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The problem with that assumption is that everyone already knew that consoles were being sold below cost and the scalpers knew they were in high demand.

In the example you just pointed out, Sony just lost market share from that because the scalpers took those consoles away from legitimate gamers who may have even switched to the wii or xbox.

And since we all know that the profit is mostly from the games, not the console, this was a lose/lose situation for Sony, the consumer, and in this case, the scalper.
This has been posted and killed once already: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=972583
Definitely gamers, but aren't they a pretty small minority these days? (PC gamers).
> You'll be thrilled (lol) to know that the lambda-tuple syntax isn't in python 3

Now you know why many people like me are gradually pissed off by Python and start the exile ... currently trying Scala and it seems a nice language (with list comprehension too! :)

> List comprehensions look like set notation but have an implicit procedural translation you have to keep in mind to use them well, so it's a toss-up.

Actually I think that's the problem I have with list comprehensions: I use them a lot in my code, usually 1~3 levels nested and then have a hard time tracking down the order of implicit loops (which is inner vs outer) and make sure the intermediate variables (x for x in y for y in z ...) do not clash ... OK maybe I'm using it too much and in the wrong way :(

> I prefer map/filter/reduce when sequencing has large performance implications but for simple filtering or raw-data-shaping comprehensions read more smoothly.

I didn't know map/filter is faster than list comprehensions? I thought both are optimized by Python interpreter. But I like the idea of knowing that at least map can be parallelized easily. But since Python does not utilize multicore in a decent way, all bets are off :(
Tilera's chip isn't really comparable though: it's really just a big DSP, with an extremely limited memory access model more reminiscent of the Cell SPUs than an ordinary CPU. This, combined with a custom instruction set and the lack of decent caches and vector units let you get away with many more cores on much less silicon using much less power--albeit at a clear cost.
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> It's tiring fighting against a community and a (benevolent) dictator that disagree with you.

That summarizes the problem I guess :D
There should be something that can be added to each user's icon that indicates their hire-ability. Perhaps only for users above a certain reputation.
Good to know that most ideas didn't have a real look :
"In most cases, I simply deleted each release and went on with my work."
I was just asking myself why we are still locked with petrol engines...
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People keep saying this but I don't think it's true. If your computing begins and ends inside a browser window then I suppose you don't need much. But for a lot of people processing power still matters. It matters how fast I can compile and run unit tests, it matters how well I can play games, it matters how quickly I can trans-code video, it matters how long it takes to process a filter on a large 300dpi image in photoshop.

And too there is the other side of the browser, all those sites running applications chewing through CPU cycles (facebook, gmail, twitter, amazon, even hacker news). The prospect that 5 or 10 years from now we'll be able to cram the computing power of an entire rack (say 1TB ram, 100 cores) into a single 1U pizza box server at a reasonable price has a lot of geeks salivating, including me.

Don't mistake the average case with every case.
Hmm, I read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean

And I guess I made an assumption about the situation you described. If the students were all answering in identical random ways, then you'd see what I describe. I think this part of the wikipedia article describes it well:

"Consider a simple example: a class of students takes a 100-item true/false test on a subject. Suppose that all students choose randomly on all questions. Then, each student’s score would be a realization of one of a set of i.i.d. random variables, with a mean of 50. Naturally, some students will score substantially above 50 and some substantially below 50 just by chance. If one takes only the top scoring 10% of the students and gives them a second test on which they again guess on all items, the mean score would again be expected to be close to 50. Thus the mean of these students would “regress” all the way back to the mean of all students who took the original test. No matter what a student scores on the original test, the best prediction of their score on second test is 50."

So, to your question, why is time important? Its important in the sense that you need the first test to determine who your "high flyers" are for the second experiment.
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Like many of us, I read the recent article along the lines of You're a Small Business, Now Act Like One. I've been hiring a lot lately so here's how I think that parlays into applying for a job.

You're a job candidate yes, but you're an interesting person with tastes and opinions, so act like one. Don't be overly formal in dress or manner, be ready to ask the interviewer tough questions of your own, and indicate that you are not your average candidate. The candidates I like best are the ones who act like they are sitting on the stool next to you at the bar, and keep it friendly and open rather than playing into the interviewer-interviewee roles.

