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I’ve read with interest, President elect Barrack Obama’s comments on outsourcing. There is nothing new in those comments. The fear psychosis has been with us for decades. During industrialization, the dominant fear was that machines would replace humans. Post telecommunication-internet boom, the fear is that tech workers from developing economies like India and China will make white-collared American workers redundant.
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No, it must be more complicated than that. If they were just consistently popular with a specific demographic, it would be easy to predict - the problem seem to be that even if you like Lost in Translation, you might still hate Kill Bill, or Fahrenheit 9/11.
Nerd porn!

Interesting side note: the term "core dump" came from this sort of memory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_dump
Release Early, Release Often.

Had an epiphany about this last week, and it has nothing to do with the Bazaar either, but rather everything to do with marketing.
A client released a system that I did not consider ready for use and somehow it works..., I had only hacked the thing for a total of 3 days!
Ignore what people say; live for yourself.
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I'm in Shanghai. Most likely you would pick a black out time when I'm working during the day.

I agree with your sentiment. But online communities being a time-sink is a problem that can only be solved through individual restraint. Its a key discipline we all need to learn in this new always on society.
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Is it just me or there is really something amiss with this article?

Physicists have now confirmed that the apparently substantial stuff is actually no more than fluctuations in the quantum vacuum.

So, if they have NOW confirmed this, why didn't the article cite the work that confirmed this?
Also the article didn't mention anything on who confirmed and how. It talks about some computer simulations and concludes:

Although physicists expected theory to match experiment eventually, it is an important landmark.

Since when did physicists start considering computer simulations as experimental evidence?
If you are interested only in new posts, you can look in blogs' RSS feeds. They are nearly always in default locations.

Or you could parse the URL - I had a similar task some time ago, and I went with URLs - Blogger and Typepad are consistent; WordPress depends on the blog, of course, but you could figure out several most popular patterns (e. g. /yyyy/mm/dd/posttitle, /id-posttitle) and get like 90% of all blogs right.

Or maybe, just maybe, you could use some third parties that have already figured it out via RSS - maybe Technorati?
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This is what I have been trying to say to some of my fellow coders, but somehow could never quite express it.
I'm moving mine to name.com (great support)...
Take Maths or Egyptology, no-one actually uses anything they learn in their degree in the real world, so just enjoy the undergrad opportunities to learn cool stuff.
I'm not sure we have the same definitions of 'confirmed'.
This pattern is called a Sylogism.
Everybody hates sylogisms as it's mostly used to manipulate.
This site is mostly populated by wanna-bes anyway. So I upvoted both options (your voting system sucks).

Also, PLEASE stop calling yourselves hackers. Real hackers use languages that allow them to exploit buffer overflows and such, not Ruby, etc.
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I find this article kind of silly as it pertains to Gay Marriage as a political issue. The politicians who are voting (or in most cases, not voting) on this issue care little and understand less about the data management side of things, and furthermore when has government EVER been efficient?

Interesting from a database POV, though.
Listen to this dude Rufus, he knows what he's talking about.
Didn't he just win the AL MVP?
Interesting Read. Though I have read that some equatins regarding sub atomic particles were "too difficult to solve" before, I never had read a good explanation why.

It will be a sad day when the supercomputers we build to solve these equations gain intelligence and use their knowledge against us. Maybe they'll invent some cool null ray.
Hmm, I do see your point, to me, the article is about why the theory has been so difficult to prove.
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the article is about why the theory has been so difficult to prove.

You mean the theoretical proof?
If you've found a limitation in your world that makes you unable to do something, don't whine, rant, or try to fix it. Work around it and keep moving instead.
From what I hear the biggest chunk of cost per GB in a datacenter is already operational costs (most of it salaries).

Even though, acquisition cost for infrastructure may drastically come down further, operational costs may not. And AWS still may continue to do business.

I agree that having user's data with you is of more strategical value than providing pure platform services for computing and stuff.
"It is an odd fact that is not reflected in salaries that a good programmer is more productive than 10 bad programmers. This creates a strange situation. It will often be true that you could move faster if your weak programmers would just get out of the way. If you did this you would in fact make more progress in the short term. However, your tribe would lose some important benefits, namely the training of the weaker members, the spreading of tribal knowledge, and the ability to recover from the loss of the strong members. The strong must be gentle in this regard and consider the issue from all angles."

