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I don't think it is, for two reasons:

(1) For most large apps, you're not really SSL in the provider's own network, so there's always the cross-app risk if something horrible happens.

(2) It's forcing app-to-app, business-to-business authentication into a username/password mold that doesn't many any real sense; a 128 bit random key (or an SSL client cert) makes more sense anyways.

Against those two problems --- which are marginal, I concede --- HTTP Basic offers... exactly what advantage? I don't see it.
Wow, I'm so happy I didn't go to a large school. I went to a smaller college (www.cofc.edu) and think I received a great education. In many of my majors classes there were maybe 20 people in them max. Every teacher knew me personally and had plenty of time for each student.

Even the larger lecture hall type classes (for example science classes that every BS had to take) only had 60ish people in them IIRC.
There was always a Royal Navy presence on the convict ships, even if the ships were privately hired.

Why? Well, apart from the possibility you mentioned (which is unlikely -- just you try committing piracy on British soil in the 19th Century in a ship with its name and identifying information written on the back), there was presumably the possibility that a captain might let a prisoner escape in exchange for money. Also there's the problem of maintaining security on the prisons. And finally, I'm sure there was a constant need to cycle guards as well as prisoners back and forth from Britain to the colonies.
I once worked with a guy whose grandparents sailed from Portugal to California. The captain of the ship held food back from the passengers to sell when he got to California. When they arrived in California, the passengers found out and hung the captain. Which is a different kind of incentive.
> I'll take it that you're not including marketing (which is where most of the money goes),

Marketing includes discount/free drugs for low-income folk, samples (which many doctors use the same way), and telling doctors what the drug does.

Which of those do you want to reduce?
Charlie Munger: "One of my favorite cases about the power of incentives is the Federal Express case. The heart
and soul of the integrity of the system is that all the packages have to be shifted rapidly in one
central location each night. And the system has no integrity if the whole shift can't be done fast.
And Federal Express had one hell of a time getting the thing to work. And they tried moral
suasion, they tried everything in the world,
and finally somebody got the happy thought that they were paying the night shift by the hour, and
that maybe if they paid them by the shift, the system would work better. And lo and behold, that
solution worked."
Awesome - these are great improvements.

I also came to post my experience with using Ginzametrics. I really like the product, and Ray has been very responsive and great to work with. The public beta should be very well received.
In general, I don't understand why links and submissions on HN go dead. Is it always due to admin intervention?
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I believe Xanadu and AMIX were canceled when Carol Bartz took over as CEO in 1992. That may well have been the right business decision to make, but it wasn't a programmer decision. And yes, it seems that Apple is a carefully crafted corporate machine that needs a design-focused highly-opinionated control-oriented person at the top. It will be interesting to someday watch Apple transition to being a post-Jobs company. (full disclosure, I worked at both NeXT and Autodesk)
> One caveat to be aware of is that Processing isn't very portable yet; so it's a bit of a lock-in there.

Processing (http://processing.org/) is different to the Arduino although the IDEs are based on the same code base. While the Arduino "language" is related to Wiring (http://wiring.org.co/) it's different too.

By lock-in do you mean lock-in in relation to the language/libraries (which is really a documented subset of C++) or the microcontroller (Atmel based)?
My chart lib (not yet released) supports candlestick charts too...and the fact that not many libs have them (and ProtoVis has no IE support) is part of why I ended up writing my own. Example: http://track.com/charts/show-chart/2/
The current project I'm working on involves managing and launching a lot of http requests to different web service api's, and gevent really is the best thing since sliced bread.

Things like rate limiting (gevent can monkey patch time.sleep), error handling, and scaling to a large number of concurrent connections (see gevent.pool.Pool) have been added to my app with surprisingly little increase in code complexity. The fact that you write your code as if it was synchronous makes it so much easier to maintain. I don't have to find my way through callback spaghetti. I also find asynchronous much easier to grok than threading (and it's also more lightweight)
That's the sort of strategy that works when you're a dominant player. WP7 needs to go the other way, making it possible to write cross-platform apps, so that devs will say, "Ooh, here's a better to make my next app!" instead of, "Eww, do I really want to support yet another platform?".
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There's also eventlet, which gevent was (essentially) forked from - it has the advantage of having both libevent backends (like gevent, and aren't threadsafe due to libevent) and threadsafe backends too (not that I have much call to use threads while using a greenthread-based framework).
How do you create a manifest of people without photos, finger prints or genetic testing?

The wealthiest and most powerful families of that era, or any time before 20th century, had difficulty identifying kins and heirs. The whole study of Genealogy (and, perhaps the institution of marriage!) was created for the secure identification of blood relatives and safe transfer of property.

Even visual identification is spotty when IDing strangers.
> The contractor could then release it further.

