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> This is only true if you ignore response latency as a comparative metric entirely.

Response latency makes scripting language unacceptable for some types of problems. But in my experience very few latency problems I've come across are down to language choice vs. badly written database queries, lack of caching etc., that'd still be unacceptable regardless of language. Basically, the moment a database is involved, that's where you're most likely to see your low latency going out the window.

Of course there are situations where language choice definitively matters in terms of latency. Despite using mostly Ruby now, there are certainly places where I'd use C. E.g. I'd never try to replace Sphinx search with pure Ruby code, for example.

> I'm really curious what you were doing in Ruby that spent 90% of your runtime in the kernel. Having implemented similar middleware, I found that nearly all my runtime was spent just performing basic decoding/encoding of framed packet data, and as a kernel developer, I'm having a hard time imagining what an in memory queue broker could have been doing to incur that overhead

The moment you find yourself "decoding/encoding framed packet data", you have lost if your goal is a really efficient message queue if said decoding/encoding consists of more than check a length field and possibly verify a magic boundary value.

If the userspace part of your queueing system does more than wait on sockets to be available and read/write large-ish blocks, you'll be slow.

Of course there are plenty of situations where you don't get to choose the protocol, and you're stuck doing things the slow way, and sometimes that may make a language like Ruby impractical.

But there are also plenty of situations where in-memory queues are also not acceptable, and the moment you hit disk, the entire performance profile shifts so dramatically that you suddenly often have much more flexibility.
I don't really know the designer market, but I was not arguing that bootstrap was overall a bad thing, but I get the impression that you don't need a designer to get a basic site off the ground, much like php or rails means you don't need a developer to get off the ground.

I would suggest we are eliminating the basement level of
incompetant design or development, at the cost of not having any basement level clients. This is again probably a good thing.

And yes discussion is going off on a tangent. Stopping now :-)

Edit : thinking it through I would say that the 99designs logo was actually unsatisfactory. It was not technically so (vector graphics, nice clean lines, looks vaguely cloud)

What it was not was anything to do with my business my values my goals or the clients I want to communicate with.

As such it was unsatisfactory - and I guess that's the pain point a good designer needs to beat. Just as I as a custom software developer needs to solve a clients actual problems to be more value than an off shelf product, same for designers.

Just wanted to point out the 99designs et al are not what I think a "designer" does.

ok now really stopping
This service is delightfully Greek. I haven't tried the actual offering, though. I think the front page copy could be a bit clearer, as I'm hazy on what exactly it does.
the first question to ask back would be what you consider a "successful launch on HN"?

with our service thinkery.me we had what we would define as success after launching on HN: we got initial traction, a lot of great feedback and signups. we have been refining the service and growing since then.
This is how astronauts sleep in space
I first listened to this advice in writer's forum. It's interesting to see how many messages can apply to so many fields these days.
Good on you! Your first house is a only a hedge, no point paying more insurance than you need to. There is no advantage to property price rises if you only own one house, therefore, there is no point buying a house bigger than you need, if you plan to live in it for the long term.
One of the absolute curses of the internet is that it has near-completely killed off the ability to speak in metaphor.
Ask HN: Has there ever been a bubble that didn't burst?
If you read up on the lifecycle of a bubble, one key property is that people will claim "this time it's different" because of several reasons, which turn out to be incorrect when the bubble inevitably pops.

Has there ever been bubble-like growth without the bursting at the end? In other words, has it ever been that "this time it's different" turned out to be true?
A well shot, well edited film can be let down by a poor stroy or a poor script. These are variables you have to get right so all the players have to be A players who get on very well together. good luck!
Connecting the dots between beliefs: an example from density and housing policy
They'd still need a collaborative cleaner in between... Such cleaners are easily built in the model you mention. (Out of country, with hands in both clean/dirty channels.)

Not really, the government could just say any out of country transfer needs to be done through a registered service. So if your aunt wants to give you money, has to go through "Bit Western Union" or whatever.

Shame, because then its destroying almost free transfers as well. Essentially nothing is gained, but the government can easily track everything.
> Nobody writes a AAA game in Python. Nobody tries to build a browser in Python. Nobody writes a performant Apache/Nginx class web-server in Python. Nobody writes a database engine in Python. Etc etc.

But most developers do none of those things in the first place, regardless of language.
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Cute story but unless you know something I don't about his case which you're not sharing then it's just that... a cute story.

If that's what happened well it sucks to be him but technically under the Geneva Convention and current laws of war, the US is allowed to hold him until the war ends at which point it must try him before a court (which can be a military tribunal) or trade him for it's own soldiers who are being held as POWs (which doesn't really happen because Al-Qaeda murders most prisoners).

