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Hmmm did you try watching one? I tried watching a Simpsons episode on the Fox site. Site took ages to load. Eventually there was a weird selection of random full episodes (6). When I clicked on the latest one, it took a while to load again and then went nowhere. Maybe it's because I live in South Africa? Either way, we have satellite TV showing The Simpsons as well as PVRs here so it's pretty much the same situation as described in the article - far simpler for the average person to just google 'Simpsons SxEyy torrent' than to go the "legitimate" route to exactly the same bits. (Not that I own a TV or watch series, but in theory.)
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but could you not just email the customers and tell them how much better the service is now? and hash the passwords as suggested
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not exactly, I'm talking more about a group like the NRA or AIPAC or NCAAP...something powerful enough where every presidential candidate has to come in and kiss up to get the group's approval.

Something where a candidate getting rated a C or D or F by the group, means the kiss of death in politics.

And something, with the following to get mobilized quickly to knee cap any bad legislation before it can even get out of committee.

The tech industry makes up a huge part of the GDP...but there is very little unified influence for people to respect it.
Like Sarah (and the 'valley way') or not, she's really good at what she does - well written long-form pieces with some sort of historical perspective. She's been around the block a few times and whether you agree with her or not, she almost always makes a compelling case for her point of view.

I know that it's kinda common on here to be negative first, but I am glad that somebody like her is throwing their hat in the ring for 'my' attention. Short, sensationalist pieces are great for quick reading, but I welcome an experienced journalist's pen for what I love - startups.

Let the flaming begin.
Faint sunlight enough to drive weather, clouds on Saturn's moon Titan
It's also because Postgres work to internal release deadlines.

They'll take a stable half-feature over a buggy full-feature at any given deadline. What matters is that over time they patiently and carefully expand those half features.

The most visible example is the slowly increasing coverage of replication. This JSON feature is another example -- I expect it will grow in future into a fuller feature set.
Apple becomes the eighth most valuable brand in the world
I'm pretty sure that $20 is not taxed. So, you're taxed as through you made $20 less.
What's the point of minimalism if not to reduce one's impact on the world? Am I understanding this "movement" incorrectly?

From one perspective, reducing your greater impact on the world by some amount seems to at least be routed in a desire to improve things - to make a nobel idea a reality as much as possible. Whether or not the overall impact is measurable is countered by the nobel gesture of the person at least.

From another perspective however, simply reducing the number of "possessions" one has to a ridiculously small amount by offloading the benefit provided by having said possessions to other segments - in essence, renting everything - doesn't seem to have much of a purpose at all beyond being slightly inconvenient. While I highly doubt anybody can only "own" 15 things - no, underwear cannot be excluded, even if you don't wear them more than once - whether the low bound is 15, 30, 75 or 200 seems rather irrelevant. As such, I'm not sure of the point.

Personally, I'd read deeply into some of the other very intelligent comments here. Ignore any perceived anger, because I don't think it exists.
Video game sales fall 21% in December, down 8% for full-year 2011
My understanding, and I could be wrong, is that the military detention provision would stop the rendition program because "terrorists" would be in military custody instead of allowing the flexibility that they currently have:

"Specifically, the provision would limit the flexibility of our national security professionals to choose, based on the evidence and the facts and circumstances of each case, which tool for incapacitating dangerous terrorists best serves our national security interests. "

I think this entire law is bad, but I'd prefer a well defined bad law than one that allows lots of discretion.
Personal failure != Economic Failure. Example: Facebook acquires your startup for 20M, shelves the product and tell you they bought the team. Ouch.
> So, if you already have an environment where you are certain you are inserting valid JSON, it's not much different than just using the text type today.

Today, yes.

Tomorrow, when you launch an API and suddenly hundreds of different apps are talking to your systems, no.

Putting rich descriptions of data right next to the data is a good thing in the long run.
While we're complaining about the sorry state of Linux, something it's desperately lacking (for those of us who ship binary-only libraries and executables) is an equivalent of Windows's PDBs or OS X's dSYMs for post-mortem debugging without bloating the shipping binaries.
Building the next generation file system for Windows: ReFS
That's the weird thing. What she did was genuinely impressive, but only because of her age. For an experienced adult to do the same thing would be a mark against them, because it conveys they're probably a dud doing something distasteful in the hope of polishing a lackluster résumé.
OT nitpick: SQLite.
Update from the author here:

There was a bug that caused the "Double-check availability" results to show that every domain name was registered. I just pushed an update that corrected this so it now returns the correct results.
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> When I see stuff like this, I always think "feature" not a company.

