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Perl6 has a very rich set in its spec: http://perlcabal.org/syn/S06.html#Parameters_and_arguments

There are a few Perl5 ports of which MooseX::Method::Signatures is probably the best implementation: http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-Method-Signatures/lib/Moo...
Next time an infectious disease strikes you might want to flee once you're infected as the army will probably hunt you "to save humanity".
Have you tried http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_per_action
It's building a parse tree, and then attempting to use the unambiguous bits like an abstract syntax tree, presumably to side-step the statically unresolvable ambiguity mentioned in the previous article.

And yes, that is as bizarre as it seems.

I think this article is pretty disingenuous. It's trying to pretend that there is something really complicated going on here (e.g. "That's one way in which Perl 5 differs from other language implementations; it manages the artifacts of compilation itself"), when really, it's actually just poor design layered upon poor design.

> Perl 5's execution model isn't quite the same as a traditional compiler (whatever that means) and it's definitely not the same as the traditional notion of an interpreter. There are two distinct phases of execution of a Perl 5 program: compile time and runtime. You must understand the difference to take full advantage of Perl 5.

This is true, but only if you don't really understand what a traditional compiler or a traditional interpreter might entail, given that Perl is basically doing what Python, Ruby, Matlab and any number of other language implementations do, it's just doing it in such a way that it has to account for flaws in the design of the language.
Make sure to watch the video and scroll down to see the images. I think these guys are really determined to improve their overall fitness.
But how can ISPs enforce this? Dream on!
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I'm actually a fan of reverse-proxying to a production-ready appserver like paste.httpserver.
1) The used a wrong offset, as the parent poster indicated.

2) They assumed a simple offset could adjust for the differences.

A simple offset isn't enough:

The (by far) majority of Europeans are in a single timezone.

The majority of internet-using Americans europeans are in two timezones with a 3 hour time difference, and very few users in the timezones inbetween.

This makes a significant difference. To compare to Europe, they should split US into 2 "nations": east-coast and west-coast.

Their method was wrong. Not how they executed it.
sure, sometimes Centraltrade (a wholesaler in China | e-liquid.cn), Bestecig.com (A manufacturer in China..atomizers are great, avoid his batteries though) and totallywicked-eliquid.com (A seller In America and the UK). They all do bulk deals and there are some others too I haven't used like Puresmoker.com (USA) and eastmall.net (China)
re: "acquired taste" - I totally agree.

for eg. I hated beer first time I tasted it... but now I love it ;-)
Amazon Compliance Confession About Customers, Not Itself
Sony for Emotional Gaming?
Same here. I had great times at CMU, and after living in many different cities around the world (currently Berlin) I think Pittsburgh is a dormant giant for startup work.
Ok, so i genuinely clicked on this expecting his take on http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html. (I guess this supports the premise of the article).
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I always assumed that the dip in the US was people driving home. Maybe a combination of the two.
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I've heard that Pre's implementation of multi-touch is the source of one of the legal battles between Apple and Palm.
And I thought only iCON's keynote are amazing :)
Amar Chitra Katha Books to Entertain Kids
If you are interested in the philosophy of ancient Indian seers and saints, and also the stalwarts of Indian history, then Amar Chitra Katha is a good option for Indian children. Each Amar Chitra Katha book has enthralled people of all ages for many years now. It is a brilliant compilation for your kids and the entire family. The Amar Chitra Katha collection imbibes brilliant information and is complete infotainment for your family. The Amar Chitra Katha is surely the contemporary reading option of the present age.
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It's not just kids either. I'd love to get my hands on the 5000+ piece Millennium Falcon :)
Before one gets hysterical, consider debt as a function of GDP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USDebt.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt
> Java has the same types of method arguments.

no it hasn't. You can't do

public method(String name = "test") {...}

in Java
Yes, but it may as well have been written yesterday
The comparison to 37 signals is really jarring. Part of what makes Carmack such a classy guy is that he avoids writing self-congratulatory essays or offering seminars about how to be happy, or build amazing software. He just does it.
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It's faster and more robust. We switched to it on production and don't regret in a slightest.
Transistors are an interesting case. AT&T was a government-supported monopoly, allowing it to pursue expensive blue-sky research. And since transistors were expensive, the government purchased 100% of the advanced transistors until they were viable on the market.
http://tech.mit.edu/V128/N51/chomsky.html

The New York Times discusses how technology flows from federally-funded research to industry.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/02/technology/02darpa.html

I agree that national states are centralized institutions, but corporations are another type of hierarchical power structure with their own set of disadvantages.
Does selling products on HN conform with the TOS?
"Backward" Planet Has Density of Foam Coffee Cups
The iPhone is Not Easy to Use: A New Direction for User Experience Design
I tried Twitter for a few months as a personal service and found it useless and noisy. But as a method of monitoring support requests and chatter about my project, it's been invaluable. I think the site offers a lot of value as a kind of customer support hotline.
Perhaps we change the underlying laws? Not enforcing unjust laws seems a second best.
A mechanical lion invented by da Vinci to amuse the King of France is alive
Recall the days when the 'theoretical information density' of the hard drive was seen as the limiting factor for storage devices.

