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What does lead you to believe that cryonics give you a second chance? It simply doesn't add up. It needs so many breakthroughs that you'd better get mummified; at least you'd have a reasonable chance for your corpse to stay available for some significant length of time.
This guy is really cool, he has proved it time and again.
When I first started using Chrome, the awesomebar is probably what I missed most from Firefox. On Firefox, I type a partial keyword or two, and pages from history show up which are very relevant. Do the same on Chrome, and I usually have to finish a list of keywords to search Google in order to get to the page I'm thinking of.

I ended up changing my address bar behavior on Chrome, but when I ran Firefox again for a while, I relearned my old behaviors by chance just by trying to search for stuff via the address bar, and instead finding the awesomebar offer what I was looking for with less effort. Once you get used to it, it really is inferior to how Chrome's address bar works. That said, Chrome has lots going for it as well.
If only this gets integrated with the windows phone, I will be so happy. With the FB chat integration I have already dropped my sms plan as most of my messaging is now via FB. If I get skype, I will go on bare minimum voice plan too.
Predominantly it is.
SoupIce, you may have been hellbanned.
I'm also using an X220 and Linux, without problems. Debian Sid. Everything seems to work, no lockups (not using compositing though). Nice laptop.
The big issue here is the application type. This only works well for a very particular type of application. That is, a highly dynamic site that is NOT dependent on user logins.

1) If the site is only moderately dynamic, you can just use plain Nginx and set fastcgi_cache to a few minutes or hours. Much less load on the server. I like to keep things simple, I wouldn't even bother with Apache. Porting rewrites to Nginx is super simple.

2) If the site is customised on a per-user basis, 'microcaching' will break the site and have disastrous consequences. Every user will see the system customised for whichever user primed the cache.

My primary website is user based. That means this 'microcaching' concept wont work at all. It would be catastrophic.

That's where Varnish comes in with ESI. I really wish I didn't have to use Varnish. It's slower than Nginx, it adds another layer of complexity, and in testing, it seems slightly flaky. But what Varnish+ESI allows is caching of parts of my page that aren't user specific. I.e. header, footer, etc.

If you want to see my test results of Nginx vs Varnish, see http://todsul.com/nginx-varnish
Somebody teach him how to preorder.
Skype now part of Microsoft, a new division headed by Skype CEO Tony Bates
What people in India and China are really thinking
This is great because it means google voice is going to be free for years.
DennisRitchie = NULL;
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I would store the reservation date and truck length as separate data objects in the batch layer. You would tie them together with the reservation id. It isn't a big deal to do those joins since the batch system is good at that kind of large-scale computation and you've already accepted high latency in the batch layer.

I wrote an article about graph schemas on the batch layer here:
http://nathanmarz.com/blog/thrift-graphs-strong-flexible-sch...

The realtime db only accounts for the last few hours of data. Unless you're doing a query that only needs the last few hours of data, you need to do a merge between the batch view and the realtime view. We constantly flush old data out of our realtime db so as to keep it small and fast.
Each of these photos deserves its own discussion. 10 years ago I doubt I would have ever seen these photos. Technology is definitely increasing the pace in which the world becomes connected and a lot of the youth in china and india are seeing it transform their lives.
Sure. But if you try to find commonalities amongst all those sub-components and dependencies you find that a great many of them carry back to dmr. Whereas the only comparable commonalities for things such as plastics and whatnot would tend to be scientists working hundreds of years ago.

More so, dmr's work probably has had a more direct impact on the design and construction of the iphone than the inventor of wifi or a particular plastic or what-have-you. Likely any of those inventions would have merely been invented by others. The same cannot necessarily be said for unix and C. We would have something else, certainly, perhaps we would even have something better, but the fact that dmr's imprint still remains on operating systems and languages is rather remarkable.
Preorder? He can probably get it months before public launch if he wants.
Hopefully they will announce a Kinect enabled version of skype soon. That would be a killer application aimed at taking the bite out of Cisco's consumer business.
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An obituary for Dennis Ritchie in The New York Times isn't written for people like you or me.

In addition to hacking, I love flying and aviation -- another area of science and technology totally distorted by the media every time there's an incident of some kind. :)
This was very interesting to me, since I'm looking for an isometric game engine for a project I'll be starting in a few months.

Thoughts- The counter read 218FPS, but it FELT slow. Any action (bring down the drop down menu) took FOREVER.

I signed in with FB, but would not have if I was a consumer. I immediately revoked access, before closing the app. God, this is a bold ("dumb?") move on the engine developer's part. There's no way I'd even consider the engine if this is a real requirement.

