skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The statistics this discussion needs are these:

Seven of the top ten best-selling PC games are violent (the exceptions are Myst and Sims 1 and 2).

Four of the top ten best-selling console games are non-violent, five have the cartoonish violence of Pokemon and Super Mario Brothers and Mario Kart, and one is the definitely violent Grand Theft Auto.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_game...
just to make it clear, I didnt post a spam site nor was I promoting anything for myself. These were just ideas of mine. Which I think are perfectly legitimate to express. No explicit language was used and there was no blame games.

Also for your advice that multiple downvotes got me killed. I made another account (notrick2047) before this (thats was the two nots in notnotrick2047) and it was vetoed out in 2 hours at 3 points. Now 3 points count as a fair or at least competent comment. But still I was crippled. And the most annoying thing is that it didn't give any feedback.

I demand an explanation.
I imagine the author chose kWh/day because your electrical bill is measured in those units. This is the most important way of looking at it.
It seems so unbelievable too, I mean, that Palm guy said it was going to rule: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/03/05/palm-pre-iphone ;-)
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I know I've been reasonably immune to this, being based in Australia (where interest rates are on their way back up!), but doing some global research for a speech I have to give next week gives me mixed views about this article.

They went back up yesterday. The first developed nation to officially end the recession.

But to be honest, I think the Aussie government has a relatively docile public who are more tolerant of bullshit than other nations, so Rudd can pull off stunts like this unquestioned.
are you trollin'?

~90% of the web apps you're using on the web are written in scripting languages.
Pay developers to make apps? This doesn't happen for desktop computers/laptops, games consoles, etc., so why do you think it should be different for mobile phones?
I think that rephrasing confuses the distinction. Concurrency is neither about performance nor about latency, it's about a conceptual organization to separate concerns into different flows of control. It's a particular kind of modularity, that's it. After you have this conceptual organization it's possible to co-opt it to improve latency (via time-slicing) or to improve performance (via running on multicore systems), but neither of those is the goal. Both are just consequences of combining the idea of concurrency with other ideas like multiprogramming and parallelism.

Parallelism, on the other hand, is all about improving performance by making simultaneous use of multiple resources. It's entirely different from multiprogramming or multiplexing which fake the multiplicity of resources; and it's entirely different from concurrency which assumes the availability of undifferentiated resources. There are many different strategies for parallelism, but most of them assume that the resources are not undifferentiated, and thus they're very dependent on the particular details of the hardware they're running on (unlike concurrency which doesn't care). Contrary to your "high level" vs "low level" distinction, parallelism is often an extremely high-level design choice which affects the entire program structure. It has to be if it's going to maximize resource usage throughout the life of the whole program.

The interesting thing about GHC's parallelism is that it's hardware agnostic, and so you don't need to rewrite your program to use different algorithms depending on the hardware. Because it's built into the language you may want to call it "low level" (i.e. "I don't have to think about it"), but it's actually a very high-level decision (because it has major repercussions on how the runtime system works and how the language lets you say things).
From start ($99 fee) to finish (30% of sales), they are ripping developers off.

That's very subjective. It's apparent that thousands of developers feel that what they get in return is worth the price. If they don't like the price of goods and services, they can choose not to buy them. They are not on the whole being deprived of anything that is owed to them. It's accepted as "normal" because it's the way commerce works everywhere, and because these are very established practices in fields other than desktop software.

They should be paying developers

They are! Why do you think developers are choosing to develop for these platforms? Where do you think the other 70% goes?
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I know what you mean. When I have lots of event-handlers in a prototype I like to assign

var self = this;

but that's bikeshedding
This video is old - but I though it was worth watching again after reading the paper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww
Wow, someone really doesn't like Alanis Morissette...
Pretty nifty. Really does make it less cluttered. I usually have a bunch of browser windows open each with like 10 tabs, email app, terminal, skype, komodo, IM, itunes, ... list goes on.
That is true but it round-tripped between the client and server far more economically than X does.
Not sure if its cool making an offer here... but if you run a startup, send me your twitter id after logging into ReTweetize.com (My twitter id = @ankeshk or email me ankeshk AT ankeshkothari.com) - and I'll add 20,000 points to your account. Not a lot but should get a few hundred visitors to your startup site.
Looking at amazon.com's store, many books are not available in Europe .e.g. "The Angel's Game" or even Dan Brown's latest. Comparing the top sellers list (assuming you buy a Kindle hoping to get new books for $10 kindle prize rather than $25 local imported paperback price), only 23 out of top 59 books are available in UK (this I found by sorting by bestseller in the store with region set to Europe and US accordingly -- the order matches up, except for the gaps).

