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Right, because any anti-spam measures need to be measured over a longer time frame to see if they have significantly reduced the spam.

That said, for me, spam is hardly a problem with the SpamBayes plugin for Outlook. It does get a few false positives, but none that badly. A check every few days catches anything. It also flags a lot of subscribed-for spam, which is OK by me as I don't see why I need a monthly update on my frequent flyer miles, something I can always go looking for.
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In alphabetical order:

BetterPrivacy, Certificate Patrol, Firebug, Flashblock, iMacros, Sage, Tamper Data

iMacros is particularly useful.
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Radioactive decay is random yet regular, so: no :-)
That really would not work very well for building large apps, IMO.

I'm sure Windows does code reviews for checkins to all branches. That's not sufficient, unless you have an oracle that can tell you if each checkin will work just fine.

One big problem I see:

When you're working on a feature you don't want a thousand of checkins per day coming in. As some checkin downstream, that doesn't directly effect your feature can end up blocking you. For example, I'm working on the start menu button, but some random guy checks in some new feature that broke the ATI Radeon 9850x video card, which happens to be the video card you're using. Now I'm blocked for a day.
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Ask HN: What's a good, open source, distributed, worker queue?
I'm working on a big data application, and need to schedule and distribute jobs around a cluster. I'm looking for an open source solution to avoid writing my own.

This will be running on a small cluster of machines. These machines will already be running CouchDB, and so I have map/reduce setup to process the data as it comes into the database. This queue is to schedule other tasks, such as crawling the web, going to third party APIs and pulling down some data, etc.

I'd like the queue to be transactional so that if a worker dies before finishing the task, the task remains on the queue and another worker will pick it up. It is ok with me if I have to be responsible to make sure the tasks are idempotent.

I'd like the queue to be replicated in the cluster so that if one node happens to go down, we don't lose a chunk of the tasks from the queue. I'd rather the occasional task be done twice than any task ever be forgotten.

Each node and each process will be both adding things to the queue and taking things off to process.

If these things come setup to assume a specific language for the worker processes, then javascript or python are the preferred ones.

Would prefer it to be relatively lightweight, and require nearly zero administration.

Part of the reason I'm asking is that I think I might be using the wrong terminology to try and find this. I found DISCO (http://discoproject.org/). I could make DISCO do what I want probably, but I have Map and Reduce covered in couchDB already. I need "go ftp this zip file, uncompress it, and then run it thru this python script" kinds of tasks to be scheduled.

Thanks in advance for advice!
I'm not sure $10,000 is a fair-market value for the government services. Probably the biggest single service a government provides to well-off people is protection for their property and person, via policing, military defense, and a centralized property register and court system willing to enforce their ownership of assets. The value of that guarantee goes up with your level of asset ownership.
Don't ever EVER accept a contract for a set monthly amount when the employer "swears they will only have you working half time"

You will regret it every time.
It sounds like they were having lots of fun. When I was in college, we'd configure the random level selector to always select Final Destination, so that we didn't have to bother moving the pointer a few inches.
Honestly, I don't understand why anybody cares about torrents.

I get all my music, etc. through upload-and-download sites like rapidshare, megaupload, mediafire, etc. and it's A LOT faster and doesn't mess with my internet like torrenting did.

Anybody else feel like we've also moved beyond torrenting like we did with napster, kazaa, limewire (well, most of us?)?
The problem in NYC isn't that we don't have hackers, it's that we don't have the entrepreneurial minded hackers.

I'm a designer working on my startup and most of my friends are developers. But what I've noticed is that all my friends look to work at the big companies. It's strange, but I'm not surprised - they don't know the options available to them.

Entrepreneurship isn't a course in their CS curriculum. They don't realize the potential they can have to change the world.

To solve the problem, why not have startups recruit students at career fairs?
> The paleo diet is, I think, 99% bullshit

Would you mind expanding on which parts you find to be bullshit? I can't find any reasons in your current post.

> I don't buy the logic behind exclusion of beans

The logic behind not eating legumes (and dairy) is the same as the logic behind not eating grains: the adult human digestive tract is not capable of fully digesting these (e.g. the protein lectin in grains), causing gut irritation and ultimately causing autoimmunity and inflammation.

