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Perhaps there was a good chance that a lot of Chinese business leaders were at that conference, so he is just tailoring his remarks. Without context, you can't really extract meaning.
I think the web solved the issues pretty early on. I know if I go to bbc.co.uk that I'll get fairly accurate news reporting. Domain names pretty much solve the identity issue.

How do I know who is accurate and who isn't on twitter? I have no idea who is a real journalist on there, and who is a 4chan anarchist.

There's no weight - everyones tweets are equal in search, which is a good and bad thing, but mainly bad IMHO.
and if you simply want mutual recursion, trampoline works well.
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> Slashdot on the other hand, seems to be maintaining its quality of discussion fairly well

See, news.yc can be funny too!
well, the article isn't suggesting that google pages are google's secret weapon :)
The whole point of economics is studying the allocation of scarce resources. Individual economists might not believe in peak oil, but to expand this idea to say that neoclassical or chicago school economic models ignore the physical constraints of the universe is hyperbole at best.

Of course I doubt many economic models take the life expectancy of the sun into account; but to say that neo-classical models can't account for running out of oil is frankly ridiculous. As oil gets more expensive other means of energy production (nuclear, solar) become more attractive, and/or the cost of energy goes up. Never mind including technological progress as an "input" into your model.
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A friend of mine always says "Your code should explain what it does, comments should explain why.". I agree with with you and him completely.
I see a really neat IDE where you can even debug .

Not sure if the fail is on their side or yours.
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And as I found out first hand, if the only internet provider in town starts to roll out bandwidth caps, just raise a ruckus until your senator drops legislation on the table banning caps, and then watch your ISP become a sour grape and refuse to roll out DOCSIS3 in retaliation...

Internet really needs to become a public utility operated by the city/state on cost, rather than to line the pockets of greedy corporations...
You may like to have a look at 4store: http://4store.org/ -- it's GPL3.
>The Internet was designed for the PC. The Internet is not designed for the iPhone. That’s why they’ve got 75,000 applications - they’re all trying to make the Internet look decent on the iPhone.

Ballmer has a point. The internet is an open platform with a relatively simple set of open protocols and formats for transferring data, providing services, and so on. Applications built on top of the internet stack are accessible to any device that can read HTML, XML, JSON, YAML, and so on. Even the browser makers are doing a good job of coalescing around the standards.

The iPhone, by contrast, is a narrow, closed, proprietary system built on top of the open internet. If you don't have an iPhone, you can't use any of the applications built for it. Similarly, if you want to develop an iPhone app, you have no choice but to go out and buy a Mac to get the development framework. Heck, you can't even distribute an iPhone app without going through Apple's App Store and conforming with its fuzzy terms of service.

That's the very opposite of the open internet. It's easy to hate on Microsoft for being closed and proprietary, but Apple is at least as bad.
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Sometimes I like seeing comments explaining what a complex statement does, too.
After reading "Refactoring" by Martin Fowler, I would say "comments are bugs". I still operate that way, excepting a one-line description of a function or class. In rare situations, a longer explanation of convoluted code is called for.

Yes, I am still trying to reconcile this with "Literate Programming", unsuccessfully.
I agree, (goto fname arg arg) seems like a very clean way of "tail calling" explicitly. In particular, the fact that it's in tail position can be checked as a syntax issue, as it is with (recur).
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I'm not an American, and I was wondering if you could help me to understand this ...

> Internet really needs to become a public utility
> operated by the city/state on cost, rather than
> to line the pockets of greedy corporations...

How is this not effectively Socialism? Isn't the system you currently have simply Capitalism in action?

Under Capitalism, shouldn't people simply choose another supplier when your ISP does stupid things?
or perhaps U.S.
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I tend to be afraid of learning new skills. This is quite inconvenient, because I love using the skills and improving on existing ones. So I'm pushing myself to learn the skills anyway.

