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I think you should forward this inquiry to Ted Dziuba for consideration.
Everything old is new again ... the original NeXT systems shipped with a standard Motorola 68030 or 040 CPU, AND, added to the system was a DSP.
>In fact, I'd pay to have something like this for some of my family members once they pass.

You can do this manually via book creation services like picaboo.com; that's what my family did for my grandma after she died last year.
And why do you think reducing frequency of all trades to 1 second would eliminate HFT ? the term high frequency would simply mean 1 second. But what it would do is drastically reduce liquidity in the market place, which would hurt small investors and not the HFT.
Wow, great job at parsing out my intentionally sneaky statement. I appreciate the reference to oratorical sleight of hand, I've never been awarded that honor.

If you can reach that logical summary based on my comment that I trust a hungry founder over a sitting-comfortably founder, then we don't have much to talk about.

BTW, I'm not a fan of the VC crowd -- I'm a fan of the early-stage employee crowd. The one who loses out in this conversation about 99% of the time.

Conversation over.
When doing community work, I created a system to graphically represent asset maps. Learn more here: http://bit.ly/pz5WfI If this could be standardized with dropdown menus and connected to Google Docs, people could create asset maps that communicate a lot of info in a small space that can be easily understood. I got a start, but didn't have the technical know-how to make it simpler. The details are here: http://bit.ly/q5sGrK

TL;DR: A picture could quickly demonstrate a person's assets, needs, contact info, and an image to quickly identify with that person (like a photo, logo or spirit animal or whatever) and these could be filled out on blackboard or paper or online and then translated into a database.

contact me for more info: realistic.optimist@gmail.com
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The Mafia has little to do with it, as far as I can tell. It's Berlusconi and company, and while they may have some ties to the Mafia, it's certainly not a direct command/control type of thing. I would respectfully submit that you're writing something that is quite inaccurate due to little knowledge of the actual situation in Italy.

That's not to belay the gravity of the situation and the general mess that Italy's politics are in, but to lay the whole thing at the feet of the Mafia is simply barking up the wrong tree.
This is interesting because when Jobs left the computer industry, a large part of his life there enjoyed little specialisation. I remember reading folklore.org where Steve was hanging around when Hertzfeld, Burrell Smith and the like wirewrapped their Mac prototypes.

Now, Jobs has brought even more technical capability in-house, figuring that he had never needed to have the technical knowhow himself, but what he needs is ability to manage people, and recruit the best and then give them the opportunity to do something beyond what they would have been capable of on their own.
> Turns out, packaging systems already did that and have better dependency analysis.

The one thing that keeps me from wanting to switch entirely to apt for deployment is its insane insistence that multiple versions of the same package may not be installed at once. This is (usually) fine for user-level stuff, but there are lots of legitimate reasons to want to keep multiple versions installed in a deployment situation.
The general principle is that taxing A will cause there to be less of A, and subsidizing B will cause there to be more of B.

Why not harness this principle? What do we want less of? Can we agree that we all want less pollution?

How about putting a tax on pollution?
Stocks should only be allowed to trade at the speed that value is created or lost. The stock market is a human institution, (supposedly) designed to measure value of human businesses.

Trading in microseconds is ridiculous.

Trades should be in human time - essentially, minutes and hours, not seconds and microseconds. Business value does not change that quickly. HFT is representative of a financial industry set on creating ever more abstract tools and products that are more akin to gambling than representing the value of the actual business. The stock market needs to return to it's roots. There's been enough chaos already.
PHP has only one feature going for it: it already exists. As soon as you introduce a new programming language, you lose what PHP has to offer. Another success is the lack of a library culture -- just copy-and-paste code into your app, and you never have to worry about installing dependencies on your shared host.

If you want a better version of PHP, try Perl / Python / Ruby. If you want a language that can check your code for safety at compile-time, use Haskell. But if you invent your own language, it will have three problem: nobody will know how to use it, it won't be installed on any three-dollars-a-month shared host, and it won't have any libraries.

If you can't solve the "I want to use it for $3 a month" problem, your programming language is a failure compared to PHP. If you can afford more than $3 a month for hosting, then you're not using PHP anyway. Most people learn to program because they want to share something with their friends. They choose PHP because it lets them do that, and they don't have the experience to know that They Are Doing It Wrong. By the time you introduce a PHP "reboot", you're not going to get that "Don't Know That I'm Doing It Wrong" crowd anymore, and then who's your audience?

Writing a new programming language is fun, but don't expect it to replace PHP. That's going to be impossible unless your rewrite is shipped from php.net and replaces what exists now.
Yeah there are much better ways to optimize this, check out http://www.sunsetlakesoftware.com/2011/05/08/enhancing-molec...

