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If the middlemen weren't providing a service, authors wouldn't use them. At least, if they had any sense.

I agree that it seems like they get a pittance, but that is their choice. You can chain yourself to the monster and get a lot of money, but only a small % of the total money made...

Or you could go it alone and get a huge % of the total money, but only a small amount of money total. Unless you're really awesome, and then this way would seem to be better in every regard.

From what I can tell, Stephen King played with self-publishing for a bit, but didn't follow through with it. Why? I couldn't find a reason, but it was over 10 years ago that he first tried it, and he's still using established publishers.

I suspect it's because they take care of SO much stuff that it's cheaper and easier for him to let them handle that, and he can do what he does best: Write books. Of course, he probably also gets better deals than Joe Average, but most of the major writers will.
This thing launched in late 2010 http://thenextweb.com/google/2010/12/06/google-launches-its-...
Google+ for Android just got a pretty major revamp. It has improved significantly.
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6 points, 27 minutes ago -- Rank 129. What the hell?

EDIT: Apparently pg is tweaking the ranking algorithm as we speak as a 838 day old post with 4 points was just in the top 100!
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>It is much more accurate to say that a law is like a stationary cannon, which is captured by those with the deepest pockets and aimed at those who would pose market threats to those deep pockets.

Every law? Antitrust laws? Data privacy laws? Laws that require hotels to be licensed?

If you take issue with a law, then that law is the problem; not the enforcing of it.

Startups should not be exempt from the law simply because they're a startup. There are better ways to spur wealth creation via small businesses than to allow small businesses to flaunt the law when they see fit.
I think you can physically model the ionizing radiation of a nuclear event, without actually detonating a weapon, just condoms are tested for elasticity by filling them with pressured air and water.

The detector may have been tested before the discontinuation of underground testing in the US in '92
You can already get push notifications (via mail) - http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/.
> These two forms of inequality exist in modern America. They are related but different. Over the past few months, attention has shifted almost exclusively to Blue Inequality.

It's like we re-discover the conflict between the "small" bourgeoisie and the proletariat every 15-20 years since the July Revolution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Revolution) .
This will get ignored like the "Remove "under God" from the pledge" petition and the "tax Marijuana like alcohol and tobacco" petition.
Even the focus on "the 1%" is misleading, because the group is far from homogenous.

There's a mountain of difference between, say, a doctor earning $400,000 and a trader earning north of $10 million. The outsized gains in the past 30 years have been made by the folks in the latter category. Your typical doctor or lawyer has always done well for himself; this is no great surprise. But he's never been yachts-and-mansions wealthy, and he's no closer to that mark today than he was decades ago. Rockstar doctors and lawyers, occasionally. But doctors and lawyers on average, no.

The real focus should be on the financial sector, where one needn't be a rockstar to earn more in a single year than most white collar professionals earn in ten. The finance industry has expanded rapidly in recent decades, occupying a larger and larger slice of the US economy, and baking more and more volatility into the pie. That many of its players are mega-rich is merely a symptom. The real issue is that finance is so powerful and so omnipresent.

There is a place for a healthy financial sector in a modern economy. But an economy can't thrive on "services" alone -- a fact the US is learning the hard way, after decades of being told the contrary by banks and consultancies.
There was actually a meta-petition[1] recently that was asking for the White House to pay more attention to these petitions, so it seems like these petitions are mostly ignored

[1] https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/%21/petition/actually-...
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ouch that is horrid; you can almost imagine it feeding it to the update() one boxed byte at time
The petitions are looked at if they receive enough signatures, right now this one needs a little over 23,000 more signatures by November 30th.

I would view it as one more avenue of making your opinion known to elected officials. In addition to informing your congressperson and senator to try to prevent the bill from passing this would be a way to endorse a veto from the executive branch.

I believe it does as much good as anything else you can do in the amount of time it takes to sign it.
Patrick's essay covered a lot of ground. It expanded on its title by explaining what companies value. The essay as a whole did not seem focused on job titles. The essay title did focus on job titles.

I see a wonderfully self-referential thing happening when people focus on the title of the essay. Maybe people do focus more on titles than they should -- both essay titles and job titles. Maybe job titles are as important as essay titles and email subject lines.

