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The assumption they make is that the payoff for voting on a decision is linearly proportional to the number of people the decision affects.

In my case, that's not true - i don't get utility from telling other people what to do. Quite frankly, the assumption that people enjoy telling others what to do scares me. I'd like to think it isn't true, but something tells me that's just idealism.
Hmm, AT&T's 3G pales in comparison with Verizon Wireless, but it could possibly be better than Sprint.
monopolies only happen because of government enforcement. no price fixing has ever been maintained in history that was not supported by the government. If you have a counter example I would love to hear it because I have done considerable searching on the subject. you're talking about corporatism, plain and simple.

as far as being blatantly predatory, unless the site actually lies there isn't a problem. if telling half truths is morally wrong then you have some bigger demons to grapple with than someone selling firefox (car industry, fashion industry, healthcare industry, it never ends).
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Dear HN, I have 8 days to prepare for my first phone interview (Program Manager position). My current Master's background is in Management (not MBA but Technology) with a previous Bachelor's background in CS. I haven't touched base with algorithms, hardcore programming etc. for years. I'm sure they will ask me technical questions even during my first phone interview. Can you please recommend me some good reference books, articles, links etc. apart from any inside knowledge other than what's posted on Glassdoor? TIA.
That subsidized price being determined by a calculation of how low it may be and still return a sufficient lifetime profit given the recurring revenue thereafter; should litigation costs rise, the price at which it is offered will adjust to maintain the same rate of return.
AlwaysOn contacted us too (Plurchase). We told them to go away.
It's very slick. It would be nice to have a task automatically save its changes once you click somewhere else on the screen, instead of having to click on the "Save" button.
Where have you heard such non-sense?

The requirement is to provide some kind of proof, in the form of a linkedin profile or the bio page of a startup, that you are indeed the founder of a startup.
Paul Gowder isn't complaining about Amazon forgetting to tell him that his coffee is hot. Good for him, flexing his rights over something reasonable.

*E: I hereby disown this comment :)
Brilliant! The last startup I worked for had 2-7 down to a tee. I can see their faces right next to those descriptions!
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Good stuff, hits one of my soft spots. Seems to be a 1998 piece - hunting up to the author home page and down the biblio page, this reference links back the posted page:

Data Visualization: The End of the Rainbow. B. Rogowitz and L. Treinish, IEEE Spectrum, 35, n. 12, pp. 52-59, December, 1998.
I, too, have had nearly nothing but good experiences. I bought my sister a present about a week ahead of when I needed it. It got lost in the UPS maw. I worked with UPS who were helpful, they went crazy trying to find it, but could not. So I called Amazon, they sent me a new item overnight without charging my credit card, and only charged me for the difference in what I had initially paid for shipping and the overnight cost (which seemed more than reasonable to me given that it was UPS' fault). So I got that package in time to give my sister her gift. A few days later, the UPS package showed up at my door, I sent it back to Amazon, and never got charged for that return shipping.

In fact, the only frustration I've ever had with Amazon has been about my Kindle: when I lost it, they wouldn't deactivate it for me. I'm still very bitter about this, and there was a thread on here a while back about that practice. I would think their flagship product would receive flagship support (especially since I'm now a "Prime" member), so who knows.
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&c...
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Arguing about "RAND(1,100)..." is beside the point. First of all, adding two-digit numbers is _not_ something that's trivially easy for a lot of humans. But more importantly, it's not leveraging any level of textual natural language understanding. It's true that any spammer that decides to target your question will be able to write a rule for their rulebase that will defeat your captcha, but the whole thing that makes the spammer's task economical is that they spend zero or a very tiny amount of person-time per spammed site. This throws a spanner in the works.

I'm also not sure I'd say that the "conventional" variety has "stood the test of time". I still see sites using them, but many of them are now so hard for humans to make out that you have to make multiple tries. And that's if you're a human with good eyesight and full cognition. The audio captchas out there are loud and obnoxious and mostly incomprehensible.
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Personally I don't think we would ever run into those issues. A. we don't have other servers to switch over to B. We are using MySQL for testing and development and C. we don't like what happens when we make system calls for within a web app. forget about forking.
I guess the main people it hurts is commercial software developers that paid a license fee to not have to open source their code. None of the forks would be able to do the licenses.
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one's impact is not necessarily "telling others what to do," though i see your point when the consequence of this action is deciding legislatures or executives.

nonetheless, i think the psychology behind caring about voting and, say, programming, is still similar: do i have an impact or am i just a rat in the maze?
I do OOP extensively, and I rarely allow methods to mutate the object. Whenever I have an "is => 'rw'" declaration in my code, it is always immediately followed by a comment along the lines of "XXX: hack". I always feel bad, because it is rarely the right solution.

