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"Looks like it was discontinued in 2006 (?), but introduced back in 2004 -- so, older than I thought."

Your laptop is 5 to 7 years old - do you realize how long that is in tech years? I am not sure you can run the latest Windows OS well on a 5 - 7 year old laptop.

"Intel switches have all forced me to upgrade before I wanted to."

The switch to Intel processors was very gradual and not painful at all. Apple kept PPC support for many years.

Why are you against the upgrades? If it is because of the cost associated with upgrading that is understandable. But the tech industry moves so fast and computer performance increases every year - do you really want to be using 5 - 7 year old technology?

"I've also had this conversation on HN a couple times. It often ends in multiple people expressing surprise that I'd be interested in continuing to use such old, out-of-date hardware"

Time to listen to the crowd my friend.

You CAN still use your computer to access email, write, browse, communicate, play, etc. But you can't complain when it doesn't run all software or isn't the fastest.
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I think you'll need more than "a new way to cherish memories" with no substance whatsoever to get me to signup...
I don't disagree with the macro trend, however there will be some market for printed photos for at least a generation. For those of us that grew up with printed photos, we will always appreciate a printed photo a touch more than an electronic one, especially in small doses. This is doubly so for my parents, and grandparents. The digital generation may also appreciate it as a novelty.

So, even though the macro demand will continue to shrink, there is still a market for printed images. I would be curious to know from the founders if they have any real numbers as to the market size. That'd be the first question I'd ask them to see if there is any real play here. I would guess there are around 50m printed images still made every year in the US alone.

At a profit of 25c / image it might be possible to get revenues of several million dollars per year. Sure, it's no Twitter but it's a an easy business to build and test. With around $50k or so they can find out within 6-12 months if there is a path to significant returns.

That's a decent business risk IMO.
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It's a good communication from Amazon - maybe a little too long - could use a summary block at top.

The compensation looks generous too.
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No I mean I have read the article, I just didn't go that into depth. And it very explicitly points out that there is a gender effect. The author has made a career being the academic against violent games - you don't need to be an idiot to have an agenda.
They obviously took the effect into account, at least to some extent.

What do you find worrying? That they may not have dealt with it thoroughly enough?

Edit:

Actually, they mean that they took different study design (short-term, experimental vs long term, observational, etc...) into account.
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What evidence would change your mind, or is your belief also faith-based?
I really don't know why Starbucks shut down the Jonathan's Card, it was a free ads, Starbucks was still profiting...
Edit: a link to the full text is posted in this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2880901

-- The paper reports no significant sex effect: --

There was no evidence that the VGV effect on aggressive
behavior differed for males and females (ps  .10). The VGV
effect was slightly larger for females in experimental and longitudinal studies and was slightly larger for males in the crosssectional studies, but none of these differences were significant.

-- The age effect is only borderline significant: --

Average age of the participants was not significantly
related to the VGV effect sizes in experimental or longitudinal
studies ( ps  .50). However, it is important to note that there were
no longitudinal studies on participants older than 16. For crosssectional studies there was a marginally significant effect of age
(b  .005, Z  1.82, p  .07). Studies with older participants
tended to yield slightly smaller effect sizes than did those with
younger participants

--

Anyone with a dash of understanding of the human mind wouldn't find these results surprising, BTW. Even if you're able to make the difference between real life and games, acting violently in virtual environments trains your brain to react more violently in general.

BTW, I don't have any personal bias against violent video games.

-- Initial post, before the editions:

Indeed, then, and I'm a bit surprised that the peer review accepted an abstract that contradicts the content of the paper. Is the journal also biased against violent games?
> Sam literally did the opposite of contribute to the experiment. There is nothing he could have done which would be more disruptive.
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> The "experiment" was to see if a system based purely on goodwill, like take-a-penny, leave-a-penny, can survive.

I took from this that a system like this cannot survive, because there will always be actors trying to game it.

I think this actually parallels how many entitlement programs work: they are set up for truly altruistic reasons, but bad actors enter the program and make it difficult for the program to remain sustainable. A subset of people will always manipulate a system where they can get something for nothing.
The author donated an entire box (!) of this book to our students. The book itself is well-written, which is surprising considering that it appears aimed at selling people on Veracity. But, to be fair, after comparing Veracity to Perforce, I am sold on Veracity too. :3

Even if you don't care about enterprisy VCS, this book covers three established community-based VCSes in a really great way. Get a copy, put it on your shelf, give it a read.
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This is very true. I have repeatedly been called a great communicator which surprises me as I find in group conversations I tend to listen 70% of the time and talk only 30% of the time. I believe because I talk less, more weight is given to what I say. Also, because I talk less, I choose my words wisely instead of just blurting out anything that comes to mind.
I have very mixed feelings about CCTV, but generally I don't mind it (note that this is different to being 'for' it). I worked for a company writing software for CCTV operators, recording/playback etc and I heard of various crimes being solved and our images being used to convict a murderer, people who caused damage to property, thieves and so on. Very good feeling.

