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> They could store more objects in a server without performance declination (e.g. gzip).

The performance declination argument is bullshit. Network's a million [0] times slower than gzip.

Truth be told, once you're on the network, you're already screwed w.r.t. most serialization. The only thing efficient compression/decompression is going to buy you is lower CPU (memcached servers run at like 2% CPU util, even under heavy load [1]).

Memcache at Facebook actually uses the ascii protocol, and the memcached implementation is a braindead strtok parser (some of our other stuff uses ragel -- you'll have a hell of a time out optimizing ragel with the right compiler flags -- I've tried and failed).

Just use whichever serialization format has the best API, because I can say with near certainty that it's not going to be a perf problem for you if you're touching disk, network, etc.

[0] Obviously a made up number, but it's way slower. Especially if you're unlucky and lose a packet or something.

[1] With the exception of weird kernel spin lock contention issues, which can happen if you're not sharding your UDP packets well and trying to reply from 8+ cores on 1 UDP socket. You probably aren't.
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> This is why real C programmers use int as their bool type. :)

It has the same problem if a wider type (e.g. long) is assigned to it. Use _Bool instead.
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If you've ever met or known anyone into Scientology then you'd get why it has so many up votes this quick. I up voted before reading the emails because I know as I'm sure others do how important it is to expose their acts. But yeah, a torrent wouldve been nice but oh well.
Yeah, even for an experimental feature, that seems like a massive oversight.
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I think the question of obviousness is the most important question in the patent debates and the hardest to answer. By asking the question, as you've proposed, you are necessarily giving information about the solution. Knowing which questions to ask is critical to inventing. Swype figured out the right question. It wouldn't be fair to prime the pump by asking it to others.

This is not to say there aren't problems with software patents. There are vanishingly few patents that really tell you how to implement the "invention" and most of them don't actually do anything useful.
He's likely the customer they want after all. There must be some delicate balance between "buys 2 bags and returns one" and "buys zero bags because returns are a pita".

If anyone knows this balance, its Amazon.
When we wrote the article, we were totally backing a graphic designer first and foremost. Hands down, having a personal graphic designer is the best route to go. But it's definitely not the only.

I think 99designs is great. If you don't like the logos they shoot out, there's 100% money back guarantee, and a lot of people feel like they're logo is in good hands in the competition format rather than just pinning their hopes on one graphic designer. If they see something that they love, then they can stick with it. If not, they lose some of their time, but they get their money back. No harm done. And I think that's where 99designs shines. In ways, it's a safe route to go, especially for starting out.

For sure on the point you made though, we think that collaboration breeds the best logos. I'm checking out Cuban Council, and these types of logo designers and firms are ones to strive toward. Thanks for the insight man!
> Actually, it isn't. Ad hominem is an attempt to negate the truth of a claim by pointing out a negative characteristic or belief of the person supporting it.

Which is what the poster did in bringing up the motivations of a monarchy that used some form of IP regulation that we weren't even discussing. Discrediting monarchies' motivations for wanting IP has nothing to do with the situation we have today. It's an ad hominem.

None of that has anything to do with the utility of reward-based IP laws in promoting the creation of useful IP to society. So you could also consider some argument about how monarchies used IP in medieval times to be a red herring. Regardless of the label, the argument is equally invalid.
I agree, but would add "evaluate their communication skills" to that.
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So what performance issues were encountered when converting backbone.js to ember.js? Why isn't that an important factor? How difficult is it to overcome the inherit drawbacks of a simple framework?

I'd say personally that behind simplicity, performance is the most important factor for an app (JS-enhanced sites may benefit far less). The challenges that I've seen while using backbone mostly consist of unifying the views, models, collections, and helper objects (or for lack of a better term "Services") together. So far some of that overhead involves adding a "_super" function and abstracting out instantiation so that it is sane. I'll write up about the experience afterwards, but backbone.js is a pleasant treat after leaving JMVC.
I've personally been using BSON[1] as a binary alternative to JSON, and it's worked out great. I've written an Objective-C wrapper around the C lib, in case anybody's interested. Every other language has a solid implementation from 10gen (the MongoDB guys). It's a solid format with a clear spec that's extensible and fully supports UTF-8.

[1]: http://bsonspec.org/
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On the other hand I'm stuck in outsourcing hell with http://classfrog.com

It has been close to a year and we are not even close to launch. It would have taken about 2 weeks for me to do it myself. But I'm in denial.
That might be true, but it might not. If he wasn't able to shop this way, he may have bought 0 bags from Amazon. Amazon would then stock and move fewer bags, reducing their volume discount and driving up the warehousing price for that SKU.

