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Oracle 10g (10.1) was available for Mac OS X but they've not kept up and no 11g at all. I think they just found that the number of sales for that platform was too small.
Wish I could go, scheduling conflicts have me tied up till friday. Is anyone capturing video of the talks?
Spreedly is talking to multiple businesses currently using PayPal's recurring service that want to switch to Spreedly (and we're working with them to make that happen). In short, PayPal's recurring API is awful, especially as you want to do more complex things like, say, allow a subscriber to change their subscription term or plan. Also, have you seen PayPal's admin UI? It's awful for any sort of ongoing use, especially for subscriptions where you have an ongoing relationship with your customers.

In short, Spreedly grew out of using PayPal's recurring API on a client project and realizing that there had to be a better way.
Yeah, sure, I'm not saying it is in this case. Just that it's one of those words to watch for.
I read SICP when I was 14; this was a couple of years after I came across some pg/Lisp stuff. It would be absurd if MIT CS students remain ignorant of 6.001 given their institute's really hardcore hacker culture. Hence, I fail to see what this entire fuss is all about.
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My estimate of possible defect rates in cryonics
Ok, I went back and reread some of that essay and I have to withdraw some of my criticisms. You are right and I was wrong.

CatB, although anecdotal, is trying to make a coherent case from evidence, and the author's ego is kept relatively in check. His later writings became more like opinion pieces, and are constantly self-referential. My irritation with those must have carried over to the original.
pg, can you add a page that simply lists out the members that are currently logged in to the site?
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I don't have time to do a screen grab of the fail whale for you. Trust me, I'm not making this up.
This is a very common structure for angel investments. Instead of trying to determine a value for your company at the seed stage they give you money and call it a loan. When you raise money at the A round the loan converts to a stock purchase at the amount they loaned you plus some percentage - 20% in this case, a little high but they are a brand name not some random angel.

For example they loan you $100k to get started. 6-9 months later you get a VC to invest $1MM at a $1MM pre-money valuation. The VC now owns 50% $1MM/$2MM post money and Spark owns 6% $120k/$2MM
Thinking of driving down from Boston for some shake-shack love.

"Now THAT's a tasty burger!"
We would never do this, since it could mean taking an interview spot away from a group that deserved it. BTW, I'm going to kill this; see the site guidelines.
HN: This is the story we discussed yesterday. I did as you recommended and published the thing on my own blog.
I wish someone from my job was going (particularly my boss), but I seriously doubt it. They aren't enlightened enough to go.
How Will The Recession & Economy Effect Startups?
That's one option the other is using a longer pipeline.

However, the cache does not need to operate at that speed only the core so it's best to ignore the cache, but I can't find good numbers on a naked CPU. Anyway, using a 55nm GPU 285 GTX that has a 470 mm die size and 240 processor elements we can see each element is only using ~2mm of die. Which is only off by a factor of 4 so ~14nm would work.

In theory you could end up with a ~1THz GPU with ~1000 SPs and around 4000x more processing power. But it would need insane memory bandwidth etc.
I'm sitting in on Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind class, and he keeps reminding us that MASSIVE PARALLELISM IS NOT THE INTERESTING ASPECT OF THE MIND.

Think about playing chess. Each move, there's 30 branches to follow. If you have a million machines, you can evaluate about 2 moves ahead before parallelism runs out. If you have bad branch prediction, you'll follow all the wrong paths.

Humans beat machines at creative endeavors because computers don't know what branches to follow. There was nothing interesting about the implementation of Deep Blue. It would be like implementing the Internet by shipping immense hard drives around to convey information: brute force, unintelligent, and immensely successful at delivering throughput.

We process information much slower than CPUs (how fast can _you_ read Wikipedia?), but we know when to give up, we know when to follow an interesting path, we know how to move processing to the subconscious.
I just watched the video. Here's my summary:

1. Within Eclipse, you can do a subset of the stuff that ElasticFox does.

2. It can N instances of a Tomcat AMI along with an instance of a load balancer AMI automagically.

3. It can deploy a war file to all N instances simultaneously.

4. It can set-up remote debugging on all N instances so you don't have to worry about which machine the load balancer sent you to.

For me, I would find it convenient to have ElasticFox-like features inside Eclipse, but it's not a huge benefit. The "bring up lots of instances" stuff is nice, but most corporate operations groups would prefer to script such things rather than have ops people clicking buttons. And, the cases where I would want to debug in a cluster are rather limited -- cross machine concurrency issues (distributed cache invalidation/replication, session replication, etc.).
Great article.

I suffer from PTSD, GAD and mild depression. Having been involved in a fairly violent street gang in high school, I had seen a lot of violence and just plain f*cked up stuff. People getting shot in front of me, a lot of situations that forced me to confront my own mortality, etc.

