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Oh, the Claremont Institute are real winners, too. "The Benefits of Giving Wisely": Did you know you can support the Claremont Institute with gifts other than cash that will allow you to increase discretionary income, eliminate estate and capital gains taxes, and redirect tax dollars to the Claremont Institute?

You can use your wealth to dodge taxes, give guys like Bill Bennett cushy Washington jobs, and make sure the deficit will bring the government down, all at the same time!

From their About page: To recover the founding principles in our political life means recovering a limited and accountable government that respects private property, promotes stable family life, and maintains a strong national defense.

So: pro-property, anti-gay, and pro-war. Those are the founding principles they most fervently like; the rest are inconsequential.

Also, they have two other sites; Victory Over Terror (avot.org, which seems to be down at the DNS level) and Missile Threat. So all in all, these guys are pretty much responsible for everything that's worst in American politics right now, and it really, really pisses me off that CNN publishes this screed as written by a "CNN Contributor" instead of "paid political shill for the oligarchy", which would be a lot more honest.

Grar!
I wonder if Cringely will be right again:

http://www.cringely.com/2011/02/why-leo-apotheker-will-be-fi...
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I have never written anything that runs on Windows, regardless of language or API, and I still subscribe to his blog. I feel badly that he gets snarked at so much that he has started injecting pre-emptive snark responses; I think he might write more, or more candidly, if it weren't for the highly vocal peanut gallery he has attracted.

This one in particular seemed worthy of sharing because of a couple of things. Firstly, if you just saw the artifact and not the reasoning, you would probably see a lot of WTF in having 7 bytes of NOP-type instructions, with five outside and two inside each function; it's a great reveal when you find out what it is for. Then my reaction was "Wow - I don't really design good instrumentation/logging/debugging points in my code, do I? I wonder if there's any part of this idea I can fruitfully rip off for my own code?" It was a nice one-two punch.
I realize this isn't exactly Hacker News, but sharing the source of my inspiration brings me more comfort than just about anything I've ever posted here. She was the perfect mother for an introverted, achievement-oriented nerd trying to find his way in the world. Thanks for letting me share.

[UPDATE: Thank you all for your kind words. It really means a lot to me.]
> We were talking about programmatically editing here.

I am not sure it's a good idea. Just generating the files from a CMDB and placing them in the servers seems the simplest approach. I do it. This way I have the nice side effect that anything a sysadmin did directly and manually on the server bypassing the config database (something that shouldn't really be done) gets wiped out as soon as possible.

> in bash

Almost every Unix out there has Python, Perl and Ruby already installed. You don't need to use bash unless you really want it.
Although the institution is marketed as a university, how many of the team projects turn into start ups?
I have the Dell U2711 and I love it, but I would be hard-pressed to call either of these monitors costing around $1000 anything but luxury items. Most of the "standard" 21"-24" monitors in the $150-$300 price range are 1080p.
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A couple of years ago they'd lost something like $8 to $10 billion on xbox too.
Absolutely. In particular, it's addressed in the following chapters:

* In Chapter 1 and 2 when you plan your blog, I help you decide on the kind of blog you want to run, including how to pick between a niche or more generalized blog. Next, you don't just pick a topic a random, but instead do an exercise that helps you figure out if you have enough interest in the topic and plenty of things to say on it. We also use a bunch of free tools to estimate the size of your potential audience, so you don't corner yourself into a niche that is too narrow (unless you intentionally want to do so).

* Chapter 5 gives you plenty of ideas on the kind of content you can create, how to get inspired, and what tends to work well for technical audiences (among other topics such as developing your own voice, writing catchy headlines that are not misleading, and so on).

* Chapter 6 is called "Producing Content Regularly" and it's also relevant to the issue you raise. In particular, when it comes to surviving writer's block and contending with the challenge of coming up with new posts regularly.
No danger from the Chinese kids. I tutor rich Chinese students in SAT and they routinely get hammered by the SAT Critical Reading and the Writing sections. They'll ace the math, but until their language and critical thinking skills improve, there isn't much danger there. The testing machine culture of China (and Korea, Japan) doesn't reward critical thinking, so as a result, those students are far behind their American counterparts once they get out of the memorization paradigm. Only 1 of my students scored a perfect 2400 on the SAT and she spent years in the US and didn't go through the Chinese educational system. Most of my Chinese students tend to score around 1800-1900 total, with scores in the 700s for math and the 500s for critical reading and writing. I don't have any data on the Indian students..
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My condolences, Ed. Your mom sounds like an awesome person.
That doesn't make much sense to me. If you assume that their score tends to improve when taking the test more than once, which seems reasonable, then taking it more would push the average higher.
> I have yet to meet the first person

