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>Its within spitting distance of C/C++ code for performance and will improve.

No, it is not. I don't want to make too much of this because I know that these sort of performance characteristics seldom matter at all in the kind of programming most of us would do with Go, but - - based on the benchmarks game (http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programs-are-fas...) - Go is 6x slower than Fortran/C and is quite a lot slower than Java as well. The 6g/8g compilers will never be nearly that fast because they are optimized for compile time rather than runtime. gccgo may eventually be nearly that fast.

Go will never be a systems language because it will never be possible to:
* control memory directly (kernel, device drivers)
* expose a C compatible binary interface (libraries)
* dynamically link to libraries (pluggable modules ala Apache httpd)

That rules out a whole heck of a lot of software that could reasonably be considered systems work. Of those issues, by far the lack of an ABI is the biggest turn-off to me. I would really like to be able to optimize critical Ruby code by writing native extensions in Go rather than C, but I can't and never will be able to. Rust is really the only thing that may someday be a more reasonable choice for that than C.
Instead what has happened is a lot of Python and Ruby developers have picked up Go and would like to call their work "systems programming". Go is pretty good for a lot of this work, but it is not systems work.
You do realize that Microsoft is going to release exactly that in a little under ten days.

The "desktop" is a tile on the Start Screen.
Your confirmation email ended up in my gmail spam box. Not sure if its me or gmail.

Other than that I really like the low traction.
Announcing h5ai 0.22 · a modern HTTP web server index
h5ai is a modern HTTP web server index for Apache httpd, lighttpd, nginx and Cherokee.

It was originally designed to work with Apache's mod_autoindex. This use case is still supported, although the main focus now is on the PHP version. The PHP version allows features that need server side processing of your files (e.g. thumbnail generation) and is working with other HTTP web servers too. Tested HTTP web servers are: Apache httpd, lighttpd, nginx and Cherokee. The front end supports all modern browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera and also IE7+ (with some features disabled in IE7+8).
Interesting. I'm going to give the app a try, I checked out their site the other day.
On a related note, here's a search tool (though not perfect) I wrote some time ago that helps filter out stories by points, age & #comments:

http://searchyt.twittrank.info/
is running on a platform to cut Social Security,

Citation needed.

and has cut a massive number of government jobs during a time of high unemployment.

As of Jan 2009, there were 2,790,000 federal employees. There are now 2,814,000.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/CES9091000001.txt

Maybe you mean he didn't increase the number of government jobs as fast as was projected?
Oh wow, there is one! Actually, looks like a great idea.

In my opinion the best technical hack in that product is designing it fit over a deadbolt. That does an end-run over the OEM problem of needing distributors or partners to install and manage it, while providing a failsafe for when power or wifi isn't working. It also accounts for various denial of service conditions. It's not more secure than your existing lock in a physical sense, but it's cool that you can log door entries.

Would be an interesting product to perform a security review on.
The idea is outstanding. Thank you for making this.

One nitpick. It is confusing that all your options are named "disable" and "allow" but your instructions say "if you set this control, it will disable...". So the control is "set" when it says "disabled"? It is also against convention in the sense that your options are negative-positive (disable-allow) when the convention is positive-negative (yes-no, set-unset, block-unblock, etc).

Personally, I would change the controls to "block" and "unblock", and the instructions to something like "set this to block to disable and hide... ". In the very least, I would change them to "enable" and "disable", in that order.

Edit: just wanted to add that after completing the whole sign-up, I found your overall style clear, concise and organic. You did get a lot of things "just right". Great job.
The Surface Pro may be coming out 3 months later but there will be full fledged Windows 8 devices from other companies in November.
It would be a lot more useful if he also described how he generated the picture, which would enable mathematicians to give him some useful pointers for exploring it further.
I expected it to be a plugin that replaces all the article titles to either "Vaporware Press Release" or "Trend Article Ending With Question Mark." :P
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Terrible strategy by Microsoft. Don't they realize they are behind in the race? MS Phone still has no devs...The iPad is viewed as "cooler". Average users won't see the tech differences between the iPad and Surface. At the same price they'll pick the iPad because it's "cooler" and the Joneses have it too.
Not disagreeing with your second paragraph, but just wanted to point out that Machine Learning has matured way beyond the "unprincipled hacks" phase, and as was correctly pointed out above, can be seen as a direction in applied statistics. If you look at a modern course in multivariate statistics, there's a significant overlap with ML (http://goo.gl/GTDUC).

