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This is unfortunately no joke. Only a fairly primitive technological culture will waste energy and S/N ratio by using coherent signals for communications. Modern radio and TV signals look more or less exactly like static to a receiver that doesn't know what it's listening to, for the same reason that a .jpg or .zip file looks like random data to a program that doesn't know how to decompress it.

So it seems clear that SETI-like efforts will be unlikely to detect any transmissions from civilizations who aren't deliberately trying to talk to us. Only civilizations that occupy the narrow time slice caught between the invention of radio and the widespread adoption of digital computers would be detectable, otherwise.
I wonder where do Shawn work at Google and in which product they use jgit.
This is the default behavior of document based apps on OS X starting with Lion. For instance: TextEdit behaves this way.
compared to the cost of an IOS dev. I'd say it's definitely worth a punt.
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This is presenting half-truths. They are not really "industry" leading. Lenovo leads worldwide with a 23% growth. Apple had the most growth in US only. They are probably not even on the map worldwide. So this whole "Apple is industry leading" thing is pretty misleading.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/01/rld.jp...
Right now you can guess that a company's web address is probably companyname.com, but .companyname alone can't be a web address.

Not true, and you can see it yourself:

http://ac/

http://ai/

http://tm/

Nothing technically prevents a TLD from having an A record, it's just uncommon. So there could very well be http://microsoft/ or http://apple/, which would appear as "microsoft" and "apple" in FF and Chrome, at least.
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As much as I'm with you on this. This is not the place to discuss over HN's features or GooglePlus experience over hand held devices. Sometimes I wish we could move these discussions to some other place. I'm here to read and discuss about the article. But I'm welcomed with tens of comments unrelated to it. This is annoying.
mmap uses the virtual memory manager to map a file into virtual memory as it does for swapping.

The memory you have is therefore allocated by the kernel of your operating system and oblivious to any garbage collector you might have.
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An utopia without birth control seems a bit unrealistic (that's what utopias is all about anyway), especially when you consider future medical advances. So I usually see birth control as somewhat orthogonal to the utopia vs dystopia discussion.
Reminds me of what is going on in The Netherlands (such a liberal country too, so kind of weird).

2 ISP's (Ziggo & XS4ALL) have to block TPB within 9 days, or face charges of 10000 euros a day. Kind of unfair, since their competition haven't been affected by this, yet. Can't find any English news articles so will blog about it later. Brein, the dutch anti-piracy police will also be able to provide these 2 providers with other domains that they'll have to block.
In the book, Ender does'n knowingly kill the other children, he just beats them to the ground with, arguably, little empathy as a counter reaction to bullying.
hey, thanks so much for your feedback. I totally thought nobody responded since I was traveling, then this! Thanks a lot! And yes, I agree, agree and agree. Had two of your suggestions on my TODO, so that motivates to jump at this now. Thanks!
But what's their profit share? It was well over 30% a few years ago, I bet it's even higher now. And for anything over $1000, it's almost all going to Apple.

And what about installed base? People don't toss Macs nearly as fast as they do PCs.

I'm relatively wealthy compared to the typical American, and I only pull the trigger on an upgrade about every 3 years. Judging by my observations of people using cheap Dell or HP laptops, I'd probably be going through them twice as fast, inflating the number of units.
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i myself rarely respond to such things, but you do have a point. who better to ask than those who believed in it from day one ... good point. will see what i can come up with, but this sounds reasonable!
Sorry, how so? Here's what I said:

"I think with the time scales involved, chances are that anyone communicating with us would be significantly more advanced."

In both my original comment and my clarification I was clearly talking about only aliens who were communicating with us.
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Funny, I could have sworn I saw "in US" in the title. Perhaps I need new glasses?
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Vintage mode is a killer feature for people (like me) who are wired for Vim's modal editing. The fact that it works reasonably well (somes bugs here and there but it's an alpha so understandable) is what made me even consider Sublime in the first place.

Now, after having been using Vim for about 8 years now, after a few weeks of trying Sublime, I'm pretty much ready to pony up for SublimeText 2 whenever the final version is released.
I just hope the reddit etc. blackouts are only going to be in the country, the US, that SOPA will be in. Not only from a personal perspective, since I am not in the US, but also for the US. We don't want to create the perception that US sites are unreliable because they can go down because of political activism over internal US issues. Companies are already going to some effort towards hedging their income from being dependent on single providers, e.g. Google traffic or Amazon sales.
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Yeah, if you've been extensively using Lion for document editing, this may not seem like a big deal anymore, but in Sublime it works just as well on Windows too.
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The other PDFs on DHS' page tell me this is for disaster monitoring, and Popular Science has informative post-disaster articles.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=japan+tsunami+site...
Although that this is true for now, it wont be for long as I've initiated the transfer to name.com 3-4 days ago.
Yeah, Vintage mode is really nice... but I just found this Ex package today as I didn't realize it existed. Without :s I was pretty lost in Sublime, but not now!
Yes, and I assume it was to be assessed with what the teacher, and the curriculum, were instructed to assess.

