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Most of what's built on hellepoll has been proprietary.

If hellepoll had a DB layer, it might well come with an merging reordering worker queue though ;)
I thought I should surface this comment by "sado" from that page:

Also, the statement “We must sign ACTA and not give in to blackmail" was taken out of context (the context: Anonymous, who DDOSed Polish govt sites, threatened to release personal data of minister Boni and to DDOS moar, if Polish govt signs the ACTA... that could be called "blackmail").
...a .Net implementation would be nice.

Also, a .Net implementation of the socket.io protocol would be nice, too.
Kind of wish there was a flag in the ID string that basically says, "This user is unlikely to click on your ad, ever. Save your advertising dollars".

I have "responded" to one GMail ad, ever. It was for tickets for a Pixies show, and I had not known they were touring. But I didn't click on it - I went to ticketmaster.ca and bought some seats for some friends and me. The ad wasn't placed by them, as far as I could tell, but they got the sale on someone else's ad budget.

Do many HN folks click on ads?
Build safe bicycle infrastructure and the cyclists will come

"How the Dutch got their cycle paths"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o
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We're considering moving to Symfony2 from 1.4 at work; care to share anything you've learned that might be important?
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I assumed his estimate was for buying a new car, not yearly. Your numbers seem approximately right for yearly, although you also have to add in insurance. I think my maintenance expenses have averaged more like $500 as well, between routine maintenance and an oil change once a year, new tires every 4-5 years, battery change every 3-5 years, and miscellaneous mishaps (had to replace my windshield once after it got hit by a rock when parked in a city).
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Sounds like a very well-reasoned decision, one I would agree with if in the same situation.

I'd call the entire premise a success (not Newsberry per se, but in light of other product development.) Great recognition of where the product was going and where limited resources should be directed.
something to notice too is that the work and attention required to assemble Apple's products are greater than other companies thus Apple expose workers to more health damages
I've experienced feelings similar to what the OP describes in his post.

I'm a systems programmer at heart and I can't think of a meaningful project to start that doesn't already have a `killer app' in its problem domain. I'm not looking for notoriety, but what's the point of hacking at something that's guaranteed to fail? Who's going to contribute to a new kernel?
If this was for Postgres refer this :
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Binary_Replication_Tutorial
See the section "Starting Replication with only a Quick Master Restart", I tested this with a DB <10 GB. The setup time for replication was in the order of minutes. On a related note, it would be awesome if someone could point out real-world experiences for Postgres 9.1 synchronous replication.
The first challenge is here, and there'll be a new one later today:

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In theory this could be solved politically, but when I'm looking for housing options, I tend to ignore bus and look only at rail, because it's the only thing I can be reasonably sure will still be there in a few years. Buses get rerouted all the time, so I can't assume that my convenient directly-on-the-line-to-work bus route will still exist in 5 years, but I can fairly safely assume that BART will still be on the same route in 5 years, because the cost of moving rails and building stations makes it much more stable (light rail isn't as expensive to reroute as BART, but still too expensive to do normally).

From what I've read, developers think similarly: they're willing to invest capital in housing developments near rail-transit lines, but not on the basis of bus lines, because they need to be able to assume that the transit situation will be stable for long enough to pay off their investment. In other words, the flexibility of buses is precisely the problem, because it means residents/developers/employers can't rely on them in making plans.
I gave up my iPhone for a Windows phone and I haven't looked back! However, I don't use any other Microsoft products at all.
I agree on the point of questioning it's true profitability figure.

If it was profiting @ 75K a year, thats half a designer, half a marketer and half a programmer for a year. Hire them in, and let them do what they like with it for 6 months. Get interns and let them have a play with it if you want to give some kids a chance.

It's usually a bad idea to shut down a profit center, unless it truly is unsustainable. @75K this was doing well and IMO should not have been shut down.
Can you give an example (perhaps with a screenshot) where cleartrip shows more than one seat left when someone searches for one ticket?

Edit: Just saw another person's reply that it does indeed happen sometimes.
The mass production of transistors is completely thanks to its relatively etching process. I wonder if we will see a relatively similar process for alternative transistor technology.
If we are able to provide some blurb on the form then it can probably be explained adequately to alleviate any of the customers concerns, on the other hand if they just see a form asking for authorisation to take an amount over their standard subscription it probably won't work.