I think aaron swartz summed it up pretty well too: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hiring
This is fantastic. I guess I agree that most people don't need the latest and greatest processor - just like a car. But the faster you can run a simulation or compile code the better. It's not always just about web browsing and games on a pc.
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* compiling unit tests
* PC games
* transcode video
* photoshopping

These are exceptions IMHO. I don't think the average user does any of the above.

Of course some will still want beefy CPU power, but I think it'll end up as a niche.
And so EC2 repents for another one of their design mistakes... finally fixing the problem that storage isn't persistent. Maybe we can look forward to EC2 one day becoming a standard Virtual Private Server environment!
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It's pretty steady I think. Everytime new consoles are released there's talk about the death of PC gaming but after a couple of years the PC catches up again.

Not to mention the console release cycles are getting longer and one of the biggest past problems with PC gaming (patching games) is largely solved by Steam, Impulse, etc.
He mentions going away to stay at a hotel for a week doing research (only leaving to get diet coke). That sounds pretty cool, does anyone have more information about that?

I remember reading a similar thing about Bill Gates checking into a hotel and disconnecting the phone for a couple of days to finish MS DOS before the IBM deadline or something like that. Are hotels the dirty little secret to hacker greatness?

Also, what was the 'trinity' game he was working on at that time? I have never heard of it.
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Thanks for the picture. I think I saw one in Poland as well. So that's what those are for !

Also, an obvious hack to monitor this "close-circuit" system: just attach a satellite transmitter to the output of a receiver.

Even cheaper: make a web radio out of one of these. Wait, you need internet access to do that...
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how would brackets be dangerous? just because the author of noscript thinks they are, doesn't make them so. he's definitely not infallible.
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Somehow uses IDN TLD to eschew the TLD altogether. Let the landgrab begin!
Safer communities together.

Asking for a tour is always good(Not just the spot where you'll be working). You can pick up a lot of things from looking around. Coffee quality and the state of the server room are two particularly important areas to look at.

Comparing where any execs are working to where the devs are working is also pretty useful for getting a pretty good idea of how power relations work.
This is hardly a new business strategy. Pandering to the lowest common denominator is the m.o. of a large portion of Hollywood. Tabloids have been in print practically since print was invented. Variations of the same complaints have been made about every medium. Those iterations didn't kill substantial works, and neither will this one.
I thought this has something to do with the supernatural.
The book Masters of Doom gives more information. It's a good read about the early days of id and the gaming industry in general.

Carmack would go on 'research getaways' to hack on the Quake 3 engine. He did this because, at the time, the id office was not conducive to his work style. "Trinity" was the codename for the Quake 3 engine.
I do lots of hiring for technical positions (marketing and other business-y tasks) but I couldn't agree more with these two points, and I think they are relevant no matter what job you are applying for. They really make a HUGE difference in whether or not I pay attention enough to remember you, which in turn is probably the biggest factor in how likely I am to hire you.

- Any effort you make to show interest in the company goes a long way. Use the software, come prepared to talk about what you did/didn't like, and have questions for me. Are you interested in working here? Then you should be full of questions!

- Work on cool stuff. This is the #1 differentiator (and it's all about differentiation). If you have 3 links to something really neat you worked on in the last 3 years, that places you well above most other candidates -- it shows that you love what you do.
No, it is the TLD (for Tonga). Somehow they hawked out their TLD A-record.

(edit: turns out it's actually run by the ISP who operates the .to TLD)
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Wait. Why not? Why the winky face? I'm confused by your statement.
1% could be too high and 5% too low. I have always operated under the assumption that to pay someone fair value is important. So if someone is coming on board and taking risk, that risk needs to be compensated. Usually we have brought people in at below market wages and made up the difference in the form of options which get them "whole" on total comp. (However, we do make sure there is a vesting schedule which is appropriate to the circumstances). Valuing each of the pieces can be easy if you already have a round out there and can model the options. Any skilled financial profesional can help on this, if internal resources are insufficient to do so.

I should note, we are never addicted to outside money. We try to bootstap as much as possible and plan always to make it without taking in funds which may prove costly or hard to get. In other words, we always try to manage our cash carefully and not take VC or angel fund unless absolutely necessary.
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True that. They've simplified communication for their demographic immensely. I talk to people more on Facebook than I'd be able to in actual conversation, because it's such a nonlinear process.
yeah, got root level on the tld .. how did they manage that..
Oh, no wonder its so ingenious
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I think Tilera's cores are closer to MIPS than to DSPs. It's CPU-ish enough to run Linux and a LAMP stack. That's enough for most of us.
I deleted my Facebook account just a few weeks ago, along with my Google account. I don't like feeling dependence.

