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A mourning friend of Fravia, new to Wikipedia, is trying to write an article about him, but his lack of experience triggered the heavy hand of admins, and the article is currently a semi-protected minimal stub.
I didn't know Fravia until yesterday, so I'm in a bad position to help him personaly, besides trying to explain him the local, arid rules, but it's a bit hard to explain that to a man in sorrow. The stub is here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravia, and the WIP article here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fravia/WIP

On a related note, there seems to be little reliable information (in the Wikipedia meaning of reliable) about Fravia. He was more of an underground hero.

Having an eulogy or a tribute published in a respected publication may help sourcing the article. I know it's silly to have an eulogy written only for that purpose, but Wikipedia has become the default knowledge repository, and it would be a shame not to have an article about him. If (the friend of) a high profile hacker who knew or was influenced by Fravia read this, it would be nice if he could do something about it.
A great read indeed. I recommend Steve Blank's book for further reading on getting and developing customers: The Four Steps to the Epiphany - http://www.cafepress.com/kandsranch.58024175
You mean productivity gained? :-)
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I think it's just a lot easier to 'iterate and improve' on a piece of text - to do the same for a podcast would basically reduce it down to reading from a dry script, leaving it likely even more boring, regardless of how interesting the subject matter is.

Of course, the easiest way to make a programming podcast both interesting and entertaining seems to be just to get Simon Peyton-Jones in it ;).
Audio: Sequential access, list.

Hypertext: Random access, graph.

This has huge implications.
NOT EXISTS has been known to be faster than a join for years now. In what possible way is this news? NOT EXISTS allows for short circuiting, like an OR: if at least one record exists, processing can quit. The Join would need to process all records.

This puts into context all the people complaining about SQL and relational databases, and how great key-value stores are. Perhaps some of the sturm und drang is over the fact that, while SQL people admittedly may have little experience with Hadoop or other non-relational processing and storage, sounds like some HN folks have actually had little experience with the SQL they are disparaging.

Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties is full of great explanations of how to really use SQL, and is worth picking up if you want to see what SQL can really do and work around it's (many) warts. http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Celkos-SQL-Smarties-Programming/dp...
Any KV store can do the trick, just make sure to use multiple machines via some for of partitioning (for example consistent hashing).

Redis is reported to hold 300 million keys on a single 64bit machine with 64 GB of RAM, so you need around 7-10 Redis servers in this configuration: an object for every top-object with value including the serialized version of the other 10 objects. All this assuming that values will not be too big.
Producing audio shows is not easy -- it seems everyone can do it, but the really good ones are made by people who formerly worked for radio and TV stations.

You might want to try the TWIT podcasts (http://twit.tv/). I'd call them easy-listening tech shows.
The Drake Equation is missing something. If humans were to go extinct in, say, 100,000 years (arbitrary), the earth still has plenty of time left to evolve another intelligent species. That cycle could repeat itself dozens of times over the course of a planet's lifetime. The Drake Equation doesn't model this concept of "multiple windows of opportunity".
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I didn't say that. Art and science require a different kind of creativity, and it's irrelevant to compare them.

And I don't think that the only thing needed to be an artist is an "attitude".
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If in a certain country vocal criticism of a certain ideology is frequently met with punishment, this fact seems informative to me regardless of whether the punishment was democratically sanctioned by the majority.
Not just difficult to build, but also difficult to come up with a decent idea.
No, the fact that it has been specced out with repeatable, automated tests means that you have much more hope of reliable compatibility than say CSS 2 where it was just text and everyone interpreted it differently and there was no "correct" answer to compare to.
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Looks like a ISPF mainframe interface :)
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From that quote, I would assume the author's argument is "Math contains many unapplied topics, whereas CS contains many applied topics. Therefore CS is more useful for outside-domain work."

I would suggest looking for applications of say, linear algebra or group theory. I don't know enough CS to come up with an equivalently unapplicable topic to match elliptic curves.
Yes it is, but where did the laws come from?

Did our elected representatives just wake up one day and say, "Let us make laws so byzantine, that the people will weep and wail and rend their hair in frustration!"

