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There is no way to know whether a leap second will be used in the future, beyond the half-year "notice period". This can make it tricky to plan for synchronized events past the notice period. The solution, of course, is to use non-leaped time for such planning. As several have pointed out, libraries handle both times. As someone who needs to deal with both types in data processing, I can report that it's definitely not a big deal.
So you have no problem with the Secretary of the Treasury being the VC in chief for the US, deciding what companies are worthy of investment?
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Partly from watching other people go through it, partly from getting close to it myself a few times. I recently finished writing a book, while working full time and helping to run my wife's web business. Oh and two kids. I just got back from two weeks holiday, and that wasn't anywhere near enough, but it'll do for now.

Burnout is typically caused by long, relentless periods of overwork and stress, and takes an similarly long time to get over. And yes, it is quite possible the OP is not recovered from his burnout, but I'd rather not see people claiming that it's possible to recover from it by having a couple of days on a beach somewhere. There are enough heroics in IT as it is.
How do you pronounce the letter "Ø"?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100101105722AA...

(but really, it's ZeroMQ)
Be careful what you vote with your money every day.
Great. That was real quick :) Thanks.
Yes, and this is great. Unfortunately, there are still some problems left: I don't really trust them with my credit card, and I don't like the fact that they know (and remember) everything I buy from them.

If this were possible, I would like to "pay cash" over the network.
Bringing voter opinion into the picture for each piece of legislature would be a disaster. It's unreasonable to expect the public to be educated enough on each issue to meaningfully participate in this issue. What would happen is that it would make things worse, as politicians would have to pump even more money into advertisements for his/her pet issue; deepening the unfortunate dependency on special interest money from politicians.

The real solution is to tackle the lobbying and campaign finance issues, and all of these other issues will improve.
> Don’t write your own memory manager, and stop if you find yourself doing something ugly with byte buffers.

What's wrong with byte buffers? Serious question, as I use them all the time whenever I do OpenGL-ES 2.0 surfaceviews for android apps.
Corporativismo (in the fascist sense) referred to a desire for single-party totalitarian rule in the fusion of state and business power-- the goal that, instead of having separate and potentially competing interests, the elites of all of these sectors should glom together and centralize power.

It's not exactly the same thing in the modern U.S.: in totalitarian corporatism (fascism) the government co-opts private businesses and installs puppets of its elite. That's not what we've seen over the past 30 years. In anarchic corpratism (which is what the American upper class and right wing had in their golden era-- the Gilded Age-- and have been implementing since the late 1970s) it goes the other way: the business elite invades the government and makes it generally powerless to stop them. This form of corporatism is more limited and therefore more benign. "Anarchic corporatism" seems like an oxymoron, but the fundamental idea behind it is that business elites (which need not put up a unified front, as states must do for morale reasons) call the shots, but nonetheless compete. It's "anarchic" in the sense that the government is not supposed to be king-making or impeding specific players.

What we're seeing, amusingly, is that the elite has no real ideology. In 1980, they were predictably conservative and relatively principled, if wrongheaded. They were anarchic corporatists and proud of it. What the Bush, Jr. Era has shown us is that when this elite successfully co-opts the state, these people start to like unlimited state power and intrusion (Patriot Act, SOPA)... even if they say they're for "small government". So anarchic corporatism leads to the totalitarian kind over time; the TL;DR summary of that is "power vacuum".
I think that changing the campaign funding model to small dollar amounts would make a significant difference. See http://rootstrikers.org and Lessig's interview with Jon Stewart (http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-december-13-2011/exclu..., http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-december-13-2011/exclu...).
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Piracy - You can't have your cake and eat it
I thought Apple withdrew support for SOPA?
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Hi, thanks for this response! I definitely agree with you that it's easiest... and yet, startups are creating awesome iOS native apps, and awesome Android native apps - in the same office. I would love to hear more from the experience of these types of startups.

No disagreement with you on your points.
It seems[1] that GPS at least already broadcasts "GPS time", which is fixed at TAI plus 19 seconds, and hence doesn't include leap seconds.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Timek...
You might find Lawrence Lessig's talk at Google interesting: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik1AK56FtVc

However, the article suggests that if some terrible legislation passed it would ignite people into real action. That clearly failed to happen when the Patriot Act was passed. I'm sure there are many more examples. If the discourse surrounding legislation convinces enough people not to care (or fails to make it into wider public awareness), then there doesn't seem to be much standing in its way.
Your point as I understand it is that you would find it preferable for content creators not to distribute at all rather than distribute with copyright?
Exactly what Maddox suggests, don't buy their products. This is about counterfeit goods, and access to cheap competition.

