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So, you mean Clojure? :-)

I guess English is not your native language. http://grammar.about.com/od/words/a/latergloss.htm: Use later when referring to time. Use latter when referring to the second of two persons or things mentioned previously.

So, grammatically, 'the later' would refer to the language that was created later, and that's Clojure.
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Logo link issue aside, I'd love to host my company blog on Tumblr but have heard bad things about the SEO factor of Tumblr sites, even if you use your own blog.company.com subdomain. I have no empirical evidence of this, but anecdotally it appears to be true, so I'v been deterred.
This is great - I can't wait to dig in and think about it in the context of software development.
Once you allow a wholesale remote working in a big company, you really should NOT reverse it.

The management may see it like a cost saving measure like cutting salary by 5-10% or capping max vacation days one can take. However there are so many OTHER IMPORTANT factors in an employee's life, such as mortgage, kids, family, etc etc that the employees have to deal with. And these are things people on regular salary cannot change on a whim. For people with millions of bucks in bank, sure such changes are easy to make. But for most, it's very hard to deal with.
Right, Nature can publish a list of URLS which in their opinion is worth reading, and they can charge $50k to read that list if they like. Keep the papers in the open, is all.
>The future for the USA is dimmer than the past, unfortunately, no matter which major party wins the next several elections.

Hardly. I fail to see how the domestic oil boom is a liability, technologically superior energy sources will win in the long run more quickly with a stable economy in the west. Which political party wins is practically irrelevant in the long term as today's liberal morphs into tomorrow's conservative in an unstoppable march of progress.
I agree to the general concept. I'm just curious about how you would handle it. Would you use AWS as backup to Azure and switch DNS when this happens?

Anyone else is welcome to pitch in here, I'm new to native cloud applications and find myself just waiting in this case.
As the father of a three-month old girl, you've captured my feelings on the subject beautifully.
Does that make it reusable, either in the reactor or for other uses?
Show HN: Bad - a javascript "microframework" in 10 LOC
Looks like the YCombinator homepage markup! ==rimshot==
That is true. I don't remember why I didn't use CMUCL. We were mostly a Dec VAX shop; perhaps VAX was not supported?
Glad to see you around these parts Smarx :) You maybe not remember me but I came to Redmond for an Azure bootcamp you hosted for a few companies a few years ago. (I'm sure you did lots of those) I was with IActionable. We've had a few 'encounters' on the MSDN forums too. Azure sure has changed since those days... Definitely for the better!

I see you've been busy since you left MS. Somehow I missed all the news about Site44!
Ah, the things people will believe in a bubble.

The title is misleading. This has nothing to do with avoiding or overcoming technical obsolescence.
Thank you, this has driven me crazy for years.

Every blog page should have a way back to the startup's main site. This could be as simple as a bar at the top of each blog page that links "back to startup.com" appropriately if linking the logo doesn't work for some reason.

The same is true for support sites. If you use a 3rd party service for support or have a separate support subdomain, please please please give me a way back to your primary site.
Almost certainly. It is a rare employee employment letter that will have such a thing immutably set in stone.

The most likely scenario though is a layoff package. Even at a few weeks pay, it's still less than the legal costs.
I don't think Latin America makes a difference. In Britain, our immigration laws lack true stringency, yet we suffer from those same third-world immigrant issues to its fullest effect even though we're only surrounded by first-world countries.
Remote is how the future of work looks.

Pulling remote workers in is a sign you cannot measure the value of the output of remote workers - and it is not going to get any easier when they are filling up your corridors
I wonder if it will have flood doors to contain the rising sea waters :-)

This is a pretty cool concept drawing. At one time there was a suggestion for Google to run a hovercraft or hydrofoil type ferry from the GooglePlex to San Francisco. This will make that easier!