Just because you feel MySQL is better doesn't mean you should get bonus points.

I agree using Access to teach database design is stupid, but that's hopefully something that this will address. Going against the curriculum because you feel you're above the instructed way is a fantastic way to get low marks.

Fortunately when it comes to university there's usually flexibility if you want to go above and beyond the minimum, but you still have to tick the boxes of being able to meet their assessment criteria.

Edit: And what happened in that article is what should've happened, in my opinion. You don't get bonus points for being a smart arse. IT teaching is woefully poor, there's no way that teacher could assess a proper app when the original assignment proposed a mock-app in PowerPoint.
[hack the media] SOPA/PIPA/NDAA - idea to effect change
If there is enough noise generated on the social media pages of media outlets they will HAVE to cover SOPA/PIPA/NDAA etc, post on their facebook pages, tweet, deluge them with a constant barrage of "why aren't you covering SOPA PIPA and NDAA?" until it is a deafening roar and they can no longer ignore these issues!!
With Fortran this is expected, since for language semantics the compiler can perform more assumptions compared to C, resulting into more optimizations.
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I had exactly the same reaction this morning, and - again - wished for subdomains for some special domains like google.com
Or "googanatz". You can use any word you like, but I'm pretty sure a generally accepted value for actual atoms in the universe is ~10^80.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe#Matter_cont...
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well at the moment similar priced products are far lower specced. but of the small list here ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-board_microcontroller#Se... ) i've played with 3 of them. they are doing well. now for the same price i can get a system that will do 90% of my computing needs with the right addons? yes please!

there is a market for small systems like these, embedded, remote locations, areas were space is a premium. it doesn't have to be a huge market to be successful.

i like low specced systems. my main computer between 94 and 99 ran on 2 aa batteries for a week at a time. i reckon it's more likely that people develop wearable computing and other new technologies when building blocks like these are commonly available.

just my 2c.
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(a code review tool used by Android.)
>I suspect Facebook would generate as much resentment and/or confusion over the blackout as it would interest in the cause.

So what? What are people going to do, another "mass exodus"? People always get mad at the person who inconveniences them first (in this case, facebook) and then when they see the first one won't move then they get mad at the person who caused that (in this case, SOPA).

Facebook, G+, everyone should shut completely off with a big scary warning that SOPA means the end of the internet. If that many people have to go a whole day without cat photos you're going to see a shit storm the likes of which the US hasn't seen in a very long time.
nice article, but they could have removed the last part of the title. Its a nice way to learn scala, but a poor way to say goodbye to bash.
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Nice debugging! Definitely worth a read.
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With 10K people signing up for lifetime you get 499*10K = almost 5 million, not bad!
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As the owner of one of many shattered iPods and iPhones, I say 20% stronger is a good start. Maybe plastic is ultimately the way of the future for handheld devices.
I think it's worse in US; over here (UK) people are more used to .co.uk or .org or whatnot.

People don't really know what an URL is. During ealry days of WWW and broadcasting presenters would read the whole thing; aitch tee tee pee colon forward slash forward slash double you double you double you etc etc. There's still not much awareness of what the bits of an url breakdown to; you still see even the BBC make mistakes about domain names and TLDs.

And I'm always gently disappointed to see URLs delimited by () and not RFC compliant <>.
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> Sure it'll have a 50 year latency, but we could easily stream all of youtube (or the entire internet really) to them

Well Eric Schmidt who's probably in a better position to estimate than most, said that Google estimates the internet is made up of 5 million terabytes.

5 million terabytes / 10gbps = 126.8 years

and I very much doubt 10gbps is even remotely achievable over interstellar distances. I don't what kind of data rates are achievable but I would expect it to be extremely slow relative to Gigabit speeds.
I can't find where I originally read that (although I believe the original research was by IBM).

However, here is a more recent article that suggests that "best" team size is 5 plus or minus 2 - which fits into my preferred range:

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1674234&...
Note the date: 2009-04-30 18:43:19

Many of us have already read this and it's been submitted to HN several times before. This, of course, does not mean that it's not worth reposting, but interested parties may want to dig up some of the past discussions.
I envision a day where an xbox game is being played by unsuspecting gamers, and "consensus guidance" is used to fly drones.

Gamers may be the most trained drone pilots. Remote killing could be free of post-trauma-stress-disorder, as the pimple-faced teen was cluelessly bombing the enemy.

Hmmmmm.....
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>

> CommonAssemblyInfo.cs is generated by the build. The build

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Here is some information about procrastination. Hilariously, it is too long for anyone who procrastinates to actually read.

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Here's one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1026909
So he did zero load testing before publishing an app live on television, developed with technology completely new to him?
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Fortran's always been faster than C
In cases where performance actually matters, just avoid bit-twiddle in high-level languages. It sucks too much. You'll probably waste less time on optimizations by offloading the biggest bottlenecks to C/C++ with the native/extension interfaces in your high-level language of choice.

