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Which is why I love my Mac so much. Most of what I need it does without my worrying about. At the same time, I can rip it up and change anything I'd like to if I want, and there are communities to help me get it changed. When I do need a tweak, it rarely takes me long at all.
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This guy is already @366M objects and growing... halving or quartering the number for file i/os in a large system like this has real, observable and proven benefit. It's definitely not for the meek, but adding another directory (and adding an additional metadata lookup) is not the way to go. When you get to more than a billion objects all requiring 5+ metadata entries that need to get walked on every request, you might see it differently.
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> Bonus question: if you have a startup and someone applies for a job as a product manager

Does a startup need a product manager?

> would the fact that they got an MBA from Harvard or Stanford make you more or less likely to hire them?

It sounds like you care whether we view an MBA as a plus or a minus. Why do you care?
1 inch on a PDF is on 1 inch on my screen. And it will be 1 inch on all properly configured readers.

Not on your life. Despite pretensions to the contrary, DPI has been completely meaningless on the screen for several decades. If you're writing an application, never pay attention to DPI metadata unless you're placing the item on a printed page, and never add DPI metadata to files unless they came from a scanner.

it will still be 1 inch when I print it out

This is true in an ideal setting. Unfortunately, there's a lot of shitheads out there that think '72 DPI' or '96 DPI' on files is meaningful because that's what the platform uses. I hope their heads fall off.
"For all purchases of around 30 cents and under, we actually saw no money, PayPal took it all, but they probably ended up losing money on most of those transactions ($0.01) as well, they’re not the bad guy."
HN is my RSS reader.

I don't have time to check all the feeds that have potentially interesting (for me) content, and then browse each feed for actually interesting articles.

There is no way I can discover any significant portion of new interesting feeds, and following a large number of feeds in a reader would make that even worse.

As I told a friend recently, I don't follow blogs anymore, I read HN and let other interesting people lead me to interesting content. The HN comments for articles are always much more useful than the articles' local comments.

That said, I do use the Brief reader, a Firefox plugin. If I find something extra interesting on HN, I will add it to Brief and follow it for awhile. Almost nothing is spongeworthy enough to stay in Brief more than a month or two.

In Brief I currently have:
- HN (sometimes I read it there, sometimes directly)
- one local news feed
- the feed for the Denver Post obituaries (they write interesting stories)
- a feed from CrossFit
- about five feeds of steadily diminishing spongeworthiness
Yep. FastTCP is a pretty elegant algorithm that happens to covered by all sorts of patents. Was a company behind it as well that seems to still be doing OK (FastSoft). Unfortunately won't be turning up in Linux et al due to those angles :-(.
more specifically: clinical trials. This is where most money spent on drug development goes. The sooner big pharma figures out if a drug works or not the better. Its still a very paper based industry, which I think is an FDA requirement. So I believe lots can be innovated here
Yeah, that's exactly what I meant. I can't comment on the actual display itself, but the thought of spending $1,300 on something that comes in such a poorly designed faux-futuristic plastic housing is an instant deal-breaker for me. I don't mean to knock anyone who has one. I know the function is what matters, but I can't help caring about the form too. It's just not something I could be happy with on my desk.
I keep hearing about Keiretsu's process, but I've yet to hear anything about its results.

What kind of biz do they actually fund, how much do they actually invest, and what happens to the folks that they have funded (or even advised) in the past?
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> Williams said the change is not a response to the recent

> attacks on the fees launched by investor Jason Calacanis

Sure!
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I get the following: "OperationalError at /paul-graham". Which has to be a bug; pg doesn't have operational errors.
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"The best decisions are recognized, not made."

This article is a keeper. Its clarity is reminiscent of good software design, yet without being technical. It's also interesting that it goes against the grain in a way that's clearly based on experience. I suspect it would be a good idea to periodically reread this.
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Having to cap @ 2 million registrations a day . . .
There is a Chuck Norris joke in there somewhere.
Like most people, you've missed the point of TCP. Error-checking is trivial -- congestion control is HARD
Hacker's clock
There is a good discussion of IP=PSPACE there.
but the vast majority of immigrants to the US take jobs and don't win Nobels.... so? :)
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> I don't really care much for flexibility or variety or freedom

Phones definitely fall into the sphere of things I like to hack on. That's definitely the crux of the difference of opinions. I would agree with you when talking about, say, cars, but a computing device that I physically own is something I want access to.
I want a keyboard that can detect finger movements on the surface of the keys. Imagine tiny touchpads on each key.