Its nothing but building protectionist markets, the same ones most western nations have been fighting for the last hundred years because they entrap people, prevent competition, cause monopolies, and abuse customers. Its against the free markets, which (problems of market abuse aside) is getting money into developing economies and helping people. Its a great step backwards world economics and trade.

So hit them where it hurts, they are obviously scared of the new markets enough to try and outlaw them. Take 30 minutes out of your day to write a letter to a company and explain to them you are disgusted, they have lost a customer, and you will from now on buy counterfeit goods instead of theirs.

I will be doing my part by downloading all the mp3s I want, I'll go see the shows in person to make sure the artists get there dues, and I'll wait to see these middle men slowly fade... but I'm sure we are only about to see fireworks start, theres going to be some big noise as some of these guys go down.
Not to mention they hold a large amount of the market at a critical period for lock-in to their ecosystem. If they can make xbox live provide enough compelling features that you lose when switching platforms then they'll keep the current users for a long time.
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What exactly is your disagreement with the content of the article?
I think if you are hoping for a 10m sale you aren't setting your sights high enough
Not all work starts at 9 A.M!
I've seen all three triggered by overwork, chronic background stress and/or adrenal fatigue. Perhaps it's not an official disorder, but burnout is frequent enough in IT that it probably should be.
Create mini congresses for subcommittees. For stuff that's absolutely massive, Congress does a relatively good job of threshing out the issues. They have real debates in the public eye. For smaller issues, it's farmed out to subcommittees, who put the legislation together in back-rooms, usually after "discussing the issue with relavant stakeholders".

It would be to slow to do everything in Congress (that's why they have the subcommittees), but they could prepare the legislation in a much more transparent member. The members wouldn't like it, but that's their problem.

You could also require that bills are only valid if they are well described by their titles. So, you couldn't call stuff "Stop Online Piracy Act" unless you were willing to have in knocked down in the Supreme Court for having a silly name.
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You really can't see the difference between that and somebody making money from your work (possibly more than you do) without providing you with any compensation?
Correcting for clock drift is not tangible in a practical sense though. We (allegedly) have good reasons for changing our schedule twice a year. Changing it because that's how people lived 500 years ago is not any kind of reason, and I think our ancestors will just laugh at the idea when it comes time for the leap hour.

So if these leap seconds are causing problems, I don't see any reason to keep them. By the time the consequences of getting rid of them are noticeable, they will no longer be negative consequences.
> There are a number of publishers on this list, including my own publisher. If the consensus I get from readers is that we should boycott publishers, I'll support the boycott even though it hurts me.

As much of an asshole as he is, I've always respected the guy for his shocking lack of hypocrisy.

If movie producers had the decency to make this kind of public stand, things might be different.
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That's between a third and a quarter of what I paid for a contract-free ZTE phone, and that percentage is probably only going to rise as phone prices drop.
20 cities is hardly "every city". I tried 'frrole.com/mycity', expecting a page to be generated on the fly, but no such luck. Should be possible though, and then you could legitimately state that you offer results for every city.

It would also be a nice touch to use geolocation to automagically generate a city (or region) page. Right now, it presented me with the page for Mumbai, while I'm in Europe. Out of the available options on the site, London is closest to me.
Migrate ALL of SimpleGEO's services
Funnily enough at SpacialDB we had a very similar API to SimpleGEO, namely the idea of Layers. Each dataset in SpacialDB maps to a layer, accessible as GeoJSON via a REST API. We decided to build SpacialDB on PostgreSQL so we could handle more than just simple points. Our API can store complex geometries (2D/3D polygons, line, multipolygons and multilines). This means that in addition to migrating your Storage data from SimpleGEO to SpacialDB you could also replicate SimpleGEO's Features, Context and Places API's with SpacialDB. At least the parts that are under creative commons.
Thanks for putting into words what didn't "feel" right to me; my use of "circular reasoning" wasn't quite the appropriate phrase, I guess.
I'm not sure why the down votes? Look, I'm as business-oriented as anyone here, but this is the truth.

Art can be profitable for the artist, but whether it is or isn't, it's still happening. People will create sculptures to admire and music to dance to. The distribution stream was invented far, far later. Let's not conflate the creation of the art and the business of selling it.
Of course, but...

