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As a non-native speaker I often watch BBC series with closed captioning on, (especially nice with series such as Ashes to Ashes, where it also provides information about the music played) so I would really like to know how they will be made available without teletext.
I can't say I found Dan's app all that useful. After trying it out for a while I "benchmarked" writing a text using the iPhone keyboard vs. writing with Dan's app. I found that I wrote slower using the Note Taker app than with the keyboard, and the text I produced with Note Taker was much more unreadable than the one I entered using the keyboard -- even though the keyboard text had some typing errors in it.

The biggest problem with Dan's app for me is that I can only produce a couple of consecutive characters before I have to break my flow. I constantly max out the jotting space and reach the rightmost end of the screen. Continuing to write to the left of the characters I just produced is so very, very unintuitive. I'd rather the characters I've finished writing automatically shift to the left so that my typing area is always in the middle of the screen. This way I wouldn't have to actively look for an empty space to jot my next character.
Instead of dealing with all this complexity, I don't understand why a simpler approach is not used, like having a single interpreter per thread and a very good message passing strategy between interpreters.
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If you take a step back and look at what Facebook is trying to do, it makes sense. They have never been about the advertisers or the users or the developers exclusively: their mission is to attain and represent the social graph which exists in the real world, on their servers. This is why they have both Facebook applications as well as Facebook Connect. Whereas apps brings people in to the site and earns ad revenue, Connect allows users to interact with websites in a socially relevant way without Facebook participating in ad revenue. If framed from an advertising perspective, it would seem that they are hurting themselves by competing with themselves. From a developer point of view, their API can give useful information but does not go far enough. From a user point of view, they want people to feel safe interacting with friends but they also want them to expose more of themselves.

To me, none of these facts make sense until you frame it as measures to make the social graph more pervasive. And it's that pervasiveness, IMO, that will guarantee Facebook's success, because it's too attractive to advertisers, developers, and users for any to truly abandon it.

P.S. Facebook's definitely not in a bad position financially. I'm pretty sure the terms of my NDA (I was an intern there this summer) preclude me from discussing it further, but its finances have been stable for quite some time now.

P.P.S. Article is bullshit, just restrict posts you want to be intimate, that's the idea of Per-Object Privacy. It can improve, to be sure, but that's not the point.
Not only that, but polar bears are seriously migratory. If the ice retreats, they'll just follow the edge of the ice (like they already do.)
Interesting, but somehow I doubt that spraying did the trick. Maybe it was destruction of the habitats. I suppose with spraying you would have to keep spraying, which I think isn't happening? Isn't DDT outlawed now?

Perhaps changes in farming also contribute (are humans the only animals that pass on Malaria, or would cows work, too?).

Also I think if I were a father, I would weigh pros and cons. Mosquitos are bad, toxic chemicals are bad, too. It might vary from situation to situation which one is the greater risk.
Hmmm, no problem in 4.0.249.30, from the recently released linux version on a Debian system.
Exactly - I think the "enormous costs" argument is another fake argument. It's not as if these investments are just sunk, they are used to build infrastructure.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/
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Some famous ones I enjoyed are 'Dr Strangelove', 'WarGames', and 'The Day After'.

I also enjoyed the lesser-known 'Miracle Mile' and 'Matinee (1993)'.

Haven't seen 'On the Beach', but it's an early (1959) well-reviewed film on the topic. Haven't seen 'Thirteen Days', but it covers the Cuban missile crisis -- perhaps the closest the world came to using nuclear weapons after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Not to mention the template mechanism. With my (home made) site generation tool, I changed the whole design of my site by changing exactly 2 files : the template, and the css.
It's not for spam, it's for privacy. Entering your email in a field that says "will not be published", and they generates an avatar, actually party publishes your email address, which is bad for privacy.

Say, you suspect that Alice on stack overflow bad-mouthing software vendor "HAL", claiming impartiality, is really Eve, working for competing software vendor "Moon", you might be able to confirm that by using your knowledge of moon.com e-mail addresses, and checking the hash of eve@moon.com, causing SO to breach the privacy Alice/Eve expected when signing up.
Wow, there are a lot of us! Amsterdam or Utrecht preferred.
When Zynga fails, will Mark Pincus need to go into witness protection while hiding from angry Russians?
I wonder how the rate of covering by snow compares with blown bulbs needing replaced, as both result in the lights not being visible. (Though I'm guessing it's more likely for more than one light to be obscured by snow than to be blown, which might makes things worse (or better?))

