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Time. The govt gives out X/year, not the final amount X. When they want it back, it comes from different 'tranches'.

This ensures, that there is always debt. Money has value only if there is debt and you must use some to get out of it. Why would you need it otherwise?
It's not all that bad. Shorting, credit default swaps and all these other ugly tricks are a comparatively small part of the overall system. The vast majority of the trading that happens everyday is completely legitimate old school business. The US economy is also freakishly resilient. We had an almost total collapse of our credit system last year and while we don't know the full long term ramifications yet it does appear we're going to make it through it without too much gloom & doom. It's somewhat of a miracle that we've only seen a doubling of the unemployment rate and very little (if any?) inflation or deflation due to all these external forces at work on the market. The end result for most of us is maybe we couldn't buy that new car we wanted or had to cancel a vacation.
that's a damn good question.

unlike microsoft, apple does not sell it's OS to hardware manufacturers. manufacturers should have the ability to install software other than what is shipped with the OS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft
It was clear from his presentation how much of an ad man he is. The delivery of his talk was engaging, funny and still managed to make a strong argument.
Is there a clear benefit to driving on the right hand side of the road, over the left?
The parent is right about the copy elision part (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_value_optimization). GCC definitely performs this and I'm sure that it's true of other widely used C++ compilers.

I also don't know what yosefk means when he says that smart pointers rely on defective meta-programming techniques. The implementation of Boost's smart_ptr doesn't seem too esoteric to me.
I wonder if (and if so, why) it uses the audio port, instead of the dock connector. With 3.x it's possible to access the dock connector. While I can imagine it's possible to send data across the audio port (modems anyone?), it seems like a more difficult route to take. Any idea's on why they would do that?
Well, even if we can get the necessary level of detail, that doesn't mean our experiments need to take as long. As soon a generation is "created" the program starts on the next one. None of that annoying waiting around for the kids to grow up, reach puberty, etc...

Assuming, of course, we have a powerful enough machine to do things quick enough.
I must have missed the bread queue at the bakery this morning...

Seriously. There are still people alive who remember the Great Depression. Go find one and ask what it was like. We're not even close to that.
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I'm not sure I see a purpose. Even if you aren't looking to product "intelligence" but just something interesting, I don't think its likely. The ratio size and complexity of the environment (fitness function, domain of the chromosomes, degree of mutation, etc...) compared to the size of each creature (i.e. how many possible chromosome possibilities there are) would have to be enormous to make a long experiment worthwhile.
Ask HN: News Website without the 'Silly News'?
I'm looking for a "normal" website (i.e. not the drudge report) with normal news, minus all the sensationalist headlines.

I'm sick of the "common man's" approach on CNN and BBC, which are my primary two sources. I'm tired of polls asking "Do you agree with the racist decision by xxx?" and 8-month old news recycled as a news video taking up the headline spot.

Anyone know of a good, real, hard-core news site? It needs to be "mass marketable" because this'll be going to some non-geeks.
I think the official page is a better link:
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/rrg/mit-mav/system.shtml
The point is that there are only two ways to "optimize" your site: 1) hire a better designer and 2) game the ranking algorithms. The latter is what SEO "experts" do. From the search engine's perspective, they want their ranking to accurately match which site is most useful and relevant to their user. The ideal search engine, once things like location are discounted (a brilliantly designed site offering a useful service too far away from me is a bad search result) is going to rank on how good the site actually is.
exactly, and normally they borrow from other banks rather than the Fed, which the fed prefers. I believe the Fed only serves as the lender of last resort.

The carry trade is nothing new either, it's often used for example when borrowing rates in other countries are favorable compared to rates on US treasuries.
This is essentially the same feature that is exposed by MS in languages like C++, C# etc. as "edit and continue".

It's a feature I've never particularly liked, and never wanted to use to any strong degree. I have a strong suspicion that programming in this style is correlated with an aversion to strong typing, and actually amounts to a different way of thinking about programming. Not necessarily better, but different, and its effect on your productivity depends on how you prefer to work.
rtorrent is written in C++, as is the underlying libtorrent library. Check if those binaries are stripped though.
You stay with C++, I want a language I can master entirely. No subset restrictions.
It must be hot in there!!
More information about copy elision here:

