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It's worth noting that the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Australia, and almost every other western democracy finance very large chunks of their governmental expenditures via high consumption taxes. Most people agree that not only are they not hellholes with the poor and middle class starving on the streets, but they're actually nicer places to be poor than the US.

As I citizen of one of those, I can attest that this is true, but surely not for the reason that we have high consumption taxes. Those are actually regarded with uniform disdain.

It's for other reasons --like a proper welfare state, the hold of certain socialist ideals regarding wealth and redistribution, etc. Namely, we don't view being poor as a personal failure, and we don't try to "punish" the poor for being so. We understand that there are systemic reasons for poverty and try to correct or counter-balance some of those.
My understanding was that Turing's theory of morphogenesis had already been shown to be correct in some cases in biology; they just didn't know it to be true in the case of tiger stripes.

In fact, they had shown it not to be true for some other striped animal (can't recall which one), which I think makes this discovery even more interesting.
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Most societies had a better connection with slavery and torturen then we do that dosen't make it a good thing. If I can cheat death by a billion years I'll call that good.
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I completely agree.

I would gladly pay $100 for K&R's C Programming Language, but sadly I can't do that (It's against US export laws to sell to me). Yesterday I spent almost an hour trying to find an offset copy of Dragon Book (Compilers), but I couldn't find it (there are none), so I have to bury myself in ebooks on my iPad (which is not a great experience).
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"According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a person who made it to 65 in 1900 could expect to live an average of 12 more years; if she made it to 85, she could expect to go another fouryears. In 2007, a 65-year-old American could expect to live, on average, another 19 years; if he made it to 85, he could expect to go another six years."

I get that gender neutral language like this is the norm these days, but the way it's used in this particular statement, it isn't helping!
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and I was blown away to see that it originated with a pioneer in computer science

And also, a woman. Like, the first programmer, IIRC (Ada Lovelace). It took a woman to first get us programming, and another one to write the first compiler.

Just a trivia to keep in mind.
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This is probably the most amazing thing I've seen in a long time: http://i.imgur.com/sBMCW.png
I use R (www.r-project.org/) and am generally happy with its plots. The graphing commands have a few quirks, and a lot of non-orthogonal inputs, but it lets you dig in and do things at a pretty low level, in case you want to fine-tune your graphs.

One thing I remember fondly from Matlab days, that R isn't so good at, was the ability to grab a handle to a graph axis, and rescale the axis, without starting a new plot. R pretty much forces you to know, from the start, what limits each axis should have.

A colleague uses SciPy and is similarly very happy. However, I can't speak about it from personal experience.

I've used gnuplot (www.gnuplot.info/) for small tasks (one or two lines on an x-y plot). My general impression is I would find it too constricting for bigger jobs. In particular, R allows me to do a full-fledged analysis and then plot results, while gnuplot pretty much requires you to generate the results externally.
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And even then, not exactly. The Hacker Dojo is sortof unusual among hacker spaces in that it's almost entirely based in software, with a little electronics. Most of them include sewing, metal working, any sort of DIY stuff. Noisebridge in San Fran isn't far away and is more in line.
article doesnt open for me just a blank page with word 'deft'? is this some retard post with no content or is the server overwhelmed?
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Server just appears to be overloaded - the status code it returns for the page is 503. It also tries to load some js/css but those return empty 503s.

In the meantime, Google returns this article about it: http://www.infoq.com/articles/deft-loft
Can someone help me out with the introduction to the argument?

"The theory is based on protective reasoning and that the NFL
wants to ensure the monopoly is held as a status quo."

What is the monopoly that is being held at the status quo?

Anytime we find that the technology and innovation create
a competitive advantage or an advantage that cannot
readily be seized by those in power, we see resistance.

Who could seize this advantage that is not already in power?
Well, you didn't convince me there. We humans are lazy by nature. And you are spending time with him/her cuddling on your couch because your life is not in immanent danger. In other words, you are not assuming you will die tonight, but rather that you will go sleep, like any other night, and wake up next day (although one day you will be mistaken, but then it won't matter anymore).

Have there been an earthquake or your place would be ate alive by fire, you would be running away like crazy and the last thing on your mind would be to cuddle on your couch.

Further there is not much you can do to postpone the judgment. Sure you can break up with your loved one and lock yourself in a library for 10 years, grasp some wisdom, perhaps invest money or built a company, sell it ten years later for half a billion $ and invest all your money strictly into life-extension projects, but by now most likely you know the probability of achieving all this is so small, that you would rather cuddle on your couch just for a little bit longer.
It is hard to believe that NFL head coaches with their large entourage of assistant coaches do not have the same information that a writer on espn has!

It's not that the coaches don't have the info, it's that no play is 100% effective and coaches have to shoulder the blame if thet make a perceived "risky" call (even if it's the statisyicly best play) and it fails.

