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> But the fact is that a system of that size simply must already be split up into discrete services or components.

Come on, they created Thrift, I think we can assume they use it?
I would be worried about yellow inks fading into white.
The article is 15 months old. This particular trend seems to have lasted for a very short period of time.
No, the worst is when they require your answer to be at least four characters long, and your friend's name is Bob, or Tom, or Sam, etc...

I'm looking at you, Citibank.
You could even implement raid striping! For extra security and store the 'stripes' in different filing cabinets!
The connection I was making is Above average programmers seem to do everything quicker, including typing. Didn't mean to imply it was 100% of the time, or the other way around that people who type fast are probably good programmers -- it's just one observation point that I compare their output with.

Another post here mentioned the idea of 'actions per minute', I like that idea a lot.
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Hopefully the papers would have some sort of index on them, so that the order in which they were scanned would be irrelevant.

Then again, punch cards didn't.
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Interesting -- but doesn't all that work to remove the 300ms delay mean make the site totally broken on any browser that doesn't generate touchstart/touchend/touchmove events?

I guess you could code around this by catching the click event and deciding if you have already handled it, but that is beginning to feel like a lot of fragile and browser specific code that certainly isn't application specific.

I tried to access your mobile site from my phone but it wants me to sign in with either Facebook or Twitter before showing anything, so that was a non-starter.
Yeah, that's worthless.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/charts/us2012.php That is anchoring.

If you aren't showing "Java coders fall here, Python coders fall here. Lispers here." Call your survey a work in progress, but it's pointless for anyone to currently fill out as it doesn't show meaningful feedback.
The obvious solution here is to write a compiler :)
Clearly one of the biggest challenges of App.net will be keeping the hyperbole under control. ;)

This is, I suspect, a drawback of the Kickstarter mode of operation: The momentum cycle is out of step with reality. When you're fundraising you have to build the excitement to a big wave - a wave which, judging by this post, is still building in many people's fertile imaginations.

The excitement is important: It focuses people and gets them talking and causes them to want to keep the party going. And if you're, say, Apple, you strive to kick off the excitement at a time when you can feed the ensuing wave of interest with a steady stream of finished, profitable products that people can buy and use and show to their friends.

But with these Kickstarter-y projects the product is never finished when the hype peaks, so there's inevitably going to be a crash of excitement during the long doldrum where nothing seems to be happening. In fact, what's happening is that the builders are doing the work that you've paid them to do, but the creation of actual working product is so much less exciting than the brainstorming phase. Especially when the product is experimental.

But that's how this works, so it is essential to calm down. It's tinkering time, people! Whiteboards and screwdrivers! The Age of Aquarius was not built in a week.
I am a woman engineer and agree with everything you said, seriously
I really like the idea of 'actions per minute'. It's a really nice way of summing up what I was describing.
No. It is merely an IP/country wall to content that is not paid for (directly) by UK taxpayer.

Free proxies like Hide My Ass work.

Alternatively, here is pastebin for convenience:

http://pastebin.com/7dFAS82m
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This might be interesting.

Then again, I've read too many of these stories that turn out to be exaggeration, or the writer misunderstanding the real capabilities of the invention.
I was running a product with a freemium model for a while and I can say without a doubt that this is true.
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Cool poster but I imagine clients would be turned off a bit by that mentality.
hope to have a car-sized 25-kilowatt version of the prototype ready by the end of the year.

This was posted last year. Any update?

Edit: well at least you can see it in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIPSTTvHfLs

Edit2: Just noticed it said "car-sized 25 kW" but that's only 33 horsepower. That's about half as much as a Smart car.
This article is more than a year old, has there been any real followup?
It was a really old story.. I think I read it in a magazine in the early '80s and it was old then..
"taking off" a few miles from my home.
Cost of hiring is an important part. But one more important part is ability of indians to manage mundane tasks large scale, which is not available easily.
IQ does not equal intelligence, except possibly in the extreme subsets of mental abilities which actually feature on the test. It's not been treated seriously in the scientific community for almost ever. It's almost solely a cargo cult for people who excel at it and want to feel superior.
Wow, impressive. Let's hope the jQuery sources and CDNs never get compromised!
Sun demonstrated touchscreen inertial scrolling - in 1992
From the article:

Teleportation can also securely transmit quantum information even when Alice does not know where Bob is. Bob can take his entangled particle wherever he pleases, and Alice can broadcast her instructions for how to ungarble the teleported state over whatever conventional channels — radio waves, the Internet — she pleases. That information would be useless to an eavesdropper without an entangled link to Alice.
"Some people let life happen to them. Other people make life happen."
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Unforunately, it still does creep in.

