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Most of which you don't care about, unless you have to edit, typeset, review, market, format 100s of books. They are one time costs and with the internet they are becoming very cheap already.

Maybe you didn't mean it the way it sounds, but I think any author cares about what their reader gets, and if I buy something I certainly care about its quality. I know for a fact that no matter how much effort I put into writing a book, there are always things that can be improved because I missed something I didn't know, or didn't know about a particular design or grammatical principle, or simply made a mistake. More eyeballs make a better product, and eyeballs cost money.

Breaking it down: Let's say I write a 1200 page technical book. Roughly speaking, services charge on a pages-per-day rate. Sake of argument, let's guess 250 pages per day for proofreading, 100 per day for graphical layout and enhancement, 150 per day for technical review. That's roughly 20 days, for which we could elance out separately for $100 per day. That's $2000. Up front.

...which brings me to my next point.

The important number is copies_sold X my_income_per_copy. Publishers might raise one of the number 2-5x but lower the other to 1/10.

I'm guessing you're estimating with these values (which is OK, because I'm estimating too). However, a quick look at Amazon and other online bookstores shows that ebooks tend to sell for a fraction of the price of paper books. $1.21 seems to be a common price point, and even for more expensive books (for which there is already a large demand) the price point seems to be about half that of a paper book.

Continuing our assumptions, let's say a published book sells 10,000 copies. Assuming the self-published book is 50% as popular as an equivalent published book (your most generous estimate) and therefore sells 5,000 copies, it still looks like 90% of a smaller price (let's say $1.21, so a total of $5,445 from 90% of 5000 * $1.21) works out at less than 10% of the larger value (assuming the parent post's assumption of $1 per copy, so 10,000 * $1). All handwavy values based on various people's assumptions of popularity, but useful for a starting point.

Now, back to the one time costs: When compared to my $5,445, that $2,000 sounds really bad now, doesn't it?
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Hardly news is it?

This rule has been around since the cold war era when crypto was classified as munitions.
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For simpler stuff, ya, DSL is not handy at all. But for the complex ones, shame on you if you don't DSL it. And don't come with percentage of SO questions bullshit, that's bad programmer excuse.

For longer queries, that little DSL syntax it's a bless. It's way more pleasant to read, write or think about it than the alternative.

Ah, and since you care so much about it, I've been developing in C# for freaking years that I don't bother to sum it up anymore.
In the US; legal requirements to have a pharmacists dispense controlled substances.
One more story that appeared here in HN a few days ago: Bob Nystrom writes about the process of self publishing a book which is also available for free. http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2014/11/20/how-my-book-lau...
> practically every European country censors something on the internet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_surveil... doesn't support that
Sadly, we mostly hear about those investor money driven companies.
> dreamed about great russian firewall because in that case, they won't have competitors like Google

This mindset is very prevalent in Russia and should be considered its greatest enemy. Most Russians are fine living in any conditions, as long as it's better than whatever their neighbors have. They would destroy their whole society if they can come closer to the top doing that. Why improve yourself if you can sink your neighbors? I hate this so much.

Source: Russian, lived there until recently.
Probably because they want people to use their own systems and apps.
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If OOP encourages mutation can you explain to me why the String class in java is immutable?
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Not big in my country, actually. (That said, neither is AIM, but generally people I know abroad don't ask about Whatsapp. Yet anyway.)
err no becase aprtiships tend focus on the practical almost 100% in the trade ones - even the so called advanced aprtiships don't go as in depth as a 3/4 year degree.

there is also the unfortunate fact that in the UK at least aprtiships have been debased by alowing mcdonadls and unskiled employers to offer them.

BTW back when I was doning my BTECH if you had called any of my cohort that we where aprtices you woudl have been told to F$%^ off
this is a nonsensical and circular argument, I am sorry. How can you seriously believe that a country of 150 mln people has no alternative to Putin? that is impossible statistically.
I think that I won't be compatible in a culture where such process is acceptable. If my first touch-point at a company is profound incompetence, I've already wasted enough of my time.