It really didn't hit me until about 10 years ago. I was getting off the F train at 23rd street and had an overwhelming feeling I was going to pass out, which I then interpreted as my imminent death. It was frightening because it was so out of the blue and so intense. Who wants to pass out on a subway platform? Or worse, die on a subway platform?

For the next two years I tried to find a medical reason behind that first massive panic attack, but never found one despite spending several tens of thousands of dollars on medical bills. I finally had to accept that I had these certain mental conditions.

I used to reign it in through a variety of meds; anti-depressants, klonopin, ativan, xanax. I went to a cognitive behavioral therapist to figure out how to change my thinking and learn to control it.

These days I don't take any meds and though I still have massive panic attacks now and again, they mostly don't phase me as they're so common place now and you sort of grow to accept that these things aren't going away and it's your lot in life.

The most damning aspects of anxiety disorder aren't the panic attacks, by the way. It's all the passive shit that comes with it. Hyper-vigilance and derealization have to be the worst. Hyper-vigilance means that you are so focused on your physical well being that the slightest pain, discomfort, etc. gets misinterpreted as a major medical calamity. A cough becomes lung cancer, a mild pain in your armpit becomes non-hodgkin's lymphoma, etc. With derealization, you'll have entire spans of time where nothing seems real to you at all, familiar things become unfamiliar, etc. If you've read anything by Camus, you'll have some understanding what derealization is all about. It's pretty scary shit.

But despite all of that, I have what I consider a fairly successful career. I believe that is partially due to the CBT therapy, and part to my stubbornness to not be a victim.

I do think depression and anxiety are endemic to this current generation of technologists (late 20's and up). This new generation, seems more balanced though, so maybe it's a generational thing? Not sure.

One controversial thing that has helped me, as well as hurt me, is marijuana. Most times it helps me to get out of my head, specifically on days when the anxiety is thickest. On the flip side, sometimes imbuing too much brings the anxiety like nothing else. But most times, it's been more helpful than harmful.
Article is from 04/07. Is there any followup? It's not clear from all the commentary whether the author learned something from the anonymous solicitation of advice or if it served primarily as catharsis.

For anyone else living like this individual, I particularly agree with the commenters who mention taking up photography to get you out into the world creating art without abandoning a detail/tech-centric tendency.
You can still do ElasticFox-ish stuff. Worse than just being Java specific, it's Tomcat specific. However, I have no doubt that Amazon is just trying to get something out there for feedback.
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I'm thinking, even if we had infinitely fast CPUs, we might not gain so much because it would just reveal other bottlenecks. Not that I'd mind having an infinitely fast CPU...
I don't want that in my json/yaml.

If I have Javascript then I already have mobile code.

If I'm using json in a situation where I don't have a Javascript interpreter, then I probably don't have a Lisp interpreter around either.
The photography comments are cribbed from the "Linden Method" which is a pretty successful anxiety treatment system based in the UK. The idea is that you need an engrossing hobby to keep you from obsessing about your anxiety.
Actuality, they don't say it works in Turkey only that: YouTube, which has country-specific sites in 23 countries, has in the past been blocked in certain countries, including Turkey which might suggest it currently works but does not say so.

Anyway, while I don't think it's an issue with Turkey I expect China blocking YouTube might become a free trade issue.
What about heat? Area that small operating that fast would generate an intense amount of heat.
I'll help.
The Facebook Generation vs The Fortune 500
It's not a matter of what they're getting away with now.

It's about what they want to get away with.
Out of curiosity, what transport are you using? Long polling or long-lived iframes? I find that the former doesn't give me low enough latency for my purposes and the latter tends to get quirky for me when I have a high spiked data throughput.
I think it's based on a pervious article on HN a couple days back in which the author talked about how running a Tor exit node can get you arrested for downloading child porn. Nerd humor
How Google Routes Around Outages
Although the article touches on a fascinating subject, I disagree with the analogy the author drew between neurons and C++ code; specifically the "lines of code per Neuron." Individual neurons do not have code.

The author also advocates buying stock in Cryonics companies. The only two Cryonics organizations I know of are Alcor and The Cryonics Institute. Neither of these are publicly traded.

Interesting fact: Ted Williams is stored at Alcor. Paris Hilton has signed up with The Cryonics Institute.

