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An idea to get significantly more web surfers -- including savvy ones -- to read ads.
The idea is to adapt http://www.readmytweets.com to work with ads instead of tweets.

Note that if your product/service isn't very good, then maybe you will get tired of reading other people's ads without much benefit. In that case, your ad(s) won't be shown much anymore.

Do you think it will work?
" It's basically like acting as a compiler and finding type mismatch errors."

This is exactly how I answered many questions in the Verbal section. (Score: 800 (verbal) 790 (quant) 6.0 (writing)).

as for knowing difficult words, I found that reading a lot helps (vs memorizing word lists). You've seen most words in context before, which helps to distinguish between similar words with different shades of meaning and so on.
excellent. thanks for that!!

I live in a Chinese household in Shanghai. Our rice cooker gets used morning, noon, and night. But only for white rice. I will show my wife this article and see if can start using it for more.
Well, when the All Sports pulldown comes down, its NFL entry is in exactly the same place as the NFL toolbar entry, so it's no different. Kind of a nice touch.
The billable/non-billable distinction isn't the only one, nor always the best. But it is useful: being able to crank out a lot of them is immensely useful at crunch time. On the other hand, an organization entirely filled with people who primarily value billable hours could well be pathologically unimaginative.
I talked to the dept head in aero at MIT during the 90s and he told me that the verbal section of the GRE was the only correlation he'd seen to success.
Yes, and let's not forget that a generalized test is still useful at the graduate level, for a variety of reasons. The one that comes to mind when you mention subject tests is that people sometimes switch disciplines. I have several friends who went from math to physics and vice versa. They intended to research problems which are closely related to what they've done in their own department but that just happen to be worked on by professors in the other. Does it make sense to hold a math major up to the standard of a physics major taking the physics subject test? No way---he couldn't possibly compare, even though he may be more ably suited to tackling a problem that's being worked on in the physics department. So having a generalized quantitative/analytical section is helpful in at least this case. If the physics professor looking at your application knows nothing about what his colleague is doing (your intended advisor), at least he has a reasonable indication you aren't a dunce.
There are many people who take the GRE for math and science who have English as a second language. This is less true for the humanities and social sciences (besides Anthropology, a major exception.)
Ask HN: Faster alternatives to Tinyurl?
I've been playing around with the TinyURL api:

http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/06/27/tinyurlHasAnApi.html

It works like a charm, but is sloooooow -- almost 0.5 seconds per request.

Does anyone have suggestions on faster alternatives?
The trust fund doesn't exist. It's a line on the books, but it's been borrowed fund to pay for other expenses.
I had eactly €100 per 5day week for most of my first year at college.
€65 was my accomodation (quite a distance from the college) which included breakfast
€4.50 lunch at college x 4 days (I'd frequently get it for less + drink because the lady on the till liked me)
€3 for a sandwich/roll x 5 days which I'd eat in the evening.
I had to budget because I had NO OTHER INCOME so your remark about beers doesn't cut it. My blood just boiled when I saw you generalising students like that.

And there is a considerable leap between using something for free and paying any money for it.
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You can also try:

http://is.gd / http://is.gd/api_info.php

http://bit.ly / http://bit.ly/app/developers
As someone else who has regularly hit #1 on digg and reddit without even being aware that the stories were submitted, I have to disagree.
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Anyone jealous of tinyurl.com? So little effort to build but with very high traffic now.

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/tinyurl.com+techcrunch.com/...
I agree.
I spent a considerable amount of time learning about/setting up/configuring my own SVN server and tools around it simply because I couldn't find a free hosted alternative that didn't expose my source code.

If I had a free github/alternative account I'd probably give it a shot and give that my time. Although more for curiousity sake... git doesn't integrate with the VS.net IDE which I spend a lot of my time in.

They wouldn't lose me as a paying customer because I never intended on paying in the first place (as evidenced by spending more than $7 of my time in setting up an alternative). They may gain an interested follower in the long run.
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Does anyone know where I could find data on more recent scores, or scores preceding 2002? I'm just curious to see if there any trends and whether the standings have changed much in the past 10 years or so.
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1) That doesn't mean that you're better off losing all the data you've lost.

2) You may not even be better-off on average considering the data lost.

