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The author agrees on this. It, naturally, is much more valuable for a nation to produce these companies themselves and get sometimes access to multiple revenue streams, and subsidiaries rarely buy companies and enrich the nearby ecosystem through that.
He doesn't think imagining winning the lottery is fun, it actually is fun for him. He's actually entertained and is comfortable spending money for a little imaging and escapism.

What's wrong with that?
Yes, and I realized this when I start to work for a company and found myself have a lack of explaining the project with my manager and not founding new ideas to implement, and explaining this feature and why we shoud add. A programmer shoud be able to communicate with other people and explain their ideas very well, so I should stat reading one book for each thing that will affect the way i think in programming or in life. I also found that presentation skills are very important and to understand the business side. We are not going to be a business or sketches guys but theses things will help us in programming very well and the way we think.
Will we have to wait until until IE11 for the Opus codec? What about WebGL, WebRTC and other HTML5 features? This is why a faster release cycle matters. They are staying too behind on features compared to the other browsers, and developers who want to build serious HTML5 web apps can't just wait around for IE. They will build them for Chrome and Firefox first.
Physical proximity is a great advantage to understand the real local problems. Example: It is very tough for US companies serve Chinese or Russian markets, as the cultures are so different and local problems quite different to problems in US - or Finland. It depends on the category and domain ... but even gaming preferences are quite different in different regions. Very few hit games that work everywhere - the one area where we Finns really rock the world (Angry Birds, Clash of Clans etc.)
I had a statistics professor at college who were addicted to gaming. There were stories about him losing a lot of money, car, job and wife because of his addiction. I thought it were just a joke, you know, statistics professor addicted to lottery? Duh, I wouldn't fall for that. Until one day, to demonstrate that a specific class of combinations were too rare, he challenged a girl in the first row that if she rolled a dice x times she wouldn't get that kind of result. He was so confident that he told us he would pass us all in the test if she did. Well, she did. He did keep his word and passed us. Did I mention he was a phd?

That thought me a huge lesson about argument of authority. And about the quality of college graduates in Brazil.
Looking back, there seems to be a correlation between the times in my life when I've bought lottery tickets, and the times in my life when I've felt hopeless.

If I ever feel trapped by circumstances, depressed, lost, or I don't have optimism for the future, the less logical part of my brain will somehow rationalise the remote chance of winning millions as a perfectly justified excuse for buying a ticket. The author of this piece is right about how lottery tickets buy you a sense of hope, and prompt you to envision your life being better.

So these days I see it as a sign that something in my life needs to change when I take an active interest in this week's Powerball prizes. It's become a kind of signalling mechanism for my subconscious.
I looked at it, I promise I did. Really wanted to avoid writing this if I could.

From what I can see in the docs, RabbitMQ is a client/server relationship. Meaning there is a server. Meaning a single point of failure and a bottleneck. I hate those more than I hate writing new software. Not because I think there is less danger of bugs in this than there is danger that the AMQP server will fall over... it just feels wrong to me.

I'm not saying, by any stretch of the imagination, somebody should use this over RabbitMQ. But if a distributed hash table is more suited to their needs, or if, like me, they're allergic to SPoFs and don't mind if the software is a little less mature if it means avoiding them... Well, now they have a package in Go they can use. If they want to.
>> may be I should add it there too

No. That was a good call on leaving it out. For your layout and font size, the progress bars add no value (in fact it has the opposite effect).

For your layout, I would recommend a colour scheme of four colours, with a certain colour denoting expert and certain colour denoting novice, and others in between. Have legend on the top saying what is what and that will provide the same effect.
That's not >free< You probably spent many hours writing that software.
This boils down to "expected utility != expected value". His expected utility is positive despite the fact that buying lottery tickets does have a negative financial expected value. So yes, buying lottery tickets is perfectly rational for him.
How is it forcing that?

Blogs get paid by the click, not the accuracy. If they can get you to click on the rumor, then click again on the correction, they are ahead 2 clicks that they wouldn't have had if they fact checked in the first place.
Interesting you should say that.

Richard Feynman on education in Brazil: http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education

..and the associated HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2483976
Good point, though Clojure's extensible reader takes care of most of the use for this.

I think it's a trade-off though. Can Haskell dispatch on a value rather than a type?
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Just curious - what is your motivation for using a survey to gather feedback? Personally I feel most value from these discussions comes from the comments, where people have the opportunity to iteratively improve other people's ideas - something that is not possible if everyone submits their ideas through the survey form.
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>> is self picture important in the resume?

Especially if you're the greatest and the one and only.... Mojo.....Jolo ;-)

OK, seriously though, there is no hard and fast rule on this one.

