it shouldn't be patentable either, because it's math.

All possible medicines are implied by the rules of chemistry

Maybe eventually we'll understand the rules of chemistry and human biology as well as we understand the rules of math, but until that happens the case of medicine is not really comparable to the case of software.
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And it's a cool thing. I hope Apple learns their lesson too, with articles like this.

My guess is that, in both cases (Honeycomb and FaceTime), it was more a problem of corporate inertia or laziness rather than evil.
I think it's interesting that Steve Jobs has earned this much credit with most of us (I think most). He has a history of saying stuff that is either clearly true at the time or turns out to have been surprisingly frank in hindsight.

My guess is he was shooting from the hip and then discovered that it was a much bigger pain in the ass than he realized.
Looks like they've been using the term publicly since at least August of 2004.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040804025347/http://filesanywhe...
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I'm a beginner when it comes to programming. Are their any good resources for me to link into, I want to learn Ruby On Rails, and want to ask you guys for advice, and how I should get started.

Thanks!
It also knew very well what my location is and was blatant in using this knowledge to direct me to my local citysearch, for example.
Apple is killing it. It's insane how much money they're making now. Not only that, I think they're half valued.
Good point, the first result should be to the Wikipedia article on search.
"One thing I do feel pretty certain of is that if you're against software patents, you're against patents in general."

I'm glad he says this because it's an important point. You can't stop software patents without stopping patents altogether, and that means Intel can't protect massive investments in new techniques for creating faster CPUs without deliberately obfuscating its hardware, etc. etc. etc.

Kill patents and we're in for a world of reverse-threaded screws, gadgets filled with glue, and on and on.
IQ will be lower the more market share, so this is silly.
The really surprising thing for me was Opera

Agreed. If what being smart gets me is Opera, I'd rather be dumb!

I kid, I kid!
according to whom? just you?
Oddly enough, I'm also getting google.ca as my second result and I'm in the UK. All my results are actually identical to those shown on the linked image, even when I sign out.
I might not agree with it, but I don't doubt that Google will face a large anti-trust trial in the near future.

Users just need to remember the old adage - if you are not paying for the product, then the product is you
Same here!

But I remember using Altavista for a long time after switching to Google because of Babelfish (translator0 and Image Search (was it Altavista?)

Today I use DuckDuckGo a lot.
British accent != accent from the UK. I doubt anyone from Northern Ireland would asociate with being thier accent called British, from either side of the political divide; and I suspect more than a few of our Scottish bretheren would object rightly or wrongly.

But to your point - a Scottish accent and a Swedish one are distinctly different.
His point with this statement wasn't an argument from outcomes, but an argument from principles.

His claim is that the distinction between algorithm and physical manifestation is false, therefore software patents are no different from hardware patents.
Most people have a motive for lying. I don't really see that here. What does Apple have to gain by suggesting FaceTime would be an open standard? Did lines of people show up to buy iPhones because FaceTime would be an open standard? I doubt it. Quite the opposite I think. If you could only FaceTime between iOS devices (and Macs) that might be a competitive advantage. My guess is they simply calculated it was not worth the effort in the end. Making something an open standard and supporting centralized authentication/etc is a nontrivial thing for what purpose?
What do you care what other programmers do with their time? The ideas in Hurd are particularly interesting enough to those who work on it. That alone justifies its continued development.
Just do a search for anything local and you'll see.
If you do a search for 'search engine' then Dogpile still comes up on top. Didn't know it still existed!
As someone who only casually follows the case, these emails don't seem all that damaging to me.

Of course they had to at least consider licensing Java from Sun at some point. It would be weird if that was never mentioned. And of course they anticipated to ruffle some feathers with Dalvik.
Better he learn what the system is like while young. With media attention on his arrest he's likely to be unmolested.

There's no alternative where he was safe, just ones where the risk wasn't realized. Now he'll know what many complacent people never realize - how fragile his life is and how easily 'evidence' against him is created as necessary.
You need two main books to get started:

- http://pragprog.com/book/ruby3/programming-ruby-1-9
- http://pragprog.com/book/rails4/agile-web-development-with-r...

Read them in that order so that you learn Ruby first. After that your'll want to polish your Ruby and Rails idioms with:

- http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0672328844
- http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321601661

Enjoy!
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Hotmail is #1 result for me when you search for "e-mail". :-)

http://f.cl.ly/items/1X081Z0a2P1E2y2J3U0Y/email.png

(Gmail is still #1 for "mail" though, probably because of their URL - mail.google.com)
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Honeycomb remains a closed source system. ICS is still unpublished in any form; Google's claimed that it will be open source, but (as with FaceTime) words mean nothing until they're backed up with action. I'm not ready to say they've "learned their lesson" until they've actually /done/ something about it.
So instead of killing them altogether, give them a limited lifespan - 5 or 7 years.
Wait, isn't Yahoo! just a Bing search box?
Um, I consider myself a native of computer-land and do this all the time. People accidentally type stuff in the wrong place. That doesn't mean they're cretins.
Ethanol is destroying small engines

