skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This supports your view: http://www.bsfrey.ch/articles/456_07.pdf

Suggests that the the average US commute time is comparable to Germany's (48 vs 42 minutes). Germany's time has an SD of 19 minutes.
InvokeDynamic is a pretty awesome new feature in JDK7 and will likely be tranformative for dyanmic languages on the JVM. For my mustache.java templating solution it increased performance on an integration benchmark by 25%.

http://groups.google.com/group/mustachejava/browse_thread/th...
"Given the context of your statement, this sounds awfully like a criticism. I remember quite a heart warming show of solidarity in the US after 9/11 and indeed an amazing show of solidarity with the US by the whole world after 9/11."

Sidenote: I was annoyed by how Bush didn't include Canada in the list of countries he thanked after we had down medical supplies, medical practitioners, re-directed flights and helped stranded passengers... It took three years before he finally thanked the country.
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I have to say, I think it's easier to verify the correctness of

[31, isLeapYear(year) ? 29 : 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31][M-1]

than your formula. Even a dictionary wouldn't be bad. And if it were wrong, it would be easier to fix it.
I think that's good advice in general, but you'll miss the point if you stick too closely to it. You kind of have to weight your judgments. I mean, yes, a guy who beats his wife if he's had a bad day at work should be judged pretty harshly based on that. But if you-at-your-worst is somebody who is kind of grumpy and maybe a little bit selfish, you're a whole lot better than somebody who constantly acts like a crabby miser.
Why did you need string-switching? You could have created a Map<String, Integer> lookup table.
Well put. The parent post's assertion that Monopoly was the wrong word makes no meaningful difference in the discussion.
> younger kids act more mature around older kids, and older kids act more mature around younger kids.

We lived in a fantastic little neighborhood, Perry Circle, in Annapolis where this was routinely observed. It very much nailed the first iteration of Alexander's Pattern Language: 10 buildings, 6 apartments in 3 stories, plus attics and below-ground garages, arranged around a central circle. Those parents who stayed home would congregate on the porches and benches and the kids of all ages would play together very constructively.

I really miss living there. It's what cul-de-sac neighborhoods could have been.

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Private schools will lead to a marketing driven education system that preys on peoples ignorance.

Here's a simple thought experiment. Look at all the education systems around the world, and ask if the ones with the best results are private or public.
I don't mind this and think the selling of this as 'The End of Net Neutrality' is OTT hyperbole.

I don't believe anyone's arguing that what NewzBin2 are doing is legal. Nor do I believe there's any doubt that it's technically possible for BT to do what they're being asked to do here by the courts. It's not like they're being asked to do a real-time per-page filter of Flickr for inappropriate content, for example. There's one site, with overwhelmingly illegal content, and they're being asked to block it.

If BT were restricting access to iPlayer or YouTube in favour of BT Vision then I agree, that would be a Net Neutrality issue. If they were being asked to do realtime filtering of user-generated content then I agree, that would be a moronic request issue. Neither of them are true though, this is a static block of overwhelmingly illegal content and I don't for one minute see why this is a problem.
It seems that pairs of stars is a problem, whether they're in the same paragraph or not: starts here …

… but ends here.
The Sandisk U3 series of drives can already do this but in a slightly less integrated fashion.

This was also a nice attack vector on Windows machines as you could insert a usb stick with attack code on the CD partition, which then wrote its output to the flash partition.
I'm sorry for going on a tangent, but how can you not remember the name of the person who funded you when nobody else would? That's just unfathomable to me, not to mention extremely disrespectful.
It means whatever the Plaintiff and the Courts agree it means. The whole concept of home jurisdiction in these sorts of suits has been widely... interpreted. Hence why patent litigators often open up offices in Marshall, TX.
Depends. What if your nails required newer hammers? Would you rather wait for a newer hammer from a company that hasn't been meeting needs for years, or buy one from the store that had them when the nails came out?

Perhaps a better analogy is a screwdriver. Apple came out with their "pentalobe" security screws a while back - is it reasonable to buy one of the screwdrivers that is made for it that are available now if you needed to (un)screw one? The other options are to use a philips and damage the screw and suffer a lot of frustration, or to wait until Craftsman makes one (probably never).
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As someone who learned to read at a very early age, this is horrifying to me.
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They have already announced that Page Speed will not be closed and will be moved off labs.
Personally I don't think the 44K incentive has ever made any sense. All it has done is allow existing EMR providers to charge more for their poorly designed software.
Physicians would have switched over on their own, if the reason were compelling enough - and that reason would be user friendly software at a reasonable price. Startups would have had more opportunities without the incentive. Now they have to offer it just to compete.
I advise you to skip the article and read the white paper instead since this article relies heavily on it: http://www.rearden.com/DIDO/DIDO_White_Paper_110727.pdf

Can anyone with expertise in the domain chime in on the credibility of these claims?

