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I'm too old for this. Looks like a good site - but something I would never ever use or want to see.

My 6 YO might like it though.

Maybe you could have faces kids really would recognize - like cartoon characters and what not - as opposed to osama bin laden and other boogie men.
I believe it was 5.0 and 5.1.
Legal docs should be written like code.
I've been getting a bit crossed eyed reading a bunch of crap legal documents. I now recognize patters and see that words, phrases, and structure have specific meanings. A lot of that are definition statements and conditional constructs.

Now I see lawyers as programmers who write really crappy code with an ancient language and grammer.

It would make a lot of sense to modernize their tool set and structure their documents like well written code.

"Your honor, the defendant violated the contract on line 325 by failing to perform the 3rd AND condition."
I wonder why the guide didn't list a license to use if attribution is important to the author. (Or maybe it did and I missed it.)

(Wasn't the BSD license effectively cc-by but for code?)
It's probably more likely to be a catalyst for vendors adopting PayPass.
Yikes. If you're smart, you'll do your diligence and not rely on one person's experience with ActiveMQ. Remember, it is an Apache project - so if something aint there, feel free to fill it in (re: documentation).

I can't believe the ActiveMQ/FuseSource guys weren't willing to work it out with David either. Perhaps there's a bit of open source/commercial software wrangling behind this story. Won't be the first/last time.
Why'd you write one from scratch instead of just using JBossMQ or HornetQ or something? ActiveMQ is far from being the only open-source message queuing product, even if you only consider JMS compliant ones.
My phone and my wallet have been together for 3-4 years now (in a totally different way):

http://imgur.com/utmU6

It's nice because if the phone dies, I can still access my ID, credit cards, and bus pass. The idea of an electronic version is very nice though since it can expand to so many things without taking up more space. With this physical wallet, I just carry the bear essentials (ID, Credit/Debit Card, Insurance, Public Transit Pass)
Isn't this common in Japan? Anyone want to chime in with their experiences there?
http://www.google.com/wallet/how-it-works-security.html
I love APIs that offer JSON instead of XML. Especially when I'm programming in PHP, parsing XML is so tedious. On the other hand, using json_decode is a pleasure.
Python 2.x doesn't have parameterless super() so apparently most of the article's code doesn't work with old versions.
In CPython, calling super() has about the same cost as calling any other builtin like len() or int(). The MRO itself is precomputed and stored in inst.__class__.__mro__.

Contrasting dict.__setitem__ with super().__setitem__, the latter adds one function call. In addition, both forms require a builtin lookup and an attribute lookup.

In PyPy, much of the overhead of builtin lookups, function calls, and attribute lookups is automatically optimized away.
The Lua C implementation seems very conservatively written for portability and maintainability, but it's not slow either.

Handwritten assembly really can be faster than compiler generated code. The proof is that we can always look at the output of the compiler and invest more time improving on it by hand, whereas the compiler is required to complete in a short amount of time and usually without actually timing its code on the target machine.

Now if you take someone experienced in hand-tuning assembly like that and ask them to write the fastest possible code using a compiler, they're going to beat the pants off an ordinary coder who hasn't been benchmark everything he writes all along.

But the real lesson here is that Lua is just freaking awesome.
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Wow. With the first release itself Google is doing many things. Not just payments but also offers, coupon redeeming etc. This is devastating for all the apps offering offers, coupons etc. The worst part (or best part for Google) about this is its all Google. Third parties could integrate NFC payments, but with the Google app doing the exact same thing and more, all the other apps are now redundant.

EDIT: Square just started pushing into the bigger retailers with a POS system. Its kind of screwed now with this too as Google offers a superior alternative and a bigger brand name to merchants.
super() was introduced in CPython 2.2, but it changed in Python3: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3135/. The link you posted uses super as "super(cls, instance)", but the main article uses Python 3's super, which can just be called as "super()", and it figures out the class and instance.

So no, super really has changed, and the syntax in the article does not work with very old version of Python.
seems to work fine ;) ... thanks
activemq should offer higher level guarantees about reliability. zeromq is simpler. you can argue that activemq has things you will probably end up implementing yourself on top of zeromq, or that zeromq has less to get wrong...

another way of saying the same thing, which illustrates the cultural differences:

- activemq is intended to be used in "the enterprise". it tries to implements a logical ideal, which is a reliable infrastructure that services can use without being coupled to each other - without worrying about whether messages were received, or exactly who they go to. to reduce complexity it uses a central broker (so you send messages to a central "hub").

