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Thanks, papsosouid. Facts are much more useful to discussions like this. It still doesn't change the fact that PHP is capable of running the most trafficked sites in the world (side note: I don't like PHP, either. I just hate haters who can't see the world in shades of gray). Having heard Facebook engineers speak about MySQL many times, I have not seen any inclination that they are dissatisfied with MySQL as a platform choice. (And please, no one reference on that utterly BS article published on gigaom.com)
How much of that concern could be helped by displaying tooltips over those words? A little dotted line underneath MUST, and a tooltip with the definition.
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>Though I support the idea that wealthy people should pay high taxes, perhaps even higher taxes than they do now, I think it's also worth noting that the US already gets 70% of all its taxes from the top 10%[1].

You do realize that if you make about $80K/year, you are already in the top 10% right? With that perspective, I feel that 70% of taxed income is absurdly low, the fact that 30% of all US tax dollars come from people making less than $80K/year is completely absurd to me.

Edit: According to your table, the number is actually: $112,124 I still think my point stands.
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It does say it supports ad-hoc Python blocks. I can see the potential for Python frameworks/ORMs being able to "export" a series of instructions over to such a system, or alternatively allow the object-relational/database abstraction layer to just run on the server side to start with. If you can produce a DBAPI-like API on the server, then ORMs like SQLAlchemy and maybe others should be fully usable within that environment. Client-server communication might use some kind of RPC-like system. Depending on how flexible the Python environment is, the client system could send over blocks of Python code on the fly which gets cached, making the system almost transparent.
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This is where the world is leading now. Spaces are moving to the network and they are becoming virtual. Hangouts are one of the ways to do this. Great article.
It's not about punishing success, it's about realizing that the market is not perfect at distributing wealth, and that wealth is not created in a vacuum.

To the first point, are bankers, the founders of instagram, athletes, and movie stars really contributing so much to the world that they are worth hundreds of doctors, or thousands of teachers?

To the second, would you be successful if it weren't for those doctors, teachers, garbage men, police officers, mail carriers, etc.?
I think it's also worth noting that the US already gets 70% of all its taxes from the top 10%

Why is that worth noting? That only further demonstrates the income inequality in the United States. Furthermore, wealth is far more important to take into account than income in any discussion of taxation or inequality.

Also, I have yet to hear anyone make an argument that sounds anything like "simply being rich is wrong."
Well said. To go a bit further, limits on income are likely to encourage people not to try truly hard or truly risky ventures. Paul Graham addresses this at http://paulgraham.com/gap.html
It would be very similar, you'd just need supervisord or something similar to run gunicorn for you. There is a pretty complete example of deploying gunicorn + nginx in the docs: http://gunicorn.org/deploy.html
Sounds awesome, I have used a similar kind of help from random online people but I hadn't thought of using Google Hangouts in this way :O.

Long live Google! :)
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So, how many discs do you rent a month? Because if it's <5, then I'd say, okay, you'd be better off without the $8 netflix. But, if it's more...

We love netflix at home. They're seriously starting to ramp up on TV series licenses and 80s and 90s hit movies now (where we as Gen-Xers go for our nostalgia trips).

And, I'm starting to see some AAA blockbusters show up from the recent past (<5 years ago). So, it's coming along nicely for our needs and definitely for the price. I've never understood how people who say "well, cable has bigger hits faster", but not only do you have to pay $50+ for digital HD cable, but >$10 on top for HBO/Cinemax/premiums, and pay to "rent" on-demand recent hit movies.

Now that is the ripoff.
I wonder how often this kind of thing works like it did this time. Does anybody have a similar success (or horror) story involving crowdsourcing?
Ask HN: Internet-friendly Senators in California?
Starting on June 5, California is holding jungle primaries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_primary) in which all voters can vote for members of any party, and the top 2 vote getters advance to the general election.

I think this is a good opportunity to express support for issues I care about, but I realize how little I know about the 24 candidates running for Senate:
http://www.ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/United_States_Senate_elections_in_California,_2012

Does anyone know how the lesser-known candidates stand on internet censorship, and/or other important underreported issues?
> especially if many of them are for it.

I do not think that is the case, generally speaking.
The world doesn't need 7 billion programmers, and if people really do want to learn programming then they should learn to do it correctly since the world doesn't need anymore badly written software (we have enough already).

