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cperciva--we can disagree, and you can think that what the govt is doing or has done in the past is great...but it is not working. we need to try something different. as long as the money is used to employ people...why should the govt care? it will get its payroll tax dollars from your brother weaving baskets...
> Also, the last statistics I heard on bankruptcy in the US is that more than half of all bankruptcies here are due to high medical bills.

Actually, it's not. The bulk of the so-called "medical bankruptcies" were due to job loss due to being sick or addicted, aka "if you can't work, you're not going to be paid". (And gambling is considered medical....) Yes, those folks have medical bills, but free medical care wouldn't have kept them employed.

FWIW, there is universal free medical care in the US. It isn't as good as paid and you get to wait in the medical equivalent of the social security office, but it exists.

There are free clinics in every reasonably-sized city and all but the most uninhabited counties have a county hospital which treats people for free. And then there's medicaid and the state analogs.
This was posted here last week, existing discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1636198
demolition man baby :)
Morally speaking? punt

Legally speaking? No. If you receive a salary, anything you write is "work for hire" for your organization. They get exclusive rights to it, unless you negotiate differently.

Practically speaking? Nobody will make any money from Flattr so it doesn't matter.
Stats are bullshit
I second that. I tried to put colours on my web site[1], and failed miserably. Any colour scheme I could come up with was ugly. I finally gave up and settled on the more manageable grey scale.

[1]: http://www.loup-vaillant.fr
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Have you checked out the ZeroMQ documentation on flow control and data rate limiting? I can't speak for anyone else's use case, but there's a nice selection of blocking primitives and data rate limits that have proven sufficient for the smaller programs I've written.

It's hard for me to tell if your criticisms are based on real-world experience with the library, a review of the available documentation, or just my description of a single feature intended to reduce the cost traversing the userspace/kernel barrier.

I'm definitely interested in real-world experience with ZeroMQ and any problems you've encountered. We may begin some larger-scale testing soon, and would love to know about any problems.
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Nobody will make any money from Flattr so it doesn't matter.

Care to elaborate?
It wasn't a comparison of companies, it was a rebuke of Microsoft's leadership. The criticism is certainly valid, and all the more convincing because Microsoft HAS shipped high-quality products, so they are CAPABLE of doing great work, they just get LAZY.
Like the post above regarding Japan, it's cultural symbolism. The only thing approaching religion in Hong Kong is money. Religion, as we in the West think of it, in terms of guiding entities, monuments, and communal gatherings is almost absent.

I think our language fails us a bit, and we need better delineation between religion (e.g. Christian), group philosophy (e.g. Hindu), and personal philosophies.

What I mean is, religion isn't a very useful work in the context of comparisons.
This is an excellent blog, at least to me. I've stopped blogging for over 6 months, for one reason or the other. This will make me start again. Thank you.
See my comments here (about Flattr):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1499269

and the thread here (about Contenture, a company with the same business model, which folded for exactly the reason described):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=627837
I would guess:

-China didn't allow the Gallup survey.

-Hinduism is predominantly practiced in just a few countries, and India has a lot of non-Hindus.

-Because it was responsible for a lot of historical conflict & indicates a significant difference in religious structure. Also an American paper is more likely to Eurocentric.
Sounds good. I'm in Seattle, but I'll be making a weekend trip to SF in a couple weeks.
The advantage of this is that google provides the bandwidth, all they need is more fonts for this to be useful.
Election year? Tech industry is becoming the preferred political punching bag.
But if we only compare countries with similar GDP (per capita, presumably) to the US then the sample size becomes tiny and the US is an outlier on the religiosity scale. You seem to be trying to imply a correlation exsits between religiosity and violence based on a single outlier from a tiny sample.
Can someone explain how they _actually_ collect the data?
No, I'm the last person to "twist the world" to my views. I believe in observation and evidence. Do I have a theory that there is a correlation between religion and violence? Yes. Have I explored that correlation beyond glancing at a few charts? No.
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The picture on this post likely depicts a seeing eye horse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guide_horse

Here's the advantage: both dogs and horses require years to train in this capacity. However, horses then live much longer than dogs, maximizing the value of the training time invested in them.

Plus, they're extremely cute.
It just means that it's profitable for them as a company to make it at that price, but their volumes are still relatively tiny compared to the overall fuel market. Presumably were we all to switch to gas-to-liquids to increased demand on liquid natural gas supplies would push the price up quite significantly. So it's not likely that we could replace oil with a $20 a barrel substitute, but it's plausible that coal-to-liquids and gas-to-liquids could serve as relatively affordable substitutes even on massive scales.

