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So lets not give the man a chance to a fair trial with his own attorneys paid with his own money, because by the law we are innocent until proven guilty, and we know he is a slimeball who will screw us.

Yeah. That sounds reasonable. The US is fucking this one up.

Not a single move so far has followed due process. Every move has been corrupt or illegal, ruled so by a judge. Not a single statement issued so far reassures that they will start following the rules.

I think we can safely say which side of this story is the dishonest and convicted one and it's not Dotcom.
This comment on Slashdot highlights how Apple is making recycling much harder, not "doing more than the EPEAT guidelines required".

http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2970727&cid=40...

«Recycling is NOT dumping it in a landfill, burning it OR bringing it to a recycling center. It is about removing materials requiring special handling and separating a product into distinct materials so those materials can be re-used.

For metal, this is easy. You can simply take a complete car, grind it up, melt and scoop all the bits non-metal. You have fully recycled the metal... but still, burning all that plastic, battery acid, glass is a bit nasty.

You COULD use a magnet to separate the metal from the rest but not all metals are magnetic and this will STILL leave you with a mess of non-metal that would take a legion to sort by hand.

So, how do you REALLY recycle a car? You take it apart. You remove the plastic bumper and put it on the pile with other plastic parts that you know are the same type of plastic because it is stamped on the part. Same types of plastics can be for better recycled then a pile of all sorts combined. This goes so far that for instance plastic bottles can be shredded and just melted into new ones. Failed bottles at production go right back into the process.

Once you separated all the different materials, you can re-use them or dispose of them in a safe manner. But the separation must be relatively easy OR the costs just sky-rocket. Taking of a bumper is easy especially if you don't have to care about damage. Separating two bonded plates, not so much.

A prime example of this is in electricity cables. Copper is expensive enough to make recycling worth while but separating it from the plastic surrounding it, is near impossible. What is done instead in many places is that the plastic is burned off. A very polluting process and not the idea behind recycling at all.

Now Apples devices are hard to take apart. If a screen can't be screwed open, the screen can't be separated from the shell, meaning it has to be shredded instead. You can still reclaim some materials but not as easily as with a screw driver.

The above poster seems to think that recycling means re-using working parts or re-selling the entire device. This is a FORM of recycling but NOT what this article is about. In the end, after re-selling the device will either end up in a landfill, be dumped OR be taken apart. The first two are wasteful, the second becomes more costly when the separate materials are harder to separate. Apple has basically said, we don't give a fuck about the environment and try to hide it by saying they are better but in areas nobody measures. Well, I am a better sportsman then anyone at the Olympics, just not in any Olympic sport.»
The problem with the move to ebooks for technical subjects will be the lack of editorial oversight.

Tutorials, blog posts and a smattering of example code is fine for messing about with some new technology. But where are the authoritative sources. Looking at my bookshelf now, where are the websites that contain all the information I got from (the excellent) "Mastering Regular Expressions" or "CSS: The Definitive Guide" which sits nicely between the CSS spec and actually being readable.

These books still need to be written, in the same format, by the same experts because they contain a lot of value. I agree though that they don't need to be physical books -- all my new O'Reilly books I read in PDF format.

(Realise there's a lot of O'Reilly naming here, it's only because I really like the quality of their books. I'm not affiliated with them.)
Unfortunately, stuff that is interesting to hackers isn't necessarily what they're up to right now. As long as these things pass a certain threshold of interesting or cool, they've caught us. Massive flocking (Boids) simulations on GPGPUs, esoteric bloom filter implementations, optimising instructions on the 6502, cutting edge machine learning research across 2k cores, ...

This curiousity is what, in my mind, makes the community so interesting. Unfortunately it's also what leaves so many of us stuck in the mud, obsessively reading articles from each and every frontier of our hacker world.

Then there are those entrepreneurs who have read nothing yet stumble their way to success. The code is atrocious, their algorithms mind boggling, but they're the ones with the customers. The customers might be complaining, yes, but there's almost always time to fix the product, especially when you have both the motivation and money from those customers pushing you.

