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"Secondly, the author doesn't make a convincing argument that the fact that the reason why men get all the risk and all the reward is because of something innate, instead of a self-perpetuating social system that actively encourages one gender to risk it all and reap the rewards, while holding back the other gender to mediocrity and risk-free existences. The possibility is raised for a few sentences, and discarded, as if it's ridiculous, and it's obvious that the reasons are inherent."

The article explains that the "innate" reason is simply that, biologically speaking, men are more expendable. A few men and many women can create a large population more quickly than many men and only a few women. Applying risk equally possibly results in a substantially reduced population, while leaving risk mostly to males allows more to be accomplished without strongly affecting population numbers. Great rewards provided for those who succeed in a risky endeavor merely supports the accomplishment of those objectives. I'm not sure where you find fault with this argument.

The premise is undeniable and the only conclusion that is on even possibly shaky grounds is that societies would act to preserve their population, hence leaving men responsible for risky activities. To suggest otherwise does seem "ridiculous," though I'd love to hear someone who disagrees with that and why one would believe otherwise.
For what it's worth, often times if you rent a server, you get no charges for communicating with other servers in the same data center.
IOS 5 Impact on Apps & Media
It just works...for Apple

At Apple's World Wide Developer Conference, Apple announced iOS 5 to be released this fall for iPhone and iPad. Several 3rd party application developers and media companies will be impacted by these new features.

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Newsstand is described as a "new place on the App Store just for newspaper and magazine subscriptions."

Actions speak louder than words:
By including and activating Safari reader by default, Apple is stating to the newspaper & magazine publishers:

Ads are not welcome on the web browser on our devices. As the provider of the hardware and software, we control the entire platform. We believe these ads are a deteriment to the user experience. If you wish to serve ads, please do so through an application.

With this in mind, we have created the Newsstand. While many of your users will still access the content via Safari, they may opt not see ads and your branding and design will be significantly altered, if not removed altogether. We recommend that you direct users to your app.

While developing and building for the leading platform may reduce costs, the newsmedia should support and encourage competition among Apple, Google Android, Blackberry, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook and HP WebOS.

As tablet page views represent a rather small percentage of the overall market, this is not an immediate threat. The push for an app-dominated news media in a market moving toward social discovery will not lead us to maximize revenue from our online.

In a world controlled by Apple, news and magazines and other information providers will eventually lose. Apple's goal is to sell more hardware, on which they make hefty margins.
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Sent. Good luck!
For the vanishing issue, I tell clients that:

a) Look at our portfolio and call our existing clients,
b) that we do most of our work in the first few weeks of the campaign so it is only fair to pay that high of an amount, and
c) I don't want to have to pause the campaign to wait for a check, it just ruins the flow.

I have not really changed our contract in 10 years. It used to just be me and now we have 13 full-time, a few part-time and a few freelancers. So I know it can work and expand the business.

I really think that 50% is needed to start. It helps weed out clients that are hoping to get funds, or get free ideas, once the project gets going. It shows both sides are serious in committing their time and effort.

If you want, I can send you a sample contract. It is US law based, but the ideas are the same for your law. Just fill out one of our contact forms with your email and I can hit you back with the PDF.
Facebook only recently added groups after years in existence, they seem to be doing alright.
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I recently watched "Killer Stress", a National Geographic special, on Netflix. Robert Sapolsky (cited in the article and an awesome crazy-haried guy that lives with the Baboons) talks about how it is stressful to be at the bottom. By taking blood samples, he is able to measure stress levels.

Sapolsky sounds liks a stand up guy. If you read the article, Sapolsky does not discredit the new findings, "The study is both impressive and surprising, said Robert Sapolsky".
The company looks at it's bills at the end of the month and decides how much profit. Bandwidth is irrelevant.
First, welcome to HackerNews. ;)

There are individuals down here who are working on projects, initiatives, and events that will ultimately enrich our community down here. Co-working spaces are growing for entrepreneurs, programmers, and small business owners to get bootstrapped with resources easily. Organizers are creating engaging, educational and inspiring events that are attracting some great attention nationally. There is a need here and figuring out how to address the need is a constant discussion topic among these people.

Personally, I run the South Florida Hack and Tell (http://hackandtell.org) and we're looking to start quarterly workshops that teach a specific topic or technology. There are several who are organizing hack-a-thons and are getting the attention and support of larger companies in Silicon Valley. We have our own conference and tech week in March which has been getting bigger the past few years. Groups of us are involved in the government and city development circles and are working the bureaucratic routes.

