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While you're enjoying this classic article (and I do re-read it every time it's posted), you may wish to also take in Tim Bray's - in my opinion equally classic - article about Unicode.

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/06/Unicode

Tim has spent more time working with bodies of text [1][2] than many of us, so his perspective is very useful and the article is thoughtful.

[1] Oxford English Dictionary
[2] XML committee
Looks like it is the smallest 1TB drive in the market, and I can't bring it on an airplane. Sweet.
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Wordpress based job site (screenshots available)
Hey guys,

After almost one year of hard work and developing, I would like to show you guys some screenshots.

The website is in Dutch though, but still you can get an idea of what you can achieve with Wordpress

The area to post new jobs:
http://goo.gl/ns4YQ

The area to see how a job posting will look like:
http://goo.gl/lXKUF

The area for companies where they can close/edit/delete/manage their job postings:
http://goo.gl/IoKCy

You can see for yourself how the website looks like:
http://goo.gl/ylqTI
Where are you from? If you are from US, what you say is like taking all the criminal bands and small org across US and say: look what the US mob is doing...
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Increse speed of your browser...
From first paragraph: "The device will come equipped with two knife bodies, between which the drive can easily be interchanged with one that is flight-friendly"
Personally I'd go with a somewhat better photo. It doesn't need to be a standard resume picture with you in a suit. Just something that isn't clearly cropped from a random party snapshot.
At my workplace, we mostly use IRC for synchronous communication when solving problems, it works very well for programming imho.
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Thanks! Follow up question: what is wholesale? Can I buy a yaer's worth of potatoes tax free? How about a lifetime supply of socks?Or are we talking about huge quantities?
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Fairy hairstyles is a very beautiful look enticing. Her hair will look very elegant and admirable .
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Won't (I hope) be long 'til someone offers the 1TB "thumbdrive"* without the baggage (already carry a Benchmade, don't need another in-pocket toybox). Esp. nice having the writable display.

* - am amazed that nobody has yet come up with a suitable, consistent, catchy, universally-accepted name for "tiny solid-state data storage device with ubiquitous interface". Anything with "drive" in the name is an anachronism.
The price tag is a bit prohibitive...
Our wedding photographer gave us a DVD with everything and an explicit release to do anything we wanted with them. She was very forward thinking and she seemed to be doing very well for herself.
Which chip are they using? The highest capacity NAND memory on Samsung's website appears to be 256Gbit. Example part number: K9PFGD8U5M (most of the detail is hidden behind an NDA)

I doubt they can stack 32 of these chips into the same thumb drive, so what else is out there?
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You can purchase a working D-Wave machine today. I'm not sure how that qualifies as "failing to follow them up".
I'm surprised it wasn't higher. I got 15,000 uniques in a day and my link (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1940129) only had 36 upvotes.

I guess there isn't a direct relationship between links people find voteworthy and those they just want to visit.
Nice job on the resume. It's unfortunate the applicant systems preferred by big companies (Taleo, Brassring, etc) do not give candidates a channel through which to differentiate themselves in a creative way as you have done. Of course there are ways to bypass the process entirely using social channels, but that doesn't scale from a systemic standpoint. I'd love to see someone invent a better system.
You misunderstand. Taking care of people is not my responsibilty. It's the state's responisbility. That's why we pay all the taxes and social security.

A business - especially a small business - isn't a place for altruism. I just can't afford hiring people to help them get along with their lives. A business is a business, not social welfare itself. It pays for welfare, but it _is_ not welfare.

I stated exactly what I want. I want to be able to decide on my own, who I hire, who I do not hire. It is as simple as this. They CAN create regulations that FORCE me, but then I choose NOT to do business.

I also suggest other means of helping underpriviliged people to obtain jobs. Such as making me pay LESS if I employ them. That would make sense, in business terms too.
You left out the cost of assembling the solar system.
Slowly. Very, very, slowly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engines_of_Creation
The Adruino is built around the 8-bit Atmel AVR microcontroller line. It also exposes numerous digital, PWM, and analog pins for easy hookup to external devices. It is in no way a general use computer.

The Raspberry PI has a 32-bit ARM chip that can run Linux. It has a video output, USB for keyboard and mouse, and one version has an Ethernet port. It's aim is to make a cheap general purpose Linux system.
It does matter. I'd love to do my social game development in Linux (and I even tried it, for a while) but the technologies I use are Flash and Unity 3d. There is no effective way to develop with either of those technologies in Linux. So I settle for the one supported OS with a shell: OS X.
Haha, you know you've entered a new cold war when they start saber-ratting about UFO's, aliens and flying saucers. Welcome to 1950.
To be fair to the university, many journals have legal contracts that forbid you from publishing your manuscript online within X days of publishing in their journal. Basically, they get first publication rights.