And I'm not sure how much gas there is, but there's enough coal to last for 50-140 years, depending on demand.
What about some analog kits? I've built my home stereo, (speakers), phono pre-amp and a bunch of other stuff. Lots of fun and very rewarding.
That's great. Best of luck!
I think a relevant complaint is when a company like Visual Website Optimizer has to compete against Google Website Optimzer when Google gets to place their link as the first AdWords ad. However, I use the word "complaint" instead of "case" because I have no idea whether there is a legal issue at hand.
16 points in 12 minutes? Weird. Never seen something like this for a Tell HN post (particularly on a slow Saturday).

BTW cool idea. Good luck!
For minimalism to work you need strong content. This website doesn't have that. Even with strong content this design still has plenty of problems. That link hover effect is awful. It feels like I'm playing whack-a-mole. You also limited the content to a fixed height container. That would come back to bite you if page content increases significantly or average screen resolution increases. The website is also very forgettable. It has no real identity of it's own. The name isn't even in the overall template.
For both Japan and Germany, losing WWII led to an economic miracle, but it might be worth pointing out that losing to the Allies was almost certainly very different than losing to the Axis would have been.
Jaded by the fact that all articles on Mint Blog are simply written as linkbait to get you to push visitors to their service, I would suggest that this post is a 'poor mans' (no pun intended) version of Rich Dad, Poor Dad (http://www.amazon.com/Rich-Dad-Poor-Money-That-ebook/dp/B000...).

If this advice interests you, check that book out for sure.
Looking for tech co-founder for my startup - cloud-based web-charting with some unique and smart social features.

Ideal person is experienced developer 30+ y.o. who wants to take full responsibility for back-end (database model, CRUD methods, server side of AJAX, integration with 3rd party services, etc.) and build scalable and expandable architecture. Also he/she enjoys smart ways to resolve complex technical problems, respects deadlines and is creative and positive critic.

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Quite true.
You always could get the GNU stuff and compile it yourself. My own installs felt very GNU-ish at that time.
FWIW: The last statistics I heard on that were from a few years back, before this recession. I have no idea what the current situation is. I generally don't bother to keep up with mainstream news (which shouldn't come as any surprise given the opinion I expressed above).

Thanks.
Thanks. I guess the post just got lucky :D

Edit: I have no idea why this got locked up:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1663112

Some friends of mine actually created a new account so they could comment. I really don't think I'll opt for a negative publicity by trying to make fake accounts and _then_ promote my business.

If you do suspect I have been doing it go take a look at the IP addresses if you like. I don't know how else to prove it.

In fact I do have two accounts on HN (n9986 and 9circuits), I didn't even use that to up vote. This post was honestly viral as it got re tweeted by friends and their friends.

My aim to get some positive feedback ended up with this.

Anyhow, doesn't matter now that this has been down voted to oblivion.
Would your home kitchen pass a health inspection?
Wonderful! So this means I and other Americans will soon legally be able to purchase prescription drugs from other countries where drug companies sell them for much less money? Oh, I forgot; "globalization," as meant by multinational corporations and policy makers, doesn't work that way.

Globalization is not a two-way street, and while it would certainly be foolish to bet against it when it means American jobs being shipped to other countries where labor is cheaper and the cost of living is lower, betting against consumers being able to import goods from those same countries where multinationals sell their products for cheaper seems, for the time being anyway, to be a pretty safe bet.
These adverts are beyond insulting.
Umm... because clang is being primed as a gcc/g++ replacement. Was that not obvious? Lol.
For what it's worth, I love the design for the most part, but there are a couple of problems that are bad enough people might reject the whole thing as "too minimal."

The content frame in the middle has a scrollbar but no border, which is off-putting since it's not standard. It's also not the full height of the browser, which is useless; don't make me scroll more than I have to. For large pages, that the gray box is a scrollbar is not obvious.

There is no indication that clicking faculty opens a new page. I thought something went wrong the first time I clicked it.

The "association.SOMETHING" message at the top is a nice touch, but since it's right justified it moves when you click a new page. The word "association" should not move -- it's distracting.

The text in the paragraphs is too small for no reason, especially on your "home" page.

I really like how the current page's link is indented and how the links move to the right when you mouse over them. That's a nice touch and intuitive. I love the lack of color. The page is otherwise very easy to read and navigate.
You should link to a bunch of tutorials. Will help people who are just starting out. Maybe give a combo offer on the items mentioned in the tutorial too :)

Congrats. Never thought someone would decide to service this very niche market in India
You need to validate your code. It's currently invalid due a number of fundamental errors.

A simple method is to use the HTML Validator plug-in in Firefox. It's not perfect, but a simple, effective guide.
I think we got 2 posts in before I clarified that's what I meant by "pre-release", and here you are still objecting a day later.
I haven't been to India myself, but from what I have heard, maybe you should travel to India. The problems you mention are not real problems (yet).