http://cpp-next.com/archive/2009/08/want-speed-pass-by-value...
Who knows, I'll rather use a mixture of languages than C++. C combined with other languages will suffice for now, as most of them are simple enough to understand entirely.
What is Erlang written in?
Ubuntu since 1 year. I've kicked out gnome and kde. KDE is horribly slow and fvwm2 just rocks :)
Yes plenty of companies request linkbuilding only, I'm not going to go into all the details of how we do it, but often its a case of contacting webmasters and asking them to link. Although there are certain techniques we use to increase our success rate which is where marketing aspects come in. In fact most good seo companies are really just online marketers, with seo being an umbrella term for a wide variety of techniques
Interesting to see that there are as many Ubuntu installs as OSX.
Until Linus goes commando and rewrites the scheduler, like he did with git, yeah.
Provided they have enough information to make the right choice.
Has anyone reported this to the school? I would be willing to bet your school's paper would LOVE to do an expose on this. He donated the funds to the school and while that may give him some authority in the program that shouldn't give him the rights to attempt to subliminally message students. Academic halls exist for freedom of information and that information shouldn't be pay to play. Talk to a department chair who works in that building and see what the deal really is.
Twitter pushing itself aggressively to new territories
fortunately, the tech sector was shaken out with the dot com bust and did not fully recover. I have friends in construction who are not that far from the bread line. Now that is slipper slope hyperbole, but the fact remains that they are not doing well at all. Currently, if you are not in tech or medical it is not a great outlook for your prosperity.

The problem is that we have traded debt (future labor and products) for currently assets as if it where a current asset (and we convinced the rest of the world to do so too). The problem is that you can continue to sell the future (debt) until someone looses faith in that return then the whole thing comes crashing down.

I really think we should go back to a hard asset economy as it is less susceptible to crashes in valuation and is far harder to manipulate. The problem is when only current assets are valued. Prosperity tends to shrink and amass in the hands of a few. It really is a catch 22.
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He also did The Cartoon Guide to Physics and probably a few others in the series:
http://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-Guide-Physics-Larry-Gonick/dp/...
These are very popular in some homeschooling circles.
These are the droids that you are looking for. :)
I use slitaz mainly, works great and fast... Smallest distro I know that is still very usefull (better then dsl imho).

I also have an ubuntu laptop, still running 8.10 but I'll be upgrading soon. And my main machine is a macbook running X.6.
I wonder what the Verizon-Motorola deal means for customers outside the US.
A new tutorial on using gdb reverse debugging:
http://www.sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ProcessRecord/Tutorial
New web tutorial for gdb reverse debugging:

http://www.sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ProcessRecord/Tutorial
I'm confused. Nowhere in the article did I see a recommendation against doing any marketing at all; instead I saw a quite sensible debunking of a bunch of snake oil that's known either not to work or to actively hurt your site's visibility in search engines.

Effective marketing is a good thing. Wasting money on crap? Not so much.
Can't see why you're being downmodded as you're quite close to the nitty-gritty mechanics.

Like most financial systems there's how people think it works and then you look at the actual mechanics and it's quite different; this often leads to semi-informed people thinking they know more than they do.

Read here:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/8/

...section 5 (pretty accessible as legal codes go) for the basics.

Essentially the laws are structured so that when you buy securities through an intermediary:

- "purchasing" shares through an intermediary doesn't instantly give you the shares; it immediately gives you a legal claim against the intermediary to produce those shares

- the type of claim you get is very standardized (in terms of delivery times and rules around it, etc.)

This makes complete sense if you think about the early years of the stock market. If you went into a brokerage in Chicago in 1940 and bought shares in General Motors, would it really be reasonable to get an actual share certificate instantly? Within an hour? What if it's not Chicago but Poughkeepsie?

So the fraud-minimizing solution is that: "purchasing shares" from an intermediary grants you an enforceable claim for those shares that you purchased, but doesn't instantly give you actual shares (it couldn't then, economically).

(Needless to say this pushes some of the risk onto intermediaries: since you are buying at whatever price the agent quotes if the stock price were to change then the agent can't ransom "your" shares to you for the post-agreement price change.)

A consequence of combining this general setup with the modern electronic infrastructure is that what is essentially fractional-reserve stockbroking becomes possible (if enough brokerages are in on it and if the regulators aren't vigilant enough).

The current claims about naked short selling basically reduce to a claim that certain aspects of the order-clearing system are being exploited for fraudulent profit (essentially unregulated fractional-reserve lending, but the specific dynamics are a little different due to the nature of the assets involved).

Part of the issue is that if the scam works as the naked-short-selling people think it does then it works best when the naked-shorted company goes out of business within a reasonable time period from when the scam commenced (due to the specific mechanics of how the claimed scam is supposed to work); this makes it hard to accurately assess the merits of many of the claims, since the companies supposedly targeted are usually long-since gone and whenever a company goes out of business there's usually plenty of reasons why it failed that don't involve stock market shenanigans.
That's naive my friend, were it not for the fact that central banks all over the world held more dollars than any other foreign currency (a fact that is rapidly changing) the two trillion we have printed out of thin air would have immediately caused drastic inflation.

