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DARPA shot themselves in the foot here, right? This fourth challenge was a handwritten, unlined letter, and would have been vastly more difficult to solve were it not for this unintended pattern.
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A good read, but I don't agree with his conclusions at all.

Yes, a powerful government can abuse its power, but that does not mean it has to happen or that the alternatives are necessarily better.

There are some things individuals and cooperation can't, or won't, do.. I feels people arguing for "small" governments always draw an imaginary line between the things they _do_ expect the government to handle (roads, an army..) and the things they don't (healthcare..).

Is a "big" government that's actually working for the good of the people too much too expect?
That's right, but it's not only the kernel that uses power.
Why didn't the compiler split them between two cores/cpu's - would this have been quicker?
The Eric S. Raymond link posted at the end is worth a read as well (although it's kind of off topic):

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4009
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3367674
I'm personally very happy that such articles appear here. I got used to the fact that HN covers only significant geopolitical events, so I can ditch every other news service and be sure that if something of actual importance happens, it'll be covered here as well.

Also, I'd be hard pressed to find such quality of discussions anywhere else.
I used to work at BT Labs back in the day, there were very, very many smart engineers and scientists there. BT had a dismal track record of exploiting anything Labs came up with, then again Labs were very bad at being relevant and selling themselves to the company.

I could easily believe that Labs (and their predecessors) discovered the key ideas behind Google many years before they knew what to do with them.
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Sure, Cygwin does a bit of extra wrapping. The official site and just about anybody link to msysgit, however.
It's been a while since I've written nodejs in anger so I may be out of date, but as a rule libraries in Node don't block, they present async interfaces and do what they have to in order to keep from blocking.

Python has no such conventions, making many libraries into dangerous minefields for the Twisted developer.
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It's difficult to tell if there's prior art (or infringement for that matter) without reading the full contents of the patents in question. Being based on similar principles is not enough, it has to implement the patent exactly as described in the patent.
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And this is exactly the issue. If this issue isn't important enough for you to invest some of your time to make your opinion known on the subject, then you're probably not going to change your vote on it anyway.
Why not, if there is something smart to discuss about them, something gratifying our intellectual curiosity[1]. I vaguely remember even pg referring to Lady Gaga as hacker in clothes space in (I think) Hackers&Painters (anyone have the reference? I can't seem to find it :/).

[1] - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I thought software/programming related patents weren't valid here in Europe?! Or am I missing something?
Personally I think Crystalis for NES came pretty close to this criteria - worth checking out if you haven't played it before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystalis
I don't see how it matters whether they have a representative sample or not, it just reduces the potential market for their data, it doesn't invalidate it completely.
I think an argument could be made (and I don't necessarily agree with it) that since a very large portion of BT's revenues originate from the UK and BT has a very large presence on the UK telecommunications market, it will be ultimately British consumers who will end up paying for such a loss, one way or other.
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From what I've seen twitter isn't really a social network. The majority on twitter are just consumers for the "celebrities".
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Of course, all cgi/php ran as the user account, rather than as the Apache user.

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You could get some ideas from chess "swiss" tournaments and rating system. The idea is to couple players of similar strength in each round.

A very weak player will likely lose the first two or three matches in a row, but then have a real chance against some other weak player.
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> I think AIM had and still has the ability to be
> the ‘w’ of the modern internet

AIM is only really popular in the US. That's not surprising once you fully expand the name: "America On-Line Instant Messenger."

I'm curious:

* What AIM has that other IM client/networks (MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, GTalk, etc) don't?

* What is AOL doing to increase up-take of AIM outside of the US?

* How stable AIM can be going forward when AOL itself isn't exactly the paragon of stability?
I guess this is a response to the classes some Stanford professors have been teaching:

http://www.ai-class.org/

http://www.ml-class.org/

http://www.db-class.org/
and more to come in January.

I took part in two of them and it was a great experience, so I welcome the competition :-)
We have been working on SupportBee for about a year now and getting close to a public launch. We made this site using Foundation CSS http://foundation.zurb.com/ (works really well on ipad too but has some issues on iphone) and some fonts from Typekit.