Edit: Yes, yes, yes, my mind took a brief vacation and decided to reignite a decade old tag line from elsewhere. Skip the one small issue and pay attention to the content of my post -- I don't think a single error warrants downvoting.
You need to read Alan Kay.
What is hard to understand about it? Most link sharing happens on facebook. If you share a link in facebook, people will click on it, IF there is a picture that interests them. If there is no picture 99% of people will ignore the shared link. So for the author of this website it would make sense to add any picture at all. When someone shares the link to his website, FB will automatically find the picture. But there is none.
Well that is what I mean by research - perhaps simply giving people more money will make them happier than giving incentives for specific stuff. But the original idea for the company is to benefit indirectly from the payments (fitter, happier employees), so I assumed the additional payments should be justified like that.
Of course it could also lead to resentment: "if you can afford to pay me x$ for gym and holidays, why can't you afford to pay me a higher salary". Who knows?

Actually happiness research seems to indicate that spending money on experiences rather than stuff (for example) is a good idea. But I am not sure if it follows that it still works if you make people spend on experiences instead of stuff.
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Are you saying NZ is its own continent? Or that the continent should be referred to as Oceania?
I didn't actually mean to add that second link in there (I realised you were talking about virtual machines and edited my comment accordingly... But forgot to remove the second URL!)

However, disk-backed page faults are but one component of a virtual memory subsystem. The real genius is the OS can provide access to memory uniformly in a way that is transparent to processes.
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Whatever happened to reading stuff for entertainment and fun?
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Just try to write a programme? Make it work (well enough) first. then try to make it neater. Do you know any python programmers? Ask them to look at your code, they might asuggest things you didn't know you could do.
Greeks actually pay more taxes, as a percentage of GDP, than Americans do (31% versus 27%). The main differences lie elsewhere, #1 being that the GDP that is taken out of is much lower, due to Greece having mostly a cottage-industry type economy (lots of small family businesses, few megacorps). That in turn has a lot of causes, some cultural, some historical, some due to excessively complex regulations (which have been streamlined in the past 10 years, but not fast enough).
I agree with the premise of this article. Entreporn is something that almost everyone I know who works for themselves has gone through. The important thing is to get it out of your system, and get on with building your company!

One thing I found useful was reading a set of books called 'The Naked Leader'. It essentially reduces an entire business book into a small chapter of 2 or 3 pages. I came to realise that many business books are these core points (that can be summarised in 2 or 3 pages) spread out over a couple of hundred pages.

I can't say I've never read a business book again. But it has made me very selective.
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The casing is probably going to be the part of the laptop that impacts the environment the least, except for the carbon emissions used to manufacture it.
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> Opening a company in Germany, for instance, is not as cheap/simple as an LLC in many US states or an Ltd in the UK.

That really depends on what kind of LLC you want to open. There the so-called "UG Haftungsbeschränkt" which was created as response to the British Ltd. and costs somewhat less than 200 Euros + whatever capital you want to invest. For larger enterprises, you'd probably found a GmbH which usually costs somewhere between 1000 - 2000 Euros in Legal Fees [1] and needs a minimum capital of 25.000 Euros (which you can use to pay the legal fees, so you don't need those extra). The costs of creating a business in germany are probably not higher than anywhere else in Europe.

[1] as always, legal fees can be significantly higher than that depending on how complicated the case is.
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I'd imagine it's easy enough to do before transmission.
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Another information silo, and therefore irrelevant. The next phase is going to be distributed services based on open protocols (status.net, etc.).
Check out superbetter.com to play the game. It apparently is a scientifically supported way of extending your life and happiness :) Especially for those that struggle with depression and motivation issues. Things that entrepreneurs often seem to suffer from.
For those curious, here are the stay times:

1 week in Guyana
3 weeks in the U.S.
~11 weeks in Germany
1 week in Morocco
3 weeks in the U.K.
3 weeks in Turkey
11 days in Iran
3 days in Kuala Lumpur
5 days in Australia
2 days in Kuala Lumpur
9 days in Thailand

I like how most of this winning itinerary shows a clear disregard for the presumptive intent of the challenge, instead fulfilling its goal to the letter. That is, this itinerary is really in some sense two "trips" separated by three weeks in the same home country (the U.S.) containing not just 3 months in Germany (which is presumably longer than expected, though of course you can make very good use of that time) but also no time spent in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Cheers to the person who discovered it.
Batteries leak heavy metals and other chemicals, which then leach through the soil into the surrounding land, and into water supplies. Yum.
But I can't remember a single web-related technology that made my jaw drop in amazement.

http://bellard.org/jslinux/

Maybe not what you meant, but still pretty jaw dropping.
It depends on your measure. It could be argued that it's not undue weight as these sites have impacted on such a massive proportion of the world's society. For instance, gcc and unix didn't allow for the sort of direct communication that twitter caused - look at the Arab Spring for example.