Even when my data structures are completely immutable, I don't consider myself to be doing "functional programming". I consider it "avoiding stupid bugs".

(As an aside, when using an object database, I am a bit more liberal. You shouldn't need to rewrite every object in the system when a user changes his password, after all. This does come at a cost, though; there is no way to "go back in time" and find an old object graph. There is the current one, and that's it; hope you didn't mess it up...)
I good indicator of age is the heavily gif-compressed logo at the top of the page with © 1996 right under it.
the next statistic i want to see is the number of people effected by political advertisements...or say this paper.
Totally agree. Maybe more of the problem is writing skill of the users today need to be improved. I am always getting long winded emails that could have be easily said in a short one or two line email and a well phrased subject line.
Nicely done!

The tag line -- "Project management and task planning for people who hate project management and task planning" -- really got my attention.
I am sure the first case with a tech-clueless judge and an overly broad subpoena will be hilarious. The subpoena will probably bring back every document they have on the service since google will not likely be able to spend the time / money or have the obligation / right to edit the request.
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He wrote Microsoft's original Basic, probably parts of other languages. DOS must have been changed a lot after Microsoft bought it. He may have written some of the new stuff.
Ultracaps don't discharge instantly, though. That parasitic inductance is actually one of their disadvantages vs. traditional plate capacitors, or even electrolytics.

If you short one, you get a melt/vaporization failure and a bit mess. You don't get an explosion.
I'm not sure if anyone is still reading this thread; but if you are we recently launched our redesign of eventgel. Hopefully it is a little easier to use now.
The most plausible explanation for the imbalance is that women don't lack the innate ability, they're discouraged from developing it. Why do I say that?

- Some professions requiring comparable skills (eg actuaries, accounting) contain many more women.

- There's no known mechanism or evidence to explain why women might be innately bad at programming, but there's lots of well-documented mechanisms by which women could be discouraged from joining the community.

I'd be happy to learn from evidence that contradicts this argument, but in the absence of that, the simplest explanation is that we're wasting the potential of thousands of proto-programmers.
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Google is patient and the G1 phone was the beta that let Google work out many Android kinks. I was surprised when people declared Android "dead" after "only 1 million phones sold in the first year." This will be a long war and Android will build its user base more quickly than most expected two months ago. Focusing on development for the Android platform is starting to make sense.
Lest we forget what Mint.com did with Yodlee.
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Previous discussion of this article at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=772556 (slightly different URL, but same text).
Wait until the deal with Oracle goes through...
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Ask HN: What industry needs technical innovation?
Today, in the office, we had a brief discussion of some of the industries or fields that seem to have had relatively little technical innovation over the past decade. Some industries seem to be getting a lot of attention from technical minds these days (e.g. the power grid, alternative fuels, etc.); others seem more stagnant and some may not stand to gain a lot from technological advancements.

But, I'm curious to hear others' opinions. What industries are using technology and practices that are antiquated?
I remember watching a program about venture capitalists and the internet bubble and some experienced VC talking about how many millions he had blown trying to get a scheme somewhat along these lines up and running. Maybe the increased prevalanced and usability of mobiles might make it more feasible, but it a massively non-trivial undertaking - certainly trying to do it from on top. Some sort of organically growing website that vendors/customers use might work, but it is one of those chicken/egg problems - unless you have customers coming to the site it is a waste of time for the vendors to have to deal with the trickle of orders from it, and until a large number of vendors are present customers will get little use from it.

One way I could see working is a widespread existing business collection/franchise spreading out into more and more products over time - so companies/organisations as diverse as interflora or starbucks might start by offering products in their core competancy online, maybe start allowing other companies to join the scheme to cover gaps in their coverage, and eventually spread out to cover a wide range of goods so the website/app grows beyond the original founder.
I'm confused as to why the European Commission is involved with this at all. Anyone cares to explain?

Also, "Web 2.0 companies such as Google, Yahoo and Amazon.com". Good picks for web2.0 companies… :)
All of them.

Under that light, the world is full of opportunities.
A good reverse proxy will buffer client and server side so that your heavy app can be available to serve the next request whilst the light proxy feeds the page back to a slow client.

