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Does anyone know if there's any similar events at MSR, open to public for those of us who are in the Cambridge of this side of the Atlantic (Microsoft Research New England at Cambridge, MA)?
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As far as I know all honey does this, not just Manuka honey.
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I see and appreciate your point, but i disagree that this is the reason for Google to enter the market and educate the people. People shouldn't have to worry about phishing scams, etc. That should all be managed for them. When you go to put gas in your car, you don't worry about what is in the mixture, or what station you buy it from, where they sourced it, etc.etc. it is just as complicated if not more so, and yet the system just works. We need to find a way to manage these challenges for the user, and I don't believe a new browser is the way to do it. I don't have the answer to how this should be handled, but I think the idea that we can 'train' non-technical people to understand and then care about this is naive.
"Stop Innovating and Start Copying"
this is a good idea if you have the luxury of having great biz and media connections and money. I love going to networking events and copying people's ideas, but using my advantages to make them succeed.
Someone please get that AU$10,000 and donate it to open source browser projects.
He mentions children in his article so it is my assumption that if children are a maybe, but have not been 'created' after 7 years it feels a little off to me.

Very true some couples do not want to have children and I wouldn't suggest forcing children onto a person who thinks that would be the worst thing in the world.
So that's what JetPack is good for!
It looks like the IE8 marketing team is completely losing it. I'm dumbfounded.
Wow. You reckon they were tittering and sputtering as they wrote "Security" and put a check for IE? Because I wouldn't be able to keep a straight face making such a ridiculous suggestion. Somebodies having a little fun at the expense of the IE developers, methinks. This can't possibly be serious.
I'm an iPhone 3G customer in the States (AT&T), but I'm in Japan at the moment, roaming on either Softbank or NTT Docomo, depending on the particulars of my location. It's not clear to me exactly what the activation process does after an upgrade; does it need access to the home carrier's mobile network, or does everything happen over the Internet? Anyone know whether upgrading to 3.0 from a foreign country brick the phone until I get back to the U.S.?
Paying "protection" fees to Krysha (as you named it) was common in mid 90th when government was weak and criminals ruled Russia. Now criminals pay to gov if they don't want to follow Khadarkovsky/Ukos story (thank mr. Putin). I'm not in Moscow (yet do visit it regularily), but I still cannot imagine paying to FSB or to Militia or whatever if you are doing legal business. The thing is most multi-billion businesses started in Russia in 90th are still being ruled by criminals and one way or another are illegal or involved in money washing.

I have friends who are doing business for more than 10 years (mostly in telecommunication and software industry), no one pays for "protection".

The others most corrupted spheres in Russia, beside natural resources, are land estate and development business, mostly because there are huge money rolling around. Avoid this three and nobody will "care" about you or your business :)
When we get to the point where we can safely replace skulls, I'll go for it. However, right now, given the state of human surgery knowledge and abilities, I'll give it a miss. Maybe in 20 years.
Wow. Apparently this comment was so bad that my other comment got down voted for it...

All I was trying to say that is that the average person is not sensitive to the same problems as "us". Flash isn't going to die because too many people just don't care about what we see as wrong with it.

On a side note: Personally, I'd rather see Flash go open than die. I value competition.
My guess is that Obama just got finished with a terrible fight with the speculators involved with GM. He probably isn't thinking of the relatively small money tech VC system, he means them. This is borne out by the first quote:

"the plan requires hedge funds - “and other private pools of capital, including private equity funds and venture capital funds” - to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (page 38)."

Requiring these speculators to come under regulation is more a response to their recent involvement with the worldwide financial meltdown and continued opportunistic obstructionism at attempts to solve it. Still, though, it'd be good to be careful with real VC funds involved in real investment, and not accidentally suck them up unintentionally. (See SOX and the IPO situation for a good example of how unintended consequences of this kind of regulation aimed at the big guys can accidentally sweep up the unfortunate.)
Don't they all have news feeds these days?
Sure, Firefox may win in sheer number of add-ons, but many of the customizations you'd want to download for Firefox are already a part of Internet Explorer 8 – right out of the box.

Oh, right. I forgot.