I worked in a music store for a number of years, and got gossipy stories from area and regional managers about stuff from label reps and contacts. There were a few more majors back then, but it always felt very much like collusion more than competition - coordinating of release dates, for one. We couldn't adjust our prices to match competition without clearing it first with HQ. Some of these were, to some extent, normal retail chain corporate policies, but why were they so worried about some issues? Well, if we violated things, we might lose some deals we had with label X or label Y. (Almost felt like if mfg X preloaded linux on model ABC, they wouldn't get preferential MS Windows licensing prices compared to their competitors.)

This was early 90s, for some perspective.

Then - lo and behold - http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2000/08/38103?current... - a mere 9 years later.

Then 11 years after that - http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jan/11/major-labels-law...
They've been eerily silent on the matter. They also have content deals with pretty much all the major companies pushing for SOPA/PIPA.
Sorry about that, it's back now...
Funnily enough at SpacialDB we had a very similar API to SimpleGEO, namely the idea of Layers. Each dataset in SpacialDB maps to a layer, accessible as GeoJSON via a REST API. We decided to build SpacialDB on PostgreSQL so we could handle more than just simple points. Our API can store complex geometries (2D/3D polygons, line, multipolygons and multilines). This means that in addition to migrating your Storage data from SimpleGEO to SpacialDB you could also replicate SimpleGEO's Features, Context and Places API's with SpacialDB. At least the parts that are under creative commons.
I don't think they ever (explicitly) supported it. The Business Software Alliance did which they're a member of so guilt by assoc. They did announce public opposition.
Agree, should have said "Building a tweetmeme of its own for every city". This is the first release, we are taking the no. of cities to 50+ with the next release in 6-8 weeks.

The focus till now has been on building algorithms that are kickass enough to filter junk out and keep only useful stuff in. Still WIP I know, but what do you think about that. Take http://frrole.com/san+francisco for example.
Well, this is a "democracy" (in irony quotes), so there's no permanent solution to anything, as there will always be elections.

Perhaps a better and more sustainable solution would to galvanize this energy around SOPA into a culture of activism. After calling our senators and representatives, we should move on to talking the media and call them out when they broadcast misleading statements from the MPAA/RIAA (like the oft-cited $770 billion(!) lost to piracy every year). This would help us build a base.

Also, this fatalist attitude of things doing nothing is
a) wrong
and b) just gives you an excuse to give up.

For example, remember the anti-war protests during 2003? Those were the LARGEST PROTESTS IN HISTORY. Yet they did not to stop the war. Luckily, everyone did not adopt the attitude of "protests do nothing, we need to do X". And those who did adopt the "protests do nothing, we need to do X" attitude were proved wrong yesterday.

We did something yesterday. While it did not go as far a some people hoped, we did do something. And that is a victory we can build on.
The dichotomy does seem to create complications, unfortunately:

Overall, 75% of AML transplant patients survive year one, 50% make it through year five.
> For instance, it’s well-established that men perform more effectively under routine and structure.

- Citation needed.

Blaming "men" for the 9-5 workday is easily one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard. Come on.
No it is not.
His point is: get to the root of the problem.
And he notices that it has to get worse before people understand this.

I totally agree with him. It's like the bugs get fixed, shitty lasts forever. Most of the time fixing a bug means getting tot the root of the problem.
Then define two types of seconds.

* The reference second, used for the metric system definitions and science in general.

* The real-life second, based on the rotation of the earth.

If you want to keep a Cesium reference for every day time, you can define the second as either 9,192,631,770 or 9,192,631,771 oscillations in a given proportion. X short seconds followed by Y long seconds, with the X/Y ratio decreasing daily. When X becomes 0, increment both numbers and start over.
I don't think Apple ever did support SOPA. BSA did, of which Apple is a member, and BSA withdrew their support.
The suggestion is that the user should be able to enter any city, not just use the preset ones.
Vote with your wallet. Stop buying or consuming content from the IP mafia and convince others to do so. Don't buy records, especially don't listen to Spotify (all the money goes directly to the record labels, etc, almost none to the artists), don't go to the movie theater or buy movies, stop watching TV. The money you give (directly or indirectly through ads) to the MAFIAA racket will be spent on lobbying counterproductive laws. And then stop pirating that stuff, so you won't be a part of the statistics that are given to the politicians to convince that piracy is harmful.

Sounds difficult? Maybe. I did this, I stopped watching TV in 1999, going to the movies in 2001 and listening to music in 2006. The content I would have wanted wasn't (and still isn't) available at a price and terms that I could accept, so I don't want it. Not that I paid for the media I consumed, I pirated most of the stuff. But I don't want to be a part of the piracy statistics to give excuses for killing the internet.

