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We are freemium--so if you care that much, you can pay.

We also get a large volume of traffic, so it doesn't make much sense not to monetize it.

By the way, the eyeQ ad is a direct sale to someone that cares a lot about severe weather. I agree it would be great if all three were severe-weather-related, but we're not there yet.
This site likes humor that is actually funny. This is actually funny. It's also a prank against Techcrunch, which this community loves to hate. Of course the irony is that it is still pageviews to Techcrunch.
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Just for a second imagine if this somehow went wrong and this 'feature' was suddenly available to everyone. FB realises the mistake quickly and pulls it, but there is a vocal outcry from all their users who just got into the whole 'Fax your profile pic' meme. Also, TC is first to pick this up in a blog post.

Yeah OK, this is probably highly unlikely, but it would sure have been funny.
I didn't necessarily agree with the petition (that is, don't necessarily see the point of posthumous apologies) but you did a fantastic job, jgrahamc. Congratulations on making this happen.
He doesn't have a wiki in my native tongue, so I had to chuck google translate at http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Scheele . The results seem to indicate he is a nobody, but I could be wrong. Also, could anyone provide a better translation of the book title "I am Jesus-fan: but how you become one?"? Without context from sources I've seen before, it's not clear that it's worth my time to read the page you linked to.

I ran into this same problem while trying to read a broad survey of Institutionalist economics papers--the amount of time I can spend reading is limited, and sometimes there's no way to tell if a heterodox work is worth the trouble. Sadly, my default is "no."
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But if you're going to put nginx in front of it, why bother with Apache at all?

IApache's only saving grace is that you can handle everything monolithically (albeit with mediocrity).
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listen in the car instead -- it's wonderful.

I wouldn't recommend it while working on focused mental tasks.

It would probably be ok if you work at a job where you don't use your brain much like a parking booth attendant, janitor or a manager. ;)
I believe this is one of the advantages of 64 bit architectures. That meg of stack size is just a reservation, it's not actually used, unless your thread really needs it. On a 64 bit machine there is plenty of space to allocate.
I agree, I think it is very important. Unfortunately, I think it's just too far beyond people's understanding of technology.

The interesting thing about it for me is that this advancement, this creation of humans, is feared. It tells us a lot about ourselves. Why do we fear what we create? Why do we fear advancement? When we watch movies about the future, the Terminators and such, they're all bleak.

And because of this fear, we disregard the future. We deny it or abandon thoughts of it. In doing so, we leave serious contemplation of these technologies to those who are using it ways that should be feared. We're building killing robots and unmanned drones -- exactly the thing of our nightmare scenarios.

Instead, we should be reducing our use of advanced technologies to cause harm to humanity. Without serious discussion of the ramifications, we are leaving decisions to the unconscious, to the short term thinkers who will use the technology in the quest for world domination.
And Systemtap, which is a fairly important part of both RHEL and OEL I forgot to add.
Written by the cat -v guy: http://repo.cat-v.org/atrack/

It keeps peer data exclusively in memcache -- would make it difficult for Google to comply with a subpoena, and foster maximum plausible deniability for all parties.
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Under bid to someone you respect a lot, and make sure they know you're underbidding. Emphasize how much you'd like to work with them, and how much you think you're going to learn. Don't try to sell yourself - nobody cares. You're boring to to other people, no one cares about you. Instead, tell them about themselves, about what you like about them, what you admire about them, and what an honor it would be to make them the first person you contract for. Tell them that you expect to make some mistakes for a lack of experience, but you're working to work 130% to make them very happy, and that working for an undermarket price would be a tremendous opportunity for you to learn alongside someone who is a veteran.

Again, DON'T SELL YOURSELF. No one cares. Tell the person you're taking to about themself. Tell them what you like and love about them, and then tell them how you'd like to help them, and what an honor it would be, and how much you expect to learn. Let them know you're doing it for a very selfish reason - so that you can learn from them.