People thought that about search too until Google came along.
The minute she writes about the companies they have invested in, they got their money. We all know that the hardest problem for a startup is user acquisition.
How do I sell to B2B?
I've just finished my product and I want to reach my business customers. What would be the most effective way of selling to B2B?
Which is an example of a "dehumanizing and arrogant behavior towards a fellow developer": cursing them out personally in a comments thread or collecting an email address like every other site in the world?
My initial customers are business not end-users. I've shown this to some of my friends (without the website at that point) and they thought that I was selling to them.
Whenever I'm stumped and turn to google with a programming question, it's always such a relief to see SO as the top result. No other site has the same quality of answers, IMO.
The way to do this is start the image as a small or large instance, apply all patches, install SW, then restart it as a Micro. When you need to install something again, restart the server as a larger instance type first. It's a pain.

The Micro instance is actually very fast for 5-10 seconds of CPU time, but is artificially throttled to very slow (like <5% CPU) after you use a few seconds of CPU.

I'm curious how people use Micro Instances in production, b/c you have to manage the CPU time very carefully, and the machine becomes unusable if you exceed it.

I've been able to use it as an interactive windows or linux shell in the cloud, but not much else.
This is a nice intro but they don't get into how to do this for a very large set of data.
I think the concept of not owning a coffeemaker and going to a coffee shop daily is both consumerism and minimalism. Why can't it be both?

Wouldn't there be huge efficiency gains (and minimalism) in a coffee shop having one large coffee machine, importing huge bags of coffee instead of tiny packages with loads of waste? Reusing 20 cups for 200 people instead of each person owning 5 cups?

3rd world countries have coffee shops btw...
Hey -- there was a production bug that caused every result to come back as registered when you clicked "Double check availability". I fixed this a few minutes ago. Sorry about that.
The main thing they got right is that pages on the Stack Exchange network include (as primary content) exactly one question, followed by the answers to that question. That's it. All other side discussion, requests for more info, expressions of gratitude, etc, are secondarily attached as comments. They are visually and conceptually separate.

In retrospect, this is totally, obviously what you want, but there was a lot of momentum behind making Q&A sites look like a forum.

In other words, their success is well-deserved.
Hey, there was a bug that caused every result to come back as "registered" when you clicked "Double check results". I fixed this so it shouldn't be quite so dismal now. Thanks for reporting this.
Ask HN: How will the Automation Revolution change our lives?
Over the next 50 to 100 years will the Automation Revolution and the exponential increase in worker productivity force a new form of Socialist Capitalism across the globe? If not how will global economies and governments deal with these changes? Are we already seeing the shadows of the impacts to come on today’s economic hiccups? I would be interested in seeing how the readers of this forum foresee the coming changes that are certain to take place over the next 100 years.
Consider making an image sprite for all of the icons, so when I hover over one it's preloaded with no delay.
It depends on if you are using "accurate" in the STEM jargon sense or if you are using it in the common parlance. In jargon, there is a difference between accuracy and precision. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision

Floats are inaccurate (sometimes far from real,) but precise (always yield the same output given the same input.)

Edit: reading the article, it calls out a special (different) meaning of the use of precise in the IEEE float spec