Unless the contract said that they couldn't. And even if a specific contract didn't stop a given contractor from redistributing some GPL technology, how many contractors are going to risk being banned from future contracts because they redistributed?
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is this a joke?
It's funny but I'm hesitant to answer this truthfully.

I'm not sure if that's because I have aspirations to submit to YC at some point and wonder how PG might view this (and whether it would affect any decision making one way or another). Or if it's just the general concern with unnecessarily putting myself 'out there' somewhat publicly.

So yes, I do smoke and code. I don't know if I would say I'm 'stoned' though; I find that if I have just a wee bit I'm more focused and on point. It's similar to when I play music; not for the 'creative release' often claimed (though seldom experienced by me), but rather for this deep-focus aspect.
I hope this is not an "out of context query", but why/how does money affect creation of laws in the US?
Inline-if type things don't work; I keep having to rewrite my scripts for older pythons.

var = 2 if something else 4
The pat-down is better than the machine. If my privacy is going to be invaded, I want to look the person doing it in the eyes. If I'm going to be embarassed, I want the agent embarassed too. The pat-downs are inconvenient. Systematized invasions of our most private things should be inconvenient. TSA agents are going to face a torrent of complaints alleging abuse, molestation, &c. Good. The whole program is abusive.

What scares me is the faceless machine nobody cares about silently collecting naked pictures of every citizen, managed by people nobody will ever see who can never be held accountable for anything. You can't simply flip a switch and capture high fidelity copies of a pat-down search. You can with the machines.

Incidentally: contrary to popular opinion, security agents, law enforcement, border control, &c all very much do care when complaints are filed on them. Their M.O. is that nobody takes the time to file those complaints. They're counting on people not bothering with the pat-down because the machine seems more convenient, and they're counting on not dealing with a flood of complaints. I plan on filing a complaint at the first hint of an off-color comment about what they're doing. "Better get new gloves, Fred!" --- "I'd like your name and your supervisor's name, now."
Here's the decision procedure:

If there's no collateral damage and the JS is clear (e.g. 28 --> Math.pow(2, 8)): do it.

If there's no proper way to express the JS in Python (e.g. instanceof and typeof keywords): do it

If it's really important (only "print" and "self"): do it

Else: DON'T

These few special cases that mess with your code are all mentioned in a section on the the main page.

And you can easily remove them from the transformations if you want.
You should subscribe to his podcast - http://techzinglive.com

It's a really fun tech podcast that is always one of the first things I listen to when a new one comes out. Just check out the list of recent interviews: Gabriel Weinberg, Derek Sivers, Jessica Mah, Patrick McKenzie, and more.
Got a reference for that? The history of precisely who killed whom in British/Aboriginal relations is pretty well studied, and I've never heard of any cannibalism on either side.

Whether the Aborigines ever engaged in cannibalism was a somewhat fraught political topic in Australia a few years ago. (The answer is "probably someone got eaten by somebody at some point in the 40,000 year history of the thousands of Aborginal tribes, but you're not supposed to talk about it.")

Anyway, the story isn't about captains "recreationally murdering" prisoners, which is the kind of thing that only a tiny number of psychopaths would do. It's just about them failing to take quite as much care of them in terms of food, water and medical treatment as they really should have.
If you're an Emacs user, or plan to become one, then ERC is the way to go. I would go as far as recommend it even if you're not (yet) using Emacs, but that might be just me.

Otherwise irssi.

Personally, I'm running an IRC proxy (znc), an irssi in screen on my server, connecting to the proxy, and an ERC from home, connecting to the same proxy.

That way I can easily access my IRC sessions even if I don't have emacs with me.
Lettering.js: A jQuery plugin for radical web typography
It's also pretending that we don't pay a 16% flat tax on all wages and salary up to $106,000.
You're right to a point. The big benefit to working a regular job is that there's a whole infrastructure of day care, preschool, sports, music lessons, etc. built around your schedule. In a start up or even a job with odd hours this infrastructure doesn't work quite as well.
irssi + irssiproxy + Colloquy.
I am wondering how long it is before people who like to get felt up are using this as there way to get their jollies.

I'm also wondering how long it before someone sues the TSA for improperly touching them (too long, suggestively, etc.) or for injuring them (moving too fast and bumping the resistance).