My understanding is that the system determines how test signals are modified at each user's device because of interferences and works backwards from that to create the waves that each access points needs to send out so that they all interfere together so that they're clear at each user's device location.

Sounds ok in theory, but I don't really get how that can work in practice. For example, wouldn't all access points send the signals at exactly the same time? How can they insure that? How can they insure the interferences won't have changed between the test signals and when the real signals are sent?
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I read your post, which is why I was confused about your knee-jerk reaction, which was based on an over-interpretation of what I was advocating.

If someone is defensive, or even just stays silent, when sexist and alienating behavior occurs, then that person can't complain much if people see them as complicit. If they don't want to be tarred with that brush, then they should speak out against it, and work to make the social group more welcoming.
Why is my tax money subsidizing software that should have to fight in the free market like the software most other developers write?
ISP Bandwidth Caps are Really Rate Hikes
They are serving a different market, and I've seen less demand since Android came out. I know at least a dozen people who have Android phones (that are quite happy with them) off the top of my head, and I can only think of two who own an iPhone. The Android people don't want iPhones, but the iPhone people look jealously at Androids.

This isn't a "techy" group either, it's mostly regular 20-somethings.
I can't tell if this is serious or not. Either way, it seems like we all benefit from devices that make doctors more effective.
Using a contrived formula that's difficult to understand or quickly check for correctness to solve a problem whose answer doesn't come from anything mathematical (i.e., the number of days in each month were arrived at arbitrarily, not via any formula) and just happens to work is NOT good style. At best it's cute and irrelevant (and doesn't even work for all of the twelve cases...). Wow.

Edit: also, if you're mapping the month string to an integer anyway, I don't see how you're going to do that without doing basically the same thing as the switches you posted anyway.
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That actually is how we tax international income. The issue is that nation-level taxes are in the double-digit ranges (i.e., 35% or above), so crediting foreign income taxes against US income taxes still results in a 35% (base) rate.

Indeed, ignored in all this discussion (ignorantly by the media, deliberately by the companies), is that intercorporate dividends from EU countries to/from NAFTA countries are tax-free (or mostly tax-free), in the sense that they are taxed only once at the corporate level, as income to the payor. If the recipient distributes the dividends onwards to its own shareholders, it is taxed as income to those shareholders at lowered rates.

These companies aren't planning to use their worldwide earnings to hire. If they were, the tax rates wouldn't matter because they get dollar-for-dollar deductions for such expenses (except for executive compensation), and intercorporate dividends they received or which they pass on to corporate shareholders are tax-free (or mostly tax-free) because of the dividends received deduction.
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Most colleges are competing for students; there are market forces. Public schools have a much stronger monopoly due to the difficulty changing location. Additionally public schools still cost money, if it was useless people would not use it.
Is there a polite way to say "circle jerk"? I've often found myself wanting to convey the idea without sounding so crass.
Guys, why is this newsworthy... I recently made a bootable ubuntu usb stick after a couple google searches and commodity $15 8GB stick from BBY sale bin.

Maybe I'm missing something important here, but the technology to burn an ISO to a USB is freely available why would anyone spend extra money for this rig.
http://workola.com and/or http://clock.workola.com

I'm a non technical founder, so this is just a script I purchased online and put behind one of my domain names. Just needed to get the feet wet and go through the process of releasing an app. It's got 100+ users so I'll get back to promoting it once/if I can attract a technical co-founder. Just launched http://fishtaank.com so we'll see how this one goes...
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Console emulation certainly created an uproar during the crescendoing prevalence of "ROM" game packaging and "warez" communities, but distribution for a 120kb Gameboy emulator with 13kb ROM files was so widespread and underground that everyone stopped caring. I also remember every emulator resource having this staple legal disclaimer that probably demonstrated that what amounted to repackaged "game backups" didn't fall under any hard legislation.

Ultima Online shards usually were based off reverse-engineered unsupported clients and were mainly populated when UO say larger changes to game mechanics so users could play different eras of UO. I remember people frequently discussing community stratification with the release of certain patches that popularized the idea of playing on private shards. Back in the early 2000s, we're talking about shards with communities that exist in an IRC channel. Today, I see World of Warcraft private servers with blogs and publicity, openly trying to recruit a userbase, and those seem to get abruptly shut down.
Android is the Top OS, Apple is Top Manufacturer
I love how the author emphasizes the size of the bank: "one hundred million in assets bank. One Hundred Million.", as if they are flush with money. In reality, this is a rather small bank, likely with a 2-3 people running the IT operations.

