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The problem is not really finding stuff. It's a filtering problem. If the article made it through this process, people's priors are more favorable and they might actually read it or not dismiss it immediately upon the first disagreement. I don't like the process either. I also have no other solution.
That's a very harsh review of the hacker's diet.

More accurate would be food = energy, exercise = energy expenditure, obesity = prolonged energy surplus stored as fat, and weight loss = prolonged calorie deficit leading to fat reduction.

While I agree that there are wrinkles due to when, how and what you eat, I can't see a problem with that basic maths. You could say a 'bad' calories is one that triggers you to eat more calories, whether that's through habit, or addiction, or stomach stretching, or sugar rushes and crashes leading to hunger. But that still reduces down to more calories.

This book seems to be suggesting that the energy you store as fat comes from somewhere other than the food you eat. That's entering creationism or perpetual motion machine territory for me, and as you would then expect is accompanied by claims that the whole field is crooked.

The rebuttal linked from the article (by one of the "villains" of the book) suggests that the weird data comes down to people lying about what they eat to researchers. Not only do they not record everything they eat, they lie even more about their consumption of fatty foods which (correctly or not) the average person thinks are bad.

This makes it seem like people are gaining weight mysteriously, and that carbs are over-represented. Given the choice between overweight people misrepresenting what they eat and a whole branch of science being corrupt I'll take the former. Particularly if the book writer is happy to cherry pick out the results that he likes and ignore the rest of the field.
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Link to a simgle page version:

http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.asp...
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This is a great PR strategy that was used in the early days of 37 Signals. It was called 37Better and it put them on the map when they were still a consultancy:

http://www.37signals.com/better.php
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The math section of Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest "An Introduction to Algorithms" is a good introductory math text for CS people (the remainder of the book is also excellent).
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http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html

14.4.1 - About swap
Historically, all kinds of rules have been tossed about to guide administrators on how much swap to configure on their machines. The problem, of course, is there are few "normal" application.

One non-obvious use for swap is to be a place the kernel can dump a copy of what is in core in the event of a system panic for later analysis. For this to work, you must have a swap partition (not a swap file) at least as large as your RAM. By default, the system will save a copy of this dump to /var/crash on reboot, so if you wish to be able to do this automatically, you will need sufficient free space on /var. However, you can also bring the system up single-user, and use savecore(8) to dump it elsewhere.

Many types of systems may be appropriately configured with no swap at all. For example, firewalls should not swap in normal operation. Machines with flash storage generally should not swap. If your firewall is flash based, you may benefit (slightly) by not allocating a swap partition, though in most other cases, a swap partition won't actually hurt anything; most disks have more than enough space to allocate a little to swap.

There are all kinds of tips about optimizing swap (where on the disk, separate disks, etc.), but if you find yourself in a situation where optimizing swap is an issue, you probably need more RAM. In general, the best optimization for swap is to not need it.

In OpenBSD, swap is managed with the swapctl(8) program, which adds, removes, lists and prioritizes swap devices and files.
Cheers! didn't mean to come off so nanny-like ;-)
I think arxiv is a great start but still seems to be kind of internet add-on to the old way rather than being a rethink from the ground up to the research business.

I liked the "Cite as" feature, but there are fundamental issues which I think needs to be changed:

1. Anyone should be able to comment/discuss articles. With perhaps karma based user voting to surface the best comments. Each comment should again be citable.

2. The text should be in HTML- shareable simply and acted upon by the community.

3. A reddit style list for each topic listing the recent,high impact papers. High impact is again voted on by the community, again with people who are 'known' to produce better research having more weight.
"Concrete Math" by Graham, Knuth, and Patashnik.
Ironically, the article's rant on failure helped me to see a few new things I could do with W.A., which made me appreciate it more. :)

I think of Wolfram Alpha as "smarts in, smarts out"; if you want intelligent results from a smart engine, you need an intelligent query, or you see the digital equivalent of a blank stare. Requiring some thought when posing a query isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Wolfram Alpha also has a nice feedback form on the front page. Not that I'm holding my breath, but what the author of the article should do is put all his rants into that feedback form, wait a month, and then comment on any changes made. That type of followup article would be more interesting to me.
Seems like an interesting cross between Python and C#. Any multi-line lambdas?

