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That may slow the rate of convergence, but if it's strong enough to eliminate the convergence altogether, then that's equivalent to saying that stock prices are a random walk.

And the trading volumes are so high that I imagine we should expect convergence by now either way.
It's good to see Gruber trying to be a bit more classy in his handling of the talk show situation. Now if only we knew what "business reasons" him and Dan disagreed on. I'm assuming Gruber wanted a larger cut of sponsor money or something, but who knows...
Supply and demand is the answer, although probably not the one you are looking for!

The WSJ reported the options market has just opened for FB stocks. A lot of people seem to be very bearish about FB so a lot of short action could significantly impact the demand of FB stock.

I'm an amateur at this though, and would love someone to correct me if I'm completely off here :)
GPLv3 and AGPLv3 are mutually compatible, that is, you could link GPL code to AGPL code and vice versa.
The criticism does not apply to Scala because paren-less method calls are the norm, and because () was never intended to distinguish between field access and a method call. To assume x.y is a cheap operation in Scala would be to apply an assumption from other languages that is not valid in Scala. (Using parens for a zero-arg method in Scala communicates something else: by convention, x.y() is used if y has side effects, and x.y is used otherwise. I don't know how widely that convention is observed, though.)

Python is different because the style guide explicitly discourages [1] computationally expensive accessor methods (as well as accessor methods with side effects) specifically so that programmers can treat accessor methods the same way they would treat a data field. Assuming that x.y is a field access in Python is not supposed to lead to problems, and if it does, it's the fault of the class implementer and not the user.

[1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#designing-for-inher...
We are building a website version of the 'Request a rebuttal' and 'Submit rebuttal' functions, so you don't need to install the plugin in order to participate (or view the material being generated either, of course, as is already the case).

However, in order to use these functions, there needs to be a user account for it. Otherwise people might 'test' things out and create nonsense links. Repeatedly. User accounts are a necessary filter in order to ensure we aren't inundated with testing clicks, and to provide quality control, and all the other things which follow from having registered users.

Most every page these days requires registration, so I don't think this is particularly odd.

Though we are now looking at creating a membership-free installation which allows you to complete our tutorial - and if we can, I would like it if that un-registered version could also deliver rebuttal alerts... So feedback is working. Now it will just take time to implement it all!
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Before rails no-one used Ruby, the parallel implementations of svn and git you mention are heavily used in Eclipse and throughout the Java world. They gain access to all the advantages of the JVM. By using clojure they probably attract a better standard of developer. Why bother introducing a buggy blob of C when they can do it this way.
I think that the Gnome 3 UI works really well on a netbook.
The FDA has a special protocol in place for rare cases like my son.

If we get everything done properly, approval could be granted within 30 days.

But, before we can apply to the FDA, we have to get Genzyme to agree to make a variant suitable for human use.

My wife found studies where it was beneficial to mice that had chlamydia and pneumonia, so we know there's a form out that that's been used on mammals.
From what I understand (not an FB employee, but know several) the stock grants in the last ~3 years have been RSUs not options, which at least means they can't be underwater
I think he's referring to giflib or pnglib there. Those libraries are fairly widely used in many places and is probably the most widely used code he is associated with. That said, he is fairly egoistical. I don't think even he would deny that.
What kind of sick person would do this?
I'd like for someone to explain precisely what Facebook should have done to ensure a big pop. Value the shares at $5? What if their internal projections indicated the company was worth more than that? Picking an artificially low strike price for the options probably would have resulted in people going to jail, not to mention all the employees owing taxes on the difference.
Yep, but it's still a problem for the company. Facebook has been on a hiring spree, backed by an implicit promise that anyone in before the IPO would be practically guaranteed to make a buck. If the IPO is still a bust by the time the lockup expires in 3-6 months, it's going to be an HR problem. Of course, it depends on how Facebook actually structures its compensation packages. RSU are more popular with most companies these days than stock options, so they may just be looking forward to a smaller payday than worthless options.
Size is a matter of preference, not a fundamental problem. I have an HTC Sensation. It’s bigger than the iPhone and fits my hand perfectly. the iPhone feels like a little kids toy by comparison. I like the bigger screen, but I’m a bigger guy so it’s obviously not for everyone.

Names? Please. If you are choosing your phone based on its name you’re a lost cause.

Resale value: a fair point, depending on the model. It’s also fair to say that you’ll generally pay more for the iPhone up front. There are far too many Android models to make the blanket statement that iPhones have more resale value than all Android phones.

Carriers: Bloatware is an annoyance, but at least with Android phones you can do something about it. You have options: Switch carriers. Root and self-install the latest OS (or one of several mods).

