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This was exactly the situation for us at PBworks when I wrote my version of OP's system — huge existing business logic and object model in php but with new requirements and performance demands. Move the business logic into a stateful backend REST daemon instead of the frontend web servers, without throwing away all of the existing codebase. In one move you get the ability to load balance more naturally and persist data in-thread instead of e.g. huge memcache traffic for each user request.
Latest from SpaceX management, in a press event last week: they're building it this year, but expect to launch sometime in 2013.

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=b4bab31...
Well it seems very similar to the Pirate Pay system, https://torrentfreak.com/microsoft-funded-startup-aims-to-ki...
> This desire to build Enterprise is assuming that Star Trek is indeed a roadmap and blueprints.

If you actually look at his roadmap and blueprints, Gen1 through Gen3 have nothing to do with the fictional Enterprise. It's just a catchy name. Only the Gen4 spec gets into "fictional science" territory (warp drives).
Here's the thing. I loved the Talk Show for the longest time, but even recently noticed that things were starting to... go downhill. Never would have guessed it was between the hosts but the magic wasn't there anymore. It seemed more like a chore. I missed the Bond stuff a lot, and was looking forward to the potential next movie club but it never happened. And then things just seemed to become more and more pauses and more and more wasted hours.

Another thing: Gruber's a terrible host. Don't get me wrong, I think the man is great, his blog fantastic, a magnificent writer, and a really smart guy. But his constant pauses, breaks, and seeming unwillingness to be on a show doesn't make for good listening. Which is why Dan was KEY to the show. Having him to help guide the conversation, reel Gruber back in, and most importantly, feed him the softballs so Gruber could knock them out of the park was KEY to the success of the show.

I just don't understand how Gruber can expect to do the show without him. Now maybe if part of this was because of bad blood, and Gruber is joined by his friends it won't matter, he will WANT to talk to them and it wont be an issue. But I don't know.

All in all, I'm not sure I'm going to keep listening. Gruber & Friends only interests me if the friends are the aforementioned Lonely Sandwich, or Merlin, or other guys who's shows and insight I've come to know and love.

As for the reasoning? Your guess is as good as mine, and I think people are right in assuming it's bad blood otherwise an official statement should have come from someone. To be fair, as respect to the fans and people who listen one, if not both should have said something (Leo Laporte is very open when his shows/hosts move on) because it's the professional thing to do. If the split is personal not professional the silence makes more sense. That said, these guys make themselves out to be professional so even if it was personal they should still have come out an said something (again, see Laporte).

One thing is for certain. Listen to Dan's back and forth with hosts like Siracusa, Dalrymple, and of course Merlin Mann. Merlin signs off with an "I Love You" and you can tell there's a genuine friendship amongst that professional relationship. Gruber and Dan never had that, so maybe its for the best they go their separate ways.

But for both to say nothing to anyone is a big Screw You to the fans (note I only used screw to be polite, I would have opted for the harsher option), and doesn't leave me wanting to hear Talk Show 3.0.

I'll still read Daring Fireball religiously though.
You are correct. The relevant citation is this.
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/06/07/the-us-ipo-...

On average, banks take about 7% of IPO proceeds due to a Wall Street cartel of underwriters.
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When professional relationships split, it's fairly easy and common to talk about.

When personal relationships split, it's a very hard, emotional thing to talk about, and people tend to shy away from discussing it.

And that's what has me worried, and most upset.
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113? Twice a minute?! Ouchie.
this is cool and all, but it's completely irrelevant to hn.
> You don't. Fuck ALL those use cases. Keep only those that are used a large percentage of the time by the large majority.

Disagree completely. Because if you do that, the moment someone comes along and needs something that you're unwilling to provide and can't be layered on top of your work, they're going to make their own "ls" that overlaps a lot but satisfies their need. If we have 15 different "ls" implementations, we're back to more overall complexity.

Basically if you want to write code that lives at the bottom of the stack, you have to think of the most crazy hard-core shit that anyone might want to do with your code and how you can accommodate that.

Two fantastic examples of software that achieve this in spades: Lua and zlib. Both let you plug in your own memory allocator instead of malloc() if you really need to. Both let you perform your own I/O if you really need to.
> I posted this article to HN mostly because I wanted to see technical arguments as to why this would not work.

As I posted above, for Gen1 and Gen3, and possibly even Gen3, I don't think there are any.

The most important good thing these specs do is add in acceleration, even if it's small (0.002g is pretty small). Robert Heinlein said decades ago that the way we do space flight now, with ships "coasting" except for brief rocket burns to change course, is the equivalent of floating down the Mississippi on a raft. What we need are the equivalent of sailing ships--ships that always have some "push", even if it's small. The difference in travel times for any significant distance is amazing (note that current plans by NASA for a trip to Mars have it taking two years one way!).
> And so pegging the size of our unit ball to its 1-dimensional parameter, the radius, causes its volume to vanish.

