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For anyone who hasn't read it, 'Shipping Out (on the nearly-lethal comforts of a luxury cruise)' is an absolute blast.

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The logical consequence of the fact that PCs keep getting faster even though a PC from 2005 did everything most people need (word processing, email, web, chat).

And Microsoft didn't see it coming, apparently.
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I don't understand the point of the ET footage in there.
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It sounds as if all Porsche did was to buy some options and some stock, why should it be illegal? Why is any time somebody loses money on the markets now a "failure of the system" and new regulations are being called for?

I think they did not even exert the possible squeeze, the price only rose because of fear that they might exert it.

Maybe such a squeeze should be illegal (asking for an infinitely high price for stock), but it is difficult to imagine a viable law for it? I suppose going short always carries an infinitely high risk.
I am so far very happy with 8.10, too. Finally dual screen works out of the box, yay! Even flashplayer continued to work after the update, what more can one wish for?
"Once he finished the car there was one itsy-bitsy problem; the fact that the faux Lambo was built in the basement meant that there was no conventional way to take it outside of the house..."

That's some extreme lack of foresight...
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Sometimes I wonder if this will ever happen to silicon valley. The tone of the article is very ... final.
And I meant to post this: http://www.newsweek.com/id/166659
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It goes in order of increasing involvement:

Job < Career < Passion < Mission.

Its hard to get to the mission level (and even if you do, I guess it could consume you - and one day you have to realise if it was worth it or not I guess...)
As for receiving messages, receive SMSes on a phone connected to computer. Use a package like Gammu or Gnokii(http://www.gnokii.org) on your computer to read SMSes from your phone. Gnokii has wrappers for a lot of languages including Python. That should make you feel comfortable.

There is another package like Gnokii that starts with 'K', which I'm not able to remember.

You could use the free Email to SMS gateway to push messages. ex: phonenumber@carrier.com there'll be no ads in this so rejoice. :)

A lot of carriers have this facility. But if you are from India you are out of luck to push messages. Coz only a few carriers have this kinda facility. And even if they have it, you still have a problem since email-to-sms gateway urls are different for each state even for a single carrier. And since we the frequencies in India are auctioned based on circles(areas), there are a lot of small carriers which operate in just 1 or 2 states.
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An interesting thing about the traffic on HN
I find it extremely interesting that there is an obvious and sharp decline in the amount of new posts on HN over the weekend.

Since my hobby (sailing) requires reasonably nice weather, and since it's getting damn cold here, I find myself more and more often working over the weekends too, reading or housekeeping.

What do you folks do over the weekends when the requirements for your hobby aren't satisfied?
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"Law firms say the trend has companies scrambling to seek legal counsel on whether they can fire employees who refuse promotions."

That made me chuckle.

"CyberAgent Inc., a Tokyo-based Internet advertising agency, is offering the unambitious a different way out. The company puts these workers on a 'specialist' track where they can remain rank-and-file employees but have similar salaries as managers. This ensures the company 'doesn't lose qualified employees by pressuring them to accept promotions,' says Tetsuhito Soyama, general manager for personnel at the company."

I like their style!
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it could also be that on weekdays people tend to slack work and post on HN :D

As for your question about weekends, i am in a doomed profession which requires me to give certain exams (so is my wife).. so we end up studying on most weekends :)
"Miya Matsumoto, manager of the laid-back Mr. Nishikido, says she's tried everything -- from screening success-themed films like "The Devil Wears Prada" to throwing after-work drinking parties -- to push her subordinates to be more ambitious."

They missed the point of Devil Wears Prada. The movie showcases what happens when you occupy yourself with only work. Thats the last movie you want to screen to motivate employees to work harder
Its not so much funny, as a real time measure of how quickly crime may go up in many areas as the economy goes down. Look how quickly we jump to racial profiling.
Yuck. Considering that you are most likely working full time over the week, it's quite sucky to have work encroach on your weekend like that :-\
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Scuba diver is such a cop-out, although a very impressive one. I was too lazy to put on the whole suit last year so I was just a snorkeler, so kudos to you!
It is a matter of corporate structure. The best employees barely need managing; give 'em a project and set 'em loose. Their manager just needs to sign off on their expenses, basically.

