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Ask HN: Has anyone had negative experiences with zeromq?
I've been looking at zeromg. Originally I was thinking about just using Python Tornado and it to form an http caching reverse proxy, but after reading the guide I really think I'm getting interested in using it for the basis of a scaling architecture.

I've been doing a lot of reading on it, and am now curious if anyone has used it and encountered issues they could share?
Part of the Lorem Ipsum from Adobe is a pseudo-latin translation of a pseudo Rudy VanderLaans text on typography, concerning the legibility of typefaces. It's a rather convoluted insider joke.
In my opinion, it would be very difficult for a national educational system to accurately grade creative projects like these, and even more difficult for these to be standardized across school systems so that the grades could be meaningful to colleges, employers, etc.
That's a systemic flaw, not a justification for redundancy.
Websites can still go online with the wrong content. While it's less dramatic, it's still better to avoid it.
If anyone who read this was like me and generally unfamiliar with how SEO people self select into hat color I did a bit of googling. It would seem that some techniques considered "grey" would be paid link building, cloaking - the act of showing the crawlers one thing and visitors another, and purposely duplicating your competition's content so that all locations of it rank worse due to unoriginal content filters. I'm sure that's no where close to a complete list, but it gave me a sense of where he's coming from. I would have thought that stuff would have been "black", but apparently that's just reserved for SQLi's, comment spam and what not.
Do you mean that the infringers have ignored the takedown request, or do you mean they have all silently complied?
No etiquette. There are rules but even they are nit universally followed.
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You seem to be in violent agreement with the author; his objection is that content creation is better handled by writers than SEO-experts.

That said, if I didn't think I could excite the linkerati with my single phase diode bridge rectifiers, I'd much rather my content was handled by someone focused on long tail search terms appealing to those potentially interested in purchasing single phase diode bridge rectifiers than a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
It's still relatively early in development, but we're excited for our 1.0 release, and there are a ton of new features in the pipeline! It's built in MacRuby (a very fun experiment!) and uses 37signals' API, as opposed to scraping their web content.

Here's a few promo codes for the first ones to get to the thread :)

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Silicon Valley start-up looking to mine the moon
> Don't do anything but decompress for the next few days

Decided to enjoy the great weather here, drive around a lot and play with legos :) The real work starts tomorrow
You don't need it for a designer. You've got one of the cleanest, most elegant UIs I've seen in months.
Yes. It (http://jsoftware.com/) was released under the GPL recently.

There's also Kona (http://github.com/kevinlawler/kona), an ISC-licensed implementation of K.
It seems that way if you think every bill is law before it reaches the Senate.

From this time last year:

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/83059-senate-sitting-on-29...

Maybe the sky isn't really falling?
purposely duplicating your competition's content so that all locations of it rank worse due to unoriginal content filters

I've been a victim of this. I would have classified it as "black" also.
Check web logs for regular visits from a specific IP address. Setup alternate site (eg: on a different port) and use firewall rules to direct http traffic from that IP to that port. Make a small change to the site and verify that the copied site is altered. Then have fun.
I don't see any debunking (just some 'well, it's not -completely- that way') and I see a lot of pointless 'I want to get the name of my company in the media.'
The saying refers to the roundness of the wheel, which has not been re-invented for thousands of years. Changing the material are optimization which deserve much credit but aren't new inventions on the definition of the wheel. Wikipedia defines a wheel as "A wheel is a device that allows heavy objects to be moved easily through rotating on an axle through its center"
Comment #4 by Jonathon on July 22 '10. This is the Cheddar Gateway.
Until recently, the Oxford All Souls entrance exam had one paper which was a single word that you had to write about for three hours.

I gather that they've dropped it now, I assume because it confirmed for many people that the main thing an Oxford education prepared you for was bullshitting on topics you know nothing about.

(Full disclosure: I went to Oxford)
I feel that your view may be as simplistic as the one you're criticizing.

I'm not an SEO, but my understanding of this field from people who actually work in it is that things are not so black and white. The author went a little over the top, but I generally agree with his sentiment that not everything is worth the effort to make it interesting. It really does depend of the results you want and what you have in your wallet.

If you're a little fridge repair-n-resell shop, without the marketing resources and budget required to turn your really bland business into an eye-magnet, I think it would be reasonable to dabble in the cheaper gray areas, provided an acknowledgement of the risks and rewards.
How Richard Feynman Thought
> Another problem is the sheer expense of broadband internet connection. Hosting is too expensive for many would be internet start-ups.

Fun fact: AT&T played a large role in f###ing SA's internet up; with dodgy political deals, lousy infrastructure support and horrific bandwidth caps.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/07/08/26/1642210/How-SBC-ATam...