This technique should work for WebGL too.
Isn't the point of Puppet to have an idempotent declarative language. And can't it execute arbitrary programs?

Yes and no. The main argument against puppet's dedicated DSL is that it's dedicated. I.e. you'll spend a lot of time learning a complex language for the sole purpose of running puppet. You cannot transfer that knowledge to anything else and unless managing puppet is your only job you'll frequently have to re-read the documentation to recall the more exotic idiosyncrasies.

It's a love/hate-thing really. In puppet you can express many things much more cleanly and elegantly than in chef. Other things you can't express at all or require you to resort to terrible hacks.

In chef-cookbooks you rarely need to resort to hacks. But at the cost of the chef-infrastructure itself being a pretty terrible hack...
I've been using puppet recently, one thing I wish for is an easier way to pull in other puppet's users modules. I've looked at puppetforge some but I balk at actually downloading the files to run locally. Is chef better in this regard?
Even pacifists will prepare for war to have peace.
The problem with this game is that you can only move the inside letters. Which means that the default tracking (often crappy) of the sample words can't be changed. In other words, you're polishing a turd.
Being able to do something like install Apache with modphp in one go and then just put a file into the correct directory and have it execute code is without a doubt the most low barrier way to get started. Other languages are catching up though, but taking a different route (e.g. hosted platforms like Heroku).
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> In fact, you should be using Puppet or Chef even if you're
> just one guy with just one server to manage.
>
> If you need to replace the box with faster hardware, for
> example, just run Puppet on the new box, and it will (if
> you have done your job properly) become identical to the
> new one.

If you've done your job right with the shell script, the same will be true. The problem is that if you have more than N nodes, "doing the job right" becomes more difficult. However N is quite obviously greater than one.
Is Android half cooked product?
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My guess is that it was the change in performance that improved the # of pageviews as the correlation between the two has been well documented at this point.
Writing a programming language in this day and age and posting about it on HN is like visiting each denomination of your favorite religion and announcing that you're starting a new cult. Personally, I think it's a lot of fun, just don't expect a positive or welcoming reaction. Best of luck to you.
Dammit, it should be "Fewer Distractions". Sorry, that's my peeve.
It's a little naive to believe governments don't do this kind of thing (software surveillance), don't you think? Even if they "shouldn't".
another gripe was the fact that the "backdoor within a backdoor" functionality (which AFAIK was ruled unlawful by German courts) is the only part of the trojan that tries to hide what it does.
TechCrunch Disrupt Champion Shaker Raises $15 Million
Whoa, another interesting stuff. Thanks for explanation!
Can you go into a bit more detail about setting up nodes without something like Chef/Puppet?

What tools do you end up using? Some sort of custom apt repository plus some shell scripts? What does it look like?
Humans do make decisions in milliseconds.
Did you read the page you posted?

The external USB device:-

>Contains an installation of Mac OS X 10.4.5 or later, or Mac OS X 10.5 or later, which is compatible with (or shipped with) the Mac that the USB device is connected to.

That's not Linux. Linux will not work with that method. Don't take my word for it; try it yourself, or ask Apple, or have a quick search of the "support" communities. See, for an example, this question on stack exchange: (http://superuser.com/q/27794/93703)

Here are some people having trouble, and not getting much help (but lousy "support" is common to many distributions) - (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1266303?start=0&tst...) (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2579995?start=0&tst...) (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1723157?start=0&tst...)

You've still failed to understand the problem, and to provide a working fix.
Thanks for the quick response, and thanks for adding the note to the documentation.

(As to the quicklisp version being a bit stale, it looks like the last CFFI tagged release is 13 months old. I updated my above post to point to the official git repository.)
How about participating in the movement and guiding folks towards using RSS for distributed and decentralized news suggestion?

Dave Winer:

occupyweb.org

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/10/03/relyingOnFacebookTwi...

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/10/09/bootsOnTheGround.htm...
But it does the job :)

Which at the end of the day is the most common benchmark of utility.
Indeed. Ever owned a European car? Heard of Bosch?

Ever owned a Japanese car? Heard of (Nippon-)Denso?

You would be astonished how many bits of a car is subcontracted. What the auto manufacturer typically focuses on is engine design (at the mechanical level), chassis design and suspension topology. Most things that "bolt on" are made by somebody else.
Great prizes to win...
Are you suffering from ADHD?
If yes then what copying mechanism you use to cope with attention deficit?
> Is this style common in Haskell Web development?

Not at all; the author is quite obviously inexperienced in using Haskell, and is using some weird old crufty library to create HTML.

