skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't believe one benchmark.

In reality any C++ code can (and it's internally) translated to C one (that's called the front-end compiler). The back-end is the same.

The only difference is when there are things required by the C++ runtime (mainly exceptions and RTTI, and in some sense virtual functions).

I'm sure that if you take a "C" code, and compile it under "C++" compiler (given that it can compile) - you won't see difference.

Please disassemble it, and see for yourself.

That's the other problem with C++ - no one actually for real writes in full C++ - you always end up sacrificing features (exceptions most notably) to have running on embedded systems, or game consoles. And no RTTI there too.
Thanks!

So it does seem unreasonable here because there's not a lot of leverage possibility right now when the mortgage rate >= cap rate? (learned that term today ;) Or at least I'd be depending on other things (like appreciation) for value.

50% operating does sound crazy high, I was thinking strata + tax + a few % for maintenance, but I guess it all adds up.

Any books you specifically recommend?
"I had a guy come to me and say, 'I've got $40 million. Do you think it's enough?' " White recalls. "He meant, Was it enough to be happy and safe? The correct answer is no. You won't find [those things] with $4 billion. You're looking for 'enough' in the wrong place."

Surely the correct answer is 'yes, of course - put it somewhere safe, pat yourself on the back for doing well in the financial Olympics, and apply yourself to other interesting challenges.'

I do not advocate state interference in these things, but I really think once you've made that much money it's time to ask how much you have contributed to the general welfare in the process, and if the answer is 'not that much' then there are many nonprofits and similar that could use your insight and experience.
A more compact variation of the signed distance function, but strictly to terrains is the inverted cone representation - e.g. if you can for every height maximally open an inverted cone, such that it does touch the neighbouring height cells, without going into the terrain, then you can use it for faster ray-casting.

One of the DX10/DX11 samples is using it.
OK, but such a question carries economic implications like inflation. I know the research of which you speak, but I think it's flawed as it doesn't include an economic control such as 'the average wage in both cases remains at $30k, so you and your contemporaries all enjoy a high degree of financial security'.
Knowing what Indian Media is like I would rather not want this to be debated. Given Nilekani is heading it and the fact that the government is actively working to bring in any relevant person or advise I would assume they would do a good job of analysis the pros and cons and the feasibility of it in a country like India.

Things have to start - we cannot keep debating. I understand revising or doing it again is costly in India. But whatever the current investment into this pays of in just one use of this - ensuring the facilities are not misused. I bet there is more money people are shelling out in bribes as a whole to misuse than what is required to prevent it. One investment of govt I would not complain about even if I have to pay a nominal fee for it or raise funds.
The reason: Apple designed OS X to focus on using multiple windows at once, and they didn't want developers making single-window apps that ate at the screen. It's why, of their own applications, the only ones that allow full-screen are their video players, the iWork suite, and the pro apps. Those are the only applications Apple thinks ought to be maximized.

There's an application called Mega Zoomer that gives all Cocoa apps a sexy fullscreen view. But mostly, the answer's that Mac users don't like fullscreen.
They need built in parachutes for the whole plane. That way amateurs can just screw everything up and hit the parachute button.
Inflation and a falling fiat currency are already part of the system to mobilize 'unproductive assets'. This propels wealth to invest. If it was just a gold based currency then there is no reason to invest (largely part of feudalism where hanging on to wealth makes more sense as population grows and wealth increases due to demand).

Inflation makes a dollar not invested is worth less than .96 cents. Investment for interest makes a dollar worth more than a dollar in a good investment like 1.04 at 4% interest.

Both interest and inflation encourage lending and investment rather than unproductive assets as you mention such as hoarding gold and doing nothing with it like the kings and queens of the feudal ages.

You are better off investing than holding onto money in a well devised economic system.
What about the Leopard UI is snarky? As an interface geek, I'm curious to hear your thoughts on it.