Not because ethanol is bad, but because they weren't designed for it

most definitely reduces mpg by 10%

This is because it has lower energy density. But before you make a big deal, it has a higher octane rating, so cars designed to run on high-ethanol can run leaner/more compression, and recover economy.

it allows them to dilute the less profitable gasoline (to 'cut' it)

Despite your paranoia, there are good reasons to add some ethanol. As I mentioned, it is a cheap octane booster, which is good for your engine. Additionally, being an alcohol, it absorbs water. This helps prevent rust and therefore sediment build-up in gas station holding tanks and the gas tank of your car.

Ethanol is a very good fuel. It is quite safe, relatively harmless as fuels go, burns very clean, has respectable energy density... Economics of producing it aside, it is perhaps one of the best fuels for small heat engines. It just doesn't look good when compared to gasoline, because gasoline is freakishly energy-dense, and all modern gasoline engines were designed to run on gasoline, giving gasoline the "home field advantage".
I agree. In an ideal world people with these capabilities would be able to spend their childhoods in an environment tailored to very bright children their own age, with materials and curriculum tailored to their strengths and with attention paid to cultivating passion and minimizing overspecialization.
Google's first result is Bing.

Bing's first result is Yahoo.

Yahoo's first result is Yahoo. Way to break the cycle.
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People are often too protective of the things he liked near and dear when they were children and have no desire to see it modernized Take for example the Smurfs.
Given the high standard the MongoHQ guys hold themselves to, I have no doubt that they look very closely at the "core values" of anyone they partner with. As for direction, well, that's for them to tell us :)

By the way, we've been using MongoHQ extensively (I have a feeling we'll be one of their biggest customers over the next several months), and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them. They're amazing in every way. If you're looking for MongDB expertise and hosting, they're the guys.
not necessarily. Let's say my browser is targeted toward people with low IQ, and I get 10% of the market, biased heavily toward low IQ. Suddenly, people with high IQ realize that it's a great browser for them as well, and they all start using it - I increase market share AND raise correlated IQ levels.

It is more accurate to say that increasing market share will tend to shift average IQ score toward the population mean.
A consumer level GTX 590 is almost twice as powerful as a Tesla card (It's 2x gtx 580s in on-card sli), and the retail price? For a 590 you're looking at about $800 aud, a tesla is upwards of $4000.
For many years US software patents were stopped without stopping patents altogether. And the law is the same now as it was then, as I just detailed in an essay: http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-startup/2011-07-28 Feel free to submit the essay to HN if you think it clears things up.

EDIT: Timothy Lee pointed to his article from a couple years ago that covers the same topic in more detail: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/01/resurrecting...
That's totally incorrect. Why can't you draw the line at software? Books aren't patentable. Music isn't patentable. Paintings aren't patentable. Mathematical formulas aren't patentable. So why is it that you have to be against patents in general just because you're against software patents? Patentability is one method of protection out of many that can be applied, and it's been applied to particular kinds of "inventions" and not to others for hundreds of years.

Software is protected by copyright and trade secret protections, so even without patents it will always be intellectual property that is strongly protected and which has material value.
http://www.bing.com/search?setmkt=en-US&q=search gives you Yahoo as the first result. Google is 3rd result.
"Regarding my initial point, I think software falls under copyright solely because its written"

No. That's a degree of misconception that I can't fix in an HN post. Copyright has little to nothing to do with the medium in which an expression is fixed. And with all due respect, the rest of your post is so muddled w.r.t. what copyrights really are that it's hard to even address what's there. (I truly mean "with all due respect", but I also truly mean that it is very muddled.) You really ought to spend some more time studying the topic, including such basics as what exactly copyrights are and what, exactly, they cover, and why.
It's probably because RMS always compares (indirectly) Hurd and Linux.
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I would strongly contest the assertion that there is someone of equivalent programming aptitude and experience who will be as productive in Java as I would be in Scala or Clojure or C#.

Boilerplate kills. It kills again when you have to go back and try to re-read code slathered in it.
Except you need to combine the waveforms of multiple access points, so the APs need to send the current radio profiles to a shared server, the server needs to receive the proxied information and generate the waveforms for each AP, then the waveforms need to get sent back to the APs and transmitted over the radios.

Obviously, this is not what they are referring to in the 1ms timing, but I don't know what it is they are referring to.
Anyone who is doing serious work with GPUs already knows the performance hit you cop when shuffling data to and from the card.

If your solution relies on moving data back and forth from host memory to device memory, you probably won't get the speed boosts you were hoping for.

