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slicehost is still up.

edited for clarification: slicehost is owned by rackspace. thought it would be worthwhile to mention since a lot of people here use it; i know i double-checked just to make sure.
This is good news for gamers, I'd be interested to know what the impact will be in China in terms of human rights/living conditions. I have heard a little about some of the Chinese companies who hire people to farm gold for long hours every day for poor wages and worse living conditions.
When I read about the proposed 70/30 split, I thought that it was quite generous of Amazon! Let's presume that the cost of printing and delivery is equal to current subscription revenue. Amazon just gave the newspapers a huge increase in profitability (presuming everyone switched to a Kindle tomorrow).

My sister-in-law is the business manager for a magazine with 250K subscribers. Their printing/distro costs exceed the average subscription price, so they'd be overjoyed if they could strike such a deal with Amazon and get their subscribers to convert over (unlikely).
I'd be a little surprised if the defective rate was only 1/3000. If there's a million 3GS's, that'd only be 333 bad ones.
It's basically the historical version of the internship. Craftsman would work together with collegues from other regions of the country, they learn the tricks of the trade of each other.
or just use sexps ... and you are done.
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I am completely serious. I am sure Timberlake has offered, at this point it is up to Michael Jackson's family to decide what kind of tribute show they want to do as they have been inundated with offers.

And in case you forgot... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15SxqqwF63U&feature=relat...
Just got call from my rep. DFW datacenter is completely out. Utility company cut power and backup generators have failed. Supposedly they've been having problems with these generators for awhile now. Ugh, shouldn't be so hard to keep servers online....
Possibly faster-- but will you learn as thoroughly? Are you really in so much of a hurry that reading Knuth's papers is a waste of time?
ha! who said you couldn't get your dinner recipe from HN. we're trying this tonight. thanks!
Be as transparent as possible. If it's not once a day, don't say that it is.
Peanut butter and jelly is horrible for you. Peanut butter just has a bunch of sugar in it.
"I haven't. So they tell us the temperature is rising, but we don't know what temperature. What a joke..."

Just because you haven't read it, doesn't mean they don't tell us. I may well have read it at some time, but I don't read such things frequently, so I forgot. I don't actually think you can write a scientific paper without giving a definition of the temperature you are talking about.

"We only need to sample every few hundreds of meters or so."

Why? What makes you think so? And what about your house that should be burning up by now? Is it not burning because the house 100m apart is not burning?

Also, maybe with satellites you can measure a lot of spots in one go - maybe even at 100m distance if that is the only thing that would make you happy.

Have you checked that they don't measure 100m apart? Because I get the impression that you just assume they only do bad science, without having checked that assumption.

"you will not be able to predict the (near) future state reliably."

Again, why not? Doesn't it entirely depend on the system and the circumstances? Like if you boil some water on the oven, and you want to know how fast it heats up, I am pretty sure measuring at one point is sufficient to predict the temperature rise for the whole pot of water (because you know it is a pot of water that is being heated from below with constant energy supply). Obviously climate is more complicated than a pot of water, but you still would have to supply better arguments for why you think current methods are insufficient.

What if you care about the ice in the arctic melting away - do you think it is impossible to measure that? (I don't know if it is possible, but for example it seems plausible that the area covered with ice is measurable from space to a high precision).

"If you don't understand the process used to obtain the numbers, you don't understand how much the numbers can be trusted."

Again, give examples of cases were you think the scientists did not do what was due. Naturally I can not verify their results directly (at least not without a significant investment of time). However, I can have a certain degree of confidence in the system that made them scientists, peer reviews and so on. (Edit: for example if they turn out to be merely popular fiction authors or philosophers, I am less inclined to believe them than if they are actually climate researchers)

Again, what makes you think they are all wrong - can you point out specific examples in major papers that are cited a lot in the debate?
Hmm...I think eating five or six times a day is generally considered good advice because it assumes you've selected food that are whole grain/have a low glycemic index so that your insulin levels remain level throughout the day.
Well I guess if I call vegans who eat fake steaks "crypto-carnivores", it's fair to call me a "meat industry lobbyist", so I'll bite.

It's not really a burning issue for most people I think. If the XYZ Diet works for you, use it. Trying to persuade other people on a hacker forum doesn't really make sense. The claims of "vitality" and longevity are not provable in any reasonable amount of time (right?), and quickly goes off-topic.
In addition to the power problems on individual servers that I hear people complain about this is their second major power-related failure for that site in less than two years. These guys expect us to trust them as a cloud computing vendor? Seriously?
Eating many meals a day keeps your metabolism up. Spiking insulin is only a problem if you're eating mostly carb-rich foods, and it will happen no matter how many times a day you consume it.
dunno how that got posted twice (see above)...my bad.
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Agreed. Many scientists can't even agree on the health benefits/drawbacks of foods like (cow) milk that we've ingested for centuries/millennium. Every other year for decades it's been called good or bad.

