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> (The electron wavefront travels at ~0.66 C in copper. I don't know about Si though.)

Copper doesn't have much to do with this, rather what is important are the impedance characteristics of the transmission line. 0.66*C is a reasonable number for thin coax cable. Split speaker wire on the other hand is also often copper and has a propagation velocity of 95+% of the speed of light. Generally the dielectric used and configuration of the transmission line is far more important than the type of material used as the conductor.

As for processors, signals are still moved around on metal wiring, the propagation velocity through Si isn't really important but rather the propagation delay of gates which is less about the speed of the wave front and more about how long it takes to turn the transistor on or off. While there is some component of propagation velocity involved in this, its not really significant in comparison other factors in the gate design (see Intel's Tri-gate).
Here is the direct link to the study:

http://sciencewithart.ijs.si/pdf/Do%20female%20and%20male%20...

I think it brings a negative perspective on the propositions of several people here that assured us that creating role models was the way to go to increase the number of women in science and programming (which would definitively be an awesome thing ).
No idea. Last time I bothered trying Stack Overflow did though. (That was a while ago, when it was still called that.)
I need this. As a dev, I want to know whether my dependencies are vulnerable.
Code is written. Command line only. So not ready for you yet.

There are good application programmers (who are also competent cryptographers). But it seems, based on mailing list and forum comments, all the incompetent ones hold them in spite. One can only guess why.
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It's $250/person/year. Yes, it's probably a rounding error when you're talking about folks who, with salary and benefits, are almost certainly costing the company $100k+/person/year.
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Reminds me of Yahoo's Search Monkey (RIP). DDG seems like a much better home for this (awesome) idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_SearchMonkey
Very interesting comment about the notation for package-level scoping. When I worked with Java, most of the devs I worked alongside also used package-level access for more complicated private methods in order to unit test, but I've never seen that pattern used in Scala.

How do you generally test private methods in Scala? Would an inner class work? Path-dependent types in Scala seem to make this approach more elegant than in Java.
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How?

I cannot judge the service, I don't use it and never saw it before. But the problem you describe isn't solved by your 'pay to be notified' solution. That samba installation in a small company, done 3 years ago by an intern/student? It won't be fixed. My gut feeling (aka no evidence) says that most installations will be on the small scale, one off. You are offering a service for people who care already - or learned to care.

In other words: It seems to me as if you cater to people that are already on the relevant mailing lists. But maybe you make their life easier..?
TeamCity is pretty cool because:

-it's very easy to set up and configure

-does not depend on one particular technology (we build our .NET site, android and iphone apps with it)

-there are some cool plugins available to extend it

(otherwise go heroku or appharbor)
If you work for 7 hours and 58 minutes, do you give them a two-minute discount out of a sense of fairness? Probably not. patio11 and tptacek's point is that for the kind of clients you probably want, a three-hour discount is not significantly more "optimal" than a two-minute discount. If the client agrees to a minimum billing increment of a day and you are doing the work you're paid to do, then it's fair. If you give them more than that, what you're being isn't fair, it's generous.
Gitweb + Gitolite = free & does everything this does
Now that they have their own backlink crawler their information is extremely valuable to any self respecting SEO. It's expensive, but that's probably because of lack of competition.
Show HN: OpenRent (YC Reject) launches today for online rentals in the UK.
First off, thanks to the people who gave feedback discussing landing pages when I commented before [1]. Given the interest, thought I'd post it as as a "Show HN" story now we've launched!

Would love any HN feedback (good or bad!), on any aspect of the site/service.

And any landlords in the crowd, we'd love to hear from you! HN Landlords would be our ideal first customers!

[1] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3878319
Mountain View, CA, Full-time, onsite

Hiring in Machine Learning / Applied Artificial Intelligence.

Work on the new new thing at Bump Technologies (we can't say exactly what it is yet...)

http://bu.mp/openings
Not only is this a waste of my resources it also
provides a shit experience of dropped calls, sudden
drops in quality, and connection issues.

My experience with Skype, by using it everyday, is not at all similar.

Skype for me is the best VoIP system I've ever used. Voice calls work fine even over my phone's 3G connection, which compared to a broadband line is piss poor. Video calls sometime have hiccups, but it worked for me in situations where more traditional client-server solutions were unusable.
The bangs are especially good for dodging the really heavy homepages of some sites. For example, !bgg.
Your definition of the word "fair" is broken.