Be careful and stay standards-compliant and you can keep most of the portability and maintenance advantages while picking up some significant speed.
.com/.org/.net is in a sort of limbo about whether it's an international or US based domain. A lot of the control is in the USA, and laws like SOPA seem to view it as an American possession.

However in many non-USA countries, .com is quite commonly used in the internet.

I wonder what would happen if courts in the USA ordered a .com removed and the original .com went to local courts who then ordered ISPs to resolve it? Could there be a split in the .com namespace then?
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Are you sure about that? ac, ai and tm do not resolve:

nslookup tm
Non-existent domain

Browsers are able to reach them by forwarding to ac.com, ai.com or tm.com
Most of Fortran's gain is on mandelbrot, but it sucks on binary-trees (10x slower than C). It also tends to use 2x more memory (with a 23x outlier on fannkuch): http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=al...
Apparently a few large followed accounts follow me that I wasn't aware of, neat application...

An idea I've wanted to do for a long time (but isn't technically possible) is to analyse the reach a user has. For example, when I tweet normally it is sent out to my ~520 followers, but what about when my tweet is retweeted? What about how many are active and the chances that they saw the tweet? It would be really interesting to see stuff like that.

Side note, can you explain "VIP Factor?" I assume it's where you position in their follows (longer that they've followed the higher the score)?
it has more than sugar - for example, the type system is extended to include handle nulls correctly - http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/Kotlin/Null-safety - and it has extension functions (to solve (some of) the same kind of problems as scala's implicit conversions)

jetbrains is an interesting company. they have managed to produce a successful product (intellij idea) despite being in competition with a hugely successful open source project (eclipse). i was thinking about this just last night, when i gave up using eclipse in despair (maven nested projects, fwiw) and decided to upgrade my idea licence to the new release - it's impressive how much better it is. so they must have some smart people; i hope this works out.
Aware, but passive. Which in sum means that all that awareness is completely worthless. No, really, it is. The fact that majority of Hacker News readers are against SOPA means absolutely nothing. NONE of you passively disagreeing with this legislation will do an iota of difference.

The question is always: what does it take to push people from awareness and complete inaction to at least some form of action?

Hacker News is, for the most part, an intellectual stimulus, a drug for your brain. Something interesting to feed it while you are waiting for your code to build or to fill that oddly shaped slot in your daily calendar where you can't find any use for.

If we can make use of the uneasy feeling you get when your stimulus is unavailable and direct that towards what you could actually do to make your opinion observable, that would be a very good thing.

Here's how a website like Hacker News should be blacked out:

pick the busyest day at the beginning of the week (mon/wed) and black out 30 hours. from 0600 in the morning to 1200 lunch-time the next day.

on the site display information on how people can take action in ways that are observable. How to find their representatives, how to write to them in ways that are constructive.

There should also be some resources available to identify the backers of this legislation. It IS okay to not give companies that want to limit your freedom your money. It isn't "overly political" -- it is the most civilized and honest thing you can do. So do it to the degree you are capable and tell others.

Make or find materials that can easily be spread on social networks, because this is important: I assume that a lot of people reading hacker news are members of a self-selecting set of people who are smart and care. Your friends will look to you for advice. You are likely to have an above average degree of influence in your social network.

You guys are important and influential. If you don't do anything, everyone around you is going to take their cue from you and do nothing.

So I respectfully disagree that blacking out Hacker News is pointless. I think it is important exactly because inaction from us speaks much, much louder than inaction from the gray masses.
Same here. Nothing groundbreaing about Java vs C threw.

Edit: I mean most of the problems (maybe features) of java are known.
The other reply covers the question of what a hacker really is - hint - it's not what the movies or newspapers will have you think. So if you were looking for opinions from software pirates and people who use software to break into banks or whatever, this isn't the place.

But the people here are the people who write software that you use. they write apps for phones, they create web sites with useful information. In general, here you will find the people that make the internet worth having.

And they are universally against SOPA.

Just do a search for SOPA and you'll get screens and screens and screens of reasons why it's bad. But it's summed up pretty well in the article linked to here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3455265

To summarise that further:

Bank robbers use getaway vehicles that have wheels.
If we banned wheels, we could stop bank robberies!

That's what SOPA is like - trying to ban wheels to stop bank robberies. And it will be about as successful. The people who really want to rob banks will use other methods to get away, and everyone else will be stuck without wheels.

When you write your article, will you submit here a link to it for us?
Samsung have their hands in the pies of all mobile operating systems; Android, Windows Phone, iOS, their own Bada and now Tizen. It's that impartiality that makes them into the success that they are.
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"communicating with us" != "contacted us"

The initial poster was talking about a hypothetical question we sent in 1912, meaning we contacted them, and they are communicating with us (they replied). You replied without changing the order of who contacted who.