I don't mind the fact that I'm recorded when I walk down the street - not because of the flawed 'I have nothing to hide' argument, but simply because I can't think of a reason that I would mind. Most cameras aren't actively watched unless there is a specific reason to, and the recordings are deleted usually after 30 days. On the one hand you may dislike the camera watching you - but you'd be thrilled if it recorded the guy who mugs you on your way home and leads to his arrest and subsequent conviction. I do feel safer knowing this on the occasion that I'm on my own in an area that I don't feel safe. Maybe this is due to working with CCTV in the past, I'm more acutely aware of its presence then I might be otherwise.

London's CCTV will lead to literally hundreds of arrests of these scumbags (I live near an area that was involved, and have family even closer) that would otherwise have gone completely unpunished. Many more of the people involved in the riots are having a hard time sleeping tonight then if there were no CCTV.

@hcho - ig1 is correct. Most of the imagery you're seeing on TV is at the scene of the riot. Images of CCTV in the surrounding areas will be scoured over the coming weeks, many covered faces will have been uncovered a few streets away. Also watching where people came from can help to find associations - for example they arrest somebody who was seen on CCTV to have arrived with somebody who is not yet identified.
A very even-handed, honest and accurate evaluation of Clojure, at least from my somewhat limited perspective. I've written a couple of small/trivial programs in Clojure and read a couple of the books ("Joy of" and "Practical"), so I'm far from an expert.

I will say that the online documentation IS atrocious and basically impenetrable, and usable code samples are quite difficult to come by. That being said, it's a very young language, with a very active, helpful and -- dare I say -- friendly IRC channel. (And by the way, a couple of top-notch eval bots)

The documentation piece is easily overcome by spending $20 on an ebook. Joy of Clj and Practical Clj are both very readable & accessible. The code samples are clear and concise, and the explanatory prose is excellent.

IDE support... well, I use emacs. It's widely recommended people use emacs for Clojure simply because it is so well integrated with it. REPL and line evaluation are fantastic in emacs. People who don't like/want emacs tend to use vim's Clojure mode, at least according to IRC.

I will say that the main pain point I had in getting started with Clojure was building the environment. The "best practices" for a Clojure environment has shifted wildly, as far as I can tell, over the past few years, so most/many of the blog posts that describe how to get it set up are wrong, or very dated and unsupported by current software (e.g. Leiningen).

All in all if you are interested in learning Clojure, you are doing yourself an enormous disservice by not joining #clojure and asking your questions there.
login as regular user, download some version of ruby, compile for use as logged in user, install rvm, shazzam install any version of ruby you want - all of this only applies to the logged in user and has zero impact on the rest of the system. RVM rules :)

I no longer install ruby at a system level, not needed, only users running ruby stuff need ruby installed and never use distro ruby, creates all sorts of issues...
Has anybody used PhantomJS with a client-side testing framework? I'd be very interested in hearing experiences.
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What a shame. Overriding a shell built-in is a fucking horrible idea. While it might be technically innocuous -- and I'm sure for most people it is -- philosophically and politically this is a design failure that will taint RVM forever. It makes people wonder what other poor design choices lurk beneath. People are mostly too lazy to look at this objectively and RVM will suffer for it. What a shame.
What happen to Jonathan's Card fund? People are bidding nearly $4,000 for it
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curl -I and wget -S are particularly helpful when debugging redirects.

Sometimes I migrate URL schemes, and set up permanent redirects in my .htaccess files. Testing them in a browser is a real pain, because browsers cache the redirect (which is the point of having a permanent redirect), so even if you change the .htaccess, you still get the old response. And pressing the refresh button is no help, because that reloads the destination page, not the source of the redirect.

That's when a non-caching command line client saves your day.
I think he's worried they didn't reach the conclusion he wanted.
also useful:

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In french we have a saying

"Tourne ta langue 7 fois dans ta bouche avant de parler"

it means

"Turn your tongue 7 times in your mouth prior to talking"

A metaphor, of course. A reminder, often used by my mum, to say that I was speaking to say nothing.