That said I was expecting something to happen, I mean Apple has a spaceship, these guys needed to pupate out of the dead husk of SGI and spread their wings!
Show HN: Shadow-An internal stats engine used to track metadata & user relations
The problem with Bob in this example is that he's not a good worker, and doesn't keep his commitments, not that he's working remotely.
Ah ok. Yeah, I'm unable to deploy anything new obviously since that goes to the Blob storage. That's actually how I first saw this issue. Apparently things that were already running are doing ok, but you can't publish anything new.
I wasn't able to read through the entire story, but I think Karl Marx was onto something. What I suspect will happen is we will transition into a post-scarcity economy. The only question for me is how long it will take, and how painful the transition will be.

I also suspect (although with somewhat less confidence), that the transistion will occur by a single individual having gradually diminishing works hours, and a gradual increase in government 'welfare'.
Change US Anthem to Team America's Theme Song
Combined with "In the long run, we are all dead", the implications are stark.
Wow! When can I start using it? Oh, not four years ago? Then I think I'll stick with GitHub.
Show HN: my weekend project, an email based blogging platform
I was messing around with some email APIs. Its just a proof of concept.

Roadmap:
- Linking to an RSS feed
- Mobile friendly blogs
- Photo posts via attachments
This article is as much a statement about Yahoo as much as it is about remote vs. on-site work. Personally, I question Yahoo's long-term relevance anyway. As each year goes by, it seems they lag further and further behind, and are not part of the real momentum anymore. I'm curious if others agree. The most news I have heard about Yahoo in the last year or so was really all about the celebrity status of Mayer, being pregnant on the job, etc. Does anyone here foresee something relevant coming from that shop?

(edited to fix typo)
My wife and I ran out of sriracha sauce a few months ago; panic ensued :-)

Seriously we use it all the time (and several recipes on my cookingspace.com site use it). Highly recommended!
It's cool. We see more and more NYC related stories on HN these days!
Both wireless and fiber optics act by transmitting information through electromagnetic waves. The speed of light isn't the interesting constraint here, because they're both bound by it. Fiber-optics will have slightly higher latency for the transmission component, because the speed of light is slower in a fiber than through the atmosphere.

The real constraint comes in bits per second. With wireless, the ability to improve that comes about by increasing the frequency spectrum in use. You can overlay a signal at, say 1GHz with one at, say, 1.5GHz, and the two signals won't interfere with each other. So the eventual capacity ceiling with wireless transmission is the size of suitable frequency spectrum that is budgeted to it. There is a physical ceiling (can't use 1Khz, for example, or 1PHz) to the amount of spectrum, and therefore, the total wireless bandwidth has a ceiling.

With fiber optics, to double bandwidth, you can simply drop a second cable next to the first. So the bandwidth is capped by the number of cables you can lay. This has a much higher ceiling than for wireless.
Thank you, I think this is one of those times you need to see the episode to understand.

I'll live :-)
Submitted earlier with canonical URL:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5267518
20 years? Try going back 400. 99.1% of the US population are descended from immigrants. Ignoring genetic differences and only going with cultural, you are really talking about how quickly immigrant groups homogenize to a standard culture of the country (or region when talking about America). The answer is it varies. A lot. Take any major Scandinavian city. How big and old is the china town? Japan town? Little Italy? German town? Irish population? Puerto Rician population? All the many flavors of Hispanic populations? Asian populations? Slavic populations? African populations? Many American cities have long standing examples of most of these. China town in San Francisco, for example, started shortly after the gold rush. There are many Chinese there who are multi-generational Americans but have not homogenized to the standard culture (if such a thing exists in SF). I have known families in the central coast just south of the silicon valley who can trace their Spanish descendents to pre-gold rush and even have some Ohlone descendents in their past, the people who originally inhabited this part of California. They are very Hispanic culturally.

I read an article a while ago about problems teaching immigrant kids English in the Alum Rock school district. This is just a single school district out of many in San Jose. If you are unfamiliar with San Jose, think south Silicon Valley. They typically have to deal with students who speak 40 different languages. Now that is diversity. Anything similar in Scandinavia?

