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I totally disagree. The old social functions were totally opaque, irrational, and hard to control.

The new system allows you to share with select groups, or publicly, in a very granular way.

Just because you got used to an old, broken way of doing things doesn't mean that it was better. I can't believe the amount of collective bitching about this long-overdue overhaul.
Good post, its important to know what you want and what is important. When I first started talking to VC partners I discovered that they were like any sort of relationship, and like those relationships if they have something that annoys you now, its only going to get worse. So ask yourself early on if you can deal with that.
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Contrary to most people here, I really like the new layout. I'm trying to move to web-apps for most of my daily needs, and I specifically decided that the old Google Reader wasn't good enough.

This feels much more like a native app, rather than something that 1999 forgot. Form may not equal function, but it sure influences function.
Instead of not sending an invoice I think it might be smarter to send one and have a line item "Early adopter bonus -$xx". That way once the bonus runs out, it won't be quite as surprising for the user.
I think crazy and amazing is used in an endearing sort of way, too.

> That's right up there with Van Halen's brown-free bowl of M&Ms and Lady Gaga's Cockney-speaking staff.

The second item links here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider_%28theater%29#Notable_rid...

Where there are more people who are pretty good company to be on a list with, like Johnny Cash. If I edited the article to put Richard Stallman on that list, I wonder how long it would last...
Does using Reader now imply a membership in Google+? I am not interested in G+ but I would like to continue using Reader.
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There are 15,257 books in that list so it might not provide quite the catchy insights you may think from the title alone.
If you make a bunch of (highly redundant) small processors, then I don't see why it would be much harder than the clock distribution issues in large processors, which also need to keep all their parts in sync.

Alternately, it's possible to use asynchronous processor design and not worry about clock distribution. The tools aren't really there, but there have been async processors made before, and they work. They handle synchronization with local handshaking, instead of distributing a clock signal everywhere.

Another option is to abandon the cycle-for-cycle lockstep requirements, and just ensure that the synchronization time is bounded, and reasonably low. I know there have been some papers published about using this kind of globally-asynchronous-locally-synchronous architecture for realtime apps.
I swear this is some sort of puzzle...the duplicate listings make it seem dynamically generated.
Where are you getting the data on who uses what?
Disagree; there have been notable people in the FOSS community calling for a new leader of a Free Software movement and referencing stuff like this. I think it was worthwhile for Dave Winer to write this post and state his opinion that this kind of stuff shouldn't get in the way of Richard Stallman pursuing his dreams.
HP CEO Leo Apotheker on what he's learned from RIM's PlayBook: "We will not release a product that isn't perfect."

Talk about celebrity endorsement! Now if only there was a quote from Reed Hastings about spinning off the BBM business..
From the source HTML:

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sources on the Web. -->
The source says the page was created on Jan 14th, 1998 and it was created automatically from hundreds of sources on the web.
You can harden your circuits against EMP, it's just expensive and almost universally unnecessary. Almost.
I think Stallman is fantastic; I couldn't care less about Gruber. I actually found the rider thing oddly fascinating and not at all crazy -- I actually read through the entire thing in a single sitting, but I still laughed involuntarily when I looked at The Stallman Dialogues (the "mock" site):

Friendly conference organizer: I'm happy to have you stay at my house, Mr. Stallman. I hope you find the couch comfortable, I vacuumed all the cat hair off of it. And here, let me get you a fresh set of sheets.
Stallman: Thank you. I like this much more than staying in a hotel.
Friendly conference organizer: Great!
Stallman: It's a bit warm in here, though.
Friendly conference organizer: Is it? I guess I'm used to it.
Stallman: Above 72 fahrenheit (22 centigrade) I find sleeping quite difficult.
Friendly conference organizer: Well... I'll see if I have a fan?
Stallman: If the air is dry, I can stand 23 degrees.
Friendly conference organizer: I don't know if I have a dehumidifier. I'll go grab our fan...
Stallman: Thank you. A strong electric fan blowing on me enables me to sleep.
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Of course! When the !NED pin goes low, duck and cover like it's 1959.

(Fun fact: in a fairly large portion of the blast radius of a nuclear bomb, the main danger for people indoors is falling debris and broken glass from the pressure waves. Duck and cover actually works.)
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Sure. Write a browser plugin that detects and hides YC-related posts.

