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20 years ago, we figured when we had this level of computing power available to us at these costs, we would stop worrying about performance. But it hasn't happened at the "cloud" layer; when you're trying to perform at scale, every additional little quirky feature some existing solution may provide may be the thing that breaks your use of it, and the diversity of ways that cloud services can function is quite amazing. From 20,000 feet they may all look the same but down on the ground even two "disk bound" services may have radically different properties and requisite solutions.

You don't know enough to judge whether this was good, necessary, or an effective use of time.
How can he expect any loyalty or dedication from his employees after doing this? If I was working for square, I'd be pissed that the leader of the company just cut a significant amount of time from what you're working on everyday.
You're right, that statement was rather too broad. Thank you for the correction.
If you can't handle the harsh realities than you are not ready to be an entrepreneur. It's the ability of an entrepreneur to not quit when things are down, to inspire others that are ready to give up, and to continue to lead through times of failure and success.
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Come to Flourish 2011 an open-source conference in Chicago hosted by UIC
Camera-on-helmet gives perspective from mountain bikers in BC
Maybe their legal team isn't barred in NJ?
Not really. Apparently you ate not aware that paid apps are not available in Poland. Kind of hard to make a great product when you cab only make money off ads.
Eh, I think I may have somewhat got off track about the original "Atheists ... imagine they are free of faith." statement.

Regardless, I think we both came to agreement that faith is a necessity.

After all, you don't know that the universe wasn't created 15 seconds ago with all of our memories intact.

You're being absurd. What I was trying to get at is that empiricism has its limits (and that everyone uses those "large doses" of faith). The only valid past that can be legitimately (i.e. rationally) studied is the past which has been subjected to empirical observation.

We cannot rationally establish beliefs about a past which we have not (nor any human) ever empirically observed. The scientific method relies on empiricism to validate its claims. Therefore science which attempts to describe a past that nobody has ever experienced is functioning on faith (origins, existential answers, etc). Pretty simple and really all I was getting at for a typical atheist's worldview.
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So the problem was that the trades were broken, not HFT per se.
Not really.

I got my complete Atom box for €120. Core i3 started at €350.
Anonymous wiki-like system for reviews
I recently built and launched a social experiment that attempts to marry the collaborative aspects of a wiki with the organizational tools of HN. Why? Well, to see if more honest reviews can be derived from the voices of many when reviewer identity is (mostly) factored out.

It's not quite a business venture; I'm more interested in building a new recourse for frustrated little guys (such as myself, though I'm actually 6' [hayo!]).

There's certainly a risk that this system will devolve into something vitriolic and mean-spirited. To this end, I've implemented a number of probabilistic and learning-based techniques for harvesting meaning from noise. The system can still be gamed -- it's just a bit harder.

Last, I've already abstracted out the "endpoint" interface (i.e., identifiers that can be tied to opinions; currently digits) and plan to introduce support for URLs and emails shortly.

I'd love to get your feedback both in terms of the site and toward building an initial community. I'm also open to collaboration if you find this project interesting. Oh-- and please be gentle, I am but a humble dork :)

With that said, I respectfully submit for HN's consideration:

http://gossip.ly/
I sympathize. However, it is very hard to completely avoid their products if you love music or movies.
Great start! Here are a few other books I've read recently and marked the crap out of because there is so much good information in them.

- JavaScript Patterns by Stoyan Stefanov
- High Performance JavaScript by Nicholas C. Zakas
- High Performance Web Sites by Steve Souders
- Even Faster Web Sites by Steve Souders

Here are a few I haven't read yet but are on my to read list.

- Object-Oriented JavaScript by Stoyan Stefanov
- Pro JavaScript Design Patterns by Dustin Diaz, Ross Harmes
The actual term for being paid to "not work" is called "being on the beach."
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If you want to present a gift to your loved one, nothing could be better than flowers. Right from joy to sadness, the flowers covers all these emotions. On Valentine's Day, you will present a bouquet of flowers to your loved ones
When the free market comes into play it's called spec work. When through-the-roof fees need to be justified it's called pitching. I love design but the hypocrisy in the game is amazing sometimes.

AIGA even have a position on it. http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/position-spec-work
I've lived in Toronto, Ottawa, London, Waterloo, and Vancouver - and let me say Shaw's service is not the norm for the rest of Canada.