But in all, it is not a bad idea to keep a portrait with one's CV. There are very good reasons why it will be taken well, rather than why it won't be taken well. If you already have it there, just leave it there. Remember to update it periodically though. That is very important.
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As a foreign national with US-source income, you can obtain a tax identification number (equivalent to a SSN) by filing a W-9 form with the IRS.
No motivation as such. I had sent it to a few friends (unfortunately they are not active on HN) and just cross-posted it to HN. My Bad. And you're right that discussions are much better. Will edit and remove the link (Ed: not possible to remove the link now).
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The expected value isn't flawed, but it's often not an useful guide to what action you should take. Imagine a lottery with an accumulated jackpot of $11 million, and there's one million $10 tickets (this isn't all that rare). Should you take all your savings and buy 1000 tickets? You have a positive expectation value, and 99.9% chance of ending up penniless. Is one that buys the tickets really a much more rational person than one who does it when the jackpot is $8 million? One can make just positive expectation bets and be certain to lose it all. The Kelly Criterion is a nice little formula for calculating the optimal bet size from the risk and the expectation.
Insurance has an interesting comparison to lottery tickets. In a lottery ticket, the expected return is usually about 50%. Which is exactly the same as insurance (the premium is about double the expected payout).

Yet people regard insurance as prudent, and lottery tickets as foolish. Me included (as long as its a risk you cant easily cover).

But our explanation, that "Lottery tickets are foolish because they have a negative expected return" isn't exactly credible if we think insurance is a good deal.

Any thoughts?
Sometimes it seems that we miss the forest for the trees.
0mq doesn't have a client/server relationship. http://www.zeromq.org/
Ask HN: How do I refine my product pitch
Need help in refining the pitch for an idea that I'm developing. Would love to know what you are able to understand from this short description.

"Banjarey is a mobile app that allows travelers to capture & share their group travel experiences collaboratively, as well as get quick & specific information about places & things to do while travelling. It integrates the 2 things people use their mobile for while traveling, at a single place. A good way to understand this would be to mash Tripadvisor (with a better way for travelers to get information than “reviews & ratings”) with Path (for group experiences) "
How are you planning to implement pub-sub on top of it?
> Given that I do not need to implement it, it is clearly not a design pattern.

We have a definitional disagreement: this is a bad definition. Here's what I think, straight off page 3 of GoF:

> A design pattern names, abstracts and identifies the key aspects of a common design structure that make it useful for creating a reusable [object-oriented] design.

Composite is a great counter example to your definition of a design pattern, because it is an example of an important pattern (IMO the most important in GoF) in which no special implementation is required.

PS. Calm down and stop accusing people on the internet of bad faith
The real rational reason for buying lottery Tickets is unfortunately not mentioned.. You may not think of expected return but of a Chance to move up a bracket reg "Standard of Life" which would not be possible by other means.
You wont move down a bracket by buying lottery Tickets (prob not even on a long term) - which makes it perfectly rational to play the lottery for some Kind of people (in the "poorer bracket") in my opinion.
Why don't we strive to have "dent in the universe" mean "make the world a little better" rather than whatever the heck we want it to mean?

Sure, be excited about tech, but be more excited about the possibilities it opens for the people using it.
Unless you can sustain a $100,000-$300,000 loss before you have have paid into the insurance pool more than that amount, it makes sense. If you had gobs of money, then it wouldn't make sense for you to have insurance. (preconditioned on insurance being a profitable business, etc.)
What does it have?
I believe I looked at that as well. It was six months ago, so forgive me if my memory is a bit off.

Looking at the intro, it looks like I have to hardcode the IPs and ports of all of the machines I want to publish or subscribe to. Is that correct? If so, that's a little fragile for my tastes. I like "upgrading servers" by standing up new servers, testing they work, and then changing the floating IP associated with the DNS to point to them instead.

And I can hear you say "Aha! Floating IP! Just use that!" but for most cloud providers (I believe), that is billed as external bandwidth, which is not free like internal requests are. Finally, if I want to stand up more servers to scale horizontally, I'd still have to modify my code and redeploy it to all my servers. I think. Unless I'm missing something about how 0mq works. Which I totally could be.

On the whole, learning what I needed to learn to make Pastry happen made me a better programmer, too. So if for no other reason than that, I'm glad I did it.
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Unfortunately an addiction can rarely be battled by simple rationality. So even if he can calculate his chances of winning perfectly well, and theoretically understand that it is a poor use of his money, he may still have to give in to his addiction.
That's a very interesting view point/experience. For me, it's been the opposite. If I'm really happy, feel a bit like I'm on top of my fiances for this fortnight, I'll "splash out" and buy a Powerball ticket.

If I'm down, the idea of giving away money on such a silly endeavour seems stupid.

