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Aw man.. Someone's really playing with my expectations here. Timeline:

Whoa, Palm is back and has a really slick operating system.

Oh - the device is crap and the distribution sucks. Hope they make it and can improve it.

Second batch of devices sucks even more in terms of availability. Hang in there Palm!

HP bought Palm? Cooool. Now _they_ are certainly going to come up with good hardware, everywhere?

What? An huuuuge announcement for devices 6 month early? Like 'You know these WebOS devices from Palm? That you couldn't get anywhere? Well, we're going to bring out NEW devices. No, you cannot get them anywhere for half a year'.

Announcing that HP won't continue to create WebOS devices.

And now these rumors about Samsung (there were previous rumors about Samsung thinking about a WebOS license agreement). I really, really want to believe that now, finally, this is real and going to fix ~everything~. But - I kind of gave up on the idea of having a decent WebOS handset already.. Or did I?
I think another major point that wasn't discussed in the post is that the startup world is a rocky one. You might be full of confidence in your idea one day, and then the next day you feel your idea is garbage. It's a roller-coaster ride, and not everyone can deal with that. Especially until you have users that are signing up for your service, it's really just your own personal opinion, you need validation in an idea to continue to give you the confidence to pursue it no matter what your opinion of it at the moment is
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This is amazing, I feel it's uses can go far beyond just drawings.
To me, Carr mostly comes across as trolling.
Reflecting on the decisions of others is an important component of human cultural development. Alone, we all have limited experience. We can't possibly match the diversity and reach of the outcomes resulting from decisions made by everyone around us. Reflecting on Steve Jobs' decision to abstain from philanthropy is an important cultural point of discussion.

Asking what "good" Mr. Jobs has contributed to the world is a question that should be approached with an open mind. The objectivist would look at his actions and hold them up as an example of a shared positive outcome resulting from self-motivated action. By Mr. Jobs' relentless focus on advancing Apple, we have all enjoyed the benefit of the many devices that were brought to market by Apple under his leadership.

That's just one perspective though. It may not hold up under scrutiny, but we owe it to ourselves to ask the question: Is philanthropy the best and only way?
Spot on. ORMs can generate some crazy-bad SQL if you're not careful with them. A good ORM will generate great SQL in the common case and allow the developer to execute custom SQL without fuss when necessary. If your ORM makes it a pain to pump in raw SQL in place of generated SQL, find a new ORM.
Would be helpful if it said on what basis it will make wind power cheaper than nuclear. Cheaper maximum generating capacity? Cheaper raw per watt cost? Cheaper per watt cost even after taking into account the extra power storage capacity wind power requires?
I am interested in what kind of protection or defence is there against the drones. First is how would one detect them and how would one knock them out.

Can one make another drone that patrolls an area looking for these spy drones and then somehow shoots them down. Homes in on them then autodestructs...

A radar + a laser? An EMP device that would fry their electronics?

Would a small heat seeking missile work?

Well then there is always the moral side of it. If it is a plane with a human pilot in it, or a patrol car with a human in it, destroying it is equivalent to murder. Disabling or blinding one of these drones is just property damage.

Yes, this will be used as trigger to start a war: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Georgia%E2%80%93Russia_cri... ) but it is still far from killing a person.
Remember that higher education is a bureaucracy, and since the types of conflict that spring up are really minor, they are particularly petty, nasty and status-centered.

In that sort of environment, your actual contribution to some objective goal has nothing at all to do with your position in the bureaucratic pecking order. That's why the basketball coach makes $2M/year, while the galley slaves teaching the classes make $20k, plus shitty health insurance.

Using less money, less staff, less equipment does not make you an alpha academic. In the 90's, that meant that an assistant professor in math or science had to have Sun workstation with a 21" monitor (~$12-15k). A full professor got a fancy SGI Octane that cost even more. At my college, the full math professors were mostly in their sixties -- my calculus professor used his SGI as a terminal emulator to futz around on the VAX. The screen savers were cool though.
astonishing!
Clicky links:

OutOfTheTarPit: http://web.mac.com/ben_moseley/frp/paper-v1_01.pdf

PapersForProgrammers: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2922108

FRP_Scheme: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/frp-discuss/BNmBgtqRUFY/bZd3...

FlowJS: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/frp-discuss/XFfqvH3g...
"Cheaper than nuclear" until the environmental impacts are mitigated. One turbine every forty acres times 2.6 million is likely to comprise a significant change on a massive scale...before considering the support infrastructure.
Direct from the University:

http://www.riam.kyushu-u.ac.jp/windeng/en_aboutus_detail04.h...