I don't think a nation's economy, resilient of not, gets to print two trillion twice, and since we haven't yet fixed the fundamental issues that got us here: trade deficit and federal deficit, we'll need another bailout soon, but it will cost more, something like four trillion. The world knows it, and that's whey they're moving away from the dollar as fast as they can. There is not much in the US economy for the rest of the world any more. If we do the right thing and pay our debts off, that means drastic consumption cuts, and if we don't then we just continue to consume with credit. So you see, it's a lose-lose for the rest of the world.
"And after less than 24 hours, my post about SEO is the ninth Google result for 'SEO'."

Is it just me, but when I did a google search for 'SEO', it seems that his position is ~40...
The only reason there weren't bread lines is because the government dictated that there not be (by printing money). Soviet governments tried to dictate things too. The only difference between them and us, is that we can get away with it now because we are still coasting off our past credibility, but that won't last forever.
The better CPU is what makes this a better Android phone. I have used Android on an HTC Magic, where the performance is OK, and I've used it on an Archos 5, where the performance is amazing. Web pages load as fast as they do on a desktop, screen rotation is instantaneous, and so on. It's very nice.

And FWIW, the HTC Magic performance is about the same as the iPhones I've played with... so the "Droid" could definitely be the "iPhone killer". (Because it's as fast, has the same basic functionality, and has persistent apps. It is nice to have "push" Google Talk, and it's also nice to ssh port-forward from your phone, and then run an IRC connection over the forwarded ports. All possible with Android, none possible with the iPhone.)
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I have a strong suspicion that programming in this style is correlated with an aversion to strong typing.

Perhaps because the popular languages that support this development style happen to be dynamically typed. Haskell also supports this, and this the language where I make the most use of it. It is strongly typed.

So while there may be a correlation, I don't think there is any relationship.

(Dynamic typing is popular because static typing was done wrong, and people thought the problem was having static types, not that all the existing statically-typed languages were just bad. Haskell has shown us that statically-typed languages are just as easy to develop in as dynamically-typed languages, except easier, because you don't have to deal with runtime type errors.)
The first bit-torrent client was written in python:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(software)
Water surface hacking?
Useful information for those wishing to form a start-up in India:

http://madaan.com/investing.htm
(Cheat sheet? Cheat Novella, more like! I think it's probably past the point where it needs to be split up a bit, even if only for your own benefit.)

"How do you check disk usage. How do you trouble shoot a high disk usage issue"

which is fine, until someone's done something similar to the next bit of advice - i.e. deleted some "old", large files that were still open by the application.

Better: compare filesystem usage (with df), against disk space used (with du), to deduce that there's an open file that has been unlinked. Then use lsof (whatever Sun say about pfiles or about dtrace, lsof is an essential tool) to look for processes with open files that have large offsets.

And, when deleting large files, check whether they're open, and truncate them before deleting them if you're not sure.

(note to another poster - ain't nothing wrong with Solaris! But I'm not really sure what interviewer might ask questions about the OSI 7 layer model, these days, and I agree that there's a real odd jumble of scripting snippets in there: best advice to anyone wanting to improve that side of their systems administration skills, is to read a copy of Unix Power tools.)
Arch on my netbook, quad core workstation and my Lenovo X300. Simplicity at its best.
That article is about 5 years old.

Anyway, modern web applications(python/ruby + javascript) are very different and very similar: to debug them, you run, edit and re-run one "page" at a time, just by reloading the page you are working on in browser.

It's kind of pointless to even discuss this topic at this time.
Google pushes new results to the top, then they slowly fall off. In certain cases, anyway.
IMHO 2009 C++ is tailored for generic programming and meta programming

That was not the design goal and it was not how C++ was marketed by Stroustrup or anyone else. You cannot shift the blame onto people that are using the language as it was intended and marketed. The blame lies with C++.

That it seems to be perfect for generic and meta programming is nice, but an unintentional side effect. However, what use are generic and meta programming without a sane range of 'regular' programming capabilities?
That all seems reasonable, but Apple has a powerful brand at the moment. That must be factored-in too.
Another excellent article from this blog. I've now added this blog to my RSS feed. Every article I've found in there has been a must-read (I'm about 5 articles into it now).
Point taken. Perhaps a more appropriate analogy is the PR industry. I know the PR industry gets almost as much criticism as SEO. But the argument that we shouldn't use specialists in whatever field because we could do it ourselves is very damaging.
Here's another example. If I run a coffee shop and 50% of my customers are walk-ins from the street, it makes sense for me to hire a sign-writer to attract more people. Even though my coffee might be the same as always I get more customers because people can find my shop. I could paint the sign myself but hiring an expert to do it will likely pay for itself.
If I run a website and 50% of my customers come from search engines then it makes sense to invest an appropriate amount in making sure those customers can find me. If I have a small site, that investment might be of my time or I could outsource it.
So the important thing is that we need to invest in what brings new customers. If you think that an SEO professional doesn't deliver enough value that's a perfectly valid decision but I think it's a big mistake to extend this to not investing in SEO itself.
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Ask HN: What do you think about new Yahoo ads?
Here are 2 alternative designs that I posted for Yahoo ads.

http://zeynel.posterous.com/new-yahoo-ads

http://zeynel.posterous.com/yahoo-ads-2

What do you think?
Content creation is a core SEO strategy and is a source of new wealth.

