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Actually, this may be a good thing if the experiments turn out to be correct. There has been a lot of difficulty integrating gravity into the current theories to get a Grand Unified Theory/TOE. Maybe this will make physicists think about other novel ideas.
See my comment above for the stuff<T> issue.

As for std::stuff, in earlier versions we wrote std.stuff, but it actually hurt readability (not to mention complicated typechecking), since '.' is also used for record field projection and object method invocation. In the MLs it's not so bad because module names have to begin with a capital letter, but we tried to avoid making case significant.
inches vs centimetres. damn those units.
Really like the idea of using the scientific method to come up with a business plan. Keeps steps defined and eliminates some of the terror of developing a plan that will do justice to a product...
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Good post. </sarcasm>
Better to spend your time petitioning for campaign finance and term limits - our only hope is getting enough people in office who are smart enough to do the right technical thing and who aren't reliant on the industries they are responsible for regulating.
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equipment miscalibration, not failure. unless i'm misreading it, the results of these experiments show consistent FTL speeds across 3 years.
WPReviewSite is responsible for about 1/2 my income in the first year I became a full-time affiliate. Thanks for making that :)
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You'd be surprised how much overhead our reference counting has. 10% of the time of rustc, last I measured, was spent adjusting reference counts.
I have been working in QA for a few years now and have made several observations.

* The people who are good at QA usually have the skills to work as a developer. QA is generally not as desirable as development to a young developer, so why do it?

* Many QA people are almost completely useless and exist just to generate paperwork so that the company can cover its ass. Warning signs for bad QA people seem to be certifications and fear of anything that does not strictly adhere to classic waterfall development. The bulk of all defects are found by a small number of people on my team.

* Most developers are horrible at testing and writing unit tests. We have thousands of unit tests and the main thing that they catch is that someone did not update the test after refactoring code.
At some point the preponderance of evidence is such that is the authorities' responsibility to prove their side of the case.

http://blog.motorists.org/6-cities-that-were-caught-shorteni...
It does indeed work that way in Rust. It's also intended that the GC be able to yield in the green thread sense as well, so it doesn't even lock up a core.
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I would say that it's difficult to assert this in a scientific way. Or better: magic thinking, religion and other sources can be input as well and produce scientific outcomes.
Own. Given the speed with which you can test new ideas on the platform, i don't see why anyone would want to work on the cheap making apps for others.
I know what CPS is. But Dan states that "CPS is more efficient than growable stacks", and I can't see how CPS plays a nontrivial part in the stack size optimization.
I was at MIT when Jerry taught adventures in symbolic programming. pretty fucking awesome class. Also he offers you darjeeling tea if you go to his office. very nice tea.
I was dragging onto the grey area, i think the 'canvas-like' div should have a min-height even if it contains nothing. What do you think?
So, write a proper one, and submit it to HN.
Great job though..
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If somebody else is creating a petition that is coherent and gramatically correct and I will sign it immediately. A petition like this will never be taken seriously and this one actually makes the arument that software is patentable in the first sentence. I would do it but this site states that creating a similar petition will lessen the possiblity of receiving an official response so I don't want to duplicate work somebody else is already doing.
In case anyone cares, the new Color app is here.
Linus is in no way representative of the average developer, nor are most people on HN. Most of the developers in the industry are barely competent.
I don't know what XMPP server we are using. I was not the one that set that up. I only have access to all of the FreeBSD/Linux machines in the company, someone else gets the pleasure (or should I say displeasure) of managing all of the Windows server infrastructure (AD, File servers, stuff like that), including where our XMPP service is being run because it requires AD access. Upsides and downsides to being the only developer in the company that knows Unix...

We have a gitorious server that also has a jenkins account (jenkins connects over SSH). It is running within a VMWare Virtual Machine with access to 4 cores running at 2.4 Ghz, and 14 GB's of ram. Whenever jenkins notices a change in git (using polling, every 5 minutes, set up for now, eventually I'll get around to doing push notifications of some sort ...) it pulls down the latest source code, and starts up the Google Android emulator (basically qemu for the ARM platform with the devices as an Android phone would have them), once that is started up it compiles the source code (java) and using adb installs it on the phone, runs the test suite, and reports any errors back, Jenkins then shuts down the emulator.