- zeromq is intended (imho) for programmers that want to wire things together. it's less concerned with abstractions and more with providing something simple clear, simple and flexible that can be understood and used well. to reduce latency it uses direct connections between peers.

from that viewpoint, you can see that the two are both orthogonal and yet similar... (disclaimer: i haven't used either, but i used work on an ESB so have a vague grasp of what's going on. please someone correct me if this is wrong - i might as well learn as i lose karma ;)

ps rabbitmq is somewhere in the middle and was (i think) originally more performance-motivated (i believe it's used in finance for example - when speed might be critical).
"this does not change the fact that privatization is theft. The former owners of Soviet facilities - the Soviet people - were not adequately compensated for their loss."

There's also the original theft that enabled the existence of the Soviet state -- the theft of land and wealth from the former land holding class starting in 1917. The collectives were created from their lands, and they received no compensation -- in fact in many cases they were persecuted and murdered. Some excuse this breach of property rights by saying that the aristocracy was corrupt, evil, etc., just like today's elites are. It's only the communes and collectives who were "good" and whose property rights should be respected.

Should everyone be equal economically regardless of merit? The guy who does nothing all day long, and the guy who works hard to build a successful dairy firm -- they all should receive the same salary? It is this type of economic thinking that ruined the USSR - when there's no reward for doing good work, then there's no reason to do good work. Why should I work hard when I can rest and get my guaranteed salary?

EDIT: Please attack the arguments not the messenger. I've edited my comment to do the same.
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Thanks for grasping the point. More Privacy, more User Control and NO Apps & Games would simply be one way to solve the usability issue.

Right now, social networks are like junk food for humans. You know what I mean. I would like to solve that flaw sooner rather than later.
I always say "co-founder". It's accurate and unpretentious, but still conveys the important fact that I speak for the company.

Sometimes I use "co-owner" for non-startup people, since "founder" is a somewhat startupy term.
From the Oatmeal: "What should I do about FunnyJunk.com?"
Well now, that's anyone who currently has no employment, and is applying for a particular job ("actively looked for work"), isn't it?
Unfortunately, the problem of finding a minimally equivalent regex from an /alt1|alt2|alt3|.../ form is known to be PSPACE-complete ( http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/SWAT.197... ), as well as not finitely axiomatizable ( http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304397597... ).

That means the naïve SMT-solver-based approach in genex will not apply to this problem... Links/suggestions to relevant research welcome! :-)
I agree. Unfortunately you did not back any of your outrages statements with anything but you being born in USSR.

All I wanted to point out is that it is not enough.
I license all the photos. Cartoon characters are not an option, unless I create my own.
"By John C. Dvorak", staying true to form.
I have never, nor will ever lie on a resume or an interview.

I just cant do it. If you lie about a skill, likely that will be the one skill they hire you for having.

I have lost opportunities where i could have easily lied or bullshitted my way into the job - but that is just not in my character.

I think that anyone who lies on their resume is pretty low in my opinion.
I think it's worth it for a very small number of people. They note that a top school will cost you $50k per year in tuition. If you figure 2 years for an MBA, that's $100k. If you invested that for 30 years at 5% interest, it comes out to $432k. Very close to the difference in lifetime earnings between a Bachelor's degree, $2.7 million, and an MBA, $3.2 million (all numbers are from article).

I also think an MBA has become a bit diluted. Lots of people have them, and that's reduced the wow factor. Heck, having an MBA is even the butt of jokes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcoDV0dhWPA). Now, I'm not saying an MBA is bad, but I don't think it has the same prestige that it did 10, 15, or 20 years ago. There are definitely still some industries and some people who view them in very high regard.

I don't think it's worth getting an MBA "just because". Analyze the industry you work in and your career goals, and decide based on that. For most people, however, I think you might be better off getting the knowledge on your own (something like Josh Kaufman's Personal MBA concept (http://personalmba.com/manifesto/)).
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I absolutely understand the issue of being resource constrained.

It seems like this is buzz-worthy, (like http://mailchimp.com/omnivore/), but this pitch is nerd-focused, not potential-customer focused. If you pitch to nerds, you want a github link. If you pitch to potential customers, highlight the benefits that are now possible due to this innovation.

At least in our batch, we got drilled this repeatedly: Don't talk features. Talk benefits.
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In case you are interested in fast, streaming parsing of JSON, check out the yajl library (http://softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2010/09/18/ijson/en/)

In Python, I use the ijson bindings for yajl (http://softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2010/09/18/ijson/en/).
Here is a blog post demonstrating ijson: http://thechangelog.com/post/1169335384/ijson-parse-streams-...
To do that query on Neo4j, you would need to store in memory on one machine the entire Twitter social graph, all the people who tweeted every URL ever tweeted on Twitter, and then do the computation on a single thread. Neo4j can't handle that scale.