What I'm finding (and this may change, as I've only been doing this a few years) is not that the fear of new things (and being bad at doing new things) goes away, but that I can recognise it as something that will pass, and ignore it until it is no longer there. Because I've seen the pattern enough times to know that that sort of fear always goes away. And I have some shiny new skills to show for it.
Well, as has been demonstrated time and again, there is not always a conflict between "private" / "market" interests and "public" / "community" interests, nor need there be. (Arguably, there's almost never a clash unless the market interests are coupled to political ones, but let's not get into that...)
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This is a really well thought-out response. Even though people would probably like to describe eHealth as an exception, I think that situation really exemplifies the problems I was trying to expose in the RFP process. It's just another reason it's a bad system.
Yeah, I agree on that this material is not for hardcore math geeks - I would love to see some more honors courses and maybe graduate material
If by "here" you mean "everywhere, ever, for all time," you are very right.
In large parts of the USA, there is only one (or fewer) decent Internet providers. It's hard to let the free market decide when there is no real competition.
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If someone who saved it can find it there was a post on the designer of SuperMemo a few weeks (I think) ago. It uses a spaced rep algorithm to remember what you're understanding (or not) and schedule information accordingly. Anki and Mnemosyne are 2 opensource versions of the same thing.
The accuracy of ip address geolocation in cellular networks is a waste of time. Best case you get a fix in the same state. If your on Wifi, that's another story, but again best case is metro area perhaps. This isn't really useful.
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> How is this not effectively Socialism?

It is. It's an all too common knee-jerk reaction in well-off western societies that when something doesn't go exactly your way, call for politicians to fix it with force. And politicians are all to happy to oblige.

In Britain, back in the early 80s when British Telecom was operated on cost, and not lining the pockets of greedy corporations, it would take weeks or even months to have a single phone line installed.
Ideally, people should be able to choose another provider. Unfortunately, the many of the ISPs in America exhibit monopolistic tendencies. What you call "effective Socialism" is just encouraging competition, like the article says.

People in big cities usually have a choice of ISPs, but in rural towns, often there is only one "high-speed" ISP. It's kinda a sad state of affairs. I've recently gained a very interesting view, as I'm currently living in Japan. I'm American born though.
Found on Bruce Schneier's blog
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In capitalism people are supposed to have choice. I'm not American either, but from reading HN for a while I gather that this does not hold for ISPs in many areas of the US. So basically what they have in those cases is a state-granted fiefdom.

And the solution of course is not to have the state run it. It's to introduce competition.
> How is this not effectively Socialism?

Does that make it bad?

> Isn't the system you currently have simply Capitalism in action?

Does that make it good?
Minimalism? Programming? Huh?
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=907571
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=907586
UK government to block filesharers' Internet connections
Great, wonderful, um... what language is this?!
Things like this where the costs are dominated by the need to build lots of infrastructure before you can even sell to your first customer are naturally uncompetitive, and even may be natural monopolies. Without significant competition private companies will generally perform worse (as far as the consumer is concerned) than government.

This is certainly not Socialism, as the use of government to provide services that individuals and businesses cannot efficiently provide goes back thousands of years, well before Marx started writing.
So, before everyone goes off on how it's only big business that's preventing great, high-speed internet, there are municipalities in this country that do run their own cable company.

http://www.shrewsbury-ma.gov/egov/docs/1231423976788.htm

That's a perfect example. Town owned and operated and it offers service up to 10Mbps for $50. More expensive and slower than the internet offered in many surrounding places. Oh, and they have a monthly data transfer cap that makes Comcast look good. At $40, you only get 75GB of transfer.

I think it's wonderful if municipalities want to try and roll their own competitors to commercial cable/phone/internet companies. However, it isn't all roses. It's expensive to build and operate and you need to get enough capacity to the internet to serve everyone's speeds.

The threat might have been better than actually building it.
Same here, both, you beat me by 2 minutes. Excellent summary of current research.
It's stunted capitalism. Monopolies are propped up and protected in most areas.
Money is only a symptom. What it's really about is the vestiges of the old British class system. Doctors, lawyers, bankers, managers, and so on are upper-middle-class professionals. Engineers of any sort, no matter how skilled, no matter how many degrees, PE or CEng status, have the taint of blue-collar about them (from the POV of the upper-middles). A manager will never be happy to see a worker paid more than him, even if by the laws of supply and demand they ought to be.

This is much much less of a problem in say Germany where Engineer is a respected, prestigious title in its own right.
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=906581
That tells me there is a huge market waiting to be tapped by the right company. 20 years ago there were barely any cell companies and now people (and phone companies) are dropping their land lines left and right.