If you're interested (I'm speaking to any South Floridian who's interested in growing this community), it's not hard to find out how to contribute to the scene down here and all it takes is getting involved. Feel free to come out to any of the events (http://miamitechevents.com) and start asking what you can do. See what other people are doing. Offer suggestions and insight on what could be done better. Be present.
Any questions? We'll be around to answer them.
Same problem for me.

Anyway, call me mad, but we are too used to believe that each specific domain of knowledge must take years to be fully understood. That is just not true. What is stopping you from going from engineering to economics, or from business to programming, or from medicine to architecture, etc.?

The real shame is that we don't have a proper learning system. Universities are wasting the time and brilliance of millions... the real learning is on the field or sharing with people or reading (alone) good material. And that doesn't take too long...
Okay, I'll spell it out for you in capital letters:

NUMBER OF USER ACCOUNTS IS NOT THE SAME THING AS NUMBER OF INDIVIDUAL PERSONS. THE NUMBER OF USER ACCOUNTS IS ALWAYS HIGHER THAN NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS.

Did that help?
Reed's Law ignores the relative weight people place on connections. Concider most americans there is little difference between everyone in india joining Google+ and nobody in india joining Google+. Having your dentist on Google+ might be helpful but it's hardly on the same scale as your wife.
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Growing their following.
Interesting. By forcing a new product name to be a recognized symbol, you remove all translation issues for the product name itself.

English? Google +. Italian? Google +.

Sneaky/clever.
My ideal ISP: Providing internet access is their only business. They thrive at providing as fast service as they can. If they have to have data caps that's fine; but they don't advertise unlimited unless that's what they provide. They don't inspect packets.

It seems that few of my ideal ISPs exist. My question is: why? Does the market not favor this type of ISP? Or does the other type have a competitive advantage that prevents my ideal ISP from thriving (and if so, what is it?)?
Love the production quality you guys put into these videos. Nice work!
> There is a distinct difference between capping a customer's traffic after a certain point (which I don't agree with either)

Why do you not agree with it? Is it because you feel that you have no choice in the matter, or because you think it is somehow wrong to charge for some things and not others. Once again, this is the ISP's house, and their rules. They can charge $10 billion per byte. You don't have to pay of course.

The big problem I see with this is if they deliberately slow down services like Netflix. Or if by providing their own streaming service, they are exhausting the bandwidth, thus effectively throttling services like Netflix. Otherwise, they have a natural advantage: they are transmitting data from a much closer location. Otherwise, it would be like requiring that your water company deliver you water sourced in the Alps for the same price as from your local reservoir.

EDIT: Back to data caps issues: I love them. Because now if there is any question on what I can or cannot do, there is no fuzzy wording about "appropriate network use", etc. I get 100GB a month or I do not. Anything "unlimited" is evil. My big issue is that companies like Verizon, AT&T, etc. only sell plans that are capped very low: 2GB a month is nothing for the way I use data. Give me 200GB a month and I'll pay $30-45/mo for the privilege. And while you are at it, drop the silly minutes notion. Just provide data.
Also the requirement the user interact with a system dialog for every application installation.

This isn't MUCH different from what market was not that long ago, but now that Google's market does seamless background updates, Amazon's at a bit of a disadvantage. Even updates require the user interact with the system dialog.

It's a small thing, but it does make a difference.

I expect Amazon to "fix" that with their phones coming out, since they will control the firmware. I'm actually surprised they haven't worked with ROM developers to get their market app trusted by the aftermarket ROMs, too.
Any chance of fixing this bug?

http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=840#c6

It's totally bizzare to get other people's Google Code traffic data in your Google Analytics.
"Sales tactics for Rails" :)? You do know that Rails is free, right?

We want to get stories out there that we don't think are covered well elsewhere. We've been sharing our own story, technique, and tools for more than a decade. This is just a continuation of that.

Build an audience.
Thus far, my team has likewise been unable to find a good functional testing suite for iOS. We will definitely be giving this a shot.
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how much money does internet traffic cost?

how much cheaper is local traffic from the ISP versus traffic coming from a server 1500km away?

how much money does it cost to send internet traffic to varying distances.

there's no problem with the argument, but "much, much cheaper" doesn't mean anything in an industry where every byte can be measured and tracked.

we're not asking how much does Shaw feel like billing us today, we're asking how much does 1 Mb of data cost them to send over distance.
I wished there was a new PHP syntax that would escape strings before substituting them. Like this:

escaped_query="INSERT INTO t (a,b) VALUES ('$!some','$!thing');

The "!" means "escape this variable".