The 'real business purpose' argument must also take in to account skills of available workers.

If no one is able to be hired to maintain and extend legacy system X, you're left with

* hiring workers with modern skills and backtraining them on older/legacy/custom stuff that won't do them much good in the future market, so they may balk (the smarter ones would demand a hell of a lot more money).

or

* converting to something more modern and perhaps somewhat future proof. The code itself might not be future proof, but the processes the business puts in place during the conversion should take in to account future conversions and upgrades as part of the requirements.
The phrase 'adding insult to injury' springs to mind.
> 73.4% of them don't use any CDN

sad
Basically what you're saying is that any survey that's in the early stages of data collection is worthless.

I think that x% conservative y% liberal is 'meaningful feedback' to some people (https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/sweaxis.org)
HN is starting to go meta like Reddit went and I'm not sure that's a good thing. How on earth is it productive or healthy to publicly ridicule HN commenters?
actually Apple offered a "20 percent discount if Samsung agreed to cross-license its patents to Apple" and a further level of discount if "Samsung would stop using Apple’s most proprietary features".

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/new_court_docs_reveal...
>I've been in the industry over 20 years. I've seen plenty. It is easy to assume that the java and a JIT should be able to take advantage of all the extra information to make fast code. But in practice, when you add in all the frameworks and abstraction overhead, Java on the web is slower. I routinely hit stack traces well over 50 levels of depth. Benchmarks really don't take this into account.

But your original post said Java was slow. It's not. Don't conflate the language with bad frameworks written with it.
Bandcamp is a fantastic service that doesn't get nearly enough mention in these kinds of conversations. They've really already perfected this direct to fan model. They've even implemented a merch store into the service, allowing you to do all of your business through it.
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A little weekend project for the Moo API maybe?
http://uk.moo.com/api/
Brady 'concerned' ahead of contentious three day Newry parade
I think my sarcastic tone was warranted, at least before giving a serious answer.

But my post was itself snarky in response to narcan's "Pro-tip". It's a snark chain!
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I don't know you, and I am not an expert in how you spend your time. I know it's not 80 hours of work per week, because that is completely absurd. If you have a better hourly breakdown it doesn't seem like you are sharing it. Your percentages are very different than what I would have guessed, and honestly I think your priorities are off.

If you nail down a single big result you could ride that for years. Maybe that isn't realistic for everyone, but if I didn't think I was going to be a major player and drive the state of the art, I think I would find something else to do. I really don't understand the concept of the 'hard working' professor, teaching is easy (show up, explain stuff), advising students should not take much time (pick smarter students, point them in the right direction, expect them to take it from there), conferences are a complete waste of time, trying to publish a bunch of little crap results is just generation of worthless volume and nobody is fooled by it. All this might sneak a person in at a 3rd rung school, but for what? What are all the grants for in CS, presumably you already have more than enough computers? Is that what people compete for when doing something important in the field is not realistic?

I'm sorry, but if you aren't concentrating on research, meaning real research not writing grants or typing up results that nobody cares about, then you are either at a really crappy school or you have the wrong priorities. Expanding the state of the art, or moving the needle on a difficult problem is going to get you attention, respect among your peers, and publication in real journals. The situation you describe seems more like a backup plan.
This really makes no sense to me. Orian says that "App.net is a service dedicated to providing a new infrastructure for social web applications that will never be funded through ad revenue....App.net has publicly declared that their most valuable asset is their users’ trust."

But then he goes on to say: "A fundamental misunderstanding about the App.net platform so far has been that there will never be any ads running anywhere on the platform. I believe that is incorrect. What is correct is that there will never be any ads run on Alpha or anywhere else to fund the the operations of App.net the company."

It sounds to me that if things go the way Orian says, app.net will be fundamentally the same thing as AWS, where developers pay a service provider to make their life easier. The difference will be that in app.net's case, "concepts like users, posts, connecting and sharing" will be supported through "a scalable infrastructure and a base model".

But economically, the forces will be exactly the same. Application creators will be motivated to create free apps just as they are today, and to support them by advertising, just as they are today. And in order to earn advertising revenue that enables them to compete with their non-app.net competition, they'll want to target advertisements as efficiently as possible. So they'll have the same pressures to play games with user privacy.

The end result will be that app.net WILL be funded through ad revenue, to the same degree that AWS is, since the developers that pay for either of these services often make their revenues through advertising.

