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Its high time that they also released an api for google voice[1] . If there are any googlers reading this: why has this not been done yet? I've been looking into this in my spare time as there is no google voice client for Meego (Nokia N9) and I wanted to write one/improve an existing one[2]

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1668619/is-there-a-google...

[2] http://code.google.com/p/qgvdial/
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That book, and your comment, conflate two different concepts: trading and investing.

It's possible to invest in the stock market with very little trading. The GP's comment spells out the best strategy--use index funds to spread risk and reduce expense, and invest for long time horizons. This is still a great strategy.

It's also possible to try to turn a short-term profit by trading individual stocks--often called day-trading because you clear your positions within the time period of days. High-frequency trading has greatly reduced price spreads, which makes it harder for the average guy in his underwear to compete. This is not investing though--more like gambling.

For more on how high-frequency trading really works, I recommend:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3852341
Coal did account for half until about four years ago. Due to the explosion (no pun intended) in natural gas development and the increase in environmental regulation, its down to about a third now.
The article stated that from unsuccessful suicide bombers, it appeared that they were within the norm with regard to income, education, social interaction, family structure, etc. What they found in their method was that inculcation and "brotherhood" comraderie was seen as a big motivator. That's to say that having a friend in the org made it 10x more likely that someone joined. In addition, it was the recruiters and their methodology which made people execute their design.

Basically, an organization which is good at doing what they do could make ordinary people do things which they normally would not think (have an aptitude for) of doing.
To make matters worse there is WinRT, the runtime. So although you want to abbreviate Windows RT to WinRT, you can't do that without confusing the conversation. "Windows Metro" and "Windows Pro" sounds less confusing to me. Microsoft has been reluctant to call anything Metro (instead wanting to say Metro-like) which makes me think someone else owns the copyright to the Metro name.
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If FB is not smart enough to discern curl/wget/whatever_crawler_socket_call used from genuine in browser click then the argument is already won. Hell, you could write an army of Selenium Firefox/Chrome bots to drive up costs of ad competitors, randomise the host machines, etc... but it's still hard to believe that FB anti fraud measures can't figure it out.

To me, something is off, whether with FB or these guys.
If you're looking for Java alternative to libjingle (which is written in C++) then I can recommend Jitsi (https://jitsi.org/). From what I understand they are more or less compatible with each other.
As a hiring manager for the last 15+ years, I would LOVE that kind of response.

That kind of response would save me a tremendous amount of time and enormous headaches dealing with a bad hire. I would thank you for your honesty, ask you a couple of perfunctory questions so it didn't seem too awkward and then let you go on your way in life to be someone else's problem.

Working on real projects that people actually want to pay for means working somewhat on the edge. Things go wrong. There are crunch time when solutions have to be delivered. The last thing I want at those times is to have to depend upon some mommie's special little snowflake who was too self-important to gamely work through some puzzle exercises during an interview for a job he claimed he wanted. That little snowflake will melt every time and leave me and the rest of his team to fend for itself. No thanks.
This is so cool, and I'm wondering if I can do something similar. It reminds me of "bug seeding" where you purposely insert bugs into your product and count how many are found through testing. (Of course, you track them so you can take them out later.)
Exactly. This is what makes this all so hilarious.

Steve Jobs said himself that he was directly involved in the next 2-3 years worth of upcoming products. So "this would never have happened under Steve Jobs" can partly be blamed on him.
Check out my version of a Blurblog, I styled it a little differently: http://roy.newsblur.com

On the roadmap, theming and letting people really make their Blurblog their own.

Full disclosure, I am 2 of 2 at NewsBlur!
The pool's big enough that other factors (e.g. interview scheduling) are more restrictive. Tossing out half the pool at random really wouldn't hurt. If there's a trivial-to-measure factor that's even 5% correlated with suitability for the position, it's worth looking at only those applications that have it.
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That's hardly ever the case, and would be quite inefficient unless the waterfall provides the same amount of water all year.

Most hydroelectric power in Norway are generated with the help of a reservoir, usually a natural lake that's been regulated with the help of a relatively small dam, but there are some wholly artificial ones as well, the biggest one being 84 square km.

That said, yes - the environmental impact is small. It also helps that the Norwegian population is very small.
Thanks for the link. And just in case you didn't know, you can add #t=6m9s to youtube links to make videos start from that point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bn6Gel7yEs&feature=playe...
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The former already exists in your browser's Network panel of the developer tools. It's the response for /Foo from the server.