[edit] Slashdot article link is dead, copy here: http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Telecoms/1090.html
Why would the grades need to be meaningful to colleges or employers? You now have a portfolio of the project(s)... and then possibly some subjective paragraph or two of the teachers thoughts on the issue... and then the employer or college can judge the project themselves.

This reminds me of the college in Yellow Springs, Ohio (Antioch College) where there are no letter grades.. just pass / fail with a teachers write up of your performance to go into your 'portfolio'.. Though I think they closed shop recently because of a lack of funding.
More on the redoubtable Naveen Jain:
http://www.crunchbase.com/person/naveen-k-jain/posts
Future Simple - http://www.futuresimple.com
Disrupting small business software. Just raised $1.1M from great investors in Chicago. Building some crazy things now...
Spending our time around Lincoln Park. About to get a cozy place downtown soon.
That's funny... I'm actually redoing the UI right now. It needs to be easier to use.
Where is the Bios code?
> "using Python Tornado and it to form an http caching reverse proxy"

It sounds like you should investigate http://mongrel2.org/home
The kind of engineering team to be built
Going to miami in June/July.. good meetups?
Hey guys.. I'm going to miami this summer, and I was thinking about going to a meetup, or maybe meet some US startups/entrepreneurs.

Any good ones out there on the east coast?
Er, whoops, it takes about 5+ minutes to load. Seems to work fine.
> Don't need to see the face of the founder.

I disagree with this point. He's handsome and very likable. It adds to the video in my opinion.
I don't think you zoomed in enough, I mainly saw markers on Europe until I zoomed in on the US and other places.
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That's exactly why shouldn't have a "national education system" or standardization of schooling. We need education that fits the student not one size fits all factory schooling. As for meaningful ways for colleges and employers to measure candidates... how about meaningful innovative projects. The last developer I hired completed a innovative project (on contract) for us before we hired him. I would never hire off a resume and interview alone. I'd ask the candidate to show me what he/she has created.
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And of course the Monome http://monome.org/ project has been dedicated to real-world tactile, hackable, and stylish hand-made versions of such an interface.
Facebook bans Ad.ly for ToS violations
The NIH is already actually doing that, at least sort of- any article reporting NIH-funded has to be submitted to PubMed Central, from where anybody can view and download the full text, figures, etc. I believe that there's an embargo exemption that allows journals to hold off on submitting to PMC for a few months or maybe up to a year, but after that it's public.

Right now, it's just NIH, but it's only a matter of time before AHRQ and the other biomedical funding agencies get in on the action, and there's no reason (in principle, anyway) why NSF or DOE couldn't also join in or do something similar on their own.
Maybe they are just smarter than those who do.
Wouldn't having a chronological portfolio of your personal works be valuable information for colleges, and employers?

It'd show development, areas of interest, 'how' you think, and much more. Certainly it's not going to be as simple as looking at a grade, or for a degree, but I think this would be as valuable (if not more) than current assessment.

Of course ranking these projects based on a grade is definitely difficult. Creative works have a certain flavor to them, and not everyone can appreciate it.
That'd be an awkward first day.
About time.

All I can say is good luck, and that I hope to see lots of competition for these guys in the near future.
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I guess an old post from my blog is relevant (I think it was already submitted to HN a long time ago): http://www.mostlymaths.net/2010/03/8-reasons-for-re-inventin...
Where is here? Legos rule... Mindstorm?
That's the problem with standardized education. Critical thinking and creative thinking are stifled, because it's much, much easier to assign grades when every test and project is based on a simple set of criteria. The students either fulfill the criteria, or they don't. Standardized education is good at teaching students how to memorize information and follow instructions, but that's almost all it's good at. That was fine when schools were preparing students to work in factories, but for our current economic system, it's a complete disaster.

If the education system was based on creative projects, employers and colleges would have recognize that the grades are subjective, and not the best signal to judge a candidate by. In fact, grades already a pretty weak signal, since they indicate skills (memorization, ability to follow specific instructions) that aren't nearly as important as they used to be. The most important thing wouldn't be the student's GPA, it would be their portfolio. That's already the case for creative fields, but it's easy to imagine how it could apply to other fields. A portfolio of critical papers for academics, a portfolio of business plans (or, better yet, real businesses) for business students, an investment portfolio (real or virtual) for finance students, etc.
This raises many questions:

- how speculative are they about the rare material they intend to find?

- how are they going to mine and transport them?

- how much is it going to cost?

- will it be worth it in the end, compared to earth mining (which to this day still requires considerable manpower)?

Until such questions are answered, I think it would be more appropriate to look at this more as robotic experiment, not a moon mining startup project.
While I agree that Congress has a legitimate gripe with overstepping unelected officials, I really think that's a separate issue that should be treated independently.