You've defined it to mean "extracts from the relation, at all feasible cost, the maximum amount of value for the client".

That's not what "fair" means. "Fair" means that both the client and the consultant agree that the terms of the engagement are equitable: that the consultant is being compensated in accordance with the value they're generating.

The clients you want to work with will universally agree that, absent some other arrangement, it is "fair" to establish a minimum billable increment of a full day. That full day increment accounts for the cost to you, the consultant, in terms of lost flexibility and opportunity to serve other clients for the remainder of that day; it also accounts for the amount of time you're inevitably spending "ramping down" from one project before "ramping up" to the next, and for the complexity that client is adding to your schedule. It also acknowledges the fact that virtually anything you could be doing for them is worth at least one billable day.

What I find most amusing about discussions like this is the stridency of opposition to 1-day minimums. Freelancers on HN are, frequently, proud of the fact that they're screwing themselves, and proud that they're leaving money on the table.
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I'm referring specifically to the state before the pane is activated. It feels awkward to have so few options to activate it. The transition/animation also toys a bit with scrolling up/down.
+1 for TC. It's also got a free version which is enough for us.

http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/
I just wish they would update their Linux client.
How do you handle that sort of thing? Is there a cut-off or something? I've never done any web development, but I can see how this would be a hairy situation.
Green River is also looking to hire a full-time user interface designer: http://www.greenriver.com/people/jobs.html
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For internal storage. On SD cards or internal "external" storage, it's world-readable: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage....

Relevant text: "Every Android-compatible device supports a shared "external storage" that you can use to save files. This can be a removable storage media (such as an SD card) or an internal (non-removable) storage. Files saved to the external storage are world-readable and can be modified by the user when they enable USB mass storage to transfer files on a computer."

I forgot to specify that in my original post. My mistake.
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We have a free plan also, so everyone can get notified of the issue.

The change won't happen overnight, but if there are tools available that help organizations run more secure software, without false positives, doesn't it benefit everyone?
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Took long enough but we finally made it!
Command line is good enough for me; Where can I find it?
You're baffled because you, me, and the blog post we are discussing, are guilty of using the wrong terminology. EVERYONE that goes into business has an idea, however not all ideas are a product. In some cases the idea is simply that you don't want to work for someone else anymore (or ever). Or the idea is that you want to get very rich. Either of those are very valid ideas, which them should lead to brainstorming on a product or service to get you closer to realizing that idea.

Just as lots of developers have a great product, with business model and no idea how to market it (the product) - Lots if small businesspersons have a business model and the will to market a great product - but no great product to market
yup...agree 100%
Ha, I love the HN reaction to this. Sperging out about Instagram getting photos they're "not supposed to", fake outrage about fake privacy breaches, all while blatantly ignoring this fact.

And of course, I'm sure all this fake outrage has nothing to do with Instagram's recent purchase by Facebook.
why are they closing its Facebook platform?
Interesting. I've never used Lift or Play -- thanks for the info.
Regardless of the strengths or weaknesses of this article, the scansion of his/her opening poetry bothers me.

In the spirit of hacking, I've tried to improve it (and please help me if I've done this wrong or poorly!):

Twas the Y-Comb deadline eve, when all through the valley
All the hackers were stirring (it's a big night for Cali!).

Scores of applications were POST'ed with care
In hopes they'd be found by Paul Graham to be fair.

And many a partner slumbered softly in bed,
while visions of A-rounds flooded their SO's heads.

Quite out of the blue my iPhone did ring:
an old friend to a bar for a convo I'd bring!
No not really. It's more cash efficient for a company to pay for their employee's meals in bulk than it is to pay them that ~$10k in after tax income (So around $13-15k per person). The company also gains 'free labor' by saving the employee's time from walking out of the office, and saving the employee time in food prep time at home. Many employee's are going to eat out almost every day when they're at the office.
Of course it's there. We're human - we're all subject to circumstance and surroundings. We can't say with certainty that we would be doing tech startups if we were born in another time or another place (ie your lack of data - I agree). So where do you draw the line?

The issue I take with this type of writing is that, at best, it's pointless. And at its worst, it's desctuctive.

Pointless - It's not fact based. It presents no new, compelling ideas. It's not helpful for practical purposes, or optimistic for inspirational ones. What's the point? Why was it written? (For the authors sake, I think.)

Destructive - It draws lines and separates classes, the higher of which the author subtly places himself in while condescending the hopeless "friend". Where would we be on our own startup journeys if our "friends" were so (not) supportive?