I don't see how the outcome will be any different from the traditional one from the user privacy point of view, unless app.net provides fundamental privacy restrictions that are rigid enough that these businesses can't compete financially with businesses not running on app.net, which doesn't sound like a viable model for app.net.

While I have paid my $50 to sign up for app.net, I'm not exactly feeling a lot of confidence in this model. But I haven't spent an enormous time studying it, and maybe I'm missing something fundamental. If so, what is it?
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Apple aren't trying to claim exclusive use of any chemical elements that I'm aware of.

This isn't about whether or not Apple make good and/or innovative products. It's about their claim of exclusive rights to the concepts they use in building them.
Fair point, but, I think people need to realize it's ok to only support certain browsers. Every project doesn't need to support every browser from the start. There are of course trade offs, but they mention they are targeting Safari on iOS, and this is ok.
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It's funny my boss was thinking of trying Scala, but the more he learned about it the more he became disillusioned.

I remember reading somewhere that although you might decide to limit use of Scala language facilities (as there are too many of them), you'll still have to deal with them when trying to understand how libraries work (for debugging purposes for example).
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Aaaand... downgraded from front page by mods.

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India outsourcing back to USA (washingtonpost.com)
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Please tell me this is a troll?
I mean, I know the author acknowledges the fact this is completely unnecessary, but still - I'm no environmentalist, but this seems to be an incredibly silly idea..
Sun hired some of the best minds in the business to make Java perform around 1999 - literally the guys that wrote the first runtime optimizing compilers and generational garbage collectors (eg. David Unger and team from Self), and also had some of the pioneers in LISP (Guy Steele). The major performance gains began in Java 1.3 in 2000 through Java 5 in 2004, with steady gains since, particularly in terms of garbage collection in large-memory, multi-core environments.

IBM also had some very bright minds working on their J9 JVM which was aoriginally targeted at embedded environments but was so good it became their mainstream VM. I'm not sure how much "borrowing" it does from the Oracle VM, but it's definitely a different architecture.

Another language could do this of it had wealthy patrons with a keen interest to make it so. Google with Python might be a possibility, but they are huge Java users already and have some of the old Sun team working for them.
> I wonder why ... Facebook is building a JVM backend of their PHP compiler .

For fun, it seems. Facebook also built a PyPy backend[1], and even their own VM[2].

[1] http://morepypy.blogspot.ca/2012/07/hello-everyone.html

[2] https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/tree/master/src/runti...
Yes, it does raise the "herd of cloned sheep" question.

But I wouldn't worry too much. It's open source, and using the hosted version means that only that one copy has to be fixed. It is unlikely to ever be a problem on the scope of, e.g., out-of-date Wordpress installs.
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Minecraft Pocket Edition, the famous game has been upgraded to version 0.3.3 with few improvements and innovations. Let's read them through the official changelog.
I held out for a while, but data- attributes really do make writing reusable JavaScript components SO much easier - if you use them responsibly I don't see any downside to them at all.
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It's popping some HN bubbles. I find that extremely healthy, if not neccesarily productive.
Someone from Samsung should watch this
I know I've been downvoted (a first for me on HN - I guess for being offtopic but maybe because many people feel that I'm wrong to be objecting to this) but I also got it wrong, more sites are needed once you do allow scribd.com. All the non-scribd sites above seem to be tracking or analytics.

Additionally required after www.scribd.com has been permitted (I haven't allowed any of the advertising/tracking/SEO sites to run scripts to see if they have further dependencies):

twitter.com

p.chango.com

quantserve.com

beacon.newrelic.com - (I don't object to this one.)

www.googletagservices.com

If people think I am wrong to be uncomfortable with this sort of behaviour by a site please reply and try to change my mind.

I just really don't like the idea that websites feel free to allow half the advertising companies on the internet to know what individual* people are browsing and looking at.

Maybe I'm just too Web 1.0 and old fashioned to expect sites not to send me round the internet when I land on the page.

*Scribd may not be tracking who people are but the advertisers might be.
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How is this not arcane magic, though? Twitter should have used a meta tag so that the RSS feed would be auto-discovered by any relatively modern RSS client. But their recent actions suggest that their interest is not making it easy to use third-party systems outside of Twitter proper. I think icebraining's point is a legitimate one, because it isn't obvious that RSS exists in the first place.
You hit most points. Lets add one of my personal biggest gripes:

- Java reperesents a way of thinking where all languages issues are fixed in the IDE. A thinking which enables the language itself to grow in all the wrong directions.

