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I discovered this bookmarklet a few months ago and haven't looked back since. It makes reading the web so much easier on the eyes.
They also did the hardware and taught at ETHZurich.
I totally missed it too. People are using this to bash C++ which is probably fair, but it's worth noting that lots of modern C++ folks default to using RAII pointer types (std::auto_ptr, boost::shared_ptr) to guard against these types of errors.
There's a difference between batch processing and batch queries.

At least one clustered sql database vendor supports the use of map-reduce to do data transforms. The results of which are made available via standard sql queries.
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This is a terrible letdown. I know it's a beta but the search functionality is terrible and there is no way to browse in any intuitive way
It's not a new thing, either - it would've continued to receive pretty much zero attention if it weren't for the Adblock mess.
Ask HN: Will Twitter replace RSS feeds?
Will a Twitter feed, with both comments and headline/link structure, replace common RSS feeds?
A real eye opener?
I think Sam secretly wants to be a real estate agent.
This is an interesting article, but I believe that the benchmarks should be updated since a ton of progress has been made in compilers and how they handle aliasing.
Oberon was one of the inspirations for Plan 9 From Bell Labs, of which I am very happy user.
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When I said "best" this was what I meant. For me, it's the best blend of simplicity and functionality, essentially just being a text editor with a drawer organizer. In nearly all cases, my notes only require basic formatting and are short enough than they don't require searching.

For other uses, such as taking clippings, composing blogs posts, and keeping a journal, I'd wholeheartedly reccomend a more powerful app like those suggested in the comments, especially VoodooPad.

But now the title has been changed, hiding my blunder of a headline. Any ideas on how this happened?
"Divisive"? Where have I heard that before? http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

I'm no fan of O'Bama, but if he's getting this sort of attack he's probably doing something right.
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Why? It worked itself out, the community process worked, therefore no changes need to be made.
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i feel like this is the ycombinator of medical research. finance a revolutionary idea a bit (100k is not much for medicine), and see how it can grow. gotta love it
No. Objective C isn't performance oriented, and while it's fine for most desktop apps (!) it's not in the same league as C++. C++ can actually let you use higher level structures that are faster than in C or Objective C because of template meta programming, as shown in the Blitz template library for numerical computation.

http://www.oonumerics.org/blitz/
This is what Templates are made for. And this is what you can't do in something like Java or Objective C. Java Generics boiling down to type cast at run time to and from Object, it doesn't help performance a bit.
A competent C programmer can clearly make a good, performant program in 10klines. A genius programmer, maybe 100klines.

There's something beyond those figures, though. And it gets worse when a team is involved.

The higher the level of the language rises, the less it allows making bad programs, however big the program is.
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I saw this a while ago and my question is the same as before - anyone know a Linux equivalent?
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What kind of unsound things?
There's a link to the Linux version right under the main download buttons.
That is a false dilemma tho'. No-one in the Python world has anything invested in a 100% Python solution to anything. Doing the compute-intensive bits in C is in fact expected and encouraged! The same is true in the Tcl camp. Maybe some HLL communities (Java?) like to be "pure" but I've not ever encountered that.
Does this actually do anything to help your eyes?
Previous discussion here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=488211
I seem to recall this link has been posted here before, but for those who have not yet seen the videos yet, they are delightful.
How would they? The main reason I use RSS is so I can see the whole article, not a Twitter-sized blurb of the article. That feed actually seems a lot like HN and Reddit, where it aggregates headlines and links, and provides comments.
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The Summer 2009 semester is the first session. They have lined up an impressive set of mentors for the program.
Yes. The lease was for 4 months. Since most of the house was YC W09, they all left after the round. Three of us moved to the city (and are starting the SF house).
In other words, don't let there be somebody out there that puts in the same effort.
Windows will stay far, far ahead of any other platform in gaming at the very least until someone can get the Khronos Group to do something useful. OpenGL 3 is such a setback for non-Microsoft gaming.
CUDA and OpenCL have C syntax, but they are not C.
Am I victim of offering too many features to users?
Well, I can run an IT startup (as I'm doing) only by myself.
I do pretty good at everything (coding, HCI, Design, Management/Law, PR/HR, etc).