And then IBM came along with the GMR head and turned the world of storage literally on its head.

I wouldn't put it past them to do it again. There are plenty of companies out there pumping billions in applying technology, but very few of them beat IBM when it comes to creating new technology.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=768823
Yes, org-mode is a great way to do this. I've been using it for a year now, and although it takes a while to get used to, it's very efficient and simple.

Org-mode is now the place where I keep everything that fits in text (or simple tables). Recipes, todos, personal goals, gift ideas, outlines for future projects, wine tips, my diary, stuff to buy at Ikea, etc.
Not completely as scary as it sounds. The scientists have also created a test to discern between real and fake, but still. Scary.
Thanks for this, I usually listen to deep house/trance, but this is really relaxing.. I especially like the brown/red noise with oscillation.
It's 37signals we're talking about. It'd be in Ruby:

user.complain do |problem|
37Signals.fix_problem(problem) unless user.pain < effort
end
I know its not quite marketing, being picky, I would like to see a tour ( video is best and quite easy to make these days ) of some of your features.

That a side.

You say you want to target musicians / small businesses.
Start with musicians.

* Email owners of some of the smaller digital distribution sites. They can only turn you down. Or they could invite you to be their goto on twitter.

* Find out where musicians post music to help them be discovered or simply because they want to. Talk to them, be passionate about your system.

Im not going to sit and list off websites I suggest you approach as it might look a lot like spamming.

Maybe if you explain some of your current approaches and which are working and which are failing. Then maybe the "old crowd" can give pointers. Or equally learn from your mistakes, success.

On a side note, I would lose the spammers.
What do you mean? That the device will make you sick or somebody else will beat you up?
Warren Buffett talks about this in stock investing: you're more likely to find a bargain in the under-researched companies, because there's greater variance between the stock price and the stock value (price inefficiencies).

He's publicly claimed to be able to double a million dollars in a year with this approach (it won't work for his $40+ billion, because there aren't enough under-researched stocks to buy that are also bargains).
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I completely forgot about that (long time no intensive Java programming for me)! thanks for the correction
Would ABS (or something similar) solve the problem with the front brakes?
Nicotine is way too addictive to be worth it. It may be socially accepted and not obviously harmful, but it's up there with heroine in terms of how hard it is to stop.
wufoo's demo video peters out just where it gets interesting to me, and it confuses me about their value proposition: once you've got the form made, what do you do with it? Do they just give you the html and point you to where the URL for the CGI ought to go?
I wonder why such a simple topic is in the top ten of HN? Is that stuff not more or less obvious? I mean for people working with Ruby?
Love the idea and hope it goes well. I can't see myself using it until that horrid bogey yellow is changed though!
I bet a ton of highschool professors wish they had one of these.
Do you really have to reset the blinkers after turning? (I've never driven a motor cycle, but cars reset automatically just fine.)
... Why do algorithmic trading articles pop up frequently on HN?

Making money with algorithms is interesting to people interested in algorithms and making money.

... you still can't beat the street because: speed and volume

You mean you can't, and since you believe you can't, you're right.

... Can an individual's machine setup handle real-time analysis of a basket of stocks and general market condition from multiple market centers?

Yes. I don't know why you think it's so hard. Sure it requires work and some skill, but at least hundreds of people have done it. I have, and I don't have an advanced degree in computer science, finance, or magic.
Ask HN: Why do you use framework X?
After reading posts like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=712975 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=750142, I find myself facing a decision regarding what technology to build a new project on. Rather than simply understanding numbers on how many of you use framework X, I'm far more interested in why you use it. Questions such as:

* What was your decision-making process when evaluating frameworks?

* Was your ultimate choice made simply because the framework was the defacto in your language of choice? In other words, did you choose Rails for Ruby, Django for Python, Cake for PHP, just because the language itself was what you knew?

* Assuming you're sufficiently experienced in framework X now, what are your regrets? What makes the other frameworks look like greener grass?

* If you could start your project over again, would you chose the framework again?

* Did you choose framework X secretly because you just wanted to learn it? In other words, was it attractive to you just because all the cool kids were doing it and you wanted to add it to your toolbox? Be honest.