Under certain circumstances serving static files from separate hostnames can be beneficial as HTTP clients are supposed to limit the number of simultaneous connections per hostname.
It's bad news for both Amazon and consumers that the device is relatively fragile (I assume he's not lying about the severity of the drop). Either the price stays high because Amazon pays out many replacements, or the price can stay low for those who baby the device, and high for those who drop it.
What bothers me is the inability to buy a USB multitouch trackpad. I've only seen one model for sale, only in Japan, and lacking Mac drivers.
One real world example of this is https://www.fitbit.com/order
If you try to order the Fitbit they say they will not charge your credit card until the item actually ships.
Ahhhhh, that's true, but I guess I was thinking less philosophically.
Yeah, I would say especially secondary education. It seems like that's an industry in need of a serious overhaul.
In politics what it usually means that while there can be advantages for two parties to tend towards the political centre, they always tend to keep enough distance between themselves to be clearly differentiated. The same logic still applies more or less - although the further towards the extremes the parties get, the larger the gap between them will tend to have to be.
In theory I agree that you are right, but in the application of computer science, we are at a much better place today than we were 20 years ago.
We thought about that, but often pressing Esc, or clicking away is associated with "undo, oops, I didn't want that". We figured when Thymer would save/overwrite user data without explicit permission it would result needless frustration for our users.
Impressions to take with a pinch of salt as it has been written after a long day:

when reading previous comments, the word "inconsistancy" comes to my mind. Those comments seem to be written in a unpationated way. Their authors seems rather for free licencing... but STILL!! In my understanding, they may be ultra summarized in "tss, what this guy(stallman) is doing is unsuitable to reach the free licencing goal". AKA he is inconsistant.

I find it rather rare to get this kind of reaction. Usually when fsf people, it is quite pationated, up to religious.

PS: note the humor "free licencing" term to avoid the ridiculous "FOSS" acronym
Perhaps something like http://feedafever.com/ is what you are looking for. From the site:

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Because the EC is a market in which Oracle intends to make a substantial portion of its income ?

Anti-trust actually has some meaning here, it stands for not being able to own a substantial portion of the market and then being able to gobble up your competitors (directly, or, as in this case indirectly).

American companies invariably explain this is a lack of 'free market', but it is one of the few cases where I think that some government involvement in business is actually a good thing.

The EC got to sharpen it's knives in this respect on a very unwilling telco industry, and they are fairly sharp when it comes to stating how far is too far.

Whether Oracle has crossed the line or not in this respect is hard to tell, IBM still has Informix/DB2, there are other open source alternatives but I think a fork of MySQL is another way of resolving this.

But then there would have to be a pre-sun style company behind it to give it legs, otherwise corporations would never go for it.
Anyone remember the Baroness books from the 70's? She did this in one of them - also she drove a racing car with a spoiler 'controlled by a computer the size of a poker chip' - the first mention of microprocessors in literature I think - this was 72 or so...
Your question is a common one in web development. I highly recommend learning how to use Zend Framework. Even if you choose to not use the framework for any real projects, the things that you learn will significantly improve your knowledge of PHP and give you a much better understanding of how to deal with problems such as the one posed by your question.
And yet all Software needs to be upgraded before Microsoft stops "supporting" it.
In 10 years of using their software in the industry I have never had any actual support from Microsoft.
He did nothing wrong. Just pointing out that Amazon doesn't really care. Some way or the other, you (the customer) is paying for it.
Neither model has lost any pixels. These displays are higher resolution in both dimensions for both models. The smaller model has gone from 1680x1050 to 1920x1080 (+30 vertical pixels) and the larger from 1920x1200 to 2560x1440 (+240 vertical pixels).
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You'll just adding more long stats and pushing more metadata into cache if you add another directory level. You should look probably into a Haystack-like approach where you have a single file blob (or several large blobs) and then maintain an index into the offsets.
Sounds good. Tinn-R is a popular editor for R, although I prefer emacs+ess. Good luck to your mum!
Most of those titles are public domain books scanned as part of Google Books and complete with OCR typos. Right now, Amazon's selection is better.
Here's the letter to the EC written by Stallman et al the OP is referring to: http://keionline.org/ec-mysql . Shocking of eWeek to leave out the link.

The key paragraphs imo are:

"As only the original rights holder can sell commercial licenses, no new forked version of the code will have the ability to practice the parallel licensing approach, and will not easily generate the resources to support continued development of the MySQL platform.

The acquisition of MySQL by Oracle will be a major setback to the development of a FLOSS database platform, potentially alienating and dispersing MySQL's core community of developers [...]"

