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Socialize Makes Any App Social, Already Reaches 10M End Users
I think the comments in the article are really telling. If there is one lesson the author should take away from the experience it is this: BUILD A NARRATIVE. If you passed High School English you have enough tools to do so, therefore, there is really no excuse except laziness.
I'm getting an error when I sign up saying that my email address isn't valid...?
supporting opposition to bills like this is only the first step.

there needs to be a campaign to make them pass a law or even an amendment to the constitution to prevent them from trying to slip by when noone is looking

they only need to get lucky once...and its a 100x harder to repeal a law than it is to implement it.
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Python Standard Library is well written, if you want to have a look at it.(Decimal is easy and full of programming examples).

And:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=327710

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599994
Hizook is no more "silly sounding" than many other household-name web domains that you probably use on a daily basis (and it has special meaning to me). The reason the articles are at /blog is because I'm developing hardware products for the site. (I'm not a "journalist", I'm a hardware hacker with a PhD in robotics.)

As to credibility... Hizook blows Engadget out of the water. We're already well-known by most academic and professional roboticists, and the discussions on the site do not revolve around "robot overlords." We've been called "one of the top robotics blogs" by IEEE Spectrum, where I'm also a contributing author. Oh, and the HN guidelines specifically state to: "cite the original sources."

Respectfully, your feedback is trite. I suggest checking out our site's articles, and if you'd like to continue this discourse, then please feel free to email me (see HN profile).
Being against SOPA/ACTA/etc. should not be construed as being pro-copyright infringement. He might simply be pro-due process and pro-innocent until proven guilty. Those positions alone are enough to cause one to not support these sorts of bills.
Ruby has a huge community, and is very flexible. Python is not as flexible as ruby (this is true when you do a lot of meta programming). But, the real reason you should use ruby is, because you don't like the syntax of python. I wouldn't want to work with something I don't like. And you can use ruby even in apps which are not web apps.
Yes, because x32 ABI's pointers are still 32 bits, so pointer values are in a small enough range that they can fool the GC into thinking they are legitimate int values.
I would say this explanation is essentially wrong. It makes it sound like the difference is that the computer is ternary rather than binary, which of course would not be a significant difference.

Part of this is that the "more than one state at at time" applies to the whole computer, not individual bits, but the thing is that the whole "more than one state at a time" thing isn't it either.

To see this, instead of a quantum computer, let's consider a probabilistic computer. Rather than having one state, the computer at any time has a probability distribution over states -- it can "be in multiple states at once", each with some probability. Only at the end of a computation do you "collapse" it back into a single value. Except that such a computer is equivalent to an ordinary computer equipped with a TRNG, which is not much more powerful than an ordinary computer at all.

Quantum computers are often described as "trying everything at once", as if they were nondeterministic Turing machines, but they are not; perhaps, in some sense, they do try everything at once, but they cannot then automatically pick out whichever possibility worked. It only "tries everything at once" in the same sense the probabilistic computer does. The probabilistic computer can only pick out the right answer if you somehow set it up that the right answer has high probability and the wrong ones don't; it can't say "this answer is right, kill all the other possibilities now!".

The quantum computer is the same way. What makes quantum computers faster is the fact that instead of probabilities, they use amplitudes. To each state -- well, what I was calling states above, really they would be "basis states" -- would be associated an amplitude rather than a probability. Amplitudes yield probabilities -- the probability is the square of the absolute value of the amplitude -- but they do more; in particular, they can be negative. Indeed, they can be complex, but that they can be negative is usually enough. This allows one to do many more tricks with them, in quite a few ways, but in particular, it means that it's easier to set it up for the right answer to come out with high probability, because unlike probabilities, amplitudes can cancel out. All quantum algorithms, as I understand it, are about using appropriate tricks to get the amplitudes for the wrong answers to mostly cancel out.
>learned to love the DMCA

This is a terrible title, and "I was thankful for one benefit of DMCA" is not the same as "I love DMCA."

I hope they don't really believe the DMCA is a wonderful thing just because it was beneficial to them in this one instance. I realize they pointed out that it has some horrible parts, but I get the feeling they don't feel that any reform is necessary.

Copyright reform is only becoming more necessary as time goes on.
Thanks. The music is from Youtube, it just searches the song on there. The data (like list of songs on album etc) are from musicbrainz (a free database).
My bathroom scales measure body fat, and they read 10% for me. A friend of mine's scales put him at 20%.

I don't look like him on the right, and my friend doesn't look like him on the left...
> Twitter doesn't solve any problem that I have.