The specific issues the OP mentioned were installing drivers and tweaking system preferences.
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i found the articles interesting. i say articles because i clicked through to another one of the author's articles, as well as clay shirky's 2000 post.

http://lmframework.com/blog/2009/06/freemium/

http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2000/12/19/micropayments.ht...

i thought the post provided a fair bit of detail and discussion. it wasn't fluff, though also not flawless.
Only a few hundred thousand things.
Well, faux polls then.

:)
No, I'm not. Savings precede investment.
It is. It's a common misconception that peer-to-peer is only about making the handshake symmetrical. Equal contribution of resources is the important thing. In the case of most peer-to-peer technologies, this contribution is in bandwidth, storage space, and tiny routing computations. In the case of seti@home, the contribution was cpu cycles.

http://www.amazon.com/Peer-Peer-Harnessing-Disruptive-Techno... has a chapter on Seti@Home.

For those not already running it, please install folding@home on your desktop computers. http://folding.stanford.edu/
And you have quoted Nilekani, what more would do you expect. You need to appreciate he is taking this up giving up a definitely more profitable & less frustrating job of heading an IT major.

Given this is not a no-brainer job and involves utilizing technology efficiently whoever would fit the bill would have some past associations which might conflict. And real business people know how to keep them separate.

And for the meta issues I would believe the team responsible are more informed & concerned of it than any of us would be.

Media in India is wrongly influencing us to doubt everything and vehemently debate every issue as if we are the experts in that area. I agree to some extent it is necessary to question to control corruption and such. Doing it just for the sake of TRP is bad for the country than the question being raised.
‘Rationing’ Health Care: What Does It Mean?
Learn Echolocation like a Dolphin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_Recovery_Systems

It just gives amateurs more confidence to do stupid things (Like buy a hot sport plane full of electronic gizmo's with nasty landing characteristics as their first airplane). We
do not want that.

What we need is the piper cub to be brought back cheaply.
and more local airstrips available to the public.
There has to be good balance and checks introduced in the system. Perhaps even make it open source, after all it is a public work. This way, there will be no room for problems such as voting machines rigging ( http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/jul/04/was-election-2009-... )

I don't consider open source to be a panacea but w.r.t. government programs, I think it is an option that should be actively considered.
I have extremely specific monetary goals. Once these goals are met additional money is worth less to me than my time. it's the marginal value theory of money. each additional dollar is worth slightly less than the one before it, until you reach a point where additional dollars have no value.
Long live the demoscene.

Glad to see 4K's are where the innovation is still at. (I'd love to see some dotcom jockey do even a quarter of that at any size).
"What about the Leopard UI is snarky? "

My typed, then deleted, comments were snarky.

I didn't see any value in making biased, preference-based complaints about how Leopard does things vs. what I like to do (i.e., The Right Way. :) ). But I know that most discussions about UIs tend to be full of such subjective assertions, so my little aside was my meta-comment. Or something like that.

For me (as others have pointed out as well), the ease of apt-get, and the wealth of OSS tools that seem to play better on Linux than on OSX, is the real win.

(Perhaps my biggest complaint about the OSX UI is how much I have to use the mouse to manipulate GUI items. Maybe that's just lack of experience on OSX, but Kubuntu Just Works for me. )
No it's not a religious question. You and I can take our respective dieties to task by choosing a test problem, then praying hard to see whose diety exists/answers, etc. Most likely, both of us will be disappointed (otherwise I would have had a jetpack by now :-)

Quality of object systems can be tested by posing a computational problem and letting people solve the problem in their language/object-system of choice, we can then rank the answers by various criteria (development speed, code clarity, code speed, system integration, run-time portability, scaling, maintenance costs, etc.)
Website for Jackson tickets gets 500 million hits in first hour
Organizers of Michael Jackson’s memorial said that in the first hour after ticket details were announced this morning, the website www.staplescenter.com had received more than 500 million hits.