Paul.
First, if you want to talk Darwinism you need to get your terms right.

"It's not the strongest who survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most adaptable to change." Charles Darwin.

By (incorrectly) calling someone who isn't rich "weak" you're placing your personal judgements on them, because that's not at all what Darwin was talking about.

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I do find it interesting that you consider taxing people "punishment". Does that mean you consider government, or at least funding of the government, a form a punishment?</tangent>

What if the current system is rigged (by loopholes and allowances for swiss banking) so that the rich can avoid paying what the rest of the population does? Wouldn't that mean the "weaker" species were the ones actually being punished? So by raising the effective rate on the rich wouldn't you simply be restoring order to the system?
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I've heard a number of people (Grover Norquist included) make the claim that although the top marginal tax rates were higher, there were a far greater number of tax exemptions available. I have no idea how true this is, and I'm not aware of anyone who's studied the actual income, wealth, and taxes of America's rich over the decades.
This is a fine way to work. I, for one, love SLIME. However, the main goal of Emacsy is not to load code at runtime; it's to be able to modify the UI of your application at runtime while providing some Emacs-like facilities.

Certainly, the normal way of embracing an application with Emacs is to turn Emacs into your frontend as you suggest. That works well for a number of applications, but it's not something you can distribute as a complete application, instead you might include your-app.el and hope for the best. Emacsy provides a way for you to improve your actual applications UI. Moreover, it allows your users to modify the UI to suit themselves.
>To wrap it up, if God (or some other kind of Force) decided to help poor species, we, humans, would never exist. Why don't you just support the idea, that put you into existence?

So do you not have a problem with someone using brute strength to take the property and wealth of someone else?

Are you against people receiving treatments for curable diseases?

Social cooperation & concepts of fairness have also played a huge part in the success of the human species.
Taxing the rich isn't about solving the budget problems, it's about solving the fairness problem. It doesn't matter that it isn't enough to make a fiscal difference, people want to feel the laws are fair and the rich are paying at least as much of a percentage of their income as the middle class. That's what the Buffet rule tries to address, equality.
V8 isn't really designed to run multi-threaded code, which makes sense, since it's designed to run JavaScript code for the browser, and browser JS is single-threaded (except for Web Workers, which are isolated, and isolation requires a different style of code just like asynchronicity does). Here's one effort to add multithreading to V8: http://code.google.com/p/v8-juice/wiki/ThreadingInJS However, it has limitations because V8 isn't really intended to be used that way.

If you just want to write code in blocking style, you can use asyncblock with node.js: https://github.com/scriby/asyncblock
It is faster because you don't have to install npm, the case I was explaining involves someone with no developing skills.

And I'm not saying this feature of Go is better than npm, I also use npm and I like it very much.
What I like is the fact that Go comes already with this feature and I don't need anything extra.
I love this suggestion!

I always leave Outlook set to 'Prompt' me for read receipts. That way I know which people are annoying. I always DENY.

Read-Receipts have to be the most passive aggressive feature ever coded.
You lose a lot of your rights once you become a convicted criminal (particularly a felon). It is no surprise that this would be one of them. Sometimes I think they should put more effort into publicizing all the stuff you have to give up if convicted of a crime. It might actual serve as a deterrent. Clearly the threat of being put in jail is not working as a deterrent.
Yep, you got it exactly right. :)
I might be missing something.. but the demo doesn't work for me beyond showing the FPS at the top left and some coordinates on the top right over a black background :(
Agreed, looking at top marginal rate seems weird, why not look at effective tax rates for the Top 1, 5 and 10% instead?
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Your wsgi server is almost never the bottleneck - see this talk by Graham Dumpleton at Pycon - http://youtu.be/Bt2HStzaBzE
It seems to me that many of Ferguson's heavy-lifting abstractions/generalizations go just as under-quantified and un-backed-up as Hanauer's. And several times, when Ferguson does show numbers, the "why did he pare down the dataset?" or choose that particular measure questions go unremarked. For instance, he mentions the difference between land-ownership in North and South America, but leaves out the wealthy European countries which were explicitly part of his explanandum.
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"That only further demonstrates the income inequality in the United States. "

So is this the basic issue, then? That there's income inequality?