No license can fully protect users from developer inactivity or not knowing where to go when they have problems. In this case the problem is particularly acute because MySQL AB has been known as the go-to place for a long time, and this may no longer be viable in the event of Oracle's acquisition.

EDIT: Simon Phipps (Sun) wrote an eloquent piece about the dual licensing aspect: http://www.webmink.net/2009/10/remarkable-reversal.htm
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From a performance perspective, it does not matter if every file on your filesystem sits in a single directory. The only thing directories provide are namespaces for files to reside in and convenience.
I'd bet that the quality of the display is already much worse on the MB.
Is a "file system" the best design for this?

Not sure of a better general solution, but approaches like BigTable/GFS and SimpleDB come to mind.

Conversely if ZFS is supposed to scale to petabyte loads, what configuration do they expect that data to be in?
It may give the illusion of a good strategy, but limitless invites will spread the book faster leading to more buys overall (in my opinion). Since many people like to own books they've enjoyed and the freedom this model gives also pleases consumers I'd prefer it.
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This depends on the file system in question, and how it organizes it's data on disk. Some file systems have a max limit on how many files can be in a directory, others have a max limit on files in an entire volume etc. Granted todays system are a bit more robust, but can be still targeted towards a variety of usage scenarios.
This is the meat:

Reiserfs does an "ls" in a directory with 6000 files in it in about 3-5 seconds. The SUN SAN does it in about 1-2 minutes. Serious problems here.

That has to be a bug, not merely slow filesystem behavior. Even doing a seek for every block (4k on ZFS?) at 10ms for a minute comes to 4kb of data per directory entry. That's ridiculous. Something is broken; probably an interaction between subsystems (hardware cache, software cache, ZFS filesystem, network filesystem, SAN configuration, etc...).
Also known as 10-15 hits an hour.

My microwave can probably serve that traffic.
BigTable is for structure data. I think the best open-source software for this problem is Haystack from Facebook. It solves the problem by creating really big file (1G size), in that case, you don't have to bother with filesystem.
How about law? Obviously there are non-technical problems there as well, but it seems like there is still a lot that could be done technologically to improve transparency and (maybe more interestingly) reduce expense.
That's true only for modern filesystems. For decades, the standard directory storage in unix filesystems was a plain unordered list. Finding a single file in a large directory required reading half the directory on average. Double the size of the directory and you double the time it takes to seek through it. It's only recently that most systems are shipping with filesystems that are O(1) or O(logN) in the directory size.
It's not about you telling other people what to do, it's about picking someone else who will be telling people what to do. Nothing you do will change the fact that somebody will be selected; all you can do is influence the choice. Unless all candidates are (by your evaluation) of equal merit, voting for the one you prefer is (disregarding any costs of participation) pretty much by definition going to influence how much utility you get. And, unless you assign nonlinear utility (or none at all) to the experiences of other people, the number of people impacted is obviously going to be, in the limit, linearly proportional to the utility payoff.

Gratuitous example: Political Candidate X runs on a platform that he will indefinitely imprison and torture 0.1% of the population, but only people that you personally have never (and will never meet). His opponent, Candidate Y, runs on a platform of doing absolutely nothing in office. How does the utility of voting for Candidate Y differ depending on whether the relevant population is a thousand people, or ten million?
Isn't that feature (managing storage so you don't have to) precisely the reason for using a "filesystem" in the first place? Your suggestion is isomorphic to telling the poster to chuck the filesystem and just write to the block device directly. It's almost certainly not a sane real-world option.
Of course this works at the top and bottom - so you should also bid one dollar lower than the lowest if you think it is lower than everyone thought. This is all only true if you are bidding last, any time before that you should be honest* to give the later players the toughest choice of going higher or lower than you.

If you go last and think it is between two other bids you chose 1 higher than the lower bid (because of the too high bids being ignored).

*I think in fact because of the high bids rule there is always an incentive to shave your bid to err on the low side, but it is difficult to quantify what size this effect is.
It seems that the paper do come from its chief scientist. Who own the rights/patent? Columbia University?
Some more: "It's a huge time-saver and gives you peace of mind and feel organized.", "a dozen of menus", "distracting bells and whistle", "search to find back", "solving a single problem at the time".

And in the code: http://vldtr.com/?key=thymer.com
Apple is personally responsible, they bought out the company that created the original (or at least first commercially succesful one) http://www.fingerworks.com/ST_product.html

You can pick them up on ebay but they're now quite old and extremely expensive.
I see. I misunderstood you then. Yeah, it's a little like when taxes are raised (not sales tax). The consumer pays for it.