If you go into any investment bank, you will see that practically everyone has the title 'Vice President'. They got vice presidents answering the phones! Promotion for promotion's sake is just silly.
i have to make some points clear here. I am living in west africa for now, and I am not interested in email to sms since that doesnt work here. And i dont have physical access to my hardware because i am using AWS.
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> I use this on my mail server and with 200 users
> I've yet to ever get a false positive.

How do you know? I don't see how you would measure that; if you can figure out it is a false positive, you have discovered a better filter. You might get user complaints, but the absence of user complaints doesn't prove you have no false positives. (Although the presence of user complains could prove that you do.)

Also: The assertion that everything to do with viagra is spam makes it very difficult to have a discussion about viagra or spam. For example, this posting would be rejected.
maybe it is just a coincidence but the traffic on my blog also slows down over the weekend...
That's certainly the impression I've taken away from reading a bunch of articles on OLED displays. The failure rate is apparently still high enough (at decent yields) that they're not practical yet, and unlike back-lit LCD displays, individual pixels degrade at different rates, which is pretty bad for obvious reasons.
Like many in the accursed technology realms, I am doomed to releasing my software over the weekend (it's business-oriented, so the greatest drop in usage is over the weekend, hence ideal time to release).

So generally I spend Saturday doing an end-to-end test in our pre-prod environment to make sure everything looks fine, and then I tell capistrano to do the release, and then I go and perform such standard human activities as spending time with my girlfriend or doing a little bit of sport.
and how quickly blacks jump to crime.

and how afraid the police is to say it.

and how quickly you jump to condemn whites.

it's sick.

edit: don't reply! pile on the downmods! you're helping me make the point.
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I'll grant you this is somewhat unfortunate, but I think "crushingly sad" is a bit exaggerated.
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I got a much cuter picture: http://stackoverflow.com/Content/Img/wait-ill-fix-it.jpg

But seriously, why is this news? Certainly anybody who cared would've noticed on his own, yes?
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i finally had a chance to play with a dell netbook this week and it was perfect for browsing, blogging and chatting
zuckerberg already decided that running facebook is more fun than doing whatever you want everyday for the rest of your life.
Yup... nothing like "news"
but why's it down ? I'm seriously missing it...
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it also shows how easy it is to fool the profilers: If you're a black criminal don't wear a do-rag.
Next up, Office Space :-)
Probably due to some SQL server hassles (http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/984941516), although if they were downgrading I'd expect them to put up a 'closed' page.
Scient (or one of the high flying consulting companies) used to do this in the dot-com days, people could stay at the same position for how ever long they wanted.
In other news, rain is wet. Pretty much every website sees a drop in traffic on the weekend.
I'm betting it does the "plasticy click" noise featured in every other Lego-branded game whenever you put a block down, pick one up, move the mouse...
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Better to be foreclosed on than work as a shuttle bus driver if other options are available.
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> The projects goals came from its Wikipedia page

Perhaps this misunderstanding of the goals for TeX is what makes your posts sound trollish. Most people who write documents don't need anything but the simplest of typesetting. The web is a collection of millions of documents, but it is built off about six fonts (of which only three get much use), using a very limited character set.

Most people who need good typesetting for technical documents use TeX, particularly if they want to typeset mathematical notation. Wikipedia requires minimal typesetting for the majority of its content, but the maths is set using TeX.

Why no TeX viewer? The goal for TeX was to typeset printed documents, books. PDFs work fine online, you could easily send someone a resume on paper or in a PDF, typeset using TeX.

Why no bundled TeX GUI? TeX didn't set out to be a text editor, it just handles typesetting for people who don't own printing presses. If it had tried to be a text editor, it would probably have been much less successful, and would be probably be forgotten by now.

