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The event MPM (new in Apache 2.4) is designed to address this:

This MPM tries to fix the 'keep alive problem' in HTTP. After a client completes the first request, the client can keep the connection open, and send further requests using the same socket. This can save signifigant overhead in creating TCP connections. However, Apache HTTP Server traditionally keeps an entire child process/thread waiting for data from the client, which brings its own disadvantages. To solve this problem, this MPM uses a dedicated thread to handle both the Listening sockets, all sockets that are in a Keep Alive state, and sockets where the handler and protocol filters have done their work and the only remaining thing to do is send the data to the client.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/event.html
Finally got around to reading Anathem by Neil Stephenson. Amazing book.

The thing I love about Stephenson's writing is that not only am I entertained, not only do I learn something... but that the process of understanding the story actually teaches me new ways to think.
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Tip: To get a random localStorage key:

localStorage.key(Math.random()*localStorage.length)
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There might be a simpler reason: most Foursquare links are not photos, just check-ins, which by themselves are no fun.

The real dilemma is this: if Path A/B tested their current design against one similar to that of Foursquare, and the Foursquare design had better conversions, then which one should they choose?
Why can't we just say "a generic image editor"? It's not really a faithful clone of anything in particular.
Well actually, I reckon yes. Much to my parents' latent terror (I didn't tell them until they came back from holiday), at the age of 15 a friend and myself built a small blast furnace using some ceramic pots, bits of stone lying around and a hoover. I managed to get 50g of what looked like pig iron out of that bugger before it basically fell to bits and set fire to the lawn. That was from about 2kg of ore I found at the bottom of a cliff face next to a beach at Skegness. Was great fun! (flux was limestone from the shed, coke was 3 large bags of barbeque charcoal)

I'm sure that and the rest of the process wasn't beyond people with a higher budget and requirements...

As for plants - it's all knowledge and experience. There is no abstraction. Eat this, don't eat that. I grow quite a few edible plants myself and there is little abstraction.
Yea, came here to say this.

<-- Currently making around 30k/yr with exempt status. Though my position doesn't usually demand OT, near release (Software QA) I've had to put in anywhere from 5-10 hours unpaid OT those weeks.

I'm not happy about it. But there isn't much I can do right now, I'm fairly confident I'd be let go if I point blank refused to do any OT. I'm unfortunately in a very expendable position at my company.
If I had to guess, I'd say that the pencil uses solid brushes and the "right" algorithm because it performs acceptably in that case, while the brush tool stamps instead because it can't keep up using that algorithm with an antialiased brush.
If it takes you 25 hours for "coordination time" you have serious structural issues in your business that need to be addressed. It should really be more like 0-5 hours.
Creepy. I wonder if a possible solution (for the tracking across sites part) is to make sure that each website can access only the cookies it creates. For example, chrome creates a seperate process for each tab and the process would have a lock on its cookies such that other processes can't access it. A VM for each process in a way.
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I wouldn't be surprised if this was some kind of web service, rather than running fully within the car.
Vesting for founders is insane. Never accept it.

This depends a bit on the maturity of the company. For example, at the seed stage, where the founders may only have known each other for 3 months of their lives, very credible people are going to tell you that they can name dozens of reasons why you should have vesting. If money first comes into the company around month 5 and you have a seed round closed around month 8, there's quite a window where acrimonious breakups can happen.

In the event of an acrimonious breakup, fast forward four years. In the event you manage to pull the company back from the brink, do you want someone from two lifetimes ago in startup years a) owning ~1/4 of your company and b) looking like Huge Unknown Risk Factor every time you raise a new round or make similarly consequential decisions?

That's why smart people who have seen bad breakups before are going to suggest vesting and it won't really be a suggestion.

Now, on the flipside, if I hypothetically brought on my best friend to work on AR and took investing at the two year mark, any conversation beginning with "You should really give all your shares back" would be pretty darn brief.
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I used to work at a company that routinely worked people well over 40 hours/week. I left because I felt I was losing the best years of my life doing tedious projects, however I know a lot of people who stayed and who still work there. Its not like people don't know the situation. No one looks at routine 60 hour weeks and says 'yeah, this is about right'.

Everyone has their own reasons for staying, or for leaving. One big reason is the 120k yearly salary they make (in SF). But NONE of these people are slaves. Anyone who uses the term slaves loses all credibility. Feel free to call them sheeple all you want, but they're not slaves.

People need to learn from their own mistakes. You can't teach people lessons on a grand scale. Everyone needs to find their own career paths.

