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Any HN Mandriva users out there? Why does Mandriva matter now? I am using Ubuntu, Debian Centos on Servers and enjoyed pretty much every other distro, do you have any points why Mandriva matters in 2012 or what different it offers?
Too Much Familiarity is Bad for Creativity
The question now is what will be the response of the leaders of the community fork Mageia? http://www.mageia.org/en/
Could build a strategy game on top of this.
I believe it is a draw.
I just made a pledge anyway. Whatever we can do to help make this a reality seems like a worthwhile use of money to me. It looks like a great piece of software.
I've used PhoneGap in the past and whilst it worked well enough for a basic CRUD-y app, I'm not so sure about games, especially given the webview is nobbled in comparison to the browser.

I'm toying with the idea of building a game I never got around to on my old Amiga and looked at Corono (http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/). Obviously no good for HTML games but it does look up to the job if you fancy switching to Lua.
[Kilgore Trout had written a novel call the Big Board.] It was about an Earthling man and woman who were kidnapped by extra-terrestrials. They were put on display in a zoo on a planet called Zircon-212.

These fictitious people in the zoo had a big board supposedly showing stock market quotations and comodity prices along one wall of their habitat, and a news ticker, and a telephone that was supposedly connected to a brokerage on Earth. The creatures on Zircon-212 told their captives that they had invested a million dollars for them back on Earth, and that it was up to the captives to manage it so that they would be fabulously wealthy when they were returned to Earth.

The telephone and the big board and the ticker were all fakes, of course. They were simply stimulants to make the Earthlings perform vividly for the crowds at the zoo--to make them jump up and down and cheer, or gloat, or sulk, or tear their hair, to be scared shitless or to feel as contented as babies in their mothers' arms.

The Earthlings did very well on paper. That was part of the rigging, of course. And religion got mixed up in it, too. The news ticker reminded them that the President of the United States had declared National Prayer Week, and that everybody should pray. The Earthlings had had a bad week on the market before that. They had lost a small fortune in olive oil futures. So they gave praying a whirl.

It worked. Olive oil went up.

-Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5
I made a comment below about how I actually profit from things like this (stock going up and the high value assigned) in what I do. I gave it some more thought and think the reason most people (including myself) would secretly wish for the stock to tank is because we feel that there is something unjust going on with how much money they are making relative to what they are doing and whether it is even sustainable. Sure we wish people success (especially when we profit) but this success seems out of proportion (didn't feel the same about google fwiw). If we believe that is the case (overvalued by the metrics and media hype and attention especially) then by the stock dropping our thoughts are validated. That's a guess at the phenomena going on here.

(As an example very few swimmers are probably jealous with Michael Phelps success because he totally earned it. )
You might as well ignore Facebook and Instagram. If you want to be a billionaire, creating a social media company is probably the worst way to do it. Reading and obsessing over this kind of news is toxic for your brain.

If that kind of stuff gets to you, I would suggest the opposite of what the author did- don't read the news. These days there is very little valuable information because every media company is competing for eyeballs so they each try to out-do each other with sensational, deceptive and in some cases completely false headlines. I can't help but feel dumber every time I read Bloomberg news or the Wall Street Journal. Just don't do it. Go on a news diet for a week and see if you don't feel better and if you miss out on any important news.
While that window is non-zero, it is also very, very small.
I upped my pledge after reading this. Even more excited to be able to see the early betas and play with the future.
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That looks like a fat finger typo: $4000 instead of $40.00
One problem that comes to mind is Nginx' inability to have multiple root dirs set for one and the same host depending on what location directive will be in use, for example when wanting to set unique root dirs during userdir mapping - which also happens to be something that Nginx can't do as properly as Apache. Another problem I can recall is how some configuration scenarios require an abundance of PCRE matching clauses to fulfill, which in turn causes Nginx a tangible but most noticable delay for each request that happens to match the implied regexp portion. I am not sure why this is the case, and I am not sure why it isn't so in Apache, where regexp clauses introduce no noticable stall.
We're sticking with our goal on Kickstarter - if we hit 300k we'll definitely do it. There's a decent chance we will either way though.
Most Entertaining Google Easter Eggs and Tricks
Over the last few years Google has placed great emphasis on building a relation with it's users and that's why the April fool's day has played an important role in company's branding process. Another thing is of course, the apparition of Easter eggs. Here is a list of the funniest and most creative Google Easter eggs of all time.
It's a standalone piece of software, not a library. How does it being GPL affect you?
What is your definition of "success" as an entrepreneur?
Which seems more likely, that someone genuinely placed this order thinking that the trigger would actually happen, or that someone planted this story to get their name in the press? Notice how it's according to a specific, and named, director at a specific company.
That 25% of the company has changed hands in 20 minutes.
It's just as cheap to eat properly as it is to eat unhealthily. The difference is you need to actually put some effort in, rather than order a large Big Mac Meal.
I don't like Google Checkout for a few other reasons:

- If a transaction fails on a debit or credit card, they require you to send in proof of identity and proof of address. Paypal, Amazon and iTunes simply let you try again

- They required me to do the same to re-open a merchant account I had voluntarily closed
Teachers Pay Teachers,
DonorsChoose

interesting that these teacher startups are founded by males from a female dominated starting industry.
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket facts
See also journalists wanting scientists at CERN to push a big red button.