"Wind power is proportional to the wind speed cubed. If we can increase the wind speed with some mechanism by utilizing the fluid dynamic nature around a structure, namely if we can capture and concentrate the wind energy locally, the output power of a wind turbine can be increased substantially. At wind energy section of Kyushu University, a new efficient wind power turbine system has been developed. This system has an diffuser shroud at the circumference of its rotor to embody the wind energy concentration. The diffuser shroud is now named "Wind lens". To apply the wind-lens structure to a larger size turbine, we have developed a compact collection-acceleration device"
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I agreed with you until the point that you said to replace things with stored procedures and in-memory tables.

Having the two different contexts for logic, code and SPs makes things a thousand times harder to debug and maintain, making the cost of anything skyrocket.

ORMs are indeed awesome, but the solution for problems like this is not to take ORM out of the way, is to work with it to make it work better.
They had me until "nuke-u-lar".

Still, I'm all for these sorts of technologies. I hope it works. Now we need to work on STORING this energy efficiently.
I appreciate your response because I have spent many nights trying to connect the dots between linear algebra and game development. When I read about straight linear algebra I can not see the connection to make it useful for me. Now I understand that I have been focusing on the wrong things and really need to simplify it more. Thanks.
In the US, airlines require that electronic devices be turned completely off during takeoff and landing.

In my experience, this is rarely enforced.
Thanks! Speaks a lot for the switch to science matters...if at all, but wouldnt that be a decent site? The latest high quality news on science issues? I would love that!
Russian roulette is not a big deal. I've shot this revolver at my forehead 5 times now, and it's worked ok so far.
How much would it cost to buy the equiivalent of 25% of Alaska and then build 2.6 million huge turbines? From the pictures, these turbines look like they use a lot more material than current turbines because of the huge ring around them, so they're probably a lot more expensive.

Add to this the costs of reworking the power grid to distribute power from the new turbines across the country, and decommissioning all of the existing power generating facilities.

I doubt the turbines could ever recover their costs before they get worn out and need replacement.
It looks well executed (particularly the new layer feature) but what's new about this device? These digital pens have existed for years.
The whole talking to each other thing also breaks down if the team consists of thousands of people spread all over the world. Git was specifically designed with this in mind.
So, this sounds like you can make up whatever you want, with no supporting evidence whatsoever, then hand-wave any criticism away by claiming you are just presenting possibilities?

I'm not sure how you think that's not a dishonest thing to do.
"Cheaper than nuclear" is a great pitch -- you can always adjust upward!

Does "nuclear" strictly mean operating costs? Or does it include the billions of government capital investments? How about storing waste for a period of time longer than recorded human history?
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Real worlds are filled with dirt, hazards, sensation, pleasure, effort and more. The virtual world is clean, colourful, free of danger and effortless.

Heh, and then come along malware authors, spammers and scammers. I doubt virtual worlds will be entire free of danger; just as it's possible to break a leg through stupidity, I imagine it'll still be just as easy to delete C:\Windows ;)
Most people I work with detest the ribbon interface.
You always hear this from somebody who is new to ORMs, spends 3 months working on a project, and then is amazed because he doesn't like one thing or another in the file.

It'll be funny when he discovers that with just a few other lines of code he can not only fix that issue, but also completely change how data is stored in the database, use 1st and 2nd level caching for the objects, and be able to easily refactor all that stuff when the business logic changes.

By the way, I seriously doubt that query is the cause of performance problems in his system.
In small companies, people often fill multiple rolls. Our dev lead happens to be our lead UI designer as well -- but we all provide feedback. Sticking him on part-time tech support duty was a creative way of both giving us another tier of support while simultaneously forcing him to deal with our regular 'ol user.

Experiencing the mind of the typical user day after day has caused some major changes in his UI design philosophy. Don't bury things in menus, limit the number of ways you can do something, walk users through set procedures, etc.

There's a bunch of different approaches to interface design and many of them don't work well. We've all seen the beautiful but hard to use designs made by professional designers, and the control-panel-of-a-spaceship design made by developers.

It seems that what both cases miss out on is spending time working with and understanding the average guy on the street. Or rather, good interface design means spending lots of time optimizing for regular users.
Why is that more difficult? It seems like it worked fine for two teams I worked with. What are other common or better ways to get around this?
i'd love to see cost breakdowns, especially once you include external costs such as environmental disasters
Since the article mentions this, in what way is it not quite right?

"The National Institutes of Health in the US oblige anyone taking their grants to put their papers in an open-access archive(17)."
Probably rather offtopic but: I've never understood the motivation behind "modding". Why put so much work into someone other's project instead of starting something own?