I still enjoy music, though. Maybe even more now that I'm not constantly listening to it so the rare occasion when I do hear music, it sounds better. I do allow myself exceptions every now and then but most of the time I don't consume MAFIAA products or feel like I'm missing anything.
Excellent! Thanks for the tip. I'm currently using url2png and imagemagick. URL2PNG is an excellent service, but probably won't be economically feasible for me, long term, when I get to trying to scale my app. ( I'm working on a visual bookmarking app with screenshot thumbnails serving as tiles on a draggable corkboard interface. You can double-click the tiles to open the target url in a draggable iframe. Example: http://beta.mindcast.com/ui/4k82yb5zb2ov )
Hey - I have pondered using less / sass / etc but so far haven't yet had much need (though the repetition required by the theming is perhaps a strong case to start considering it). To be honest, the vast majority of the site's CSS is contained in Twitter's bootstrap framework anyway so up until this point it's not something I'd worried much about :)
It isn't eerie when Apple is silent.
> Not sure what this does on HN.

It's SOPA week, and his essay is pretty on-point and insightful? He's not the only one who expressed the thought contained in TFA either, for what it's worth.

In fact, it's much more insightful than the masturbatory "13 reps have now stopped saying they're for SOPA (but would still vote for it or a variation of it if faced with the bill) the internet won!" we're facing today.

In fact, he ends his rant with a call-to-action not unlike Reddit's Godaddy call. Only part which bothers me is that he calls for boycotting "two or three", and gives a big list of 50+ companies with little direction.
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So much efforts to stop law proposal X. Which is great.
What about the idea of a Open-USA or other Open-Iran where a true Meta-Democracy or whatever open society model is implemented where all efforts would be PRO something instead of hateful stuff like protesting.
This laws are proposed by lobbies that go against the interest of 99% of the persons. How is that even conceivable ?
All this big companies opposing could create a github project for open government and then elect a person that implements that.
What Maddox doesn't seem to understand is that "raising awareness" is the only way you win these battles long term in a democracy. For example, gay marriage is slowly becoming a reality because over the last 20 years gays have opened people's eyes to their plight. Once a cause becomes a moral issue for most Americans it wins. But most people have no idea what us tech geeks are bitching about so we have to educate them about our causes. And that is exactly what yesterday was about.
I believe you commented on the wrong article.
he is right but not complete, its not the fault with your senators or representatives, its about the system that feeds the so called democracy. We must learn why the companies are so interested in politics and what they gain from these bills like this one.
Assuming there is another service that fits my needs, doesn't have the same problem, has a price I like and will let me move all my data over from the old service..

I just don't understand why you think losing all control over your software would be preferable to copyright?
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Yes, it is different for reasons already discussed.

Why would it be different for musicians?
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i used to love this game!! i played it with a real toy hammer and toy crocs when i was a kid :). it was a physical gaming machine! turning it into pure css! how far we have come!
This looks really cool. I haven't looked into dependently typed languages in depth, but this is the first one I've seen that looks like a programming language to write programs in.
Confirming. This week I am round 10 last week I managed to pull off getting here before 8 two times. Flextime is great. Tomorrow I am gone at 3pm.
This may upset people, but in my humble opinion, gay marriage has been a pawn used by DC for political gain. Raising awareness worked because DC figured out a way to twist it into a campaign talking point. Makes me sick.
Good to know that you liked it, Certainly we consider tweet count but that's not the only thing, we have put lots of logic for analyzing tweet's nature (textual/NLP), relevance (by city and category) and most importantly we have worked on cutting noise.
Thanks, that is how it is intended to be in the longer term. But going to hit Twitter's rate limits very soon and access to full firehose is way too costly for a bootstrapped startup.

Hope to scale to 50+ cities by ourselves, validate traction with users from those 50 cities and then look at really big scaling, if it is getting some love:)
I don't know why you're connecting these two completely different issues together. Just because you can "demonstrate" that raising awareness helped one problem, doesn't mean it will help another entirely different problem.
I wouldn't. Gamification of things like a build tool, where you can compete in fixing tests, adds some value.

These achievements just seem gimmicky. Unlocking the 'loner' award after a good night of saturday night coding is just adding insult to injury.

Or what kind of company would want 5 different curse words in a file, (very childish)
The kind of people who are so worried about "internet piracy" also want to sterilize poor people
Can't really offer any qualified advice, except listen to yourself. My unqualified advice would be to try and slow down somehow before you burn out.

One thing I can definately say is, make sure that family life is working. If that falls apart, it's just one more problem you don't need. So definately make sure that you give enough attention to your wife, and make sure you're getting enough attention from her. This point can't be stressed enough.

Perhaps someone has been there and done that and can offer better advice?