Fans must register on the site for a chance to be awarded, by lottery, a pair of the 17,500 free tickets that will be made available to the public for Tuesday’s memorial service.
"The Edwardian era was the last era of high civilization."
When I was in high school, I had a blind friend who used something similar to do some rather amazing things. He would follow me on his bicycle (!), tracking by the sound the bike made. Solo, he could turn into the driveway next to his house. When prompted, he told me he could tell where he was by the trees. What? "Yes, I can hear the sound the trees make". The light rustling of the leaves, the reflection of the bike's sound off the tree itself.

I suspect that we may use a bit of this already without being aware of it.

I have always felt that there are opportunities to extend our senses, not only by practice as suggested by the article, but also by some sort of electronic assist.
Level #13: google, bsod, bios, lego is not working, I also tried "gijoe" and plural and inverted...
I think there's another problem -- ease of driving. When driving a car, you don't have to make many choices. Any directional choice is binary: do I turn right here or not? As long as you stay on a road, the choices are limited for you. Driving doesn't tax the mind. In an airplane, you have 360 degrees of choice in addition to your climbing or descending angle. Drivers of air cars will have to take a cue from airline pilots today, and set a heading, and then correct it later. This requires more effort and planning than driving down Rt. 1 until the third stoplight, than turning left. It's more of a mental load than many drivers are willing to take.

Also, when driving a car, you can use the brakes as a safety valve -- just hit them if anything goes wrong. On any road, at any time, you can stop the car and deal with the problem. There's nothing like that in an airplane; you can't just land anywhere you want, anytime (there might even be other airplanes below you, so you can't even descend).

The first problem could be solved by having intelligent autopilot -- GPS with control over the system. The second could be solved by having air cars that could hover.
Could you tell me which DX sample is using it.
Last night I saw Myth Busters and Jamie beat an olympic swimmer in swimming through syrup :-P it just bottles* the mind; how can you beat an olympic swimmer in swimming, regardless of medium?
" When I start iTunes, and possibly other applications (I just remember iTunes specifically), I have to click "I agree" to a license agreement"

Side question: Is it possible to get and use iTunes without agreeing to let Apple spy on you? The EULA says I have to grant Apple the right collect assorted information, but with no definite restrictions or limits on what I'm allowing them to collect. This is nuts. I pay several hundred dollars for a Mini, and to use the software I have agree to annoying bullshit like that?

OK, rant over.
I've been subjected to this and it was quite amusing. The fun part is not knowing when or if it'll happen to you.
ErrantX, you should plug your MUCH better article then:

http://www.errant.me.uk/blog/2009/07/pirate-bay-considering-...
Misleading comparisons + empty truisms, rendered in Jakob Nielsen's sales-letter page style. The combination makes my head spin.
I've a Mac, Kubuntu, and Vista, with two 24" monitors and a laptop, via Synergy.

Synergy rules.
That was amazing.

My favourite subversive radio story before this is the balloon radio transmissions in Poland: http://www.idlewords.com/2007/04/balloon_pirate_radio.htm
"It was the apex of European civilization in the same sense that the era of Pericles was the apex of Ancient Greek civilization."

Curiously enough, this is literally true, in the sense that this was when the US surpassed Britain as the leading economic power. It would have happened regardless of WW I though.
if i recall, the mental experiment mentions that prices for goods and services will stay the same...
Yep, basically. It's why I don't feel so bad about Uncle Sam getting a fat chunk of my pay.

I'd be happier if they were really good at not wasting it. But then I think of all the garbage that I buy and I realize that I sure as hell wouldn't have spent it any more wisely. And, on top of that, I personally make enough that I'm basically happy anyhow.

More money would either be more garbage bought or more assets collected. Assets are nice for the rainy days, but I'm collecting them anyhow.
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"Murder your darlings" actually means something more specific than that. It doesn't just mean not to be attached to passages you like, but to be especially suspicious of them.
Forth, because I'm to impose some creativity enhancing constraints on what I develop my free time.
I've worked with good engineers on H1-B's and bad engineers on H1-B's. Just because you're coming from somewhere else doesn't make you any better. It just means you came from somewhere else. And honestly, I don't think the ratio is all that much better.

