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The post we're discussing mentions payouts of $0.30 to $1.50 per install. Factor in InstallMonetizer's unspecified cut, and you're looking at some pretty significant rates. What sort of software do you think can afford to pay that much to get bundled? If it's a trial up-sell at typical shareware pricing, it would need on the order of 10% conversion just to break even. I can't imagine a sensible monetization path for the bundled software that doesn't involve intrusive advertising. Any ethical review process would eliminate every applicant.
besides, not always you want to find the goal state. Many problems are about findig the path of actions from the initial state to the goal state, both known.
Oh yeah I used to use Linux until a company I worked for gave me a white Macbook. I liked it and bought a Macbook Pro. But the longer I worked with OSX the more I got annoyed. 4 years later I'm back on Linux. I didn't meant that you should change (which is why I said YMMV), but I just wanted to give another point of view of the benefits of using a tiling window manager.

A quick google search resulted in this though: https://gist.github.com/311377

If dwm is available in homebrew I guess it probably isn't that complicated to get it running in OSX.
I doubt the installer/websites would have behaved much different if I have had used Windows 7 or 8.
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I don't mean to suggest that many-to-many communication online is a solved problem, but I want to note that the description you offered of small-group many-to-many communication offline, "you sit down at a table with a small group of friends, family, or colleagues. Everyone at the table can listen and speak. People can leave, or new people can be invited to join. And the group is an ad-hoc one, formed for the conversation, which doesn't persist after the conversation is over.", sounds a lot like a thread on a forum to me. Or a thread on Hacker News, to whatever extent we'd like to claim this isn't a forum.

People interested in the listed topic see it and "join" by entering, then glance around either near the beginning or the end, or try to get caught up, looking for a strand to join in with. They can leave again freely or speak up, and whoever is left paying attention may respond to them. Only the people interested continue to pay attention, and eventually the discussion dies out and everyone's moved on. The ad-hoc group no longer persists.

It doesn't really have an effective way to invite people into the conversation, but I feel that the other things are present.
What ethical standpoint is that? That's the devil which installs spyware on your machine.

So, they have a business plan, good for them. But it doesn't make them any less scammy, nor does it make it any less disappointing to see YC funding people with the same ethics as your average patent troll.
How did you come up with 1000x? With Moore's law we are only 3 orders of magnitude better than a processor from the late 1970s?
HPC seems a lot more interesting than mainframes. One of my first UNIX accounts was on a CDC Cyber 205 (shortly before it got decommissioned, I'm not that old) and an ETA 10P supercomputer. The hardware solutions Cray and others came up with to things like cooling (inert liquid fluorocarbon?), wiring looms, etc. were amazing. All but the largest mainframes were kind of boring by comparison.

Modern virtualization covers most of the interesting parts of mainframes. There was a lot of weirdness with asymmetric multiprocessing (channel processors for storage, etc.), but a lot of that is fundamentally uninteresting since it is dealing with special cases in an inelegant way. One of the more interesting parts of mainframes were Tandem and other redundant/fault tolerant systems, with multiple processors executing the same instructions in parallel to compare output. I don't know what the state of the art is for that -- obviously in the normal open systems Internet world you could just do this at the application level with multiple machines, but chip/instruction level redundancy might get used more in embedded systems. Conceptually really interesting.

The other really interesting hardware areas, to me, are FPGAs/network ASICs, and HSMs. Trusted Computing, specifically enhancements to EFI, Intel TXT, etc. are all really interesting too.
> Any kid with a family that can afford books will score higher on "can this kid read English".

True, but there are also many families that can afford books but don't buy them, instead spending money on other things. Not having books in the house has been shown to correlate with decreased academic success.[1] I'm not saying this isn't a wealth issue, but that probably isn't the only dimension.

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562410...
I've never seen a mainframe, I don't really even know what one is or why anyone would use one. I'd think that's the main reason, but if you want to go past that, there's pretty much nothing appealing about working on legacy code in ancient languages with people 40 years older than me. I can't imagine COBOL experience looks particularly good on a resume nowadays when you want to leave the mainframe world.
Yes, this is also the same foundation that spent 1 billion to make schools smaller, because they didn't do simple statistical analysis to find that smaller schools showed much larger variability. Now they're coming back to say "oops, we were wrong."

