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As a life-long East Coaster I'd also add this:

There's an optimism that permeates and reinforces the entrepreneurial spirit in the bay area that the East doesn't have anymore. It's a kind of frontier, the world is my oyster, I can do anything kind of thinking, that's needed in this kind of highly speculative industry.

On the downside, coming from the East Coast, it feels weird at times, interacting with SV folks. Bringing up obvious concerns or problems is met more with a "why are you poo pooing my optimism buzz?" more often than valid concerns taken as a serious consideration. The hyper-optimism is socially reinforced, I have my head in the clouds, you have yours, it's rude to bring anyone down.

As an outsider, it seems to explain certain bizarre behaviors I'd encountered when dealing with West Coast firms, usually centered on outrageous and unjustifiable expenditures of their VC money before the company has made any sort of sniffs at being profitable.
If you're into TDD and Ruby, then they're probably the best ones you can find. But if you don't like testing, then I would suggest saying away :) There's a free one that you can check out here https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts on the bottom of the page ... and see if you like it.
I was the the OP. The CPU spends a lot of time moving shit around rather than doing work.

My point is to remove the distinction between the register file and the main memory so that the entire CPU's working set is linear and no copies are required, therefore drastically increasing speed.

When you do this, you lose all the cache control latency and context switch overhead, resulting in a much smaller and faster core, leaving plenty of space for 32Gb on die :)

No existing architectures will do this as they rely on the memory hierarchy. I'm talking about a new architecture.
> there are faster hashes

Yes, but none as widespread. MD5 is available in every system, on every language.
Ask HN: Is the HN karma calculator broken?
I've noticed over the last week that my karma score is not being incremented inspite of receiving points. I have not got downvotes either.

Also my average is inexplicably dropping too apparently for no reason.

Is something broken?
One of the nice facts about history is that you will never see any group trash "liberty" and "freedom." Just about every dictatorial, authoritarian, or megalomaniacal political movement thinks it's pro-freedom. Communists? "The bourgeois have enslaved the proletariat, and we lock them up in the name of liberating the people." Nazis? "The actions of the Jewish Conspiracy at the end of the Great War have enslaved the German people." The U.S. Civil War stands as one of the most explicit examples: one side rallied behind the idea that slavery must be abolished; the other side rallied behind the idea that the federal government has no right to tell its member states what to do. It was a war where the liberty of the lowest class was pitted against the liberty of the state.

It's as if Mother Liberty was the Goddess herself: for whenever two nations come into a fight, people in both are always saying that "God is on our side"...
Going along with the metaphor, shared hosting is like crashing on your friend's couch while you get your life in order and look for a place to live.
Noscript leaves many websites unavailable because they do not load without google-APIs. Some sites even will not load without allowing google-analytics.

As for googles opt out policies, they only apply in so far as one is already logged into a Google account - hardly more effective than simply not logging in to Google.

[Edit] How practical are your recommended solutions for the 13 year old children Google is now seeking to track? Never mind trying to apply noscript and adblock on a mobile device.
Even then I take issue with the terms. By all popular accounts I was extremely "introverted" when I was younger. Having made a concious decision to change certain aspects of my life, I am now far more balanced, and I have more than one story that makes "extroverts" blush. Not once have I read an article that discusses introversion and extroversion as flexible personality traits.
Check this: https://github.com/facebook/pfff

I don't think you can easily detect design patterns... you'll end up thinking about a "high level language where you can design just by dragging and dropping some blocks" which kinda doesn't work IRL.
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So far. This will dramatically improve. Original transistors had a low MTBF but the chemical and electrical processes were tuned until this was a non issue.

This is literally like using transistors for the first time in the late 1950s.
Thats what I'm trying to find out. TBH I'm not looking to use it for a startup, more for actually playing around with all the new stuff I see on HN. But yeah it does look a bit dodgy being SO cheap.
What a misleading title indeed. Bill Gates: the man who said that Open Source software is "A New Communism"[1].

MS now embraces Open Source because they can't fight it (and hopefully they've seen the benefits of it?).

[1] http://www.humaniteinenglish.com/spip.php?article319
Ah, I hadn't see this before! Going to register now.
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Any friction will ultimately affect "conversions", although I think the friction is probably smaller that we'd think. Most people don't spend much time reading and fretting about the TSA online, so for those, standing in line for half an hour and having your passport stamped is just part of the excitement of travelling (for less experienced travelers). As a fraction of the total time and bother of intercontinental travel, it's almost negligible.
Deleting an email really isn't that onerous a task, but you are of course free to use whatever criteria you wish to judge a host.