> When I've lost enough I think I'll reintroduce grains

Absolutely do! Only then is any nutritional experiment, Paleo or otherwise, complete. I would wager you will feel worse after reintroducing grains, but I would love to hear your results first hand.
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I loathe Inc.'s site. The interstitial pop-up. The toolbar. Terrible, really. But I enjoyed the piece.
I agree that innovating and growing are key elements to the success of any organization. However many new ventures seem to be based off incorrect assumption that never lead to product-market fit.

The inability to reach that correct fit and not taking into account the market place that the venture operates in, is in my point and even bigger reason as to why new ventures fail.
Ask HN: Do the benefits of the Valley outweigh the costs?
This might seem like a no-brainer for those of you who live in Silicon Valley, but coming from way, way outside the Valley (as in Melbourne, Australia) I would love to hear your views on whether the benefits of building a startup in the Valley outweigh the high costs of living there. I have some idea of the advantages. Here are three that come to mind: access to venture capital, networking and jobs (i.e. if my company failed in the Valley I could probably get an equivalent executive role with a technology company, whereas such opportunities are thin on the ground in Australia, let alone Melbourne.) Or am I wearing a pair of rose colored glasses?
This means that Oracle chose Mark Reinhold's plan B (http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/rethinking_jdk7).

From the point of view of a web application developer, JDK 7 is not very interesting. JDK 7 will contain a few language updates like switch-cases based on strings. No major changes or features that would radically change a web app developer's coding routines. What do you think?
No closures :-(
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Astute, but I think they are very significantly different: An entrepreneur is risking his own time and energy. Financiers are putting millions of other people's money at risk.

Edit: Seriously, markdown doesn't work?
You think slavery doesn't exist in the world now? What are you doing about ending it, then?

Slavery even exists in the USA - it's called the Internal Revenue Code; the only question is what percentage of the time while you are working, that you are a slave.

(Please note, I am not getting into what are usually called "tax protester" arguments.)
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For some reason on page 2 some javascript kept scrolling the page all the way down like every 20 seconds... so annoying. I ended up copying the text to a text editor.
Unfortunately, since the messages sent by spammers that "came into the light" (good spammers?) and by those who did not are so similar, even legitimate unsubscribe links are effectively too risky.

Just like with the failure micropayments (see http://openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2000/12/19/micropayments.html), it just requires too much mental analysis to make an educated guess about whether an unsubscribe link is legit, versus confirming my address as "working" and increasing its use by other spammers (e.g., inclusion in sold lists of "verified working email accounts").

Due to the confusion, I have to fall back on the KISS rule: When in doubt, do not provide my email address, or the fact that my email address is a working one, to someone I don't know (or who just spammed me, no matter how much "in the light" they may seem to be).
I'm using S3 for personal data backup.

How I set it up: http://www.tarsnap.com/
The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming has a very relevant comment about this exact topic:

Developing a useful, general framework for expressing the relations among different types of entities (what philosophers call ``ontology'') seems intractably difficult. The main difference between the confusion that existed ten years ago and the confusion that exists now is that now a variety of inadequate ontological theories have been embodied in a plethora of correspondingly inadequate programming languages. For example, much of the complexity of object-oriented programming languages -- and the subtle and confusing differences among contemporary object-oriented languages -- centers on the treatment of generic operations on interrelated types.

Ouch. This was written in 1996, but I don't think that languages like Java and Ruby have changed the state of the art that is being discussed. See http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-18.html... for the full context of this quote. (I was quoting from footnote 52.)

In an odd unrelated note, I've noted that there is some correlation between people's opinions on object oriented programming and how they eat corn. See http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2010/08/analysis-vs-algebra-pre... for more on this.
Same, I was holding the scrollbar with my mouse's left button down to prevent that!
I've worked mostly with Gearman (made by Danga who also created memcached, mogilefs and other awesomesauce).

It's stable, fast and has API libraries for most languages which can create clients and workers. You may have to do some configuration/customisation to get it to do exactly what you're after but it's a great place to start.

http://gearman.org/
Fatty, sugary, and salty foods do not make you feel good shortly afterwards. They make you feel bad. If there is any sort of bad sensation at any point, you shouldn't be consuming that food.

There's something to the cancer argument but like I said previously, the determinates behind that stuff are so hard to figure out - and I would say that likely, the foods that keep us feeling good day to day - ALL DAY - are not the ones causing us to have cancer - but I'm no scientist.
lack of sleep, lack of patience, overload of work and very hard on himself I'd say make it that way.

