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All these comments are true. But let's not make the similar error to say that correlations are bad.

Sometimes, knowing what caused something is the necessary answer, and for those, a root cause analysis and proper experimental design for validation are important. But sometimes, in business and in life, just knowing that things hang together can be pretty handy.

Correlations are important clues. The entire "recommendation" world, from Amazon's collaborative filtering to Hunch's "everything you might be interested in" are all predicated on correlations.

No argument, saying correlation implies causation is bad. But it's just as bad to say "therefore, correlation is bad". DanielBMarkham's article and this BW.com post both show that it comes down to interpretation of what the data says. It's understanding the limitations of what a number, or a trend, or even a distribution can reveal. It's understanding what regression to the mean actually means, or why we consider a distribution "normal"... and that outliers actually can be profitable.

And it's a recognition that with the democratization of big data, it will get worse before it gets better... but it will get better. 40 years ago, no one ever saw the stock market on the news, or had access to it's ups and downs every second. We now all have a better understanding of stocks (well, ok, that's a bit of a stretch, but you get my drift), and their dangers. Similarly, as we get used to seeing lots more data, and discovering that if you interpret it wrong, bad things happen... well, I expect more folks to ask that next level of questions. Not all, and not much past that... but it will be a start.
I meant irrelevant to the fact that they are talking about it. Obviously, if they mention negative points on the language (and those points are true) it's bad for the language. If it's pure FUD it's also bad, yes.

But even if it's only to spew hate, the fact that so many people talk about it, must mean something. Too much attention for a fringe language...
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The only thing that disappoints me about socket.io is that the client library is 40KB- I'm developing a mobile app and am trying to keep JS memory usage to a minimum (ZeptoJS instead of jQuery, etc) and socket.io's client lib is just so huge.

Is there a stripped down version of it, or some other wrapper library around websockets? I've been playing with just using the native stuff, but the different versions of API implementation are biting me a little.
It's simpler than that. Even the most neutral body will be very much pro its own existence. If Wikipedia views SOPA as an existential threat, it is not inconsistent to oppose it.
http://hntop100.com/

not sure if that's top 100 of all time or the current year.
That would be a great app - but there would be hundreds of MBs of images for one of his books. Not sure if there's a size limit in the app store.
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I looked into doing this for Chocolat a50, but I couldn't figure out how to do it. It's clearly possible to update a single resource without doing a full reload, because the Web Inspector does it.

The iframe idea is interesting. I'm not sure why it would be any less flickery, since it seems equivalent to what we do now: get the -mainFrame and call -loadHTMLString:baseURL: on it.
I read the article and they said they could even put watermarks that human can't see, only machines. Shops are already employing UV lights to check currency so I would imagine they would get something that could check for the invisible watermark.
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Thanks, skizm! The site was designed by @vivianhui (her company is @studiofunction). It was developed by @bgilham from @theworkinggroup. We get quite a few compliments on it!

Oh, and it's purple, not pink. ;)

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>1: Those products are build to run on Googles infrastructure, which you can't have if you're not Google.

Not necessarily. At least with Google Wave [1], Google ensured that they made the necessary modifications to allow users to run Wave servers by themselves. There is at least one provider running wave-in-a-box [2], and there isn't any reason that this provider should be the only one.

>2: Those products don't have customers, they have users. That makes spinning a profitable business off much harder.

Harder yes, but it's still well short of impossible. I was thinking that the Wave Federation Protocol could perhaps be monetized as a shared-editing/collaboration service. It could be positioned as a combination of Sharepoint and chat.

[1] http://googlewavedev.blogspot.com/2010/09/wave-open-source-n...

[2] http://waveinabox.net/
When I was 22, I spent a year living in Frederick, MD, working a mediocre job and doing my best to get down to Washington, DC. He wins.
Support 55.7% + Strongly Support 30.3% = 86%

Oppose 9.9% + Strongly Oppose 4.1% = 14%
That made me start wondering what kind of content should I post to maximize the odds of that.

