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> You're now saying ignore the votes, pay attention to how they talk about the votes?

We agree that Medicare part D is bad. You claim that the fact that Repubs supported it and Dems didn't implies that Dems would have done better if they'd had their way. One problem with that argument is that it assumes that all alternatives are better. That's clearly false.

That's why I said that we should look at what the Dems wanted instead of Bush's Medicare Part D. What they wanted was 40% more expensive, so if you think that Bush's Medicare Part D is bad because of the cost ....

> Having a projected deficit next year is hilariously orthogonal to the undisputed fact that stimulus spending ends this year.

As I've pointed out, almost everyone else thinks that next year's deficit, post-stimulus, will be over $1T and that the same is true the year after and for the forseeable future under current law. (There's some disagreement over whether the trend is $1.2T or $1.5T.)

If you're correct, why isn't Obama shouting your number?
"I also remember being taught that a good way to ensure DRYness was to use inheritance..."

DRY has nothing to do with inheritance per se. Sure you get some functionality for free when extending something, but that's more of a nice side-effect.

As someone already pointed out in the comments, favoring composition over inheritance is likely to solve most of the problems the author is talking about.

Railing against DRY is just wrong if you consider the alternative. I'd rather have a list of static utility methods (what's wrong with those anyway) then the same line(s) of code copy pasted all over the place.
Why don't we have password standards?
It seems like each website has it's own password standards.

Some want 5 letters, some want a minimum of 10, some want a maximum of 8, some want a number, some want a mix of capital and lower case letters, some want an underscore, some want a special character @#$%@#@%@#%...others don't allow special characters etc.

Obviously there is absolutely no need for something that restrictive. All it does, is that people are stuck using uncommon passwords...which in turn means that they end up writing them down or constantly forgetting them, which bypasses the security.

So how about we create a common set of password standards...one that doesn't force the user to deviate from their common passwords, yet one that does the bare minimum to make brute forcing it with bots complicated.
Except he isn't defying grammar. It's correct to use loose that way.
So, you knew your troll post would be downvoted, as evidenced by your prediction, and yet you still post it and complain about it when it happens?

It's not just that your post contained no thought other than "Government bad!"... your post had absolutely nothing to do with the article.

From TFA:

"In a controlled setting, the researchers asked medical students to choose the quantity of medical care to provide to hypothetical patients enrolled in either fee-for-service (FFS) or capitated insurance plans"

Capitated and fee-for-service are two methods used by private and public entities to pay for health care. The article was about how doctors behaved (or at least how medical students said they'd behave) under each of those two systems. I don't find the experiment convincing, but I can read well enough to know it had nothing to do with whether the payment was publically or privately funded.

An anti-Obama bumper sticker would be a much more appropriate forum for your opinions than this thread.
> Because of our past, we treat everything coming from the "right" as being totally wrong and stupid (which might be good or not).

I noticed this, too. Especially jarring, if intelligent people present being left-wing as the only sane political choice for other intelligent people. While I couldn't care less about labels, my a contrarian self still gets a giggle out of explaining that my libertarian beliefs put me firmly into `right-wing' of politics without making me a neo-nazi idiot.
Man, this makes me happy to hear. I'm CTO at a small startup, so hiring is crucial. We've worked really hard to optimize the recruiting process to make it easy on candidates, but it's been hard to know how much it matters.

To filter out the total idiots, I ask people to give me a one-paragraph answer to one of 5 technical-ish questions. That lets me spend plenty of time on the people that do make it through. I try to reply to all applications personally within 24 hours. Interviews take scheduling priority over pretty much anything else. We meet right after interviewing someone and try to get them an answer either way within a day.

If folks have other things they like (or hate) about hiring processes, I'd love to hear about it. We really want to get this right.
The participants were medical students--not physicians. The title should reflect that.

The gap in experience is significant. A 3rd/4th year medical student, like myself, has had limited clinical exposure(think months) and is wholly incapable of making decisions regarding patient care.

A student's lack of experience can explain why he/she might over investigate healthy patients and under investigate sick ones--he/she can't tell the difference. A physician, in comparison, has a protocol for how to work up a patient's chief complaint far in advance of ever meeting the patient.