It isn't extremely fast, starting up the emulator takes about 50 seconds or so, and I am trying to get a faster server to use as a jenkins build slave, but for now it works wonderfully. Everything I mentioned is completely managed by jenkins.
That trial court verdict is extremely anomalous (I say as a lawyer from the same state) and is being appealed.

http://www.minnpost.com/braublog/2011/03/14/26584/johnny_nor...

http://minnlawyer.com/jdr/2011/03/21/is-the-special-verdict-...

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2011/06/06/johnny-northsid...

http://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/index.php?i=12002

http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2011/60000-ruling-against-tr...
eBay is the wrong place to sell websites--very high noise and low quality. Look at Flippa instead: http://flippa.com
Bingo. Armstrong and many of the other old Apollo-era astronauts are emotionally invested in manned space-flight. I think he romanticizes it to the point of being immune to arguments of cost-effectiveness.
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The server implementations are significantly more difficult than the client implementations. And the client implementations aren't easy.

Among other problems:

* Need an SSL key, which means self-signing, $$, or a monthly update to keep your free key current
* Implementing SPDY server-push means explicit dependency lists you currently don't keep
* The protocol is young and has changed multiple times
* It's binary and hard to test -- it's not always clear where a problem lives

Add up those and "oh, my site is fast enough for what I'm doing" and you get a recipe for no good free server implementations.

Presumably some larger companies are working on it, but they have to justify that (substantial) effort for improvements only the Chrome portion of their userbase ever see.

So at least Firefox supporting SPDY will put more pressure on companies to support it.
Smalltalk/Seaside is a brilliant environment. Being able to debug a web application back end while it's running is really handy.

Having said that, this article has a bizarre name. There was nearly no comparison of anything. The guy actually likes and uses both systems.
I agree. What was I drunk? If someone can create a petition with coherent grammar, I fully support moving to that one. And I'll send feedback asking them to remove mine.

I've already begged them for editing ability, but I doubt we'll see that any time soon.
Yes I know what you mean. I think execution without motivation is a job. I have never had a job before. :D
I've never been inspired to do programming from a video more than when watching Sussman doing the HP SICP lectures with Hal Abelson. You can feel him barely contain his enthusiasm for the subject. Truly infectious and all you need to get a boost in order to plough into the next chapter of SICP :-)

I'd love to see Gerry Sussman's talk from Strangeloop this year, does anyone know if a video is likely to be available at some point?
How good are you at isolating and repeating bugs. That would be valuable. Most of my "bugs" are intentional, but I got this one...

Pretty pointless.

I don't think about CottonTail(robot milling machibne) or Simstructure. I boot LoseThos maybe 15 minutes a day or less, now.

The fuck is God's problem... lemme see... tune in toyko.

God says...
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Tempted to join the developer preview just so I can do that before everyone else can see it. ;)
Impressive! Its a great idea and a very functional and helpful site. If you break 1,7 M monthly visits, I'd call that a success. :)
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>the odds some unknown neutrino beam source appeared in direct opposition to the one you knew about are very slim. //

Look any direction in the night sky. Do you see a star. The odds of not seeing a star in the direction you're looking are far greater than the odds that you don't have neutrinos coming from that direction.

You can't shield against neutrinos, you can't currently detect a neutrinos position at two points in spacetime. Haven't yet read the details about this if they repeated several times with the same result then it looks interesting - have you a link to their paper (to save me looking!) thanks.

My first thought was that I wonder if this might be a simple case of super-luminal group velocities or something similar.
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We should talk. I am going to head over to fleaflicker and try to find a contact email. :)
Have you ever tried to send bulk e-mail? Even if you're doing everything right with double-opt-in, watching your sender scores, managing your bounce-backs, etc, etc, etc, you will get banned by some major e-mail provider (say Yahoo or Comcast) and spend days to weeks (sometimes months) working to get it sorted out. So, no, I don't disagree with the e-mail thing at all.
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I count Babbio, Banerji, Gupta, Hammergreen, Livermore, Renier, Thompson and Whitman which make eight.
Grew organically and was featured on some media outlets (PCMag, HuffPost, LifeHacker, etc) as a result.
For the most part I agree with you. I will say that I have met those in QA over the years that may or may not have been good developers, but were phenomenal testers and truly enjoyed their work. They loved being able to break things (seriously), but they also were great at being able to document how to recreate issues and explaining it to the developers.

Sadly, those people are not as common as they should be. There's honestly a huge market opportunity for high quality testers and it's not something that requires years of training. Heck, maybe we can solve the unemployment problem by just convincing companies to care more about quality software! ... probably not, though.
Clarification: Silverlight may be dead as a web-based runtime, which would be great, in my opinion. Take Flash and Java applets with you.

