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When writing I often use the word "fuck" or something similar to put a certain feel on a phrase. For effect. Not because it's offensive or a cuss word per se, but because I want the phrase to make a certain sound when the reader reads it.

It's a perfectly useful stylistic flourish when used appropriately. (just like deliberately using bad grammar can be ... or emoticons ... or sometimes even putting a delimiting punctuation, but not actually delimiting a sentence)
I suspect that most PaaSes use a single virtual CPU because all the "high-productivity" languages are single-core (Ruby, Python, Node).
I disagree. George Carlin was a master at it, and he was anything but lazy.

As for being a marker of casual speech / emotional thinking, sometimes that's exactly what you want to convey.
This article shares some advice on migrating from one 10.8 machine to another, to make the process as smooth as possible (especially for developers). Based on what I learned from migrating from my old MacBook to a new one the other day.
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Poverty in the USSR didn't impeach you from having free health care, free education and almost free basic food and transport. Compare with poors in the USA.
I've been curious about this, is it definitive that YC investments pass through like this, i.e. from Justin.tv to Socialcam and Exec?
This one stood out to me:

> In 1999, Gladwell wrote a New Yorker article defending the explosion of ADHD amphetamine prescriptions to children against criticism from media and public figures. Gladwell’s response: “...are too many children taking the drug—or too few?”

Now, I don't know anything about the other claims in Shame Project, but... when you call Ritalin (methylphenidate) an amphetamine, you immediately call into question everything else that's written. MPH is not derived from or related to anything in the amphetamine family. There are similarities in the mechanism of action, but it's just as close to other stimulants, e.g. cocaine.

I don't know if that's deliberate (since amphetamines are obviously "bad") -- that is, FUD -- or if it's simple ignorance, but I'm suddenly very wary of everything else they write on his work.
1. Ad hominem isn't really a good argument for ignoring a poorly composed post.
2. If you think that avg karma is a good metric for measuring the usefulness of a comment, you might be confused about confirmation bias...
Title looks wrong for me. The right title should be "In China too, ..."
In the article he states "[for Copying] Conservative GC is unable to determine the difference between pointer and integer values. If an integer value was overwritten the result would be disastrous. It is likely that the result of 1+1 would change occasionally."

However reading through the RHG, it is shown that Ruby allocates memory for objects in 20 byte blocks and that this results in all pointers therefore being multiples of four. This is handy as it allows the direct usage of literals such as FixNum (an always odd 'pointer' that you shift right by one bit to access the value) and Symbol (a 'pointer' that always has 0xff as the trailing byte that you shift right 1 byte to access the unique ID) without requiring object creation.

With this in mind, can someone enlighten me as to why Copying could not be used inside Ruby?
It seems as though it would be trivial for the GC to differentiate between literals and pointers as otherwise they would not be much use as literals.
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I use a mix of PHP and Java.
Thanks, I had not seen that article, but LWN's coverage of huge pages is what made me purchase a subscription, it was absolutely fantastic documentation.

It does turn out that to fully remove TLB misses I'd need 1GB pages, which as was pointed out, are rather scary to imagine being paged to disk, as it would take approximately 10s to page it out. As machines with 512GB or 1TB of RAM become more commonplace, I wonder if there could be a mechanism to better assist with their allocation. Right now, one has to use a bunch of manual management and be extremely aware of any other processes that might start consuming memory.
Yup. Yourdon (or somebody like that) noted the example of an apparently useless team member that had the notable property that whenever he/she joined a team, the project became a success. I've subsequently looked for such examples, and have spotted several likely instances. And perhaps more importantly, I've realized that I can try to be one myself (hopefully without also becoming "useless").
One of the main issues with the Apple ID is the ease of use vs security. Tying the remote wipe functionality with the ability to purchase low cost content (the primary use case for the Apple ID) is always going to have one group of users unhappy.

I frequently want to quickly purchase a song on my iPhone. I also, frequently tell my friends my password so they can do the same. How many of you have typed your Apple ID password on your Apple TV with others watching? I wouldn't really ask my friends to exit the room to type in a super secure and long password with many characters groups (one that should be required for remote wipe functionality).

How many users keep their password secure knowing the main place they enter it is on their iOS device? For the many every day Apple users I know, they set their passwords to something easy so they don't have to hit their keyboard too many times when entering them.

