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ScienceCommons 15 Oct, Mountain View: Reid Hoffman, Joi Ito, Alexis Ohanian, ..
How about this then: "I think there is a strong possibility of extraterrestrial life based on a passage in the Bible. The Lord talks about gathering His creation from the ends of the Universe.

As ham radio operator, I sent some radio signals into space on my own over 40 years ago. Of course, they were on frequencies not likely to be tuned in by another civilization. But, they're on their way!

I am disappointed we are not putting the same effort into transmitting that we are into receiving signals."
Who else is doing this today? What do they do right? what could be improved?
Using Erlang to Build Reliable, Fault Tolerant, Scalable Systems
How the iPhone's App Store could stimulate the Flash economy
Where else is there an "Only for power users" feature in iPhone OS? There's no precedent for this sort of behavior in the iPhone's UI anywhere. No other built-in app has that kind of setting. The closest that I can think of is the developers debug menu in Safari. And thats not "hidden", its just tucked away because its only meant for developing and does get in the way otherwise.
Top 5 Bugs of my Career
Writing about FOSS sexism
Very cool, and very readable stuff!
Heh, My first thought when reading the link title was, "Financial Alochol, Tobacco, and Firearms?" Really its the "Financial Action Task Force"
Someone once gave me an incredibly apt analogy for this phenomenon: technology is like a helix. It repeats itself but at the same time increasingly gets better.

See: cloud computing, AJAX, NoSQL, and all the other things that are purported to be new ideas but are really re-hashes of 30-40 year old ways of thinking with contemporary tools.
Small software companies rate their ecommerce providers
Seems to me though that the radiowaves would have to go in the general direction of the person moving, right? I suppose you could surround the entire building and go from there...
Maybe it would help to prioritize unit tests and code reviews. Code that deletes users' data permanently deserves more eyeballs and testing. Just an idea. I never tried it.
A few thoughts and questions:

What does the y in (Tl4Ba)Ba2Ca2Cu7Oy stand for?

Google search for the chemical turns up surprisingly few hits for something like this...
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&r...
As I understand it, self-signed certs leave you open to man-in-the-middle attacks.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=277284
The fact that this whole thing is being considered a "cloud" failure is ridiculous. The word has become so meaningless that if I ran over a neighbors dog I could probably blame it on cloud computing.
The last part of this Radiolab episode features EMI. Overall it's a very interesting talk.

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/04/21
My limited experience with people like this is that they actually believe what they are doing. My question is, where does he get these plots, etc. Is he just wildly misinterpreting it or is he in fact just making it up?
I know virtually nothing about SANs, other than that they are frighteningly expensive. Can anyone clarify how they compare to systems such as GFS, HDFS, MogileFS and other systems that attempt to store data in a safe, redundant manner across lots of cheap servers?
I developed a Ruby application a few years ago with a similar structure on OS X to be deployed on Ubuntu servers. All the forking and child process signaling worked like a charm in both OS's.

So yeah... you're locking yourself out of Windows. Consider it a smart move :)
I don't see how this is in the same vane as zappos. They appear to be really interested in great customer service but ultimately zappos provided a specialized store that sold ANY kind of shoes you needed in ANY sizes in the most friction free way possible. This just doesn't have the same friction free feel that zappos does.

Allow me to purchase any pair of pants in any size made by the manufacturer and return them if I'm not satisfied... at cheaper or comparable cost to traditional stores and I'm on board.

It seems the zappos name is being misused here as an artificial springboard to get people interested in the website.
Yttrium: http://www.chemicalelements.com/elements/y.html ?
I have 3 pairs of these pants. They are amazing. You'll need to tailor them for length, but man the fit is perfect.