After a certain period of time most journals let you publish on your own site (although few authors actually do, which is a different issue)
People generally seriously underestimate the power of modern hardware. Suppose you have 100 million requests in a month. That's a small country of people accessing your website, so that will require a large bunch of big iron, right? No. A single commodity PC box can easily handle that. 100 million requests per month is just under 40 requests per second. Say your peak is around 100 requests per second. If your site is amenable to caching you can probably handle that load on a single core. Even if your site can't be effectively cached, for $5000 you can buy a terabyte of RAM these days, which can probably hold the hot parts of your database (for comparison: compressed current-revision-only of Wikipedia is under 8GB). Of course you need expensive hardware to be able to put that much RAM in, but then again you probably don't need anything close to a terabyte.
recent threads:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3364025

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3347788

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3428195

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3300198
I didn't just pick out the worst bits: there's far worse, that I couldn't even remember. How many "brand new shows" from last Tee Vee season do you watch? I know how many I do: none.

Similar, popular music.

I probably wouldn't even miss Pixar movies at this point: we're getting to the point that "amateurs" can do them.
FWIW, the Mafia in the US became a more institutional, more professional organization with the formation of "The Commission" in 1931 -- i.e., during the Great Depression:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Commission_%28mafia%29

The New York Times calls 1931 the "birth of the American Mafia:" http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/opinion/23raab.html

I wonder if prolonged economic downturns are somehow correlated with, or maybe even lead to, the rise of more powerful, more professional crime organizations...?
I was also confused by the bar colours.
Well the comments here terribly disappoint me. Clearly the photographer wants to be paid as a professional, just like anyone else here.

The author should not have included any monetary figure in the article as doing so brings down the wrath of a thousand pedants with pocket calculators proving he overcharges and overvalues his work. So many people here seem to think they somehow "got him" on some straw-man price-point that clearly does not exist.

Meanwhile, the figure he calculated clearly exists to make the point that creating such an image costs more to him than clicking Save As... did to you and he wants to be appropriately compensated in dollars.

The fact the comments here seem to lack the professional empathy to jump from "How do you make money? Charge for your webapp!" To "How do you make money? Charge for your photos!" really shows how myopic the community can be. Not everyone builds a career around trying to make social network v35.0

tl;dr Pay photographers for their work, like you pay any other professional.

edit: And for a real cherry on top, the blog post itself appears to be taken in whole from http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnmueller/6643032477/in/photo... I suppose John Mueller could have agreed to have his content republished but nothing indicates that to be the case and a skimming of the petapixel blog doesn't seem to include many guest contributors.

The author's real blog is at http://johnbmuellerphotography.blogspot.com/
No, but its an irrational model that doesn't work (clearly).

Lets imagine I could insure myself against irresponsible gambling. What are the odds then? Who pays?

If a model doesn't work, it doesn't work.
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If you play it that way:
At least WordPress is user friendly ;)
If the 'scaling' depends on 'whales' (read: suckers) then yes, its fair. In fact, the article makes it clear the model only works because of whales.
Silo-fication is good in a large company, you find a good silo and you make sure the rest of the dreck doesn't infect your group. If you've got a decent financial whiz who can end-run the bean counters in your silo even better.

Take a look at a farm, what's outside the silo? Rats, rot, waste, what's inside the silo? Stuff you can sell for money that is well protected from the elements. In a large company you need to be a very adept bargainer / barterer to acquire all the resources you need despite the bean counter mentality.
We use Flowdock and Github for most of team communication. Skype and Teamviewer for collaborative "real-time" work. I wrote about the workflow here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3274080
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At times when corruption is plaguing the common man, its initiatives like these that gives hope of some respite. Hope there is some good that results from this!
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The last time something like this was tried in India, people just used it as a guide to find out who needs to be bribed for what purpose.
"Boilerplate", as I understand it, is text you copy and paste, and then edit to your needs. But the name of the game in programming is "don't repeat yourself", that is, don't copy and paste text.

This post has 193 upvotes as I write this so I guess there are at least 193 non-hackers reading and voting on Hacker News. I hope I never have to fix their code.

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Way to miss the entire point of DRY and insulting the people who will find this useful. Get a job, hippie.
have you tried google adwords?
> "And in this article there are not even comparison of this crime (extortionate lending) in Italy with other countries."

