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In addition to the API documentation, there's the "Java Learning Trail", which is a set of step-by-step tutorials with numerous screenshots and tons of example code:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/index.html

Additionally, if you actually page through the Java API documentation, many packages contain overviews describing rationale and how everything fits together- hardly a "dump of class hierarchies with some comments". For example,

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/awt/doc-fi...

Personally I think having both a tutorial and browsable API documentation is preferable to dealing with unstructured prose for everything.
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I am surprised Clustrix (YC) hasn't gotten more attention. They rewrite SQL databases and claim to be able to scale them. Maybe the up front cost scares people.
Don't miss tiling/cascading/resizing open tabs.
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get another mug, make another cup of coffee. even in "mug mode", it's a good idea to have a hot standby.
IKEA makes simple pieces designed for reuse across their whole inventory, so it is natural that their components extend to third party aftermarket designs.
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The problem isn't power users. The problem is that people adapt to features. It's extremely difficult to remove a poorly thought out feature after the fact. People will complain, whether or not they're power users. People are change averse, even when it's just skin deep. When it changes their workflow, they're going to scream bloody murder.

Edit: There are very good points being made about knowing your target audience, designing for simplicity, etc. But in the end, if you change your user's workflow, they're not going to be happy, even if the end result is a better product.
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I've never had good results from ticking the box for Google's display network in AdWords campaigns. The culprit is poor implementation by webmasters, not the amount or detail of data available. I don't see why a Facebook display network would do any better.
This was actually a pretty tame article compared to the other stuff this guy posts on a regular basis..
Can't censor people will find new ways to torrent
It's changed a little. When I first lived in the US in the 90s, IKEA was almost exclusively a grad student level store.
Now it seems to be upmarket here.

Remember as well that the French price presumably includes 20% vat while the US price will be +sales tax.
Exactly, because it's Europe (the majority) that has obviously made the wrong choice on both matters :)
Yes IKEA is a bit special - at least among companies that don't actually use sawn-off shotguns as part of the sales process!
I submitted it because it's exactly how I feel lately, and would like to know what others think about it. My current (personal/academic) project involves Node.js, (Iced)CoffeeScript, MongoDB (with Mangoose), PhantomJS, Mocha, Neo4j, Nutch, Solr, Hadoop and Mahout.

All of them are new technologies and are changing rapidly and daily, and I find new stuff every day that forces me to change my APIs and the way I do things, and it's getting frustrating... It's the price you pay by using cutting-edge technologies and I accept that, but I can't help thinking that maybe Java+MySQL was a better/easier choice!
> 10gen has invested heavily in ease of use and functionality early on rather than just speed and scalability. Because it’s so easy to use, MongoDB has attracted lots of web developers who don’t mind working around its scalability shortcomings

followed them from pretty early on, and I found the opposite was the case, with their heavy emphasis on the easiness of sharding, as well as coming out the gate with 'safe writes' turned off.
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ThePirateBay.se Should Put Magnet Links in Meta Descriptions
After The Pirate Bay got banned by major ISPs in the U.K. I was thinking about how they might help users circumvent the block.

Seeing as the site still appears in Google, Google is essentially hosting a copy of The Pirate Bay in it's cache available for all UK users (http://google.com/search?q=cache:http://www.thepiratebay.se). Which makes you wonder why they don't ban Google and other search engines. That aside...

I think this would be an interesting experiment - if The Pirate Bay put direct torrent links in their meta descriptions, they would likely start appearing in Google.

That would then essentially make Google == The Pirate Bay. As all The Pirate Bay does anyway is host the torrent links and no actual content.

What are your thoughts?
i'm not saying your wrong. and i definitely agree this is aimed at average users. but it will put off a percentage of non average users. and those are often the users who recommend to average users what to use. i know i've stopped recommending apple hardware after a decade of doing so.

whether this affects apple negatively overall is the big question.
This newsletter is fantastic. It's one of the only subscriptions I get in my inbox that I make sure I read every time. Kale does a great job curating the best of HN across a variety of categories. Congratulations on 100 issues, and 10,000 subscribers.
Will definitely keep an eye on this. If it delivers on it's promise, then I'll probably try it out for a few weeks at least. I cook a lot on my own already, so the main thing I'm looking for is expanding my horizons a bit.
I agree with this and have posted numerous comments here to that effect, particularly on the value of intent (with respect to the effectiveness of online advertising).

Th attitude of "eyeballs not revenue" and finding that repeatable, scalable formula are almost a religion on HN and in startups. It's generally a strategy I approve of.

Even dropping 20% since the IPO (currently trading at just over $30 as I write this; and bear in mind that even Groupon--at least initially--enjoyed a nice IPO bounce), the company is trading at a huge P/E ratio.