And as you point out with the "forgotten password dance", access to your email account gives an attacker access to your hosting account anyway (although not stealthily).
I love these questions. I'm a self-taught front-end developer and always want to test my skills. I will answer what I can without searching, just for the fun of it. Also, I just woke up. Feedback would be greatly appreciated.

1) Iframe over XHR. Not quite sure. I have used iframes to load a print version of a page and print it without redirecting the user. Other than that, perhaps I would also use frames to get a fully rendered response from the server and just append the html to the existing dom (so as to keep XHR for data only responses). Or load a bunch of templates. Or just use iframes for what they really are, embedding other webpages into the existing one.

2) One method that looks bullet-proof is what olark has done: https://github.com/olark/lightningjs Takes care of xhtml vs html, bad code, bad browsers and lots of other stuff (performance).

3) Yes I can. Years ago I used while() and was excited to find out that it's actually a good solution. I wouldn't load a library when it would make the experience less better.

4) I would guess dom manipulation, append, insert and the like. I always remove the parent element and then put it back in when I'm done with it. innerHTML is also fast and appropriate sometimes.

5) I can't understand the problem/question. Can you elaborate?

6) Off the top of my head: input, br, hr, meta, link, img. Omitted entirely? Not sure but I would say body and html. I would search and choose one of the top results. If its stackoverflow, w3c specs, htmldog I wouldn't worry.

7) Use location.hash. I wouldn't know how to implement it my self (IE needs an iframe from what I understand, Safari has/ad its own issues) but there are a bunch of libraries out there to do it for me. HTML5 has pushState, yay!

8) Good question. Considering only HTML and CSS I would use CSS colours (but not background-image, that was fixed). As for HTML5 I can't think of something.

9) I know and read about those but never used them, except for persistent storage.

10) With the data- attribute.. Or you can write your own doctype. Ha!
It's probably a legacy from how we tend to say dates.

"What's the date?"

"January 30th."
I'm American and it turns me off from travelling. All air travel now carries the inherent risk of sexual molestation from a high school dropout. No thanks, Ill just stay home and enjoy twitter, apparently now along with 1000 US federal agents. America is getting more awesome every week.
Assuming from the name this was a monitoring app:
1) http://mon.itor.us/ has a free version, and it's decent but very infrequent (ex. 30 minutes)
2) NewRelic RPM has ping-based monitoring included in even their free plan (and it's ping interval is much more agressive).
> Anything to get people to stop using MD5.

Why? Because a bunch of academics managed to create a collision after 2 weeks of trying on a beefed up machine? Really?

MD5 is much faster than SHA-2. As long as you're aware of the security implications, there's no need to stop using it.
> Open wi-fi has nothing to do with it.

You should really serve the site in HTTPS.
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After posting that, you're probably already on the blacklist ;)
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Only if that data is classified as evidence. From the post it seems like they're working on making that true.
Actually yeah I did see this done in Sweden as well but didn't think of it before. I think it creates a sense of 'shared limited resource' which IMO is more widely understood in Europe than NA.

An app for managing access to community/shared resources? Meeting rooms, ice rinks, laundry, coop cars, ??
Is that really a possibility? I assumed the 6 Gb/sec (as Wikipedia claims) for SATA 3 would be sufficient bandwidth for any drive storage.

I'll admit, I've not followed this sort of hardware closely but my understanding was that SATA is set on its own track, apart from the other buses like PCI and USB.
But, for the whole of the 20th century, I think, one could make the argument that there were places freer, particularly if one happened to be a member of one of the US's more hated minority groups. From WW2 to the 60s, if you happened to be a racial minority, there was almost no-where less free in the developed world; the US was extremely late amongst developed countries to grant universal suffrage.
FTP is kind of dying out though.

Now the religion of SMTP.. I often wonder how the spam situation would look if we redid SMTP and required certified TLS. What's worse, we still use SMTP for real stuff every day, I get emails from Etrade, Fidelity and others that I simply don't want flying through cyberspace decrypted even if they don't contain real information.
What a load of crap.

He changed open source software because of one meeting in 2008?

Maybe he changed Microsoft, but I don't buy the idea he is "the man who changed open source software." Nothing in the article convinces me otherwise.