I agree that subscriptions could change if they just have to tick a box and not provide all their details again, it's just that in our case we often provide a small variable number of one off add-on services to each customer over a month which we'd ideally not have to ask them to pay for seperately.

I've signed up for their beta though and sent them an email, hopeful that its workable. If they can do what we need id be a very happy man.
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"The difference is that production costs have (in theory) gone way down since then."

What's actually quite interesting is that there's been a bifurcation in production costs. The physical costs of production -- equipment, editing software, distribution, and so forth -- have come down dramatically. But Hollywood's cost structure has increased in this same timeframe, because the costs of big talent have gone up. Top actors, directors, writers, source material, producers, and so forth have commanded steadily higher prices. And the outlays on special effects, locations, and other mainstays of blockbuster filmmaking have increased at a steady pace.

We should note that this represents a choice on Hollywood's part. Maybe it's not a monolithic, homogenous, across-the-board choice. Perhaps it's something more like the agglomeration into coherence of a thousand daily choices by a thousand different players in the Hollywood system. Perhaps some of those players -- agents and producers -- have had an outsized impact. Regardless, somehow Hollywood has actively participated in spending more and more each year on production at the same time that it earns less and less each year on distribution and sales.

To your point, the banks and hedge funds got into the game because they recognized these inefficiencies on the production side. They've got deep enough pockets to finance some of the production risk, knowing that they'll always be paid back, so hence, it's not actually risky for them. And, since production keeps getting more expensive, Hollywood will always be out looking for more deficit financing each year. At what point the tail started wagging the dog, or whether it actually has, is anyone's guess. But the general observation is that the hedge-fundization of the system kicked into full swing in the early 2000s.

To my eye, this entire ecosystem looks to be resting on a very shaky foundation. Perhaps existing mega-talent will price itself out of startup filmmaking, but new talent seems to be headed in that direction at a breakneck pace. And, lest we dismiss "alternative" content as the typical, unsophisticated, flash-in-the-pan UGC we've seen on YouTube for so many years, we should take note that a lot of really high-quality independent filmmaking is hitting the charts on Netflix, iTunes, and other sources -- right alongside Hollywood fare. For the time being, Hollywood is in no danger of being displaced by these upstarts. But the mere fact that small fry can get collaboratively filtered right alongside the big fish portends to an eventual disruption of a lot of common assumptions about necessary costs in the Hollywood model.

We live in interesting times.
Android is already on the low end commodity devices. And those manufacturers and carriers (i.e. prepay or non-US) don't seem that fussed about adapting Android, they just use stock. So it's only really the chip suppliers who need to get Android working.

And here's a good example of that:

http://armdevices.net/2012/01/19/rockchip-rk2918-ice-cream-s...

MediaTek, who Elop cited as eating Nokia's low-end market by suppling chips to no-name brands in his "burning platform" memo also have been working on Android for a while and have partnered with Google to make GoogleTV (i.e. Android) chipsets too.
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I got approached to help with development for an idea by a couple of non-technical people. Ultimately the implementation will have a technical (web application) and an operational component. The technical portion will be my job.

I have a full time job and will be doing this on the side. There is a possibility that I won't like doing this or won't be able to handle the load and quit, but I do want to try it out and will build at least the prototype.

Finally the question is, what kind of an arrangement is common in these situations? What kind of equity should I be getting and what happens if I abandon the project after doing some initial work?
Yahoo asked me my marital status eons ago, and I told them I'm married. It's still in my profile. Yet for most of a decade, they couldn't find anything better than dating site ads to show me. I just checked again, and things seem to be better, though pretty random: groceries, criminal record lookup, Scotttrade. The groceries might have been interesting if that chain wasn't the eighth closest one to my house.
Cars don't kill cities, hi-rise buildings do. A thousand people getting in an out of on acre of land will cause all the problems we see today in big cities. Stick your head out of your window office and see how many people there is in your own acre and then imagine how many cars are needed to move all of them. If I were a benevolent dictator I would prohibit all buildings higher than a story and solve the traffic issue once and for all.

You say you like tall buildings? Then enjoy your damn traffic and shut up.
"At 9nm, IBM’s transistor is also smaller than the physical limit of silicon transistors, which is around 11nm."

