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Like anything ever, there'll be a reliably-implemented common core, and a variety of corner-cases that are handled differently across implementations.

For example, Firefox fails some of those tests because if you call `canvas.getContext()` and pass a gibberish context-name, it throws an exception rather than returning `null`. Once there are any standardised context-names besides "`2d`", this might be a problem; I expect Mozilla will have fixed it by then.
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California is notorious for its high income tax: "9.3 percent on taxable income of $47,056 and above".

(From http://www.bankrate.com/brm/itax/edit/state/profiles/state_t... )

I think the relevant statistic would be tax burden per capita:

http://www.statemaster.com/graph/eco_tot_tax_bur-total-tax-b...

Texas is around half of CA.
I have an iPhone for a portable palmtop computing thingey. The cellphone function if deliberately turned off.

I had four different cellphones in the last four years. All of them started misbehaving two months into usage, I used to always forget them at places, or forget to take the phone with me, or to charge it. None of them were any good for making or taking calls, gave me a headache, and all of them eventually ended up in pieces after being thrown into a wall.

1) AIM: "Check your mail."

2) Gmail: "Turn on your phone."

3) On the phone: "Get online, will ya? I need you now."

4) Phone goes into wall. With a fair amount of force.

Don't have a phone anymore, and not planning on having one ever. That tech don't work out for me.
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The strangest thing about me for all the brouhaha over piracy is how few people so far seem to have found a way -- or even wanted to find a way -- to capitalize on the best, fastest, easiest distribution system in the world.

To be fair, I think there is a clear distinction between piracy and p2p networks.

For example, Blizzard uses bittorrent to distribute patches for World of Warcraft, reducing load on their servers and thus, cost for them.

They were also (funnily enough) a relative early adopter of the Divx format back when it was almost exclusively used for movie sharing over the internet (aka Piracy)
eg. http://processingjs.org/
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contribute on forums or communities like HN, you'll notice good hackers that have free time, you can then ask them
No, it's a lowest common denominator documentary from a broadcast network TV newsmagazine. A step up is the type of documentary you see on the Discovery or History channels. The highest form of documentary is cinéma vérité. All of the different types are made and produced in the USA.
Good point. I agree with your take on the trade offs, but it then becomes a matter of deciding how good or bad things really are. Since this applies beyond textbooks to the wider issue of school choice, I'll say 'school' below but 'textbook' holds similarly.

I think in the current system the vast majority of students get a raw deal in the form of mediocrity. Most large public schools I've seen are the educational equivalent to a Dilbertesque corporation. We adults have many ways to dodge cubicle land, but the kids don't. That's a tragedy.

Independent schools would be better to a sizable portion of the kids and about the same for the rest. It's true that we would find faults in each other's schools (school X is godless, school Y teaches creationism), but I think that: 1) it's a fair choice for parents to make, and 2) the current schools have a limited role in that type of outcome anyway.

I understand there are drawbacks and that this is a minority view which voters find unpalatable. But after visiting several public schools in the US and in Brazil and thinking endlessly about the topic, it's the conclusion I've reached.

(I apologize if this sort of political discussion is discouraged here on HN, I started posting recently and am learning the ropes.)
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So it takes less creativity to advance in an objective field?
PostgreSQL has spatial indexing capability, too.
So you can do something like (the exact syntax for spatial ops escapes me right now):

SELECT DISTINCT obj

FROM media NATURAL JOIN mediatags

WHERE (location INTERSECTS somebox)

AND tag IN

(SELECT tag FROM usertags WHERE user = 137)

You will probably have to spend some quality time with the query planner figuring out how to set up your indexes so the common queries will be fast, but it should be possible.

(EDIT: fighting with the formatting. Why is there no preview?)
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Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them.

Alright, this was surprisingly amusing. Thanks.
Let's see how Red Steel 2 for the wii handles this. It will be revealed at E3 (beginning of june). It makes use of wii motion plus which adds extra input to the wiimote so that you can have a true (or as close as you can get) 1:1 motion.
I don't have a primary source so I'll take your word the only reason I said this was because of a few articles submitted like:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=553254 ( http://www.chriskopec.com/blog/2009/apr/08/great-students-ar... ) and another on the leaders of many big companies that I couldn't find.
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I've sported a Palm Treo for the past 3 years. First it was the Treo 700p, and now a Treo 755p. I used to develop palm-based apps about 6-7 years ago, and enjoyed it. I always liked the simplicity of the palm interface, and while it's fully dated now, it's holding me over until the Pre comes out.

I tried a WinMo phone with a slide-out keyboard about two years ago and found it fully awful, and switched back to my 700p (to wait until the 755 was released).

I was one of the many who was assuming Palm was going to fail before it released it's new OS. I'm so excited for the Pre.

This survey is missing a huge option: Blackberry.
I was working at RIM last summer as a co-op student, and I had a free blackberry. At the end of the summer, I returned it and went back to my old plain flip-phone which does nothing but phonecalls and text messages.

