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After the first paragraph I was already thinking "Wow, I don't want to work for E760 per month, that's basically on the poverty line!"... then I checked where the guy was from; Hungary is a backwater, and absolutely NOT representative of the EU, probably not even of the old eastern bloc.

Three-years maternity leave? That's unheard of in western Europe, most countries allow for less than a year (my wife got 6 months in the UK); men only recently started to enjoy some rights in that sense (in the UK it's two weeks).

He talks about a post-50 "protected age" where you can't fire people. That doesn't exist in the UK, where we have the opposite problem (firms firing people near pension age, and then hiring youngsters at 1/3rd of salary). I know in other countries laws are tighter (in Italy it's fairly hard to fire people, for example), but as people say over there, "Facta lex inventa fraus" (as soon as a law is written, a way around it will be found"): in countries with rigid laws, firms now hire almost exclusively on a temporary basis, i.e. they hire people as contractors for years or even decades, abusing the relationship.

The high taxes and pension contributions are also a factor in Italy and in France, but not elsewhere.

What this post is representative of, is the general douchebaggery of European "entrepreneurs"; they usually come from "old money" (banks are very conservative with their lending, favouring entrenched players) and bring a terrible mindset to the workplace, i.e. "screw the employees, they're just idiots anyway". This obviously doesn't motivate workers, keeping productivity low.
> Cool stuff, but I'm wondering why they went with REP/REQ instead of ROUTER/DEALER.

Because this is just proof-of-concept hacked over 2 days (+ README file). It probably wouldn't be even released at this point, if I didn't promise it to @igrigorik.

I'll look into adding other socket types sooner or later.
As a matter of fact, businesses not wanting to hire women is a problem in Italy, even if guaranteed, paid (by a national "insurance" agency) maternity leave is just 5 months here (usually 2 months before birth, and 3 after).

5 months don't look as too much to me; this notwithstanding many businesses only hire young women if they sign a blank resignation letter (which of course is illegal too, but very difficult to prove). I agree it's a very complicated matter.

The best solution imho would be to have more state-subsidized childcare solutions (we have some, but much less than needed), which would make young mothers more productive for employers, but I understand that most free-market advocates wouldn't agree :)

PS Yes I expect to win the case, because my wife's former employer so patently broke the rules. But here in Italy justice is so slow (next month there will be the first hearing, 8 months after we sued) and compensations so little that very often employers get away with it. I decided to go to court more to defend a principle than for an economic reason.
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> How is this different than Mongrel2?

It has nothing in common with Mongrel2 other than the fact that both use ZeroMQ transport instead of TCP.
I would like even more the EU to have a direct way of dealing with this kind of situations, but for now I agree with you - that's the fastest way to pressure the Hungarian government.
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> it's very feature poor as compared to Mongrel2. One could not simply swap in nginx with this module for an existing Mongrel2 installation.

That's because this is _transport_module_ and what Zed did with Mongrel2 is build a level 7 protocol on top of ZeroMQ messages.

Even if this would support PUSH/PULL + PUB/SUB sockets right now, you would still need an _upstream_module_ that understands Mongrel2's level 7 protocol.
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I would just add that you can make money with such a system, you only need to find a business with more added value (difference between cost and price). And this brings to a whole lot of other topics such as if it is fair for a State to raise the bar in such way, so that less added value businesses simply cannot exist, if this improves growth and unemployment in the long run (I don't think so). Etc.
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I think you guys didn't quite catch his point... he doesn't hate women and children, he hates that the state forces him to employ a person for 3-6 years! without working. I support maternity leave but that's ridiculous if true.
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Proof-of-concept, nothing else at this point.
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Are you not confusing

1) session.locale, which is the locale (ie. regional settings) configuration of your browser and might very well be US,

and

2) session.location, which gives your geographic location ?
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This makes no difference. He would still have to find and retrain an employee if he just fired pregnant employees instead of them taking paternity leave.
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I think you're right; you don't understand. He's taking the arguments made in the sub as to why it's hard to start a business in Europe, and extending them to the inherent competitive advantage of startups over large corporations elsewhere. The fact that startups largely don't have to deal with the issues described in the sub, while large corporations do, contributes to this advantage.
I've actually had Amazon suggest I donate a shipment that arrived a week past the projected shipping date, with a replacement already on the way.

