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Microsoft has one of the largest and most comprehensive suites of test hardware available. They have rooms with hundreds of computers with varying levels of hardware performance that they test important builds on. They do their job, if the OEMs want to push out a crummy user experience, that's an issue on their testing end.
Hopefully it'll be much shinier than X11 and less restrictive than Remote Desktop Protocol.

Out of curiosity... In what ways do you find the Remote Desktop Protocol restrictive? Does the protocol itself limit what can be done? From an end-user point of view it seems very flexible and powerful, while lightweigth and responsive.
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That's a good tip - thanks :)
Sure, I asked 'tongue in cheek' ;-)
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It hasn't been for me, but only because I (and other, likeminded people) have chosen to bank on the fact that we're relatively healthy so far--knock on wood--and chosen to forego it.

I don't mean that I'm literally uninsured. I mean that I have one of those "catastrophic" high-deductible policies that so many young people are stuck with, so for any kind of routine procedures or office visits or anything barring an improbable tragedy, it's as good as not having a policy at all. The charges are simply passed through to me unadjusted. And when you have a policy like that and run into a large claim (say, a $90,000 hospitalisation with an acute condition), you have a fairly high chance of being denied a claim on the basis of a "pre-existing condition" or some other reason they will find to try to deny your claim. Insurers have entire departments just to deal with disputing large claims. Much of the Obamacare "pre-existing condition" legislation doesn't apply to this scenario, or grandfathers in policies written in prior years.

An actually decent policy - some kind of low-deductible, high-choice PPO plan - is just absurdly expensive from an operational expense drag point of view, even for an ostensibly healthy 25 year old.
The latter.

Now I remember I once discussed this with a friend of mine who is married and has a kid; he told that it's much easier to concentrate in the office.

So, yes, my bad, the first line should've been split in two.
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Great article.

In your opinion, is Node.js mature enough to use in production code ? Or should I wait a little longer ?

Also, what is the sate of the community (i.e. is it easy to find answers and tutorials) ?
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I'm doing this more and more too. It's easier than on a lot of larger sites such as Reddit as the signal to noise ratio is much more in our favour, and I do find interesting stories that never make it near the front page.
I am working on a small book about design for developers. Alignment is one of those things that people often don't really understand (besides left, center and right). Perhaps I should make that section a little bigger.
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but, Tests/LLOC seems to state even less than LLOC. LLOC gives an indication of the complexity of the application (or a component).

All Tests/LLOC seems to state is that some lines of code exist and potentially, some test cases are testing them.
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Adsense is probably the worse monetization I have in place among anything I do and one that I ignore and just have sitting there passively from sites set up years ago so keep that in mind as I'm responding here...

I have not done anything with my sites that have Adsense running on them for years now. They're just kinda sitting there collecting revenue. With that said, I've noticed an increase in revenue as well as clicks slowly but surely. I can't say that Adblock is a problem for me and if it was or is, it's not noticeable. But then again, I only do maybe $20-$30 in Adsense income a day altogether (currently) so not a whole lot to go off of.

I also want to note that this is combined income. I am not really monitoring individual sites or channels so it might be possible some are up and some are down. Not sure and too lazy to look
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Those are airplanes. Shooting stars don't last long enough to leave more than one frame on time-lapses.
Okay I'll bite...

First I thought it had something to do with the phrase "24/7"....

Then I though about 9/11...

Finally I put it into google and saw 22 / 7 = 3.14285714 and a a proof 22/7 > pi.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_that_22/7_exceeds_%CF%80
wtf do companies show syndicated ads on their pages?

right now the last thing the LSE needs is to look technically incompetent or insecure.
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Last time the printed money went into real estate => RE bubble.

This time the printed money goes into tech startups => tech bubble.
What does Palantir do?
I'm ALWAYS right ;-)
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> But recently, Palantir has found itself in headlines for putting together a proposal, along with HBGary and Berico Technologies, to launch cyber-attacks and other “dirty tricks” against Wikileaks and its supporters, on behalf of Bank of America, and against website ThinkProgress on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
If you think about the human and technical scale of what they are doing there, it seems pretty efficient to me.
If anybody reads this: I think I have made 2 primary mistakes.