Is there no way to zoom in? This seems to be one of the big advantages to this type of game engine, versus a straight-on 2d engine, like Monkey Island.. I should be able to zoom these..

This seems very dedicated to a SimCity type game. What about Diablo, or Fallout style games?

When I had a man standing on a plot by himself, not moving, it still seems to set the rectangle to be dirty. Why? Because he "Could" move? That seems unnecessary.

The CPU on this seems higher than it ought to be on modern HW.

Overall, interesting project, I'll be watching this.
UIUC - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Though I may be biased since it is my alma mater. They have the Technology Entrepreneurship Center, as well as a great Research Park. Most of the startups are more big data focused, or come straight out of R&D projects. They also have the National Center for Supercomputing Applications located there; so all in all great technical resources at your behest. How you utilize them is a completely different part of the equation. Inevitably, startups are more dependent on the founders and their zeal than anything else.
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What, preorder and miss out on all the fun?
Whenever people ask me if they should work at Amazon, I always say maybe in AWS, but never in anything to do with the retail website. I'm glad I did it, I certainly learned a great deal, but whenever a recruiter from Amazon calls these days I just laugh in their face.

Also, when I left two years ago they weren't using AWS for anything internally. S3 got a lot of use, but anything considered essential to keeping the site up had to run on real hardware.

That first month after I quit, it was such an amazing feeling not to have to go on call. I agree, never take a pager unless it's an essential part of your job.
> First off, I never swore, I was referring to the logic part, so please don't swear at me (not cool).

Whether you swore or not, you're defending the comment "fuck Cloudant by association". Don't you think it's hypocritical to back up that type of language when it's directed at others, but criticize it when it's directed at you? You can't have it both ways. Either it's an immature way to conduct a discussion or it's not.

> yet make your case by comparing an individual citizen bound by legal obligations they can't escape without jail time or leaving the country to a corporate partnership made out of free will? Think of comparing the two then think about the names you called me. I'll let you be the judge.

I gave you a short list of offenses you've committed, and you've only attempted to defend yourself against one of them (paying income taxes). Furthermore, your defense is pretty poor: "leaving the country" would be inconvenient. And you don't think it would be inconvenient for companies to refuse to do business with others who have at some point committed an ethics violation?

I'm sorry but your entire position is full of double standards that you can't justify. When you bend over backwards and make the countless sacrifices necessary to live your life without supporting questionable organizations, then you can come back and criticize others for not doing the same.
It took me a while to realise it wasn't a screenshot he was using in the post.
Wozniak first in line to buy iPhone 4s
So who else thinks Richard Branson read this and sees opportunity for Virgin Air?
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They replaced bottled water with a water dispenser that dispenses ambient, cold, and sparkling water. Many engineers still choose to drink ordinary water even with all the flavored options.
Saw your comment about your desire to launch a product with personality. I'd be happy to help (for free) if you want. @BWFeldman
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Tablet PC on the road 
An analyst ever pointed out that at a few days ago, due to the tablet PC main use the flash memory as the store medium. So along with the tablet PC developed into a prevailing rapidly the normal hard ware market’s increasing rate will slow down for this. But here question is whether tablet PC can replace the laptop and desktop.
Very interesting how many Apple products are in their video about the merger - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ByWVVovdDg. I'd imagine plenty of Apple products would naturally be in use on Skype's campus, but seems like Microsoft would have wanted to play up the PC part of the equation, making Windows look essential to Skype's success. Perhaps they're trying to reassure people that Skype will stay cross-platform?
Does it have to be in U.S.? UWaterloo (Canada) has dedicated student residence as a startup incubator http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca/
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Machine learning is hard. Depending on the quality you need, you may need to find an expert. (Also, I'd be surprised if you end up with calculating recommendations in PHP on every page load.)
Ask HN: I'm stuck, should I outsource a part of my project?
I have a project that involves a lot of PHP (which I can handle) and a little bit of actionscript. I know a little bit of AS3, but not enough to complete my project. I've spent the last two weeks figuring it out myself but it has become really frustrating, my time is limited and I can think of better ways to spend it than poundering through AS3 books and internet fora.

My question: should I outsource the actionscript to India/Pakistan/China? It's a relatively straight forward, non-trivial part of my project, so there is no harm in outsourcing. On the other hand, I'm used to keeping matters in my own hand, and outsourcing feels like, well, cheating a bit. Did any of you outsourced stuff like this before? If so, can you recommend someone?
My first job was at a company that I'd say was much, much worse than Amazon. Smaller, no real engineering practices, and they'd just chew through developers paying them as little as possible. Yet they made money!

