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Looking forward to this. For anyone interested, here's the people covered in the book. Personally I'm a little disappointed that somebody like Carmack, Abrash or Sweeney isn't covered, but it's still a fine list.

Frances Allen: Pioneer in optimizing compilers, first woman to win the Turing Award (2006) and first female IBM fellow

Joe Armstrong: Inventor of Erlang

Joshua Bloch: Author of the Java collections framework, now at Google

Bernie Cosell: One of the main software guys behind the original ARPANET IMPs and a master debugger

Douglas Crockford: JSON founder, JavaScript architect at Yahoo!

L. Peter Deutsch: Author of Ghostscript, implementer of Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5 on PDP-1

Brendan Eich: Inventor of JavaScript, CTO of the Mozilla Corporation

Brad Fitzpatrick: Writer of LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached, and Perlbal

Dan Ingalls: Smalltalk implementor and designer

Simon Peyton Jones: Coinventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell Compiler

Donald Knuth: Author of The Art of Computer Programming and creator of TeX

Peter Norvig: Director of Research at Google and author of the standard text on AI

Guy Steele: Coinventor of Scheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang of Five, currently working on Fortress

Ken Thompson: Inventor of UNIX

Jamie Zawinski: Author of XEmacs and early Netscape/Mozilla hacker
This seems like a strange acquisition. VMWare makes money from selling virtualization and VM management software; spring is just a set of popular java frameworks. maybe they're trying to enter a completely different market?
What does this have to do with the URL scheme though? With or without it, secure pages can embed links to other secure pages on other domains. Whether the protocol is explicit in the markup does not change the browsers ability to mix content from multiple secure domains.
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If you think k=abilities, that not what I meant. k=how good your idea is, how well it is timed relative to the rest of the world, how well connected you are, etc.

The quality of the idea matters. It is necessary but not sufficient for success.
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Well, Helicos is certainly not the only game in town in the current crop of new sequencing tech. Each of the new technologies has its strengths and weaknesses. This is clearly a bit of PR on their part. I believe their technology is more expensive than their competitors, and until a week or so ago, I think they had yet to get anyone to buy one of their sequencers.

The main problem with DNA sequencing is that nobody has really commercialized a way to "passively" read the sequence. All of the currently marketed technologies involve some kind of chemical fluorescence process where little bits of DNA are used as templates. The templates are extended base by base with fluorescent-labeled bases. Between the chemical reaction, and the need to accurately measure the fluorescence, you can really only go so fast and maintain accuracy.

Once you do the chemistry and have the raw data, you've really just got TONS of tiny sequences (known as "short reads"). These reads are anywhere from 20 - 30 bases or so, depending on the technology. They need to be assembled into a complete genome by figuring out where they overlap with each other. This is a computationally expensive problem, but it's reasonably doable with a small Linux cluster.

This is a huge improvement in sequencing (most notably, it removes a lot of human intervention). That said, large-scale sequencing is still in its infancy. In my opinion, all of this is a stopgap until someone is able to engineer a process that gives really long reads. There are numerous problems with assembling short bits of sequence. Most notably, there are lots of areas in the genome which have a huge amount of repeated DNA sequence. Since reads from neighboring parts of the repeated sequence can be identical, there's often no way to know how many are duplicated. Pacific Biosciences claims they can sequence 2.5 kilobases of a single molecule with their technology (not yet on the market). Something along those lines could really change the equation.
The two CDNs that I'm most familiar with (Akamai and Cotendo) do offer CDN/DSA services over SSL. I would imagine that the other big CDNs also offer SSL service. (Otherwise, how would they compete for e-commerce business?)

We pay Akamai a non-trivial amount of money for SSL service, and they in fact host separate certificates for us (in addition to our origin servers hosting "our" own [different] certificates).
SpringSource makes money from selling support for Spring Framework and related tools, lately they've been promoting their own app server (built on top of Tomcat with extra monitoring stuff built in) and IDE; so they are more than just a popular framework.

But this is a very interesting acquisition. I don't think many people would have ever dreamt of this team-up.
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Spring is ramping into the cloud I read. In my opinion VMWare produces great products and are in a huge growth market. This will pull a lot of java folks into the cloud that haven't gotten around to it yet. Still, I agree, seems like a strange acquisition.

I haven't used it much in a couple year, but I would not consider Spring lean software in the least, as stated. Standard package comes with quite a bit, but even at it's leanest IoC I'd consider Google Guice leaner (and prettier imo). Certainly better than the old EJB specs though.
It does seem to yield quite different results... but I can't quite notice patterns as to why or how they are different.
True platforms that scale are more than just their physical manifestations of phone or computers. They are like ecosystems, marketplaces, economies, even societies. In the end the strength of a platform is the combined efforts of all it's 'citizens'. The systems that govern how those participants relate to each other is much like a government. As such I'm arguing that the iPhone has a poor system of government and will intimately be about as successful as the other large scale totalitarian systems.

