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Hi, I wrote ikiwiki.

I'm glad to see some (more) competition; generating a static wiki out of markdown files kept in an arbitrary VCS seemed like such an obvious Right Thing that I was amazed nobody had quite done it before when I started in 2006. So it's good to see this and other projects like gitit explore the space some more.

The setup procedure you linked to uses a VCS because most people want to, but ikiwiki is VCS agnostic right down to running w/o one, and can be used in quite light-weight, simple ways. (Ie: Make a directory; put an index.mdwn in it; run `ikiwiki src public_html`to build and publish; done.)

I'm curious: Does markdoc really require its own built-in http server? Or was that included only to ease basic setup? And does it support editing pages via the web? Does its caching allow it to do incremental builds of only changed files, or is the whole wiki re-rendered each time it is built?
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>The signal-to-noise ratio in the app store is way too high (low?).

Think of it like a fraction. Signal/noise. Signal divided by noise. I assume you were saying it was a low fraction. :)

Good post, by the way, I hope Apple steals your idea.
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I can attest to that. We walked down the "One MVC" stack idea which simply doesn't work if an application has various modalities like Email, SMS, and Twitter. It turns out Rails view/controller stack is awesome for web applications, but only web applications.

For different modalities, like Email, SMS, or Twitter interactions, do NOT attempt to hack it into rails; rather, reuse the models defined in a Rails project and implement or use a different view/controller stack better suited for those environments.
That doesn't appear to be the case in general. According to the link I posted (which gets it's data from the American Time User Survey), even young teachers tend to work less than 40 hours. Note that this survey asks the question "how many hours did you spend working yesterday, how many hours sleeping, etc", not "how much time were you paid for yesterday".

The study does however suggest that teachers do show up early and work at home more than other professionals.

Regarding total working hours, I'm guessing the teachers you know are either highly atypical or else they have unrealistic ideas about how much they really work.
working in stealth mode on the next-generation of OLTP DBMS

That surely does not count as existing today.
I think he means orthogonal here in the sense of complementary. SPDY + resource packages may be faster than either individually.
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I can't tell if this is a joke or not. :-) She was more concerned that the mailto: link wouldn't work on other people's computers, and wanted me to fix it so that it would.

I replaced the mailto with a contact form.
Seems like a better idea would be to just have the server aggressively shove resources down the wire much like standard HTTP pipelining, except where the server doesn't wait for the client to request them. Have the client send a flag up saying it's willing to accept this in the initial request. You get much the same effect, only without adding ZIP files to the mix.

You also get the ability to have proper headers on each element; this solves every "Additional Note" they mention. Some obvious extensions involve things like sending up all the E-Tags the client knows about in the first request. I think it's a lot simpler than their approach and retains more of HTTP. Yeah, it's slightly less bandwidth efficient (though to make the difference large you need pathological examples), but I think it's worth it.
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As I understand it, you can hook up specific credit cards and addresses to different phrases. I use it to say "business visa" or "bankcard" for quick check-outs.
And if everybody follows your strategy, approval bogs down even more as submissions explode.

I don't blame you. That's a perfectly rational response and everybody should follow your strategy if they know what's good for them. It's Apple's fault for creating the incentive structure wherein that's the locally-optimal strategy.
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It's may be more correct to say that Malcolm Gladwell does ghostwriting for the scientists he interviews.
Nice! It sure does sound like a nice app. Congrats. BTW: Does the iPhone app syncs using mobileme (or at least automagically) or do we have to manually open both apps and sync (Things-like syncing)?
Amazon Payphrase is thoroughly confusing. I still don't understand how it's supposed to make life easier; several of the comments here indicate that I'm not alone. It isn't explained very clearly.
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what do you mean "for some reason" -- it's my favorite app!
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FPGAs (as the name implies) work at the gate level, not the transistor level.
This is an instance of poisoning the well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well
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Yes, the irony of this situation is not lost on me. :-)
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Some risk is good but too much risk is just plain stupid. You have to gauge the situation and make a calculated guess. Take software development for example. Going dark (i.e. without customer feedback see http://www.dynamicalsoftware.com/news/?p=61 ) risks your application's relevance but it is necessary or you will never get any coding done.
Even if you find some passionate users, they will be a tiny minority against the sea of ambivalent geese. Getting the passionate ones on your side is a good move, but if you have to choose between the passionate ones and getting more of the flock through the pay gate, the latter is frequently a good choice. It depends, of course; you can't ignore your passionate ones either or they will passionately turn against you, but some balance is called for. And in fact the article warns you, though not in these exact terms, against letting that one passionate customer turn you into their personal consulting service while the rest of your customers get left in the lurch. It's not necessarily wrong, but it is dangerous.
Yes, it's been done. I think the tone of the paper is a bit misleading.