Also small quibble with your story, he's been held for less than 10 years not more than 20. He gets normal food and can talk with fellow inmates and his guards, he is not urinated upon nor does he claim he was tortured, aside from being force fed. He does have access to all sorts of entertainment, so there isn't quite 1:1 parity here.

And for the record: a hunger strike (to death), like suicide is not I repeat not EVER an acceptable form of protest. Suicide is a cop-out, and a principle =/= a life.

a life >>>>>>> a principle.

To take your life in a form of protest is to admit you are wrong.

Also someone just posted a link to his Dossier and this guy is far from innocent: He admitted to fighting for Al-Qaida, he is mentioned in Al-Qaida documentation, regarding UBL.

So there you have it: he wasn't "walking in the forest to check out wildlife".
Thanks for the reply. You're not a crappy writer, don't bring yourself down, you're on the frontpage of HN :-) Even if it's a commercial project I don't mind, as long as I can agree with their "thing" and I always like to get some credit (could even be a quote about working with me on my Linkedin profile). I am currently in two non-paying projects ;-)
The Industrial Revolution and Enlightenment. Growth was negligible over human lifetimes for as long as their were humans, yet in the last 200 – 250 years most people in the Western world and Japan become orders of magnitude richer than our predecessors, and much of the rest of the world is catching up.
>>>We're switching to a world in which the vast majority of the population is useless, economically. There is no reason for them to be alive, no value in it.

Then the algorithm is unfit for human use.
Zen Pencils has several entries that do an outstanding job of capturing the quotes being illustrated. It's a shame they get classified as "derivative" works, because they all have quite an amount of original effort and thought put into them that, in my mind, separate them from the original works. However, there are still some that can be ordered as prints.
I think the problem is I'm using "profit" as an accounting term and you're using it as a synonym for "money".
Are there any benefits to learning Brainfuck? I can imagine it might help with learning pointers and how memory works.
I think the history of Europe has resulted in a lot of Europe knowing how much evil can and has been done under the banner of 'my country is the best in the world', and rightly becoming very skeptical about that kind of attitude.
> I'm not sure what kind of court he would be 'tried' in considering he's not a US citizen.

I wasn't aware that to be tried in court citizenship is a requirement.
... this is the top-voted comment, and Summly's tl;dr system is still treated with scorn and mockery?
To play the devil's advocate, this could be interpreted as bubble-in-progress (what with "Peak $someResource imminent" etc.)
Maybe, although I'm probably too young to be directly aware of that. I just grew up that way.
Cannot be unseen... :(
You're leaving out the part where he restarts military trials again, a few months after your referenced executive order stopped them: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8052999.stm
This probably says something bad about me but almost everything good I have came through an accident followed by seeing it through rather than planning or setting goals!

The blog was just my personal blog. Being a technical person it had a technical edge but wasn't focused on that. I started a blog of sorts in 1999 (something called an "e/n" site which were the rage at the time - the infamous "StileProject" site came out of this era and genre) simply to share stupid photos, jokes, insights, and interact with people I knew online. Then I blogged constantly from then until Twitter took off (which somehow killed my personal blogging entirely :-().

I think I should start personal blogging again though exactly because of the happy accidents. You just don't get them as much through Twitter or Facebook because the content there is so ephemeral and not likely to come up in a Google search in a few years.
Algoritmica develops tailored predictive algorithms for organisations
Not really. I could not make a living of working on logo's for 99 bucks. I enjoy creating brands and than creating a logo that fit's the brand. A logo is not a brand.
I haven't run into a situation where RAM was a limit I cared much about for many years. If you rely on hamstrung VPS's, perhaps, but RAM is cheap. The servers we buy at work rarely have less than 32GB these days, and most can take 384GB or more. A couple can take up to 768GB.

If anything, I work hard to put more stuff in RAM to avoid hitting disk, as even though we have SSD's in all our new servers, disk IO is still inevitably where we hit limits first, followed by CPU. Running out of memory is a rare event, and when it is it is consistently an indication of a bug.
4. Make an infographic about the project. Could be advertisement, which compares it to competitors. Could be a Tutorial. Could be a cheetsheat.

5. Build a real website, if the Github project page is the current website. You should probably contact them first to check for backend technology. Not every developer likes Wordpress.

6. Bug reports about smaller design issues. Graphic designer often have good testing skills (and infrastructure?) for multiple operating systems. You can probably suggest a solution already. Examples: "The website should specify the Frutiger font for OS X, because the sans-serif fallback mixes badly with the fixed-width font." or "The navigation menu is unuseable on smartphones. Add this CSS: ..."

7. Larger projects need to integrate multiple parts (wiki,forum,bugtracker,etc) in their website. Often there is no unified theme for all components.