... But it wouldn't actually work. This isn't exclusive to China -- it's also appearing in India. And this won't go away until wages equalize globally enough to make this kind of things unprofitable. And that won't happen very soon.
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How willing companies are to do it seems to vary. A colleague of mine would jump at the chance to buy his now-defunct project from his former employer, and had lined up some funding to do so, but they don't think they'd make enough money spinning it off to be worth the hassle, so are just sitting on it instead, in case the IP might come in handy at some unknown point in the future.
If you don't want to be mistaken for a rabid OSS zealot, you should be more knowledgable about Mono's license(s) and not fling RMS-poo around.

http://www.mono-project.com/License

The fact that C# programmers can code for multiple platforms thru easier porting makes them more likely to explore OSS options instead of staying solely in Redmonds garden.
> The only reason it "moves along briskly" is because it started with very little…

Release early, release often.
"Miguel de Icaza works for Microsoft"
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" Microsoft has extended Mono developers a patent license for all relevant C#/.NET patents"
FALSE
"anyone who distributes, uses, or distributes binaries compiled with Mono _can and will be sued_."
evidence ? IMHO Java is not so safe either -> Oracle already sued Google for java

With mono you can:
1. move apps made with best tooling on the market (VS + resharper) to a cheaper servers (linux)
2. Make multiplatform mobile apps easy (ios, android)
3. Create linux gui apps easy (gtk-sharp)
Dan Barker, of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, wrote an account of being a Daily Show interview subject:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2010/04/14/behi...

They work hard to get a funny story from their interviews, and correctness isn't the priority.
That's an interesting idea.

Post about Tank Man for China. India is a bit more tricky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India

But in the end it would be unfair to regular citizens of those countries who have about as much control over their governments as the USA citizens do if you aren't a lobbyist or the 1%
Those are pretty solid apps, however I am building something like http://get.harmonyapp.com/ but with a better WYSIWYG editor.
This was tried during the last bubble too. I remember there was also a company based out of the Caribbean which was offering outsourcing services. They had imported as bunch of coders from India/Russia. The added kicker? If you gave them a contract, your trips to the Bahamas (or was it Bermuda?) would be a business expense.... ;-)
I am a half step above a blub, but I've been doing some work in Scala and generally enjoy it. I do, however, think the Scala community needs to have a more convincing reply to the complexity argument than "You aren't smart enough to see its brilliance".

My fear is that if things don't change, Scala will fall into a perl-like situation where it won't be able to shake its reputation and people will reject the language out of hand before taking a look at what it has to offer.
Why apps are not the future
Yes, but MS are behind in the smartphone race and they know it. Right now they'll do anything they can to get more devs on their platform.
Don't worry, I upvoted it to offset your downvote.
could you pliz stop the bull*$#t ? thank you
I see no patent grant that protects users, distributors, or non-Mono/Microsoft developers.

So, again, how does that license protect open source? It is neither GPLv3 or ASLv2, nor will Microsoft stop using patents to attack people.

I'm not sure how I can interpret it any other way. Being sued by Microsoft is something no one wants.
It's not just the Chinese. My spam logs suggest it's also the Russians and Indians in great number and then there's a large gap before reaching the USA and some European countries.

Besides, do you believe you'll never have any valuable users from those places?

IP blocking is proving to be the most successful thing I've got going. I do like to make it forget IPs after a while as they could just be temporary. Most of my IP blocks I apply for a month, it's an entirely arbitrary time period I know.

I did do an experiment and captured all registrations and form submissions for a day and looked at the data. The only pattern that ALL spammers that day could be identified by was their password.

The password was either '0' or '[a-zA-Z0-9]{10}'.

Unfortunately I can't just block those patterns as I have no idea how many real users would be affected by such a thing. Obv' I don't have their passwords and just store hashes, and I don't normally transmit a password except for noscript graceful degradation. So basically... whilst I was pleased to find a pattern it's not one I can implement against without doing something undesirable elsewhere.
First textmate 2, now the higgs boson. Maybe on christmas day we'll find out that P=NP.
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Paper being fibre already has numerous holes for all the gunk to build up in.

Don't go putting currency in your mouth.
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A nice patch to build Emacs (via Homebrew) with native Lion fullscreen support: http://oobaloo.co.uk/cocoa-ified-emacs-fullscreen-in-osx-lio...

Please note that the patch is not mine, so credits to the author.
> Crowd donating is legal. Crowd investing is not; currently, investors must be accredited or qualified.

That's not actually true (otherwise you couldn't do a friends and family round).

The reason a startup generally wants qualified investors is because the non-qualified ones can sue you if you they lose money, so it is in your best interest not to take their money.
Is there a successful (and by that, I mean not entirely useless) DRM system for Linux? I would imagine that MS would not want to provide the source for their DRM component for fear of it being broken.
Mono's VM executes C# bytecode faster than Microsoft's, and Mono's C# compiler produces better bytecode than Microsoft's.