But must you complain about the food when you're eating for free at PG's potluck?
I'd say it's more like struggling to understand pointers: there's plenty of evidence that beginners struggle with it (e.g. all the monad tutorials), and if you're surprised by that then I'd guess you haven't done much teaching or interviewing. (One of my favorite interview questions requires people to understand escape sequences in a slightly more abstract way than usual, and you'd be surprised.)

In general I find that people do better with concrete examples and struggle with abstract rules. It's not at all obvious to a JavaScript programmer (for example) that asynchronous calls have anything to do with monads, and the designers of mainstream languages have to be very aware of their audience.

So, my question is how extending the type system might be turned into a concrete feature in a "mainstream" language. It's not too often that we need to prove things about red-black trees.
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I don't know why they just didn't try to automatically convert the Readers categories of users into G+ circles, plus a button "not on G+? click here and join".

Google -1 on this one.

(and yeah, the new grey-on-grey style is really bad and depressing.)
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I guess the real answer is treating your computer as a set of audio appliances, and ensuring that your editing appliance can effectively communicate with your DSP appliance. e.g., more stuff like FX Teleport (http://www.fx-max.com/fxt/product.html), RedNet (http://www.focusrite.com/rednet/), AudioPort (http://www.audioimpressions.com/support/faqs/audioport-unive...), etc.
Characterizing the Ruby philosophy as "you are a special snowflake" is, well, starting a flamewar
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Google is big on Java development, so I bet many of their programmers are Eclipse users. (Remember that the prominent way to author Android apps is through an Eclipse plugin.)

I imagine the Dart editor was probably spun off early attempts at writing Eclipse integration, until someone realized they could write a much leaner editor and gain some developer props for focusing on the developer experience first.
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"Mein Kampf" ... really?
They also sell something called the SCS750 which is apparently like a BeagleBoard IN SPAAAACE...

http://www.maxwell.com/products/microelectronics/product.asp...

Datasheet: http://www.maxwell.com/products/microelectronics/docs/SCS750...

Its CPU is in fact triply-redundant, like pjscott was saying. They run in lockstep, and they do some fancy stuff that involves dumping the CPU registers to memory, "scrubbing" the registers and then restoring them. I recommend having a look.

Space is cool. Even when it does have nuclear weapons in it.
If the books average 100 pages and he read a page every 40 seconds, that works out over 2 years of continuous reading for 16 hours per day. So this isn't real.
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I don't think these are "Sergey's Favorite Books", I think this is a meta-list Sergey put together based on the phrase "My Favorite Books"
"Shuttleworth said that power users want to have things just work,"

And yet ...
Of course, you can break into the global top 1% with a mere $34,000 a year.
I've wondered about the following:

The firmware controlling a nuke has to have, at some point, a bit or control register it sets that causes the explosion to go off:

*pKaboom = true;

or something like that. My question is: What is the line of code after that?

*pKaboom = true;
/*NOTREACHED*/

I suspect it's more complicated than that (there's an infinite loop of some kind that keeps retrying the command sequence). I also suspect I will never know, short of some very hush-hush software being open-sourced someday. :)
MongoDB is blazingly fast sometimes. You might try something a little different and find it's 50 times slower.
Going up a level to his main directory you get:

# Extracting Patterns and Relations from the World Wide Web

by Sergey Brin.
We demonstrate a technique for extracting relations from the WWW based on the duality of patterns and relations. We experiment with it by extracting a relations of books. WebDB Workshop at EDBT '98 (postscript).
Perhaps the idea is to disengage delicate circuitry from long potentially antenna like circuits.
Korea too. Many sites in East Asia use java applets and active x nonsense. Kind of ironic since Zen is from Japan and the websites are anything but. Although one block of a Chinese, Korean or Japanese city probably has more neon than all of Las Vegas.
I agree, that is a poor choice to have as the only way to share something. An easy fix would be to add a link on each item as a kind of synonym for the Share button in the G+ bar. That said, the problem is a pretty minor one given the extent of the redesign. I'm rather happy with the new Reader myself.
This is the way I bootstrap with my kids.

