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The thesis I was talking about is about generated code.

Author of thesis is one of the authors of Blitz++: http://www.oonumerics.org/blitz/

The thesis came from his frustration when seemingly innocent changes provoke significant degradation in performance.
How to get your blog read by grumpy HN folks: don't use a f*cking gray font color.

Too little contrast. Didn't read.
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Looks very nice and aesthetic. Simple to get started, way to go!
It is inaccurate and only shows the tip of the iceberg. I have the Chromium extension FWIW, but I don't trust it at all. It shows me one of my GAE site as a ASP.net site.
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>Ask yourself: is Steve Jobs as classically attractive as Brad Pitt? Who is more accomplished? Isaac Asimov? Donald Knuth?

Depends on how you rate accomplishment. Your average female certainly knows one of those people, perhaps two given recent news. But unless they are big into Sci-Fi or computer science, they have no idea who Asimov and Knuth are.

In the evolutionary struggle to breed, Brad Pitt is the winner here, by a long shot.
are you making many small calls, each of which modifies a small part of a large structure, and clojure is creating a new instance of the large structure each time? that sounds like a pathological case for idiomatic clojure, but i would have thought you could work round it by keeping the data in a more "java like" format without too much pain.

i've been using clojure for numerical processing this last few weeks and have been impressed how well it mixes lazy sequences and vectors. but i haven't had to face a case like you seem to be having.
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This is one of those projects I've always wanted to do myself, but never actually spent the time to get it right. Looks good.
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Game this game can do for hours and requires a large VGA resolution. The Sims then developed and began to be applied to several phones that support this game, of course, with a resolution adapted to the qualifying phone. Now, The Sims into social networking as The Sims Social
It's still here. I think you're on target when you guess that you may have flagged too much. I doubt it's a serious offence - you'll probably get the option to flag back in a little while.
I've heard that there is a detector for excessive flagging. I used also to go the "newest" and flag all the spam, and be a bit aggressive about keeping HN on topic, but I don't any more. There are literally dozens of posts that I see that should be flagged because, in essence, they are content-free. They contain nothing to make you think - really think.

Fluff.

But I don't flag much any more. If you want it back, no doubt you can email PG. Be brief and to the point - he usually responds quickly to sensible requests.
But what will the battery life be? At least when the gaming laptops are big and bulky they also have a huge battery. This thing looks like it'll run out of juice flat in 1 hour.
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sure, it's on gmane - http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.clojure.user/49159
It also looks to have an innovative lawsuit inducing ID. Seems pretty lazy to just anodized a MacBook Pro black, swap the logo and call it a day.
I'm sure they were very honest to their defense and security agency customers. First. Then the rest of the world.
I like that you moved early on it. I was pretty hesitant before jumping in to build Menuito and wish I did it a year earlier, but isn't that often the way :)
Good article. But now I just want to read the second one that doesn't exist yet!
Most files have a last commit message of: Nothing left can be taken away. That pretty much sums up the target for this VM.

Instruction dispatching and malloc handling were discussed here last month in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2722383 (Instruction dispatch is now a switch† instead of chain of if statements, malloc() results are still unchecked.)

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† The switch was slower in my benchmarks last time, I don't have time to check this time.
The last thing the PC gaming community needs right now is another insanely expensive piece of hardware with a gimmick attached. I really cannot see this going anywhere within the community. I'm guessing that those who largely play the PC games that would require such high specs aren't likely to want to play them outside of their homes. Besides you can purchase a comparably spec'd desktop system for a quarter of the price.

Heck, the most popular PC game at the moment (World of Warcraft) can be played on relatively cheap laptops already.
Another general response...

Paul Stadig points out that Clojure actually does lookup (from mostly-immutable sources) in many, many cases, and correctly theorizes that it could benefit by using invokedynamic in those cases. Worth a read.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/clojure/1mr0m-9XLoo/3_-OIFM8...
I didn't realize MacBook Pros had touchscreens on the keyboard...
I have no idea why some think it's a good idea to 'supplement' the browser's built in navigation by overriding yet more of its standard keys. On pressing left arrow, I expect it to behave uniformly, not navigate to some other page. If you insist on doing this, then at least use accesskeys= attribute. Instead I'm left reeling, hands off, staring at my keyboard as if it is an unknown enemy preparing to attack.

Really don't care about presentation (serve your blog in text/plain all I care), but some things are unforgivable. Didn't get reading past the first few lines.

