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Yes. I have a 3008 and I'm constantly distracted by the horrible plastic. I can't imagine how I use it daily...

Now without the sarcasm - The monitor is fantastic. It's been fantastic for over a year. I really couldn't care less how the non-glowing part of the display looks.
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The curriculum will vary by university. I remember taking these classes for an undergrad CS degree:

- Structure and interpretation of computer programs

- Data structures

- Machine structures

- Digital circuit design

- Operating systems

- Programming languages and compilers

- Algorithms

- Randomized algorithms

- Parallel algorithms

- Computability and complexity

- Databases

- Computer and network security

- Discrete math

- Linear algebra

- Number theory

- Numerical analysis

I'd pick a school that was good in several areas, then take the entry-level CS courses. If you like them, stick with it. If not, switch to another major.

Someone already mentioned this, but a lot of course material is online. For example, here are some from MIT:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute...
could you give any examples with names of companies that are doing the outlet adapters that you mention? I'd like to view them further.
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Drive A fails. You pop it out, put in a new disk. Machine starts rebuilding RAID array. This involves a ton of reads from other disks. Under the increased strain, Drive B, which was already on the edge, also fails.

And so on.

I'm no longer a believer in redundant disks. Redundant machines would be better.
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Apple bought them. Hence seeing the technology in iPhone multitouch, gestures, recently in touchpads and now mouse.
Can anybody describe the basic concept behind the Happy Farm game? I am intrigued by "stealing farms" but wonder how it can be so damn interesting (as the article describes)

Has anyone played this game here?
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I guess we'll have to agree to disagree then, unless jasonlbaptiste would like to weigh in and clarify? :-)
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I just note that the link below, a subdivision name generator, submitted (by someone else!) a few days ago, got killed after being quickly upvoted to the front page. I can't find the HN link -- maybe it no longer exists -- but commenters suggested the page wouldn't even have been noteworthy in 1998, etc. I thought the tiny app was brilliant recognition of a formulaic part of our linguistic world.

http://adrian.gimp.org/cgi-bin/sub.cgi
I plan on giving this a whirl, but I'm wondering: Is there a REST API so I can push and pull data from handy scripts and not have to pop open a browser (for example, to get a list of open items)?
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Not really. They hadn't put this data together before. Now they did, and they found the ring. The conclusions about other galaxies are also based on data. It's not like anyone had previously said that there is no such ring around the solar system, the data just wasn't there.
I use a 17" Macbook Pro. Generally the OS's font is okay. But when you are used to coding with fontsize 12, it becomes really small on my macbook. I use fontsize 13-14. It's big and looks really smooth.
Most of those look expensive. Too expensive imho. And business cards should be atleast somewhat near standard sized, so that they easily fit to wallet etc
It appears that the quality of their customer service depends on the willingness of customers to stand up for themselves when they are wronged.

It's people like this gentleman who've led to your highly responsive experience.
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You either stand up for yourself in life or you get eaten for lunch.

See: Wall Street.
According to the comparison page on BN (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/compare/)

BN have a larger selection of ebooks 1m+ titles and more free ebooks 500k+ than Amazon.

Main downside for me is I want something like the DX to read technical books on as well. BN aren't even suggesting they'll compete there and I haven't heard any rumours of Amazon reving the DX yet. :(
Though my evidence is only anecdotal, it seems to me that video game violence doesn't desensitize the viewer to real violence, either. An amusing example: http://www.penny-arcade.com/2009/7/15/

I do wonder if there's a difference between violence in video games and movies. I know someone who plays Left 4 Dead for hours on end, but cannot stomach Braveheart or some journalistic photographs of violence and death. The gore is by far the highest in the first, but it is the realism of the second--and more strongly the reality of the third--that seems to sit so uneasily.
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I agree completely with this...no idea what's going on here, but it intrigued me enough to spend time poking about trying to find out, and actually come back to this thread later to see if anyone could enlighten me. Really like the design, you've obviously got something, I just can't work out what it is, which from your side, is a problem.