The keys stay tactile, and you can use the whole keyboard surface like a large touchpad.
You caught me while I was monkeying with caching.
keep in mind that Torvalds unilaterally declared that applications that run on top of Linux are exempt from GPL.

That text is just there to allay FUD, it's not a necessary part of the license in any way.

This is in effect LGPL, not GPL.

No it is not, not in any way, shape, or form. If you distribute something that dynamically links with the kernel, the GPL applies to you in full force.

To the kernel, applications running in userspace are data. They may link with libc to make syscalls, but that just means they throw interrupts that the kernel catches. Your userspace programs aren't derivative works of the kernel any more than your documents are derivative works of the last application you used to edit them.
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And then there are the small oddball countries who actually enjoy material in their original language. In Finland almost all tv-shows and movies are subbed instead of dubbed, and many people I know prefer (in addition to myself) english software instead of translated. One of the most horrible examples is Microsoft Excel which has actually translated the names of formula functions. Or GCC having translated error messages. Also having "," as a decimal separator instead of "." is sometimes a PITA. Helpdesking people over phone is much harder when you actually need to translate/guess menu items/button label texts etc on the fly from english to finnish. And then there is the problem that there is always some software in english, and its much nicer when the whole system is actually in the same language. And then there is the problem of just plain crappy translations, especially those made by some hobbyists.

English is lingua franca of the internet. Even if having own language is kinda nice, its just not that practical in globalized world.

nb. Localization is a lot more than just translations. Even if no translation is made, proper localization should be still made. Number and date formats are a common example. Another example I have heard is actually having different icons in different areas/cultures.
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Yeah, yeah. The headline is:

It's crazy to drive away talented young scholars.

Presumably, an equivalent headline would be,

It's crazy to invite illiterate crime-prone peasants.

Yet, no major newspaper has that vastly more pertinent op-ed. I wonder why. (Ironic sigh......) I wonder if there's an overarching, unstated purpose to such mendacity.
The person mentioned supersonic, so I figured that's what the bow wave was referring to. Doesn't help that I work in aircraft and haven't been keeping up on my space knowledge lately ;) (And I don't work on cool military supersonic things, so my supersonic is rusty too...)

I still maintain you can't do do supersonic things in space. The would imply sound moves in space.
> program dies when nobody uses or is interested on it ... The GPL will make its source available forever ... As for PostgreSQL, it saddens me to say its BSD licensing provides no such protection

A software application also dies when you can't use it for your purposes anymore, even when you're willing to pay-up. This letter from Stallman actually highlights the hypocrisy behind GPL (not LGPL, just GPL).

PostgreSQL's source code will never be lost, and it saddens me that many people perpetuate such a myth.

If people lose interest in it, there's always going to be an archive out there with the latest released version. And I find it hard to believe that people would prefer EnterpriseDB over PostgreSQL since the BSD license is what made it shine in the first place.

MySql and PostgreSql are actual threats to Oracle's profit margins. Guess which one they picked to kill.
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A friend wrote something similar for computer architecture and microarchitecture papers. It's eerie how many papers sound a lot like these lately..

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~waterman/bs.html
There is also TCP/Vegas, which is based on the same idea, as good as FastTCP for all practical intents and purposes, comes with Linux 2.6 and unencumbered by the patents.
But, why would god's magic automatically create a meal that looks like it came from real plants?

There are many connections in the way organisms work internally. Patterns of characteristics never overlap; you never get fish with wings because wings evolved after fish (if you get them, it's cause of convergent evolution), but you do get whales and snakes with atavistic legs, because those genes may still be hanging around their DNA. There are literally thousands and thousands of characteristics like this, that can all be sampled independently; using this sampling organisms can be put into clades (trees of descent).

These can be based on many, many characteristics of the species: appearance & physical features (shape of leg, skull, lungs, existence of various organs, etc), mutation rates of mitochondrial dna, their appearance and geographical extent from fossils. You can create clades of all major species based on any one of these, and the amazing thing is that ALL of them match up! So if god just created a random new animal, there would be thousands of variables he would have to take into account of to preserve this characteristic - not all of which we even know yet. (This property was noticed before we were able to detect most of the more sophisticated ways of measuring these differences, but it's always come true. And there could still be more out there - for example maybe you could use the dna of undiscovered internal bacteria of mammals to derive an evolutionary history, and it would have to match up).