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/09/the...
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My name's Mark Smalley and I want to help organize a NoSQL conference in South East Asia. I've been living in and around Malaysia for the past 15 years and believe that Kuala Lumpur would be an ideal location to host such an event. At the very least, I would like and plan to transform NoSQLasia.org into a place to help consolidate and organize the flow of information, cross-promotion and marketing of the events and communities that are promoting NoSQL throughout South East Asia.<p>With recent reports suggesting that the NoSQL Market will be a US$14 Billion business in 2013 - 2018 and with almost US$100 Million in recent funding to just 10gen and Neo Technologies alone, it is quite clear that the NoSQL mindset is not just a temporary fad. This is why I also believe that now would be the perfect timing for such an event, so propose that this conference takes place in September 2013<p>The story that proceeds this introduction merely helps to explain why...<p>http://nosqlasia.org/blog/nosql-asia-manifesto
And more to the point, is that previous Intellectual Property still under copyright? It seems that the most diligent respecter of Intellectual Property, Disney, may have bought a pig in a poke - someone else may legitimately be entitled to some compensation for the unauthorized use of their property.
There is no business reason to align the review process with customer needs, only with ROI.
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The quality of search results provided by Google are valid as basis for judging Google. A paranoid individual might even see an alignment between Google's web services business model and search results which facilitate the installation crapware upon the most popular desktop operating system particularly when that crapware generally provides tracking information useful for targeted advertising.

Of course, another stripe of deluded individual might blame Microsoft for the abundance of crapware on the internet.
Great tale regarding the history of it was posted sometime ago on HN:

http://research.swtch.com/6502
There are nearly 5 million people with access to US "top secret" level information.

So I would disagree about how public you think it is just because it's not on the nightly news.
thanks. I will give it a try.
So, if a teacher has as little effect on a child's performance as you seem to be implying should we then reduce teacher pay, accept the lower quality applicants we would get since it doesn't matter, and spend the extra money on anti-poverty measures?
Also true of regular harddrives, just the nature of the game when technically all of the harddrives are under the same load due to RAID and even with different manufacturing times the loads are the same so it's hard to estimate how far apart the batches should be in order to really minimize the incidence of such events.

We do provide snapshots and backups and always recommend that customers backup their servers and take care of ensuring that they have access to their important content in case of any failure.

But maybe we can do the impossible if we can do 100 pushups ;)
Yes it is. Every network ethernet adaptor or wifi chip has a unique MAC address.
Here is some experience that I have had. In an inner city high school (math class), in each mid-thirty student sized class, there were about four students who made it their point to disrupt the classroom. Unless actual violence occurred, they were not to be kicked out. So the teacher could spend a large portion of the period trying to reign in a couple of students at the expense of the whole class. Add to that that the majority of the class had difficulty with, not just multiplication or division, but SUBTRACTION.

This was an Algebra class, and the students had to be graded on their Algebra skills and judged on their Algebra proficiency tests. No homework would be completed, and no recourse could be given for lack of homework. 50% of these 9th grade students will not make it graduation. 3% will make it to a four year institution. Less will graduate from there.

How is this different than working with professional engineers? Ones who could be fired or in some other way worked with? How is this different than working code where a solution exists? How is this different than working with other people who are looking for a solution as well?

A better comparison would be to how you judge a prison guard in relation to recidivism rate.
If this becomes policy, it will most likely become another example of Goodhart's law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodharts_law

You can find a measure that correlates to performance, but once you use it to actually evaluate teacher, teacher will adapt and the measure will lost all relevance.

Rely on test scores? Teach the test, not the material.
Rely on student evaluations? Bribe them with easy material and good grades.
Rely on principal evaluation? Get on its good side.
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You can run arbitrary scripts in the installer, so you can install anything you want.
Things have changed, gradually.
> has me seriously thinking this guy needs to see the other side of a defense table.

Along with a prosecutor that decides to mitigate a suicide risk by locking him up. Just to be safe.
The MTBF for SSD in a server environment is two to three years maximum though.

(just ask someone on OVH)
This is relatively cool, but that's not a great article.
I used to watch the old black and white Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers TV serials from the 30s when I was a kid in the 70s. The black and white, the scrolling plot summary, the dinky bullet shaped spaceships and firework rocket engines, flying around saving space princesses were a bit naff, but we lapped it up anyway.

That opening scroll, but in full colour on a 'modern' cinema screen, with the latest sound systems of the day was stunning. I immediately got the reference, it was obvious to anyone of the time. But the way it was used with full colour and up to date projection technology, having the text recede into the distance yet still remain readable due to the high resolution film stock, the opening scene of the staggering huge battle cruiser seemingly taking forever to fill the screen was just awe inspiring.

George Lucas was speaking directly into your subconcious saying "You know those old TV shows you love? I love them too. So I made this".

My children love Star Wars, but not the way I do, and they can never have quite the same relationship to it. You just had to be there at that time and have those formative experiences to prepare you for it.