edit:
Read into it a bit more. I may wrong, but it doesn't seem to have nested functions and their lambdas are just basically anonymous delegates, not real .NET lambda expressions. Wasn't clear how or if they tackled the multiline lambda problem that occurs in CPython. As it stands, it's pretty similar to C#/VB.NET--only slightly more readable at the expense of being way less mature. Definitely keeping an eye on this one though.
FWIW, I wouldn't recommend Zuora. I've spent the last ~8 months trying to move off of our home-grown system and Zuora's just not there yet.

Unfortunately, we're starting to think about bringing it back in-house. Though, we'd probably use an open source base such as "Freemium" and build around that.
Ask HN: If Google is a monopoly, should we be doing anything about it?
Hi all,

I read the article "A Brief History of Google Killers" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=616482) and saw these numbers:
"[...] show Live Search’s share as fluctuating over the past couple of years, but never exceeding 2.6 percent. Google’s share? Eighty-one percent, up from 75 percent two years ago. [...]"

These numbers are indicative of a monopoly situation where for-profit organisations could/(do) shaft the end user.

Microsoft is in the news every so often about antitrust cases against them. Why not Google?

However, I do not keep abreast of litigation stories and don't want to go through reams of information to get insight into the issue

So, I am asking HN: What do you think? Where is it going?
I would love to have feedback about this page :

http://cobra-language.com/docs/why/

Cobra brands itself as the best of all worlds. What do you think about it?

Where's the catch?

(Or have we just uncovered the Graal of programming languages?!)

I am not fluent enough in all these languages to be able to tell.

In the meantime I'll stick to python.
Nice work, Simon. Thanks, and thanks for all the hard work on django as well. Keep it up. :)
If you're okay with US-only billing, you can use Amazon FPS in conjunction with EC2's product codes. The product codes allow you to build a machine image which you can authorize each of your customers to use and you can configure how much to charge per instance hour. Amazon keeps track of which customers are running instances and takes care of the billing details (you can do this with other aspects of Amazon Web Services too).

If you require non-US billing, find a billing a system that gives you an API for post-processing hooks (this isn't my area of expertise but it looks like others are offering suggestions here). You can use the API hook to launch an instance at the provider of your choice (EC2, slicehost, etc...) and also send your customer the access info.

With regards to provisioning, I suggest creating your own base machine image and scripting the minor customer or instance specific stuff. This gives you a balance between launch speed (you don't have to install the same stuff every time) and flexibility. If the scripting is simple, you can get away with hacking something on your own. If it's more detailed, I'd suggest Fabric (http://www.nongnu.org/fab/) if you're into Python or Rudy (http://github.com/solutious/rudy/) for Ruby.

Note: I developed Rudy so I'm biased :]
However, both pathos and logos may be seen as short cut to logics. We live in a hierarchical society, therefore logically we expect the people who are above us to be smarter or know better than us therefore we trust them. That is based on logics. You know that the doctor has been studying for so many years and has been treating many other patients with the same issues as yours, therefore it is only logical to trust them. As for pathos, well that is ones instinct. It is the mind computing decisions without our concious logical critique of them, yet the mind is critiquing it logically, we just are not so aware of the computations and give the emotions names. It is logical to buy something you love rather than hate.
Google isn't actively using the trademarks, it is responding to a query containing the trademark. Passive, not active. If that doesn't make it acceptable, then that particular law is broken, IMHO. If company B is using company A's trademark as a keyword, then by all means sue the crap out of company B. They've done it actively, and they've done it deliberately.
What is the next big social network site trend?
What do you think the next big social networking trend is?
The thing is that where Live search is crap (really awful) Google gives good, solid, results.

It's hard to justify calling them a monopoly based on the market share when compared to lesser services....(not that I am disagreeing they could be a monopoly)

That market share comes from a combination of amazing brand value and from them, generally, being nice to users and giving us what we want... again I think it is hard to penalise a company for doing things right.

