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RSS has been my preferred interface to HN, news sites, and blogs for years.

Having to go to websites to get the same information is so cumbersome, primitive, and time consuming in comparison.

I don't really care about the "charisma" of websites. I'm much more interested in just getting the information they have to offer in the most efficient way possible. I couldn't consume nearly as much information efficiently without something like RSS.
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Why does it need a vacuum?
Right, there is indeed a mode switch to read/write from/to the tcp buffer or accept a connection. Luckily mode switches are not context switches - which are typically massively more expensive - as only one thread is ever involved.

Hellepoll uses 'epoll' which is the Linux equivalent of kqueue. Kqueue is said to be marginally faster still, and I look forward to Hellepoll using kqueue when running on FreeBSD. Epoll/kqueue absolutely affect accept rate incidentally, so its an exercise to the reader to work out why ;)

Hellepoll does use the fanciest features of epoll like 'edge triggering' which is perhaps one of the things making it nudge ahead of Java's NIO-based webservers (as NIO is lowest-common-denominator and lacks ET).

Finally, Hellepoll is really writing meaningful bytes, and it even flushes them in keep-alive connections (obviously; think how it would ever work otherwise?).

So I think, on balance, Hellepoll is the real thing and not just measuring how quickly a big backlog on a listening socket can fill up ;)

On Linux, I've found the new 'perf timechart' a lot of fun.
Do you generally have normal blood pressure readings?

I continue to have blood pressure issues, but in the early days when it was less controlled one of my symptoms was that I was extremely warm blooded.

Now the my BP has been lowered somewhat, I find that I generally feel cooler and am more sensitive to cold environments.
Correct you are! I've updated the article with a fixed version of this formula.

This version should in fact rank the 5 for 5 guy slightly lower than the 100 for 100 guy. It's still not perfect but I believe it does its job in theory.

Thank you for pointing that out. :)
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I saw a very similar bug with my Motorola Cliq (which eventually, half-heartedly got updates) using the stock T-Mobile ROMs and Cyanogen Mod. Though I didn't track it down to that specific case I actually tended to use it while charging pretty heavily. Not sure if they're using the same hardware for part of the touchscreen, the S definitely had higher-end hw in general.
> I find it increasingly bizarre, day by day, that people are so fixated on money and not value, or meaningfulness.

...or happiness.

I recently read "Stumbling on Happiness" which had an interesting discussion on the fact that there are several studies that show that pay raises up to around $45k per year result in an increase in happiness. But after that, an increases in salary brings only a marginal increase in happiness, if that.

So the question he raised is that if one doesn't receive additional happiness from earning more than $45k, what is the reason for doing so? Most other human actions are geared towards happiness. It really got me thinking about the subject.
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does this mean that FLAC will soon be irrelevant ?

Today a lot of high-fidelity audio players support FLAC as the default lossless format. This kinda meant that that iPods and these players lived in different universes as far as lossless is concerned.

If the release of this codec means that h/w manufacturers are able to incorporate this codec into their silicon (I'm not sure if the open source license extends to hardware), then effectively there is no real reason to use or support FLAC anymore (minor differences in quality nonwithstanding).

Anybody know which codec is more power efficient ?
I noticed the article talked about dogs cooling through their feet. I used to work in a hot office, and the best solution to cooling down was to take my shoes off and have a fan under the desk.

Luckily, I shower every day, and my feet don't generally sweat or smell too badly.
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But would they even be in the startup scene if it weren't for the profits? The chance at being the next x or y and making enough money to retire in luxury before the age of 30 is a nontrivial motivator when considering creating a startup. Looking at certain startups it's patently obvious that helping humanity was not a primary concern.
or Yuri Milner http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/yuri-milner-house-r...
It may or may not be done. Samsung products tend to support codecs that vanilla Android does not support. As of 2.3.7 (latest published source), it is not in the source tree.
I don't quite believe that. Look at periods of history where high taxes on wealth have led to a drastic decrease in entrepreneurship activity. I think the dream of becoming wealthy is what does drive people initially, however, (not through experience but from what I've learned from others) once wealthy the pursuit of earning more money does not become the motivation - although I did work for someone who had sold a previous company for a lot of money who went against this.