Sounds like you contradicted yourself...
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Most of these implementations change the stack pointer as a side effect of decoding a skipped instruction:

IFN a, a
Set Push, 1

Is this the intended behavior?
Those bad engineering decisions the founding engineers made may have been what allowed them to move fast enough to build a startup that's still in business 4+ years later.

If you know exactly what your customers want, you should take the time to build it correctly the first time. But if you're innovating and creating a new product, you'll need to perform a lot of experiments before you figure out what your customers really want.

Experiments shouldn't be engineered perfectly. It's better to have a creaky product that customers want than a bullet-proof system that nobody wants.
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"I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be." ~Franz Boas

(Hmm, someone didn't like that quoteback. Okay, here's another one, from yours truly. "Gentlemen, I'm just as concerned as you are about those Redcoats overrunning our town! I just don't think my front yard is an adequate, let alone optimal, place to defend it.")
I kinda feel bad about sharing this... spreading the addiction. <grin> Pretty awesome html5 game though.
Pinterest is third most-visited social site
I do wish the desktop world would just move wholesale to 64 bit, but do note that Ubuntu still marks the 32 bit install the "recommended" one, so I would guess there must be some sort of problems that are lingering in the 64 bit versions. Maybe just flash support or something like that?
The article provides a citation as their source. The source is a PDF file on whitehouse.gov, published by the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC). All the document says is that IPEC supports SOPA. Does this mean the White House supports the legislation?
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I was a little surprised that Linux and iOs were the worst Desktop and Mobile adoption points. Of course, mobile was slightly cheating, as I doubt that that RimOS stats are significant. Still considering that they found zero support from IE, it's amazing that Windows still beats Linux. I'm guessing it's a driver issue?
Really good post. I was talking to a friend of mine last week and he related a great story:

In January of 201X, he was sure his company was going out of business after 6 long hard years.

In May of 201X (same year), XXXXXX (titan we all use all the time) bought his company for $40M.

Hang in there, keep pushing, make progress, stay sane. Get up the next day and do it again.

Welcome to StartupVille.
Some of your claims are pretty flakey, it's obvious they set out to replicate what you do but judging by those screenshots most of what they did is just similar - I hope your takedown notice exclusively specified the direct infringement.
Looks awesome.

I'm curious to see how well you guys get on asking for users to supply their AWS credentials. That used to be by far the most common feature request for S3stat, namely a way to use the thing without having to hand across your secret key.

I imagine you could allow your users to create IAM accounts with exactly the permissions they'd need for you to do your thing, but it seems like you pretty much need full control to be at all useful.
...stabbing people with my startup knife.
First thing I noticed is that they ripped off the Apple-Command key design for their logo.

Couldn't find anything about copyright/trademark on the symbol ... anyone know if it was used prior to Apple (or is in the public domain)?
Google is providing a hosted service. They are free to host them themselves if they want.
I really really struggle with proper eating when it comes to my workouts. I'm a vegetarian and have been all my life. But I eat so much crap.

I would say that 70%~ of my diet is made up of carbs. It's really ridiculous. I also find that I usually don't have my first meal of the day until about 4-5pm. Which is usually a plain cheese sandwhich, a pizza or home cooked noodles with vegetables.

Being a vegetarian and disliking cooking is a pretty tough deal! Ha.

Also julian, I tried to email you from your website, but your contact form is broken, after Googling for 5 minutes to find your contact information I couldn't find anything for bodyhack. Do you have an actual email? (Finding this on your site was impossible).
That's fine, but I would argue that even for this purpose the number is kind of useless. It's only vaguely a proxy for appearance or ability, so why not measure what you're trying to do more directly?

Interested in appearance? Go for waist/thigh/wherever measurements (as 'aaronblohowiak' suggested).

Interested in fitness? Measure that. If you're running you can record how far you went or how fast you did it. If you're lifting weights the options for measurement are pretty obvious.

An oft-used quote from the engineering world is "what gets measured gets improved." A corollary to that should be "measurement encourages improvement when the improvements are obvious." It's hard to look at a number on a scale and say "what can I do to make this better." It's easy to look at a daily calorie count or your post-run/post-lift numbers and know what needs to be done.

All of that said, "more effective" is relative to what you actually do. If a daily weigh-in is what works for you, that's awesome keep it up.