Patrick's essay was adaptibly engineered. If titles are what get through to people, the essay title will convey what's imprtant. Otherwise, the essay body will convey what's important.
The "Apple A5" SoC still uses ARM Cortex-A9 cores like nearly every other mobile SoC. Only one that doesn't is Qualcomm's Snapdragon, which uses their custom (but still based on ARMv7 like the Cortex chips) "Scorpion" design, soon to be succeeded by "Krait". They're still ARM though, the difference isn't near as drastic as PPC v. Intel; it's closer to Intel v. AMD.
This is why I really dislike it when I see

var a = "foo",
b = "bar",
c = "baz";

All it takes is one missed comma and all of a sudden you've turned a lot of your variables global.
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I've been utterly disappointed at the handful of official responses so far (http://blog.norml.org/2011/10/29/white-house-response-to-nor...), but it's worthwhile giving it a shot, no?

While you're there, I'm also a fan of the petitions that the petitions be taken seriously.
Simple - it's been flagged.

Someone, or a few people, have realized that if they don't like something they can flag it and it gets hammered, absolutely hammered, never to be seen again.

I'm biased, of course, but I think items that are flagged should be punished in the ratings. Doing that inappropriately buries good items that someone simply disagrees with, and at the same time buries spam that subsequently never gets deleted, because not enough people see it.

I honestly think that flagging an item should not affect its ranking. If it's spam, enough people will flag it to get over the deletion threshold.
Well, I'm not from the valley, but I've heard that in SV, its almost as if 50% of the population is made of asians, what about that?
useless insanity! you can do same in the shell and with every PL worth using.

Seriously folks...
I ran the code, which now displays number of calls to update(), and made another test with the following code:

7 fs.readFile(filename, function (err, data) {
8 shasum.update(data);
9 console.log(shasum.digest('hex') + ' ' + filename);
10 });

Here are the results:

$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=xxx.data bs=1000 count=200000
$ time sha256sum xxx.data
e774e4c46ab832ec09dbfd1a944044651560c3fdc3c5e2e8b46c2ea7d54f6649 xxx.data

real	0m2.087s
user	0m2.000s
sys	0m0.064s
$ time node xxx-1.js xxx.data
e774e4c46ab832ec09dbfd1a944044651560c3fdc3c5e2e8b46c2ea7d54f 6649 xxx.data
4883

real	0m13.972s
user	0m13.885s
sys	0m0.264s
$ time node xxx-2.js xxx.data
e774e4c46ab832ec09dbfd1a944044651560c3fdc3c5e2e8b46c2ea7d54f6649 xxx.data

real	0m14.043s
user	0m13.433s
sys	0m0.732s

Personally I never make multiple calls to update() but it seems not to be linked here. Oh, and check the docs, readFile() is async.

PS: timings of xxx-1.js and xxx-2.js are equivalent on several runs.
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Well, in the real world people tend not to fork from within a webserver.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3165679 vs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3162752 for example.

If you pay attention you'll see the pattern too:

If you come to HN on European mornings the things you like and click on never really get anywhere; do the same in the Stateside mornings and much the same stories go up like rockets.
Apparently pg is tweaking the ranking algorithm as we speak as a 838 day old post with 4 points was just in the top 100!
I'm using CouchDB every day and could not replace it with Mongo if I wanted to. So I guess I don't care how popular it is with others, since it solves my problems today (and it's at least popular enough to be maintained and improved).

That said, CouchBase has a huge messaging problem. It took me hours to figure out what CouchBase and all their editions were about. I'm interested in exploring their products, the write performance improvements should be huge, but their web site definitely is confusing and off-putting.
Unfortunately the vast majority of iOS/Mac OS developers are individuals/small teams. Prices do matter to them, especially if they are taking a chance with localization.

The 20% rule is interesting. And I'll definitely consider this. Thanks.
Here's the most popular petition to take the petitions seriously: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/take-petiti...
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While I definitely support the notion of this petition, it's time that people realize that things like these won't do shit, to put it bluntly.

To stop this madness, we have to attack and bring down the people who cause this retardation - the content industries. They won't somehow come to their senses and stop pushing for insane laws and regulations.

It's a very dangerous illusion that petty petitions will change anything, at least on their own. Fight the real enemy, and fight it with all means necessary - may those be alternative licenses, spreading the word, piracy, or straight out aggression[1]. Until the content industries are either out of power or simply gone (and I doubt the former can be achieved without the latter), this war on freedom for the sake of corporate profits will continue.

