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First, i agree with basically all of your logic & reasoning as you've laid out. However, you lost me at the conclusion:

If you accept a) (which is not much of a stretch - sleeping with other men's wives
is definitely a risk-seeking behavior that increases genetic success for men)

The reverse is true as well: sleeping with people not your husband is a risk-seeking behavior that also increases genetic success for women. But the way you've phrased it is so loaded in "the way things are" that it's hard to see just how prevalent the cultural norms are ingrained.

For instance, imagine a world where it's all switched around: women are assumed to be the risk-taking, sexually aggressive gender, and society is organized in a pretty clear matriarchy, women make 30% more than men, etc. A woman who sleeps with another woman's husband, while certainly "more obvious" ("how is she pregnant, again!") could be just as 'culturally accepted' as men sleeping with other men's wives are here. There are certainly examples in the animal kingdom -- female dominant, where females maximize their genetic 'success' by successfully having children of many males. "female dominant animals" is a very rich google vein ;)

So a better question to ask is "why did that not happen with homo sapiens sapiens?"

Please note also the huge amount of cultural assumptions about behaviors, norms, & risks, in the tiny sentence fragment "sleeping with other men's wives". Which implied pronouns are the active ones there, which are the passive objects acted upon, etc.
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No one here mentioned the likely reason that the ads were blocked by the ad review system (a combination of ML and people in India or something). I don't know exactly how it works, but I'm pretty sure it is risky for Facebook to allow ads to run with trademarks that the advertiser does not own.

The Google+ logo is a trademark.

Can he try running an ad with just his face? It still might get disabled (in which case it probably is for competitive reasons) but I suspect that would take a lot longer... Especially if he doesn't say Google+.

"I have moved to another social network. Click here to find me now" would likely get past filters.
South European here (thus I have no idea what it's like to deal with ice)! So what happens if you go on holidays for a couple of days?
Except I see plenty of car dealers that sell used cars from different manufacturers on their lot. There's even an Acura dealer in my town who dedicates the entire front row of their lot to selling used cars that are always something other than an Acura. To a dealer, a car sale is a car sale.
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Konoar, you are wrong.

What others have noted here needs to be considered. It's not the fact that Facebook is blocking ads that point to google plus, it's that they (apparently) have chosen a particular competitor and applied a completely different set of rules that others are not bound to. That, by definition is anti-competitive. I'm not lawyer, and certainly wikipedia should be taken with a healthy dose of common sense, but these are the first two sentences of the entry on United States antitrust law:
"The United States antitrust law is the body of laws that prohibits anti-competitive behavior (monopoly) and unfair business practices. Antitrust laws are intended to encourage competition in the marketplace."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law

Antitrust is EXACTLY the same thing that Google is now being investigated for by the department of justice... by promoting an unfair pricing / ranking schematic against competitors by ensuring their own ads are listed higher than those of the competition. (Yelp, I believe).

If I were facebook, would I find a way to stop Google+ ads? You're damned right I would, but I would be subject to the same scrutiny of those who comment here.

This is not a no-brainer. This is a big deal.
Very nice; I like it.

In Boston, they'd send a fella 'round to cut your schedules down. Public workers don't like being shown up.
The guy needs development help. This looks like it could really be the Dropbox/Wuala killer, at least as far as techies are concerned.
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Look towards iOS 5, you could easily say Apple outsourced their notification system R&D to Google. And that is the problem with software patents. Everyone borrows bits from here and there, sometimes there is just one obvious way of doing things, sometimes there is parallel inspiration. As long as peope aren't actually stealing code or intentionally trying to deceive customers, it is a pretty large grey area.
Well, I don't know about that site but I can vouch for a two week learning curve - considering you have previous web/desktop experience.

I started helping a friend two weeks ago. Goal was to develop an app that supports push notifications, audio analysis through FFTs, GPS tracking + plotting, and very basic peer to peer stuff through Bonjour.

Step one was to download XCode 4 (VERY impressive piece of software btw).
Then I read and implemented http://bit.ly/hrB2Ku. I've gone back and read that doc about 20 times now - Apple terms delegates weirdly (I came from C#; where delegate drive events, not inheritance)

Then I checked out http://bit.ly/o4DTTs and was yet again very impressed! Apple provides a basic hello world to each one of its frameworks (Now I finally understood the big deal with iOS-BlackBerry dev tools).

Biggest roadblock with me was Objective C syntax and its dynamic nature, but that I picked up through PDFs at http://bit.ly/gLYZUV - didn't have patience for long videos.