If you come to Brazil, I can introduce you.
Good topic for discussion. The article of course simplifies, but it was inevitable. Anyway, being from india, i can see the validity of the point. I am no highly active contributor in any open-source project, but have realized (from participating in IRCs) i usually hold more context in my head than others. Infact, i actively try to avoid that(just respond), and found that, the discussion becomes too painful for others.(I was told there's too much tooth pulling in an IRC forum, once as i tried this).
Cohen is referring to the fact that TechStars is essentially a franchise and YC is not.
"Market rate" literally means "average salary". So you can use the salary sites and take the 50th percentile, and compare that against cost of living values.
They're two different use cases. If I invented a new kind of rocket, I probably wouldn't use it to go to the store and pick up milk.
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To paraphrase Stephenson in Cryptonomicon, men can apply a laser focus to something, to the exclusion of everything else, whereas women tend to be able to keep track of the big picture more easily.
My condolences; I am sorry for your loss.
Microsoft puts a LOT of effort into application compatibility. They're very serious about it, and the fact that they fail at times is proof of how hard it is to maintain app compatibility when application developers are doing their best to sabotage you by using internal APIs and corrupting the heap.

Driver compatibility is less of an issue; older hardware becomes less common (and thus less of an issue) over time, and strictly adhering to kernel compatibility limits your ability to add new features to the kernel significantly.
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By the authority invested in me by a highly arbitrary karma algorithm, I decree that people with sufficient HN karma get to make a post inviting other HN members to mourn the passing of their mother.

When we have to -- but not before; remember that we are nothing if not lean and agile -- we can have the debate about the karma cutoff for mourning. My initial proposal is: 1.

(Incidentally, more condolences, and I apologize if it is inappropriate to be slightly silly at the memorial. It's my family tradition. I can't let my late grandfather down. ;)
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Ask HN: How would you open source a SaaS business?
As some may recall I recently launched CircuitBee, a service which allows you to web embed your electronics schematics. Upverter also recently launched their product which lets you design schematics in your web browser.

Today, Dangerous Prototypes posted this article:

http://dangerousprototypes.com/2011/09/21/editorial-upverter-another-closed-source-vampire-exploits-open-hardware-for-ventrue-capital-pr-and-profit/

Which asks for services like ours that help promote Open Source Hardware projects to play fair and open source our code too.

This is quite an interesting topic, I've been trying to think how open sourcing my code for CircuitBee would work from a business perspective. As I see it there are 4 business models for OS software that have been proven to work:

1. Open source the code, and sell support and infrastructure services at a high premium to business users.

2. Sell 'enterprise' or similar editions of the OS software, with additional features that are not OS.

3. Package up the OS software with some other tangible saleable good, usually hardware for the software to run on.

4. Selling further development services to businesses to customize or improve the core OS project.

CircuitBee is aimed at hobbyists - professional electronic schematics are still largely too complex to render in the browser. That means there are no businesses to sell support licenses to, and hobbyists certainly aren't going to pay for support. That largely rules out option 1.

Selling enterprise or improved versions of the software via a software as a service model that extend upon the open sourced version of the software would in my mind still not equate to an open platform. There would always be someone arguing that the platform is still not 'open' since the more useful features that differentiate my service from the inevitable clones based on the OS code would be closed only. So that rules out option 2.

Packaging up the software with another saleable product isn't possible in this case, so no option 3.

Option 4 is the only viable option on the table, but relies upon other businesses wanting customized versions of the platform. Which since the platform is largely unproven and as yet not something businesses are interested in, does not bode well as a business model in the short to medium term.

Added to all of the above is the fact that I am working on this full-time, unfunded and solo. If I opened up the code now, I would very quickly have competitors with all the same features as my own, who could potentially have more funding and manpower to drive the project forward and leave me in the dust with nothing but good intentions and a little bit of kudos for devoting 18 months of my life to something someone else is now profiting from.