The only thing I find I miss about the blackberry is the ability to look things up online while I'm on the road. Something that certainly isn't worth hundreds of dollars per year difference.
There was a game called Moonstone which has realtime swordfighting. You could use 8 way axis of the joystick ( preferably Phyton brand) with two button. It was fantastic and never surpassed.

I don't understand why you need realistic sword fighting in games where you play just for fun. If realism needed then probably you need a fencing simulation.
I think the realistic version would be more fun. But as both a fencer and the author of a Nethack variant, I might be an outlier here :-)
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> a tedious, dirty matter of concentration and endurance

Eh? Not at all. In sabre fencing, it's rare for a touch to take more than 15 seconds. Even in épée, which most closely approximates a real duel, one minute is about the norm.
We decided to forego the merchant account and instead have been using Amazon Simple Payments with success. They've been excellent at closing transactions.
You're right about the content, and even more right about properly understanding AdWords metrics and finding the right information.

Let's say you even have AdWords experience - if your new idea is in a different realm to your experience, you still won't be able to interpret data meaningfully; if your new idea is in the same realm, then you should be meeting a known need not relying on AdWords to tell you whether your idea is shite or not.
Sorry, I wasn't denying that Texas spends more money per capita on textbooks. As you point out, it certainly does, according to the article.

I was worried that someone might read that Texas's per-capita spending is higher than California's and draw the conclusion that this is a big reason for why California's schools suck. I've heard a lot of people make arguments like that. "Small Country X spends so much more per capita on Y! (Implied: That must be why Y sucks for us, and our lives would be better if our country would spend more on it.)"

So I gave one reason why the returns California and Texas get from their respective textbook purchases are probably not proportional to their per-capita budgets.
It isn't a documentary to begin with, but an investigative news program (rather a sensational one at that). Can't speak for shows in non-English speaking countries, but I'm sure we all have shows like this one in our respective countries of residence. I've watched BBC Panorama episodes this year that are just as biased & fear-mongering for example. If you want serious American documentaries, sample PBS's Frontline or NOVA series (via file-sharing =]) before jumping to conclusions.
IANAL, but it appears their argument is that you are exploiting their mark as part of the commercial service your website offers. It seems legally sloppy and you're correct about it not really being DMCA material, but I'm not so I'd go so far as abuse.

It is a given in trademark law that if a mark is not aggressively defended by the owner then they have only themselves to blame if it is later misappropriated. Trademarks don't enjoy the same absolute protections as copyrights do. They don't want to dilute the secondary meaning of the trademark, which might (theoretically) happen if they let you keep giving it out at your site.
Students Skeptical Kindle DX Can Replace Textbooks
Protip: Reusing open source web browsers would be a logical next move. :)

</wishfulthinking>
Each one of those was quite amusing.

1958 - John McCarthy and Paul Graham invent LISP.

1983 - Bjarne Stroustrup bolts everything he's ever heard of onto C to create C++. The resulting language is so complex that programs must be sent to the future to be compiled by the Skynet artificial intelligence.

I genuinely laughed out loud at this article.
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Well, if the technology makes sense, why not? There's no point in being awkward.
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I doubt amongst hackers.
My favorite:
1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.
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It might be interesting to know that there's a Swedish study from 2008 that showed no significant change in ticket sales over the past 15 years. The study also showed people go less frequently to the movies but that's being weighted up by more people going. (It's in Swedish: http://www.sfi.se/Documents/Övriga%20rapporter/SOM-undersökn... sorry ^^)
The vast majority of things you read in the press (including blogs) are wrong. Not just about Google. Compare what the media says about any topic with which you have expertise vs. what your actual expertise tells you.

FWIW, I had a 3.0 GPA and flunked two physics courses, and they still hired me.
I guess I'm talking more about medieval stuff (about which I also don't know much). Swords, maces, that kind of stuff. I might be talking about something slightly different than the article.
Maybe I'm missing the point here, but it sounds like he's suggesting using AdWords to do some quick A|B tests to solidify a position and confirm assumptions. Sure, the low-QS page will perform poorly in absolute terms, and it will be difficult to extract meaningful raw information; but it could still be helpful to compare the relative performance of a few nearly identical ads that point to the same content.
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Like the RIAA and MPAA, it will take a long time to fell the textbook beast, and it will thrash about wildly and howl all the while.

The Kindle DX is cool, but what's more exciting is that it seems things are finally starting to push towards digital publications, more than a decade after it was already feasible to do so.

This is great, since textbook publishers are basically going to be forced to publish digital copies, which we can more easily pirate. Yeah, screw textbook companies.
At a minimum, even if it is a trick, this is good strategic thinking going on in that team. I like anything that spreads the use of distributed databases and having another BigTable implementation is great.

