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You are still not telling us what you do.

Don't expand on what memories are (we know that) expand on what "a new way" means.
In this example I imagine part of the reason why his infrequent talking was taken so seriously is because when he wasn't talking he was engaging in active, serious listening. This gave him a better grasp of what was going on, and it allowed him to make his own speech highly relevant and sensible.

I think this is a great lesson. Good speaking arises from good listening, because only good listening will give you the best sense of what everyone else is thinking and what you need to say to explain your own thoughts to them.
Joy is really going deep into the language concepts and is very well written.
Same thing for me. Caffeine only seems to boost capability in real terms when used sparingly (once a week or two). Otherwise, one becomes dependent on it and is simply medicating withdrawals which makes them feel like they're more focused when in reality they are simply no longer withdrawing. It's the classic drug addiction cycle but, given the comparative (with harder drugs) lack of serious side effects, it's generally considered to be safe. For people like me, however, the side effects outweigh the benefits 9 times out of 10 since it just makes me anxious and encourages fight or flight responses where they're not necessary.
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I disagree with the author about how it suffers from being on the JVM. In fact, I'm not quite sure the author even knows what the full scope of that sentiment means. I believe it is quite the contrary. With respect to the JVM not getting any better, it just did. "invokedynamic" was introduced with the latest release of JDK7 and is directly related to the support of dynamic language such as Clojure and JRuby. Using the JVM opens a bunch of doors for a burgeoning language that normally it would have to re-invent. In this case, because it is on the JVM it doesn't have to re-invent the wheel it can re-use existing and proven libraries, performance and monitoring tools, etc.
I will conceded that documentation can be spotty, but it isn't any worse than most new languages, and it is continually getting better. Furthermore, if you really want to give issue such strong opinions about a language you ought to spend mor time with it than just a day or 2.
IMHO your writeup is shallow and not well conceived.
You may not consider yourself part of a lynch mob, but seriously, can you deny that such an element is present?

No, and I'm very concerned about it. But the only choices are the ones I have to make. I can't start worrying about everybody else. In fact, once I let the threat of a mob start swaying my decisions, I've already lost. The mob has won. (ugh. hated doing that, but it was too rhetorically easy.)

You get my drift. I think, for me, that I need to think long and hard about what the consequences might be. But quite honestly, here's some guy I don't know using my computer. Anybody know this guy? Perhaps he's being held hostage for all I know. The more information I get out there, the sooner we can have this thing resolved. I don't have to jump all the way to some conclusion simply because I need to solicit information about the location of my laptop. After all, I'm the innocent guy here.

I didn't read the other articles, but it sounds like you are reacting against the mob mentality found here and elsewhere. Yes, this concerns me a great, great deal. The internet was supposed to bring equality and democracy. It's done that, but it's also brought flash mobs robbing stores, riots, and vigilante justice. Not good. We should all speak out against that -- especially when it's a cause that sounds "right" to us.
My mother does residential care in Texas. Her perspective will be different than most other people you will speak with. Let me know if you'd like to talk to her.
It is a sign of the times. In San Francisco in 2004, I placed about 10 calls to look at places in the morning and found a place by that night. In 2011, I tried doing the same thing and got no call backs at all. I guess you'll need to be more aggressive and/or crafty.
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Chris Hamilton - BBC News Social Media Editor says:
August 13, 2011 at 3:37 pm

We’re checking out the complaint response quoted above but, on the face of it, it’s wrong and isn’t the position of BBC News.

In fact, we make every effort to contact people, as copyright holders, who’ve taken photos we want to use in our coverage.

In exceptional situations, ie a major news story, where there is a strong public interest in making a photo available to a wide audience, we may seek clearance after we’ve first used it.

We want to do right by potential contributors and our audience – it’s not in our interests to annoy them – and this is a good opportunity to remind ourselves of that.
Why can't it be related? I see plenty of ways for the TFP to be related to the concentration.

For example, here's one model which nicely matches the TFP lack of growth and subsequent wealth concentration: 'the wealthy 1% demands a fixed additional sum per year (due to some sort of hedonic treadmill or cultural imperative - relative status seeking perhaps); while TFP growth exceeds this fixed sum, we will see the additional wealth distributed to the other 99% through wages etc. Once TFP falls below this sum, all TFP gains now go to the 1% and everyone else stagnates.'
GNU screen is probably the most indispensable command-line tool I've learned since vi.
Absolutely. Remaining quiet and not constantly thinking "what can I say next to 'contribute'?" was one of the reasons I could actually really pay attention to what was going on and catch those key moments where I could actually say something worthwhile.
Especially if it's a tourist visiting Paris - in which case turn your tongue until they leave you alone.
I think peer review is a very basic hurdle in the research process. The results are then up for review - and that's what we're doing here in a minor way. In the section that really matters, violent behaviour, results seem massively skewed in favour of results from cross-sectional studies. Experimental and longitudinal studies showed strong sex differences. All non-experimental (and no doubt some of the experimental) studies were strongly subject to self-selection. None of the longitudinal studies were done on subjects over 16. Just because its a meta-study doesn't mean it isn't subject to massive flaws.