What do you think? Is it possible to open source a SaaS project like CircuitBee while still maintaining some form of compensation for the ongoing time, effort and expense it incurs?
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It is! Good spotting.
They have been trying to cover the various markets with one product but instead of offering Windows Home, Home Pro, Pro, Super Pro or whatever they call them, they should split into Windows Classic, Windows Nouveau and Windows Server.
Now they are trying to do it on a monolith with Win8.
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Ask HN: Our 4sq hackathon entry is 4sq + klout. Would it make a good business?
Our hack, sends an SMS to foursquare venue owners when someone with a high Klout score checks in. The idea is that it would help venue owners turn influential customers into patrons. It went from concept to a proof of concept over the course of a weekend, and we’re now thinking of turning it into a business. you can check it out @ http://venuemachine.heroku.com.

Some possible problems which we could try to solve:

1. (what it already does) Nowadays, you don’t have to be a celebrity to be influential, these kind of people walk into your venue all the time but you are unaware of it. VenueMachine notifies you when this happens allowing you to give these people the best possible experience.

2. Often when people go to a restaurant and have a bad experience they’d rather tweet about it than voice their concerns directly. This could help managers identify and rectify bad experiences as soon as they happen.

So HN, what do you think?
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Unless you really needed milk...
Thats a lot of money. Is duckduckgo profitable yet? I bet its not losing $1 billion per quarter. But then again I suppose Bing has hugely more market share than duckduckgo.
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This article reveals a very questionable grasp of statistics and demographics.

This article reveals a great deal of skill exploiting the reader's questionable grasp of statistics and demographics - indeed, it's a masterful work.

Your point on increasing education spending is very well-taken! I hadn't even noticed how he slipped that in there.

Honestly, a point-by-point analysis of the rhetoric in this piece would be really informative.
I am sorry for your loss, Ed.
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If you mean the computers, I have a couple of boring x86_64 Linux boxes. If you mean the radio stuff, I'm not quite ready to describe the "secret sauce" just yet. When I am, I'll post something on my /w/ pages (URL in profile).
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Been wanting to checkout Storm since the announcement - looking forward to watching the rest of this...
Yes, I like to read the transcript. Mostly because it is faster to get through it, but also when I read the transcript I can Google names or thoughts in it. I also listen to the audio when I am on a walk or in the car.
"This article reveals a great deal of skill exploiting the reader's questionable grasp of statistics and demographics - indeed, it's a masterful work."

Perhaps, but I'm not sure if that's intentional. From the tone of the writing, it sounds like the author simply consulted a bunch of subject-matter experts, then regurgitated their talking points. I'm not convinced he is fully aware of what he's doing.

EDIT: Interesting point, and well taken.
Maybe have the monitor on some sort of swivel mount in the bathroom? I think that'd be awesome... but maybe awkward to type on a touch keyboard that big. :)
not necessarily..
Sure, fewer advertisers = lower demand & lower prices, less users OTOH = less supply & higher prices... not sure which side of the equation is having more effect (I suspect it varies) but I'm thinking there's some value there over adwords.
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That would be one to brag about for sure...
Ask HN: Does "Front-end Developer" actually mean "Design and Implement"?
I used to think that a front-end developer implemented a designers designs. Has that changed? I'm noticing more and more job descriptions lumping the two together.
I haven't thought much about the concept, so I won't comment on that.

Regarding the design, it doesn't really say 'dinner party' to me.

A good way to start is to look at google images for 'dinner party' http://www.google.de/search?q=dinner+party&hl=en&biw...

• I would have 4 or 6 larger dinner party images as a background

• I would change the tag line from "Eat with your neighbors!" to something more like "Make great friends right next door" - so sell the outcome, not the literal act

• colours are not bad, just think food

• this is actually your selling point "meet great people, eat amazing food, and you'll always have a lot of fun"
JSGI is not able to take advantage of node's ability to serve responses asynchronously because the spec doesn't allow for it. JSGI specifies that the return value of an app must be the [status, headers, body], whereas Strata specifies that the return value of an app is not important and that the app's callback should be used to serve the response instead.

This is an API incompatibility that cannot be ignored. The most developed lib I've seen up to this point to get JSGI working on node (https://github.com/kriszyp/jsgi-node) isn't able to get asynchronous responses working properly. Instead, it just does a body.forEach (see https://github.com/kriszyp/jsgi-node/blob/master/lib/jsgi-no...) to write each piece out to the response synchronously.

Copied and pasted from https://github.com/mjijackson/strata/issues/2.
For more background info on what's holding back NOSQL in the enterprise and why we raised $10M+, feel free to check out this post:

http://blogs.neotechnology.com/emil/2011/09/nosql-the-web-an...
Why do you think NCLB isn't a problem, when it's specifically the cutoff of federal funding mandated by NCLB that causes that increased focus on getting kids to pass minimum standards in the first place? NCLB doesn't care about - or measure - critical thinking or higher level reading skills.