I live in the US now and I can say confidently that US home broadband is well ahead of most of Canada (particularly, Ontario), where the data caps are onerous, throttling and packet shaping extreme, prices sky-high, and your throughput is not anywhere near advertised. Ontario is a complete internet backwater by any measure.
This comes from the fact that the first run of six 9's in the digits of pi comes much sooner than expected: http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~huberty/math5337/groupe/digits.htm... search for 999999 - you'll see it's only 10 lines down. When discovered, this caused a lot of people to conclude that the digits were not random. Of course, with 5 trillion digits now calculated, there is still no bias found toward any pattern. So it is very hard to tell!
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If you want to present a gift to your loved one, nothing could be better than flowers. Flowers are used to represent all the different emotions that we have, from joy to sadness. On Valentine's Day, you will present a bouquet of flowers to your loved ones
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>Last time I checked, BDB was a library. I wanted a server (because a server can cache data structures).

Which begs the question, why not wrap a server around bdb instead of inventing your own B+Tree store?
The amazon link to python programming says Python 3 on the cover. If that is in fact what it's referring to, not sure if that's really what's best to learn right now. I started with 3 then realized I had to quickly downgrade to 2.6.
This Patrick McKenzie sounds suspiciously like patio11, the submitter of this very link...
Nothing.

rtorrent is starving your network bandwidth and disk i/o; video is decoded by gpu. The atom cpu is enough to handle both at once. If you get choppy playback, it will be due disk i/o.
And before these types of sites existed, their customers were using actual clip-art instead of hiring designers.
Your point then that Adsense is "significantly different" seems to rely on the notion that it creates value (aiding the discovery process) rather than "merely redistribut[ing] the benefits of the trade".

You've basically already pointed out that HFT has value of some sort to some people (other than the guys who rake in the cash), so that makes it harder for me to see what the significant difference is.

The way I see this is: 2 groups of people (goog engineers and hfts) engaging in activities that deliver value to some people (and annoy the hell out of others). Should we consider acting in ways to prevent them from pursuing their activities; if so, _why_ are we doing that, and are we even targeting the more egregious transgression?

The "Is HFT good" debate is distinct from the point I'm making , so I'd rather have that in another thread. yummyfajitas, I'd be happy to chat with you offline about that, or in person anywhere in NYC.
Again, I am not disagreeing - there are certainly tons of things that can factor a major price increase - whether it's outside consultants, tons of meetings to iron out office politics, getting input from all stakeholders, etc.

But at a $40 million price tag, someone somewhere is either dropping the ball, or someone is taking serious advantage with billing far more than reasonable for their services.
> If I was working for square, I'd be pissed that the leader of the company just cut a significant amount of time from what you're working on everyday.

If I was working for square, I'd wait and see how it went before getting my panties in a twist.
It's hard to tell because, as others have said, it's not clear that everyone on the list is successfully focusing on two projects.
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Which programming language do you learn first? The one your friends use.

If your friends don't program (or you don't have any friends), learn Python.
I think that for learning programming, Python 3 is perfectly fine. Python really is one of the closest languages to algorithm pseudocode, be it 2.x or 3.x. Furthermore, downgrading to 2.7 is not that hard, if the newcomer decides that they want to start messing with Django or other 2.x libraries.
ok, I understand your point. I think we agree that the HFT firms tightening spreads is good for consumers.
Who knows what motivates a person, but strictly from an opportunity perspective, Twitter is a more certain outcome than Square. If NFC on the phone takes off, then Square technology may soon become antiquated.

This move certainly doesn't bode well for Square, though.
I think politics is too much of a us against them mentality to be successful doing that. They'd probably get bashed from both sides if they tried that.
In my specific case, I have a project I'm already working on, and looking for a co-founder to advance that. That's not to say I couldn't be swayed to work on something else if somebody came along with a compelling enough vision, but I'm not really looking for a new idea.
Can the two really be separated like this?
Ask HN: Please review my demo video of the site for programmers [video]
Some of the speakers at the conference are
- Ryan "Icculus" Gordon - Will talk about Gaming on Linux

- Italo Vignoli - Founder & Steering Committee member of The Document Foundation (LibreOffice)

- Chris Palmer - From the Electronic Fronter Foundation

- Mitch Altman - A famous open source hardware hacker and
creator of the TV-B-Gone.

- Chris McAvoy - VP of technology at Threadless and founder of the Chicago Python Users Group

- Gregory Miller - From Open Source Digital Voting
Microsoft spends $7.5m to buy old Net addresses
What happened to Ev? I thought he was supposed to be the product guy.
Is it a great PR response? It seems to me that a move like this helps solidify the #dickbar as a failure, and shows the company acknowledges it needs to fix the direction (which they have not been willing to state thus far).
congrats. performance-wise it does not look like the best but durability and consistency would be the key points.

> default 128 MB memory limit on kvlds.
this can be changed i suppose? i hope docs will be coming.