So, yeah, Microsoft is very interested in trying to make their core product faster so they can catch up to other solutions such as native code (C/C++) or Java (C# is still typically much slower than Java).

Oh, and Mono can also compile to AoT binaries, which do not require Mono/.Net installed on the target system, such as being able to target iOS under Apple's anti-VM policy.

Microsoft is very interested in all of these.
From what I understand:

They haven't found the higgs, just large deviations around 126 GeV, which seems might be the higgs boson. EDIT: 116-130 GeV

The most interesting part of the transcript:

14:45 With current data set ATLAS has excluded 112.7-115.5GeV and 131-453GeV (except for 237-251GeV) ATLAS is now competing with LEP's low mass results! There is a large deviation in p0-values at 126GeV. 1.9e-4, or an excess of 3.6sigma (gamma gamma 2.8 has sigma, ZZ* has 2.1, WW* has 1.4sigma)

Updating all other analyses for full data set. We need more data in 2012 in order to confirm if this is the Higgs. 126GeV is a nice mass for the Higgs- it can be probed with lots of modes (gamma gamma, ZZ, WW, bb, tautau).

----AND----

15:34: Two excesses at 119.5GeV and 124GeV. Both excesses seem compatible with a Standard Model Higgs. 95% confident limits include 127-600GeV. Some excess is present in all 5 channels. Statistical significance of 2.6sigma locally and 1.9sigma with Look Elsewhere Effect taken into account.
Wave, or at least something using the same ideas and specs, has been spun into several commerical products.
I find it interesting that the economics of inertia work out in favor of Facebook expending so much effort in improving the performance of a historically technologically poor language like PHP.

Jason Evans is the author of jemalloc (and more). Given all the things he would be capable of applying himself to, it's surprising to see him working on PHP runtime performance (though, the problems are interesting).
If you compare to where the previous generation of solid PLs and infrastructure research/development came from, I think what's missing currently is well-funded industrial research labs where such developers used to be able to park themselves while still releasing their languages/compilers for free, sidestepping the business-model question.

Not all languages came that way, but some of the major ones did: C was Bell Labs, C++ was also Bell Labs, Smalltalk was Xerox PARC. The main contemporary example in that vein is probably Go coming out of Google, though it remains to be seen how mature and widely used it'll get. For compiler projects, V8 coming out of Google and LLVM now being funded by Apple are two examples. Java is an example developed by a company with an eye towards product/monetization rather than as a research project, but is probably these days seen as a cautionary tale of why not to approach PLs as a business opportunity, because Sun pretty convincingly failed to monetize it.
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Am I the only one on HN who thinks this is a bad idea? I can only see this going one of two ways:

- Minimally regulated so that it is easy to get money, but then full of scams.

- Heavily regulated so that it is hard to get money, which makes it not much better than the current system.

I'd love to see smaller investors able to invest in startups, but it just seems like a bad idea to let any old person invest.

Can someone convince me I'm wrong?
No, but we're getting there. So far it can sort of do nano bindings :) (only in internal builds).
How is that different from any other OSS project? If MS wants, they could look at a projects source code and decide that they've violated a patent and sue them. To my knowledge they're yet to do this.
Has anyone worked out where new bundles created within TM2 get saved to though? It's not obvious to me...
I was thinking the same. I would propose to have a "404" day in which all websites that do not like SOPA replace every page with a 404 "Not Found" explaining how such a law could impact their services.

It could even be up for about 8 hours between around 9am and 5am within USA time (CST or MST, or any other).
My research is definitely spotty, so I totally appreciate the comments here!
bolt renders webpages like firefox on Pc.... i don't see how it clones opera mini
Dangit, I was going to make a snarky remark about how this story had already been posted, and thus the submitter was "ducking" the search feature ... but then I searched for that previous discussion and couldn't find it. (Tried all combinations of ship, immigration, hack, startup, bay ...)
there is a press release ready too - http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2011/PR...
i'm in the same boat with you. anyway have you tried IntelliJ? its Scala support rocks, and combined with JRebel (free for Scala), it can help reduce development time.

anyway i'm very sad to hear about current situation. i've been secretly wishing scala will become big.
I am not quite sure what to make of this. Steve Blank teaches a class on entrepreneurship. If you have a team of Hacker, Hustler, Designer, Visionary Stanford graduates - sounds like you are 90% of the way there. Hell - I will give you money. You can say pretty much anything to a team like that and they are going to succeed. Almost sounds more like investing than teaching.