The colors and quality are great. I actually found out about them through another post on this site a while back about the private shopping for men: http://trunkclub.com/
Ah! Got it now.
Hey now, bringing common sense into a discussion that should be ruled by the theories of the Austrian school of economics is an unfair debating tactic. ;-)
Alexis Ohanian (of Reddit) at Startup Bootcamp
I've tried a lot of DOS morse tutors, and the best one out of the lot is Morse Academy (though SuperMorse and Ward Cunningham's "Morse Code Teaching Machine" are also good).

Some commerical and shareware windows morse tutors look decent, but I haven't had any luck getting them to run on Linux under Wine; and the freeware Windows morse tutors leave a lot to be desired.

As for Linux, pretty much all of the Linux morse tutors I've tried pale in comparison to Morse Academy.

Morse Academy is what I'm using to train every day. I've started with it sending characters at 25 wpm, with spaces in between to get the effective sending rate down to 15 wpm. This is called the Farnsworth Method, and it's working great for me.

I also combine this with the Koch Method, which is just adding a character at a time to those you already know and practicing until you know that character, and then adding another one, etc.

Sometimes the new character will be too close in sound to one or more characters I already know, so I drill just the characters that I'm having problems with until I no longer confuse them for one another, and then move back to studying the whole set of characters I know so far.

All this and more is easily done in Morse Academy. I just wish there was a Linux clone of it, as it's not quite perfect and could be improved (for example, from time to time there's a tiny glitch in the audio that could make me miss a character. I think this is due to imperfect emulation on the part of dosbox, which is what I use to run DOS programs).
Sample MP3s are here: http://arts.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/mp3page.htm

I think the Chopin one is eerily good.. Perhaps there's an uncanny valley for music too?
In my informal poll of iPhone users, those I would consider non-technical also were frustrated with auto-rotation. I don't think this is something for power users only.
Not sure I recognise your problem with the iPhone on British trains. Maybe the trains wherever you are move faster than London Midland :-)
Test your SSL site here: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssldb/index.html
Cold turkey for a facebook addict
It's worth checking out how Amazon did their iPhone Kindle. When you initiate a rotation, it pops up a little button at the corner of the screen for about 2 seconds that allows you to lock that orientation. Most elegant implantation I've seen. It doesn't solve the issue of the user wanting to initiate a rotation without the accelerometer.
Surfing the Google Wave: List of Bots and Gadgets
Seems the original list is taken from:
http://sites.google.com/site/gwaveextensions/extensions-list
Preview and a few other OS X apps do currently support a rotational gesture on trackpads. It's not very widespread or widely-known, but it is there already.
I'm pretty sure the y is a subscript meaning a variable (or unknown) number of oxygen atoms.
Vioguard's self-sanitizing keyboard
Seems the original list is taken from:
http://sites.google.com/site/gwaveextensions/extensions-list
View PDFs With Google Docs Viewer Bookmarklet.
Me too - also when I was a kid.
Here are some lessons I've learned from poker:

http://www.markpneyer.com/wp/?p=527
There is a discount ticket rate available for this event through Hacker Dojo:

Hacker Dojo Friends

Science needs your brains!

Despite the high concentration of smart people in the world of science, they need help from the world of hackers. There are many challenges - life science experiments spitting out terabytes of data, outmoded methods of information exchange, data locked within closed systems...

Cross-pollination between the hacker community and the open science community would help. A lot.

Science Commons (a branch of Creative Commons )is an organization that is working to encourage this cross-pollination and bring web thinking to the world of science.

October 15th we are having a Science Commons Salon in Mountain View. Come learn some stuff about science and about how science geeks really need computer nerds!

You can find a link to the registration here [http://sciencecommons.org/events] and if you enter the discount code "HackerDojo" you will get tickets for $5 instead of $18
+1 and Thank You. I mean really, who uses Google Trends for traffic analysis anyway? Measuring first time users I could see. But why would regular users of the service search for FriendFeed on Google?