> I'm not sure what you mean by this, but if you're insinuating that it happens across Europe, then that's not true.

Italian-based organized crime does its business everywhere in Europe with success.

The only difference is that in Italy this dirty business is not hidden at all because criminals also run "consumer branches", while in the rest of EU they hide themselves behind commercial banks or companies.

Take for example waste management and disposal. Most of EU and international waste goes through the hand of organised crime [1] that offer lower prices and more efficient services to municipalities and states. This always happens through proxy companies with crystal-clear records.

Germany thought it was free of organised crime. Then the Duisburg killing happened [2] and they opened their eyes.

[1] http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=83BVyffqnJEC&pg=PA117...
[2] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafiamorde_von_Duisburg
I wonder how the collected data will be actually used to fight the corruption. It's a big issue also in my country (Armenia)
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I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.
This needed to happen so they could monetize all their app / mobile website usage.
If you push the issue, you can get your full res digital photos. If nothing else, find a photographer who is trying to break in to the business, and who is still small time. That's what we did for our wedding, and we got really great photos (both posed and candid, as the photographers were actually a husband-wife combo, one doing each), as well as a full dvd with every single photo they took, and the rights to do whatever we wanted with them.
There are a variety of extensions that cut out "Like" buttons. This is part of "using Facebook" in a way that doesn't impede personal privacy.
most wedding photographers explicitly own the rights to the photos they take of your wedding

Like most things, that's negotiable. When I went looking for a photographer for our wedding, one of the first questions I asked was "How much extra do you want for a copyright assignment?"

The additional charge varied from $0-500. The ladies we chose -- though primarily for other reasons -- were in $0 group.
This is only a valid point if people are aware of what is going on and make an informed choice.

I'd don't think this is true. Consider Internet Explorer. People used it because it was there. Even with better alternatives people used it. It took a fair while to educate users.

People use Google because it's the default search engine. They could get away with having only momentum. Appeasing users would then be unnecessary until a real competitor comes along.
a lot of people use some variant of 'stick', eg 'thumbstick', 'usb stick'.
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Is this the position of the WordPress community, the WordPress Foundation, or Automattic?
Well this will get you another 10,000 for sure. Good post though.
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I did not see prices mentioned in the article. Are you just assuming that the prices will be prohibitively high?
Here are some Chef cookbooks that will help get Jenkins running on Ubuntu including support for headless browsing via XVFB and Firefox:

https://github.com/bmabey/continuous-cooking
I think resumes like this are nice to show off your front-end design capabilities, but it takes a long time to get relevant information out of them, as opposed to glancing at a black-and-white single-sided 8x11 sheet of paper. You still need something that people can look at and instantly make a decision as to whether or not they want to dig deeper into you.
Sounds very much like the Sixth Year Studies courses I did in the early 80s - very few people did them.
A friend told me a bizarre story... His local library also allows you to borrow eBooks. Apparently they work by "expiring" after some time limit.

He went in to borrow an eBook, but the librarian said "Oh I'm sorry, that copy is currently on loan at the moment".

Kinda defeats the whole point of things being digital...
I have an older 1 GB model -- the thumbdrive part can be removed from the knife body (or you'd have this whole knife sticking out of your USB port).
Well, excuse me for explaining how the Internet works. I agree with the sentiment, but you also have to look at reality, which is that the cost of reproduction does not even involve going down to a copy shop. It's a tough market, and that's the reality. Why not add a watermark?
ah OK if we're talking about phones that don't compare to the iPhone then yeah Android has a lot of options.

You referenced Nexus S with ICS so I thought we were comparing that to the iPhone.
I think the comments are fine, because the entire premise of the blog post is wrong. He should be paid because his skill as a photographer is worth money, not because he paid for a lot of expensive equipment.
I fail to see how that is supposed to be hypocritical. Nature etc. are at present important venues for publication, particularly in this researcher's area. Is it hypocritical to agitate strenuously for electric cars while driving a gas one if it's not realistic to drive all electric in your situation?

This would only be hypocritical if he were criticizing other researchers for publishing in non-open journals. But he's not, at least to my reading. He's urging that they consider other venues. He's only criticizing the government.
I don't doubt that you're right, but where do you see a price?
I'd love to give the article the attention it surely deserves, but I'm just so in awe of Arikia Millikan's Photoshop talents. I'm glad she got a credit for that header image.
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Ask HN: Help us decide a landing page.
Hi,

We've been building a mobile-web based product for restaurants past 2 months. But we've found ourselves quarreling over design of our landing page. Not everyone on team has a taste for good design. So, we're stuck debating over this.