I think people's expectation of a new scientific or engineering discipline to be "sexy" or "magic" is simply a sign of widespread ignorance of the field, so it's a good thing when something becomes less "magic" and more "real". I bet airplanes were "magic" until we learned how to fly them consistently and safely :)
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And which specific facts the simulation didn't agree with?
For background, this is part of a larger government initiative to curb outsourcing of IT projects. Traditionally these sorts of things would be built by large software companies at enormous expense to the taxpayer.

Gov.uk has been built by a (relatively) small in-house team, by people who genuinely care about what they are building. They embrace the fact that they are building tools for the good of society rather than just satisfying a contract.

Also as a citizen, I love the fact that I can open a pull request on my government's website ( https://github.com/alphagov/calendars/pull/1 ). We've got the ball rolling in opening up government data on the internet, but this is a great example of how technology can enable citizens to get involved in government.
Ah, I understand. Wasn't sure if you were being sarcastic in your original post!
Aside from the huge benefit it gets by being single-threaded, doesn't javascript have a lot of this same baggage? V8 is so much faster than Ruby for certain algorithms that I would think there still has to be lots of room for optimization if someone poured the money and IQ into it that Google did.
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i think that’s the point most people are missing. while i personally would have liked to see it priced a bit lower (starting at $400 - $450 would have felt about right to me), i can totally see why they didn’t and i think those arguing for a lower price are being too short-sighted. this isn’t just the launch of a single device, it’s also effectively a launch of a new platform, and the success of the latter is far more important..

as they said from day one (and as i'm sure they were repeatedly emphasizing to their hardware partners over the past few months), they aren’t going to undercut OEMs on price. which makes total sense. they’re not Apple; it’s going to take more than one device to grow the platform and they’re playing to where they always play in the market: offering Windows on as wide a variety of devices and form-factors as possible (now also including some built in-house). undercutting other offerings may have boosted Surface sales in the near-term, but overtime it would have probably crippled broader adoption of Windows RT by alienating the OEMs that are critical in pushing it.

the general argument for a cheap(er) Surface RT is that it’s needed to help grow the Windows Store. while i think it would help to some extent, most of that comes in just the fact that it’s out there, as a flagship device, representing the platform in the market. i think their approach of relying on the large (soon-to-be) Windows 8 install base to incentivize developers is a far sounder strategy for building it out.. even at a lower price point, a few million additional Surface RT units (maybe) aren’t going to have as large of an impact on demand for Windows Store Apps as the hundreds of millions of devices that will eventually be running Windows 8; what it would have done though is likely alienate the OEMs that would otherwise be pushing those sales, and eventually Windows RT sales down the road.
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good points, thanks for the feedback! I'll look into how I can reword the text to make it clearer.
I was on Haida Gwaii couple years ago with 2 friends. Pretty much every local we have encountered was very friendly and offered us home canned salmon for free. There were golden eagles and huge ravens everywhere. Ancient rainforests. I got the impression that the last thing Haida people needed is technology enhancing their natural resources. The place just seemed perfect. Oh well, I guess there is money to be made, so never mind...
Awesome model !
>I don't want to sound cynical, but a repressive system is what capitalism has always preferred, right? So based on that alone you should see investors rushing for the gold already.

They do. In extractive industries and anything that involves negotiating favours with a government.
And I'm not sure capitalism prefers a repressive system or that systems in Africa are that oppressive (or the right kind of oppressive).

> For potential angel investors, the lack of reliable statistics about the relevant markets is probably a big issue.

Chicken and egg. Statistics appear when there is a market for them (investors).
Well done post, and definitely some interesting data to look at here.

The one point where I think you may have undersold Google is the interoperability of their Music service. They sell their music without DRM (similar to Apple) so it can be played anywhere. Also similar to Apple they have a player built in HTML5 so it can be accessed on most devices without even needing to download the song and play with a native player. This should be reflected and I believe should swing the interoperability category heavily in Google's favor since books and music are both accessible everywhere.
Not only was he silly enough to commit the crime, he left sarcastic messages behind, I understand? This begs the question how sensitive was the material? If McKinnon could access it, lets face so could anyone who wanted a look.