However, Silverlight's underlying technologies are still alive and well. Not much consolation to MSNBC programmers or whoever, who develop interactive Silverlight websites, but hey at least their skills directly translate into Windows/Windows Phone.
Possibly, but it's best to not get excited over results are this surprising. At least until someone else can duplicate them :-P
You may not have read the entire article, but he clearly explains that their tech stack is FreeBSD + Erlang not Linux + Erlang.

There is no /proc/net/tcp on FreeBSD. Hell, there is no /proc unless it is specifically mounted by the administrator, but tools certainly don't use it to get data.
well, i'm goingt to travel southamerica (i'm from europe) with girlfriend, kid, mac (and a thrieving consulting business) for 8 months - starting in two months. so it's possible, i's just that you have to be extra tough (this and no drinking, as your child wakes up too soon)
/proc/net/tcp doesn't exist on FreeBSD...
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"To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt."
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In Go, there's much larger overhead for GC.

Russ Cox says in [2] (see link in my first comment above): We used gopprof to study an inefficient Go program and then to improve its performance by an order of magnitude and to reduce its memory usage by a factor of six. A subsequent comparison with an equivalently optimized C++ program shows that Go can be competitive with C++ when programmers are careful about how much garbage is generated by inner loops.

They got a speedup about order of magnitude by improving memory management in the inner loops. So 10% of time for refcounting isn't that much. 90% of time for GC is much worse.

Especially if it is a stop-the-world GC on 12-core server system. One core collects garbage, 11 cores just cool off.
I was one of the first appstore millionaires via my app Trism... I wrote it in my offhours before the appstore launched. Story here -> http://bit.ly/psyMBf

Lots to say on the subject. Press is disorienting. Friends do change. Noone can tell you what the value of your idea is. Best thing you can do with your time in the spotlight is make good connections and learn the importance of good relationships.
Not everyone wants children, and for those who do, traveling the world might be a better learning experience than sitting in a classroom. If homeschooling is an option at home, I don't see why it couldn't be an option abroad. I would love for my kids (when I have them) to be able to learn about England while living there, or learn about art while visiting museums across Europe.
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You can't edit something that people have already signed, for obvious reasons.

The best you could do is to delete it and start again. 2nd best, and probably the only option available to you, is to ignore this petition, stop promoting it, and start a new one.
Yep - I'd definitely pay for a stylish hardware icalc keypad over a whole calculator. Im studying mech engineering. So it needs to be more than just a numeric keyboard - a scientific calc layout with brackets, exponents, logs and trig functions at a minimum. I guess the ultimate would be e-ink keys that you could relabel, but it wouldn't be too bad to use the screen for rarely used functions and just have a sensible set nicely laid out in hardware.
Inter-subject variability is a huge problem in this kind of work.

As you say, they're operating at a much larger scale than individual cells (100k-1m cells in each voxel). Likewise, some early visual processing areas are broadly organized kind of like big, noisy bitmaps on the surface of the brain.

But for sophisticated machine learning-style analyses like these, the gross differences in representation and morphology (especially at higher processing levels in the brain) make it very hard to pool the data across multiple people. That's why they're preferring to use many sessions from a small number of participants rather than a single session from many participants (the standard approach).

[I worked on applying machine learning methods to fMRI for my PhD]
The concept behind tachyons is that whilst particles can't approach the speed of light they can be faster than the speed of light and not break relativistic equations (they couldn't then slow to the speed of light either). Similarly with time reversal.

Personally I think this is cool but probably also just difficult (if not impossible) to falsify and so hasn't yet been restricted. When you apply a mathematical model it's like applying a metaphor [so meta!], it has a limit at which it breaks down but that limit isn't always obvious and sometimes at the edges things look tantalisingly like they might work.
We grew our e-commerce business with extremely limited resources, as well. You'll need to be more specific about what aspects of your business you're having a difficult time with for me to be able to comprehensively answer your question.

You can start by disclosing your URL so that HN can critique things that may be negatively impact conversion rates.
I'm amused by the amount of "funny money" that gets passed around at these institutions. Departments charge each other for this and that, but it all eventually comes out of the same pool. (Yes, I understand the cost accounting aspects here, and no, I don't have a more efficient system that balances incentives well. It's still amusing.)

