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Mibbit now with twitter support
Scientific research: What's wrong with this picture?
I'd be interested in what long time twitter users think of this - it's obviously not the usual twitter UI design, but it works quite well IMHO. (It updates every 5 minutes)

Try at http://www.mibbit.com/chat/
People paid for the cars but, according to Mr. Musk's "it's all the preceding CEO's fault" shtick, they were each sold at a substantial loss.

Let me guess: They'll make it up on volume, right?
That's revenue.
Assuming the point of measurement is at the boat, the dominant effect is that it goes up and down in a decaying sinusoidal pattern due to the ripples caused by the anchor hitting the water (it was thrown, right?)

The centre point of the sinuisoidal decay is the new, lower, level as noted by other people. But I would imagine (someone going to calculate?) that effect would be at least 1 or 2 order of magnitude below the ripple effect, given reasonable assumptions.
This reminds me of ASAP Utilities for Excel (Windows): http://www.asap-utilities.com/
There's got to be one out there - some Master's student's project if nothing else.
The Google group is temporary, until I build the journal software in Erlang and migrate to it.

The content is pay-only but I balance it out by offering the source code from the journal to the public. The toolchain I'm building will be free as well. Check the repo link in the comment above.

Also, a lot of people make money from Erlang on the public Erlang Questions mailing list and still ask questions. There's nothing unfair about it.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=373735

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=375861

Dupe.
I just checked that out. What a neat connection to make!
All on one page with pictures still included (just close the print box):

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/the-mostly-true-story-of-hel...
Analogies between software development and building construction are usually misleading. Writing software is more analogous to architecture. Actually building software is so easy we don't notice it any more. Compilers take care of it for us.
And further, who would actually receive the payments? The programmers who wrote the code? The folks who packaged up the distributions?

Would it be useful to have some sort of open source payment organization, a la ASCAP for composers, such that a general fund comes from donations from happy software users, and based on some formula, members of the organization get payouts based on the frequency of the usage of their software?
"I don't think so, not beyond your very first couple of jobs."
And how long is that, 5-10years?

And for the really attractive jobs, do you even get a shot if straight out of college if you are not from a top one(often you don't either how because of no experience but when you do)?

Don't want to bash the point though. Effort > talent, I agree.
This article started out very interesting, but it oversensationalized everything. It's an interesting story: you don't need to turn it into cheesy drama to keep your readers.

Wired loses more of my respect every time I get a link to an article.
It depends on a lot of things.

In computer science, if you're trying to go into a programming career, the difference between a prestigious college and a non-prestigious college is significantly less than the advantage you get from having proof of coding skill, such as significant open source work. Anyone serious about programming should definitely make sure to have something like this in hand before they leave, if they want the good opportunities.

Of course, side project + prestigious college is a winning combo... but even then, I'd say it's the side project dominating for most good employers.

I would imagine in fields where the means of production (whatever they may be) are not so much in the hands of the masses that the college distinction could be more important; how do you prove yourself a competent civil engineer with a side project? (I dunno, maybe there's a way, but it must be a lot harder.)
This is just my bitterness speaking, but the capriciousness of death really hits home when someone like her dies. Millions of infernal idiots yet breathe, and yet we lose someone so sagacious and rational to something so random.

I would it were different.
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I didn't say I cared about SOAP. Just that I was writing a book. It isn't on SOAP, but I do need to look at the best of SOAP as a comparison.
There are many reasons for a young person interested in technology to go to Silicon Valley.

Jobs in Bulgaria disconnect you from the result of your work much more than an average job in US. This can spoil your potential.
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You will need a diploma for an H1-B application, for one thing.
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Any tips on how to make such an exe file?
Yes, it takes about 10 minutes using C#. Drag a web browser control to the .exe, call browserControl.navigate(url), and there, you have a native application. Use NSIS for the installer, add some license key routine, and sell your B2B copies for $299 a seat.
Yeah sure it is. Get your undergraduate or even your Master's in EE (it will be amazingly cheap), then go get your PhD in North America (PhDs are paid, so no money worries). But staying long term? Unless you become an entrepreneur and do something like BitDefender - a product developped with local costs but sold to a global audience, I don't think it's worth developping a career in Eastern Europe yet. BTW, the BitDefender guys were in Bucharest, Romania. Stopped following, so I don't know what ther're up to now. Their story sure was an inspiration.
Trying to fix a similar problem of how to explore Excel data, I made this XLS to MySQL table utility: http://utilitymill.com/utility/csv_to_create_table

Feel free to include the code in your tool if you want to offer MySQL as another download option when users get their results emailed to them.

(I copied your pasting instructions. I hope you don't mind.)
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Mibbit is one of the few apps that I am actually impressed in. This is an app that simply makes sense as a web app, and it's excellently executed.