Well maybe, but I think it's really the lobbyists using carrots (money) and sticks (fear o' God) on the government that got us into this boat.
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My point is that in the last 20 years things have changed here. For instance, states obtained the right to start charter schools with funding.
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Good luck, but I think it will be very difficult. I added the bit about DVD Jon a few days ago, but was unable to find anything else even remotely resembling a reliable source. If a passing reference to Fravia on DVD Jon's blog is the best source we have, then the article is in trouble.
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This happens with quite a few programmes that we have imported from the US. Off the top of my head I can think of Mythbusters and Ice Road Truckers which are dubbed by a British narrator with a lot of the dramatic music removed. All in all it makes the programmes more factual.

Personally I believe this is because of the BBC and to some extent Channel 4 (a pseudo-public tv channel) keeping standards high overall. I doubt the viewing public would accept such dramatised documentaries on the BBC considering its heritage...
Being able to build something cool is not good enough. Neither is fast performance.
Not all of them. I've read Ultimate Imperative, Ultimate GOTO, and Ultimate Opcode (along with Sussman's SICP, which covers some similar ground).

To the best of my recollection, I haven't seen these on HN before. Have they been posted before?

Oh, and for the record, I'm hardly in need of any karma.
Thanks for the advice. It is very much appreciated.

I like the idea of giving him an option. It aligns our interests and should look more tidy to other investors down the road.
Distorted the assumptions is bad, but paying a buck a click for market research is not, especially if it saves you $1000s in dev costs.

(I still don't think I'd feel right doing it, though).

OT: How long does it take for your Google ad to start getting impressions when you submit it? Mine are embargoed for several days, and I cannot figure out why (nor will they tell me).
Well, it is a free service. (Working for me now, fwiw.)
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Forget the database. Figure out:
- What data you have? (I think you know this).
- How it will be accessed?

Then, figure out what's the best way to store the data so that access (includes, read/writes) is efficient. Essentially, at this point you're trying to figure out what's the most efficient way to organize the data.

Then, think of where to store this organization. You may end up using more than one type of database for that matter but at least at this point you can ask more pointed questions like: "Hey, anyone knows the best way to store long/lats?" Or "Hey, anyone knows the best way to store tags for 10billions objects?" etc.
I didn't know that such a google-page actually exists, thanks. btw: gmail works for me at the moment (although its status is marked with "Service outage").
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Very interesting, but I would be interested in a link from a more objective (less political) source.
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Doh. Meant to say "C with some higher-level language".
Braintree may have a high minimum monthly fee - but I don't think you should skimp on quality when it comes to a merchant/gateway account.

Just try searching for competitors in Twitter - you'll quickly get a indication on the type of customer support they provide:
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So far I've found the people at Braintree to be friendly and extremely helpful.

Also, if you don't see your business rising above the minimum monthly fee then it's probably not really worth your while. After your first 20 customers or so, you'll be paying exactly the same as most of the other gateways.
I know this is getting off topic, but the original Monkey Island handled it beautifully
Bushido Blade for the original PlayStation was a one-on-one game with pretty realistic weapon fights.

One hit from a sword in a vital area and you were dead. Hits to the legs or arm would disable that limb.

A lot of the fights were over quickly. But when both players were good, you could have some pretty tense, tactical duels.

The game mechanics also encouraged you to fight honorably.
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"his one guy, Jordan Mechner, has designed a lot of the interesting martial arts simulations"

How does one even begin to write a martial art simulation? Does one model the human body (model things like "a human elbow can turn x degrees in 2 planes" or whatever)? Does anyone have any references to (or demo code on) how to write a martial arts simulation? Thanks in advance.
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Doesn't it suck juice like crazy?

It was the only reason I jailbroken my iPhone a year back. Tried it, the phone was hot after half an hour and the drain incredible. I'd never jailbreak ever since.
One of the early Make magazines mentioned a modern Apple II kit. Perhaps a fun side project? Assuming I'm not mis-remembering I'll fish out the reference and post it later.
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Not so fast. We also have (some) problems with education in Germany.
> Is an application supposed to be able to run on arbitrarily low memory?

