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It would be interesting to see how this framework's performance would compare to something like the Play framework (Play for Scala 2.0)..I mean, do you think a C++ framework like this one would be able to scale and/or handle much better traffic/load than a framework like Play?? (Play for Scala 2.0 in particular)...Anyone?
i would like a green one too ;)
>possibly ignoring quantum entanglement effects---I'm not up to scratch on that

Including quantum entanglement effects. If you know otherwise, publish a paper ;).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
Security is a two way street: both the user, as well as the company have a responsibility.

When i claimed certain high target technological companies have a zero incident grade, im talking about the fact the companies were never themselves the weak link.

If this guys account was hacked because he tattoos his password on his forehead, Apple too would be in the clear. But here, not the user, but the company screwed up.

There are many, many companies which do not have incidents, or take full responsibility when they do. The type of incidents we complain about, often indicate just gross negliance. (and this is gross negliance by Apple)

You are repeating the claim that there is no watertight security. This claim is wrong. Software can be provably secure. Authentification can be provably secure, just like any type of Content protection is provably unsecure.

Now, you are also making the claim, that we are talking about this, because of the affected users popularity.

Maybe thats why you are talking about it. But most of us are actually surprised because of the gross negliance. ICloud has no authentification, one can just call up, and take over the account. As we now know.

And if this was any other company, i doubt anyone would argue against this obvious and pretty much indisputable fact. But this isnt Sony, this is Apple, and they can never do anything wrong right? Eventhough, statistically, just like any other company, they might could not excel in every way. Maybe this is just one area, where they just screwed up?

Theyll learn from it, hopefully. But lets not pretend it didnt happen, or that it isnt as big as a fuckup as it actually is, back here in reality.
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> RealVideo stream of the moon landing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes
I don't think the parent means to compare Gladwell directly to Daisey. Daisey is just an example of how easy it is to spin tales if you don't care about truth.

If I understand him, the parent is responding to this question of yours "Why isn't [the blogger] spectacularly successful too?" The answer is "ethics": some people don't follow easy paths to success because they care about what they write (say, do, etc.). I doubt you really disagree with that, but I find your first post odd. You go out of your way to defend Gladwell, even though you seem to find his thinking pretty weak and his corporate connections too close for comfort.

Yes, Gladwell writes well, but is that all that matters?
streptomycin: why do you say this?

Unless I misunderstood the blog post, when the author contacted Elsevier, the company's Director of Universal Access wrote back on an email that 'open access' articles can be distinguished by (quoting from the email) "an open access symbol and link in the top right of the article. For an example see here (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900207...)."

As I write this, that article costs $35.95 -- that's pretty convincing evidence, no?

Edit: as some comments below posit, it's also possible that the Elsevier executive provided the wrong link.
I'm seeing a lot of criticism (mostly unfair IMO) of these principles, but I'll say that Josh Porter's book "Designing for the Social Web" is a must-read. Easily one of the most accessible, practical, and insightful design books I've read.
I've got a friend who has been on something akin to the warrior diet without knowing it. He works as a server, so He's up all night and sleeps during the day with one grand, large meal he eats in the afternoon. He did it more as a convenience than anything, but has lost about 20lbs in the past few months. I normally eat every few hours, but may try this out as long as it doesn't adversely impact my work or exercise regime.
I think the PS2 graphics chip had an immense fill-rate, not rivaled even by current graphics chips (I could be wrong, but this is what I remember).
Exercise and calorie restriction both influence autophagy. In fact pretty much everything that extends life in laboratory animals boosts autophagy one way or another - such as through altered expression levels of heat shock proteins and related regulators. You'll find that foundational study on exercise mimetic drugs looks at heat shock protein manipulation more often than not.

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2012/01/testing-autophagy...

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2009/09/heat-shock-protei...

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2008/03/all-roads-lead-to...

There is no consensus on whether different types of aerobic exercise are better or worse for longevity, or whether more than the modest 30 minutes a day is better or worse for longevity. Elite athletes have a massive longevity advantage over the rest of the population, for example, but that can just as well be explained by the fact that you have to be robust to become an elite athlete in the first place.

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2011/05/putting-upper-bou...

Exercise also works through hormesis and reactive oxygen species signaling - which is why flooding your system with ingested antioxidants can destroy some of its benefits:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2009/05/exercise-reactive...
> I've not heard anyone complaining about the self-made man.

Usually those are disguised as arguments that there are not actually any self-made men, but people who rode on their society.
Range checks on a input feild were one of many simple exercises in learning computer programming at educational institutes that pre-date Oracle. It is lamentable that education can be copyrighted and be used to sell popcorn.
Most of Erlang's goodness evolved before SMP was available. IIRC, Erlang didn't support smp before its R11 release. Before then if we wanted to light up all the cores on a box, we'd fire up multiple nodes on a machine and use Erlang's distributed messaging.