It should be demoted from "View Source" though; how the DOM got into its current state is not that important; only the current state really matters.
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I guess it is 2.7 for me so far. One of the things with 3.x is that some major python frameworks are still not supporting it (Django, Flask etc.)
And that is how to do a c-c-c-c-c-combo breaker on Hacker News.
I'm in another field then advertising, but less then 5% of transactions require special handling, but they represent a significant investment in error handling, procedures, accounting and reversal mechanisms. Even then we are still manually dealing with things that represent 0.00001% of activity. Accounting correctly is always a deep rabbit hole, it comes down to how much you plan to right off inside your margins. :) Thanks for writing up this inside perspective of running this type of business.
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I just announced the addition of Roy as a co-founder on the NewsBlur Blog: http://blog.newsblur.com/post/27033939756/introducing-blurbl.... Roy is working on the iOS apps and has been instrumental in shaping NewsBlur's future. He also can put up with me for 14 hours a day, which is no small feat.
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Btw, a loop counter will tell you the result and the reminder will be len(s) at the end.
The article completely misunderstands what is being advertised. The product is most definitely being shown: the Mac Genius is the product. Apple has an enormous lead over the rest of the technology industry in the quality and availability of customer support and training. This series of ads seeks to leverage and reinforce that lead.
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I like those actors too, even though neither are surefire promises that a movie is great (seen the Star Wars prequels or Red lately?). More to the point - why do I care about how they interact with Siri? I guess Apple is subtly implying that if you use Siri, you are but one degree of separation from famous/cool people. Cute, but a sad lowering of the bar for a company that once looked for customers that were trying to change the world.
Then there is a PERIOD, and it says "Responses to this method are not cacheable."

So caching DELETE is against the spec.
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mommie's special little snowflake

Aww.
It's up to the developers and you, the operations/devops people, to work together to make it chaos-monkey-proof. No engineering team is an island.
In case anyone's counting, this makes it the 5th planetary body in the solar system with a high likelihood of having an ocean (Earth, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, and now Titan).

Add to that a parcel of additional moons and other other bodies that show indications of having sub-surface oceans (Triton, Enceladus, Pluto, Rhea, Titania, Eris, Sedna, Orcus, and Oberon).
I'm sure Apple, or the ad agency commissioned by them, have focus-grouped the heck out of these already. I can't think what value people commenting exclusively in the tech blogosphere, well intentioned or not, have much to add in respect to how they have been received by the general population.
I think reasons is pretty strait forward:

[1] You can win a bunch of contests, competitions like those who have lot of likes can win iphone or other tech.

[2] You can sell likes.. just google and you will see, there are alot of places where you can buy it.

[3] Manipulation of public opinion.

Edit:

From FB side:

[1] they still have growth of users

[2] more bots == more clicks, more likes more FB value "on paper", more revenue

[3] and when they stabilize their market value they can easily kill those bots, just require them activation by phone.

vk.com Russian social network, had same issues, but they enabled phone activation for averybody and its not that easy to buy a lot of phone numbers in Russia, but some hackers just pay to vk.com admins...

Edit2: spelling
There are a number of arguments against nuclear. I'm not an uncritical fan, but I'm not a absolute opponent either.

Nuclear represents high risks at multiple areas of operation:

- The fuel, waste, and plants are all radioactive, in some cases for geological time periods, presenting unprecedented disposal issues. Perhaps not insurmountable, but very, very significant.

- Scale of operations of nuclear plants means that the plants themselves, their operations, and their revenues are immense. A large nuclear plant generates over $2 billion worth of electricity (retail) annually. As we've learned with other large financial systems, profit maximization can skew risk management objectives.

- Risks of scale include management, financial, terrorist, natural disaster, labor action, and other factors. Any of these could put, at the least, power reliability at risk, and at worst, health and safety for millions of people. One consequence of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan was TEPCO's loss of 27% of its generating capacity (http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/379610/japan_facing_ma...). Exacerbated by Japan's dual-cycle grids (eastern and western Japan operate on 50 and 60 Hz respectively: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/03/tech-legacy-tokyo/).

- The timescale and emergent phenomena associated with nuclear power mean that risks aren't known, appreciated, and/or understood at construction time. Chernobyl, TMI, and Fukushima all exhibited fundamental engineering and/or operational flaws. Siting of the Fukushima plant turned out to be problematic. Several California plants are now known to be on or near active seismic zones. We still don't have a permanent waste disposal solution in the US (and much of the rest of the world).