Or here's one. Is it possible that FriendFeed's search volume went down because every news outlet and their brother covered the Facebook acquisition (and offered a link to the service in those articles so people didn't have to search for it)?
When i was a kid I stuck a crumbled reflective tape to the ceiling to bounce off the remote signals to our TV. I could then just press the buttons without giving a damn where it pointed.
Cloud storage systems like S3 are often inferior in raw latency/response performance to a SAN which has VERY expensive adaptor silicon in it--but they are far superior on built in automatic, systematic, redundancy and global fail over and dispersal.
Jakob Nielsen on Streams, Walls, and Feeds
It's mainly a problem when standing up on a busy commuter train. Luckily I don't do that much.
A lot of the iPhone settings could be considered for "power users". There's a setting to tell the phone what to do when the home button is pressed; there's one to turn on Caps Lock, Shake to Shuffle, change the Photos' slideshow transition... they aren't unreconicilably technical, but they're subtle tweaks to functionality that power users would enjoy most.
Leveraging memcached's ubiquity of client libraries as a means to provide other backend services is a cute hack.
Uh,

Sorry but "cloud" or not, SAN or not, the MS/Danger fail was a stunning failure of process. Who cares what the underlying technology was or how it failed? What matters is that a multi-billion dollar software company actually managed to loose, permanently, their customers' data through obvious carelessness, through either lack of a backup in some fashion or other (and don't even try to argue they could have had an excuse - "multi-billion dollar company" "reputation" backups might be sort-of hard maybe - perhaps - but MS is supposed know what it's doing). Lightning and Asteroids wouldn't strike five different carefully chosen locations...

My guess is that this will hit MS really hard over time. Even if they actually were hoping Danger would dry-up and blow away, they've now done the worst case scenario to customers. Repeat after me "never let MS near your data...".
"7. Our bodies were made of meat and supported by little sticks of calcium."

What?!?!?!?

I don't know what kind of freaky terminator like future he's planning to live in 40 years from now but he can count me out!
Ah! This finally explains why Sivers' posts are never more than about 100 words long :-)
I studied Cope's book and synthetic music in college.

His Chopin pieces on the surface kind of sound like a Chopin piece, but when you look at the underlying forms the complexity just isn't there. Musicologists can consistently identify the synthetic pieces.
I think this bug is only a side effect of something bigger behind, where the chances of testing could be higher.
Actually, some of the projects are pretty nice places to live. I know this because I looked at several and nearly rented one. It was newly renovated, laundry in building, 24 hour security, close to the subway (135th st 2/3) and even a (east) river view (!). The only reason I didn't live in the projects was that I found a decent place closer to the 125'th st MTA, and my gf (who I lived with) worked in CT.

NYC projects are nothing like what you see on "The Wire". They are too boring for TV.

No matter how you cut it, subsidies amount to thousands of dollars a month (the difference between market rate and project rate for low income people) are generous.

Section 8 vouchers can be used anywhere in NYC, not simply projects. Landlords are not even permitted to discriminate against tenants who use them.
Apparently, the Chinese in #6 is slightly wrong, and the result of a Bablefish translation: http://www.hanzismatter.com/2009/09/wired-magazine-1710.html
Growl - Python-based, blog aware, static site generator
Was your MySQL installation configured to store data in any of the excluded directories? http://shiftedbits.org/2007/10/31/time-machine-exclusions/
NPR covered David Cope's software, named "Emily Howell", this weekend:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1137194...

It's funny that All Things Considered, not ArsTechnica or singularityhub, included a little detail that will amuse some HN readers:

RAZ: What exactly is Emily Howell, and how does she, it work?

Prof. COPE: Well, that could be a very long answer, but simply put, it's a computer program I've written in the computer programming language LISP.
Password managers and phones
Nanowrimo (www.nanowrimo.org) is coming up. Try /writing/ a book, it will have a more profound influence on you than any reading could have.

my recs: "Godel Escher Bach", as previously mentioned, and "The Fifth Head of Cerebus" by Gene Wolfe (or any Gene Wolfe).
* groan
While i despise the whole how-i-learned-life-from-poker flood of blog entries the last couple of years, it's refreshing to see someone stick to the social aspect here.