Your advice might actually raise the cost of that item. (Return) Shipping is but one variable in the huge equation that is an Amazon sale. Only Amazon knows for sure.
Storing a message-pack serialized object in MongoDB is silly, because Mongo is essentially storying BSON-serialized object on disk. You're double-serializing data in two competing formats.
I was at first tempted to complain about useless pedantry, but you're right. Even if some of us still like to party like it's 1989. I should have said the real lesson is don't reimplement standard C types, poorly.
As Bruce Schneir said about this, if your biometric "key" is compromized there is no way for you to change it.
I find harder to outsource marketing and blogging than outsourcing software development. This is why it made sense for me to do it myself. For example, I don't know if I could have found a writer that could have written an article that has brought 16000 readers so far.
They would probably be equally confused if confronted with 2040's tech.
> IMHO, there is no better person than the founder to market your startup passionately.

Exactly my feelings.
The bug is most definitely in mysql. Its manifestation depends on compiler/library, and it appears ubuntu is the most prominent afflicted platform, but there could be others. Relying on the bug being limited is very thin ice.
I'm not sure how capacitors would help at all. From what I can tell, they're just solving for the steady-state DC case; in that condition, capacitors are essentially open and have no effect on the analysis.
The partially unusable screen acts nicely as an easy to hit back button offering context about where you'll go back to. The spatial organization and animation showing the menu adds even more context, making this way of implementing a 'global' menu a pretty clever design all in all.

My only gripe with it that it might make it too easy to bring the complexity of big menus of the desktop to mobile device. As programmers we're (hopefully) all aware about the power and dangers of using globals.
For a laugh, I've made a userscript[1] that highlights (lowlights really) HN headlines that conform to this law.

The result looks like this:
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Improvements welcome, especially if instructive. :)

[1] https://gist.github.com/2908570/

[Chrome: drag 'raw' link to omnibox to install]

[Based on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3934937]
Knowing that the talent are equivalent, why would you pay $60/hour when you can pay $15/hour?
Again, will PJ please explain why her anonymity is necessary today? It's been too long with this charade, we need to know the benefactors.
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You deployed jars for web applications?

War files are not JavaEE, you might be thinking of EAR files.

A war file is just a jar file with a different name and manifest, and expects a few things, WEB-INF directory with a web.xml and that is about it.

More info can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAR_file_format_(Sun)
That test you linked to which claims that messagepack is 4x faster seems to rely on the serialized text staying in-process. The vrefbuffer is only zero-copy as long as you don't need to send it to any API which reads strings or char buffers (e.g. any RPC or network-oriented mechanism). Am I reading it right?
> This is where you're dishonest: You say you're looking for hard connections, yet any evidence is subject to a value judgement on your part. Tails I lose.

I am looking for correlation, as in the sense correlation is defined, or causation. I don't think correlation or causation is open to value judgement.
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I understand this very well. Here's one scenario: Busy office. Hundreds of computers. Open environment (no doors, just a bunch of desks/tables). Everyone using Chrome.

The current version of Chrome would allow someone to, within a few clicks, grab a pile of passwords.

Here's another scenario: Your mother takes her laptop to be repaired/updated. She uses Chrome. The entire repair shop has easy, unencumbered access to all of her passwords and logins.

Similar scenario: Computer goes to IT guy where you work for repairs/updates. He now has any and all of your passwords and logins with no effort.

My point is that for all this talk about security it seems really dumb for a prominent player (any prominent player) to not take extra steps to ensure that our valuable data is secure within reason. With LinkedIn the problem is, at the very least, the lack of anything beyond SHA-1 to protect passwords. Bad idea. In the browser case, it seems to me that, unless the intent is to provide a browser used only by those like us who understand and are very aware of security issues, it might just be a good idea to put in a few things that will make it harder for curious eyes or the 16 year old at the repair shop to grab all of your login data.

