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> Sure they're free and open source. But they aren't STANDARDS.

So? "Standards" only means that some group has blessed them. In particular, it doesn't imply that you're free to implement them.

What can you do with "standards" that you can't do with those projects, as they currently exist? What can't happen with standards that can happen with those projects?

Remember, no one is obligated to follow or conform to "standards".
Reputation and karma systems are very good at reminding. They normally engage the users as if the site was some sort of "game" and persuading to have a high score.

See HN, Stack Exchange sites, forum's post counts, xbox live gamerpoints, etc.
Or we could, you know, use more than one channel.
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I identify with what you're saying. I've been in such situations too and I've hoped for more practical alternatives to paying a bribe. I have my fingers crossed for a good Lokpal bill myself. Rise of the middle class is increasingly playing a role too.

That said, I don't think one single approach is going to solve this problem. Nor is it fair to label this as a homogeneous problem. There are many forms of corruption and I do believe that CorruptionTrak is relevant to a significant number of them.
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> We need to respect arbitrary, consentual rules to keep the world going

Such as PIPA and SOPA?

Believing that a concept such as a digital pattern or an idea is property that belongs to someone is borderline religious -- because I'm sure you fervently believe it without any supporting evidence. Just because you can monetize something doesn't mean you own it. If I discovered the wheel first, does that mean society owes me money bags for stealing my invention?
Can someone please explain to me what nofollow has to do with Google indexing or displaying tweets in their serps. It's like saying Google discourages pages which may contain relevant/important information on the topic a user may be looking for because it contains nofollow links. What am i missing here?
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The conclusion is "48 percent of players who admit to using a hack, bot, or cheat in a social game also admit to cheating in some way in real life -- for non-cheaters, that number drops to just 14 percent."

This is different than the summary in the title. An equally valid way to interpret the data is "it's easier to admit cheating in games than in real life."

I downloaded the linked-to PDF, and it doesn't report the information reported in that story. For example, I see nothing about the number of people who cheat in real-life.
It needs to be installed under Packages not Packages/User. Look at the github source for Soda Theme for further explanation... (I just read that this morning).
* Simply showing Apple growing it's market share here doesn't necessarily mean HP or Dell shipped fewer units.

Simply, HP & Dell shipped fewer units. Evidence: Gartners’ chart headings. One of which read, “4Q10 Shipments” the other, “4Q11 Shipments”. But I went to art school, maybe a decline in shipments doesn’t mean they sold fewer units?

Looking forward to your thoughts.
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Really? When Microsoft "broke away" and created ActiveX, you were in support of that too because it was innovation? Or how bout Adobe and Flash?
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HP and Dell did ship fewer units. That's not to say it's Apple's fault, but Apple was the only top-5 PC maker to see growth this past quarter. All of the other four (HP, Dell, Toshiba, Acer) saw a decline.

Whether they're in direct competition or not is, I think, less interesting than the simple fact that Apple is seeing solid double-digit growth as a top PC manufacturer when all the others, and the market as a whole, are shrinking. And that despite the fact that making PCs is far from Apple's core focus at this point.
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I'm sure there would be some speedup, the question is whether it would be worth it (and I suppose that can only be adequately be assessed by the developers, who now have to maintain C code instead of Python).

But for some perspective from a former Mercurial developer: lots of the more performance-sensitive code has already been rewritten in C. Rewriting the rest of it would simply be a question of diminishing returns. One thing that would improve is hg's startup time; starting up Python just takes a while, which kind of sucks for command-line programs like VCS clients that tend to have many short-running invocations.
Gears seems like a perfect example. It predated the HTML5 local storage when Google found such a tool useful. Now the standard's caught up and Gears has been yanked in favor of the standard. Dart and NaCl could conceivably lead to evil, but I like the history shown with Gears/HTML5.
Ok, what we see in the valley are two types of recent graduates. We see "curriculum only" graduates who can barely use an IDE and can't code their way out of a paper bag (usually without real internships). These graduates require 2-3 years of experience before you can trust them with any level of complexity and are not really hire-able unless the startup is very desperate. It's very easy to filter out these candidates but they also (saldy) make up the bulk of the applicants.

Then, there are the geek's geeks (you). We love candidates like you. You put in long hours for usually much less pay than a senior engineer and don't know enough to realize that free pizza isn't really a benefit. You will not have any trouble securing offers after you graduate.