I dealt with him only once and briefly, and it went just like a business transaction, straight to the point. No worries there.
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I'm calling linkbait.

"Our product didn't kill that many people." - PR spin

"We're not building a facebook phone." - Possibly a lie, but I wouldn't call it PR spin.
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"Sara Lee switched to sugar in two of its breads last month." This line was revealing. If you look at the ingredients list of bread in Europe for example, you won't find any sugar added. Sara Lee must figure that going "cold turkey" on sugar is going to hurt its offerings in a US market that's been weaned on sugar for decades. So it "rearranges the deckchairs" on a couple of lines to placate the niche of consumers concerned about HFCS, but does nothing to address the larger health issue - the addition of sugar of any kind.
Yeah, I thought I was dreaming at first like I was on some spam site that was trying to take me to the ad. As far as the article goes, very interesting to get into the psyche of someone whose blogs we read on a continuous basis. Whether you love him or hate him, humanizing people always helps break the online barrier.
There is a big difference in taste when it comes to Coca-Cola sweetened with real sugar and high fructose corn syrup.

I much prefer the taste of soda with real sugar over HFCS, so when Pepsi did their throwback I bought it by the case, when I can find Mexican coke (Costco has it generally) I will buy entire cases. To me it is not so much about the perceived health benefits of one over the other, but rather the taste.
and the award for the biggest linkbait title goes to ...

I was pleasantly surprised when I seen my HTC Desire running flash, but then after a few weeks it just got annoying and I turned it off, battery performance went up, and I have not once had an inclination to turn it back on.
It's the disqus real time update feature - click Pause below the comments box.
i worked in the same company with Michael for a little while long before his TechCrunch days (RealNames between 1999 and 2002). He did come off as standoffish and arrogant to most people. This said, not enough to warrant the hate that some people devote to him since he became successful with TC. I think he is just a somewhat clumsy person when it comes to being anything else than a competitive opinionated door buster. Michael is otherwise a very smart guy and impressive entrepreneur and he seems to be on his way to becoming more of a human being too ;-)
Thats more "spare" cash in a week than I pay in rent over a fortnight.
> it assumes that we haven't evolved since modern agriculture

No one is arguing that we haven't evolved at all. But humanoids have been around for millions of years, and the 10,000 years since the advent of agriculture is a very small evolutionary time step. So the reasoning is more that we haven't evolved enough to fully digest grains without damage to our gut lining.

> Our hunter and gatherer ancestors were starving

You'd be surprised that a lot of hunter gatherers (HGs) were doing a lot better than that, according to anthropologists. One number cited in Robb Wolf's book is that HGs on average only worked on procuring food 10-15 hours a week, with the rest spent socializing, resting, etc.

> people on raw-only diets consistently lose weight, even if they eat a lot

Do you have any supporting evidence for this statement? Virtually all foods on the Paleo diet can be eaten raw (meat, seafood, fruits, vegetables, nuts), and are cooked more for taste than digestibility.
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Did you send your application here too? I'd understand why you haven't received anything...
First, I dispute that good-tasting foods all make you feel bad shortly afterwards. Just as one example, sugary foods make you release all kinds of happy chemicals as you eat it, and that high alone lasts for a while.

Second, simply eating any food AT ALL that keeps you feeling good all day probably increases your risk of cancer. Calorie restriction looks like it does increase our longevity in part due to a decreased risk of cancer.
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You could have a look at http://celeryproject.org/

I've not used it so I'm not entirely sure it'll cover your needs, but I keep hearing good things about it.
> So I’m usually working on four or five hours of sleep. Then I make it up on the weekends.

That doesn't sound healthy either! But if his doctor thinks so, and if he's not gaining 50 pounds like before, I guess it is. I'm interested, because I use his previous style (but my work is no as stressful, and I've been losing weight by eating less and healthier.)
If you tell them that you had insurance with company X, you can be sure that they'll phone company X and ask for your claims history.

But there's far too many insurance companies around for them to phone everybody.
I really enjoyed that article. What strikes me is how driven and hard-working Michael Arrington is. Actually, 'compulsive' comes to mind. Which prompts me to think that successful entrepreneurs aren't motivated to succeed... they're compelled to succeed.
The implicit assumption here is that the game is always more fun with items and platforms.