My Google account is still gone — turns out it wasn't giving me much value besides the email, and I hated my Gmail name so not much loss there. But I restored Facebook within 24 hours. I have too many people that I can't talk to in any other way. While I enjoyed the freedom, I enjoyed the friends much more.

So I restored my account, but deleted every friend I thought to be nonessential. I wound up with nine friends, each of whom I'm constantly in some state of conversation with. So I can't waste time as easily — I don't write notes as much, I'm rarely tagged in photos by them — but I'm still able to use it to talk.

That's what I love about Facebook's design. It's granular. You can choose to barely use it at all and it still gives you some value.
Seems to require a dot in the URL:

This: http://to./z0ba1

Not this: http://to/z0ba1
Chrome doesn't really like the URLs, and Twitter doesn't see them either. Awesome, though.
Depends on your DNS. Works for some without.
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http://www.google.com/intl/en/ is still non-bloated.

If they are going to ruin that page too, Bing will suddenly become more attractive.
The customer who wants to be among the first to get the console but doesn't want to wait in line is also a winner.

You have to think of the value people assign to their time. The console flipper simply converts the price of the console from ($300 + 10 hours) to ($500). Think of it as the ultimate owner hiring the person to wait in line for $20/hr.
I am sure games will have a good use for that much cores...

As for browsing, may with 48 cores at their disposal, Adobe can finally speed up Flash on Linux...

Boom badoom tsss
I'm pretty sure their memory access model permanently disqualifies their chips from being "normal CPUs".

You can run Linux on a TI OMAP DSP too.
It all depends on the class and the context of the college.

I Facebook in a few of my classes. Sometimes it's because we're going over something I learned when I was younger. (I know how to use Final Cut, for instance, even if I'm completely clueless about sound/lighting setups on a movie set, so despite one class's being productive there're interludes where I don't need to focus as much.

I have other classes, however, where a good part of the focus seems to be on socializing. My entire major is devoted to entrepreneurialism; a huge part of the major is meeting other people and getting ideas going. So classes often have a relaxed environment in which people are encouraged to talk to one another. Facebook's useful there, also. I personally find it much easier to judge people and their ideas online; in person everybody seems beautiful and brilliant.

A huge part of what you get when you pay for college is access to all those people. Classes are valuable on one level specifically because they put you in a defined context with a slew of other people. I'm a people person, but I hate randomly going up to people, and I don't like talking to people without there being a reason for us to talk. Classes connect me to people, which is just as valuable service as the things I learn.

I'll also add that in the group I'm working with right now to launch things, all the communication's handled entirely over Facebook. We tried Backpack and Skype and Google Wave, and none of them could handle the conversation as well as informally talking to one another on Facebook did.
works fine in chrome for Linux...
They'll have to lower their prices a bit first!
It's a DNS rather than a browser issue, I think
Man! How hard do you have to pretzel yourself to refer to the iPhone as a flop? So they didn't make as much money on the first one as they did with later models, so what? They were completely changing all the rules, so it's not much wonder that it took a couple of iterations to zero in on the best revenue model.

And you didn't address the real point of my comment at all: it's bad to call a Facebook game "stupid," but it's fine to call iPhone users "people who have wet dreams about Steve Jobs."

You are blinding yourself to why Apple is successful, which is costing you.
Can someone give me a quick introduction on how this was done?
I think they intentionally did that to make science appealing and interesting to people who otherwise couldn't care less. I think they did a good job with that article.

I like that. We need more people to be interested in science and less on reality TV and celebrities.
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A-record by the ISP that runs the .to TLD.
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The number of people on earth taking a dump every day is also bigger than the number of users of Twitter.
It definitely depends on what you're doing and how your interface is set up. If you're editing text in a non-monospace font at a non-super-high font size, and you want to insert between (say) two lowercase L characters, you need some fairly precision mousework, and that takes time.