I don't propose nor do I expect perfection or absolute security, but what Chrome does today is, in my opinion, at the very least irresponsible. The uninformed user has NO IDEA WHATSOEVER that a huge security hole exists in their browser. Maybe we need to stop thinking in our terms and focus on mom, dad, uncle or grandma. When you first install Chrome you should, at the very least, see a screen telling you about security and the options you might have. I think that a master passwords would most-definitely serve a purpose in the case of "innocent" peeking. Yes, with pro's all bets are off. It's only a matter of time until someone tracks identity theft to the lack of browser security and they sue the fuck out of the browser publisher.
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>freelancer in a country with lower cost of living

Actually, there are countries with a similar or even a more high cost of living compared to USA, but people are used to low salaries. This is especially true for [Eastern] Europe.
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Hopefully somebody will eventually help to curate all of these great teaching aids / resources and help educators discover and use them too...
This whole divide-by-zero rhetoric is a little silly. A quick google search yielded the following explanation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangbashi_New_Area

Ordos City itself apparently has close to 2 million people, but there's a fully developed urban housing district designed for 300,000 which has only reached 10% occupancy since 2010.
The countries that perform well on international standardized tests generally spend much less money per student, but a teaching job is much more prestigious than it is in the U.S.

I personally think that explanation fits both the "cost is orthogonal to education quality" argument of the parent, and your point that elite private schools have significantly better education quality, though I do not know offhand of studies about this.
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Alex is not exactly a unique story. That #humblebrag isn't really that "humble".

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0822/best-colleges-11-stan...
Interestingly, my Firefox (13.0 on Ubuntu 11.04) consistently freezes for any WebGL example. The CPU load will just go full whack and nothing is every displayed. Eventually, I have to kill the process and restart the browser. Does anyone experience the same effect?
If you can afford to wait for intel's board, which won't begin shipping for months, one would assume waiting for the RPi to become more widely available wouldn't be a major inconvenience.
It's pretty weird that this piece goes over 12 frameworks and barely describes its declared winner, or the reasons why it's declared Ember.js the winner.
Nothing forces taxes to be complicated, its not some sort of inherent property of taxes --

I think it very well might be. At least with how everyone actually utilize taxes. After all, government routinely utilize taxes (or rebates) as incentives to create desired outcomes.

You want more businesses moving into your area? Change the taxes. You want more home-owners? Change the taxes. You want more money for education? Change the taxes.

That's how you arrive at complex tax codes. It goes well beyond income taxes as well. You want a simple income tax? Fine, but I'm going to use sales taxes, road tolls, and a whole host of other mechanisms to get the desired behavior.

So it may not be an inherent property of taxes, but I'm not sure those things can ever really be separated.
I would simply keep the title as is: "Curing the Problem of Software Patents". Editorializing of titles is not encouraged on HN.
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Indeed, Google bought Android in 2005: http://www.webcitation.org/5wk7sIvVb

I can't find any info confirming that they stopped updating Maps for iOS, or when that might have happened. It's clearly been updated since 2005, though.
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How do you remember it ? What do you do if you need to login from another computer ? This doesn't work on my windows computer.
If we store this random password in a local pasword storage, how much different is that from using asymetric keys (rsa,...) ?
I disagree. I think swipe sounds like a hideous kludge.

Look at how people type - there are fully trained touch typists, people using most of the fingers in the right place most of the time, people using two fingers on each hand, ending up with the hunt and peck.

I'd be amazed if Swipe can cope with all of those, and if it can they deserve a patent.
And on top of that, the lead story on Drudge this instant is one about Apple and Google updating their satellites to "military-grade".
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Why would one need to, GHC can already compile Haskell/Core to C? But as you say, it's not a violation of Apple's terms anymore.
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If JSON compatibility is an issue, have you looked at UBJSON? http://ubjson.org/

May be a bit bigger than msgpack but is damn-near human readable even in its binary format and really easy to encode/decode. Also 1:1 compatibility with JSON.

Compatibility and simplicity were the core design tenantes. It may not be the right choice, just throwing it out there incase it helps.

Disclaimer: I am the author of the spec.
Quality of life is entirely subjective. My wife's quality of life depends heavily on how close she is to her family. My quality of life depends heavily on how diverse the population is (socioeconomic/racial/cultural).

Cost of buying a house doesn't matter to me because I'm fine renting if we can't afford to buy (we have 2 children and I value other things more than a house). My wife is the opposite.

