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...they went out of business, because "news" [whatever that may mean] was not coming from fact based journalism* (not unlike the failed record/movie/media business).

They eventually have to pay the price for not delivering what they were supposed to. The REAL problem is the consequences of failing to inform the public (as opposed to disinform, e.g. The Economist on warmongering). Unsurprisingly, The Econ. fails to address this (most important) issue.

* see Manufacturing Consent: it should have been a warning taken seriously.
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I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on StackedObjectProxy. What is it that makes you uncomfortable about it?
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I wouldn't consider "at most 1 user at a time" a service that need "building a scalable web service" skills!!
Yep, "Google Killer" gets more publicity than "Mathematica + datasets online".

NB: we're still talking about it: the message will reach everyone who might need it, with zilch advertising budget.

BTW: much as I agree it's not a search engine, I just added it as a search engine to FF, for convenience: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=wolfram (I got the middle one, by phoque)
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Choice appropriate tools for your task, not the task for available tools. MS fans, Delphi fans, Java fans and now RoR fans are thinking second way - they love their tools.

The altrernative approach is about using mix of technologies and tools to complete actual tasks. Today's linux distributions, which are actually mix (if not mess) of applications and tools written on every possible scripting language is a good example.

In the area of web-development the same approach works the same way - you can build different [sub]services and [sub]systems with different tools which are more appropriate for some particular task. REST-JSON-Key-Value-Storage here, classic SQL back-end there and so on.
Guilty as charged - I'm always up for borrowing good ideas from other projects. That's what open source is about. Most of my favourite ideas in Django were inspired by other frameworks (template inheritance came from Cheetah, the request/response objects were inspired by a combination of Java servlets and PHP).

I should probably set aside some time to build a project using modern Pylons and find out about all the other good ideas I've been missing!
Anyone who's not an entrepreneur will have at least vacation. Then you can get totally offline if you want to, as you don't even have to use the computer/internet at work.

Although I prefer just taking a few days off the computer at a time myself. Like a weekend, or not hacking anything in the evenings for a week or so. For me, the problem isn't being online per se but the balance of being online AND offline.

When I'm offline, it will eventually energize me to get back online for a while. And when I'm online, it will do SO good to cut off the lines for a few days when I find myself only being online.
is there any case not having swap hurt ?

assume the RAM alone are enough for heaviest load, no memory leak, no exhaustive ... that's it, the server is never out of RAM memory

hmmm, does hn server use swap?
It is, however, the part of the equation least susceptible to abuse by those who want other people to act in an unwise fashion. A strong ethos or pathos could convince people to do something that a moment of thought would draw them strongly against.

The original author is right that logical arguments alone do not persuade people in general, especially if that is all the persuader offers. I am not yet thirty, and have figured this out, so I guess I'm ahead. :-)

However, I think it is tragic that logical arguments are not sufficient, nor even sometimes necessary for people to follow a particular philosophy or call to action. I don't understand the cause behind this behavior, but I can't imagine humankind being any worse off if people became more convinced that logic and reasoning do matter, and using them had concrete benefits. Ironically, making this appeal will likely involve the other two until acceptance of logic is sufficiently bootstrapped.

I'll leave this with a quote from Sam Harris, which really put better words to this than I ever could. "There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable."
I haven't tried running it on App Engine yet, but I think it will eventually be a really good fit there (and in fact it should work right now).
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Of course; I mixed two arguments and a bit of annoyance :)
The arguments are:
1) How much value I am getting depends on how much money I am saving (given equal price, I prefer a real book)
2) They could easily make E-books cheaper and still make money. Somehow I doubt they have hit the sweet spot currently: it's new and they can make money of of it.

And I'm annoyed at the fact that I would really like a good E-book reader, but it's just not worth it yet.
How it's acceptable is by finding friends who are okay with it.

Then again, I agree very much that if all you have is those friends then how can you find depth in any relationship if everything and everyone is allowed to interrupt your time together?
I never really said it's a rule. It's the way I think it generally needs to be done. Obviously, there are exceptions.