That was almost 10 years ago, though. Maybe policy has changed, or your case is a different process for them where they need it shipped back.
Dropbox or Evernote are far more useful to me and far cheaper, and it took me quite a while to bite at their price. This would have to be much much more capable than it appears.
Well the point is - what's wrong with firing them ? If it's easy to fire someone it's also easy to hire and if they want to and hire her back afterwards or arrange some acceptable maternity leave and things like being available on-phone or one two days a week two months after birth, etc. that would not be possible under the "protection laws". Is she any less skilled after delivery. You could also accept a different pay, etc. But the point is there is a cost to the employer and regulation just reduces market flexibility and creates situations where it's tougher for a women to get the job in the first place. And as far as I know you get benefits for child, especially in the first year, from government, I'm not sure what's the situation with that in Italy.
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Thanks mekoka for this list.

The best free programming book, and one of the best books in general, I've ever read was Programming from the Ground Up. It's not on the citizen428's list, but the mofo's list has it.

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Isn't this obvious? This is the human ego at play. We all like to imagine we have a lot of friends. To feel important. So we add lots of people, bigger numbers, more people, more contacts etc. It's just human nature, isn't it?
Iran is not some backwater and it's not north korea.

When politicians sing about "bomb Iran" these are the innocent people they are talking about killing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v6kF8i-mbw

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/01/a-view-inside-ira...

Before 1970 you would not be able to identify pictures of iran from parts of the usa

http://www.pagef30.com/2009/04/iran-in-1970s-before-islamic-...

Currently Iran is just the result of what happens if conservative fundamentals got ahold of the government of a country.

Yeah the nuclear bomb makers and holocaust deniers have to be stopped, but let's show some care and understanding for innocent people under their rule first.
The title should be "why I don't give you a job without doing tax evasion".

In Romania it's about the same: the taxation for an employees is high and so is social security (pregnancy leave, difficulty firing, etc). But people don't complain as much because tax evasion is really high.

Of course, this is really annoying for me because if your customer is in the US they will not pay you behind the counter, they will do a wire payment or such, which goes straight into accounting and is taxed.

In this regard, tax evasion becomes unfair competition.
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There are real entrepreneurs in Hungary, like myself, trying to get a product off the ground, raising money, eating ramen.

Some startups from Hungary with funding:

- LogMeIn: remote-login-as-a-service, had Nasdaq IPO
- Ustream: live streaming, raised $100M
- Prezi: nifty presentations, raised $10M
- Indextools: webmaster tools, acquired by Yahoo
- Pocketguide: nifty iPhone tourist guides, raised couple $Ms
- Gravity: recommendation engine, raised couple $Ms

Yes, we'd need a lot more.
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Well, maps.nokia.com still goes to their Javascript implementation so I'd say the WebGL form isn't the run-the-business site as of yet.

WebGL has a 1.0 specification, but still is not a standard as defined by the W3C/Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG). Specification is one of the steps towards reaching a standard, so WebGL and HTML5 are well on their way but not there yet. Standards usually don't care what name they're referred to as (much like 4G-advertised mobile service that doesn't actually reach 100mbps/1gbps like the standard dictates).

At this point (much like with the aforementioned 4G) HTML5 means about as much as "Web 2.0" does. It's a set of competing implementations with many cross-platform features that are almost guaranteed to make it into the final standard, and a few vendor-specific implementations that are hoping to make it (if they prove their worth). Your assertion of 'Flash-like content that isn't implemented in Flash' (to paraphrase) is quite accurate in current implementations.

