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> "you'll still want to have powerful and efficient ad hoc/unstructured search" > > google desktop / apple spotlight Pretty much. > "And then you can mount the search results as directories..." > > apple smart folders A step in that direction, but AFAICS Spotlight metadata lives in its own little parallel file metadata system which never integrates with the file "naming" system except at a superficial GUI level - "smart folders" aren't directories. Spotlight is clearly a real feature for Apple and its users, but it's also clearly not the Right Thing. (Which is not to criticise Apple, or to suggest that they should have attempted the 100% solution for a point release of OS X.)

I watched this last night on the TV. I thought the funniest part was when Letterman admitted he didn't know nearly as much about the subject as O'Reilly but that was going to disagree anyway.

or beagle or kat

With FUSE you can hook up a SQL database into your filesystem. But that's not the point. Storing anything with any structure is impossible. You wouldn't be able to recall it.

A University professor at a well known institution of higher learning challenged his students with this question. "Did God create everything that exists?" ... a true story !

Yes, I don't mean to be rude, but I don't know why this is "newsworthy". Muslims hold the same stance must Christian fundamentalists do - and in many cases much stricter. This really shouldn't suprise anyone. Besides, even if it was only one man that believed this, why is it newsworthy? It just seems like anything that is convtrovsersial gets bumped up in reddit really fast, especially if it is religious in nature.

I got 2760 while trying to get all the bits pointing the same way. I had big blocks pointing different ways at the start of that run.

" ...it's not about race, it's about culture. If 100% of your population believes in liberal pluralist democracy, it doesn't matter whether 70% of them are "white" or only 5% are. But if one part of your population believes in liberal pluralist democracy and the other doesn't, then it becomes a matter of great importance whether the part that does is 90% of the population or only 60%, 50%, 45%." I'm 'liberal' on so many issues but I just can't figure out why so many people find the above sentiment unacceptable

Unfortunately for the well known student of higher physics making his argument, the parallel doesn't hold up if you use God as the antonym of evil. "good" would make more sense...

I never new Carleton was a quality comp sci school. I go to Western and I figure we're with McMaster, tied for third behind Waterloo and Toronto when it comes to comp sci prestige.

lol. Anyway, Million Dollar Homepage was a beast that fed itself. People wanted to buy ads because it was the thing to do...but buying ads wasn't even smart because nobody was going to click on them and that was especially going to ring true months and years from them going up. I see why people paid for ads, but at the same time, it doesn't make sense for them to have.

this is about as old as humanity.

it was simple enough to understand without whitespace.

How about a Guerrila guide to being interviewed?

From the reddit FAQ: "What is reddit? "A source for what's new and popular on the web -- customized for you." Links don't have to be "newsworthy", controversial subjects are popular.

As a software engineer that works on projects for small companies, I hope that my work will never become well-known, because I'm sure I must be infringing patents left and right.

It's nice to see O'Reilly get bullied like he bullies other people. He is such an asshole.

An Excerpt.... Q: What’s new and different in Bigdaddy? A: It has some new infrastructure, not just better algorithms or different data. Most of the changes are under the hood, enough so that an average user might not even notice any difference in this iteration. Q: What else can you tell me about Bigdaddy? A: In my opinion, this data center improves in several of the ways that you’d measure a search engine. But for now, the main feedback we’re looking for is just general quality and canonicalization

Researchers at The Australian National University have a plasma engine to provide spacecraft with thrust. Their design was recently verified by the European Space Agency and will go into full-scale testing next year.

I thought it was funny...

Yeah there's no WAY Courtney Love is that smart. Then again, she did get away with two murders.

One thing that hasn't been discussed is the advantages of a filesystem that can't be accomplished with full text searching. Most significantly, you may not remember the text of your article but you may remember where in a hierarchy that document was. E.g., if you're looking for all the documents and images from a certain course you took, the best way to look for them may be in a folder dedicated to that course in a "courses" parent folder. A dual approach of a hierarchical system and full text search would seem to be a better approach.