Does anything in there reliably address the issue of correlation versus causation. Most people play video games - if I was a violent person surely that would be my entertainment of choice right?
As cynical as people are about postings that sound like this, ploys like free PBR for a year result in 3000 applications for a single job.

So anyone who claims that developers are somehow immune to hype probably doesn't realize the hype he/she is actually falling for.
It's hard to believe that they wouldn't test the mains by doing just that.

I visited the NY LaGuardia TRACON recently - built perhaps 40 or 50 years ago? - and saw the generator & battery room, where they turn off the utility power every few months just to see whether things are working. So it's not exactly a new idea or an idea that other life-&-death-mission-critical operations don't dare use.
And let's not talk about the meaning accruing to "jrockway".
How are you supposed to shoot backwards?

I think it'd be more fun if you could move around. Maybe having the choice to skip a turn and move a unit around?

Also maybe having a preview of what your equation looks like? It'd make the game easier and you'd still have to think about what kind of equation to use.
For your netbook, download Wubi (http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/windows-installer). It's a Windows installer for Ubuntu. It's incredibly easy to use.
I'm very pleased with the 1080p recording in my Galaxy S2, but i think whats the real issue is the file sizes.

1 minute of 1080p video is 100mb of data, which is understandable, but still too much if i want to post it to facebook or some place else over 3g, or even a open WiFi.

So as you say, 720p might really be enough for smartphones.
I think of certain quiet people I know as having high signal-to-noise. When they start to emit, I listen carefully, because my attention will be rewarded with lots of signal per unit time.
Not a problem you have to be sorry about, it happens. But the thing here is that announces like that implies expectation. So, IMHO, you shouldn't announce to much time ahead and announce when you know for sure there will be an actual release. Otherwise grumpy sceptics like me criticize ;-)
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www.emota.net --- super cool stuff (a buddy is working there)
When covering the riots late at night and into the early hours, the BBC often used footage from several hours earlier (still daylight) as background. I think any argument that "exceptional situations, ie a major news story" give a public interest justification for using material before getting permission is very weak. I'm not sure what fair dealing provision the BBC are appealing to in some of the other comments claiming to be from BBC staff (posting in a personal capacity), either.
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They would have to imply to Apple that the part would be available if the tab went back on the market. That's extortion!
While I agree that this could be effective if enough donors go along with it, the system already has a built in method to get rid of the ineffective politicians: voting. I don't see any point in voting for the same people while cutting out their funding and hoping they do better this time around.
Good post. I haven't used clojure yet, or any purely functional or lispy languages, but I'm keen to try. I'm especially interested in macros and dsls, as I feel like I'm always trying to bend ruby and python into structures that seem, from the little I know of lisp, like they really want to use lisp macros, and the more experience I get, the more I feel like that sort of metaprogramming is where the real power is. That said, I'm also wary of trading the comfy, curated library ecosystems of rb/py land for what looks from the outside like the overgrown jungle of Java.

I think I've narrowed my next learning project down to either clojure or node. Node seems perhaps more immediately useful and easier to grok, while clojure may offer more for my overall development as a programmer. I'm not the type to build a throwaway educational app--I have to feel like whatever I'm working on could turn into something real, even if it's unlikely, so if I were to go with clojure, I'd want it to be for its potential to really offer more power and productivity in making something cool and getting it launched, not just as an academic exercise. I have a couple busy months of contract work to go before I'll be able to dive into anything, so it's great to read reports like this while the decision stews.
1/ Stop trying to make QR codes look pretty

http://blog.collins.net.pr/2011/04/stop-trying-to-make-qr-co...

2/ If you must do QR code "enhancement" please use Overlay and not embedding. Overlay positions the QR code "within" a logo and builds a surrounding design.

Want to see some examples of what that means - check out www.Cognation.net/QR particularly the IronMan2 example from Warbasse design.
cool, I'll def. give them a shout. Thanks!
given how stalled the JCP seems to be (the disappointment with 7 and the general sentiment against oracle) i can't see TCO ever being fixed and i wonder how much tolerance there will be for third party expansion (without lawsuits or licencing). i agree that invokedynamic is going to help, but even there you can argue that it took a long time in coming (when did davinci appear? 2008? three long years....)

but i agree it's not a "deep" analysis. did you miss the part where i said i had only used the language for a day? or the word "initial" in the title?