Does it run at a profit yet?
Dare Obasanjo - Facebook Connect: Does Issuing Passports Make Facebook A Country?
Billerica, north of Boston: I can report missing acorns.

A month ago my father-in-law and his relatives were exchanging missing-acorn stories, because the big oaks in his yard (I don't know what species) didn't produce any this year, and he's curious. He seems to think it was fairly unusual, and he's lived with those trees for decades and decades.

I guess it's not just him.

It would appear that something is up. Let's all hope that it's something transient.
This is really smart. I wonder why you had the bejezus downmodded out of you? Well, I gave you a point.

You're right, new fields like robotics will require a lot of programmers.
looks good, just like twitter used to be when the gtalk interface still worked ( minus the realtime updating that used to happen )
Translation: school alone is no merit to your success; you control that one.
Do you see the way this guy is selling you an unpaid internship and honestly making you consider going for it?

He's a genius marketer. And he also fooled me for a second. But... you cannot turn an unpaid internship into an MBA through the sheer force of your own awesomeness.
Yes, any college will do. But if you're going to spend 3 (run through quickly) - 5 (take your time, explore, go abroad, etc) years somewhere, you should do it at a place you like. You wouldn't want to work at a job you don't like for that long. Same principle applies here.
is it normal for an article like this one to appear without an author credit?
Google should buy this and incorporate it into Google Spreadsheets.
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If the anchor doesn't hit bottom, the level of the lake shouldn't change at all; the boat plus the anchor should displace the same amount of water as they did when the anchor was inside the boat -- exactly enough water to equal the weight of the boat plus the anchor. The only difference is that since the anchor is now displacing a small amount water by itself, the boat doesn't need to displace as much, so it should rise a tiny bit.
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I wonder what makes them think that online anonymity still exists for 99% of users.
Chelmsford, near Billerica: I have a ton of oak trees on my land, lots of fallen leaves, and no acorns. I didn't think about it until I saw this post though.
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My choice finance is a mortgage broker company, it offers competitive rates for car finance and home finance.
Yes.

It's an editorial. It reflects the views of the editorial staff of the publication in question. Sometimes one editor is chosen to write it, sometimes it is more of a group effort (such as when a paper endorses a presidential candidate)

Yours is an interesting question. This is a common feature in printed newspapers and has been for decades. It might be good for online versions of newspapers to explain things like this, because today many online readers are not exposed that much to the print editions.
Precisely. Computing has been changing rapidly throughout history, but the advent of the PC was a big change, because it created a massive cohort of people like me who had encountered computers even before high school.

How old is that cohort? Let's see... if you were fourteen when the Altair came out in 1975, today you would be... 47.
I think there is another possible outcome than forcing everyone to "be on their best behaviour" all the time.

Many things are today regarded as inappropriate that are really not that important. Who cares whether such and such intern (or even CEO) once dressed up as a woman at a party. Only bigotry keeps people turning up their nose at such trivial nonsense.

As behaviour that was previously hidden and taboo becomes more and more visible, there are two possible outcomes:

1) (proposed by the article) the behaviour is eliminated because it cannot be tolerated. This would likely be the case for disastrous behaviours such as child abuse and conjugal violence, which, as they become more visible, are unlikely to be tolerated.

2) Social norms evolve and learn to tolerate that behaviour.

I think it is not unthinkable that in the near future many behaviours which are today still looked down upon will be accepted as normal and irrelevant to most considerations. In the inevitable collision between outdated laws/social norms and the huge masses of people who do the forbidden anyway, history tells us that the huge masses of people win.

(of course, do whatever you need to ensure you don't become roadkill on this march...)
Mathematics underlying the 2008 financial crisis, and a possible remedy
Agreed. Best to use something more familiar and in more controlled circumstances. An ice cube melting in a large glass of water at room temperature.
Thanks, I figured it was something like that.

It feels very weird, in the extremely personal medium of the web, to attribute a voice to a newspaper; Steve Waldman (see?) wrote about something related this morning: http://www.interfluidity.com/posts/1228128707.shtml .
This is something that's always confused me with Amazon's EC2 pricing. If I were to run an instance for my personal use it would, for the post part, have to be up 24/7 but it would be idle for the vast majority of that time. Would I be charged for 24*31 hours?

If so, those 25 free machine hours are fairly worthless.
Thanks for the kind words. It's just about break even now, the targeted advertising is starting to work very well. I want to get the advertising 100% before I introduce any paid options.

Given the price that some of the competition charge to host webchat there is plenty of room there I think.
Someone should make simplysadnews.
What about investment banking, private equity, trading, etc?
I don't think it is fair to blame unions for Detroit's problems. A union's motives are clear: to maximize income of its members.