Edit: I hadn't even considered that maybe people who like to feel others up with sign up to work for the TSA
That's not a term I've ever heard, and "cross compiler" tends to imply something else: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_compiler

I would call what you have done a source-to-source compiler: it translates from one target high-level language to another. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-to-source_compiler
Is it true that CDMA can't do voice and data at the same time? If I switch, no more browsing while I'm on hold?
There is a referendum on the California ballot where the voting population will get to determine whether or not to legalize marijuana. The money that gets donated can be used for advertising, which may be effective in this case.
Does Things.app Have Over-the-Air Sync?
I don't smoke, but I know a lot of people find it aids their creativity and ability to focus (in reasonable doses). Those are useful traits for hackers, at least in some tasks. (More designy things would show greater improvement than the mathy parts of the job.)
You might enjoy this nostalgic look back at the Fun Way kits: http://tronixstuff.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/australian-elect... :)
This will only be true if, as seems increasingly unlikely, the social-security surpluses accumulated over the past few decades are actually used to fund social security (the mythical "lockbox"). My bet is on the money never being returned to the social-security system. In that case, the surplus portion of the payroll taxes from the past few decades should be historically reclassified as (regressive) general income taxes.
According to ABC News [1], these new "pat-downs" will not likely prevent someone like the Underwear Bomber from boarding.

1: http://abcnews.go.com/WN/tsa-pat-procedure-airports/story?id...
As far as I know, we're doing what the Python dev team expected for large projects: taking some time to deprecate older 2.x releases, working our way toward being 2.6- or 2.7-only, then porting from there.

Nobody who actually paid attention to the Python 3 process expected this to happen quickly, or is under the impression that large projects are taking longer than expected to port.
Thanks. I just worked it out - I had an nginx rewrite rule that was trying to get people off https when not at ^/register/ or ^/accounts/subscription/. So images were requested with an https but then returned over http. I added ^/static/ to the list of requests which can be served over https and it seems to have fixed the problem. :)
Just like products, referendums don't market themselves.
"but Google are probably most known for acquiring software companies.
What other big software company acquirers are there? (Not to be imply that there aren't any.)"

"Google is still the goto name for tech acquisitions. Heck they have acquired 10 companies in the last 4 months alone."

You are both saying the exact same thing. Which is bizarre, because it sounds like you're in disagreement... But you're not.

The actual sentences say exactly the same thing ("Google is currently the biggest technology acquirer, by far").
This might be useful to read. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._Federal_Elec...
So I'm just wondering, what if you're a parent flying with children? I don't have kids, so I don't know what the rules are for TSA screening of them.

To me, it sounds like as a parent you either have the choice of letting some anonymous person in another room take naked pictures of your kids, or you have to let some strange man/woman touch and grope your children until they meet 'resistance'.

In the meantime, metal detectors are in place but it seems like there's some move to phase these out. And when I have kids, if some government minimum wage flunky thinks they're going to grope my daughter or son, my wife will be posting bail for me soon thereafter.
Agreed. Bring in that sort of incentive-based deregulation and suddenly every new drug would be made and manufactured by an entirely new company (which just happens to be 100% owned by an existing big pharma company).

Incentives aren't the solution to everything, sometimes regulation works better. For instance, you're liable for all the damage you cause while on the road, and yet we still need road rules to stop people from behaving like dicks (and even then, it barely works).
Pot's nothing. PG admits to using Lisp while working on his startup. If that's not a controversial productivity hack, I don't know what is.
> Unlike Dropbox, though, I expect that Apple would make it work transparently. Your home folder is silently, intelligently, and automatically synchronized between all your Apple hardware[1].

That's exactly what I've been dreaming of. I currently use Dropbox to sync few specific folders, and while it works ok, I would like to have _everything_ synced, including my keychain, browsing history, ~/.bash_history etc.
> as much as 90% of the cost of a new drug is meeting FDA requirements

It's easy (and convenient) to blame this on the government. I'm somewhat familiar with the pharma industry (payed for my house), and I can tell you that at least some of these "regulatory" costs are things like flying doctors to expensive shindigs, to coordinate the research they're doing for you.

On this note, if a govt. agency throws a multi-thousand dollar party, it's a scandal, but those kinds of costs are built into the way (privatized) pharma operates.

It's easy to waste millions when you're making billions, and you don't have to answer to taxpayers.

This "government is wasteful" meme ignores the fact that there are powerful non-government actors milking the government.
Layers.

Layers seemed easier than DOM...until you encountered the bug in Netscape 4 where you couldn't have two layers loading at the same time. I worked on Netcaster for a while, and we had to have a queue of (layer,url) pairs; when each layer was finished loading, its onLoad handler would notify the queue to load the next layer.
This is a creative idea, but I have a few suggestions.
1) Penmanship is a key thing with this, I suppose if it looks too professional that could be a problem, but the note in the sample seems like the lines are bunched and skewed.
2) One question that occurred to me is that if I am a company in location A, if you drop my notes in a postbox they will have the postmark for your location. Might be worth mentioning that you can send them to me in the faq as well as the video.

In terms of using the service, I am unsure about the price point, I wonder is it a little high?

