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A killer argument in those cases (though not always applicable) is to ask the people if they are smoking. If so, they do not have any reason to be afraid of any environmental influence, since smoking will definitely kill them first.
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We should keep this discussion here, as I (being more of a designer than hacker) have found the resources of this community to be more valuable than other other web destination. I'd like to see more designers or junior-hackers speak up and start some threads based on the issues that face those of us who can't (or don't want to) write code from scratch.
I've observed some of these classrooms where every child is using a laptop. About the only benefit is the occasional need to carry less books on their back -- the rest just provides a neat factor and gives the kids an increased familiarity with technology. Education isn't suffering from a lack of laptops and technology.
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We have been doing this for a while at http://friendbinder.com

There are also a number of others like PeopleBrowsr, SocialThing (bought by AOL now AOL lifestream), Threadsy, EventBox and Ping.fm (for posting) that are trying it.
They need to give that code in context. Just because you grep some code for the word delete and you see the line "delete vote" somewhere doesn't mean that someone is tampering with votes.
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Hi, alexis here from RabbitMQ.

Yes, we implement AMQP. We also provide support for other useful things like STOMP and HTTP Pubsubhubbub. We implement these other protocols as well as AMQP because some times people don't need to use the full and awesome power of the AMQP model.

AMQP is initially hard to grok. I think the main reason for this is that AMQP combines three things: Queues, Pubsub, and Messaging. These are Not The Same. Queues manage data in flight as state, Pubsub routes data to consumers, and Messaging frames it.

So yes, as someone pointed out above, it would be nice to use some but not all of this from time to time. We are working on ways to make that super easy - please get in touch if you can help.

Another thing that people find hard is figuring out when to use message hub technology, and when to use a database as a hub. Using a database to queue and manage subscriptions to data streams is generally Not A Good Idea. Here’s a presentation I did which attempts to articulate some of the issues with this: http://www.rabbitmq.com/resources/RabbitMQ_Oxford_Geek_Night...

So, for someone using AMQP or any other Pubsub tech for the first time, there can be a 'huh, where do I start' element. But as some commenters point out, if you look at the client libraries it may be easier to get started. We've actually lost count of how many clients there are, so take your pick.

List of clients: http://delicious.com/alexisrichardson/rabbitmq+client

Getting started: http://blogs.digitar.com/jjww/2009/01/rabbits-and-warrens/ (Python centric) and http://www.infoq.com/articles/AMQP-RabbitMQ (Ruby centric)

To the commenter who said the AMQP spec is 300 pages long. You may have a better time if you look at AMQP 0-91 which is much shorter than that at 40 pages mostly covering edge cases that you can ignore. The nub of AMQP can be communicated in under a page.

BERT and BERT-RPC look cool. But - re the comments above - I would not see BERT-RPC as an ‘alternative’ to AMQP though. The GitHub blog post talks about PB and Thrift and JSON-RPC, all of which have been integrated with RabbitMQ. If you want to do RPC, there is no ‘one true system’ yet. Typically we have found that different people get value from different RPC metaphors in different languages. Maybe BERT-RPC will get more traction than the others - it definitely looks interesting.

I hope this is all useful or at least of passing interest. Here are some more links that may be worth a glance:

General background: http://www.rabbitmq.com/how.html

AMQP and XMPP: http://www.igvita.com/2009/10/08/advanced-messaging-routing-...

Feel free to contact us directly at info at rabbitmq dot com.

Cheers,

alexis
I think Guido resigned from the BDFL position a little while ago.
States need a financial and environmental incentive for energy efficiency. Boom:
I find spoken English (or any other language) remarkably ineffective when it comes to reasoning about more abstract concepts. Many of these concepts are much easier to describe and reason around in some sort of diagram and symbol shorthand. Even when just thinking to myself I often use a lot of internal visual representations of the concepts I'm thinking about.

Also leaving a visual trail of the development of your thoughts make it easier for others (and you) to follow and gives you something to refer back, rather than trying to remember a long chain of complicated arguments.

Personally I like using a whiteboard even when just reasoning out things for myself.
> they spend plenty of time studying

A comforting half-truth.
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I've made similar comparative harm arguments on a number of occasions. For example: the higher fat content in the organic milk [1] will kill you long before trace amounts of evil scary chemicals in inorganic milk will.