The reach computation on Storm does everything in parallel (across however many machines you need to scale the computation) and gets data using distributed key/value databases (Riak, in our case).
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I've used RabbitMQ 2.4 in production with queue lengths of several hundred thousand. Each queue item can be as large as 100 KB. RabbitMQ's memory usage never went beyond ~150 MB.
What you are describing does not sound at all practical in the long run. The complexity of syncing up many devices is far worse then dealing with a occasionally fussy desktop manager. Running them as dumb terminals might work if it was actually possible but I'm still not sure it would be practical in most cases (I have thought that being able to send a workspace to another device would be cool though). I realize everyone has their taste but, it sounds to me like you just need a second monitor.
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How do you license a photo of osama bin laden? Is he licensed from his employer, the CIA?
Yeah, I don't know what else it could be. It's up to the distribution maintainers then. It's a straw man. ActiveMQ does just fine. I have a very high volume implementation that I haven't touched in almost 2 years.

That it's not production ready is pretty big claim. I don't want my clients reading this and getting all jittery on me.
The Economist Science columnist, Babbage, had an article about this today as well.

http://www.economist.com/node/21518365

It has a little more context than the wired article.
"We believe that a carrier should not dictate your experience on your phone. That should come from the brands you trust. A carrier should help enable that, not dictate it."

Is that a dig at the recent Orange/Barclaycard stuff in the UK, or has something similar gone on in America too?
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> One article I read about this mentioned that it takes several passwords and a significant time investment just to _open the camera_

I can't tell. Are you being sarcastic?
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Ah, dear old WebSphere MQ. Generally awful, bad high-availability story unless you invest in heavy-handed clustering at the OS level. Great for enterprise integration if there's a mainframe around, I suppose. Documentation: quantity over quality. They do have a lot of documentation to show for the cost of the product. Written in C++, so more memory-efficient than messaging middleware written in Java.

Excuse my ranting -- I'm a middleware system administrator and WMQ is the necessary evil at my workplace.
Investing in products and services that you like and use is a profit-driven investment strategy.
Dont call it "the Hadoop of" if it is not open source. Hadoop is notable as an open source project not actually a new idea...
I'd rather read the other comments than musing by some 'old timers' about how far HN has gone downhill. Not sure whether I need to mention Eternal September or not.

Your perspective reminds me of some people on Stack Overflow who have a particular concept of how everyone else should post. If the people here don't live up to your ideals, maybe you should invite someone who works for Newegg to come comment. Hoping everyone else is going to stay quiet until the commenter of your dreams drops by probably isn't much use.
Au contraire. The more ham-handed Chrome becomes with its UI decisions, the more I appreciate Firefox. I just hope Firefox doesn't follow the same route (give my my address bar, dammit).
Given that stalled adoption thusfar seems to have mainly been a Catch-22, these might well be the same thing.
I thought Netscape used to charge for the browser - it was $35 if I recall correctly. Hence, MS was plotting to cut off their 'air supply' by giving away IE, removing NS's source of revenue.
Incubators, Incubators, every where - Is there an incubator bubble?
Rather than lying, why don't you put the ecommerce technology under a different section in your resume.

eg.
"Technologies I'm proficient in:
Python/Tornado, Java/Spring/Hibernate

Technologies I have some knowledge of:
IBM Websphere"

Play it smart. There's no need to lie. If you really are good, build a case for it - in case they ask you to prove your experience. Prove to them you will sweat it out and prevail, as you have with other technologies in the past.

See, the #1 thing that I've learned in interviews is - that it's a two way conversation. Make a case and they will listen, even understand.
Well, most.
(I'm the author of Storm)

Your criticism is totally fair. People have been curious about Storm so we wanted to provide a little bit of information about it. We'll have demos soon, and of course it will be open sourced within a few months.

If you're curious about our credibility, I think our other open source projects speak to the quality of software we produce:

https://github.com/nathanmarz/cascalog
https://github.com/nathanmarz/elephantdb
I'm not sure if this is the same thing, but there's also a new company called Hadapt (the commercialization of HadoopDB). It's about adapting Hadoop for real-time analytic SQL queries by putting local SQL dbs on the Hadoop nodes and then using the Hadoop plumbing. It's based on Daniel Abadi's research, he's a really smart guy.
The prefetching must be quite aggressive :)
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Results coming soon I hope?
I suspect that's what Google does too. I see lots of example.com/fklsdfasdifo type requests from Big G in my logs.
Hideho everybody. I hope you like it. If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer anything that doesn't breach a confidence with them.