Now if you were to argue that the iPhone shouldn't be viewed as a platform then you might have a valid point.
OK, I'll be "that guy". What exactly has changed? Perhaps I'm merely trying the wrong types of queries or have a spotty memory or am just plain unobservant, but I don't notice any difference. I don't doubt that Google has minor improvements all the time and that that therefore there is, in a matter of speaking, a "new" google search every week or so, but I'm not noticing anything newsworthy. Is this some sort of ironic joke that I've ruined by taking literally?
You are right, it's something about the network. On my notebook (physically in Europe) it took 25 seconds to wget DF's index page while from ssh session on server in California it was instantaneous. Though it's strange that it's so specific - I don't have problems with other sites.
Now _this_ is earth shattering news. Amazon is getting into ads, and has a HUGE database of real peoples real purchasing habits. Woah.

facebook has some twee new feature, and bought out some other company, not so much.
That's not a simple question. A name with string first, string last takes longer to create than a point with int x, int y.

Temporary fixed size objects can be created and destroyed with little overhead. But you need to profile things to get a good metric. http://java.sun.com/j2se/reference/whitepapers/memorymanagem... Has some of the details.

Creating an object that lives on the processor cache can take 150 cycles which is FAST. But, the more complex the object the longer the allocation, and you can quickly start to fragment your memory if you have several short lived objects that don't die at the same time. Assuming your checking a variable in L1 cache then it's still an order of magnitude faster, but once you start taking longer to load the object into cache etc so it's not really a stable time either...

PS: It's going to get really application specific so I can't think of realistic test outside of an actual application. Still I will try some simple cases tomorrow.
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Interesting take on it:
http://apsblog.burtongroup.com/2009/08/vmware-fuels-springso...
I see a lot more grouped results by domain and at least one very heterogeneous result from the domain. Example: http://www2.sandbox.google.com/#hl=en&q=dawdle

However, this does makes it clear that Google sees http://www.dawdle.com and http://www.dawdle.com/index.php as different pages, so apparently I have some SEO tweaking to do. I'd encourage all startups that rely on SEO to test their best keywords here to get a different feel for how Google "sees" your site.
Seconded. Some commentary would be appreciated.
My girlfriend had some significant issues with an attempted transition towards Nike Frees. The higher impact on the foot gave her sesamoiditis and a stress fracture near the big toe. If you have a foot structure that's not the norm, it's worth thinking twice about these.

Rotating your shoes is one of the best ways to prevent injuries if you're trying to move towards more lightweight shoes. I try to use a combination of racing flats, Nike Free 3.0s, and trail flats, and variety really does help cut overuse injuries. If you intend to run fast on trails, you can get many of the benefits(e.g. low weight, flexibility, and a more responsive foot feel) with a trail flat like the inov-8 X-Talon 212, while avoiding a lot of the catastrophic injury possibilities.

One final note: although I love my pair of Five Fingers KSO, they smell really bad very quickly. If you get a slightly larger size, some people have luck using the Injinji toe socks with them.
I bet those text-based browsers aren't subject to the same level of security audits as the more popular ones. I hope they're sandboxing said browsers properly...
There has been a fair amount of research that suggests over some point having more money results in more kids. There seems to be a dip when you have some but not enough with spikes at low and high levels of income.

An interesting take on this: http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displaystory.cfm?...
#9 Should be "If you aint gettin bagged (as in locked up) stay the fuck from police"
I bought a pair of the sprints and ended up returning them because the strap was irritating and uncomfortable. I don't have any problem running in the classics, and I also like simplicity. The best advice is try on both styles before you purchase.
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No form of advertising captures intent like search advertising. No data source, statistics, or demograpic information comes close to a user saying "I want to buy widgets, show me your widgets." Until Amazon or Facebook or whomever capture intent like Google does, their advertising will be doomed to being fractionally as effective.
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I thought Google Maps was done by the Brothers behind Wave (at least the main two people behind it, same as the lead at FF was the main guy when it came to gmail).
If you could instantaneously eliminate all "tax haven locales" (by their decision to increase tax rates to say 25-30%), you would in fact make the US somewhat better off, and those tax haven locales dramatically worse off.

That's more a sign that US tax policy is not competing effectively for company domiciles than it is to say that the tax havens have it wrong. Clearly, they are banking substantial tax money (at substantially lower rates) at the expense of higher tax jurisdictions.
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most of Internet start-up here in China are, rip-off of existing sites and translate of interface and function.

And any user generated content is strictly forbidden by the government because eventually UGC will involve politics topics.