Most importantly, students have no concept of medico-legal consequences of mismanagement. This is a huge incentive for physicians to work up all patients the same way. Anyone can sue. Whenever anyone suggests adopting XYZ country's medical system in place of our own I kindly point out that we would have to retrofit their legal system as well.
Well, after WW2 there are maybe 2 to 3 generations in Germany who are trained very hard to the idea of "right=fascism". There is no other right-wing in Germany. CDU (the governing party right now) is christian and thus quite conservative. We don't consider them right-wing, though. They are more like the right side of the center.
It is probably hard to understand if you never went to Germany. The word "right" itself has a bad touch to it (the meaning of "correct" has another word in German). It is already part of the language and the daily thinking.
Just some of us can think a little outside of that box (like me, but I also have a hard time accepting people stretching their right arm for fun or using plates with the German fascist symbols on it). Btw. I can't express that opinion (that Germans have a too simple opinion of fascism and the right-wing) in Germany in the open, because people will think I am plain stupid or maybe a fascist myself.
Exactly, it sounds as if the mitm attack wasn't based on hijacking a broadcast, but on redirecting data/voice/sms/etc. from a cracked device to a network of the attacker's choosing. The redirection wasn't based on fooling the phone into connecting , it was based on explicitly changing the network the phone connected to.

A very interesting attack, but not interesting in the sense that cdma/wimax (perhaps LTE too?) is unsafe but in the sense that there are serious vulnerabilities in the network stack for android.
Stop nitpicking. Did you run out of things to do at your startup?
We had a patent approved two months ago being issued later this month. It’s a fascinating patent, which puts our I.P. into the cloud.

Oh yay. Now we can add some-obvious-thing in the clooouuudd! to all of the some-obvious-thing but on the intertubes.
I agree in the sense of having an asset and paying it back but I was thinking of it in terms of budgeting and getting through the year (or however long)

For example, say you budget for a year of operation and assume you need $1.5 million and get funded at that. Then the value of the currency falls. This means your revenue falls and the value of your cash on hand falls. Suddenly you're out of money and its hard to go back for another round so soon after the first.

That's where I see the problem. If you can survive long enough to pay the debt back in full a down currency works for you but it could be the death of you.
This is probably true with the current setup, but traditionally doctors had a particular social position and professional mythology around them. I'm not sure if it was ever really true that they didn't respond to economic incentives, but the perception (both external and among doctors themselves) was that they had a sort of above-the-fray perspective where they were supposed to use their learned judgment for the betterment of those under their care, rather than engage primarily in business. Sort of the same thing expected of priests, professors, sheriffs, etc.
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FYI http://www.debtclock.com.au/ shows Australia with $68 billion in debt and rising. That's much better than the US, not in the black, either.

Given Australia's much smaller population, this works out to $7,889 per capita.

Compare to USA $46,780 per capita.

Country's headed in the wrong direction, mate. Same direction as the USA, I'm afraid.
I have no doubt that LA and Detroit are very different. Just in raw statistics they are very different.

The point is, if your view of any city is from reddit/hackernews/tumblr/cracked/digg-bait sites, it will be a skewed view on a city. With Detroit, its post-apocolyptic ruin-poverty porn.
I think for the places we go to, a PDF menu is more likely to be accurate. The menus tend to change every few days and PDF is more likely to be part of the menu creation process than HTML.

My favorite restaurant (contigosf.com) just uploads a jpg of the menu - kinda unfortunate, but on the plus side they update it daily.
I generally agree, but it's a lot easier on the dev to have this default, $5,000 workstation package with components that you can decline than it is for the default to be scrounged up from whatever is lying around and you have to negotiate for extras.
I think in recent versions this is true (the problems being mainly CSS). 4-5 years ago I remember doing JS DOM manipulation and at one point IE taking 100x longer to do something than Firefox. It was so bad that FF was instant and IE was unusable.
What you describe is like the governing party in Germany at the moment. The 2 big parties in Germany are a little like the 2 US parties, although we have more parties which are just not that powerful. But both big parties are considered as central, one a little leaning to the left, one a little leaning to the right. The conservative/christian party is the more right-sided one, but nobody would call them right-wing.
http://www.gnu.org/s/parallel/man.html#differences_between_x...
I have been working on my startup as a UI/UX designer. I would love to help you guys out with it. My email is Zeeshan@DigifyMedia.com, Twitter; ZeeshanKhan
I'll take the better programmer over the one who knows python already, any day and every time.

I think once you've learned enough languages, they become like lenses on a camera. You're as good a photographer as you are, whether you use one lens or a different lens.

The lens doesn't make a bad photographer good, and a good photographer will be just as good using a lens they've never used before, given a short period of time to familiarize themselves with it.

The environment of a particular job you always have to learn, even if you've used the exact tools at a previous job.

After a year, it is the strength of the photographer or programmer that is going to determine how much and how good their work is, not whether they knew the tool before they took the job.
They could look it up....

I have a really dumb spam filter on my blog which simply asks that the user "Type the word 'humour', but with American spelling". I've had a couple of complaints that this request is unfair to non-native speakers. My response is that you don't have to know it, you just have to know how to look it up.