Although Google is a huge help (duh!), most of the stuff there is for older SDKs. I'm learning iOS4 stuff mostly through Apple Docs and Sample Code. Articles at http://bit.ly/mBa1zT are also excellent in terms of quality.

Finally - WOW! iOS is a pleasure to develop for. The hardest part is app design, SDK literally takes care of all implementation ! I'm not even completely finished my current project and I already have some ideas for my next app!

All that said, iOS coding still isn't intuitive to me. That should come with practice - another 2 months I would think.
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sure, but what would counter that argument effectively? How would you do it? How do you say that all of the histories of all the other peoples touched by the British Empire would have actually been just fine, thank you very much. Many of lionhearted's plusses are assumed to have come from the Brits delivered as if into a vacuum. Who's to say that these plus' wouldn't've naturally developed, given enough time, or maybe in ways that don't end in millions of colonized peoples dying? All those other alternate histories are silent.

I would suggest that picking a specific example -- a whoppingly large example, in this case -- is a very good beginning of a counterargument.

Lionhearted saying "here is all the good that happened" needs to be weighed against a reasonable summation of all the good that would have happened. And a "here are all the bad things that happened" likewise should be totaled against the bad things that would have continued to happen.

They're both very, very hard positions to make briefly.
Do you really stick to plain old routines? If you have a data structure, and a module full of functions that manipulate it, that is an object. Just with a polluted global namespace and extra typing.
Try to name at least two inventions by women in under 5 seconds.
Sorry everyone for the sudden notice. This has been wrecking us for some time and we went back and forth about how to handle this timeframe. Having a long graceful transition period for our users would have been great but for reasons that we could not control Fridge as it currently stands had to be shut down quickly.
Unfortunately there are tough decisions (especially in startups) to make and tougher consequences to live with even if they come with a silver lining at the end.

We remain dedicated to building great products and hopefully things will become more clear after the dust settles.

Again, sorry for the sudden notice...
Even a snapshot of smart and dumb playlists would be better than nothing. The use case is, users who want to migrate to Spotify from whatever they've been using for years, intend to copy over their playlists to Spotify, and permanently switch to Spotify as their main playlist organizer/generator. But having to recreate all their playlists by hand in Spotify is enough to stymie even the most enthusiastic US/NA Spotify fan.

Same problem on the Android app I just discovered yesterday, all my local playlists are made with a third party app called Playlist Builder, and both PowerAMP and Google Music can use them, but apparently not Spotify. I only have Premium, but it seems Premium is intended to enable local music and playlists just not sharing and streaming...
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I see your point, but you have a lot of real-life experience? In Europe bankruptcy is a much bigger stigma than it is in the US; it haunts you forever and it's noted as one of the biggest reasons EU startups are less gutsy than US ones; if you go broke, you are screwed for life here. But it goes very very fast; I know a few product companies at least that went from going well to complete misery in a few months. Those are trains going to the wall with necessary burn rates of $1M+ / month; what I mean by that is, the only way to have a chance at survival is actually servicing the few clients (we're talking big contracts) you have left and during that trying to reinvent your business. This is a win or lose fight; sometimes you win, but if you lose, you have a good chance to be millions in debt in no time. We are still talking startups here, so no $15M war chest in the bank. Probably some of that money was investor or bank money as well. Other reasons can include a business partner screwing you or just both events at the same time :)

For the same token I have seen companies get out of this predicament and they are doing extremely well now. So should they have thought; 'I'm not taking the risk, i'm paying everyone and closing the doors'? There was no in-between here; it's all or nothing in these cases. Sure you can say the growth rate was too high; doesn't that go for most invested startup companies in SV? I'm not sure it's as clear cut as you make it out to be especially if you make good on your employees with your next venture; i've seen cases were this was actually better for the employees as well.

I feel that stiffing your employees is deliberately going for BK to not have to pay wages etc; standing with your arms up high, he yeah sucks, but we're BK and fuck you very much for your support! At least here that's an official crime and you will pay the price if the curator can prove you 'went for bankruptcy' for reasons of not paying employees and other (notably tax) bills. But I can see enough reasons where this can happen outside your control as well.
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it's a completely trivial idea and apple just happens to be the clown that handed in their paper work first. or bought the stamped paper work from whoever. i've lost a lot of respect for apple for trying to leverage this patent.
I don't understand what you're saying. What do you mean by "nested function calls," and how is that antithetical to both lists and callbacks? In what way is WSGI anti-callback?
For those who are not familiar with it, the title is a play on the extremely popular book by Dale Carnegie, "How to Win Friends and Influence People" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influenc...).
Sounds like you actually have too much work load; I would bench all the projects other than one, preferably the one which is almost finished.