Here are some benefits to single core erlang, off the top of my head.

* Erlang's VM is phenomenal at handling concurrent I/O even on a single core. Free epoll/kqueue backed async i/o and iovec ops.

* OTP, applications, supervision trees, state encapsulation, fault isolation, cheap GC.

* Built-in distribution, node/process monitoring, code hot-loading, mature tools and introspective capabilities on runtime state/performance.

* Some degree of "free" scale when a company is ready to deploy that app on a machine that has more cores.

I'm not sure what you mean by requires a lot of RAM up front -- compared to C/C++, yes.. but, relative to ruby, python, or the JVM? That's not been my experience.
>Is this an improvement?

Yes. Without the strict checks by your bank, none of their customers would be secure. With their checks in place, some, including you, are now secure.
I completely agree with this sentiment. If you don't like him - then don't read him!
Thanks for saying that. Comments like yours have prompted me to reconsider my goals as of late. For a couple of years now, I was sure that I wanted to live the startup dream: move to the Bay Area, work for an early stage startup (or even pursue my own), let it take over my life, compete compete compete... However, now I'm not so sure that's how I want to spend the rest of my twenties.

I would still love to work at a startup at some point, but I'm not going to rush into it. I want to take advantage of my youth to discover more things that make me happy. I want to travel—a lot. I want to learn new languages. I want to meet amazing people. I also want to design and build things, but I don't think that it has to take over my life.

I'm very fortunate to be where I am now: fresh out of college, already doing something that I enjoy, and making enough money to be comfortable while working a reasonable number of hours per week. Do I have to dive immediately into the startup world to be happy? I don't think so.

Here are a few other posts that have hit home recently:

http://mrooney.github.com/blog/2012/07/01/freelancing-a-6-mo...

"In short, I felt that given a finite lifespan, there were more fulfilling and enjoyable ways to spend some of my healthiest years than 40+ hour weeks in an office."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4213386

"I think the kind of worry in this post is a response to the world born out of hyper-competitiveness, and I don't think its a healthy one."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4213736

"His mission statement shouldn't be that he wants a better epitaph. Other people get to write his epitaph, and by that time he'll be fucking dead. It's out of his control. What is in his control: whether his life was meaningful to himself. Did it express his unique talents, did it give him and others joy, did it help others? Did he make his own rules about how to evaluate his life or was he a slave to the caprices of fame and fortune? And this is about so much more than just a career."
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I get the same way from time to time, especially after a workout. I feel (but could very well be wrong) that it's a sign of insulin resistance.
This is usually an hour after practice. Takes a while to get home, take a shower, prepare the food etc.
I totally agree with you but on two points:

1) Cost benefit analysis and discretionary security is not mutually exclusive. It's cost benefit analysis ergo discretionary security.

2) Crime pays. You just have to be sophisticated and powerful enough to not be indicted. (TARP?)

The interesting thing about your comment is when you apply your logic towards combating terrorism. The cumulative harm of prevention of terrorism outweighs the damage and death caused by the terrorism itself. The 'cost-benefit analysis' must take into account the 'positive' externalities for those who advocate those policies.
While I didn't overlook it entirely, it's true that it is quite difficult to know how to account for it without , since resting metabolism varies widely ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_metabolic_rate#Causes_of_... suggests more than 25% variation after accounting for a number of potential factors). My own anecdotes suggest that once the (my) body adapts to higher caloric intake, it discards much more of it than when times are leaner.
So all these days you never took water with you? lol just kidding. Yeah this bag is looks like pretty awesome.
Er, no. Lifestyle business is one of the three positive outcomes fr a startup.
> They do exactly that. But Mars' atmosphere is so thin that terminal velocity of the capsule is still supersonic.

Also, that kind of blunt body is stable hypersonically, but unstable supersonically. As soon as you get to a mach number where a parachute can deploy stably (about mach 1.8 and below) you deploy it to stabilise the thing, and of course the drag is much greater than entry body alone.

>> Another thing is the crane mechanism, which is to protect the rover from the debris kicked up from the rocket motors. I was wondering why the rover couldn't just be encased in a simple lightweight protective box and then placed directly on the deck?

The point of the sky crane is not just to avoid kicking up dust, this notion seems to have become the received wisdom in the media though. The reasons include:

-Having rovers drive off from on top of things is difficult, it puts the CoG of the lander right up and if you have to drive off a sloped ramp having landed on a slope, the ramp can be really very sloped.

-Rocket forces nearer the ground can be quite an interesting control problem, in terms of the forces generated when you're near the ground and where all the exhaust goes.

-Having rocket fuel tanks landing on spikey rocks has the potential to really ruin your day.