Personally, I like lifeisstillgood's point 1 best, because you would help multiple projects at once. For example, Sphinx themes could definitely benefit from a graphic designer: http://sphinx-doc.org/theming.html
There will never be a shortage of malcontents. The rebellion of the 60s sprung from the prosperity of the 50s.
FDIC does not have your deposits covered. This infographic exposes the illusion.
Hurts to see the truth, but truth is the FDIC is quite pathetic compared to the gigantic volume of deposits.

Bitcoin looks like a fortress compared to banks.
So, is the government preventing AT&T and such from dumping prices in the areas where Google Fiber is investing in?
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> But, then again, civil liberties are a set of issues that can broadly affect us all

If HN's front page were open to anything and everything, and links were voted for based on their importance in the real world, the actual Hacker News content would be completely buried. The real world is far more important than most of what's on Hacker News, so paradoxically, if we want to maintain the quality and focus of HN, real world articles like this need to be excluded, even if we all agree they are very important.
Just goes to show the kings new clothes can fool the 1%.
Or Apple and the Big Six book publishers -- five of who colluded.
Regardless of their intention, the outcome is the same.

I like the astrology analogy. They don't hate you, they're just making up stories you like to hear, so you'll stay and listen.
Throw up something like MindTouch Core and let people self-register and organize themselves. All you really need is the landing page explaining what the site is about. As far as promotion goes, well, that's up to you.
I agree with that. I found some really good stories on Zenpencils. The beautiful visuals just add more power to the written stories.
HN is a terrible place to launch if it doesn't coincide with your target market.
It mystifies me why this is still going on. I'm sure the President sees the injustice of what's happening. If he doesn't have the political capital to shut the entire operation down, can he at least let selected detainees go free?
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The basic rules for success are always same. It's we who interpret them in different terms :)
Is there a hotlist of projects you developers like? A description and what team is building it? Add a few keywords on what is missing (design-wise) for the project and let me reply on the keyword.
> Or if I start reading a textbook, I'll just fall asleep or read the same line over and over again.

This happens to me if I'm trying to read something too far beyond my level of knowledge. Skip back a few chapters and drill yourself on their content until the thing you were stuck on becomes easy/natural.

Also, sleep.
If you need to touch a lot of places for refactoring on a regular basis, that should tell you you're not doing something optimally. If you write your tests so they are dependent on internal details of the other code, that's a warning sign too. Add to that, that at least in my experience, my Ruby code bases tends to end up far smaller than my old equivalent C code, and the problem tends to be a lot smaller than one might imagine.

Yes, you need testing discipline, but you need that with static languages too - if you think you're ok just because the compiler didn't complain.... Well, that's just a false sense of security.
How a man with short-term memory remembers the moments of his life
Design is a tough one.

So I took 12 years of piano as a kid. Love playing the piano, although I only play once a week or so, and only play fun songs for an hour or two when I do play.

I do not consider myself playing the piano. I think of it more like "playing at the piano" I understand what a tough art form it is, I am not engaged in structured learning or skill-honing. I am playing. It is a piano. That's about it.

Design, to me, is like that. I have built between 20-40 websites. I love typography. I've laid out a newspaper front page. I've taken all sorts of pictures and love photography. I've even taken pictures for the covers of small regional magazines.

But I still don't call myself a designer.

I think the reason is that, as I learned to play the piano, I learned how to practice -- how to create a mental image of where I wanted my art to go and how to reach it. (Even I spend zero time doing that any more) I understand the art form. With design? Beats the heck outta me. Design is beyond my ken. I've bought all kinds of books on design, I've done many things people would consider design, yet I feel I know as little now (or less) than when I started.

So whether you call yourself a designer or not, beats me what kind of criteria you use. I'm designer in the same way I'm a piano player. It's there, I do it, and I enjoy it. But with design I just don't know enough to know if there's more to it than that, though.
While I agree with you, can you think of a US president that hasn't committed an impeachable offence? We almost expect them (along with prime ministers, premiers, etc) to do rotten things, once in power. They are rarely held accountable for their crimes.
Bootstrap only takes away the most basic work. This is a relieve for anyone who knows enough about design to be called a designer.

The only "designers" really loosing work are people eho read 1 book about html and css and want to earn some "fast and easy" money as "designers".
Doesn't mean that it wouldn't happen in your scenario, though. Corporations can and will skirt the law if they think they can get away with it and derive sufficient benefit from it.

In a free for all spectrum, it is much harder to prove that a device is interfering with another, making prosecution lengthy and complex. In the current system, if a device emits outside of its regulated band, its certification or authorization is revoked and the device becomes illegal to sell and operate. The criteria to do so are clear and evaluable from an objective standpoint, unlike interference in a shared spectrum that may or may not be willful and debatable in court.