(And yes, I saw that this stuff wasn't serious, but I thought it was a worthwhile point to make in any case. CAPTCHAs don't need to be things that users can pass without outside help.)
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+1 just for the title
Would anyone like to guess why search has been omitted in the web version? Also, for reference / technical books, it would be nice if the authors could mark certain blocks of content to allow copy and paste. It feels weird to have to retype all the code examples from a digital publication.
You're also paying the debt back with "cheaper" dollars.
Why does it matter if you have a public profile?
Glad to hear others say it. I lusted after one because I read Joel for years. I finally got mine, perfectly fitted and adjusted. And I never had such back pain (I don't normally have any!), I ended up giving it to my wife and using a $60 chair from Ikea that is so much more comfortable.
I think the list is more of a likely upper-bound to fully outfit a developer's environment. The message seems to be "bosses: it's not that expensive to fully outfit your developers (don't be cheapskates)" instead of "potential FogCreek employees: this is what our cookie cutter looks like (and we'll also do corporate calisthenics every morning)".

It's wonderful that you are so easy to please, though, wheels. Yes, work preferences vary from person to person, but there are likely some common themes among people.
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not really - focusing on this figure is somewhat non-nonsensical and spreads FUD albeit other than to keep prudent awareness of it. The difference between Aus and USA - is our net growth far outweighs the debt we owe and therefore we are relatively liquid if we needed to double-down on this debt. Further, much of our debt has been localed in foreign currencies - which are now all depreciated against the AUD - which is seen as a relatively safe currency given the USA downgrade. I don't propose to know when this will revert. Further, the regulation of our financial institutions has typically been quite tight through judicial activism and aggressive regulation. Unfortunately [for the world] - Wall St wasn't to the same degree. My personal view is that Governments should not adopt fiscal policy which encourages surplus - a responsible government is adopted to spend money on essential services - not carry on for political gain that it is in "surplus'. It should be net-neutral.

Anyway, Feel free to browse this document - http://www.treasury.gov.au/documents/1496/PDF/01_Debt.pdf

"A government’s balance sheet comprises both assets and liabilities. This article has demonstrated that only considering gross debt can result in an incomplete picture of public finances. By taking into account assets the public sector owns, a more accurate view of a government’s ability to respond to economic conditions can be determined.

This article has shown that Australia has undergone several periods of debt accumulation, followed by periods of fiscal consolidation. Periods of strong economic growth following episodes of debt accumulation have helped support relatively quick improvements in the public sector’s net debt position. Australia has a low level of net debt both historically and when compared with G-7 economies."
circulation killing front steel bar that makes it impossible to perch on the edge if you so desire?

I definitely hate that one, but I must confess the mesh is worth it over standard cushions.
Works great here too, FF8 on Linux with NVidia drivers.
The only standard we should set is a minimum length that is not too short. Something like 8 characters minimum. I don't care if you use only number or only letter, use whatever you want, it's YOUR security after all! The longer the password, the more likely it is to be unique!

My password has been letters + numbers at the end for a long time and I know it's secure because it's not a common word or numbers that have to do with me. No capitals, no punctuations, only lowercase letters and numbers. When a website forces me to use other letters in my password, I keep forgetting it and I am forced to use "Lost my password" all the time, which makes me want to use that service less and less.

Were you inspired to post this by today's XKCD comic? Link : http://xkcd.com/936/
FWIW all of those examples work in Python 3 as well. The language was extended with PEP 3132[1] to support "extended iterable unpacking" (I wish they would just call them "splats").

Python doesn't have a `values_at` method, though `map(hash.get, keys)` or `[hash[key] for key in keys]` isn't too bad.

[1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3132/
They're called neo nazis here in the US too. They're not mainstream right-wingers, but an extreme element on the fringes. I'm still missing the link between not wanting communism to return to eastern Germany and neo-nazism, though. I assume you mean that the slogan is a political misdirection.
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strace, combined with lsof and netstat can help you with so many things it's not even funny.

I've debugged stalled processes across 3 separate servers with these three tools alone.
Joel doesn't believe in telecommuting. One way to ensure it stays that way is workstations. (And if you can't work from home, you do get more power for less money in a workstation)
You don't have to be the owner of the page to request it be removed from Google cache. Who knows, the author could have done it to lend the theory more credibility and try to generate more scandal and thus more blog traffic.

See? Un-founded accusations can work both ways.
sports arenas

One of them sold for under $600,000 a couple years ago!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverdome#Sale
Yeah, I'm on the fence. Sometimes I see great back and forth conversations and sometimes I see people buried into the ground. I think it's still work laying out where you are coming from and if others downvote you based on disagreement then it's their problem.