Strangely, arguments like that never seem to convince anyone. Anyone susceptible to the power of reason is already convinced.

[1] 1%/2%/3% milk has a wide range of acceptable values. I.e., 3% means "between 2.8% and 3.5%" or something like that. Organic milk is always at the top of the range, which makes it taste better. (It's also pasteurized at a lower temperature.)
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A lot of that advice seems quite universal and useful no matter what your sales or advertising channel happens to be. I think a lot of companies here could learn a thing or two from that article.
I drink organic milk myself, never having considered milk that deadly. I think most people consume only a minor part of their fat through milk, dont they?
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Cool, they finally add the Google login. Nevertheless the site is still as ugly and unusable as it has been since I registered for the first time.
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"For decades, schools of education have been renowned for being cash cows for universities. The large enrollment in education schools and their relatively low overhead have made them profit-centers."

I should have figured that that is one of the reasons that many colleges and universities keep on teacher-training programs despite their lousy academic reputation.
If you're going to throw around a term like 'machine learning' then it would be nice if you were to explain what you were doing. The article says:

We (well, technically, Ben) run them through a machine learning model that maps to the search results and produces a result that's considerably better correlated with rankings than any single metric.
Yes, I would consider it a sad thing if designers felt that design was off-topic for HN.

Presumably the principal coder of HN, a painter who wrote a book called Hackers and Painters, would not be inclined to chase designers away, either.
Well, that could backfire. I would imagine that the parents complaining about the WiFi radiations are very probable to be non-smokers.
This seems like the right thread to tell you I'm working on a new data type for Redis, that is, ordered sets: http://pastie.org/664270

Any feedback is really welcomed, for instance, do you know of better data structures to do the work? I'm using a red black tree and an hash table. The pastie above documents the specification more or less. Thanks
I predict the new data stores like Redis, CouchDb and MongoDb will soon replace MySql as the default standard for new development. Once people start downloading and getting comfortable with these data stores, there will be no turning back.

MySql will be less important two years from now, regardless of what Oracle does.
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The white on black overlaying everything just grates on me for some reason. Otherwise very nice.
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It seems a nice experiment to search all around your friends and connections. Would it make the results better if they are incorporated in the main search? I do not know ...
My brother and I started http://facesofdesign.com/ a while ago; not quite the same as HN, but we do try and cater especially to young designers starting out. The site is geared towards designers of all nationalities and disciplines... Integrating something like HN for designers would be something that could be a great part of what we're trying to do. Would love to continue the discussion!
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Thanks! nice work.

Would love to see some kind of benchmark on that table though. I know it's hard to compare, but maybe add some comments to the results?
No, much less than that, after all you could keep a copy of the screen on the other side in a memory buffer and only do the updates on the differences across the cable.
Can anyone comment on whether that long rambling single page sales letter (with testimonials, etc) is really the best option for selling one of these? Sites like http://www.burnthefat.com/ and http://www.fsbohelp.com/ and http://www.parrotsecrets.com/main_cb.html

They all seem so spammy. But it seems to be the way this stuff is sold.

Does anyone have some A/B testing they can share?
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Hello, it seems unfair for me to update the doc, but I can give you some info.

Language: C
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SLOC: 9262 including all the libs, no external dependence
Persistence: snapshotting on disk
Client protocol: custom ASCII
Data model: data structures (Strings, Lists, Sets)
Docs: can't rate it myself
Community: It's more known inside the Ruby community AFAIK
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His last two sentences are worth the price of admission.
Thanks mucho for this and taking the time to re-add. The "Offers" section gave me three ideas for an upcoming launch. Good stuff.
This submission implies that SEOmoz is at least slightly interested in peer review. Which would be a very good thing for them.
Nice work. It would be nice to know which projects have production sites that store the primary copy of data in these projects, as opposed to a secondary copy that is used for fast reads.
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Personally I would would encourage people to buy the book. Not only is it a fascinating read, with more than the documentary, but it would in some small way support Simon in his libel battle against the British Chiropractic Society.
Ask HN: Fun project:builing robot with camera and wifi
I am going to spend some spare time on building wifi controlled robot, that i can leave at home and access from anywhere over skype(for video calls) and web browser(for movement commands)
I am thinking on putting old linux netbook with camera on toy car plaform, but i am stuck finding right toy and connecting its engine and steering with USB(?) port on laptop.
Another problem is to build charging point where i can drive to for recharging.
Anyone has any experience in this or car recommend something?
I am software guy so building any complex hardware is a challenge for me
Hey, i like this. It looks like a cheap copy of Friendfeed, but it is what Friendfeed should have become. Friendfeed focused on lifestreaming instead of aggregation. I'd just need Tumblr integration and i could ditch Friendfeed.