There's some inherent flaw here - as 'pegging' the size of unit cube to its 1-dimensional parameter, the length, does not make the volume to vanish.
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I believe it's possible, and worth doing. Moreover, I have spent several years of my life trying to do just that in the space of network parsers and serializers!

All I was saying is that it's not easy or straightforward to achieve, and that the author's essay doesn't offer anything that helps us get there.
Bill Gates has done far more to make the world a better place than Jobs would have done if he lived to be 200.
You'll still be sitting in the car during that time (these are driverless cars, not personal teleporters), so I wager that the extra time will be spent on Angry Birds or watching TV on your phone.
Another problem is simplicity is inherently subjective. Almost no one thinks their code is overly complicated, that is an attribute to be applied to other people's code. People play lip service to the idea, and will sometimes claim their code is overly complex, in an almost self-deprecating way, but not much serious effort is put forth on fixing/avoiding that. Lots of comments disparaging other's failure to "get" their design or suggestions to RTFM, or worse, in open-source, RTFC, abound however.
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Facebook has netted us at least one middle-east revolution, so I wouldn't be so quick to write it off. I agree with your sentiment though, I wish more smart people would work on important problems like space travel, instead of devising ways to increase click-through rates.
Maybe I did not express myself correctly. First of all, if it was true that black people are stupid then it wouldn't be immoral.

What I meant is that it's immoral to make decisions based on ideas you have of people that have not been proven. (It does not matter if it's driven by brain chemistry.)

Doing those things is not immoral per se, but if you do it by thinking that those things are natural to the gender, the become immoral.

In this case I think it's quite complex, like you point out with your questions. I do not think that Lego's action are immoral because of their ideals, but because they are propagating stereotypes and sexism that worsens, at least in my opinion, the lives of many men and women in this society. For example, because there are still separating women with pink and dolls, and men with blue and robots, girls who like robots may be bullied, as well as men who likes dolls.
Perhaps you can cite the research with which you're so familiar.
That claim didn't ring true for me at all. How do you accurately estimate someone's intelligence at a glance, as in the case of physical attraction?

Maybe the writer lost some verbal quickness and assumed that was caused by his loss of intelligence. That can certainly be evaluated in a snap judgement, but it's different from intelligence.

Of course I'm just being defensive here. I always speak slowly, but I still think I'm smart.
This is a terrible advice. If you have a problem please see a doctor, do not try squashing it with caffeine. If CPAP is not working ask about other treatments - dental appliances, various surgeries, ask the doctor. Weight loss is the only sensible advice from the above post, however losing weight is impossibly hard when you're low on oxygen. Start breahing first, then lose weight.
I have no ruby knowledge of any kind. Do you mean this is common knowledge in the relevant field?

The regular expressions I _am_ familiar with would work as expected and usually need a special modifier/flag to match over multiple lines. So - I learned something new.
I'm not really making it a competition, or a comparison. The comic did. The writer did too.

I don't mean to fuel a comparison either, but that's what's being discussed. Instead of simply giving an opinion, I listed why I believe Tesla has more of an impact on my life every day today than Edison.

It's cool if others feel different.
If you're going into market charging more than everyone else and making a massive profit - it's only possible to have a clear conscience when the consumer is indeed getting something better, and not merely an ordinary design with a higher price.
To add to your point: physics shows that it is possible to describe complex phenomena using simple models. But discovering such models is hard.
seconded. not to take anything away from LT, but i'd really like to see it deal with a large codebase.
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NO. Every f-king book teaches us to use $^, every f-king article on the web. Stop breaking standards, we use it because we used too.

It has never been a common knowledge. Ask all rubyists your know and you will see it.
It just misses the core factor mentioned in the fiction. The Nietzschesque need for a 3rd war were we would come out as a unified earth. Under one government.

Also the immediate need to focus on that after contact with the vulcans.
Alternate sources:

Video from the Monster's Inc bonus DVD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHPZMIAhpqs&t=44s

And here is a more recent NYT video with a peek at the space (3:39)
http://vimeo.com/19789693
This is absolutely not common knowledge. I have never seen an applicant use \A or \Z instead of ^/$.

They typically also use and/or instead of &&/|| and potentially introduce subtle bugs into their code when the former would suffice.
Really? I can get 25-30 fps on a canvas game on Safari for iPad 2 or 3.
Single page: http://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCABRE84I0162012...
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Btw Instagram is an example of opinionated simple interface. You might be underestimating the complexity of creating such interface.
I'd see more value in a non blocking Apache.
We know it was MS that's supporting them at that psychologically important $38 figure, but that $2.3B figure is just speculation. Still, I'm sure there are some very nervous traders this weekend over at MS. Would not be surprised to see a lot of shorts on stocks like Yelp, Zynga as a hedge.

