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The easy way to use MurmurHash 3 is to grab the C version of the code from here:

https://github.com/PeterScott/murmur3

Full disclosure: I did the port to C, and added the documentation and example code. </plug>
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I request that you please refrain from using audio to voice your opinion.
RecordStream, which is a whole suite of tools for dealing with JSON-structured data: https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream
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Although I agree, I'm not sure this distribution method scales as is. I just sent Louis 5 bucks, downloaded the video, copied it to a USB drive, and then hooked it up to my Roku. I'm fine doing that ad hoc process occasionally, but if I got most of my media this way it'd get old very fast.

Surely there is a better way to distribute this stuff such that it doesn't take away the nice advantages and gives most/all the money to the artist too?
Do you have a citation for this? I can't imagine that it could ever be the case. The employer can set whatever job requirements they want as long as they do not discriminate against protected classes. Non-degree holders are not a protected class.

I'm far from an expert, but I have had to take classes in Employment Law and interviewing practices. This is not the kind of thing they would forget to mention!
Okay he isn't at all fair to XAML. Yes it is XML, but it is also what HTML (which is very, very close to XML, remember?) should have been. A great way to define the user interface and make it easy to dynamically bind to stuff in your source code so that you can easily split code and UI and test all your code.

Also the idea was to have something your designer can make beautiful without having to trouble the programmers every time they want to make a simple change. That is why you define animations in XAML and not C#.

Don't let your hate for MS lead you to disregard this framework. It really is genuently great.
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I'm aware of Apple's sample code, I attended the WWDC talk on integrating Push Notifications. I'm just not aware of many Ruby developers interested in taking Apple's C example and implementing it in Ruby.

HTTP POST is simpler for the developer. TCP is better for Apple. Apple has the resources to scale, so "TCP is faster" isn't really an excuse, in my ostensibly professional opinion.
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No, I have the same version but not a similar result. I also have the en_US.utf8 locale installed.
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At some point the realization by a politician that Mexico is a separate problem from immigration in general might be a nice touch.
As a small company owner I want to completely endorse this comment. These "proofs" of a developers skills and technical interest are the hard requirements I have before conducting any interview. Naturally the "social proof" is also important but less common and more difficult to attain.

Even tiny personal projects demonstrating ones interest in keeping up with newer hot technologies like node, redis, backbone, etc mean a lot.

tl;dr Having a set of quality personal projects (github, live, whatever) is absolutely critical.
Just bought it. While I'm really happy to support DRM free content, I must say I am somewhat disappointed that you can only download it twice.

"PLEASE NOTE that you can only stream the film twice AND you can download the film twice. Once you start a stream of the film, your stream will be active for 8 hours. Once you have exceeded your streaming and download limits, you will need to purchase the film again to stream or download it again. However once you have fully downloaded the film, you are of course free to watch it as many times as you like. "
Comments here seem to be about the importance of demonstrating competence.

While this is of course important, I feel that it's equally important to make sure you actually want to work in an organization. This means fitting in, tolerating corp BS/insanity well, being expected to tone down the cowboy ethos, and appearing productive at all times. In other words, being the oft-mentioned "team player".
> Don't let your hate for MS lead you to disregard this framework. It really is genuently great.

I think I was pretty fair in my treatment of XAML as something I didn't care for but admittedly had no experience in.
One cannot patent anything that naturally exists. But one can patent strategies. Business methods, medical, and, until recently, tax strategies can be patented. Tax strategy patents were recently banned in the America Invents Act. There has been legislation to ban medical strategy/method patents, and frankly I'm surprised it hasn't been banned yet legislatively. And the federal courts in the past have limited business strategy patents (Bilski v. Kappos). It seems to me SCOTUS should move to limit medical strategy patents in their decision. But if they don't, this may spur Congress to actually do something.
If you're running as a non-administrator, like you should be, that would prompt an admin login request.
The article is not talking about drug patents. It is talking about a current case which will decide whether or not to allow patents on medical treatment, even when the patents on the drugs have expired. The patent in question in the case regards a method for adjusting the dose of a drug. Medicine has done without these patents until now.

Ars Technica had an article about this the other day, which I thought was more compelling than the linked post:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/oblivious-su...
this is very cool. Do the native client APIs support alternate input devices such as game controllers?
How many of you found Apparatus(Android Game), an undervalued game?Its so good
One should add that it is more postmodern and non-linear than regular drama.
There is a Gamepad API under development by Mozilla: https://wiki.mozilla.org/GamepadAPI
How much bandwidth do you think $5 buys?
It lives on his personal server, right? Seems reasonable for one guy paying for his own bandwidth.
Dutch, but similar deal. 100 euro/month premium for coverage.