Because that's always going to be the case. Even in the most socialist nations, or even communist nations.

There is always a strong disparity of income and power. Always. And there always will be.
"Discretely?" Really?
I'm not against ending a sentence with a preposition, but I find myself often unconsciously avoiding doing it in speech as well as in writing. I don't really find it stilted (but I don't care about the issue one way or another). I say "what are you talking about?" about as naturally as I do "On which machine does this process run?".
In the mist, dark figures move and twist Was all this for real or just some kind of Hell?

Not sure ipv6 qualifies as "some kind of hell," but I'll take any reason for an Iron Maiden reference.

That said, the "hell" part seems to be getting big ISP's to roll out ipv6 support. Last I checked, Time Warner Cable still didn't have ipv6 available to RoadRunner customers, at least not here in NC. :-(
This community is one good place. Start having email conversations with the members. Best way to network.

In fact, start by sending me an email.

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What a great read; thanks for posting it. While the reported outcome differed from the Rolling Stone article, the FBI's modus operandi appear the same.
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I call shenanigans on your bullshit.

You swapped one co-opted term for another.

With this logic, there won't be any words left to describe anything that haven't been "co-opted". A handout is a handout.
From the title, I thought this was a challenge to write a bootstrap loader in 10 kilobytes.
The point is: what constitutes a "measurement"? A data point for each metric I submit? Or can I send data points for multiple metrics in a batch, is this considered a single "measurement"? I have no idea, and the support page doesn't cover that. That means, if I can't word it clearly to my financial department, they won't subscribe.
In California they collect DNA at arrest, not conviction. Your DNA can be collected and stored in CODIS without your ever having been convicted of a crime.

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nicely written.

> You can't similarly transform intransitive verbs because they require a preposition. In German, you would say a for-ask or an of-ask, but we don't accept that in English.

i think i'll have a bit of a lie-down now....
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That's exactly what i am saying.

>That would just show a warning in omnibox.

What OP seems to be talking about is the case where whole page is turned red and it shows a warning something like http://i.imgur.com/2PllT.jpg
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There are benchmarks around [1], though I consider them valuable only for the entertainment value.

The great thing about uWSGI/Nginx over Gunicorn/Nginx is that Nginx speaks the uwsi protocol natively[2], whereas with Gunicorn Nginx acts as a proxy.

Also, in my experience (2 years with gunicorn, 1 with uwsgi in prod), uwsgi is more stable, uses less memory, has better management and configuration tools and even lets you run multiple Python apps under the same intepreter (multitenancy) [3].

[1] http://www.peterbe.com/plog/fcgi-vs-gunicorn-vs-uwsgi

[2] http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpUwsgiModule

[3] http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/wiki/TipsAndTricks

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Accusatory linkbait title. Makes it sound like it was publicly shown. The "outing" was a user of 23andMe confronting her mother. Also making this case less random was that the man who was adopted joined specifically to try and find out about his origins.

Finally, why not mention turning off the family finder feature as the first option, in the text below? Seems to be optimizing for sensationalism.

If you’re afraid to find hidden relatives in your closet, you might want to stay away from DNA sites, or use 23andMe and simply turn off its “family finder” feature — which is basically like Facebook’s friend finder, but using genetic code instead of email addresses.
What do you think when you see a site is made with twitter bootstrap?

I couldn't care less.

Especially with all of the defaults?

I couldn't care less.

I mention this because it seems that every site that I see is built using twitter bootstrap, which while great, is getting a little repetitive.

Do you do nothing but click around startups that are linked on HN? Then sure, you're going to see a lot of Twitter Bootstrap. But otherwise, TBS sites are, what, like, 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of the web? I think this is all much ado about nothing, personally.
Actually, the facts back him up. Look at this article analysing the deficit (specifically, the graph near the top): http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3490

This shows tax cuts as the largest cause in our deficit. I won't argue that getting rid of tax cuts will get rid of the deficit, but every tax season, the money lost from these cuts doesn't go towards reducing dept. Worse, the amount lost from cuts grows each season.

"Are they really investments or are they just political favors that over-cost and under-deliver? (See the Department of Education, TARP, Medicare, war, etc.)"