1) In this post, I was much too verbose and a lot of it wasn't relevant or interesting to anybody who isn't already interested in the idea. I probably did more to turn you off, than on to the idea. I will bear this in mind for the "Show HN: MyCalling is live" announcement :)

2) I have overcomplicated what is a simple idea. To remedy this I have started the web app again, and am focusing on a CLEAN and SIMPLE UI. More of a Google/StackOverflow than a Yahoo! When the website in it's simplest form is complete, I will shift focus to developing the interfaces to other websites.

Cheers to the 24 people who played with MyCalling, and especially to you hobonumber1 for your comments.
Web workers are another exception, but I guess they’re not mainstream enough for most developers to have bumped into them.
For reasons of HIPAA, this is an appliance rather than a 'cloud based' system?
Git was developed for improving Linux Kernel development. You see why they don't care about Windows, right?
What evidence is there that few entrepreneurs want to get involved in hospitals? Here's some evidence to the contrary:

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2011/01/18/emerus-ho...

http://www.emerus.com/
1. Peter Thiel is an investor in Facebook, the platform where 500+ million people upload all their personal info.

2. Peter Thiel is major shareholder in Palantir, offering information analysis to governments.

Just saying...
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They sell data mining tools to the US government.
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What?! First of all, I highly doubt this "PR flap" doesn't create significant problems for their bottom line. Secondly, why would anyone think an analytics platform will become the next "Google or Facebook". It's a B2B function, not an end-user/consumer site. It's not even really a Web 2.0 company, as noted in the article, the main competition is 20 years old. I seriously question Thiel's judgement, but will happily eat my hat if time proves otherwise on the value of it.
"... Of course, Thiel is Palantir’s largest stakeholder, and his venture capital firm The Founders Fund has bankrolled much of the startup’s initial costs."

This counts as news?
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Does the world need another Facebook or Google? How bout a cure for the common cold or something useful?
Well, is Facebook the next Google, yet?
Hacker News will still be here in the morning.
Oh, is that how we're setting policy now?
"Some products are better" isn't tenable. Regardless of whatever market segmentation you care to do, this extended outage is going to affect customers' perceptions of the diligence of your entire technical staff. If it's impractical to meet these obligations with the same quality as your other products, the thing to do is to buy the obligations out or sell off the unit delivering on them.
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Steve,

Django: open source framework (under Web Development Tools)

Django is to Python what Rails is to Ruby

Thanks!
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Yes, we sell Comprehend Clinical as a deployable Enterprise Java application that our customers install in house.

Besides just HIPAA, the clinical industry also has to comply with Title 21 CFR Part 11 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_21_CFR_Part_11). There is a lot of discussion about how to take advantage of cloud computing while remaining compliant, but as of yet there's no definitive answer.
What's often not said in these discussions is that college/university time is a great time to work out what you want to do for a bit. I certainly had no idea what I wanted to do coming out of high school. I wanted to be a veterinarian, but didn't get the marks to get into that degree programme, so I ended up doing bioinformatics, and then eventually wound up doing a computer science degree double major with history and philosophy of science. And I love my job now, working as an academic in technology ethics. But if you'd asked the straight-outta-highschool me about what I'd be doing in 10 years time, she would have had no idea I'd be where I am now. Going to university helped me to work out which path I wanted to take. Granted, I didn't go to an American university, and it somewhat depresses me to hear about how university is pointless etc. because I had some amazingly good courses and learned a lot at my university. But that was back when it was still well funded by the Australian government and less of the corporate entity it's become. So who knows, really?

Anyway my point is that university is not just about coming out with a piece of paper, it's about exploring possibilities and different paths. And if you go to a good university that focuses on actually teaching interesting stuff rather than churning out pieces of paper, then you'll actually get something worthwhile.
I think I would have a hard time working in good conscience at a place like Palantir, no matter how interesting the underlying science might be.
I'm similarly OS-agnostic in terms of performance and usually recommend Apple gear for people with no preferences. But it still bugs me when people bray about 'revolutionary Apple products' that are really just Apple joining the party. This 'amazing new thing' gets shoved in my face that has been around for ages and I'm supposed to mollify them with vapid oohs and ahs.

