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I decided to test you a little bit and search for a lyric from a Janis Joplin song Another Little Piece of my Heart, "you know you got it when it makes you feel good" Without quotes this does not produce the song. Maybe increase the weight in the search results from keywords being located next to each other?
Are renters suddenly no longer eligible to send their kids to school?? Wow, that's new.
If you are implementing all of your line disciplines in userspace 1) userspace where? 2) How do you handle other modes, besides just noecho? 3) How do you do that while minimizing responsibilities of user generated code?

"And do we really need the job control model as is?"

Yes.
but the citizens of any nation are responsible for corruption. Their leaders aren't alien beings who have descended from planet Z to rule upon their country

I have been thinking about it for few weeks now and was somehow not convinced that by having an anti corruption bill passed would suddenly make significant changes.

This nytimes article from last month, "In Fight for Better India, Best to Look Within" http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/world/asia/02iht-currents0... gives candid analysis of what is wrong and some way to fix it.
Thanks asanwal - you will! We have quite a few things we want to finish today before the competition ends, and even more afterwards.
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The cases I'm thinking of take (total) between 30 second and 5 minutes, start to finish.

I underestimate how much time it'll take me to do a job manually when I already have great tools to do it the right way all the time.

Maybe you're just that much better a programmer than I am--but I know when I need to parse something like CSV, Text::xSV will get it right without me having to think about whether there are any edge cases in the data at all. (If Text::xSV can't get it right, then there's little chance I will get it right in an ad hoc fashion.)

In the same way, I could write my own simple web server which listens on a socket, parses headers, and dumps files by resolving paths, or I could spend three minutes extending a piece of Plack middleware once and not worrying about the details of HTTP.

Again, maybe I'm a stickler about laziness and false laziness, but I tend to get caught up in the same cleverness MJD rightfully skewers. Maybe you're different, but part of my strategy for avoiding my own unnecessary cleverness is writing as little parsing code as I can get away with.
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my bad sorry about that :( everybody makes mistakes.
It doesn't matter which is more likely, only that there is some positive probability of the second option.

No, it requires that the weighting (probability * consequence) is greater in the second case than the first.

FTA:

1. But, small as this probability is, it isn't anywhere near as small as 3^^^^3 is large.

2. If the probabilities of various scenarios considered did not exactly cancel out, the AI's action in the case of Pascal's Mugging would be overwhelmingly dominated by whatever tiny differentials existed in the various tiny probabilities under which 3^^^^3 units of expected utility were actually at stake.

I disagree with statement 1. If the author's definition of Occam's razor is believed by the AI, then the probability that the mugger is telling the truth is given by the inverse of the complexity of the system that incorporates our world, the other world and in addition the ability to simulate 3^^^^3 deaths. So it doesn't matter if X is 3^^^3 or 3^^^^^3, because the very probability of it being so is the inverse to the damage done.

Our world: A
Outer world only: B
Temporary 3^^^3 death world: C

Complexity when mugger telling truth = ABC

Potential consequence: kC

Weighting for mugger telling truth: C/ABC = 1/AB

Complexity when mugger is lying = A.

Weighting for mugger lying: 1/A

Since A and B are staggeringly large numbers, the AI must choose 1/A over 1/AB.

Then there's a whole bunch of other stuff, such as, even if the AI was certain that the mugger could carry out its threat, should the AI yield to threats of violence? Another question: if life can so trivially be created and destroyed, what does it matter? Can we trust the mugger?

But the main issue, and this should be the response of anyone threatened with some claimed ability to cause harm and suffering in "the next world", is "prove it".
Thiel also wants to build a magical libertarian island off the coast of San Francisco with no laws. Money tends to turn some people coo-coo-bananas, apparently. http://theweek.com/article/index/218393/libertarian-island-a...
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It is completely different what have we planned. There are bunch of services doing that e.g. Instagram (in iOS), Picplz (in Android).

Our only advertisement is now is app link that appears on Facebook posts (as 'via') and a default message for empty tweets.

It is a nice idea anyway, thanks.
I'm curious. Which of the examples at your first link are for speed critical systems? They all seemed to be client side stuff that isn't particularly speed critical, and a couple big companies using it in some unknown way.
They did not abandon Places... I'd even say they did the exact opposite: they integrated the feature into everything, so instead of just being able to say "I'm here now", you can now state that /anything/ occurred there (and at any time in the past, when relevant) by tagging things like status updates or pictures with Places. You can even get exactly the old behavior by making a post that includes only a location, and no status. I really have no clue how this crazy rumor started that they abandoned or discontinued Places :(.
Do you have any plans on including timestamps for the lyrics, so I could know when in the song the lyric is sung?
I would love this. I experiment far more with mobile apps, but still often find myself thinking "nah, not now". Unfortunately, there isn't a good way to flag something and come back later armed with more information.