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Any other feedback would be appreciated too. Also, happy to answer any questions

Thanks
Why is it tactless to ask whether a company is profitable (or at least has positive cashflow) and, if not, how much time is left at the current burn rate?

Sounds like basic due diligence when checking out a potential new employer to me.
The updating of last access time has been disabled since the release of Windows Vista (although you can turn it back on):

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This following quote is the only part that actually matters in this article. Because of the scarcity of capital, startups have to become profitable asap, and some even build non-core products or services (such as consultancy to large firms) just so they can struggle a couple more months, diverting resources from the main product/service:

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I'm not an expert on this but here's my hypothesis. People seem to use twitter for interacting with the outside world: celebs, political causes, trends, memes, etc. People use Facebook for interacting with their friends. Could it be that twitter's data is easier to mine for useful marketing information because people make tend to make more explicit connections to brands, causes etc?
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The cost of an American university education is ridiculously more than its value. It should be crystal clear that most of what you are paying for is the credential, not the education. The first elite university to break up the monolithic credential into an a la carte system of finer-grained credentials, with high standards backed by the reputation of the institution but open to all, regardless of how they learned the material, will change the world of education forever. Each narrow credential will move independently to its true market value (sorry, lit crit professors), people will pay much less by paying only for what they need, yet people who would never go back to get another whole degree will frequently go back for additional narrower credentials over the course of a career. Elite institutions can stay elite by keeping their standards high and may end up making more money than they ever did under today's absurd system.

The article made it clear that MIT was desperate to avoid diluting their own brand equity ("we'll grant certifications using a subsidiary with some other name so there's NO confusion"), but it looks to me as though the industry is heading in the direction I'm talking about one way or another.
All of the solutions/fixes talked about in the article seem to be at the kernel level. Do you have evidence that Canonical is working on power savings with user-land processes?
Asking whether a company is profitable is very different to asking to see their balance sheet.
A twist solution that stumped basically everyone until a single team solved it using a pretty creative solution... sounds perfect for such a competition. What makes you think they didn't do it on purpose?
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The CEO of DataWind, Mr. Suneet Singh Tuli says ‘This is a made-in-India product. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to do this.’ He adds, ‘The final goal is to either provide the same features at a lower cost or provide better functionality and features at the same cost.’

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> usually these kind of entities are very prone to
> being influenced by governments

A lot of registrars are down-right shady without getting governments involved...
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The Halting Problem theoretically defines the limits of computation, but has anyone in a pragmatic, everyday coding situation actually reached that limit? In the practical sense I've never seen it have any bearing. Perhaps the problems I'm working on are too mundane.
There seems to be a misunderstanding. I wasn't talking about software as a service, I was talking about service around software (e.g. guarantee that it works, provide a hotline for all kinds of issues, which might include fixing bugs etc).

In constrast, SaaS is usually quite the contrary of Open Source. You do not only pay per license, but for usage time and/or the amount of data. You don't see the source, you can't make any modification, you don't have any direct access to the machine, and you are (usually) stuck to a single vendor. All of this could be fixed, of course, but as of now, the economy model around SaaS is more an aggravation of the proprietary model, and nowhere similar to Open Source business models.
Unless the next big thing is a compiler...
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I often sleep six or seven hours on work days, but I have to recover in the weekend.
A few years ago (ca. 2005), I was a minor contributor to the Gnome project. At the time, I remember it being my favorite desktop in terms of usability and clarity, and thought it was headed in a fantastic direction to make the Linux desktop accessible for everyone and their grandmother. There was some real thought given to it in terms of what experience it should provide (for example, its Human Interface Guidelines were much more extensive than KDE's)

I sort of dropped it after a while out of lack of time, and a year or two ago I looked into it again out of curiosity.
The development is much more disorderly now, with no unified goals or direction. The accessibility and usability mailing lists have pretty much become irrelevant, and I wouldn't be surprised if 90%+ of the core developers pay no attention to them.