This makes a lot of sense to me.
OK. Zhuangbility.
"Don't Make Me Think" ( http://www.squeezedbooks.com/book/show/9/dont-make-me-think-... ) has a good section on cheap usability testing.
* Temporary user created just for this post - is anonymous post really discouraged around here, or is anonymous posting something that just happens to not be implemented?

While in principle I agree with most folks here - everyone is responsible for the way they use their time - truth is that right now YC is the biggest time sink for me.

I don't watch TV at all and I am able to avoid pretty much every other distraction you can imagine (even email!) - but I just can't resist opening News.YC 4 or 5 times a day.

From the fact that the possibility of disabling the site during some times is being discussed I would guess I am not the only one in this situation.

So, if you want to disable the site during some times I wouldn't mind. If you don't, that's fine too - one way or another I will have to stop wasting time like this...
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The computational resources required to crunch the numbers.
at some odd level, your post intrigues me, are you saying that gay relationships being "unnatural" is why design data around it is so tough?
I would tell the client that to meet time and budget constraints, you're going to have to use a template and customise it to their needs.

If they agree, there's nothing wrong about it, otherwise you can have a discussion about what's really possible in that time frame, and maybe slice and dice until the expectations are more realistic.
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Then what's the point of being young?
And the Gmail engineers should add an opt-out "high security" mode that checks the referer to make sure the form submission is coming from Gmail itself and not some outside website. This way people who like to use custom/blank referers can ignore this security concern if they want, and all the rest of us can prevent the risk of this problem.

EDIT: Or how about just adding an in-line Javascript variable? Say, on all Gmail pages, you could embed this in the page:

<script>var SECURITY_KEY = "918028cd79a5ba47e83e6ba68d036ca3";</script>

And then when sending AJAX or form requests in the background, make sure to include that as a request parameter. That way, even if the user has the right authentication cookies, external websites won't be able to fool Gmail into thinking they are Gmail.

Really, this doesn't seem like a very hard problem to solve...couple lines of code...
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Hm... if there were time limits on posting rather then viewing, would there be less politics crap?
If you keep doing the same stuff, you'll keep getting the same results.

Every change you make should be a change that builds on top of what you already have (restarting usually does not work).

Don't spend so much on donuts, it adds up.

No matter how tough anything is, the 3rd time you try it, it will be pretty easy.

When you have an idea, execute it and finish it. Don't let people influence you, just do it. History will show that your ideas usually worked.

Don't start what you can't finish. Have a clear finish line for everything you start.

If you go out to a club 10 times, and you still are not enjoying it, it's time to go somewhere else, no matter what everyone else is doing.

Make sure you're friends with your lover.

When there is an argument happening, stay out of it and get some work done.
Please please please do this. If nothing more than for the experiment itself. Personally I had just decided that I need to switch the no procrastination feature on so I was delighted to the title of this post. HN is too interesting, it's dominating my life.

How about shutting the site down for one day a week? Give us the day off!
I loved kill bill, but left the cinema when seeing lost in translation because it was so terrible.

So it is more complicated than that...
Probably depends on what you're looking for. When you're just starting out a site, just a couple users will point out all sorts of user interface weaknesses that'll keep you busy fixing for a long while.
I have to respectfully disagree here, having done a bit of unit testing myself (JUnit, XMLUnit, CPPUnit). I think the better way to approach unit testing is have a resource on your team dedicated to unit tests, that way, one does not have to write unit tests for code oneself has written. I think I sense that is the big gripe, that writing unit tests on top of the deliverable takes time and is "boring". I worked at a place where I was on the development team, but my sole task, or primary task at any rate, was writing CPPUnit unit tests. I actually enjoyed it alot personally, found lots of bugs that never would have been found otherwise, and the QA department "felt better" knowing the deliverable had been unit tested before being delivered to QA. So, having done unit testing myself, sure I am "biased" but I think it makes for more stable deliverables to QA and therefore speeds up the whole QA cycle as a result. But probably ideally I would agree that having a different person write unit tests than the person who wrote the code being tested is good, in terms of not adding more work to an already over-worked developer.
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Thanks. I didn't know if you meant the fan-- I hadn't heard it called that. I got "water pump" stuck in my head...