Writing a WYSIWYG text editor is a very different challenge to writing a typesetting program. For example, TeX will try and lay out a paragraph so that there is no trailing single word on the last line. (And will produce warning messages if it can't find a way to make it look good.) To do that, you need to have access for the whole paragraph of text. However, in a WYSIWYG editor, as soon as the type hits the page, you want it to stay there. You don't want it moving about as you add text to the end of a paragraph, because it will feel like unpredictable, leading to a poor user experience.

Typesetting formulae graphically has similar problems, but they are even worse. The few GUIs for TeX that do exist are largely unremarkable, but notably they are GUIs which use TeX, it isn't a goal for TeX itself to provide one.

TeX's goal is beautifully typeset books, a goal it achieves.

(Specifically the typesetting of The Art of Computer Programming series of books, though obviously it is used in a much wider context.)
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"Soon", huh? You can already buy various netbooks here (Austria) for "free", €1 or so as long as they get to lock you into a contract for 2 years.

examples (links all in German):

A1: €0 up front, €29/mo; €79 up front for shorter than 2 year contract:

http://www.a1.net/privat/netbook

T-Mobile: €0 up front, €25/mo:

http://shop.t-mobile.at/2151810010/1_1_3_5/3883f3fce5c87fc09...

that works out to about €600-700. Stand-alone netbooks go for around €350-400 typically, so you'll have to use about €200-350 worth of the data plan over the course of 2 years. Unless this is their only connection to the internet, I very much doubt most people will use it that much.
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The headline is somewhat off... the initial cost will be $99 but if it comes along with a contract with any North American mobile carrier then there's no doubt they'll make that money back and more.
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Not one person, the council's own in-house translation service. (OK, that could be one person, but the implication is that it is not).

This is what happens when you don't have any sort of defined procedures, reviews, approval process, QA or sanity checks, or if you just ignore them.
You can already get free ones with a mobile broadband contract in the UK. There's also a chinese manufacture that's produced a $99 model to buy: http://www.mobiew.net/2008/09/06/hivision-nb0700-mini-price/
Isn't that what hedge fund do themselves everyday ?
LeoCAD has been doing this for a number of years, if you want an alternative option: http://leocad.org/
Most people don't work on weekend and only have time to surf on hn when they are at work!
An exciting effect is the possibility of new algorithms to take advantage of this different set of performance characteristics (and vindication of neglected, maligned crackpot schemes). There are avenues that intelligent people simply don't explore, because they wouldn't help solve the problems they face, given the fundamental nature of hardware.

For example "So disks are not random access any more?" asked of Jim Gray in the fascinating "A Conversation with Jim Gray" ACM, June 2003
http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=show...

But when fundamental nature of hardware changes...
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"and how quickly blacks jump to crime."

You have evidence of blacks being laid off in and around Palo Alto, and then committing crimes?

I think you should know by now that HN is a place that prides itself on data driven debate. If you have the data, please present it and allow us to determine for ourselves the meaning of it.

I'm betting that, having been challenged, you will quietly go away. But, I REALLY wish that you would respond with some contrived data so that I can point out the logical fallacies in it! :D

BTW - I didn't mod you down. I want people to see this conversation!
It's a shame he didn't get some official recognition, but he willingly sent his work to these guys.

He's obviously one of the few people around who cares more about helping people than money. He's got the respect of his peers, which in academia is probably one of the main things you strive for.

I'm sure he would have been greatful for few quid though!
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30-40 a day? The OP has it right then. Reddit probably gets 30-40 a second.
This is irrelevant - it was an email auto-responder.

Maybe a better observation is that if you're the only person in a company that can read/write a language, don't write your auto-respond message in it.
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Similar to the T-Mobile G1, which currently has a cost somewhere between £180 and £720* despite the handset being 'free'.