Enlighten me please.
I made my own acrylic biz cards on a laser engraver. They aren't as slick as these, but very much cheaper, if you can get free access to a laser:

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Cool, but this is like 4 lines of pseudo-code. Do you really need to post it on Hacker News?
The scale of this thing is unbelievable. Its producting 4,000 videos and articles per day and "By next summer, according to founder and CEO Richard Rosenblatt, Demand will be publishing 1 million items a month, the equivalent of four English-language Wikipedias a year."

Sadly the quality is horrible.
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Do you know whether plain text and html files are supported? I'm thinking Project Gutenberg...
Most of the early ones seem to resemble bluescreens of death :-)
Congratulations on the launch.

If I may ask, why such a prolonged Beta period (6 months?) and what did you learn during this phase (in terms of features, etc.)?
"In fact, they found, learning becomes better if conditions are arranged so that students make errors."

Well, then, there's no better learning environment than computer programming!

"People remember things better, longer, if they are given ... tests at which they are bound to fail."

No pain, no gain.

I used to wonder why a damaged body part is painful for so long after it has 'made it's point'. After I'd lived long enough to forget several painful lessons, I understood: the longer the pain lasts, the longer the memory lasts.

Makes me think scars are evolution's way of helping us to remember.
This is very naive. The investor / con artist can report any attractive numbers they feel like - who is going to keep them honest?

I strongly suspect that investors who change to be pitched are in fact scam artists who do just enough investment to plausibly deny that they are in fact scam artists while taking in huge amounts of cash from ignorant start-ups and forcing the start-ups that do agree to receive investment into contracts that strongly favor the investors.

I'm sorry, but charging to pitch fails the common sense test; it is little more than a way of separating fools from their money.
Much of the French spying is economic espionage. Russia doesn't have the money it did during the cold war. But they are very good at getting information from humans. The KGB was easily the best functioning body of the Soviet government. Which is why they essentially run the Russian government today.
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I don't think that the author's points are valid. He seems to be using references with sloppy notation.

Suffice it to say that if he picks up a mathematical probability textbook he should be satisfied.

* I do agree that people use shortcuts to make equations seem simpler, that some standard equations look complicated, and that you need to think hard about which scenario is appropriate for your application.
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Hmm, that's what I remembered when I tried to join about 18 months ago. I've tried again now and it didn't ask for all that detail, so it might have changed, or my memory could be flawed.
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Oh yes, I agree. Standard probability notation is handy and fast but just depends too much on the context.

I wonder if someone has created a more orthogonal notation for probability, like Sussman did with the Schemish/functional notation for differential geometry.
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The Mac Pro looks like a horrible deal now, hopefully that means more good upgrades are coming.
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The idea of "taking jobs" reveals an extreme ignorance of the fundamentals of economics. People doing valuable work and earning appropriate compensation do nothing but help the economy, whether they were born in this country or not. The economy is not a zero sum game, when people contribute to the economy positively it's not "stealing".
This is so interesting, yet I feel like I'm out of the loop. I recently heard that FarmVille on Facebook is one of the most popular apps there, and now this Happy Farm craze.

What is it about these apps that have such an amazing pull?
This sort of attitude is disgusting. As if the the majority of US citizens can not be classified as crime-prone peasants in one wanted to say it.

The US is a county of immigrants. The US is only 300 years old and it's hugely amusing to see US citizens talk poorly about the countries of their parents, grand parents, and great grandparents.

If you've ever wondered why the rest of the world tends to think poorly of the US, this is it.
Just a quick rebuttal of the author's specific points:

(1) Given a set of elements X, E(X) = \sum{x \in X} xp(x). The problem the author mentioned is solved, since we are now summing over all elements in X rather than using the input variable inappropriately.

(2) Given sets of elements X and Y, and the set of ALL elements O, then p(X), p(Y), and p(X|Y) are all computed in the same manner. p(X) is shorthand for p(X|O) -- so we are now given three analogous functions, p(X|O), p(Y|O), and p(X|Y). So, Bayes' can be used to compute all three in the exact same manner, if you so wish.