Skype did not evolve in a vacuum. It piggybacked off the phone system. "Make calls for cheap" - which is a direct call to utility.

Remember that any system that gets its users laid or makes them money can have the users jump through hoops to use it. Anything less than that has to have increasingly more finesse.
Comparison of Cobra to Python.
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there are a lot of network effects which make it easier to publish from within academia

One of those effects is the intellectual sponsorship of people in legit academia, particularly professors whom you have an IRL relationship with and can recommend you to the editor. If not in school, I think this only works if you directly build on research conducted by contributors of the journal in question.

I would think in CS this would be easier, because professionalism is young in CS. I think it would be an order of magnitude more difficult in the humanities, where accreditation is far more entrenched.
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Or if you're looking for something that scales nicely with screen resolution or whatnot, SVGs. I'm really looking forward to vector graphics getting better support in browsers - half the time we used bitmap images we really mean something else.
Your response sounds dangerously close to what pro-software patents advocates would say. Just because someone else has written software which does the same thing doesn't mean that you couldn't have discovered the same method independently.

In case of this patch, even the author himself says that Ruby 1.9 doesn't do stack copying. He's not "explaining as if he discovered it himself".
Yeah, I agree about the fear-based thing. I certainly was operating from that POV for the startup I was talking about above - mainly cos it was my first experiences of it all, etc, and it was an idea I'd been sat on for years and was emotionally very close to it. I am definitely operating more out of the headspace of being propelled by excitement/a wish to make things happen these days, tho do still notice the fear factor creeping in from time to time... :o)
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I hope you're right. But I'd rather that the move to 1.9 be based on its merits as enhancements to the language rather than on the lack (in 1.8) of the sorts of optimizations that were made in the article.
The quick-and-dirty way is to do it like Smarty does: compile what you want to cache and write that as a .php file that includes the user-dependent data to disk.

But, if I'm not mistaken, Drupal with users is slow because pretty much any function in the system is allowed to change its output depending on the logged in user, right? And that's pretty tricky to cache.
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Success in trading or else betting environment is an value and if you are not getting value price, you may find it very hard to make profit. You have to in-dentify "product" for example stock or team - it does not matter. In case your expectation of that particular product doing very well is high than price on display you "buy" it.
Having written two billing systems in the past year, I'll never build one again.

There are certainly advantages to writing your own, we generate custom PDF receipts at GitHub that customers really seem to like, but the amount of time wasted building and maintaining the system was/is fairly substantial.

If I were to do it again, I'd use a hosted service that you can skin to look like your site and let them manage everything.
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Rumsfeld is a very smart guy who let himself be used as a pawn in Bush's plans. Only toward the end did he experience the smallest bit of remorse and sour grapes.

The biblical quotes were probably included the way a wise-ass high school student might quote Jay Z at the beginning of a paper on a Shakespearean play -- to show that he could.

If you think Rumsfeld was an arrogant fool who singlehandedly mismanaged the Iraq war for a few years, you're wrong. It was Bush's war, and nothing Rumsfeld did was not fully sanctioned by Bush.

Rumsfeld's temperament with the press and general attitude of arrogance was deliberately intended to distract the media from Bush. Rumsfeld could be fired at any moment, and so via his arrogance, his firing was an ace in the hole that the administration kept in case it was needed.

Meanwhile, he created firestorm after firestorm that got the media distracted. His comments on torture? Pure strategy. His brash handling of a press conference? Perfectly executed to shield Bush and the war in general from more careful scrutiny.

Anyone who wastes a moment of emotion on Rumsfeld is falling into the Bush administration's trap. Rumsfeld did his duty and fought boldly until he fell on his sword, having diverted millions of gallons of the press's ink from focusing on Bush and from asking tough questions.
Maybe a more precise way of putting this is "Power is the basis of your leverage in any negotiation, so start any negotiation by thinking about what power you have. The corollary to this would be that any power you are unwilling to exercise is pointless."

This sounds like a rephrasing of BATNA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotiate...).