And to say that they don't care about security is wrong. Generally, small financial institutions like this are scared to death about security breaches, but in many cases, they simply don't have the expertise to properly assess and deal with them. The example of the calendar application is just one example.
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Does unetbootin allow you to choose from multiple ISOs to boot now? It didn't last time I checked. I realize there's ways around that (like manipulating syslinux config files: http://tazbuntu.blogspot.com/2009/05/multibootin-with-unetbo... ) though.

I like to use YUMI for booting from one of many ISOs on a single USB stick: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/

This kickstarter project's idea of having the USB stick handle all this for you would be great.
Awesome IO stuff - finally we have great cross platform file handling.
I can't imagine it's considered a vulnerability. Heroku has had a documented `heroku console` that can do at least as much as bash can, security-wise.
They wouldn't have believed it if you told them this 2 years ago. That says a lot about the vision of RIM's leadership.

I think it was just before winter holidays last year when they said they "don't get it why everyone thinks they're going down", when they were still getting increased revenues from global sales.
The OpenJDK may have more bugs. Check out [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1977238/why-should-i-use-...].
Setting network destination for SMS in SMPP server
Article to set the destination network for ported numbers with Nexmo SMS API.
Google didn't want more transit partners for a long time: the sign-up page just said "check back later".

I think they are very concerned that the data feed will be bad or unreliable, and that they will be providing bad directions. I know in NYC, the schedule and such for subways is generally simple, but has crazy exception rules every weekend for maintenance.
Ohmygod, a LOLCAT based Turing machine - many thanks for posting this reply.
The most worrying thing to me is that despite the frequent discussions on HN, there are people in this thread who would rather assume that there is no problem, and this is just the way things are. Until blatant ignorance and misconceptions like this are dispelled, we need to have more discussions.
Disclaimer: I'm male, studying STEM education and the gender gap.
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The idea on which it's based is described on page 12 of the whitepaper. Skip the article. It's useless.
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Am I right that the meat of this product is a back-end web application, rather than an iPad App? Anyone know if the web service may have existed as a fully fledged EHR business prior to the mobile app being created?
Which answers on Quora have 40 or more upvotes?
> Here's a simple thought experiment. Look at all the education systems around the world, and ask if the ones with the best results are private or public.

Are we allowed to include universities?
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Your argument is essentially "marketing is bad". Which is a shadow argument for "capitalism is bad".

Take an ad for the Macbook Air. It shows a stylish person happily using the Air to do something fun.

Now consider an ad for a private school that shows a child happily benefitting from something he/she learned at the school being advertised.

Maybe the ad shows a graduate getting accepted into a prestigious college or even YC.

Ads are often aspirational and emotional, and do not necessarily contain false information. Sure, paying tuition at a school won't get you into a prestigious school and owning a MB Air won't make you happy. But an ad communicating the virtues of a great product is a good thing if it informs consumers of the product.

Let's face it, no matter how you view ads, if you think ads are bad then the only solution is for the government to start its own version of 'consumer reports' and to publish a simple list of products ranked according to attributes. Hardly a remotely practical or plausible solution.
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I can tell you my daughter did very well in most subjects in private school, but had a terrible time with math. We switched her to a public school this year.* She has done better overall, and her math has improved most of all. There are some other factors involved (I'm not in residency, we like where we live in general, we're not facing the possibility of being upside down in a house, etc), but I can't say enough that public vs private is not necessarily the deciding factor it's made out to be when you get down to individual cases.

By the way, how, exactly, do you use Kahn Academy? My kids got bored with it.

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* My wife had worked as a therapist in San Diego schools for years and when we moved back, we targeted a few neighborhoods to move into. Word on the street was that the private schools were no better than the public schools, at least in elementary.
But the thing is the problem Pump solves, is already solved by all WSGI wrappers at application level: Werkzeug and WebOb. I don't think it's really worth to have another standard just to solve something that has been solved at the application level (and may led to even more confusions in the future.)

Armin Ronacher (who also is the author of Werkzeug) did designed something similar, called Webapi[1] and as he mentioned in the article, it's not a very good idea.

[1]: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/super-secret-wsgi-replacement
Correctness should be verified by tests not 'looking at the code'.

The aforementioned code can never be verified as correct because February requires a year to be present to know the number of days.

Doesn't java have a massive calendar library to address exactly these sorts of human questions?