As mentioned, it would be great if they started using Webkit or open source browser rendering engines.
I think it will be important for journalists (and their companies) to really think about who their audiences are.

I think it will be important to simplify. And once that's done, I think the majority of people will eventually (I don't know when) pay for content because it will be of higher quality and relevance. (Some do this moderately well now.)

Frankly, I think all parties (i.e. Journalism as a whole) will probably benefit in the long-run. You may see smaller organizations, but that should enable them to adapt more efficiently as things evolve.

The key here, in my opinion, is to not get caught up in fast and excessive growth. You may even extend that to "pull-back/slow down" if you're growing too fast.
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Hmm, no mention of Erlang. I'll add one.

1986 - Inspired by Prolog, Joe Armstrong designs a massively scalable messaging system that allows computers to SMS each other and has the attention span of a teenager. He calls it Erlang.
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I get so engrossed in this site and it is turning out to be a major time waster. There are a lot of interesting articles but I really need to more productive and reading HN isn't helping with that.

Perhaps a solution.

I would like to have the option of reading the highest rated article of the day. Just one article on the page. The 'active' page has a lot of articles. I just want one article. Period.

What do you think about that idea?
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As did I. I laughed out loud at most all of them.
This is also known as the ZIP compression algorithm.
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I am an employee of Powerset and I can say with authority that this article is not fact checked at all. It contains some egregious errors and a geyser of wishful thinking and baseless guesses.

As for the culture issue they're addressing, I cannot talk about what specifically is going on with Live internals and upcoming releases, but I can say that we actually have been surprised by how willing the MS engineers have been to check out our infrastructure and assess it fairly. If you come into the office you still see most of the NL research we do is still done on macs using a lot of open source tools targeting linux, and our management is cool with that. We've had some friction maintaining our ties to open source, but only because these issues are complicated by an acquisition and getting used to new rules and procedures.

In general, the vibe I get when I talk to veteran Microsofties is one of cautious optimism about non-gpl'd open source code. And even people very high up the MS chain have told us that open sourcing code can make financial sense, and if it makes sense then that's what should happen.
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You'll have to ask again in another 3 years when the first of those get provisional FDA approval for clinical trials.
I think they could comprehend at that young age that something weird is happening to the clocks. What would make a clock tick slower at one place than the other?
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You realize these numbers are not for transactional (ACID) updates, right? They are with write cache enabled, meaning a power failure would cause data reported as written not to be available. I hope it doesn't mean data corruption, if someone has tested this I'd like to hear from them.

For ACID storage, one transaction per disk rotation is pretty much a theoretical limit for sustained performance.
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Oh my God! That was the best belly laugh I've had in a long time. Very fun read.

>1995 - Brendan Eich reads up on every mistake ever made in designing a programming language, invents a few more, and creates LiveScript. Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later stil, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases the language is renamed ECMAScript.
Hadoop + HBase + Pig might be what you want.
This one guy, Jordan Mechner, has designed a lot of the interesting martial arts simulations over the years. Prince of Persia, the Last Express, and even Karateka (if you were gaming in the 80s).

http://jordanmechner.com/bio/

The Last Express was really interesting. It's mostly a Myst-style, er, mystery, with animated cut-scenes. But even despite the limited interface there is a cool fight mechanic. You can only survive by predicting what the opponent's next attack is going to be by subtle shifts in body posture, and doing an appropriate countermove.
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I forgot to mention that SenSage usually is treated as a "write-only" data store, you never delete anything except when it reaches its "age-out" date (on order of 2 to 10 years usually).

This is very important for its native purpose, log data storage. For legal reasons companies that store logs related to HIPAA (health care records), SOX (public company financial records), CDR/IP-R (call-data/IP), PCI (Payment/Credit/Debit card data) need to keep records about what went on with their routers/switches, computers, servers, apps, so they can reconstruct a cross-device slice of any activities of interest for legal purposes. (It's also useful for maintaining operational integrity and proving SLAs).

In this context here of media-related storage, not throwing data away has some nice advantages in that you can always track the evolution of all interaction with the media over time. (e.g., capture media download trends ...) Then engine can store it all. Many users load 200GB+ daily of log data into the data engine.
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Out of curiosity, why not something like Mathematica?
I think a comment below really hit it on the head: "If you spend the same amount of effort chasing paying customers, as you do chasing VCs, you'll be able to pay all your bills and then some with your revenue."

I know some folks who spend years of their life (and more than that, in terms of its physiological and nervous impact, probably) chasing funding. If they just bothered to make small sales and steadily grow revenues - ideally, bt not necessarily recurring - during this period, they wouldn't need funding. And if they wanted it, they could get it on infinitely better terms, not because the VCs really care about how cash flow-positive they are (it's the marketability potential that impacts the valuation on exit in an acquisition, not concrete P/L--that matters more in IPO, which is really not practical for the moment), but because they really are in the position of not actually needing it to survive.
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