Is it really unfair to assume someone who makes this mistake could not hold any kind of useful, complex, technically valid opinion that would teach me something new?
I understand they say they don't care if there's no market, but I'm curious who's going to buy it. Pro gamers will not care about a trackpad, or dynamic key-screens, as they don't want to spend time looking at the keys when they're looking at the screen. They have everything memorized anyway. But they are the ones who can justify spending ~$3000 on a laptop.
Casual gamers would like these features, but don't spend $2800 on gaming.
Apple's legacy lives on in Razer. Finally, a company not afraid to build a quality product for fear of raising the price.
The drive collective...is expected to store one trillion files — or to put it in Apple terms, two billion hours of MP3 music.

Why does it need to be put in Apple terms? How about we put it in Liquid Audio terms?
He mentioned that the floor was a "diarrhea brown", which I took to mean linoleum or an otherwise hard floor.

While there is nothing to stop you from installing a floating hardwood floor (typical installation is floor > thin foam pad for insulation > click together flooring) on top of carpet, and in lieu of a foam pad, the end result would likely be that the floor would feel "mushy" when walked on.
Lookism is a little silly. Unlike race and gender, looks are something we actively work on. I have a lot of gorgeous women in my life (even if I never compliment them), and I know they take hours each day to make sure they look great. They spend effort in everyting from learning to put on makeup to accent their appearance, to using moisturizers, masks, cleansers, eye cream, lip gloss, to keeping a consistent workout schedules. Really, looks and knowledge are really developed in similar ways. They're not things we can't change.

We're allowed to judge people on intellectual merit as well as physical fitness, so why not on looks? You can work as hard as you want in an academic area or in a sport, and chances are you'll still never be in the top 1%. Likewise, your looks are also rooted in your genetic luck.

Other than stigma, I really see very little difference between academic merit, physical merit, and looks.
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Man, geeks are a tough crowd. I for one applaud their effort to shake things up. You say there's no market for this, well they say they're building it for themselves. I think chances are good there are lots of people out there just like them.
It would be nice to see a link to a sample site in the homepage (the screenshot works... but I want to see it in action). I got the idea, but I want to see how the site could look like without having to create one.
This sort of reads like an advertorial for Intercom. I'm not saying he's wrong, but it would be nice to know the author was in the process of selling me a product before I've read most of the article.
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From your link:

Cloudburst uses a vulnerability in the virtual-machine display functions of VMware Workstation that can be exploited by a specially crafted video file.

and...

However, the Cloudburst exploit currently has certain limitations: it will only succeed on Workstation 6.5.0 or 6.5.1 or the associated Player versions. In addition, the guest and host must be Windows-based, among other requirements, Immunity said in its release notes.
I love the idea of having a touchscreen instead of a touchpad. The possibilities! Just that one aspect of this box seems like highly innovative and hopefully a harbinger of things to come in the PC world.
Look at this gallery of product shots:

http://www.engadget.com/photos/razer-blade-0/

That is Apple's industrial design language. They could have made it look like anything and they chose to ape apple, that's lazy.
Makes sense. That is good advice but as oconnore pointed out that even a VM can be exploited, though I think your solution would work well in the majority of cases. I suppose using a virtual copy of Windows in my OS X wouldn't be 100% safe because of the exploit. I suppose I'll be getting out my old Dell Windows XP machine then to test this out until I am sure it is safe (which I imagine it is but who knows), and if something happens to it then I'll just wipe the drive and re-install Windows. Poison Ivy seems like it would be an awesome tool to know which would be worth my time.
More info from engadget (including lots of pics): http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/26/razer-blade-hands-on-with...
The study was done in only one perspective, wich is adding women to a group of men. In other words, men perform better in the presence of women. Next should be trying to add women to more women, or maybe adding men to a group of women, in order to have a bigger picture about how the collective intelligence works when mixing genders.
A $2800 laptop without an SSD and with a smallish (by current standards) hard drive?
Not to rain on your parade, but in these cases it's hard to make a convincing separation between your looks per se and the cachet in Chine of having a Westerner working for you.
This is a terrible analysis. The author looks at attempted terrorism numbers and concludes that terrorism isn't something that happens all that much. No consideration is given to any determent effect from law enforcement or the possible effectiveness of our anti-terrorism activities. It's entirely possible that the $1tn we've spent has reduced the quantity and effectiveness of terrorist activities. I'm open to data analysis proving or refuting this possibility, but the author doesn't even mention it.

Also,

"...that's sixteen deaths in the U.S. to terrorism in the past ten years. Given the credible estimate that we've spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security (this does not include our many foreign wars), that's $62.5 billion per life saved."

What purpose does this number serve? That's 16 deaths, not 16 people who didn't die. The actual number would be $3,333 per American who is not dead.