[edit:] actually, there is one more thing i want to say. one thing that has discouraged me from looking at clojure earlier is the agressiveness i've seen from the language's fanboys. fwiw.
I'm pretty sure Google can handle it.
I assume you don't use Googol.
When I went to grad school in engineering and became a TA, I found out there was a guideline for the undergraduate class average from the department. It was actually presented as the historical class average for informational purposes, with standard deviation, but the implication was that a professor's class average should be close the the historical average.
Interestingly, Sam Odio's sale of the $500 Starbucks card on Ebay is currently at $3950. Unless the bidder is feeling really charitable, I assume someone is sabotaging Sam's "experiment" with massive overbidding they won't pay.

Ebay sale is at: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=16063...
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I don't think this is a bad concept, but what are the ethics of harvesting the HN community for early signups? Better, I think, would have been to write a technical article with some value to the community and offer early access signups at the end. The way it's been submitted you pretty much spammed us... a trend that I hope doesn't gain more traction.
lftp is a practical SFTP, FTPS and FTP transfer program, including automatic upload/download resumption and synchronization (mirror) mode. Good for both interactive use and scripting.
Video is below the fold. Sums up Facebook quite well within the first 90 seconds "The Facebook is a directory where I can go to look up all the information I care to know about you..."
"Made in China" products accounted for only 2.7 percent of consumer spending
Why can't sites just go live?

I'm sick of seeing these marketing stunts with new startups wanting you to get on the list just to lure you in.

If I'm going to sign up for anything it better be ready to go and use.

Fuck it, just do it live.

/saturday-morning-rant
I've heard something similar that sums up this way:

"The more you're heard, the less you're listened to"
For me the most invaluable command line tool that I have ever used is S3 Tools:

http://s3tools.org/s3tools

It provides a great suite of tools for interacting with S3, and is best used on an EC2 instance you are connected to via SSH. It is also ridiculously fast, much faster than trying to interact with S3 from a local FTP browser, or even from Amazon's own S3 dashboard. For example on my computer using Amazon's own web facing dashboard it will take about 30-45 minutes to make 14000 files on S3 public, versus via the command line tool downloaded and running on one of my EC2 instances it can make those files public within minutes.

I assume this is because it is local network traffic. Anyway, if you are ever in a bind and need to move a bunch of files to S3, I highly recommend S3 Tools. It has saved me many times.

Along those lines wget is the most powerful command line tool I've ever used, with so much capability. It is simply incredible when combined with S3 tools, allowing you to easily grab gigabytes of images off of a personal server or staging location and upload them to S3 very quickly.

And if you need to do more than move files around you can manage even more aspects of AWS including EC2 instances from the command line using this powerful command line tool:

http://www.timkay.com/aws/

Its great for writing automated bash scripts to manage your instances via cron jobs.
IDE support is poor, at least in IntlliJ

Intellij's La Clojure does a little more than syntax highlight: minimal refactoring support, rainbow parenthesis, smart parenthesis, syntax highlighted repl, great autocomplete support, awesome code navigation, autocomplete for java classes and live templates.

Not to mention that slurp forwards (Edit->Clojure->Slurp Forwards) is really nice. Example. Place your carret on |

(println|) (reduce + [1 2 3])

Slurp forwards will turn it into

(println (reduce + [1 2 3]))
I wish I could verbalize why seeing a software's personality through humor like this makes me appreciate it more, but I can't seem to explain it. Even things like Google's Fudd option - http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-elmer - reminds me that there are real people putting together the code that I rely on.

Ah RedHat nostalgia, ya a'ight by me & mine.
Cringely proposed that Wal-Mart install wimax routers in every store and thereby essentially blanket the country in coverage. I don't know enough about wimax or wimax phones like the HTC Evo to know if you could provision any wimax router to make voice calls, but I do like the thought that someone in an entirely different business could disrupt the ridiculous monopolistic profit machine that is today's cellular market.
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"Music is the space between the notes." - Claude Debussy
(Sort of) in the same vein, I've recently started using xmonad as my window manager and so far it's a lot more comfortable than the Ubuntu default. You may need to learn a teeny but of Haskell to get up and running, but so far I've been OK copy-pasting from sample configs and muddling through.
I have used screen for many years and decided to finally give tmux a try about 2 months ago. I really enjoy it. It took some adjusting, but overall I like it better.

Things like this are largely due to personal preferences, though. All I can tell you is that I am happier with tmux than I was with screen. It is more modern, and the split screening capabilities are better.
What is Google's real market share in the US?
Beyond that, we're primarily talking about LTE coverage. That would require significant additional investment even if you added T-Mobile's (GSM/UMTS/HSPA+) infrastructure to the mix.
The incentive for giving a reasonable spread of grades is that your students have incentive to try harder. Thus you get better students.

The disincentive for giving all A's is that you disincentivize your students from bothering to put in much effort.