If you like that, you'll like this (previously posted): http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/faa/

The article writer mentioned that an Intel Powerbook is unlikely, since the Pro apps are not universial binary. However, what is to stop them from releasing the new Powerbook and new universal binary Pro apps? Especially since the word on the street is that they have been working to port the pro apps for the last year (yes, before the Intel announcement). But I still think that it is unlikely that they will announce an Intel powerbook.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471383562

how 'bout a link from more recently than 2000?

this guy is smart smart smart and writes in a fantastic way that really gets me thinking about things...i'm going to read all the rest of his posts too.

11) Use valgrind! This tool alone can change the quality of your code too much. http://valgrind.org/

About time someone said this

I agree. Like his stuff

I got 3339. i did the same thing i did before, but i think i made an error the first time. either that or this game does not have reproducable results.

Is it just me that feels like I know less the older I get then?

Also cool are graphs of how many planes are in the air on the same site: http://flightaware.com/

how about not turning reddit into links to old JoS articles. Go to the web site and read the archives, don't post them here.

I don't think they're the next Google, either. But they *are* doing some things very well. I think it takes hard work to make something that's very simple but useful. Their products match that description. Basecamp, by the way, sure wasn't built in a day. Also, Rails does have some really good ideas.

Is it the facts make you uneasy? your "hurhurhur" sounds like Butthead's inane laugh at the back of the classroom.

The best information I've seen about being interviewed is from the book "Ask the Headhunter: Reinventing the Interview to Win the Job" -- http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452278015

I think it may be more appropriate to compare them to flickr or del.icio.us. Rails is fantastic, and I like their other apps. But Google took something that basically didn't work before (search engines) and improved search by several orders of magnitude, creating a business model for the web at the same time. I think 37signals' message of less-is-more is powerful and will spread to other applications, but I don't see them changing the world in the same way Google did.

I got 1880. With planning, the best I could do was ~1000

Michael Lewis is an amazing writer.

Have we got any maths heads here? Is this group theory or something at work?

Chaos! Emergent phenomenon! Cool!

After the introduction about "what makes weblog posts popular?", I can't figure out if this article is serious or if he's intentionally pandering to all the Reddit memes out there. In one article we've got Paul Graham, Reddit meta-analysis, Startup School, Lisp, Ruby on Rails, Macintosh, Joel Spolsky, Richard Feynmann, Paul Graham again, and Thomas Bayes. Slow down dude, give us time to breathe!

Why would you announce higher iTunes prices publicly? That would be kind of a downer.

None of those seemed likely to me.

This article was written by the cousin of the head of the Department of Homeland Security. When the author (Benjamin Chertoff) was asked about this relationship with the him(Michael Chertoff), he claimed he didn't know that was his cousin. Anyway, if there was some sort of coverup about 9/11 this guy wouldnt be someone on the list of trusty debunkers...

dupe

For some reason, I feel compelled to disagree with this lifehack...

I agree about the Reddit memes. It may be a year or two before the hyper-enthusiasts leave the building or maybe Reddit will get bought before that ;-)

painfully obvious

the law of unintended consequences strikes again

The purpose of seeking VC should not only be to get rich. If you create a company that ultimately employs a large number of people, then you've created wealth beyond your own bank account. Getting rich may be good for motivation, but the results also benefit our economy and standard of living. Think small and stay small; help yourself and perhaps a few others. Think big and risk all. If you succeed, we all win.

Link directly to the story instead of to TechDirt

> First, a personal note. I'm feeling fully engaged. You know that feeling, when it seems like what you're working on occupies 100% of your attention, when you have to fight to think about anything else. I love this feeling. I was feeling fully engaged on New Year's Eve. I spent the whole afternoon writing down ideas. I was alone in my apartment and felt like my head was going to explode from the intense feeling. Unfortunately hunger plucked me out of the "engaged mode" and a friend's party kept me out of it for most of the night. Maybe I should have gone grocery shopping the day before and skipped the party. Anyway, now I've got a notebook full of stuff that will take months to research. :)

Whats up with the big hairy guys into guys

That guy is the best cartoonist ever.