Now, there are some things you can do to make yourself even more hire-able than you already are.

First off, years of real world experience matters more or less depending on the technologies you use. If you are very good in a hot skillset you can name your price and choose your company regardless of experience, degrees, body odor, etc... Right now, the hottest language in your background, by quite a bit, is Javascript. Good UI people, and specifically good JS guys, are extremely hard to find right now. If you add in some solid backend skills (you already have Java, which is good, but Rails or Django might be even better) you are starting to look like the perfect candidate for any startup.
All of those things also exist in hotspot/Java.

Primitive types have been available since the creation of Java. It's up to the programmer to use boxed types or not.

Memory mapped IO - see Java.nio.

Bump-pointer allocation/compilation to direct loops all exist in hotspot.
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"Lisp programmers should stop reading right now because they'll likely suffer severe injury of the jaw muscles as they laugh themselves silly at how hard it is to do some things in C."

Naive question: in Lisp, how would you set the byte at address 0xDEADBEEF to 0x42?
How can they justify the headline if "Details and financial arrangements of the agreement were not released".

I know they go on to say "this is likely a royalty deal similar to others that Microsoft has established" but as far as I'm aware it's only rumours and hearsay about the other deals too.

The previous deal between them that is mentioned involved LG paying an ongoing royalty for using Linux, but Microsoft in turn making a "net balancing payment" (whatever that is?) to LG which sounds to me like it's more about making Linux appear patent encumbered than it is about making money directly.
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Yeah, the key is establishing some sort of habit. The other thing you have to watch out for in this vein is weekends. If your product is work-related or school-related, you're more likely to forget about it over a weekend, and then never come back (unless someone tries to re-engage you). Path and other friend- or interest-based social sites suffer from this problem less, because weekends may even lead to higher rather than no use.
There is an excellent point to be made with going dark. If "we" go dark via css, (of course) the regular users will know how to get around it and the site will actually be up and running but not look like it is to outside observers. That sends the message: What looks like one thing (SOPA controls) won't actually stop the people who know what they are doing. That's not horrible in itself, but when you give up something so dear as due process to get it, it makes no sense.
That is what I got from the article. MongoDB may have issues, but:

1. Being expected to develop a fully working, robust application that accepts 30k users in 4 days

2. Agreeing to this commitment

I think are the big failures. Who in their right mind would agree to something like this, even going as far as taking responsibility for it?!

True, when it comes to it, your boss is your boss, fine - if your hand is being forced, do it under protest, rather than pretending this isn't a terrible idea.
The non-invasive restriction seems bad to me. Or is it there to get around government crated problems, which I could agree with?

I think the medical tricoder is completely non-invasive on TV, because it's a great way to create the fantasy of the future. As in, the doctor does not even need to touch you!

In the real world labs on chips have come quite far and could go even further. A scratch of skin or tiny droplet of blood could provide an incredible amount of information about your health.

So let's not artificially restrict what the device might be capable of, without good reason.

In fact I think the lab on chip type of analysis is the most interesting part. Measuring pulse, blood pressure, and respiration rate all seem pretty easily achievable.
> - There's no way to do array access without null pointer and index checks each and every time.

That's not happening anymore for years already.
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That's about as fair as calling those who oppose them "pro-piracy" or "pro-counterfeiting".
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Yes. Cars do have fixed one-time R&D costs. If you can freely copy all cars, the incentive to design/produce a better car would then have to be something other than money. As an example, Greenpeace might want to cut vehicle emissions in half, so they'd research and develop a way to do it.
Slap your website name across the whole image. I don't think anyone here is against DRM -- just shitty DRM that dilutes the user experience. Steam is an example of DRM done right IMO.
Seconding that, the new theme is wonderful. Now you just need to throw some money at Dan Perrera to let you use his version of the icon - http://dribbble.com/shots/311515-A-Sublime-Text-2-Icon-that-....
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No, I wouldn't consider it their duty. OTOH, the last time that Apple promised an open spec protocol (Facetime) I would have expected Google (or someone) to provide a high quality Android implementation. Apple didn't follow through.

I don't personally have a problem with the standards that Google has advocated. Dart is unlikely to succeed, IMO, but I would like to see NativeClient (or something like it) picked up by the other browsers.
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Block it where? SOPA, being a law from the United States is only valid in the USA. Different countries have different laws.