It's a common cycle and I have actually been trapped in it a few times, however once you complete a project and it works well the satisfaction helps motivate you to do the same on your other projects.

Also ever thought about getting some help with the projects from friends etc...? it makes the process a lot more enjoyable when you have someone to help and talk with :)

Best of luck with the projects!
Also true of Green Bay, WI. (It may be a state instead of a local ordnance. I'm not sure.)
I think the current system is inconsistent, totally broken and unfit for purpose for various reasons that have been discussed at length. But even accepting the law as it stands, it is very clear that the obviousness test is not applied correctly.

I have read some software patents (not this one) and all of them were completely obvious to me. They do not have to be obvious to a judge, they have to be obvious to "one of ordinary skill in the art". That's exactly what I am.

All of the above is not Apple's fault and I don't blame them for patenting what is essentially the context menu. But it is Apple's choice to use patents in a defensive way or to act aggressively against their competitors.

Yes they are a for profit company and it is their right to act in that way. But it is a very short sighted decision that hurts the profitability and innovative power of this entire industry. It is also short sighted because being seen as a nasty, destructive force that deems it appropriate and necessary to act in ways that are seen as unfair and anticompetitive by almost everybody can be the downfall of the mightiest companies as Microsoft and IBM can attest to.
As resources get scarcer, societies that do not share are more likely to survive. Either it, or the competitor that overcomes it will survive to the exclusion of others. Either way, the victor will likely not share hard won spoils.
If you can't see the writing on the wall early enough to wind down then you really have no business running a business. Yeah, I could come up with some pretty out there exceptions to that statement but they are pretty out there exceptions.

Let's take an example. Your current revenue/expense ratio has you running out of cash in two-three months and short of a miracle or users all of a sudden finding your product indispensable you are toast. At this point a responsible business manager would say "we're not viable" and begin discussions with vendors, investors, banks and progress to talking to employees and customers.

Now, the opposite of waking up one Monday and saying "@#$# I don't have enough money for next payroll - we gotta shutdown" is pretty lame and not the mark of someone I would want to invest in.
There are so many different web frameworks available for Python now. How would somebody make the choice over Brubeck, Flask, Bottle, web.py, Django, Pylons, etc... I know somebody will probably say something like "use the best tool for the job" but what is best for what job?

edit; That's just Python frameworks. The situation gets even messier when you start to consider every other languages for web development. Lots of 'hip' technologies I would love to put time into learning but I can't learn them all...
If patents can't be abolished for now (although I wish they were), they should at least have a much shorter expiration period. You should only be able to keep a patent for 3-5 years, especially if you're not using it in your own products.

A few short years should be enough to recover your R&D cost for just about anything, especially if we're talking about software patents.

It's ridiculous that you can gain money from a very unrelated market 15-20 years into the future, for a very different product.

It took about as much time for the Internet to grow into what it is today. There shouldn't be patents from 15 years ago that can affect Internet's growth today.

And sadly I hear that is what's happening with Apple's win over HTC as well, using patents from 15 years ago that weren't even about smartphones, to stop HTC's Android smartphones.

Patents should absolutely NOT work like that.
Looks very promising. I'm getting the impression that it has a better architecture than Django; I think that if and when it will match Django in level of finish, documentation, community, tools, etc., it might become a serious competitor.
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Add me to your other reality too. I have never heard of anyone being judged negatively for being laid off. Just about everyone understands that there may be great people laid off when an entire division/product/org gets cut or a company shrinks substantially.

If you're referencing the same article(s) I've read recently, it wasn't "if you don't currently have a job, don't bother applying" it was "if someone has been unemployed for over a year, there is probably a reason". It wasn't a negative judgment on being laid off, it was making the assumption that a long period of unemployment was a signal that the person may not be very hard working or talented or whatever, and with many candidates to choose from that signal could be a deciding factor.
Warren Buffet's bedside book, by the way. I read it a few years ago and have been putting its teachings in practice consistently with great results. The book seems a little silly at first sight, but it really isn't.
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To read some previous discussion of this article, check here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2222431

(We're still using Redis :-)
a few people are comparing this to last.fm's top tracks - how does it differ? Why should i use GoRankem over last.fm to find good songs to check out first?
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There will be no exodus from facebook.