Ideally you want to grade hard enough so that even your brightest student has to put in a lot of work to get an A. That can be hard to do in the current climate of grade inflation, but when I grade I at least try to err in that direction.
It's worth noting that Clojure runs on the .NET/Mono CLR as well.
I remember there being a supplier called EfficientPC operating out of the UK but I'm fairly sure my dev box was their last sale before closing down. I'd also be a happy customer of machines pre-installed with Ubuntu.

It would probably be fun to start a business doing just that no? Canonical provide a lot of support for the OS itself so we'd have to source parts, put together the boxes, sell them and market them.
Is it illegal?

How is this different from deal making in general?

ie If you give me this then I'll give you that?
Somewhat off-topic, but this reminds me of those 'why math is gibberish to laymen' posts a couple of weeks ago.

I know my math background sucks _and_ I'm stuck with the German version (i.e. the field suffers much more from being localized than CS. There are lunatics that try to create German words for everything from motherboard to stack - but I think we locked all of them up by now).

This article is unreadable without clicking on every other link in there and starting from scratch for me. Embarrassing.
I'd love to see an ARM based router with a decent amount of flash and RAM. Most of the current ones are MIPS based.

The reason for this is that there are a lot of interesting ARM-specific code for embedded devices, like LuaJIT and similar.
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I must admit, I think they're pretty popular in the UK now as well. Every time I go through the underground or flick through a newspaper/magazine I see them.
Could you compare this to raphael.js please?
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0B is an invalid octal literal, to get a hex literal you'd just append B, yielding C++0xB ;)
I know I have bought less ebooks since the agency model came into play and a lot of paperback books on Amazon suddenly became three or four dollars less than the Kindle version.

I certainly haven't stopped buying them altogether, but when it was priced at ten bucks or less it was in impulse buy territory.
This is a great technique, and an excellent essay describing it. I found it enjoyable to read.

I wonder, though, if the author failed to pinpoint the likely cause of this effect. Yes, I believe that there is an element to it that involves signaling alpha security in a non-verbal way, and another element to it where the sheer rarity of your speech raises its perceived value.

But consider this, which I suspect may be the dominating force at play: if you follow the author's algorithm and only speak if you feel as though saying nothing will have greater cost in the future to put things back on the rails, what are you doing if not filtering out the lower-quality, lower-urgency, and lower-importance thoughts that you might otherwise utter. I believe that the effect of this is that if you only utter the crème de la crème of your thoughts, then people end up suspecting that you're more brilliant than you actually are. At the very least, people will come to learn that if you have something to say, it will likely be well worth their attention.

It's simply a matter of keeping your lower-quality thoughts as the part of an iceberg submerged below the surface.
Exposed the vulnerability? Can I kick you in the nuts to demonstrate the importance of wearing a cup?
I suspect "fedbot" works by calling up google and saying "Hi, it's us again, we've got another white van on the way to the googleplex, have a petabyte or two of the Internet ready for us to collect in 20 minutes. thanks"
Indeed, Clojure's excellent Java interop gives me easy access to existing Java libraries. And because it runs on the JVM, I've been able to execute Clojure apps under z/OS (you know, the day job).

I'd call Clojure's use of the JVM a win, not a liability.
I understand the desire for these news websites to have a visual that can be called an Infographic - it is hot link bait these days. But this one is so poorly designed that it's unworthy.

Why are there two phones in the background? And with one leading to the other? Why isn't the data presented beside the label, but only after you follow a series of closely spaced lines? Why doesn't it answer the question it started with - how much is made by Samsung, clearly and comprehensively?
Do you or does your department care about the quality of the students you promote or attract? If so, having and reflecting on grading standards is relevant to that.

If you just want to be a research department with a minimal or laissez-faire approach to your undergraduates, then yeah, why even bother with grading.
As someone who has put a considerable amount of resources moving things into cloud computing - I wanted to believe. But I have changed my mind.

Cloud computing scales the efficiencies, yes. It also scales the problems. And because of this, AWS is by several orders of magnitude the worst of my current hosts.

I have dedicated servers. No downtime in past year. I have a couple of cloud servers with rackspace. No downtime (although i don't recommend them). I have some VPSes with local providers. No downtime.

AWS? More than 24hrs downtime in the last year. Seriously, for someone trying to run web sites reliably - screw that. I'm not using AWS any more.

And don't even get me started on the apologists. "EBS slow as treacle? Well you should have been running a multi zone raid-20 redundant array! Duh!". "EC2 instances dying at random? Well you should architect and implement a multi-master failover intelligent grid!"

I used to be under some kind of crazy delusional spell that the above was correct and it was somehow my fault that I wasn't correctly adapting to AWS's numerous failings. Well, no more. Now I realise that I should just stick with the super reliable service I know and love from traditional operators. You need to programmatically grow and shrink your app server flock? Great, use AWS. For the other 99.999% of us - stick with what you were using before.