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People who have to worry about checksum offloading for high performance know this :) ... This is a feature of high end network cards.

(although, in fairness, I'd only require that level of knowledge at the tip of tongue if someone was going to be a network stack developer or high level sysadmin/network admin -- for a regular web developer, just knowing that there are tcp headers and flags which can be set, and which might get mangled by devices between client and server, is enough.

It's CRC at the level below TCP (well, 2 layers below: ethernet)
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We need semantic memory, but there is a limit to how far a language can take this. Ultimately you are sitting on top of void* malloc(size_t, size_t). A systemic rethink from HW on up is in the cards. Whether it will happen in 10 or 20 years, I am not sure, but it will happen.
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If Google were publishing copies of that specification, that would be relevant.
"It is not pedantry; one cannot claim to have written the KJV version"

Sure one can. In fact, copyright has nothing to say regarding plagiarism. US copyright only prevents the copying of a work. I could claim to have authored Star Wars, the Bible, and your post -- copyright does not provide you recourse against this so long as I do not /copy/ them.

"The text is in the public domain but it is still covered by copyright."

No, it is not. Text in the public domain is not covered by copyright according to US law. Copyright ONLY applies to copies and incorporation into derivative works in the USA.

I apologize for being contradictory but you are completely wrong on both points here.
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I don't get it. Does people without (hard) engineering or CS education, and without any kind of equivalent experience, get that kind of engineering/CS jobs even today?

It's like hiring an architect to do the structural engineering of a bridge. They both "make" buildings, but their heads are in different places.
Rounded corners? AFAICT the defining characteristic of the new UI is that every single visual element is a rectangle with a pale grey 1px border. It's all so flat, ugh.
Is this a remake of something else? I'm sure I've seen a Tetris in a favicon before, many years ago.

I still applaud the effort though. It's well executed.
Haven't you heard? The community is abuzz.
I understand the notion that corporations are amoral entities that exist solely to profit and as such are immune to moral judgments, but I don't think an employee should ignore the final product of the company where he or she is employed and what sort of impact that product has on the world as a whole. A company can certainly sell products with significant negative repercussions that probably outweigh any positive contributions; the tobacco industry comes to mind as an obvious example.

This is probably also true for founders as well (I won't say it is, I've never been one). I don't really think too many people are sitting around thinking, "I'm going to start a company that screws a lot of people over but gets me rich!" As an employee, it would bother me if I believed that the company that employed me actively harmed the world as a whole; wouldn't that hold true for founders and their new companies as well?

(of course there's a spectrum here--not every company that isn't harming the world is contributing to it in any way)
I'll add a vote for Prompt. I have iSSH as well, but have pretty much standardized on Prompt.
You can look into Sequelize. http://sequelizejs.com
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Actually the main issue is:

Sure, you can run an Amazon EC2 machine 24/7 (and get a 'competitive price')

But if that's your main usage pattern, go for Rackspace, Linode, etc

EC2 really shines on 'on demand' computing. Turning it up to 11 when you need it and decomissioning it soon after. Sure, it's usual to keep 1 or 2 machines working full time.

Whereas in Rackspace what you do is start a machine (you can pick from several configs) and have it running permanently.

And AWS offer several services that are still sometimes missing from the competition (like CloudFront, Route53, etc)
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Oh yay, they've finally found a way of over processing meat, the only thing that was still hard to over process.
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Hi, I really like the idea of doing a course similar to the Pragmatic Studios course - but that's a pretty steep price for a junior in college like myself. Are there any other similar courses conventions similar to that that I could attend?
I'm not sure I follow. I don't avoid it. They just happened to have not changed the way I interact with it. I confess I did find my old theme a little more pleasant to deal with, but I'm already at the point where I don't remember it anymore.

I'm curious what "important buttons" you are referring to.

I'm also curious how folks that get this worked up over their email client don't go into shock when they get a new car. Consistency is not the norm in life. Seems it is really only a norm when it was dictated by function.

Not that I feel you shouldn't get worked up over what ever you want to get worked up over. I just don't understand it.
4 cylinders isn't the norm any more? I knew I didn't stay up to date with the automotive world, but blimey.
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Thanks for this gem!

Did they forgot to change this view or G-Plusification will kill this as well?
Is MySQL a common choice with Node.js? Don't see many people talking about SQL and Node.js. Anyone using this combo got something to say about their experience with it?
Ha, ha - completely off! Thank you for correctly me politely. Knowledge gained.
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When you get a new car, that's because of a choice you are making or a consequence of your actions (such as if the previous one was totaled.) When a website that a person frequents which "seems to work fine the way it is" changes, people get worked up because they see the change as unnecessary.

