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Can someone more familiar with these products explain why they decided against ZeroMQ even though it apparently offers by far the best performance?

The ZeroMQ "note" part sounds like there's a bug in the Python library, but that hardly seems to be grounds for eliminating it completely from the "race".
What is Joel preaching? To use UTF-8? I don't think so. This post is explaining the difference between character sets and encoding. It was very helpful for me.
Two weeks with a Cosmonaut
Why below-average immigrants are beneficial
It says the drive can be "easily changed" between two bodies, which means it can also be removed and just stuck in your pocket without a "body".
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I'm not sure how it could be seen as wiretapping - almost all automated systems from banks to the cable service allow you to speak your options in - not that I like this feature as it's frustrating to yell "operator" in to your phone instead of hitting 0.
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So I can see ads because my friends have "Liked" stuff? I can see my number of friends shrinking rapidly.
Making your life... Simpler. On Siri, ifttt, and Any.DO
Also, you probably mean "wrath of a thousand pedants" not "wraith".
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That's not uncommon, unfortunately. Book publishers are trying their hardest to retain their business model, where supply and demand is a large factor. It won't last, middle men are going to go away as self-publishing services like Amazon take over. Just like iTunes is taking over music, Steam is taking over gaming, etc.
Most photos are worthless except to the person who took them. If someone uses your photo without permission you have not lost the photo so it does not need replacing.

What he may have lost is the price he could have commanded for exclusive use of the image

By that logic, if he allowed all his images to be used for free, he has not lost anything but the "exclusive use fee".

You are missing two key points:

1) He is losing the expected income from the potential sale. If he says "yes you can use it for free", he will always gain $0. If he says "no you can't use it for free", he will gain $X * P[magazine will pay $X], which is almost certainly higher than $0.

2) If he allowed his pictures to be used for free, he'd drive down the average market value for such pictures. This would hurt him and other photographers in the long run.
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Tongue in cheek: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=altair+pg
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When I read this article, it remind me how english have a problem with the semantic of the word "free".

When he says:
"this photograph is not free"
he means :
"this photograph has a cost"
when I understand:
"this photograph has a licence witch does not allow people to share, copy, modify as wish"

Librement
I agree with you but it just bears repeating that it is not just will alone that allows you to produce content
Random interview questions - "Are you smart enough to work at Google?"
He wouldn't be ranting if his photo was the sunset equivalent of the Mona Lisa. To use your metaphor, his photo is not the Mona Lisa. To use your metaphor, his photo is but one among the huge number of portraits of women.
I have used Mikogo quite successfully in the past. Something that I found useful was that you can swap who the "Presenter" is at any time. This allowed different members to share their desktops when trying to explain something.

http://www.mikogo.com/
That's what I get for ranting prior to having my tea. I do miss me my Stargate Atlantis.
That's an interesting point about large families...birth rates would probably fall pretty dramatically.

Another potential benefit is that really long-lived people might take a longer-term view on other problems. It'd probably change the global warming debate pretty significantly, for example, if everybody right now had a life expectancy of a thousand.
So long as a mediocre worker is contributing something to the bottom line, it often is significantly more cost effective for a large company to keep them than to go through the expenses entailed in the hiring and training processes.

If one's idea of how to deal with personnel issues is to just fire people, one may not have the temperament for management in a large organization.
Despite the fact that I will end up auto-dead for saying so, there is no difference between a government and an "organized crime" ring.
“We invite the US government and other nations to enter into negotiation with the Foundation and The Iranian government,” he posted, “for disclosure of the full space technology to all nations simultaneously that there shall be no more war race, but a pace race [sic] to join and conquer the space and not each others little peace of lands so called nations, this offer stands and is extended to all nations irrespective of their colour, race and religion.”
Pirate Leadership
He should be paid because he demands payment. This is a valid thing to do according to current laws, which allow authors to control the distribution of their "intellectual work" on author's terms (with some exceptions).

Both author's skills and the cost of equipment are irrelevant. If the author decides that the cost of equipment is the pricing factor, it's his or her right.

The comments here mostly point out that this pricing decision is not logical.
People will come up with cash for things they thing are worth paying for. A picture of a sunset has little commercial value, but custom photography (weddings, etc) do. The customer doesn't care about his overhead, especially if he doesn't know how to calculate it. Why should they? If you want them to pony up, selling something worth buying. Musicians have figured it out, why shouldn't he?
One difference is that Google hangouts allows you to have multi video sessions for free. To do this in Skype one member needs to have a premium membership.
http://www.slashgear.com/victorinox-shows-off-3000-1-terabyt...