Nevertheless there are times when finance can be a great deal. Anyone who took out a cellphone contract in Zimbabwe just before the huge deflation must be enjoying their fixed price (now costing ~0.0000000001% in real terms) right now.

*Depending on how you value the cost of the supplied services - the £180 is for someone who fully utilises the bundled minutes/data valued at the lowest cost I can find of obtaining the same plan elsewhere.
An electronic device failed?! That never happens! You are surely the first person to ever experience this!

Sorry, what I meant to say was: What does this have to do with the article?
It appears that he just did.
If I wrote my out of office message in Lisp I'm not sure I would be able to blame someone else for any resulting screw ups.
They should sell a small, maybe 8GB version to use for swap

It's called RAM. If you want 8G of RAM, get 8G of RAM. It's cheap.
I prefer sanity checking the translator by reverse-translating his output:

Nid wyf yn y swyddfa ar hyn o bryd. Anfonwch unrhyw waith i'w gyfieithu.

Bit I am being crookedly the office at this time. You send any time I w translate.

That would give me pause before I painted it onto my street sign.
I like to make some time for myself on the weekends, even if I have a lot of work to be doing. It's necessary to have a mental and physical recharge period.
if it's any consolation, Prasher can take a page out of Garrett Lisi's playbook and get grants from new institutions who would be willing to fund someone like him now that his name is out.
This was all freely available and common knowledge.

Part of being young is not listening and trying to find your own way.
Japanese executives often have desintoxication "cures" when they come back from Europe or the US, so that they don't become addicted to "the good life". The culture of work is insane over there. Calling them a "slacker" nation is a misunderstanding of the nature of Japanese work culture.
Traffic everywhere slows down over the weekends. I get some of my best work done over the weekend though.

None of my competitors and potential competitors work. People are nicely surprised to find a new feature or two working when they come back on Monday. Gives your site a sense of momentum.
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This is a no-brainer. We've seen our traffic shoot up recently, some of it no doubt because of election related news. But we've taken steps to diversify our news offering to prevent a post-election drop off. I think some of the bigger sites (HuffPo and definately Politico) will see substantial hits to their traffic.
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Wow, what an exciting field to be in. It is definitly one of the big thing of the future.
I'm guessing that the auto-respond was written in both languages, but somebody forgot to read the English bit and just copied down the bit that looked Welsh.

Of course, if these people were rational they might take a step back at this point and say "If Welsh-speaking skills are so rare here in Wales that this kind of thing can happen, why are we bothering to translate everything into Welsh?"
Hey, I really appreciate your comment. Yeah. You're probably right. I've never written stuff like this before, so it's probably not going to be pretty. At least in the beginning. I'm learning here. My blog (right now, at least) is more about thinking things through. For myself. And learning. From comments like this!
This doesn't exactly address your question, but HN submissions generally come from other sources of news around the net. These generally drop off over the weekend, so it is only natural that HN traffic does as well. I imagine that there are significantly fewer of us using this site over the weekend, but there is also less for us to talk about.
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It might just be an air pressure thing.
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Nicholas Negroponte did a great presentation at MIT recently. He said that the OLPC still costs ~170 to manufacture; Inflation of the dollar killed their pricing forecasts.

But these netbooks are for a different market.
I agree. It's just these election thingies are very good markers for where we're at because of how they dominate coverage. Still amazing that the internet got mentioned as a first or second choice by only one in three people. That's a tripling on 2004 but there's still a long way to go. Even among 18-29 year olds only 50% cite the internet as a primary source.

Also these numbers show how much newspapers really are dying among the young. Only 17% of the 18-29 demographic cited them first or second.
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Yeah, I think blue breaks down the fastest color wise. I suppose it might be because the emitted light would have higher energy than red or green.
Yeah, from my reading on this drive the biggest gains were made in the controller, which is orders of magnitude more efficient at wear leveling and small-file performance.

For a really good read on why the Intel drive is way better than the competition: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=34...