As for my comments of "out to get you" or "victim card" I think I should have said, "don't become a self fulfilling prophecy". I don't necessarily think you are playing a victim card. Either way, keep participating. You've at least created quite the discussion thread.
> Want to kill all processes being run by a given user? Issue a pkill -U USERNAME; sure beats the hell out of...

similarly: killall -u USERNAME

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Ask HN: Free private Git hosting?
I'm looking for a git host for my rails projects. I'd like to keep them private and I'd like to use a free service. My requirements are low... 100MB would be lots, and I'd rather not run my own server. Can anyone recommend a service that they've personally used?
Okay but so there may be, for example, duplication as far as your model code? Like, I need to define my model through Spah, but then I also need to define the same model in my server side code that's going to be serving you that data?

I was thinking of something where you essentially write the whole app in ruby, and then it generates DataMapper models for your objects, sinatra routes to access the data, and js code to actually access the server and hook it up with your ui. Something more along those lines.

I first touched rails at 2.something, a bit before 3.0, but it was my first experience with MVC (that is, a single framework that handles all of your MVC) and I had a lot of mixed feelings about it. I still bounce around a lot but right now I'm leaning more towards "MVC is good".
that and because I needed to login into verizon today, and was reminded with error messages that they don't allow any special characters in their passwords
Educating people is what my startup does.
I read the Angel List T&C. It says they (the founders of Angel List) have the right to participate in any fundraising up to %50 of the amount raised, on the same terms as others.

This means, if you find an investor who brings something other than money, and you agree to terms that take this into account, the owners of angel list can get in on half of the deal at those terms.

So, would you agree to the same terms with a star like ashton kutcher, or dave mcclure as you would to someone you've never heard of who is just offering money? (Personally, I might not give either of the "stars" better terms, because I would want a venture investment to be about money, not intangibles, but that's me.)

I don't know the people behind angel list, so, lets presume they are great. But I'm wary of entering into a situation where, unless you read the details of the T&C and discover it, you've agreed to give people you don't know half of your funding round, on terms that you might have set based on qualities that the angel list people don't also possess.

This is what prevented me from getting an account there, and without an account it is hard to know much about how angel list works, or what it is like. (so, feel free to enlighten me.)

I'm not bashing them, just expressing a concern that I obviously can't express there (because I'd have to agree to the T&C to open an account.) It's also quite possible I'm wrong or misread the T&C.
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GWT does exactly what you describe.
This is something we've struggled with. The final phase of our interviewing process is a few hours of pair programming. If folks worked on production code, we wanted to pay them.

Paying people for a few hours of work is difficult: if we pay them as an employee then we have to do employee paperwork and deal with the payroll company. If we pay them as a contractor then they have to sign a lot of contractor paperwork, including a confidentiality and intellectual property assignment agreement. It's the kind of thing I wouldn't sign without my lawyer's advice. It just seems like too much trouble.

Instead, we'll either work on a throwaway toy project or an open-source project. Both of those are working well so far, and people seem happy to actually ship some open-source code at the end of the interview.
Congrats on the launch! I was just recently thinking about making something like this for my own use. Great to see that I don't have to!
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Why the Gender Gap Won't Go Away. Ever.
So I was at DEFCON 19 and I'm 90% sure my Sprint 4G Android was hacked. When I make calls there is a beep on the line every few minutes so I'm guessing someone managed to set up some recording of my calls. I've changed all my passwords and reflashed the phone back to factory defaults + latest copy of the firmware from HTC's website.

Also, I only realized AFTER a few minutes of (failed) use that my Verizon 4G card was being MiTM'd as I had full strength but no connectivity.

What I don't understand is how this vector occurred (on the Android phone) given it is no different to connecting over public (open) wifi - anyone can read packets and so the connections between Google Apps (for example) are supposed to be encrypted.

My only guess is that my phone auto-downloaded a patch that was poisoned and the security failure here is that the phone assumes any patch fed to it over the mobile network must be trustworthy. :/
> step one needs to be spinning up an EC2 box on another continent to act as your "dev" server

To reduce bandwidth and latency, I'd rather recommend using a throttling proxy such as Charles Proxy on your machine.
Or: Why Facebook and LinkedIn are no substitute for a handshake and a smile.
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I've been through this as well for a very senior role:

Interviewer: "Do you know X?"

Me: "Yes"

Interviewer: "Great, do you know Y?"

Me: "Sure" (starting to get suspicious)

Interviewer: "Nice, how about Z?"

Me: "Aha" (not believing this)

Interviewer: "When can you start?"

....

This is the opposite side of the coin. This quick-fire hiring is scary and detrimental. What would that tell you about the company? :)
To kick off the discussion, I found the following (but I have no idea how good they are).
https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitHosting
http://www.projectlocker.com/
http://gitorious.org/
http://offers.assembla.com/free-git-hosting/