Of course. Experience is everything on iPhones (and should be on most devices). If an app crashes, it's bad.
While I'm in no way an expert on this subject, there was a really interesting piece about this on This American Life, which you can listen to for free: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=3... . It's Act One, which is most of that week's show.

I want to ramble about how interesting this is, but it would be best if you just go listen to this. Obviously, it's still early on and while it looks like they've captured lighting in a bottle, extraordinary results demand extraordinary skepticism. However, especially for people with extremely limited resources trying to do big things (e.g. entrepreneurs), I think it's an interesting piece on thinking big.

Anyway, we should all hope this turns out well, and we can look forward to a more educated next generation in the US.
You have to expect these things from a beta service :p
Good luck with that. His version of the news has become largely irrelevant.

For the last decade people have been testing their voices and discovering how good it feels to write and report and participate in the media.

We don't need what we had, we just need net neutrality so we can have something better.
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About 30% per hour. I only use it an hour at a time.
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I read about this yesterday just as we were mulling over an $8k internet connectivity bill for a conference we hosted. It got me thinking that a tool like that would pay for itself within 1/2 day of use if we could get 3G connectivity in an exhibit hall -- which admittedly may be sketchy.
Sharding has nothing to do with MySQL, and everything to do with scaling.
Really? I've always had the impression that tiered internet is desirable for the "average consumer," but not for me. And how is tiered internet related to the cost of the content you receive over the internet?
But it doesn't seem to be doable. As the original poster said,you can hardly unload a level in a game if there is insufficient memory. Sorry, but that requirement seems silly to me.
I remember Nibble published a text adventure game, but to preserve the mystery for the reader who typed it in all the text messages were encrypted with some sort of trivial cipher. It was absolute hell to type all that stuff in ("ZPV BSF JM B....") and KeyPerfect was no help.
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All android phones for now. Samsung I700, G1 and still waiting for G2 :/.

G1 is my fav.
I think the point was that the big DBs have better ways to deal with scaling than sharding.
There's a link on the bottom of the main page. Anyway, here it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/rss
That margin makes all the difference for people who move around a lot.
I admit I'm not sure I've seen these on HN before, but I've definitely seen them in my Google Reader at least four times before in the past six months.

I'm interested to learn SICP covers some of the same stuff BTW: I have started working through that book and your remark encourages me to read the papers afterwards, as I might actually find myself able to understand them (faster than now) then :).

As for the karma: I checked the amount you had before posting and was primarily leaning towards my "or ..." :).
Thats the highest rated feed, I think this post is about adding one for http://news.ycombinator.com/newest
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don't think there's an RSS feed for that :/
I guess I haven't seen a National Geographic show in a while. I remember a series following a cheetah mother with cubs and it was heartbreaking her coming back after an unsuccessful attempt at a kill to find one less cub then when she left. That is probably an example of the American style documentary done right the connection you had with the cats helped with understanding how bad the chances were for those predators.
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I'm of the opinion that the average consumer prefers free content.

I'm also looking at it from my perspective - I'd have to pay for certain content in each case, and I'm referring to the idea in general, not just as it relates to journalism. In Murdoch's model the money would go to the content producer rather than the ISP.
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When I click a link and see David Brooks's face, I have the same exact feeling as when I fall for a rick roll.
I have written a screen scraper for the page in ruby. Mail me if you want it. You might be able to generate a feed from that.
I don't know where your kids are in school, but in my kids' public school this is just not the case. There are special teachers for kids with low IQs (or whatever their performance metric is), and special classes for high achievers.
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It’s even got a well-formedness error (check the end of the last <dd>) thus setting the quality level for the web for the next 20 years.
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correlated subqueries are faster than joins on SQL Server too.
2003 - A drunken Martin Odersky sees a Reece's Peanut Butter Cup ad featuring somebody's peanutbutter getting on somebody else's chocolate and has an idea. He creates Scala, a language that unifies constructs from both object oriented and functional languages. This pisses off both groups and each promptly declares jihad. Odersky goes into hiding. His whereabouts remain a highly guarded secret although there is some speculation that he is locked in a Swiss vault.

This sounds vaguely familiar.
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More here:
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