Most alternate forms of renewable / sustainable power are much more diverse and distributed. Though this means higher capital and maintenance costs per MWh of generation, it also means vastly smaller risks of any individual plant failure, and far lower likelihood of cascade failures.

Interesting times.
thanks! next time I will... ;)
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There's an XMPP extension for voice/video called Jingle, which a number of open source clients implement - one of them is Empathy, but I think Pidgin has a voice/video branch as well (or had it the last time I looked). Gtalk actually uses Jingle as well, so it's interoperable.

That said, one of the problems with open source solutions is that you often need a proxy (usually then both parties are behind nat), which opensource apps obviously can't provide/maintain.
One thing we did in my high school literature class was start a class room discussion with some absord assumption (IE. Hamlet is an alien), and see where that takes us. More often than not, re-raming the text to fit revealed the deeper elements and actually felt a lot like the same type of thinking that goes on in math.
This is the best dnd layout manager I have seen so far and trust me I have played with a lot of them. There is of course some improvement that can be made but that is what github is for. I really hope this project will get enough traction to warrant updates and new features.
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So as a heavy Google Reader user (processing about 300 articles a day), can someone sum up the advantages to switching to NewsBlur? It's not entirely clear from this article or the NewsBlur site. Or perhaps its target audience is not me?
I couldn't do it, I hate owing friends and family money; and I think they would be more annoying/demanding than a normal investor.
Yes, this is a terrible, smug ad.

But I had the same reaction to the John Hodgman ads back in the day. I, like many (most?) people ended up actually enamored of Hodgman and annoyed at whoever the other guy was.

In the abstract, this is the same exact message of the Hodgman ads. (Apple is young, smart, and good-looking. The other guys are not.) It's tempting to chalk this up to Jobs being gone, but I'm not so sure Jobs wouldn't have approved this campaign himself.
It seems that the main goal of those ads is to improve relations with geniuses, especially after articles like this: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/business/apple-store-worke...
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How long until we stop hearing about how Apple is going downhill without Steve Jobs? Based, most often, on totally subjective personal opinions.

I guess we've forgotten how much criticism was directed at the "switcher", "I'm a Mac", and "why I love my iPhone" ads--despite being produced under the careful eye of Steve.
Why can't IT industry deliver projects quickly as other industries?
I think he meant in the other direction. There is enough uranium for 20,000 years of consumption if we stop throwing away most of and actually burn it fully.

Current designs only burn a few percent of it, then store the rest as waste.
It's good that they are pinged. Maybe they be annoyed enough to fix it.
Assuming unspecified resources are infinite without confirming? This is not good problem solving. You should not be impressed.
Some background and a disclaimer. First the disclaimer, I've worked at Google (which lives of its search advertising) and now I'm with Blekko (which generates revenue from advertisements as well) so I've been on the 'inside' looking out at this problem.

The background. A lot of the web you see today is automated, which is to say that 'the web' can exert influence in the 'real' world, and influencing the web can be amplified (or leveraged) as traders would say, with automation.

Two examples, in the first example we have a thief who wants to steal money but doesn't want to go out and rob a bank. Instead he 'hires' Google (an unwilling partner here) and creates an AdSense account, makes a web site, fills it with AdSense add javascript, then writes a program that can fetch pages from his web site and click on an ad. He then feeds that to a botnet for hire (generally not an EC2 cloud) and has it go off and click on all his ads. Google congratulates him on what a great web site he launched, pays him anywhere $10,000 to $50,000 from ad revenue. And the party continues until the Advertisers complain or the traffic patterns pop out as suspicious. Obviously Google has a lot of folks who do nothing but look for this sort of abuse but when you're making numbers like they, even if you had 7 or 8 million dollars a month in click fraud it would be rounding error in their quarterly reports. The people who get pounded by this are the Advertisers which lost their $500 or $50 or whatever that month by being charged for clicks from machines that weren't ever going to buy their product.

In the second example we have an ambitious entrepreneur who wants to get the word out on their new thing. They create over time a few hundred thousand 'fake' twitter accounts, they construct a community of fake accounts following each other. Then they write a simple program to have their 'influential' tweeters push out the word and their 'followers' pick it up and retweet it. If they have let the accounts lay there for a bit they pick up their own share of robot followers (from other people doing this) and our ambitious entrepreneur creates what looks like a real groundswell of interest in what ever thing they are trying to push.

