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Sure, but a 3x faster programmer will still be more efficient than 3 other programmers, because there is no communication overhead and opportunities for misunderstandings.

I would rather hire somebody really good for $6k / month than 3 people for $2k each.
No, but I'm counting our indexes which store tons and tons of denormalized data (Google counts these when assessing datastore size). If you completely ignore all indexes, we're at 1TB (but even that includes some denormalized data).
Oil and resources in general are only useful to societies that know how to use them properly. To many countries, oil is a curse: http://dean2004.blogspot.com/2009/02/zakaria-on-curse-of-oil...

It's like chess, checkers, risk, go, Starcraft, etc.

You can put a crappy player in a great position on the board, giving them great "resources". But a significantly better player will often still be able to win.

Compare North Korea to South Korea. Same culture, same geography, same genetic pool -- but as a society the North Koreans went horribly horribly wrong. North Koreans went with a political and economic philosophy (communism) that was and is far inferior to capitalism.

That's my fundamental disagreement with this article. Human intellect driven by forces in the culture and society have a great more to do with a country's "importance" on the geopolitical stage than resources.
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Thank you for reminding us to be open to the unexpected. Life is a beautiful gift and so often I live in my "shell." I am sure I have missed many opportunities to meet the Larries of the world--thank you for the reminder to be present.
Yes, for her husband when he opened his solo practice.

(There's nothing bad or incompetent about this.)
Do you have a wife or kids to support? Do you have any savings? I would recommend at least 6 months of savings before you do something like this. A year would be even better.
That digital mockup looks a lot like an iPhone...I'm sure it won't be long before Apple claims that this free software is causing them irreparable harm and moves for an injunction banning anyone from downloading the Mozilla OS or purchasing devices from ZTE.

Sarcasm...but just barely
Agreed, blaming the users for the company's own problem is disgusting.

I remember that comic by the way, I have it saved from a calendar somewhere. :P
US has spent 1,000,000,000,000 dollars ($1 trillion) on a failed war on drugs
Mozilla phone supports the creation of a new mobile operating system
To be fair, users aren't Facebook's customers.
No, but developers really care about that, and users care about cool apps.
I think the easiest route is for anyone who cares about these sorts of things is to fund groups like the EFF and the ACLU. I'm just finishing graduate school (and am thus kind of broke) but still have an automatic payment to the EFF setup every month and will probably start the same sort of donations to the ACLU as well.
Thank you for correcting me on that point. I did not realize the VAT was the reason for the price disparity.

Besides currency controls is the VAT the only reason for the price disparity?
Same here. The N16 with DD-WRT is an awesome setup. However, I just moved and got FiOS and have a ticket in to avoid using their crappy router/modem you are forced to use.

Also, if you are in the market for an upgrade, my friend showed me the new Asus RT-N66u. I likey n16 but the new one has a faster CPU and more RAM.
I support private space exploration, if they recompense the public for any damage they do (unlike, say, mining companies).
>It's not only defamatory, it's promoting hate to a level one could feel against a killer and which could put peoples life really in danger.

Which is, ironically, exactly what Tara Carreon has accused Inman of doing:

>History is full of evidence of the connection between hate speech and hate action. We need go no further than the Nazi propaganda against the Jews…

>These Techdirt nazi scumbags are doing to Charles what they did to the Jewish lawyers in Nazi Germany. Accusing him of greed and being responsible for the entire economic mess that our country is in. I mean, that is crazy! No group of people deserves to be so wholesaledly condemned, unless they are a criminal organization like the Mafia. I don't even believe in groups! Give every individual identity, dignity, human rights, and freedom.

And now today,

>These children have been corrupted by a corrupt society. And everyone who fails to register an opinion and act in this matter is to blame. They are stupid, silent people, who are absolutely worthless to our society. Really, what good is their life, but a burden to the planet?

Physician, heal thyself.
Ok, its been about 10 hrs, so maybe you would be able to read this comment objectively:

1. An Ad-Hominem argument is one where you attack the other based on their credentials to have an opinion on an issue without commenting on the argument itself. That's specifically what you did.

2. >>"Refraining from addressing someone's statement other than to label it "ad hominem" is itself an ad hominem argument, however."
-- this is a weird piece of logic I must say. See definition of ad hominem above. Where did I challenge your "statement" by saying that you are not un-biased enough to have an opinion. If you still disagree, see http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html and let me know what I am missing

3. Let me respond to your main argument as well - you say that the fact she was a guy "does the opposite of dispelling any stereotypes people may harbor" - ONE - not everyone knows she was a guy. Therefore, most people would take the argument for what it is and think about it. TWO - even if people know she was a guy, why do you assume that other readers are primitive enough that they will let that be a factor? Note - they aren't seeing her in real life - they are just reading an article at their leisure.
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I hope even in the UK, the gov't would pay your housing and basic needs?
I haven't read through 2nd edition of Programming Clojure yet, but comparing it and Joy is silly IMO, as Joy is built around the idea of being the book you read after you understand the basics of Clojure as taught by one of the other two books mentioned (or other resources).