I was migrating a legacy system to a new platform and we got a call from an irate customer. Apparently, he had just paid us last week but now his account was shut off. The odd thing was, no one I talked to even knew what product he was talking about, or what website he was on. I checked with our payments person, and he had sent us a check, but no one knew what it was for! Eventually I tracked it down to some legacy discontinued product that had been handed off between three successive engineers who left the company, then forgotten.

You don't have to treat your employees well, or even make a good product, to be successful. You just have to get people to give you money.
the only thing that matters with a landing page is how well it converts. You can tweak a design all day long, but are you actually tracking whether people are submitting their email more with this design compared to your last iteration? If it's lower conversion than your last one, it's technically a worse design even if it looks better
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Indeed, only I wouldn't phrase it like that. Maybe "gets out of the way".
Remember Krug's "don't make me think"?
> So let's all wear the same clothes, eat the same foods, engage in the same pastimes, work the same hours, walk at the same speeds, drive the same car.

Yes, clearly restrictions for the space available to apps on a mobile phone is the same as political totalitarianism.

And user space apps not being able to address/change kernel space in Unix is also a major blow to our freedom.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not big on the stuff. But it's no Pascal's Wager either. This is way better than supernatural shit. This is a bad bet, not an impossible bet / illogical argument.
A treehouse spaceship. You know ... for kids.
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Sadly, one of the primary reasons that blips will never re-enter the mainstream.
Apparently pre-ordering was not the issue, as he has already pre-ordered two new iPhones. I think he was just enjoying chatting with fans.

I went by early this afternoon and met him. I got a photo with him, and so did several other people. He could not have been more gracious.
InstaQueue: Photos from iPhone 4S lines (Made in an evening, what do you think?)
I wouldn't be surprised if it gets packaged into windows/office.
http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/640/lightsdebug.png

Go into firebug and set a breakpoint after line 112 in Lights.js and reload the page.

Then when it hits the breakpoint, change LIGHTS.buildRelease=false; in the console.

You have to do it right at that point because it changes other initializations.

It shows a mini-heads-up display with FPS and other info and the console will output what "phase" the demo is at.

Someone very talented wrote this, it would probably take me a year from scratch!

At least listening to this music over and over wouldn't be too bad but at the 1000th time I might go insane.

Looks like it's a coder from the UK, nickname "C4RL05" aka Carlos Ulloa: http://twitter.com/#!/c4rl05
Every non-apple developer and user is required to bend to
the will of the programmers who develop the proprietary
iOS.

How about this:

Every non-developer user is required to bend to the will
of the programmers who develop the OS.

Now tell me, how many of Android users a capable of modifying the OS, and how many of those are willing to.
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Pointing, swiping and pinching is perfectly normal for a 1 year old. It has nothing to do with touhcscreens.
> This general problem is a symptom of a major issue regarding the use of software that does not respect the freedom of its users.

Developers are not users. I don't particularly want my mobile phone to respect the "freedom of its developers". I do want to be sure that no app I install at a whim hogs the disk down, installs spyware or f*ks the phone when I'm in need to make an important call. If I wanted "developer freedom" I'd choose OpenMoko. Strangely, millions of us did not.

> Every non-apple developer and user is required to bend to the will of the programmers who develop the proprietary iOS.

He's only "required" so if he chooses to use iOS. And if he chooses to use iOS, it's because the platform attracted him, and one thing that attracts a lot of people to it it's the "it just works" and "you don't have to manage it".

> Any negative choices or limitations imposed by Apple Inc. are virtually uncircumventable.

Yeah. Except if you jailbreak.

> On the other hand, if users and developers in a community are free to view, modify and share the source code of the operating system and programs they are using, then that creates a dynamic where software cannot remain defective by design, something which cannot be said about Apple's hardware or software.

Yes. Then you get the mighty OpenMoko. Not defective by design. Yay!

> If we were talking about free (as in speech) software, users would have control of their data, and their choice of how to manage it; not some distant programmers working for a corporation's bottom line.

Yes, for a brief time in college I'd quote RMS too. You'll get over it.
I would be interested to see what makes the Asian airlines different... it seems as though flight attendants there are usually younger and quite attractive.
Yes, abstract freedom is great.

Now, how about some real freedom. Like the freedom to choose the mobile OS you want, be it "restricted" iOS or "open" Android, or whatever.
Did Steve and Woz get on in later years?
Out of curiosity, what OS are you using? I'm on OSX Lion and I have found that lately, the quality and reliability of my Skype calls has increased significantly. I haven't had a dropped call or poor voice quality in a long time, whereas problems used to be quite frequent. Of course, it could just be that I've hit a lucky streak or that the problems were more related to my ISP.
Anyone know of an equivalent in Apache?
I think the article exactly explains it's less labor laws and unions?
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> If you have a problem with the hands due to your eyes needing to search... the solution is digital watches.

