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I don't like "the gentleman's agreement". The worst part of it is limiting yourself to one post a day. Even looking at my comment history on HN, things I have "just posted" without caring too much get on average more points than posts where I really tried and made a lot of effort.

Ergo: Filtering at the source only works if the source knows what the countless receivers will like most. It never does, though. That's why sources on any platform need to be verbose. I'd even say this is the law of social networks and what makes them so great:

Verbosity over self-control -- put the control in the hands of others.

If you want to separate the gold from the drivel, you can do it later. But if you constantly keep on removing gold from your cart before you even get it out of the mine, you've already lost at this game.
I don't want to have to do that though, I want it to open directly
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I am not familiar with US law but if the name of this act ("Fair Labor Standards Act") is anything to go by then it sounds similar to what we have in South Africa, i.e.:

- this only covers basic conditions of employment; you're still free to negotiate things that the act doesn't guarantee you

- if you earn more than a certain amount or are in a management position, you don't get certain protections because such legislation would interfere with your freedom to enter contracts on your own terms

It seems pretty fair to me. It's really directed at protecting people who earn minimum or low wages and don't have much other choice. Somebody managing a startup for $1/month -- that's their right to take that risk, and obviously the pay-off is when things hit it big. Somebody who earns more than a certain amount/month doesn't need basic income protection and presumably has freedom to move to a new job to negotiate terms like overtime. (I did at my previous job; I'm currently an independent contractor because I prefer even more flexibility.)
This recent spate of downvoting has really got me down on HN. It's leading more and more into groupthink, as people are using it as a 'I disagree with this' button.

I'm not saying it's rational, or defending it, but in my experience it's quite common for someone to believe in small government, but have an item or two that should be exceptions.

For me, it's healthcare and education. For many republicans, it's defense.

Individually, each view of the government may be intelligent and rational, but if each person has a small amount of input on how government is run, and you end up with a bloated, badly designed government that no single person in the group wanted.

IMO, that's a valid and important addition to the GP's point (which I agree with). If anyone wants to argue the point (which I may well be wrong about), my email is in my profile.
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Wonder what makes Netflix more desirable with this partnership. TED content is free AFAIK.
Some benefits I can think of:

- Making TED content more accessible across devices/platforms? (Netflix has better device reach)

- Applying Netflix's categorization and recommendation algorithm to TED's vast content.

- As the article said, grouping related videos for longer viewing, but I am not sure how good it would be.

I think this is just a value add to existing customer, but I want them to figure out a way to add more movies.
Yes, if only that secrecy had worked well otherwise for the company. <sarcasm />
The link on John Resig's tribute led me to a song written by _why http://goo.gl/xvAM5

I had no idea he was that good musically too. It's a bit quirky, but it really does show that he was an artistic soul above anything else.
I don't really know. Assuming that this is a free market, I think the fact that nobody stepped up on Android (with a noticeable success) is probably an indicator of the fact this could not be an error.
More seriously (hoping we can have a quiet discussion about differences in market between iOS and Android): Instapaper makes (probably serious) money selling the app. Can you make (serious) money in Android without Ads and without going the freemium way? Enough money to justify the additional effort and the fact that this will probably slow the development on the current platform?
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so what? Script kiddies getting pwned..
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Was about to create a Ask HN for this then got redir to here!

Who is attending this?
The point, I think, is that the event buffer obeys the same transactional semantics as the data the event refers to. If you are not able to thread all state atomically through the message system, this can offer improved consistency guarantees.
It's scary to hear stories of religious-extremism from Iran, but it's even scarier to hear them from the US as they have immensely more power to impose their rule on others.

I have no problem with religion, but please don't mix it with governance. Don't try to force everyone to live by the rules of your religion (or an arbitrary interpretation of your Holy Book). Especially not in their private lives. "Separation of religion and state" and "freedom of religion" used to be big issues, at least in Europe... These days, I don't know anymore.
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I disagree. Accidentally shooting a couple of kids or pregnant women every few weeks can easily make you lose a war on the political front.
There are some languages—Lisp, Prolog, Haskell, maybe Mozart or whatever will fill that niche—which the curious ought to explore because they shape the way you think. But C++ is not one of them. It's yet another imperative single-dispatch OO language, like Java or C# but for masochists (and reams of legacy code that wasn't even exception-safe don't help). All the reasons to bother with it are practical ones focusing on its low-overhead runtime for certain niches.
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I am surprised no one brought up the most important issue: Google are transitioning from content delivery to content production. This is a huge shift and for me shows the first signs of trouble; content producers will be a much lower-quality job at Google, and it will need lots of people to do that. It feels like Google is slowly becoming Microsoft.
I had a Fire and really didn't like it for reading -- it falls in the valley of uselessness between a Kindle (DX being my favorite) and the iPad. I don't find my iPad 1 particularly heavy -- the main drawback of the iPad vs. Kindles is lack of daylight readability, and to a lesser degree, potentially distracting apps (email, web).