[1]: I'm talking about stuff like Operation Payback and Anonymous in general. I dislike calling it "cyber warfare" because the term is retarded newspeak, but it's essentially what I mean.
I find it even stranger that this petition is on whitehouse.gov. The real issue though is that this bill wont die, I'm sick of hearing of its lunacy and the fact that it's even in the house irks me to no end. That's why I signed it.
Don't be afraid of charging for something the brings value to the table. I see a little bit of both, crappy apps charging huge amounts of $ and awesome apps almost for free. It amazes me how can companies or developers put so lower prices and something that probably took them a lot of time to create. So, if your app is awesome, users recommend it, charge it for the right price. You might loose cheap clients, but you highlight yourself from the competition.
This one[1] has more signatures

[1] https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/%21/petition/actually-...
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Thanks. That sounds like it would be extremely challenging for non-programmers, if that's who it's targeted at.
I think the analogy is a little misleading, considering that the IE family is "choose one" but the JVM permits independent installations (most JVM products have gone so far as to just ship with the JRE bundled with their product).
If your level of service is better than your competition, you should charge more. Price is of course a parameter to compete on, but it is not the most important one.

The cheaper competition no doubt have much more work, and many more customers. Even so, they will be much less profitable.
If we're comparing CouchDB's popularity to that of MongoDB's, it's simple - 10gen. 10gen has done a very good job generating lots of hype around their product. I believe they have people dedicated to this task (aka, evangelists). CouchBase on the other hand, has not done so well at this.
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That's just one example - I analyzed several thousand items and found that submitting in the European morning had a significant positive effect in getting to the front page.

That was 8 months ago - things may have changed. If I get time later today I'll do a different analysis.
Old items occasionally pop up, I suspect in part because they get pulled into memory by someone finding them, and then they mess up the stats a bit It happens regularly and is transient. My items hitting the front page and then getting flagged is common.
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That was my favourite part!
Personally, I think it's a myth. I did a lot of y2k work in cobol in '98-'99. It has been on my resume ever since then, but I've not had one recruiter call me up asking about my cobol skills, just my more recent java and db skills.
in the real world, forgetting "var" doesn't bring down web servers.
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I like seeing an in-depth review.

These days it feels like all the major sites rush out the reviews right before launch day with less than a day of actually testing being done. The reviews often sound like just a re-hash of the press release specs.
Wait what are the Y-axes on that graph!

Google Trends just looks at the term being mentioned or searched for?

So maybe half those search terms are 'How do I get MongoDB to do Foo' while perhaps the documentation for CouchDB is such that a google search is not the first thing to do.

Just my thoughts on that graph anyway.
I've heard this sentiment phrased much better:

"There are three things that mostly determine how well your life goes: what you're doing, who you're with, and where you are. If you can get two of the three right, you're ahead of 90% of the human race."

Sometimes there are tradeoffs between the three, sometimes not, but it's really, really hard to get all three to line up together.
> For example, if I try Node.js, I do not want the version of last year, but the latest.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&K=nodejs&d...

That is not a very impressive list.
I'm curious, are you against unit testing in some scenarios or just TDD? I'm sure we can think up some conditions where the cost won't be returned. Is that all you mean?
1e12 rad/s is 10e9 Gray/s. Sieverts measure something else, dose equivalence.

Interestingly, in this radiation field, every kilogram of mammalian tissue absorbs 10 GW. If this blasts lasts for more than a few nanoseconds, your puddle of goo would be a good guess.
Given how easy it is to sign it, does it matter?
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Patrick's essay had nothing to do with titles. It was about describing what you do in terms of the benefit you provide to your customers/employers rather than in terms of the skills or tools you use to provide that benefit.

I could tell people I can program Excel interop in .NET, or I could tell them I saved my company dozens of hours a week by automating an administrative process. To non-programmers, only one of these descriptions sounds interesting. A programmer can hear "Excel interop in .NET" and infer automating administrative tasks. A business person, generally, cannot.

Patrick's essay was about being explicit about the value you provide, not about picking a fancier name for yourself.
I can think of a few reasons:

* Some of us are actually comfortable with and enjoy programming in JavaScript. :)

* Are we absolutely sure as of now that adding the CoffeeScript abstraction will not introduce performance regressions and/or subtle bugs?

* Are the niceties and syntactic sugar of CS really worth the time I'll have to invest in mastering it? Or is this just another programming fad that everyone finds "cool" this month?
Since the code in question was run server side using nodejs you can just enable it. Using it for client side javascript is another case indeed.
I, as I assume most on this site, only considers Anandtech the one true tech product reviewer on the web. The only other equal is John Siracusa's review of the latest Mac OS release.
(how do you know if its been flagged or not?)
The categorization rankings seem pretty subjective. I read somewhere that your best bet, if possible, is to call your company what it does. If your software emails timed newsletters, call it newsletter or emailer and keep working around that until you find something available.
Very well written. Thanks, dbrunton.
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Look, the demand for a free service is infinite. For an expensive service like medical care, giving it away is very expensive indeed.