It's key you legitimately respect whoever it is, because you'll sound empty if not, and you are going to make a million mistakes that are very obvious in hindsight. So find someone you really respect, and talk about them (not yourself - no one cares, really), and then make damn sure they know they're getting 130% effort for 30% price or so. The lessons and reference from someone you respect are going to be worth a heck of a lot more than whatever you could get by trying to over-represent yourself to an unsophisticated buyer.

To work with someone very talented, they'll want to know that you're mentally and emotionally onboard and very excited to work with them personally, and that your effort will make up for your inexperience. The enthusiasm is what gets them willing to give you a chance, the undermarket rates is what gets you the contract. Later on, you can raise your rates, but do try to make the first person you get someone you really admire - bad clients are really a nightmare, and you'll have to deal with that later, but good clients are like mana from heaven. Do what you can to get people you really truly, deeply respect for your first gigs, even if it's a bit less than you could get on the open market. It'll be very worth it in the long run.
Eyebrowse | track and share your web trails
A group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab has launched a new project, eyebrowse, which allows you to record, visualize and share your web browsing history in real-time.

Eyebrowse is a Firefox plug-in that records visits to websites that you choose to track on an individual basis. Your data is presented on your eyebrowse profile in the form of interesting and insightful visualizations, allowing you to gain personal and social insights and catch a glimpse of what Google knows about you.

Currently, most web browsing data is collected by search engine companies (Google, Microsoft, Alexa…), which is hardly available for public domain research. Eyebrowse seeks to fill this gap by providing a public repository of web trails. By making this data available, we hope to support the creation of open public services that analyze and report major trends on the web, services that support personalization of the web through collaborative filtering and other crowd-sourcing techniques, and other as-yet unimagined services that require a mass of data about the world's interaction with the web.

Check out some real live profiles and our page stats graphs, which are accessible from any page via the plug-in.

Eyebrowse is an open source project hosted on Google Code implemented using Django, Javascript and HTML5. It is actively seeking users for feedback and beta testing.

happy surfing!
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http://eyebrowse.csail.mit.edu/
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You don't need to read the whole book:

Just look at all the things Darwin "didn't want to know", and the progress which science made since Darwin.

IMO, Darwin is simply not to consider a good scientist, and in Darwins book there are some disgusting racist parts, and discriminating parts against the intelligence of women.
I don't think there has ever in the history of the world been a consumer market where unit prices are so low.

BTW: Personally, regular payments (especially small ones), do put me off. But I wouldn't mind a prepaid model so much. IE, I pay for a month or six upfront and then pay again to renew. I know this kind of opt-in/out is rarely beneficial to vendors, but in some cases it might work.
If you need to send a 'pen and paper' document or form to someone and you don't have a scanner or a photocopying machine which can make digital copies, then faxing is an option.
volume alone does not drive price.
It seems google translate was right on with the translation. Doesn't make much sense in dutch either...

He seems a fairly dedicated god-botherer / evangelist, with a few TV programmes, so maybe a semi-celebrity (?)

(disclaimer: I was 11 when I left the Netherlands for New Zealand)

As for the parent comment, the evolution=degeneration theory does not pass my common sense filter: are we that much more degenerate than our 5-million-years-ago ancestors? Seems more likely to be a reactive criticism against Darwin, but (not having read the book, only the intro) provided it makes VALID points that need to be considered, it will (hopefully) aid our understanding as to how we got here, and where we may end up going...
Scala may get more mainstream traction. Haskell is good to learn if your also great at maths and can swing a job in elite financial circles. Erlang is certainly catching on. Can't speak for Clojure.

I learned Scala and erlang. Did a real world webapp with erlang 5 years ago before it was noticeably cool. Didn't me make any money aside from the one project (I chose the tech myself simply out of interest). Both scala and erlang helped me be a better programmer and renew my flagging interests. Other than that, I haven't seen any financial profits from it. I'm using ruby now simply because I have webapps to run and its the simplest way to get the job done.

Previous comments that people that learn these langs are putting themselves in better company are on target.
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It probably comes down to how much money you have to buy servers (or rent ones) up front versus smaller cost increments for "utility" computing (can we stop calling this "cloud"? isn't everything in the cloud?).
I'm not sure there is any history of the UK government issuing posthumous pardons.
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I think I have found the next Steve Jobs ;)
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Man, this is brilliant. A long time coming.
I don't think faxes are any cheaper or easier then scanners (even though I've seen print/scan/copy/fax machines for under $50, so it isn't much of a point).