Can anyone cite a source for that statement regarding the theoretical minimum size of silicon transistors?
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megaupload is down and this image showing up.
http://i.imgur.com/rPbsm.png
"A good example of “Hollywood accounting” would be “Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix”, which took in $938 million in revenue, yet still produced a $167 million loss. In cases like this the distributor, Warner Bros., still makes a bundle, but the film and its backers, set up as a independent corporation, wind up in debt. How is this possible? You can get a more detailed picture in this episode of Planet Money, which details how Disney paid itself more than $200 million in distribution fees on the Nicholas Cage vehicle “Gone in 60 Seconds.” The film made a lot of money for Disney, even while the corporation created to produce “Gone In 60 Seconds” was a loser on the official accounting."

Now I understand why Hollywood does not want simplified and efficient distribution. It has nothing to do with ignorance and everything to do with greed and avoiding all risk. They overcharge for complicated distribution and DRM, and pass all the risk of to the film and its backers.
I started programming C as a pre-teen about 15 years ago, because I wanted to make games. I spent a lot of time (badly) re-writing routines for stuff that already existed (sorting, double buffering, file management, resource packing, etc).

I never really got to the actual gameplay mechanisms as I'd always get stuck at points like double buffering so my graphics wouldn't flicker, or reading interrupts from the game port so the joystick would work properly, or how to read a bitmap image saved out from Deluxe Paint.

Now, chances are I'd be much closer to getting an actual game up and running as there's plenty of libraries out there to handle all that stuff. I am glad I learned it and know it, but it doesn't create end results and means a lot of duplication of effort.

The modern approach where programming is more like plumbing - efficiently connecting existing libraries (and now, services) - allows creation of quite fantastic ideas in very little time. I can create things in a day that would literally have taken years in that low-level age.

This is a good thing and just as fun, albeit in a different way.
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I like Memrise, but I don't know if it's disruptive as much as it is convenient. It does similar things to Rosetta Stone and Pimsleur (though I think it's more effective). Spaced repetition, pronunciation, quizzes, diverse methods of testing your understanding. It's gamified with leaderboards and points.

I don't work there, I just use it, but I think it's great for non-tonal languages (as in, it doesn't do Mandarin great).
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Sorry - missed the other questions:

What shows on the bank statement?
- GoCardless shows up on the bank statement

Is collective payment taken once a month or on a per transaction?
- We take a payment for each transaction. This makes it clearer for payers and merchants get their money quicker.
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I'm probably way off, but this is my understanding of this whole "kill Hollywood campaign" that we've got ourselves into.

Step 1) Create a company that destroys Hollywood. Stick it to Studio X by way of Y tech advantage.

Step 2) Become a profitable company, maybe even a titan in the industry.

Step 3) Watch as others see your service as a threat, build their own competing tech.

Step 4) Fight to keep your stake in the market, or exit. Fighting leads to bullshit tactics. Exit eventually gives your company to the very studios you were against.

Step 5) Studio X acquires your company in an attempt to compete with the "new way of doing things". Your research & development goes into their melting pot and the cycle repeats OR Studio X acquires one of your aforementioned competition, leaving you no choice but to resort to bullshit tactics to survive (after all, you're huge at this point).

To me, the problem isn't Hollywood. It's the laws that surround and re-enforce it. Locking up an industry in a closet full of weapons is asinine and the end result is obvious.
Way back when, the BBC funded a programme that gave schools BBC Micro Computers and even had TV shows supporting the education and awareness... we should be embarrassed that TV today is more about the objectification of women and the whim of producers who have saturated the topics available for quality programming.
There are lot's of ways to implement both system, but when it comes to significantly dealing with congestion busses simply don't work.

Consistent market research and experience over the last 50 years in Europe and North America shows that car commuters are willing to transfer some trips to rail-based public transport but not to buses. Typically light rail systems attract between 30 and 40% of their patronage from former car trips. Rapid transit bus systems attract less than 5% of trips from cars, less than the variability of traffic.[42]

That said, buses are cheaper than new roads so most city's adopt them at some point. The real issues IMO is most city's are going to be around in 100 years and need to think in those terms. When you look at New York and other major city's you see how development and public transport are closely linked and light rail continues to gain value even in competition with cars and buses.
Out of curiosity what device did you get? And what was your reason for switching?
In my opinion, you're skating on thin ice with this explanation. I have no doubt that this is exactly how the feature works. However, you're posting in a community full of entrepreneurs and marketers. We KNOW that presenting scarcity (real or not) is a great way of influencing the buy decision.

You will never convince anyone here that the wording of the badge wasn't deliberately designed to promote the feeling of scarcity.