Cuba, where most of the dissidents are in jail and the currency gets revalued by fiat, is less corrupt than South Korea, South Africa, Greece, and the Czech Republic. Utter Crap.

Ok, but... is it real?

I saw NO argument at all. Only scare pictures. Stupid! All who drive takes a risk. Should they all be executed?

But there is a monumental difference between driving, and driving after drinking. I think cars are insanely dangerous anyway. They should all be made of plastic and go no more than 25 miles an hour. Thats plenty to take the kids to school and pick up the shopping. And once people can't do long distance journeys in their cars, public transport will take up the slack, get cheaper, more effecient, more regular, and pleasanter. The problem is people feel there is an inalienable human right to operate extremely dangerous machinery in the name of convenience, and will fight tooth and nail to protect it.

I havn't served in army, so please explain

Michael Crichton should shut his mouth and stick to writing bad books. What really struck me about his lecture is the similarity between many of the examples he gives and what he is doing himself: playing off of uninformed hype to enrich/empower oneself. Despite the footnotes he is either uninformed or a liar. His whole idea of complex and linear systems is incorrect. Two examples he gives of linear systems (a rocket and a cannonball) are in fact non-linear. Linear systems are proportional (if the input is changed the output changes by a proportional ammount) and additive (the output in response to the sum of two inputs is exactly the sum of the outputs in response to the inputs individually). Ojects moving in a gravitational field do not meet these requirements even if you ignore friction. Dip into high-school physics, pull out the basic equations for kinetic and potential energy, and consider the relationship between initial velocity and height reached by the cannonball. If you can't see the non-linearity there perhaps you should go buy one of Crichton's books... Enough beating a dead horse. What he is really talking about seems to be non-deterministic systems, which aren't as unpredictable as he wants. If it weren't possible to predict to some degree of accuracy the behavior of non-deterministic systems we could achieve nothing. He seems to demand total predictability which is a real jack-a$$ thing to do, right along the lines of the creationists (ID'ers). He contends that complex systems can only be managed. Management requires some ability to expect a result from a cetain action, which is prediction. So by his argument, since complex systems can't be predicted, and management requires prediction, management of complex systems is impossible. Does he even think this stuff through? Although to be fair, his idea of management and predictions are probably different. He also seems to be engaging in some intellectual dishonesty by showing the headline and first few words of the Independent's "Future of the Earth" article and implying that the article is an example of people playing on fear. From the way it starts I wager that the article is actually along the lines of his argument, not an actual fear-mongering piece. I can't verify since the Independent wants a Pound to purchase the article... Another thing, doctors, especially MD's are not scientists automaticaly. They are technicians who apply the findings of science. Some doctors are scientists, they do research. The rest are like mechanics, they try to figure out a problem and fix it (at a gross level), not experiment to find explanations for the problem. Oversimplifying here: there is some cross-over between general practice medicine and the practice of science, the same can be said of mechanics. However, having an MD, PhD, or an ASE certification doesn't mean you know crap about an unrelated field. I could go on all night.

It has already been demonstrated that terrorist advertising doesn't work. Those who drive drunk will think "this will never happen to me anyway".

Could it be real? Is it ok if it *could* be real?

So someone beautiful becoming hideous after a car accident is a stronger argument then someone dying... Hmmm...

I served in an army, and it is not obvious to me.

Has it really? Can you point me to the study that demonstrates this? I always thought that advertising of this nature was very effective. Similar ones relating to smoking have put me off cigarettes.

It's easy to point out that advertising like this doesn't work 100% of the time. Sure people will see this and still drink and drive. But, it's a lot harder to track how many see it and either swear off drinking and driving, keep friends from doing so, or even just drive drunk less frequently... Also, I'd say it isn't so much that "becoming hideous is a stronger argument than dying," as much as it is that the shock-value of the message sticks with the viewer more strongly. For me, I have been exposed to death so much in the media, that seeing another pretty (or average or ugly) face who has died barely gets my attention (sad to say). This, on the other hand, is the raw reality of what can come of the foolishness that is driving drunk, presented in a way I can't ignore.

