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This article, of course, assumes that the IMF's prediction is made in good faith as a representation of their policymakers' true beliefs about the future. It doesn't allow for the possibility that the IMF is releasing certain figures deliberately (which is not only possible but probable).
Literate programming tools like CWEB often have a tool (in CWEB called CTANGLE) that extracts just the machine-readable code. Perhaps there is some tool you can use to decomment this code (maybe even just grep :D)
Surely Opera has that position because those markets are dominated by the cheaper "feature phones" that don't run iOS or Android. That's not a tenable market share: as real platforms push down into the commidity price range, so will Mobile Safari and Chrome for Android. Is Opera actually winning against "real" browsers anywhere it's competing in a browser-choice-based environment?
I realize how bizarre this must sound, but my first reaction upon visiting that page was that the font was just too large to read comfortably. It only takes a quick ^- ^- to remedy, but it's an amusing counterpoint to all the recent frustrations with sites that insist on using 10pt fonts.
I think that's part of what makes the headline surprising and interesting. Africa is vast and diverse, and I was surprised to read that there weren't supercomputers in, say, Egypt or Nigeria.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, rather) while the geographical terminology is correct, I'm not sure the technical terminology is. The Ars article (and the blog it was largely copied from) says there is "little to no capacity for cloud computing" (outside South Africa) which is not the same as "no supercomputers."

I wouldn't expect an American to know this.

You can't be serious.
Gosling unhappy with Oracle trial outcome (feels "abused")
But isn't that true of almost every physical system?

In weather forecasting, for example, you can't have a deterministic algorithm that accounts for the impact of every air molecule and calorie of energy in the atmosphere. Instead, Scientists come up with statistical models that give us a "good enough" picture of weather for our purposes of predicting whether or not a hurricane may be heading our way or if we should plan on a picnic over the weekend.

The beauty of it is that Scientists aren't really political about short-term weather forecasting. (I won't get into long-range climatology politics :) The models are either shown to work better than other available ones or they're tweaked or replaced.

Maybe we need a similar approach to law making. If you create a tax or spending law, it needs to be an input into our economic models. Economic models need to be open sourced and running constantly with complete transparency on the inputs and outputs. Over time, we should improve those models like we have on the weather ones so that they give us the best picture we can have on how financial laws will change the Economy.

Likewise, we should model the impact of other laws on prison populations, crime rates, inflation, test scores, etc. Let's decrease the demagoguing and the politicking all these issues and start getting to the science of them.

Sure, we'll still have debates on what we want the outputs to look like, but at least we could focus the debates more on the outcomes that we want to see rather than on what it would take to get us there.
Even though I rely less and less on Adobe products as time goes on, I really like seeing their design process for coming up with these icons and splash screens.
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I'll address that here: We use streaming replication with a hot standby for fault tolerance on the PostgreSQL side. For backups in addition to the streaming replication we do WAL shipping to S3 every 15 minutes or 16 MB, and we do a full base backup to S3 daily during our low-traffic time of the day, which uploads around 30 GB to S3 daily (but LZO-compressed, so actually down to around 3 GB).
If you don't need a large infusion of capital, this… is the whole point of an IPO. Who else is going to sell Facebook stock if not "insiders"?
I view them as sort of a password to get past a gate-keeper. I tried posting job ads without puzzles in many places. I was always inundated with emails from a) recruiters b) people on unemployment who were required to apply for x number of jobs c) foreign candidates wanting visas d) others who didn't read the ad criteria.

Our last hiring round, I placed an ad on craig's list with no return email address. The only way to apply for the job was to solve a trivial programming problem. Solving the problem gave you the email address to send your portfolio to. I got no recruiter responses. I did get responses from people across the country who didn't want the job, but had fun with the puzzle. Those weren't a waste of time for me because I generally enjoy talking to fellow developers.

Puzzles may be silly. But, they can also be a lighthearted way to do a first screening of potential candidates. And, I honestly feel better about having people program something I can't use for financial gain - that way I don't feel I'm taking advantage of people that I have not yet hired or paid.
It is meant as a literate program: http://uggedal.github.com/going/going.c.html. (Scroll down on this page!)
Thank you for the correction. I suspect I must have read a simplified explanation once and missed that it was simplified.
I used the Disrupter lock-free queue in my multi-threaded Java application last year. No problems using it and after I replaced the previous concurrent queue, that portion of the code is no longer a profiling hotspot.

It was not in Maven at the time, so I copied the Disrupter packages into my own utilities Maven module.
> Cook may not be a disaster on the level of John Sculley, but his focus on the corporation of Apple rather than on the coolness of its products would worry me if I was long on AAPL.

It would worry me even as a just a user of Apple's products. It should worry all men because it could mean a slower progress of humanity in technology.