Similarly, if you are a developer, you might feel the same way if the company you work at randomly decides to switch bug trackers or wikis, when the new ones aren't really any better than before.
Last time I got hired by a big organization (definitely not C-level), my interaction with HR was as follows: they called me up to say they were sending an offer letter, and asked if by the way I could fill out an application and send them a résumé, for their records.
According to Google(obviously not an unbiased source) Gmail gained around 90M users between 2011 and 2012.
You need to head over to webhostingtalk.com. That is where the cool hosting kids hang out. :-) I'm a member there and always take my hosting and infrastructure questions there.
If we're imagining clean, fast buses, I don't see why they shouldn't come equipped with toilets of at least McDonald's quality.
A notice of infringement has no force in and of itself. It's just a notice. Anyone can send out. Anyone could send one before the DMCA existed as well.

What the DMCA creates is protection from liability for infringement carried out by a user of your internet service if you take down the material in response to a notice. It's this protection, afforded by the US law, against lawsuits in US court, that a US recipient would want... regardless of who sent the notice.
I really dislike the way this has been handled. Yes, I'm sure the FBI is legally prohibited from notifying the victims of the problem directly or even fixing it remotely, but there are many other avenues available to address the issue than needlessly partnering with a single private contractor. Even the posts addressing the issue don't provide clear instructions to verify or clean the issue, and the external sites they reference are provided by DNS name rather than IP.

I think that at the very least the G20 need to agree to the creation of some form of unified body able to address these types of issues effectively. For that to happen the governments involved would need understanding and expertise in online security, which they are all sorely lacking. It's going to be a very rocky road.

Not to be a jerk, but I don't come to HN to see headlines from the Huffington Post. In restrospect I don't think I should have commented.
Unless @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher) is an investor, I'm pretty sure him, and the other people in the screenshots, did not consent to the use of their image to promote this product. I wonder how fast they will get sued.
I'm not entirely sure what you're stating here. Businesses shouldn't look at past performances in order to make judgements about future performance? And those who ignore it will have an edge?
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Our long-range goal is to host our own infrastructure. I chose Rackspace because of OpenStack. I want the majority of my development effort to be applicable when we decide to make that change.
Why do we keep posting this? Also, why do we keep posting this?
ARC is a great alternative to memory management, but a poor alternative to garbage collection. It's still far too easy to leak objects by creating cycles under ARC.
Brian Leiter wrote about this on his philosophy blog and solicited comments from readers. http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2012/04/what-would-you...
> You can do this with Gmail just fine since it supports both pop3 and imap out.

Gmail's IMAP works, though it's had a number of minor-but-irritating bugs for years (these bugs even affect the official applications too). I wish they'd fix them - I get that it's not in their interest to support nonstandard clients for which they receive no ad revenue, but that's no excuse here, because they still cause some of the same problems on the Android and Blackberry apps.

This article, dated February 2008 (four years ago!) is just as relevant today as it was then. The duplication of messages with broken synchronization is what bothers me the most, as I use offlineimap to handle my mail: http://weblog.timaltman.com/archive/2008/02/24/gmails-buggy-...
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If this is true, then why does my rent keep going up?
> So let’s build more bullet trains

The Earth's axial supercontent, Eurasia, is ideally suited to train transport. China has ambitious and innovative plans to build a Eurasian rail network capable of transporting people from Beijing to London in two days:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7397846...
Development restrictions leading to high rent is mentioned in the article. I don't know about the rest of the state, but I constantly hear this mentioned for San Francisco.
> Is what I describe normal?

100%, at least in my country.
My mother went through years of taking care of her aging mother with Alzheimer's and made many sacrifices. So much so that she made each of my siblings and myself promise her that if she ever got Alzheimer's we would put her in a home and move on. She can't bear the thought of putting her children through the pain she endured.

Odds are, if G-Forbid this ever happened, we would be by her side every day, telling ourselves it is the right thing. It's the least we could do after all she has done and continues to do for us....

But it makes me wonder... What would your mother prefer? What would have made her happier? What choice would she have made for you if it was up to her?

Human nature is an interesting thing. Always presenting conflict every step of the way. The right thing can and will almost always be a representation of what your heart desires.

The weird part is, the more important the decision, the easier it usually is and the choice is more obvious.

