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Senate Proposal Gives President Authority Over Internet
This system won't work for high achievers. It just can't -- the goals are too far apart, the incentives too perverse. I eventually got tired of waiting for a miracle, now I educate my own children... but even that's not a real systematic solution. It just means we'll have the blind leading the blind. There are no easy answers here.
Eclipse and Wireshark (X11) both seem to be working fine for me.

Xcode+iPhone SDK works still, unsurprisingly...

Xcode uses a new font called Menlo by default now. It's anti-aliased and looks nice.
Good suggestions. Definitely worthy of the backlog.
Yes, it's more a provocative question than a news story.
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A flag to output JSON would be nifty, then you could pass it through a filter [1] and get interweb-grep on steroids.

[1] http://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/
Ask HN: 13" laptop for gaming under $1k?
this question was asked earlier on engadget (http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/ask-engadget-best-ultraportable-laptop-for-gaming/) and i felt like no one really answered the question. the conversation was drowned out by apple vs non-apple folks. so i thought maybe i should ask the question here since the community is more hacked-minded. thanks in advance.
what an utter load of anecdotal crap
That is simple, but Google explicitly states that they will not do that. Instead, Google linked to:

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=...

Which states:

"Why was my account disabled? Can you tell me more about the invalid click activity you detected?

Because we have a need to protect our proprietary detection system, we're unable to provide our publishers with any information about their account activity, including any web pages, users, or third-party services that may have been involved. "

So, you may submit more information to Google, but Google will not submit any more information to you. Thus, there is no need to entertain a discussion regarding your account ---at the expense of both parties--- as Google will not submit any further information to you.

That's reasonable to me.
> despite nearly the same compiler

As you don't say how far "in the past" maybe that's nonsense or maybe that's true.

> a lot of the benchmarks had to be reformulated after lazy languages got fast

That's nonsense.

Programs for one benchmark - binary-trees - had to be rewritten because "this is an adaptation of a benchmark for testing GC so we are interested in the whole tree being allocated before any nodes are GC'd" and with lazy evaluation GC gobbles up nodes before the whole tree's allocated -

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=bi...
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Ivy doesn’t look like most performers in mainstream pornography. Then again, the thousands of viewers who have logged on to watch her YouTube videos or look at her photo sets aren’t seeking mainstream adult entertainment. While most porn stars and pinups show off their tits and ass, Ivy shows off her big belly, the body part fetishized in the niche genre of feeding porn.
Do you understand the problem that OpenCL is trying to solve? Literally printing "Hello World" would be a useless example. As others have noted the example is appropriate, as it preforms calculations on dataset, something that can potentially benefit greatly by accessing multiple CPUs.
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That's some serious praise!

"What the guys at DabbleDB built is amazing."
Gilad Bracha (from my worm's-eye view) is doing some of the most interesting work in languages today.

He's reworking the Smalltalk language, essentially adding capabilities (no access to anything you're not explicitly granted), and doing mind-blowing UI work (with other people), the Hopscotch framework.

See http://langnetsymposium.com/2009/talks/08-GiladBracha-Hopsco... .
You're proving the parent's point?
> Apparently, Google has decided that its formal complaint system is "the Internet."

Apparently that works if you're Google.
A frozen two!
I have to nitpick that you mean "measurable activity" whenever you say activity, since thinking about a problem and planning a solution in your head is certainly activity, we just don't have measures for it yet.
What's changed?

Easy, people are too rich and lazy and now democracy doesn't work any more.

I hope the answer isn't too upsetting but you know it's true.
Not bending over backwards for customers is the action of an incompetent company. Whether by choice or not.
I despise the constant knee-jerk reaction to "design patterns" as "scripture." There is a sizeable contingent who cannot accept design patterns at all, in the belief that design patterns are used only by -- in some nearly literal sense of the term -- religious zealots.

These people will eventually code an Adapter, but presumably they will not call it that.
From Consumer Intent to Overcoming Obstacles with Modular Innovation
How Does a Sports Startup Compete With ESPN and Yahoo?
> I have to admit Apple wasn't kidding about this being a snappier release

So you recommend the switch? (I was going to grab a copy tomorrow anyway, but it's always nice to get actual experience by actual users)
This data matches my personal experience pretty well. I've been hit twice by careless drivers.