If it were not for the Jobs' obsession, would we even have an iPad in the year 2012? Given his absence, when are we going to have the next such a thing?

The world needs people like Steve. Apple, or not.
99% of the programmers I know are awesome; I was just wrote too aggressively to make a point. I'm sorry if I sounded arrogant -- that was not at all my intention.

I'm going to write up another version of this with a simpler message -- be grateful. I promise I'll chill out :)

Thanks for the comments!
Agreed. Even literate programming (where the comments often outweigh the code) doesn't stop to explain #include <stdlib.h> !

Edit: ok I forgot this was his first C program.
That's one of those micro vs. macro things, though. Individually it's a smart move. For the company as a whole it's a disaster, and something they should have planned for. Some of this is obviously because Facebook's IPO is very late, and lots of employee stock is already vested.
>Natural selection can only operate on replicators, and genetic replicators only create kin. These replicators may influence group formation and their subsequent natural selection, but is there any evidence for that hypothesis that isn't suitably explained by kin selection?

Territoriality and dominance hierarchies can't be explained in terms of kin selection (except insofar as they can be explained in terms of individual selection; my point is they have very little to do with kinship). Nevertheless they are evidently selected for, and therefore it makes sense to regard them as phenotypes.
The software distributed through MSDNAA is (1) always a little outdated and (2) only for non-commercial development.
SELECT TOP 1 FROM hn_readers UNION django_developers WHERE skill == junior
I mean: Hey HN!

We're looking for a smart Django developer to join the Trendabl team and help build out/improve our API. If you've made it this far, there is a good chance you might be a fit so keep reading.

Trendabl is a photo sharing social network focused on Fashion composed, for now, of an iOS app and a RESTful API. We have tons of users, brands and celebrities on board so it's rather fun and we get to tackle a lot of problems, from scaling PostgreSQL to figuring out how to programmatically send a text message to any operator on earth.

Our main requirement is that you're competent writing Django and Python code, know all about the way QuerySets behave, as well as something about varnish. Most of all, you must have previously built something using Django that you can show off. That can be a website, an API, or really anything that shows you're passionate about your craft.

Anything else you can bring to the table, from AWS expertise, NOSQL, Web Design and so on is a plus. Then last, but not least, you'll be working with us at our downtown NYC office so you need to be at minimum sociable.

If you're interested, hit me up at jobs@trendabl.com
indent -kr json.c

problem solved ;-)
of course you are right, fixed ;)
I have a site that IAcquire pays to put 'advertising' on and it is still indexed in google.
And no one should ever be using ls in a shell script anyway. Shell globbing and find are the proper tools.
You're being overly sensitive. He didn't say something bad about your mother, he pointed out what was wrong with a thing, a product and IMO he was mostly right.
>I am not making a criticism, I am asking a question. I already know about plan 9, I don't need to "check it out". I would like to know how I can actually use it for something, rather than just play with it for a couple hours and go "yeah ok, that was cool".

If you "know about it", then you would also now that you cannot use it for something like the things you mention. I cannot see how your questions are compatible with "knowing about it".

Even its developers doesn't use it now --although they have ported their favorite userland tools from it to other systems.
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> There is nothing there to abuse, no "environment" to foul, no natives to exploit, nothing, not even bacteria.

I agree with the sentiment of your post, but this is incorrect. The Moon is a uniquely pristine environment that holds irreplaceable evidence regarding the formation of both our and other solar systems. It may even contain bacteria, trapped long-dead within meteorites, that could tell us more about the development of life on Earth or elsewhere.

It is of huge importance that we are able to extract as much of this information as possible before we start tearing it up.
I gave a list of things I want to do. The typical server stuff 99% of unix-like systems are used for. I am not ruling out plan 9, I am asking what it can be used for. Why do people keep insisting on deliberately misrepresenting a question as a criticism?

I know plan 9 has factotum, but "google it" sure doesn't help me find a way to use it to authenticate windows clients. Or authenticate anything other than plan 9 for that matter. Aquarela doesn't even claim to work, and it is actually much worse in practice than it claims to be. And it can't be part of a domain can it?

I'm not trying to be critical here, but when I ask "what can I actually do with plan 9?" I am genuinely interested in a serious answer. Stuff like "well there's an unsupported kinda buggy thing that doesn't actually do what you need anyways" is just a less honest way of saying "you can't use it for anything".
While I do appreciate the point that ls is doing sorting that sort would struggle to manage, isn't this an argument for better functionality in sort?

Someone pointed out that ls is really doing three things - listing files, sorting them and displaying them. That seems fairly accurate, and indeed it's convenient that it does.

But it's not 'doing one thing'. I'm not saying that's necessarily bad (as I just said, it's convenient), but it's not hardline Unix-way purity.