What a disaster this IPO was (for the banks, not for facebook). Though, I'm sure the people at Facebook aren't exactly happy with the way things went and all the (unfair?) negative press / scrutiny that they will receive now.
You must be joking! The book you are referring to accompanies a course called "CS116". What about digging through some graduate school course catalogues instead?

Of course Kernel development isn't impossible. Otherwise, there wouldn't be any kernels in the first place. But of course it is the domain of a rather small number of people.
While I think this is very cool and would like it to happen, I don't think this is a good thing to be focusing on just yet. It seems like trying to build the HMS Victory before you've quite figured out how to build coastal clippers.

A better short term goal might be to get space stations up at Earth-moons L4/L5 that we can use as shipyards, resupply and refuelling stations. I think only once we start building spacecraft in space will transport around the solar system become more commonplace.

Some relevant links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point_colonization

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Networ...
Do not want this. This will be abused by less experienced developers.
First of all, I don't want to land up in a Bill Gates vs Steve Jobs argument. I strongly believe both have done remarkable things in different ways. Second, please stop claiming "Jobs has changed/has a desire to change the world". For America, it maybe true, but not for the rest of 'THE WORLD'.

Nokia/Samsung/etc still lead the sales in Asian countries, for instance.

Third, I 'personally' think its a good thing that Tesla didn't meet Steve J. Well, look at what XEROX is now. That is all I can say.
I've never heard of this before. Not only is this surprising, the fix is ugly.
An unlocking app from the Play store will not do what you want. Also, it doesn't matter whether or not you are rooted. Remember, carrier unlock is completely different than rooting, so the two have no nothing to do with each other. Call a few cellphone repair shops in your area and ask them what they charge to carrier unlock your specific device.. that would be your best bet.
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See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3992599
Has anyone tried running these in parallel to get super clean bench top power?
Captain Obvious:

All who says "I knew it" are just wanna look smarter than others. It's OK but it doesn't mean that others knew it.
I think the next time I meet a feminist I'm going to punch her in the face and say you're welcome. They sh!t me, and I don't want to discriminate because she's a girl.

Why do people think women should be treated exactly the same as men? Soon as people realise biology makes the sexs different we can use this knowledge to our advantage. Women are better than men in ways and men are better than women in ways. In any environment you need to know the strengths and weaknesses of your team to know exactly how to make it run at its full potential.

I'm over girls complaining about being discriminated against. If you don't like the pay or the environment you work in leave! You have a choice. It's exactly like watching a bad tv show. There is no point going on twitter or your blog saying how bad it is. You've just given the show 1 viewer plus free marketing. The only way to get the show cancelled is to stop watching. The point I'm trying to make is. Stop trying to make me feel bad for you because I don't. Leave your job until you find one you like with no discrimination and if all the girls who felt discriminated against did this there would be no discrimination.

I get discriminated against because of my age. I'm 26 and for the last couple of years I've been a senior developer. It's hard for me to get a job because people think I'm too young for the position. When in fact I've spent more time coding then a 30 year old. Hirers don't count hours after 5pm aparently. I can tell you what I didn't do. I didn't write a blog having a cry over it.

One last thing, most of the girls I've meet over the years always say they want to be treated like men. But why do they get so happy when you open a door for them? No chick has ever opened my door. It just seems like they want the best of both worlds.
Little story:

So I walk into a bar in Belgrade, Serbia. Turns out to be a private party, lot's of drinking and merry-ment but my girl and I felt a bit out of place. Just before we turned for the door a man pulled me by the shoulder to the bar and started asking what we were doing there, real intimidating-like.

He said we could have drinks on him but I felt a little like we didn't want to be indebted to this guy. On the other hand I felt I had no choice.

He had asked me what I'd studied and I mentioned physics. He got the bar-tenders attention, got me a drink, and asked me "so... you say you know something about physics... tell me: 'what nationality was Nikola Tesla?'"

I responded "Croatian" of course. Suddenly the faces of the man, the bartender, and (so it seemed) the rest of the bar too went very gloomy, eyes piercing into me like shots of raiki (the liquor they drink).

I learned that night that the Serbs claim Tesla was a Serbian who lived in Croatia. The Croatians and Serbs (who hate each other very much) both claim him as their national heros.

Lessons:

- if you're in Serbia, Tesla was a Serbian (and a god)

- if you're in Croatia, Tesla was a Croatian (and a god)

- if you're anywhere else, well I guess now I know he wasn't god
Anything in particular that you don't like about it? I haven't used it, so am curious.
I'm confused by this "greenshoe" business.