And this, by the way, is where someone gets to call me and my comments out for being super hypocritical ;) </irony>
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I'm talking about the correct way to use a HTTP method as defined by the HTTP specification.

> It is "easy" to blindly follow any rule. In most cases it is also wrong.

Come on.
I work in commercial HVAC remote control, so that's where most of my knowledge comes from. When the Nest came out, we had a sour look on our face and when SparkFun disassembled it we saw where we matched. Honestly, I saw the idea as maintaining the source of income. By following the App Store approach, you sell the barebones platform in which the user can pick and choose what 'apps' he/she wants to use.

To be fair, HVAC control is HARD. You are dealing with ASHRAE Thermal Comfort Levels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_comfort) that can change from humidity, solar, CO2 levels, the list goes on. Likewise, at least from our perspective, you inherit a lot of the pre-existing issues at a location. Suddenly, if a fan belt snaps and the site gets uncomfortable, you (be it a company or a DIY-er) have to justify it wasn't your fault before moving to actually fixing the issue.

Another problem is getting that sour taste out of the customers' mouth. Even if it isn't your fault, you are on the frontline and they aren't going to be happy with you saying 'Its not my fault.'

Edit: As for ensuring lights are off, the Digi SmartPlug maintains its status when it kills the power. Whatever is plugged into it will be 'off' when you set it to off state, and 'on' when you energize it. I played with their demo set at their conference last year and I hate to say, but it was fun clicking a button on a webpage and seeing a light over some sales rep's head turn off.
@tzaman: you don't like super vague homepages? haha, no, you are completely right, thanks for checking it out...copy is something i neglected from the get-go
It's absolutely terrible in rhythm games like RockBand when video and input have a delta, and even worse when you add audio desync into the mix. Fortunately you have a few knobs in the game options.
Can you upgrade your mac's processor and motherboard to whatever you want the way you can with a PC? It goes beyond just an operating system. I like to think of PCs as Personalizable Computers.
Because you can spin up a new ip for a couple of cents to avoid bans.
Please have a diet meal option (keto, atkins, south beach, paleo, etc) available every day. Loosing weight on automatic would be a very tempting perk for many employees. Office managers can order 10 diet meals and 30 normal meals and it wont be any extra work for the office manager to implement.
Slightly off topic, but can anyone elaborate on the legal handling of displaying the xkcd comics? As they are fetched directly from images.xkcd.com, and do not contain a "discussion", would it still be considered Fair Use, or have they made an agreement with Randall Munroe?
Well, that is pretty awesome. Expanding the selection of orderable services is an interesting way for uber to grow.
How does ranking between plugins work? Is the order arbitrated in advance?
Idea Dump (#6)
Aaaand cue "Sexist!" outcries...
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Also how do you make a PUT or PATCH request from programming languages like Actionscript (and quite possibly Javascript though I'm not sure) which only support POST and GET requests currently?
Everything Skype does will soon be replaced by WebRTC anyway.
But the delay involved in rendering to the buffer is part of the delay under test. We are not trying to get the lowest latency possible with the hardware, we are trying to get the lowest latency that a game could conceivable achieve.
Is MSN P2P ? It's been a long time (like.. oh. 7 years maybe ?) since I've used it, but iirc it was centrally routed. Only some things like file transfers were P2P.
I work close to this team. It's a great job! We have allot of freedom of expression in the way we solve problems.
Transocean cables aren't just Ethernet boards on both ends. There's extensive, extensive gear on either end as well as at the peering points between you and the destination. I'd wager that the same packet traverses tens of microprocessors between you and the destination, so your point is questionable.

Just adding a router can add up to 30ms to a hop, if it sucks.
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I've, just recently, realized the cure to exactly what ails you Jeremy (having suffered from the same). It's called marriage.

I tell my wife what idea I'm working on. Just this simple act sets in motion a chain of events that tends to make me want to see a project through to the end.

The reason is that, I know she will follow up and ask me later about the project and, if I have abandoned it, will subject me to "The Speech". I hate "The Speech" so much that the entire force of my subconscious and conscious minds will conspire to avoid it - hence shipping products (finally) instead of flitting from one to the other endlessly.