I do not look forward to being on a team with people who were compatible with such a brain-damaged arbitrary system. I've been engaged with too many clients where every day of work is a theater of the absurd.
Can anyone knowledgeable tell us how this compares to Java's parallel streams?
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"The business side should very much care about not wasting money unnecessarily, even during the good times."

How many businesses have you run?
When reading these things you can save a lot of time by just skimming the front page to see what standard protocols they implement. In the case of this thing time was saved...
Is XMPP distributed like tox?
#1 issue.
Licensing can also be used to ensure competence and familiarity with safety regulations (there's a reason why we require people to be licensed to operate a vehicle in general and a reason why even in the age of GPS, London cabbies are required to pass a test of their knowledge of the city's streets.)
Looks like they have a true zero knowledge system, up to the point when they have to implement logging of the password on the client side, and transmitting it to the server. At that point, if I understand the system, they have access to everything.

I don't see much point in this, as long as you can't host your own mail servers (you can host your own "server" in order to have somewhere to get the client from -- which is a step in the right direction -- but as I understand it, you can't use this as a webmail front-end for your own server(s)).
I really wish and hope that you and all the other people with the same opinion will be proved right.

I am worried that some unpredictable accident or irrational decision will turn this into a new nightmare. After all a huge majority of Russians support Putin and his politics. With more and more isolation and bad economy in Russia, Putin might maybe at some point feel that he has no other way to keep his "honor/dignity" in the eyes of his people and might start a war.

After all we do not know what happens in the heads of powerful men in this position and he might feel by the NATO expansion quite encircled.

Let's hope that people at power, including Putin, do not make any irrevocable things.
>How do they ban it actually?

My ISP just changes DNS response. All blocked domains are resolved to local server that shows message like this: https://who.ec/iWN (Site is blocked. Legal reason: blah-blah-blah)

Some providers just block access to IPs. My friend's blog lost ~300 visits/day becasuse it used same cloudflare node as blocked site.

Rostelecom uses MitM & self-signed certificate for more accurate filtering.
Could a design such as this work in the real-world, for a real train?

It seems to me that this could be feasible, since the power source is on the "car" itself, and the coil (infrastructure) wouldn't be that expensive to build (apart from the materials, of course). Or is it just too inefficient?

I don't know much about electronics/electromagnetism, admittedly.
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Interesting post. Probably worthwhile writing something similar as a covering letter with a CV. It might, however come across as a little pretentious. I'm not sure how to fix that.

I work contract/freelance/run my own business because the whole permanent job thing invariably isn't and for similar reasons why you're offering 1.5K to find a nice role. Good Luck!
Also, those terms don't contain a signal. Anyone can say they're a fast thinker or a quick learner.
A variation where the power source is in the track exists in the real world, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_motor#Train_propulsion
I read the blurb, liked the look and thought "why not?". I clicked download and don't see Linux, or even a browser option. It's not a skype killer - it's more prettier Whatsapp alternative without the market share.

Honestly, if whatsapp did a browser/desktop client I'd be on that before this even got a second look
Yeah, they can be fixed. FWIW, I used their feedback form to mention the automatic image loading privacy leak.
Well, that doesn't work either - since it requires other people to switch, or me to use yet another messaging app.

Besides, I don't trust the Telegram guys with their faux security claims.
Am I the only one who realised there is no videochat in Wire?
I think once Open Whisper Systems merge their products into Signal, that is going to be the best out there...Hopefully they will get the uptake they deserve.
Only if you are speaking about things like LINQ2SQL, LINQ2XML and similar.

Which can be done if the right ABC are implemented.
Same, but 4x overtime here :) I was just on the PC team though so I left at 7pm after finishing the last few BIOS updates; the AS400 and HP-UX teams got the pleasure of staying past midnight.
Depends. The starting fare means that if you have a decent chance of getting another hail (which is the case in many parts of NY at most times of day) it's actually more profitable to get to your destination as efficiently as possible and be able to pick up another fare than to draw out the one you have. There's a reason cabbies hate sitting in traffic even though the meter is running.
To paraphrase:

- I want to make money selling anything no matter how meaningless, animal silicon bracelets will do, I really don't care.

- Get a cheap supplier in China and pay a broke student to redesign the box.

- Order thousands of said items and sell on eBay.