I get why this is: it's speculative. FB is still viewed as a growth company and the speculators feel that there is huge unrealised monetization potential.

I remain a skeptic regarding the value of "social" in advertising. The OP is right: all this data just means--maybe--a slightly higher CTR, at which point Facebook is just another display ad network and that doesn't justify their valuation.

As an aside, IMHO Twitter is in this same "put up or shut up" boat. I don't believe Facebook is doomed (IMHO Twitter is). I just believe the value of the data silo they have is both overstated and transitory (at some point--one way or the other--Facebook won't be the gatekeeper to your profile and social graph).

Facebook has done a lot of things right as a business (the Like button being foremost among those IMHO). Personally I believe their biggest mistake was spurning Apple: Apple wanted to use Facebook for their Ping boondoggle.

Disclaimer: I work for Google in display advertising.
There are two key differences there: 1) There are many CAs you go to. 2) The CA has no financial interest in rejecting you. Neither goes for Apple.
They used to license the OS and there were "clones" available. We has some at school, they were fairly ugly looking desktop cases. That was one of the first things Steve Jobs cancelled when he returned to
the company.

Things have changes quite a lot with iTunes and the app store, but Apple did make their money as a hardware vendor, allowing them to practically give away the OS. Obviously it worked because they have so much money they don't know what to do with it!
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>If ESR is able to be productive with the gear he has, I don't see why he would need to spend more money.

Has he done anything productive the last 10 years? His last major project I remember was the Linux kernel configuration program fiasco.
Occams razor tells me that if IKEA's system saved any more money than Google's etc, Google etc would switch systems.
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It does seem obvious. There is just a wall of hype hanging. And factor in the fact that it was reported that approximately 40 % of all social network accounts are created by spammers.
To be honest, I wasn't sure about the whole gyros thing and thought that it was unneeded complexity, until I realised they were also using them for regenerative braking/power. Then I went ooooo...

If they are really smart with this, and if the gyros are up to the task, they could use them for ultra fast charging as well.
I used it in combination with the public dumps from IMDB to make a quick on-disk lookup database for use with my favorite (albeit slower) scripting language python.

I didn't have the RAM for holding it all in memory and I was only ever going to do read lookups on it.

It made it very easy to query things like: Given my favorite set of movies, which actors appearing in them have also appeared in the Doctor Who television series?

Just for fun / learning :)
It’s a place where the term “ironclad agreement” has no meaning, since iron can’t even agree with itself on what form to take.

This is good writing to most people. It is fun and interesting, etc. But my brain hates it.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! is the kind of fact heavy writing I prefer. But me and people like me are in the minority.
You could take validating from the original 5 day week (instead of the then norm of 6 day week) which Henry Ford introduced about 100 years ago.
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Why do this in manual mode?
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Apple's boutique image would evaporate and its fabulously high profit margins would plummet precipitously, and the share price would be dragged down with them.

We could argue endlessly about whether it would work or not, and how it might affect the industry. But it's not really realistic speculation. Regardless of whether it might work or not, it just wouldn't serve the interests of the company's owners or operators.
It would ruin their business, and reduce Macintosh to a much inferior operating system. Their software is subsidized by their (seemingly more expensive) hardware.
not what your after, but http://www.zvork.fr/vls/ is fun if you like playing with low key / gels etc
I actually like Volkswagens and Volvos, but you won't find that anywhere in my Facebook data.

I'd bet there's actually a pretty high correlation between many of the things you just listed and a preference for VWs and Volvos. It doesn't really take that many data points to start filling in the blanks.

But I think this kind of targeting is going to be more useful in selling you a product you don't yet know about but are likely to want than it is a car that you are almost certainly already aware of.
A tag was created specifically to respond to Sound Museum and is already a great collection: http://www.freesound.org/browse/tags/sound-museum/
By "torrent link" you mean the actual content of the magnet hash?
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Ok, you're all set. There is a subscribe form at the bottom of the page now: https://www.foundermeals.com/customers/new

Thank you for the kind words!
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I think Unite suffered from not being open enough. You required an Opera account to use it, and there's no open specification for building compatible tools and services. What you could build into the browser itself was quite limited. (Plus you had to leave the browser open all the time, which can be a pain.)