The Fire seems like a great video watching device, but I don't do much of that (and when I do, it's on a projector with surround sound and other people)
Either you mistakenly believed I was speaking about C++11 specifically and/or you didn't read the accepted answer/response in the Stack Overflow thread.

The "accepted answer" was in a nutshell, 'Learn C++11 if it will get you a job or let you keep your job'.

I don't care if people find C++11 more or less interesting than Lisp, Mozart, Agda, or Dylan. That's not the point I was making.

The point is that anybody that bases what they learn purely in terms of "minimum effort necessary to keep my job" is not someone I will ever knowingly hire.
Well said. I agree that a person more genuinely seeking to be left alone would leave at least a short message stating their departure, if not explaining. Since that is the norm (in basically all human society, hacker and otherwise), deviation from that norm is unusual, attention-drawing, and mysterious. _why seems socially aware enough to know that, so it is reasonable to assume that something unusual and deliberate went on.
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This makes me sick inside. Like it is futilely depressing to my core. I've been trying to fight the government wiretapping and invading citizen privacy since I was a sophomore in highschool.

By time people give a fuck, it's going to be too late.
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I find many of these laws quite outdated as well, but you have to consider the historical context. These laws were made at a time when the nazis had just murdered millions of people, caused a world war, and most importantly, were still holding all the influencial positions in the country.

The nazis were a broad popular movement. It wasn't just some dictator and his family who could be removed in a day. Most of the intellectual elite was either dead or had left the country. The nazis had replaced everyone who held any kind of official role with their own people. All the judges, university teachers, school principals, police officers, civil servants, etc, they were all nazis or opportunistic collaborators with questionable political attitudes.

There was no way all these people could have been removed from their posts or put in jail where they really belonged. Preventing them from being politically active, banning their symbols and everything they might reunite behind in order to regain power, was seen as the only practical way to diffuse a very real threat.

Also, the laws were made at a time when no law could be made without the approval the US government. After all, a large number of US, British, Russian, and other soldiers had just lost their lives liberating Europe and removing the nazis from power. It would have been insane to just let the nazis resume their political activities.

But 66 years on they are no longer a threat. They have almost no popular support, and the very specific laws that violate free speech could now be replaced by general laws against inciting violence like they exist in all countries.
For me, it's simply that I can easily watch TED content on my TV without having to airplay it from my iphone / ipad.

While the free TED talks would never be a reason to subscribe to netflix in the first point, they do increase the value of the platform by providing ease of access.

It's nice when all of your content (free or paid) is available in one place.
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The "I know enough already" attitude is exactly what I look for in an interview. If I find it, it's a "no hire".

Never settle for the average.
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I echo that sentiment. :)
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Many thanks from me too!
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Also note that the answer you refer to doesn't say to learn language X if and only if it will let you keep a job/get you a job. It refers specifically to whether one should learn C++11. It says nothing at all about the myriad of fun and interesting languages out there that are worth learning for the sake of learning, of which C++11 might not be one depending on ones world-view.
Taking Lawrence Lessig's view: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/15/opinion/lessig-goldman-sac... , this is the problem
True, but that is clearly impractical within a cocoa program since the PDF handling methods don't provide a mechanism for passing in parameters.
C++ is not for masochists, it is for developers with a proper CS background that want to implement software with high performance and low resources usage, using a multiparadigm language.

It could be better and is full of warts, but there is no other language at the moment that could replace C++ for native coding.

Go is too few abstractions and D is still catching up to the TDPL specification. Both lack the amount of tooling that C and C++ have at their disposal.
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Im from Mexico, and aparently these kind of things are already happening here. A friend of mine told me a few weeks ago that the cable company called him to say that he was downloading copyrighted material from warner and that he should stop or he would be cut off.
Stampedes due to a gun being fired in the middle of a crowd are not fun to watch. Terrorists aren't out to do such things though; surprisingly, they have other goals than causing random terror. Psychopaths on the other hand...
I was about to suggest the same. I currently live there (and Shenzhen) and it is indeed colorful. I just wish there was a stronger startup culture. The entrepreneurship culture is definitely there but for low-risk, traditional business. I personally prefer Shenzhen to Hong Kong although it is difficult to function in English.
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Curious to hear some European opinions that are shocking to you.

One European idea (as practised in a reasonable sub set of Europe) that I can see many Americans finding shocking are the legal limits to free speech. Gun control is another one which would shock at least a fair number of Americans (again this varies a bit across Europe, but is always far stricter than in the US). Various ideas on taxation is a third, depending slightly on your political leaning. The lax (from a US perspective) attitude towards punishing criminals as yet another.
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Thanks for everyone who pointed this out. I'll check it out when I get my hands on a mac.