Can't imagine being a US citizen, working for a startup and that being an issue, especially if you have a family.
I like it, but similar to others, it doesn't limit the input to the selections. From a UE standpoint, I found it a problem that I could type in abcd, and that's not a valid time.
"Thus the organized proletariat after the downfall of the capitalist system was to work for the establishment of state-owned and operated industry, the tremendous expansion of production by freeing it from capitalist restrictions, and the creation of a new psychology in which each would want to perform his social function. All capitalist ideology would be crushed, and all antagonistic differentiation between manual and mental labor (and therefore between town and country and between degrees of skill) would cease."

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ugh, I hate this kind of post because it does exactly what I mentioned above: creates more divisions than it actually describes.

I'll just say your mention of FUD is ironic since last I checked, Mozilla's income from the google search referral contract was something like $80 million, which would make 20x that number $1.6 billion. I'd love to see your source on that one.

You also clearly didn't bother to actually read any of the report. There are in fact serious security issues brought up there, have been brought up before [1], and are an active and interesting area of research. Mozilla and the other browser vendors are actively working on the issues brought up there (for instance, [2]), which no one has solved completely.

But yes, please. Let's reduce this to soap opera and sound bites.

[1] http://www.matasano.com/research/jit/
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3337727
The main issue seems to be the inability of the patent office to realize what's trivial and what's not when reviewing a patent.

It fails to do that because it's actually not a trivial thing to do at all when you're not familiar with the field: it is very difficult for a non-IT professional to take a look at Kruskal's pseudocode ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruskal%27s_algorithm#Descripti... ) and to state if it solves an existing pain or it's just describing trivial and intuitive, common-knowledge steps.

A solution would be to have patent reviewers splited in categories based on their professional accreditation and limit their ability to accept or deny patents to their field of expertise.
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This one is linked to by a commenter at the end of my article: http://blog.nparashuram.com/2011/10/developing-apps-for-wind...
For reasons unbeknownst to me, NY is one of the most expensive locations in the US for health insurance. My wife and I are both healthy and have been able to buy good insurance with reasonable deductions for around $250 / month total in CA, CO, and OR. But I can't find anything in NY for less than 4x-6x that much. I find it hard to believe that the cost of care in NY is that much higher than in CA, so I'm assuming that some kind of moronic government meddling designed to keep insurance affordable has once again resulted in screwing over the people it was supposed to help.

EDIT: While not an unbiased source, this article indicates that my assumption above is exactly right: http://reason.com/blog/2011/06/01/new-york-states-highly-reg...
Just bought it here in Germany, where it's not easy to get his stuff. I would have paid 10$ (7,5 Euros) if he had a Humblebundle pricing scheme.
Nope. OS X binaries are usually installed by dragging them to the /Applications/ folder. They are user-owned.
very nice. The moon must have been too low in the sky for me to find. I was wishing I was in Arizona, where I never missed such events. Glad to see your pics of the eclipse from that majestic landscape.
Anybody knows if this will also be available for chrome-frame?

I have a dream that one day we can ditch Javascript (or at least have a choice as to which language we want to write in). It seems so, well, limited.
My mileage varies. I love that I don't have to let some "platform" like iTunes or Steam put its tentacles in my computer in order to get an individual piece of media.
I read this as "Medical Patients Must Die", but it might as well have actually said that, since money and "getting mine" is really the only thing that matters the vast majority.

If the troublesome patent goes away, you can rest assured that something equally as troubling will almost immediately fill the void. Until we live in a world where something else is more important, we can't have nice things.
Agile processes don't depend on technology, just people, paper and communication, in fact technology can be a burden sometimes.

Just in case someone from the future misunderstands this: I don't mean that agile drops analysis, documentation, planning or monitoring (they are essential to it) but it leaves the "intensive" and "before" parts out.
You're right, of course. I was merely attempting to provide a devil's advocate's view. Perhaps I should have said "rationalizations" rather than "benefits".
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I just can't believe a pilot would keep putting pressure after stalling the plane. What the hell was he thinking that stall warning was?...
> Why does Chrome have a unique ID?