To apply this to your metaphor, if Pakistan was unwilling to use its nuclear arsenal in any scenario, it would be pointless.

Re: putting his company into liquidation, we don't know the exact story, but I presume that he realized that (1) he had the power to put the company into liquidation and (2) he 100% wanted to put it into liquidation. So he didn't negotiate with his stubborn partners, he just exercised his BATNA.
I enjoy disconnection - it's the reason reddit, digg, and slashdot are still banned from my /etc/hosts file. When I was a kid, before the internet, I put all that "boredom" time into books - and I have to say I was a better person for it.

Now there's the omnipresent temptation to read that little blurb about some random guy on the internet. There's hours upon hours of interesting, yet totally pointless anecdotes that can easily consume your waking hours, yet contribute nothing to the richness and quality of your life.

I suffered from this greatly - I was spending hours a day on reddit, for example, and reading what? Yet another article about yet another stupid subject that didn't really teach me anything I didn't already know, or anything worthwhile.

I enjoy being connected on my terms - my iPhone is indispensable, and I love having maps, restaurant reviews, and all of that at my disposal - but my appreciation of connectedness is pretty old-school, I prefer to fetch my information than to have it come to me (e.g. twitter). There are too many unimportant things happening on the internet that will endlessly distract you if you let it "push" info to you.
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Woah - this is not hacker news. Please take it back to reddit.
I think you intended to post this to http://reddit.com/r/politics .
The US media looks better than my local Swedish one.

In a small country, the interests are more aligned, for good and bad.

For instance, the US media have different opinions on lots of subjects! Here, you get at most two opinions.

But mainly, the US media seems to find lots of real scandals in your president administrations. That doesn't happen much with the local government and media...

Maybe there aren't any scandals here to find? (And if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell, if you want to make a good deal?)

That said, there are lots of crappy media in the US. But obviously, some of the world's best ones, too.
We are already there in a sense: http://arxiv.org/

Interestingly the publishing industry has a firmer hold on the life sciences.

This is good too: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/journals.html
Check http://arxiv.org/
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I read both those quotes as "different than Google". He's saying as it may look like Google but it's not really.
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As Dolly Parton said, you have to spend a lot to look that cheap...
Of course give Twitter another 18 months and people will be pretty jaded and cynical about that too.
My uni has a couple of public terminals, with full access to all their electronic journals. You can print articles and/or download to thumb-drive.

I don't know if other unis do this, but I would expect that it's part of the contract with journal publishers. Note: they don't publicise these terminals - just ask.
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Wrong, the core advantage to WA is that it relies on curated data. That you know it's from a verified source makes a world of a difference. That it can produce actual answers, not just averages or random tidbits, is essential.
By respectable in Indian circumstances I mean decent hygienic lodging with clean walls, floor and a roof that doesn't leak, healthy enough food that you buy or cook and not left overs. Paying bills in time and wearing clean clothes.
(In an urban setting rent can get costlier, so as someone noted below I am assuming one would share a house of arnd $75-$100 rent with 2-4 ppl)

Construction workers by nature/the way they lead their lives are very different. May be instead you should talk to your house maid and find out :). To note these people run families with just around $150-200 earning a month. And we are of course talking about $60 per person.

Do you know teachers in private schools in India start with $60 as their monthly pay and on avg earn $150 I guess.
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I have not read "wealth of nations" myself, to verify Chomsky's opinion of Smith's work, but I have it on hold at the library and will soon.

Reading Adam Smith or Karl Marx on economics is a lot like reading Jules Verne on moon flights and submarines. They were geniuses, but genius only goes so far when you don't have that much data to work with and are predicting the future.

Think of it like physics. Just as energy is lost when it changes form, money is lost when it changes hands.

You might be interested in reading about Ronald Coase, transaction costs, and The Nature of the Firm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm
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Wolfram Alpha isn't a Google replacement, and isn't intended to be:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=What+do+you+dislike
Indeed, I've been using this font since watching the railscasts by Ryan Bates and it's great. I was using the standard Monaco before.