I can create a solution where the CPU beats the pants off the GPU, and conversely the GPU absolutely smashes the CPU, but for my actual real problems (Data copied to the card once, many iterations, multiple calculations per iteration, results copied back to host), the GPU gives one hell of a boost.
There's a major validity problem with the sampling method, and exterm points out a pretty glaring bias, so high numbers don't necessarily improve validity, only reliability. Random sampling would be much better than opt-in sampling, but it's obviously pretty difficult to do that in practice.
Yahoo has an ego problem
http://www.google.com/search?q=search
http://www.bing.com/search?q=search
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=search

What's up with that, Yahoo!? Its impolite to vote for your self in the beauty contest!
It's really annoying. What's wrong with letting me click it OFF? I'm all for security. But not at the cost of usability. Red box in my face makes me hate my mail.
I also disagree with pg on this point, but with different reasons. The problem with your reasoning is that books and paintings aren't isomorphic to patentable machines in the same way that software is.
You can provide your own flags to the compiler, in the g:clang_user_options variable. It does still break in uncompilable code but I don't quite see how that's a problem. It forces you to be more disciplined. If you're finding it a bit slow, the help files do explain you how to set up precompiled headers with it. I haven't tried that though, so I can't comment on how much it helps. Personally, the only times a get annoyed with it are when I type 'catch (...', and it thinks I want it's help.
I used to have the same issue. Thankfully Thunderbird, which I switched to, has a bidirectional contact sync plugin for google contacts.

FWIW the last time I tried KMail with GMail, there were some issues with how the folder-to-tag mapping worked. This ended up with me needing to untag a lot of stuff manually in my GMail. But since this was over a year and a half back, I wont really go by this. Things could well be better now
This strikes me as an affront to Jobs' integrity a little more severe than his failure to deliver a white iPhone in a timely manner. In other words, this author is going to need to write an article of PG-level insight before I read another word of his. This is almost as bad as the "5 reasons why exercise makes our startup awesomer" guys.
URANALBUTT- no1 knows wtf your acronym means, what, that saved you two seconds of typing? type these things out
"Iteration-itis" is going right next to "analysis paralysis" on the shelf of business jargon that I actually don't mind because it's useful in illustrating a point.
Thanks for the compliment but I'm not that smart :( I wish I was but there is so much to this world that it's hard for me to figure it all out.

I made stuff but they are rather boring. Things like web framework, API Libraries, etc. People call it reinventing the wheel! Out of all this the toughest one was designing a general purpose core API that's going to be used over and over again in said framework. Trying to design a set of libraries that can be changed years from now is insanely difficult but somehow worthwhile. It made me appreciate things like the "dot" notation and how wrong it could have gone but it's hard to market simplicity when everyone else is marketing complex stuff.

Then again, I suppose that's why people join startups. They like solving complex stuff. I like solving simple stuff or at least try to make the world a more simple place.

I suppose I could do a Minimally Viable Product where I clone something that exists and try to make it better but then I'll be putting on my entrepreneurial hat again!
3.1 is still honeycomb, they haven't announced the version for ice cream sandwich still i think
Yahoo uses Bing...
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The licence has always had similar terms.

Specific to (A), that is regarding the JDK (as opposed to the JRE). As mentioned elsewhere, you can't redistribute tools.jar, and I think the compiler itself is a problem too.
Well, lets agree to disagree. Maybe I am a dum*bass and too dumb to realize it. Ho well.. C'est la vie
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If they let you turn it off, then the person who got your password and started forwarding the mail would turn it off, and you'd never see it. If they let you turn it off, there's no reason to have the message in the first place.
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The United States government does not need cash on hand. It can just make money out of thin air. It's called quantitative easing.
Odd that they're making the case for (potentially paid) streaming versus illegal downloading. The more interesting debate, in my mind, is whether consumers are ready to shift from an ownership model to a subscription model, not whether consumers should switch from illegal to legal behavior.
NB Not strictly speaking true, but ask me again next week.

(Also, my net worth is positive, whereas theirs is negative to the tune of thirteen figures.)
The term "consolidation" comes to mind. There a fair amount of people using Mongo right now, but it's still a young piece of software. I'm not sure the market can sustain three (or even two) dedicated Mongo hosting vendors.
I'm confused on whether you think that quote is from me or Andrew. I was asked to clarify just in case: that quote is coming from my own personal experience (and I updated the page to reflect that).

Andrew's not targeting college students, he's looking at younger children. He was still in public school up until 4th grade, where he was having attention problems. I would assume today's 4th graders are equally attention deficit when it comes to learning.
I think he's right. Actual shootings are certainly extremely rare, but that doesn't mean that the main goal of the schools can't be to stop them. School systems tend to be highly irrational like that.

My high school was fairly strict on rules and regulations, and my time and movement was managed and regimented to an extent that I've never experienced before or sense. Much of this was due to misguided safety rules. That was before Columbine, and from what I hear things have become far worse now.

Such might be reasonable if shootings were a serious threat, but the aren't, as you point out, so it's basically just wasted.
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