For practical reasons like those you raise, it makes sense for ls to handle its own sorting rather than leave it to the sort command, just as it handles its own formatting rather than let the user manage it. But those features _are_ something other than just reporting file listings, whatever the motivation for the feature creep. This convenient flexibility makes ls less single-task, less Unix-adherent but more generally useful on its own.
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And what about Javascript? Smalltalk?
I'm aware of no "older systems" still in reasonable use that don't support the // comment convention. That got added to pretty much every C toolchain as soon as anyone started shipping a C++ preprocessor. I believe it is disabled by the -ansi switch to gcc though; use -std=c99 instead if you care about that stuff (or better: don't use -ansi, it doesn't actually make your code more portable, it just whines a lot).
As a web developer, it's been great not having to worry about supporting/testing with Opera's rendering engine, (or simply another rendering engine, nothing against Opera in particular) thanks to its low market share. I hope this doesn't mean I have to start testing with yet another browser. Can't FB use Webkit like everyone else?
Didn't think much about the market yet. For now, it is more an experiment to see what can be done.

The app is based on Buddhist approach to mind training.
Mating Interface Definition.. Androgynous Docking System.. Soft Capturing..Hard Capturing.. Someone in NASA was watching porn when they wrote this.
There is a planet full of it. An entire planet. If we made a conscious effort to deliberately go forth and destroy all evidence, it would take us millennia... with generous technological assumptions.

Also an entire solar system and indeed an entire universe full of further such stuff.

Space is big.

This is a terrible argument.
Have you tried reading my post? I said that as far as I am aware, you can't use it for any of those things, but that I could be mistaken. Ignoring what I said, to tell me what I said is stupid isn't productive or helpful.
Responsibility to the shareholders, or is that passe these days?
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Reminds me of Evelyn Waugh's observation, after the Battle of Crete, that a pillow is the most important thing an officer can take to war.
Ouch, had no idea Opera owned Fastmail. Here are a few more paid accounts which would not be renewed.
With any luck, in a few decades, it won't be.
Feature phones will continue to exist as a cheaper alternative to expensive phones, but they just become more 'featured'. Don't forget that they have a much smaller screen, and chrome/safari may not want to accomodate the huge diversity of screen sizes and platforms out there. Opera has been doing it.

In the software game, there is no point planning 10 years ahead. 10 years ago, software was very different from now. But 5 years from now, there will still be feature phones and africa/se asia will continue to be growing.

Facebook would have purchased the basic platforms it needs for future software, and would be in a good position for whatever comes next.
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Sweden are pretty clear favourites at about 5/4, followed by Russia (7/1) and Italy (12/1): http://beta.betfair.com/special-bets/market?id=1.104582460
At 1:09 in the video you can see the sculpture get pivoted on a horizontal axle. That is sufficient. At some point during the day (near noon if it faces south) the left/right alignment will be correct, at that point you can tip it on the axle for optimum legibility.

The angle will vary by season, but if it is legible for an hour a day, there is a fair degree of slop available.

It should be intuitively human adjustable, simply maximize the square pixelation nature, or if you want something more explicit, make the bottoms of the long vertical dark spots line up with adjacent short vertical dark spots.

It is near June and they appear to be vertical. In the winter, with a lower sun, it will need to be tipped down and people will need to hold their phones lower and perhaps come closer. Good thing they didn't build it like this for winter. Then in the summer people would have to sit on a friend's shoulders to take the pictures.
Maybe they should charge users fees to protect their privacy rather than focus on charging advertisers? 10 dollars a year to not sell your data to advertisers. 20 dollars a year to not allow law enforcement to view your data without a court order signed by a judge, etc.
Having around three-four rendering engines on the market is a good thing, they each separately fuel development of new standards and other projects. We don't want Webkit to become the new IE6.
Noooo! But if it happens, I'll have an excuse for trying IE once more.
"Game of Asteroids".

I know we like to bring elements from the video game EVE into our reality but that is very implausible.
An Argument for Mutable Local History
What you should do this weekend
HP seems to have lost its "Way". It is not the same company that Packard and Hewlett envisioned.
I would entertain your challenge without preamble if it were not based on a premise that I do not accept: specifically, that any of this has to do with changing how your mind works. I understand that many perceive it that way, but I do not.

Rather, I see it as leveraging how my mind works. Note how this is almost exactly the opposite world view. I accept that my mind includes within it a mechanism for habit automation. Of course that is only one of many tools in the metacognitive toolbox. Another powerful tool is the ability to be brutally honest with yourself about what your priorities are in practice, what you think they should be, and recognizing when your actions are working against the priorities you would like to have. There are more. Metacognition is a bottomless pit of bootstrapping power.