As I have never been to the Nordic countries, I think it's possible but highly unlikely they are anywhere close to the diversity of the US. I would need to see a lot more than 20 years of immigration statistics to believe it though...
This.

Some people aren't able to tell this apparently but it absolutely bothers the heck out of me. Probably the reason why I'm not a fan of 48fps either.

I still think it would be useful to have a variable rate player. 24fps for normal scenes and 48fps for action.
No matter the topic, some Americans will be worried about it. Still, the list might include:

Many western countries have a state television service, funded by a TV fee or a special billing system. The goal is to have a news source which is (nominally) independent of the government and which is not beholden to advertisers. The US was once worried about this, but the FCC eliminated the Fairness Doctrine in 1987.

Most of the citizens of the other western countries are agog at the US for insisting on privatized medical care. (As lostlogin also pointed out.)

My experience in visiting Europe is that nationality and ethnicity are much more closely tied. A second generation Arab in France or Turk in Germany may still be considered a foreigner. Apparently we are more oblivious to the need to regard the grandchildren of immigrants as still untrustworthy. (At the very least, xenophobia in Europe feels different than in the US.)

GMO restrictions are much, much higher in Europe than the US. Apparently Europeans believe in this concept of "freedom of choice to the farmers and consumers", and insist that GMO foods be labeled as such, while the US does not require that labeling.

Privacy laws are higher in Europe, in part because of strong memories of how "World War II-era fascist governments and post-War Communist regimes" used that information.

Someone from Bhutan might say that the US and most other countries are too interested in their country's Gross Domestic Product and not in Gross Domestic Happiness.
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While this solves the problem of getting "stuck" in the blog, you can do a lot more than just a link back to your homepage

Tumblr customization isn't that difficult -- and I think people with a basic understanding of HTML/CSS should be able to figure out how to do something like this.

A large number of sites (including ours) have a top nav.

We changed the whole top nav on our tumblr blog to look just like the rest of the site. The user can also access any part of our site this way.

Take a look:

http://darwinapps.com/
http://blog.darwinapps.com/
Isn't competition great? Contrary to popular opinion, Github isn't the only game in town.

Assembla: Git, Mercurial, Perforce, Subversion

SourceForge: Git, Mercurial, Subversion

Google Code: Git, Mercurial, Subversion

Bitbucket: Git, Mercurial

Github: Git
One Muni ticket vending machine costs $150k (2007)
They still have tons of users / page views: http://advertising.yahoo.com/article/my-yahoo.html
Merchants already have to pay back the transaction, plus a charge, plus we're out the merchandise. We already have plenty of incentive to spot fraudulent transactions.

What is needed is a better system.
It's not about whether it's hard or not, it's about supply and demand for curation. Effective curation depends on the readers' faith in the organization to back quality articles, and there is a limited supply of such organizations.

E.g. if I type "economics of deflation" into Google, I get: wikipedia, a youtube video, "tutor2u.net", and investopedia among other things. Businessweek and the Economist show up on the bottom half of the first page. The first several pages of results are full of Austrian and Mises gibberish--lot's of "counter conventional wisdom" sites. This is why I don't go to Google to research economics. I don't trust it to pick quality research.

So where do I turn? "tutor2u.net?" No. I have no idea whether they can be trusted or not. So I use signaling and proxies. I look for things that have "Harvard" or "London School of Economics" domains. The folks at Harvard and LSE long ago figured out that basic dynamic, and that's why they use their names to publish journals. Is it a hard job other people couldn't do? No. But the journals exist because we trust Harvard to do the job, and we don't trust "tutor2u.net".