Carefully crafting the flow of words is as important as the words themselves. Same apply to writing.
What if I approach publishers and offer to pay them to allow me to use their magazines? I could at least do that for launch, and then once the service gains traction, magazines would approach me.

Or am I missing something?
Talking 1/3 of the time seems like exactly the right proportion. See this article, also by my dad:

http://wisdom.tenner.org/1/post/2011/07/the-small-wheel-list...

Ultra-condensed summary: if you want people to pay attention to what you say, spend 1/3 of the time listening with your mouth shut, 1/3 rephrasing and asking clarifying questions to make sure that you've understood, and only after that, spend 1/3 of the time actually saying things (which now have a chance of being listened to...).
I would mistrust individual studies for all the reasons you mention, but these are also the same reasons that meta-analyses exist, and they will look for those things and more. Generally, they will try to find and correct for systematic biases, and (although I haven't read this one) they will often completely discard other studies if their results are useless.
I was surprised that he ran siege against www.google.co.uk without some kind of "don't do this" disclaimer to new users. Running it against other people's websites is pretty poor form.
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I've had terrible trouble with RubyMine and RVM. I'm hopeful that the PATH-based approach of rbenv might be better.
Ask yourself how often you engage on a similar level if detail.
Agree - this seems like an invitation to problems. Are there any known issues with it?
So you don't even have time to write your own launch page ?
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Wish I had $999 to spare on my pet project. Good luck.
One way, for example:

http://flickrstream.webzardry.com/

The key is "upload date" which is editable, and determines the order.

If you don't have a tool for it, go to your set in the organizer, sort the set as you want, go to the first photo, open the edit modal dialog, and start stepping through the photos setting the upload time to 1 second after the last. When you're done, the photo stream itself will reflect the custom order.

Sets already reflect your custom order with no extra work. Some Flickr tools (of which there are hundreds) support reordering the photo stream, using this technique under the hood.

Since everything on Flickr has an API, you can do most anything you can imagine.
I've been looking into embedded ARM systems with ethernet lately.

The Pandaboard & Beagleboard are completely out since my embedded RTOS application has no USB stack.

The two boards we're dealing with are the TS7800 and the Gumstix Overo series. For you, the Overo on a Tobi Duo is a reasonable way to get dual ethernet, though it's only 100mbit. The 7800 has only a single gigabit.

The abundance of embedded ARM devices is really a great thing for small projects. A small, passively cooled ARM computer can do most tasks that you'd have needed a 1U rackmount system for only a few years ago.

As well, they're great for learning. Bootstrapping an operating system from nothing is far, far easier on an ARM system than an Intel/x86 one.
Then why do you yourself use the phrase, "lose a day?"
I am, as well.
The alpha boards are not going to be the same as production. These are prototypes and are a step towards a finished product.
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That and DnE.
This linked response discusses several problems with this meta-analysis, and the fact that most other meta-analyses have found no effect: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20192554

"Several recent meta-analyses, examining outcome measures most closely related to serious aggressive acts, found little evidence for a relationship between violent video games and aggression or violence. In a new meta-analysis, C. A. Anderson et al. (2010) questioned these findings. However, their analysis has several methodological issues that limit the interpretability of their results. In their analysis, C. A. Anderson et al. included many studies that do not relate well to serious aggression, an apparently biased sample of unpublished studies, and a "best practices" analysis that appears unreliable and does not consider the impact of unstandardized aggression measures on the inflation of effect size estimates. They also focused on bivariate correlations rather than better controlled estimates of effects. Despite a number of methodological flaws that all appear likely to inflate effect size estimates, the final estimate of r = .15 is still indicative of only weak effects."

Meta-analyses are usually either a cheap way to get a well-cited publication or a way to impose one's biases on other people's research. They're rarely as useful as some people would like to think, and the issue a meta-analysis reviews is rarely as simple as some would like to think.

That said, I've got an almost 8 year old, and I obviously don't let him play videos games or watch TV shows with explicit violence (blood, gore, realistic violence, etc.). So for example Mario Kart is okay, but Family Guy is not (they often show bloody violence).
The moment your code begins to look like this, you know that it's time to use SASS mixins / Compass :)
While this may be helpful for business people and politicians, I think this isn't great advice for this demographic. A huge skill lacking within this industry (and of course I'm generalizing) is that of verbal communication. Wouldn't talking more, much like writing more, help that skill?
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It seems to be increasingly popular to denote some notes with trivial contents as a 'paper'. A paper is something that is published in a peer-reviewed journal.