The thing that I do not like about H1-B's regardless is that they are a temporary invitation (at least on Wall Street). I would much rather the system be set up as a funnel towards getting smart people into this country so that they could become citizens.

Finally, a pet peeve: When I was in High School and College, the importance of clarity in written communication was drilled into my skull like a maddened dentist attacking the mother of all cavities. If you're out there, and you're reading this, and English isn't your first language (or if it is and you just suck at it): Please, please, please spend more time when creating written communications of a technical nature. An absent punctuation mark, a poorly chosen phrasing, a confusing grammar structure can all pervert the original meaning of what you've written and slow work down, or at worst, cause something to be done incorrectly.
For folks curious about the origin of the phrase, "Murder your darlings": http://www.bartleby.com/190/12.html
No, triode.
Mostly unrelated, but I find this disgusting, along with some of the other fractal visualizations I've seen. I don't really have a reason for it; it's just a visceral reaction that makes me cringe. All the little parts and the strange shape..

Does anyone know why this might be the case?
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I've heard it said that the art of the 64K demo is dying... because it's big enough so as to hardly be a challenge anymore. New tools like Crinkler[1] are making small demos much easier to write than they once were.

[1]: http://www.crinkler.net/ / http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=18158 - an executable compressor optimized for incredibly small output files
Cool. Be sure to ask lots of questions on the ruby-talk mailing list, and hopefully there's useful stuff on ruby-doc.org. (If not, let me know. :) )
Wouldn't that require knowing in advanace the answers people would give?

Or is a "close enough" guess at the usual suspects (with an option for 'Other') good enough?
name them, if money was no object...what exactly would you do with it? Chances are, you will run out of things to name after 30-40 items.
"Application Type: I129, PETITION FOR A NONIMMIGRANT WORKER"
-- Yes you are right. I guess, technically is called a petition for a non immigrant worker, and while it is not a 'transfer' per se, it is not a filing of a brand new h-1b either (that is a slightly different procedure) as you have to be part of the cap.
This is a pretty one-sided article. There are 3 parties, and all of them are CRITICAL, because they FEED OFF each other. 1) Tech blogs, 2) Elite Users, 3) Everyday Users.

Tech blogs write about stuff if they hear it from their friends. Elite users mention stuff if sufficient everyday users mention it to them. Everyday users talk about it if it rocks. More everyday users learn about it if tech blogs write about it

If it sounds like a cycle, it IS a cycle. Every few startups get all 3, which is why most launches are pretty terrible.
I gotta tell you, I've worked with Donna Sokolsky Burke across at least 2 companies, and she's really very good at what she does.

It's very handy to have someone like her to deal with the many many inquiries you'll get at a successful startup. PR doesn't necessarily have to be awful, it can be a huge time saver and in the end someone in your company will be the interface with the public, and PR folks can be very useful in assisting with those in that role.

Good PR people are like good QA People. If they are working well, they can be nearly invisible, and even annoying, but you can really tell when a company doesn't have either.
The "micro billing" proposed in this article is composed of micropayment that are tallied in the background. As far as I can tell, the only difference between microbilling and micropayments is that there's no confirmation dialog.

You're still deciding every day whether or not to spend the 20 cents.
I was hoping it would lead to comments such as, "$lang1's OO implementation is good, except that it's missing $feature_X and $feature_Y, which means I can't do $technique_Z", or "$lang2's OO impl is more useful to me than $lang3's because it allows me to do $U and $V which I can't do in $lang3".
Jeez. If foreign spies need Facebook to find his address I don't think he has anything to worry about.
Quick Archive Service For Information Junkies 
Just whipped up a quick and dirty prototype for a sexy little service I have been dying to launch for a while now. Any thoughts on the concept and philosophy of having a quick archive that functions as a 'second brain'? Please note this is the first iteration, and therefore, the features are minimal. Just wanted to launch something 'embarassingly early' as Reid Hoffman from LinkedIn so eloquently puts it.
Some years ago, when my friend and I were talking on the phone, we would each make a three-way call at the same time.