I think a employee like this can partially hurt an early-age startup (as also sid says).
I agree. I like writing my goop in Ruby. But that's not what the article is about.
Indeed, though at first I missed it too.
Great stuff, good idea.
How about restaurants, small retailers? I dunno. I guess it depends on where you are. If Amex is a stand alone card for you, pretend it isn't. I was just illustrating a point.
What is a policy going to do? Sometimes I think the MoFo doesn't really understand open source. When anyone can fork your project at any time, you can't impose any restrictions. If you do, your project gets forked, and you lose control.

(They tried this once with their icons and the name "Firefox". The result is that I don't actually know of anyone that uses "Firefox" anymore, they use "Iceweasel". Wow, MoFo, you sure showed us!)

Along the same lines, there is an easy workaround for the NoScript/ABP debacle. You fork NoScript and remove the unwanted features. Then you tell everyone to use your fork instead. Problem solved. No policies needed. It's open source, guys.
But I'm getitng more into Privoxy as I can use it with Chrome / Opera / I.E / and one day my phone when Opera Mini / Chrome allows proxies!

And it's not because of the existence of ads but their flashing / attention grabbing nature. I've bought stuff from ads - website t-shirts mainly and stuff from thinkgeek when slashdot ran an ad.

I also contribute to http://dfm.nu/ through their paypal donation link. I'm not trying to sound like a hero just say that I'm not an habitual freeloader. Every website should have a "buy our merchandise" link :)
"I have an additional speculation: that a protein that was too stable would be hard to break down and re-use for spare parts, once it gets damaged by cellular metabolic products (or any of a number of other mechanisms).
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Drexler suggests that people designing protein machines should not be afraid to try to do things differently, and better, than biology. I agree."

There's a hidden with this line of reasoning - by the first line of reason, it quite likely that a highly stable nano-machines would be toxic because it could not be broken down in the manner of a protein and would thus accumulate in the body if it operated similarly to a protein. It is just about guaranteed that any form of nanomachine you create would wide-up spread about the environment. Could be a problem.
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Maybe I was just ignorant, but to me, Python and Ruby didn't seem like plausible alternatives to Perl in 1999. I don't know why; lack of libraries? Lack of documentation? Tcl, yes, but I'm glad I didn't spend too much time doing that.
I just got the Linux version running. It definitely changed the screen color a lot. I guess we'll see whether it helps my eyes.
Like any business, they are trying to grab as much money as they can, hoping no one will notice.

People noticed, in Time Warner's case, and they got called on it.

Not ethical or nice, but it is the way our system works.
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-- Wired: By contrast, e-book readers are good at basically one thing: Storing and displaying monochrome text and simple graphics.

And that's why they are a win. I have a 15" laptop, a 10" laptop, a Sony Ebook, a G1, a 5.1mp camera and an MP3 Walkman. Each one has a niche and that's where I use it. I don't use the ebook as an mp3 player (though it can) and I don't want to hook up a keyboard to it (though I could). I use it to read books on the bus.
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This kind of thing happens every 6 or so months, the journalists (if you can call them that) love a fight. It is all they know.

They seem to live in a world that only routes packets to the 'winner'
As I cannot try it (I'm using 64-bit Linux), I peeked into the executable and found out that it is using XF86VidModeSetGammaRamp and XF86VidModeGetGammaRamp functions internally and it takes latitude and zip code (not longitude, so it is US-only).

Armed with location and time, program already knows how much sunlight there should be (plus-minus some error) and then the daemon slowly changes the color temperature of the monitor...
Give me a fucking break, this is the kind of shit that led to the first dot com bubble.

You either sell or develop in a startup, if you're doing neither or these, you're useless. Pick one and do it.
Looks like an interesting technique - I wonder how it works?
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http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/seminars/knuth/081209-kn...

I attended this one - it started off kind of slow but ended up pretty interesting.
I tried this and found it highly annoying. It didn't seem to use any kind of gradation. Just "hey, it's supposed to be dark where you are" and everything turns red. It's really irritating.
It will be even cooler if it adjusts according to how much light your web cam detects.

I imagine this isn't too hard. You probably need to design a clever light-intensity-test to determine the range your cam can detect.
From what I read, then all the fluff about Oberon is mostly about the tiling window manager.

In case anyone wants to try something like this on modern operating systems then it is actually possible: Xmonad, awm, ratpoison, ion, larswm... (and list goes on)
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Gaming is not only about pretty graphics, dude. Who the fuck cares if OpenGL 3 isn't as great as DirectX10, cool games are made on the nintendo which has neither.