Also I said "squalor", not "poverty". By that I mean no clean water to drink, no sanitation, no access to physicians and stuff like that. Hint: the US is not the world (no offense).

Edit: I agree that we constantly solve problems, too (or the Scientists do). But we don't have an answer for everything.
Clickable: http://9circuits.com
Click on any other page besides the home page and you might better understand his point. I also kind of went "huh???!!" on the homepage.
I got the answer on IRC. Basically, you either make your non-Node servers push events to Node.js using Http OR you use something like AMQP. browser -> node.js -> AMQP -> JEE and then JEE -> AMQP -> node.js -> browser.
> They certainly don't have a crazy, out of control amount of military spending

Because the Japanese were forced to include in their post-WW2 constitution that they would no longer have a military for any purpose other than self-defense. As a result, the American taxpayer pays for the US military to be stationed in Japan for the purpose of offensive attacks against threats like North Korea, Russia, and China, thus indirectly also funding Japan's self-defense. This means Japan's self-defense expenses also drop, not to mention any offensive attacks (as long as the US agrees with them, which it probably would) come free of charge to the Japanese.
As I understand it: guide animals are generally trained to know when they're "at work" and when it isn't. When "at work", the guide animal is not given affection because it needs to be focused on its task. This is why seeing eye dogs have "don't pet me" signs on them: any kind of affection is a distraction from the necessary task of helping the owner.

When not "at work" (usually there is some signal), it obviously depends on the owner; but most of the disabled people I know pamper and love these animals to death, and they are extremely well treated. They are simply only showered with affection in private, when not expected to be focused.
Chris is awesome, Like.FM is super interesting product - and Chris has good taste in music.
Shorthand will help with note-taking, but the OP wants to write exams. I doubt his professors will be interested in reading them in shorthand.
No. That's because you guys are voting it up from a few newly created accounts. I am sorry, but that is not how we do stuff here.
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So, phone companies spy on us to make money, help the police (probably without a warrant), and spread propaganda.

<sarcasm> How surprising. </sarcasm>

Seriously, it's not like we couldn't have foreseen: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2010/feb/01/freedom-clou...
Which data? These companies track your movement across the internet with cookies. It used to be that a visit to dictionary.com would set over 40 different tracking cookies. I guess with your browsing history and some fancy statistics they can make some pretty good guesses about you.

The WSJ actually has a whole bunch of articles about this stuff. Not sure if I still have the links.
If you are streaming a large file over TCP, ZeroMQ, with its emphasis on small messages sent and received apparently atomically, would be a stunningly poor choice.

It's also wholly unsuitable as a floor wax or a dessert topping. :)

Does your criticism also apply to its intended use case? At a glance, it doesn't strike me as an unreasonable design choice, but I haven't thought about it deeply.
Congratulations! Opening a shop is a lot of effort. I have a huge amount of respect for anyone that does it.
I'm looking for a technical/business cofounder or two for my new virtualization/cloud security infrastructure thing. I am spending the rest of 2010 outside the US, but will be moving somewhere (default: Palo Alto) in January 2011, and am working on it remotely now. I'd be flexible on location (within the US, Austin and Seattle are on my list; NYC is the only major city I rule out), or international, but I think there's a better sales/marketing/talent case in the US.

I'd also like to find a kickass startup enterprise sales guy -- someone who can be hands on to start, and then either transition to building/running a team, or just being a great individual contributor. That could be one of the founders, or sometime in 2011.

I know some great people around SFBA, including some domain experts for some of the core technologies, but I'm very interested in having the best founding team possible, so any additional options would be great.
Thanks! It was a need driven market that I decided to step into. I am a hobbyist myself and it was a pain to acquire items.

Good idea. I will get a Wiki going soon. Thankfully the Arduino community has produced many wonderful tutorials which I could link to as well.
Pandora is a completely different use case. Users do not mind listening to random stuff from a selection of artists in a very controlled experience.

Finally, Pandora is not free if you listen in > 40 hours per month ($36/yr).
What kind of hardware hacking culture exists in the area currently? It is my perception (which is not to say right) of New Delhi as an software outsourcing center that doesn't do much hardware.
Seeing I wasn't using it, I thought I might hint to the optimiser that it could optimise it away. But now that you mention it, the argv should have been const char * const
as long as the money is used to employ people...why should the govt care?

Because the government could employ someone to do something useful. Pay them to build bridges. Or to repair hurricane-damaged homes. Or to write open source software. Or heck, pay them to run around in circles and burn off some of the famous American obesity.

I don't know what the best thing to pay people to do is, but I'm sure there's something useful the government could do if it's paying people anyway...
Japan and Germany's economic success was to the benefit of the Allies in the long run anyway.
It's a study I have been quoting a long time, so I don't doubt it no longer reflects conditions in India. My only point was perceptions of poverty change and can be very subjective.