Thanks!
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I have this sitting on my desk right now. I got it a year ago. Unfortunately it doesn't work, or I'm too dumb to get it to work, but other people on the DX forum mention that you have to tweak it. Anyone want to buy mine and give it a shot? $20 shipped in the US. I'm serious.
It's verging on baby-diarrhea color :/ Nausea inducing.
Building block of life found on comet
It seems unlikely that the poster is the one selling this item. It seems more likely that the reason for posting this was to show that you can in fact now buy cell phone jammers for only a few dollars. This is quite interesting whether or not you actually want to buy one :)
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Well perhaps. So let's think about it. Black swans are not rare, they were thought to be completely impossible, and then people found them not to be impossible. So far maybe not so correct.

Secondly, regarding insight. This idea which everyone credits to Taleb is of course described all over the place. For example, as "the impossibility of inductive reasoning in the natural sciences" in The Mathematical Experience. As far as fat tails are concerned, every textbook on financial maths I own talks about fat tails the corrections that must be made to account for them, and they were all published before either of Taleb's books.
How to use city light data to map urbanization
The Meaning of Life - cellular automata,artifical life, wolfram etc
At least he failed the first time (websites for galleries), and learnt from it. There was also a control in the form of other similar businesses at the time.
Yeah, but the problem is that the rest of the world is not currently blown to smithereens and in need of American labor and capital to rebuild it the way it was in 1945 (not to mention deeply indebted to the United States as well). The trough of that graph is about the point where Western Europe and Japan managed to rebuild their economies to the point where they could actually compete effectively. The United States has no such competitive advantage at this point.
"I'm not sure how he would go about implementing some of his ideas"

Mocking the young math-geek (I studied math) analysts, bankers, derivative creators or whatever their titles are, is a good start. I heard it somewhere that over the past decade or two, everyone's mom went from wanting their kid to be a doctor or lawyer to instead be a Wall Street I-banker. All we really need is for society to trust elaborate investment and debt schemes less.

I'm not sure if the moms had it right the first time though, because we have too many lawyers and doctors are taking a beating now from Obama,
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Check out Tracks.

http://getontracks.org
Since I like smart women, the story got me a little excited :)
Instead of jamming the signal, how about spoofing the various protocols (i.e. make a micro-cell), but one that will connect all calls with silence.

Would take much less energy, since all you need is to be slightly stronger than the cell tower, plus you don't need to transmit all the time, just when there is a call.

For extra points, detect and forward calls to 911.
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Yes.

BTW: Cars blinkers don't reset when changing lanes. There's also that joke about solving the problem of indicating left and forgetting about it. The solution is that if you haven't turned left after 15 seconds, the car automatically turns left.
6 Ways to Enjoy Your Breasts
Documentation plain and simple. If someone can't be bothered to document it, then I can't be bothered to use it. If two libraries have good documentation then you read up on both and decide which fits your mental model better.

I tried RoR before it had hit version 1 and the only documentation was the prag Prog book. Looked through the Zope and Django documentation and found the documentation to be better quality. Django just fit my mental model better so that is what I went with. I don't regret the choice, sure I have found some corner cases where I and it haven't agreed but that happens any code that you don't write from top to bottom.
The lights from China were not too bright or widespread as compared to those in India. IIRC, China's GDP is about thrice that of India's.

It wasn't clear (to me; correct me if I'm wrong) from the article whether this looks at the spread of lighting across the country. Seems to reflect that fairly accurately on a continent-level, though.
What was your decision-making process when evaluating frameworks?

Accessibility, features, technology (i.e. is it up to date with the latest language features), development (looking for highly active development)

Was your ultimate choice made simply because the framework was the defacto in your language of choice?

No. However I did reject some other language frameworks because of having ot learn the specifics as well (RoR for example).

Assuming you're sufficiently experienced in framework X now, what are your regrets? What makes the other frameworks look like greener grass?

Most of the regrets are about the development. I chose KohanaPHP which is a solid framework - and but of a power user one (lowish documentation but very powerful once you get to grips). The problem is that they scrap revisions so easily - version 2 is ending it's lif cycle after a very short time frame and V3 is a complete rewrite using HMVC ideals (as opposed to MVC). Porting to V3 is something of a pain (mostly Im not going to bother while V2 still suits my needs). There are also outstanding bugs in the v2 framework that need ironing out and it's looking like they might not all be done.

Also there is sometimes a tendancy for it to bottle neck on some PHP versions / installations - I have not yet tracked down why but it is concerning me more and more.

If you could start your project over again, would you chose the framework again?

Yes I think so. I started on Code Igniter and Kohana was a more actively developed fork of that (later fully rewritten) so I was versed in the syntax and so forth.