The biggest problem with employment is not that we need more regulation (no no no we dont), its that we have a culture where we view jobs as privileges rather than simply: me exchanging my time for your money. (as others have pointed out, health care issues are a big factor here)
Previous submissions, with discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3605611

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3573694
I see no cables actually get routed through the Suez canal, even though many cables come up the Red Sea. The same is true for the Panama canal. Is it because they are too shallow? Maybe too concentrated?
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Sounds about right. Amazon is great for their investors and customers. Employees? Not so much, it seems.

In this case, it doesn't seem unreasonable. The pay rate and overtime they get means they make around $40,000 a year. In rural America with no skills other than the ability to walk and use a barcode scanner, that's not bad money. I'm all in favor of educating people so they can work 8 hour days behind a desk, but the reality is that that won't work for everyone. So having jobs available that let people good at manual labor have a decent life doesn't seem that horrible to me. I may be wrong, though.
This was a good read. I try to read one or two startup horror stories for each startup fairy tale I hear. Though I've not yet considered simply abandoning startup life, so perhaps I should up the ratio? :-p
Have you compared raw LevelDB performance against IndexedDB in Chrome?

IDB in Chrome may have LevelDB somewhere underneath but it lacks points 9,10,11,12. As far as I know it does not yet have true MVCC, no real concurrency for multiple readers and writers. Single-transaction-at-a-time. Readers block readers.
You can certainly do this, but you'd have to expect less in other compensation. It seems like most people don't think they will be fired, so they'd rather take more pay without a minimum employment term.
Wow what a great example of "the law of attraction" E.G. negative people bring negative things, positive people bring positive things. It was clear from the story that he had serious integrity issues and was not great at dealing with people. When I got to the part where they started buying Porches and 700k houses I was like oh great this is going to go downhill FAST. I think that if you're only in it for the Money/Ego I think you might as well become a Lawyer at least then you're just doing what's expected of you.
The traditional student is better educated. Presumably (s)he is motivated and interested in certain classes too. The difference is the computer student avoids doing anything (s)he doesn't feel like doing. Living according to your whims is not taking it on yourself to be responsible.

Second of all, it's not like Thrun left a comfy life in the ivory tower to get with the times. The WSJ article says he was an adjunct. It's not surprising he left a dead-end job to join a startup.

I'd also say that if you're not learning outside of your immediate narrow interests, you're not really learning. Is learning an 8th programming language once you already know 7 a bigger learning experience than taking a course in chemistry when you know none?

Boring (to you) required classes have two purposes: to be truly educated you need breadth, and for a degree to be worth anything on the job market it should demonstrate that you can suck it up and do unpleasant tasks. If you don't care about either of those and just want to stick with what you know and like, why the hell are you in school anyway?
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I can't help but notice we are all discussing the opinions of one guy, who is not a psychiatrist, regarding what he has seen in his practice. And this one guy, if you look at his "about the author stuff" is basically an activist left wing hates-the-system damn-the-capitalists kind of guy.

This is not science, it's opinion untethered from the constraints of evidence. If we want to have a long conversation about this, it would behoove us to start from science so that actual facts might be involved.
If you haven't already read it:

http://www.startupbook.net/

It walks through a lot of the things for asking. Once you have an idea, you will find marketing it is all of the work for getting traction.

I would recommend Seth Godin. Specifically "All marketers are liars" if you need somewhere to start.
I want to know what optics they are using. On segments that are 7,000 miles long - are there active optic splice boxes along the length of the cable? Or are they using lasers that actually push 7K miles?
I use it indirectly (via Twitter Bootstrap) and I have no complaints.

I found it a bit curious though that they don't dogfood it on their Github page (http://necolas.github.com/normalize.css/), but I guess that's not a huge deal or anything.
Thanks! It seems as if, beyond the mechanics of the site, iv) is the most important. Reddit has all the tools of HN, does it not? Yet it's much more dillute, and still has trolls.
There's only 2 connections to the USA at the moment, and SCC charges monopoly prices. There is another AU<>NZ<>USA connection being built in 2014 and another AU<>NZ connection built in 2013 (the 2 grey lines). Southern Cross already dropped their prices 44% in response.
How does Sencha Touch compare to jQuery Mobile, in general? They are both open source, which is desirable, but I'm not sure which one will mature the most in the next year or so.
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What you've constructed here is called a straw-man argument.
(Kumaran recalls telling the investor he couldn't speak because of confidentiality and antidisparagement agreements.)