The above rebuttals are obviously discrete, but there are analogous continuous variable scenarios.
Afaict, Nook has access to Google Books, which should have a good number of public domain ebooks including the ones on Project Gutenberg.
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I guess this is no treath to the iphone.
Doesn't work in Firefox (3.5.3)?

Hmm, or IE8.

Still, all those Chrome users will be loving it, I'm sure.
Agreed. Expensive business cards, like viewzi's, really have no place in a technology startup. In fact I would say it's a sign to approach with caution if a startup is wasting money on superficial nonsense like that.

However, the designer in me still loves a great card. As print becomes less prevalent I miss the textural experience a screen can't provide such as the feel of paper, emboss, deboss, foil stamps, spot varnishes, die cuts, etc. If you can afford it, I think it's okay to splurge a little here.
Let's keep reposting this every time it scrolls off the front page...
One could contract with Mozilla to become an "official support distributor" or something like that and obtain the rights to use the trademark, assuming Mozilla is agreed to such a deal, and I don't see why they wouldn't be, it only stands to improve adoption if the company offering support is legit.

Also, I'm not sure if you're right or not. From what I remember, you can only call the product Firefox if the code matches verbatim; Debian &c. apply custom patches not included in Firefox proper and are therefore obliged to rebrand. If you used the Mozilla builds, are you sure this would apply? Curious here.
Voting is like innoculation.

I do not merely vote for a 'mainstream' candidate to ensure that my choice gets in. I also vote so that 'extreme' candidates are excluded. A vote for a mainstream candidate is an innoculation for society against extremist diseases.

It is vanishingly unlikely that my vote will be at the exact tipping point, ie a hanging chad county in Florida. It is also unlikely that my innoculation against killer flu will be the one innocluation that stops the spread of the virus. But from society's point of view it does not matter - the more who are innoculated, the safer society is.

Similarly, the more people who vote the more candidates need to pander to the mainstream opinion, not the extremist. In general we become safer.

This all breaks down if mainstream opinion is actually 'wrong'. But thats a different issue.

PS

Here in the UK the fascist BNP have got two MEPs and will be controversially appearing on a wellknown politics talk show. Innoculations need to be kept up.
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Think of it this way: How much worth ALL IT industry- all bright stars- Google, apple, MS, ibm? Something around $1T, right? Now Petrochina alone(!) is around 800B and its just about producing and selling gas in China!

So if you would be able to make technological innovation that would make my car engine say 10% more effective or produce just few %% that my home consumes - that will be HUGE!!!
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Huh. What I was expecting to see here was a critique of the notation for expressing causality (and then expecting to cite Judea Pearl's do notation).

But regarding the post...

1) Subscripts basically solve the problem of the identical p's.

2) For iterated expectations, again, subscripts solve that problem as well.

E_X[X^Y]

indicates that it's the expectation over X.

3) However, for dummy variables it definitely can be annoying to use P(X=x), especially when writing stuff by hand. Your mental dialogue is saying "x equals x" and it's often very important to distinguish the variable from the value during manipulation.

That's why I tend to use a different letter for the dummy variable -- P(X=k) when X is discrete and either f_X(u) or P(X \in [u-du,u+du]) when X is continuous.
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There is nothing really wrong with probability notation. As inferential steps between concepts increase in math, abuse of notation becomes indispensable.

All that probability shorthand can be unambiguously translated to formal definitions quite easily. But doing so would be analogous to writing a complex program in assembly - doable (and defined pretty much by the very fact that this is doable) but not very productive (and thus not worth doing unless you are debugging or something).
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I see this sort of argument far too often.

Of course the US is a country of immigrants just as every other country except Africa is a country of immigrants.

There comes a point where it is prudent for the current residents to limit hordes of competitors pouring in to take the resources and infrastructure built within the past hundreds of years when their ancestors cozily stayed in their home countries while pioneers busted their nuts off as indentured servants or lived in isolation without "modern" infrastructure.