The graph shows that TARP doesn't impact the budget much.
So if either political party chooses to start throwing bullshit back and forth on some ideological hot button issue then TED decides that this subject is now off limits?

Don't we want the people at TED to be able to share good arguments concerning precisely the things that are most important and most misunderstood (which hot button political issues are, since people now choose an opinion based on tribalism rather than reason)

So that reasoning is bullshit. I don't want democrats or republicans choosing which topics are now off limits for debate because they are now political. For fucks sake, political topics are the ones that need debate. What else does "political topic" mean other than "this is important to our society and there is disagreement".

So TED talks are "Riveting talks by remarkable people on subjects that have not been deemed off limits by one of the two big political parties in the US".

Nevermind the fact that this clearly has nothing to do with political controversy as described, everyone knows there are talks about evolution, climate change and cosmology. The only difference is that there are likely people at TED who might disagree with this one.
I'm sorry but, higher taxes aren't going to solve anything. At the end of the day, our spending will just not stop. We are just adding fuel to the fire.

We need to:

• Invest in the future: We need to invent, produce, and export new renewable energy sources. We need to invest in robotic manufacturing because cheap people labor is not sustainable in any country - robotic is where it will go.

• We need to heavily tax imports like many other countries in the world do. And have American made things become competitive - we have sold our souls to Asia.

• Drastically cut bullshit spending. There are billions spent every year on...bullshit.

• Invest further in Entrepreneurship, and start bringing smart people from other countries here.

Those are big 4.

The big problem is our countries expenses vs. income is too high. At the end of the day, a country is a business. And right now, we are a company that is not running well. We need to clean out the board of directors (Congress) and start fresh.
The problem is not the disparity, but how wide it is. Inequality in the US is currently so wide, it's absurd. It's widening in Europe as well, but not as fast and not as radically as in the US in the last 30 years. This is not healthy, it's polarizing society and eroding the social contract. The only way to effectively balance this trend is through higher taxation.
I would believe it on the basis that every programmer I've talked to, from a couple of years after Java was introduced, until today, didn't really like Java. Things became very complex very fast for the language that gave birth to FactoryFactoryPattern.
They probably don't see it as a way of communication - hence, the lack of investment in it.
I wouldn't say people have gotten lazy. Somehow you just can't prefurnish an apartment or buy used furniture anymore if it involves upholstery, because bed-bugs have returned. I don't know whose "laziness" that is.
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no, what atwood was saying is that if you're dealing with a problem todo with FOO, learning about BAR won't help you.
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Nonsense. Those "checks and balances" allow the people (states) to amend the constitution and override the courts.
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It's not "out of spite", but it's because they are breaking the law. What Saverin is doing is completely legal, and it would be petty on US's part to not even give him a US tourist visa.
And npm ships with node, so this is no different.

Furthermore npm can install git URLs directly too, including tags and branches if you need a particular one. Just specify the url as the "version" in your dependencies section of package.json. Totally trivial.
But you can invest... Your money isn't stuffed under your mattress, is it??

Investment generates profits. It doesn't add to aggregate demand, but subtracts from it.
It's not wrong. Past failure is not guarantee of future failure.

Elon Musk and the electric car industry is one example.
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The problem is that the feedback loop between US and Europe ends up being very unbalanced: American thinkers are hugely influential in Europe, but European ones get disqualified in the US almost by default because they're "socialists". This is a problem for us Europeans as much as for you.
I'm in the process of building out a simple Facebook app and had trouble finding a way to "rank" friends, namely who was closest to the logged-in user.

So, I just built my own web service to do so: Facebook Friend Rank.

I bundled the whole thing as a web service rather than a gem or stand-alone library because I'm sure most people would want something they can just plug-in (or make a call to) without worrying about the complexities of running background jobs, setting up another service on their boxes, etc.

I think Goliath serves as a solid underpinning as this project evolves. The evented nature of the web service should scale well as the ranking algorithm evolves to process multiple API calls in parallel.

All told, I'm happy to launch the project to HN, if only for some initial feedback.

Thanks!
You don't have to do this with npm either. You can provide a URL to a tarball or a git repository and npm will install from there.
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This is a nifty feature and npm can do something very similar:

npm install git://github.com/substack/node-optimist.git
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