To sum it up, the core HTML5 that companies actually market towards is all but standard (offline storage, AJAX-like content control, Canvas, etc). The really cool things that make the front page of Hacker News and Reddit and require you to be running the beta Chrome or nightly Firefox are generally things that the vendor is hoping will make the standard. Marketing is a powerful thing, but not always accurate.
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The cost should not be distributed. The cost should go directly to the business that is employing these women. If a business employs anyone they hope to do so by creating more value then the value then is spent on the employee. Even if the cost could be distributed, it has little impact on the fact that when the women goes on leave she is taking some 'business knowledge' that will take time to replace. The ability to even determine the value lost is impossible except under very general assumptions.

Car insurance isn't compulsory in all states (assuming you are from the US, but most require it). In NH you simple have to prove the ability to provide personal responsibility. If the roads were private, then it should be up to the owner of the road whether or not insurance is required.
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In many jurisdictions it's not possible (i.e., not enforceable in court) to sign away your statutory rights. This protects those with less power/resources (employees).
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I'm from Hungary, and I never heard of anyone suing their employer after getting fired. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but you have to realize that the US is super-litiguous, E.European countries in comparison are at the other end of the spectrum: it doesn't really occur to people here to sue after losing their jobs. It's just not part of the culture. Also, private individuals can't afford lawyers, and don't want to deal with them.
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As a neighboring Croatian I'm not 100% certain about Hungary but it seems very similar, so I think you need to chat with a few lawyers about this, the case about guy getting fired for coming to work drunk and then being rehired and the employer forced to pay the salaries in between because he couldn't prove his claim isn't made up :)
"A programmer will fix every problem with more code."

And that's why the best programmers are lazy. Would rather spend twenty minutes thinking about a good solution, than ten minutes implementing a contrived solution.

Maybe entrepreneurs should be a bit lazier as well? Or maybe they should just delegate all the big decisions to their daily 30 minute run?

Really, if people aren't dying this very instance, I see no problem with making a decision the next morning.
> Also, the fact that ZMQ is message, not stream, oriented makes it non-ideal here. You get the whole response in one big chunk. Across an internal network, this may not be a huge deal, but it's not a desirable property.

ZMQ and ngx_zeromq support multipart messages, so this is only true if your backend sends it as one big chunk.
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The recent discovery of planets that seem to be "earth-like" is very exciting. Imagine what the next Kepler and next Hubble would be able to find out about our neighborhood?

Imagine if we could tell a planet light-years away was heavily industrialized?

Or if something like "sub-space signals", that is sci-fi today, was discovered, and suddenly we hear so much chatter we would feel like a kid lost in a big shopping centre. A very humbling thought.
Am I being paranoid or did "A View Inside Iran" link get deleted from Hacker News?

edit: Yes, I was being way too paranoid. The article only has 3 upvotes and isn't on the first three pages, which surprised me, but I suppose more technologically interesting articles such as this one may be more appreciated here.
This guy is a complete asshole. Why is this #1 on HN?
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Isn't there a major anatomical part of the disappointing gender discrimation from this post that everyone is neglecting? Men have babies too, they may not carry them to term but they are undeniably a major part. Shouldn't the problem be considered that society forces women to be the ones to take responsibility over the child after it is born? Then companies use this to punish women because they may take a "vacation". How is caring for a child while your husband is allowed to choose what he does a vacation?
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Who has the "right" perspective, the employer or the employee? This is what contract negotiation is about. Both sides are right and both sides are wrong, and the contract is the compromise.
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I'm a 20-something that recently ditched a safe but boring (aren't they always?) corporate job so I can live abroad and embrace the digital nomad life. I'm planning on teaching myself both front-end and back-end web development from the ground up while living cheaply and enjoying life in the tropics. I've dabbled in html/css/javascript/php/mysql before as an IT analyst so I have some working knowledge to start from but I realized how shaky my fundamentals are so I'm essentially re-learning everything over again. I know there are currently quite a few HN'ers here that are based in the Philippines, can anyone tell me if there are any decent sized hacker communities there besides Manila (too much pollution) for me to get involved with? Thanks
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I guess there should be some kind of timestamp preventing that kind of attack, no?
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I run a company in germany, if my employees want EUR 1500 net salary, which is very little for a trained professional, it costs my company roughly EUR 3000. So not that much better.