Are you arguing that 300 years is too new? How about 400 years? Or 800 years? Where do we draw the line? How old does a country need to be to not offend the rest of the world in trying to keep their resources and infrastructure from being spread too thinly?
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For some reason Gmail came immediately to mind. I know it doesn't seem flashy or amazing these days, but I think it was the first one that really convinced me that web apps were here to stay. I have no idea what they used though, tons of javascript I assume.
If im not mistaken gmail's interface is written in GWT.
+1 for Gmail and google.com itself
http://280slides.com/ - Cappucino

Not sure I would necessarily use Cappucino myself, but to me, it demonstrated that treating javascript+DOM as a target for a higher level interface can work, and can work well.

I guess Outlook Web Access should get an honourable mention - I guess that was the first widely available app. that demonstrated that is was at least possible and was useful.
I found Google Wave to be somewhat impressive. It uses GWT.

There's a presentation about it's implementation using GWT here (I haven't watched it):
http://code.google.com/events/io/2009/sessions/GoogleWavePow...
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I don't understand this.

There is no proof that immigrants spend nearly all the money they earn. In fact, I would argue that they are frequently more frugal so the money is locked away from the economy.

And I would also not attribute immigrants as the main factor to why unemployment did not rise to 66%. The main reasons that the number of jobs grew rapidly can be attributed to the auto and computer industry.
Conversely, the Jerry Seinfeld method (http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-se...) has been one the best ways I've found to keep good habits.

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It's sad that something as fundamental as cleaning up after ourselves is made into a partisan issue.
Hmmm. But there is a reason that design by committee is a curse word. To his credit, I found it interesting that Ousterhout at least gave a hat tip to the dictator school of thought.

I think though that there are many more examples which he omits.

Linus -- "Benevolent Dictator for Life"

Guido Van Rossum -- ditto

Just about every other open source worthy -- ditto

Larry & Sergey -- ditto

If you don't have that ruthless product genius with "taste" you just aren't going to achieve greatness, IMHO. Open to counterexamples, but every time I've observed consensus based decision making it has devolved into politics and pre-meetings and vote-swapping. And this is among both tech academics and tech startups, who one would hope would be more rational.

Actually, this Onion clip captures what happens during an open consensus based process where everyone can see each other's votes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFpK_r-jEXg

Real-time pandering.

Instead what you may want to do is buttonhole people or small groups with deep knowledge of the decision area, ask for their input, debate if you must, and then go out with a united front.
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Second round of funding at almost 8-digits for an open source software company that is losing money? If I was running the business I'd have done exactly what the investors did: cull anything non-core, focus on creating revenue, and bring in someone with experience building a business (looks like they brought in the founder of SPSS).

If the people who think they've been screwed here really believe in the value of what they're doing, they have a great opportunity to simply fork the project. Lots of people would kill for this type of PR! If they're not willing to do this because they are incapable of bringing a business to profitability or need funding, they should hardly be complaining about the actions of their investors.
You are mistaken. Gmail greatly predates GWT.
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I use plain, white, unlaminated business cards from Moo (http://www.moo.com), because they're cheap and they're easy to write on.

These business cards are much prettier than my own, but I write extra information on business cards and that'd be impossible on most of these.

Maybe they're memorable enough that I wouldn't have to write on them.
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By contrast the Cinema Display's ergonomics sort of remind me of the old circular iMac mouse and how awful it was. Jobs usually gets it right, but when he's wrong he's really wrong.
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Though I remember reading somewhere they rewrote the entire thing with GWT. Can someone find source or tell me if I'm wrong?
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You think google wave has good UI? My reasonably technology literate girlfriend couldn't figure out how to do anything, or the actions she did discover were too complicated or unintuitive (why does pressing enter not send a message?). She gave up after 5 minutes.

The front end technology is definitely cool, but the UI sucks.
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