http://www.oracle.com/database/timesten.html
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/soliddb/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnesia
How many hours do you spend trolling 4-chan per day/week on average?
As 4-chan is a core web demographic group that exhibits a lot of diverse creativity many people use it for inspiration. How does 4-chan inspire your work?
Ask HN - where can I get movie data for a movie review website?
I'm almost done building a movie review website, the only thing is I'm not sure how I could populate it with movie data.

Do you have good suggestions? Does anyone know where sites like imdb, cinema clock, http://www.themovieinsider.com get their data from?

Thanks a lot!
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Irk, I've found that freelancers have the exact same problem. The better deal you offer someone, the more demanding they get and the more they are convinced that you're ripping them off.
The early release program has already started and the product is in use.
The part I like about Bezos most is his uncompromising dedication to doing what's best for the customer, no matter what. There was this story when book publishers got angry at him for publishing all book reviews - good and bad. "Jeff, in this business you make money when you sell books", they told him. He insisted on publishing reviews because it was right for the customers and as we know now it was the right thing. This is really the only thing I need to know about Jeff Bezos. A true role model.
>> Do such systems really not exist today?

ext2?
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This is a very good, very pragmatic idea.
Sad to hear this. On a morbid note, the Computer History Museum will likely be getting a hell of an equipment donation from him upon his inevitable death. Allen is, evidently, a ravenous computer collector. Also, his boat was just moored in Alameda for a complete overhaul.
I once heard a rumor of a government system with a petabyte of RAM.
Thank you for the recommendations! I didn't know about the Cputech product.

Your intuition was right, they are too expensive for me. So, I should clarify: I am happy with using current-generation smart-card chips, but I would like to use them directly. The folks who wrote the JavaCard VM must have used some SDK... I want that SDK, so I can write my own OS.

Thanks!
wow lee's kickin' it old-school with:

<table width="600">

that's interesting to note that not having a snazzy CSS is a mark of street cred, since presumably the author cared more about content than making it look showy :)
> HTML parsers are only an appropriate solution if the HTML is valid, well structured and mostly semantic.

Tell that to all the people using BeautifulSoup and hpricot.
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I dont think you'll get too many people for this one. 4chan is a productive vacuum. I'm sure people spend way too much time here on HN at the least.
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0? I typed out a reply, but realized that it just reduces to the simple fact that 4chan is the collected ravings of thousands of people who use the anonymity they are given to act like idiots. Hopefully, it is not how they behave themselves in real life; regardless, it's useless to use their "work" for inspiration of anything remotely to do with real life.
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In the words of courage wolf "You call it cancer. I call it a challenge"

I hope Allen beats the disease.
I took a class from him at MIT (9.00). He is a very, very smart person.
This seems like a fairly gratuitous workaround for IIS not properly supporting HTTP pipelining.

But, bonus irony points for using .zip to implement it. (.rar would be even more ironlicious.)
link needs an "l" on the end: http://www.optimizeandprophesize.com/jonathan_mendezs_blog/2...
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The advancement of globalization will usher in a need for a one world government or entities that global( financial regulators, IMF, UN). Basically some of the global entities we have now but with more power.

Globalization must happen or the consequences are dire. Ask Peter Thiel he'll explain this all to you.
Um, don't you lose durability (or at least transactional semantics) if you do that? Are we just assuming that replication is sufficient and not all the in-memory copies of the data will die at once?
Did you look @ didiwiki http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DidiWiki

It also uses markdown syntax and the code is VERY nicely written C. It's not a lot of code and pretty straightforward.
malcolm owned that biatch.
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Here's the original New Yorker article:

http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_04_29_a_blowingup.htm
You sound like one of those people who used to argue that you just want you mobile phone make calls and that putting cameras and software into them was pointless cause you could just carry camera an PDA everywhere.