I think it's bad general advice because results come slowly and when they do your appearance may not reflect the number changes in the way you'd expect. Most people are terrible at estimating weight, much less how a weight change will be reflected in appearance.
I built a small blogging engine http://substancehq.com, and have had more than 30 throwaway blogs created by "generated guest credentials" on the first day. This is a great thing for a new guy like me. However, most users don't follow through and finish the sign up, which tells me that the app itself is not appealing to the users. This approach is a lot better than having bounces off your signup form. I wonder why many people don't do this.
Since Amazon is hosting the content, they could be held liable for ALL cases of copyright infringement on their servers. In order to avoid this, the DMCA has a provision that, if you respond to takedown requests, you get "safe harbor" and your customer, who actually did the infringing using your service is now liable. That basically means that Amazon can't appeal the takedown request. They must take down the content before appealing, or they expose themselves to tons of liability. I don't think this system of scaring hosting sites into being content owners' personal executioners is a good idea. Specifically, there is no judicial oversight, no evidence required, no actual law enforcement agencies involved, etc.
It's not clear if the 1.1 seconds figure is from the Clojure repl or the ClojureScript repl. They're very different.

It says "Clojure" Repl, and in that case it would be running directly on the JVM.
> I should point out that diamonds can also make very good semiconductors when properly doped, with very large carrier mobility compared to silicon. We just don't know how to make the necessarily complex patters on them.

Don't know what you mean by "properly doped": The biggest problem with diamond is that it is a bitch to make n-type. In fact, the conduction band is above the vacuum level!

It is why people try to use diamond as a thermionic emitter: electrons in the conduction band naturally try to leave the material.
Zooming into just one galaxy, ours, getting a feel for just how hopelessly vast it is, then recalling the Hubble Deep Field's panorama full of countless more galaxies an eternity away, brought one single thought to my mind:

If there's life out there, and at that scale, there simply must be... The probability of us ever finding it before our sun collapses most likely rounds to zero.
Do you lose anything by doing this?
On a related note, Michael Foord's `mock.py` was recently added to the python stdlib.

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/mock/mock.html
java.util.concurrent's entire point is to make direct thread management unnecessary. Note the list of classes I mentioned didn't include Thread.

Actors and STM are great thought experiments but real-world production stuff tends to always circumvent them for the java.util.concurrent stuff.
I'm in the readability camp, I'm one to comment my code even if it's something simple and I also like to use verbose variable names. I always keep in the back of my mind that if someone had to pick up my code without knowing how anything was implemented they might appreciate my efforts (even if it's just a personal project that I don't plan on anyone seeing). You can't please everyone I'm sure for as many people that like it compact there are people that like the whitespace.
They "currently have the search portion of our website offline for updates". So that's what that means.
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I think he's actually reporting live from the whatever summit, so there's not much to link to. Generally Phoronix is much better than the mainstream tech press about linking.
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Ideological bias is never justified. On to the justified bias:

For that problem, I'd just do it serially, because it's only 10 numbers.

Oh, it was an example for really big sets of numbers? Like really really big? Then I'd skip the .par.foreach and deal with java.util.concurrent directly, because it's worth my while if I have a serious problem worth optimizing.

"A newbie in concurrency whose mental model doesn't incorporate thread pools or executor services or synchronous queues can progress leaps & bounds in scala vs java when it comes to concurrency."

A newbie in concurrency needs to understand how many threads are in their threadpool, or else they should just do it serially. I'm not talking rocket science here, it's just a single integer argument.
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Have you considered that 85-93% of the candidates don't want to do an hour's worth of unpaid work for you before you've even given them an interview?
I just started studying a year or so ago, I looked around and saw more suggestions to start with Python than others. I don't remember seeing much about Ruby but I'm reading up on it as I get deeper into Python, they're relatively similar but I haven't had enough time with Ruby to understand it's philosophy.

Python is fun! I expect Ruby to be just as much, if not more so, I'm looking forward to it. Ultimately, I advise that you play around with different languages until you find one that you enjoy, that's a pretty significant factor to learning imo.
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Thanks a lot!

It certainly has been an issue, lots of requests and suggestions to make entering AWS credentials optional, but as you say, without the right permissions it would be useless.

Fortunately, it's the same for all third party tools which rely on APIs, no way around it, so a lot of users are used to having to give them out.

I'll share some stats from our small sample size so far: 63% of users who requested an invite then logged in, then of those users 64% entered their credentials, albeit with quite a bit of coaxing and reassurance.
"RimOs: 100%"
I do love the great WebGL support on the Playbook browser :)
Thanks. I had read the conclusion I mentioned in monographs about psychology I was reading for other research interests, and I'm glad you cited a key review article. I found the article's full text

http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/howard/Schmidt%20and%20Hunter%201998%...

via Google Scholar.
If reading code is your problem rather than writing code, I find that Java excels. Most of the complaints are about writing code in Java.