We're also going to be publishing a lot of good stuff in the coming months, so if there is a particular topic you'd love to see covered, we'd love your feedback.
Ok, you've got my attention. I didn't think I could control the number of people on FB until I've built something people want more.

Are you saying I should start building now or are you really saying that I need to solve this "number of people on FB" problem first?
you seem to believe that everyone should be equal economically regardless of merit.

Interesting implication. It says a fair bit about you, actually. That, like most people on this site, you place every person whose thoughts you read into one of a small number of mental "boxes." I, for instance, am apparently a "Looter" from Ayn Rand's novels.

Not everyone is a character from a morality play. Please try to remember this. Not everyone is an uncritical defender or mindless opponent of this or that fashionable doctrine.

the guy who works hard to build a successful dairy firm

How about the guy who works others hard to build a successful dairy firm? And his grand-children? What should they receive? This is the real issue regarding the aristocrats of any nation.

According to some, the USSR began to perish (through widespread cynicism of its own foundational myths) when it finally built a fresh aristocracy of inherited privilege - the Brezhnevian "nomenclature."
Google demos e-wallet app with Citi, MasterCard, First Data and Sprint
NFC payments are not actually new in America - AmEx and Mastercard have been using it for years (that's what the little chip in AmEx Blue cards is for), so the infrastructure is largely already in place. Google's method of keeping your information in a centralized location and the idea of building it into your cellphone instead of a card is the biggest change.
You are correct that the founders don't need to consult me and I shouldn't be complaining. I do however have a sense of ownership over the product.

I can detach myself from what is going on and just do what I am told. If I adopt that strategy, the only sensible option is to maximize my income and work on short-term contracts.

Which was my other option as I stated.
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Two years? Why'd you stick with it so long? ;)
Actually in that video it's not working yet.

He gives a preview of it at 5:40 but it's a little rough.
The current version appears to dislike unicode characters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petar_Dobrovi%C4%87 causes an error.
man, I have been thinking this for years. If ilaws were written in code there would be no reason to have judges or lawyers. We have those only because spoken language is ambiguous and open to interpretation.
If it's really essential to the primary functionality of the site, then code it as part of the primary functionality of the site and you will be following the law.

If you need to run usability experiments, you will need explicitly consenting participants.

Things will be harder to do. You will probably have to invent some clever new ways to do things that used to be trivial. And yes, users may lose out on some stuff, but they are probably willing to make the sacrifice.

As usual, it's the consumer's job to tell you what they want and it's the business's job to figure out how to give it to them. But instead of voting with their dollar, they are voting with their vote.
I think that's a fitting description.
The US isn't a paradise, but we do have a system of law that is reasonably just and at least makes an effort to respect the rights of its citizens.

As the US has transitioned to an imperial power, some rather obvious warts have developed, but the democratic republican (lowercase is intentional) tradition persists.

Human society has shifted dramatically since industrialization, and we haven't perfected the system since then. The US and other Western nations aren't the ideal, but I think we're closer to it than the Soviets were or would have been.
I can't stand PHP's DomDocument OR SimpleXML. I think it's mainly PHP's libraries at fault, though - I've made short work of tasks that were quite annoying in PHP using Beautiful Soup in Python.
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Well, you just change to the Python 2 super call form and it works fine. The substitution hardly requires a master programmer...
Sony usually plans to have a console last 7-10 years.

About a year after the launch of a console, there are off-the-shelf computer systems for the same price that are just as powerful. And of course, 7 years after, the console is completely blown away.

I wonder if they finally realized what die-hard gamers have known for a decade, or if they just can't take the losses any more and don't have a choice?
I wonder if we could say everything leads to science. I also reached philosophy via science.

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Use of force
Conflict resolution
Negotiation
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I would guess he is also using questions to test/signal expertise. If you really know what you are talking about, no awkward pauses. The 10-years of experience guy with the video application startup...iirc no interruptions.
FTA: "a cookie which was set to welcome a user back to a website, or to record what pages they view would not be strictly necessary"

I can imagine a good case for saying this kind of thing is essential from a usability perspective. Who's to say if it is "strictly necessary" or not?
If I had my way (and the time to do it) I would drop Wordpress and write my own blog tool.
I find fascinating that if you end up on "Mathematics_education" than you have no chance of getting to "philosophy". (or "physics" is enough, apparently)
Horrible analogy; this is hardly wholesale slaughter of human beings.