I'm going to wait until the International Kindle is up on Amazon.co.uk -- buying anything from outside of EU for me personally is probably more expensive than waiting for it to arrive in UK, even though the price will likely be higher. You've got VAT, you've got customs and you get a $25 customs fee and VAT on top of customs fee. And of course, you're paying VAT and customs on the shipping charge as well.

I'm still happy it's finally here although I wonder about bookstores. Do you Kindle owners still go in, browser a bookstore and buy books at random? Even though I buy plenty of stuff from Amazon it's mostly professional books or hard-to-find paperbacks. I still go into bookstores several times a month and just browse at random at highlights or new editions.
A quick and easy way to get similar functionality is to use the "Hide Others" option when you right click on the active window in the Dock (hold the Option key to get it) Of course it only hides other applications -- not windows of the same application.
Ok so. Some people will benefit from Bschool and some will do better with a start up. Are entrepreneurs born or made. If made then it becomes really important what training and experience they get. Which is best then? I guess it depends on what your goals are. If you want to start something from your garage then a big corporate probably isn't the best fit and alternatively if you want to launch an aerospace company its probably better that you are an ex-CEO of a fortune 500. If entrepreneurs are born then do they need to focus on different things other aspects that they don't have an affinity i.e. a technical entrepreneur has different strengths than a sales based entrepreneur?
"And something boring becomes doable because you have less urge to replace it with something more exciting. "

Oh no, the urge is still strong. I just resist it. It's the difference between a diet drug that reduces appetite, and one that does not change appetite, but gives you the resolve to not eat just because you feel hungry.

In any event, I've never seen my creativity tied to any amount of satisfaction. Stuff just pops into my head.

There are endless variations on things; it's not like one needs a reason to make stuff up, because it's intrinsically satisfying.

EDIT: Also occurred to me that now, 2 months taking Adderal, I may be more creative than 3 months ago. I get more stuff done, and while doing things I have more interesting ideas than when just dicking around. So I'm at least more tangibly creative.
Another way is to hold down option when switching app by clicking another app's window or dock icon.

This will hide the current app and all its windows, and it's already enabled by default on os x.
Read the rest of my post :)
Reasonable = Break even - which is all I ever hoped to receive, I only did it for fun and as a side project. When I implement the premium features I suspect to increase this given the amount of interest and my experience with other similar games.

Games like this are based solely around a community, people get friends on these games so don't wish to leave - the game itself is just an addon to the community.

Oh, and its more than $20, I think people must just be clicking as they want the game to survive or something - I've no idea. Not to mention I'm getting spammed with evony ads. I also suspect having a very direct advertising target helps, compared to other sites which often have a very broad market and thus struggle to advertise.
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People will stop buying into closed platforms if and when open platforms better meet their demands.
You can downvote our subsequent comments but his original was about the paper that belongs to the article :-)
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At work I'm forced to use IE6 :(
I like the looks of it. I just couldn't find anything else than restaurants? Did I miss something? How about a tourist coming to Bangkok any places of interest?
Huge increase in user growth rate this year means most users are new users.

New userbase + long average time between early tweets -> most users have < 10 tweets.
I saw it as: no frame, green, small, circle.

It just demonstrates that this question might be a good one, if what you're testing for is the order that people find "the odd one" (not necessarily in an IQ test).
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=866114
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I'd be suprised if flightcaster does not shut down or significantly change direction within 2 years.
For a while now I've had a feeling that threads -- in the sense of constructs manually created and manipulated directly by an application developer -- are going to go the way of manual memory management.

There are still problem domains where you need to obsessively and manually handle memory, there are still people who don't work in such domains but have convinced themselves they do, and there are still people who feel, for whatever reason, that C or C++ are the only tool for Real Programmers(TM). But the trend is and for many years has been away from that and toward managed runtimes, because they're far less complex to work with and far less susceptible to the sorts of easy errors which plague C/C++.