None of these points constitute fundamental problems with non iPhones. It’s all a matter of preference. If you’re the sort of user who doesn’t care about being locked-in then sure iPhone is great. If you’re a tweaker, if you like having control over your devices, if you like to self manage your OS then Android is for you.
How many shares did the employees own?

Even if they all sold all of them, is it really enough to have a meaningful impact on the price of the stock with that much trading volume and that large of a market cap? Probably not!
Wow this was crazy interesting. My thoughts are with his parents. I learned a ton just reading the article.
A less fear-mongering note: If you're designing a language or a compiler, there's a good chance that you'll have adoption problems if your standard runtime environment constrains people's license choices.

That isn't exactly news, either. There's a reason why glibc isn't released under the AGPL.
I thought the domain name next to it was giving a hint.
Better headline might have been: "Dual licensing business model does not work anymore" but that's long.
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I'd compare your python link to http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Random.ht... rather than the doc root.
Damn straight you can. It's about aptitude mainly.

I don't have a degree and I've worked in the industry for 17 years now professionally. People always tell me I'm an exception but to me it doesn't matter. You'll have to prove yourself in this industry no matter what your background.

These days there is a huge wealth of information out here to help you learn. Use it to your advantage and don't take no for an answer! Dig in right now. Think about something you'd like to build, no matter how fantastic, and start working towards it.
It's good press to put inflammatory words in someones mouth. It's a far step from suggesting a causal link between two constituencies and what Thiel views as political regress and advocating the disenfranchisement of women. In fact, Thiel doesn't, he advocates the abandonment of politics as the vehicle for solving problems, which is something quite different.
Can you give more specific details about how it helps you/the team?

The marketer needs to have enough of an idea of how the product works to be able to talk about it intelligently. "Enough of an idea," means one needs to know what the relevant parts are, and how they interact.

Imagine you are a contractor putting in a kitchen for someone, and they sometimes refer to the sink of the island and the sink on the rear counter as if they were the same thing. I wouldn't know which one they're talking about and it would drive me mad. Marketers make mistakes of this magnitude all the time.
Zakharov, I'm really sorry it didn't work for you. It is clear that this happens to a small percentage of the people because we occasionally get messed up submission coming through from the tutorial (which in theory should all be the same).

As of yet though, we are unable to replicate the problems. If you could provide some details of your OS and browser, and exactly what happened, I would appreciate it.

Because normally, copy and pasting a URL in to the rebuttal place actually isn't allowed at all. So something has gone very wrong! Also, the Tag box is indeed normally editable (after addition of the first tag).

So I just wanted to let you know, that there is a bug causing those faults, and we haven't identified what is causing that bug yet...
It's great at the start. Then you start to get bored (though not really the fault of the site) when you see that pretty much everyone's setup is "Mac Book Pro with 24' cinema display".

I liked this one the most: http://mark.pilgrim.usesthis.com/
My thoughts exactly.

And as other pointed out earlier, this happens all the time.
Everything I said in the post. Get prepared... then create your profile on Angel.co and then work it.
If he had just done this right after the break-up, I'm sure a lot of people would have cut him more slack.
The article says it has 2 gyros. In the test run one wasn't working so they had to test it on just one, and it seemed to work.
The sad part is it's predictable. Upon seeing the link on HN, my thought process went like this: "Ahh, an interesting and thought-provoking discussion on a StackExchange site? It will be closed."

click

sigh

So, a question to our StackExchange overlords: you clearly do not believe that the popular StackExchange sites are the appropriate place for this content. With that in mind, what alternative would you recommend?
As a father with a son with severe autism (not to suggest it's equivalent to Bertrand's condition), there is an important lesson here that might not be apparent at first read.

Before you have children, understand that it's for the rest of your life. Really understand the impact. Your concerns are second, beyond anything you've ever understood. Marriage is about compromise. Children, however, afford no such privilege.

Make no mistake, it's worth it. Looking into those eyes, seeing that smile. Getting your first smile, laugh, hug, or kiss. Nothing compares.
I'm glad this works for this product.

However, I'd argue it is generally not applicable. Say you launch a free application (perhaps monetized by a supporting PRO version, in-app purchases, or ads) that gets a few thousand downloads per day. As a CEO, you can't spend your precious time replying to those (99% trivial) questions.

You may do it for a few months, or a percentage of the user questions, to gain insight into your customers. But, as a rule, I'd rather outsource it.
beanstalkapp guys/girls, thanks for sharing! I'd be really interested to see some profiling results, were you bottlenecked on sha hashing? IO/execve syscalls? Memory usage?