Remember the decision to go for it when the Pats were facing fourth and 2 on the Colt's 28 yard line in '09? It was statistically the best option, but since they didn't convert, Belichick's been hammered for that decision ever since. If a coach on the bubble makes that call and the team doesn't convert, he's probably gone the next year. As TMQ points out, it's much safer for the coach to punt in that situation, and if the team looses it will be the players who get the blame.
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There is an image in the post to demonstrate the idea which records only logged into Twitter, are you going to the actual demo page: http://www.tomanthony.co.uk/tools/detect-social-network-logi...

In hindsight - a bit confusing. :)
Maybe it is broken. But the fact remains that it introduces the human element in the whole process which a written/automated test can not FULLY replace. It has to be some kind of combination of both or something entirely different.
They should change to a more performant web server, maybe something like deft.
Awesome, look at that scale... Ohh what's that, returning 503.
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Thanks for this. Annoyingly the site was offline a bit after making HN for scheduled maintenance.
Why the downvote? Did the word retard offend you?
I don't understand why athletic competition precludes technical competition?

As far as the ipad computational power goes I think its safe to assume that when the author says use ipads he assumes they are a frontend to a big processing backend.
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The page just says deft for me, but apparently the project is in incubator over at apache: http://incubator.apache.org/deft/
Are you serious? If you need secure messaging, surely you have other options than twitter?

Just copy and paste a PGP encrypted message to pastebin.ca and and tweet the link, if you must.
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Your examples don't resonate for me.

With respect to scrolling, clearly how everyone else does it doesn't matter to Apple, since they are willing to change the way they have always done it. So why did they do it? Because it makes obvious sense on a touch device, and because there is nothing wrong with it on laptop or desktop. The annoyance lasted about 5 minutes for me.

As for the automatic app management, why doesn't this make sense on OS X? Because that's how it has always been done? Again, not at all persuasive. And honestly, the OS has long been responsible for resource management, why shouldn't it terminate and launch apps transparently?

I think though that you and many others are missing the point about transparently terminating and restarting apps. It is just part of being able to restore ones workspace after a restart, which is itself just part of creating a seamless pervasive personal computing environment.
"Tornado and Node.js are the two other asynchronous web servers that we used in the benchmark. We didn't include Netty because it felt a little bit like comparing apples with oranges. But I wouldn't doubt if Netty showed numbers equal to (or greater?) the results we have seen for Deft. Netty, the successor to apache mina, is a really cool socket framework written by a really smart guy (Trustin Lee)."
I'd assume classes of web app servers perform roughly the same. An evented server in C(++) (Nodejs) should be faster than an evented server in Java for small app code request handlers.

For larger app code the speed should approach the performance ratio of the VMs (V8/JVM) involved.

So I think this is rather uninteresting.
So, first of all this is hosted on Google App Engine -- so I don't even see how it could even provide what is claimed. The environment doesn't really support it.

If you want asynchronous network programming in Java or Scala, you should be using either Netty or something higher level like Finagle: http://github.com/twitter/finagle
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Having worked with a whole bunch of NLPers, the striking and consistent theme is how little success people practicing NLP actually seem to bring in to their lives.

I've even been to one or two live NLP seminars, and the people you meet there really are the dregs of polite society. Everyone is looking for a quick fix, and yet most people have been taking the NLP kool-aid for three or four years, and excitedly talk about all the conferences they've been to...
People need to remember that this is a preview release targeted primarily at developers. It may well drop support for all the machines in question when it ships in the summer, but it wouldn't be at all surprising if some future preview release supports more older hardware.
Not that it has any connection to the thread but you missed my favourite: leader of the Northern Alliance assassinated by two fake reporters with the bomb hidden in a video camera on 9/9/01

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Since the only time I have ever commented on his blog was to make a correction or help him out, I guess I've just been saved some work.
Kottke used to occasionally open up posts to comments but hasn't done it in a long time.

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Thanks for that, it makes the original statement "...if a participant creates a blockbuster app that the company can market" much more clear: it's not a marketing gimmick for the app but some marketing gimmick for a platform for designing apps, which the company happens to be selling.

At the same time, it confuses me even more, because I'm surprised that this works as a marketing tactic. ^_^;;
But I still think an ARM processor running Linux is way cooler than a silly micro-controller! We should vote.
Personally I chose to ignore this point of view as it would imply that absolutely everything is completely without a point.

Who told you there was "a point?"

And why did he tell you that?
"His excuse for not finding an amazing company?"
I think the main reason for not finding an amazing company is the same as one which prevents him from standing up thus making his life (and, in fact, lives of everyone around) better.

I guess the same people who work at nice jobs where they make a difference would continue to make so elsewhere and this in fact is what let them where they're now.
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Seems like there's an opportunity for some kind of middle ground.