Its not so much that that is always a bad thing. But if the usability of a language is so dependend upon and designed for an IDE, that IDE really should be part of the language design.
> Otherwise, teleportation seems to be a misnomer.

It is. People call it teleportation because when you attempt to mesh the results you get from experiments involving quantum entanglement with our intuitive model of physics, it looks like something has been teleported instantaneously (the state of the photon or what have you). But in reality, no information is transmitted faster than the speed of light, and there's no good reason that will change.
Took something like four minutes to load on a 20mbps connection. Is this normal, or is your site just being hammered? Definitely the longest load I've ever seen for a browser game.

Not sure if it's a mouse lock bug but even when fullscreened with mouse lock on, the input is super glitchy - it seems to randomly ignore my inputs sometimes until I move out of some sort of mouse 'dead zone', and my freedom of movement is pretty limited and there's some weird acceleration.

Camera glitches around like mad when I move too, but I assume that's because the animations aren't being blended.

Text in the score HUD gets highlighted when you move the mouse with the mouse button down, which is kinda weird.
That might actually be an interesting feature add-on.

http://i.imgur.com/9LYi9.png
that's still an "unusual" (to say the least) definition.
I really wish KDE polishes their UI/UX. I'm not a UI designer but the site and the application doesn't look as good as Windows/OSX/ICS/Ubuntu.
Did anyone notice that the industries described are dominated by players who hate their customers? Banks and insurance companies treat their customers as adversaries, and the only reason they can do it is because they all do it
Before we talk about solving the technological problems in these industries, we should be talking about solving these industries. The disruptors will solve the technology problems. I sure hope no one at Bank of America or AIG never attempt to shift their legacy systems to more elegant solutions. I want it to be one of the many albatross hanging around their neck.
Yes, but I'm sure you crawled with a more professional deportment. I can tell, even now, at a much later date, and a location indeterminate to that of the crawling.
I hope they are successful, but I think the work Robert Bussard's work sounds more promising. The reason Fusion hasn't work to produce net energy is inherent to the tokamak design. You spend too much energy charging up the magnets to keep the plasma from colliding into the wall. Which is why more material is constantly added to the mix. Bussard currently holds the record for most fused particles/second (I think that's the metric) beating Farnsworth's record set in the 60s. Neither of them used Tokamaks to set their respective records.

He has made significantly more progress towards the goal of net energy production from Fusion over 40 years and billions spent on Tokamak research. I think his ideas have lots of promise, but oddly enough society hasn't trained people in this type of science in decades.

Problem is Bussard passed away not long ago so progress on Polywell is slow since there are very few people out there with the technical know how to pick up where he left off. But, still he has left quite a lot of documents and details about what he has done. I hope research continues.

http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2012/...
The main problem I ever saw while attempting to migrate legacy(mainframe/db2) to modern (linux/java/oracle :)) systems was coupling.. there is so much customized, non documented, completely forgotten coupling between systems that is like changing engines on a plane (While flying!).

I takes a lot of patience, attention to details, and computer arqueology skills. Still, it can be done, and it is very worth it $$ to the companies (and to me! $ :)
I was wondering what was with that. It could easily be #1...
A chain reaction by definition requires a positive feedback loop. Just because something is that hot does not mean it has the ability to become hotter when you add "Earth." It certainly could ignite all the oxygen in a localized area, fuse all the metal in the building, and light all the forests within miles on fire, but thats pretty much it.

Also 550MW/h / <efficiency factor of the water turbines> is by definition the most energy that will be present at the site and thus the total energy capable of being released at once. I'll make up a number and say the turbines are 10% efficient. So we have 5.5 GW/h of power available which is around the amount of energy released in a hurricane in 1 second. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(energy)
Personally I do not like the $50 price, I will not be backing app.net and I will never use one of the networks running on the app.net platform, because as ANYONE is able to build basically anything on top of the platform without actually having anyone forcing them to continue keeping their service alive, expect users and there exist ton of companies and people "Me included" who are ready to take advantage of users.

I did not back diaspora and I knew they will fail even though I knew their idea was awesome. I also think app.net or any of the networks running on the platform will never become the next Twitter or Facebook. Diaspora idea was nice, because it allowed you to control your own data by running your ow instance, but app.net wants to basically control everyone's data with the message stream interface.

I will stay slave of Facebook until someone can actually offer me better user experience or I will build my own. I also require that there is no chance of the company going under and fail. I do not accept the founders word for it, because he might have other secret plans like selling the company engineers to some big company after they get enough traction in the market.

I do not buy a product because of the company's words, even if they sound pleasing. I will buy a product if I need it.
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