-Knowing when to turn the rocket engines off (i.e. successfully detecting landing) is actually quite a hard problem. It's a very noisy problem, and getting it wrong was what destroyed Mars Polar Lander (i.e. it thought it landed when it was still up in the air, and so fell out of the sky). The skycrane has the rocket motors on the whole time and goes off an crashes.

Lots of this is explained in the video I linked to somewhere else in this family of comments.
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Ask HN: How to become competitive as a remote developer?
Hi All,

In about a year's time, I will be in a position when I can get rid of all my stuff and spend some time on the road or in a distant location ... Ideally I would like to find a remote job to keep my modest savings intact - doesn't have to be six fugures. I would like to hear your advice on being competitive in seeking remote employment.

My background is currently Microsoft-ish: .NET/C#/SQL/ASP/MVC, things like that, about 10 years experience. Should I focus on learning something new that will complement my skills? Do small projects on oDesk? Create a website? Write a blog? Something else? I'm already writing down some of the things I'm doing at or outside work at http://justmycode.blogspot.com and will continue regardless of my plans.

Any advice and ideas are appreciated.
If you're a fan of Settlers of Catan, my previous startup built a clone with integrated video chat: http://gameroom.io/

Our goal was to build a social place around board games and video chat. The video chat was to make it feel like you were with the other people, in the same room. We fell short in a few ways, but it's still live if you want to play with friends!
Cute, but I don't see how it's really "one instruction". It's just encoding the instructions into the "addresses"; like reversing orthogonal addressing, but coming around to the same endpoint. Each address now represents an opcode, so it's not really any more flexible than a "normal" processor architecture.

I find it hard to imagine a human, much less a compiler, could write code for this in any other way that by treating it as a regular register machine, but taking two or three instructions (copy inputs, then copy output) for every one - or else implementing their program in VHDL.

Am I missing something?
Not representative for senior devs who have put any meaningful time into performance tweaking.
I don't know, keeping such a huge code base simple enough to be able to add new features without breaking stuff sounds indeed amazing to me.
the only thing articles and books on how to raise children are useful for is inspiring others to write articles and books on how to raise children.
It is not so much about specialization as the 'throw-away' culture. I emigrated to the United States from Russia more than a decade ago and was amazed how quickly people went to throw away or completely replace things here that broke down even if there was a simple fix. Specialization is good, however, fixing things yourself is a matter of economics and sometimes a matter of pride. I do fix my own plumbing if it is an easy enough job, I can often save some money and may end up doing a better job by using higher quality materials. I still have the first car I bought, which is a Jeep with 250k miles on it and is in good shape (not my daily driver though). I have had glass shops cut me custom glass panes before to fix a windows. Judging by the growing popularity of the DIY movement in the USA (see make magazine, techshop, popularity of home made 3D printers) I would argue that fixing things yourself is on the rise.
A government with a rising tax base can spend more than its revenue in perpetuity. That doesn't mean it's always a good idea, but thinking about government spending the way a household manages its spending leads to incorrect conclusions.

There are millions of children in New Jersey that need their parents to be employed. Counter-cyclical spending helps to accomplish that, and if done wisely, it also acts as an investment from which those children will reap the benefits.

Discourse about government spending these days is sadly devoid of numbers that indicate the right choice one way or the other. We don't run our businesses this way.
Thats physics and not electronics but that is the whole problem with the phrase solid-state and in that it is not a good way to refer to things without being qualified in a way that negates its use or even mentioning it in the first place.
When I was young and broke, I made some very big fixes (like changing the whole transmission) to my old, unreliable car. And I changed faucets recently in my home; it takes something like 20 minutes anyway. I don't really see your point.
Specialization is good, it helps society move forward, don't fight it.

Specialization is good. It can be taken too far.

Put it this way: in America, in the 21st century, you can safely operate a motor vehicle without knowing even the most basic tasks of repair, like putting on the spare tire. You pay some money to AAA every year, and when you _need_ them, they come and make things right.

Until you're out, and your cell phone is out of service. There you are, stuck, with the means of salvation at hand, but no idea how to save yourself.

So, sure, pay for AAA. I do. But one should also know how to do stuff for one's self.

Just in case.
A very typical in tech circles, but completely misguided thought.

While I might not be able to plumb a whole house, rebuild an engine, or blow my own glass there is immense value in being able to diagnose and solve basic problems with things that you interact with every day. Things like replacing a sink, installing a toilet, changing oil/tires, and even replacing a window pane not only can save you time and money. Both in the do-it-yourself sense, and in knowing enough about the problem to not get taken by someone offering a solution.