For the same reason people use and license game engines made by other people instead of developing everything from scratch. A large chunk of some difficult work has been done for them.
There is indeed something very wrong with that. You pay your taxes which help fund research and then you are charged exorbitant prices for access to the resulting articles.
At the time I quit maths there were a smaller uprising among some mathematicians trying to break away from the large old, but unfortunately also still prestigious, journals. "Algebraic and Geometric Topology", an online journal, was formed when the entire group of editors on Elsevier's "Topology and its Applications" resigned as a reaction to Elsevier's increasingly whack pricing policies. Later the same happened for the top journal "Topology", the resignation letter is stil linked at John Baez's site: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/topology-letter.pdf.

Likewise books, lecture notes etc. written by lecturers should be made freely available. You want to make money on a book you likely created most of while supposedly doing your paid job? GFY.
Well, actually git-svn is really useful when you work in an environment where SVN is used as VCS.

I've been doing this for almost three years now and haven't had any major problems yet.

Except for:
Merging.
Since SVN 1.5 (or so) merging in SVN got less painful because from then on when merging, SVN tracks which revisions have already merged from one branch to the other.

AFAIK it does so by saving the merged revision ranges into the svn:externals as meta data which can then be used for the next merge operation to prevent changesets to be merged twice into the same branch.

However, when you merge with git-svn this information will not be recorded, so the next person merging with SVN will probably run into problems.

Solutions:

a. you don't merge with git-svn

b. anyone merging with SVN explicitly tells SVN which exact revisions to merge

You can still use local branches of course and as long as you only merge from one local branch to the other with Git, there won't be any problems.

At my work place we luckily pretty much only have trunk and very, very short-lived branches, so this isn't an issue for me.

A correction, while the fact that SVN creates a copy of the entire code, when you create a branch, it isn't as horrible as it sounds, from the SVN documentation:

"When you copy a directory, you don't need to worry about the repository growing huge—Subversion doesn't actually duplicate any data. Instead, it creates a new directory entry that points to an existing tree. If you're an experienced Unix user, you'll recognize this as the same concept behind a hard link. As further changes are made to files and directories beneath the copied directory, Subversion continues to employ this hard link concept where it can. It duplicates data only when it is necessary to disambiguate different versions of objects."

( http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.branchmerge.using.htm... )

That being said, the day my company will finally switch to Git will by a happy day... :D
Yes - I see your point.

Ok - A sizable portion of the 10K happened between jobs. Another large chunk was dental. So, I'm packing a lot into that number that I probably shouldn't. And, I apologize for that.

I guess I'm just bitter about it. Healthcare has personally burned me, and I find it a personal distraction and barrier. But, I need to recuse myself from healthcare discussions.
There was someone in a talk or podcast (damn, when can we get search engines for our memories?) who discussed the idea of creating physical tokens as representations of virtual objects or events. With the arrival of cheap 3D printers, there is now the possibility of making personalized tokens.

As for offered books, I think hardcovers will become the tokens; for example, for Cory Doctorow's With a Little Help (which I've never read), the hardcover edition comes with an SD card with the ebook and even a audiobook.

And the reality is that at least for me, only one in ten books or so actually have any meaning besides the content; most are just books I bought for myself for no special occasion, and I don't really benefit from the space they take.
Audio recordings of book readings are less practical than subtitles because they are not synchronized. Every subtitle in a film is associated with the sound clip that plays while it is visible, whereas for an audiobook or similar, any algorithm would have to "align" the audio and text in order to obtain usable training data, and then it would have to deal with the errors introduced by this process.
The differences between model rocketry and model aircraft are significant enough that any "clamping down" on model aircraft would not be effective. The materials are too generic.
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SVN is better than git for ANY binary files, really, because with no centralized repository it's rather hard for git to implement any kind of locking. Locking is pretty much essential for binary files, since most are not mergeable in any meaningful way. It's literally NO USE AT ALL to be forced to make somebody redo their recent work when there's a conflict :)

SVN's locking ain't so amazing, it must be said, because it's clearly not the way it's intended to work. But it's better than nothing, certainly, and TortoiseSVN on Windows has some nice features that make it work fairly well.