The fault lies with management. They agreed to terms with the unions that have made it impossible to run a profitable business. The writing has been on the wall for a very long time. The pension and benefit issues have not silently crept up in the last couple of years. It has been an issue for decades.

So now Detroit is screwed. Their only outs are to default on the pensions they legally owe or to have taxpayers cover their debts.

Repayment on a loan isn't realistic when their cost structure is so screwed up. A loan now will only delay the inevitable.

The only realistic solution is for the automakers to declare bankruptcy, allowing the courts to decide what to do about their obligations.
Why don't we wait and see how people react to these new changes?

Also, just as long as I can view all the data "they" have on me, then I'll be cool with it.
Small world. I typeset the math for the Feynman Physics corrections at WestWords in Utah.
"It’s 'hard to imagine the name changing if you’ve invested in all of these domains,' as a source of mine said."

Six or seven domains? What is that, like $300 or $400 dollars per year? I think Microsoft can absorb that cost to the point where they shouldn't let their investment in those domain names control their naming strategy. I think it's safe to say they could walk away from thousands of domain names without feeling the impact.
So basically you're saying the rich online poker players don't want all the noobs they leech off of to leave and this is a bad thing?
Yes, I think you would be charged for those hours.

If you need a server up 24/7 then EC2 is not the right provider for you; you should be looking at a more conventional hosting companies (Linode and Slicehost have already been mentioned here). EC2 is for people who expect they will need an extra server (or two, or ten) up for one (or two, or ten) hours out of every week, and for the rest of the week they don't care if that server is effectively turned off.
Hasn't this fall been unusually cold and early? We had frosts in mid-October here, which is abnormal.
[the 12 "foreign" producers] can switch their assembly lines to different models in minutes.

That's pretty impressive.
Are there any other articles that detail exactly how this ruling makes it 'illegal' to have fake identities online? I have my doubts and at the very least would like to read more.
I tend to agree with you that we will become desensitized to less important behavior, overall, as people become more directly associated to their activities online. Most people who travel the world and eat "wacky" food become more accepting of experience they would previously regard as unusual. I see something similar happening. Of course, I'm speaking from the vantage point of someone who does silly stuff and has a fairly libertarian attitude.

After the US elections, I was asking one of my gay friends what he thought about the defeat of Prop. 8 in California. I guess, not living in California, he could be more philosophical. He said that a lot of people who voted against it are going to feel awkward in 10 years when their kids are like "That was dumb. Who cares? What were you thinking?"

I tend to agree that within free societies, as long as they remain free we'll move towards a point where repercussions only occur for online presentations of illegal activity, and then only if the illegal activity is also still taboo in the perpetrator's peer environment. One example might be illegal drug use, which could have serious, trivial or non-existent repercussions depending on where you work and who you run with. People will continue to only care about serious things, but the definition of "serious" will narrow on the old stuff and be newly set on brand new stuff (cloning ethics, or something).
Unemployment numbers - which ones do you prefer?
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In my experience, the degree helps with "cold" applications (HR departments, recruiters, grad school applications, "over the transom" submissions, etc.) and does very little for "warm" applications (referrals, impressive projects/blogs).

The article may've found that degrees rarely help CEOs because CEOs rarely make "cold" applications. Once you get that high, nearly everything is done via network and past record, so the degree doesn't confer much information that isn't already available.

Similarly, technical people may rely on degrees more because their networks are not as well-developed as business people. Though honestly, most of the successful programmers I know either have no degree or went to a state school, and it's never hurt them. They maintain good networks, though.

And it may matter in academia because a lot of the grad school application process is blind, with very little information available. It doesn't seem to matter once you start to publish and people can judge the quality of your work for themselves.
I'm not sure I buy their assumption that an institution's success can be measured by the quantity of CEOs it produces.
This article seems to draw some big conclusions from seemingly little research. If the author had used Yahoo's OpenId IDP they would know you can log in as "yahoo.com" and then choose a site specific anonymous OpenId.

That and the charges in the court case being reffered to was just an upholding of the TOS. Hardly a landmark hearing.
I've voted you up just because it's awesome that you're here ;-)

I do agree that if we're going to give money to anyone, it should be someone who can deliver new, game-changing products. I still feel, though, that your piece has great intentions but isn't a good rebuttal to the NYT piece.