You know how awesome that type inference is in Scala, and how stupid and annoying it is in Java to type stuff like Map<K,V> myMap = new HashMap<K,V>? I totally agree with how annoying that is. Here's a related example in scala.

def myThing = something.getSomeThing()

What is the type of myThing?

Java has weaknesses for sure but reading code is actually one of its strengths, precisely because of the boilerplate. Note that I'm not defending EJB or any other atrocities here, just the core language.

Lastly, I agree that syntactically-nicer closures would be better for Java. But it already has closures,

final Something variableImClosingAround;

Runnable myClosure = new Runnable() { public void run() { variableImClosingAround.doSomething(); }};

exec.submit(myClosure);
I wish you were right, but pg has clearly stated anything copyable deserves no copyright.
In my experice it is terrible at linking. They used to post commit messages from git and changelogs from announcements in mailing lists as their own original content without linking to the source. Without understanding the meaning of many words in the text they were quoting without attribution. I make a decision to never click on a link to phoronix after this happened a number of times.
I think this would benefit from a killer app a lot more than it would from a trendsetter. A gadget needs to be useful first, stylish second.
really cool, but it would be good to see some real benchmarks (ie warm-up time for jvm + correct clojure coding with "recur" etc).

also, i wonder how much of clojure is lost through not being able to call down to java?
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I wonder what would be the timing for a small compiled Gambit program doing the same calculation...

Clojure is probably bringing in some start-up overhead. If it is indeed just a start-up overhead, it would be less of a problem.

Crazy stuff.
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It’s a no a brainer for me to believe that organizations such as Pitch Mixer (founded by Ayori Selassi and Kalimah Priforce), Black Founders, Latino Startups and NewMe Accelerator are new beginnings for folks like me (i.e., poverty-laden life, teenaged mother with an undying entrepreneurial spirit who was not exposed to the “startup ecosystem” during my youth).
I don't understand. He tried one approach that didn't get many good candidates as a percentage of total applicants. He tried another approach and got more candidates with a higher percentage of good ones. One sample is far from conclusive but I don't see any BS here. Maybe its not an optimal solution for all top-level candidates but that doesn't mean its not a sufficiently good one for many.
Does anyone have a link to a building with floor plans already uploaded? I'd be curious to see how they've designed the interface but can't easily find one... (i.e., in 2 minutes in downtown SF)
Free web hosting has been around since the nineties.

https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Node-Hosting
Except they have a lot more resilience than the tech industry does and will eventually get something passed.

You can't stick your head in the sand and hope they go away.
not really. i know they publish a lot of good papers though. the only exception is kinect. that was a game-changer.
To clarify: the linked post is bout the DMCA safe harbor rules about takedown notices. This really isn't the bad part of the law. It can be argued that the takedowns are too easy to do and that they are honored too quickly by site administrators, that they are susceptible to automation and false positives, etc... But really that's not a huge deal.

Where the DMCA is widely reviled is in its other parts, most particularly the anti-circumvention provisions that, when the law was drafted, made things like security research or reflashing a consumer device criminal acts (c.f. the Skylarov case). It should be noted that this nonsense, while it's still in the law, has been significantly dilluted by a bunch of regulatory exemptions enacted by the executive branch.
I can't find the source for the quote, "we still need legislation for blocking foreign websites." The referenced document doesn't actually say that, in fact, the word "blocking" doesn't even appear in the document at all.

Seems like the author of the petition assumed the reader would thing tl;dr and just assume it was accurate.
iOSey or not, it's quite easy to discover, and is accessible from anywhere within the thing that you're pulling. On a phone as big as my Galaxy Nexus, it would be nice not to have to reach all the way to the top of the screen, as this requires me to adjust how I am holding the phone when I was previously in a "casual scrolling through items" position.
How about putting a link to the real job post instead of "instructions on where to send your resume" hidden in the application?
Isn't Sweden a part of the EU ? Doesn't that mean you have access to the EU market like any other country/without tariffs/simplified regulation ?
Considering that a lot of employers state that they want a CS Degree OR equivalent experience you should be fine.
I'm sure they'll do that right after they create the Peaceful Diplomacy and Non-Intervention Department.
American exceptionalism, I love it.
I'm 33 and launching our idea next month. My biggest fear is that while I'm working on it part-time along with spending time with family and friends, somewhere a 21 yr old is eating Ramen and working away 20 hr days to annihilate my project.
It's fairly close to the middle. Not sure if that makes a difference.
Looks like the sites who have the tracker embedded are very developer centric which means that real world WEB GL Adoption is probably much much lower. Nevertheless it should grow quickly in the months to come.