I guess that is my question is Why would someone have a fax machine? The only answer I can think of is to send faxes to companies that prefer them. The question is then why does any company prefer to receive a fax? Why do they still exist?
We have to be carefull, lets wait if everyone sees this update or if its just techcrunch ;)
Not if you're a startup in the analytics space :-)
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No, that was my fairly basic reading of the OP.

Of course, excess Volume in either Supply or Demand will affect prices (down or up respectively).
"I will never apologize for the United States of America ? I don't care what the facts are."

- http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

Draw your own conclusions.
it also depends on how much hardware and co-lo knowledge you have. Usually it makes sense to go virtual until you need more than 8 or 16 gigs of ram/ 4 cores. after that, it usually makes sense to buy hardware.

If you need a 32GiB ram/8 core box, and you rent, you usually end up paying 1/3rd to 1/5th the hardware cost every month, depending on how much you pay for hardware, which is something else that varies wildly.

What you pay to co-lo a server, and what you pay for bandwidth also varies quite a lot.

The important thing is to make sure you aren't locked in to one vendor. There is a lot of room for price competition in the server-outsourcing market, and you don't get any benefit from that if you let yourself become locked in to one vendor.
Highways empowered suburbanization, but I think White Flight was the "cause."
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It is and it isn't - you can use either the desktop client or web app by themselves, or use them together.
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This is totally unrelated to this post, but I also found that accessing pages with disqus on greasemonkey enabled firefox caused firefox to crash. The last time I managed to reproduce this it was on Firefox 3.5.1. Then I moved to minefield and the problem did not occur. This also happens to be a one-off case as I could not find others with the same issue.
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1. Don't do everything in Lisp. Go for Python. It's a decent language, and easy to pick up for your PHP colleagues.

2. If you know your way around Linux, a few dedicated servers will be very powerful. Use Cloud as dumb storage for pictures and movies.

3. Really, forget about Lisp.
Hm, I know more about computer science than about physics. Sure, after reading countless science fiction stories, it is difficult to imagine that there won't be interstellar travel, teleportation and time travel one day, but aren't there physical limitations? OK teleportation seems doable (has been done I think), but what about the speed of light? Most sf stories seem to settle for some kind of handy worm holes, but what if we don't find them?

Not saying it is impossible, but the path to AI seems much clearer than the path to interstellar travel at this point, in my opinion. Like say in 100 years, do you think we'll be traveling to distant stars already? (Then again, with super intelligent AI, maybe we, or "they", will figure something out).
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They'd never use the term, it would be a PR disaster, but maybe "blatency controls" would be more truthful, as in "How blatent do you want to be?".
I wish all these startups the best of luck.. I personally don't find anything too thrilling from this group, but the golf application looks very cool.
At least if you use a language like Erlang, I suppose. (Although I think that wouldn't be OS threading, but still).
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You are not telling something contrary what I tell. You are not slow to change. Operations are slow. You have some systems and operations on going but a change will drastically impact all the operations. You have changed yourself about the change. You know about it, but you do not know it's effects on the system. So you can't change the system right away.

I bet you tested most of the changes on your own time and on equipment when possible.

For myself I do.
That's awesome. In the USA, you get "Please hold for the President of the United States".
There are actually plenty, such as a lot of people that were executed during World War I for 'cowardice', there are others dealing with people wrongly accused of crimes.
That is my point exactly. Did Gordon Brown kill him or condoned his killing?

No, and if you read the statement, Gordon Brown took the opportunity to blow his own trumpet - "my how far we've come, things are so much better now" (I paraphrase). Quite a politically astute response, actually, since it makes them look good from a number of angles.
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This is the best book on Seaside currently. It's highly detailed, covering (for instance) installation for most modern Smalltalk dialects, basics and fundementals, many practical tasks, along with examples for all of above. I would recomend it for both mature and beginning smalltalkers aiming at web programming itself as well as learning Smalltalk programming in general.
Going to use the book in Smalltalk programming lectures.
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Yeah, obviously if science has made progress since Darwin then that shows that the modern version of Darwin's theory (resulting from, y'know, all that scientific progress) must be wrong.