I think that a few years down the line we'll be in a similar situation with threads: there will still be problem domains where you absolutely need them, and people who still believe for whatever reason that manually managing a thread pool and shared resources will make their penis bigger, but most of the world will be moving on to something that's less complex and less error-prone, and probably managed automatically by a language runtime or something similar.
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Decisions in airlines are made based on a set or rules and conditions. You will be able to predict flight schedules based on published flight times, weather, airport traffic and similar variables. Not different from stock prediction or insurance risk assessment, and similar industries heavy on mining data, both historical and real-time.

Their platform runs on Amazon's S3 which has an slightly different usage pattern than their application needs. So they overcame this limitation by implementing in-house measures to augment the platform (instead of, say, scrapping S3 and building their own storage stack and hammering scalability and distribution on top of this later; in another words, a quick fix saved them both time and money.)

They also layered a higher-level API, Cascading, on top of Hadoop and S3. Cascading allows them to interact with underlying storage and network at the function call interface. Essentially, their code doesn't look any different than a straightforward serial desktop application. This is bottom up programming; instead of writing a lot of code in a big language over a weak platform, you build up the platform, make it beefier, and program it in a simple domain-specific language (though it's not unusual for big chunks of software to be generalized and moved away from the application core; most large applications have a huge library dependence, both 3rd party and custom built. So without even a clean API and specialized syntax, software can be reused in this bottom up fashion [See: Greenspun's 10th Rule])

The best analogy I can think of for bottom-up programming is spoken language. Experts in a field, say doctors or programmers, are able to speak with each other in technical terms. They have enriched their mutual language and they can communicate with ease. However, if a doctor or a programmer would speak to a non-specialist, a lot of the vocabulary would have to be "expanded in place"; acronyms would have to be spelled out, concepts would have to be explained, and analogies and metaphors would take the place of direct communication. So even though the gist of the conversation might be understood by the non-specialist, he we would not have a complete picture until he learns the subject and builds up his own vocabulary.

Programming on top of a weak platform is like having a novice for a peer; you will be doing more educating than collaboration.

[Edit: I really thought the parent was either a non-english speaker or a non-programmer; checked his history and he is both :-/ You owe me 20 minutes of my time, jorgem.]
Most people don't know there's a difference between X.org (the implementation) and X11 (the protocol). I guess that's why people conclude that "X" sucks and must be replaced.
I've also been seriously considering it, but it's hard to justify the cost when you can get a laptop like this for $400..

http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptop/hp-mini-311.aspx?page...
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I work in the VFX industry, and can confirm this is how we have been doing things for years.
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select count(*) from ipTable
where ip >= 167772160 and ip < 184549376

IP is four digits in a 256-base integer. You are looking for ips with the first digit 10. So, the value boundaries are: 167772160 = 256 * 256 * 256 * 10; 184549376 = 256 * 256 * 256 * 11.
Strong is very subjective and relative. Why didn't you just resist it before taking Adderal then? What exactly does Adderal do for you then?

It is not impossible for a good idea will just "pop into your head." But say I need to come up with a good idea on the spot. Maybe I'm designing a poster. What I would do in this situation is run through a shitload of various possibilities through my head. This is what I meant when I said creativity, your ability to think boundlessly. So some people might be better or worse at doing this.

Now I believe the ADHD (at least inattentive subtype) sufferer has a problem where they cannot control this hyperactive thinking. So their minds are constantly polluted by a shitload of thoughts. This in term causes memory problem because so many new thoughts run through, it's like 5 hours of time passed in terms of thoughts when only 5 minutes has gone by.

Well in comes Adderal and like I said before, it takes effect by stimulating the brain. So there is no more need to go through all those thoughts, since supposedly they go through those thoughts so that they could achieve mental stimulation.

It hinders creativity in that the person no longer has racing thoughts all the time. Can they still pull that skill up on demand? Maybe.

I have a prescription for Adderal and I haven't taken it yet. I don't really want to though. I can attest to my theory of the mechanism behind ADHD, but I am not as sure Adderal has this effect as I am sure about the mechanism behind ADHD-inattentive. However since I read online from user experiences and whatnot that adderal hinders creativity, and it makes sense seeing how it acts that it would do this, that's why I believe it probably hinders creativity.
It's neatly designed and inviting/friendly-looking.