I think this man is just upset about the cost of war and mad at Bush. This is a rant, not an analysis.

A contrary analysis could say that in the 10 years up to and including 9/11, we've lost thousands of lives from terrorist activities, and in the 10 years since, we've lost 16 (not including our military). Therefor, our policies have drastically reduced terrorism.

Either argument is ridiculous without thorough analysis and supporting data showing a direct relationship to terrorism levels.
While I respect your work on JRuby, I think you're not being honest about JRuby performance here nor being fair about Clojure's design decisions - they are not hacks.

Clojure supports unboxed math. One big example to why this important - it's possible to implement Clojure's persistent data structures (and new ones) in Clojure itself. They are the very cornerstone of what Clojure is all about and this is a case where unboxed performance makes all the difference in the world.

Persistent data structures are not that relevant to JRuby and thus you don't need to make that design decision.
I've been here much longer than you, don't hide behind the url.
The market will decide for itself what it needs or wants.

I'm glad they have the courage to try this. Outside of Apple, most computer companies stopped innovating a long time ago. They're happy to fight over scraps in a commodity market. HP finally got sick of it and are betting their business on a major shift in strategy.

When it comes down to it, you get what you pay for. With computer taking over more-and-more tasks in our lives, it's worth it to spend a little more on a system that better suits your needs.

But who am I to argue with someone that thinks any advancement in HCI over the ancient keyboard-and-mouse is a "gimmick"?
This is a nice looking laptop. It's expensive, but it's the first of its kind so there's not market price set for it yet.

I hope it's easy for programs to change the look of the multitouch display buttons. It almost bring the Optimus keyboard into the mobile realm!
Depends on what you're doing. It's got a 60Wh battery, so it should last a little less than a macbook pro, so 2 to 7 hours.
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Fewer than dog bites and lightning strikes! http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/08/25/304113/chart-on...
Having a quick video explanation makes it easier for me to explain your product to my audience, so yes, that sometimes works.

As for funding, I sometimes use that as a barometer of how "legitimate" you are. So yeah, if I see Sequoia is investing in you, I will perk up a bit, because I trust their judgement in picking good startups. But it isn't a deal-breaker by any means.
I don't think you need to do (1) and (2). I posted earlier about this. RSA seems to have had a master list of seeds for ALL their customers' devices. They have a "control panel" of some sort which can resync RSA devices.

Hence I'd guess that you only need a binary version of the control panel along with the list of seeds.

The key problem here was that RSA needlessly kept their CUSTOMER's secret seeds.
How much effort is coverage in a major tech blog worth?

Thinking about Moore's Chasam, doesn't coverage in a major tech blog encourage more early adopters that will consume the few startup resources you have before they move on to the next startup covered?

Or...

Is coverage worth it? Do a shockingly strong percentage of early adopters reliably become paying customers or engaged users?

I know the answer to this will be subjective, but in my mind, this is why I've never pushed for coverage in major tech blogs. If they pick something up on their own, that's fine... but I've never been sure if the effort is worth the cost and reward.
I've been a flash/flex guy for a number of years. For however many rough spots it may have the cross platform nature of flash/air is something that shouldn't be ignored.
jQuery 1.6.2 is 94KB minified. Gzip compression is not applicable here because the code being executed is not 31KB, that's just the download size.

The amount of JS that has to be interpreted by the browser does noticeably affect performance. At least in my experience testing and building webapps for mobile phones, over 100KB of JS and many devices start to manifest performance issues. I find it interesting so many people here question JS size affecting performance, when this has been the main focus and selling point of browser development for the last year.

CSS3 animations and gradients are not really feasable for anything but the iPhone at this point. On HTC devices running Android 2.3, just adding a CSS3 gradient to each item in a list slows my scrolling speed significantly and introduces stutters in the scroll, versus using a PNG of the same gradient I'm using CSS for. This is just one example of many, but CSS3 support is very shoddy on devices outside of the latest iPhones.
wow. you can't even man up and use a non-hidden font color? impressive.

plus - i really hope you buy / watch my screencast when it's done... you're REALLY going to hate my voice, and i can't wait to hear what you have to say about it :)
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I love the comments that argue that since a preference for attractive (i.e., symmetrical) faces is hard-wired, we shouldn't try to legislate against it. From what I remember of ev psych, suspicion of individuals who are not of our group/tribe is also hard-wired - I wonder if those same commenters would abolish legal protection based on race.