Up here in Burlington VT there is about to be some heads rolling on how the gov handled the gov run phone/internet company.
As it happens I just emailed the Textmate guys to ask about what was going on with TM2. Actually, I asked how much a hypothetical "Textmate Liberation Fund" would have to raise to get Allan & co to open source Textmate.

Here's the reply I got:

Right now we are working hard on getting 2.0 out the door, we haven't really been thinking of much other than that. ;)

translation: <shrug>
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Being English, this commonly used startup idiom is lost on me. I'm guessing it's a baseball reference? To go all out, i.e. get the ball to the edge of the field?
But the real leverage is in the servers or the grid. Ok, the cloud.
Honestly, I don't know how we got this press either... and I'm one of the founders. We haven't really tried hard yet either. I'm pretty sure we could get more if we tried.
> In capitalism people are supposed to have choice.

Yes - but nowhere it's stated that the choice must be between immediately comparable services.

The alternative choice they have is to go build their own ISP. But, such a venture is difficult, expensive and risky, and thus wasn't deemed a better option than sticking with the current offering. Until the municipality came around and forced the citizens to undertake the venture.
Thanks for that link! I'd always thought Apple crashed sales-wise in the 90s. I stand quite corrected.
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What we have here is a classic case of barriers to entry.

Instead of turning to the government to provide the service (which will result in a sub-par service with no chance of recovery) we should look to innovate and wield new technologies to overcome the barriers and give the greedy corporations a run for their money.

Competition is the answer, not government intervention.
The perception, rightly or wrongly, in the rest of the world is that in the USA people go "OMG !!! IT'S SOCIALISM !!!! AAARRRGGGGHHHHHHHH !!!!"

Nowhere else have I come across people who dismiss ideas by saying - Oh, that's Socialism - and seem to think that that's enough.

Game Theory says that mixed strategies are almost always (in the technical sense) the best, so the instant dismissal of ideas simply being they have a flavor of socialism seems stupid, and yet it seems that it's the instant reaction of many, many people in the USA.

I could be wrong, it might not be the case, and it's interesting to see that the perception from outside the USA might be wrong.
Ask HN: How can I reclaim some of my commute time?
Right now I spend around 2 hours a day in traffic commuting to & from work. I don't have a viable public transportation option to get back and forth from work.

I feel like I'm wasting 10 hours a week on autopilot. What do you guys do during your commute? There's got to be something that I can do to make better use of that time - audiobooks, or a tape recorder, or something.

What do you guys do to make use of long commute times?
This just shows how out of touch the UK govt is. I wonder which Labour sponser lobbied for this. The government assume this is a hardcore minority. I'm not an illegal filesharer, but I sure know a lot people that do. I don't think it's a small minority. Questions...

- How do you define 'illegal fileshare'? Based on the network used? The content of the file?

- How would this be implemented? Would the ISP do the blocking?

- What's to stop the 'criminal' from using a wifi connection elsewhere?

- What effect does this have on the neutrality of the net in the UK?
searched for the word Pandora and BAM! 10 results saying Twitter is down

You probably meant "10 results saying Pandora is down," but in fact you have characterized my Twitter experience exactly.
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Sorry had to be said :)

Moore's Law still holds. Except we realized that doing what we classically did was not working out. Making CPUs faster causes heat problems and those are getting very problematic (remember when computers only needed a heat sink?) So instead of building a faster car, we just build more lanes on the road, so everyone can move quickly. Remember a 2nd core is almost double the capabilities, we just need software to catch up :P
Add telecommunications companies to universities, hospitals, mercenaries (Halliburton) and banks as private institutions that receive government money and/or monopoly protection in order to avoid both market competition and public oversight. I continue to think that this is the central problem with the U.S. system at this moment in history.
Check code_swarm out (http://code.google.com/p/codeswarm/). It'll give you a quick way of visualizing who changed what in the code base.
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Good point. But why? What evolutionary circumstances pressured our species to select for adaptability?
Judging from the down-votes I guess not. Oh well.
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Why do you think so? What do you suppose will replace it?
To the extent that education is sold as "we're investing in the future of our society", then it seems to me that we'd want to concentrate just as much -- if not more -- on those that will be leaders, captains of industry, etc., as those that we're trying to just keep their heads above water.