The one thing I made absolutely sure of - I made certain my girls didn't know Vader was Luke's father and let them see it on the screen. That was really important to me.
I recently tried out pHash and it seemed to be a good tool for detecting nearly duplicate images. Certainly superior to calculating md5 for images and comparing those.

However, if the images have different cropping, slight rotation or different brightness/contrast setting pHash didn't seem to work well enough. I got better results with http://www.imgseek.net/ for my image set.
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In terms of clockspeed, the 6502 ran at 1 to 2 MHz. Today's processors are at most running at around 2 to 4 GHz, so in terms of "order of magnitude" 1000x is spot on. Of course, on a clock-for-clock basis modern architecures are a lot wider too, which will also account for better performance. But clockspeed is simple enough.
I'm still not sold that this can't be a legitimate business that cares about not bundling crap. Maybe payouts could decrease in size to attract more reasonable software and to grow their offering. It could be used for product launches for good apps. The opportunity here just doesn't seem as narrow to me as it does to others.
Wikipedia lists the 6502 as having between 1 MHz to 2 MHz and the Samsung Galaxy SII as having around 1.2 GHz.[0] I'm guessing that's where the 1000x comes from... Or, you know, it's just a nice big number. ;P

[0] Of course, that's ignoring multiple cores, better microcode, caches, etc.
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Show HN: My first RoR project. Domain appraisal engine
This is my first Show HN: post. Domain Mongrel calculates the worth of a website/domain name based on different factors like popularity, length, search volume, dictionary, etc.
This is a technical site, some technical details of the implementation would be more appropriate.

In terms of the app itself, web apps generally offer some way to fire them up straight away without having to sign up. Many users, myself included, will just click cancel on the sign up screen. You have to give us something first before we trust you with our email. Edit: I ended up looking by just entering a rubbish email address.

The landing page is very pretty, though the app looks somewhat like https://moqups.com/ at a glance.
Somehow, they linked to image resources hosted on github, causing a massive load when the first wave of CNY train tickets went on sale. So glad I'm staying home this year.
I'm not sure if I get it, your product is about creating rated lists that you can share and people can judge. It's like if you joined lists with surveys, isn't it?
True. That's just a short blogpost, that I wrote mostly to let now our customers about new feature (really crucial for them). Suddenly hundreds of people are reading it.

While I'm super-happy and even more thankful for all the up votes, I'm a little bit ashamed that it's not a top-notch writing and in-depth analysis of the problem.

Anyway thanks Hackernews! Glad you like it. Local storage should be a must-be for any cloud app.
>'Not for impeachment' above means that his silence was not offered as dispositive of his guilt.

Are you sure? The way I read it, "not for impeachment but in its case-in-chief" means "as part of making its case, rather than to show that a witness' testimony was false" - different evidentiary rules apply to evidence introduced for impeachment (i.e. to show that a witness' testimony was false). I see nothing to imply that his silence wasn't used as evidence for his guilt, or that the jury knew to ignore it (how possible would that even be?)

>Salinas is effectively arguing that the jury can not be informed of a question going unanswered, which I don't think is supported by precedent.

Surely that's the only way to ensure a suspect's silence will not be held against him?

>In the event that the Supreme court agrees with Salinas (unlikely IMHO), what will happen is that his case will be sent back to the lower court for a retrial, all the same evidence will be introduced, except that the prosecutor will studiously avoid mentioning this exchange. Then he'll be convicted again because there's loads and loads of other evidence.

Sounds like we should have nothing to fear from a victory on his part then; sure there will be the cost of a retrial, but it's not worth sacrificing vital constitutional protections just to save the court a bit of work.
kudos to the WaPo for giving a link to the study. too often, many publications discuss a study but never link to it, which then makes it harder to go and review it for yourself.
There is no "UK legal system". English law (covering the historic Kingdom of England, i.e., England and Wales) and Scots law (covering the historic Kingdom of Scotland, i.e., Scotland), and Northern Ireland law are all separate common law jurisdictions with their own oddities, and though they share some laws the extent to which precedents cross the different jurisdictions is unclear.
Emmy Noether is the only (?) woman on IBM's famous "Men of Modern Mathematics" poster (1966). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematica:_A_World_of_Numbers...
The 6502 ran at 1 MHz in the Apple ][. Modern processors run at 1 GHz (1000 MHz) and above. That's 1000x, which is 3 orders of magnitude.
Then why not use standardized tests for job interviews, or why don't decent universities use them? Standardized tests have serious disadvantages to consider, and aren't normally considered best-by-default.

There at least a couple obvious groups qualified to rate educational quality: teachers and students. If they happen to choose a standardized test to evaluate the education, then fine. Otherwise, I don't see standardized tests as obviously virtuous.
Although a bunch of people have been having issues judging by the comments, my experience just now was impressively easy and makes me want to benchmark/test it further.