[of course, the fans used to be driven by a belt from the engine ...]
You're not as good a programmer as you think you are.
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I'm tempted by the bonjour apps. Are there any open example of bonjour on iPhone currently?
Eh?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylogism
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=554
It looks like the gmail team has created a fix and pushed the fix. It suggests that you keep checking your filters to see if you been rigged as the fix wouldn't fix it (pun intended).
maybe we can do this for engadget, craigslist, and mansion impossible as well
These tips can pretty much be applied to any language.
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Being a big fan of Heroku and CouchDB, I would find the intersection between the two quite attractive.
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This article convinced me to write a blurb about why I like object databases:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=372935

Much cleaner than any of the models from the article, IMHO.
The new Rails release appears to have some great stuff in it -- definitely time-savers for those people already up-to-speed with Rails. At the same time, the dynamic state of Rails makes it difficult for small dev teams to keep up with the state-of-the-Rails-art, IMHO. I spent some serious time with Rails and always wondered if I was writing sub-optimal code. There are so many ways to approach any programming task with Rails, that I, personally, felt like I could never definitively prove that my way was the best way. And, every time a new release came out, I had this feeling that I should go back and change all of my code to take advantage of all the new features (in addition to making the changes necessary to make it compatible with new releases), which pretty much negates many of the productivity benefits afforded by Rails. If, for example, I had rolled my own i18n solution, would I now go back and rip it out and replace it with Rails' solution or keep it in place?

In the end, as some people do, I wrote my own framework (in PHP) and couldn't be happier. Yes, I don't have a lot of the bells and whistles of Rails and others, but my framework is stable, I know the optimal way to utilize it, and when I do update it, I do it with knowledge of how the changes impact the code that is built upon it.

I drifted a bit off topic I guess. My point is that, while I appreciate the 27 links (out of perhaps hundreds of soon-to-be available links on the new upgrade) that help people navigate the fresh Rails waters, I have to wonder... is the fact that hundreds of people feel the need to document their experiences with rails updates, how to utilize the updates, and the gotchas associated with the updates, an indicator of a hidden cost of using Rails that negates some of the benefit?
Maybe they're looking for people whose high karma comes from scoring highly on a small number of hyper-intelligent comments.
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I love Sam "sam512" Hughes, the owner of qntm.org. I first ran into his writing on Everything2, the old-but-not-dead collaborative writing site.

His science fiction is absolutely exemplary, especially the "Ed Stories" and the "Fine Structure" series. I would suggest that you all check it out, along with some of the other essays on qntm.org.
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Exceeding what I was guesstimating over here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=338862
To each his own.

I'll have my girls, you have you startup :).
I think it would help if there were two more links at the top of the page to give the most popular submissions, and the most popular comments of the last n days. Then one would worry less about missing something good while one unplugs for a few days to get some serious work done.
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Would sports be fun if you already knew what was going to happen?

Speaking of gambling. I'm going to Vegas for a week during March Madness. Let me know if you'll be in town for a poker tournament.
Maybe I should have elaborated instead of making it sound snarky. I remember reading that when DVDs came out, there was an option for multiview. I've never seen that option in any of the DVDs I've watched, even though it was supported. Watching this reminded me of that.
Ideas don't really matter, only execution does.
I would upmod you with several points of my own karma for this if I could :) Yes, you're right. The upgrades come some thick and fast that code soon goes out of date and can even be viewed by the community as "bad" - yet it was using standards that were "good" months earlier!