The two most common template libraries are Heist[1] and Hamlet[2]. Heist uses Rails/Django-style external template files, while Hamlet embeds markup directly into the Haskell source code using quasiquotation.

[1] http://snapframework.com/docs/tutorials/heist

[2] http://www.yesodweb.com/book/templates

Even if one wanted to represent markup as Haskell types, there's no reason it needs to be as ugly as in that example. A really basic version might be:

div [("id", "gallery")] $ do
div [("class", "screenshots")] mzero
ul [] $ do
li [] $ do
a [("href", "view.fcgi?file=" ++ first)] mzero
Aviary's feather application uses HTML5 to allow embedded image editing. This is a good visioning tool whereby people can draw out their visions and submit them. The tool is very simple and easy to use, even by those who are not at all tech savvy, and it requires no download of software.

possible applications:
proposing camp layout design ideas
proposing march routes
proposing flyer and poster ideas
showing where cops are gathering during a protest (map overlay)
showing where people are hurt during a protest (map overlay)
Also, "getLastSixImages" should be obvious to any experienced functional programmer as something which is begging for a higher-order function.
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Occupy Wall Street is about student debt
Will Intel finally have some real competition?
Yes, but, radio listening hours? Probably the under-30 demographic only listens to the radio under duress. My knowledge of this is anecdotal only, but other than w/r/t exceptional cases (NPR, highly curated college stations), there's perceived generally to be near zero incentive to listen to the radio by everyone in my peer group or behind my peer group in generational terms (I'm thirty). On the other hand, those same people seem more or less wedded to other forms of consumption (digital music players, pandora, etc). Listening when exercising, listening in the car, listening when appropriate at work, listening while cooking dinner, listening during coitus, etc. etc.
I've been looking for some developers interested in building an application to assist them in their process. Centralized messaging, city based messages, support requests, and an unfiltered news source etc. Mostly just RSS Aggregates, Push Messaging notifications. Rails / HTML / jQuery / Java

I've spoke to 4 or 5 head Occupy Leaders about this idea and they are interested as could bring some real-time centralization of the movement. This would be a profitless project, donations past server costs would go back into occupy movements. Contact me me@scott-mcleod.com
I (with advice from co-workers) decided against chef for two main reasons: Dependencies and complexity of implementation, and gut instinct from reading the literature. So I'm not surprised to see that it can be a little shaky.

I also looked at cfengine3, and I liked the language, although I am not a fan of the "promise/promiser" terminology, the concept is consistently applied and as a result the language grammar is much simpler than puppet's. It basically came down to not being able to really choose between puppet and cfengine3 without actually trying them, and since I cared less about identifying the optimal tool than just getting stuff done I selected puppet arbitrarily.

I rejected bcfg2 mainly because it seemed very server-oriented and although there was documentation for setting up the system there wasn't a lot of documentation about how to actually configure systems. I've revisited bcfg2 lately and the situation doesn't seem to have improved much. (eg I can't find a decent reference for the configuration language anywhere online. There's no equivalent to that puppet page that lists all the data types.) I also think the choice for XML as the configuration language is suboptimal but I could probably work with it.

So we went with puppet, and although I left the position several months later (for unrelated reasons) we were already hitting some of those issues you mentioned.

Incidentally, you don't even need the daemon to run puppet, so long as you're willing apply your own security model and distribution method (rsync over ssh, etc/).
I just posted a task on TaskRabbit for it because I am also clueless on where to buy physical magazines anymore :(
Not surprised at this getting negged, nor at nobody actually writing why.
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I at first thought it meant the Perl team tried to do a reboot of PHP. But what you said makes more sense.
Thank you, especially for your notes on aio_. As promised, I sent you something by email, but know that your comment is worth more than that.

Fast scrolling in large buffers (especially complex XML files opened in nxml-mode)

I think nxml-where.el is guilty for the slow scrolling in large xml files. I wanted to offload that to another thread, but a simpler solution is to only update the path post-scroll.
I had a programmer friend of mine help build http://OccupyCalendar.org - it is a first start, if it catches on, could use help in developing it.

Also - IT on the ground is helpful and people who understand electrical needs.
I would argue that Puppet is also not suited to configuration management.
What's the "Occupy movement", exactly? Is it really a protest against the wealthiest 1 percent? That seems really counterproductive, since most of the wealth possessed by that group was created by that group, i.e. it didn't exist 50 years ago. Unless you can prove they stole that wealth, or you can prove that government policies had nothing to do with our current economic condition, helping this "movement" is a complete waste of time.