The reason why scientists accept evolution is not because Darwin was a good scientist or a nice person (although, for the record, general consensus is that he was) but because the evidence for is vastly better than the evidence against. Even if it turned out that Darwin was crazy as a loon, that his belief in evolution came from voices in his head, and that he liked to eat babies for breakfast, it wouldn't change that.
Can python use mutiple cpus/cores with threads? Short answer no. Long answer, yes for some things.

Even cpu bound tasks can release the GIL to do processing(for non python api tasks).
Wow. Epic.

Even if you're put off by the software licence politics stuff at the start, hang on for the personal reflections on the craft and culture of open source software development.
Government in a parliamentary democracy is a continuity. That's fundamental to the concept. Gordon Brown did not apologize as an individual, that would make absolutely no sense. He apologized as a representative of the very same British government that treated Alan Turing so badly.
low relative to what?

There's still an awful lot of the worlds population who earn less than $1 / day.
The somewhat confusing thing is that people focus so much on "losing weight". Even if exercise makes you hungrier, it's been shown quite conclusively to make you healthier.

If you really want to lose weight without regard to any other factors then take up smoking as it reduces your appetite. Or just cut off your legs. Certainly don't build up any muscle mass as that will only make you heavier.
You might be intersted in the Let's not get so feckin' hung up about swearing essay by David Mitchell:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/28/david-mi...

excerpt:

Is saying "fuck" offensive?

That's not the same as asking: "Is 'fuck' a rude word?" Everyone accepts it's a rude word - it would hardly be used if it weren't. The disagreement is about whether using it (and other swearing, but "fuck" is the Gaza Strip here) is an offensive act.

I don't think it is. I don't think it matters a shit, damn or piss if someone says "fuck" or how many times they say it. My friends and colleagues unthinkingly use it all the time and, as far as I can tell, it hasn't resulted in the poisoning of their souls or their becoming unable to express themselves because of the effect of linguistic inflation.
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It is a headline in papers and online news sites. It is not only my attention that it is consuming. And attention is valuable right? There is only a finite amount of it to go around for good causes etc.

If everyone was doing their best to help the living, I would have no issue with it.
Microsoft bought Powerset to waste it. It's such a shame. Without them the Powerset team probably would have a fully functional search engine by now.

This is what I don't understand about promising startups: How can you throw away your product like that?
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This strikes me as a good idea, the problem is finding what you need. The more information, and the more specific the information you need, the harder it is to find. Search is going to stay the big problem for a long while yet.
I think tesseract was right. Jack Straw's quote:

"... I have recommended to Her Majesty the Queen that he should be granted a free pardon and she has graciously assented."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8245760.stm
Actually it went like this: the phone rang and a woman called Kirsty who I'd had previously spoken to said "Gordon would like to talk to you" and then Gordon was on the line...
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Why not VR helmets? That sounds so much more doable (and immersive) than building a wall (or for a holodeck, a room) of screens. I have enough trouble fitting a 40" LCD into my living room.
on the front page right now:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=816217
and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=816182
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Just in case:

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http://5cc.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-daily-mail-lies-about-im...

Of course, now you can say that's just two examples, and then I can go back and find another 10, and so on.
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Most of them, presumably, do not walk around with $600 cell phones.
You guys who are (a) downvoting my original comment and (b) telling me to "educate myself" because I deigned to point out that a sample size of 31 people is low are just being petty.

They sampled 31 people. Would you accept a 31 person study over a two week period for a new pill in which "most" of the people given the pill (16 out of the 31) were now immune to any form of cancer? Or would you require more people in the study and/or longer, more rigorous testing before you took the pill yourself or gave the pill to your family?

Get over yourselves. 31 effing people.
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Alanzo ? Don't you mean Alonzo ?
How come I can'd downvote this any further?