That would be the easiest way to create queries with escaped parameters.
There's very little actual substance there to invalidate, and I did discuss some of issues. His analysis of women's creativity is wrong, and is his talk about relative sex drives is spurious. I also think it's a huge mistake to label cultures who have persisted by making over half their population miserable (women and low-status men) as "successful". If you wanted me to take it apart line-by-line you will have to be disappointed.
Google Code's UI needs a lot of work. I just created a test project to try our git functionality. I closed my browser and went to a meeting. After an hour or so I come back, open my browser, and type in code.google.com. I get a nice page but no links to "my projects" or the like. After searching through links on the page I finally had to give up and had to type in the project URL (http://code.google.com/p/myproject) from memory.
Things are pretty different in regards to application quality right now and when we released the first version of our application. Just wanted to share that.
The title made me think of HTML tags.
Thanks for this response, and thanks for the great work on both Couch and BigCouch.
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You are clearly missing the point. It's not that every woman lacks motivation, it's that the trend for woman is to lack a particular motivation to do a certain thing, which - the author points out - is exactly the same behaviour men exhibit.

It just happens to be that this tendency, coupled with differing social behaviours and expectations, is what has produced the current situation.
It would be nice if someone would actually address this instead of just downvoting. I knew my comment wouldn't be popular when I made it, but I was hoping to get some actual answers out of the deal.
It's not a game, it's a todo/shopping list that cost $5. It won't fair well on the Apple App Store as there are already 100's if not 1000's of those apps, many of which have been polished to a mirror finish.
I used to start sweating while doing math homework. I still get hot when I am deep into some complex code.
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Why would you think that? My 12" G4 PowerBook still sees daily use at home; definitely going to check this out.
Thank you - I appreciate it, that's really kind of you.
When all you do is provide a dumb pipe, you're a commodity. When you're selling a commodity, and there is any competition at all, your margins will race down to virtually nothing pretty damn quickly. No one wants to invest billions of dollars to build up the infrastructure for a barely profitable ISP.
> Release your game on the Apple market and let us know how well you do trying to get traction or downloads there.

Considering it's a shopping/todo list and the apple store is already filled to the brim with high quality software in that space (it's always been one of the most crowded spaces in the store), unless they have something very, very compelling to offer I can't see it do much.
phaxio.com 7cents a page. Full api.

Faxing is pretty expensive and we kept our in-house service as we receive well over 1000 pages per day. We're running Hylafax+ with iaxmodems (separate server) connected to our Asterisk based PBX. Soon the fax server and pbx will be running as virtual machines.

We've never been able to find a fax service that is reasonable for our volume.
If you had put in the contract time that the notice should is a month (or maybe more) you might have not have the same problem.

I only need to give one week for my current job, and when I leave, that's probably all I will give.
Complicated + robust + easy to maintain is plain impossible in C++.
I don't think so.

Also, add-ons fit "enhance software" better than "building software".
Your "building software" could also be labeled as enhancing the operating system.
I don't think it's dangerous at all, because 'culture' and 'society' are derivatives of genes. The larger organization of culture and society stabilize the individual in context.

It would take quite a bit of evolution to expel those 'stabilizing' parts from Humanity, if it ever happened. Some people are genetically more likely to be generous, in certain conditions, and others are more likely to be selfish in those same conditions. Change the conditions, and change the probabilistic response. Those types of genetic probabilities keep the chaotic system stable.

The probability of action in context probably fits like a normal curve. Its a balancing act of some flitting genes moving around a median point equilibrium.

I'm making all these assertions from my intuition, of course.
Not to mention that Google+ is delivering photos, large blog posts, videos, link previews, etc. in any given item, whereas Twitter delivers at most 140 characters.
Can't attest to anything about this company but I remember reading about it here on HN: http://www.hellofax.com
http://drpeering.net/white-papers/Internet-Transit-Pricing-H...

So roughly a penny a gigabyte as of 2011.
This sounds to me very much like a "get rich quick" scheme, and pretty much the antithesis of the ideals we hold dear on this site. Your credentials as listed in your "about" box indicate that you are more steeped in the traditions of this place than most of us. The fact that you are even considering such a thing seems weird to me.