That the technologies you mention enabled the websites mentioned is not in doubt, but without the websites and related technologies would things like TCP/IP and Unix have had such an impact?
Nice idea - one thing I do is bookmark stuff but then actually forget to watch it - would ne nice if there was a reminder service for videos that have not been marked as watched yet
Indeed but in practice, paging to disk and memory protection are so entwined now.
Imagine the savings — in blood, tears and national treasure — if we had thought twice about whether we really wanted to invade Iraq.

Says the New York Times. Says the New York Times.

I'll tell you something, New York Times - some of us did think twice, and tried to drag the rest of the country back to reason and a moral stance - and because of the freaking New York Times, frenziedly legitimizing every lie the Administration told like the lickspittle lackeys you are, we were soundly ignored.

So thank you very much, New York Times, but you don't get to have an opinion on that one any more.
Isn't that the slashdot motto?
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IIRC, the followup story proclaimed that "In Soviet Russia, email only reads old Korean people". But I might have misremembered that.
I guess it's a result of a hundred years of slowly gained privileges getting added on top of each other, and bureaucratic rules muddling everything up every decade or so.

In Sweden, you accrue vacation pay as you work, and when you take your vacation, it's paid out and because of some law or other, it's larger than your regular monthly paycheck. So in essence you get a little bonus for having your paid vacation, same as a bunch of other countries that people have brought up in this thread.

However, if you're paid by the hour, it works exactly like you suggest. You don't accrue vacation pay or vacation days, and x% of your hourly pay is the included extra vacation pay which you just get straight up.

When you negotiate a monthly salary, the number is without the extra vacation pay, but when you negotiate an hourly salary it's with the extra vacation pay. Because, it's just the way it is. :-)
Yeah that's the next part I'm working on. Optional weekly/monthly reminders of your unwatched videos.
And cheers to you!
I've written a book and explored the landscape for writing another, so let me offer my experience with each of your points (out of order). This is anecdote, so all caveats apply:

# illustrations

My co-author and me were 100% responsible for all illustrations. I've heard tales of publishers dedicating in-house talent to helping with illustrations, but I do not know how widespread this is.

# research

My publisher was not involved in research whatsoever. I'm not even sure how they could have helped had they wanted to.

# design (cover and insides)

My publisher was indeed responsible for this, but it was up to my co-author and me to decide what class of element each section should contain. As far as I understand most publishers have a house style that the authors have very little (if any) say in.

# pr

This is a huge question mark. There were time when I felt like knocking my head against a wall trying to figure the PR strategy (to misuse the term). I expect some publishers are better than others, but from what I can tell the PR for for programming books is limited to: some website, occasional discount codes, a table at a conference here and there and hooking up interviews with authors on certain websites. As far as I can tell, the weight of a publisher's name is valuable as marketing also, but that seems a bit complacent to me. Any other PR strategies that I've missed?

# and all the other bits that go into producing a published book

I don't know what this means, but I suspect it has something to do with distribution channels.

# provide editorial support

THIS. If I ever write another book the availability of quality editorial support is the deciding factor in my preference for choosing a publisher. The editorial process was the most positive experience in the otherwise arduous book writing process. I understand you can hire third-parties but in going with a publisher they have an editorial staff that can rotate if you find your chosen editor unsatisfactory.
Fair comment - on further reflection I agree, the title was reasonable as it highlighted the emphasis placed by Alan Kay. It wasn't the title that was sensational, it what Alan Kay said in the interview. Apologies for suggesting otherwise!
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It's a shame society at large has become so afraid of other people.
Am I the only one who thinks the idea of completely unplugging oneself from their work during a vacation is wrong, particularly in the case of high tech industry professionals? It sounds nice in concept, but in reality is impractical - business doesn't sleep; especially the high tech industry. The debt just keeps piling up.

I agree with the idea of trying to avoid trivial things during vacation, but if a non-trivial or business-emergency occurred and I could be of use I would hope someone would get in contact with me to resolve it - even if that means interrupting my private-life to work. In my mind that is one of the key differences between a professional and a drone - the ability to be flexible - on the other hand a lot of places do not treat their workers as professionals and see them merely as drones, for those places I say unplug and do not look back.
> It's not quite as simple as that -- taxis are widely used by homeless/indigent people as sometimes their only means of transportation to get to the doctor/employment/etc.