Having said that I think their acquisitions should be curbed somewhat.
no twitter nor facebook will replace my google position in search, I use Google simply because it's fast and crawl a lot.

Google don't give best results (and no search engines can do) even human edited search engine can't do, just because information add up every day.

solution? May be a shared search, where people vote for the best results and comments, I see Google Wiki a good step, I alwas vote for the best results and comments on interesting links (or may be fav them).

If google succeed in this technology (considering the trend of the search queries), nothing can't beat him. Even if Microsoft does implement it, it won't succeed because it needs a lot of users to get votes and comments.

Twitter? No results are bad, they are good only for news, if twitter grow really (and not 60% quits!) then it may be a better place for news.

right now nothing will beat Google (only my secret startup :LL)
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Google's Android looks more attractive every day.

Although I do understand that Apple has to keep some level of quality in their store (they're not doing a good job imho), clearly they haven't learned anything from their own history ... a platform friendly to hackers wins in the long run.
at this case i prefer you follow a university lessons, may be it'll be better. (I just think so)
As a student that uses Google scholar quite often "almost everyone" is a lot lower than you think it is. At least in computer science and related fields, I have to use my schools access to journals almost every time.
I think that the bit where the two characters simultaneously shot the rose should have held the anticipation a little longer, and maybe exaggerated the beams more.

I also felt that the angel's pose was a bit stiff when he was shaking his head. And given the way that the characters were positioned beside the rose, the explosion should have sent them flying sideways, instead of into the camera (though I realize that you needed to show them together in the following shot).

Sorry to be so nitpicky, but this was for a class, right?
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I think the software that will grow viraly, are soft that need other users interactions.

Let's take for example, a mafia game in Iphone, when you play, you play offline (you are the only player) and your enemy is the computer.
Will the idea grow?

Yes, if it's good, but after 3 or 4 years, may be the device change, or another startup takes your part. So solution? Connected gaming, here's the same game but a little bit different

* You download the game and run it

* The game shows how to play and tell you the vitality of having other players with your to help you

* you tell 2 or 3 of your friends and play together

* game over, your friend now create their band and call another friends, and friends call friends.

you'll finish with millions user in few days, it's like a chain and it spread quickly.

Look at most of the successful games of those kind, they are very simple but succeed
Competition law does not make merely having a monopoly illegal, but rather abusing the power a monopoly may confer, for instance through exclusionary practices.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly#Law
I'm happy that Google is a monopoly or MS is a monopoly if they provide good results. The bigger they are, the better results they'll give.

if you are afraid, read their privacy policy and terms of use, if you are ok with them.. then what's wrong?
While in my company we are loving S3 since it's really cheap and good, we can't say the same for EC2: the small instances are too slow, and the bigger instances are too costly and still can't compare with a decent Linux box. Overall we made our math and to have our servers in the server farm is going to cost less compared to EC2. Of course it's not going to be as simple to manage as EC2 is, but it is an acceptable compromise for now.

I think that here there is space for new startups if they are able to provide better performances at the same cost. I wonder if a configuration where in a cloud real hardware is selected in order to run an instance could work, instead to use virtualization technologies. This does not allow to take advantage of the fact that most boxes are not under high load most of the time, but maybe could work if it will be possible to use very low energy in this condition.
As far as I understand, the legality of a monopoly depends on whether it takes anticompetitive actions. Microsoft wasn't put down just for being big -- it was put down for including Internet Explorer into operating system, thus using an unfair advantage to promote its monopoly.
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Well, first because google gives a lot for "free" to its users, from gmail, to docs, search, etc.

We know there is a price (ads, information sharing, etc), but the perception is always that they are good and cool.

--dd
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it depends on the place where you live, you can rent a house here (with three rooms) with only $180 a month, but in sousse (another town, same country) it's more than $2500. it's the same in any place on the world.
I definitely agree that there is a missing spot to take in the language design space: python-like clear code and static typing without bulk. Cobra, Nimrod have other interesting features but really, the point is: Python is cool to read. When it comes to writing/rewriting though, I prefer having my computer helping and assisting me: with Haskell e.g. I have this "lego" feeling that I know everything fits together and it will be all right.
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> one-half of 1% per year

What's the intent here? Why not say "0.5% annually"? And why do people say "one-half"? Is this typical of economics journalism?