As a doctoral student, I'm getting charged out-of-state tuition, but it's all paid for by the university. I've been in-state for long enough now (and bought a house!) that I could get the resident rate, but since I don't pay it, it doesn't matter.
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I think timeline addresses some common needs and desires- personal reflection, recording your experiences, bonding over shared experiences. The profile and news feed have always seemed tailored to a certain type of content- what's happened recently. But it never really seemed important and the profile doesn't help you know someone. It feels like timeline lowers the virtual barrier between participants in online communication and lets them express themselves in a meaningful way. It feels like a departure from frivolity.

Of course, I have only seen the pitch at f8 but I haven't used the product yet so right now I think exactly what Facebook wants me to think :)
People in Vietnam pay everything by cash. And they love US products. So I integrated my online bookstore w/ Amazon, enabling the Vietnamese to search and buy any book on Amazon in VND (aka the Dong). It is not a lot of money but its very fulfilling seeing my Amazon account and the books people order. Plus it enables me to travel. I m in NYC now but will go to Vietnam in winter. Surf is up in that part of the world :)
Just watched the tail part of it.
I have no clue what they were saying 99% of the time.... but they sure seem thorough as fuck
Why don't we work together to come up with language for a new one? Then once we've settled on good language someone can enter it into the system and we can all go sign it.
Ask HN: Would you find optional Python static type checking useful?
I'm currently working on a static type checking tool for Python (code is on [github](https://github.com/jruberg/pyty), though it's still at a very rudimentary stage) as an undergraduate thesis project. The goal is to run the tool separately (like Pylint) to verify whether your code typechecks (or how it fails to).

I'm curious how useful enthusiastic Python users would find this. According to Guido's [blog](http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=85551) [posts](http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=86641), optional static typing was often requested, at least 7 years ago. Today, in the startup world, it seems like Python is always touted for the flexibility dynamic typing provides, so I'm curious what the current demand is (if any) among the HN crowd.
Except that it's faster, more secure and less prone to bugs caused by poor implementations of comet and other long polling techniques.

The non-geeks do notice. They notice when things don't work on their iPads. They'll notice as security and TLS become a larger and larger focus, and mobile users should appreciate the lower header overhead.
Not the first interesting tell-all by Numair: http://public.numair.com/2006_parker.html
There was a brouhaha in the last couple of years ago at some municipality where the state passed a law saying that all the money that the police seized was to go to the local school, but some police departments were refusing to hand the money over. I seem to recall that the police managed to win the dispute.

EDIT: Found the original source. Apparently I misremembered several things, but the point is intact in that the police found a way to avoid turning over the money as the law required.
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That's worth the price of admission alone. Sounds like fun!
Not 'proof'. 'Evidence'. 'Data'. Not 'proof'.
Possible explanations:

- The iPhone 5 will be a quad-core XP processor.

- The iPhone 6 will be a quad-core XP processor.

- The iPad 3 will be a quad-core XP processor.

- The iPad 4 will be a quad-core XP processor.

- The next MacBook Air will be a quad-core XP processor.

- All or some of the next-generation Apple devices will have a quad-core processor of some sort and Apple is using these in the prototyping stage.

I don't think this is particularly telling as much as it's an obvious evolution of Apple's products. Sorry.
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Yeah, I wish the numbers didn't matter. I love that Chrome auto updates and I never see an extension update dialog box pop up. I love that I don't have to hack XPI zips to change the manifest to allow installation (the instructions for getting Firefox to ignore version checks are no longer accurate for the latest version).

I think they're working on the new extension framework to allow reboot-less installs, etc, but their extension developers aren't adopting them quickly enough.
Here's a take on the book and movie from Daryl Morey, GM of the Houston Rockets, who's attributed for the most part in bring sabermetrics to the NBA:

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7001767/moneyball-housto...

Mark Cuban owns the Dallas Maverick and is heavily into data analysis as well: http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/state-of-sabermetr...

It's a lot more interesting (and complex) in basketball than baseball in my opinion because it's more of a fluid sport where the actions of a player will directly affect those of the other nine.

Also I can't get over the fact that a movie about data will be shown this weekend in almost 4,000 theaters and will star one of the biggest movie stars in the world!
yep that was at the HackFWD event in Berlin ;) I think it was 30M installations and 35M searches per month, very impressive.
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That's not an appropriate analogy at all. Sony isn't a bank. The financial stuff is incidental to the actual service they were providing.
I used to run a QA department for a large e-commerce company and love what this article has to say. Nothing gets executive attention like putting a dollar value on downtime (like $1k per minute on a slow day).
No, I don't have absolute certainty, but there have been studies on its economic impact: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Budget#Economic_impact_of_...