Or if someone asks me why I've got an android phone and not an iphone and I casually respond that I don't like the way Apple devices get locked to iTunes, I get groans and eye-rolls. Fuck that shit, you ask me a question and then you socially punish me because I prefer to go a different way, damn right I get pissed off at the 'Apple Cult'.

Fanboys of all stripes are painful as hell, and the Apple Fanboy Cult is currently ascendent, that's all.
Pardon me for my short sight, but why is this HN material?
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Dude... That is still better than work environment I had to endure - 50 developers in a single open area. If that weren't enough - someone decided to sit support for an entire team in the middle of this space, rationale being "that they would like to be close".

6-10 people in a room as long as they are developers is still awesome and productive environment.

Edit: I don't work for Microsoft - but wouldn't mind to :)
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Why don't you believe in a free market for health insurance?

The capacity to observe reality?
Entertaining, but not too useful. If you really can't spend $10 on a domain name, you'd better go out clean few windows, and then buy it. Being too cheap is a sure recipe for failure, or if not failure, for a lot missed potential growth.
I've always been economical in my business ventures, and respect people who don't hurry to spend money on stupid things. But many of the points givem here are just way too cheap, unproductive and plain bad.
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I thought this was an interesting article to submit, as it seems that amphibians have changed many times over the years, evolving new features, having them disappear then re-evolving them as they adapt.

What should humans evolve next?
> How could a Windows developer possibly understand just how frustrating their product is when they spend all of their time using the most powerful hardware available?

It is called the "Redmond reality distortion field"

http://www.stepto.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=486
IIRC, one of the negatives about Ubuntu choosing to move away from X11 towards Unity is that they will be losing the network-friendliness for remote screens for which X11 is specifically designed.

X Windows was designed around running multiple thin-clients as a primary purpose. Wiki says X started in 1984, with X11 being released in 1987 - it'll be 24 years old this year.
Three semi-related points:

It's easy to be utilitarian until it's your own life at stake or that of someone you love.

Also, a lot of decent, innocent people wouldn't survive five years in prison with their personality and decency intact.

If 1 in 101 prisoners is actually innocent, that would mean there are close to 23000 innocent people currently in US prisons. I'm not prepared to throw 23000 innocent people in prison without some very good evidence that it truly is worth it in exchange for punishing the guilty.
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It's also a measure of test granularity, i.e. for a module of given complexity, how many test cases cover it?
I just got this incredible feeling of being on a spaceship, turning.
One of may favorite sayings is "Good design is invisible".
Very broadly, Search Features. I worked on the visual redesign that launched last May, and before that some of the search tools (particularly Wonder Wheel and Related Searches) and a bit on the move from having separate search properties (books.google.com, blogs.google.com, video.google.com, etc.) to a single search app. Then I spent about 6 months doing some infrastructure stuff with the webserver, and I'm now doing some feature work that's in the early stages of the project.
I've noticed that with comments of my own - where I've made a sarcastic comment, then said 'kidding aside now, real comment' and been heavily downmodded. Normally this wouldn't rankle, but in the same threads are far more sarcastic comments with zero content happily getting modded up, sometimes quite strongly.

Another time I was arguing against a guy about language, and despite his position being offered in good faith and with a degree of detail in his argument, he was modded into the negs.

Comments do seem to do better here when appealing to emotion and popularity rather than internal merit.
Opera has a built in mail client, I just browse with opera on occasion and mails are downloaded in the background.
The title for the piece was "I don't hate Macs, but they do give me a syncing feeling" when I read it this morning. Can we please avoid editorialising post titles?
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The tragedy is the Russia (as a nation) has never been punished for its crimes. I fear that, lacking some form of justice, history will always repeat itself. (Of course, one could argue that the Russian people are punishing themselves - by electing to be governed by the most autocratic, dictatorial regimes...)

I wonder when the USSR's former 'satellite states' will finally see the sense in forming a mutual pact and kicking Russia back to its borders?
Not till they move mine too, but this thread has reminded me to get the migration done.
Yea 'Peopleware' also found that small offices with 3-4 people to be optimal.
As code_duck says, on MS Windows VNC just lets you see the existing single-user desktop. It's a different beast to the unix VNC.