Memo: when writing an antidisparagement agreement, the first rule of antidisparagement agreements is that you agree not to disclose the existence of the antidisparagement agreement.
I would assume it has more to do with how many intermediate places within the continent you want to connect to. If you're connecting two cities on the African coast, and there's really no infrastructure in-between that needs (will pay for) connection, and the roads in between are poorly maintained, it's probably more economical to go by sea. Someplace like the US, if you're running cable from say Boston to NY, first of all, you also want to wire up all the towns and cities in between, and you've got interstate highways so your service trucks can easily get to all parts of the cable, you've got existing utility tunnels you can use, etc. In that case, going by sea is an unnecessary expense.
should be a good read, thanks!
The reason for that is there's a an important satellite ground station on Svalbard - it's in an ideal place to communicate with polar-orbiting satellites:

http://www.ksat.no/node/77

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Undersea_Cable_System
Fair point. Photos definitely are (IMHO) more engaging than plaintext or even Google Maps of where someone is. But this post compared photo posts on either platform, so to be fair, the medium was the same -- but you're still right in that Foursquare doesn't have as much of a focus on photos as Path does.

Really interesting counter-question you posed. It appears to then be a decision about Path's conviction to how things SHOULD be designed vs. immediate conversion lifts (and how significant those lifts were/what future engagement was like/other conversion and engagement metrics).

For example, I imagine Facebook has tested designs that increased user engagement but didn't fit with a bigger picture strategy or violated some core tenets. They probably scrapped it and stuck to their conviction in a lot of cases when there were alluring potential upticks in conversions with alternate designs.
I think disabling third-party cookies (via your browsers preference) would accomplish this (though it's no VM), with the added benefit of not needing to re-log in for each tab/window.

This doesn't, however, block all tracking scripts, as some may get your IP via an embedded 1x1 gif or other request. There's still the issues of super-cookies, or Flash cookies, or scripts that embed a unique image in your cache and then read it out, etc. So for this I recommend AdBlock or Ghostery.

Edit: Here's aseful link on this topic: http://samy.pl/evercookie/
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This is great, I'm a big fan of transparency, I wonder how long it will take for the site's in question to either a) throw a fit about Collusion, or b) start making some workarounds to prevent it from working right. Which of course will be followed by the Collusion people figuring out how to keep up the transparency. It's times like this I wish I had tons of money, I'd donate a grip to Collusion and anyone else helping prevent sneaky corporations from being, well sneaky.
"So you're basically asking for something like jQuery for IndexedDB"

No. To use your terminolgy, IndexedDB is like jQuery on top of LevelDB. We need just LevelDB without the IndexedDB overhead. Surprisingly, there are things you can do with LevelDB that you can't do with IndexedDB. It's too high a level of abstraction.
We've been building a SPICE-like mixed-mode circuit simulator plus a SVG-based schematic editor, HTML5/Canvas-based plotting, in about 20K lines of CoffeeScript. No browser plugins required -- runs directly in the browser's JavaScript engine, and all simulation is client-side. (We generate and factor big matrices on the client side.) We currently do DC, time-domain simulations, and frequency-domain analysis (small signal, "Bode plots" if you're familiar with the lingo). Circuit analysis results compare well to "real" desktop SPICEs. We evaluate real and complex electrical quantities. In fact, we have a graphing calculator essentially embedded in our tool. Since it's browser-based, it's immediately Windows/Mac/Linux cross-platform, unlike most software EDA tools which are Windows-only. Check out the cross-tab copy-paste functionality as well!

If you look at any electronics forum online, it's normal to see scanned hand-drawn schematics, or static screenshots from various desktop tools. There's no reason why we shouldn't instead be sharing useful URLs that enable editing and simulation. If someone uses CircuitLab and posts a public URL, they enable the entire community to easily open their circuit, make a few changes, simulate / iterate, and share the new version.

Looking forward to hearing your feedback!
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Science fiction aside, even if you can produce everything 10-100x more efficiently than me, it is still worth us trading.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_Advantage
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Does the demo require flash? I can't see anything.
Heh. What can I say? I like attributions.
Yes, they didn't do a particularly good job of keeping themselves safe, did they?
>At least on farms/agriculture, we get a chance to be outside with nature, and stay healthy/fit (even though it is much harder work).

At one time (just 20 years ago), your statement would have been fairly accurate. People still walked beans to get weeds, baled square bales of hay and straw (on hot summer afternoons, with indoor barn temps reaching 110+), manhandled livestock, and had to do a lot more manually with equipment.

Those days are fading, though.

The present and future of crop farming are GMO crops (with spray resistance traits, or plants producing their own pesticides/herbicides) and (near future) UAV-style robotics for tractors and combines operated from the house (or corporate HQ).