In areas where there is little or no snow then this would be an (un?)expected benefit of the change to more efficient lights.
This is complete conjecture, but one of the key reasons may be to cash-out the founders/employees. Companies don't usually cash out their own founders, but investors sure as hell have the right to buy the founder's shares if they want. If they're making so much money but don't have a sale in the near future, the founders might have decided to take a significant stake off the table...
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Just write in the gray box instead of scrolling (per the help doc).
You could already achieve that with OS processes and IPC. The whole point of having multi-threading is to be able to write compact, shared-memory code with minimal use of synchronization operators, and sharing as much code and data as possible.

One interpreter per-thread means all side-effects have to be migrated to the other threads to keep a consistent view of memory: guess what you will need to do that? yep, a global lock (except this time it's across all interpreters, instead of just one.)
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Having seen this sort of story play out many times in the Valley, here is an explanation for the naive:

1. A guy comes up with something brilliant and shows his friends.

2. One of his friends runs off and pitches the idea to another guy, who co-opts it and decides to build a business around it. They figure the original guy had a neat idea, but since "they are the ones doing the hard work of building a business," they don't have to include the original guy in their team; plus, they are concerned he would ask for too much equity/cash.

3. The company is formed, launched, announces the product. The original guy has a "WTF" moment and can't believe his friend would screw him over that way. He reaches out to the company. Meanwhile, the third guy (meaning, the flashy CEO who co-opted the technology from the guy who stole the idea) passes off the idea as his own, brilliant invention. The press is more than happy to comply.

4. The company drags its heels on settling with the original guy. Some of the company's hotshot VCs decide that this is a situation where the guy can be easily paid off, especially since the hotshot CEO will create such a wildly successful venture (with their help, of course -- they too have joined in the creation myth of the company). Meanwhile, the original guy is getting pissed that this idiot CEO is getting all of this press as the "inventor." This bothers him far more than the money.

Now once you reach this point, one of two things happens. Either the company raises money / dilutes shareholders to pay the guy off, or a large savvy competitor buys out the inventor and royally fucks the company's chances of executing. The company will of course scream "patent troll" and people on forums such as this will agree; sometimes the larger competitor will extract a satisfyingly large settlement, but sometimes the ensuing litigation will literally cripple/kill the company.

Personally, I find this whole situation very disappointing. I doubt the press will speak much of this, as they are so desperate for an inside scoop from Jack.
As for the "climategate" part of that uhm, rant, I'd say Ars' commentary provided a more balanced, real-world view on matters: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/11/uk-hack-puts-cli... - to me, like to the Ars editor, the CRU emails (sadly) look like your average internal communication.

Of course, the guy is otherwise right: we'd all be better off if research was done completely in the open. The problem that's holding that back is that the research-world still only rewards authorship; there's no mechanism in place to evaluate the "impact" of the linked data someone puts online.

CERN are in a special position: they have little problems protecting their authorship, because few peers would be able to claim that they too have a LHC in their backyards...
Well, if they got the date wrong then they must have gotten everything wrong.
Interested, Amsterdam/Utrecht is good for me.
If Utrecht is an acceptable place we could do it at iGluu (my shared office)

15 euros each for drinks & location for a couple of hours.

Looks like this:
http://www.igluu.nl/img/slideshowOneSpace/050.jpg

10 min. walk from Utrecht C.S. (train station)
Car: parking available nearby but Utrecht will be Utrecht.

I've got two possible dates: 29th of December, 7th of January. (unfortunately I can't make it myself on the 7th). In both cases the time would be c. 19:00 - 22:00
I'm not sure on the proper way to do this but I guess upvoting your preference would do the trick.

Edit: location, time.
29th of December
7th of January
Beside junk mail and expensive PPC ads, magazine covers and headlines can be great sources of inspiration, depending on what demographic you're targeting.
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Why are real threads so important? Does anyone have an example where threads would be much better than using the multiprocessing module?
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March 2009, presuming the comments followed the creation of that article.
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There's many ways that governments protect their local industries. For instance, the US saved its semiconductor industry (Intel, etc) from doom at the hands of the Japanese, by aggressive tariffs and other trade policies. (Intel cofounder Andy Grove mentioned this in the context of worker's rights. [1]) And that's not mentioning all the subsidies that went into building the US high-tech industry [2], as well as US industry in general [3].