I think the reason for the performance difference is pretty clear. According to the article and the grit documentation, all the git api calls were either done in pure ruby, or by shelling out to `git`. Also, reading between the lines, it sounds like they required some information/relationships on commits that was non-trivial to retrieve using a basic git shell command. So by switching out the runtime and the algorithm, they get a huge performance increase.

With jgit, they can more easily traverse the graph directly and efficiently. I'm really curious to see what kind of performance they could get from using FFI+jruby and raw c calls to libgit/libgit2 (http://libgit2.github.com/).
Ask HN: Review my weekend project (my first coffee-script project)
Basically it's a twitter for your belongings. It help people keep track of things they own and share the ownership online. Most importantly people can tweet, talk and have conversation with other people on things they own.

I built this on weekends during summer days last year. I haven't worked on this for quite a while, it's still unfinished, just a proof-of-concept prototype. Backend code is in Clojure, client-side code is in Coffee-script. Should I continue working on this?

URL: http://beta.holdership.com

Try it out freely! The site is in dev-mode, so it won't post anything to your Twitter.

UPDATE: I deleted the old post, because someone pointed out items he/she added didn't persist. I had a quick fix and posted again.
> It might not impress their programmer friends, but it'll impress their accountant

If impressing accountants is the goal of what we do, then the whole thing should have been outsourced overseas.
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Maybe you can split two lanes occupied by other similar vehicles.
clickable: http://beta.holdership.com
No it's not. Facebook is an anomalous company so there's not much worth in comparing it to the rest of the industry. The fact is, some $10 billion dollars just entered investor hands who will no doubt be ploughing it back into (mostly Bay Area) startups for years to come. And Facebook becoming more acquisitive certainly helps as well.
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It's not so much that they're compatible - but rather the GPL explicitly allows relicensing of GPL code under the AGPL. The combined work must be AGPL licensed.
I counted six digits in 125,100. Am I too dumb for this game?
I've never understood why anyone gets so hung up on their "right to vote." Why should women have the right to vote? Why should anyone have the right to vote?

In what possible conceivable sense is political power a "human right?" Is it a moral right, like the right not to be beaten with sticks? Or is it an instrumental right, ie, a political engineering mechanism designed to produce good government? Or both?

If I moved to London, say, I'd find myself obeying a government in no way responsible to me. I don't see at all how this would be anything like being beaten with sticks. But then, maybe it's just me.

Whereas if democracy is an engineering mechanism, it's a pretty freakin' strange one, you've got to admit. Would you expect it to produce good results? Is it producing good results? Well, see, there ya go.
While I agree that very often interesting topics get closed, they DO HAVE a good reason for doing so.

The intent of all the stack-exchange sites is to provide a high-quality resource of _answers_ for specific _questions_. If "the answer" to a question ends up being a divergent discussion, then not closing responses invites more of these types of questions. Over time that will subvert the intent of stack-exchange.

The POV of the stack-exchange folks is that there are plenty of forums for discussion, and that is NOT what they want to do. Hacker-news, however, is more free-form and definitely much better for "need advice" type questions with highly subjective answers.

That said, it is true that moderators sometimes get persnickety about what they close. I wish that at least they would be less smug and judgmental about how they do that. But oh well, it is still an awesome resource.
When I first found out about Flightfox, I reached out to Todd for some advice on a related idea I was working on. He immediately agreed to do a skype call and was super helpful. Great to see them doing well!
Yes, please. I'd like to see "clean and fast Clojure code".
It's so painfully obvious just from looking at the email model that that is not true. A lack of a central index? Separate content types that by their very nature contain more information? A searchable archive? None of those things are naturally part of email and providing them, at best is work, at worst is cludgy and unnatural.
So...when is Zuckerberg scheduled to be interviewed on Squawk Box?
Self-selecting for "thick-skinned" means turning away FOSS contributors.
Yep, the average bundled CRT was pretty terrible and far below the average bundled LCD.

The higher-end CRTs (Trinitrons etc) were great, but tended to wear out over time. I'm somewhat surprised that Raymond still has one that hasn't gone blurry, as I haven't seen a nicely working one in quite a while.
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I used this recently but was able to find a better deal myself using Matrix [1]. I have another long-haul flight soon and will try again with Flightfox. It may be that I'm just able to put the time in myself on finding the best deal, or I just had better luck at the time - I needed something urgently. I really want to see these guys succeed, I love the idea and hope they continue to grow.