I would be more likely to use it if there were a range of calligraphic as well as normal handwritten note.

A final thing: what about headed paper / templates? Could be useful for a company as they often use compliments cards.

Best of luck!
That's not actually really relevant to this particular case, which is a state ballot measure not a national campaign for office.
Yeah good point on the caffeine.

I started taking a Guarana supplement with my morning vitamins; guarana is similar to coffee beans but has a higher concentration of caffeine. So far I've been amazed by how it's working.
Heh. I said right there "Australia Almanac". It's a popular book in Aus, and have seen it in a few places. It chronicles Australia from the stone ages to late 80s (at least my old copy does.)

As for cannibalism, my profile info has been a passing reference to it, in jest; it doesn't concern me at all, at least not until the zombie apocalypse (if food rations run low, I might have to hunt a few zombies and raid the mall shops for flat-screens and warm Heineken!)
Looking back, do you feel that selling to Google was a positive decision for Jaiku?
Does this mean I'm close to being able to buy one for Sprint? I get stuck with all the leftover phones. (^_^)
There's still another instance of "end of an error" you forgot to edit.

Are you British? :P
Do you see the obvious hole to that theory?

Each drug gets passed through to a holding company that funds R&D and assumes liability. How do you hold Pfizer or Novartis resonsible for a drug they don't "own"?
What's the cost on that EMC array?

How many commodity servers could I buy for that?

I have a pretty solid idea what state of the art is in the RDBMS world - it's diminishing returns as a machine that's twice as powerful costs 10X as much, all the way up the enterprise ladder. It's spending 100k on your software licenses, 100k on your storage and 500 bucks on a CPU.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's ok. If your domain is highly transactional, it's probably a better move than implementing your own transactions over something else. Just don't pretend that your limitations are actually strengths -- you have your own strengths.
The hardest part of moving to a new service is moving the data over. For a small app, you can do the 'stop everything; copy data; restart everything on new location' thing in a short amount of time without annoying too many people.

If you need to start an app on a cheap or free service, and then it succeeds, you should try to look 2 steps ahead for your move to take into account the data moving problem. The good news with Heroku is that you can just keep adding capacity while you work this out.

There are hosters out there - Engine Yard is well known in the Rails world - who can help you do this if you don't want to run stuff yourself. I've used a company called Bitpusher in the past as well.

At some point though, you will want to bring this in-house as it grows. If only for the cost aspect. Owning your own hardware and employing your own ops people will be cheaper than paying someone else. This is probably a long way into the future for this specific case.
Oh but you did pay taxes. The cost of your rent is directly tied to the amount of property tax that house owner is required to pay. All the goods you purchased would have been taxed as well. The gas you bought for your car helped pay for the roads. You may not have paid a federal income tax (I don't know if that is true though) but you still paid social security taxes, and your employer paid payroll taxes that factor in to how much you get paid.
Well, yeah, you can get some decent IOPS for 100k, but 20 servers with 4 spindles a piece are still more.
I'm flying with my kids in a few months; my plan is to simply record the whole thing with my iPhone (you may see me in the news shortly thereafter).

If my son gets upset, I plan to tell him "this is why you're going to take trig seriously; do bad in school and you might end up with this crappy job".

The pat-down is better than the machine. Even for kids. Maybe especially for kids. If you're going to violate my kids privacy, you'd better believe I'm going to want to be in the actual room.
You've thrown around the number 90% for both the amount of money the FDA delays drugs and the amount of time it delays it.

Which says to me you are just pulling numbers out of thin air here.
I own an educational video site and we just launched a subscription product for teachers that is getting traffic but no conversion. Any thoughts?http://www.studybeat.com/signup/instructors/
My email is ed@studybeat.com
Thanks!
This is really a post? Come on man!
not that I care too much. but why down vote this comment? just wondering.
Mmmm. Oil-covered soup! I think that one backfires on everybody involved.
Regulation = Barriers-to-Entry. Businesses accept (and secretly cheer on regulators.) People get this connection, even though it is non-intuitive on the face of it.

What is less studied are the regulators themselves. They rarely impose the kind of regulation that opens industry actions to sunshine and converts them to common knowledge.

There is a substantial body of theory that shows that the price system breaks down in the face of informational asymmetry. But regulators don't go for it since it does not make them more powerful. That's human nature. And it's fine with businesses, who would prefer to answer to the One rather than the Many. Preserves barriers to entry.
Personally I hate marijuana and everybody who uses it. I openly refuse to have anything to do with people who do.

We're born with few enough brain cells as it is, why would you want to kill more of 'em?

If Prop 19 passes I'll be looking to leave California ASAP, because there's nothing that makes me angrier than smelling pot smoke.
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