I personally will be neuro-suspended at Alcor. I am the #830-something person to sign up there. For those who are interested for themselves, it is actually rather cheap to fund with term life insurance.
Beer Pong Business Leads to Book Deal & 1.5 Million Downloads
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I hadn't thought about that angle - I'm sure Youku and Tudou, the native competitors, are getting huge traffic surges right now.
Well, here's the speech in question.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cpsr-speech.html

It may not be the last word ESR has to say on rights and responsibilities, but I think I accurately conveyed his views. I'm not even arguing that they are wrong, although I think they are. My point was perhaps unclear, but I think ESR has a philosophical problem with the idea of a society governed by an ethos of mutual responsibility and obligations. He sees that as a road to tyranny or stagnation, consistent with Ayn Rand and her intellectual descendants.

The GPL is about building a web of such responsibilities, explicitly to force closed-source firms to abandon their tactics and become part of a community. I get the sense that ESR finds such tactics distasteful because of his political beliefs. Which is fine! He's not alone in that.

The problem is that he's still claiming the GPL has held us all back by alluding to economic studies, which I'm not sure even exist. The GPL seems to have done really well by every empirical measure I know of, and it shows no signs of strangling capitalism or anything.
I visited New York for the first time last year. The Shake Shack was an inspiration. I ended up going almost every day (admittedly the 2 weeks of perfect weather helped).

Hopefully this gets repeated when I'm back over there.
that's more of a bug (or a misunderstanding on my part..) - if I try to upvote an entry without being logged in, HackerNews thinks that I already voted for it once I log in.
They could easily only have the tags show up when a user hovers over the image or some other trigger. Just a few more lines of the javascript...
I'm not sure why you gave up on prescribed psychotropics under medical supervision but you're still self-medicating with mariajuana. Is the latter more effective? Having a (capable, attentive) doctor monitoring your treatment can be a big advantage, and it's worth putting some effort into finding such a person.
The fact that every time I visit the site it starts at the same number is a good clue.

Regardless, it's a perception thing. I'm not questioning your reasons for putting it there or whether it's a close enough to accurate representation. I'm just pointing out that others might see it the same way I did.
long polling XHR. Latency is extremely good if the server software is up to the task. As soon as the server sends an HTTP header and data response, it's there on the XHR response. (Also iframes mean memory leak, and possibly 'loading' spinner. Neither of which you get with XHR).

You can also do some neat optimizations like decide that a latency of 100ms is ok enough, and so delay sending any data for up to 100ms to see if you can piggy back on the next recv request and reduce the HTTP request count by 1. Also in order to batch up sends.
For example:

Without optimization--
0ms Long polling Recv
800ms Send some data
900ms Long polling Recv (After some data was received)

With optimization--
0ms Long polling Recv
(Send queued for up to 100ms)
900ms Data sent, in Long polling Recv request.
A feral kitten came to a friend of mine after asking the universe to help her get rid of the voles in her garden. She name the kitten Quito, befriended him, showed him how to get in and out of the house through the doggy doors. Introduced him to the other animals in the house. This took about 2 months. Quito vole hunts during the day, and comes inside to sleep on a tower pole of carpet at night. He watches with a proud smile on his face, full of himself after doing a marvelous job vole hunting in the garden. The other day I visited my friend. I watched Quito hunt and amuse himself during the day, and at night I would walk by him and whisper to him stories. The night before i was leaving, Quito was laying in the chair I usually sat in. I sat beside him, he turned belly up, like a U, tail between his legs, paws wrapped around his tail.. GAWD.. soo cute. I told him the story of his beautiful successful day with this one particular special moment, about a hole in the tree. Quito was up in the tree eating the bark, and noticed a hole. The hole said, "Quito eat me". Quito replied, "I cannot eat you, you are a hole, you are empty...it will not fill me up." The hole replied.. but, I am infinitely filled-up inside... eat me." I made sounds of popping the hole into my mouth, and Quito took his paw and quickly tapped my lips, awww Quito tried to eat the hole, but he could not. The story distracted and satisfied Quito, he jumped down back to his tower and slept, most likely dreaming of the hole that is infinitely filled-up.
The pricing is crazy.

For things without a fixed cost you should be charging pence for 1000s of results not 1s.

For phone and txt you have fixed costs and that's obvious, but I would reprice with everything except the phone and text at the same prices for CPM.
I'm there. Taking vacation and paying out of pocket to go as they only send our "architects" here, not us lowly developers ;).

I'll be the guy with the black glasses and the macbook pro, should be easy to find...
He gives it as a class? Any links, or footage...? There's nothing from his homepage. Too bad, his live presentation should be recorded.
Farecast - http://farecast.live.com

It's prediction method is pretty accurate on timing when you should hold off/when you should buy tickets, and how ticket prices are distributed throughout the year. It also compares to the other budget travel sites (Hotwire, etc.).
RunMyErrand (Performs local errands for corps) raises round of angel funding in Boston
I'd never seen RunMyErrand before, but it looks like a fun little service for adhoc use.