Edit: no, wai
So the whole fuss was about 30 odd messages?
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The sensible defaults concept unfortunately is missed by a lot of Unix communities. Any local user on most Linux OS can fork bomb the OS out of existence with about seven characters of bash. Default user limits would solve the problem (and do on, IIRC, one of the BSDs) but instead the solution is to read a manual after it breaks rather than ship it working, and allow people to break it.
not sure why this was modded down. The bubble was due to perverse incentives to invest in housing debt (massive mortgage interest deductions, implicit underwriting of fannie/freddie, etc.)

Based on many quotes that are starting to surface from Paul Krugman, there were a lot of serious economists who thought that creating massive incentives for investment in the housing sector was a good idea:

http://blog.mises.org/archives/010153.asp
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Bias too, that's right :) Note, too, that I do not talk about any specific technology in the article. If I need a system that CouchDB is a poor choice for, I wouldn't use it. It only happens to be that the stuff I' working on and are interested in fits CouchDB very well :) — Thanks for your comments.
in short, "we're better at everything". ridiculous.
Have family and friends in the SEC and OCC, and know some corporate cats who deal with Sarbanes-Oxley. The SEC doesn't want to be dealing with investments for accredited investors, since they already have too much on their plate. On the business side, nobody wants to fill out paperwork, which consumes time and money. IPO on one of the American exchanges used to be a total no-brainer for most companies except a couple industries and geographies. Now London is getting greater play, more companies are staying private, and there's less IPO's on American exchanges - I'm not sure about Japan, Dubai, Hong Kong, or China, but I'm going to guess they're picking up some of the slack too.

Marginally more USA regulation on venture capital = marginally less VC in the States. Marginally more regulation on VC = marginally less SEC time spent on investments for unsophisticated investors, who probably need more protection. You could make a case for it, but I think it's probably an overall slightly to mediumly bad thing.
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Your example brings up a good point.

Consider the basis for which most atheists believe in any complex piece of engineering or science. At best, most people have a kindergarten level understanding of most of the natural world, and they pat themselves on the back for trusting authority figures.

But all they are doing is trusting authority, not actually understanding anything.

My point is that this sort of "truth" is on equal footing with religion... just because someone in a white coat tells you something doesn't mean your belief is of any better quality than if someone in a clerical robe told you to believe it.

This is true for most people anyway... Please note that I am an atheist, but I try to avoid patting myself on the back for what amounts to nothing more than bowing to authority.
You could get around that by making a snapshot LV on Linux. Instant, point in time volume that you can now back up, then destroy later.
I notice that Safari is hilariously missing, especially since it would match IE8 on a number of the features they're claiming are exclusive to it.

The whole endeavor is rather scurrilous, since they've clearly glommed separate features together for no real purpose other than to put a checkmark next to IE and not next to FF or Chrome (particularly the "reliability" item).

What a joke.

This is why people hate Microsoft. It's not that FF fanatics don't spread FUD too. It's just that Microsoft seems to think that we're too dumb to recognize their obvious machinations.

If they only spent as much time and effort making their products not suck, as they spend trying to pretend that they don't suck, then maybe they'd get some respect.
Have you tried OpenSolaris? Open Source for almost everything, GNU tools (which were always in Solaris) in the PATH by default. New apt-like packaging, which integrates with ZFS for trivial rollbacks of back upgrades. Etc etc etc.

Of course, it would be nice to have some of this in Solaris 10, but they're trying to keep it nice and compatible. Changing the packaging system would be a bit radical.

I run my startup on Solaris 10. While performance on multi-core systems is significantly better than alternatives, it's features like ZFS, Zones and integration with the hardware which really make it a compelling OS.

That said, there's a huge pain barrier to getting started, mainly due to the ancient packaging system and lack of pre-built packages. OpenSolaris does improve things greatly, but does need more software ports to make it truly mainstream.
In a vacuum, I'm not in favor of registration requirements for VC firms - but we're not in a vacuum. We're about mitigating systemic risk to the system. Given that the legal structures are the same, how do you propose to regulate the people who use leverage (PE and hedgies) and leave out the VCs?