Regarding rules that could unintentionally retard progress - that's not necessarily a bad thing. In the same sense, the FDA retards progress of the pharmaceutical industry. We should be able to decide that some things are harmful enough to individuals and their rights that companies shouldn't be allowed to compete on them, at least beyond a certain level. At the very least, they should be required to make those things as visible to consumers as price, because consumers can only vote with their wallets on things they're aware of.
I have. And honestly if I was in build a product and get something released because I'm building a business mode, I'd be using it I think. It's a pretty good fit for what I was looking for when I started.

Right now thougt I'm thinking learning experience with zeromq, and also I'm seeing how I can build something that can be used to scale an http application beyond a single datacenter/cloud and more. I actually find that pretty exciting and since I have young children and a good paying job, I'm still treating the product I'm working on as a hobby rather than a business.
This hasn't been my experience at all in my own work. While I don't subscribe to the extreme 'unit test every single function' mindset, I definitely find unit testing to be useful for checking the consistency of key functionality on a per-module basis. And that has the bonus side-effect of ensuring that I keep the code structured in easily-tested modules with well-defined interfaces.
I think the idea is good but such a system could probably be gamed easily. I am sure students would start to pad their resumes with great sounding projects without any substance.
No downloads, so I'm forced to read it in the browser for some reason. Duh.
No, that's an example of a hijacking, not a roving gang of looters. Here in SA, hijackings are a risk. Burglaries are a risk. Government corruption, a risk. Roving gangs of looters...not a risk.

SA is a country with reasonably developed cities surrounded by huge rural stretches, at the bottom of the wildest continent in the world. Hard to generalise. However, the biggest challenge for a software startup is more likely to be "raise our game" rather than "avoid the next roving gang of thugs". :)
ZeroMQ is used in the lubyk (formerly rubyk) project: http://lubyk.org/en
When the same mistake is made multiple times, that's an indication that it's not a proofreading error - instead it points to a poor understanding of English (and maybe other things).
Awesome. I'll definitely give this one a spin at the office.
In the context of startups, I think reinventing the wheel makes sense when it's your primary product and you can do better than what's out there. Most of the examples listed in the article fit this. If it's what you spend all day thinking about and working on, you're probably better suited to reinvent it than anybody else.

Reinventing the wheel doesn't make as much sense for something that isn't your core product. For example, if you're trying to create the next personal financial webapp, it may not make sense to embark on a project to create a new JavaScript AJAX framework or message processing queue, since those aren't your product and there are a bunch of decent libraries already. There are counterexamples to this (Ruby on Rails), but in most cases, startups with limited resources need to take advantage of existing libraries/systems as much as possible. Reusing existing technology frees up more time to worry about your core product.
I went to a college that seemed to follow this belief. Sarah Lawrence College, in NY, lets you take 3 classes a semester, where half of your credit for each class comes from a semester long project that relates at least tangentially to the course subject. I ended up dropping out after 2.5 years to move to SF, but I don't think I would have lasted that long if not for the awesome projects I got to work on.

As examples of the type of I did for my CS-related courses: for Computer Science: An Accelerated Introduction (Python), I made an app that parses an iTunes XML dump, hits Last.fm's API for additional info on each track and artist, and uses that data to generate playlists. For Data Structures, I built a 3d printer for the college that uses Java firmware. For Robotics, I implemented a Neural Network-based bot that predicted opponents moves in low-limit Texas Hold Em poker. For another class, I wrote a bot for Eve Online that would perform margin trading.

These projects I found to be more valuable to me once I had started my career than much of the time spent in the classroom.
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I love Perlin noise. There's seriously no better way to generate a lot of classes of textures. E.g. I used it in a pixel shader to get wood grain textures for a maze game I built: http://sites.google.com/site/codybrocious/proto.jpg
I can hardly believe it, but this seems to be for real. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20051425-1.html

Update: different opinion here: http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/2/2011/04/04/web_coder... - see the comment.
The current system is also gamed easily. Anyhow, he seems to be referring to to elementary/high school grading which has little to do with a resume.
I wrote a rough-and-ready jQuery plugin that sticks Perlin noise in the background of an element. This is a great writeup, I wish I had it when I was figuring everything out.

http://www.njl.us/projects/jquery-perlin/
We're not an entire webmail service (just mail scheduling), but the Momentomail ( http://www.kymalabs.com) signup process was so short we were getting complaints that people didn't know what was happening.

1. Click login
2. If you have a google account hit "allow"
3. Done.

There's something to be said about keeping to user's expectations about common processes. Due to simply not needing it at this point in our product, our process is still "weird" compared to a normal signup process, but seems to have a much higher success rate in getting people to work through the process.