I don't know why but switching to a new font made me a happier programmer!
Come on, how can you say "it will change how people search online" and not expect to be compared with goog. That's just ridiculous.
Almost everyone does in certain, but not all, disciplines. A lot of papers in subjects like Biology and Chemistry, for example, don't seem to be as accessible.
Why would anyone follow this? Even if you were interested in what this Jeff was doing, there seems to
be noise (`lynx`, `exit`).

What does it do with a command that's over 140 characters long? They'd be rare but among the most interesting. Oh, it shares it as a snippet on snipt.org, then posts a link to the snippet.
It says in one of the pages that it's not SEO friendly.

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So many typos. A spelling check wouldn't hurt.
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I tend to think this is the wrong way to go about daemonizing a process; it does the relatively easy but fiddly stuff for you, leaving you still to manage process monitoring.

Better to have the process neither know not care about its daemonized status, which is not really core program logic, and have the process monitor manage daemonization, à la http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
Not a bad article. I hadn't heard of a few of these.

If anything is going to take market share away from Google, I think it's Twitter. Being able to search "live" information is really useful.
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Getting rid of the colons (e.g. "if foo:" vs "if foo") does not appear to enhance readability.
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Well I think it will be something that is "not search" - not to so much take market share away, but to make their business less relevant (like google has sort of done with Microsoft).
Twitter may be it, but I don't think its different enough...
Setting yourself up as a goog killer seems like a way to get ms interested in acquiring you though.
didn't get a chance to look at it too hard but it doesn't seem to support back button, which is a pain in the ass
In tech, what tends to happen, rather than someone losing or gaining much market share, is that the market is redefined, or new ones open up that are bigger and more important. I.e. Microsoft didn't take any mainframe share from IBM, Google hasn't taken any OS market share from Microsoft.
Damn - I just said the same thing as you, only I think you said it clearer ;)
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People will by default compare to the old but that doesn't mean the new and old are the same! After a comparison, they may decide they are the same, or one is better/worse.

The biggest problem for WA is that it is different enough that people used to the Google way of searching will not see its potential and powerful use cases.

The difference is this: In Google, most queries end up with a list of links to pages that Google thinks answer the query. In WA, you get the answer. Of course Google has the "calculator" functionality, and that's the directly analogous product to WA. That's a Google killer feature: I query and get an answer directly without clicking around and hopefully, maybe, potentially finding an answer. Whether that's good or bad is a separate subject.

Another more subtle difference: the query is interpreted differently by the search engines. WA's interpreter is much more powerful in deciding how to interpret the query; it also tells you how it interpreted your query. Google's queries are mostly keywords and phrases (and they've noted that the average number of words in queries is increasing), and fundamentally they're still interpreted as keywords as phrases not the meanings behind them.

How queries are written (keywords vs natural language) and how they are interpreted is a big area of innovation in the search industry. I don't think they've finally solved it, but they're certainly trying hard: Hakia, Powerset, True Knowledge, and now Wolfram Alpha.
You're right, the pie is always growing, but there are some queries that just work better on Twitter, even though you might get reasonable results on Google with enough digging.

In those cases, Google loses as people learn to start trying Twitter first.

An example: Last night I was trying to find a stream of a live hockey game. Google was finding lots of forum threads about previous games, but nothing current. So I tried Twitter, and there was a link in the second result.

Next time I'm looking for a live stream, I'll probably search Twitter first.
In the short term, open and/or free might not be as attractive, but after you've seen these things come and go, they become more attractive, even if there are some initial deficiencies with regards to proprietary systems.
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I forgot to mention, I use it on OSX, where the anti-aliasing makes a big difference; when I tried it on Windows, it didn't look that great!
Isn't the competition here Silverlight vs. Flash. And isn't Flash installed on more than IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome combined?

(Note that sounds ridiculous, but I'm fairly certain it's true)

So, given the competition is Flash, why the jab at other browsers? Or is Microsoft declaring war on the open web?

(edit: Somewhat surprised that Techcrunch actually makes the same points, I'd commented before reading it)