I was hoping this article would have some data on helmet vs non-helmet deaths.
Hey. I work on trendly/Dabble DB, and I used to work with PCF on opencongress.org. Good to see you using trendly. I hope you like it.
Um, you got it. :) I just added a "jsonget" binary to the package.

http://gist.github.com/177304
Well...the thing is that I normally DO pay for my male friends.

Then you know exaclty what I'm talking about. My point is that gestures can mean different things when performed for men and for women. There's nothing irrational about it.
Funny how you said "respectfully". I have no respect at all. These people are morons, and are the primary reason democracy is faltering.
Overall, yes. You'll need to re-install MacPorts (just download the DMG from their site) and XCode (from the CD) afterwards, but other than that, everything (for me) works. Although the Java 6 JVM that comes with Snow Leopard seems to be quite a bit slower -- not sure why, yet.

One caveat -- as I've heard, CS3/CS4 has some problems.
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Wow really? That's pretty weird.
That is the action of an incompetent company.
It also needs the instantiation support at the VM/runtime level, which is separate from the services the OS itself provides.

So blocks need to be supported at the compiler level, in the Objective-C runtime and in OS-wide processes (which would be Grand Central itself).
The reason that broad discretionary powers over many should not be granted to a few has little to do with the intentions of those pushing for the law to be passed (which are presumably honest, if misguided).

Once the law is on the books, the intention of its authors will be forgotten, and the powers the law grants will be used broadly simply because it will be more convenient for an administration to use those powers than to achieve its ends in some other way.
I can write methods that take blocks.

Sure I can do the same thing in python, but I either have to write a lambda that limits me to a single line or write a one-off named method. The latter being much less clear than do ... end.
Depends on how much gaming[spore vs crysis]. Is a 9400 good enough? Then the $999 white macbook would work. Or a dell for a bit less.
It's nice they retrofit blocks into the lib though, I didn't think they were going to add them beyond GCD.
You have been hanging around smart, reasonable people too long and begun to believe everyone is smart and reasonable. This is unfortunately not the case.
Code coverage support for Python in emacs
" ... created by unregulated technology companies."

As best I can tell there is not a single company in the US that is not regulated in some way. Whether the regulations are good, bad, sensible, inane, is a different matter, but regulation is as American as apple pie.
Sony cutting Linux support on PS3
It really depends on what level of gaming you expect to do. Most of the laptops I've seen that are under 13" (Apple included) either have integrated graphics or a low-end discrete GPU (like an nVidia GeForce 8400M or 9300M).

If the laptop has a discrete GPU as an option, it usually adds $50-$100 to the price, which may push it over the top of your budget.

If you just want to occasionally play some games, but you're not trying to play Crysis on maximum settings, go with something like the Dell XPS M1330. It's an older model, but you should be able to find one with good specs (including a discrete GPU, the 8400M) for under $1k.

If you can spend a bit more, take a look at the Asus range. They've got some 14" laptops that are a little over $1k, but you can get a GeForce 130M, which should be somewhat better than the 8-9 series GeForce chips.
Worry over job is worse for health than no job
If may be a bias, but when I think of what characterizes the word American, I think of something more like Unix than Multics.

(Even though America itself certainly contains plenty of both models.)
> You'll need to re-install MacPorts (just download the DMG from their site) and XCode (from the CD) afterwards

I was intending a complete reinstall anyway, so I'm cool with that.

> One caveat -- as I've heard, CS3/CS4 has some problems.

I've heard CS3 has issues as well, but given I don't use it…

The reports that Cyberduck doesn't work correctly annoys me more.
An example of patterns gone insane
http://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc/apidocs/org/apache/xmlrpc/server...
If you use a lot more photons, you will have a very different effect that a single one.

No. You will not. That's exactly why I sent you to the library with that equation.
It's not fair to compare advertising bucks on an apples to apples basis. Amazon has something on their store below every book which is available for the Kindle (which is most of them by sales volume) saying "Available on Kindle". The cash value of those ads would be enormous, far, far more than Sony has spent I'm sure.
I have friends and family who have worked in minimum security prisons, and they are certainly not what most people imagine nor do they house the types of criminals most people think of when they think of the prison population.

Regarding medium security prisons, I believe you completely.
I think the risks of "going overboard in the other direction" are very very small.

It will take a miracle (and tons of political courage) just to get something a bit saner, so I don't see how a total 180 degrees could be even possible.