There's some recent proposals for p2p web standards (http://www.infotales.com/peer-to-peer-web-standards-by-world...) which may provide an alternative system to Unite with some of the same goals. Opera appear to be involved in it.
Google's ads are better because you have intention when you are searching. That's not true when you are checking into Facebook to see what other people are doing. Are there other times when people use Facebook and they have some intent? Planning an event, or asking a question, those come to mind.
If they added two more wheels instead of the gyros, they'd get passive stabilization and lower cost. They'd also get more room for a larger battery and cargo or passengers. And since roads and parking lots are already designed for 4-wheel vehicles, the extra width wouldn't be much of a disadvantage.
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Are you sure? Advertisers have been comfortable with finding correlations between unrelated consumer behaviors for decades. I can almost guarantee you that, on average, someone who likes five star Greek hotels is more likely than the average American car buyer to consider a Volvo.

I think a lot of Facebook's value depends on just how useful that personalized information is, and how difficult it will be for a competitor like Google to extract in other ways. My guess is that it will turn out to be pretty useful as advertising campaigns (and brands themselves) become more and more segmented, but also not so hard for traditional cookie-tracking methods to get 80%+ of the same useful information.
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Apple's image takes slight hit in wake of Steve Jobs death
> Of course what I say is just my viewpoint, and what you say is your viewpoint.

Yes, but many people do not recognize this part. After they speak their mind they will carry on as if those statements are an absolute fact.

When they recognize that they are voicing an opinion it signals to me, whether I agree or disagree, that they a likely to be the sort of person with whom constructive debate might be possible.
I'm glad the issue is getting an increasing amount of attention. One has to keep in mind that at the end of the day, all the corporations care about is increasing their profits.
Totally agree. That's what I've been looking for the past few months and it's been really nice.

Also, to clear up any confusion. This won't be a subscription service (at least initially). The $9 price you see is a one-time fee for a week of recipes you can re-use as often as you like. So if you like the idea, consider throwing in a pre-order! ;-) You won't be signing up for anything long-term.
> Displays with 16x9 aspect ratio - they’re stretched in the wrong direction, vertically cramping my editor window and ergonomically poor for web browsing. Sadly, I expect to have to live with 16x9 in the future.

Does he not realize you can rotate the displays?
Monitors took a huge step backwards in the switch from CRTs to LCDs.

Up until just 2 or 3 years ago I was still using a gigantic Dell CRT that I had bought from a coworker for $10. It had better color, higher DPI, higher resolution and a better response time than the expensive LCD that replaced it.

Oh, and it wasn't widescreen, which was nice.
Sheesh. How many times will this analysis be proposed. Anyone with the slightest interest in following Apple knows that Apple will never do this for the simple reason that they don't care a crap about the low end market.

The Apple experience is only possible when Apple controls the hardware and software and can provide the strongest linkage between them.
Sideloaded apps could still be sandboxed. It is the sandboxing which helps against malware, not the App Store approval process (which is not at all thorough and not equipped to detect malware at all).
You'll find that adding a long salt, unique to each password, is a far more effective protector against brute force than "hash speed".

See this: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/understanding-hash-fun...
and: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1191112/password-hashing-...

to learn more about preventing brute-force attacks
It depends on your DB schema, but I would recommend taking a look at Johnny-Cache, or django-cache-machine for queryset object caching.
I'm sure they've considered this, but being able to tilt while cornering at speed is vital for 2-wheeled vehicles. I guess there will be some flexibility to allow the vehicle to tilt without falling over.
How does the page suffer if instead there's a flickering Howdy Doody, Walter Cronkite, or Emergency Broadcast System screen? How does the page benefit from the inclusion of an image that, while not particularly erotic, is definitely suggestive? (An image can be suggestive even if it shows little or no skin.) Hence my point that it is unnecessary.

Every so often an HN discussion about "brogrammers" and latent sexism comes up. This is a great example. That particular image serves to communicate to the women in the audience "you are objects" (yes, really!) The inclusion of that particular image does make some people uncomfortable and could certainly qualify as NSFW in some work settings (I was an educator, working with mostly 9-10 year olds. "EWWW! Teacher had a dirty picture on his computer!") The only reason to choose such an image is to signal to other bros "hey, I'm cool too", which unfortunately signals to all the rest of us (whether intentionally or not) "I don't respect women".
The site describes your mealplans as "Nutritionist-approved"- It's worth noting that "Nutritionist" is not a protected term in the US and does not indicate any kind of formal qualifications. I'd recommend either strengthening that claim or removing it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutritionist
"cement MongoDB as the NoSQL database of choice for businesses of all types and maybe even make it a household name"

The hype is ridiculous. You mean like Oracle DB is a "household name"? No, I didn't think so.
Lossless compression doesn't compress random data. You will still have the same number of bits in and out.
It came out long long before iTunes

iTunes probably wouldn't have existed if there hadn't been a large collection of illicitly obtained and ripped MP3s. If everything was still CDs, then there would have been hardly any need for either an online music shop, or a digital music library
I wonder how much of the speed change came from the difference in languages versus the difference in experience when writing both. The ruby version was written prior to the clojure one and so anything that was learned about git/programming during the ruby writing would haven be available during the clojure writing. I can believe that clojure would be faster; using concurrency well guarantees this somewhat. I still wonder what would have happened if they had written the clojure version first without having written the ruby version. Or wrote a ruby version after the clojure version.
> I said it was "comparatively easy". And this is true. It's much easier to reduce CO2 emissions than it is to extract CO2 from the air once it's already there.