As an example, if China bans a site, is it banned in the USA? So if the USA blocks a site, is it blocked in the EU?

However it gets interesting with domain names. No-one really knows what would happen if the USA courts tried to delete a .ie domain. They wouldn't have the authority to do it. USA courts may have to result in ordering all ISPs to block that site, but people in other countries would still be able to do it. After all, the USA doesn't own the internet.

But, like I said, who owns .com? What could happen then?
This is why almost everybody should be capturing email and getting in touch with folks regularly. (Of particular interest to business productivity SaaS startups: make the product design decision that you're going to send them, at the minimum, weekly "Here's how much value you're getting out of this" emails and, if they're not using it, use that scheduled opportunity to re-engage them.)
Now that's how you write policy pieces - short, cutting, funny, and informative.
> The answer is no, people who say yes are wrong.

When you start an argument like that, I stop reading. Really, that's how you engage people?
it is definitely both cool and exciting but depressing and stressing as well. i think every developer should have this experience at some point of their carrier.
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Well, with a MappedByteBuffer (or any DirectByteBuffer), if you want to manipulate the data as a Java type (e.g. byte[]) you have to copy the data into the heap. byte[] cannot exist outside of the heap.

Still, I wonder why they're using a MappedByteBuffer in the first place if they're working with the data in the Java heap.
>> "Men do not hit women."
> Right. Except all those cases of domestic abuse, I mean.

Hm, perhaps my language was a little unclear. In this context, imagine instead of "men" that it reads "gentlemen". Gentlemen do not hit women. Gentlemen put women first. That was the meaning I was getting at, and that is what is taught by society.

I know there are sociopaths who ignore these rules, that is a valid point.
It's like McCarthyism only it's not about Communism it's about piracy and copyright.
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Looking at the linked Hacker News Circle on Google+, the first person listed in the circle is "Paul Graham", who's pretty clearly not pg. The linked Paul Graham says "wow. so many people have me in their circles", and another user suggests it's because of pg [0]. I'm curious what percentage of the people are linked to the right profile.

[0] https://plus.google.com/114939270563299965266/posts/7UHfjBcD...
26 webservers and only two mongodb instances? Seems stacked.. Why not set up more instances and split the load across them (sharding, splitting collections across replica sets, etc) or similar?

Also - big question for me: were you using a ridiculously old version of mongo? I have yet to run into anyone who is on 2.0 or 1.8 and is still running master/slave (as opposed to replica sets). Sounds like your writes weren't working when you moved to replica sets because your client wasn't properly configured.
Well at least now I have a good reason to let all of my "land grab" .com and .net domains expire. Also, they are really dumb.
* only claim 11% market share

1. Ha! Don’t you wish you had an 11% market share in your industry?

2. Since when did market share affect how well Apple is doing? I imagine they have a silo full of money somewhere where employees can swim in gold coins like Scrooge McDuck.

(High-five to all my 90s’ afternoon cartoon fans. I am pondering what you are pondering.)
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"The hubbub is centered around a complaint by Twitter that links shared on Twitter are not surfacing in the search results."

I think this mischaracterizes this complaint. I don't think anyone is complaining that the LINKS themselves aren't surfacing. That complaint would imply that their ought to be some influence between links on Twitter and the search rank of those linked pages. And I don't think anyone wants to see spammy tweets on Twitter altering skewing search ranking.

Rather the complaint is that recommendations from Twitter are not APPEARING in the search results. And to that point: Why is it difficult for Google to index the fact that someone linked to a site (whether it be rel=nowfollow or not)? Why does this information need to be coupled with the passing of page rank?
I thought the impressive part is what a sub-$100 computer can do today in comparison to what yesterday's $2000 computer can do.
I work at a company where we use Mongo to store and retrieve session information for over 2.5 million users per day. Our initial deployment crashed and burned in a similar fashion for one very simple reason. Mongo opens a thread per connection. Under this model, you simply cannot point every Apache request to Mongo and expect it to handle the load.

The solution is fairly simple. You can either use persistent connections at the driver level (the PHP driver provides this, I'm not sure which other languages do), or you can put mongos (used for sharding) in front of mongod. Mongos does connection pooling and tremendously reduces the load on your mongod server.