Did I miss anything?
At least one company has been court ordered to block access to the Pirate Bay.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_blocking_access_to_...

> On 13 May 2010, the Hamburg District Court ordered an injunction against CB3Rob Ltd & Co KG (Cyberbunker) and its operator, Mr. Sven Olaf Kamphuis, restraining them from connecting The Pirate Bay site to the Internet.[24] The injunction application was brought by the Motion Picture Association's member companies.

Depending how you define censorship: can I sell a game that features Nazi symbols - such as the swastika - in Germany?
I doubt any system designed in such a way that the provider simply can't access the information, could be forced by authorities to provide some kind of backdoor into it, if it's a somewhat lawful country, and not one such as North Korea or whatever. Whether companies can be intimidated into doing it is a whole other story, but legally, I doubt any democratic government should be able to force them to do that.
Resumes are just a tool to decide whether or not to start a conversation.

When hiring, you are not really concerned about letting a good candidate go. There will always be others. It is far more dangerous to let a poor candidate in. And poor candidates tend to be poor due to cultural and subject matter issues more than basic technical chops.

I'm not making any hiring decisions at this point - just weeding a huge list of names down to a reasonable number to actually call. So I'm not judging people's skill levels yet -- I'm looking for something in their history that tells me they are bringing more to the table than knowing how to code. I don't even have preconceived notions of what that might be - just something that sparks me to think their experience has something in common with what we do. We'll weed out the weak technical candidates in an initial call, then continue with the people who are both strong technically and a good fit for the work and the culture.

So the whole premise that I am not getting it "right" when judging a person skill based on their resume is missing the point. It isn't that I don't care... but I know reading a resume won't give me an accurate answer, so it isn't even a piece of the decision making criteria yet.
Processing foreign data is just as dangerous as processing foreign code. Don't lull yourself into complacency just because you have NoScript when your JPEG library is probably less sandboxed and audited than your JavaScript virtual machine. The whole idea of the Von Neumann architecture is that code is data and data is code. It is advantageous when you trust everyone, but now that you can trust noöne? What to do?
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I'd just like a fast, easily hackable, versatile(meaning you can do so many things with ease(frameworks)) language to be honest.
I don't know, it's missing (4) "Host your own (encrypted or not) email" ?
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> In general, the ability to be compiled to native code is necessary but not sufficient for typical system programming language tasks, like hardware drivers, OS kernels, and language runtimes.

No, because I have listed Ada in my list.

> Any language with non-optional GC collection fails this test, because you couldn't write the GC in that language.

Better improve your CS skills. Ever heard of Cedar, Modula-3, Oberon, Active Oberon?

EDIT: Just for the kicks, here is Oberon's GC implementation, in Oberon!

http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/Sources/...
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Jesus, this article gets better and better the further you get through it.

> Gentle reader, if you happen to have a son currently in
> a college fraternity, I would ask that you take several
> carbon dioxide–rich deep breaths from a paper bag before
> reading the next paragraph. I’ll assume you are sitting
> down. Ready?

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So why do HPC system developers still use the 1k /seat intel Fortran compiler then?

Becase IPC/Kw is an much more important metric thesae days
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"And "replace your t-shirt with a patriotic one" ads on streets are just too fucking dumb to be true."

Are you referring to [1]? Very worrying: like a North Korea style personality cult. How prevalent is this?

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/07...
Is this also the first real perpetual motion machine? That thing looks like it could go on forever. Or is it limited by the current in the battery? If it is, could the motion provide back the energy to the battery somehow, and would it be a net positive?
I used to use these two services together do this:

https://puck.nether.net/dns
https://acc.rollernet.us/

They're both free to sign up, provide free secondary DNS, zone transfers and fully support IPv6.

I only stopped using them because I wanted to run my own DNS service.
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They didn't played that game decades ago, when the world wasn't as globalized as it is today.

They didn't have a good ride that time, and it's a fact that they won't have a good ride now.
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IMHO, offers of $2000 as referral bonus if you find us a rockstar (while for the exact same role, recruiters will be rewarded with 2 to 3 months of salary, i.e., $20000 to $30000 per $100k of salary) are asking for a ridiculous arbitrage that does not exist : I know the value of my time and I will not do the job of a recruiter for you without commensurate compensation.