I dont know what this guy is doing but he should just sell his service internationally so he could easily charge double the money and would solve most of his problems.
In countries such as Canada or the US it is effectively illegal to ask any personal questions in a job interview (religion, age, social & family status, ideology). In Spain those kinds of things are the first questions a woman gets asked, and for most common jobs, children (present or future) in practice mean she won't get the job. I am not aware of any restrictions that discourage this practice or allow her to safely refuse to answer.

I know of at least one employer who privately boasts that when he needs to hire a woman, he will only hire a lesbian, to avoid this issue altogether.
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It's wrong if they fired her because she is pregnant (and about to take the maternity leave I presume). Its almost the equivalent of firing a male employee who accrued a lot of leaves (by not using any) and about to use them.
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> if the restrictions that this new module places on it (namely, exclusively REQ/REP pairs) make that not apply.

ZeroMQ I/O threads are still being used with REQ/REP, so this doesn't change anything in that matter.

Also, exclusive use of REQ/REP pair isn't restriction, but current limitation of the module ;)
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The Microsoft Trident engine is getting more powerful with each iteration. Knowing that it has been around since IE4 in 1997 and seeing where it is today show how extensible it is.

The real problem lies not inside the engine but inside Microsoft themselves. Specifically, within the .NET group. I know everyone on Hacker News loves Ruby, so I'll use that as an example. Microsoft wanted the dynamic language stylings that Ruby offered, so they spent 3 years developing IronRuby that ran on the .NET CLR. Then they suddenly dropped it without warning. Why? Because they had extracted everything they wanted from it. Keeping the technology up to date would not give them anything more than what they already had. Microsoft benefited from it, and when they no longer did, they dropped it. Everything that happens inside Microsoft's core is to strengthen their sellers: Windows and Office. If Windows or Office needs a new technology, they will take it, use it, and .NET-ify it until it becomes proprietary.

If they were to swap Trident for Webkit, it would be the same thing. IE11 built on Webkit for a few years, their development staff would learn from it, and the next release would see Trident 7 (IE12) back in form. Microsoft takes with only nominal giving because that's great for business. They can learn from outside technologies, then use that knowledge to lock people in tighter with better tech.

It's been a while since we've seen Microsoft in true form, pioneering and leveraging their weight to shape the market for their benefit. What we have right now is Microsoft in damage control mode. Moving to Webkit would be more of that, strengthening Trident by sucking the essence out of Webkit or Gecko, directing the flow of HTML5 (and pushing for MSHTML6 afterwards) would be the return of the powerhouse. It'll be interesting to see where things go, but even as someone who sees Microsoft as the best tool for the job in some certain situations, I would't place any bets on Microsoft being the dominant force on the web... ever. Luckily (for them), desktops aren't going anywhere anytime soon.

edit - I should add that, to your point (and mine), Microsoft already does use Webkit where it is advantageous for them: Mac OSX. Instead of continuing development on IE for OSX, they switched Office to Webkit for the Mac. I'd have to believe Trident would have suffered without that move (circa Office 2011).
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I second all who recommend not going the hard-tech way.

Instead, (if the business is web-based,) I'd suggest SEO.
The right-wing Hungarian government changed the law of work relations. This rant was part of the campaign to gather support for the initiatve. It represents a very popular opinion, but popular does not mean true. For your information:1. Is it almost impossible to get a job if you are over 35; 2. Several people over 55 were fired recently. There are horrible stories.