If Apple, can separate the two authentication functions as they do with OS X and FileVault it would go a long way to preventing these types of rare but high impact events. Another suggestion would be to separate the remote wipe into two phases, erasing the keys and cleaning up the data. The initialization vectors (seed) do present a bit of a problem but I think the FileVault solution is more than adequate. If the encryption keys and the key escrow system is cleared remotely, that would leave me comfortable that my data is still secure. If we really trust our crypto algorithms, then erasing data and removing the encryption keys should really be no different. Users that do not have iOS data protection and OS X FileVault turned on, cannot be considered any level of secure anyway. And even with that data protection turned on, there are still many issues due to each app needing to implement security properly. It would be really great to see Apple improve their App Store to really audit the security of each application more than they do today.

Most of the work lies with Apple but it is a hard problem that will take time. I think Apple is going in the right direction by centralizing on iCloud rather than the PC as the central hub. This will give them a lot more flexibility and agility to move quicker and deliver secure results to the masses.
Do you have any sources for these performance comparisons? It would be great to see actual speed benchmarks for these different languages.
Zach Weiner is one of the more productive people on the internet.
He has a daily webcomic at http://www.smbc-comics.com

He's also the man behind http://www.captainexcelsior.com/

and writes the script for this comic: http://www.snowflakescomic.com/

He creates sketch comedy at http://www.smbc-theater.com

Writes the weinerworks blog

has a podcast at http://www.weeklyweinersmith.com/

currently working on a space opera: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smbctheater/smbc-theater...

also this choose your own adventure book: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/999790007/trial-of-the-c...

And that's only the stuff that I'm aware of
In the meantime, hundreds of thousands of people pay every day for the inefficient mass transportation system. There are good ways to spend money in bad times. See: Great Depression.
"Humans are the security hole that can never be patched."

Social engineering will always work.
What kind of site is it? Is there a lot of content to manage? Drupal/PHP might even be a good tool for the job, depending on what you're trying to accomplish. More info would be helpful.
I tend to be a lot more productive when fasting.

I also tend to be more impulsive, so staying focused on the thing I should be doing, as opposed to what I want to do, is definitely an issue.

That being said, the time I save by not eating breakfast is also nice :)
One notable thing I don't see mentioned anywhere on the site: where do they plan to get their upstream bandwidth from, and for how much?
Interesting and in some area's will add to the past-time of cow-tipping i suspect in the youth market, oh to be young.

Still, once we get scarecrows with lasers is when I know things are going too far.
I was like that when I started IF. I'm much better now. The biggest thing was reminding myself that I was crabby because of the food and I'd be able to eat soon enough.. that normally put me on the right track.

It's hardly an issue now, which I love.
It's interesting that Blizzard/Activision doesn't ever get labeled as a social gaming company, even though they've created three of the the best social games in the last 10 years with World of Warcraft, the Call of Duty franchise and Starcraft.
HR can screen for people that have been bankrupt, and (probably a lot trickier) personalities that might be susceptible to taking bribes.
Python (Tornado or Twisted) + Riak.

Why? You can scale very easily, write code in a higher level language that has lots and lots of libraries, have map reduce out of the box, but you don't need to really worry about your DB dying on you.

Here is what you do need to worry about in this set up: Eventual consistency. But I would argue that any web app at scale needs to worry about it. So if you are coming from a company that already has lots of users and you are writing a new app that will be in the hands of lots of people very quickly, go with Riak + Tornado/Twisted. You'll probably want to set R = 1 or 2 and pay special attention to conflict resolution.
#1 way to get an interview: recommendations from other YC founders. Not just tepid "I know this person" but "I'm putting $100k down on this team."
The obvious counter to that argument is that people didn't die of obesity, we didn't have antibiotics yet. :)
I don't have any evidence. It just doesn't make sense to grant monopolies on a problem. It would harm innovation rather than help it. We'd have one medicine to treat each ailment, for instance.
It is when the full and proper title doesn't fit into the 80 character limit.

And in return, is it really so hard to write "write" instead of "right"?
You are going to rewrite it anyway if it's successful so you might start with something easy and quick like Django or Rails.
You are refuting a point that I didn't make.
I've never used this, but it seems to gives you the API at least, even if it might run a bit slower without kernel support. It also provides a c++ wrapper that will work with c++11 lambdas, so it doesn't even depend on clang.

http://opensource.mlba-team.de/xdispatch/docs/current/index....
I've been doing LG for over a year now. I swear by it!
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I'm blogging my way through Seven Languages In Seven Weeks. Reading this makes me really look forward to the Erlang chapter. Only the last bit of Prolog and Scala stands between Erlang and I now!
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Ah, thanks! I turned it on to find an issue and forgot to turn it back off. Will do that now!
Not exactly what you're asking for but there's a bunch of nice summaries with links to studies here: http://www.leangains.com/2011/06/is-late-night-eating-better...
Kickstarter is for investment, not generating interest. Generate interest by building a good product.
I give bookface about 5 years. I deleted my account last year, as have many of the tech saavy people I know. Looking at current feeds when my friends and family log in, I see nothing but spam and ads. Not quite sure what will replace it, but signs clearly point toward a replacement.
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Thanks for checking it out. You're right, I'll add that demo today.
>From Visual Studio Blog it is known that the source code for Visual Studio 2012, formerly known as Visual Studio 11, consists of about 50 million lines of code. And despite this fact new release contains lots of new features and improvements.