Personally I see the TV as just another monitor which may or may not also contain a general purpose operating system.

The difference is with a really big monitor is that you can share what you are looking at with other people in the room , some of whom may not have a laptop glued to their legs. So for example you can do stuff like taking turns at selecting your favourite youtube videos.
imdb has an open database not sure what the usage criteria is: http://www.imdb.com/interfaces#plain
No fresh veggies? Facebook scams? Smells fishy.
i'd rather play golf than a board game.
Can't wait for the 8088 schematics, now that was a groundbreaking CPU!
As a musician, I hope they go bankrupt as soon as possible :)
I'm glad you didn't act on your resentments. It's healthier to move on.

I've got mixed feelings about the legitimacy of someone collecting unemployment while attempting a bootstrap. For the startup-minded, trying to get a project to self-sufficiency is in a way "searching for a job". I'm not sure either they or the public treasury would be better served by them aggressively seeking a W-2 job, even though that may be the ostensible requirement of the unemployment compensation program.

(Unless the abuse is really blatant -- drawing a consistent documented salary-like payment -- I also doubt most state bureaucracies would or could do anything to cut off payments.)
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The article contains a single anecdote about someone not looking for work due to unemployment benefits. How does it follow from this that such benefits are extending the recession?

Is the author saying that unemployment benefits keep consumer spending down? If the person's take home pay is about the same, as the article suggests, this should not be an issue.

Maybe the author is suggesting that unemployment benefits create a shortage of labor by discouraging workforce participation? This would be an even harder argument to make given the continued layoffs across all sectors of the economy.
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Would it not be possible to take these netlists and map them to gates? It seems like at least the majority should be possible to automate.
This is definitely interesting, but I'd love to see other .NET framework implementations open sourced as well. The micro framework is the only one I know of that doesn't JIT the code, but rather interprets CIL directly, and it also uses a simple mark-and-sweep GC.

Since footprint is the main constraint here, it'd be nice to see an optimizing CIL compiler combined with this to produce native images. You could cut a whole lot of code out of the runtime by doing so, while increasing performance by a huge amount.
The article mentions updating a warehousing software by updating individual copies and making these interoperate with the older copies, so the system can be progressively updated. It also talks about machines that would run without ever being stopped or rebooted. Yet there is no mention of Erlang or updating an application while it's running, which I find rather surprising.
focus on getting more and more people on facebook. The value of the social network will increase the more people are on it.

Facebook should pursue a strategy similar to operating system companies and focus on becoming the market standard. Facebook should focus on becoming the standardized social media platform on the internet.

Also another ultimate goal is to focus on making facebook the new desktop. So when a person first turns on his computer, he opens browser and then facebook. And all internet interactions are done through facebook. watching and discovering content, ecommerce, social interaction should all be done through the facebook platform.
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An earlier Google proposal for faster page-loading -- still active in Toolbar for IE AFAIK -- was "Shared Dictionary Compression over HTTP" (SDCH):

http://sdch.googlegroups.com/web/Shared_Dictionary_Compressi...

http://groups.google.com/group/SDCH

In some ways a custom-dictionary-per-page-group would be a lot like a resource-package-per-page-group.
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The <link> could include a secure hash of the package contents -- so that it could be loaded from a less-reliable or less-trusted channel than the referencing page. (For example, small page from uncacheable HTTPS, bulk package from edge-cacheable HTTP or P2P.)
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Not to be pessimistic here, but I'm sure some members of the free software community will find something bad in this again and will make this just yet another reason to explain why using Mono will kill Linux.

In fact, I'd be willing to bet on that.

boycott novel? where are you if I need you to win a bet?
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> The advancement of globalization will usher in a need for a one world government or entities that global

"need"?

What makes you think that they'll get it right?

After all, they're the same folks who said that banks should load up on AAA securities that turned out to be significantly more risky than anyone thought. They're the folks who basically required US banks to own stock in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. When that stock tanked, those banks didn't have sufficient capital.
So they are faking it? I don't completely understand what this is about? Who is GrubHub?
Ask HN: Better deals - ruder customers?
This question was triggered by something http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=david wrote: "The better deal you offer someone, the more demanding they get and the more they are convinced that you're ripping them off." I keep reading and hearing this.