It reminds me a little bit of Amazon EC2/S3 for the physical world.
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There first site is still live, in case anyone cares:

http://www.37signals.com/manifesto.html
The reasoning in the article is flawed. It is possible that smaller towns like Ames, IA, and Logan, UT, are faring better because no one expects to find work there and people looking for work quickly leave and gravitate to larger metropolitan areas. Also these are college towns. So the unemployment statistics are skewed because of the disproportionate number of college students who spend money without necessarily competing for jobs.
You've got to be kidding. Stifling another outlet for free speech is just to get a few more widgets produced per day right? Of course it has nothing to do with political fear, even though every other instance of such an action did. Right, you can't be serious.
Polling works out of the box with pretty much all web servers - the downside is that it's significantly slower and more resource intensive than comet.
Why? It's been dead for 20 years.
Thanks for the input. I got rid of the javascript alert(NULL:2:2) and added simple instructions to the left panel.

I should have been more specific in the title: This is only a demonstration of the UI I am building and wanted feedback on the general concept.
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Ask HN: Are modified Y Combinator applications reviewed again?
My Y Combinator application has been materially modified since its last submission, will it be reviewed again as if it's a new application?
I tend to be anxious and depressed like the author, but I've improved over the years. Things that have helped me:

There are 3 kinds of books I read: business, programming and spirituality. (I don't read fiction.)

It's a challenge to keep up to speed on all three, but when I start pouring myself into the latter (spirituality), I find myself feeling much lighter, living more in the moment and enjoying whatever momentary mess I'm currently into.

(Spirituality isn't about religion. It's about figuring out how to go deeper inside of yourself to make life-altering discoveries. "Whoa, that's why I react like that when she ...")

I've also found that consciousness-expanding drugs have helped me too. I can get outside my own reality and see things a bit more clearly. (I lived in Amsterdam for a time.)
Sheez... this is the third time this has been posted. ¡Ya basta!
I imagine publishers can put a lot more pressure on the "long tail" of small univerisities and researchers...

The publishers have little pressure to apply. The only reason for-profit journals still exist is that (a) they have a big existing audience (everyone reads Nature) and (b) they supply a seal of quality. (If you get published in Nature, people know you're a Big League Scientist and you get tenure faster and/or get more grants.)

Point (a) is extremely fragile in the age of the Web. A journal which charges exorbitant subscription fees is one tiny tipping point away from losing its entire audience to a website run from a $9.95 Dreamhost account.

Point (b) will be the last stand. And this move from MIT threatens to undermine it, because MIT manuscripts carry prestige, and any venue where they appear gets prestige by association, and those manuscripts will no longer appear in any exclusively-closed journals.

Meanwhile, technical book publishers have no pressure to apply at all. None of those books make any significant money for their authors. [1] Far from applying pressure, the publishers of scientific books must beg and plead for contributors to commit to writing chapters, and then those chapters routinely run years late, because book writing is the lowest priority on a professor's calendar. From what I've seen, many of them end up being ghostwritten [2] by postdocs in their spare time, and as a rule postdocs don't have a lot of spare time. It's a miracle that we have any decent graduate textbooks at all. A lot of fields don't, in fact.

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[1] Except for freshman-level college texts, which are a weird little monopolistic world of their own. God, I hope MIT's rule applies to those as well. That would be awesome.

[2] Okay, that's an exaggeration. Grad students and postdocs get credit for co-writing books and book chapters. That's the least they deserve for doing the majority of the work. ;)
We tinkered with providing complete support for Mac OS X in our products (our products work on Mac OS X, and just about any other UNIX, but it's not necessarily easy to install and configure currently)...and found the number of people using it on web servers is vanishingly small. The cost of hardware is just dramatically higher for most users (an XServe may be nearly cost-competitive with equivalent Sun hardware, but compared to low end white-box or Dell hardware used by most hosting providers for most customers, it's just insanely expensive). It just wouldn't be possible to run a profitable web hosting venture on Apple hardware.

I think we have two customers using Mac OS X. To put that in perspective, we have over 1500 customers using CentOS or RHEL, and a few hundred using Debian or Ubuntu, and a couple dozen using FreeBSD and Solaris. Admittedly, all of those systems have full support, but FreeBSD and Solaris had a lot more users than Mac OS X even before we were supporting it properly.
EMI Drops Lawsuit Against Project Playlist, Licenses Catalog Instead
Fructose metabolism by the brain increases food intake and obesity
The general class of women 18-25 or tech savvy 18-25? And of what interest group? You give far too few details for anyone to be able to help you.
Google Summer of Code 2009
Effectively. There are very few applications already rated by two of us, and none by three.
How Y Combinator Schools Tech Startups