[edit]
The whole sentence seems redundant anyway.

the average annual investment return from 1950-2000 was less than one-half of 1% per year

"annual investment return" implies "per year" and vice versa.
You should probably add Knuth's Volume 1 ( Fundamental Algorithms) to your list:
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Computer-Programming-Fundamental-A...

The first few sections cover some mathematical background.
I would certainly recommend amazon FPS... or do you need more than that?
Beside anything else, one knowledge society has to collaborate with another knowledge society to create intellectual explosion, period.
I too have had the same experience. Think about upgrading services (and appropriately provisioning services while billing correctly and adjusting the recurring billing), downgrading services, recurring billing for monthly payments, auditing all interactions with whatever payment API you're using, then retrying API calls when appropriate. It's getting to the point where most of the man hours in my project have been on the billing system.
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Make a better algorithm?
It appears that Amazon FPS will also handle non-US credit cards based on the following note from the pricing section:

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The appendices at the end? Added it to my list. Thanks!
I didn't know of some of these limitations. For example - this decimal one is nasty:

>>> from __future__ import division
>>> 4 / 5 # normal division
0.80000000000000004 # <-- there is an extra '4' at the end
>>> 4 // 5 # integer division
0

Are any of these things fixed in python 3?
The Economist had a story about tech monopolies recently, which made for interesting reading.

http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13610959

It's a difficult problem, and there is likely to be a diversity of opinion here, from the libertarian "let them do whatever they want" to some on the other side advocating lots of government involvement.

The problem isn't really search in terms of end users, it's twofold:

* Search in terms of people/businesses being searched for: if Google removes you from their index, you are screwed.

* Online advertising. There are already a number of stories about people getting cut off for no reason at all (at least none that was made public), which is potentially scary if there are no alternatives and you depend on them.
The entire book?
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And how do we know that Google isn't taking anti-competitive actions?
Yes: we should be developing the next innovations/paradigm_shifts that are irresistably attractive to web surfers. ...and combining the wisdom of others' startup experiences to create meaningful, sustainable business models for monetizing how web linkage can work.
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A few issues where "The Git Parable" diverges from real git history and real git behavior:

1. From the beginning it was known that simple numbering system for snapshot (commit) names would not work without constant access to single central 'numbering authority'. So the history of git is without this meandering; on the other hand git had example in Monotone, existing distributed version control system. But this is certainly minor issue.

2. The staging area was not created to be able to split changes into more than one commit or keep dirty files in working area (with changes which do not go into snapshot). This is side benefit, and something you should not abuse. The main reason behind staging area is merging. This is IMHO fairly important didactic issue.

3. Git calculates SHA1 of uncompressed object, and then uzes zlib compression on it, not vice versa as it is said at the end of "The Git Parable". It used to be the way described (first compress, then SHA1 of compressed contents) for a very short time and was abandoned; current way allow to transparently improve compression.
Having built in contracts and unit tests seems like a progressive feature.

Is there a similar comparison to boo?

http://boo.codehaus.org/
Contrary to what the title implies:

"Facebook declined the term sheet based on the requirement of a board of directors seat, says our source, and not the valuation."
Travian idx
You have numerous political parties due to your proportionally representative parliamentary government, but you only get two opinions in the press?

Even in the internet age, when the cost of publishing is approaching zero?

That's odd.
Yes, that's right. For the test I ran the tyrant server with:

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d specifies a deflate encoding. The type of database may also make a difference on loading times; in this case it was a B+ tree.
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He means in the gui. There's a menu item for fetch under remote, but no pull. That seems kind of arbitrary.

(I know about the command.)
Technological change has destroyed all sorts of once-popular products, from the handloom to the Walkman, and the world has mostly been better for it.

I think this sums up my thoughts on the death of the newspaper pretty well. News isn't going away even if the newspaper does.