This offer is the mirror of these "wow, free money of $2k if you do the job that we normally pay $20k for" offers. I will rather read about Constraint Handling Rules in Prolog or something else that is likely to impact my resume or my mind in a positive way in the time it takes to play recruiter (for either party).

Please let me know if I got the economics wrong. "Talk as if you're right, but listen as if you're wrong", said someone wise, and I listen.
A Santa’s hat and some awesome christmas music - that are the perfect ingredients for a shining christmas time :)

We created some neat GitHub library to christmasify your web worker’s life. Now it’s up to you to upgrade you team page!
Obtuse is not a verb. You want "object".
>> If the city of Nevada wrote an iPhone app for rating cabs and the cabs had to display their stars

I don't think consumer ratings are that great a plan. I can see from the article that all of those ideas are pretty awful. But making a cabbie display ratings from consumers rather than a ratings agency is open to all sorts of abuse.

Here in the UK a restaurant has to display its food hygiene rating on the door. This is a the result of a real assessment by an expert and as such is useful information. Unlike, say, a tripadvisor rating, which is more or less useless (5 stars! So much fun! I really enjoyed the baked rat and whatever that crunchy brown thing was in my lasagne!)
There are serious concerns with Telegram encryption/privacy. See discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8686868 for example
Using int also limits the optimizer in some ways, for example division/modulo becomes more expensive.

Every time I see someone mention the optimization argument for signed integers I ask for examples and I've yet see a good one.
They remind me of these folks: http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2014/11/05/when-a-project-mana...
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He's not necessarily asking for you to burn time digging. Maybe you just know somebody, you know?
Except those two things are mutually exclusive: A provider that can put a backdoor in can access the data, they're just choosing not to right now. Relevant example:

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-01-19-playing-chicken-w...
That is not specifically type coercion, but the behavior of the equality (==) operator in JavaScript. Type coercion in JavaScript can be very useful, for example !!('foo') is coercive and easily understood (and has an unsurprising result). Thankfully the == operator is completely optional and has a more easily understood === (identity) correspondent, making your point less about a language and more about a specific operator within a language.
But what did she do during those 6 years out of the country? Bartend in beach bars or worked in an office/whatnot learning the skills and tools to have a good career?

I think that is the main problem with people that assume college degree equals more money than not. Because it is either study and get a degree or go work at McDonalds or bartend.

I'll give you the opposite. I dropped out on my 2nd year. Went abroad as well, but went to work in the area I wanted to (game development) and continued to move around and learned a lot in various industries. 12-13 years since then and I'm making more than 5x than anyone in my HS class that got a degree (and I'm talking STEM degrees), and more than double what other friends that got a medical degree are making (which took them around 7-8 years to get).

Sure, if you want to perform surgery, you are going to have to get that degree, but that is a very specific degree you are going to get and not just 'CS because I like computers' or 'English Literature because I don't like math' which seems to be why a lot of folks go to University these days: "you got to have that degree y'all"
The title is wrong. It can be felt, not seen. Note their mention of "invisible."
I came to say the same thing. With a twist.

Using FB at work is one thing, using FB to communicate with your coworkers another. FB is 'private' for me (as funny as that sounds - there's nothing really private on FB of course, but it's the social life outside of work that I refer to here). Not corporate.
Love the fact that it was first announced on Twitter :)
> It makes s HUGE difference, trust me.

The articles entire point is that statements like this cannot be trusted. Read under "Listening tests", and it's clear that there is no benefit to the higher samling rate. I highly encourage you to do your own double blind ABX - if you can select 10 tracks where people can reliabilly tell the 44K from the 192K I will reconsider. But until then, everything we know so far tells us that 44KHz is more than enough.
In my personal testing a few years ago, I couldn't tell the difference between source and 192kbps MP3s either.

I still rip CDs to FLAC but only to transcode them to lossy formats for later listening. I do this in case I decide to switch lossy formats in the future (note: due to differences in psychoacoustical models, you should never transcode from one lossy format to another).
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