> Forgoing your blatant racism, ...

"Racism" is not a general purpose swear word, any more than is fascism. And even if my motives were naked bigotry, Mexican is a political affiliation, not a race. The appropriate accusation would be to call me an American nationalist.

> Switzerland, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Austria all have higher immigrant percentages than the US ...

Their immigrants are heavily skewed towards the First World, and screened for acceptability. None of them share a border with a famously corrupt third-world country. (I suppose Canada may quibble. ;-)

If you actually want to learn about the Latino medical theft problem, do some reading:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/health/policy/21grady.html...

http://www.cairco.org/econ/econ.html

http://www.newswithviews.com/DeWeese/tom94.htm
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Agreed. I'm using CouchDB for a front-of-house ticketing system; the roving units need to sync back to main base (surviving disconnections thanks to spotty wireless). CouchDB is perfect for this.

I'm actually pretty worried about CouchDB going away. What's out there that does the equivalent (NoSQL or Relational, I don't care)?
Doesn't tell me clearly whether the book is DRM'd or not == no sale.
Indeed. So why do VCs want to stuff the expenses inside the corporation?
Isn't it documented that people in the pecking order constantly have to assert their position or risk losing it, while people at the top do their best to give the appearance of not caring about the pecking order? We should do our best to use our intelligence but bullying is very natural and has its roots in evaluation. It is the job of the top of the pecking order to police it.
Eventually, when we reach the stage where low end human labor is worthless, we'll need some flavor of socialism. Such socialism will be so cheap that no one will care, however.

We aren't there yet, however. We are also not at the point where most people's work is devoid of merit. We are merely at the point where many people lost their old jobs and are unwilling to take new jobs in other sectors.

For example, consider an unemployed construction worker. There is plenty of work waiting for him - cleaning houses, picking strawberries, etc. But he remains unemployed because he is unwilling to take other work.
If it fools people into thinking they actually did something when in fact they didn't, then it could be detrimental to the cause.

For instance, my father was under the impression that his will was totally legal and everything was taken care of. His misinformation led him to look no further, and as a result, when he passed, things were messy because the will wasn't valid.
It's more than a part, it's a huge part. It's really easy to use, and you can find everything in it!
If you mean "why isn't everyone coding in CoffeeScript and compiling to Javascript," the answer is that not everyone sees the benefit in learning a new syntax to write code they already know how to write in Javascript. "Prettier code" isn't compelling for everyone, and adding a layer of abstraction can generate its own problems.

You still have to debug your Coffeescript in Javascript, so you still have to understand Javascript. Unlike, say, HAML, where you can't possibly do anything in HAML that you wouldn't know how to do in HTML, Coffeescript lets you avoid learning about JS prototypes by using Coffeescript classes and letting it translate for you. You'd better hope the abstraction doesn't leak.

I'm not against Coffeescript - I'm excited to start using it soon. I'm just saying that I understand why not everyone is.

If you mean "why do we still have to compile to Javascript," well, we'll have to do that at LEAST until every browser supports Coffeescript natively (currently none do, so you're looking at maybe 2025 when IE9 falls out of use), and probably beyond that (since there's little chance that MS will break backwards compatability with JS).
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Node.js have a packet manager (npm), so I guess not so much developers bothers to make a PKGBUILD for a module.
This story is shocking and I hate to nit-pick here but

> Just to remind all of us that racism is alive and well in the US and in tech. [...] The customer site is a government owned military installation.

This doesn't make it any "better", actually much worse, but this is not "in tech".

What I find both shocking and curious about racism is that it is a much more widespread problem throughout the world, not only limited to white racism - there is very strong racism throughout history in a lot of different cultures and is still prevalent there today. Why do humans even care about where someone was born or where they are from? Where and why did racism start at all?
I like that you used Stripe for finish weekend itself... we just leveraged Stripe in our project for a finish-weekend-esk hackathon in Boston: http://www.vampirehackathon.com

We created http://hipay.me - a simple credit card invoicing system which lets you use your stripe token to collect payment from others, without being a developer. We are a finalist - awaiting word on the winner! http://vampirehackathon.com/escapes/27?page=finalists

Best of luck with Finish Weekend!

Edit: linkified
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I'm not a node person, but isn't that exactly what you want? There's node and npm. You install those two and then get everything else via npm.
As a ground rule, as long as you are calling other peoples modules you're not yet programming, but that doesn't mean that what you do can't be meaningful or useful.

Oh, I see. Do I also have to code my own compiler before I start rewriting glibc?
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When it gets 6 points in 25 minutes, hits the front page, then drops to below 150, it's been flagged.