That said, as a woman in tech, the concept of "erotic capital" resonates with me. I'm wildly ambivalent about it, though - the risk seems to outweigh any potential reward.
Eh. Flash is great for games or cartoons or grooveshark-style sites. It's awful for restaurant webpages, but who cares? Also, people who haven't worked with flash are probably unaware of how much better actionscript is than javascript.
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For a dynamic language to add static types solely to get performance seems like a hack to me. Make the dynamic language fast enough that you don't need static types.

I can appreciate it was an explicit design decision. My calling it a "hack" is to blunt claims that Clojure is faster than equivalent JRuby code, when in actuality the Clojure code is not equivalent. Clojure doing fully boxed math performs similarly to JRuby doing fully boxed math. Apples to apples instead of apples to statically-typed oranges.

That said, I have wanted to do the same in JRuby. I do not have the freedom to make such a decision for Ruby, however, and Matz (Ruby's creator) has said there will never be static types. So...I will continue to work to make dynamic-typed math as fast as possible, and push the JVM to help me as much as it can. I won't hack around it :)
Agreed! Expensive? Sure it is. But I applaud Razor for trying something daring. Given how slim it is, those specs are pretty outrageous.
Agreed, small sample. However ads on the preferences screen of live wallpapers is common practise. Don't see why the results can't be extrapolated unless amount of requests effects inventory served. I'm new to ads - is this true?
Sure, it's very similar to the MBP, but it's not just a paintjob and a sticker - turning the trackpad into a touchscreen and moving it to the side of the keyboard is a big change.
I've seen people confuse "http" with "http:", as in "the 'http:' URI scheme".

The name of the scheme is "http"; "http:" is meaningless.
Their advertisement took a stab at PC gaming vs console gaming and then they release a $2,800 device? This puts it in a different market (one that I don't think is very big).
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Whenever I play a game with a laptop I use a real mouse. Anything else is a bit painful for me. Because of that, as a righty I'd rather have the dynamic buttons on the left side of the keyboard.

Heck, make the whole keyboard dynamic. Then when you're playing a game, instead of an alphanumeric symbol on the key being displayed, the action it's bound to can be displayed.
"The hardest thing was convincing a manufacturing partner to consider our designs," Tan said. "No one wanted to do it. They all said there's no market, it's too expensive, no one wants this. Gamers would want something big, thick, and cheap."

Serious gamers actually flesh out a lot of money on their setups. And I don't know much about any scenes except Starcraft 2, but I know those tournaments give out products from certain companies who sponsor the event as prizes, I could see this computer fitting in that way. SC2 game "casters" have been doing the same thing on their own, and it's normally equipment of this sort of high end pricing.

The question here is can the gamers who build their own custom set-ups piece by piece be convinced to buy this kind of all-in-one package instead?
With respect to your first point: have you had a look at CSS Transforms, specifically the matrix() transform function? You can use Transformie[1] for IE compatibility. Additionally, within a div with position: relative, all child elements can be positioned just like Flash's x,y coordinates. Just apply position: absolute to the child elems and use top: and left: in place of x, y.

[1] http://transformie.com/
You're conflating what [you need | you think I need] with what I actually do need. They are not equivalent. The programming I do daily to make money consumes my non-school time. Plus even before I started classes and was programming professionally, this likely isn't something I wouldve been able to grasp in a reasonable timeframe. See, I'm usually (and happily) the stupidest guy in a room full of programmers. Clearly you're not; good for you. But Internet resources about the internal workings of compilers aren't that great for dumbasses like me.
It looks like a simple purist one color professional notebook. The curves are all different. As a apple zealot you surely see how the Macbook is a whole different league in terms of style and smart-term-that-ends-with-ility (and by that obviously different).
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How many of the previous discussion points / issues have been changed in this release? Just the switch?
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I would definitely consider buying one. Why do people think that high priced, high design PC's can't sell when Apple has been selling exactly this with great success? The PC crowd has been lulled into cheap hardware but not everyone wants that. I typically buy high end Sony Vaio's just because of the sheer elegance of the product. I have raved on here about my Vaio Z, portable "workstation" power in 3 pounds of 13" goodness. I think there is a market for this.
Mine's been gone for weeks, I don't think it comes back unless someone manually returns it.
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When CEO is getting a Bcorp backed with no consense: ReVolt. 
I am unaware of similar cases in history: http://www.couchsurfing.org/news/article/144. This is the first transition to BCorp of a so large non-profit .org. Here some live samples of what is happening: A) http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=572&post=9962697#gpid9962697 B) http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=566&post=9961011#gpid9961011 C) http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/casey/ As a couchsurfer my self, I still do not have a clear picture, if not that some attempts of crowdfunding should have been considered before. For those interested further, some "informative" conferences are now on Fenton's agenda: [http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=572&post=9955285#gpid9955285] Free food :|...