And corruption, you have to go through months apply process of a video site 'license', or blog site 'license' or news site 'license', and they are managed by different bureaucratic departments of the central government.

And big companies like QQ.com is likely to copy your idea and deploy it on their own QQ.com infrasture and overtake your start-up by one day.

So overall it's very hard to do start-ups in China, unless you have a very strong social background.
Ask HN: I can't find a job. Why? Should I go to grad school?
Hello HN!

I just graduated from college, and I'm having trouble finding employment. I always thought I was pretty employable: I'm a smart guy, with a degree in Psychology and Math (though not CS), and I've been programming as a hobbyist for over ten years.

I used to do BASIC, then dabbled in some C++/Java, got serious about perl in high school... but then after graduating high school, I got an internship, and they wanted me to learn PHP. Since then, I've essentially been doing PHP/MySQL (LAMP) exclusively, with a healthy dose of JavaScript.

I had an app on the Facebook platform which took off, and then I sold it, and the exposure got me a bunch of freelance consulting work -- but I haven't been working lately, as I shut down the consulting biz to focus on wrapping up my degree.

I'm entrepreneurial by nature, and though I do not have a great idea to work on right now, I do love the tech sector. What should I do? Should I go back to grad school, to get a Master's in CS, and learn the theory from the ground up? (I took Discrete Math and Information Theory as electives in college).

I appreciate your advice.
WOW!!! Why is this ever hitting the ruby process? These are static assets. The decision should be made at the http proxy (apache, nginx) not your ruby proc.
Umm... just think about what you have said, and how amazon has a search button and you'll realise they know more about intent than google.
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Still no way to permanently remove a domain from searches? I have a list of about 15 sites I absolutely never want to see in my search results. It seems like a simple feature to have.
Type in "Hacker New" and you'll note that the first result shows the site with it's URL, not just the name.

Is that it?
Second result: 209.161.37.11/dictionary/dawdle
That looks like a bug to me - it's http://www.merriam-webster.com, which, in addition to not being a sketchy IP address, is also a nice brand in terms of dictionaries.
The number of users FF has that FB didn't already have is approximately zero.
Sandbox version: Results 1 - 10 of about 751,000,000 for sex [definition]. (0.11 seconds)

Regular version: Results 1 - 10 of about 104,000,000 for sex [definition]. (0.13 seconds)

7 times as many results for the same exact query

edit: speed wasn't an improvement, but definitely the number of results are.
Yea, it was a great event!

The winning team built a prototype of a Justin.tv type of app in 2 days.

I do think it will be sometime before the platform sees any applications that have mainstream adoption. Video may be the first thing that gets wave rolling from consumer perspective.
The search results load via Ajax. That's the main difference that I see. Also notice that the URL changes when you type in your search result, but that the query args are sitting behind a # anchor. Normally, those values don't get sent via referrers, which would mean that you wouldn't get that information in the referer header on the server that hosts the search result when the user clicks it. However, in this case, Google is doing HTTP redirects in order to send that information along. At the very least, we can see that the format for their URLs has changed. But they may just be in a data-gathering mode right now. If they turn off that redirect, you won't be able to deduce the search query that the user typed in based on your webserver logs.
I doubt your problem in finding a programming job is due to your lack of a CS degree. Your experience should be enough for entry to mid range jobs, its the market that is lacking at the moment. That is not to say you should not get a CS Master's if you are really into it. Just don't do it because you think its the route to a job.

Given the U.S. economy, you may need to widen your horizons for job type. Try doing something with your psych/math background. I've heard stats jobs are on the rise.
I am based in the valley, and I must say it seems like ot is a far more cutthroat environment here. ;)
I like the idea..

Just thinking to myself, it'd be interesting if Vibram included X number of preprinted "affiliate" cards in the box of each pair of shoes you bought from them. The set of cards would contain a custom url (e.g. xyz123.vibram.com) and the wearer of the shoe could carry these cards with them and pass them out whenever someone asked about the shoes.

The preprinted business cards would give each customer an easy way to get up and running referring other potential customers.
i'm seeing more total search results.
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i see those buttons on both main and the "new" version.
Oh, that's too bad. I'm thinking about writing a plugin for FogBugz, and that would have been nice to have (it won't stop me from writing it though ;)

Perhaps they could check out LINQbridge (http://code.google.com/p/linqbridge/). I don't know if that could be adapted to work for them and ease the transition to .NET 3.5, but perhaps its something to look at. (It almost replicates LINQ on the 2.0 framework.)
there are definitely more results. the speed, i think, is not an improvement.
Try SearchWiki (click the X next to each result you want to kill).