Let me know if you build it!
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Given ATT's role in warrantless wiretapping fiasco they pretty much are a 3 letter government agency.
It's also not slander or libel if it can't be proven factually (e.g. "He's a jackass" isn't slander because thete's no concrete fact being communicated) or if it seemed likely enough to be true.

(Note: Not a lawyer, so don't take this as legal advice, but I've spent many years in the newspaper industry, where this stuff comes up regularly.)

This is also radically different in the UK, where someone was successfully sued for slander because he pointed out that medical studies indicated certain techniques were ineffective.
Block it before it’s too late
during the earthquake for us our land lines (25 pair cable) crossed a mains somewhere underground and cause our copper to burst into flames.
You have the lyrics for lightsabre cocksucking blues. There is no spam. You will be my first stop for lyrics searches from now on. Thanks.
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Others call it Structured Procrastination. http://structuredprocrastination.com/
I learned R some time ago in university. I've heard of lots of newly graduated colleagues that now work doing "SPSS consulting" (whatever that means) for big businesses. But I can't really see how you could use R to parse financial data, becaule I lack the financial background to understand what it means. Maybe that's what SPSS provides, and what singingfish means with "you don't need to know what you're doing".
This is also radically different in the UK

Hence the "At least in the US..." caveat! I still can't imagine living in a world where truth is not a defense against libel.
Just as an aside, "coping with R" would be an awesome concept for a book or series of blog posts.
Looks like a good product. My current bike seat certainly isn't anything special. I think I'll try this one.
Arguably yes, though in practice they tend to lack numerous qualities cranks have.

"you can't do experiments"

That's really the one issue, and speaking as an experimentalist it is a big one.

Proponents of string theory generally tend to be quite reasonable in discussion however (recognizing the experimental verification issues for example), and don't practice the many logical fallacies and whatnot that cranks seem to love. You don't hear them arguing about how "big [somebody]" is keeping them down for example.

And yeah, once someone reaches tenure they pretty much have full reign, including being able to be a crank. There isn't all that much people can do about it at that point. Being formerly sensible isn't fullproof protection against crank-ism, some people just... snap (or move on to other topics they were never scientific about in the first place).
Awesome! Nice work. Once you add URLs you should do some basic SEO. I imagine you have at least 1M songs in your database, and I don't know where you're getting your data from... but Google should pick you up.
glad you like the site. enjoy
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The glove interface seems like a pretty good idea. When you're navigating a smoke filled building in a flame proof suit, it would get rather unwieldy to use a traditional keypad.
1) Manufacturing output is dropping relative to GDP, but that isn't a bad thing; it just means that GDP in services is surging. The versus consumed is basically the trade deficit. I would accept per capita manufacturing output over time as a more fair comparison though.

2) It does seem they aren't subtracting imports. The world bank has good value added numbers:
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NV.IND.MANF.CD

Looking at the data, the US is still the biggest in the world by these metrics. Per capita it is easily in the top 5 large countries. Maybe 20% below Germany and Japan
22" - 27" with anything larger I seem to only see the corners with one eye or I have to move my head to focus on something which is really annoying, 24" is probably the sweet spot for display to price ratio right now.
It just seems to me like reinvention of the wheel for its own sake. Why not just make it as easy on the user as possible by providing very easy installs for the most well-developed software, and for more experienced users, continue providing these open-source efforts?

Seems like the same thought process at work that brought us cruft like the Unity UI in 11.04, then forced it on users as default, instead of just offering it as a new, less-stable alternative.
There was a drag and drop product released a few years ago that did just this. I can't remember the name of it now and it's dropped off the face of the planet.

My point really was that people will always want more, more power over what they can do and it's quite easy to lose scope and start putting more power into the solution.

We developed our own CMS at our company, it's not for outside world usage but for internal so it's not that I am adverse to the development of them. If I was a company though, I see no issue in downloading Wordpress and buying a template. You get the added knowledge that you can get 1000's of widgets and you can virtually drop them anywhere onto the design of your choice.

I sincerely do wish the develops all the best in such a competitive market and hope that the niche they offer hits off with designers.

I'll i'm saying is, don't lose scope.
My understanding is that they are abandoning Places in favor of just attaching location to posts of all kinds. Perhaps we're both correct? I didn't mean to imply that FB was removing all location related features as they most certainly are not.