Are we building a nation that's prepared to just muddle along, or are we building a nation that, at least at its fore, will continue to excel (while hopefully lifting all boats in the rising tide)?
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This just shows how out of touch the UK govt is. I wonder which Labour sponser lobbied for this. The government assume this is a hardcore minority. I'm not an illegal filesharer, but I sure know a lot people that do. I don't think it's a small minority. Questions...

- How do you define 'illegal fileshare'? Based on the network used? The content of the file?

- How would this be implemented? Would the ISP do the blocking?

- What's to stop the 'criminal' from using a wifi connection elsewhere?

- What effect does this have on the neutrality of the net in the UK?

(Sorry, posted this comment on another thread before seeing this)
All the top websites today were just getting their start five years ago. Therefore, it follows that all of the sites that will dominate five years from now are probably already around in their infancy today. So what are they?

I'm guessing Twitter, Scribd, FourSquare, Justin.tv, and Hulu. I feel like we'll have a new social news site that takes out both Digg and Reddit, but I don't yet know what that is.
Many thanks. The errors were the result of me refactoring the parser's code last week. Just fixed it and deployed.
This is what you get for not having appropriate unit-testing code coverage ;)
I think you mean "effective" and not "defective?"
It almost doesn't seem like a real job, does it? But I have a friend who does internet marketing (mainly through social media and whitehat SEO with minimal ad buys), and about half his pay is commission. As the mainstream comes to see the internet more and more as a participatory social space -- something we nerds have known for years -- that kind of marketing will only become more important.
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In the US many essential services work this way. Taxes pay for fire, police, roads, water, etc. Electricity & telecom are heavily regulated. Originally this started as a way to get coverage in rural areas. The government setup a non-compete franchise wherein a provider would agree to cover rural areas (even at a loss) but their exclusive rights would allow them to recoup costs. That alone wasn't a bad idea -- the US's adoption of electricity, telephone, and cable TV outpaced the rest of the world. This however is where it should have ended. Instead the exclusive coverage agreements mostly continue to this day. In spots where local government has decided to open competition the incumbent providers have such an overwhelming advantage that most smaller providers fail quickly but usually no one bothers trying. It's too capital intensive.
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The iPhone's got Apple's ridiculous attention to detail. It does small things right that are thoughtful beyond any level of attention Google can afford Android, not just because Google's never been capable of matching Apple in design quality but because Apple, unlike Google, controls their hardware.

What that means is that Apple's allowed to get away with certain things. They can create programs reliant on certain hardware features in the iPhone because they know it'll be there on every phone. They can rely on a high-quality multitouch screen, a certain virtual keyboard set-up that works very well, and a particular screen size that never changes.

What that means is developers don't have to hedge bets. They can go all-out with their designs, knowing that what they see designing is going to be what every iPhone user gets. They can create a design perfectly suited to the iPhone's dimensions and processes, ignoring any possibility that that screen size will be any different or that the phone's functionality will be lacking certain features or a certain high quality. So you have a lot of apps that blow Android applications away, because the developers are so free to be wild.

The one that I think about the most is Weightbot, which has a custom UI that mimics a hard steel door, has a single narrow band that scrolls through days/weight, and which, when rotated, "opens" the door at its seams to reveal what's behind it. That's a design that requires the iPhone, because you'd have to be insane to make a narrow band that requires ultrafluid touch controls on an OS where you don't know how good the touch controls on every phone will be. You couldn't possibly design the app to fit the screen so well, to use the law of thirds like it does to position every control pixel-perfect, to have a major feature rely on tilt-control, or even to have that sliding-out graphic, which takes a knowledge of how it will look on the screen.

You could make an application similar to Weightbot on Android. It wouldn't work as well, it wouldn't look as good, and it would have to compromise its elegance to make sure it worked correctly across all phones. You'd spend a lot more time hunting for bugs. You wouldn't have access to the gorgeous interface design that Apple gives developers out-of-the-box to make apps look iPhone-y. You miss out on a lot of elegance, in other words, because unlike iPhone, Android is not designed to be an elegant product.