It seems you do need that initial dream to be about wealth in order to get some people to reach for success.
Start with a foot-bath. Probably just as effective if you are not commercializing it, and it would leave your hands free.
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They're not saying "income taxes should be raised" but "income taxes should be raised for people like us", that is, other people who also have enough income to last multiple lifetimes. I really don't see what your point is.
The idea's nice (though it'll take approximately forever for anything akin to this to land here in Finland).

I was annoyed by the quality of the copy here though... no one ran it through any sort of spell check? http://getpunchd.com/img/june/tour/moneymoney.jpg
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But if you try to become a billionaire, you'll be more likely to become a millionaire.
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The spoken language is different, but yeah:

Most people who do well find something they love. Then they convince their friends to do it with them. If it solves a big problem, they might even get rich in the process.
If a huge provider goes bust, someone will come along who can restore it.

Besides, what's the difficulty? E-mail - restore via IMAP. Contacts - vcard. Photo galleries - photos and munge some metadata.
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Doesn't the black square in the corner of the screen tell you this? or maybe that doesn't exist any more.
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Have we collectively forgotten the time when journalists went to jail rather than reveal their sources, and publishers didn't waiver in their support?

However understandable Google's position may be, fighting the law is not an "absurdly high standard". Sometimes it's simply the right thing to do.

This "obey the law, obey the government" attitude is a post-9/11 thing we really need to get over.
So you give this response whenever anyone advocates raising taxes? And in that way they are eventually ratcheted to zero, or nearly so? And did you truly literally parse 'believes he and Buffet should be taxed more', rather than realize it meant the more reasonable 'believes people at his and Buffet's wealth and income levels should be taxed more'?

I guess what I'm getting at is: are you really this pedantic, or just stupid?
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Interesting. The article appears to be from 2005. I wonder what has happened the last six years.
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(http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/copiale-cipher-cra...)

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>To break the Copiale Cipher, Knight and colleagues Beáta Megyesi and Christiane Schaefer of Uppsala University in Sweden tracked down the original manuscript, which was found in the East Berlin Academy after the Cold War and is now in a private collection. They then transcribed a machine-readable version of the text, using a computer program created by Knight to help quantify the co-occurrences of certain symbols and other patterns.

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>The “Copiale Cipher” is a 105 pages manuscript containing all in all around 75 000 characters. Beautifully bound in green and gold brocade paper, written on high quality paper with two different watermarks, the manuscript can be dated back to 1760-1780. Apart from what is obviously an owner's mark (“Philipp 1866”) and a note in the end of the last page (“Copiales 3”), the manuscript is completely encoded. The cipher employed consists of 90 different characters, comprising all from Roman and Greek letters, to diacritics and abstract symbols. Catchwords (preview fragments) of one to three or four characters are written at the bottom of left–hand pages.
I think it is a really neat idea, and certainly couldn't do any harm.

It is targeted to solve a specific problem that DOES occur on HN. Not necessarily every single day, but often enough that it would be nice to have a countermeasure.

I do think that implicit honeypots are the way to go, rather than explicit.
I think of the chaos monkey more like a baseball umpire: perhaps whenever your movie doesn't stop to buffer, you might thank the chaos monkey.
> Earlier today, I actually bought vinyl because I couldn't find a lossless digital version of this track anywhere

Two things strike me as astonishing. The first is that anyone remains unconvinced that vinyl has any redeeming technical aspects whatsoever, other than the touchy-feely emotional stuff, and self-deception.

The second is that the music you referenced is so unashamedly digital, that the notion of purchasing it on a vinyl record is like buying a copy of Angry Birds printed on tree bark.