Furthermore, if you don't think the SEC is getting a massive influx of capital, I'll be happy to sell you a bridge. Over the East River, Chicago River, Mississippi River: take your pick.
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The new QuickTime X plays Flash videos natively. We might be screwed.

I'm pretty sure it doesn't, and that the guy who spread this as fact had Perian installed.

There's a slim possibility that Apple will pick up on the expectant salivating and actually add the feature (though they'd probably have to implement h263 first).
You can. You have two different ways of doing it: the first is to write your own low level opcodes, the other, and I think more powerful, is through PMCs. A PMC (Parrot Magic Cookie) is a basic type of your language (e.g. an Integer, a Char, etc.) with some operations associated to it that you can override. Operations include assignment, type conversion, invocation, your own methods and many more. After writing a PMC you can then "map" it to a core type. As an example, if you write a "function" PMC and map it to Parrot's "function" PMC every time the VM needs to create/use a function, it will use the one you defined instead of the default one. This gives a LOT of flexibility.
Good comment/questions. I don't have a hardcore finance background, as my background is more business/project management/hint of technology. But two things that really jump out to me -

> We're about mitigating systemic risk to the system. Given that the legal structures are the same, how do you propose to regulate the people who use leverage (PE and hedgies) and leave out the VCs?

Leverage is inherently risky and if you let people leverage to the hilt, they'll find a way to break something. I'm not so much in favor of putting a leash on the leveragers as increasing the cost of money quite a bit. We've been handing out money basically for free for the last ten years. Raise interest rates, take the hit that comes with that, print less, and do a mix of cutting government spending and increasing taxes at least until the budget is balanced. Then do something about the crazy trade deficit. I don't think you can effectively regulate tons and tons of free money. Free money finds a way to cause problems.

> Furthermore, if you don't think the SEC is getting a massive influx of capital, I'll be happy to sell you a bridge. Over the East River, Chicago River, Mississippi River: take your pick.

At its core, the SEC works like a law enforcement agency. No matter how big it is, it'll won't nail every criminal. Any task assigned to the SEC means less time on other tasks. You could triple the SEC's budget and staff, and they'd still be nowhere near fully covering everything. Probably sensible to limit the scope of the agency to the most important parts of the finance sector - VC is accredited investor only, who are people who tend to be financially literate and can afford risk. As for systemic risk, stop handing out free money. Raise interest rates, reserve requirements, balance the budget. I guess that's kind of radical-crazy-go-nuts thinking these days.
Does google have a blacklist feature? Can I exclude all links from a certain domain within my google prefs? This needs to be a feature.

I came across 3 or 4 experts-exchange pages today when looking to fix a small apache issue.
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As far as I remember, MS made sure that no OEM was able to ship a PC with any other browser installed. Or at least made it not in their interest to try to.
Aren't they afraid that if Twitter fails their investments will fail as well? I mean Twitted is enough of a risk as it is but something based on it is already starting as a multiple of that risk.
If he wanted to persist the classes offered by the server you could actually write the python code to a module, reload module and import the class proper. Did that a while ago so I didn't have to restart a daemon all the time.
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Gary Vaynerchuk and Tim Ferriss are both very successful and influential figures in the social media world. However, they have extreme opposite celebrity styles.

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Before you get too excited, experts exchange still had +55.27% growth, it's not like it's dying. There isn't much of a trend to the (absolute) gap between the two sites.
Clearly the Prize has been a great thing for Netflix, in several ways. What will they do as a follow-up, once the Prize is won, and the press dies down?
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>Why make a pit-stop at C?

Optimizing C compilers and platform independence properly. There have been a lot of research involved in making C compilers very fast, so you get to copy that for free.
I find it interesting that there seems to be an asymptotic increase in difficulty right around the 10 percent mark. Did Netflix estimate this before they created the Prize, or did they think it would be easier (or harder) to get there--perhaps that they would have gotten there already?
Surprising that more companies haven't tried to replicate this - there's no way you could get so many qualified people working on something for three years for a million all up as employees. Not to mention the publicity.
Good to see 2 engineers from Montreal taking the lead! It's great that Netflix amended its rules to allow Quebec residents to participate.
It's not a comparison. It's an advertisement.
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The 'ties' are at where they lose. No comments on others.
Echoing that. I have 6 Mint licenses, and have recommended it to several clients. It's good stuff.
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It's a risk, but it's pretty easy to diversify. For Tipjoy and I'm sure for others, it isn't about betting on Twitter -it's just organicly pursuing what is working better than other things.
It is not aimed at people like you. It is aimed at people who know enough to install a browser, but not much more.
Note to Microsoft: Insulting people's intelligence is not a good way to get them to switch back to IE.
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Once again, the hype and the reality with twitter don't quite mesh...
Well hg is the mercurial source control system. The ./all.sh is a script to go over all the projects (there are more than 30 active at this time) and check that they are you to date.