If any of you don't know what "The Speech" is. You just aren't the right audience for this advice....yet. :-)

Note: If you aren't married, or aren't planning to get married due to career. preference, etc. then you should find a friend or family member close enough to you that they will be willing to give you "The Speech". It works.
Accurate title: "Why Moore's Law will decelerate over the next 10 years and may eventually come to and end over the next few decades."
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Is it feasible to create subresources for each partial put? For instance, if the `/person/:id` resource has an address as part of the data, could you do PUT `/person/:id/address` to only overwrite the address?
Tks for your time and suggestions. I will look into them.
My biggest complaint with Skype is its inability to persist chat messages when one client is disconnected. If this addresses that it would be great.

That said, we're using HipChat now and love it. If you use Skype for group chat and don't use the phone a lot, I recommend the switch wholeheartedly.
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perhaps you could elaborate on the inner class idea...
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>Any HFT who hunts for a sure thing isn't making any money - there are far more 51% gain, 49% loss opportunities than there are sure things.

There may be far more 51/49 opportunities. However, saying that HFTs hunting for sure things isn't making money is far from true.

I worked for a UHFT firm that had a winning percentage of more than 95% of the time. The 5% losers had VERY small losses too. All arbitrage trading. Not market making like everyone seems to be focused on in here.
Of course monopolies are "good" for those who benefit from them. This much is a truism.

Thiel says entrepreneurs should seek out areas areas in which there will be minimal competition. This, too, is not exactly earth shattering.

The issue is that Thiel appears to be trying to make an even stronger claim; that monopolies are intrinsically good, and might even be necessary for progress; that "no one makes any money" in markets where there's too much competition; that one has failed as an entrepreneur if one doesn't quickly make enough money to retire on. It's this latter claim, and other similarly strong ones that Thiel makes, that don't stand up to objective critical scrutiny.
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That's exactly what I do for long term clients with open ended projects. I use Freshbooks' timer to track my time. Whatever that totals to is what gets billed.

For close-ended projects I generally quote up front and track my time for my own purposes. For scope changes and other additional expenses I often use a timer and bill actual time.
Gitorious. Gitlab.
There is a good reason to adhere to common usage for the common verbs, though: you can meet expectations better. We generally know what to expect out of GET because it's used consistently.
I think it is quite coincidental that now the skype ip lookup site JUST got killed and this press releases timing. They may have implemented this new infrastructure in tangent, and now took them all offline?
I use Rescue Time as well. I have found it incredibly insightful. As a direct result of Rescue Time I turned e-mail notifications off, I don't log into twitter during working hours, and I turned campfire notifications off.

My productivity has increased since using it, without a doubt.
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Yes. But your tools are just nicer versions of existing ways to care, no?

The AWARENESS problem persists as far as I can tell?
The only thing that aggravates me about it is that she put an asterisk in "Fuck" as if it makes some kind of a difference.
I think the word you're looking for is "patronizing," with the implied title actually being "Them (or You) too?"
Awesome! Wish I could upvote this twice.
Consistency. You're entitled to break verb conventions, but you may confuse newcomers or force API consumers to special-case for you.
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Certainly helps solve the intercept problem for the American national security agencies.

(Was that still a problem? My info is probably out of date, but skype being p2p was a pain in the ass for spying on customers a short while ago)
There's some more discussion over at Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/t1mo7/ceres_sol...
The bandwidth the whole Skype swarm can scale to in a matter of minutes will most certainly exceed what would be possible if you're running everything from a datacenter. Sure, have a few backup machines ready to takeover roles if super peers drop or something else is impacting the network.

IT managers and IT buyers are obviously not the target market for Skype. They just buy that stuff from CISCO.

Skype has invested considerable development resources into making P2P work over NAT, circumventing firewalls, cloaking and encrypting their traffic to evade packet inspection. Even the client itself is heavily obfuscated. The point of this all is of course to not threaten the P2P model that has allowed them to essentially scale unlimited.

Now, you have Microsoft replacing that with the standard centralized infrastructure that scales terribly. Huh.
Congrats Rand and team. Very well deserved.
Kudos on building a slick looking product. How many weekends did this take you?

How is this different from buffer? Is it the bulk email feature?

What features will remain free?
Two paid services :(
Request quote = out of my price range
With regards to "Git for Everyone," it was fairly easy to train our account managers and project managers to use TortoiseSVN. The most complicated aspect was that they would sometimes still upload some_document_rev1.pdf, some_document_rev2.pdf, which took a while to train them out of.

Git is a bit more complex than subversion, but there is TortoiseGit:

http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/
No man is an Iland, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Manor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.

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