Edit: okay, yeah, that won't work. The OP is looking to kill all of a domain, and SearchWiki is only one query/result combination.
That just removes it for that one search, it doesn't remove that domain from all future searches.
Doesn't that just blacklist a specific result? I want to kill an entire domain, forever.
Maybe because it's a sandbox project, and not production yet?
When/If Amazon positions amazon.com as the place you go to search for anything you want to buy, that's when Google really needs to start worrying.
I think FB got a great deal here.

They got ~10 top grade Google vets. Assuming they each have to stick around for 3 years,

$15MM/(10*3) = $500K/year each.

And the $35MM in stock = 0.54% of Facebook. Divide that by 10, and you get 0.05% per head, which doesn't seem extravagant at all.

It's the FF employees who are bearing most of the risk in this transaction, in the off chance FB isn't actually worth $6.5B.
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The type of Hungarian notation Spolsky uses at Fog Creek is different than the Hungarian once pushed by Microsoft.

Hungarian notiation (of any variety) started (and ended) at Microsoft.

Also, if you're working at Fog Creek, the guy who has to maintain your code after you will also be using Hungarian.

If you're working at Fog Creek you're writing code in a custom in-house programming language as well as using Hungarian notation. I don't think the example is generally useful or applicable to anyone else.
Wow, I was just reading about the SheevaPlug this morning. I was thinking about buying one to play with, and perhaps to make a portable LAMP development server (plus, it'd make a cheap little SVN box as well).
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Consider that SpringSource just purchased Hyperic, the open source app/infrastructure monitoring company. That fits with VMWare's model a bit better.
It's still a very important step for third generation sequencing machines.

...the HeliScope generates DNA sequence data as a massive collection of very short reads - but while the Illumina platform is now routinely generating reads over 100 bases long, the HeliScope generates reads on average just 32 bases long, with only a tiny fraction exceeding 50 bases in length. In fact, the reads are deliberately filtered to exclude any extending for over 70 bases, as these are highly enriched for technical artefacts.

Stitching together a genome sequence with such short reads is a substantial challenge, especially in regions where the sequence is repetitive - and indeed the technology can only cover 90% of the reference genome compared to 99.9% for a genome recently sequenced to similar depth with Illumina.

http://scienceblogs.com/geneticfuture/2009/08/first_human_ge...

So they can still stitch together 90% of your genome within a month, and there's no reason to think this will not improve in the future.
I have a pair of the KSOs.

I haven't run in them, but I've hiked significant distances in them. First time was in the smokey mountains in Tennessee, along a portion of the appalachian trail. I brought along a pair of hiking boots in case my feet got sore. They didn't.

The sheer amount of texture you feel is incredible. I wear them constantly now. It's tough to describe without experiencing it, but the shoes give you an awareness of your environment that can't be felt any other way. It's not enormous, but its enough for me to pay for the shoes.

i guess they got me. i love them.
They kind of already are, for me at least. I know that if I decide I want to buy something that I think Amazon probably sells, I'll just go a look it up on Amazon directly. I have a couple of other sites that I also know and trust for IT stuff but Amazons prices and fulfillment are generally very keen, especially now with that they do 2nd hand and marketplace stuff. Even if you could save a currency unit or two somewhere else, it's not really worth the time investment to find out - Googling for random products is a massive pain - you just get way to much shopping/price comparison/aggregator type crap back.
On reflection, this is the only time that I actually use a 'vertical' search engine for anything. Although Amazons massive product range belies the term vertical, everything else that I search for goes through Google, basically, so this would make Amazon - roughly - my vertical 'purchasing' search engine.
The Pragmatic Bookshelf titles are available in mobi format. I'm reading Programming Clojure (http://www.pragprog.com/titles/shcloj/programming-clojure) and overall the experience is good, though the coding snippets don't scale with the rest of the test.
I think google is still trying to squeeze the last 0.1% of gain in terms of web search. Future value will come in terms of social, recommendations, and user interfaces. not squeezing that last 0.1%
You should also consider writing regularly. The whole yacoset googlesite was interesting.
VMWare might just want the Hyperic monitoring software which SpringSource bought a while back. Plus, they get some skilled developers in the deal so it might just be a Hyperic-and-talent acquisition.
That poster is inaccurate, it shows far too many cars, and far too many people on the bus.

You can fit 4 people in a car, but you can not load a bus completely full or no one will be realistically able to use it.

So the poster should have between 1/4 and 1/8 the number of cars on the screen.
yah most notably the amount of results is larger but also the actual results are different with every query I have tried. At least half of the first page is always different.
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#6 no credit -> agreed 100%

That's crazy. Ever sell to big business? Anything that costs over $50k? What are you going to do, demand up front cash payments in lieu of terms?

Big business does terms, if you want their business you give them credit.
This controls which URLs are included in the dynamic content. It's not serving the actual assets.
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I am looking for a place from next year onwards, maybe can share a studio or something.
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