It is a powerful framework.

Did you choose framework X secretly because you just wanted to learn it? In other words, was it attractive to you just because all the cool kids were doing it and you wanted to add it to your toolbox? Be honest.

Honestly - no. I used Code Igniter after a recommendation from someone. After finding it frustrated I heard from a forum post about Kohana and how it got rid of those bugs - and it did. At the time the cool kids were going with RoR - their website instantly turned me off at the time so I never bothered.
These are apparently illegal to use in the U.S.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/technology/04jammer.html
clickable links:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=712975

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=750142

I found myself in much the same position, so I read all those same links asked a bunch of questions and settled on Django (for now, we'll see how I feel in a couple of weeks).

The decision making process consisted of listing all the contenders, reading as much as I could about them then asking a few HN'ers in private what they would pick if the choice were up to them.

I got some pretty interesting replies, but the most interesting fact was the common 'thread', Django and ruby/rails were mentioned by just about everybody that bothered to answer, Cake by quite a few.

Other technologies were mentioned too (lift on scala for instance), but were either still very immature or had big strikes against them right from the get go (personal ones, technical ones).

So that settled the basic question for me, now the hard part was to choose.

The key decision factors for me were:

- the possibility to migrate to the jvm at some point, which means I could use some of our investment in the large number of tomcat servers we've got deployed (don't ask).

- the python language, which seems to be a more universal and widely supported language than Ruby, I do a lot of other progamming besides web stuff and the availability of all kinds of third party modules and code really helped here.

- GAE support

- the fact that I had already done a little bit of python programming definitely helped but I would have been more than willing to learn any language.

Cake looked very tempting, I have about a decade invested in PHP, and if the language were the only factor then I would have probably gone with Cake.

I'm not 'sufficiently experienced in framework x' (this has been going for about 5 days now). I chalk up most of my frustration so far to being unfamiliar with the tech, in half a year or so I'll be able to make a more reasoned statement on that.

If I could start again, I'd probably reach the same conclusion because I'd apply the same method, sure there is some frustration but there always is when you're learning something new.

Your last 'be honest' question, no, rather the opposite, I have some pretty major issues with Python (that bloody whitespace thing, it's just too much of a hassle, significant whitespace was a bad idea in makefiles, it is not much better in a programming language). But I feel that the platform has enough momentum to justify my investment in time and other resources.

During the installation procedure (django/wsgi/apache on Etch) I ran into a bunch of snags, if you decide to go this route and you are using the same or a similar platform then let me know.
Here you go then: http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/VirtualEnvironments
Hardware/Software Co-design
- check your lanes

- indicate your turn while your hand is off the brake lever, the Mack truck ahead of you suddenly stops.

But I'll give you this: the main objection to it is the emotional "not rightness of it", rather than the factual likelihood * severity of the scenario. I bet the blogger is still riding that bike.
Microsoft: 'Friends don't let friends use IE6'
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I usually watch tv or movies on my iMac's secondary screen while coding in vim on the primary. Most of the time it's not distracting. If it is, I switch to techno or trance on iTunes to get into the flow.

However, when reading books, I am unable to watch or listen to anything at the same time.. Silence required.
I found a demo hosted somewhere else (note: it appears to be customised using this plugin: http://web.archive.org/web/20070818020731/http://forum.taskf...)

http://demofreak.dracon.biz

username: admin

password: demo
We're All Extraterrestrials
Pretty cool. It would be nice if there was a link to it, perhaps one the profile screen (or whatever he calls the screen I get when I click my username).
Stanford, Duke, Rice, … and Gates?
It's probably a good point to add that Lord Voldemort is 'Minister for everything' and was not elected, nor does he answer to anyone in the House of Commons (other than Gordon Brown, obviously).
Coincidentally, I received two envelopes from DX today! I love that site and would like to vouch for their legitimacy. However, do be careful - if it seems too cheap to be possible, it's probably fake, just like my "Sandisk" Micromates microSD USB adaptor which is rather different from the Australian-bought genuine article sitting next to it.
Bad title, good article. Starts slow, but picks up.
Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the Pirate Party?
And for good reason. Who wants to have their cell phone rendered useless just because they happen to be standing too close to someone who decided they're more important than everyone else around them.
White noise is a common synthetic noise source used for sound masking by a Tinnitus masker.

White noise machines are sold as privacy enhancers and sleep aids and to mask tinnitus. White noise CDs, when used with headphones, can aid concentration by blocking out irritating or distracting noises in a person's environment. In open plan offices, large corporations such as ExxonMobil apply white noise to reduce the reach of speech, thus, by preventing office staff from being distracted by conversations in the background, safeguarding productivity.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_noise