1. http://imgur.com/uyDdu

2. http://imgur.com/OPm3K

3. http://imgur.com/J771h

I personally have dabbled a lot trying to be a good designer once. I love the work done by our designer in 1 and 2. But we got (I don't know whats up) very bad feedbacks on 1 and 2 from our sales and investor. They prefer 3 !!

Democracy is a wrong way we're following here ( http://goo.gl/I7xzb ), but I'm exhausted fighting for 1 and 2. I didn't expect so much of corporate style slow decision making in a startup though.

Among those 3, what do you think is the best design to go for ?

Thanks in advance.
Click-ables - 1. http://imgur.com/uyDdu 2. http://imgur.com/OPm3K 3. http://imgur.com/J771h
I think you meant "a thousand pedants".
If yours is the only creative work that contributed to the photograph, then copyright on it is exclusively yours. If the creative work of a landscaper or architect is involved, consult a lawyer.
Some people take photographs because they just like taking photographs, like myself. If someone happened to use one of my photos, then so be it. I'm not in it to make money. I'm in it because I like the process of taking a photo, as well as editing it. After that, I'm done with it. Steal it! Remix it! Open source it!

All my photos on flickr have a Creative Commons license of "Attribution, Noncommercial, Share Alike". My photos have ended up on some great web sites: Rolling Stone, Yes Magazine, NY Magazine, city newspaper sites, random blogs, etc... I didn't receive one dime from them, but I did receive a link back to my flickr page in the photo credit. Even when they offered compensation, I turned them down.

Some people think that if they have fancy gear, they'll take better photos. This is not always the case. Photography is more art than having great gear. Does having a sweet ass laptop make you a better programmer? I don't have super fancy gear: A Canon T1i, and some pretty decent 2.8 lenses (Tamron 2.8 17-50, Sigma 2.8 70-200, Lens Baby, Canon 50mm 1.8). Any camera can take an award winning photo (I work for the largest stock photography company and have seen this to be true more times than not).
It seems to be down
(I work at Ripe)

It's busy, with crazy-lots of sliding images... but we've optimized the images and product-focused pages are supposed to packed with activity (I'm told).
For the briefest of moments I wanted one of these, but then I remembered what happened to my last pocket knife.

- Sent from seat 26D
A webapp is run as a service. You're charging people for a service you provide. That makes it very hard to copy.

A photo isn't a service. It's a collection of bytes that is trivial to copy.

If you want to make money as a photographer, you need to structure it in a way that means it's hard to copy. But these days, anyone can take pro quality photos with minimal talent. If he's an exceptional photographer, he should be able to charge for his time when taking photos. But that's about it.

With the music industry, artists can move from selling CDs to doing more live tours. Not sure that's something photographers can really do.
It's one of the things the author misses, at a certain scale the requirements are such that gathering them and managing clients requires more personnel than the actual writing of the code.

And a thirty person team is not only more likely to have several interns, but also people who spend a significant amount of time training, mentoring, and managing them.
I didn't call him a hypocrite. Just saying that even the most courageous supporters of science openness cannot escape the tangles of old publishers.

Btw his latest nature comment is pretty funny: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7314/full/467401d...
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There is a gap between IM/chat and email and documents, specifically in regard to remote team collaboration. That was one of the strengths of Google Wave, except that Wave had a learning and familiarity threshold people weren't willing to climb over. There's a huge opportunity there for a startup that I haven't seen anybody really tackling yet.

You can't get away from the value of face to face meetings though. If it is possible, getting face to face occasionally is a huge benefit in strengthening relationships in a team. In the end, teams are about relationships. Remote teams work great, and I prefer them to co-located teams, but figuring out a way to meet in person on occasion is worth the effort.
Wish I could say I did that on purpose.

Thanks.
The top is "expertise" and the bottom is "how often I use it". Not clear, for sure.
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If the US shuts down a website, it affects the whole world. Don't think other governments aren't planning something similar.
Without getting into the technicalities of this, I am grateful somebody came up with this. I am working on a backbone + jq + mongo app right now & this might have been useful, at least in the early days.
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Neuroscience researchers are a little more rigorous than your giving credit for.

When they want to test learning they find people that don't know something, teach it to them, and test them at all points in the process. They also don't limit themselves to a single type of skill and can measure improvement based on how much they improve over time to measure long term skills acquisition.
And that's when the Front End co-founder disagree ;)
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@ishanagr - good job getting this out of the door. drop me a line if you want some help porting this to mobile & native apps. free of course, india needs random experiments like this for now.