I think a physical approach is more suited. This seems like an example of some sort of Ising System with "nearest neighbour interaction". And indeed, like physical systems that have this kind of interaction (e.g. ferromagnets), it eventually gives rise to adjecent areas with all units pointing in the same direction. Check this out to see what I'm talking about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ising_model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_domain#Physical_origin

Not so much more exciting as more random. When a team can win by scoring only once, it's more likely for a team to win on a fluke play. This much less likely in football and the modern hockey game, and impossible in basketball, where a winning team must score at least 30 times.

Dying happens to everyone. Before that, you'll have some good and some miserable time, and the "poursuit of happyness" stuff is about trying to get more of the former than of the latter. Killing someone is stopping the show. Turning her life into permanent physical and psychological intense suffering, turning her into a impotent being that causes horror to everyone, especially her beloved ones, without hope for any significant improvement ever, is letting it go only for worse. I know it's not PC to say that not every life ought to be lived, but would you argue that removing bad times from one's life while keeping all of the good ones isn't a good thing? In her case, that would have been simple to achieve: let her die on that day, as she'll probably never any significant good time anymore. Moreover, death being something unavoidable in the long term, we came to be more or less used to it, and we can sort of cope with the idea. Quite fortunately, we aren't used to what happened to her, we're still fresh to this kind of horror, and we better realize its terrible nature So yes, I think that what happened to her is far worse than death, that it is normal that it causes much more horror than the death of, say, her carmates, and that it IS a much stronger argument than someone dying.

From the page I linked to there is a link to the PDF of the report the list was gleaned from. It states: 1. What is the Corruption Perceptions Index? The TI Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) ranks countries in terms of the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist among public officials and politicians. It is a composite index, drawing on corruptionrelated data in expert surveys carried out by a variety of reputable institutions. It reflects the views of business people and analysts from around the world, including experts who are locals in the countries evaluated. On the site I linked to, they already describe in detail how difficult it is to gather information on corruption under question 5: 5. Can the costs of corruption be quantified? The short answer is "no". Some experts use regression analyses and other empirical methods in order to try to put a dollar figure on the cost of corruption. It is virtually impossible, though, since payments of bribes are not publicly recorded. No one knows exactly how much money is being "invested" in corrupt officials annually. And bribes do not take only monetary form: favours, services, presents and so on are just as common. At most, one can research the correlation between the level of corruption and, say, democratisation, economic development or environmental degradation.The social costs of corruption are even less quantifiable. No one knows how much the loss of an energetic entrepreneur or an acclaimed scientist costs a country. Moreover, any estimated social costs in dollars would be inadequate to the task of measuring the human tragedy behind resignation, illiteracy, or inadequate medical care. A general scepticism vis-à-vis any attempt at quantifying the costs of corruption is thus warranted.The following example illustrates the dilemma of pressing the issue into facts and figures: A power plant is being built somewhere in the world, at a cost of US$ 100 million. It could be argued that - were it not for corruption - the cost could have been as low as US$ 80 million. The financial damage to the public would then be US$ 20 million. In practice, quite often projects are planned simply so that those involved can make huge private profits. Assuming that the power plant was superfluous, the financial damage would have to be assessed at US$ 100 million. Yet no major construction project leaves the environment untouched. The results may be: increased pollution, a lowering of land prices, resettlement of local residents, an increased debt burden for the country, etc. This calculation - probably closest to reality - is immensely complex. On a global scale, it seems almost impossible. But even if one were able to calculate the environmental damage, the increase of the debt burden and other factors, how would one measure the erosion of public confidence and the deterioration of a government's legitimacy, which are the direct result of corruption? In my perception, you've taken a defensive stance against this data since it triggered your bogometer. However, the site I linked to fully described the potential for bogus data and stresses the difficulty you're concerned about. Whether the actual list is useful or not, it certainly got me to read their site to see how they came up with the data and now I find myself understanding corruption a bit more. That's kinda useful to me.

little argument indeed. OTOH, is it targetted toward people who are really argument-sensitive?

oh my god. i loathe this kind of hit-you-over-the-head style preaching. it doesn't even give any details on how drunk the driver was, etc. if this becomes a hit on reddit i'm going to be pissed.