Wait, seriously? Taxis are pretty universally expensive, so it'd really surprise me if those without gainful employment were using them. Public transportation is far less costly, even if it is less convenient most of the time, so I'd figure that'd be used more in these cases.
If that technology actually works (that is, if it detects materials the way they believe it does), that's... actually pretty slick. There are definitely some privacy concerns, but it's a large step forward both in terms of privacy and (technical) efficacy. That, of course, doesn't mean that it's actually a Good Thing (TM) that we use these, regardless; just because it works technically doesn't mean it's actually an effective way of preventing terrorist attacks, or that any of that is worth the privacy hit, even if it is smaller than with previous tech.
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It's worth noting that the Google "MapReduce" is not type equivalent to the map (roughly 'a list -> 'b list) and reduce ('a list -> 'b) found in Lisp and functional languages. It is actually in a way, an opposite. That is, the map (roughly 'a -> 'b list) in mapreduce is actually more like the dual/opposite of reduce (unfold). And reduce is well, a complicated beast.

I think - the ideas behind MapReduce are not difficult but nor are they necessarily inevitable. The innovative part of MapReduce is Google getting to a place such that the constraints force that approach as obvious. MapReduce is impressive.
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I like Vienna very much - okay, I was there in the 90's and I come from South America, but I've since visited Toronto and many other European and Latin American cities, and Vienna is among the nicest cities I've visited.

Maybe the problem is a cultural fit, or high expectations from California, but not the city hopefully?

Edit: here in Uruguay we have almost 14 salaries as well: 1/2 a salary in June, 1/2 a salary in December, and 20 days paid vacation (almost a full salary)
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RSS doesn't get any love from companies who use it. They never advertise it.

I think it stems from the following:

1) People want full-text feeds including images, video, and audio. Companies try to get the user to come to their site so there isn't an incentive to advertise this option if you are using full-text whereas if you aren't you probably don't have as many users subscribing.

2) Sometimes you can't tell how many people are coming from a certain feed from a certain source. If you have full-page feeds and someone is using a web-based service that stores the feeds instead of querying for each user the website may never know that an article was read.

I think there needs to be a way to measure feed reach in order to increase adoption for such an awesome technology.
Jeff's points ring close to home. Last year I wrote O'Reilly's Redis Cookbook. Even though I love the guys at O'Reilly (I really do, these folks are amazing at what they do), writing a book provides little direct return. It's a great experience, and I wouldn't say I regret it, but it is far less glamorous than what it might seem at a first glance.

There's a comment in this thread that talks about publishers as VCs - which is a correct assessment. Some books do well, some don't. These days, technical books are often part of the latter group, as the amount of information out there renders the vast majority of these books useless.

Would I write another book? Sure. In fact, I'm writing the second edition of Redis Cookbook now. However, my expectations are not high. I don't expect to make a ton of money with it. I just want the people who buy the book to be happy with the content, and to contribute to the documentation on Redis. If I make a bit of cash doing so, perfect.
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I had that thought as well. And honestly I'm not entirely sure which version they were running. By now the community has learned a bunch of lessons and we take some of those for granted.

Still, the guys over at Twitter could have said "We couldn't scale this technology given our requirements and current knowledge so we went with what we are comfortable with, and thats Java." Instead, they blamed Rails. And now any Rails hater brings up Twitter in a flame war. Even though it was some 4-5 years ago.
What some companies do (for example, mine) is give employees a stipend for the amount a traditional corporate Lenovo would cost. The employees then make the choice of what machine they want to buy with this money. If it's more, the employee pays it out of pocket. If its less, the extra is supposed to be returned to the company. I don't have any numbers on how many companies with BYOD do this, but I know mine is not the only one.
Why haven't you built out appstoredata.net ? Seems like a useful service.
current android smartphones have similar specs and plug into TVs via mini-HDMI and can connect to PS3 controllers for example.
But i still like the concept :)
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Yes, it is. I didn't even think there was a HN moto.
Not really. In Windows its just a change to a system setting to disable the swap file, and in a unix it's a config file change or a command like swapoff to turn it off.

The fact that the two are entwined now is because of system defaults and decisions by OS developers on how to implement the page replacement algorithms in MM subsystems.
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I am trying to find a good tutorial to follow for writing my first iPhone app. There are so many things to think about, I'd like a little guidance e on what direction to take.

I have a working prototype written in JavaScript, and I am familiar with C, java, and python. So I don't need a whole bunch of background resources, just a tutorial that runs through building a simple app.

I have found some good tutorials, but many of them date back to 2008-2010. I don't want to work off of something too out of date. Can someone with a good understanding of current best practice recommend a good tutorial?