Way to go!
There is the wrong idea that it's simple to compare KV stores. Actually they are very very different beasts, for instance Redis is not a plain KV store, it can perform even high level stuff for you server side, including sortings, intersections between sets, and so on. So for instance even if you know that the KV store "Foo" is faster and has better coverage than "Bar" you can't just pick "Foo". It's like a programming language. Most KV stores are proposing some kind of data model, not just an implementation of a distributed persistent hash table.

The kind of comparison needed in my opinion is a document explaining the different data model of the different projects, and of course also more general information like speed, test coverage, user base, and so on.
Ask HN: Joomla vs Drupal (vs Magento)?
I am looking for opinions on which CMS is 'most appropriate' for creating reasonably sophisticated websites, sometimes with e-commerce functionality. The team creating the site is a combination of designers and developers, but the end-user could be anyone.

From what I hear, Joomla is quick and easy to set up but doesn’t seem as 'industrial' or extensible as the Drupal. I read that Drupal has a steeper learning curve, but does that just mean non-techies will struggle with it? We’re developers, so not bothered about coding, and from my initial investigations in to Drupal it doesn’t look too tricky. Also, the plugins look to deal with a lot of common website requirements. Including Ubercart for e-commerce. Magento is a (relatively) new e-commerce specific CMS, but I worry that it isn’t as widely used (read: tested) as Drupal and that it won’t have the same pool of plugins available.

I’ve read a fair bit about each but guess this is quite a common dilemma - it’s a considerable investment to learn, implement, integrate and maintain a new CMS - so am posting it here. As ever, the right solution ultimately is dependant on the specific project, but it would be interesting to hear some thoughts on each.
This will almost certainly backfire.

Fears like this one are all about the power of suggestion. They are irrational. Don't try to deploy rational arguments against an irrational person. [1]

In this case, bringing up smoking is a big mistake, because now you're subtly training people to associate WiFi with something that (a) is now known to be deadly; (b) is the subject of extensive public health campaigns, taxes, legal sanctions, etc., and (c) was widely thought to be okay for decades, was even advertised by doctors as good for your throat. [2]

It's all about the subtext. Go buy some copies of the local tabloids and study their technique. If you put a picture of a fluffy bunny next to a photo of a barking dog, a photo of an angry cop, a photo of a weeping parent holding a dying child, and a blaring headline ("RABID RABBIT RAMPAGE"), you can get people to be deathly afraid of fluffy bunnies. Pavlov and Skinner were too simplistic, but they were not 100% wrong.

So don't try to argue that WiFi is "much safer than these terribly dangerous things that you do every day". Don't mention dangerous things. Emphasize the evidence for safety, talk about the very low powers involved, talk about the kinship between microwaves and radio waves [3] and emphasize that these waves have been used for communications for decades without a problem. Then talk about the advantages.

--

[1] Lesson two: Every human is irrational to some degree.

[2] Or by people in white coats, anyway. Though I'm sure many of them were real doctors. Lesson three: Being a doctor is neither a hallmark of rationality nor a proof against avarice.

[3] But stop short of mentioning gamma rays in this context, because everyone knows they can cause you to become the Incredible Hulk.
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Speaking of hiring... any startups looking to hire?

The HN jobs section has been empty for a while and the previous "Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (take 2)" thread is a bit stale.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=759452
This situation can hopefully be improved by educating parents about reality.
You can use Arduino. These gadgets are quite good and not very expensive, I have seen pretty clever hack projects using them (GPS, Lego Mind Storms, webserver, etc.)