Great job guys.
I never considered it because I can't think of a problem I need a mainframe for.
If there is something really CPU intensive I would use the cloud (map-reduce XYZ) for it.

Have you ever come over a discussion here on HN and someone said "Let's use a mainframe for that"?

I know there are a few disciplines is science where it is important, but then I would have an interest in meteorology etc. to even consider it.
So all the rest I associate with legacy stuff, where I heard horror stories from people. Never "Wow that AS/400 is so cool for X".
Doing some Googling of my own, I found this article from the government dept. responsible which (amusingly) calls out another Register article on this topic by the same author as being inaccurate.

From reading this side of things the orphan works idea seems like a bit of a damp squib to me but it's certainly got some folks very worked up in the comment sections of these blogs. Apparently it's all a conspiracy to let Google steal your photos or indeed to "nationalise a large part of the creative sector".

http://discuss.bis.gov.uk/enterprise-bill/2012/07/30/30-july...

http://blogs.bis.gov.uk/blog/2012/08/02/uk-copyright-and-orp...
Because once you've programmed a computer interactively with good tools there really is no going back to anything else.

Mainframe development suffers from crufty tools, a batch-oriented workflow with VERY slow turn-around times, an OS that was positively stupid (mainframes were expected to run mission-critical applications in as little as 32 KiB of memory; not a whole lot of room for user-friendly OS smarts) -- all relics from the dark ages of computing. Kids these days are spoiled by interactive consoles (graphical consoles even!), free-form programming languages like C and Python, fancy full-screen editors and free compilers. They don't have time for mainframe shit.

Yes, yes, I know. Modern mainframes can be time-shared and z/Architecture systems run Linux now. But Linux on a System z is not that much different from Linux on your PC or a SPARC-based server; there's nothing inherently "mainframey" about it except the hardware it happens to run on. When people speak of mainframe development they usually mean MVS, JCL, COBOL, and all those horrors.
The Netherlands might not be doing as well as you might think.

Things like the Chipshol debacle in the Netherlands shows that there is strong evidence of judicial collusion in a series of court cases - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipshol has a very superficial summary of something that I found quite shocking, involving public accusations of corruption, perjury, where one of the ex-judges involved was forced out as head of the Dutch anti-trust authority when it all blew open.

Judges and lawyers seem to come from the same social circles, have gone to the same universities, members of the same clubs and so on. To access the conveyor-belt of promotions and opportunities, it is not inconceivable that a culture of "scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours" in a part of a small legal and judicial community in a small country could form.

A system in which lay-people are involved may have to work a lot harder to pretend that biased judgements are fair.
Umm... Spoiler Alert!

In all seriousness, I dont think my kids will get the significance of Star Wars, either.
One thing to keep in mind is that YC funds groups. If a team is funded to do one thing, then pivots to doing something else later, it's not like YC is going to de-fund you. (I don't know anything about this specific company)
That's under English law. Under Scots law and Northern Irish law there are no plea bargains.
Oh, and apparently there's an update to the poster in the form of an iPad app, and she's the only woman there, too. http://techpinions.com/men-of-modern-mathematics-lives/6332
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I think there's one happening in NITC soon.
Actually you would be surprised. The biggest advertiser in the CPA industry over the last few years closed their doors a couple of months ago. And now the EPC (earning's per click) are about 20% of what they used to be, so the majority of CPA networks are either going broke or shutting down for good. I imagine that the majority of them will be closing their doors this year as well which is kind of sad.

As of now, not 1 of my friends promoting CPA offers is making money, they've either got themselves a 9-5 or just chewing through their savings.
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incidental rather than intentional

Perhaps it was originally incidental, but at this late date both prosecutors and defense attorneys know on which side their bread is buttered. They might occasionally countenance a reduction in sentences, but they'll never allow a reduction in complexity and complication to emerge from our legislatures. Our judges all begin as prosecutors [!] so even though their livelihood wouldn't be threatened they're too professionally deformed to even recognize complexity as an issue.
"Constructive"
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http://xkcd.com/810/
I don't get to control the projects sent my way. I'm not allowed to "fire" customers with difficult expectations.

Hell, I've only ever fired one engineer in a 20+ year career, and that was because he was the equivalent of a violent student whom you would expel and send to juvi.

Why is it so hard to deal with the information as presented in the study. Fine, question the details or methods of the study. Offer counter evidence. The study presented evidence that good teachers can have a noticeable and measurable level of control on the output of their students. Why is dealing with evidence not the central part of this discussion?