The first to answer the phone would hear the ringing of the other dialed call while my friend and I remained silent.

From what I recall the two called parties would almost always engage in conversation that was usually quite funny.
your first reason, is enough not to compare the two. I don't think the 2nd suggestion works out mathmatically.
The last Pontiac: "A rolling testament of G.M.’s shortsightedness"
Micro billing is an interesting model. But I think he "underestimates" the mental burden of checking whether a particular service or content provider is billing me correctly. Flatrate tariffs are popular for a reason.

It makes me uneasy to think that 40 different websites would use my credit card details to bill me whenever _they_ thought I had used their service.

Of course, there's a way to lower that mental burden by introducing a middleman. Someone who would run an application/content provisioning platform and hence would be able to check all usage data, enforce contracts and resolve conflicts.

Guess what LM (the author's company) does. On their "vision" page (http://lmframework.com/page.php?id=vision) they say "Our kids will not access multiple websites. They will simply use their favourite stream manager". So I guess LM would be that "stream manager", gatekeeper to what was once known as the web.

It seems likely that a model like this will be popular for some sorts of services. But I very much doubt that LM will play that role.

So many people want to be the platform on which everything runs, the store in which everything is sold, the gate through wich every HTTP message passes, the cloud in which all our data lives. Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, they all want to be that.

Micro billing may be a good idea, but starting a company that aims to be the new mother of all platforms, including a new business model, application provisioning model, data model, application development paradigm and what have you, that's a Kamikaze business model if I have ever seen one.
http://lmframework.com/page.php?id=lmf
> Define "best".

As someone replying to the discussion topic, you may choose any interpretation of "best" that you wish. In fact, that would be preferred, as it would probably produce more interesting discussion than me attempting to rigidly define "best" in order to allow someone to post "given your definition of 'best', language Y is 'the best'".

How about this: which language's OO implementation do you like the best, and why?
Looks sweet, and sounds like it works quite well. I don't think having a safety net is a bad thing. Would people not buy sports cars if we removed seat belts and airbags?
A China Stock Bubble? IPO Mania Dangerous in Recession
I think this is TC taking a chance, to say - "hey I heard what you said about us, well come to you?" - "No... we'll write a story about your story - and it'll be more popular than yours" ... </end mafia, god father movie in head>
"cheif" - by his name lets you know he ain't doing anything but shaking hands and recruiting.
Any feedback about this service? Your constructive criticism is appreciated.
The best CEO's I know are like your fellow mates; they don't actually ever say they are the CEO... but they don't have to either.
Micro payments is to Micro billing as web 2.0 and web 3.0 (yeah they are both bull shit)
classic man in the middle style phone hack - those were the days eh?
HP is a vast company, 150,000+ employees. 30,000 of those are of a quality that if they move companies, press releases get written? Doesn't ring true to me.
I think for flying cars to even be plausible ( I.e. people would consider mass manufacturing of them ) Unlimited clean energy sources would have to be found - At least that would be the case here with this gravity.
What rubbish, a Mac doesnt 'just work'. Dont't get me wrong - Macs are good but this high ground is BS.

@antirez what device driver did you have to write for linux, can you point me to your source code? And seriously, linux has matured significantly, what distribution have you tried? And how about quoting specific stuff instead of the some general gyaan.
"It's distressing and worrying therefore that these sorts of details should be appearing in the public domain."

I'm more concerned about the information that's thought to be private. Remember the Palin email incident? That guy just googled the answers to her password reset questions.

These things will be thought of as the 21st century's "lost briefcase."
Nah, Its not that Mac users don't like full screen - they dont have a choice!