Besides, it's not as if spectrum being freely available will magically make anyone a wireless carrier; there is still a significant up front capital expense to erect cell phone towers, routing calls to the PSTN, handling billing and support. A further proof would be that a corporation could create their own wireless carrier over the unregulated 2.4GHz ISM band by installing Wi-Fi APs and delivering VoIP over that for much less than the cost of erecting cell phone towers over an entire city, yet nobody did that.
The Bill of Rights doesn't use the word "Americans" or "citizens".
I was two weeks anyway from buying it at full price when that sale happened.

I can't recommend IntelliJ enough, second only to Visual Studio. Nothing in the Java world beats it, plus all the framework and other language support it has is just great!
Not exactly. The order concerns shutting down the prison on the base within one year, not the base as a whole. More importantly, it is contingent on the law and appropriations (i.e. money) to have any teeth. Within months, that part of the order effectively became impossible to fulfill.
Yeah, American exceptionalism, like when you think you can say "I know you are, but what am I" just because you're American. Thanks for the demo.
Java SE Patch Announcement: 39/42 Vulnerabilities are Remotely Exploitable.
I already read PCL and imho it's a really great book. In case, however, you have further questions (like I did) have a look at #lisp on irc.freenode.org - the guys there are really nice and helpful.
Unfortunately, you won't always find content you're looking for. It's just statistics. The article is political in nature and the comments are likely to be as well; if it's not what you're looking for, you may safely ignore it and rest assured that it's a statistical anomaly that won't undermine the entire community.
Would you recommend Sublime Text 2 over PHPStorm/Webstorm for someone only coding in HTML/CSS/JS?
peers may offer to process bitcoin transactions for free, and the original paper posits there are always going to be participants who will.
This is some quality info!

One thing I can add, if your looking for a solid, no BULLETPROOF pair of headphones, definitely take a look at some Sennheiser HD-25's. These things sound amazing and you can wear them for hours without them hurting your head at all.

I've had my pair for nearly 5 years now, still hasn't let me down and I use them everyday.

If you take notice of the headphones all sports reporters and the majority of DJ's use, you'll see that they are all HD-25's.

And screw noise cancelling, these things basically block out most noise without anything even playing :)
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perhaps a back button would help. I just ended up missing part of the tour by accident.
I think he was using "witch hunt" in a generic term like we use it today.
tl;dr: Allows users to make their own "blogs" and write posts of their own.
I seem to recall that something along these lines for political punditry was discussed in "The Signal and the Noise" by that chap Nate Silver.

I think (but could well be mis-remembering) one of his conclusions was that since these pundits are for entertainment value rather than serious prediction, nobody in charge of putting them in front of the camera cares much.
Ha, I went the opposite route. I was using Sublime Text Editor for everything, switched to PHPStorm (I do a lot of drupal/wordpress development)

I do miss some of sublime text's features but the integrated debugger tools and other awesome features... I can't go back
I understand what the author is saying. However, the title is wrong. He is killing himself with the hunger strike. Gitmo isn't doing that.
National vs. local news is an important distinction here that many of these "The key to happiness is ignoring the news" posts miss.

The breathless CNN story about the latest missing white woman might not be relevant to your life, but your local newspaper's stories about property taxes, parking fees, local entertainment events and people in your community most certainly are.
this is false, FYI. Please reread the constitution. Sometimes it refers to citizens, sometimes it refers to people. The Bill of Rights applies to everyone.

The fundamental civil liberties protections of the Bill of Rights and Constitution apply to all “persons,” not just citizens. For example, every person in the United States has the right to due process and equal protection; to criminal proceedings that afford a right to counsel, a jury trial and freedom from double jeopardy; to freedom from cruel and unusual punishment; to freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures; and to freedom of speech, religion and association.

http://www.aclupa.org/issues/immigrantsrights/animmigrationg...
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Why don't you try out their 30 day trial?

I wouldn't get PHPStorm if you're not using PHP (unless you want to be future proof in case you do end up using it.)

Check out the webstorm features here: http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/features/index.html
Thank you. I enjoyed Clusty when it first came out; I thought the clustering feature at the heart of it was really innovative, and the UI was nice and clean. But after the new rules came out, I abandoned it completely.
Funny ! Reading this made me remember the a layer's advice would just be the opposit.
Front page should be clearer and it needs a bit more explanation, I first thought its cloud software for managing cloud and clients, but when I tried the trial option I didn't see any client options so that means its a software for managing own cloud vm's ? (but it has API, so it should be easy to build client interface)
Also the "trial" option makes me think there is paid option somewhere, which is quite confusing since there isn't one, it should be replaced with "Demo" maybe ?
You should never make it hard to cancel.
My experience is similar, but I'll add that DVI->HDMI cables are cheap, and mean that you can use DVI even when your displays are HDMI.
Sorted pivots to be marketplace for local labour