The madness of wanting all the pretty graphics you can do has killed whole game genres on the PC. There aren't any RPG worth a salt nowadays because the only studios that survived are using all their resources on graphics and nothing else. Fallout 3 is a shooter that just happens to have RPG elements and doesn't hold a candle to its predecessors. The RPG genre used to have hideous graphics and great gameplay, when Fallout 2 was out it was considered ugly for its own time but was a success because people cared less in those days. Fallout 3 has pretty graphics and nothing else because of the insane expectations people have from 3D games.
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Until about 12 months ago, I think we all secretly wanted to be real estate agents.
Superior in graphical quality, yes, but PC games don't sell nearly as well as games for consoles and portable systems. Also, I don't see any major Windows titles using touchscreen/accelerometers for input yet.
Am I making user confused by offering too many things here? Should I remove some features such as Passion Talk, News etc from Rivalry Detail page?
> Now lets look at it in a realistic context. The society where rich people can afford something today is a society where poor people said something tomorrow.

And where there will be another thing (of some critical importance) that the poor cannot afford tomorrow that the rich can.

> You're arguing that folks should die "forever" in order to spare the feelings of people who died "unnecessarily" during a "while". Do you really believe that people saved later are worth so little?

No, I'm arguing that a society where progress is slightly slower (i.e the pie grows more slowly), but has lesser income disparity will probably be happier than one with massive income disparity and faster overall progress. I'm not saying it's 'right' or 'wrong', but I am saying that this is a fact. Happier societies generally have lower income disparities than those displayed in the US, and really, what else do you need to justify it?

> Oh really? You find what I say to be "lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere"? On what basis?

Because I think when people say it that their motivation is not accuracy, it's just an excuse to justify not caring about the poorer segment of society - a way to ignore the fact that although the absolute amount of pie they get has increased, there's still a problem.
Getting Buzz: From 0 to (maybe) Forbes in under a week
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Simply using Amazon.com for my college books rather than the local textbook store (not even the official bookstore) saved me over $400 this year.

Not sure if the Kindle e-books would have the same advantage though, because there would be no such thing as a used book anymore. Right now I buy books used through Amazon but never sell them. Usually the used books are about 20-60% of list price on Amazon and 60-80% at a local book store. I don't imagine that publishers would be willing to drop the price of an ebook 20+% to make them competitive.

Though some of the initial markup on textbooks is due to reselling in the first place (which the publishers combat with useless new editions), maybe eliminating resale would allow some publishers to lower their price and for people who never sell the books again like myself it would be a great win.
As a single person, $5,000 is 3 months of leisure. That's hardly unatainable.
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Beat them to what? Safari doesn't have the per-tab process separation that Chrome does.
I thought this was going to be a really interesting article leading to some amount of dollars. Unfortunately, it climaxed with a call from a (nameless) Forbes reporter.

I suggest you delete this post, and stop telling people about the secrets of SEO you learned from a t-shirt site.

Better yet, write a follow-up post saying how successful you were.
I love to hear the etymology of internet signs. The smiley face allegedly spawned from my alma mater.

It was nice to hear the originator of the email sign give such a practical answer at the end of the article too :)
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Well, firstly, I didn't submit this. Secondly, I thought this might serve to benefit some people who have trouble with marketing by explaining my own story and how I utilized every day resources. And thirdly, I could have very well posted the name of the reporter, but wasn't sure if that was proper etiquette.
What we're talking about is the gecko/xul platform behind Firefox. By definition it's a platform and should stay neutral about what is allowed and what is not. While the Mozilla platform is indeed more integrated and monolithic than, for example, an operating system, it's still an application platform.

All platforms have applications. Could you imagine GNU or Gnome setting policies for how different programs shouldn't mess and compete with each other? In an open market for applications, the bad applications just get weeded out for good. There's no need for Mozilla to intervene; the power of Mozilla platform is that extensions can do powerful stuff, upto and including battling each other. You can't go rule out just those things.

* * *

(Or are we in for a lengthy philosophical debate of whether it's possible to write a platform that only allows "good" things to happen? I don't think so. Those who disagree can go and drool Apple's iPhone application SDK and review process :-))
Why does this article not compare the gross margins of various industries?

It seems worthless (and disingenuous) to quote absolute figures in the billions.

For example, Exxon made 40.6 billion in profits in 2008: http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/economy/2008/02/01/e...