Livestock farming does remain more hands-on. However, a lot of confinement ops are automated to ensure proper and timely weight gain and less stress. And before people start complaining about confinements, many of those are popping up due to regulatory requirements based upon head count.

Times they are a changin'.
I know this is incredibly childish and probably impossible given the elasticity of the cables laid out BUT I would really like to tug on a submarine cable or even just a thread that goes from Euroland over to the USA and have it move and wiggle over there. And then next up: a submarine miniature tunnel/hose/pipe to send a small little vehicle across. I can't help it.
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Stock and voting / vetoing rights usually go hand in hand, so it depends on company structure and how well the founders protected themselves against such events.
> I found it a bit curious though that they don't dogfood it on their Github page

I do! But it's using and customising only the parts that are needed (...and a few lines of CSS are a bit old and out-of-date).
From the very first bullet point, on average Amazon prime members "increase their purchases on Amazon from $400 a year to $900 a year."
That's so awesome, I remember seeing a special on the Discovery Channel years ago (10+) on how they laid cable for the phone lines I would love to see how it's done now and how it's connected to backbones etc..
Also, the 'safe distance from the car in front' could be dramatically decreased. Reaction times of computers are way lower than those of humans, and also less variable. A car could signal that it is going to brake to a car following it with a meter of space between them, and brake a ms later, trusting the following car to do follow its speed decrease.

Lower inter-car distance on highways will also mean lower air resistance, and hence, higher mpg.

I doubt that the net effect on fuel consumption will be substantial, though. Chances are that people will want their driverless cars to drive faster, so that they can live farther away from work. IMO, the only thing that will help there is pricing (fuel, road use, etc)
Theoretically, that should be accomplished via tags- such do a search for "status-line". I definitely need to improve the tag exploration and assignment features, though, since a lot of people are using very different tags for the same stuff. Going to take some more inspiration from Stack Exchange for that, I expect.
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I think the better question is how much do you want for it?

I'm sure you have heard of Flippa.com. Head over that way.

I would determine how much you want to fund your next thing and see if anyone takes it. I would multiply the revenue by 3X, so I would put a price at ~45K. However, that is me just making up what I would do.
I disagree with the first point. I think that there are such things as objectively bad languages, and that their use should be avoided. Whether or not C++ or PHP is on the list can be argued ad infinitum, but there isn't any reasonable argument for implementing anything in, to take the most extreme example, Brainfuck.
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How much CPU/memory is ApacheBench using? Is Apache using more CPU/memory than Nginx? Would Apache have had better performance if its resources weren't limited? Was ApacheBench able to perform as fast as possible?

It is good not to presume anything when dealing with technology.
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I dunno, we separate out static file vs. needs-to-go-to-Tomcat requests at our HAProxy so I'm actually interested in what simply performs best serving static files. I can't imagine we're the only ones to have this need.
> It really let you push the machine to its limits, right down to the clock cycle.

This is still commonly done for video game consoles (although it's significantly harder), especially late in the cycle when the console's hardware is well understood and its behavior is mapped, in order to wring every bit of performance out of the machine.

Probably not to the point it was in the 16bit era and earlier, but it's one of the "edges" consoles have over the PC's raw power.
I think as a corollary to your comment, the following is also true: Someone who defines his/her own values is extremely unlikely to list "holding power over others" as a primary goal.

Yet many seemingly self-actualized people do end up in positions of authority. Why? I'd argue that power over others is, like some drugs, highly addictive and often corrupting. Mature, self-actualized people rarely feel a void that makes holding this power desirable, since they vastly prefer to be respected than to simply be obeyed.

Yes there are some authority figures who are just and who inspire trust and motivation in others, but many others who appear this way at first and then disappoint -- I wonder how all the young Obama supporters feel now that he's expanded the drone program and continued all of Bush's most controversial and horrible policies.
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Doesn't this mean that you have to address the specifics of each browser that might use your site though?

So if Konqueror 3.42 [made up version] has a bug giving a default of double the normal padding on h1 then I have to specifically check that this is addressed by the attempted normalization.

>"Normalize.css is an alternative to CSS resets. The project is the product of 100′s of hours of extensive research by @necolas and @jon_neal on the differences between default browser styles."

Makes me think that I'm going to need to update every site using this with every new browser version that has a pixel difference in it's default style; a situation that a reset just works on.

Of course resets are subject to browser bugs too but it seems that they are more robust and more likely to just work ...?
You can use this : http://pinta-project.com/ on Windows/Linux/OSX (if you don't like GIMP) and there's also Paint.NET for Windows.
Try the LICENSE file or header comments in the sources.