On X Windows (X11) VNC runs 'more natively' creating a new desktop for you when you remote in - each new connection creates a new desktop instance for the user logging in. It's actually more configuration work to make it view an pre-existing desktop session :)
Though racial discrimination is one of the most visible and widespread forms of discrimination, prejudices can apply to many other, sometimes unprotected classes in which some of us find ourselves. These include age, wealth (against both rich and poor), gender, occupation or interests, the color or make of your car, being a geek, or any other difference. Yes, it really could happen to you.
For someone who espouses libertarian ideas it does seem strange to be investing in companies which erode privacy.
What's wrong with offering a solution? If you are having problems with that server, allow us to migrate you to another one. Sounds fair enough to me.
Don't sweat it. We all worked there for a couple years.

It's called "getting experience", and the key is to remember you're supposed to move on after you've built enough stuff to demonstrate your worth to the next place. This is what the beginning of everybody's development career looks like.

Grit your teeth and get through it. It gets good later on.
> svn branch numbers or git hashes don't make nearly as much sense to designers as "HiFi Mockup iPhone4 Right Aligned Inbox.ai"

That's what the commit comments are for.

BTW, programmers also prefer reading commit comments, commit dates and author names. They don't read hashes. (Although they sometimes copy&paste them because they are short and unique.)
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1. Your list of references proves that Bayesian statisticians have been writing papers across a variety of disciplines.

2. Bayesian methods are not readily computed with today's hardware and software, and my desk is a counter-example.

2.1 Last time I fitted a Bayesian model, I had 600 processors with infinibandy things joining them up and left it for a week.

2.2 None of the software I use does Bayesian by default.

3. In practice, a lot of statistics in industry can be done by barcharts. I know that that is hard to hear. It is a big leap from there to Bayesian; bigger by far than from there to chi-sq tests. Data are so sparse, expert judgement so rich, and time so short...

4. Priors introduce subjectivity - no doubt about it. However, so do utility functions, pretty much cancelling it in my opinion. It is inappropriate to use p-values as a decision making framework for various reasons, but a lot of scientific papers are about recording experimental observations, not decision-making. Policy-decisions should use utility functions and priors; but I am happy with my science papers frequentist.
In an enterprise network, if unauthorized devices are getting access to your physical network, you might have other issues. :-)

At the last big company I was at, we did DHCP over IPSEC and IPSEC polices blocked everything and anything not authorized. Crazy secure.
Anything has to be better than Microsoft's "Call Our Account Manager To Have Them Explain Appropriate Volume Licensing - Oh You Bought Something Slightly Weird Let Us Pass You Through To The Next Guy Up Who Might Still Fob You Off" licensing methods.
I'm a developer with decent design skills and I would love to work on an open-source project in both roles, although I have looked on CodePlex a number of times to see what I could join. I rarely ever see any design openings, and more often than not a lot of solutions in project repositories don't even compile.

It's easy to say that designers are needed, but anyone who has spent time in a design community of any kind would know that there are loads of designers out there that would love to get their stuff out there. I'd love to do design work for a decent open-source project while I get used to the code base to help with the development; I'm willing to bet that many others are in the same boat.
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Generally, that cost is much higher. US hospitals can only treat uninsured people who are on death's door, which is ridiculously expensive. Treating people before they need emergency treatment is much cheaper. Or you could be really hard-line, and just let them die if they can't pay for treatment.

Reality, you already have socialised care. It's just really inefficient. And you pay extra for private cover!
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You have to give the very good hackers with previous startup experience some sort of indication of why they would want to give up whatever they're doing to partner with you. Otherwise they're not going to get as far as sending you their photos and lists of earlier creations.
I think he means it has the same potential market value. Palantir is exactly the kind of company that we need in the 21st century. One that can can answer questions about big datasets, be it climate data, market data, corporate data, social data, etc.
I'm not an expert in remote protocols, but I also find it snappy. Perhaps the point that for non-server versions it locks out the local console while it's running is the restrictive part?
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My friends at sourceforge are going to be really sad to hear this after the last re-hall of the entire site. :-)
"Of course..." means they're just trying to fill the gaps in the story for people who aren't already aware of it (I wasn't).
I think I'll wait for someone like Jon Stokes to talk about SeaMicro before getting too excited about how 64-bit processors mean you can address 4Gb of RAM.