That said, I certainly don't think Apple developers are badly off compared to Apple janitors, or Bay Area fastfood workers. And it's not like countries like Japan and Germany are slouches.

And it's possible that the article on Apple under discussion is false, as some commenters claim.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/2003/10/10/1010grovepinnacor.html
[2] http://books.google.com/books?id=Y75K660UfzsC&pg=PA293&#...
[3] http://www.newamerica.net/events/2008/why_world_isnt_flat
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This is part of a general principle that things with feelgood adjectives in their names usually don't really merit them.
Not sure how accurate it is but I enjoyed Thirteen Days:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146309/

Fog of War also features the subject and is excellent:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/

EDIT: Falcon and the Snowman is also great and it's kind of related so it's worth a mention:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087231/
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That's what I was doing, and that's what I don't like. Continuing to write the word to the left of the part of the word I've already written -- that's not my cup of tea.
Indeed; rumors abound that they have revenue of over $200m this year. I don't think it's crazy to give a 2 year old company with revenue like that a stellar valuation.
Wikipedia doesn't have a disambiguation page for "steak", and I am really guessing you didn't mean a thick juicy cut of loin from premium Australian beef, done medium rare.

If I carried that around, I would be melting the snow.
Blocking operating system calls? This has always been the problem I've run into with green threads.
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Like perl's ithread implementation?

I like perl's ithread setup a lot. You explicitly need to mark data as shared between threads, otherwise all variables/objects are local to the thread. Things like queues, for example, are implemented as shared @arrays with a locking primitive around the manipulations, mostly hidden behind the Queue API (Queue->enqueue and Queue->dequeue).

The interpreter code is still shared among all the threads, but each has thread local storage separate from the shared arena. I've found that explicitly needing to mark data as shared to be a big boon to development, I think it has helped reduce the number of the bugs related to shared state.
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Yep, that's how it's done with most traffic lights in central Europe, e.g. http://www.flickr.com/photos/30626457@N00/4580229/

I've never seen lights with that design obscured by snow, and many are LED based now.
There is a wonderful ruby/rake based static website generator http://webby.rubyforge.org. It offers a choice of templating languages (ERB, Textile, Markdown, HAML, SASS), and doesn't force you to use Liquid.

Jekyll is a spin-off of a server-side application. Safety features of Liquid templates make sense on the server, but for a desktop application using Liquid is completely pointless. In Webby you are free to do whatever you want with ruby using erb or haml.

Another killer feature is ability to write plugins for Webby in a snap. For example, Webby can process LaTeX snippets and generate formula images for your web page. There is even a gnuplot plugin that lets you plot data that you save alongside your document.
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1. Put checkboxes for every type and then combine the chart for selected types. It will be great to compare m1.small for all regions, or most cheap types in us-east-1

2. Put a chart with calculated savings: us-east-1 m1.small cost $10 but currently is trading for $5, so the chart will show you are saving %50, etc.
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Ask HN: CiteSeer purged their document caches?
Nearly every paper I have attempted to read this whole past week had no cached versions, so a good chunk of them had dead links and necessitated further googling, with money gone for good.

I am not sure they're trying to discourage the use of free CiteSeer, since their commercial CiteSeerX doesn't even have those documents. If they deleted their document cache to save space or discourage use, they have committed a crime against research, imo.

Could you please keep your eyes open over the next week, and whenever you happen to be chasing a paper, check to see if the cached-version link is there or not.
The dutch-speaking people (flemish and dutch) are typically fairly good at english so that shouldn't be a problem at all.
I don't get it. Why doesn't Gravatar use a salt to generate the checksum? The salt would only be known to Gravatar and is not bruteforcable by anyone who doesn't know the salt.

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At the risk of being shouted at for recommending my own book, The Geek Atlas. This location is in there, as are two nuclear bunkers (one in the US where Congress would have hidden, and one in the UK where the Prime Minister would have gone). And there are other significant nuclear sites for people who are interested such as the spot where the Trinity Test was performed: http://geekatlas.com/.
I think the GIL is released during most of those, so that should already work with real threads.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but if you run jekyll --server --auto while in development any small change you make gets automatically regenerated and it only regenerates affected files.
With native threads, all your threads have their own identity and they're known to the OS task scheduler. So they can all block or run independently. But with green threads, the OS doesn't know about your "threads"; when the parent process is blocked, so are all the threads.
http://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc = 404 not found, lol.
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Because then the sites would not be able to generate the hash themselves.
interested :)
Are you saying putting a child at risk of life threatening disease to save the mosquitos is acting morally responsible?
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Looks like an awesome possibility. Presumably at least one SE is using domain name as the primary key for sites in its index - so can you really just point your domain at someone else's site and steal their content until your PR improves then flip the site? Presumably fails with duplicate content checks.
You tell me! I have an instrumentation class that's 1h30 a week, and yet we regularly finish 20 to 30mins early. And almost every week I'll have at least one class that get cancelled for no specific reason - and there's no extra class to compensate or anything, it's just gone. Then again, I have a teacher who always ends 10 mins late because his class is before the lunch time.