Isn't this the same kind of attitude we criticize many managers, executives, and normal people for having? Making decisions about anything without being educated enough to do it?
Just a personal aside on the egg yolks - When I was 20lbs overweight, my cholesterol was a little above 200. I've since lost weight and eat 4 whole eggs for breakfast, and my cholesterol stays around 130, unfasted. I'm careful when it comes to simple carbs but don't avoid red meat as much as I should, given my genetics.
Some emulators (like EPSXE) let you set a frameskip, so you can render at one speed but still play the game at full speed. There might be a similar option in PCSX2?
it takes something like 20 minutes anyway.

Haw. The second time, yes. First time I changed a faucet it was an hours-long, two trip to the hardware store, job.
IMO, post author is an idiot: Nesticle/Nesticle95 did not required patches to NES games, it was that most time-consuming parts were written in assembly (6202 CPU, PPU, and sound synthesis).

Also back in 1996, the Snes96 SNES emulator ran some games at almolst playable speed on 486-DX4 @100MHz (ones not requiring DSP nor "mode 7"), few years later NLKSNES was even faster, being even full frame rate (less accurate, though). IMO, a SNES emulator requiring 3GHz means brain-dead implementation, simple as that (even emulating per-line effects -HSYNC IRQ with palette changes-, custom chips DSP1/FX/FX2 or even a second 65816 found in some cartridges for doing RLE decompression, etc.).
Please do write it up if you can, I'm interested. Thanks!
Then again, if you're a technologist pouring your energy into a computer all day (he's a self-described Rails hacker and product manager at 10gen), arguably fixing said computer is close enough to your own specialty.

Personally I've benefited greatly from learning how to fix my own hardware. My laptop of choice is the old T4x series Thinkpad for the ease of disassembly, repair, and wealth of information out there on sites like thinkwiki.org. It saddens me whenever I hear a computer scientist say (with a note of helplessness) that they're waiting on their laptop, it's in the shop.
Safari has publicly had that since October 20, 2010, and of course it was worked on privately before that. That screenshot looks like it's from April of this year?
I would guess you are in the minority on this one, and vast majority of readers don't care about obscenities.
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The git maintainer is trying to fix this asymmetry by making "git push" only push the current branch (rather than all branches). It's a slow process to change the defaults in something as widely used as git because doing so breaks scripts.

See the new destined-to-become-the-default "simple" mode for "git push" in these release notes: https://raw.github.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes... .
I have been around the farm my whole life, but my first real job was doing design/development/general IT work in high school. I've worked in software-related roles ever since, primarily on the programming side. About four years ago I established my own farming operation. It is still small, but I'm working on slowly growing it.
I'm taking the approach of putting an image in their place of social buttons, than when a user hovers near the element replacing the image with the working javascript one.

That said, I think PageSpeed Service will only benefit really poorly coded sites who's webmasters aren't tech confident enough to optimise a site correctly.
Did you mean a third track? BART is already double-tracked or more along its entire length. The reason they close the system at night is because they can barely keep up with car and track maintenance.
I like the idea, not the implementation.
I have fond memories of emulation/translation forums circa 00. Waiting for a complete translation of Tales Of Phantasia has been an exhilerating experience.

BTW, I designed the icons for the firt Mac port of PCSX(1) back in the days.

Those were good times.

(1) http://pcsx.gpost.dk/
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But that article also doesn't have the Open Access logo, which suggests a more plausible scenario: the Elsevier guy simply pasted the wrong link.
When I was in Germany in 2006 during the World Cup, they had an online system in place to allow people to return their tickets. They would then periodically re-release those tix into the pool . . . it was through that reissue process that I secured all of my tix.

Of course, the Olympics is a far more complex set of events, but I'd have to imagine it would have been easy to implement this year (6 years later).
> Even Oracle’s expert Dr. Mitchell conceded that “a good high school programmer” could write rangeCheck with guidance. RT 1316:24-25 (Mitchell).

Nonsense. In HS I wrote my first 3d graphics engine in Pascal on a 80286 with a Hercules graphics card and a monochrome monitor. As a sophomore. Of course I had guidance to get to that level but no programming student past intro would need any help for rangeCheck.

rangeCheck is trivial. Any non-programmer could have written it as the first thing they ever created if they had a book next to them.

At this point Oracle's claims are asinine. The whole thing would be laughable if it wasn't such a huge waste of time/money.
Substance is as subjective as style. A list of equations or prescriptive "how-to"s can have an equally minimal affect on the reader as a rapid-fire anecdotal book of stories. The passage of time can change a book of great substance into a "use leaches to cure leukemia" piece of content.

The point is that this whole argument of intrinsic value is not nearly as black and white as the talking heads have made it seem. Gladwell's structure of storytelling is merely different and may not be for you.

Side Note, it is fallacy to confuse a man who has been accused of being "beholden to corporate sponsors" as one who has not put out any valuable work.