So..has there ever been any reprisals for the lack of security with the machines he hacked? My understanding was that he used 'off-the-shelf' tools to gain access because the servers weren't patched? In my mind that as negligent as the illegal access.
<nit>It's a TIE Interceptor.</nit>

And, it's nice work.

<edit>Doh. I stand corrected. Vader did fly a TIE Fighter - technically the "TIE Advanced x1".

Looks like I'm overdue to rewatch SW:ANH. smile</edit>
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Challenging social norms just for the sake of challenging them is not something to be lauded.

You would be taken more seriously if you provided a well-reasoned response based on facts rather than throwing out opinions like "for every woman that really experiences sexism, there are two that exaggerate their circumstances".

You are setting up a simplistic straw man and arguing that because you believe you have "seen some very average women programmers get hired into high positions just to fill diversity quotas" (how do you KNOW this, btw?) that reverse-sexism is rampant. You do not acknowledge that your understanding of their promotions could be limited, that they might have other skills besides simply programming, or what the position actually required.

Because of these things it's very hard to take you seriously, and if you have a habit of doing these things, I understand why someone would dismiss you as a troll.

It would be more interesting if you argued in a reasoned matter acknowledging the variety of experiences in the real world, instead of drawing generalizations from a few things you have seen.
Not nonsense at all. Anti-English racism is rife in Scotland, all too vocal, all too public, except of course when they're asking for English handouts.
I've graduated it :)

It was created as communist-approved alternative to KUL(Catholic University of Lublin - the only university independent from communist government in 1944-1989 Poland). Now it's the other way around (KUL is heavily influenced by catholic church, and umcs is more-or-less independent).

BTW - my university uses French order of writting Maria name "Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie". Maria sometimes used French order (with husband surname first), and sometimes used Polish order (with husband surname second), but rarely skipped "Skłodowska" altogether.
I think that's one of the main motivations behind it (the realisation that most people enter [government] websites via search engines). They've designed the pages to be clearer for those use cases - you can read their thoughts and motivations in their design principles - https://www.gov.uk/designprinciples (which are extremely good).
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It made me feel uncomfortable but I'm not sure why.
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You can't steal files from your old employer. I know almost everyone does this but that doesn't make it right.
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Probably this is a pretty naive question, but it is genuine.

I am myself an aspiring startupper(23, to start in a month or two). I have worked at startups and learnt the tech stuff well working hard. But I am an introvert and suck at negotiating with people and building contacts. Resultingly, I barely know people and vice versa.

I have scheduled an appointment with three budding and almost successful entrepreneurs nearby. What should the meeting be about? What should I talk to them? I wanted to ask them about their own story, (and see how I can build upon those) but not in a dumb way?

Can people lend out some general advice? Its a big meeting, I have worked hard to get it scheduled.

Please help, thanks!
I think this is all about the publicity. Otherwise she would have done it sooner. Ironic too that she cites the European Court of Human Rights as to the reasoning, whereas as only yesterday she was lambasting European Courts and legislation for stealing our sovereignty.

I find her insidious and duplicitous. When did we last have a Home Secretary who wasn't a careerist authoritarian?

Nevertheless I strongly suspect that today a life has been saved and hopefully from now on we can apply rationale to our extraditions.
I am one of the developers behind Capo.io, which is a submission to the 2012 Rails Rumble hackathon and was built in just 48 hours.

We built this to make it easier for us to assemble Capfiles without having to look for snippets across different projects, but we thought it serves a broader purpose.

Our goal is to compose a repository for all kinds of frameworks and languages so everyone can deploy an app without too much effort. Everything is open source (including the site, although we're awaiting the Rumble judging to finish) and we hope people will contribute.

I hope that by submitting this here, we'll be able to gather some input on the concept, the site (that even includes the design), and our recipes. Nothing would make us happier than you submitting your favorite Capistrano snippets to us!

Cheers
Hannes
Spies, double-agents, mercenaries, and turn-coats have been stealing and smuggling information for years.
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Big Miracle 2012 is a very nice Drama and Romance movie.In small town Alaska, a news reporter recruits his ex-girlfriend – a Greenpeace volunteer – on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle.Inspired by the true story that captured the hearts of people across the world, the rescue adventure Big Miracle tells the amazing tale of a small town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer who are joined by rival world superpowers to save a family of majestic gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle. Local newsman Adam Carlson can’t wait to escape the northern tip of Alaska for a bigger market.