A 256 kbps AAC file (as sold by iTunes) is so very nearly transparent, only a small fraction of 1 percent of people would be able to identify the vanishingly minute differences. The difference is so small, it would be comprehensively outweighed by meaningful factors such as your choice of speakers, the shape of your room, and the presence of any ambient noise.

Whereas vinyl has crackle (unless you're playing a pristine copy in a dust-free environment), clicks, pops, rumble, wow distortion, and intentionally limited dynamic and tonal range. Fidelity progressively reduces as you move to the inner grooves, and high frequencies are literally scratched away as the stylus scrapes past -- every time you play a vinyl, it will sound poorer than the last. You can mitigate some of these problems, but generally at great effort or expense.

Of course, to make that music useful, you'll need to rip it back into your computer. You'd have to be mentally ill to believe that a [Lossless > AAC-256 > Lossless] conversion is more detrimental than [Lossless > equalisation > analogue mastering > lathe cutting > vinyl stamping > stylus scraping > pre-amplification > ADC > Lossless].
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And yet the most major popular MP3 player on the market can't play FLAC, which will probably mean it will remain as obscure as it is now (i.e., mostly used among audiophiles).
An order of magnitude more are doing an order of mangnitude even more fine without this.
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If you want to access photo files with meta data and/or implement your own photo picking UI, then you need location access permission. If you use Apple provided photo picker (with has it's limitations) and you just want to get picture without meta data in the file, you don't need location access permission.
Controversy. It is definitely a tried and true publicity method. Whenever someone creates some, I sing it like the prince song and then move on with my life.
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The finished product will likely be something that can automate photo taking and a laptop.

The amount of money DARPA pays to get the know-how has no connection at all to the price of the finished product.
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Because, currently, there isn't any way to friend/unfriend anyone through the app. We use your FB social graph to get your connections. By allowing you to go through some other method, twitter, for instance (or just regular old email/password), you wouldn't be able to interact with other people. Granted, you can still SMS/email/tweet your link and have people view your photos, but there would be large parts of the app that would be perpetually empty for you.

It's not to say that FB will be the one and only way to access Batch forever and always, but, for now, in its current state, it makes for a better user experience (I feel, at least) if we do only allow FB logins.

(Disclaimer: While I work for Batch/Dailybooth, the opinions expressed here are my own and are not necessarily the opinions of the company.)
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Eh. Anyone who piled up a hunk of savings and invested it in the 2000s saw it get decimated or hemimated and took a hit against happiness. Taking more vacation or a fun lower paying job might well have been higher utility.

But yeah, having a savings cushion while unemployment is rampant is satisfying.
Columbia finally released their proposal: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/pdf/data-institute-executive...
I'm like that too, but the occasional transferring does require a lot of steps: I (1) dig out my phone cable, (2) plug it in, (3) wait for my phone to sync while waiting for iPhoto to launch, (4) wait for the photos to import, (5) export the photos, (6) open Facebook and find the spot for uploading an album, (7) wait for Facebook's latest iteration of their bulk-uploading widget to load, (8) and then upload the photos. (I know I could theoretically use wireless sync and iCloud to cut a couple steps, but user inertia is a powerful force.)

I don't mind my process because I want my photos backed up in iPhoto anyway, and I find it useful to rearrange the photos once they're on Facebook, etc., but I can see Batch being pleasant for other people who upload lots of event photos and would prefer a simpler process.
Not really. Flac is lossles, and based on what the grandparent said a better format.

So, store your music in flac and convert as needed.
I'm worried that this would lead to groupthink.
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Heard about this one from my friend - just a flat-out awesome game with a level editor included. As an app developer I have to admit it's hard to swallow, but the hard truth is that the most effective and sure-fire way to make a lot of money on the app store is to make your app absolutely excellent.
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Ahh...that makes sense...was wondering how comes Google was charging.