I have no interest in following health fads, until something is conclusive it's far too much energy (and indeed far too expensive) to try to play along. Most have a lifetime of a few months to a few years before they're discovered to be well-nigh worthless.

I'd rather invest time, energy, and money in my projects rather than trying to follow a diet. There's a lot of things to like in vegetarian diets, there's also a lot to like about meat (bacon anyone?)
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how do we know what infrastructure will be useful in 20 years? we have a solution now, nuclear, we're just too stupid to actually use it.
Normally, I'm not a fan of such sparse design, but in this case I think it serves to differentiate you from the dating sites that overwhelm you with features. It's cute and a bit quirky.

I like it.
printable:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/06/18/the_death_o...
This is not about male/female dynamics. It's about what happens when an unregulated global society selects a bunch of idiots, frauds, and assholes to make major decisions. The fact that they happen to be mostly men is largely immaterial.

"Masculine" and "feminine" are too broad and variable to apply here. Most people would consider Silicon Valley "masculine", and its gender ratio supports this, but it's mostly considered to be a source of good things. Masculinity isn't going to die; in the best-case scenario, it will be reinvented toward the future-oriented, visionary, family-friendly, and creative masculinity of the "beta" male rather than the aggressive and self-indulgent masculinity of the alpha male. This would be better for women and for men.

Also, what of the women who sleep with these narcissistic, fraudulent alpha males? If anything gender-related is to blame for our failing society, it's the decline of monogamy, for which both genders are to blame. I'll agree that the world would be a substantially better place if those running it were more "feminine", in the traditional sense. In fact, I'd rather live in a world run by a sample of randomly-selected women than randomly-selected men. However, the world's not run by a random sample from either gender. Moreover, if the same women who seek powerful men at this time were the ones to end up in power in the future, we'd probably see a worse world. I say this because the alpha males tend to be narcissists, frauds and brutes with still a few redeeming qualities, but the women who seek and sleep with the alphas are the absolute worst their gender has to offer.
Just curious if anyone knows - why'd the utility company cut their power? And is that the same reason for their previous power-related outage?
But then you run into the question about sweatshops that no one wants to ask: if it sucks so much to work in a sweatshop, why do these people willingly do so? Answer: the alternative is even worse.
Krugman can't be taken seriously. To call opponents "deniers" is to immediately concede a rational discussion.

I heard the hysterical arguments in college back in the early seventies about global cooling. This group is no more legimate, but much savvier politically.
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IPhone 3GS - The New Hotness... literally.
We (http://ticketstumbler.com) use Rackspace's Mosso and were only down for 10 minutes.

Rackspace's twitter account just said: @Rackspace: All power is restored to the DFW data center - all devices affected are starting to come on-line. Details to follow.
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He mentions Last.FM as an example of 'Not getting it' - but CBS bought that. So in that at least, his argument is flawed.
I need to use this in a weekly cron job.
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Statistically, it does prolong life, since being overweight is correlated with heart disease. Yes, you can die of heart disease when you've done everything right, but it's not likely.

Your argument is "Look at these things that are very unlikely to kill me. That's why I feel justified doing things are likely to kill me."

Trying not to overeat and get more exercise don't have to take up all of your free time.
I think you are missing the authors point. He's saying that he doesn't care what others do just don't assume his situation is god given.

This goes with something I heard on the radio last week. There was a news segment about how a group was lobbying the American Medical Association (AMA) to classify obesity as a "disability" which would give them free benefits under some government health insurance program. Then they trotted out a sound bite from a poor over weight soul who proclaimed "It isn't my fault I am the way I am".

I find it exceptionally hard to believe that that there is anyone who genuinely follows a healthy diet and is reasonably active and still can't maintain a healthy weight.

Bringing it back to this article it's like a broke business owner looking at a successful one and saying if only I was born with their smile and sense of charisma I could start a successful company too. When, in reality, it probably came down to persistence and hard work as the separating factor.
That may be true for some brands. Smuckers (the kind in my fridge) contains only peanuts and salt.
This is a case when "Hungarian Notation" is the solution.
I'll take a stab at this.

Register: Username, Password, Hacker News Profile URL.

Click "forgot password" link.

Message: Modify your HN profile to include the phrase "RandomTextPleaseLetMeIn".

Click on "Verify me from HN".

The system lets you in. Now change your password.

Edit:

Instead of HN profile URL, you could also use Delicious ala 'save the following link with this tag "RandomFunk" to your Delicious profile'.