Surely you know the "hacker ethic" as much as the rest of us, but the very fact that you posted this indicates that you might need a refresher course. Here goes: Sure you can learn iPhone programming. Just sit down in front of Xcode and figure it out. But in four weeks, on somebody else's schedule? Highly unlikely.
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Anonymous functions and closures in PHP
Hey HN! This is an article I wrote last night after trying to explain closures in PHP to a coworker. I wasn't really able to find a good "here's what they aren't, here's what they are" article on closures from a PHP perspective, so I decided to spend some time and create my own. I hope someone else finds it useful!
At college I worked close to the networking department. It was common knowledge that whenever a computer went to do a speed test, the user would get more bandwith, thus showing a higher speed. It was also the case that faculty got more bandwith during the day. The internet was shoddy and this was just 2 years ago..
Number of customers is critical. When web design studios only have a few customers and one makes up a large percentage of revenue (ex: 10% or more), then you are definitely at the clients whim.

However, if an agency has a lot of customers, each with only a percent or less of total revenue, then its a much more stable platform. You can decline representation of certain clients and they do not effect the total revenue.

Of course, a product line might be better. All customers under one pricing model, customization is limited, and it scales easier. Good stuff.
This would make money, paypal and many other gateways close accounts based on the number of charge backs among other things.
Monopolies are bad.

The infrastructure was paid for by taxpayers.

Your libertarian logic does not apply here.
Does it matter? If consumers want the commodity won't someone step forth to take the small margins? So is it ultimately that consumers don't want this particular commodity badly enough to force the market to exist?
As Assistant Secretary to the Treasury he was placed in charge of the administration of Government relief to the victims of the Irish Famine in the 1840s. In the middle of that crisis Trevelyan published his views on the matter. He saw the Famine as a "mechanism for reducing surplus population". He described the famine as "The judgement of God sent the calamity to teach the Irish a lesson, that calamity must not be too much mitigated. …The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Charles_Trevelyan,_1st_Baro...

In Ireland this man was responsible for administering famine relief, and I respectfully disagree with your contention. Perhaps he felt he was doing net good. What he then felt he was doing and what he actually did are different things. He changed his mind later on, but his policies are believed to have lead to the death of over one million three hundred and eighty five thousand Irish.
> over half their population miserable

Do you have any data to support the assertion that everyone that isn't occupying a high-status leadership role within a society is "miserable"?

You're personalizing the argument and then missing the point.
Ok, this might be somewhat dumb; I'm just starting to get into testing. How does KIF[1] compare to Kiwi[2]?

--

[1]: http://corner.squareup.com/2011/07/ios-integration-testing.h...

[2]: http://http://www.kiwi-lib.info/
>No one wants to invest billions of dollars to build up the infrastructure for a barely profitable ISP.

Google does.
"They can charge $10 billion per byte."

I can think of two times in my life when, if this were the case, I would've been without internet for a very long time.
Paying a student loan of $60K over 25 years at 3.5% interest is $300 per month. Paying the medical bills of $10K over 2 years at 0% interest is $415 per month. Paying the credit card bills of $15K over 5 years at 14% interest is $350 per month. Ugh... $1K in debt payment alone.
This is what data caps have been about all along, at least in Canada - I sincerely hope no one is surprised. I'm just a bit surprised to see Shaw leading the charge, and not Rogers or Bell.

This is what happens when all the major ISPs in a country also happen to be the major TV companies. There's no reason to expect them to just roll over and die while the Internet eats their lunch.
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Coding in the evenings wasn't working out so I have quit the day job and can float by at least the rest of the year. I've been a half decent developer, I can get anything working if I stick my mind to it, but I haven't been finding much satisfaction in that lately.

The idea is to make it on my own, plan B is to find some high energy flexible job -- typing code 9 to 5 was just killing me.

The question: what can I learn or do in 3-4 months for maximum success further on? Code related or not. Take success to mean what it does for you -- happiness, career, status, money.

I have the time and the energy, but I get the feeling that many things I could be doing haven't even crossed my mind. What would you do with 3 months just like that?

Thanks! I vastly appreciate the input.
Great point. My linkedin profile is more or less empty. I do get calls from recruiters but not that many. I did not know about the statistics about people viewing the profile till now.
$5-$15 for thousand subscribers?
Providing internet access is not Google's only business.
Instinct is by definition inherited genetically.

All experts in this field agree that humans inherit behaviour genetically. For example, the rooting reflex.
I'm specifically talking about general AI. I don't think we're any closer to that than when the problem was first posed. Although I'm willing to change my mind if you make a good argument for it.