Not that I'm disagreeing with you on your larger point, by any means.

Incidentally, could you get in touch by email, if you have a moment? My wife is a physics instructor and has seriously been considering teaching/SAT prep in China or elsewhere abroad, and I'd be interested in finding out how you got into it.
In the book, I address the issue right away when discussing domain names and niche vs general topic blogs.

It really depends on what you're trying to achieve. Generally speaking, if you're being strategic about it, it's better not to mix professional and personal posts. This is because a person who's interested in your insight on, say, Kernel hacking, will probably not care too much about posts pertaining to your passion for bikes.

So, in order not to betray your readers' expectations, I would advice starting a dedicated professional blog as soon as possible. Or vice versa, keep the existing blog for professional purposes, and then create a personal one.

Regarding the domain name itself, the most logical choice in the example above would be something akin to kernelhacking.com, but once again it's a matter of what you are trying to accomplish.

If your main goal is to promote yourself and your name in the industry, land consulting gigs, or attract prospective employers who might be interested in you... simply going with namelastname.com is not a bad idea.

EDIT: Just saw your EDIT. :)
It's extremely likely that there is a plan for an event on this date at this time. But since it hasn't been announced, it's also quite possible the date will slip, because they can let the date slip if they wish. So it can be both a reliably sourced fact and something that might not happen. Fun!
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This is where he works: http://www.claremont.org/ - he's fully aware of what he's doing.
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I think your missing a key point: C++11 is a better, cleaner language. It's not C++98 with a bunch more not-fully-baked and overly complex stuff thrown in. Much of the new stuff that's added is there to make the old complexity go away.

Most of the old mile-long redundant type definitions can go away now, being replaced with just the 'auto' keyword.

The old std:: argument binders were like poor man's lambdas. Now we have real lambdas and don't need them.

The old practice of defining tons of template overloads is no longer required because we have proper variadic templates now.
To unfairly pick one example at random of what should no longer be necessary:
http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk/boost/type_traits/detai...
Of course this is special purpose-library code that isn't the kind of things most applications would need to write, but it could easily end up in a compiler warning or error message.

Sure, of the people who really didn't like C++ before then C++11 might not change all their minds. But for those of us who used and liked C++ already, these new features represent great simplifying improvements that are only going to help with ongoing maintenance.
Here's where his broken link meant to go: http://methodart.blogspot.com/2011/07/fast-image-cloning-lib...
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I'm glad for you having such a great person as inspiration in your life.

My condoleances for her passing.
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Can't edit my post, so here's David's case (in comments under Jackson Davis's answer):

http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-advantages-and-disadvantag...

"In practice, scaling a Lift site is much much easier than scaling a LAMP site. Why? Well, state exists someplace. If it exists in the JVM, you get a lot of performance benefits and stability as well as, in Lift's case, lots of security. Contrast that with sessions in memcached. "Whoop, memcached went down, there go a pile of sessions." "Whoops, we've got a new memcached hashing algorithm, there go all the session." "Whoops, Google just crawled us creating 200,000 new sessions pushing all the but the active sessions out of cache." "Whoops, the Ruby runtime just went wild, ate all the VM on one of our boxes, memcached went down..." So, you try storing sessions in some wacky shared version of MySQL. This solution requires tons of hardware and a team of make sure that the sharing code is correct, etc. Contrast that to using Nginx, Jetty and session affinity. It's about 4 hours of setup time and it just works. See http://blog.harryh.org/post/7550... So, talk to a Facebook engineer about the challenges they go through to manage state between the front end, memcached, MySQL, etc. Compare that to Twitter with the famous fail whale. Compare that to Apple's store and the iTunes store which are written on WebObject (which is highly stateful.) Lift apps running at scale typically require 7% of the front end resources of LAMP app. The Lift apps that are running at scale (Foursquare and Novell pulse are two) do not have the kind of scaling issues associated with LAMP sites that have similar traffic patterns. Scaling with Lift is neither tricky, nor risky. It's simple. It's known. It's proven. Scaling with LAMP is playing whack-a-mole with state and that only becomes a problem at scale."
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I've always thought this was a great idea. I've got this going along with LiveATC for SJC and I feel omnipresent!

Edit: Feature request - the ability to filter out certain talkgroups. The streets guys have verbal diarrhea.
Actually, that isn't quite true anymore. I'm not sure I'm allowed to disclose those terms, since they aren't mine to disclose, but those have since changed.