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

I think you can use an arduino board as the interface between the car and the netbook. Also, they are quite good and you could even make the robot with the arduino itself (they have modules for Bluetooth and Ethernet. I would imagine that they also have a wifi one).
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I like redis a lot. It feels like an extension of python that gives you orthogonal persistence for free.
Is Chromium for Mac = Chrome Mac?

I ask because when I read the title I imagine that suddenly Google had released the Chrome for Mac, then after reading I realised that is a review of Chromium for Mac.

Now, I have been using Chromium for mac for a while with almost no complain. I alternate its use with Safari but I could say that at least for me, it is a very mature product.
thx, will take a look on it
How did I know that underneath that terse damnation of Twitter was bubbling a stormy and long-winded sea of contempt?

I'll spare you the equally long winded rebuttal with my very simple observation about Twitter: it has brought RSS to the masses; a concept that was very useful to tech-savvy people but very nebulous and confusing to non-tech-savvy people.

That, and you should try http://search.twitter.com sometime. I assume that you haven't because I somehow doubt you'd hate Twitter so much had you.
> The value is in the community, which could be lured onto something else pretty quickly.

Tell that to the MS Bing folks. Luring people can be more difficult than you might think.
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I don't understand why everyone is so sure that Wi-Fi is not dangerous.

I know a few things about Physics and radiation, and I know Wi-Fi is supposed to be in the same frequency as wireless phones and microwaves, but still I would prefer not to be too close to a wireless router (Although of course, in this time and age I often have to put this concern aside and spend a lot of time close to routers anyway.)

Firstly, research about radiation, and generally research regarding health matters, is always vague and ambivalent, probably because of the big commercial interests involved.

Secondly, the fact that wireless routers "operate in 2.4GHz like wireless phones" does not calm me. How do you know they transmit only in this range? How do you know it's exactly the frequency that matters? Maybe it's some combination of frequency, amplitude, and something else? How do you know wireless phones aren't dangerous in the first place?

I've worked enough with technical things to know that eventually, you can't really know with certainty whether something will work. (Or in this case, whether something will not harm your health.) Sometimes everything makes sense, but you're still getting a different result.

If this helps you accept my point, I think Knuth's quotation is relevant: "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
Ask HN: I'm about to take a big step in my life. I would like your opinion.
I'm a frequent reader of HN (I check the front page at least twice a day.) I've created this account so that I could ask your opinion on a big step in my life I am thinking of taking. I value your opinion.

I'm almost 20 right now and in my third year of college. I have never been successful with members of the opposite sex ever since puberty. In high school and college I was perceived as being socially awkward by those I came in contact with. Being unable to find intimacy and being a total virgin (never touched a girl other than while shaking hands) and my poor social life has made me very depressed.

I think a significant part of my problems can be solved if I loose my virginity, so I'm thinking of closing the chapter with a "girlfriend experience" hooker.

Do you think loosing my virginity to a hooker will solve my problems? If there are any others who have gone through similar problems as I have and come out of it, what would you suggest that I do?
> And all of those have vaccines that are much older than 10 years.

Swine flu has killed 4,735 people [1] so far, and the vaccine is brand new. Seasonal flu kills about 36,000 people [2] a year in the U.S. alone, and the vaccine is different every year.

[1] http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_10_16/en/index.html

[2] http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN2932292920080...
It's woefully low on posts, too. I only see about 1-2 good submissions a day.
Though the analysis is interesting, it is not "Machine Learning". There is no test/training data set, no prediction, no model selection. It is just plain old, but extremely useful correlation analysis.

If someone is interested in a similar kind of correlation (and regression) analysis for website conversion rate, have a look at the study I did a study recently - http://www.wingify.com/case-studies/predictive-web-analytics...
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I like the idea of Redis but it has the obvious limitation that it can only be used when the data you're working with will absolutely never grow bigger than available memory. This not only reduces the problems it can be used on but makes the Twitter example given on the Redis website very unrealistic.
Don't waste your time/money. It's not going to be all Hollywood-esque.

You'll pay a couple of hundred dollars to a woman of unknown history who will be uninterested in you (though she may play the "girlfriend" part well enough) and at the end of it all you'll have no more insight into the female sex then when you started.
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