My wife actually hates the NIH open access policy for this reason. She argues a lot on the internet about pediatrics/child birth. She gets crazies who peddle crackpot theories by citing to sketchy papers that happen to be hosted on an NIH domain. They assume that by hosting those papers, NIH vouches for the content in those papers, but of course that's not the case.
What kind of bad things? I would like to know more about it.
The biggest issue I see is that information has become cheap and hence just less valuable. How much more would I get out of reading Shakespeare if I didn't have hundred's of blogs analyzing everything he's written? Before, I might join a discussion class or really read the stories and take the time to find meaning in them. The fact that its right there lends itself to just almost not caring.
The meeting in the fictional example isn't necessarily scheduled, so there is no way for him to be aware of it.

Also, in the example, it may be that the employees griping about Bob are not even going to try to notify him.

I agree with you that this requires an organized manager. Unfortunately, a ton of managers lack this kind of organization.
Google Ports Quickoffice To Chrome Using Native Client
> I was worried that they would suddenly require me to work from their HQ

Out of curiosity, were you given any indication this would happen? Or were you drawing from Google's similar policy?
Remote work can work well, but it unfortunately puts more pressure on management. Basically, it requires a disciplined, thorough, and consistent style of management. (Notice that these are all good things, no matter where your team is.) Many organizations, unwilling or unable to achieve this, resort to a more informal style that includes dropping by, looking over shoulders, and generally using visual confirmation that employees are doing what you think they should be.

It's a shame, because there's an increasing amount of research that shows that people are happier, more productive, and even healthier when they can work from home.

Successful incorporation of remote work boils down to a few things that sound simple but are difficult in practice:
1. Evaluate performance and progress as much as possible by results that are objective and measurable in some way (this goes for company goals as well, not just personal).
2. Communicate the same way with everyone, whether they are remote or local. If people in the office chat in person, but only email with their remote colleagues, they will definitely end up being marginalized.
3. Avoid any discussion that could, indirectly or directly, stigmatize people for being remote.

If you have full organizational support for the above, remote work can be very productive.
Isn't DDG inherently fucked here though because of their whole privacy deal? The massive advantage the Internet creates is extremely targeted tracking and advertising methods, which DDG is explicitly against.

It's like they're against the most proven business model for search engines yet expect to survive somehow.
Design critiques are loaded with BS, and that's OK
I could not agree more. There has been multiple times when I get burnt out from working but the "why" kept me going. An idea can pivot and change but the motivation and inspiration needs to remain intact, especially for the founder himself.

Great article, thank you go sharing :)
BT offered this (nationwide fire lookout) to the thatcher government 20+ years ago in return for 20 years to payback. Refused of ideological grounds unfortunately.

But that would not had let the fast boys in the city make a killing.

I suspect that France Telecom will contrary to EU regulations will not allow this local loop to be unbundled - France Telecom still acts as a defacto PTT and national champion
I live in Minneapolis, which has a ridiculous large number of Vietnamese restaurants. Pretty much every one of them has Huy Fong sriracha on the table.

Same here in Austin, though I do find I have to explain what it is on the rare occasion I meet someone that hasn't had Vietnamese food.

I'll admit to enjoying Vietnamese food much more if I have sriracha; it's not the same eating experience with out it.
The Cyanide & Happiness Show at Kickstarter
What's your favorite restaurant?
If SourceForge is friendly to anyone, it isn't end users.

There is a lot they could do.
Ranger 1.6.0 was released
I really love 'siege'. I wonder if you can get it show you response-time percentiles (or whatever they're called). I mean this (from `ab`):

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 161
66% 174
75% 182
I suppose the problem here that management realizes that the "8 hours" of work are being done by most employees in 6. They then add an extra 2 hours of work to make the new "8 hours".

Thus incentivising the workers to come up with gradually more and more dangerous ways to save time if they want to go home early. And the workers who stick to H&S guidelines have to stay for 10+ hours.
Nope. No wage, no tips. In my case it lasted two nights only, and was paid the third night (and making the big bucks on weekend nights within a couple of months), but I'd heard of it being as long as a week at other places.