So God would have to do tons of extra work to match all these up - and the questions then is, why would he match all the other stuff up too?
At least HTTP keepalive helps slow-start once you've "warmed up" a connection to a particular server.
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This leads to the fundamental weakness of how governments are perceived of course - even if you make a really great law it has to be a "clear line", so it can't be complicated enough to cover every possibility - which means there will always be some wiggle room for some to take advantage of, and some will be hit by the law that shouldn't be.

As the media deals in anecdotes, even if you really minimise the amount of people in either of these categories by an exceptionally well crafted law, it is still easy for them to generate stories that make the law look too weak, or too draconian (depending on the political preference of the journalist/news organisation) by trotting out whichever handful of cases they dredge up that supports their views.
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Baseshield is also the result of a merger between two YC funded startups.
No it's saying don't be so concerned with local pollution in a place that's so poor that they may starve if you make them live as cleanly as we do.
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compared to the kindle,
pros:
+ native PDF support (how dumb are you, amazon?)
+ micro SD slot
+ ebook lending (probably DRM'd)
+ wifi
+ based on android
cons:
- amazon likely has a larger selection of books than BN.
- no browser -> no free wikipedia, gmail. maybe hacking one on works?
- no keyboard. on screen one maybe? This makes sense from the initial design perspective though, people don't often use keyboards while reading.
- 10 days vs 14 days of power, which is not that big an issue.

I think the two separate screens idea is brilliant. I wonder if they'll release the source code for the software like amazon did. Though I still applaud the kindle for good effort, the Kindle 2 / DX should have been as good as this. This looks like a much more well thought out and complete product. They even have different covers and rechargeable batteries for it. Damnit, I was about to get the kindle with the newer reduced price (with international wireless) but now I have to wait and decide. If there is a browser and is usable, I'd go for it without thinking further.
Of course the slight problem is that the underlying axioms of capitalism/free marketism is that the only possible consumer is God, as you need to have perfect information about the entire universe so that you can make the correct transactions. When your economic system is based on the idea that omniscience is required of everyone taking part, it is impossible to make statements about how fool proof the system is.
People should be allowed to engage in dirty, risky behaviour if it's their own choice. That covers the act of working in e-waste individually, as for any pollution it causes it's up to the authorities in Ghana to deal with that, but it could be that they feel the decrease in poverty of those engaged in e-waste outweighs the problem of pollution. That's for Ghana to decide though not us.
Ask HN:  Does anyone know why PayPal does not offer CIM functionality?
CIM is the thing that lets merchants store a token instead of a credit card number and then charge the card just by sending the token with the api request.

In a lot of ways, PayPal Payments Pro is a great service to use for merchant processing, but how many merchants are rolling their own insecure attempts at PCI compliant recurring billing systems b/c PayPal doesn't offer something like this?

link to auth.net's version:

http://www.authorize.net/solutions/merchantsolutions/merchantservices/cim/
>(probably non-Mossad but there is no proving that)

Did you read the article? It was an FBI sting - no Israeli involvement. In fact, from your HuffPo link:

>The complaint does not allege that the government of Israel or anyone acting on its behalf violated U.S. law.
Would this qualify as entrapment?
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I'm afraid you are wrong about GSM network support. Integrated chipsets commonly have support for 4/5 bands and EDGE+HSPDA on board no matter what features the manufacturer turns on.

In fact there are a couple of really cheap phones out there that have chipset support for WiFi and Bluetooth because it's cheaper than getting a custom chip set!

Obviously the antennas (and drivers) supplied change which frequencies/networks you can actually use, but even the iPhone has support for multiple GSM bands - you can jail break it and drop pretty much any GSM sim in it.

GSM vs CDMA is a different matter, although there are a few handsets with enough hardware to do it including some from RIM. Those do tend to be expensive but I imagine that has more to do with licenses than hardware costs these days.

(By the way $400 phone with no contract is cheaper than $50 phone with a typical 2 year $50/month plan. To use the UK as a suitable example a reasonable plan would cost about $50/month with a phone or $25/month without. That's a saving of $600 to put towards the cost of the handset.)
Hmm,

We launched a major development initiative based on our internal ideas of what users wanted. In retrospect, we should have spent much more time speaking with customers and vetting the ideas.