And the author of the post misses that completely. He seems to think that web designers and web developers can ensure a proper SE ranking, which is ridiculous. Given the above, the best SEO specialist is someone that can rewrite/expand your content. Make sure the right keywords are dropped in the text, that the content is reachable for the SE and that there is plenty of content available.
Live links:

http://zeynel.posterous.com/new-yahoo-ads

http://zeynel.posterous.com/yahoo-ads-2
Actually, they had to pay Lucasfilm just to use the word!

See for yourself (and signup if you want)

http://www.verizonwireless.com/droid

[EDIT]

This is part of the email you get after you sign up:

"But you don't need a smartphone, you need a supergenius in your pocket. A phone that listens better than the person on the other end of the call. Apps of every shape and size. Emails that let you know what they are before you read them. The greatest web experience on a phone. All working together to get things done."

Wow. That's a lot of hype.
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Which is why the L1, L2 and L3 caches are there in the first place ;)
That entirely depends on your application. If your software does a lot of calculations, the cache-miss cost may be much more important than any hard disk seek. The are the times per event, but the number of these events differ vastly per application.
And the Fed gives its `profits' back to the government to spend. The ECB does the same (perhaps more roundabout).
I am usually the last one to even read language flame wars, let alone participate in them, but how exactly are Eiffel, Forth and Pascal fatally flawed?
China is becoming less polluted in the near future? Dream on.

The Chinese economy has to grow 8% because the population grows, less than 8% is stagnation. GDP in China per person is around $3000, where in Germany (East and West) we are at $44000. They have room to grow.

Germany is also a net exporter of electricity. It is great that it is not a large net exporter, otherwise the industry which gets lots of monetary help from the tax payer sells their electricity cheap to foreign countries.

Aluminum smelters and comparable industries will move to countries with little environmental protection. Let them go. Btw., just where I live we have a Aluminum smelters and related. In Germany. They are still here.

Gas power plants are extremely efficient (twice as coal), cheap to built, have a relatively robust technology and the pollution is much less then from coal (half). Modern gas turbines provide electricity and heat. You can build gas power plants into or very near to cities - this is different from nuclear power plants who need lots of water for cooling and building them near cities is usually not a good idea.

Gas runs through pipelines from Russia, arrive by ships, new pipelines are projected and Germany has gas reserves for two months. During the recent shortage in East Europe, Germany was actually giving gas to other countries.

Biogas is no pipe dream. Funny how your prejudices collide with technical innovations that have already been developed. In East Germany just a few months ago a new Biogas plant has been opened: it will produce 160 million kWh Electricity an 180 million kWh heat - enough for 50000 families.We will see more of that...

I'm getting the impression that you are far behind the technological paradigm shift that people are working on here.
Three laptops (Mac, Ubuntu, Win) and an iPhone, but I rarely ever use it for anything other than its alarm clock.

Gave up on desktops ca. 2000.
From http://sbseminar.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/math-overflow/ :

> There’s currently no LaTeX support. Obviously, this is the top-priority feature. This definitely won’t be implemented until the Stack Exchange software is out of beta, but it will probably be implemented shortly thereafter. In the meantime, do your best. You’re welcome to type raw LaTeX, use basic html (e.g. &Omega; and x<sub>1</sub>), or whatever you would normally write in email.
Yep, let's hope they "overcome" gazillions of $.
Or they can just offer a metered API and people would Mint them.
the dollar lost a huge amount of purchasing power between 2005-present. prices just havn't caught up yet. expect CPI inflation to continue to suck for the next few years.
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Tell me when you've found it.

Seriously. I'd love a site like that.
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One of my favorite modules in systems class was weeks of C programming competitions/exercises where we'd try to get the most L1/L2 based speedup in several challenges. Too bad I don't get to work at this level professionally that often.
Since I work for a startup ( http://www.bluespec.com ) that provides tools for developing hardware transactionally, let's just say that I think the story of hardware support for STM hasn't been written yet.
Slackware 12 here, on 3 machines.
It's easy enough to look up a list of missions to X on Wikipedia, but it'd be nice if the image included mission names.
Lucene will rape anything db-based.
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