Have no fear, real violent sex offenders won't become popular any time soon.
I hate you! I was looking for a Smalltalk->Javascript thing before I started my current project, but I couldn't find one other than st2js. Arrrgghhhhhhafuhoasdf

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Anyway, thanks, this is awesome.
Thank you for the citation, it is informative.
That has more in common with Forth than most assembly languages though.
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Why Twitter isn't the same species as MySpace.
NVidia predicts 570x GPU performance gain by 2015
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It involves compiler and runtime changes, although they have been backported to the iPhone and 10.5:

http://code.google.com/p/plblocks/
The question should not be who gives greater returns to society but the allocation based on need.

It is probable that children with learning disabilities will always need more care (and hence money). I think the real issue is that we are falling short of stimulating our brightest children. That doesn't justify taking from children with specific needs for support.
Where do you get "less than 50k"?
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The data doesn't match my personal experience. I've only come close to hitting a bicyclist once and that's because he suddenly decided to take a left turn from the right lane, at night, while it was raining, without looking.

Anyway, it's no surprise that most accidents are caused by the drivers:
1. A bike can make small maneuvers and brake much more quickly than a car can.
2. Bikes usually aren't going as fast as cars.
3. Bicyclists are also more likely to get hurt in an auto vs. bike collision.
4. Bicyclists are a bunch of morons who almost never stop at stop signs or lights, which most likely bothers drivers so much that they vow to run over the next bicyclist they see.
Didn't work for me on this article, it only pulled in one bullet point from the interview.
I (an Intl. student) usually try to buy meals of my friends (mostly Americans i.e.) but hardly get anything in return (I really don't expect anything in return any way) i.e. they act cheaply sometimes even though they have the $$ and live affluently - this is the trend I've noticed since my undergrad years (some of my other Intl. friends have echoed similarly) Yes, I was born in a different culture, where guests mean a lot to us, but it's more than that - a sense of gesture and common-sense (may be?).
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Traffic signaling designed for cars makes drivers lazy. This would help: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1533248/Is-this-the-e...
Glad I'm not the only one who thought this article demonstrates the decline of the NYT more than the decline of Facebook. The plural of anecdote.
Just comparing percentages off different bases isn't quite what the paradox is getting at, but it's also a fine approach to representing data in misleading way. There's a great collection of such less technical tricks in the book _How to Lie with Statistics_ by Darrell Huff.
It's not really in the shape I would have wanted for a public release... kudos to the submitter for finding the website, I guess :). But if you find it useful, great.
So PG is not a hacker then?

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090601/10-questions-for-paul-g...

(Question 4)
Embarrassingly, yes. Obviously I can neither type nor spell well.
Is it proprietary? I thought it was open-sourced, and submitted to the standards body?

("citation needed", I haven't checked this)
I don't think those two grades are going to matter, so I don't really think that's a downside. I vote you graduate and spend that brainpower thinking about what's next.
I always thought Smalltalk seemed like a closer match to JS than Scheme, if you got rid of first-class message passing. How much overhead is there? For example in Objective-J in reasonably tight loops, I usually try to avoid message passing or using the Cappuccino types if I can. JS is already pretty slow in IE and older browsers, and UI updates can become noticeably slower with more overhead.
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I thought Clamato was primarily a Mexican thing for Chelada (you can get pre-mixed Clamato and Budweiser in Mexico and Mexican areas in Chicago and other cities).

I thought you Canadians were better than that. shakes head
Hello boilerplate.
Solve 20% of the full problem and you probably get 80% of the dollars.
After all these years reading about it, the clamato tutorial was the first time I got to actually try out a code browser interface. Very cool.
I've noticed no real compatibility problems so far, and I just upgraded my Leopard machine. (Still took an hour, and I didn't even opt to install Xcode 3.2 yet.)

A somewhat odd and annoying change is that /usr/bin no longer contains a number of common tools that are technically developer tools. For instance, there is no /usr/bin/make or /usr/bin/xcodebuild; one must instead look in /Developer/usr/bin.

Both Python 2.5.4 and 2.6.1 are in /usr/bin, and it's handy to have both.
Code: http://bitbucket.org/avibryant/clamato
Governments move slowly, and execs (and shareholders) rarely look past the next quarter.
C++/CLI was originally developed by Microsoft and then standardized by ECMA.

OpenCL was originally developed by Apple and then formalized by the Khronos Working Group.