"The drive won’t be available until August, and a Victorinox associate said that they’re still considering the $3K price."
Guess what will happen: people will just use other photographs. What is the gain for the photographer?
Indeed; not a stretch to say he could have just happened across that opportunity while borrowing a cheap point-and-shoot, applying his skill at identifying & framing a shot and using whatever equipment at hand to its full potential.

Ultimately it's supply-and-demand: get paid $X because people are willing to pay that to acquire the image, regardless of his alleged talent and costs. As it is, he's handing out small copies of that image for free, while begging people to not violate abstract notions of intellectual property. Maybe someone will like the image enough to order a hard-to-make high-quality large-size limited-quantity signed-and-numbered copy and pay a dear price for it.
How do you expect this site to be used? Is this an attempt to list all the places where one has to bribe to get stuff done? Sadly, everybody knows the answer to that, it's everywhere. Is it an attempt show corruption is all-pervasive in India? The answer to that is also obvious.

My question is this: let's say everyone with access to the internet used your site and reported all the bribes they paid, how will this help change the situation?
Ditto. I would include a clearer legend somewhere near the graph.
But in the rest of the large company, there are hordes of pointy-haired bosses who are busy full-time trying to take up as much credit, budget and headcount as they can. They'll be drawn to your success as rats to food. It takes a lot of political savvy and energy to keep these freeloaders out of an effective team.
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My reaction to this was. Oh, I've seen pocket knives with thumbdrives. Wait does that say 1TB? They can fit 1TB in a tumbdrive???

How long has this been possible?
Actually I wouldn't be surprised if some food journalists or whatever get to dine for free in restaurants. Goods for exposure is a valid business proposition. It is valid to reject it, too, but I don't understand the fuss.

If 37signals would feature me on their homepage for a week I would probably also give them some "free" work in exchange. No offense taken.

I guess the "problem" is that he was approached by people he did not deem worthy. Reminds me of women who complain about being approached all the time, but I suspect they wouldn't complain about being approached by Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Just saying it is not the approaching that is actually the problem, it is the who is doing the approaching.
Interesting since I just had this exact conversation with a fellow developer yesterday. Last year he moved from a very small shop into a large corporate environment (largely due to a better pay-cheque and a growing family) but he was lamenting to me about how slow things move. He said he spends 8-10 hours a week in meetings or preparing for them. The project they are working on his old team could have knocked out in a month or two, yet 6 months in it's still crawling and falling behind schedule. Nice validation for our conversation to see that almost every item we discussed is in this article.
Well, all I can do is wish you luck with all that. I'm an amateur photographer who could never take a photo that beautiful, but I get people hitting me up to use my photos for free sometimes. I just say no (my photos are CC licensed, but not for commercial use). I don't have any illusions about siccing my nonexistent lawyer on someone who steals my photos.

But, I agree that photographers should be paid for their work. People and firms just want to get things for as little cost as they can, that's why they do this and that's why they try to get freelancers to do spec work. It costs the firm nothing but a half-hearted promise that they'll be nice to the designer later.
Can you expound a little on Ventrilo? It looks interesting, and I'd like to hear more about how you use it.
Hmm. The question "what is the size of memory that x points to?" is cheap to figure out, because free needs to do it anyway. You couldn't use a macro to do it - it would need to access the internal data structures of the allocator - but it's easy to do. The other questions could be macros that called the first function.

What are the use cases for these functions? What bugs would they prevent?
We use Skype for voice but their desktop sharing is abysmal. Mikogo, on the other hand, works brilliantly.
Gizmodo mentions $3,000 as the price point, but re-reading the article, I cannot see where they got it.

http://gizmodo.com/5875033/hands-on-with-3000-worth-of-flash...
Yeah, that's why I said they can't be forced down by price. The supply/demand side is a whole other issue.

Medical school is entirely too expensive, which limits doctors going into general or emergency care, which causes further strain on the system.
Secret Developer Acronyms
As this post illustrates, HN depends upon writers who allow their writing to be published for free.
I have to give Google props on this one. I've spent a lot of time selling tech platforms / programs to the larger banks in North America. Speaking bluntly, most of the adoption is being driven by a struggle to keep the lights on, vs. a natural comfort with the cloud.

It would be interesting to share notes, but I'm finding the adoption is fairly peripheral (non core systems) with a large lock down on the data that is made available. Part of the problem is tech propensity, (in the U.S.) is partly regulation based, and part is because those making buying decisions simply do not use these tools.

It's going to be an interesting path forwards. The culture change for these organizations is going to take time.
If you think about the purpose of a resume, it's to provide your potential employer with a snapshot of your skills and experience. This presentation method is probably the most inefficient way to do it.