Yes digital watches do exactly what I want. But why can't there be something like an "analog digital" watch? A watch that is stylish and has the "I could make one of those" thing going for it while still being as effectively readable as a digital one.

The idea I tried to describe in the post (though poorly it seems) is this: Don't make the hands of the watch move but move the dial below. This way your eyes won't have to do searching because they always know where to look for the hand. Now if you have separate dials for hour and minute you will have exactly two places to look at - and those will never change position - like with a digital watch.
Well yeah, but the point is developers will start moving it out of the Documents folder.
A social network that is great but which lacks users... it reminds me of Radio Yerevan jokes :) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Yerevan)
I thought it was a great article to be honest. It laid out clearly in layman's terms what he contributed to the world, their impact, and his legacy. It also gave us a brief but non-intrusive outline of his family situation, which most of the technical bloggers ignored.
Interesting experiment. I don't agree with comments on BI that this was forced, manipulative and therefore inaccurate. I just spent 6 months living in India and man, I've never met an Indian who wasn't ready to talk and share their opinions, which is a great thing. I too think people are the same all over. Just different levels of liberalism, self-awareness, world knowledge, spiritualism, etc. That doesn't means places are the same. Compared to living in New York, Sydney or Toronto, the big cities of India are a sensory overdose. Love it.
Can you give some specific examples of bugs stemming from mismanagement of mutable state? Some examples on bugs resulted from the failure to coordinate state changes or poorly-designed state changes? And how the immutable data solve the problems?
Also don't forget that many people in world still (for whatever reason) don't have unlimited data plans. So if everything that get's downloaded also gets uploaded back to iCloud, then you've effectively halved their bandwidth quota.
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Deleting your places.sqlite file is the easiest, but the worst way of defragmenting it. The easiest (if you're using btrfs) is to run:

`btrfs filesystem defragment ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/places.sqlite`

or use ioctl(fd, BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG, NULL).

As far as I know, this can only be done as root. I'm not sure if other filesystems have similar defrag hooks.

So the correct approach is to make this facility accessible from unprivileged userspace.
True, plus both contributed to technology in their own ways and I highly doubt either man cared much about their popularity status. Why can't we just pay homage to their individuality?
Yes, it was somewhat interesting though it does seem to me basically off-topic.

My answer is here, if it's helpful: http://pastebin.com/aPB1v2j9
I used to be worried to see if our generation could live to the challenge of these marvelous and generous engineers who not only hacked code together but made organizations like the EFF, legal hacks like the GPL. And I saw wikileaks, bitcoin, Telecomix, saw that people are looking deeper than the web's surface. It restored my trust, and humbled me into trying to sharpen my skills.
There's a lot of "Coming Soon" sites out there. So I don't sign up for that reason. I figure if it's any good then I'll hear about it again when they're up and running.

Also, the tag line.

"GROOOVY LETS YOU MEET NEW FRIENDS COMFORTABLY AT YOUR OWN PACE."

I'm not sure what it is you have.

Hope this helps.
Looks like even 4π² steradian solid angle, not just 360°. Very cool stuff.
For a second, I thought you were referencing our app - http://www.tiki-toki.com !
They don't seem to be paying these people anything. Seems a tad exploitative, cult like, and possibly illegal?

First rule of working is you get paid.
The infographics data is deceptive.

1.8 Billion Minutes of Video calls (All people minutes on skype for year);
916 hours of movies made per year (movies made by production house);
9 years of average time spent on watching TV (Time spent by a single consumer)

How these things are related are beyond my understanding. It looks like somehow the 1.8 Billion had to be made appear bigger , so they put some filler data along with it.
Is there a citation for this figure?
I thought about incorporating Varnish into my side-project as well. However, Varnish seems to be a [potential] hassle when you account for VCL, ESI, and etc. It also adds an extra layer or indirection and complexity as you've mentioned.

With regards to caching user specific parts of your page, have you considered template caching [1, 2]? This way you can apply different caching policies to different parts of your pages w/o using varnish and ESI.

With that said, why would one choose Varnish + ESI (or reverse proxy in other words) over template caching + memcached/redis/riak? Can someone explain the pro's and con's of both approaches?

[1] http://www.makotemplates.org/docs/caching.html
[2] http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/extensions/