Another issue is the filling of your hard drive with crap - obviously git keeps the entire repository locally, and SVN keeps a previous revision (I think?), which is a bit useless for enormous hundreds-of-gigabytes repositories mostly filled with stuff that's not significantly further compressible. To add insult to injury, git then spits in your face by not letting you retrieve only part of the repository! - well, obviously the problem is that git just isn't designed for this kind of thing, not that its decisions are unreasonable. Shame, though... some kind of binaries-and-locking support would be nice. It would be great to be able to use git for everything.
But when Notch says that he is avoiding Steam due to the restrictions it will place on what he can do with Minecraft in the future, I'm not sure why this would be a positive outcome from Notch's perspective.
Sayre's Law

"In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake." By way of corollary, it adds: "That is why academic politics are so bitter."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_Law
This doesn't really surprise me to be honest. Spotify also caches a lot in order to be able to play content as fast as it does (for me it's usually as fast as playing something from my harddrive).
However I didn't know about the upstreaming of cached content, this seems like something you should be able to turn off.
I have the unlimited plan, curious to see if it also happens there. Will check when I get home.
From this thread, it almost seems that a founder dating section of HN would be pretty beneficial to a lot of people. Granted, there are already too many find-a-cofounder sites out there, but the caliber of people and ability to see the past posting history of a potential cofounder on HN seems to be potentially valuable.
So in theory, this "wind lens" could be applied to existing wind turbines.
I hadn't realized quite how many of the special-paper-free digital pens were out there now - last time I'd looked, the pens needed special paper and used a pen-tip camera for sensing (basically a special-purpose optical mouse).

Here's a collection of them:
http://digital-pen-review.toptenreviews.com/

Interestingly, the last three pens in the comparison table all do look very similar to Wacom's offering. I wonder whether the Wacom pen is using the same technology (or is maybe even made by the same manufacturer behind the scenes?)

In any case, I reckon the Wacom name will help them sell, possibly helping promote them to artists wanting to sketch on the move rather than (as the linked comparison mentions) for business purposes.
I wouldn't refuse any interesting work based on source control.... even language. You're hired to do work for a company, if it's interesting do it.

How they manage their code is their business. The OP needs to grow up.
As someone who already pays for Spotify premium, I see the bandwidth as an acceptable further price to pay; if it results in a viable business model that can continue to entertain me. I would mind a lot more if it were just so they could save money. However, it would seem that for the sake of low-latency, the p2p layer is crucial.

Also fun fact: "In total, during the measurement period, 8.8% of data came from servers, 35.8% from the peer-to-peer network, and the remaining 55.4% were cached data"

Source http://www.csc.kth.se/~gkreitz/spotify-p2p10/
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This was roughly how I got my previous company onto Bazaar, I was using bzr-svn as my svn client, and gradually more devs switched to my approach - and discovered it was better.

At some point down the line we swapped the server over as well.
Ditto - I opted out a few months ago and basically got a hand job - a few weeks ago it was nothing, quick wave of the wand.
I am sort of surprised that there haven't been more of these attacks (I only know of handful) given how vulnerable certification chain is to attacks such as these.

Even when the mistake is noticed, it will take time for browsers to update their revocation lists. Do other browsers require the same heavy-weight updating as Safari on OS X (Software update to Safari)?
Thanks :) I should have done this myself.
"Error establishing database connection"

ORMs don't kill databases. Hacker News does.
Most of those digital pens used specially printed paper which had machine-readable dot patterns. This looks like it takes a different approach compatible with any paper/notebook.

Sounds like a great toy for those people who like to sketch notes in meetings etc. I wonder if it can replay the drawing as an animation?
I'm not sure how this proves that you don't have to use the App Store to install apps on iOS devices?
Fight generalization with generalization! When one encounters, "one should stay away from <race or ethnic group>", always proceed with caution.
I was obviously just as ignorant about these newer digital pens!
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- somewhat

- yes

- No! I think they a precursor to contact for a reason. Why would I let her waste hours of time (mine, or other employees) without even having an idea if she's qualified or not?

- Possibly... But I thought the object of this exercise was to find a job, not to eliminate options.

For the record, I upvoted you... Mainly because the first one seems to be self-referential. ;)
I have the opposite experience: freed from absolute reliance on physical objects, my experience and enjoyment of them have multiplied. I find myself carefully selecting the objects I share space with and I have more time to wander public space because I'm not tethered to a single location.
Based on a tumbling-domino-theory of assumptions, this could be excellent. I particuarly like the fact that this new technology will be the answer to current unemployment because of the maintenance jobs it will create ... presumably, overnight.
The drawbacks I see are that the package is a bit oversized to fit in a pocket and only a single type of tip and ink. Both of these would tend to create "gadget friction."

[compare to http://www.amazon.com/Winsor-Newton-Cotman-Sketchers-Pocket/...]
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A security professional does this money in a few hours of work, so the "prize" is not very attractive.

And what's interesting is that within the security ecosystem there are proven ways to win authority and reputability.
Ask/Tell HN: What's with all the spam lately?
I'm a frequent F5'er of /new, today I've noticed a huge increase in spam posts from new users, is this some new spam bot or have I just not noticed till now?

Examples;

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2941195

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2940981

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2940973

(and a few others I ether CBA to find or look like they've been deleted, including weight loss, hotels, weird looking drugs and lots of other stuff)