Joy is the one book I consider a necessity to getting a deep understanding of the language without spending as much time as you might attempting the same understanding on your own.
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Yeah, basically so. And, as chance has it, I made the final payment on my car just last night, which reduces my bill load that much more. That makes a scenario where I can quit and work on the startup fulltime that much closer..
My intention was to sound like I'm not too worried.

And you're right, we have "panˈdôrə" on our page - which is how you pronounce the name of Pandora, the figure from Greek mythology. Are you suggesting Pandora the radio would have a problem with that? Again, I don't think so.
Been using it for a long time. Great product. Going to be using it to manage contractors building my house too
Even if you know how to use them properly you might be limited in your ability to do so due to the weakness of your geopolitical shape.
If the best name you can think of is already in use by a huge player in internet media, exposes you to legal attack, and will confuse potential users and customers, you need to keep thinking.
They are saying that the author is a counter-example to their own argument.

It's not an attack on their credentials to have an argument.
Well, it depends. For example, look at core.logic and show me something comparable in Perl or Python. The ability to just code up a DSL in no time, with the same syntax as the rest of the language is a really powerful tool, and I've yet to see a language that comes even close to Lisp's metaprogramming support.
Here's an overview of some studies in edutainment I found: http://www.itu.dk/~sen/papers/game-overview.pdf There are a few more hits via Scholar. As one might expect, results are mixed, the experimental design is usually shoddy, and there are lots of variables unaccounted for.

Anecdotally, I liked playing Number Munchers in my elementary school and I was in a high percentile of my class and district on all the standardized tests. My peers played it too, but they still struggled, especially later on in junior high and high school.
I made a similar presentation a year ago to a bunch of fellow quants at the bank. I chose Scala, and my presentation was mostly code. Quant Finance tends to be one of those areas where Scala really excels. For example, a time series is just a running fold. So instead of having an imperative for block with various indices & guards, you can write a 1-line prefix scan to price a 5 year CDS. My examples also included bond pricing, vanilla calls and puts, binomial trees, monte carlo generators, portfolio optimization, risk calculations ( VaR & CVaR ) and a few graphics. My manager was very open-minded when it came to technology choice, and my fellow quants were somewhat tough on the 2 hour presentation, but the end result was what I believe is called a win-win. We've since pushed a bunch of apps coded in Scala into production, and the group has embraced the language quite enthusiastically.
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You may know this, but Clojure's immutable data structures don't spend near as much time churning memory as they would if they were implemented naively. Change one element of a sequence, and in your new sequence all the unchanged elements will reference the same memory locations they did before.
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Me too, unless ofcourse I only have $2k in which case I'll be forced to just higher the the later kind of programmer.
As you can imagine, this is HIGHLY subjective. What is interesting to you may not be interesting to me and vice versa. From your Facebook example, aside from the fact that it had "huge" growth potential, I can't decipher reasons for why YOU personally found it to be the most interesting for its era. That makes it hard to quantify or recommend anything. Perhaps you can elaborate a bit more? Sorry, wish I could give a better response at this time.
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re the comment in the original article about monadic javascript: take a look at roy.
http://roy.brianmckenna.org
That was actually Justice Harlan in Cohen v. California.
Rob Pike recently wrote a great blog entry describing the zen of Go and how it compares to a few other languages, particularly C/C++:

http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponentia...
You're right. I meant users. Thanks!
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On the contrary this is the smartest thing they could have done. GPU h/w acceleration on mobile devices isn't optional
any more and rather than getting mired in the 'real soon now' world of Linux graphics they can get on with the job of producing real and usable devices.
You know it's nice reading a criticism of something that has an alternative solution offered rather than just going "hey MVC is terrible and you're an idiot for using it".

I do however think there's still great benefits to MVC, if you're shovelling code into controllers and can't make it work like it should then MVC is not the right design pattern for the project. Like every other pattern it'll only work when it works, but MOVE sounds like an interesting addition that I might have a play with.
Facebook's apps will no longer be on any of my mobile devices. They've proven that I can't trust them without a browser sandbox between me and them.
Clojure keeps looking more and more interesting. Noir, in particular, has caught my eye. Anyone have a link to a high-quality Noir tutorial? (high-quality in the sense of straightforward yet useful)

Nice article, BTW. Good intro for those not familiar with Clojure yet.
The legal system, perhaps. Numerous former colonies have adopted British or French law for use in their own countries.