> In the case of full reproducibility, such as when rounding a number to a representable floating point number, the word precision has a meaning not related to reproducibility. For example, in the IEEE 754-2008 standard it means the number of bits in the significand, so it is used as a measure for the relative accuracy with which an arbitrary number can be represented.
The Origin of Wasabi [2007]
My girlfriend cooks lunch for everybody in my startup, she made a blog about it.
One of the problems with VLIW architectures is lack of binary compatibility between CPU generations.
Suppose you had 4-way VLIW architecture and the next generation become 8-way. Even if new CPU will be able to run old 4-way code, it will twice as slower, I.e you need to recompile your software.
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Ban Ki Moon Talks Big About Future Energy
Even if it was mostly talk, it was a good talk and the room, which included heads of state from China, Korea, and the UAE seemed to be paying attention.
Today we had enchiladas! EPIC!
Is this the symbols-embedded-in-the-binary thing? Disc space is cheap, and they don't use extra RAM.
Military Networks 'Not Defensible,' Says General Who Defends Them
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This is way better than Ramen, pepperoni pizza and Mountain Dew. Bootstrapping never looked so good.
The question is posed as singular, but just to make it explicit: should we select more than one?
It's not just effort, avoiding PAYE is saving money.. bootstrapping and all that.. similarly for the accountant, although i am due a meeting. Still, if anyone knows, please go ahead and share.
The bloating can be extraordinary. When you're shipping libraries to discerning customers (programmers, not end users), perception really does matter.

A related issue which is more about the compiler than the operating system is that PDBs with Visual C++ on Windows are much more useful with highly optimized binaries than symbols (either embedded or separate) are with GCC-optimized binaries. This is understandable when you consider the different development cultures, but that doesn't make it any less of a problem for us. :)
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I think it's worth mentioning that MySQL has a nice collection of UDF's to handle JSON object output, arrays, and so on: http://www.mysqludf.org/lib_mysqludf_json/index.php
I checked HNSearch, but I couldn't find one with more than a tiny handful of comments (I think with this comment we're already halfway to matching the most active one).
Did anyone else notice that the page uses custom-made buttons for all platforms other than G+? I wonder if those buttons were made with not allowing Twitter and Facebook to track users in mind.
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It's really really weird to me that someone who wants to own as few things as possible (i.e. be unmaterialistic) is so focused on brands. (which to me is the height of materialism owning/valuing/recognizing something for it's label rather than substance).

Seems like it's just a gimmick, something to fill blog posts with.
You missed the Morpho programming language (http://morpho.cs.hi.is/index.html).
Forget about Ramen.
I would also really appreciate any ideas or suggestions?
Amber: Smalltalk in the browser
Sure, I'd be happy to. Here it is: http://twitter.com/robots.txt
Silverlight is cross platform.
See I use Safari on my iPhone, so theoretically this shouldn’t annoy me. But I’ve made websites through the bad days of the desktop browser monoculture, and I don’t want the same thing to happen on mobile.
Interesting. This site claims that the intent behind the cloaking is taken into account:
http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=148&...
... Do you agree? Or have you had a different experience?
The most readily accessible one is the Itanium compiler. Intel (and SGI) worked to create a compiler that could maximize the use of the VLIW instruction set of the processor to achieve application specific performance.

This was presented by Intel to its enterprise customers as the 'secret sauce' that would give Itanium the edge over SPARC and other 64 bit architectures. They have invested millions in making this effort work.

However, reception of a workflow for the Itanium compiler was mixed at best. Some workloads it out performed, others it simply matched. The process for training the compiler, which seemed to me at the time to be an outgrowth of the branch prediction efforts, involved running synthetic benchmarks, collecting information about utilization of the execution units and then synthesizing new instruction mixes for the applications. The imposition of such a heavy weight process which needed to be repeated for nearly every change to the code base, worked against the benefits promised. Since code is likely to change often, proposals of waiting until you are 'ready to ship' before optimziation and tuning. But once shipped patches are made, bugs fixed, anomalies corrected. Changing any line of code could create a massive stall in the pipeline and crush performance until the system was re-tuned.

I don't know if that experience was universal, but it was common enough that such stories were everywhere at places like the Microprocessor Forum and other conferences.
I don't see the "Order Delivery" button.
Any one that has tools that let me create little DSLs easily (see treetop - ruby, common lisp in general).
This is not a good argument: you cannot buy a tablet without operating system and install something later - you buy the package of tablet hardware with operating system.

How I see what Microsoft does now, they simply say to vendors: if you want to sell your hardware with our system, these are our requirements. Given that vendor can sell same tablet with, say, Android, what's the problem here? They won't be allowed to put Windows logo on the tablet, but I guess it's not a big deal.

Another thing that bothers me in this media noise about "Linux lockout": vendors are locking down their tablets and phones right now, without any Microsoft help - where's the public outcry?
Is Skype the Windows Phone Wildcard?
Try writing it from scratch, whippersnapper. In C.