My source for my comment above is the TechCrunch that made it to the HN front page a ffew days ago. [1]

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/23/facebook-location-tagging/
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I remember a spate of academic articles a few (3-7?) years ago talking about how all filesystems were going to be replaced by single huge databases to hold all our "files", maybe this is partially a continuation of that research.
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I'm confused as to how this works. Is it just pre-recorded videos? The site says "no homework, no tests". If you just watch the videos, how does it reinforce what you've learned? Is there any interaction with the instructor?
What do you use for email? I can't think of a strong alternative to gmail.
What if you traveled faster than the speed of light?
b/c i can only handle so much hurricane irene coverage as i sit wide awake in my nyc apt
Real estate markets tend to be local markets; it's kind of difficult to do prediction on the whole U.S. market. The local real estate companies or rental agencies should have current rent and historical rent level for local markets. For me, I just go to Craigslist and do some quick search to get a gut feeling.

Consistent rent increase is a very important indicator because it means couple things:

- More people are moving into an area, due to new jobs, more economic activities, etc.

- It's easier to rent than to buy so people moving into an area would rent first. Buying takes more commitment so it lags. Rent is a leading indicator of buying.

- As more and more people move in, housing supply can't keep up. Vacancy goes down. 5% is kind of the frictional vacancy barrier. At below 5%, rental market is white hot. Rent would creep up slowly first and then faster.

- The rent vs buy debate would tilt to the buy side.

- With more people in an area, lower vacancy, and ever increasing rent, more people will favor buying.

- House price goes up as a result.

In the last cycle in the SF Bay Area, rent had noticeable increase starting around 95 and 96. House price started going up around 98 after being flat since 89. Rent became white hot around 2000 and 2001. Then crashed at the dotcom bust. But house price kept going up abnormally because of Fed's low interest rate policy until the 2005/2006 bust.
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can you compare to http://instalyrics.com/ ?
not sure if it fits you but there _are_ options to avoid scraping the lyrics sites, e.g. http://musixmatch.com/
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I've reached about all the same conclusions myself, except for the "only work with one client at a time" part. Ideally it would be great, but I've found that design work is often an ongoing process, where you might need to invest tons of hours into designing a home page at one point, and then just spend a couple hours on a widget redesign the next month.

So I need multiple clients just to fill in the gaps when some of them don't need my services that much.

If I applied the "1 client only" rule, it would prevent me from having that flexible long-term relationships with my clients, and I think the quality of my work would suffer from it.
I remember over a decade ago Microsoft was working on a FAT based filesystem backed by one of their database engines.
Apollo was a difficult but reasonably straightforward engineering problem, which made it extremely susceptible to having money and manpower thrown at it. Life extension, and even most more modest medical problems, still lack large areas of basic understanding which makes them much less vulnerable to such mass attacks.
I believe those cops agree to be filmed.
Steve did; he hired Jonathan Ive.
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Bingo. Accreditation-on-demand is the second half of the puzzle.

One interesting solution is that offered by Western Governors University (created by 19 governors of western US states). It's non-profit, online, low-cost, and... "nationally, regionally, NCATE, and CCNE accredited."

They have a low, flat-rate tutition per term, regardless of how many courses or credits you take. Most interesting of all (I think), they mainly care about what you know, not how much time you spend with WGU: if you already know something, you can get "assessed" (e.g. tested) and move through the program faster.

http://www.wgu.edu/about_WGU/WGU_different
Actually, I read his comment as meaning that SPSS was more useful for the sort of "cookbook stat" usually taught in business schools.
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Yes. I've never seen Steve wear a black kilt before. (He's always worn denim kilts.)
I'll go for BB(99) where BB is the Busy Beaver function.

You are outnumbered.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver
Now i'm impressed.. What similar projects are out there?
I may be interested of a tiny computer to do some work on! ;)
Although i am wondering how Ubuntu, Iceweasel and KOffice will run on 128 or 256 MB SDRAM..

What would you run und such a little thing?

I imagine Enlightenment E17 + vim for some development.. now for a browser that doesn't eat memory for breakfast... opera? Certainly not Firefox or Chrome.
Engineered -- planned with a purpose, designed, put together in order to accomplish a goal. In what world is a UI not engineered?
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Great!! I have this idea in my list of ideas as well. I had thought about this for sometime, and will share a few of thoughts.

1. Ownership of the resultant product: If some likes an idea, and builds upon it? who owns the products? Does, the person with the idea owns a part of it? I hope US has first to invent system, that means the person who first runs with that idea, has the most advantage. How do we tackle this?