Books are emotive. Why not embrace the community's desire to make titles available in different markets, but manage it in such a way that the publisher is involved in the process and has ultimate approval over a digitized version? Active community members get books for free based on the degree of their participation. Everyone else gets to buy designated "community editions" of titles with a proper cut going back to the copyright owner. The community platform takes enough money to keep itself ticking over, including a cut for partner services that make it possible to sell in hard-to-reach global markets.

Sounds crazy, perhaps, but only because publishers still want a one-way relationship. A deep participative relationship with their global community of readers would only be a good thing. And it's less crazy for the publishers / authors than not making any money from these markets at all.
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How so? I played soccer my whole life and my first thought was, "a sport like soccer makes technology useless in medias res.
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Was just searching for a bunch of books, and barnesandnoble.com outranks Amazon on most of what I searched.

That's surprising. Amazon must have a bazillion more general links and specific links that B&N, no? How'd this come about?
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When we are born, nature promises us nothing except death. It's just that simple.

It's unfortunate we've surrounded it with so much fear.

Our ideas on death must change. Cause frankly, it's killing us. Death is the natural order.

I heard a great line from one of the few TV shows i watch, Supernatural;

"Who came first? The chicken or the egg? We're too old to remember. But I know this, I'll reap god too". - the aspect of Death.
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I was a big fan of library.nu. As a student in Mexico, you just cannot get some of the books that were available in there, so it was incredibly useful. I no longer used the site so much, but I'm still grateful that this site was live when I went to university. It kind of marvels me how artificial are the limits that humans put on knowledge that can be useful to others, I hope we can solve this problem someday.
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And it also happens to be really fast. I don't want to compare my framework to something that can be really performant.
I think it comes down to fasle negatives vs false positives. A company is in a far better situation if they don't hire a good candidate than if they hired a bad one. So asking algorithm questions and brain teasers, while not a perfect science, is not a bad way to screen fro general intelligence, which hopefully the company can mold into an efficient employee.
I would like it if HN included a short description field, so that I'm not clicking articles with opaque linkbaity titles like "Stop fucking coding", and "You're killing yourself".
Very nice, this is very similar to an idea I had kicking around for QR codes. I was looking to smash a bitmap or pixel art into it and start adding extra characters into the URL to minimize the error rate, trying to find the closest unmodified QR code. Then just route that URL or create a rewrite rule to display the page you want.

There's a possibility that a good code could be converged on but if the crypto is good enough it should be difficult. I haven't done any research at all though, I could be way off base.
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Is it really unhyped if there is an article on tc about the area?

Given the overlap between his portfolio and the companies he identifies it seems its all about hype...
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The article points out the valid complaint from people who do not have access to legitimate ways of obtaining books/information, and makes a point of saying he does not endorse the way library.nu operated.

I'd disagree. We're presented with a technology which is slowly replacing the institutions we take for granted and made a great improvement on society. I'm thinking about both libraries and radio.

As Neil Young said, piracy is the new radio. Except that it is better and easier to access. And library.nu functioned as my library, except that it is better and easier to access.

If the music I was interested overlapped with the mainstream, then radio would probably be good, and if the library had the technical books I like, then that would too. Alas, they don't, and both internet and library.nu are (latter: were) my substitutions. I've downloaded all the books I've purchased after graduating a year ago (which is around 5). Even after owning a book, I've downloaded the same at work and shown it to a colleague, who also ended up purchasing it. When I look for a book on a topic of interest, I search amazon, read a few reviews, then download it on library.nu. The decision to buy it is done after going through the book and see if I like how the author writes, how the example code is, and especially how it covers my specific topic, before buying it. Usually, if it is a broad topic, I do this for about 3-5 books, and decide on which one to buy.

I'm going to go further than the author, and endorse library.nu for all its worth. Both as a library and for those who cannot afford, or don't have access. As for the freeloaders, or more precisely the actual losses: I believe they are small enough that it outweighs the cost. And honestly, if they didn't, the marked would adapt.
I really think (and hope) open source textbooks are going to solve this. While it might be difficult for OS books to catch on in places where there are market pressures from textbook publishers, in the countries this post mentions where the information just isn't available, there's going to be very little pushback/meddling. I'm really excited to see what this open source initiatives can do outside the US.

You might be right about publishers taking a smaller cut and thinking it's better than nothing- but my guess is that the publishers would rather get no cut (while shutting down anyone who monetizes by pirating their content) than let the information be available in places that can't afford it at their inflated prices (and for other reasons, I'm sure - not trying to oversimplify the complexities of this market). Publishers are already mad enough that they don't get their cut everytime Amazon sells a used version of their textbooks. But this is part of what Apple will solve in their textbook initiatives.
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