Historically, wine and beer were drunk in Europe because you could not drink the water. It was not clean. The expectation that everyone "should" have clean water is a relatively new concept. Would I like everyone to have clean water? Sure. But I don't think the lack of clean water for many people somehow magically wipes out the value of other gains.
The optimizer is quite able to recognize that a variable is unused. :-)

In fact, if you compile that code with warnings turned on, you'll get a "variable is not used" warning -- which most style guides say should be silenced by adding the following line to the start of your function:

(void)argc; /* UNUSED */
Shouldn't the algorithm take that into account?
>> "You’ll get judged by your best work."

well till you get an audience, then they are going to watch your back and you cannot the do something always, good or bad rule. you will have to be cautious.

also there are cases where your best work gets ignored given the bad reputation of the bad work. As long as there is humans infer this will be there, it is extremely hard not to be influenced by previous work.
Actually, if jbellis posts to CL, some of it is his data. It belongs to the people who post it, not CL. See the terms of use: http://www.craigslist.org/about/terms.of.use

Notably section 3, "CONTENT," and the 2nd paragraph of section 14, "PROPRIETARY RIGHTS," in which they explicitly disclaim ownership: "Although craigslist does not claim ownership of content that its users post..."
The first Adwords ad? That's going to be auctioned, according to the Adwords methodology, so if Paras wants to pay for it, the #1 position should be his.

Is anyone actually accusing Google of non-competitive behavior in Adwords?
Not quite. Japan can and does defend itself just fine against neighbours like North Korea, Russia, and China.

The American taxpayer does something different than you state. In actuality, they fund the projection of force everywhere that the US has interests. To relate back to the example of Japan, this means that the American taxpayer funds the defense of the things the US wants from Japan, not truly the defense of Japan itself though the defense of the former can often aid the defense of the latter. This holds true essentially everywhere else the US chooses to project force and the distinction is absolutely critical but too easily forgotten.

EDIT: in case the above sounds a bit too much like some kind of anti-American rant, the point I should have made more explicit in response to the parent is this: parent makes it sound like Japan is restricted from defending itself against the listed neighbour countries and therefore requires outsiders to do so. This is not true, and since it is not true, one should periodically ask themselves why the US has forces there (and everywhere else.)
Just curious, is there any reason why this site is in English and not in Hindi? Forgive my ignorance if the answer is obvious.
That's good to hear. :-)
Or just Xpra, for that matter--- Xpra was written as a replacement for NX (http://lwn.net/Articles/343389/), and they have heavily overlapping functionality, so it seems odd to use both rather than picking one.
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I wish they had included Norway; it is literally off the chart in terms of GDP (they'd have to extend it to the right), and I suspect that the religiosity measure would be similar to Sweden and Denmark-- but as I said, I'd like to see the results to be sure.
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yeah...my hunch is that if you are going to invest money in a company, you don't want to waste your investment on a basket weaving business...you would pay someone to code something cool....
I think the problem is that just a few (3-4?) votes in the first few minutes can get a submission to the front page.
You've missed the point. The original premise from patio11 was that legalizing prostitution doesn't automatically make it all safe, aboveboard, and free from crime. Then he used Japan as an example... except that prostitution isn't legal there. Regardless of how it's treated by the police, the point is that it's not legal, and that skews how the illegal operations work.

(Regardless, my feeling is that Japan's attitude toward sexuality is so different from that of Europe/the Americas that it's a little hard to make good comparisons anyway.)

The Amsterdam argument is interesting and worthy of further discussion, at least.
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That's what usually happens when you go a little out of your way to be nicer than you could have been: it turns out that, just by coincidence, some of those times come back to help you later. :)
Whatever your feelings on the ad, it brings up an interesting point:

Eric Schmidt may be doing Google more harm than good these days. His remarks on privacy have been weird. And not a little creepy.

More often than not, the big things that move the needle on my opinion of Google have been remarks of Schmidt's. Gruber said it well here:

http://daringfireball.net/2010/08/creep_executive_officer

"Tthe problem with Google is that Eric Schmidt is creepy. I think he’s a really weird dude. Recall, for example, this comment of Schmidt’s from 2009, regarding Google and privacy: 'If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.'"

Schmidt is really the public face of Google. Larry and Sergey seem to keep quiet, Marissa Mayer isn't doing those magazine features anymore, but every few months Schmidt just does or says something odd.

It's a questionable strategy. edit: Questionable, that is, when your company is trusted with the personal data of hundreds of millions of people. Caesar's wife must be above reproach.
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With other words: What does "globalization" really mean?

Empirically, it appears to mean a global market for land, labor, and capital with national and regional markets for consumer goods.
Haha, I see it now. My fault for missing it, although in my defense they're put in a non-standard location.