Personally, I find it more fun to try and become a better player. Learning new ways to glitch the system, how to counter different strategies. From a competitive view, the fun is reduced when things like the environment or randomly-placed items remove the "fairness" of the competition and favor one character over another.
I've been seeing that kind of comment everywhere this attack pops up. Or people claiming this is because ASP.NET's AES implementation has a bug in it. Or damn near anything but what's actually going on in any kind of padding oracle attack.
There are a lot of great steps forward for the Java language in 7. My only question is when is Oracle going to release it so it can start being adopted?
The problem with Arrington's whining is the lack of reciprocity. They scream bloody murder when their reporting is 'attacked' by PR, but what about the multiple instances prior to this when their reporting really was inaccurate? Can you think of a single post where they said 'we were wrong'?

If facebook doesn't release a phone in, say, 3 years, will TC admit they were full of shit? Hell no. They'll simply say facebook did have it as a real project but decided to kill it.

How can anyone take them as the 'blog of record' for startups if they don't take responsibility for their inaccurate reporting at least once in a while?
by that logic, i could get away with not paying my credit card bill by simply not paying it.
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Including the S-Bahn of Berlin but not the RER of Paris or the S-Bahn of Munich looks like an arbitrary decision. Yes, I know the shapes of the pantographs differ, but that's not relevant to me at that scale.
Yes-- that was another annoying thing that I didn't mention.
As a web application developer, on Java, I think there is a lot to look forward too.

Mostly in JSR 292.

I see a point where I'm running the best of ruby/python/groovy as core parts of a Java deployment environment.

Edit: Not that you can't now, but now this will bring very good reasons to run a hybrid environment combining the best of both systems.
For the record, original author is not allowing my comment on his blog (identical to comment above).

And he has approved a comment that was entered after mine.
If I had to implement something like that, I would make sure that the recipients of these acts of kindness were chosen uniformly at random from the entire workforce, and that the times between acts of kindness were exponentially distributed random variables. It would just feel right to be able to say that our "random acts of kindness" are a Poisson process.

Or better yet, abandon the entire idea and get a rock climbing wall instead. I love those things.
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Oh, that's easy.

If everyone is taxed at 15k a head, then the minimum that anyone can work for jumps to 30k a year, or 20k part time. That means hyper-inflation or mass unemployment. That means that college would incur an additional 60,000 in opportunity cost, costing this country a skilled labor base.

You still need people to man the circle Ks. If you suddenly have to mechanize all of these positions (because the price of labor has doubled or tripled), you end up with even higher unemployment. And I promise you, when you have 30% unemployment and people coming for your head, you will see armed revolt.

It's simple. You do not press on poor people because they are the foot soldiers in a revolution, and your soldiers are their brothers.
"When you eat an unripe banana, its serotonin is free to act upon the serotonin neurons within your digestive tract. The consequence is...usually experienced as diarrhea."

This made me curious, so I googled it. The very first result is a scientific study demonstrating that unripe bananas are a great remedy for diarrhea: http://www.worldchiropracticalliance.org/tcj/2000/aug/aug200...

I stopped reading the article after this, fearing that the author did not do his homework.
reminds me of student clubs where everyone was a VP
The problem is Apple hasn't enabled hardware acceleration for Canvas on Mobile Safari. If this demo was instead using CSS transforms and animations, which are hardware accelerated, it would run locked at 60 FPS no problem.

Hardware acceleration for 2D Canvas would be nice to have, but what would be even better is WebGL. That would blow Flash out of the water for sure. WebGL was recently enabled by default in Firefox 4 nightly builds so it's looking like a lock for the final release; hopefully Apple and Google follow suit.
Thanks. I'd seen it a long time ago, and forgotten about it.

Looking into it now. Seems it gives me choices for the backend including RabbitMQ and Redis.
+1 for gearman we use it to power 40 workers and it run without issues more imp learning curve and installation overhead is low ...
Spirals here. My programming is dominated by efficiency concerns - the whole point is to make it as short as possible, right? It's morally wrong to have waste. And in an information theoretic sense, a more compact representation, by encoding a simpler theory, usually better generalizes over reality - occam's razor (more parsimony.)

And this obsession is also a great weakness of course, because it makes central something that is not central. I have great trouble with some parsing issues (which I think is very algebraic - certainly regular expressions are), because it is just that little bit too complex for me to intuitively grasp the efficiency issues. Instead, I should use (inefficient) algebraic abstraction. But... it's just not quite natural for me, and I just can't quite grasp it.
Doesn't the person that created tarsnap post here?