Wow, 50 million lines of code is completely earth shattering to a student like myself who has only dealt with line counts that were five digits long.
They kinda do (have to end spectacularly). In the ideal world you would deflate them slowly but deflating a bubble means 'lose money' and that is hard for people to do voluntarily.

It is very much like musical chairs where there is all this money in the bubble and everyone is circling the bubble with what they feel is a claim to all of it, certainly a lot more than they put in. They are in it for the money not the market so they stay in play right up to the end. When folks start taking money out because the bubble has stopped inflating, there is a 'run for the exits' and everyone grabs what they can and high tails it out of town. Blam, the bubble bursts.

Wish it were different, but as WOPR said, "The only winning strategy is not to play."
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If the trains were automated, the cost of running some short trains in the middle of the night would be (at least more) reasonable. The Copenhagen Metro runs 24/7, for example. I believe BART trains are actually capable of fully automatic operation, but haven't gotten regulatory permission to run without an operator.
MMOs don't seem immune from this either:
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/08/03/activision-blizzard-t...

http://www.examiner.com/article/star-wars-the-old-republic-s...

Seems like the gaming industry is all over the place right now.
If Gladwell Published in Nature or some other primary journal, I could understand the hate, but he publishes in The New Yorker and writes popular books. There is a place for people who expose ideas to broader audiences, and in fact it is important for catching the interest of people who might one day go deeper and challenge some of the ideas.

I would liken him to my exposure to Martin Gardner and AK Dewdney in the back pages of Scientific American as a kid. They weren't setting out to use their platform to do basic research in math and computer science, or to write definitive texts, but instead were popularizing interesting and though-provoking ideas in these area in a manner that was challenging yet accessible to a broader audience.

I know that I definitely would have been far less likely to pursue a career in science and technology had it not been for those who popularized the biz, like those two, Hofstadter, Tracy Kidder, et al.

As for people blinding taking what they consume as gospel, that seems to be a fairly universal human characteristic, whether the source is a cable news outlet, a religion, etc. It is a high bar to set to require all written communication to be immune to misinterpretation or over generalization, and the burden rests more on the audience.
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And you can send a channel over a channel or store it in a data structure or pass it to a function.
On the other hand, if you put your DB on SSDs, back to square one.
Don't try to constrain me with your personal measure of temporal granularity, man!

Time is a continuous domain, so they don't really go one anything at a time. (Well, unless physiology is shown to have some kind of fundamental clock period.)
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this is a domain name generator which can generate thousands of domain name using different word groups. also checks domain name availability of those domain name....amazing website naming tool....
Interesting project, thanks for sharing.

The link, http://b4rn.org.uk, should have been directly used when submitting this.

This is not digg, nor slashdot, nor reddit. A description of, or commentary about, what you are submitting is not required, as the content should speak for itself.
This could enjoy some concrete examples. I tend to stay away from articles and books that make me feel like I've learnt something, but unless examples follow closely, I've just fooled myself into thinking that I've acquired new knowledge.
I think with 1) it's less relavent now that the Olympics is on, ticket availability is very sparse.
A while ago when they were opening up new studios and hiring talented people from the games industry (eg. Brian Reynolds, ex-Civ2, Alpha Centauri) I thought they were going to move to the next level and create games that would be more engaging to a traditional games audience. We haven't seen that at all however.

I wonder if there is frustration from folks they've hired from the traditional AAA console games industry.
I went for the 'do one thing simply' interface. I'd be curious what kind of interface you're looking for. Feel free to open an issue on github with some suggestions.
The article is being discussed, and certainly the words that constitute the article are fair game. I use profanity all the time. I love it. I go to the bar to hear casual assessments riddled with profanity. I come to HN to read serious discourse. Once the author sets the tone with a title of that nature, he is speaking to his audience in a condescending way that lacks respect. It's a cheap attempt at eyeball grabbing and that is why it is annoying, not that it offends anybody's sensibilities.