I mean sure you'd still be looking at code like:

public int getDaysInMonth(DateTime date) throws
CalendarFactoryFactorException,
DateOutOfRangeException,
ArrayOutOfBoundsException
{
CalendarFactoryFactory factoryMaker = new CalendarFactoryFactory("Western");
GregorianCalendarFactory gregFactory = factoryMaker.getGregorianFactory();
Calendar c = gregFactory.createCalendar(new DateTime());
return c.getDaysInMonth();
}
Percent is not the same as percentage points, you know. Growing from 6% to 10% is actually a growth of 66% percent, which sounds much more impressive. Fair point about the margins, but the fact is that Apple's entire business model is built on ensuring their margin stays high by charging large premiums for products that are clearly better than the competition. This is not guaranteed to last forever. The other companies on the other hand are used to living in commoditized markets with razor thin margins. I'm not saying Apple are doomed, but they clearly cannot just write the whole competition off, and they obviously aren't.
I tried the foreign stuff: It also gave me a hangover in the morning.
Ethanol itself is far superior to petroleum distillates for internal combustion engines, especially small displacement turbocharged ones. This point needs to be made /extremely/ clear to everyone before pursuing the political end of the discussion.
My favorite of these is http://twitter.com/#!/big_ben_clock, which tweets on the hour in London. (I copied this idea and made @sf_o_clock). The idea of devices broadcasting information to provide ambient data to anyone who cares to listen is so fascinating. This could go way beyond the obvious things like time, stocks and weather, and into... well, things I can't imagine yet.
This article highlights 2 things for me:

1) White text on black is really hard to read. I had to edit the style to read it comfortably.

2) I now get why I don't like Twitter. It's impossible to have a conversation or debate on it. This post was a direct result of that impossibility.
Renting a car sucks. I would not want to do that once every month, which is about how often I drive over 100 miles.

Services like Zipcar will be strongly complementary goods to electric cars.
Yes, two reasons. Confidentiality agreements a) will drive a lot of really good people away, and b) will make you believe in your idea even more, when you should be doubting it and poking holes in it and testing its assumptions.

b) is the bigger reason.
Perfect summation of everything java.
Vim shells out for that, but it understands the format of results returned by the programs, which makes it easy to jump around in them.
We have to wait a little bit: http://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/supported_platforms_for...
I propose it because it would help to ensure that the credit card wasn't stolen (because the cardholder would spot the charge before the guest arrived). If you can ensure that the card isn't stolen, then AirBNB has a way to track down criminal guests, which makes it less likely criminals would see this as an exploitable system.

Yes, it's a pain, hopefully they can come up with something better. But they seem to be ignoring the problem of effectively anonymous guests.
There is a good amount of stuff to get excited about in this release.

- Try-with-resources-Catch-Block [0]
- Fork/Join libraries from Doug Lea (author of Executor framework) [1]
- Inferred/Simpler generics in declarations (should have been in Java 5)
- NIO2, brand new/robust filesystem APIs [2]
- NIO2, treat ZIP/JAR files like directories of files for R/W [3]
- SDP support [4]
- String-in-switch (NOTE: check on performance implications of this for tight loops)
NOTE: Read through "COMPILATION" section here for details [6]
- Elliptic curve cryptography (when normal curves just don't cut it)
- Underscores in numbers (e.g. int million = 1_000_000;)
- XRender pipeline on Linux (Swing/Java2D rendering get a big boost)
- New sound synthesizer (replaces a proprietary lib that wasn't OS)
- XML stack finally got updated across the board.
- InvokeDynamic (already talked about numerous times below)
- Other Swing stuff I'm not all that pumped about.

I think the most exciting items are:

1. Try-with-resources
2. NIO2 filesystem API
3. InvokeDynamic

Features that got pushed to 8 (next year) that will be really exciting:

- Modular programming (super packages? think OSGi-lite)
- Syntactic Sugar: Collection literals
List<String> people = {"Frank", "Mary", "Satan"};
- Closures
- Modularization of the JDK (JDK gets broken into core modules)

And one that I can't get confirmation on if it's in 7 or got pushed, index-access for List and Maps [5]:

- List<String> people = {"Frank", "Mary", "Satan"};
System.out.println("Hello " + people[0]);

I understand that a lot of people don't find Java sexy any more, that is understandable, it has become a platform for what seems like a lot of next-series of languages.

That being said, I've been working with Java since 1998 and still love it. I know people get a big kick out of writing code with no exception handlers and no curly braces, and programming is a creative/artistic process so you have to do what feels good... but none of that stuff ever bothered me.

I like being a pedantic programmer.

[0] http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2011/07/java-7-try-with-resourc...

[1] http://artisans-serverintellect-com.si-eioswww6.com/default....

[2] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/#f250

[3] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/#fa537814

[4] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/#f639

[5] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2009-March/0...

[6] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2009-Februar...
Had this exact same issue. xpdf isn't on the new cedar stack.

Not ideal, but you can package up a rubygem that can compile itself. https://github.com/josh/ruby-xpdf