Malaria and hunger kill millions annually. Education in the U.S. continues to decline. Cancer, obesity, drugs, crime, etc. Why don't you take a stab at those problems first? Or get rich people to be more like Bill Gates rather than have a statist thug force them to fork over more of their legally and peacefully obtained property?
Show HN: We made a self-categorizing image board
> quite obviously inexperienced in using Haskell

I'm using Haskell for only four months now, I'd be worried if it weren't obvious.

Besides, it's not as bad as it looks.

+++ just concatenates two HTML fragments

<< puts something under a HTML element

the ! [...] defines attributes for a HTML element

Pretty clear, but I guess to each his own.
and selecting the last six images in one query, instead of this six times:

SELECT name FROM images WHERE number = ((SELECT max(number) FROM images) - 1
> If you're looking for a role model of a technical founder he'd be my pick.

That's a good choice. Still, you might want to avoid some of the PR choices he has made.

I think it's kind of shame that Woz gets as much mainstream media attention as he does, especially surrounding his relationship with Kathy Griffin. In many people's eyes he's just grabbing fame by latching himself onto Steve Jobs. I think he would have gained less publicity but more respect if he stepped out of the limelight a little more often.

I don't mean to be overly critical, because there are advantages to the choices he's made, but it's worth understanding why Woz doesn't get all the respect he deserves.
I'm interested to know why someone would not recommend CM (or atleast not recommend puppet/chef). I think despite its faults, I've seen that many problems become non-issues when you are using puppet. OTOH, I've seen organizations struggle for months(or for ever) with what could have been a simple solution with puppet.

Could it be you made the wrong design decisions both times? Sometimes, people try to do complex things in puppet, when they should using puppet just to push out that cronjob or init script, or rpm/apt package to handle the complexity.

Can you give more details like how many serves you have? Do you have a complex combination of hardware(physical + virtual) and operating system platforms?

Do you have a complex combination of apps on these platforms? Did you use the "environments" feature of puppet/chef? (Environments are totally broken in puppet) Did you use Dashboard/Foreman or Grill(chef only) and did that make things easier?

Did you migrate from the "hairball nest of Bash and Perl that holds your data center together" or did you build your infra from scratch with puppet/chef?
Well, I believe it would work seamlessly if it's just a code-translator like coffescript.
From a complete outsider's point of view, it sounds as if the state of the art SCM tools are at the pre-2005 level of VCS tools. Chef and Puppet are the SCM equivalents of CVS or Subversion. The Git/Mercurial equivalents (in terms of power) have yet to appear. Does this analogy make sense?
I write code on Wall St. I don't make millions. Am I part of the greedy 1%? The world is not as black and white as you think.
Could you give more information? It's pretty empty and I don't even know what it's supposed to do.
So small investors did significantly worse in the market prior to the advent of HFT? That should be easy to test.
Steve Jobs' full 31 minute 1996 Fresh Air interview
So the screen you see upon loading at the tags associated with the most recent posts that people have made. If you create a post you self-tag it using the #tag method. Choose a tag to explore all posts under that category. Posts without any #tag in them get assigned noTag
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He was one of the initial people to offer funding to the founders apparently.
This is certainly true, but innovators are stymied in good old California as well. Try tackling a serious problem, such as finance, and you'll find that your innovation breaks a recently passed law. That won't stop someone in Shanghai from copying your work, though.

http://www.1jton.com = http://www.facecash.com

So who's innovating now?
Full interview audio available on linked page. Topics:

- NeXT WebObjects and dynamic web programming

- Visit to Xerox PARC

- Difference of Apple from other companies

- NeXT lessons learned

- First computer Jobs used

- Meeting Woz and starting Apple

- Being ousted from Apple

- Apple's current (1996) problems

- Work/life balance

- Pixar

etc.
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[1] http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Poe
> There's too much syntax.

Actually there's very little syntax in that snippet. all those scary +++, <<, etc. are just functions and you can look at how they're implemented, ask GHCi what their type is, etc.

But I agree that doesn't make the code above any less readable :)
Your site seems to contradict the mission statement listed in the techcrunch post and your description

I don't like the idea that you've put two Google ads on there. Considering there are no costs (domain name or hosting) associated and none of the content is yours.

It just feels like you're trying to make a quick buck over the attention on the story, correct me if i'm wrong.
Curiosity, not to be argumentative:

What are some examples of things are really elegant to express in Puppet? What are some examples of things that you had to resort to terrible hacks for?

Please use personal, concrete examples, if you don't mind.

I've only got a couple of boxes to manage, but reading through the docs for the big three configuration management systems, I really was confused about the need for most of the stuff in the tutorials. I'd also be interested in concrete examples of where shell-scripts fail so badly.
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There is an easy fix though, allow them to use low/ no tax years to offset the gain amount. Anyone using it as a big wage will still be in the same tax bracket as usual.
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