I do not know a magical formula for features that make money. I do know that Steve Jobs very clearly says that he creates products by asking what would be really cool to have. Sometimes users know what they want and are correct. Sometimes they wrong in the sense that what they describe won't really satisfy them.

There could be difference between a niche market and mass market in these considerations as well as many other consideration. This is not to demean the article in the least - it's more that this is really hard problem and there aren't easy answers even if what works in a given situation is usually something simple.
Except for every immigrant that comes in taking a job, they also come with an indivisible consumer unit that makes other people jobs. Strangely almost always in an average $1:1 ratio.

This probably explains things like why the population of the US roughly trebled over the last 100 years and yet unemployment didn't rise to 66%+ of the working population during that time.
I don't understand why people have trouble with this. Perhaps because they are so used to zero being an exception to things? Perhaps because the sheer act of raising the question makes them nervous?

The everyday definition of even -- divisible by two -- applies just fine to zero, nor are there properties of evenness or oddness that should make one doubt whether the definition is appropriate. Questioning whether zero should be even is like questioning whether six should be even. It meets the definition, and there are no issues, so what motivates the concern?

Of course, one could always make another definition, but what you'd really be doing at that point is appealing to the mathematicians around you that you have a better definition of even. To them, that means one that makes things simpler. And it's unlikely that you have one.

I once had the following conversation with my abstract algebra teacher, while in grad school:

Him: If you study the history of this particular field, as time goes on, the definitions get more complex, while the theorems and proofs get simpler.

Me: Why is that, do you suppose?

Him: It's progress!
We generally pay less for phones than the US, we just pay it up front instead of over time.

It's cheaper because we avoid paying interest and carrier mark up on what is essentially a loan for the hardware.

You wouldn't think it was a good deal buying a computer on punitive finance terms, why is it such a good deal for phones?
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It would be cool if someone intergrates this into Google's libjingle (http://code.google.com/intl/en-US/apis/talk/libjingle/index....) to get efficient NAT-traversal.
Are you familiar at all with the PDF format? Its specifically engineered so that it looks equal everywhere. It doesn't embed "DPI metadata" on files, but uses real-world units (millimeters, points) in most, if not all, measurements instead of pixels. And Adobe Reader (almost defacto reader for PDF) has the option specify custom PPI value, or use the value operating system supplies. Therefore my original claim that 1 inch is 1 inch on all properly configured readers still holds true, as all properly configured readers have correct PPI setting set either by OS or by user. And if current operating systems wouldn't be so crappy at scaling stuff, PPI could be set system-wide at installation, and we wouldn't be having this discussion. It's actually quite baffling that there isn't more noise about the insanity that 1 inch rarely (in other software than PDF) is 1 inch
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That would be really cool! And with e.g. VNC or Remote Desktop you could run more demanding tasks off of your dekstop computer.
i did something similar to this once. i came to the same conclusion as shipley: trying to have other people edit your nibs is madness.

i chose to solve it in a different way, though. i kept all my localized strings in my own simple text file, and did away with nibs altogether, preferring to build all views and windows and menus in code at runtime. probably wouldn't work so hot for really complicated user interfaces, but it worked for me.
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The proper title of the article is "Immigrant Scientists Create Jobs and Win Nobels"

Sadly, the HTML title for the page omits that key qualifier. It should be in the post here, as well, though.
See similar discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=809680
A sales pitch should mention the things the company believes will interest their customers. Apple obviously believes that a lot of their customers care about the environment as well as performance. There are a lot of people out there who won't buy a product unless they believe it to be 'green'. A lot of Apples customers fall into this category. Selling a product on its 'green' credentials is common in all industries, and had Apple left it out of their sales pitch it would have been an obvious mistake.
You mean cost-reducing peasants? The fact that these "commodities" have now become a dispensable burden doesn't mean the unofficial policies of the 80's and 90's of massive illegal immigration were pointless.
Exactly. It's because immigrants spend close to 100% of their money in the US, and any they send overseas either gets converted to a local currency (which brings the dollars back to the US since you can't usually spend them overseas), and the few countries that do use US dollars contribute to reversing inflation ;)
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Oops. My mistake. I tried to change later but couldn't get it done.
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