My point was that the law itself often isn't the problem. China and India have strong laws; they just aren't enforced properly. The problem is corruption and lack of cultural values and professionalism in those institutions. To use a startup analogy, the problem is not in lack of good ideas, the problem lies in the execution.
One possible solution to this problem is for the FSF itself -- or perhaps another non-profit organization with similar goals but a more flexible stance -- to get in the business of issuing Secure-Boot keys, backed by a public written policy of non-discriminatory key issuance. Such an organization could work with non-mainstream operating systems to get hardware vendors to adopt its keys. For example, Ubuntu and Red Hat could use keys issued by it.

All non-mainstream operating system projects would be able to request keys from this organization and boot without having to resort to tinkering in UEFI hardware from multiple vendors.

One can dream.
"I just can't figure out how to do it without losing contact with my friends."

easy . . . call them, visit them, email them, write letters to them. you don't need an application to managed personal relationships.
We've been using Acunote for almost a year, and love it. I highly recommend checking it out if you haven't done so already. Congrats!
I have a CR-48 and it already solves this problem. Joe User get a secure, verified boot path by default. If you want to bypass this and use your another operating system, load your own keys, or generally prove that you know what you're doing, you:

1. Flip the machine over.
2. Remove battery.
3. Flip the "developer's mode" switch.
How is a conversation at a bar less skewed or filtered than a status post?
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This is almost the contrapositive to "it's not a bug, it's a feature!"
Are there any MOVE frameworks yet? I very much like the idea, but one of my favorite tests for "correctness" in a program is to use it to build something. Although it could be (and probably is) a reflection on my lack of knowledge, I find myself "fighting" with MVC frameworks like backbone whenever I try to use them. I would love to see if MOVE would be any better.
> Are you suggesting Pandora the radio would have a problem with that?

Given that your product is also in the "entertainment media" space, and is named almost identically to a large, publically traded company, I suspect you'll soon find out.
Ask HN: Macbook Air alternative?
After 10 years of using apple laptops, I want to change.

My needs as a developer are:
* Mobility: Lightweight, 3/4 hours of battery, and 3g (depend on two battery, the phone and the laptop is a pain). Prefer 11" for the weight but 13" is ok. Of course the need to be able to connect external monitor/keyboard.
* Conformable to work with: I don't want a plastic case with two airbus A330 turbines to dissipate heat. I almost don't use the trackpad, but when I do, i want a surface bigger enough, two be able to scroll with two fingers, without going up and down several times.
* Compatible. The only real alternative for mac osx, while all the software I develop is executed in linux/freebsd servers, is Linux/FreeBSD/...
* Fast. I don't need it to be extremely fast. But I wan't to be able to browse internet, and if there is a tab that load a flash applet, that is not going to freeze my computer.

A plumber, electrician, carpenter have a much higher costs (Lets say tools + van), so expend money on a laptop (the only tool I need), is not a waste, is an investment, so is not that I want that for just 800$.

For the last two years I wasn't able to find nothing on any laptop manufacturer site. I need a business laptop at home, for fun, and needing performance some times, and mobility. But most of them make me to choose between a laptop for work, for home, for fun, for mobility or for performance. ( Sony/Hp/Dell... that really works? )

So two questions:
I am the only one on this situation?
Is so hard the thing I am looking for?
I also wonder if a group of people could get together and purchase their own x-ray vans and position them at the homes and offices of the politicians who support these vehicles. The vans are safe, right? And it is OK to use them on citizens, right? It'll be a fun experiment!
Why is this Hacker News? In my opinion, less is more, and we could use a little more focus on HN. Another sub HN, perhaps? :-)
thanks for sharing these. i enjoyed reading some of them this morning, hope to read the rest soon :)
Facebook seems to be losing sight of what people want to use them for: snooping on their friends. ;) I wonder what the MVP of a Facebook de-throner would be. Google+ showed pretty well it wasn't about fighting them head-on. Instagram was making pretty good progress in an oblique fashion. What other directions could you come at this problem from?
I think creative, high quality trolling can be considered art in its highest form (see Andy Kauffman, Sacha Baron Cohen, 4chan at its best, etc.) but simply slapping someone's name on a spambot is uninteresting, unoriginal, childish, and above all, uncreative

I disagree with that idea. In my view the level of trolling is defined not by the troll, but by those being trolled. Obviously the guy in the video is taking their relatively unsophisticated level of trolling as a serious matter. Just by doing so their trolling is in my view justifiable, as it achieves its objective. Also I personally find the way they were approaching this interview quite amusing, i.e. they are shifting in a concern-trolling mode, almost taking a therapeutic stand. This lets the interviewer argue to a certain degree against a wall as they try to imply some deeper motivations by the interviewer, and find the "hidden" intentions for why he becomes so concerned about a bot spouting random information - that apparently still enough other people take serious enough to communicate with.
Users blame confusion on Facebook email problem.