Last time this came up, I believe the Moz engineers said that it doesn't anymore, as long as you download it directly from google, but it does if you get chrome from downloading it with mcaffee or whatever (which makes it like three bad things at once).
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This tutorial was a few months ago, though it was quite good. The slides are here if anyone is curious:

http://www.slideshare.net/ipeirotis/managing-crowdsourced-hu...
He's not "some guy". He's a very popular stand-up comedian, with a TV show. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_C.K.
>Perhaps in 10x the timeframe they would producte something of similar capability

I think you missed a few zeros there!.I would argue that most developers would never (yes not even if they spend their entire lives) come up with anything even close to Fabrice Bellard or Paul Graham.

The difference is not genetic but of attitudes and as we all know very people are willing to change their attitudes.
He also shoots and edits his own show (Louie, on FX) using a RED camera and his own laptop. He famously fought for total editorial control of his show (to the betterment of all of us viewers) and now he's not even taking a step back when it comes to distribution. Good for him

http://gizmodo.com/5658621/how-louis-ck-shoots-and-edits-his...
This specific example definitely feels like an abuse of the patent system. However, the rest of this article relies on weak connections and examples from other industries to argue that medical patents must die. If medical patents die, medical innovation dies.

For a moment, let's apply the realities of "medical innovation" (researchers across private and public fields) to internet innovation. Imagine that every app you published took four years and $100M to get to a testable product. Keep in mind, this is still unusable. You go out and spend millions more testing it on "fake users" (animals). If this works, you need to go raise hundreds of millions more to test it on your first batch of real users... then a second... then a third.

Billions of dollars later, you realize that your app doesn't work as it was intended. You've just spent 6 years and billions of dollars figuring that out. There is no fail fast, in this world.

Lets say your product actually makes it to market. Congrats, now you need to compete against copy cat app developers who can replicate your app at a fraction of the price. How do you defend yourself? Innovative marketing? Large email list? Good SEO? SEM? None of that works in medicine, because the switching costs are positive for a patient.

This is why we need patents. Without them we would see a significant reduction in medical innovation. When markets don't create enough risk-adjusted incentives to promote innovation, the government must step in to create those incentives. I'm not saying our system is perfect, but it's better than nothing (at least in medicine).

I spent a long time working on a medical startup and it's orders of magnitude more complex than most of the apps we see celebrated in our hacker community. I would bet that the typical FDA application is longer than the entire printed code base of most web apps.
As much as I understand your argumentation from your first post, the author has a point.

Whatever reasons about money, investment or other perfectly valid reason you bring up while advocating medical patents: No one on earth should be KEPT FROM SAVING SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE. That always trumps any endeavor to make a company or ultimately a single person richer.
I wonder if this question was triggered by the http://www.34ideas.com/ site that was posted here a couple days ago. I wouldn't pay to browse ideas. I might pay to use an idea but I'm not sure how, if multiple people are browsing ideas, you only let the person that "bought" it use it.
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In this email purportedly from Louis in 2009, he sternly but politely asks someone to take down their bootleg taping of his routine:

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/86011/comedian-louis-ck-asks-mi...

>>HI. I’m Louis CK. Can you please take this down? This show is a work in progress and was not intended to be passed around the internet. I have absolutely no problem, personally, with file sharing, and if you take everythign [sic] I have on the market on DVD, CD, and put it up for free downloading, I don’t care. But this is an artistic and personal request. Please take this torrent down. thanks.
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Motl's blog post makes more sense when you understand this is not a standalone blog post, but part of an argument made by many climate skeptics about the nature of the solutions proposed by climate change proponents.

And that is that the proposed solutions will be catastrophic to our economy, changing it immensely, and in ways that the people have a right to be informed of, and able to discuss and vote on it.

However, the various climate change proponents ranging from scientists, lobbyists, activists, politicians, journalists, seem to want to deny the enormity of the change required, even as many of these conferences and these speakers explicitly state that so-called first world ecoomies must sacrifice now and in large amounts to help subsidize poorer, still developing countries.

To the degree that no one wants to talk about it, it seems to those who do want to talk about it, that there is a hidden, "socialist", "communist" wealth transfer scheme underlying this.

More surprisingly perhaps, this argument is seemingly endorsed or at least respected by Naomi Klein (Al Gore advisor) and discussed in the Times by Andrew Revkin, the Dot Earth blogger here:

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/naomi-kleins-in...

And so Motls is blogging about Feynman's take on conference that discussed similar problems (problems among unequal populations) and had similar conclusions (transfer of wealth), at an "ethics of equality" conference, and he clearly feels that what Feynman felt in that context is directly transferable to Durban. And I think it might be.