How do you guys do it?
I'd say it's just the common amplification style. Some other prefer understatements.
These all seem like serious issues. Why even use Mongo in the first place?
It could be that I just don't know enough about redundant system design, but I'm pretty sure the way Voyager worked was each computer ran independently and identically, and the result of computations was simply compared to the result on the other computers. In other words, you run it like Folding@Home or SETI@Home which send each job to multiple clients. That doesn't seem like a difficult problem to tackle.
Guaranteed to operate in ionizing radiation of 10^12 rad/s. Yikes, that's like 10 billion sieverts/s. Since a dose of something like 10+ sieverts is fatal I'm guessing a human would be turned to a puddle of goo around that much radiation.
Looks really promising. Signed up just now.
How much of that data is collected manually vs. automated tools? (I ask as the author of https://github.com/jpf/domain-profiler/ and someone with a casual interest in such things)
For example, I have Hacker News in my rss feeds. I certainly never read everything or even close to that. As a fellow HN user, surely you are not interested in every article here?
It doesn't do rms any favors, because it makes him look like a weakling.

What's wrong with being a weakling? Some people live in wheelchairs; some people can't do math. It's wrong to target a weakness like that as a means of ridiculing a person, and it's wrong (though effective in most circles) to stigmatize the views by stigmatizing the person.

Richard Stallman is not very socially gifted, and no matter how much he polishes that turd he will never be able to hide his weakness and pass himself off as socially "strong." I identify with Stallman in that people who have a reason to resent me find it very, very easy to despise me for being a little socially out of tune. I'll never be able to perfectly hide it, so people will always find it easy to look down on me if they wish to do so. If you want to make it into a contest of "strength" I would have to mock them for their intelligence, their income, their boring jobs, the fatness of their girlfriends, how small they have to make their worlds to feel big inside them... that doesn't sound very attractive, does it? How much time would you want to spend around people who act that way? You can't win that way, not without becoming what you despise. So I'll stick up for Richard Stallman against those who personally insult him.

What can he do to stop them himself? They don't care what he says; they're doing it because they enjoy it and think that everyone else who matters enjoys it. The only thing that will stop them is knowing that people find their behavior generally repugnant.
R Pi will also have HDMI out. (But yeah its not out yet)
Why shouldn't the FOSS community, to the extent it supports FSF - not allowed to have their say about who leads them and who speaks for them? If there are alternate leaders let them step up and be counted.

Dave Winer can only stand with Stallman. FSF or not, Stallman will continue to speak his mind, and amen to that.
I was going to say the same thing. I took a screenshot and looked at the space. The actual content uses about 80% of the width and 70% of the height of my screen. Ideally, they could've moved a lot of stuff to the sidebar to avoid the four bars you also mention.
It takes talent to write something this confusing. Don't want to see the code they write
We are trying to figure out a way to make people respond online. Say, through email.

We are not spammers. This is in Arc, but written from scratch.
Huh. On the scale from pragmatic idiosyncrasy to simply bizarre, making a string literal expression change the runtime behaviour in that manner is fairly wide towards the bizarre end of the scale.

I think, if anything, requiring it to be in a comment would have been less odd; at least comments imply a sense of "meta"-ness.
I find this kind of reports very encouraging. I think the future of education is professors becoming free agents in a free market. Really, why can a lawyer set up his own firm or a doctor start his own practice and deal with life and death situations but a professor can’t just teach a few calculus courses without being affiliated with a university?
Well, Rossi could very easily be acknowledged by just giving a few grand and a prototype to some independent lab for testing. He hasn't done this, therefore I feel fine dismissing this as a fake.
Ask HN: What deprecating guides are there to minimise problems?
What problems have you encountered when not deprecating or deprecating features after updates? Especially for web applications and databases?

What guides are there for deprecation? I found Java: http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/javadoc/deprecation/deprecation.html

The problems I can think:

+ a 404 when old links point to old locations.

+ Form pages submit old form data instead of new form data.

+ Submitted data tries to go to a database table that doesn't exist.

What's the best way to determine a minimum time for the deprecation? What about public APIs?
Thanks for the detailed response. Do you mind if I email you a couple of questions?
Care to elaborate? We would welcome feedback.
> But, come to think of it, why should any single piece of software not be free?