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> put a lot more 'carrots' in there

Carrots are definitely coming in Python 3.3 and up, whereas 2.6/2.7 and 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 were intended to have some overlap to ease porting.
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...remembering my favorite scene in Good Will Hunting... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrOZllbNarw

hold out for something better ;)
I wonder if it would be feasible to put a data center next to a power plant, and use the cooling water to raise the temperature of the water flowing in to the power plant, theoretically it should then take less energy to raise the temperature high enough to generate steam to power the turbines...
And I always think that if you pitched it to anyone at the time, how many would've laughed in your face?
This is very dangerous, we know that there are few levels of separation between people:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation

We also know that there is a very few people that connect people together, the social "hubs".

What totalitarian regimes(Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Kim Jol Il) did was identify those hubs an exterminate them(at first they can't kill them so putting them in jail is enough), and replacing them with puppets, eventually changing society overnight.

It is too risky having someone storing every single communication between people(including cell phone calls). They will understand what you say(a la Siri) and text analyze it and search display it on graphs. With facebook and cell phone connections they have everything to know more about yourself that you know thyself.

When the US debt bubble explodes(that will happen in less than 5 years) and people loose a significant part of their savings and get angry about the status quo I don't know what is going to happen.

The US is becoming more and more of a totalitarian state day after day.
By now it's about impossible to learn every language and platform. I prioritize by interesting and mind-bending, and at a glance, C++11 is not markedly better along these dimensions, which leavers it near the bottom of the list—unless somebody is going to pay me because I chose to defer learning everything more rewarding. I don't apply this reasoning to every language (hell, I lurk on LtU), just the most pedestrian and painful ones.
Do you think that everyone who currently smokes cannabis would continue to smoke it, even if the penalties were massively increased, and strictly enforced?

I find that fascinating. I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't think introducing prison sentences would reduce usage, and believe that the existing scientific evidence backs my viewpoint. You clearly disagree with me. Unfortunately ycombinator is not the best place to have a discussion about such things, but I would recommend in future if you would like cannabis to be legalised, you shouldn't be so dismissive and insulting to people who hold an opposing viewpoint to you, who I assume you would want to convert.
Agreed. Though it should not become a youtube, where you can find anything. The reason I like Netflix is because its a great place to watch a few things well. I too feel TED is a welcome addition.
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I'm a French-Canadian 20-something. You guys should give a try to China or Hong Kong. (see previous comment)
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The title reads as if the questioner is genuinely interested in C++11, but from his comments it's clear that he only sought an outlet to rant.

That the accepted answer is 'learn C++11 to get a job, if necessary' speaks volumes.
Just curious -- what do you mean by Go having too few abstractions?
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You hit the nail on the head. If you don't need strong consistency guarantees any sort of message queue will do. That is a solved problem.

There are two key quotes from the article:

1. "... if our queue begins dropping messages, we run the risk of silently corrupting data"

The two statements that they are executing "app.update" (modifying the database) and "enqueue" (sending to message queue") are not atomic. They can make it atomic using something like 2 phase commit but implementing that will be more trouble than it's worth. Additionally, there will be performance (latency) implications since it is a synchronous operation.

2. "Notice how both of our writes are inside of a local database transaction"

Now they have atomicity very easily!

I agree with the grandparent that using SQL as a message queue is generally a bad idea. However the pitfalls are well known and can be engineered around. See this article:
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2011/5-subtle-ways-youre-usin...

I am actually working on something very similar to this at my day job. The "buffer processor" that the article is describing, we implemented using a scala process. Perhaps what's most interesting about the entire system as mentioned at the end of the article is maintaining the large amount of state for durability (we use hbase) and deliverability (we wrote a custom scala server).
"I can't really explain why, but wrapping my head around DVCS took an embarassingly long time"

I guess the longer you've used a centralized approach, the more "intrenched" that way of thinking is, and the bigger the mental shift has to be.

Unlearning the old can be much harder than learning the new..
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I am also angry that stuff like pagination isn't done in some standard way (pg, oracle, mysql sql server are doing it differently, sybase doesn't even have it). BUT! Dude, saying that sql server can't do something when a simple search gives you the right solution?

The SQL standard is missing couple more features I think, like identity/sequences (I even had to use different code in .NET to get the newly inserted id), upserts, ...

Writing cross-database software isn't even worth it. And I say that as a developer of a medium sized project supporting 4 databases. It would have been much better if we just decided to use one and use all the features properly
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> if homeschooling is a sign of something it is a sign of deep commitment to the child's education.

Commitment to what aspect, though? Actual educational and personal development or complete indoctrination in a bubble where no outside ideas can penetrate?

My point is that it's an ambiguous indicator, and can honestly be used by both sides until we know details about the homeschooling in question.
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Though I don't follow what the author practices, I don't think it is a practice that is done for sake of cleverness.
There is a benefit in keeping the history clean in the main branch.
My only wish is probably if git allowed one to achieve the same without so many hoops.