3) Not your call: some folks turn disaster into opportunity, but a disaster is still disastrous.
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Another interesting (and related) blog entry about this comes from The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/magazine/07wwln-medium-t.h...
Looks like it was done by the same people who did IGN's new home page.
Funny, I heard a rumor that the only people who got 800s on the verbal section were foreigners. (Read: people who can't speak English.) The explanation was that they were the only ones willing to invest enough time to form-fit the ETS's method of verbal testing.

In my own experience the verbal section of the GRE was entirely nonsensical. The vocabulary was difficult and exactly the type of vocabulary I would use if it was my goal not to be understood, but at least I could see how it might be a useful and reliable differentiator.

Nobody uses these words often enough for them have any statistically meaningful shades of meaning. If the goal of communication is having other people understand you, why would you deal in words that are notable precisely because they are difficult to understand?

The reading comprehension made less sense. I don't think it's possible to select a passage that has an unambiguous meaning and yet will be misunderstood by a statistically meaningful number of ambitious, college-educated people. So the question-making process must necessarily be corrupt.

I recall many questions which wasted much of my time. Several possible responses, none of which are obviously wrong. I know which one I feel is right---or maybe I do. Which one does the GRE feel is right? Even on sample tests, where I could see the supposed answer, I would read and reread the passages, and understand little about what the correctness or incorrectness of the responses had to do with the meaning of the passage.

I don't think you can presume to have an objective and clear-cut A or B answer as you might on the SAT. The granularity of college-level material is simply too fine. The only thing you can measure is how well you have matched yourself to the GRE's way of thinking, and that is not a particularly valuable expenditure of time.
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Me too - I've been making that variation since I was a kid and now my kids love playing with them too.
I'm going to try this tail version now to see how they compare.
Ok, now check this out:

http://amath.colorado.edu/~baldwind/sous-vide.html

(Take your rice cooker. Plug it in to a little device that monitors the temperature of a water bath in the cooker and holds it at a precise temperature. Crack an egg into a Reynolds handi-vac'd bag, put the bag in the water, set the device to 146 degrees, then go to work. Come back to an egg cooked to precisely 146 degrees. Repeat with short ribs, cooked to 136 degrees, over 48 hours --- medium rare!).
Only students in America get .edu mail addresses. Many countries use .ac.ccTLD for educational institutions instead.
I simply couldn't log in with my LiveJournal openID

Perhaps an SSL certificate thing? If you wind your clock forward enough it's past the expiry of SSL certificates.
I think what this is missing is that for people who know how to use BitTorrent, all the top albums were available for free. Hence, officially releasing it was a sign of good will which only increased their sales.
'the U.S. ceded the market for computer batteries to Japan in the 1970s. Now it's way behind in the
race to invent improved batteries for electric vehicles'

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't A123 Systems a leader in this field?
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I have friends who have done very well on both sections. They didn't practice much. They tend to be polymaths and read a lot.
"Friedman's claim that monetary policy could have prevented the Great Depression was an attempt to refute the analysis of John Maynard Keynes, who argued that monetary policy is ineffective under depression conditions and that fiscal policy - large-scale deficit spending by the government - is needed to fight mass unemployment. The failure of monetary policy in the current crisis shows that Keynes had it right the first time. And Keynesian thinking lies behind Obama's plans to rescue the economy." -- From the article

Just because Keynes wasn't proven wrong doesn't mean he is right. I don't think he has put enough thought into this. The fact of the matter is our financial system pretended there was whole lot more wealth than there really was and not mention the fact they continued to trade based on that.

Niether trickling down money top down nor spending can solve this core issue in my opinion.
Missing the point. It's all about value. A broken leg is is an impediment to an athlete. A pancreatic cancer, along with its treatment, is a hurdle for a CEO.
I have the same problem as the original poster but I also have the opposite problem: I have several perpetually unemployed or underemployed friends. They are old. They are opinionated. They should be looking at retirement with pensions by now. They don't fit with any team I have been on. Whenever I post to various forums we all frequent with open positions they send in their resumes. But I can't hire them for the same reason nobody else can hire them. It's awkward when I have to ignore their resume or tell them they just wouldn't be a good fit.
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I've been working a lot on the performance aspects of Dynomite and I think it is a better solution now than memcachedb. One big issue with memcachedb is that it leaves replication management completely to the user. So if you want to be able to seamlessly handle machine failure with a high traffic site, you need to do a lot of work to set up replicas, do clever things with DNS, and even then you won't get a guarantee of availability for that data. Dynomite handles all of that transparently, plus it isn't tied to a single storage engine. So that you can use a different storage engine based on the type of load you plan on generating.