The author of the post mentions that redis is "heaven sent". Well, redis handles its connections in an asynchronous fashion which is why it can handle a large amount of direct traffic gracefully. I believe there are plans to change mongo's connection handling to use select/epoll, but I'm not sure when.
What I'll be interested to see is whether the same will be true one year from now. The current product line-up still has Jobs' magic touch all over it & I'm really eager to see the quality & innovation of the post-Jobs projects.
Obligatory "you don't have friends".

Add a datetime check so I can set it and forget it.
Why not just launch your own small one? What you'll want to know the most is how to get from zero to something and buying an established site won't teach you that.

It took me just a day to implement http://notsharingmy.info/ and I've learned a real lot from it (and still learning).
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I don't understand why there is a deal at all. Why isn't the situation simply that Google indexes things (like tweets) unless they have a rel=nofollow?
I agree, I like the new default theme a lot better. Good work! I updated the original post.
I love Ars Technica. They fairly consistently have the best journalism of any mainstream-oriented tech news site, work hard to stay unbiased (though don't always achieve that 100%), and hire quality writers.

That being said, I don't like this piece. It's emotional, and even as they admit, hyperbolic. Unless "crazy freetards" is a word the MPAA used in their posting, I don't see a legitimate reason for Ars to use it. The bill might be absolutely freaking insane, but I don't read Ars to be told that, I read Ars to be informed about the issue.

I understand their passion, their disgust, and their defensiveness. I share their sentiments exactly. I just don't understand why that should undermine their professionalism.
I'm super pleased to see this move ahead. Competition has been absent from this segment of the market for far too long. I'm really looking forward to seeing some flowers bloom.
Should the anti-SOPA website go dark in protest of SOPA?
MPAA wants censorship rights without due process on bytes traveling between any device. If you resist then you are labeled as petty thieves who want paid content for free.

MPAA wants to preserve a 18th century business model against a modern infrastructure where thought, matter, data, energy, directives and commerse exist as one and can be freely transmitted between minds (the future devices they want to censor... You and I, our sensors and transmission devices)

our minds will eventually join this symphony of communication called the internet. We better cook freedom right into it or you'll find penalties for thinking and communicating unauthorized information.
I actually thought they were retiring it!
I can't imagine more spam on Twitter.

In all seriousness htough, you can probably analyze the Twitter "social graph" to weed out a lot of spam.
We may provide that in the setup options - we've had a few people who wanted to have it up outside of the 18th.
You won't know what you're missing until you don't have them :).
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Wow, you're just being contrary to be contrary aren't you? While no one is obligated to follow standards, they certainly help adoption. Without standards we wouldn't be able to just buy a consumer electronics device and plug it in to our standardized plug with standardized voltage would we? Standards are part of our daily lives and without them we would not have progressed nearly as far as we have.

Further more, the reason standards are nice here is because a 3rd party is the one who blessed the technology, not the biased producer of the technology. And changes to that standard need to go through the standards body and the producer is not the single owner.
Which headline you'd rather see in NYT tomorrow:

> A leading enterpreneur community website goes black to protest SOPA.
``Our jobs would be endangered'', says PG.

or

> While discussions rage on the merits of SOPA,
a leading enterpreneur community remains calm.
``We aren't concerned enough to protest'', says PG.
Although Amdahl's law does limit the parallelization efforts, it only applies to fixed problem sizes. Greater parallelization may not always lead to greater performance of existing problems but instead leads to the ability to solve new problems that were impossible before (Gustafson's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustafsons_law).

There is also a great new area of research dedicated to building load balancing algorithms that not only help computing performance but also attempt to minimize energy. Using energy efficiently will be great limiting factor moving forward as our hunger for processing power continues to grow.
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It's to encourage you to make the post on your blog instead, submitting the link to HN.
??? There are easy ways to miscode your way around the optimizations.
What have outbound links to do with this at all? Many tweets can and do have zero links. I don't see how that's relevant to this conversation where the topic is about searching the tweets themselves, which has nothing whatsoever to do with outbound links from those tweets.
i was told this is a UK jobless guy that is trying to leverage some Chinese factory/chip to stir up things. Too good to be true?
save your time here, I was excited when i first saw this too.
I like Ars Technica so much, I bought a premium membership to show my support. I will never buy a premium membership at mpaa.org.
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