To prevent the price of something from falling, you can:

(1) Increase its demand.

(2) Decrease its supply.

Which one does the "greenshoe" do?
I wonder who the counterparties were.

I'd be willing to bet there're some very happy algorithmic traders out there right now.
It's true. This is a brand new vehicle, and you want to start with tight limits and gradually expand them as you know they are safe. Otherwise stuff fails and you don't know why.

This is a test flight.
People might use only 10% of features that your program provides but the problem is that different people use different 10% (it or similar was said about MS Word bloat).
Wiki on a stick? http://stickwiki.sourceforge.net/
Or a custom Lua web server? http://lua4everything.dyndns.org/
Merlin is designed to be reusable. It's ultimately designed to power a fully reusable rocket.
ah. I only really notice it in multiple L's. It uses the openfont license though. Which means you can legally crack it open using fontforge and adjust the kerning, and redistribute it as pt mono improved if youd like
Yes, I work for a large insurance company, and we're wedded to Notes until death do us part.

And it's not just for email, it's for a huge number of custom applications that use the Notes framework.
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Haha, just wait until/if it drops below $38... the banks could get hosed on this.
I don't even really care if Edison invented anything or not, because he was a douchebag. I don't even care if he ultimately believed AC was dangerous, advocating its use in electric chairs and electrocuting animals publicly is an attempt to use FUD and hysteria to win an argument that he was apparently unable to win by civilized means (and for good reason, because he was wrong).

Also, his aggressive filing of patents doesn't exactly endear me to him either. He held 1,093 patents at his death; did he really invent 1,093 things? He seems to have been an early player in the game of patenting every incremental improvement to everything, which as we see in software hinders rather than promotes "the progress of science and useful art."
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There's also Sputnik, also coded in Lua http://sputnik.freewisdom.org/
Yes, all that's needed is for it to become available to subpoena and other lawful process.
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What's your point? That it's status quo so don't worry about it?
I believe Oatmeal likes to draw comics to generate traffic from Reddit. Not always but seems to be that way. Since Tesla is well-loved on Reddit, it's logical he would do this to get all the clicks.
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110% correct.
I assigned the bit.ly link http://bit.ly/filmpolice to this pdf, so that you can call it up on your phone if you needed it at the police station, etc.
They did not say that the risk of death decreases linearly with the amount of coffee that one drinks. Such a statement could possibly encourage people to drink amounts of coffee that could be detrimental to their health.

What they did say is that people that regularly drink 3+ cups of coffee a day seemed to correlate with decreased risk of death (over the period in question). In my opinion, this would only encourage people to take up drinking 3-4 cups of coffee a day. I do not see a risk of someone overdosing on coffee in response to this study.
My point is that this is outraging.

There are so many instances of this, it seems each week we hear from another backdoor like this[1].

[1] http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/04/26/1411229/backdoor-found...
The intuition seems flawed. It’s not that n-spheres are spiky, but rather that n-cubes are. If you put n-spheres in all the corners of an n-cube, for n > 9 the corner spheres are far enough away from the centre of the cube that the central sphere ends up with a diameter greater than the cube’s edge length.

Even if I’m just misunderstanding it, I don’t see how it’s surprising. The author writes “with a true high-dimensional sphere, every point on the surface is ‘an extremity’”—isn’t the same true by definition of a sphere of any dimension? For an n-sphere, you have an infinite number of “spikes” whose tips constitute an (n ‒ 1)-dimensional surface.
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The Wikipedia page on the "greenshoe" gives more detail on how Morgan was able to safely buy these shares: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenshoe

Brief summary: Morgan oversells the offering. Facebook gives Morgan the right (but not the obligation) to cover its short position by buying shares at the offering price. This is a defensive maneuver.

If the stock pops, Morgan buys the shares from Facebook at the offering price in order to cover its short. Otherwise they'd have to purchase at the market price (which would cause them to lose money). This is the hoped for scenario.

In the unexpected case, where the stock's price trends below the offering price, Morgan covers its short by buying shares directly from the market (instead of from Facebook). This stabilizes the price of the stock at the offering price and ensures that public investors don't go underwater soon after the offering.

It sounds like there are some complicated maneuvers that the underwriter can pull to make some money off the greenshoe (it's not all flowers and sunshine: http://dealbreaker.com/2012/05/facebook-ipo-goes-nowhere-in-...) but this particular implementation seems relatively good to Facebook and the public investors.
Another fun fact about high-dimensional spaces: Randomly pick k points in an n-dimensional space. Now, find their average location. As the number of dimensions increases, it becomes progressively more likely that every point will be closer to the average than it is to any other point.
True, it seems like the Star Trek theme is just being used for the "hearts and minds" effect. Which might not be too bad an idea.