It's not professional and after reading the first few sentences I had lost any respect for the author, which is probably unfair but his own fault for poorly choosing his language. He's not a fucking rapper, he's guest-blogging on a tech news site. Use some fucking professionalism.
I was out of town and went to make a large cash purchase. (The retailer added a very hefty 10% for using debit or credit cards.) So I ran into the problem of a daily cash withdrawal at the ATM. I also did not have anything with me other than an ATM card and a Credit card with me (No ID). Turned out the bank didn't even ask for my ID when I went in. I just explained my situation and they just handed over a couple thousand...

Security at the bank seems discretionary at best.
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I disagree that the slow part of a RoR app is the database - from my anecdotal experience, the slowest part is rendering views and the string manipulation there-in, probalby caused by GC. For a Rails 2.3 App with REE and MySQL, time is ~25% GC, ~25% DB and 50% ruby (from NewRelic).

However, premature optimization and all that, don't choose Java because its faster than Ruby in some arbitrary benchmark. Choose Ruby because it makes you happy and you can meet business objectives faster and easier with it.
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It does. Experiments have shown that in lieu of all external time signals humans will natural sync to a roughly 28 hour day.

Oh and eventually go completely insane.
I think this should be the #1 principle: "Define success in terms of your UI." Before you set out to design an interface you must decide what actions that interface should expose and facilitate, and which of those actions constitute success.

First you decide what the user should do - then you design around that. I know it sounds obvious and practical, but 9/10 companies I've worked for started designing the interface before they decided on what the interface should accomplish.
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As do many other people, but the difference between Malcolm Gladwell and the many, many successful authors who have written much more (and much better) is that Gladwell lets his readers buy the vicarious enjoyment of success. It's just like watching an action-hero movie and feeling the thrill of being that brave, that strong, that resourceful, that much tougher than the bad guys. Except that Gladwell has managed to combine the best parts of reading a book about Vietnam and watching Rambo: First Blood Part II. You get the virtuous smart-person feeling of the former and the escapist fantasy of the latter.

If Gladwell has any value, it's that he inspires us to imagine ourselves rising above our current limitations. He does for us as adults lusting after career success what books like the Hardy Boys adventures did for us as kids. And maybe we might elevate ourselves by acting out these fantasies in reality.

However, in his article in the latest New Yorker (about the distance runner Alberto Salazar) he steps back from inspiration and embraces the vicarious, voyeuristic nature of his work. After taking us through the vicarious thrill of being so committed to winning that we run through our self-protective mental limits all the way up to the true limits of our bodies, eliminating all slack, he absolves us of responsibility: Salazar's competitive career ended ten years too early; Gladwell himself abandoned competitive running because he couldn't take the pain; we need feel no self-consciousness about failing to follow Salazar's insane example.

The perfect time to read it would be while taking a nice break at work.
This entire thing reminds me of the mud puddle test. (http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/04/icloud-who-h...)

In fact that entire blog post is pretty on point.
could you tell us what you are typically using it for ? Coming from a ruby-centric world, I am having difficulty visualizing how ruby and erlang could co-exist. what cant you get from Eventmachine ?
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Get it right, the sheep who texted wolf. :-)
I'm not quite understanding all of the hate on Galdwell, in the parent, the OP, and generally.

You (parent) have glossed over one of the GP's points: Galdwell shares some credible scientific research via the popular press. Yes, there is undoubtedly some spin on it, but chucking out the entirety of Gladwell also dismisses, as just one example, implicit cognition research done at Harvard.

As techies and scientists we can gloat all day that we know correlation doesn't equate to causation, but exploring the stories behind correlations can help uncover the causal chain.

Goodness knows a great deal of qualitative academic research (in top journals, no less) suffer some of the same criticisms Gladwell is enduring. Social sciences accept different ontologies and epistimologies [e.g., 1], and postivism is only one such, albeit the most common. Properly done, interpretivism, too, is accepted.

I think my biggest frustration with the Gladwell-bashing is that even though Gladwell's connections between research and anecdote are sometimes tenuous, those engaging in the critique don't first demonstrate an understanding of the epistimological/ontological standards in social research.

1: http://misq.org/misq/downloads/download/editorial/25/
I found this article a tough read.

I like Jef Raskins 2 principles :

First Law:	A computer shall not harm your work or, through inactivity, allow your work to come to harm.

Second Law:	A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

IMO everything else follows from these
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These guys have been in development a long time. I remember playing on version 9.7 and 9.8 and it was really solid back then.

I wonder how long it will take before we see PS2 emulated on android devices.
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