This is the reason everybody doesn't want to live in the same place...thank goodness.
Let us wield pasta metaphors together in the fight against poor design process recipes: spaghetti against a wall is the exact analogy I use when asked about 99designs or other spec sites ;)
Indeed. I did this with one program: I wrote some number crunching code in Haskell, and exposed some functions to C via the FFI. Then I wrote the user interface in Cocoa/Objective-C. The primary thing that requires some though is how to pass data between C and Haskell. You usually end up marshaling/unmarshaling some structs:

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/FFICookBook#Working_with_...
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Thanks for the critique. We'll keep your arguments in mind for further updates.
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It's a very known fact that countries like Greece, Spain Portugal and Italy do shit like this.
And Swedes, Germans and others pay for it.
The quality of what you receive depends on the quality of information you provide to any designer or firm. Our suggested process for a bootstrapped startup provides a solution for how to formulate a thought out design idea and get you going in the right direction at no cost.

In reply to your comment about Facebook: Zuckerburg knew minimal about 'design' so he did what so many other startups in the Valley do. Go to the big design firms. This solution works well for startups in the position to hand over the big bucks. Different solutions work depending on startup condition, status, and/or funds available.

This process may work best for startups with limited resources and limited funding. Even if you dont like the initial work you receive from 99 designs or any other design marketplace, two important things can happen:

1. You'll be a better judge for what works and doesn't work for your startup.

2. You're design idea will strengthen from concepts created by these designers at a price you can afford to pay.
Isn't that exactly reader5000's point though? Swype might have answered the right question, but so many patents were filed at the same time, someone was bound to. It might have been a novel idea at that moment, but how much reward does the government need to bestow on something that you could essentially come up with in an afternoon?

If everyone had copied the interface immediately, I would have felt for them making no money on "their" invention, but what progress in the arts and sciences is the patent really protecting? Imagine a world where for 1984-2004 Apple had patented everything down to the "OK" button in a system message. Should someone have a right to retard progress like that? Should someone have to reinvent something slightly different every time they want to enter the market?
> For this to be a valid analysis, you would have to believe that the average person would pick a passphrase like "gastroenteritis jurisprudence algorithm aberration", which is clearly ridiculous.

There are many more short words than long words, thus a person would be very unlucky to pull out that passphrase.

But what if you reduce the space? Instead of using a dictionary with about 175,000 words, why not use the Diceware list, which has only 7776 words? None of them are over 6 letters long (I think.) A few words are numbers; or have special characters.

Because many websites won't allow you to use a diceware passphrase you'd use a good password safe with a long diceware passphrase. You'd then let the safe generate random passwords for you.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-14/u-s-companies-pay-w...

"The tax rate for the largest U.S. companies between 2006 and 2009 was 27.7 percent, compared with a non-U.S. average of 19.5 percent, according to the study released today. Companies based in Japan, Morocco, Italy, Indonesia and Germany faced higher tax rates. Excluding the U.S., companies based in industrialized countries had an average rate of 22.6 percent. "

"A March 31 report by the Congressional Research Service, using different methodology, found that the U.S. had an effective corporate tax rate of 27.1 percent in 2008. Other industrialized countries had an average 27.7 percent effective rate, using a weighted approach that adjusted for the size of the economy, and a 23.3 percent rate with an unweighted approach. "

The rest of the world has been competitively lowering corporate taxes (Sweden, once considered a socialist bastion, has a 26% corporate tax rate for example and is discussing lowering it to 20%).

http://blog.american.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/022212ha...

And what's very important is how much the bottom 97% of US firms pay, as companies like GE dodging billions in taxes massively skews the results for small businesses who can't dodge like that.

To be a small business in the US and get socked with a 40% combined income tax rate is paralyzing.
No. You government has a monopoly on force, and on the ability to regulate. Apple and B&N do not have monopolies.
This guy is dogfooding outsourcing. He is outsourcing Taskarmy.com which is related to outsourcing itself. So on the one hand it is an awesome exercise... On the other, he is saying "nice things" about a concept he needs to "sell".

But as he himself says, certain things are hard to outsource. For Example the particular blog post itself. Outsourcing the webdesign and the code behind the site would have been a lot more easier. So in a strange sense, even a skeptic has to agree with his point... A site like Taskarmy can fail due to bad technology but will not succeed due to its technical prowess. What he needs to figure out is how to connect the buyers and the sellers and make them stick around. All the CRUD that goes into his site will not be the secret sauce. The only possible real secret sauce is probably a method to connect the buyers and sellers using an algorithm that beats the competition heads down. In such a case it makes sense for him to keep the "secret sauce" to himself. Everything else is a commodity until he becomes a huge player. If one is at twitter scale, even status messages become "rocket science" and cannot be outsourced.