The code is here: http://github.com/cliffmoon/dynomite
Yeah that's likely the issue. Actually, looking at all the root CA certs on my computer (OS X, look in Keychain.app if you're curious) every single one of them (except one) expires in 2037 or earlier.

This is almost certainly not a coincidence. In software that doesn't take the Y2K38 issue into account the expiration date would wrap around to an earlier date, causing the software to think the cert is invalid.
And I installed FlashBlock.
When working on our startup, we used to use Assembla solely because it was free.
After we moved past the whiteboard phase, we switched to Unfuddle immediately. The productivity gain alone...
If your site is awesome (like GitHub), peopel will pay for it, even students. The bigger problem (for us at least) was not lack of funding, but lack of a funding method. Source control should really be a business expense. Sure, everyone can kick me five bucks or something, but that tends to make accountants mad.
Wrong answer. (Though a true statement.)

The tests are scaled differently. That's all there is to it.

http://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/GRE/pdf/gre_0809_interpreting...
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How do you know the full story of it? A lot of startups in the valley now are totally dicking their employees out of equity and doing "firing layoffs" instead of really laying people off.

How do you know that journalspace wasn't being shady and screwing them in some kind of contract or negotiation gambit?

I can think of quite a few startups these days that deserve a similar fate to happen to them.

Journalspace sounds like one of an army of web 2.0 startups that aren't going to survive the coming years anyways and go broke. Maybe the founders can now focus on better projects. Maybe this is a blessing in disguise.
You mean the math is intentionally "scaled up"? Or that the math is just easier & there is no effort made to rescale it? Given that these scores are used for comparison so often, you'd think they would normalize the scores so that a 700 means the same thing on both sections.

For what it's worth, this is a trend on other standardized tests as well (including the SAT).
I've already run into a problem with this on one of the sites I worked on. Fortunately that date wasn't to important in that case and we settled leaving the date somewhere in 2037 for the time being.
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I love FreeBSD. I really have nothing interesting to say in my comment here except that I was surprised to NOT see a bunch of other HN fans glowing about it.

I spent a good 1-2 years each with SuSE, Debian, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Ubuntu - but FreeBSD is the one I keep coming back to as my favorite server OS.

Shame it doesn't play well with Xen.

But those of you with a Mac and VMWare Fusion can install it and play around to get to know it. It's really well-done.

http://www.freebsd.org/handbook tells all.
That style of plane is best for speed and accuracy. A plane built to glide will travel farther. I used to invent paper airplanes as a kid, and I found that ones beginning with the cross-folds (more likely to balance) and broad wings yielded the best results.
I'm pretty skeptical of the heat resistant coating mentioned in the article...
Did anyone did this with Linux?
It happened in 2005 I think. they might have chnaged that policy since then.
The biggest problem I have with websites like hometown that shut down with insuficiant notice is that burned users are less likely to trust new websites... And as a webapplication developper I care about having users trust me with their contents....
That's not showing anything about life spans, just the baby boomers getting older. It's the retiree to worker ratio shifting as they age.
"24. Carefully tear off strip of paper. Save the strip of paper because you are going to need it to make the tail."

In my opinion, a proper paper airplane is made from a single, uncut paper. If you break that page into pieces, you might as well be using multiple pieces of paper.
Well, that route worked for me in spades with my previous businesses, but I wouldn't recommend it to others. I started the blog for fun, and only after a couple years had become good at it and built up enough readership to turn it into a successful advertising vehicle. Had I set out on that path from the beginning I surely would have given up.
Interesting: Philosophy scored higher on Verbal than English/Language.
Stonebreaker has mentioned this idea in his "database column" blog about a year back. You might want to check what he's up to.

The idea has legs - in a distributed system you no longer need to commit to disk to guard against failures (assuming your power supply is diversified), and if your data fits in RAM then it's certainly a good idea. RAM is getting cheaper at Moore's law curve, which means more and more tasks are getting within reach.
That same logic would seem to apply for Microsoft wanting to invest. Perhaps MSFT had a chance, but they didn't like the valuation at all.

If you read "High Stakes, No Prisoners" (a book that both founders of Xobni recommend), the author recommends getting non-VC Series B investors so that you don't have the same genetic pool (i.e. Series A VCs colluding with Series B).