The goal is to prove to a website that has read-access something to which you have write-access.

This something is shared between you and the website before hand (at registration).
Or just eat less.

To quote former FDA commissioner David Kessler from the book I just read (and the impetus for this post), The End of Overeating, “People get fat because they eat more than people who are lean…we finally have strong evidence that weight gain is primarily due to overeating.” Period.

This has been conventional wisdom for years now. Everything else is just details, though people love to obsess about the details, because "eat less" doesn't provide the same level of excitement and optimism as "eat this freaky diet." Even the theory behind most of the low carb diets is that avoiding high-glycemic-index foods smooths out your insulin levels, which helps regulate your appetite, which helps you avoid overeating.

Likewise, exercise is a big help for me in eating less, because it improves my mood, which makes it easier for me not to overeat. I've talked to lots of other people who, like me, find that a moderate amount of exercise actually decreases their appetite. (If you burn enough calories, you end up driving your appetite back up, but not many people burn many calories in relation to their intake. I work out about three days a week; averaged over the week, I burn about 150 calories per day, which is helpful but not a big deal.)
Yes, but the cost in this case is the need to write meanigful variable names. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html
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When I write a routine should I always "assert" that its parameter is a list and not a generator? Do I have to write the code to use a slower technique just in case the parameter is a generator? Do I "ungenerate" the generator out into a list?

That the caller can be trusted to use the proper type in arguments to a function a basic assumption in Python. The decision about how to handle type mismatch errors is up to you. You can handle generators any way you'd like, depending on your needs. There are other modern languages that don't make the same assumptions Python does.
So use brown rice.
> This is just silly. You can't use a generator twice, just like you can't keep reading from a file. When you've reached EOF, you're done. What does this guy expect, code that magically determines that when you ask for 'next()', you mean 'restart_at_the_beginning()'?

Yes you can't use a generator twice, that's the problem. If you use an imperative next() you have this problem. It can be solved by using lazy lists instead of generators.
I have heard a little about some of the Chinese companies who hire people to farm gold for long hours every day for poor wages and worse living conditions.

Yeah, these people should be making me shoes and tainted milk instead. (Gold farming is the least of China's worries.)
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So you put "Don't eat delicious things" higher up the chain that he does.

And then you still burn a huge chunk of free time accomplishing no tangible thing in exchange for a dubious assurance of a fractionally longer life.

I used to be in much better shape than I am now, but my life was miserable. Exercise did not make me feel better, coming to terms with my life and my environment and having some control over my situation made me feel better. My opinion has been that the "workout high" is more about having control over yourself and your situation than any real lasting benefit.
Here's the actual URL to the PDF that I submitted: http://code.google.com/speed/files/delayexp.pdf

HN automatically turned my link into a scribd link...
Sounds like a theory rather than something you're tried. :-)

You might be right, but regular expressions (for example) are one of those relatively rare tools in computer science that are both very practical and very theoretical - difficult to grasp without understanding the concepts. Personally, I did have a (brief) look some source code (for parsing particles for the XML Schema in Xerces; and the perl-style regex library in Java), but they really didn't make much sense until I went back to the Dragon book. Maybe if I'd spent more time on the source code, and looked at many more examples, and also mixed in some less sophisticated examples, it would have also become clearer... but I really don't think so. You need the ideas that the code is trying to implement, in addition to seeing the surface code. Regular expressions, and implementations of Thompson's powerset algorithm are really hard to understand even with the concepts.

But like I said, you could be right. Why not try out your approach, to test it as a hypothesis, and let us know how you went, with a "Tell HN: learning parsing by reading source code" submission?
bloody briliant, a much better exam hack than pointless puns.
Ask HN: Shouldn't the algorithm discount popular sites(TC) for frontpage?
It seems like the whole story submission process is heavily biased towards popular sources.

A techcrunch story is pretty much destined for the frontpage, no matter it's content. Why? Because so many people read and submit TC stories, which drives the submission to the top, every time someone tries to resubmit the story.

Shouldn't the algorithm account for it? Something like requiring popular sources to have more points to better gauge the quality of the submission?
I wonder if this could be used to write business apps where you want to work with private information but not actually have access to the info?
I know many places have huge databases with personal info, like name, address, ssn etc. What if that info could be worked with in an encrypted manner. Like writing an app to sum up invoices without actually having access to the unencrypted data. If this discovery allows this type of thing I think it will be huge.
Can anyone explain in technical detail how the phone book problem works?
As it is the brand in mine but a lot of people eat that trash, Jiffy, or Skip for example, and you might as well just each a candy bar at that point.
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He eats (what looks like¹) around 1400 calories a day:

Pre-workout: Protein power, Glutamine, and Lecithin mixed w/water

Breakfast: Whole grain non-instant oatmeal w/ Oat Bran, Raisins, Almonds, Skim Milk (no sugar), plus a multivitamin and some omega 3 pills

Lunch: Small salad w/protein (lettuce, broccoli, tuna, tofu, garbonzos, black beans, salsa, flax seed oil)

Afternoon snack: Cottage cheese

Dinner: Some lean protein (fish, eggs, etc) w/veggies, ideally

Bedtime snack: Plain yogurt w/berries and maybe some protein powder

¹Based on a calorie counter and normal serving sizes.
what infrastructure will be useful in 20 years

I expect we will still have wind in 20 years and using infrastructure to turn wind into electricity seems obvious. The other real advantages to wind farms is you get energy sooner and it is simpler to scale exponentially. AKA 1billion wind farm = 50 mil profit and next year you have 1.05 billion wind farm which makes a 5.25 million profit so you now have a 1.125 billion wind farm next year... You can do similar things with debt financing, but that's higher risk.

Not to mention a smaller Not In My Back Yard problem. I consider oil mostly a done deal, we are going to burn most of the cheep oil because it's just so useful. But there is far more coal luckily it's far simpler to replace coal power plants than oil in cars / boats. We are also close to the tipping point where the free market is going to switch to wind on it's own, because it's cheaper.
Broke California should learn from NYC and get stuff done like this.
No, I got his point. He wants credit for spending all his time to be skinny. He doesn't like the idea that maybe hes naturally skinny, he wants credit to be given for the HUGE chunk of his life he's allocated to being skinny.

There's some credit. He sure does work hard at it.

And then he goes off, like everyone who talks about fitness, on how you could be like them. As if we wanted to. Just spend 6 days a week working out, run on the side, and eat like a tibetan monk. PS, listening to LL Cool J can also help.

I will never listen to LL Cool J. That is where I just have to draw the line, so I guess the whole diet isn't for me.
He mentions that "you can implement personalized PageRank on a small cluster of computers", but from a business perspective, you probably can't do it because PageRank is patented.
Sweatshops are unacceptable even if no better alternative currently exists. This is not about what stage of develop an economy is in but instead it is about helping people see past present situation.

How can alternatives develop when the current practice is so brutally efficient at keeping costs down making other choices inefficient by comparison?
Eat all the delicious, unhealthy things you want, just keep it around 2000 calories.

So if you want to have an enormous, 1500 calorie meal at a casual dining restaurant, go for it, just keep it light for the rest of the day.
One answer would be if cholesterol was required to repair damage, and your diet is causing a lot of damage that requires the creation of a lot of cholesterol.

This would also fit why cholesterol lowering statins do lower cholesterol, but do not reduce frequency of heart attack death, and also why improved excercise and dietary habits do reduce both blood cholesterol levels and heart attack risk.
Thats called OpenID
Can someone patch it to bring good pizza instead of domino's?
This isn't true. IFR certified GPS units generally don't have Differential receivers. The main reason for this as far as I can tell is integrity. To be IFR certified, the receiver has to be able to tell when a satellite is giving bad data. In the older units, this was done with RAIM, which basically compares what is coming in from all of the satellites, and determines if all of the satellites are providing positioning that is relatively consistent. DGPS is a relatively simple system, and there's no way to check the DGPS signal for integrity. Without the ability to check for integrity, the additional accuracy is useless, as the design of instrument approaches is based on worst-case scenarios.

Now newer IFR certified units do have WAAS, which is similar to DGPS, except the signal is transmitted from a satellite, and is based on measurements from a couple dozen ground stations, the correction interpolated in the unit.

There has been a proposal to implement a system called LAAS for a number of years, which would be like DGPS, but would have the integrity checks that are required for aviation. However, it never really got off the ground.

As it stands, with WAAS, you can be guided to 200 feet above the runway, but this is not as good as the old analog radio ILS, which, if setup in a sophisticated way, can take a plane all the way to the surface.
Do you mean populist? I don't understand your argument otherwise. Popular stories are destined for the frontpage - and the problem is??
I'm not being snarky - I just don't understand your logic. Are you suggesting that HN should only (or mostly) contain posts that we can't already get from more 'mainstream' sites? That makes some sense as an ideal, but would be very subjective & I'm not sure that's what you mean. Please can you expand?
I saw my sliechost box go down for about 10 minutes. I'm really surprised that they haven't sent me an email yet, they're usually RIGHT on top of that...

Anybody have any word on what happened?
I know it isn't a direct answer to what you are asking for, but in general I think that modal interfaces should be used very sparingly, if at all. In most cases, you can construct the interface in a non-modal way, and you end up with a better user experience. It's not always easy, but I think it's usually the better solution.