So, it kind of depends on your definition of proprietary.
ImageMagick seems to be totally broken. I've tried MacPorts & recompiling the source, but not really making any progress. I had a few hiccups with libxml2 but these were fixed after uninstalling ImageMagick and nokogiri. Nokogiri reinstalls ok, ImageMagick won't.
I agree. The language is overbroad. But some kind of legislation is inevitable. What's the narrow capability you think the government should have? Because just repeatedly pointing out that the government sucks at technical legislation is boring. We all know that.
I used to tend to agree with 4) until I became a cyclist. You can follow the spirit of the law without following the letter of the law. If you're on a bike and you're trying to get somewhere in the city in a reasonable amount of time, it is highly impractical to come to a complete stop at every stop sign. Should you slow down and be ready to stop? Yes. Should you stop if there's traffic? Definitely yes. If the streets are deserted is it OK to coast through? With caution. Ride a couple miles in cyclists shoes and things look very different.

Please don't assume all cyclists are assholes. Sure, some cyclists are complete douchebags. Idiocy abounds here in Chicago. I recently saw a guy on the Lake Shore trail in Chicago talking on his phone and smoking a cigarette. And don't get me started on the hipsters riding their fixies with their iPods cranked up. Trust me, I want to punch them myself - but not all cyclists are to blame.
If there's nobody around, I'll often roll through a stop sign on my bike. Back in the UK, there's almost no stop signs, instead everything's yields or 'roundabouts', which seem more efficient and safer, since they require more situational awareness.

There's definitely suicidal bikers around blowing through stop lights and weaving through traffic, but I don't think that if they were gone, car drivers would be perfectly happy sharing the road with bikes. We're slow and a pain to pass, plus there's the occasional aura of moral superiority. :)
Maybe not in terms of execution time, but in maintainability and set-up time, nothing beats:

echo Hello, world!
Really? I was under the impression -- at least in the US at the local/state level -- that perjury was not a highly prosecuted crime. In most cases, it was just a charge that was brandied about to force a confession or something similar.

It might be different if you're the star witness in a big case, or you're the one that's actually bringing the charges...

In most domestic disputes, things really end up in a 'he said/she said' situation where there aren't many facts to back things up. Which is why the courts hate dealing with this. You end up having to just listen to both sides and try and make a decision about which person is more believable...
Hulu is awesome and even more so lately, as they have added Disney content (ABC, History Channel).

This Five Years on Mars re: the rovers is great programming
http://www.hulu.com/watch/91800/naked-science-five-years-on-.... I have not had cable in years since BitTorrent and now things like Hulu!
There's no overhead, in the sense that one Smalltalk message send maps to one Javascript method call. However, Smalltalk tends to use more, smaller methods, and more blocks, so there's some stylistic overhead that will make idiomatic Clamato slower than idiomatic Javascript.
The obvious solution is to simply allow gifted children to advance more quickly, which would be the natural course of things. Of course, the institutional and political hurdles are considerable.
US roadsways, driving laws, driver education, and even drivers' habits are all based around cars interacting with cars. A quick glance that will catch a car-sized object will miss a cyclist. A collision that would be a fender-bender will do far more damage to a cyclist.

I honestly don't know what would possess people to ride a bicycle on a busy street, bike lane or no.
No problem. Hackers can be pretty good at working around their flaws.
Thanks for the suggestions! Search will definitely become necessary as the content base grows, it's tricky though, because it's hard to define by what criteria people should search.

We definitely have some crowdsourcing-ish features in the pipeline that should help with growing the content base and increasing user engagement.
To the best of my recollection Clamato juice was created for the first time in Boston or New Jersey, but popularized via the Caesar in Calgary (like a Bloody Mary with Clamato instead of tomato).

Either way, it's a prevalent drink in Canada and difficult or impossible to find elsewhere.
Umm everything is cyclical -->Prodigy -->AOL --> MySpace --> Facebook --> the next big thing a reader here may create.
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Google "america's one million nonviolent prisoners."
Part of the problem is information overload and poor journalism and people who are so apathetic to the political process that they make their decisions based on 30 second sound bytes.
Python packaging/install: what I want
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He could make a stronger case, by posting an example. Even then he would be trying to prove a negative - i.e. that there is no design pattern that isn't overcoming a language flaw.

What about the much maligned factory pattern. It boils down to a method that provides an implementation, and can be considered (when not misused) a single point of configuration in an application. (e.g. switch the factory to use html instead of pdf).

My view was always that people could learn patterns much the same way that they can learn a 2nd language. That is end up with a high level of knowledge about the grammar/patterns but not be able to use them fluently.