I think the more likely scenario is that this Series B is strategic for Cisco, wonder what they're cooking up.
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I would like to have a free account, but I don't think that a free account should be given out to students. I understand give private accounts to instructors, however, $7 a month is very little and think that most students could come up with the money. I truly enjoy using github, and think that $7 or $12 per month is a great value.

If the account were to be free I think that there should be a timeframe for which the account should be free (for 2 - 4 years). After that the user is given the option to continue or drop the account.
You'll be able to purchase a GitHub license in a few months, tell your school to buy a copy!
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I've long had a hobby interest in economics, but it's only in the past couple months that I've really dug into macroeconomics and monetary theory (motivated, of course, by current events). It's weird: there's bizarreness at every turn---it's like studying astronomy for the first time, only to discover that the astrologers are in charge. The inmates are running the asylum.

To wit: take a look at "Baby-Sitting the Economy" (http://www.slate.com/id/1937/), an article Paul Krugman wrote in 1998. It describes a simple example: a co-op with a coupon or "scrip" currency redeemable for baby-sitting. By Krugman's own admission, this example inspired his understanding of monetary policy, recessions, and Keynesian economics. In the story, a "recession" occurs when co-op members start hoarding scrip in anticipation of future outings; the result is that the whole system freezes up; and the solution was an injection of liquidity through scrip inflation.

Exercise: discover the flaw in Krugman's analysis. Hint: consider what would happen in a real economy with hard currency by allowing the price of baby-sitting to fluctuate and by replacing "scrip" with gold. Contrast this situation with the long-run effects of the inflationary "solution" on savings and business investment incentives.

I have two predictions: the economy will continue to tank despite (or because of) attempts to "stimulate" it, and Krugman will blame the resulting depression on the stimulus being insufficiently bold---i.e., on not being Keynesian enough.
At the very least, do it for students working on projects related to their classes (in which an instructor approves).

Think Lexis-Nexis. Get students so acclimated to your product that the mere use of it is your competitive advantage. Set some limits on git like what psyklic was saying.
Seems more like a Google press release than anything sincere. Maybe trying to regain their preferred status among the top talent looking for work during these tumultuous times?
"I heard a rumor"

I'm a counterexample to the rumor.
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Governments default on their own bonds often enough. Cf. Argentina plus a whole slew of third-world countries.

I'll skip the theory and offer a single data point: the employees of the Social Security Administration do not, themselves, use or pay into SS. Neither do any other US Government employees. That is, the people who know the most about the system think it's so good that they don't want any part of it. It's almost like they know something some of us don't.
"The GRE verbal is just a test of how many wank words you've memorized."

Evidence for this? (By which I mean, do you have any evidence that the GRE verbal section has failed validation studies to which it has been subjected by graduate schools?)
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So, when do you think the government is going to default on its own bonds? 2010? 2018?
you can cook everything in a rice cooker

i used to put rice and raw chicken fillet and some condiments (optional) into a rice cooker

it's not that bad :D

sometimes i ate it from rice cooker pan? (it's small rice cooker) -> saving time on cleaning (no need for temporary dish)

NB: you can even put raw egg, but the shell will bee sticky
I wonder what is the other side of "steak and strippers, baby!"? Why is it that management doesn't trust us? He says a little about it: "You guys have got to stop lying...talking on IRC all day..." I wonder if it's all because of dopplegangers, or the techie dark side?

A part of it is because we're different. But a part of it must be bad as well. We're all only human, after all.
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Krugman shilling for Keynesian get-rich-quick schemes and insisting that what Obama(read The Executive Branch) needs is simply more power to spend our way out of The Greater Depression? Say it ain't so!

All kidding aside Krugman accurately points out that the Republicans are simply posturing themselves as "champions of careful Congressional deliberation." The big problem I find with his line of thinking, however, is that he assumes Obama is not posturing himself as the "champion of quick and decisive action." Krugman further magnifies his blind-spot in the following excerpt:

"The biggest problem facing the Obama plan, however, is likely to be the demand of many politicians for proof that the benefits of the proposed public spending justify its costs — a burden of proof never imposed on proposals for tax cuts."

That is, we are likely going to be unable to spend our way out of this mess because people are unsure about this whole magical plan that spending and printing money will actually be a viable plan toward recovery. Secondly he firmly plants his flag in statist territory by insisting that tax cuts are never held to this same standard. By this he seems to be suggesting that when government spends money what rulers need is nearly carte-blanche ability to spend as they see fit; but when we want to steal less from citizens then we had better have some careful deliberation that this tax cut is going to positively effect them!