It would, by the way, be nice to get rid of some of all those self-promoting posts. New rule: You can not link to your own shit. Thank you, Sir.
Just to be clear, I didn't even follow this whole saga, and don't know Sam Odio at all. His name just kind of jumps out at you if you speak Italian (Spanish too, I think).
I didn't see the word paper anywhere, what do you mean?
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Where did that come from?

We are going ahead with "momment" as our brand name due to lack of a better domain available that gives the same feeling when you read it or hear it.

So it is not a spelling mistake "technically".
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No, not at all.

Silence, like body language, is an essential part of "verbal communication skills" - that's the point I'm making. You can no more learn "verbal communication" without learning to use silence than you can learn "driving skills" without learning to look in the rear-view mirror... (poor analogy, but you get the idea)
You need not wait for invokedynamic to try Clojure. There is hardly any dynamic dispatch that can take advantage of that AFAICT.

Lambdas/Closures when they come to Java will certainly be backward compatible with the JVM (and hence just syntactic sugar) and will implement Runnable/Callable in some form.
i thought self-linking was encouraged? isn't there some guideline that says instead of making a direct post (askhn etc) you should link to your blog?

also, a new account just to takes shots at me? did i shoot your dog or something?
The problem is that usually that same subset of people are just doing it to prove that it can be done and therefor the programs "aren't sustainable".

They form a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy.
Keeping ~10^6th protons contained for minutes is a long way from 10^28th protons contained for years. Anyway even with antimatter you are still bound by the E=V^2 problem so launching a large ship at 1g for 2 months might be possible with anti matter but the energy requirements become insane. For that matter generating atimatter is ridiculously inefficient, if you had perfect containment and converted the all the world electricity production into antimatter using current methods you would not be able to launch a bottle rocket let alone a useful ship.
When we added it, being a new feature the decision was made not to initially flip it to default in case of bugs, unexpected behavior, etc.

As noted, it's possible that will change in future releases; there's been a lot of improvements to journaling since its initial release.
Just updated the page based on the feedback. See if makes more sense now.
Thanks for the feedback. We had been going forward and backward on this so this has truly helped.
Sure. Presumably Amazon has a test lab that replicates multiple zones :) Perhaps your point is that Amazon should make this test lab public so people can contribute to the QA effort?

IIRC many of these datacenter failures start with a utility company power outage followed by a failure of the secondary power systems (I'm thinking of some past failures at softlayer and other providers). I wonder if it is prohibitively expensive to do a real life system test on a big data center (or prohibitively expensive once the data center is on line). For example, how often do they turn off one of the mains (unexpectedly) to see what happens with the backup system?
When will we see compiler support?
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This is totally the wrong technique.. Focusing in front of the monitor will only blur out everything. You have to focus your eyes behind the screen for that to work, like with hidden stereoscopy pictures
thanks. which of those books goes furthest? (i imagine i can work out the basic stuff, so it seems best to choose whichever includes the most obscure/advanced features - and i'd like to save time by reading just one...).

i do use emacs for text editing, so i'll try it for clojure (i should say that there was only one wrinkle in getting the environment working in intellij - that was adding clojure.jar to the classpath, which it told me to do in an error popup, so it wasn't hard at all).

ps to save others googling:
http://joyofclojure.com/ ;
http://www.apress.com/9781430272311
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Indeed.

We have two ears, and one mouth. 70/30%
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I know what you mean, even though Java was pretty much a niche language up to 1999 ;-)
Also don't miss (in no particular order):

Tutorials

http://github.com/relevance/labrepl (gives a kick in terms of functional thinking, use of higher order functions etc)

http://www.try-clojure.org/

http://4clojure.com/

https://github.com/functional-koans/clojure-koans

Documentation

http://clojuredocs.org/

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Clojure_Programming

http://www.clojureatlas.com/ (Finding functions by browsing the relations of APIs and API-functions is just to nice)

http://cemerick.com/2011/07/05/flowchart-for-choosing-the-ri...

http://clojure.org/cheatsheet

http://www.clojure-toolbox.com/ (not up-to-date)

I'm sure i missed something, but those links can really be helpful.
Apparently only in countries with already ridiculously low prices ...
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Does siege support benchmarking gzipped HTTP responses? This is something ab doesn't seem to do and it's starting to annoy me.
"Giving too much away"? That makes no sense, do you regularly sign up for stuff you have no idea what it's for?
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Homebrew package for this pirate thing as well as some others: https://gist.github.com/1143917

I can confirm that it works.
Doesn't this solution not scale? Doesn't this mean a shim must be created for every gem that I install that has a binary? Or is this only required for "core" binaries?