Damn. This should have been headlined better. Connotea is in fact del.icio.us for adademic references. By the Nature group. Brilliant.

it seems that you DO drink and drive.

We're still animals, with a survival instinct often so strong that we couldn't find the force to terminate ourselves, althought there's no hope for anything worth it in our future. Wishing one were dead is one thing. Finding the mental force to act accordingly to your will and reason, rather than obey your instincts, is another. Which is often not a bad thing: many people will, at a time or another in their lives, wrongly estimate that they're doomed, and they're saved by their programmed "cowardise" toward suicide. Besides, in the case discussed here, when you're impotent, almost limbless, and permanently high with the strongest painkillers medicine can provide, there are technical barriers to commiting suicide.

Yes. There does seem to be some slightly hairy analysis. Does anyone know of a good analysis textbook? Not just an introduction, but a full course.

I am not interested in "made up" news, thankyou very much! Someone from the Bush camp could write a series of letters from a "grateful Iraqi who is overjoyed to be free", or something along those lines. Maybe that "could be real" too? Once you leave the realm of reality, it's just not 'news' anymore. It may have some value, but that value is different.

If there's one thing Walker hates.... it's a bigot.

I had the same thought, and was surprised to find folks here wondering. It certainly doesn't reflect the demeanor of the one Marine I know. (Disclaimer: I see the world though a pro-war lens.)

Inventors of the CCD, from Bell Labs

Sorry for the self-promotion, but I think this is a message more people need to see (although most likely not the people who read reddit...?). It's a minor annoyance, but it is annoying nonetheless.

The little banner he complains about appears on the Guardian web page linked for the Steve Jobs keynote story.

I like it anyways

Link doesn't seem to be working... Edit: Nevermind...

Better coverage in Wired: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,69946-0.html

If the mailing list is served via GMane, too. Otherwise one has to register again. And again another password ...

I spent 12 years hanging around Marine aviators and Naval Aviators (I was an intelligence officer). I know those guys and how they talk and deal with things. That letter is a pile of crap.

I don't think it is at all affective to those who would be likely to Drink & Drive. In my younger days anyone I knew who would of driven drunk "didn't think it would happen to me", and it didn't so their thoughts were reinforced. On the other hand, when they knew Drunk Driving police checkstops were on the road it definitely changed behaviour and caused them to be more responsible.

I wonder how long it will take before I will forget this image. That poor girl . . . no words can convey the agony she must experience every minute for the rest of her life. . . Can anyone imagine the incredible guilt the drunk driver has to live with as a result of his one moment of stupidity? If I had caused such damage to someone else, I would either have to kill myself or build up some seriously weird psychological defense, and go crazy in the process. I barely qualify as a social sipper, but yes, this would make me fight harder to stop someone else from driving after drinking. That poor girl . . .

Reads like a 10 year old wrote it.

Too true. There is always a percentage of the population that think the bad things will always happen to someone else. However, not all people are quite that stupid. I have avoided many of the bad situations which have befallen my friends, simply because I *expect* bad things to happen, and so consequently I make a conscious effort to avoid high-risk situations.

Then again, my life is boring :/

yeah but wired has too many ads

> "Sir, I've been in the tube for the last 10 hours, the weather was shit, and I haven't seen my wife in 2 weeks, can I work on this tomorrow?" That is the most telling line in the entire letter. Marines know they can't make stupid excuses like "the weather is bad", "I haven't seen my wife in awhile". You don't ask your superior to do something the next day. I have a friend in the Marines. Its not like this letter is trying to make it out to be at all. Nice BS.

that was fucking stupid. 'following the rules of book length' blah blah blah graphic novels don't follow your rules so you tossed out tons of stuff and put in a bunch of new crap. all-time lists shouldn't have stuff in the last 5-10 years

I disagree, since if you fail with VC, we all fail. Do whatever maximizes your companies' expected value, without regard for potential employees...The laws economics will see to it that your greedy decisions also are optimal for society at large. (I'm only referring to the decision of whether or not to accept VC here...in most situations economic theory doesn't match reality so clearly.)