LXDE seems close to what Gnome used to be 5 years ago, but that's the problem- 2005 Gnome was good for 2005, but we can't be content with it in 2011.
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Buying $300m worth of Twitter stock would be an investment.

In any reasonable scenario, he is purchasing shares of stock in a company on the hopes their value will rise. Doesn't matter who he is purchasing them from, it's still an investment.
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Oh, the OS treeview is dreadful, everyone who's seriously coded on Windows knows that.

As to actual complexity curve (which, knowing what I do about NTFS, I'm fairly sure is O(n log n)), I don't really care about it; since it hasn't shown up in a serious way at n=100000, it's unlikely to realistically affect anyone badly. Even if 1 million files (in a single directory!) took 18.5 seconds, it wouldn't be pathological. Other limits like disk bandwidth and FS cache size seem like they'd hit in sooner.
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They're a private company, but they are still a monopoly with a universal service obligation and highly regulated by Ofcom.

So while we (the British public) might not have to pay for their mistakes with our taxes - though worth noting that, not unlike banks, the Government would have no choice but to bail BT out if it was ever needed - any money they lose from this they regain from their customers, which are the public. And the monopoly ensures most people will pay.
A handwritten letter that's been printed on a colour printer, it appears rather incongruous. It seems to me DARPA hoped for a novel (or cheap, or whatever) way of piecing together a handwritten letter, but got something else instead. Still, all kudos to the winner of course. Even with the dots it's quite an accomplishment.
How developers working on this decentralized Internet will get paid? Also I imagine this decentralized Internet should look similar to Freenet, but to have bitcoin based domains for easy of use.
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The potential for companies to use this to compliment their staff training is great. It could be a good additional source of income for MIT too, making sure their standards remain high.
Or possibly they failed with those other companies too, and either a.) hope their court case will push these deals or b.) plan to take them to court, just not at the same time as Google.
The OP specifically mentions doing it twice to make sure the cache is hot: "Do it twice and time how long it takes. The reason to time only the second run is to give the OS a chance to cache data in ram"
Raw access to all of the data, in whatever format suits you best. No pretty front-ends, no fancy stuff, just data. It's not going to have a wide appeal, and it's certainly not targeted towards the average user, it's for people who just want data to play with.
It is honestly baffling to me that DICE has not addressed the "need to press the jump button to get over curbs and small rocks" issue since even their very first game, an issue ironically even more prevalent now with the added details afforded by advancing hardware. I do appreciate the leaps (hah) they've made with their vaulting system, but it too has its own frustrations.
I'm baffled why Google seems to (at least sometimes) do it even when I'm logged in and have English as my preference

I was as well, until searching for local things like restaurants. Polish Google gives way better results than the "Google.com in English" site.
I wouldn't take such nuances for granted in a random headline.
kde is the default on opensuse. it's been stable for ages; lots of people use it. the "people" in the title should be "ubuntu users".

ps opensuse released 12.1 just a few weeks ago - http://software.opensuse.org/121/en (kernel 3.0, kde 4.7, latest code, but not crazy cutting edge, huge range of repos, what's not to like?)
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Looks good, one thing I would mention on the signup page is that the question 'What exact needs are you looking to solve with SupportBee?' is quite open ended, if people have already decided to use the software do you really need to know that?
The AIM comment really stuck out to me as strange. AIM is fine, but hardly special relative to its many competitors. His link goes to a preview page for (I guess) a new version of AIM with fancy things like twitter integration, but I don't really see that mattering much.

If anything, to throw my anecdotal evidence into the ring, AIM was big in my middle- through high-school experience, but most of my friends have dropped it as adults. Its uses back then were "hey, saw you were online, let's chat" and occasionally leaving short-term messages not worth an email or a call. It's have been replaced by facebook chat and texting for those uses respectively. I'm not a fan of facebook chat compared to an AIM client (desktop-based or web-based), but what're you gonna do?