Anyway, here's hoping you don't buy too many powerball tickets in the immediate future!
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Landing pages can serve a wide variety of reasons and intents but the main one is to get the user to take specific action; sign up for an account, a mailing list, download software.
I think you can classify lottery tickets as investment, wheras insurance is, well, insurance. I don't play the lottery because it's extremely unlikely to make me positive returns. I pay for health insurance because I want to cover the unlikely possibility that I have a serious health problem.

There's also the amortization to consider. Over a lifetime I may lose 50% of what I put in to insurance -- but I don't have 50% of what I'd put into it over my lifetime available to me now if I have a large medical bill to pay.
I agree with your parent comment based on other information (details below), but I think his argument is wrong, or at least unsubstantiated. I was curious where his information was coming from, so I searched for some of his vocabulary. I googled for these things:

* backscatter cancer +"geometry of the delivery"

* backscatter cancer +"geometry of delivery"

* backscatter cancer +geometry

I didn't find that's how anyone talked about the risks, and so on that basis alone, I found your argument more compelling. However, I did find information that furthers the anti-backscatter argument in the same way you argue the pro, that is quantitative studies:

"research studies have concluded that a small number of cancer cases would result from scanning hundreds of millions of passengers a year."

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=europe-bans....

I looked further to try and find studies that the SA article vaguely mentioned, and I found this one by Columbia University: http://www.columbia.edu/~djb3/papers/radiol7.pdf

This paper doesn't talk about the geometry of exposure, but it does say that while the machines are basically safe, it also uses statistics to show that:

* "there will be some cancers induced by the associated radiation exposure" (billions of scans means definitely some cancer)

* "risks will be somewhat higher for children, for radiosensitive individuals, and, particularly, for aircrew and frequent fliers."

* these machines may cause cancers cause by malfunctions

So, if you believe the machines will kill a few hundred people or the terrorists will kill a few hundred people, shouldn't we just save our money, and our liberty? I don't think it's just an inconvenience - I think it's a bunch of needless cancers.
You founded two startups, you are an analyst for a VC fund, yet you are still "looking for employment after graduation"? Only on HN...
By analogy - if a person thinks "spending $5 has no impact on my life, but winning $10M will", is that really any different from our justification of insurance? (I agree with you - thats the same way I view insurance. Yet I view lottery tickets as silly, but I can't clearly articulate why).
I'll be using the Scribe algorithm, as defined by the authors of the Pastry algorithm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastry_(DHT)#SCRIBE

The basic gist of it is similar to a phone tree. You route a message subscribing to a topic, basing the message ID on the topic name. As the message routes through the network, each Node stores the information about who is subscribed. When an event happens, that information is passed back through to the subscribed nodes.

I may have to tweak it a little, as I did Pastry, but I'm pretty sure the same basic concept will work for my needs.
Peer-to-peer connections analogous to TCP. In the case of pub/sub all subscribers connect to the publisher. http://zguide2.zeromq.org/page:all
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And why would that be? Are raw materials getting cheaper?

If you're banking on battery technology improving, don't. Battery tech marches very slowly.
If I was a phisher, or similar ilk, I'd be doing this already.
What is HMAC Authentication why is it useful?
Does it really respond instantly to everything, or does it just start a 3 second animation after you press on something? Big difference. Because the animation is used to hide how slow it is in the background to process the stuff.
I guess I was wrong about hard-coding the IPs. Maybe?

It doesn't have many-to-many baked in, though. That I can see, at least.

It looks like I may have been able to make this work, but the setup would be a little complex.

... because a distributed hash table is not complex at all. -_-
No more so than with TCP sockets you have to "hard code" the IP connected to.

0mq is low level, it's not going to do routing like Pastry, but you can get away with having one fixed location for a "lookup server" that keeps track of everything else's location (something like the Doozer project, also in Go https://github.com/ha/doozerd ).

Also, 0mq only needs to know the IP of the publisher, for pub-sub.
The difference is that insurance is not about the expected return at all - it's about managing risk. The "payout" from insurance is tied to events that can happen whether or not you have insurance, and which would ruin you financially without it.

The expected payout from insurance is only relevant when the above does not hold, i.e. you have enough liquid funds to cover the loss against which you're insured. A good example are non-health-related travel insurances (e.g. against cancellation expenses or baggage loss). Your argument is correct in these cases - these insurances are a net loss and cover a risk that you could simply bear. So you should not buy them.
Tell HN: Please critique my blog 
http://www.nwroyaldev.com

I know i am a noob developer, but I accept any constructive criticism.
Like a few others, I too found it an average CV (It is something very similar to what I myself have, and I consider myself an average (-; ). To be honest, there are a few others in the comments that I gravitated towards more (It's a matter of personal preference of course). Sure, the Progress bar looks new, but others too have it on them -- see v33ra's response below.