Hopefully opera will iterate a little and resolve this.
so, does map reduce work in instant search by index? not in the background indexing of terabytes of data.
Agreed, I think the OP is missing the real meaning of the phrase "don't reinvent the wheel". The phrase does NOT mean "don't improve on the wheel". Nor does it mean, "The stone wheel is and always was great, don't try new materials." It means, "Don't create this whole thing from scratch thinking its original and new, when some research will reveal that it isn't." In patent terms, it means, "Check for prior art."

Linus Torvalds (OP's example) had a deep knowledge of Unix before he began what became Linux. If he hadn't such knowledge, he would have not been successful, for one of the great draws of Linux was its familiarity. In other words, he didn't "reinvent the wheel".
My favorite speaker at TEDxPhilly talked about project based learning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS2IPfWZQM4
T-shirts were one of the ways that I could tell the culture at Apple was changing.

When I started interning there, there would be a new T-shirt for every new project we would ship. The engineers in my group would all where T-shirts from projects past.

By the time I started full time,and my entire tenure there, the T-shirt culture was over (at least in hardware). Whenever someone would bring it up, or request one for the project we were working on, the answer would be "That's not a priority any more" or "We just don't have the budget for that."

Thankfully the new company I work for has some very cool t-shirts!
From a notebook to launching a startup
Bing for iPad: Did Microsoft just introduce an alternate browser to the iPad?
They are saying the same thing as far as that goes, but rick888 then uses that as a jumping-off point to misrepresent a (fairly OT) position he doesn't agree with. He's conflating the arguments of "piracy is not stealing" and "piracy is not necessarily bad," which are only thinly connected (being theft would make piracy almost certainly wrong, but not being theft doesn't confer any moral value either way).
Hmm. I use a password in the similar vein of 1Q@w3E$r

You can most assuredly figure what it is, and the stupid pattern I follow.

Now, one thing I failed to remember is my girlfriend is dyslexic. Unless she hunts and pecks one key at a time, she cannot read, or even comprehend, that password. L33t is also the same way: its unreadable to her. Though, one really cool thing about her dyslexia is we can read the same book together: I read it right side up, and she reads it upside down (she reads faster that way too).
I have to agree. Early on in our page design, we had some nice hi-res pictures we were using as placeholders. The problem was that it made the rest of the page elements look better at first glance than they actually were. Once we knocked out the images, we realized the page looked like crap and we had to go back to the drawing board.

(not saying our page looks great now, but it's definitely progressed from some pretty ragged looking early versions)
If you like this topic check out "Texturing and Modeling: a Procedural Approach" which covers Perlin noise and other similar algorithms. The books shows you how Pixar generates life like surfaces and effects in Renderman. http://www.amazon.com/Texturing-Modeling-Third-Procedural-Ap...
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Why do you say it's an emulator? Looks like a ported game to me. Ported in JS, that is.
re: (1) Not quite sure what to say here, but it might be best to have a short promo video for those with more limited attention spans and a longer one (or multiple ones) that go into more depth related to various features.

re: (2) I look forward to using this feature.

re: (4) I don't love the Teavana app either, only noting the music.
I liked the one with cats better.
How many people are really tweeting?
> Google has a blind spot about the "human element" in usability

I agree with that. I reported a problem with search localization 3 times for the last 2 years to my friend who is working at Google. And monthes after the last time I saw the bad localization behaviour in the search.

I also had to involve my friend for this bug and a few gmail ones because I just could not find the feedback form.

1. That was a one-three years ago.
2. The bad behavior is that Google search invited a new user (without its cookie) with a locale based on geolocation instead of much better indicator - browser accepted languages.
3. This behavior is extremely annoying when you search from the Linux console in Links (or Lynx) that has no yet native language installed.
Use the money to help with any rate-limiting factors. If you don't have any, then ask yourself why you're raising it in the first place.
about as exciting as tea can get.
Throw a gaussian filter on top to add blur and that might do the trick.
Is the new frontier for Amazon the online ad business?
For Tinkercad the http server is just a relatively simple transport layer, the magic happens with how the computation is distributed in the cluster. We'll blog about it once things settle down a bit, at this point we are just trying to soldier ahead with the beta. :-)
An earlier thread on Reading Level:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1993305
Most startups that deal with large data processing eventually becomes a Java shop one day. Get over yourself with the whole language war.
That's why it's so much more fun in javascript.
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Seems a lot like http://steep.it/300 which I really like. So not to say the idea isn't good but has been done :) They are also the makers of http://e.ggtimer.com/ which uses the same "engine".
I also find myself most productive from around 10pm till 4am or so.

Anyone venture a guess why many of us are like that?
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Yes we do. Not just a replica of it with different content though, but a separate product tailored to the needs (and wishes) of science, sharing only some of the core ideas of GitHub. Sometimes I wonder if I should welcome the surfacing of ideas that have a large overlap with my own, or be anxious knowing that my lead has possibly been somewhat reduced.