Scientists, pleasingly, said "No".

(http://press.web.cern.ch/press/pressreleases/Releases2007/PR...) etc etc.
Well do not even think of the term 'delay' or 'slip in schedule'. You have beaten up enough hype to keep people on toes expecting this thing to come out.

In fact it will be very interesting if we see commit logs on something like Github. A lot of people follow a certain project(s) which they like.

That may also help you test and flush out bugs as needed while soliciting feedback.

All the best and expecting to see a solid product out!
I wasn't aware that this was a Q&A or issues tracker for Nginx, which is why I never had the intent of bringing details up. My apologies for posting these things in the official Nginx resources. The sarcasm is on the house.
Visualizing My First Marathon
Visualization of marathon training data using D3 and Google Maps
A woman walks into a rape, uh, bar
Gamification Grows Up to Become a CEO's Best Friend
Visualization of the Week: Urban metabolism
Safari 5 fails to handle 8192 bit RSA certificates
Sugar Makes You Stupid, But Omega-3s Will Smarten You Back Up
I wrote down the equations for the two circles and the line then intersected the line with the outer circle to get a relationship between the length of the line and the two radii, calling this equation one. The second equation is the equation for the area of the annuli given their radii. Solving both equations for R^2-r^2 and equating gives the answer.
Ask HN: How easily can I obtain a US Visa? Anyone got experience?
I'm hoping at some point in the next year or two to move from the UK to the US. I am young (I'll be 20 next week) and I currently work as a programmer for a reasonably sized digital agency. I have experience, I am skilled and I could provide value working for a company in the US.

I have no ties to the US in particular, though some of my relatives live over there I think (let's ignore that though, I don't really know them and I'm not certain).

So, where do I go from here? Do I approach companies first and then try and get them to sponsor me for a visa? How likely is it that I will be approved for a visa? Does anyone have any experience in this area?

Also, does location in the US matter? There are a few places that I would like to move in particular. Any ideas what effect the particular state I'm planning on moving to will have on the chances of obtaining a visa?
Am I the only one with massively messed up layouts on Facebook today? What's going on?

http://cl.ly/0N3L34461V1z130f2W1e
My bet is it closes somewhere between $35 and $45. The owners pushed back against the bankers at every turn to push for a higher price. If they don't price at the start of the day effectively, the original shareholders lose money to the bankers who set up the IPO like what happened to LinkedIn.
I have to use Lotus notes at my work. As a result my team doesn't use email.

We pretty much don't communicate in any reliable way and insert all of these strange rules on our tracking system so things don't get lost.

Ridiculous.
yeah, spammers don't know how to make a DNS query
Is it a bad sign? Doesn't it mean that shares were priced appropriately and FB didn't leave much on the table?
I respect Google. The search engine they built was made out of the hard work of their own employees. They didn't build an empty bucket and wait for everyone else to do the hard work and fill it up.

Sure, Facebook is full of clever hacks and nice features but the gas in that engine is the data happily supplied by their users, for the low low cost of free.
Traditionally, with an IPO that's become as popular as this one, you have a representative from the company being listed ring the bell on the trading floor of the exchange they're listing on.

However, NASDAQ lacks a proper trading floor, as they're all electronic, so they have companies deliver a live feed of said representative ringing the opening bell from the company HQ.
Agree completely.

Step One is "Act Intelligently."

No process is going to help you skip Step One.
It's based on the $38 pricing, not the opening.
LCD technology torn down and explained (video)
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This Is Nuts: Someone Is Willing To Pay $4000 A Share For Facebook
Not to mention it's completely impossible. How can you remember that someone is opt-out without...tracking them.
Bourgeois. Closest English term I can think of which conveys a similar notion is WASP.

I believe they might have been called "city-folk" at some point... maybe the equivalent of suburbanites or gated-community-dwellers today. Maybe saying, "that's a gated-community mentality!" would convey a similar meaning in a succinct and relatively PC way.
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Groupon investigated for odd stock spike prior to earnings report
I'm skeptical about the NoSQL hype, too, but I don't think one can really write the whole thing off as fool's gold. If only because of examples like Google's success with BigTable.
For the userdir example, would the following link solve your problem?

http://wiki.nginx.org/UserDir
What school did graduate from?
Well, for one, you can't make small modifications to the code and then resell it as a commercial product with the original author's copyrights tucked away in an about box. You'd actually have to release the source code too. It will be harder to convince customers you've added value if they can see exactly what you've changed.
I'm no investment pro but FB's valuation seems unjustified to me, so I'm searching around for explanations. Where is this additional demand for these shares coming from?