That's more than the entire ISP industry, but does it matter even a little bit?
How about adding the rating to the link? http://g.isnsfw.com/blah. Then you won't need a preview.
> There is no valid reason why another extension should deliberately and specifically disable this behaviour

It's not - as far as I could tell - this style is deployed on his websites, not through his plugin.

It's a nifty trick, I've just added it to my own site.
I'm pretty sure having links with the same color as the background can get your site penalized. Just put your link in your signature. Or edit the post a day later.
This is a tad off topic but I can’t help myself because this attitude drives me crazy. I will never understand people who think "I don’t like something so it should be taken down"

The web and blogs in particular provide a system for documenting different perspectives. So even if someone is wrong their post provides insight into why people believe something that is incorrect. Plus it might inspire someone else to write a thoughtful post explaining why the idea was wrong which makes it even more valuable.

Bottom Line is, imho, every piece of thoughtful information increases the value of the system as a whole.
So to get buzz I have to post hidden links, tweet sensational headlines, and lie to popular blogs?

Count me out.
Naive use of the GC is probably faster than any off-the-shelf manual memory management strategy. How many programmer hours are you prepared to pay for to get the last 1% of speed?
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You clearly knew what your readers were interested in knowing... so why choose not to say the amount, and instead say you got a call from someone in Forbes? Can you please tell me why the last sentence in your article says you made a nice sum of cash, instead of listing a dollar figure?

Call me a cynic, but I'd guess that the dollar amount you made would have seriously detracted from the veracity of your article. Maybe after Forbes covers your shirts, the figure will be worth sharing...

In the mean time, let me offer some words of advice to the entrepreneurs who might be misled by this article. The way to a successful product isn't a sham-wow with a trendy swine flu t-shirt site - the way to success is to focus on serving your users, and making your product better.

Tell me... did Posterous get to the level of success it has today with the tactics of making swine flu shirts? Maybe you have a more interesting story to share.
Interesting technique to circumvent AdBlock. Might be useful!

But AFAIK AdSense program policy does not allow cloaking. I guess that includes URL obfuscation.

A bit cheeky I guess. First screw around with ABP, then write a apologetic blog post about it, get it on HN and Reddit and use the same technique to display the Ads. Wonder how many ad impressions he got out of it. The only problem, I dont think anyone uses ABP is going to click the ads even if you manage to show it to them!
Apple isn't going to buy Twitter. Or these dozen other alleged acquisition targets.
Like I mentioned, this was really nothing more than an experiment. I certainly would not have done that if I was trying to generate buzz for a legitimate company. These were the efforts of a broke college student who thought it interesting to see if he could ride the swine flu hysteria. And to a certain extent, I was able to ride it. It was a great learning experience.
The fellas from Heyzap seem to have timed their SwineFighter similarly and were mentioned in that same Techcrunch post. I wonder how much their marketing experience parallels that of kyro.
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The point is not abt making-flu-shirts-is-bad attitude. It's about creating publicity for a product/service.

Here, Kyro makes shirts and he made special flu shirts when flu was the buzz. There's nothing wrong abt it.

The method of publicity and the product/service are connected. It's not like Mozilla selling flu-tshirts because they want to spread the browser. It's spreadshirts making flu shirts because they want to spread the word that they make shirts
'Misled by this article.'

I hope you do realize that I wasn't trying to build a company for the long haul. I'm not telling entrepreneurs to market their products in a sham-wow way. I wrote that in an attempt to inspire entrepreneurs by letting them know that all they need are the tools they are given and their creativity to generate buzz. This was mostly a response to the submissions I've seen in the past where people complain about how hard it is to get attention for their product. That SEO is still worth something. That Twitter can prove to be an invaluable tool. And that creating an interesting story is the way to get blogged.

I'm not trying to build the next Apple, man. This was clearly a gimmick I whipped up in no time and tried to push to the limit given the resources I have and no money.

Also, in response to your last line, PlentyofFish comes to mind.
I have to reiterate the grandparent poster's point... The tactics you used might be great to generate buzz in one week, but they would suck to generate buzz over 6 months, because once everyone finds you're basically abusing forums for your SEO, lying to journalists, and spamming twitter, they won't want to deal with you on principle.

So this works for a throw-away company that you don't care about. That said, I'm doubtful of the wisdom of linking your name to it publicly like this. You only have one reputation...