> services requests upon it from a single connection; and a request multiplexer (mux) which accepts multiple connections and routes requests and responses to and from a single "upstream" connection.
does this mean it support multiple requests in one round-trip?
I'm also working remotely, and it's absolutely fantastic. When people don't have to commute, and live where they want, happiness level is through the roof.

We also use Skype mostly for communication (although it's pretty shitty when it comes to searching chat logs).
or the best discussions on earth for the ultimate language circulate :)
If a group was proposing that residential areas have a speed limit, and you came back with "ah, and only horse-drawn-buggies should be allowed", that would seem rather irrelevant remark, yes? It would be rather beside the point and couldn't really defeat the proposal due to not actually talking about it.

Said another way, the first comment appears to be an attempt at a reductio ad absurdum on banning HFT, however, it does not establish that the absurd conclusion is a clear, logical extension of the position advanced by the other side.

Said more in line with how I interpret the previous criticism, you wanted it to be obvious that the other side is on a slippery slope. However no such slope exists; common sense allows for at least one clear stopping point between the actual proposal and your "we've slipped down into absurdity" zone.
This is a very solid point. Having an internally developed language like Go (which is, according to Rob Pike, being used "for real stuff" inside of Google), the creator of Python (one of the most widely used languages in recent years) and the creator of Java (one of the most widely used languages for at least a decade now) under one roof has to be an embarrassment of riches for any group intending to innovate in the programming language space.
if you go the WDTV route, make sure you get the latest one, WDTV Live Plus, as it also streams Netflix. The interface/remote is the biggest issue, I'd like to be able to control with iOS or Android device.
> "It's kind of like the difference between an uncaring asshole and a libertarian"

It seems like he's both - if he wasn't an asshole and was simply a libertarian, he'd move to get this whole function deprecated and remove it from the codebase in due time.
I feel like the burden of "explaining" should be on the person who made the slippery slope argument. The linked articles give arguments why HFT is harmful. You didn't really add anything to that discussion except to mock it, so I feel like the ball is still in your court.
It feels cheap not because the blurb but the way how it's written. What I would have done is providing a copy of the e-mails he's discussing and at the end of the article add the plug. "Join AppSumo.com if you want to receive our infamous e-mails stuffed with great deals". (Obviously I'm not a copy-writer)
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As often happens on forums, I'm responding to the comment I replied to. And I'm only saying what I actually said. I'm not saying HFT should be banned; I have no opinion about that either way. But I do feel it is a waste of talent.

I used murder as an instance of misuse of talent. It is an extreme case, obviously, but if you want to prove the existence of something (in this case the possibility of wasting one's talents), the fastest way to do it is to use an extreme example, since for existence proofs any example will do.
micro-finance. sure, lots of controversy in this space, but people are trying and investments are being made.

there's a lot of systemic problems too like bureaucrats and lack of collaboration between universities and industry (when was the last time you read a published paper in school coming out of IIT?)
Typically there is a (very low) order fee - off the top of my head, I'm not sure if it's levied by the broker or matching engine.

There is also a limit on the number of orders one can place. Your broker will typically demand fill rates of at least 0.5-1% and will impose limits on the number of orders you can place in a rolling window.
Ideas vs execution is a long standing debate around here, and you make a valid point about the bias. All you have to do is a quick search for "Show HN" posts to see what execution of bad ideas look like. Don't get me wrong - Execution matters. A lot. But the worth of an idea matters equally.
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I could think of nothing more satisfying.
Well if you love music or movies, you can easily avoid PAYING for their products.
There could be legal relevance in expert testimony - "We considered this aspect obvious", "There was prior art in this aspect", etc.
> Are they counting the spam zombie and phishing botnet industries into this number? Microsoft made them possible...

Various malware infection modes were impossible (not really - it was just that nobody had been that stupid) before Microsoft invented ActiveX or started passing e-mail through script-enabled browser rendering engines. I remember making lots of e-mail virus jokes before Microsoft launched that Outlook 97 add-on (IIRC).

> A malware industry would have a hard time exploiting a diverse ecosystem like the one that existed prior to Microsoft's dominance. No single computing platform had the 90%+ share Microsoft has and writing multi-platform malware is hard. In fact, no single platform had more than 50%.

Malware economics are similar to off-the-shelf software - you target the largest base. Without a base large enough to provide for quick and constant reinfection, botnets would die quickly as its nodes are taken down or recovered. To survive in a fragmented ecosystem, malware would have to be cross platform and much more contagious and, therefore, harder to develop. If you make malware development too costly, malware developers will find some other criminal activity to do.