What I'm suggesting, however, is that this isn't really a bad thing. It's a little tough to call you guys out on the practice of optimizing the site for sales... we'd all be very hypocritical if we did that (since the next popular article on HN is just as likely to be a treatise on the fine art of A/B testing the wording on a "try it now" button).

I think what everyone is asking for is just that you say "yes, our tests showed this wording worked very well to increase purchases. However, perhaps we went a little too far. We'll reword the button."

What you SHOULDN'T expect is for any of your peers on this site to honestly believe the connotation of your explanation, which seems to be "the badge OBVIOUSLY represents the number of seats left at this price, instead of seats left on the flight. But since a few people have this weird interpretation, we'll change it just for you."

But you know what... I suspect it's all moot. I'm sure the way it's worded now ultimately generates the highest sense of urgency in the customer, but "1 left at this low price" probably generates a similar urgency.
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I view programming as a tool. It's more or less neutral. What's exciting is what you use it for - what problems you solve with it, and how you help improve someone's life with it.
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Good points both, my insurance is $1300/yr, and if we up the maintenance estimate we get ~$5000/yr.

I've been fortunate that my car has run with nearly no repairs, and city living hasn't done much damage to it besides some moron who ran into the bumper and drove off while it was parked.

(I assumed it was for buying a new car too, I just wanted to point out that the yearly cost of owning a car is much less than the number he was using.)
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apt-get also is able to remove orphaned libraries.

Among other "advantages" of aptitude, it can be terribly slower than apt-get.
And it has a "smart" dependency engine that often proposes convoluted solutions (involving uninstalling packages I don't want uninstalled) when apt-get will simply update the dependency and their dependents... But at least, if you don't agree with the first solutions, it has others (sometimes including the one apt-get chooses).
I have a yubikey myself. The smart card method is much better though. When using a smart card, it is impossible even for the owner (who knows the access pin) to read the actual key. The crypto operations involved in the authentication take place on the card it's self. The smart card is protected by a pin, and will wipe it's self if the pin is entered incorrectly too many times. You can even use a smart card reader with a hardware pin pad built in so neither soft nor hard keyloggers can intercept it.
Driving is like a chicken and egg problem. I need to drive because everyone else drives. I live in a city that is very sparse because of all the parking lots and wide roads, like the article mentions. So not much is walkable. I also can't feasibly bike to work because the direct route involves taking an interstate as there aren't any near alternatives over a river, doing this on bike is illegal. Add in the no bike lanes and idiot drivers and it just isn't not a good idea.

All of these reasons for needing a car are caused by infrastructure to support cars. Therefore the only way to break this cycle for the public good is to make driving less economic. Gas tax seems like the obvious choice, but it is usually not done because of purported public opinion. But really it actually would be fair as onemoreact said the maintenance for roads is so expensive, that without gas tax you are really just subsidizing driving.
The problem with online voting in ensuring candidates can be confident that the votes that are counted are the same ones that were cast. It's not difficult to do this: publish the voting software source code, allow the candidates' teams to verify that the correct software is loaded onto the server, that it is correctly configured, etc. And yet this doesn't happen.
Apparently Walmart also uses it for mobile: http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/24/why-walmart-is-using-node-...
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This is a classic microeconomics case study in opportunity cost and externalities. From an accounting perspective, yes, money was coming in that exceeded expenses in labor and overhead. But the opportunity cost of the effort to support it -- as well as the negative externalities caused by the distraction effect (as well as the negative impact it may have on their brand) -- means that the $75K figure is more of a canard.

If I was a Microecon professor with a 101 class coming up, I know I'd have this article spiked and ready to use for an upcoming semester.
Aptitude has an optional screen-oriented GUI, much better search and filtering capabilities, a listing of "new" packages each time you update, and an excellent dependency resolver.
Totally agree. Nothing ever really lived up to that early promise of BASIC / 6502 assembler on a BBC micro 30-odd years ago. The elegant simplicity has vanished under a pile of self-inflicted barely functional complexity. For example, web frameworks (e.g. Vaadin, not that I want to pick on that one project) are pouring massive effort into recreating the desktop widgets we had 15 years ago in a web browser. Stale, hugely complicated, laggy, connection-bound, insecure web apps whose benefits never justified the effort, IMO. Just write the thick client and move on. In fact, if it can't be done on a 2MHz 8 bit CPU in 64K, it's not worth doing...