Non-technological America - when presented with a loan to Tesla or GM - will be thinking of all the people already employed who could lose their jobs at GM rather than the new possibilities offered by companies like Tesla. I just didn't think your post really catered to those people, and they're the ones who make the most noise in this country.
On Lisp shows a Prolog implementation in CL. Port it to Clojure.
Me and 2 friends won a $13,000 (7000 GBP) car in 2000, sold it and split it 3 ways. It was an online competition. First off, you had to press keys on the keyboard, while moving the mouse in a perfect circle for as many hours as possible. We stayed up 40 hours, put a macro on the mouse, took our turn at the computer hitting keys. Then split the prize when we won. When we got to 40 hours, beating everyone else, that was a very jubilant 6am.
Adobe Air does the same thing x-plaform. The is also a mozilla project, I forget the name of, which is like Air but uglier.
Awesome story :) I could so see this being spiced up into a Coen brothers movie. Instead of giving up after the admin posts an unbelievably good time, you call and blackmail him into sharing the prize money. After a lot of fuming he figures it is still better than getting fired and giving the money back. However, your friend has a crisis of conscience, so you plot together to "eliminate" him...
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Your attempt to be helpful (thank you!) has
backfired, making everything on the page harder
to read, at least in FF3, because <PRE> areas
here don't wrap or clip properly (you eeediot!).

Of course it's not your fault. News.YC should
go to a DIV-based, rather than TABLE-based,
layout so that CSS works more consistently across
browsers/versions.

See this comment/thread on the 'Feature Requests'
perma-story for more detail:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=235923
Would be interesting to figure out # of CEOs divided by total student population for Ivys vs state schools. Since there are few Ivys I imagine the chance that a student from an Ivy becomes a CEO is still greater.
I read this - "five minutes of sprinting" - as meaning C sprintf. I must be programming too much.
You can turn it into one hell of a learning opportunity though, and given the clone warriors that business school tends to produce, I'd imagine this is much more valuable to the right people.
And the other, related question: just how do "they" propose to stop us? Did I commit a criminal act when I signed up to HN using "m0nty" rather than my real name? Am I in fact trying to impersonate the other HN user "monty"? Does the fact that my real name is also shared by a moderately well-known UK politician mean I am, de facto, impersonating him?

As your question implies, I think it's the bullying, not the anonymity, which was the issue in the court case.
Your point is valid, translating existing games which are built on a set of assumptions (physical presence -> unique non-communicating players, physical deck + shuffling -> unique cards and true randomness) may not be translatable to an online experience in a sustainable manner.

I was refering to the general problem of not being able to trust the single point of control, which applies to all types of online gambling. In this context, I was wondering why games that can be gambled on have not appeared that work in a fully distributed manner.
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It's always a good year for something. It's always a bad year for something. You hear about how it's a bad year for corn, or a good year for mosquitos, but you never hear about how it was a great year for strawberries. (Or how it was a bad year for mosquitos unless the report can work in an angle about mosquitos being the foundation of the ecosystem.)

The mere fact that acorns didn't drop is not, in itself, intrinsically interesting. It's always a bad year for something, that's what ecosystem diversity is about. The closer you look at the world around you, the more you notice the major variations in the output of plant life. The mere fact of variation is uninteresting.
Once again we see the misbehavior of the few encroaching on the freedoms of many. Of course none of us want to see bullying online, but to create a situation where breaking TOS agreements for web services can be used in court to CRIMINALIZE behavior is a ridiculous precident. Essentially what the court said was that because the defendant violated the terms of service, the was guilty of fraud. Can you imagine how hard it will be to find new users for a service when they must treat your TOS as a document that will open themselves up to criminal prosecution is breached?
But is building a following worth losing a few sales?

Also, I'm sure that more people that know about it, the more likely it'll become a birthday gift for that right-at-the-edge-about-to-go-full-blown geeky cousin.
Uh, C++ was huge in the mid-90s. Nearly all your Windows desktop software is in C++ - as were a lot of Web1.0 sites, before they were rewritten in Java.
http://www.marketingvox.com/watershed-ruling-in-myspace-suic...

This link would seem to indicate that it was not, in fact the bullying but the false identity that they convicted the defendant of.
Not sure why you say that. C++ seems like it was the lingua franca of non-elite CS programs after Pascal and before Java.
Is this due to something inherent with Lisp? This argument also works for each aspect of Lisp that's been borrowed by other languages:

(format t "~{~A has been around for ~D years so it seems there perhaps is something about it that doesn't fit with most programmers?~^ ~}"
'("Structured programming" 10
"Lexical scoping" 20
"GC" 30
"Closures" 40))

The last increment of power that makes Python into a Lisp seems pretty small in comparison.

Clojure does fix one of the last things holding it back: it removed "Lisp" from the name, and added a trendy "J".
I could see our shop using this a lot. Thanks! I may even link to it for our customers.
When they started out doing that I don't think they realized it'd make them into a billion dollar company. The calculus has changed a bit since then.
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