The reason folks recommend resumes be a one-pager is because it's the best way to quickly digest information and see if you're going to be a good fit.

If you're going to use the web as the medium for your resume, make it something like a one-page scroller with the ability to easily jump between sections, minimizing the animations and maximizing readability.

Additionally, I'm not sure who you're shooting for as far as a potential employer, but I'm personally turned off by the "Oh Hai!" It just makes me think you'll spend half your day surfing Reddit.
What seems odd to me is the idea of a Brit actively keeping people from queuing. That's basically Britain's national pastime.
Stratfor CEO response to hacking incident
Do Things That Work
I vote for `memorycard`
TechCrunch produces content and as such I'm sure they were well served by WordPress.

The OP's company is in the business of selling WordPress-based solutions and that to me seems like a shaky business at best. In another post the OP clarified himself in saying that they are not a large business and mostly work with non-profit and small organization without a large development budget so I guess now his write-up makes more sense. But perhaps instead of ragging on WordPress for not being something they were hoping it to be, they should be thanking the authors of WordPress for for creating a tool and releasing it free of charge allowing the OP's company to stay in business for this long.
Can't help thinking it's a better strategy for everyone to stay open, and use the day's revenue for lobbying. money talks.
Great choice of music on the video!
This reminds me of the debate in the media about high-frequency trading after the flash crash. The media and general public were pounding the table demanding data and analysis and solutions, and on the inside of the industry, no one cared. Even the SEC did not have the tools or expertise to do a proper analysis.

The demands for change have to come from outside, and they have to be forceful. I would go further than this article and demand that not only should the papers be available to the public, but so should all of the data from which the conclusions were drawn. And furthermore there should be some open repository of all the data, along with the analysis, with api's etc... If taxpayers are paying for research then why not also pay for a way to actually consume that research?
Introducing the 'nano-ear'
head over to Vietnam, post-lunch nap is still widespread there.
This is an example of our latest feature release, Guides. (Blog entry: http://lanyrd.com/blog/2012/guides/
Featured guides page: http://lanyrd.com/guides/)

I've created the Hacker News Meetups guide as an "open" guide, which means any Lanyrd user can join the guide and help out by adding events we've missed.
I think 1 and 2 are better than 3. I would recommend using just the "above the fold" from 2 which has the simplicity of 1 while retaining a short/clear description of what it is that you actually provide. This way your call to action of "Take the Tour" will be even clearer. Assuming that is what you want your site visitors to do first.
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Thanks for all of the feedback already. I agree that paper resumes won't be going away any time soon so I'll definitely need one of those if I pull the trigger. I also agree on the profile photo and the experience graph. I'll try and get those cleaned up.

@Feanim, thanks for the bigger image. I couldn't find one so I had to stretch it a bit.
Having worked in both of these situations, I completely agree with this post. Even with the adoption of "Corporate Agile", our large teams were not able to get near the efficiency of a smaller 4-6 man team.

I think another point to look at would be the level of scrutiny that goes into hiring another member of a dev team of 5-20. A 100 dev team is usually hiring by resume via HR with less focus on culture fit and in-depth technical knowledge.
I think, in this case and discussion, it's just about the scale of the influence and power. So yes, if you want to measure the influence and the power of the american mob to the US economy: sum it up and don't distinguish between different groups.
Worth pointing out again: the size of the chunk allocated for a particular data structure does not give you the precise bounds of the data structure; odds are, the chunk is slightly larger than the structure.
When Does a Startup Stop Being a Startup?
Different data structures implemented in Javascript.
It would be interesting to see some other metrics with regard to this data.

Cost and schedule are the first things that managers look at, but as a client I would also be looking at stuff like SQA, code quality, completeness of my specification. There's also the 'bus factor' (if one of these guys gets hit by a bus, is there someone else who can work on and understand my code?) What additional documentation am I getting with the code? How is the customer service, is there someone there who I can call and talk to?

We also don't know how this 32 person team was comprised. If it was 4 programmers being supported by 28 other people who worked on the project off and on (management, sqa, marketing, documentation, requirements) these results are not surprising.

As a programmer I want to know things like: how many 16 hour days did the devs work, how maintainable is the code, did the programmer salaries increase commensurate with the additional effort that they seem to have put in? Am I confident in the reliability of this code, or has it been simply thrown over the wall with the promise of support.