I like what you've done with the Google maps section, I've not seen anyone do that with neighborhoods before. (Google can be a powerful ally for such maps.)

Since I've never been to Thailand (people who visit might want your page very useful) it'd be good to include some history and culture of Thailand somewhere.

A lot of sites like this tend to get over-cluttered pages after a while, I hope you can avoid that.
Yeah, that's one of the cool things about music apps ... as with music hardware, there are dozens of ways to (for example) make n-pole filters and distinguish your sound and features from other people's.

Sound is an area that seems like it will generate new ideas and application possibilities for a long, long time. The fifteen-year flood of music software/hardware innovation shows no signs of abating....
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I don't have numbers - actually nobody has them, but the growth of web 2.0 websites had a consequence : less and less people host themselves their websites.
Would you be fine if your government started telling you you all had to start learning English as kids instead of Swedish? And that the Swedish language was outdated and confusing to English people?
maybe flightcaster can predict their future with their technology :-)
I'm pretty sure the Flynn effect is too fast to be explained by genetic change.
thanks for giving this link. I really wonder why designer/ developers - who ever it is - decide to try and make these things like a slide show. things look more intuitive in the printer friendly version. if at all it is at most necessary to show it in a slide show, at least dont refresh the whole page.

has anyone out there developed such a thing - as on this page. what is it that leads to such a design? many sites do this.
The whole of Thailand is "of interest", but tourists will most likely just get dumped in Thanon Khao San and they will not venture out of it except for few trips to seedy Patpong and whatever they can find in their Lonely Planet.

Hangout with Thai people of your gender and age, drop the tourist look and go super local.
I think you massively underestimate the benefit of sharing libraries between processes -- It seems to be perfectly normal in the Rails world to have app processes start at several hundred MB, before a single request!

I'm not sure how you think threads work. Of course Lightweight Threads have time overhead -- you still have to schedule them!
> [...] and this book (http://www.kohala.com/start/apue.html)

> are both very good.

this refers to the first edition of APUE - there is
also a very good (IMHO) second edition co-authored
by S. Rago (a former collegue of W. Richard Stevens):

http://apuebook.com/

(first edition: 1992, second edition: 2005)

The second edition mainly adds better coverage
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Its too expensive outside US though... if I get it shipped to India - it'll cost me $405! And it won't come with the ability to read blogs and online news...
Great stuff jacque, I'm really digging your posts here. May I inquire when you went through this process and for what company?

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Cheers,
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It feels like a spamming service to me, just with a twist to make it less detectable.
Sadly, Canada isn't included.. again. List of countries/coverage/etc here:

http://blogkindle.com/2009/10/international-release-of-kindl...
I'm red/green colour-blind too, but it relates to contrast. Red doesn't stand out as vibrantly as other colours do, that's all.

For example, in dim light, I can find it difficult to tell the difference between brown and red on a snooker table. But close up, or in bright lighting, there's no problem. For example, there's a red, a green and a brown ball in this picture:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Snooker_t...

I can tell the difference between the red and the green more easily than the red and the brown. If the red wasn't visible on the table for comparison, and the brown wasn't near its home spot on the centre of the baulk line, I wouldn't be sure it's not red.

I doubt that 10% of males have the same level of difficulty distinguishing red from green as you indicate.
Do you have any idea what a syscall is!?

Making nginx portable means using more syscalls -- the ones specific to the kernel you're calling. Across Unixes that just means using the appropriate epoll/kqueue/etc, for Windows support it means a total refactoring to use NT's Completion Ports.
So you are encouraging people to spam their friends?
As noted in OP comments, cmd+opt click on dock icon hides others.
Yup, that could be a solution too, but I think that a dedicated device is better suited for this task. I could read the papers on my home PC (although the laptop offers something more than the desktop, mobility), but I'd like to avoid the...multitasking that a full-fledged computer offers! It's definitely another option though, and one that I'll take into consideration if and when the DX is made available outside of the US. As it stands, I think that compared to a 6 inch device a netbook is superior.
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This is a great post, but why not stick it on a blog (posterous?) or something less ephemeral than what's essentially the comments section of a news aggregator?