This is supposed to be one of the top universities in Japan. Undergrad courses here are very hit or miss...
As someone that uses Facebook on a daily basis I can definitely agree with you on that one. In reality users haven't lost a lot of privacy and most users are moaning over nothing. To me this is a good move as a lot of people seem to be moving over to Twitter because it allows them to be more vocal and social. Everyone I know (that'd be two people) that isn't happy with these new changes has just changed their profile back.
When was the last time our scientists fully understood anything as broad as climate change or "OUR ONLY ecosystem"?

When mankind started to change the world through agriculture, deforestation and industrialisation, that's when we started to play russian roulette if you find that analogy useful.

We didn't know what it would do to our ecosystems but we did it because life back then was horrible and because we could. One bad crop and people were starting to die from starvation. Life is better now so we were right to take that risk.

It makes no sense to be alarmist about this basic disposition of mankind to take risks it doesn't fully understand.
The whole point of the "Smart message passing" strategy is to move objects from one thread to another one very fast (that is, zero-copy), and with very local locking requirements.
Interested! Live in Utrecht but could travel to Amsterdam easily. Would be nice to have 1 or 2 presentations I think, as it spices up the evening.
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Interested and in Antwerp, but most cities in Holland won't be a problem.
Santa Claus is a useful lesson for kids. They learn not to blindly trust authorities, and to think critically about things that are too good to be true.

I remember when my sister discovered there was no Santa Claus. Literally seconds later, she asked "wait, does that mean there's no God either?" My mom was shocked. Funny how that works.
A simple solution would be to assign each website its own unique ID, the based on that UID assign a private/secure salt only known to the website + gravatar. Then when the websites generate hashes, they can then append the salt and generate the hash. Simple solution and seemingly easy to implement..though, it`s probably not. (I suggest this in the event that it really is a big issue. However, I am of the opinion that it`s not)
> more than timf's flash-based ones.

Clarification: I only submitted this link, found the announcement via twitter:

http://twitter.com/tlossen/status/6708121340
Is Ninh Bui going to start singing 'Born to Be Alive' next too?
The emails showed that a group of very influencial scientists were going to great lengths to prevent critical review and access to data.

I am unable to judge the impact of that kind of obstruction on their actual scientific argument. It could well be that the significance of the so called climategate is way overblown.

But it's definately not confidence inspiring behaviour by scientists who have so much to gain from a global warming panic.
This is how Tcl works.
If you restricted shared memory to objects explicitly declared as shared, you wouldn't need a GIL. You'd simply need per-object locks.

For scientific computing purposes, you can often accomplish this with multiple processes and a numpy array allocated by shmget/shmat. But I'm not sure how to share complex objects in this way.
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If only more kids were as astute :)

Santa Claus often serves as an entry-level fairytale, a kind of prep for what will be believed later in life.
Rewards for decent behaviour? What's holding 'that back' is an evident paucity of scientists (in this small area anyway) with integrity and a desire to discover the truth, come what may and irrespective of the views of their paymasters, relating to their speciality.

You ask for a mechanism to 'evaluate "impact" of linked data someone puts online'. I'm intrigued. What on earth do you have in mind? How would it work? On the face of it (I trust I've got this about face) it sounds an appalling idea. A load of value judgements delivered by whom?
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Yet another interested! Originally from Sweden, but living in Groningen. But location of the meet-up should not be a problem. :)
Yes, probably Tcl lacks some zero copy object passing mechanism IIRC.
I don't like that they're calling it a "shot". It is a picture, but it's no photograph. All those "gorgeous" colors and structures are added by computers shifting frequencies we can't see into visible range colors.
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For flash devs who don't want to put in the time to put their app on the app store, but want to see if they could make some money with their app, this seems like a perfect approach.
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