What was the point of that response? Yeah, people get confused when you systems behave in unexpected unwanted ways. Especially the billion average humans in your user base.
A friend, perhaps, has to resonate certain emotions, but a professional associate just needs to have utilitarian value. A time where you can just press a button and have a system that automatically matches your skills and interests with an employer looking for the same seems quite within the realm of possibility, especially as AI improves.
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Just assuming that the current UEFI working group agreed to this, the first problem arises when one of the key holders is compromised.

As a possible scenario: what if the Windows 8 private signing key leaked because it was used in Terminal Server somehow - do you want the FSF revoking the Microsoft signing key, thus invalidating UEFI signed drivers (necessary for boot) from hundreds of OEM's?

We can shortcut all this by supporting www.coreboot.org
Yeah, you're point on subjectivity is very true. I think Facebook had (and still has) quite massive societal as well as economic value. I think that's what I'm looking for. But interested to see what startups and areas are most exciting, and why..
> Tizen devices with X.org/Wayland drivers will be better in that regard.

Hopefully vendors will care enough about Wayland to start making their drivers compatible with it.
I feel like you could still accomplish this with existing frameworks, though it'll be a bit of a hack. Perhaps split the controller in half, for instance LoginOperations and LoginEvents
I have a wife and she has a decent job. No kids yet but planning one soon (next year or so). We can live off her income if we live within our means which we are doing already. I have more than 18 months of savings based on our current cost of living.
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I may be thinking too old school, but isn't there some way of posting to newsgroups anonymously?

I realize access to binaries groups these days is 99% pay, but at least the stuff would be out there.
The actual text of the fourth amendment is pretty elegant. One paragraph explaining the legal requirement for probable cause and a specific search warrant:

- "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

We don't need to justify privacy rights. The constitution already does that.
Facebook knows most users don't want another email account that is just going to get filled with spam. So how does Facebook deal with spam? Simple, it puts it into your Others folder.

Otherwise you get users complaining about spam in their messages.
I think that a big part of this problem is that Apple played along. If I am understanding this correctly, the bigger issue here is that people's phonebooks are getting updated without consent (as opposed to the bigger issue being a different email being displayed on fb.com) and that this was only possible with Apple's involvement? Correct me if I'm wrong please.

I think it's also worth noting that I have had no issues on Windows Phone. I don't remember how contacts work on Android (never owned an iPhone) but on Windows Phone, it displays ALL of their emails. So the UI would look something like this:

John Smith

-Call John

-Text John

-Email John (john@gmail.com)

-Email John (john@college.edu)

-Email John (john@facebook.com)

So while it's true that if I only have a contact's details through Facebook Connect that I will only have their Faceobook email, is that really so common? Most people (even from Work - indeed ESPECIALLY from work) that I email from my phone I have as a PHONE contact. Even if I have the phone's contact linked with the FB contact, it will display both emails. And if I'm emailing someone from work and I don't have them on my phone then I usually look them up through Exchange rather than Facebook...

Just my $0.02. Not trying to say that this is not an issue, just trying to show how:

1. Apple seems largely to blame? (correct me if I'm wrong)

2. The way UI works on my phone makes this mostly a non-issue and I'm curious as to how other phones handle "multiple emails per contacts". I'd imagine it's rather similar.
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It seems like AppEngine is saving your ass at the moment but aren't you worried about scale? This is sort of a classic "storage not data" problem where you mapreduce raw data to a structured store for reporting. Are you really still querying everything live? When do you expect this to break down?
a fraction as in 1, i'd say.
On machines that access the Internet at home via Verizon and at work via Comcast?
OK. I'm just trying hard at making a joke here so be patient...

They could have a doctor ride along and examine the x-rays of the people they scan. The program could then be legal under an Health Care mandate! Easy solution!

OK. Not so funny... that's why I'm not a comedian.
I guess I should have specified an anthromorphic, gender-neutral pronoun. It has a long history of referring to non-human things, and when you do use it to refer to humans, it is almost always highly derogatory because the implication is the object of the it isn't human.
But what if we wanted to be recognized as the brand that is spelled pan.do/ra - which happens to be the URL of the product?

And what if getting recognized as the brand involved in a trademark conflict about the name of a Greek mythological figure is a risk we're totally willing to take?