It's simple: information asymmetry can be very, very profitable. Why should Coca-Cola have the right to keep their formula secret, even though I pay for their product? Because they risk losing money if someone could clone the recipe (you could patent it, but that arguably creates less freedom, not more). Other examples abound. And just because it's possible to make money using "open information" business models doesn't mean you can make the same scale of revenue, or apply a successful model to any particular industry. (Good engineers are expensive.)

I'm completely in favor of all software being open. For that matter, I'm also in favor of a socialist paradise where every human has food, shelter, education and health care. But you can't just wave a wand or declare a mandate; we need new socioeconomic structures, whether by design or through natural emergence. But moral condemnations make very little progress, and as a FOSS spokesman and advocate, that is all Stallman has to offer.
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Hmm, so you wrote a careless typo while describing your "careless" coding? Not to be harsh, but maybe it's a hint?
I doubt the warhead has code to control its activation--more likely it's something like an altitude sensor that controls detonation.
Why are you using an RSS reader (even worse, one that tracks unread counts), then?
I did, sorry that messed up the HN dupe filter. I git three-letter domains much more than ones inspired by sentences :)
Thank you, I'll read it over summer.
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The only thing I can find that points out that this is a google project is the link to the privacy policy at the bottom of the page. Kind of strange.

Also, what's the over under on when Dart becomes a first class language in Chrome?
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So who has been running Google since the last 13 years?
Thank you for your feedback. http://concurrencykit.org/doc/ and http://concurrencykit.org/support.html attempt to elaborate the state Concurrency Kit is in. Could you please be more specific?
Think cruise missile. Some code looks at a map, looks at GPS, looks at altitude and velocity, and decides "Yup, this is the spot."

It's probably a lot more prosaic than I imagine.
RMS himself showed he'd accept some degrees in the evil scale. ie said Android is not really free but a great step in the right direction. He said also it is ok to use non free software, eg Google.

I'm not in his shoes nor in yours but I think there is a scale for proprietary software, ie if you write server side, it is less enslaving than client side, if your product use open formats and allow users to go away with their data, it is better than not, etc.
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I wrote this article almost a year ago as a tribute to my favorite language at the time. (That title now belongs to Clojure.) It feels like if you want to do scientific computing in Ruby, you're met with obstacles at every turn, but with Python, you're greeted with open arms and tested libraries. That could change (and I'm beginning work on a stats library for Ruby), but it will take time. This was partially a call to action to the Ruby community to start thinking about more than Web protocols and NoSQL databases.

For a more thoughtful comparison, feel free to check out my followup posts.
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This has a TI AM3358 sporting a Cortex-A8 and SGX 530, Raspberry Pi has a Broadcom BCM2835 sporting an ARM11 and Broadcom GPU. There's obviously more differences as well, but the better ARM CPU alone could be worth it depending on your purpose (I believe this is the cheapest board featuring a Cortex-A8 thus far)
> 1. writing locks the database. By database I mean the ENTIRE mongodb instance.

That's the showstopper for me. Frankly I'm surprised so many people manage to find uses for Mongo with this restriction.
RMS/GNU played a role. However, they had very little impact on the non-*nix space until prices of development tools had already dropped pretty sharply on DOS and then Windows. (Borland had a lot to do with it.) Tools, especially the pro editions and a lot of add-on libraries, were still a long way from free but the price points were coming down markedly. Ultimately though, I agree it was open source that drove the final nail into dev tools as a standalone business for most purposes.
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So why is this being up voted if it provides little value?
I think if you read the followup article, you'll see it's not flame bait. I'm legitimately trying to foster a discussion here.
OK, mystery solved. I didn't think he could have possibly read quite that many books by his early twenties, especially given that he was doing a bunch of other stuff at the time.

However, yeah, having Mein Kampf on a list entitled "My Favorite Books" is a bit embarrassing.
Since Vatican II, the official Catholic position is that salvation is open to non-believers. Presbyterians, Lutherans, and Anglicans believe similarly. In fact, most protestant denominations believe the same thing. Your opinion is not held by the majority of Christian denominations.

(From Dogmatic Constitution on the Church: "The non-Christian may not be blamed for his ignorance of Christ and his Church; salvation is open to him also.")
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