The best explanation I can come up with is that FB benefits from its massive base of engaged users. I imagine there are a great many individual investors who are torn between wanting to participate in "internet tech" and wanting to not invest in what they don't understand. FB comes along and I imagine many of them to reason "I use it all the time, therefore I understand it". I believe Microsoft has also benefited from this effect.

These people believe they are value investing, not playing the market.
I am actively using Google Drive and I like it so far. It's faster than Dropbox. The only issue Drive will face is that it's a bit late in the party. Dropbox has the lion's share right now.

But Drive is amazingly fast (Web and Android) and allows editing and live publishing etc. Best part is it's total integration with Google Docs.

I, by far, am very impressed with Google Drive and will continue to use it.
Geeks and Drama, using improv drama to teach mathematicans communication skills
In the U.S. teachers are responsible for compiling 5-8 lesson plans a day. Multiply that number by the number of school days. Each lesson plan then needs to meet specific requirements that varies between state.

It goes without saying seasoned teachers will have a cache of lesson plans that they can, and do, pass along or sell. Why should one not be allowed to profit on the labor they already expended for an incredible service to other teachers?

This has already been "adopted widely", for decades, and the teacher-lesson-plan-community is an incredibly active and vibrant one. The countless lesson plan networks, online/offline, free/paid, are an invaluable service to teachers.

I find the negativity odd, that we as hackers, who create, build on, share, and sell our toolsets, would have a problem with this.
Microsoft doesn't sell a product, it sells a component. It's the OS that OEMs buy when building their products. If an OEM wants to build a low-end, high-end, or vertical-market product using Windows, Microsoft will gladly sell them the OS and let the OEM take the business risk. Some will succeed and some will fail, but all will pay their license fee.

The only high-low positioning that Microsoft tends to do with Windows is the myriad "editions" which everyone tends to dislike anyway.
You're right, I have a difficult time trying to empathize with this guy. Because my own emotional alarm bells would have been going off much, much earlier, back when he was failing to make any serious plan for how he was going to earn a living. When I put myself in his shoes, there's no way I see myself doing what he's doing. His pain is self-inflicted.

There are a hundred useful paths he could be taking to learn marketable skills. And yet he managed to write this whole essay without mentioning one.

This isn't just tech industry bias speaking. He could go to one of the natural gas boom towns and easily find work. They're having a major labor shortage, so wages are good. He could learn carpentry, or plumbing, or any number of things. Instead he keeps sending out futile resumes.

He's limited by his own faulty self-image. He sees himself in a suit, wielding power, but he doesn't see himself actually doing anything that produces value. That's his problem.
Interesting, I could have sworn I'd seen some definitions that broke "Millennials" down as a smaller (and younger) group than "Gen Y." Oh well, sociology isn't my field. :-)
I like the thought behind this, but not sure it makes sense to me. How do you expect computers will get to be as smart as you want them to be if people don't learn to speak their language? Are you assuming that only the select group of people who are already programmers are capable of making computers smarter? I disagree with that.

Even if the above were true, it would still take time to make computers "smarter". I don't think it's necessarily about technology, it's about changing the infrastructure and the paradigm. That takes time. What is the rest of the population to do in this latency?

As a side, your post also suggests that there will come a time when computers will computer themselves and people will never have to do anything. That doesn't make sense logically.
> "PayPal handles 60% of web transactions" is not seen anywhere in the original source

I agree this doesn't represent the web as a whole, but the top portion of the graphic does show that 60% of the "Total Calls by Gateway" were to PayPal.
I did... ten years ago. They used to be the most user-friendly Linux distro available. I actually bought some of their box sets for my less-technical friends. In my opinion, Debian-based distros have won. For any of those old enough to recall the rpm versus deb debates/wars over which is better, it's rather clear that aptitude and Debian have taken the lead in the community. How many distros are derived from Debian now?

When Redhat killed RHL and focused on Enterprise Linux, that was the turning point. Now most of the big name Enterprise Linux guys are rpm based (RedHat, SuSE and Oracle) and the community distros are mostly Debian based.

Sad to see Mandrake go away though. Ten years ago, it was what Ubuntu is today.
Seems like Morgan Stanley and friends priced/played it perfectly for their client. Isn't that their role...to get the highest IPO price for the company they represent? It seems like the companies get screwed when there is big post IPO pop. It's a way for the banks to reward their customers at the expense of the company.
Culture Kills (or Wins)
It's a fine line.