2. Incentive for the thinker: I'm willing to share ideas that I'm not ready to work on. But, others may find it useful and that may also go on to become a billion dollar business. But, I might like to have something out of it, not money necessarily, may be a recognition that the inception happened in my mind.

3. Business model possibilities: Site can employ intention marketers, which can work with the people with ideas to sell license them on their behalf, which may also be a viable model. Note: Invention marketers, not patent lawyers or market research approaches. Invention marketers only get paid when the idea get licensed.

4. Pairing Geeks and Non-Geeks Service: Since, these you are talking about tech products, the site can pair non-developers with great ideas with great developers to get a prototype or product of the ground. The structure could be like revenue share on the product, this way people with idea doesn't have to invest a lot of money at the beginning, and they will get developers, who believe in the idea, might be a success.

This has great potential IMO, when done right.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag-R_ZlGO21NdE9...

this spread sheet was posted on HN sometime ago. You can have a billion ideas, its more about execution. More than likely if you didn't think of the idea organically or have some passion in the idea, then it really doesn't matter. Even if you're doing for customer dev purposes, its still a hard sell to get people to participate. Look through the spreadsheet i posted here, and really is your app really solving any problem ?
Plus Slashdot seems to be Slashdotted at the moment. Probably all that lively discussion about Opa :)
I really object to that. Alex3917 is one of the most well-informed commenters on here. That he takes unpopular and unconventional positions is cause for admiration, not rude ridicule.

As for the point about yoga, it hardly seems odd to suggest that a system that's been around for thousands of years might retain some connection to its origins.
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I wrote an ebook 2 months ago on Awk called "Awk One-Liners Explained."

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/awk-book/

It teaches Awk through many practical examples, so called one-liners, that are small and short programs that just do one task. Such as joining lines, printing lines matching a pattern, summing up numbers on lines, converting text, etc.

Check it out!
where someone was successfully sued for slander because he pointed out that medical studies indicated certain techniques were ineffective.

Who? When? Where? If you're talking about the Simon Singh case then a) Mr Singh won the cases and b) he wasn't sued for claiming the techniques where ineffective, but for claiming the that BCA was promoting techniques they themselves knew where bogus.

UK libel and slander laws may be fucked, but they're not THAT fucked.
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I wrote an e-book on Awk two months ago:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/awk-book/

It teaches Awk through many practical examples, so called one-liners, that are small and short programs that just do one task. Such as joining lines, printing lines matching a pattern, summing up numbers on lines, converting text, etc.
One change that I do think would be for the better is to replace the names of time zones with explicit references to/from a standard time to make it easier to compare different locations. As it is you have to stop and look up conversions for zones you are not familiar with.
They're destroying the Java ecosystem for casual users and hobby developers, and they do it on purpose. It doesn't affect enterprises and enterprise software development.

It's sad, very sad, but it's the way Oracle works.

They're also destroying Solaris the same way.
real or simulated - I just like the concept and design.
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Based in HK for a long time, spent lots of time working in SG as well and have family there now. We've talked about going back there too.

I like what they've done to push cultural development (something HK never did effectively or seriously). Still a bit too fascist disney, but since we have kids it's pretty fam friendly.

I'd say it's on our list for a short term stay, a couple years maybe. Penang too, which is a slower pace, differnt vibe.
That's the funniest thing I've heard all day. It's like FOX News, only tech fud.
This is such a beautiful little project. The more advanced hardware gets, the more kids (and people interested in learning) lose sense of the raw elements. Cool idea raspberry pi.
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If there's 50 qualified candidates, then about 3 hours. They will just scan them, and pick the student who's work seems the best fit / highest quality / whatever.

If there's 49 useless candidates, and 1 good one, a similar amount of time. It doesn't take long to spot a sub-par paper, especially if the students have an incentive to be very clear about what they have done.
That's a good point. I think it might have to do with their ownership by Salesforce.

Speaking of Rails, I have been a little disappointed with Rails 3.1... we've had various technical problems with the release candidates, and they've been late in getting to an official release.
Fun fact: If Intel wanted to, they could release a 10 GHz Pentium 4 design CPU. But it would be single-core and draw 500W, and require a many-thousands-of-dollars cooling system.

Intel was quite correct in predicting that we would continue to get faster transistors, and the Pentium 4 was absolutely the right design to take advantage of faster transistors. The story of the past decade of CPU architecture is all about heat becoming a primary design problem for the first time in history.