> Apart from that, this is not even blogspam (submitted by a bot, or a very loyal, bordering obsessive, reader http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=dsdirect) - the post itself is so small as to qualify it as a tweet. A tweet linking to a white paper sponsored by Microsoft that appears not to even be mentioned on IDC's website.

The article is a single paragraph pointing to a PDF of a white paper sponsored by Microsoft downloaded from Microsoft's site that, surprisingly, shows Microsoft as the great benefactor of the market.

> But you can download it from Microsoft Presspass, of course.

> http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2011/mar11/03-24IDC....

These are self-explanatory.

> edit: to all who say criticizing Microsoft brings good karma, this post serves as a warning. Burn, karma, burn.

And so is this.
You shouldn't say trojan horse in the computer field, it has too many connotations.

Interesting idea, but with msn, gtalk, facebook and the hopefully-still-upcoming BBM, multi-network clients should rule.
Ask HN: Why are Java developers so boring?
Over the past few months I've interviewed about 2 dozen Java developers. I'm leaving a consulting position with a large online auction company and they've asked me to help interview replacement candidates. They mandate use of Java for all software development. I don't generally stereotype, but I've become very frustrated with the type of candidates I'm interviewing. They are just so boring. While most of them know Java well enough, they don't seem to know or care about much else. They are usually very narrowly focused, accustomed to working on large teams where they manage some little cog, have little understanding of full stack web development, and don't seem very passionate about software development. I'm new to interviewing, and I'm interested to know if this is typical, or if we are just getting a bad batch of candidates.
Someone, I think it was TechCrunch made a really good point. The money on the domain names is not gone. They have become assets to the company and they can sell it again if they do not succeed. All the buzz around the company probably does not hurt value of the domain names either.
Lying to a judge is not typically a good strategy. SCEA likely has more details about who blickmaniac is; they just haven't disclosed them yet.
my css is pretty simplistic like this also.

one thing to do is to place class names based on the url with your id's. the class name can be generated from the request_uri (assuming the html code is in a view/template/include).

example: <div id="container" class="contact_us">

then if you need tweaks to a specific page, just add
#container.contact_us { foo: bar... }
"And what are 'copywriting best practices'? Something tells me Neville is a factitious fall guy."

They laughed when Neville sat down at the keyboard, but when he started to write...

In all seriousness though, read On The Art of Writing Copy by Herschell Gordon Lewis, and also Tested Advertising Methods by John Caples. By reputation they are the two best books on copy writing and advertising ever written.
I like what I do already, but I'd work with you if I didn't.

The reasons:

- comment about Rob Pike

- kid 606 album cover as icon

- expressed rational contempt for e4

- from NC

... [(99, svn), (23, emacs), (17, ant)] should be the answer to an interview question...

Best of luck with your project.
poor google
This actually frustruates me because it indicates the author has the reverse problem - caring about and evaluating a candidate based on whether they ask him questions at the end of the interview. I'm really skeptical this is a good screen for any kind of future performance. Interviewing is hard, but more often than not the mistake I see people making isn't ignoring what matters; it's failing to ignore what doesn't matter.
I love you guys and the whole Boilerplate projects. Amazing work; really helps me learn best practices!
I found the whitespace rules on Python frustrating when first beginning. I'd be inclined to do Javascript/HTML first. It's fun, easy, and very visual.
I’m greatful the announcement has enough lead time to book a flight and a hotel.
I know you say "Data sources: Yahoo Finance, Crunchbase, Wakoopa, RescueTime, Flurry, Admob, Distimo, Alexa, Quantcast, Compete, others," but they sound like completely disparate sources. Can you provide the excel file (or whatever spreadsheet you used) to compute this? Or did you use GRETL?
C++ - after that learning every other language is a matter of hours.
I keep reading too much from the unwashed masses about how this throttling works. ("They see the process that does P2P and throttle anything coming from the same process." - I do not and will never install ISP software on my systems.) Since the ISPs are not forthcoming with that information, could someone do an excellent writeup on the different throttling methods and then provide a left-field guess as to what these "access providers" are doing?
This is a classic case of paying attention to the wrong metrics. The unsubscription rate went up. But so did the sales. And yet, the author is paying attention to the unsubscription rate. Not the sales.

(Yes, it would make sense to pay attention to the unsubscription rate if the author shares the historical data of those unsubscribers. Did they make a lot of purchases in the past and the long salesletter is just bugging them off - which is reducing the "life time value" per subscriber?

But I don't think that data has been collected. (Or the author would have shared it with us in my opinion...) So - this to me feels like a decision made keeping the wrong metric in mind.