Overblown, linkbait title (and it IS the original Wired title, not the fault of the submitter).
They seem to be betting big on cache coherency and shared memory , compared to say Calxeda with clusters of CPUs with message passing. Not sure how much of the market needs this, eg your example application above does not.
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Does anyone have any experience with FanaticalVPS? I've heard good things - apparently they don't oversell, for one.

http://fanaticalvps.com/
most likely the data hosting companies were not part of the whole DoJ takedown operation, so for them it's basically like any other client who stops payments....
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Agreed, nobody did, but everybody is screaming bloody murder now it seems...
With 100 cores you probabky need a very large amount of ram for most applications.
Wait no more, many big Chinese copycats use php.
This is a big bummer to me. I asked Eivind if he is going to open source the site, and he said he will try, but he needs to write documentation as well as clean up the current release. Hopefully that will happen sooner than later. wasitup was so much easier to sign up for than any other service I've used.
Use the prefix increment operator ++it instead of postfix operator it++
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Java, C# which covers a good 80+ percent of enterprise software. Moving data from one company to another for processing is big, big business. The type of thing not discussed on HN because it's not relevant here, but it must happen for those types of companies and FTP is really the only thing you can ask a paying client to use without asking them to rely on unsupported/abandoned/old third party libraries.
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>The various decade long studies on Ritalin also show it to be largely useless and harmful.

Twenty seconds on Google Scholar would lead me to the opposite conclusion. Your source?
I decided to do a small set of bench press and basic weight lifting in my basement at 6:30am monday, wednesday and friday: the gym, i go once a week during winter to work the cardiac system with bike/running (things to help me go there are the pay per visit fees - no yearly subscription AND doing intervals, and its next to my work place). That's my Minimum Viable "gym" schedule - i do other sports as well but those aren't routine
You can send a URL by text, you can view email on your phone - not sure how the method fails for phone support?

I think the parent to your comment has it right; getting a transcription of an arbitrary long alphanum code right over the phone can be tedious.
This goes back a _very_ long way; politicians used similar rhetoric in the Roman Republic (which was a slavery-based state which granted a meaningful franchise only to a wealthy elite).
Sorry if I'm being dense, but where is that 2 mA measured? It only has three pins: input, output, and reference. There's no ground pin. The reference presumably draws almost no current, as drawing significant current would affect the measurement. So the current on the input & output must be the same, and the same as what we're feeding into the electrodes. No? Does this just mean you can't use the simple circuit composed entirely of the LM317 and a single resistor between the output pin and the reference?
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This is useful. I will review.

I have traditionally used the instructions here which are very mature and have done me well for years:

http://workaround.org/ispmail

They are absolutely bomb proof.
Again, I didn't claim it is.

This was the very first contact. Sending me passwords (same for 'temporary ones' after a reset. I consider that a cumbersome process whereas I consider the initial mail just plain "wrong") delivers more than just the text over this channel.

I read between the lines "Here's your password again from 2 minutes ago. File it away" which again is nothing I consider a good idea. The impression is that they write the digital form of a post-it note of the password for my monitor.

Is it a big issue in itself? Nope, probably not. But it certainly ruined the first impression for me and I'll walk away now. I shared that part because others might (or might not) agree and to potentially save like-minded people a registration.
Interesting idea but still I would prefer an outdoor way of working out even if I forced myself to.

For example, during summer I come home/go to work on kickboard sometimes. I do listen to podcasts en route.
Another article on the same subject:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/opinion/sunday/quality-hom...

According to the article, there are three main ways to efficient learning:

1. Spaced Repetition - where the information is repeated, but with longer and longer intervals between each repeat.

2. Retrieval Practice - where you have to actively recall the answer or technique rather than being told or shown it.

3. Cognitive Disfluency - the harder you have to work to read or understand the material the more you will remember it. (I'm not sure how useful this point is. The New York Times article refers to research where the text was blurry, but from this it concludes that interleaving different topics would give a good results...I'm not convinced that would give the same result).
My Dad is a classic car enthusiast. He will quite happily talk to his fellow classic car enthusiasts about the obscurities of 1970's carburetors for hours. But who else would want to do this?

Programmers write lots of code in text editors (usually - hello Smalltalkers!). They will quite happily discuss text editors for hours.

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This is where we started a couple of years ago. He has expressed a lot of interest in app design, and I'm taking the track of "walk before you fly." As an intensely analytic and intelligent guy, I think he's ready to get into the code.

Surprised no one mentioned HacketyHack. Anyone have any experience with that?
It's Wired - what do you expect? Nothing quality has come out of them for at least a decade.
Does anyone here recommend building your own email system other than it being more private than hosted email? Are there any benefits (outside of privacy) to putting up your own email server?
That was some really great advice and I like the fact that he kept coming back to confidence. Confidence in your subject, your ability to deliver and in the quality of your presentation is key.

One thing I would add though is regarding visuals. If you present with a slide deck make sure there is an absolute minimum of words on each slide. People will read every slide you put up, and while they are reading, they are not listening to you. The human brain just isn't modeled to be able to handle listening to one thing, while reading another.
They don't care how much it costs. US tax payers will pay for it.
PCI Express is past, so is SATA.