[1] http://matrix.itasoftware.com
Are you assuming that a university grad is necessarily "a fully knowledgeable developer/programmer"? ;) Independent study of new concepts, programming languages, libraries, etc., is almost a requirement in order to be a successful programmer, but it's ultimately experience that brings one closer to what you describe, and I think that many people on HN would agree with me that independent study is sufficient to bring you to a position from which you can begin to acquire said experience.

Oh, and the customary nod to SICP: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
Wow, just wow. A parent will go to any limit for their child but that was one of the most truly detailed descriptions I've ever heard of diagnosing a new genetic condition. Thank you for being willing to share it.

I genuinely hope you find a solution, will you keep updating on the progress?
They did mention that rev two would be around $16,000, assuming they're still in business. That's getting closer to a realistic price relative to competing products. Keep in mind that this is competing with commuter cars, not motorcycles.

You can also deduct the cost of fuel over the vehicle's lifetime. For someone commuting one hour each way to work five days a week, the cost of gas for a big car can exceed $200/month, $2400/year, or $12,000 over the course of five years. That makes the up-front price seem quite a bit more competitive with gas-powered alternatives.
Your article is amazing. I was moved to tears many times reading through this. (My wife is 6 months pregnant right now.) Just wow. Good luck with it all, and the fact that Victoria does not have the same diagnosis is just amazing! I'm glad Duke could help and your story is beautiful and inspiring. I don't know what to say, just, thank you so much for writing this. I will certainly be passing this on to some friends.
If someone is going for a fresh install, could he post the number of packages installed by default?
The most common advice for them would be to get a prime lens. Especially in this simulation that offers both distance and focal length setting (which are, for this scene and 18-55mm focal length, mostly interchangeable), I'd like to have it. It'd also allow you to go (cheaply) to f/1.8 or f/1.4, which would be much better to illustrate the effect that aperture has on the depth of field. With a common f/3.5:5.6 kit lens and APS-C sensor, you won't get a shallow DOF and nice out-of-focus background easily, and that could be frustrating to a beginner. Especially when you learn to do it in this simulation.
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The license does not compel a developer to release the code before they've started distributing it.

No that's the GPL you're thinking of. AGPL requires the source code be shared out to everyone once (roughly) people access it.
I stopped listening to the 5by5 version a long time ago. I listened to the second Mule episode just to hear the explanation, and wow, was it all over the place.

They introduced the 'controversy' right at the beginning of the show and then you had to sit through 30 minutes of meandering back and forth before Gruber finally decided to get to the point and say it was a business disagreement.
The real power users have even more impatience and demand as much simplicity in usage as beginners.

The folks that derive some satisfaction from doing things with a million manual settings (or doo dads) aren't really an addressable market, because lots of open source is that way.

Maybe it's just me
I'm not sure that documentation is correct - there were some changes in the installer for F17 that lowered that memory requirement and we explicitly tested installs with 512 MiB (the hard coded minimum for install with Fedora 17). I've seen reports of successful installs with 384 MiB and enough swap (using the nomemcheck boot parameter) but AFAIK, that isn't supported and YMMV.

As far as why the installer needs that much memory, there are several things but yum, rpm and selinux are big memory users.

While it is a little old, one of the Anaconda (the name of the installer used in Fedora) developers did an analysis on where all the memory is used during installation [1] which I found to be rather interesting.

[1] http://www.bangmoney.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/165...

[EDIT] Fixed typo
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This is extremely interesting.

Whats the best case scenario for your son? Suppose everything works out perfectly with the treatment/therapy, is it expected he'll start to develop normally?
I don't think the possibility of a $50B exit vs a $100B exit will make any difference for most angel investors.
If only the podcast was as short and too the point as most of the DF posts. As it stands it like eavesdropping on bar talk.
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Does anyone have any insider info on when Facebook's employee lockup period ends? The shares won't end up worthless but I can't see them being worth billions.
I think you are doing students and young programmers a disservice by implying that there is one "best" solution here, and that you know it. I am assuming you haven't seen the ruby or Clojure code involved, don't work at Beanstalk, don't know the skillset of their team, their budget, strategic plans, or any other one of a bunch of details that determine what is best in a particular situation. If you already know C then perhaps it would be right for you. That does not mean it is right for everyone.
On the other hand, I was confused and disappointed that the lighting slider in the simulation doesn't do anything (well, it shows an icon, for a while, couldn't it just dim/lighten the scene a bit?).
This phone runs Nokia's Series 40, which is running 1.5 billion phones - supposedly the largest mobile operating system. Perhaps this is a bad example though as S40 only runs Java ME & HTML5 apps. Still, I can easily see these feature phones running Firefox within a year. Firefox is, after all, open source.