vi is an editor, as is mate (cli accesses to TextMate on the Macintosh). I tend to use vi when just editing a single file and TextMate when working on a project.

The ssh and scp are from deploying and managing projects to various machines. curl is used for testing that various REST apis are working correctly.

I never realised how much I deleted things :)
Customizability is a "tie" between ie, firefox and chrome? chrome(current stable version) is one of the least customizable browsers i've ever seen!
I suppose at worst you might need to change your laptop's MAC.
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I am not sure if that is the most wildly inaccurate description of socialism I have ever read, but if not, it is certainly up there.
Developers tools checkbox is a joke. In fact, its so outrageously bad, they need to formally apologize. IE8 dev tools are garbage compared for Firebug. They are better than that web dev toolbar crap, but not even in the same league as firebug or safari web inspector.
Ask HN: What IDE does John Carmack of id Software use? Visual Studio?
Does anybody know? I want to start writing my own 3d engine and don't know what IDE do start with.
Is he developing on Windows?
Thank you for helping me out - this is a great community.
You can break their code if you use an empty user agent string. Very robust.
For more info also see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=593935
i'm not against expert-exchange for charging for help, but against listing their results in Google search, while they are not real results -> Mislead people!
ASK HN: What about Facebook fund?
I have read today about FaceBook Fund (http://www.facebook.com/fbFund), but I didn't understand if it helps build applications from idea or just help existing ones grow.

I have an application idea, it doesn't need a lot of investing but it's great and can grow to millions, does any one know about this program and if does it helps.

Also are there other program that helps build facebook apps from idea, or would I better begin to hack into it?
This is like saying, "I want to be funny like Johnny Carson, does anyone know what brand of tie he wears?"
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add "-site:expertsexchange.com" in your google query to exclude results from that site ..
This is almost funny. IE8 is the only one of the major browsers that I haven't installed yet. So I'm wondering, what if it's true? What if it's really better than the others?

Has anyone here actually given it a try to confirm how good/bad it is?
The ide is just a tool.

Concerning learning 3d programming, NeHe is a good place to start with : http://nehe.gamedev.net/ .
stop that MS shit
In the general list, Erlang is ranked at position 70 (Usage: 0.2%), while Ruby is at position 4 (12.7%). So, I'm not sure which list you were looking at where Erlang was ranked higher than Ruby.

Also, entries like "HTML" & "Javascript" are ranked low since they tend to be deleted as being non-informative.

All the criticisms that relate to self-report bias in the wiki and the completeness of entries are reasonable concerns. I'll try to change the text that introduces the rankings to address this.
antirez' thing is here: http://lloogg.com/ - looks like it's still in closed beta, but I bet he'd let people from here have a crack at it.
He uses cat to write stuff directly to /proc/kcore
this is actually a really good thing for browser competition in general.

most people don't care about the browser they are using, and if microsoft wants to make people more conscious about browsers, more power to them. it will result in people being more careful with their browser selection, essentially developing a taste in a preferred browser.
Disturbing Ad copy - Developer Tools - "Of course Internet Explorer 8 wins this one"
Can someone please reconnect Microsoft's marketing department with planet Earth.
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A nitpick (I emailed him, too). LangPop.com does not use recorded conversations. I only look at how many people are on channels. I don't want people thinking that they're being "spied on".
Actually, most of my results at LangPop.com reinforce one another. Where they don't, explanations are usually simple and direct (Freshmeat and Ohloh.net don't have lots of non-open source stuff). So I think that generally these things do correspond to reality, albeit roughly.