And it will almost certainly always be easier to do actually complex operations via text (especially if you might be repeating them or slightly modifying them). Just yesterday I was generating a PDF packet with pdftk, and had a command line of the form "pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf blank.pdf file3.pdf cat output outfile.pdf" that I kept having to re-run (because I'd modified file2.pdf) or tweak (because I added file4.pdf). It's possible that the first pdftk would have been quicker in a GUI---though I'm not convinced---but in the aggregate there's no way a series of GUI ops would have been faster. And I'm not even sure how I'd accomplish something like "mv *.jpg jpg_subdir/" in something like Finder without a lot of manual finding and clicking and dragging and making mistakes.
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I am so glad this didn't exist when I was taking calculus. I would have never learned anything :)
I don't see it as a common desktop chip in the near future, but for heavy web loads, it seems quite adequate.

Think of what happens when a thousand kids click "send" on their twitter pages at roughly the same time. This seems to be a good processor for that scenario.
I'm a Spotify user. If MOG is like the first, once you try it, you realize how disruptive this concept is. I'm an audiophile, and Spotify was big news to me since the 1st minute using it.

A service like Spotify has the potential to reduce piracy dramatically in the middle term, way more than iTunes. Maybe end with it.
Thx, got confused by the dot after "to" for a second.
The dns works. But the browser doesn't. Without the trailing dot the browser looks up the .com address.

With the dot it works, but then the browser fixes up the url, and removes the dot - so all subsequent requests don't work.

(This is for me, using firefox on linux.)
There is no camp. They are partnering with MS Athens for incubator space, but they do not require you to be at any specific physical location. Interviews occur in Athens or over videoconferencing. The startups they funded are based all over the place (one in Russia, one in Glasgow, two in Greece).
I absolutely agree about today's mainstream usages.

A future app that's very popular and needs the power would change that. It's the kind of thing that is likely to happen as clever people play with that extra power (consider PARC research labs).
I'm quite confused by the technology behind this. I tried searching for "leather wallet," and it said that the term is being established, and currently has no results (while wallet gave me quite a few). Does this mean that you only index pictures after someone typed in the term?

I like the front end, but it seems like the search engine needs some work to find useful pictures.
1- Periods (.) don't do anything after a domain (ie www.weebly.com.), but they are useful for preventing the browsers from redirecting to http://www.to.com/

2- The real domain we're looking at: "to" -- no "suffix" attached (TLD: top-level domain)

3- The .to registry added an A-record for the "to" domain, which resolves correctly.

[Edit: Looks like .cm does this too:

;; ANSWER SECTION:

cm.	86400	IN	A	195.24.205.60]
wasn't this what helped contribute to the collapse? money loses its value and meaning and just becomes a number of figures and competing algorithms. just seems so pointless to me.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=974089 has a direct link to the news at http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/12/new-amazon-ec2-feature-bo... .
Very interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing the details with us.
seems safari users are struggling without the . as well .. probably a webkit issue then

edited for spelling mistake
This reminds me of the waste incinerator in Vienna, Austria [1]. The heat from that is also used for domestic heating.

[1] German wikipedia article only, sorry, but with photo: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Müllverbrennungsanlage_Spittela...
Voltaire would have been referring to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Company and John Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Law_%28economist%29

Read about it last night. The first stock market bubble. Far out... one Ken Layesque figure named John Law took over the entire French economy with his pyramid scheme, giving France its first paper money, for a while.
Funny, it's working under my current configuration with Firefox but not with Opera and Chrome translates it in a Google search.

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It's so short that hacker news doesn't even show the domain in the heading :-)
Steve Yegge, too:

"I've often idly wondered what the ideal innovation environment is. I know it's not at home -- staying up all night just to get some free time for innovation doesn't scale well when you have a family and a day job. Home has its share of distractions. And I know it's not in the office, at least not the space we're in today.

Every time I let my thoughts wander on this subject, the same vision comes to mind. I'm sitting in a comfortable armchair, in a large room or atrium that's lit primarily by daylight coming through large windows. There are nice green plants everywhere, including a large fern-ish looking tree (apologies; botany has never been my strong subject) next to me. There are people coming and going nearby, but their noise is white noise, and it's not terribly distracting. I've been in this place a hundred times, in a hundred different locations.

It's a hotel lobby."

http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/innovation-101
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All of it. That was the exact purpose of similar measures and stores for tourists holding valuable and scarce foreign currency ("valyuta") in the Soviet Union (where I come from).
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thanks... this is something really interesting