So you think that doing without heat is much easier than growing a tree....

"Don't emit" vs "take out of the air" is not nearly the slam dunk that you assume that it is.

> I can't figure out just what it is about the global warming question that causes people to become completely incapable of reasoned conversation.

I like the smug attitude from folks spouting facile falsehoods.
I was annoyed by the page turn buttons the first time I used them. But the button placement works really well for reading while lolling around, it's actually one of the ways in which reading a kindle is more pleasant than reading a paperback novel.
Jeez. The spirit and tone of this comment seem incredibly obnoxious.
According to the article, the gyros will allow up to 45 degrees of tilt during turns.
Seems reasonable to me.

Facebook is gathering what amounts to a static picture of each user then selling ads based on the pictures. There really isn't a time component in the data (though perhaps they can add one now that the service has existed for many years).

On the other hand, Google has more or less assembled a bunch of archetypes based on behavior (people who search for X later purchase Y, etc.). Then they match queries to these archetypes. The time component is front-and-center here because the archetype match was prompted by a user action.

A purchase is really a time-related event that transforms the user in some sense. By purchasing something you're changing "who" you are from the perspective of an advertiser (e.g. a Chevy driver could become an Audi driver).

So Facebook has a great picture of "who" each user is at a the moment, but no real way of knowing "who" each user would like to become or when. Hence, perhaps, some of their difficulty in selling ads.

Or not.
He doesn't need it and you probably don't either.

Honestly, are you more productive compared to 10 years ago?

I'm not. 99% of the computing performance enhancements have been burned straight away on inefficiencies.

Back in '99 I was unfortunate enough to have a fire which melted a lot of my kit. I got by on a 100Mhz Pentium with 32mb of RAM for 3 months quite happily.
> 1. Can you tell what FounderMeals is?

It looks like a set of recipes to make meals for a week, plus a grocery list of stuff to buy to make the recipes.

> 2. Would you buy the product?

Afraid not. I don't want to spend even more time and money in food prep, which is what would happen if I bought it.

I'm probably not your target audience though. I know how to cook, but I dislike cooking. I generally make things that can be done by throwing food in a pot and simmering. E.g. Split pea soup, lentil soup, beef stew, chili, spaghetti, stir fry. In addition I sometimes bake a chicken. For very quick prep times, I make sandwiches (PBJ, tuna salad, etc) and salads (big box of pre-washed salad lasts for a few days).

I know how to make all these things without referring to a recipe (or with a quick glance).

Your promo says "no more leftover food" but this is not an issue for me. I just make it a priority to eat stuff before it goes bad (bananas, salad). Other stuff like soups etc can be frozen, then reheated later. Quick, easy, no waste.
Facebook's advertising model is a simple classical displaying advertising model. It need be disrupted seriously. Nowadays, the most popular marketing model is displaying advertising model, which is actually an attention-driven marketing model. However, no matter how good they are context-awared and personalized, they are always guesswork, which can hardly achieve high relevancy. It is extremely difficult to guess users’ actual intention for most cases, even you may have a lot of information of them. For example, it is super difficult to guess what an individual is exactly looking to buy when he walks into a Trader Joe’s, no matter how much information you obtained on him, like his income, profession, age, education and etc. Users’ intentions are always dynamically changing from time to time. There are no general equations that can perfectly predict people’s intentions. As a result, no matter how perfectly a system can attract attentions, attention-driven marketing can never achieve high efficiency and accuracy.

As a matter of fact, nowadays advertisement industry is the biggest bubble of the world. Every year, trillions of dollars completely wasted by irrelevant advertising unnecessarily. What is even worse is, the user experience is badly hurt by ads and spams. Such marketing system can be called as attention-driven marketing system. Everything is done to attract attentions. However, only a few attentions are really attracted, but majority of the attentions may not be finally turned into intentions. As a result, majority of the marketing costs are totally wasted.

The future marketing systems will be built on intentions. Intention-driven commerce systems need let every user to express his/her intentions freely and help him/her achieve his/her intentions in highly optimized way by socialization and crowd-sourcing. The future world needs to be a world without displaying ads, but only pure relevant information that matches users' intentions dynamically and real-timely. This is the very objective of my current startup project as well.