There's nothing worse than reading an article by someone who's played poker less than 1000 hours in their life saying: "you gotta know when to hold them and know when to fold them. I learned this the hard way when I started company XYZ and...blah blah blah..."
I'm not familiar with MogileFS, so if my comments below are incorrect when applied to MogileFS, then I'm sorry.

GFS/HDFS are officially called filesystems, but they're about as much as a filesystem as a Samba server: they expose files to the outside world, with some extra layers of abstraction you can mount the filesystems under Linux, but in essence they live on top of existing filesystems themselves and have nothing in common with the traditional filesystems, where you operate on a block device. A SAN, otoh, is such a block device and traditional filesystems operate on them.

This means that you can run a RDBMS on a SAN, while you can't on GFS/HDFS. This covers a common use case where you have a central expensive database server, with dozens of terrabytes of storage in a SAN, which you see in a lot of large corporations.
GNU debugger 7 released
Subleasing some office space in Mesquite, TX
I figured this would be the best place to post this. I have some office space I'm not using and it'd be a great for anyone who wants some space to get started.

There are two spaces, each 104 sq. feet. Rent would be $300 a month.

Rent price includes:

* All utilities (water, AC, electricity, heat)

* T1 Internet Access

* Parking space

* Lockable office space

* Free set up of wireless Internet access on your computers.

* Renters insurance

If you want to rent both, I will lease them both for $500.

It's located in Mesquite, TX. Let me know if you'd like to come by and check it out.
Nice concept and great implementation for an Alpha version... some suggestions

1. I searched for Curry and got 4 restaurants. If possible, you might wanna change the labels design on the map, they don't stand out on the map

2. People visiting your site might also wanna search for restaurants of specific cuisine. So you can think about changing the label name "Place Name"

3. You can put the tag "Discover and share new places" on the top

All the best :)
Bingo,

Nelson anticipating many of the features of the web was great. The extra features he "anticipated" were exactly what made Xanadu impossible to implement as well undesirable to implement (see RMS' The Right To Read).
You'd expect the y to be a Y then.

What is interesting in this whole superconductivity business is that in many years of research there actually is real progress in return for all the money spent.

Also the molecules appear to be getting larger and larger as the transition temperature goes up, suggesting that if that trend continues the 'room temperature' superconducting molecule will be something that will take a long time to find because of the number of combinations increasing as the length of the molecule goes up.

The highest temperature superconductor has a whopping 247 atoms in its structure. By comparison, the one before that only had 19 atoms, the one before that 12. And that's for a 46 degree K difference.
It's not exactly a sign of successful UI design that knowing an implementation detail of the hardware is helpful in controlling your phone.
none of those examples involved people getting a programmer cofounder.

Arrington is the sole founder, and his "startup" was just a wordpress install.

Anne Wojcicki doesn't have a programmer co founder.

Guy Kawasaki paid thousands to build alltop, so doesn't apply.

Seth Godin is a marketer/blogger, so once again, no technical cofounder.
Indochino is supposed to be good for buying online tailored
suits and shirts with "easy returns", etc.

http://www.indochino.com

I always thought it sounded interesting, though I don't wear suits often enough to have bought one since I first heard about Indochino.

You'd think if this company could make entire suits to fit (surely "outsourced"), Bonobos could do hemming.
The AP and News Corp: Time to call their bluff and mean it
Can we just point out that it was clearly a #BackupFail ?

No matter WHAT the deployment mode was, the lack of backups is what has turned this into an issue, NOT the SAN or "Cloud" failure.
Check out the new hackerspace at Soho Haven http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=876580
Bonobos Inc.? Pants for people that want to take them off every hour.
> where English isn't their first language

> If only everyone thought so carefully before sending the email!