Was about to say...wow...I think that would be the first time I have ever seen Google charge explicitly for a SaaS service like this. Aside from Ad-powered things of course.
The idea is neat. Concerning the terminology, it might be more appropriate to call it a honeytoken ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeytoken ) than a honeypot.
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You can just plug numbers into the function and plot them by hand.

Or you can type the function into http://www.wolframalpha.com/ and it will show you the graph.
Strange that even he still thinks of money as nothing more than a means to buy things. Maybe that's because he really only ever ran the one company, and so never really became personally acquainted with its other uses. Certainly though among his fiscal peers though? So that's strange...

Wealth is inextricably tied to power. Everyone knows this, or has heard it, but I guess many often don't reason about what it means? Gates seems to be saying that there isn't a big difference between being worth 60 million and being worth 60 billion, because hamburgers taste the same, after all. That's all well and good if wealth is all about buying things, which it basically is for about 99,999 out of 100,000 people at least, but for that one person it definitely isn't. Someone worth 60 billion is at least 1000x more powerful and has 1000x greater impact in how he goes about wielding his power than the person worth 60 million. He is in many respects equivalent to 1000 people worth 60 million each, doing their thing, and perhaps more so since he can more easily strive toward a purpose or calling in a way that 1000 people couldn't, with committees and whatever else. So he's completely wrong about that (although he's the billionaire and I'm certainly not, so perhaps I should just defer to his judgment :-)

Which sort of brings up the other thing he said, which is that absolute poverty relative to historical values is decreasing, especially in the developing world at the moment, and that there are a few very rich and well-connected individuals isn't such a problem, to the extent that they don't corrupt the political system. But of course they do corrupt the political system. The entire problem with massively unequal distribution of wealth isn't that you get to live in a nice house on the water while for whatever reason someone else has to live in a one-room flat. It is decidedly not about jealousy and envy. This is what critics of the OWS movement do not seem to understand. We're trying to have a democracy, so have all the wealth that you want, but if your wealth begins to subvert that democracy, well then we have to do something about that.

I'm sure he gets this based on things he's said in other talks, and he's an honest enough guy I think (now, anyway), so maybe he just wanted to avoid making a complicated, and currently rather politically charged, point.
I don't see any problem. The article is talking about ranking up voters and flaggers, not submitters, so you could continue with your submissions and not be penalized.
Or there's a vendor side to the app - which displays the QR code on the screen of an ipad or iphone. Can change as often as you like, even every time!
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> if I use an MP3 or AAC in a remix, then compress my remix using a lossy codec like AAC or MP3, the result will sound like crap

Or far more likely, it won't sound like crap.

> trying to re-compress to JPEG: you usually get artifacts.

This argument is akin to suggesting that a very very very minimally JPEG compressed screenshot of a website is inferior to plonking a film camera in front of your LCD and exposing a frame. After all, big analogue artefacts don't matter nearly as much.

The reality is, AAC at 256kbps is such a light touch that it could probably survive four or five rounds of offset re-encoding before the artefacts would compound meaningfully.
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Irrelevant is a strong word, and I very much doubt it. The only reason for making this open source was for devices to be able to support this more. However FLAC has been open source for quite a while - consequently most device makers willing to make the effort to support loss-less audio codec already did so with FLAC. Support for ALAC will mostly come for these devices. Conversely, I see no reason for any device to support ALAC and not FLAC.

According to Wikipedia, FLAC is more efficient in encoding/decoding speeds - with same compression ratio. This translates to it being more power efficient.

Lastly this news will matter to only a few audiophiles who are also Apple geeks.

Making something open source is a welcome gesture, but I hope Apple will do this for other items which will have better reaching consequences.
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The link I posted is for a Google issue that was marked as Released. Hopefully we'll see it in there when the ICS source code is released.
If that's the case, it reminds of Enigma, and how the allies were sending spy teams trying to steal an enigma, while they already had one.... Hmmm....
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That's right, I haven't been there for years either, but money was never discussed there. Simpler times I guess. Maybe a person should go bac to see what it's like?
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