The worst part was, you wouldn't even know how long the trial period was -- they'd just ask you, last minute, if you could come in again for another trial. If it's a place you wanted to work at eventually, you'd say yes.
Oh! So that is why? I always wondered why that happened with Gmail. It just didn't make any sense to me...
Kansas City is on fire.
Why is this site design giving me such intense deja vu? I swear I've seen a site that looked just like this before. Maybe it's just that all sites look kind of like this these days.
> did a petition actually work

No. Notice that this petition met its goal a year ago, and they never issued a response until now. It's more likely they were designing a plan and waited until they were done to respond to the petition.
To be honest, a link to Google Code is not much different from a SourceForge link by now.
I'm surprised they didn't mention the best tribute to sriracha of all: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/sriracha
I was involved with obtaining a previous version of the same certificate when I was at Windows Azure. There were several safeguards in place to stop exactly this scenario from happening. I'm wondering how they broke down.
It's the trend for even further individualization in society. We are already as a society less communal and having another device that is even more always on, gives us even less reason to interact with our fellow human beings.
Microsoft Says It Got Hacked Like Apple and Facebook
I've never, ever thought "I have too much unused data quota on my smartphone plan, I wish I could trade it in for voice minutes". So I'm not sure I see the value proposition here.
I once did this for a client that needed spec sheets with unit-specific test data from a database. LaTeX is great because it is easy to generate programmatically. Making nice PDFs is easy.

Exporting to HTML via htlatex is possible, but may require a lot of fine-tuning. Depending on the content, it may be easier to generate the LaTeX/PDF and HTML separately, or to generate only parts of the HTML using htlatex.

LaTeX special symbols are much easier to use than UTF8. It is easier to type -- and be sure that you have properly entered -- en-dashes, non-breaking spaces, fractions, degree symbols, directional quotation marks, and other non-keyboard characters.
Neat. Here's the Daring Fireball email regex: http://www.debuggex.com/?re=%5Cb%28%28%3F%3A%5Ba-z%5D%5B%5Cw...

Sadly it doesn't seem to understand (?i).
This is the best approach right here.
Steve Russell on Adventures with John McCarthy (2012)
I'm pretty sure it was native. I think they had hotspots for IPv4 and IPv6.

This was 6-12 months ago by the way. I imagine they might have tightened security since, with the party congress and all that.
Pediatricians in Russia recommend taking babies outside for at least thirty minutes every day too, partly because the freezing temperature kills germs.
Maybe not, as Shamus Young related: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=13695
I would like to see otherwise, but SourceForge looks like it could be the MySpace of code repositories.

I used SourceForge Google Code for several projects and it just seemed like everybody abandoned ship for GitHub.
I don't think it's fair to blame the user for that. This is a standard-looking login form that users will have seen hundreds or thousands of times before. You don't reinterpret the words on a login form every time you see a new one; you type in the stuff to log you in without really thinking about it.

Regardless of Spotify's intentions here, they're benefitting from users' trust in normal login processes to get Facebook account access. Lots of designs exploit users' automatic behaviors like that; see Dark Patterns [1].

[1]: http://darkpatterns.org/
Honestly, I think you're mad if you use Tumblr for your company blog. I had it for my personal site, and it was extremely unreliable. At one point I had a popular post on Hacker News that had numerous "well, it won't load" posts attached to it.

For a personal blog that's not really so bad, but for my company? No thanks.
both the Republican and Democratic parties support the "protectionist" policies

...and I stopped reading. In fact, both parties are deadly committed to mass, even endless, immigration. It's the people who oppose it.
The question never made any sense. Lots of manhole covers are rectangular. As long as the lip of the manhole is round and small enough, it still won't fall through.
Tumblr goes down so frequently for me that I don't really understand how companies can justify using it. It'll go down when you need the page to be up the most (ex: when your one hundredth blog article finally goes viral or makes it to the HN toppage)