The hard decisions usually are not that important, but rather a scenario with both options are legitimately justifiable, and both choices can be justified or vilified.
The code in question is most certainly not TimSort, but the rangecheck() method within it, which is copied verbatim from arrays.java, which Bloch wrote while at Sun. It's what Oracle is using to show that Bloch did reference Sun code and Android is not a clean-room implementation. It's there in the Groklaw piece, but glanced over very quickly because, well it's groklaw.

"Q. Why did you use the same rangecheck() function in Timsort as was in arrays.java?

A. It's good software engineering to reuse an existing function.

Q. But why use the exact same code?

A. I copied rangecheck() as a temporary measure, assuming this would be merged into arrays.java and my version of rangecheck() would go away.

[Discussion of Timsort dates and Android work dates.]"
I wish I could pay $400/mo for access to a transit system with five times the operating budget of the $80/mo one I currently experience.
You're missing out on a ton of great Gmail features if you are using a desktop mail client. Integrated hangout/voice /text chat, phone, conversation view, the social pane with contextual information..the list goes on.
Thanks, Lance! We definitely owe some of this to you.
Deja Vu: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/22197...
For GUI clients, Thunderbird is the best I've seen, followed by Evolution (back when I used it, anyway).

Though if you're open to a ncurses-based client, I use mutt. The #1 reason I switched to it (instead of any other client) when the new Gmail design was released was because it opens almost instantaneously. It's a subtle thing, but not having to leave my inbox open all the time and being able to open it in a split second when I need to really helps my workflow.
Priority Inbox is Google'S broken idea of what is important to me and what is not: it's ugly, distracting, and worse than without it.
Development restrictions don't cause existing housing to disappear. If population were declining, there would be no need for new development.
My Palo Alto rent is too high, so 4 million people in 20 years isn't enough.
Are you advocating lying in job interviews?
It's for "slow connection[s]". It will be here for a while.
More importantly and likely implicit...

"Have Dreams, Work Hard, Think for Yourself, Speak Up, Be Friendly...and you will live a happy and productive life!"
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Pitfall if you are a U.S. citizen/green card holder: taxes. Scratch that. Not taxes. Paperwork and the cost to keep it straight.

Your SG corporation will be a controlled foreign corporation.

Unless you are exceptionally well-organized and advised, the income generated by your company would start to look a lot like Subpart F income. Translation: all of the profit of the SG corporation is taxable to you as a human being, every year, on your U.S. individual tax return.

Now. You might say "Meh, profit is profit and if I have to pay tax what does it matter. I will have to pay tax anyway." Well, yes, to a point. But I will gloss over that or what I talk about will look a lot (to you) as snippets of code look to me. Unintelligible.

The real problem is that the U.S. tax paperwork burden is profound. And it is beyond the power of mere mortals to do it properly. You are in the realm of paperwork designed to capture transactions and operations of companies of Google's ilk. Not ordinary small businesses.

And if you screw up the paperwork, the penalties will eat you alive. E.g., Form 5471. This is where you tell the IRS "Hi, I am an American and I own shares of a foreign corporation." File late, and it is $10,000 please as a penalty. Don't fill it in right, and they say it is an incomplete therefore failed filing. $10,000 please.

Things start there and get worse.

The cost of running a SG corporation in SG annually is nontrivial. The cost of people like me is nontrivial. (I'm de-f'ing a SG corporation right now for a guy in precisely this position).

All of that money you save living in Cambodia will go to pay the overhead of your corporation. I don't recommend living cheap just so you can give $10,000 to someone like me. :-)

If you are an American and you want to live in a cheap country, kind of under the radar, and run your business from there, set up your company in the USA. Run it from there.

The probability of making a mess of international tax filings approaches 1.0 in a very few years. The probability of making a mess with domestic corporate or LLC filings is very low.

The cost of talent to keep your international corporate structure straight is extremely high. (I'm $750/hour and I'm not taking on any new clients at the moment). The cost of talent to run a generic domestic corporation -- you can get that anywhere from any random accountant and corporate lawyer.

That's my suggestion. Running away is the best strategy. Said Brave Sir Robin.
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Could you explain? I've seen MIT do similar 'hacks' in the past with various patterns in the windows ('SOX' for the 2004 World Series is the only one I remember off the top of my head). Nothing was this elaborate, but I imagine that the hard part is actually setting up the system to coordinate the actual lights turning off/on.... and it seems like they've had that for a while.
As often happens after the News Corp purchase, the Wall street journal is full of shit. Lets look at the California population shall we:

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=kf7tgg1uo9ude_&#...