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

A year ago, after coming to grips with the fact that having a toddler and a relationship meant that I was no longer getting time for myself, I made myself a morning person. I went from a life-long habit of dragging myself out of bed just in time to rush to work to someone who routinely gets out of bed at 5am and does something productive for myself before my son wakes up. Brutal honesty about my priorities and about a month of consistent practice.
CloudFlare To Launch Service For Sites Dealing With Tortuous EU Cookie Law
I think your proposed cure (a rendering engine monoculture) is worse than the disease (having to test in multiple engines).
You forget that Mini is a proxy browser that does a large amount of data compression. When your mobile network is constricted and data locally expensive then you want to use the minimum possible.
Check out FeedForward: http://www.feed-forward.net we're doing a lot namely giving artists incentive to communicate better with our core application which gives artists more exposure when they give feedback for others' work. We also feature a commission free market --sell your work with nothing more than a PayPal account, and we'll NEVER take a cut. We've applied for YC several times, and have never heard back, accept for their generic rejection letter, but we've been at this for years, not months, and I am a musician, so I understand just how hard it is for others like me, and I'm going for community development over riches and fame... Thanks!
No spouse or kids for me.

These guys [1] Are making the same journey right now through every country in central and south America with 2 adults and 5 kids !

You can do it, if you want.

[1]http://www.discovershareinspire.com/
The IPO wasn't the first chance to cash out -- Facebook was being heavily traded in secondary markets before the IPO (and the lockup preceding the IPO).
I'd add that this (http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf) is a good accompaniment to the slides.
Can anyone tell me why lobbying is inherently bad?
Instead of working to make the splash screens look prettier, I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest they should work to make the program load fast enough so it doesn't need a splash screen.
Edit: I forgot one other big problem: Acquisitions. Instagram, it was reported, was a largely stock deal (for example). Having to offer more stock or more cash in future acquisitions is a definite downer for Facebook.
For the Tolkien fans, Johan Winge's Tengwar Annatar font was created with METAFONT, mftrace (using potrace) and FontForge. The design is meant to simulate a nib pen, and METAFONT is particularly apt at producing calligraphic letter shapes.

http://home.student.uu.se/jowi4905/fonts/annatar.html
This reminds me of when Palm bought Be Inc. Everyone thought Palm would start using BeOS instead of Palm OS 5, but really Palm just wanted the patents. So my guess here is, if Facebook really does make a purchase, it will to acquire intellectual property as either patents or evidence of "prior art".
Why not Chrome, Safari, or Firefox?
Your comment is relatively polite and you clearly put a lot of work into it, so I'm not going to downvote, but you're making a pretty violent asserion here with essentially no evidentiary support beyond the most basic aspects. It's a bit like if I read this post and decided to rant about how you're clearly an Oracle shill — maybe you are, maybe you aren't, but it's unwarranted either way.
MIT engineers make pouring ketchup as easy as pouring water
Great. That's exactly what the World needs. Another browser controlled by an Advertising company.
Yeah, I agree -- it's important to respect copyright, even if you don't like it -- Do The Right Thing!
Convert to some canonical case on the client side before applying SRP. It's very easy.
Well done. Now I want to explore Canadian law on the matter.
We're living the future, guys.
Yeah I'm keeping my eye on Rust. I like what I'm seeing so far.
The basic flaw in the Unix philosophy is that the rules 1. and 2. are incorrect. The rules should be as follows:

1. Write libraries that do one thing and do it well.
2. Write libraries to work together.

The third rule is correct, because that is what programs essentially are: black boxes to modify input streams to output streams. I think this correction should be followed in the future.
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I think Dawkins believes that genes are being manipulated not cells.
But Dawkins disagrees that this genes (that cascadly
manipulate reality) contain information about reality beyond cells, like for example different groups dynamics. While this other guy thinks the opposite. (Thats what i get from his squirels example.

Dawkins has hypothesis that evolution is "blind" process, so if this is true than it would probably collapse.
It might be a while before we get something other than feature phones in the developing markets and the pre-pay market. Pre-pay phones with "Facebook" might be a rather large seller.
And in the mean time, designers take theses things in their own hands...
Since I really only want PS, AI and FW installed, the entire color wheel will not be appreciated here. I think the new icons look nice though, and I like the periodic table theme with dark grey base color and highlights.
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And in the mean time, designers take theses things into their own hands...
While it might be useful to have these in revision control, their format won't work as-is. Take this change for instance:

https://github.com/divegeek/uscode/commit/4b58ecaa6a6ea4b158...

Lots and lots of lines that don't change anything useful, and then the one change is hard to understand because it's wrapping a bunch of words causing extra changes.

I would recommend un-wrapping lines before commits and then have the presentation app smart enough to not show all of the lines where just a date in a header changed, doing word wrapping on the client side.

Also, without commit information, the changes are hard to wade through. Are there summaries or titles of the bills that can be used in the commit message? Who are the authors that drafted the bill and who are the "committers" that voted for it?
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