You took a chance and placed it on HN for the self-promotion/ exposure/publicity and you were (luckily) rewarded. As you can see from the comments below, there are a lot of such efforts out there and all of them very commendable as well. They just didn't feel promotional enough like you, to place it here in the first place (and all of them had also placed it on GitHub before you, so open sourcing is not an USP either).

But I felt there there was neither anything "stand-out" about the CV, nor was there anything "interactive". It is a web resume like everyone else's and that's it.

For inspiration, here's what I would consider an impressive (as in look-and-feel) web CV and something close to an "interactive" web CV: http://www.chrisharrison.net/

My two bits.
Lots of illegal drugs are actually fun, too. While they probably shouldn't be illegal, they can easily (much more easily than other things) lead to self-destructive life styles with the user laughing all the way. That's what's wrong with them. Similarly for becoming addicted to gambling, which at least doesn't create a chemical dependency.
Calm those nerves :-) Now, you have the legions of HN to help. One of the joys of open source is that through building software, you also get to build communities. I have a feeling you'll be getting a fair bit of help on this project. It's generic enough to help in any number of applications and i'm sure many HN readers are currently trying to work out if they can apply this to any of their current projects. Best of luck, and thanks for adding another great instrument to Go's repertoire!
Because you don't always want someone to know you're talking about them - maybe you're 133t next-gen anonymous hax0rs. Or maybe your forum is "private" and "exclusive" and you have the audacity to believe anyone at all cares.

Of course, anyone who actually cares about infosec stuff would know better than to hand over this data to anonym.to.
Why didn't you want to use redis?

If you're going to have any component that's a single point of failure, redis is a pretty good bet for it.
What I find most appealing about this post is his enthusiasm. It's rubbed off on me. I've been unproductive for the past 2 hours watching anime but suddenly I'm excited again.
I'm confused about the date format. I'm British, and was expecting an American format (even though you confusingly call this a CV instead of a resume) but it looks like it's in British format. Perhaps you could remove the ambiguity by using "January 2012"?
To contrast, I absolutely love this video where Neil deGrasse Tyson provides an explanation as to why he doesn't feel small in the Universe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D05ej8u-gU
Very cool. Where were you six months ago? ;)

I was familiar with doozer, but doozer wasn't(/isn't) being actively maintained and it doesn't compile against the latest version of Go, so I'd have to bring it up to speed before I could use it anyways. Not saying it would be harder, but between that and writing the 0mq library (pretty sure one does not exist in Go yet), I'd estimate the work would be more or less equivalent and yield just about the same stability. Seat of the pants guess, but it makes me feel better, at least.
PNaCl is quite well documented. It involves LLVM bitcode
and a verifier to prove it doesn't do anything naughty.

Requiring HW virtualization would defeat the purpouse of portability. It wouldn't fly on desktop or Android because of the HW and OS requirements.
That it is. I love redis.

I just really didn't want to have a single point of failure. Really badly. Pastry has no single point of failure.

[edit] Realised this thread isn't actually all about me. Oops! Sorry for answering a question not directed at me.
You also have to consider loss aversion which is a well known psychological phenomenon[0]. In a sentence, people fee when tend to strongly prefer avoiding losses to acquiring gains.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
That's rational. Good luck getting any founder to think that way.
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SSE (EventSource) broadcasting server based on top of cyclone web server. With Last-Event-Id support, long-polling fallbacks support, written as Twisted plugin - so very simple to use in production due to twistd.
Although Google Ireland pays feck all taxes and has a tiny 'profit', they do employ thousands of highly paid (& highly taxed) employees localy.
Now that you mention it, I realize how creepy that must seem. I also realize that I have a huge barrier or boundary to feeling emotion about anything I see on an advertisement. It's like the most cynical piece of me dismisses all emotions with prejudice.
It does mention why he buys tickets: not for the expected return, but for the pleasure of entertainment.
Why couldn't competitors install more?
This comment is God like - do you have a blog or the like where you keep details of your thoughts?

I think I just got a blast of the future of server architecture, future latency and the end of HDDs reading this - many thanks :D
Should be aware of possible confusion with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastry_(DHT)
The only difference between a hoax and a mockup/prototype is intent. I'd say they were giving someone the benefit of the doubt and playing it safe.

Hoax: welp, we erred on the side of caution.

Prototype: You saw it here first!
Confusion is intentional. This is just an implementation of that algorithm, with a few tweaks (that are explained, along with their reasoning, in the README). I believe I even link to that Wikipedia page in the blog post and the README.