Quite an exodus we have got here. In fact not only is California the most populous state by far, its population is rising steadily and showing absolutely no sign of slowing down.

The rest of the WSJ article is just the usual half-witted raving against regulation and environmental initiatives.
Because it is not true.
what about Jeff Bezos (ok, he's EE [yay, EE!]), or Richard Brandson (or it's really Rutan's brainchild)? OK, Virgin Galatic is child-play next to SpaceX, but it still demonstrate that billionaires can invest in AA.
I tried Priority Inbox for a while when it first came out. It's an interesting feature and maybe it works for some people, but I decided I didn't need it.

It didn't matter until the redesign, though. In the new design, the "importance markers" are very similar in appearance to the stars, and they are right next to each other. It's hard to tell them apart at a glance. That's why I finally had to turn them off.
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This could be of interest to some of the readers. I'm the developer of Gmelius, a poly-browser extension that proposes a better and cleaner Gmail™ inbox, http://gmelius.com . The extension is available for Chrome, Firefox and Opera.

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I've only once been able to snag a domain on the drop (everymentor.com). Though I've tried dozens of times for various domains, I always get beaten to the punch.

What kind of resources do these guys have? Hundreds of EC2 instances pounding registrars for good domains? I'm surprised registrars allow it.
I dont know what to say ! i get angry when i see a domain name that i want being parked on and going to absolute waste, but on the other hand the business this guy has created and the money he has made could be viewed as a smart hack in some perverse way. He has basically seen a market where no one else did in the early days (or only few did) and has managed to capitalize of it very sweetly (all of which he did skillfully and legally).
Is it surprising to find that a coin is able to be flipped to the same result when flipped from a constant position with constant force?
The randomness in flipping coins comes from the human element, not some magic quality inherent to coins.
Your options really depend on your current numbers, your estimated growth and your pain threshold for scale. Starting with a single box sounds like you either have nothing right now or you're on shared hosting, does 'dedicated box' mean a physical server or a virtual one? Virtual hosting nowadays with someone like Linode or Rackspace would be a good bet, but you can find cheap(and less reputable) options on Lowendtalk.

OS shouldn't be a dealbreaker, if you're comfortable with a distro and you see it go ahead, but if price is a consideration don't let rpm vs. deb concern you too much. You can run a stackscript to get off the ground without getting your hands dirty.

Can I ask why you wouldn't use a cloud provider? Are you already off the ground in the cloud and need to change to a single box? Or do you run a wonky stack? PHPfog runs Varnish in front of their stack, it would be plenty fast and save you tons of hassle setting up and maintaining a box. I'm on their free tier and could scale up any time.
Like the idea.

I often take a couple of shots of the same thing just to experiment; probably a symptom of growing up shooting digital. I guess you're just banking on randomness preventing dupes from showing too often or manually removing them.
Build the product and focus on building 1-2 core features that constitute the unique value proposition of your idea. Then show that to your core customers.

Core Feature. Core Customer.
That means don't worry about silly trivial things like spacing between pixels.
And don't even talk to friends and see what they think.
Talking to yourself has cognitive benefits
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> if you live in a dense city with poor traffic flow, and that accounts for a tiny percentage of the world population

That's false. Most of the world's population now lives in cities. Deciding what percentage of those fall below the threshold of "poor" traffic-flow wise is difficult, but it's not "tiny". (http://www.gizmag.com/go/7613/)

Cars beget cars. The reason people need cars in a lot of the US is because they moved somewhere that they need a car to get to. People talk about the amount of time that things take without a car forgetting that said problem was created by cars in the first place. In places where most folks don't have cars you have a small grocery store every few blocks rather than a large one every few miles. The demographics of public transit differ from society at large because the well-off drive cars.

I grew up in American suburbia and have lived in Europe for the last decade. The amount of time required to say, go shopping, or commute to work has remained broadly similar in the half-dozen areas I've lived in, though the distances have not.

Progressively moving away from cars is largely a cultural rather than technological problem. Some well-done urban planning (including structuring energy prices to favor more efficient means) and a few decades to execute it could drastically shift the balance to where we have far fewer cars.
I think the problem is he comes here every couple of weeks and writes almost the exact same rant [1][2][3]. People are tired of point-by-point responses because they know he'll just be back a couple of weeks later and write the exact same thing again.

Honestly, I don't know why his comments always seems to get voted up. I assume they're voted up by people who have not read the previous exact-same rants...

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3790656
[2]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3784685
[3]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3702761