When you get to have L5 memory of nearly same speed and price as L4 (RAM) then whole architecture will have to change.

Forget contemporary memory busses, forget contemporary R/W mechanisms, forget contemporary databases.
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I've actively avoided the U.S. even though I still want to go, because of those same issues.

I even was a few meters from the U.S. (Niagara Falls) and avoided going because of all the visa complications and expenses plus the security measures (if it had been a given I'd be accepted I would have gone, but they don't like young unattached people saying they want to do "tourism", they expect we'll want to stay).
You can actually watch torrents while they download, its called sequential downloading and many clients support it.
I would guess that would depend where the hosting resides. If the host is non-US then it is out of the courts jurisdiction.

You need to think about the cost to the hosting company. I assume they are holding a lot of data and a large number of servers are tied up doing nothing without payment. They have every right to clean the server and allocate it elsewhere.

If anyone should be footing the bill it should be the prosecutors themselves. They can't take it from MegaUpload. The defense shouldn't pay for it as the data may actually damage their case. You would expect them to be in a stronger position with the proof gone.

You also need to think about the damage to the company. I am sure the prosecutors think they have a slam-dunk but what if they loose? They would have effectively destroyed a multi-million dollar company as a result of a failed prosecution. You could expect a fairly large compensation package in this scenario.
"why should we?"

Because we want to, that's why.

If you don't want to, feel free to ignore it.
Yeah, this one is a bit improved stack, because it contains fewer pieces in critical places (ie dovecot can do all the authentication + delivery).
> Not once have I read an article that discusses introversion and extroversion as flexible personality traits.

Myers-Briggs assumes that people have "types", which is not very nuanced. Anything which references Big Five Personality Factors is IMO better (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits).

It also has better traits (or types) - it's quite useful to think of people having a certain level of Introversion, Conscientiousness, Openness to experience (aka inquisitiveness, previously known as "culture" but that's not PC), Neuroticism and Agreeableness. All those traits are interesting.

The main advantage of Myers-Briggs seems to be that its traits are all value-neutral (while Openness to experience is basically good, and Neuroticism is basically bad), and the Keirsey Temperament Sorter claims it can sort you into career bins (like "Fieldmarshal" or "Healer"), and compare you to famous people whos behavior seems "consistent" with that personality type.

Perhaps someone should write some book classifying historical figures into Big 5 categories.
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I work for an insurance company, and we have similar stupid orders.

They're mostly to show the U.S. that we're cooperating on anti-terrorism and avoid being put on blacklists, no-one expects us to catch anything.
browserhawk said [in the site banner area] "Your browser: Firefox 1.5 (WinXP) | Screen: 1024 x 768 | Flash: 8 | Cookies: Enabled [more]" when I first arrived. That's about as wrong as is possible. I'm assuming that is some default info - but that seems rather poor design. It does get it right but then goes back to the wrong info again on other pages. SupportDetails has always worked for me in the past.
It would do really bad on the SPEC benchmarks for example.

That's what I'd expect. But "bad" * 100 might still be good. Or more realistically, "bad" * scaling * 100 might be acceptable.

But without data, it's anybodies guess.
So as evidence that Microsoft changed Open Source Software, the example of Azure was given, having built-in support for some open-source platforms.

However, this is a reaction that didn't change anything: Windows Azure came after Amazon's AWS. The business of hosting your own software was already shifting to the cloud in a big way. Azure isn't even that successful anyway, being used more for keeping Microsoft's customers from switching from their own Windows servers to the more convenient EC2 (and it's children, like Heroku), which is cheaper and better if you're running Linux.

Microsoft also hasn't stopped attacking Open Source. They're just taking the indirect approach of threatening companies that rely on open-source, making them pay royalties, with the ultimate purpose being to make open-source software more expensive then their own alternatives. They also can't attack open-source directly, as other big companies rely on it (e.g. IBM).

Also, taking a good look at their strategy regarding Open Source, you can clearly see that it's all for marketing and defensive purposes (i.e. doing the minimal amount of work required for them to be considered open-source friendly, but without actually being so). For instance, they open-sourced ASP.NET MVC, but not Razor.
Ask HN: Is Hollywood actually listening?
Since the fall of SOPA the internet has gone into overdrive with thoughts, feelings and suggestions about the movie/media industry.

Most of the thoughts being posted are not new, but the overwhelming response to SOPA should have made the industry at least take note of what real consumers are thinking.

So what I would like to know is, is there any evidence that the industry is actually paying attention to this information? or even that they have noticed it?