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It's cheaper to operate and improve upon (by combining various websites into one over time), it's demonstrably clearer and easier to use than the current DirectGov site(s) - see their design principles here: https://www.gov.uk/designprinciples - and it's designed for the use cases of right now (not 8 years ago).
WiseCash (currently) requires that you input the planned expenses and income (using recurrence rules).

It makes no attempt (for now at least) to pull existing data from sources.

I will work on that topic once we are profitable though.
See: How DRM infested the recorded media revolution.
A big problem that science graduates have is that the market doesn't believe in academic training. A big company will take a smart engineer and train him/her on a particular technique (data mining, for example) rather than hiring someone with that particular skill (usually from grad school). Even if they eventually hire such a person, the new hire will usually be working for the in-house "expert" until they can prove themselves, which is pretty much a political process.

It is rare the case when a company will hire an academic person to directly lead a company effort, and when this happens it is because the person is already famous and has a lot of consulting/real world experience.

The path you mentioned is great if you can find a company where you can make a major contribution using your skills, but for the reasons I mentioned it has still the same problem (bozo bit) that you cited before.
It's a question of venue and audience. I don't want to have to discuss whether or not black are inferior every time I go to my local hangout to get a coffee.

I may choose to, and have chosen to debate whether or not blacks are inferior, but it's stressful and annoying. It's something better reserved for a certain frame of mind and known venue.

So, I assume that given some threshold of are-women-inferior discussions, many interesting women just stop showing up at your party. It's natural that certain topics are more sensitive (especially to people placed on the defensive), and that you don't just drop them like bombs in an unrelated conversation / venue.
That would be the case. I didn't sell this one yet, but I am trying to make a point that the time it will save down the road is way more than the time we invest today..
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I can't argue with that. But the pricing isn't surprising. Apple doesn't make that much money on the iPad, and they have an incredibly efficient supply chain.

At the same quality level, it's hard for anyone to undercut apple on price on iPad, unless you do a 0-margin product (google, amazon).

In contrast, iPhone has lots of margin, so it's relatively easy for other players.
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Wow, HN front page! Ok, will describe the algorithm. One moment...
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It's a TIE Advanced x1. Although features developed for it were incorporated into the later TIE/IN Interceptor, the x1 had substantial differences, such as shielding and FTL capabilities. The mass-production craft resulting directly from the x series was the TIE/D Defender.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/TIE_Advanced_x1
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You may want to draw inspiration from http://www.sidereel.com/. Their interface is not that great. If you guys could improve on that, you may be on to something. Good luck.
It's still less destructive than an equal-sized equal-energy wave of sulphuric acid.
Damn! So close...
No, actually, it's a TIE Advanced x1. An Interceptor has characteristic dagger-shaped solar panels.
One more suggestion, in case you don't know, there is this HN parents mailing list:

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I vaguely recall there being a discussion on it a while ago about this.
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I would expect it to be a lot harder to break into writing trading algorithms than into enterprise architecture at most companies. The latter I found so easy it was both embarrassing and frightening. ("really? this is IT? this how we decide how to spend this 12 million dollars?! with this powerpoint?")

I guess at least on the math side you can prove your algorithms against historical data and so merit assessments could be fact based.
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The depletion of salmon stocks goes beyond Haida Gwaii (for those who studied geography earlier, they used to be known as the Queen Charlotte Islands).

Chronic overfishing in both Alaska and the rest of BC has contributed to the dramatic loss of salmon population. I don't think the desire to increase the salmon population is in and of itself a bad thing...
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She was denied education in Poland occupied by Russians, and Austrians (never tried in Prussian occupied part, IIRC).

What she learnt in Poland she learnt from Polish teachers that taught Poles secretly in homes (because it was forbidden to teach some subjects - not only to woman, but to anyone - for example Polish history).

And she was always supportive of Polish independence, named Polonium after Poland, kept her name after mariage to associate with Poland. Wouldn't happen if she had problems with Poland, don't you think?

I think you project modern problems on historical situation.
I think the technical term would be "super-chromatic peril sensitive faceplate."
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Would someone please build a 'don't distract freelancers on Hacker News' app? My morning started off so strong, now I want to watch the original trilogy.....

(Great model!!)
We can use 'counterfeiting' if you would like, but both are just as bad. I feel like people that make your argument do so because they want to make it seem like copying private IP isn't wrong.