The way I tend to look at it is like a car. If I have an old app, I treat it like an old car. I'll keep it updated where necessary, but I'll stick to the style of its times. If lots of new gee-whiz features are needed, I'll start a new app. This is less than ideal in certain environments, but if you're agile, working on your own projects, or have the right mindset, it's quite refreshing.
This article is grotesquely misleading. It misuses the word "virtual". Virtual reality meaning a simulation hasn't a thing to do with virtual particles in quantum field theory. In this case, the strength of the strong nuclear force field in a given point affects the probability amplitude of finding a gluon at that given point, which, in turn, will affect the mass of the area surrounding that point. In the case of the 3 quark proton, the strong nuclear force field has a high strength in the vicinity of the three quarks, therefore, the probability of finding gluons here is higher than outside the 3-quark bounded configuration. Since energy is equivalent to mass, that means the 3-quark bounded configuration will get a higher mass value than the surrounding vacuum, because of the higher prevalence of the strong nuclear force-field carrying gluons within it. This is ordinary, well understood, quantum chromodynamics, similar to quantum electrodynamics. There is nothing "virtual" about it in the sense of "less than real". A particle may be said to be "virtual" if is is transient (acts over a short distance or timespan). However its effects are as real as it gets. At the end of day, quantum field theory comes to down calculating probability amplitudes, in this case, the probability of finding gluons in the 3-quark configuration. There isn't anything "virtual" or "magical" or "hocus pocus" about it. And if somebody thinks there is, they shouldn't be writing for a science magazine.
Interestingly, the ruby on rails podcast just released has a interview with one of the maglev developers.. Sounds like they are making good progress!
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There's a combinatorial explosion if you do that - the point is to focus on modeling relevant information. Note that the author throws out the fields for sex and gender identity, because they complicate things, and aren't really needed when just creating a database for who is married to whom for (presumably) tax purposes.
It can be advantage not to be fluent in English sometimes.

I have met many Japanese programmers who could not speak English but could read enough to figure out APIs from English documentation.

They were really great at debugging and figuring out difficult code that was originally written in the US as they did not get confused by broken comments and mislabeled variables. i.e. "cnt" didn't strike them as meaning "count" they looked at how it was currently used by the program without supposing that originally it was meant to hold a "count" of something.
Although I think the thought behind this is nice, the idea isn't.

I come to YC not to procrastinate, but to learn. You guys are smart bastards you know that? Maybe 1/10th post on here is something to fool around with, but in the end it all feeds the mind.

I go to Reddit to procrastinate. (Not hating on it, I love the site, just has different material)
Paraphrasing Rand, I think I would tell my younger self: Do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of your life, nor to any part of your energy, nor to any creation of yours, no matter how large their number nor how great their need.

Personally, I think I spent too much time in a futile effort to please parents and relatives and so forth. Later in life, I find that is not only a futile effort, it can also make one completely miserable, since one is not being one's truest self, but is acting as one perceives others want them to act or be. Reading Rand, I find that mistake is a common but grave mistake, underlying societal decay in much of history, namely, the mistake of living for others instead of oneself. So yeah, that would basically be it. If I could reach back a decade, and tell a copy of myself in a Everett-Wheeler parallel universe one thing, that would be it, the above paraphrase from 'The Fountainhead'. :-)
Sure, adding a safe isn't taking away my freedom, but putting a safe in my house and putting anything in there, then telling me I can't touch IS taking away my freedom.

If it's my house, I can do whatever I want inside it.
It's a cute idea, but I'd sincerely hope my past-self would never listen to anything I have to say now and instead figure it out for himself. I thought a lot of crazy stuff then - probably still do - and I liked it that way.
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I finished reading "Anathem" last weekend. I hate to be one of those fans who always claims "the old stuff was better," but Stephenson's style of expounding on cool ideas via novels works much better for shorter books like "Snow Crash." It often seems like Stephenson considers character, setting, and plot to be the unfortunate necessities of writing a novel. When reading "Anathem," "Quicksilver," and to a lesser extent "Cryptonomicon," I felt like Stephenson wasn't really interested in writing the book -- what he really wanted to do was sit down and have a dorm room-style brainstorming session where he and the reader go back and forth about the uses of cryptography, what if the Roman Catholic Church were based on math and science rather than religion, or how Newtonian physics and calculus are really the fundamental principles defining the modern era.

Somehow, "Snow Crash" was quick and funny enough that it didn't get bogged down by Sumerian mythology, linguistics, the nature of post-governmental society, etc. No single concept required elaborate exposition; Stephenson was able lay out the world of the novel without devoting 200 pages to plot-less description. If "Snow Crash" is close in spirit to "Neuromancer," "Anathem" is way out near "Atlas Shrugged."
How about something where users could sign up to have the site 'off' for them during hours that you (pg) specify? That way we couldn't adjust the time and cheat ourselves, or lift a self-imposed block just because we have 5 free minutes before lunch. Also - it would be good if the decision to sign up to have the site down for those users was irrevocable for at least the first couple of weeks.

I understand this is scope creep to your original idea - but it might be fun. And it could be a historic precedent - the first feature added to a site which would block user's access to that site.