Here is Andrew Revkin on Klein:

Naomi Klein, the author of a string of provocative and popular books including “The Shock Doctrine,” recently took on global warming policy and campaigns in “Capitalism vs. the Climate,” a much-discussed cover story for The Nation that has been mentioned by readers here more than once in the last few weeks.

The piece begins with Klein’s conclusion, reached after she spent time at a conclave on climate sponsored by the libertarian Heartland Institute, that passionate corporate and conservative foes of curbs on greenhouse gases are right in asserting that a meaningful response to global warming would be a fatal blow to free markets and capitalism.

She challenges the environmental left to embrace this reality instead of implying that modest changes in lifestyle and shopping habits and the like can decarbonize human endeavors on a crowding planet.

Please dive in. The piece is particularly relevant this week given the continued standoffs and disconnect between stated goals and behavior at the climate treaty talks in Durban, South Africa. Whether you embrace or dispute her conclusions, the article is a worthy and substantive provocation. I disagree with her in pretty profound ways, yet some of her points echo my assertion awhile back that greenhouse-driven climate change is “not the story of our time” but a symptom of much deeper issues

So indeed Motls' piece ties in with Revkin's as part of an ongoing web-wide conversation on the ramifications of the proposed solutions to global climate change.
I hope I don't sound rantish, but the author completely missed on his treatment of the Boehm/Beck curves

The Beck curve seems to (I'm not expert) describe the cost of making a change or adding a feature. With routine deployment in XP, it's not going to be that expensive to roll out a new one (although, the Facebook push is a process that requires the complete, undivided attention of lots of smart people, so you don't exactly get it "for free")

The Boehm curve describes the cost of finding a defect. If you find a defect in unit testing, you've wasted one person's time; in inspection, two; in systems testing, possibly many more than two; and in production, potentially 500 million people's time. Not just that, but the bugs are much harder to find.

Consider a hypothetical bug that leaks memory in the event of network flakiness. Your servers are humming along just fine, there's a transient network failure that you fix, and then you think you're fine. Meanwhile you've leaked a ton of memory, web servers start swapping, and the user experience goes to shit as most requests are delayed or timed out. You can fix this by restarting everything (but you should fear the cold roll in general [1]). So now you're fucked; you've got this weird bug that only shows up when the planets align while the microwave is on, no easy repro, and it's costing you real time and money.

[1]http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/n49rw/were_ba...
There's very little good information on the relative security afforded by different browsers. In that vacuum we've seen tremendous amounts of misinformation spread (both intentionally and accidentally). So, in order to get a better picture we decided to commission an objective study that would be transparent, repeatable, and verifiable.

A good study requires knowledgeable experts (who typically don't work for free). So, we sought out a respected, independent security company with a team of very well known researchers. They set the terms of the study and put their names and reputations behind the results. All the data and tools are public and open to independent verification. If anything isn't above board you should already have whatever you need to prove it.

So, I think there's an incorrect assumption in your original question. Browser makers don't always put out studies like this. To my knowledge, no browser maker has ever commissioned a study remotely like this in terms of both scope and quality.
Yes, that is clear. However, bundling a plugin doesn't fix the bigger problem that this is only in one browser.
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British Columbian here. In 2010 I spent over $5000 on prescriptions + dental + optical. I'm pretty sure 2011 will be in the same vicinity. In 2012 I have a good chance of hitting $10k given that I'm thinking of getting an insulin pump.

Yeah, it's nice to know that if I ever end up in a hospital I won't need to worry about what that costs, but don't make the mistake of thinking that our public health system means that private health insurance isn't a very good thing to have.
about $4, if you use up all four download/stream slots.
If you had better tools, perhaps you would find yourself needing them more often.
Back in 2009-10 my small firm used to pay about $1300 for a family (spouses + kids) in CA. This was for an HSA plan with United HealthCare and we did a considerable amount of research before deciding on this plan (not the cheapest, not the most expensive). I'm not sure if this is the same in NY, but I would max out your HSA account before getting pregnant for an efficient tax use of that type of account.
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Thanks for linking that. It was triggered by reading http://ideashower.posterous.com/ and seeing that the person managing the blog was taking down ideas and password protecting them sometimes. Also by a general feeling of frustration in not being able to come up with an idea that I'm passionate about. :P
Darn, at first I read "medical _patients_ must die". ;)
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This is basically the medical equivalent of a business process or strategy patent. I am really not sure how a law needs to be worded, but this whole class of patents needs to be removed.
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