Those specific unclear emails be be due less to lack of care, and more easily attributed to their having English as a second language.
Paredit Cheat Sheet (structured s-expression editor)
Sign of the Times - WhoCanISue.com
You may not have to wait that long. One of the reasons that the clang front-end is being written as a library is so it can be used for better refactoring in a future version of XCode.
Add the complexity I dealt with last year in that I'm actually currently living in New Jersey (A punishment in itself). So I can't even get any extra benefits from the city, and Jersey tells me "Oh, you worked in NY, so you're their problem".

Thankfully my job search was short, but when you're looking down the barrel of barely covering rent....
It aids clear thinking to habitually demand immaculate precision in your speech. It's not just for mass-emails or public-facing websites--it helps you, too.
There's FiveSecondTest (http://www.fivesecondtest.com/) that shows an image of your website for five seconds and asks users for their feedback. Not enough time for users to read all the text, but it's good at seeing if your general point is getting across. It's free too.
I'm doing Qt/C++ development. On first glance, Qt's message-passing system seems about as flexible as the objective-C system (Qt using a custom pre-processor for their C++ and then feeds it to the compiler of choice).
I don't understand your question at all, if the product is yours, why not use 'your own' resources ?

Which company ? The one you work at ? The one your beta testers work at ?

Profits ? Are you making any ? Did you develop the product on your own time ? Have you checked your employment contract ?
Seattle doctors try flat-rate no-limit primary care
Thanks! An earlier version made it into Science a few weeks ago: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/325/5939/425

For this one we just use python matplotlib-basemap http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Maps
Other libraries tools are used for other things (like uuorld.com for geographical based animations http://newsinfo.iu.edu/asset/page/normal/6919.html ), etc...
Honestly, it is not as useful as ultrawideband handheld radar under prototyping. Surrounding antenna array is just too excessive.
SANs aren't filesystems. They're block devices that run over the network instead of over a SCSI cable. They connect to servers by special HBA cards which look like SCSI devices, but actually run the SCSI protocol over the network to a rack full of disks. In a SAN configuration, the admins of those disks carve out a volume of storage for you, give it a name, and you configure it on your server; now it looks like you have a couple terabytes of storage directly connected. You format it like any other disk.

Backup works like any other system; you do it app layer. In high-volume high-sensitivity apps, the people running the disk server also back it up, by running protocols that mirror block-level changes to a second rack full of disks somewhere in Tennessee.

(yes, yes, or IDE or FC, yes yes, or software initiator, etc etc).
Except for some work with elements under pressure. I think I remember reading that if we could create hydrogen as a solid, it would be a superconductor.
But you still can't write PyObjC for the iPhone, right?
I have five kids. And while you do indeed see the gamut of emotions in them. If you were to withold the societal training parents provide to their children then the child will continue a trajectory that as they get older is called greed. When this happens we look disapprovingly at the parents and refer to the child as "spoiled". Greed does not have to be taught. Self-Control does. Compassion does not have to be taught either and yes it does appear in children as well. The presence of one does not preclude the presence of the other.
I feel that the lack of the underlying complexity is what makes this almost beyond the ability of a human to create in that removing ourselves from patterns/meaning when creating art is incredibly difficult. And to some people the lack of meaning is the beauty. So I am not disagreeing with you - I was just inspired by your comment to think about what I like about music like this.
http://smellofbooks.com/
On the other hand, I've always erased and installed fresh, with Snow Leopard being my first upgrade - and it has been good, with the exception of a corrupt font cache (2500~ fonts).
Apache has been doing this since there was an Apache.
The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels by Agota Kristof

Love and Exile by Isaac Bashevis Singer
I fully believe it.

Lots of the 'men' in open source really are just boys with digital toys.

Sure, plenty of us have girlfriends, wives and children. But a large number do not, on /. one of the prevailing memes is that ./ers do not have a life outside of their computing.

The attitudes towards women in general, especially potential girlfriends is quite shocking.

Even on HN the stuff that comes by every now and then is beyond the pale, and even more scary, it gets voted up, suggesting the majority feels that way.