There are many rewards to automating web activities, for many different reasons. As a service provider its a full time job trying to insure I can identify the fake ones (I don't want to send ads to robots, they don't buy anything and they make me look bad to my advertising channels) That 80% of the 'clicks' this person got on Facebook fail a simple 'real user' test does not surprise me.

I expect there to be a rise of landing pages which are themselves pages requiring you to click somewhere else and then clients only paying out when a prospect clicks all the way through to some part of the web site. I know that some big names already do this where they bring up a page asking you to identify your location (which helps them bring you to the part of the site for your area) but they also don't pay for the click unless you make it through that page.
Some, US public schools are huge successes that provide a world class education at reasonable cost. Others have below 25% graduation rates...

Inflation adjusted dollars and PPP attempts to balance housing, food, and healthcare costs. But schools need to compete with the rest of the economy so it's balanced not on how expensive food is, but how much janitor's / teachers / middle managers could make working somewhere else. R&D has reduced the amount of man hours required to produce a hammer, it has not reduced the amount of man hours required to teach subtraction.
I see here a distinction between Macs and iPhone/iPad. iOS devices are cool. Macs are friendly. I don't think this is against Jobs vision. I think this is perfectly aligned with it.

Don't really see that big difference between these and the "I'm a Mac, I'm a pc" ads which were certainly approved by Jobs.
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I don't know why you are getting down-voted. It is in Google's interest to have a large training corpus of faces for many machine learning algorithms (face recognition, expression recognition, age detection, etc.).
I don't get it. What does the link do? It opens Uplay for me and starts an update. What does that mean?
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I mean, quite plainly, what does your question mean:

"How do you recognize whether someone is Enlightened or not?"

If you can't define precisely what the question is, how can you begin to answer it? One might almost begin to suspect that the term "Enlightenment" is a load of bs ...
It's more than that. Several processes with small, independently garbage collected heaps are not as efficient as a single process with a large heap, parallel threads, and a modern concurrent GC (e.g. the JVM's ConcurrentMarkSweep GC)

In addition to that, processes severely inhibit the usefulness of in-process caches. Where threads would allow a single VM to have a large in-process cache, processes generally prevent such collaboration and mean you can only have multiple, duplicated, smaller in-process caches. (Yes, you could use SysV shared memory, but that's also fraught with issues)

The same goes for any type of service you would like to run inside a particular web server that could otherwise be shared among multiple threads.
Yeah, I'd say you are definitely the target audience. NewsBlur does three things better than Google Reader:

- News reading: With first-class iOS, Android, and web apps, NewsBlur is an easy and organized way to read the news wherever you are. There is also an Original view that shows you the original website. You have to see it to believe it.

- Training: By using NewsBlur's training filters, you can hide stories you don't want to see while highlighting the stories you want to focus on.

- Social: Sharing and talking about the news is not only fun, but allows you to break out of your filter bubble and embrace the serendipity of your friend's tastes.

Also, NewsBlur's being actively developed, so that's a huge plus.
Does size matter when it comes to WAN bandwidth or is QoS more important?
Having only first visited 9gag two minutes ago, what is the appeal of this website?
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Yup. Apple has pretty clearly started that long slow microsoft style decline. Ipads are getting thicker and heavier. The commercials suck. Apple is spending more and more on lawyers, rather than engineers.

They're doing some things well, the MBP retina looks amazing. Not quite amazing enough for me to buy, but still, very good. I probably booted Lion a dozen times before the Mountain Lion update. IMHO, that's pretty great stability.

They just feel like they've lost their edge. Anybody think they'll be shipping beige boxes in 5 years? I can see them caving in and just licensing IOS for a bazillion dollars to Samsung.
Agreed. You're absolutely right that it's an indirect estimate of how many people you have in the test and doesn't add any extra information.

The only thing I'm suggesting is that looking at a graph that is wildly fluctuating up and down can be more helpful and easily accessible than asking someone who isn't an expert in stats (I raise my hand) to look at a number of participants and immediately understand its effect on this specific experiment's variability.

No, we are tracking the number of people that the target event happened to -- but we've also tracked the number of times it happens, and as mentioned in the article, we are aware that these specific metrics are extremely outlier-prone and are looking into ways of improving this. All advice welcome, your tips are much appreciated.
40% do lack electricity but that does not mean all live without power. The problem in India is that ability to produce enough electricity for all. Hence, people who can afford use generators etc. which nowadays are not that expensive for middle class.