It might be
a) the result of some cognitive bias, i.e. not quite true, or
b) the result of your feeling undervalued and underpaid, which in turn makes you more likely to perceive what is actually an usual amount of problems as unusually annoying, or
c) true, which raises the question, why?
When you fill gaps in your understanding with imagination, the result is that these 'relevant, insightful' ways are in fact made up. They are powerful in the way of teaching the public even more crap. One cannot possibly understand what eigenvalues are about if one doesn't know how to write the word. One may however think he understands what they are about, because one has filled in the gaps with imagination, and get it published, because reviewers think the author understands his stuff. In exactly the same way, all kinds of people, from complete crackpots to usually reasonable journalists, publish all kinds of crap because they think they understand quantum mechanics.

QM, interestingly, relies heavily on those eigenvalues.
It would have to be not just decentralized - but federated in the same way that, say, email is. User is identified as user@facebook.com, or so forth, and other social networks could add said user as a connection to someone on their network (and vice versa) via an API.

Could wave/xmmp be used as an underlying protocol for this?
Not at all true. Lots of people click, hold and move the mouse as they read. Especially on laptops.

I, for one, hate that scrolling is achieved by moving my finger to the right of my touch pad and therefore tend to scroll by clicking on the window and using the up and down keys. (Overall, I love the mac method of using two fingers to scroll).

Edit: Made more clear.
OMG, can't believe their progress bar is just a bling-bling.
Mono won't kill Linux. It just doesn't really matter, that's all. There are equivalent (or better) tools available in the open-source world.

The problem with this announcement (here I go with the problem :) is it doesn't really tell us whether there is a long-term commitment behind it. Only time will tell. This can be a case of "look at Google getting all the love with an open-source mobile platform, let's give these geeks some code".

Code just isn't everything. If MS wants to encourage adoption of their open-source framework, they have to put someone in charge of it, and have that someone talk to the community. Think Guido and Python. The article does mention assigning people to do this job. Let's see how well they do. One press release does not a development platform make.
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Sorta forgot about this thread, but hopefully ou see this.

K is super-great at vector operations; element-wise addition between two lists of equal length, for example; more powerfully, mapping lists to functions.

The DB stuff we were doing were columnar databases, so it was incredibly fast at doing data analysis and correlations. Not so fast at adding single rows, but if you wanted to take a list of transactions and compare things day-over-day, or do sophisticated statistical operations, you simply had to write a line or two, and watch it take multiple million-element lists and give you an answer in milliseconds. I'm still pretty convinced it was voodoo magic.

When I used it, there was a pretty hefty license fee, but there's a trial version which limits the amount of memory it will use, but can still do quite a bit to give you a sense of the speed (as long as you're doing it right). Remember, no stinkin' loops!
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Sailer's opinion of blacks has nothing to do with the discussion. However, that information, along with the claim that Pinker is an "IQ fundamentalist" is enough to lead readers unfamiliar with Pinker to suspect that he is racist and dismiss his arguments without further inspection.

That is exactly what ad-hominem is about.
Xmpp is federated like email: you have a unique identifier like your email address, belonging to the same domain as your xmpp provider. It is callled JabberID or jid and it (almost) looks like an email address and in case of gtalk, it is your gmail address.

So the answer is yes, xmpp (or wave as an extension of it) technically can be used for IM federation, because that's one of the goal of it. But I think the big social networks like to keep their users inside their walled gardens, and rather not let them communicate with users of other networks. Let's hope this will change.
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Well, I can't phreak my phone anymore. I can't finetune my Toyota Prius. I can't switch video cards in my laptop. I can't freeride on a tram hook anymore. Or if I can, it's much more difficult and/or dangerous than it used to be.

That's technological progress for you. Deal with it.
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Like you, I'm concerned for the future of Cappuccino. I realize that 280 North has to make rent somehow, but dividing the platform into a free software component and a commercial proprietary component necessarily gives them incentive to focus on the proprietary component more. This is the sort of thing that can prevent the platform from ever gaining critical mass among developers.
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Sort of. Given a continuum of reliability needs, options for variably controlling the window of data loss are welcome.

The bottom line is solid-state components are very reliable. Across hundreds of systems, I see uptimes in years. If I can dial that data loss potential in a robust way, I'll take the 5 nines of 100x write capability.