So...has Steve Blank discovered that teams of people from Ivy league schools who personally know Steve Blank and have his implicit backing tend to be successful?
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var_dump($hit);

Good to see that Facebook's engineers still have a startup-y sense of humor.
I'll be ready for that next time. I never had access to the cheap options (since I came to the company after they'd had series C funding.
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The guardian has a liveblog going where they've collected comment from various physicists from across the web giving their explanations. They also have a nice plot image of the collision which apparently could show the higgs.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/13/higgs-boson-se...

They've really gone to town on the LHC coverage today. Check the homepage, it's taking up a huge chunk of it. Good old guardian.
I'm not sure that I'd refer to PHP as a "historically technologically poor language". I'm not even quite sure what that means, exactly, but PHP has proven itself over and over again to be more than capable of working in environments with heavy load and numerous simultaneous users. In fact, in comparison to something like Ruby, it historically destroys it.

Now, if you want to get into the details of syntax, naming conventions, etc.. sure, PHP is not everyone's favorite language to work with, but it is far from "technologically poor".
Anyone still remember XMLterm that was included in the Mozilla browser in year 2000 or so :-) http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/06/07/xmlterm/index.html
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This has been around for a while, it's pretty cool nonetheless. I used it for sond effects on a pong game I made while learning C++.

On a side note that's the best way to learn to make games (or a new language for that matter), recreate old games from scratch. You'll also learn some trig and calculus while you're at it.
From my understanding, Sun's Java division was actually profitable. However, their Java division was a very small part of the overall company, and it was their hardware divisions that tanked.
Coda is nice to look out. But compared to other editors it's years behind. Now I know Panic is working on Coda 2. But I'm not betting the farm on that. Considering Coda has been out for like 5 years. Sure they've released minor updates to keep the current version running on Lion (and bug fixes) but Panic hasn't address anything else really. I could write a LONG list of missing options and features (Like no CSS3 support for one).

And it's damn expensive; $100.00 when emacs is free. Look if you are going to charge for an editor, you better make sure it stays with the times. Something Coda has not.
Microsoft works that way with C#, VB and F#. And they even fund Haskell research. Judging by the quality of their output, it seems to be working very well.
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I'm also skeptical if they could pull it off. That said the price some cruise ships are going for at the moment is making it a good alternative to new office buildings.

With regards to being near Silicon Valley, people are still allowed to visit and have business meetings in the US with a normal visitor visa. They're just not allowed to work.

I think the time to commute in will be an issue. This means you'll have to live fairly close to the harbor you are being ferried from which could be a problem. I figure what will probably happen is the need for another cruise ship with cabins on them for part time residential accommodation.
Sounds like they have a better mousetrap. Should be interesting to see whether they build a successful business out of it.
No, it's a pretty bad idea. It comes with great intentions, but there is a good reason the current laws exist. People have to trust the financial system, and this sort of activity will (because of the obvious and easy fraud) deliver a solid blow to the public's trust. You think bankers have a bad rep? Wait until you see what people think of "entrepreneurs" after a few rounds with this.
With all due respect, I think you're reading the wrong literary criticism.

That's quite a broad brush with which to paint the entire field, and I can assure you that most of it does not "deal in authoritative pronouncements on human nature, culture, society, etc." or "misappropriate theories from other disciplines." The best literary criticism analyzes and evaluates what's in the text, and does not attempt to conflate literature with philosophy or sociology (unless in an anthropological sense of those fields).

Perhaps some of you have had some bad English teachers or professors? I think we all have. There are vanishingly few good ones out there these days. But we should not confuse bad literary criticism with all literary criticism. Just as I wouldn't look at a horribly coded mess and conclude that the field of programming is bunk, I wouldn't look at a terrible example of criticism and condemn the entire field.
That's the mindset I'm in -- if I can build a team and drive with my vision, have the mentors / team mates who are willing to challenge me, then I'd be fine as a single founder. Thanks for that.

I'd also imagine the "hit by a bus" issue still applies if you've got 2+ cofounders. If your tech lead goes missing and was the brains behind the algorithms / IT stack / whatever, then you're still likely screwed.

Thanks for the thoughts!
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