I guarantee you'll end up having to write a damn string library and garbage collection - and you'll get it wrong.
Indeed! We used to spend $100+ on crappy junk food a week. No we get to have delicious home cooked meal.
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We saw several even more unusual tasks in 2011 in small quantities, but that's a blog post in itself.

Suffice it to say that if they're any indication of what's to come, crowdsourcing is likely to crop up in some unexpected places in the year ahead.
mmm...hiring? ;)
hstore is all kinds of awesome, but one limitation is that the values are pure text. You can nest an hstore inside another, but only if you're smart enough to know that it SHOULD be treated as an hstore; as far as Postgres is concerned, it's text that happens to contain '=>'.

If JSON support means first-class type support in a nested object, that's a huge leap forward.
I was promised something by the (outrageously) surprising claim in the headline and the article could not remotely keep up... and this was the first analogy that came to my mind - in both cases something was promised but then not fulfilled.
Gates and his lieutenants are guilty of extortion rather than theft. "Nice OEM you got, a pity if something were to … happen to it." That wealth is an enormous market failure that the others were not sociopathic enough to cause.
LoseThos is a company project. No amateur contributors. I wrote every line myself. I'm not about to break a perfect record.
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Marry her.
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Totally agree that if they didn't offer up the prior art to prevent the patent in the first place then they should have. That said who knows if it would have made a difference. Regardless, I think the bigger issue is that even knowing the patent wouldn't stand up in court, like many tech patents, they have still chosen to close up shop in fear of going bankrupt defending themselves.

It's just another example, outside of tech, of the patent system hindering entrepreneurship and business instead of empowering it.
Founders of Twitter, Eventbrite, 99designs on Why It's Hard to Hire a Designer
Yes please. Even for those of us who just deploy binaries we would really like to have a way to put them back together with the symbols and source.

99.9% of the time we don't need to, but in that 0.1% it makes a big difference.
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I don't think he represents me, but I think he'd actually represent the values of the people who vote for him, which I think is more than I can say about any other candidates.
I'd be interested in helping you sort out your problem. I think it's a nice concept for a website. I am unclear with what you mean by "with the assistance of the creator". Does that mean there is a "usesthis" framework?

I have experience in running linode and ec2 servers.
If you are interested please email me with more information about your project as well as where you are currently. For example do you have a codebase, is it on GitHub, design/ui ready? and ideally a summary of your overall concept + how we would get user adoption.

email is in my profile!
Of course I will!
it would be super awesome if JSONH https://github.com/WebReflection/JSONH (json for homogenous collections) was standardized and adopted. it would be a great csv replacement and a perfect fit for recordsets, providing minimal overhead.
See http://linux.die.net/man/1/objcopy -> --only-keep-debug

Then you can open the core file as usual: gdb executable core (just be sure to have debug files in the same directory)
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Congress as an institution has <10% approval, but most individual congressniks will keep on getting re-elected. "All politics is local", etc. It's never "your" congressnik, except in cases of infidelity or some other egregious media-hounded event.
I think that's the prettiest page I've ever seen on their network. Hopefully we'll see some creative/design refreshes this year -- it makes a big difference.
Fair, but at the same time I've also had a compiler quickly draw my attention to a lot of potential errors thanks to static type checking more than once in the past, particularly when doing hairy refactors.

The relative strengths and weaknesses of dynamic and static languages are greatly exaggerated. Doing type checks at compile time won't make your code magically bug-free. But neither will delaying type checks until run-time free you from the shackles of the datatype hegemony. The trade-off between keystrokes and CPU cycles isn't really even all that much of a thing anymore, what with jitters closing the gap on one side of the fence, and type inference and generics closing it on the other.
> ... document how a library is supposed to be used when they do exist ...

That will also depend on the library. In my library projects there is no way you'd figure out good/normal library usage because the vast majority of the test code is exploring edge cases and things that go wrong. I have 96-99% coverage which means there is a lot of non-normal usage tested. For example consider getting the length of something. Normal usage would just ask for it. Test code has to check different types, null pointers (if applicable), broken iterators, running out of memory and various other issues.

I do however have very comprehensive documentation including lots of example code. That of course is what the projects should provide rather than expecting reverse engineering of the test suite.