It is likely that this ad ban was instigated by watching Facebook pageviews plummet, and by watching contagious defection spread through their userbase.
And so it starts. A decade or two after opening up the economy, Indian companies have started moving up the value chain, creating solutions to local problems instead of mindlessly building things designed elsewhere. Great to see this happen in my lifetime.
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I know redis is great, but I wondering what this

"""
[persistence]
This is something that every database has trouble with and Redis is no exception.
"""

is supposed to mean.
To me it seems that most databases deal with persistence just fine.
I realize that, and like I said, I do for final testing. It's enough of a roadblock to rapid development for me to avoid it until I have to make sure it will work on the platform. (VMware shared folders don't always play nicely, so I end up just pushing via hg.)
Also everybody knows that u don't need to look for Windows advertisments on apple.com.

VMware Fusion: http://store.apple.com/us/product/TX501LL/A

VMware View for iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vmware-view-for-ipad/id417993...
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They actually say that more knowledge and information is bad for the church (which of course its true), bad wait, they actually use it as an argument to not access knowledge and information instead of to make the argument that you should question your beliefs!
17 year software patents make absolutely no sense. The computer world changes fast (insert Moore's Law, etc.). 17 years ago, the Web was tiny. Most people didn't have cellphones. "Broadband" was a 19.2kbaud modem.

If we're going to have software patents, there should be a separate category for them; and they should be limited to, say, 5 years tops.
The Tata group is probably the only major group in India which prides itself in hardcore engineering. Think of them like the "Google" of India.

Kudos to them for tackling India's problems.
A search for "Euro 500 house" on G.Images returns a bunch of stock photo images of 3 actual 500 Euro notes bent into a house. Something weird (good weird) about realising the same amount of money could potentially house 3 families.

As a side note, does anyone have links to images of what the completed homes look like?
Brubeck is a Mongrel2 handler which makes it effectively a ZeroMQ Framework. But it is built with web serving in mind so I (I wrote it) attempted to also bring many of the customs we're used to with web frameworks to the Python + Mongrel2 world.

There are many python frameworks and each serves a different need. If you are a Tornado user but find the blocking / nonblocking paradigm confusing, you would probably get a lot out of Brubeck because it replaces the IOLoop (like Twisted's reactor) with a simpler system, eventlet.

I'm glad you think it's hip! It's only a couple months old.
OK, now this is interesting. Like twisted or Node.js enabled a new class of web applications, this is offering a lot more than just another Rails/Django clone. I'm happy that there are so many frameworks to choose from based on your personal preferences, but I'm really happy to see a project trying something completely different.

This is the first time j2labs crossed my radar… is this part of a larger project? Anyone in the know want to give the backstory on how this came about?
That's true in much of Europe also, unfortunately (I don't know about Germany, but I can believe it's better). In France, for example, the rail system is well signposted, but route and timetable information about city buses is very inconsistent. Even true in usually-well-organized Denmark, which has a super-awesome metro, but out of date and difficult to read information at bus stops.
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I'm not sure if I follow that logic. Why wouldn't it similarly be good business for Google to block all ads to Facebook and Twitter across their entire network at this point?
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Is it me, or is the conclusion of the article

1) TDD is not useful for interacting with existing APIs (probably the majority of programming today)

2) TDD works when it works and doesn't when it doesn't (which is rather tautological).

I'm not sure that's in favour of TDD.
The difference here is that Brubeck answers ZeroMQ messages from Mongrel2 instead of being a web server. So instead of using WSGI, Brubeck connects to Mongrel2 via a ZeroMQ socket and reads messages representing the web requests.

Beyond that I attempted to create a familiar interface for everyone who's used a pythonic web framework before. Indeed, a lot like Flask, but also like Tornado.

* Tornado style routing: https://github.com/j2labs/brubeck/blob/master/demos/demo_min...

* Flask style routing: https://github.com/j2labs/brubeck/blob/master/demos/demo_noc...
I think that's pretty much unrealistic, considering buses are affected by things out of driver's control. However you can still improve the situation by tracking the buses and providing a live estimation instead of the static schedule.

So, next step: get the schedules to follow the buses?
The article makes a strong, unsupported assumption: that "subsidizing...the broad education of a well-informed citizenry" is a "public good". I'd be curious to hear some sort of justification for this.

In short, how do I (as a member of the public) benefit from a waiter with a degree in women's studies or some similar degree with little economic value?
The problem with BSON is that the Python modules that implement it are incredibly slow when it comes to nested dicts. In fact, if you nest too deeply the BSON encoder will just seg fault.