I know we all want evidence for 'just Me, Steve and our Emacs buffers, is most efficient. Going it alone like Clint Eastwood and Arnold Schwarzenegger in a buddy comedy about programmers.' But studies in the social sciences like this one are incredibly difficult to get right and should be taken with a grain of salt.
This is a concept that I had a lot of fun thinking about but never had the resources to make happen. Good luck. Can't wait to be a client. Looks very promising.
I think they already have an Android app, see https://market.android.com/details?id=com.level2.bhrastachar
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Students break record by folding toilet paper 13 times
A case for a four day work week
Wow! Downvoted for posting a clickable link? Please pardon my ignorance but I thought this was considered to be a basic courtesy here. Anyone? Care to throw some light on this?
> As someone mentioned, THIS single photo didn’t cost me $6,612, but if you wanted to create it, from scratch, that is what is involved. So I consider it the replacement value if it’s stolen, or how much my lawyer will send you a bill for if it’s found being used without my permission.

I get it.

He is saying that he wants to charge the other person the amount it would cost FOR that other person to create this work from scratch (to buy all the equipment, etc).

But that's just one way to look at it, and it can roll down hill fast when you start including the cost of the amount of time and education that other person would need.

At the end of the day, when someone steals this photo, they don't also steal all the equipment and software that he used to create it. That remains as-is.

He would do better to claim copyright and ask for what he would charge x 3 (penalty) plus lawyer fees.
OkCupid is written in C++

http://www.okcupid.com/about/technology
The protein complex they are studying here is the ATP Synthase, one of the coolest protein complexes in my opinion. When run in one direction, the complex uses ATP to pump H+ ions across the membrane (against the chemical gradient). When run in the other direction, it uses diffusion and H+ chemical gradients to generate ATP.

Sounds cool, but watch how it works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOSyGTYCRFw

A more stylized explanation: http://wwww.youtube.com/watch?v=yU3NsIfyhfI

The molecular mechanism up close: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_mZGTB5uKg

Sadly, this awesome example of evolution is one of the poster-children for creationists.

Bonus video, this one is a classic and really great. The Inner Life of a Cell: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEzRz1jmqNA
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> Taking a step back you have to ask: Why are these publishing companies given such power

Publishing companies have not that much power. What they publish is decided based on how many references the paper gets and how prominent in the academic society the authors (or the professors backing them) are. They just enjoy their role as "gatekeepers" - basically, they get paid big money to put a barrier at the entrance of the whole system.
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GetGlue Hits 2 Million Users and Rolls Out New Guide Page
Would be interested to hear how you (and others) handle the transition from salaried work to startup life...
Freud?
"The device will come equipped with two knife bodies, between which the drive can easily be interchanged with one that is flight-friendly and the other includes traditional Swiss Army Knife implements of a blade, scissors, and screw driver."
I didn't compare current freedom of press to freedom during the Dictadura, I compared it to the years between Dicatura and the Kirchner.

I don't try to put all Kirchneristas in the same bag. I didn't even mention Kirchneristas.

And there are other monopolies (outside of the media), and Fibertel isn't the only internet company with issues. All of that was an excuse to single out Clarin. And the Kirchner didn't make too much of an effort to hide that really, they almost spelled that out clear in public speeches.
You're right.

Some people don't understand the importance of Mafia in all the world - maybe 100 years ago it was limited to Italy, then it moved to USA, to East-Europe and so on, but mass-media still say it's limited to Italy. Ok, keep on living in the wonderland, I can't say any more..

They're "using" what they've earned in decades of selling drugs, prostitution and so on. Now they're honest employers recycling money. That's it.

I suggest you to read some books from Salvatore Lupo (Giovanni Falcone's "Cose di Cosa Nostra" too is a good introduction, ...), an Italian historian, whose activity is centered to study mafia and its origins.
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Hey, thanks! Yeh we already do! We released it a while back but android market is not that big in india.. so heres the website!
Sandia Labs touts DNSSEC tool DNSViz
Best quote: "The problem is caused by people who would like a little help spying on their friends. And in a genteel way, that’s what the social media offers. They get to surveil other people. In return for a little bit of the product, they assist the growth of these immense commercial spying operations."

This has become the crux of my objection to social networks: they exist to gather data on you. Whatever benefit you get from it, their purpose of existence is data mining.

As the Pinboard Blog puts it, that's ANTI-social.

"We're used to talking about how disturbing this in the context of privacy, but it's worth pointing out how weirdly unsocial it is, too. How are you supposed to feel at home when you know a place is full of one-way mirrors?"

http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/11/the_social_graph_is_neither/
Thanks i will get in touch with you soon!
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I would clame that per line of code (assuming the same language) a small team producess much more value. Communication is fast and common problems are identified fast. In a large team it can happen easly that two people need to parse XML and they take a diffrent parser (simple example), stuff like this will be a source of trouble in the project going forward.