Markets care a lot about sentiment. A nice 10-15% pop on the first day leaves everyone feeling pretty good - and a nice halo around the company.

If the price levels off.. Well people will be inclined to be more critical. They'll be wanting FB to start moving the stock north sooner.

I was a bit curious about the pricing. As you say, they want the maximum investment value, but there is some sense in buying the management team some time. A billion less may have saved them a lot of headaches dealing with market criticism, given them time to get some wins...

Anyway. It's a brave new world when you suddenly have to start answering to shareholders.
Doesn't change the fact that both companies show little regard for their users privacy.

I haven't heard about facebook sniffing wi-fi packets though.
If LightTable wants to be the 'Eclipse' of clojure and Python then it needs to be open source.

Mass adoption, patches, test cases, design, feedback and money comes only when it reaches crazy adoption and a lot of people hack on it.

That is why it is important for LightTable to release a minimal usable version ASAP and then improve it in further releases.

All this needs a open source set up. A Cathedral set up earlier but a bazaar set up later.
Amateur hour is over?
A question for some one who knows trading laws:

Would it be legal for facebook to spam everyone's time line with ads that essentially say: "Get an e-trade account today and buy a piece of facebook! For the first time ever you can own part of facebook! Click here"

I am not saying this would be a good thing (a bunch of uniformed investors speculating and boosting the price), however I am curious would it be legal?
Well, there's a distinction made between making it available to the defence, and giving it back to the defendant.

Apparently the data they have gotten around to collecting has been shared with the defence. But presumably MegaUpload is not allowed to start serving that data again.
My wife has been on a paid sabbatical this year (during which she's finalized and released two novels that I've been on tech duty for—and am still so this weekend to finalize the second book's ebooks for submission to the ebookstores). Teachers in Ontario have something available called a four-over-five where they get paid 80% of their gross salary over five years, but on the fifth year, they have a sabbatical. After the fifth year, they are guaranteed a position (with no loss in seniority) in the same school they were in at the beginning of the leave.

In the year leading up to her leave, many of her colleagues said "you are so lucky." Her reaction was that it isn't luck, it's a choice. It's easier than people think it is (especially since Canadian teachers are generally paid well, and the fact that a 20% gross cut results in about a 14% net cut), but most people aren't interested in seeing what they can do.

When life tosses me a curveball, I bitch about it a bit—and then I get working on solving the problem I need to solve.
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That's what I wanted to say: don't read the news.

I've found out that I'm much happier when I don't read the news, in particular news about politics. On the other hand, news about science & technology sometimes do make me happy.
"If the computer is a bicycle for the mind, what kind of bicycle requires you to speak Chinese to pedal faster?"

I'm sorry? What sort of bicycle magically allows you to ride it without putting in any learning effort? You're forgetting that everybody has to learn to ride a bicycle and nobody is any good at it at first.
And then they try to send mail to firstnamelastname@gmail.com :) I have a similar domain and people have a shockingly hard time getting it right: "Yes, "john" AT "j" followed by my last name, dot com"
Not having a billion dollars is depressing for you?

This takes first world problems to a whole new level.
The thing is, even if you ask the rich to pay more in taxes, that doesn't go to poor people. It goes to the government.

If you want poor people to get richer, tax them less (or remove them from tax altogether). Don't re-circulate the money via self-interested politicians to waste.
Nicely put, but too utopian for right now. There is still a place for coding skills in many fields where it may have not mattered before, with the ubiquity of computers in workplaces of all types. That being said, I think the 'teach ALL the people how to code' theme lately is overkill.
At the very least a good course in discrete mathematics is a good start (it's also a good start for anything technical as well - one of the most valuable math classes anyone can ever take, as far as I'm concerned)

Following that, a good class in the theory of computing: understanding what exactly a generative grammar is, properties of classes of languages (e.g., understanding what "regular languages are closed under complimentation" means), pumping lemma, diagnalization proofs, halting problem. The incompleteness theorem is intimately tied to this. This is the "CS-route" to getting a good understanding in Incompleteness, I'm sure math or physics majors come to approach it in each their own way.

Being a little blunt, a background in philosophy (whether it's academic or not) without a solid discrete math background, doesn't help you out at all. This isn't philosophy, it's just a fact about properties of formal systems of sufficient complexity. If you're looking for philosophy you won't find anything too deep in the proof of Incompleteness. The philosophical implications are not clear.

However, I do recommend Rebecca Goldstein's book. It's not technical, and she's a Princeton philosopher who will indulge you with possible philosophical ramifications of the theorem (along with a good narrative). I also recommend her other books as well, especially her first novella "The Mind-Body Problem". From a philosophical perspective, the dispute between Goedel and Wittgenstein who never accepted the Incompleteness Theorem "whereof we cannot speak we must pass over in silence", which, ironically, speaks of something of which we cannot speak.
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